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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 he's 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, won't it pass, and there were a lot of people who thought the moment would never happen, especially after scott brown's election and all of that is a distant memory, right now. as congress is boarding the buses and heading over there, a bi...

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 numbers you have in the senate right now? >> i think, you could make the same argument for the democrats...

Get anywhere, it's going to be interesting. we thank you very much for joining us, mr. abbott, interesting stuff. thank you. bill: you've been watching in the bottom corner. was it there? no, sorry, feel like we're 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 we'll take you there live. martha: a totally different realm. have you heard this? there are new revelations from a key witness in the michael jackson case in regard to how he died. you're not going to believe what this person says happened...

Student, robin foster was relentlessly pestering the teacher over the last exam and maybe the exam wasn't 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 she'll be back at and throw biology. bill: and our producer said, you should see what happens in biology. martha: things get really ugly in there! bill: times are tough and may have been worse for blue-collar workers a re...

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. let's get into the numbers, there are 6 million small businesses according to the national federation of independent businesses. in the u.s. now, when you add self-employed people, to that figure, i...