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There trying to be confirmed there is leverage for republicans on the hill. mitch mcconnell and others are saying they are going to try to get that information. >> ed, the president said most of the people who signed up, the 7.5 million. most of them were previously uninsured. is that correct? >> we just dont know that i think the fact that the president also said in the rose garden we had problems in the first quarter. he suggested now we are further along in the game. second quarter, third qua...

Standmarks. amazing example of courage, hatching across the nation and every day folks are working hard to get there. adopting the higher standards is as important as it is, thats the easy part. implementing that, teaching to the highing standards. helping students to understand whats asked of them. including the parents. implementation is the hard part. there have been bumps, there will continue it be bumps and hurdles to jump over, but if we can stay the course over the next couple years and a...

Now with burwell going up there trying to be confirmed there is leverage for republicans on the hill. mitch mcconnell and others are saying they are going to try to get that information. >> ed, the president said most of the people who signed up, the 7.5 million. most of them were previously uninsured. is that correct? >> we just dont know that i think the fact that the president also said in the rose garden we had problems in the first quarter. he suggested now we are further along in the game....

She? >> right. were clearly not out of the woods yet on obamacare implementation. the word out of the white house is everything is fine, lets celebrate. i think this is one of the worst jobs in washington. not only this year, but just in general. but especially this year. and i think youre getting a white house budget official, white house aide filling that role, because they cant bring in somebody of independent stature. who would want this job? >> shes going to have a tough time in the confirm...

2014, this is the time to do it. ahead of the midterm election. >> lets talk about the confirmation process, jim. will it be easy? >> it is going to be easier than if somebody out of hhs or somebody out of the implementation of obamacare was going up on capitol hill to be confirmed. sylvia mathews burwell is the current budget director for this white house and she really doesnt have much of a health care background. her background is really sort of managing bureaucracy. they do really like her o...

Views of testing whether or not health care is getting more popular will be tested in november because a lot of these republicans are going to say this is something that you should evaluate president obama on. and i think my question for the senator is isnt it striking to you -- i wonder how youd feel if a republican president were unilaterally making the kind of choices this one is in regard of implementation of health care based on aspects of it the administration thinks are not ready to go ye...

Quality affordable health care is not a privilege, but a right for everyone of these united states of america. [ applause ] >> kathleen has been here through the long fight to pass the affordable care act. he helped guide its implementation even when it got rough. shes got bumps, ive got bumps, bruises, but we did it because we knew of all the people that we had met all across the country who had lost a home, had put off care, had decided to stay with the job instead of start a business because ...

Inflation continues, youve got a chance for the exchanges to get a lot bigger and get momentum going. i think the president certainly has a chance to look back and say that his legacy was a successful implementation, weve got a ways to go yet. >> theres another political story today about an icon famous for tangling with health care, tangling with something faster moving. heres hillary clinton last night in vegas. >> its already recycling about -- what was that, a bat? was that a bat? thats some...

Well have more on the mystery of flight 370 coming up. first, president obama says good-bye to his embattled health secretary and announces his pick to replace her. cnns athena jones is joining us from the white house with more. athena? >> reporter: wolf, the administration expects this transition to take place next month. the disastrous rollout of healthcare.govs is one of the white houses lowest points. with secretary sebelius leaving, theyre hoping they can turn the page on the difficult phas...

>> indeed we well. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> joining me now, chris si cillizza and "washington post" editorial columnist, ruth marcus. ruth, first to you, this was a tough, tough road for kathleen sebelius who had a sterling political reputation when she came in and got socked with all of the problems along the way. >> i think you used a really good word when you said pinata. being the secretary of hhs, its a sprawling, sprawling enterprise, it is really hard under the best of circumst...