manage shinn ping for some time. something you don t see normally, political skills. pete clemons traveling with vice president biden. thank you, sir. the white house insists the white house is not trying to contain china, just simply playing an historic role of peace keeper in the pacific. is that a role congress will embrace in a time of pentagon budget cuts, national security challenges in the middle east, and of course the national mood at home, which is increasingly suspicious of being overextended abroad? joining me now, somebody who s one of the wise men of washington, former republican senator richard lugar, former chairman of the foreign relations committee. good morning. good morning. let s talk about the pivot to asia here, specifically this dispute between japan and china. the japanese obviously want the u.s. to be more declare tiffi here in its public anger with china and biden is just not clearly is not sending that message. is that the right call? well, the fac
2013. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. we have a lot going on as we do every day in december. so let s start with my first reads of the morning. and it s on health care again. after the soft relaunch of the health care website over the weekend, the white house now feels that it s in good enough shape to do what they wanted to do two months ago. start a public campaign for the health care law over law. president obama will kick-start the e effort with an event at the white house this afternoon. of course this comes nine weeks after the first rollout which was marked by glitches and crashes as well as repeated promises from the administration that things would get better. nobody s madder than me about the website is working as well as it should, which means it s going to get fixed. no one ever imagined the volume of issues and problems that we ve had, and we must fix it. there is an enormous amount of work going on on a daily basis to make the necessary fixes