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quite well in iowa. i m surprise ed thd that this t politics as much as he did. he was not afraid to delve into the arcane political strategy of the she runs or maybe other people would not run. i just was, i was, again, i thought it was a good interview, but i was surprised that he would be talking about this, and usually tradition dictates, gee, i have not thought about that and i will deal with that after the election, but he was fortcoming and you had to i would be shocked if he didn t run. well, i asked him the questions and he answered the questions, and he didn t duck them. no, no. bill? yeah, no, that is right. i think that i disagree a little bit. i think that i don t think that sarah palin entering scares anybody or runs anybody out. you have to distinguish between sarah palin as celebrity as somebody who comes and charges things up, and sarah palin as, you know, the likely candidate of the republican party. i just don t think she is.
workers could lose their health insurance if, if mcdonald s doesn t get what it wants from the federal government. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you are in i m wolf blitzer, and you are in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com just over four weeks before the midterm election the winds of change in the obama administration are ramping up to gail force after a series of high profile departures and among the president s top advisers we are learning that the biggest one yet is announcing tomorrow. sourpss say that chief of staff rahm emanuel will step down to run for mayor of chicago. ed henry is already in chicago and working the story for us. all right. ed, walk us through what we know right now. well, wolf, you know that rahm emanuel s legacy is really going to be a series of high profile legislative victories from health care to wall street
our senior political analyst gloria borger and john king who is the host of john king usa which begins at the top of the next hour and our chief correspondent candy crowley who is host of state of the union which airs sundays at 9:00 a.m. eastern. gloria, a lot of white house departures and looks like a new chief of staff as ed reported. pete rouse, and there is a picture of him sitting with the president that was released by the white house, and that sort of confirmation that he has the job. right. yaet, he does have the job, and you know, if rahm emanuel is kind of an outside guy, who did not know h who did know how t with congress because he was prominently and go on the sunday shows, et cetera, and pete rouse is a inside guy. he is a consummate insider and he was tom daschle s chief of staff for many years and he is somebody who knows the hill very well and he was barack obama s
your wisdom. thank you, martin. and now the washington where the standoff between the president and the republicans are in increasing pressure. there is a deal that needs to be done, and the president chastises them for leaving town in the looming crisis. this was not received well by senate minority leader mcconnell who repeated his opposition to any new taxes. the president does not seem to get it. so, let me do something that i think would be constructive. i d like to invite the president to come to the capitol today to meet with the senate republicans. and the white house has declined that ed thd that invi it is not a conversation worth having. kristen welker has been traveling with the president, and at the white house, and with the president in philadelphia today, is that combative tone we heard wednesday likely to continue as the campaign stops