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Everybody gets advantage of these things. >> that is the mission. >> this is a sad thing that there is this conflict. i think it is almost like beckett and history, this conflict between church and state and it aint simple. >> i think we can fix this and i hope the president does. i think expanded contraceptive coverage can be offered and even to employees of objecting religious organizations but we should just not require the objecting religious organizations themselves to pay for and offer tha...

Provisions. and when we show them what the priorities now that have been boiled down this is a much smaller bill than what was started with. what has been boiled down to, what it means to them as they sit round their kitchen table, rather than us sitting around a table at blair house, i think that we will have a very positive result. it will be great for the american people. >> you -- you know that because you have heard from some of these house members, im sure, who come to you and say i cant l...

Filibuster, you would only need 51. the reconciliation bill would be -- think of it has the fixes. in other words, the things that the house members dont like in the senate bill and they have been doing some negotiating on, the reconciliation, some people call it a side car would be the fixes to that. so it wont be the entire health care bill, but it would be many significant changes from what we have seen so far. even though everybody says simple majority, as you well know, candy, it aint simpl...

Fairness of it. just because it has been used before for lesser issues doesnt mean it is appropriate for this issue. you had senator bird himself and the president pro tempore of the senate, former democratic majority leader saying within the last year, to use this device for something like health care would be an outrage which must be resisted. thats a democrat, candy. thats not republicans. there are a number of other democrats that dont think something of this magnitude ought to be jammed dow...

Began way saying we are smarter than you are, americans, we are going to give this to you whether you want it or not. >> given -- you mentioned the polls a couple of times. you mo, the "newsweek" lives and breathes on polls. they are always important. one of the calculations here when people are looking at this, the critics of the republican party say that the reason they are doing this is they have looked at those polls and they dont want to give the president a break. they dont want to move fo...

Amy walter, editor in chief of the hotline. thanks to you both. im glad youre here. >> thank you. >> so let me just ask the next question because i think people out there are going reconciliation means theyre fighting? i think it has this whole backwards feel to it. so the most simplistic terms you can give-u what happens next? >> well, if they proceed with this thing called reconciliation, it means that they would only need a simple majority, which is important in the senate. instead of the 60 ...

Thats not going to happen. the senate top republican senator mcconnell. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. congratulations, candy, on taking over the show. >> thank you very much. let me start with your ending position after the summit. that is start over again. short of that, is there any way that the president can reconfigure this bill that would get your support? >> i dont think so. this has been a massive overhaul of one-sixth of the economy. republicans just dont believe that a half...

You only need 51 votes to pass a filibuster. the reconciliation bill would be -- think of it has the fixes. in other words, the things that the house members dont like in the senate bill and they have been doing some negotiating on, the reconciliation, some people call it a side car would be the fixes to that. so it wont be the entire health care bill, but it would be many significant changes from what we have seen so far. even though everybody says simple majority, as you well know, candy, it a...

You are still in the minority. you cannot write the bills. people voted for democrats. why not get as much as you can into it and vote for it? >> that would be great, but thats not enough to compensate for the massive government takeover of the u.s. health care system. its simply not symmetrical tradeoff, if you will. that would be a step in the right direction, but i dont think that alone will get many of our votes. we think we ought to start over, candy? >> i understand. you say since he will ...

Know, candy, it aint simple. >> and its not simple in the house, either. i think -- i asked six ways from sunday, do you have the vote, do you have the vote? the house speaker says they are working on the substance. do they have the votes? >> well, i mean, i have to say she deserves a tremendous amount of credit forgetting the bill through the house in the first place, and she was right when see said we have not had an easy vote yet, right, when you think about the energy bill, and all of the st...