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So the next step will still be the healthcare side because as long as that is not working that is going to be the central focus of everyone s attention and also jeopardizes the law. i want to bring in didi meyers, former white house press secretary under president clinton. good morning. good morning, chris. what are you hearing and what are we going to be hearing from the president today? we ll see, obviously, in the beginning of this week they were somewhat hopeful that the firestorm over this problem would die down a little bit. that obviously hasn t happened and it s gone the other way and anger seems to be intensifying and not just among people gettingifications from their health insurers. so the president doesn t want to see a fix that s broader, that undermines some of the underpinnings of the law. so we ll see what he has to say today and whether that will resolve it for a lot of democratic members. perhaps a shorter term fix because the upton bill is open ....
People will accept and believe it. obviously, president obama and his team have come to the same conclusion hence the president s 11:35 press conference this morning. didi meyers, always good to have you on the program. thank you. thanks, chris. two things we re looking at here. i think she raised a good point about the trust issue and so much going forward. what about that, daph, what about the whole idea that just so much is hinging on this, so much political capital going forward for this second term? i think she s right. i think the healthcare law is a law that has survived a lot until now and that s an important thing to remember. it survived a general election for the president. it survived a supreme court challenge. it survived government shutdown. this is a health care law that has been through a lot and is still standing. the democrats have taken enormous hits on this and paid a big price in 2010 and they don t want to pay another price in 2014. they do want the debbie ....
Incomplete and you have to go back to ford to find a certain percentage of political appointees and let s bring in kay bailey hutchison and didi meyers and david nakamura. this is par for the course in washington and what is always interesting and obviously, we know donors, it s usually a donor that gets written in france. with caroline kennedy it s usually the japanese want a political celebrity. they ve had baker in the past and walter mondale. i spent a couple of years in japan and i talked to folks at the japan embassy and they re very excited because she does offer the sheen of celebrity. that said, i ve also talked to americans over there and american foreign policy folks who were surprised to say the least when her name first came up six months ago. i thought more people thought it would be paris. yeah. ....
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Of yahoo. company that i think is fair to say is troubled. during their search, there was a four-person search. she applied and she told them in the search she was pregnant and would be away for maternity leave for some people time and they hired her anyway. terrific thing for them to do that. she will be terrific. her pictures are terrific. the question is, is this going to be a trend or is this just isolated incident? dana: she was the best person for the job. that s why she got the job. i commend yahoo. great that the board is going to do that. she did say she will have the baby and work through the pregnancy, because she has a company she has to turn around. so yeah, it s excellent. the first woman to be press secretary didi meyers under president clinton. i was the second woman, the first republican. now when the third or the fourth comes along, it won t be too far in the distant future, she will, she will have blazed some trails. ....