>> chris: the president went around the senate this week and announced the recess appointment of donald burrwick to run medicare and medicaid. the white house complained about republican stalling as a reason for this. mr. axelrod the fact is as you well know the democratic chaim of the finance committee had not even scheduled a confirmation hearing on burrwick even though his nomination was announced several months ago. >> in this administration we have 140 or more appointees still waiting for confirmation for months and months and months. some had hearings, some have not had hearings. even after hearings we had months of delay where we had to invoke cloture. >> chris: haven't even had a hearing. >> even on nominations that the republican -- >> but in burr wick's case doppler. >> that the republicans ended up voting for. >> you haven't even had a nomination. >> we have a nomination. >> chris: you hadn't had a