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Jay carney, the former "time" magazine reporter, communications director for vice president biden. an interesting transition. look, jay carney's got big shoes to fill. robert gibbs has been not just press secretary but one of the administration's most senior advisers dating back to his days as a senator. yesterday robert gibbs when he announced that friday would be his last day said, look, i'm going to miss just about all of you. i don't know when i'm not in the "miss me" category or not. i think a lot of us will be figuring it out. obviously there's give and take between the media and the pre...

Good job of managing the people under him. and there was a lot of leaking out of the state department. and the president knew it. and it was unhelpful. and most of it ended up making the state department look good. we didn't do that in the pentagon. i insisted we not do it. >> rumsfeld is promoting his new memoir titled "known and unknown." the standoff in cairo continue. the protesters still refuse to leave the square. and some are suggesting the military might be moving in to crack down. we know they're annoying, they drive you crazy, especially in the fall and the spring. but apparently...

Benefit from other ports of call. 1.1% there. boeing pays a tax rate of 4.5%. yahoo, 7%. g.e., 14.3%. of course, the ceo of g.e. is on the president's competitive council. g.e. is revered around the world as the company with the tax department that is the best of finding every kind of possible way to make sure that its tax bill is as low as possible. so among things they can do is they can take losses from prior years and move them forward, like you and i can do. then there are tons of loopholes overall. you're going to hear a lot about companies crying foul, saying, look, they don't have, you...

Them to be serving more healthy meals for kids. specifically smaller portions, that's one of the key goals. but secondly, making sure that the restaurant menus actually have some healthy options for kids, have more carrots, apple slices, milk. have things like that so it's not just fried food and whatnot. and i think when you take a step back from the white house perspective, this is a chance for them amid all the controversy about health care reform, to actually focus instead on the less controversial parts, some of the more popular parts with one of their best spokespeople. the first lady's ...

Business tax cuts would provide significant short-term stimulus. but for competitiveness purposes, it looks like the president is willing to give this to business to try to get business to create jobs in this country. >> okay. >> amazing, though, that there are all these loopholes. so, you know, you can -- >> there are so many loopholes. when you talk to companies, companies say we want a lower tax rate. you see, yeah, and we're going to get rid of the loopholes. we can lower the tax rate and talk about the loopholes later -- they don't want their tax bill to go up. for some companies, getting...