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Chicago, thank you, steve. >> youre welcome. bill: want to take you to capitol hill, mike pence, part of the republican house leadership, now talking about the next move for republicans on health care. he says we will fight this thing, moments ago. listen. >> -- on giving the american people more choices and not more government. >> good morning. never has a congress had to work so hard to pass something that is so unpopular and that is going to be so destructive to america. throughout this debat...

In their voices, speaking very clear, using the pilots alphabet, you are clear for clanding -- clear for landing. what a story. >> reporter: and theyre doing it every day. lets not forget that almost every single plane that takes off lands safely. martha: good story. bill: sometimes you dont want to know, i want to block it out, say let me know when were there, everything is okay. martha: exactly. bill: after a year of controversy, guess who is shutting its doors? is it really going away? thats ...

Who walked by, our guest many times on the show and a fervent fighter for the bill and is a happy day for her and joining me is south dakota republican senator john thune, chair of the republican policy committee. senator it is good to have you with us. good morning to you. >> good morning, martha. martha: i think a lot of people watch everybody getting on the buses and they say it is a done deal and this is reality. what do you say? >> it is a done deal, in the sense that the senate passed bill...

Through, and, they found every means by which to accomplish that, using house rules, and senate rules, and, as we had seen in the house play out and as well see this week, the bipartisanship unhappily for the white house will be against the bill. the partisanship will be entirely on behalf of the bill and the white house would have preferred it differently but would not sacrifice in the end, bipartisanship for success and they have the success and see how it plays out and are willing to take the...

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Martha: all right, there is the white house, everybody, very familiar sight and this morning, is the scene for a very historic moment, 11:15 the president is going to sit down and hes going to take a pen and sign into law the health care bill and when you look back over the course of the last year, everybody has had discussions about this, and will it pass, wont it pass, and there were a lot of people who thought the moment would never happen, especially after scott browns election and all of th...

Things we thing make us committed to try and defeat the bill. martha: i understand your argument was really in play for all of this, before those democrats agreed to sign the bill in the first place, because you had a lot of leverage, when you could say to them, if you sign the bill you will never get the fixes that you think are going to be part of the package. but, now that moment is passed, that bill is signed. and, where is your leverage to really change anything, with the votes and the numb...

Get anywhere, its going to be interesting. we thank you very much for joining us, mr. abbott, interesting stuff. thank you. bill: youve been watching in the bottom corner. was it there? no, sorry, feel like were doing the weather. house republican leaders set to come to the microphone and lay out the legislation. john boehner will be there in moments and well take you there live. martha: a totally different realm. have you heard this? there are new revelations from a key witness in the michael j...

Student, robin foster was relentlessly pestering the teacher over the last exam and maybe the exam wasnt fair, and maybe the teacher deserves the pestering and robin got the policemen, after 15 minutes of going back and forth the security was called and the student threw a bottle of water, and they arrested her for disorderly conduct and row resisting arrest and no word when shell be back at and throw biology. bill: and our producer said, you should see what happens in biology. martha: things ge...

What does it mean for small business? >> reporter: at the end of the day the only question small business has is will it lower the cost of providing insurance to employees, and will it increase the costs of conducting business, and, quite simply, small business says yes, it will raise the cost of doing business, and it will not help them, provide insurance at an affordable rate for their employees. lets get into the numbers, there are 6 million small businesses according to the national federati...