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>> and as you noted, wolf, republicans have been seizing on this. they say this is just proof that the individual mandate should be delayed or that obama care all together should be scrapped. we're expecting hearings on this. but something else that's interesting is because the shutdown and the debt ceiling threat was such a huge story, a lot of the issues with obama care that certainly republicans would have liked to highlight kind of got lost in all of that, wolf. >> brianna, on a very different subject, two hours or so from now, the president is going to nominate jay johnson, the pentagon's...

Eventually for both of these nominations there could be filibusters. here is the senator from oklahoma. >> in the last nine years we did it nine times and some of them have been confirmed, some have not. but i really don't see anything wrong with requiring a 60-vote margin for either one of the two most significant jobs or appointments a president has. >> reporter: that too, the third very important job, treasury secretary jack lew, who was the president's budget director and chief of staff would become the u.s. treasury secretary has his own confirmation problems. his hearings are supposed to...