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Guards came to look for johnson around 1:00 yesterday, raymond taylor stepped forward when they asked for william johnson. three times, he was able to recite william johnson's inmate number, he presented william johnson's inmate card which had a photograph on it, two separate guards looked at that photograph and concluded that he was, that raymond taylor, was william johnson and according to one correctional officer, quote, they do resemble one another. almost two hours elapsed, bill, before the correctional authorities released the -- realized the grievous error they had made. only then when ...

And what's the highly anticipated bipartisan health care summit. now, it is in history books and now that the dust settled the focus is shifting back to capitol hill. the stakes ash astronomical in the, folks as democrats and republicans are trying to weigh their next move, on the highly emotional issues of health care reform in the country, and that starts off a brand new hour of "america's newsroom," good morning on this friday, i'm martha maccallum. bill: and i'm bill hemmer and we both made to it work today. martha: we did. bill: and it it wasn't easy, the president saying installing democ...

How wide apart the two sides are. take it from another angle, what does it mean to democrats if they do not get health care through? >> well, this has been their signature issue, they've invested a lot of capital and time on it, and i think americans want health reform, i just think it's what kind of relt reform -- health reform do theyant and -- want and should they have. i think the american people win on that, because they were able to see in a public forum what our ideas are. in the past we had the bills written behind closed doors, we had three days to look at them and it was a yes or no,...

Plan that was sitting in front of eric kantor or the much scaled-down plan b? >> we're talking about the big plan. right now they're going big, but i think instead of going birck -- big or going home, they decided at the white house, discreetly, they have to have a backup plan, they have to have this, quote, skinny plan b. the problem is the liberals don't like it in the congress, it's not going to pick up republican support, probably, and the question is how do you find the votes. i think they want to go with the massive bill, they want to go with comprehensive overhaul, even though it's unpo...

Starting with the 2700 page bill and then, tweaking it, to adopt some of our ideas. >> reporter: democrats seem ready to press ahead with or without republican support, or ideas. martha? martha: and it will be up to the democratic lawmakers, basically, either they'll say, have to convince the rest of their own party, they need to start over, or, they are going to take on the behemoth of a bill. what does it looks like, plan b or the big plan, as it is known. >> reporter: it is confused at the moment. look, you may have noticed president obama was listening intently to republicans, maybe in par...