will be the big thing. jenna: mike emanuel is live at the white house. mike, what started a buzz about the possible shakeup of the economic team. reporter: it was president obama in his own words. he talked about the effect team, some of the tough decisions they ve had to make and about the family impact of working in these high stress, very challenging jobs. here is more from the president. look, i have not made any determinations about personnel. larry summers and tim geithner have done on you outstanding job as has my whole economic team. this is tough the work that they do. they have been at it for two years. they are going to have a whole range of decisions about family that will factor into this as well. reporter: the president s staff says he was not signaling a change is in the works. he s merely showing support for the tough decisions they ve made and the tough jobs they ve had over the years, jenna. jenna: the white house says no major shakeup but the timing o