that the profits are coming in underneath the door. so the people at the white house are confused as to why the insurance agency seems to be walking into it, and right now, it would seem they would not want to raise premiums and bringing more attention upon thepss, and that is why kathleen sebelius went into the conference and the lion s den and said work with us on reform, and the president will be in st. louis in a short time hitting the insurance agency as well. and talking about waste and fraud and hitting on a few fronts. by the way, it has occur to me, and i did not remember this at the time, but five or six years ago you were doing a story at a ritz-carlton and you were in a bathrobe eating strawberries, is that the same hotel? yes, it is here in downtown d.c. and the con text is for some inaugural package and it was 2004 and 2005 for the bush inaugural and they had a big $100,000, you could get well, i don t need context, but you and a bathrobe on a
done and it could have been signed into law for more than a month now. the second thing she gets a low grade on is dealing with corruption. i mean, just yesterday, she stood by representative charles rangel over his troubles with the ethics committee and there are more troubles coming for rangel with the ethics committee and the last thing is the prospects of her party. i mean, even sort of conservative estimateors are looking at prospects for democrats and they believe that the democrats could actually lose control of the house. they have a 40-seat margin and they could possibly lose control of the house this november. ok. so you give her an a for effort on health care and cap and trade and an f on reform and environmental legislation as well. you were just talking about the chances for her party, though. we were just doing a talking point, byron, about the math and whether or not in the house chamber she s actually got enough people who will pass the president s health care once he
available for loans, grants, work study programs for college kids and tax benefits for families, who are struggling right now to send their kids to college. all right. rehema, is there any concern about this money being used to fill gaps as opposed to really sparking reform? there s a lot of concern, but some of those gaps need to be filled. at the same time, we need to make certain we put this on reform. depending on the zip code where you live, every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school in this country. we used to be number one in educating kids and graduating from high school. we re now about number 23, slightly above mexico. korea is number one. all right. rehema, thank you. breaking news now from washington, d.c. the first lady, while the president is focusing on the three rs, she s focusing on educating kids about how to be healthy. let s listen to her talk about childhood obesity. you helped me start at the
he s pro-life, but on the campaign trail when he was running for governor, he opposed a law which would have forced minors to get permission from parents before abortion. he s funding for planned parenthood. he s governed to the extent he can in new jersey and gotten the legislature amazingly to go along on reform. i think that conservative voters are going to be comfortable with him and some of the things you mentioned north going to scare away independents which i think is lot of the republicans around the country are excited to have him at the top of the ballot. if he gets in, he ll be respond to go what the woman said at the outset. your country needs you. voters understand this is a historic election and chris christie to be taking some risk to get in and if he gets in, i say more credit to him for taking that risk and understanding, it is a bigger than average election. paul: sometimes a moment comes before you think you re prepared for it. all right, still ahead. rick perr
he s pro-life, but on the campaign trail when he was running for governor, he opposed a law which would have forced minors to get permission from parents before abortion. he s funding for planned parenthood. he s governed to the extent he can in new jersey and gotten the legislature amazingly to go along on reform. i think that conservative voters are going to be comfortable with him and some of the things you mentioned north going to scare away independents which i think is lot of the republicans around the country are excited to have him at the top of the ballot. if he gets in, he ll be respond to go what the woman said at the outset. your country needs you. voters understand this is a historic election and chris christie to be taking some risk to get in and if he gets in, i say more credit to him for taking that risk and understanding, it is a bigger than average election. paul: sometimes a moment comes before you think you re prepared for it. all right, still ahead. rick perr