good friday afternoon to you and yours from the news deck. it s 3:00 in new york city. the face of obamacare s disasterrous web site rollout is gone. the political bickering over the health care law is about to gate reboot in congress. president obama today officially announced the resignation of kathleen sebelius and announced his pick to replace her, his budget chief, sylvia burwell, who now faces confirmation hearings in the senate. secretary sebelius had been obamacare s most visible lightning rod. some republicans called on the president to fire her but he said she stayed on to get the problems fixed, and she did she got the job done. seven and a half million people across the country that have the security of health insurance, most of them for the very fir time, and that s because of the woman standing next to me here today. we re proud of already for that. but for an official who faced so much heat for the web site problem, even today s farewell
warning of disasterrous check impact if the white house and congress fail to reach a deal to stave off across-the-board cuts set to take effect this friday. steve centanni with the latest. there are wide ranging predictions of what could happen including fight delays and teacher playoffs. the secretary of transportation said he would be forced to cut air traffic controllers, delaying flights across the country and education secretary arnie don duncan predicts the nation s school children would is suffer. we don t have any ability with dumb cuts like this to figure out what the right thing to do. it means a lot more children will not get the kinds services and opportunities they need and as many as 40,000 teachers can lose their jobs. the president and congress have not sat down for any last minute negotiations and each side says the other is playing politics with the issue. the pentagon would take a major
revolt, if this thing is real and people will start mentioning ryan and it builds and builds and builds, i mean would he be somebody who said no to that? i think he would say no very quick. he might have other plans perhapses in 2016 and running for speaker, win, lose or draw would be bad for all those plans. i consider are this rahmer to be a three beer rumor which is after about the third beer people like we should replace boehner and that sounds like a good idea and repeat that enough and then it becomes a rumor. look, the staff i talked to on the hill, even the members i talked to and even the members against boehner on plan b there is no true conversation to replace john boehner as speaker right now. laura: wouldn t that also be, chip, you you can stay on this, wouldn t that look disasterrous for republicans in the middle of the fiscal cliff thing they throw boehner over the edge or start the process for removing boehner? seems if anything, again, as a pragmatic matter that ev
revolt, if this thing is real and people will start mentioning ryan and it builds and builds and builds, i mean would he be somebody who said no to that? i think he would say no very quick. he might have other plans perhapses in 2016 and running for speaker, win, lose or draw would be bad for all those plans. i consider are this rahmer to be a three beer rumor which is after about the third beer people like we should replace boehner and that sounds like a good idea and repeat that enough and then it becomes a rumor. look, the staff i talked to on the hill, even the members i talked to and even the members against boehner on plan b there is no true conversation to replace john boehner as speaker right now. laura: wouldn t that also be, chip, you you can stay on this, wouldn t that look disasterrous for republicans in the middle of the fiscal cliff thing they throw boehner over the edge or start the process for removing boehner? seems if anything, again, as a pragmatic matter that ev
revolt, if this thing is real and people will start mentioning ryan and it builds and builds and builds, i mean would he be somebody who said no to that? i think he would say no very quick. he might have other plans perhapses in 2016 and running for speaker, win, lose or draw would be bad for all those plans. i consider are this rahmer to be a three beer rumor which is after about the third beer people like we should replace boehner and that sounds like a good idea and repeat that enough and then it becomes a rumor. look, the staff i talked to on the hill, even the members i talked to and even the members against boehner on plan b there is no true conversation to replace john boehner as speaker right now. laura: wouldn t that also be, chip, you you can stay on this, wouldn t that look disasterrous for republicans in the middle of the fiscal cliff thing they throw boehner over the edge or start the process for removing boehner? seems if anything, again, as a pragmatic matter that ev