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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's spokesman says Thursday's health care summit can be productive if participants "put aside this notion of kabuki theater, put aside this notion of six-hour photo ops." Robert Gibbs discussed the expectations the president has just hours before Obama greets congressional Democrats and Republicans at the Blair House, the official guest house for White House visitors.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are pleading their case for health care overhaul in an extraordinary summit with Republicans, broadcast live to a divided public on daytime TV.