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Praised hildebrand at a white house reception celebrating gay rights. >> somebody who helped ensure we are in the white house, steve hildebrand, please give steve a big round of applause. >> reporter: hildebrand who is openly gay gives the president credit. >> when the president signed the hate crimes bill last fall, it was the first piece of legislation ever in the history of congress to affirm the rights of gay people in this country. >> reporter: overall he says the president deserves a b plus for his efforts to stabilize the economy and reform health care. >> i'm thrilled we're on the cusp...

Fall, it was the first piece of legislation ever in the history of congress to affirm the rights of gay people in this country. >> reporter: overall he says the president deserves a b plus for efforts to stabilize the economy and reform health care. >> i'm thrilled we're on the cusp of passing health care reform of the this is something we've waited for to so long. it's so important. so necessary. and so i'm thrilled that the president has not given up and that he's been persistent. >> i spoke to david axelrod last night after this meeting, he acknowledged that he has some fair criticisms of t...

The president praised him at his white house reception celebrating gay rights. >> somebody that helped insure we were in the white house, give him credit. >> when the president signed the bill, the hate crime bills, it was the first piece of legislation in the history of congress to affirm the rights of gay people in the country. >> overall, he says the president deserves a b plus for the president to stabilize the economy and passing health care. >> this is something that we have waited for for so long, and it's so important, it's so necessary, and so you know, i am thrilled that the presiden...

Obama said the other day that elections matter and they're right and if you look at the virginia, new jersey and especially the scott brown election in massachusetts, they sure do matter. and i think that in november, they're going to have a rude awakening on the democratic side. it's not a question of whether the g.o.p. will win the seats. it's a question of how many. >> report cards were due on sunday and nancy pelosi was asked to give herself a grade. a lot of students around the country would hope to have that option. here's what the speaker thought about her year so far. >> president obam...

Ask me to vote for it to get the 51 votes. they said go rewrite the bill to something i can pass. because they will not vote for this bill with the current abortion language in there. >> that's right. >> so go back and redo it, senate, and just do it in knowing that you only need 51 votes. >> right. >> don't alienate other people. >> sure. now, the white house says that president obama may have, "a way forward" announcing how they want to proceed as early as this wednesd wednesday. that's what nancy pelosi has on her calendar this year, wednesday, a big circle around it. the president will giv...