he s in one of my favorite cities in the entire world. hees in chicago for the stakeout today. is it something he knew the rest of us didn t know because we hear that there s going to be a personnel announcement made tomorrow at 11:00 by the president, 11:00 in the morning eastern time. i imagine the president doesn t get involved in a lot of personnel announcements so the speculation is it has to do with rahm emanuel who wants to, by the way, run for the mayor of chicago. what do you know that we don t know? reporter: that s right. remember we were on the stakeout last week where we reported this and we knew several days ago this was going to happen. the president will make it official tomorrow. it s pretty rare for the president to get involved in a personnel announcement unless it s a senior staffer or cabinet secretary. what s fascinating and the reason we decided to come to chicago the next couple of days, everyone will be covering it from washington and inside washington there
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i m page hopkins. here s what s happening. the white house says with a wink that president obama will make a personnel announcement on friday, chief of staff rahm emanuel and expected to step down to run for mayor of chicago. senior adviser peter voss likely to fill that post. he served as chief of staff for then-senator obama in 2004. ed is reportedly well liked within the administration. over in afghanistan, at least five allied troops were killed in three separate incidents. their nationalalities have not been released. up to new jersey s attorney general to decide whether to charge two college students with hate crimes. they re being blamed for driving another student to suicide by secretly taping him in a sexual encounter and posting it online. a sprawling storm moving up the eastern seaboard snarling road traffic from north carolina to new york. at least five deaths are already blamed on the storm after a family s minivan lost control and crashed in north carolina killi
does. yes, ma am? also on warren, with these reports that she might be made an interim head or might be made a counselor to the treasury secretary, are you worried that that would be seen as some kind of a half measure? especially given that she s been endorsed by the national organization of women? i m not going to play hypothetical until there s a personnel announcement. i think that as i said a minute ago, as the president has said over the course of many weeks, i think she is, base d o the work she has done over the course of her career. the fact that she again, this is an idea that was borne largely by her. i think it s the president s right to consider her and for a role in implementing what the congress has passed. can i discuss a couple of currency questions?
that may be seen by a half measure especially since she was endorsed by the national organization of women. i m not going to play hypothetical until there is a personnel announcement. i think as i said a minute ago, as the president has said over the course of many weeks, i think she is based on the work that she has done over the course of her career, the fact that she again this was an idea that was born largely by her, i think it s the president s right to consider her for a role jon: robert gibbs, president obama s official spokesman says we should make the middle class tax cuts permanent but the president has maintained letting those tax cuts expire for the wealthist americans is good politics and policy. let s get a quick look at this from karl rove. why is the president