when it comes to children s medicine, johnson & johnson is one of the most trusted brands around. you might be surprised to learn rather than announce a recent recall, the company actually tried to buy all the medicine itself right off the shelves. dr. richard besser investigates. reporter: it was november of 2008 when johnson & johnson and its subsidiary mcneil consumer health care discovered a problem. some of its motrin tablets were not dissolving properly. meaning if you have a headache and took one of these tablets, it may not work as expected. but instead of issuing a recall, something else happened. at 5,000 convenience stores around the country, contractors were sent out on a secret mission, to quietly buy up the faulty motrin without alerting the public. abc news found lynn walter, one of the contractors hired by an inventory company. they gave him written instructions detailing this assignment. you should simply act like a regular customer while making these purchases. th
when it comes to children s medicine, johnson & johnson is one of the most trusted brands around. you might be surprised to learn rather than announce a recent recall, the company actually tried to buy all the medicine itself right off the shelves. dr. richard besser investigates. reporter: it was november of 2008 when johnson & johnson and its subsidiary mcneil consumer health care discovered a problem. some of its motrin tablets were not dissolving properly. meaning if you have a headache and took one of these tablets, it may not work as expected. but instead of issuing a recall, something else happened. at 5,000 convenience stores around the country, contractors were sent out on a secret mission, to quietly buy up the faulty motrin without alerting the public. abc news found lynn walter, one of the contractors hired by an inventory company. they gave him written instructions detailing this assignment. you should simply act like a regular customer while making these purchases.
angry at the gop establishment is spending and the the bailouts. i think that is going continue to play out in the next year. liz? i think both things are true. i think it is forever from now. i mean look at where we were in november of 2008. nobody would have think chris: we got that. i think it is also true that i want to talk about that a little bit more. no, i think it is also true that in fact ideas and substance and policy will matter this time and maybe so so than any previous republican nomination. chris: who steps up? i think mitch daniels is a clear very interesting potential frontrunner. paul ryan is interesting. i think you will have people who emerge after the 2010 elections as real challengers. fascinating governors out there. chris christy is terrific. chris: under 20 seconds. the fact is if you ask americans about president obama his numbers are going down but he is still in the mid 40s.
mind one of reasons people are angry at the gop establishment is spending and the the bailouts. i think that is going continue to play out in the next year. liz? i think both things are true. i think it is forever from now. i mean look at where we were in november of 2008. nobody would have think chris: we got that. i think it is also true that i want to talk about that a little bit more. no, i think it is also true that in fact ideas and substance and policy will matter this time and maybe so so than any previous republican nomination. chris: who steps up? i think mitch daniels is a clear very interesting potential frontrunner. paul ryan is interesting. i think you will have people who emerge after the 2010 elections as real challengers. fascinating governors out there. chris christy is terrific. chris: under 20 seconds. the fact is if you ask americans about president obama his numbers are going down but
voting for some local member who they may not even know his or her name as they do for presidential elections. he has to make the case that this is important and get people to understand what s at stake for him. yeah. if they care about progressive policies. if we look at the associated press, there s a poll that finds 26% of democrats are excited about politics compared with 80% of democrats who are excited back in november of 2008. so the suggestion from an article that i read from you in the washington post in terms of how democrats can recapture the excitement of the 08 race in part lies in the african-american community and getting them all fired up. exactly. obama has about a 91% approval rating among black voters so in a lot of ways they ll dust off this playbook that they had in 2001 and get those folks engaged and excited. they re very much wanting to make this a referendum on president obama and if they think they can do that they really like their chances among bl