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State. although the white house is doing head counting after not a great week on capitol hill. >> it was striking. i spoke with the republican senators privately before they were seeking susan rice and i think they would like to make the case. successfully enough to say look, i dont approve what she did. on sunday after the september 11 attack. benefit of the doubt, you get the president. i think she was so unsatisfactory in the answers that i do think now she faces close to the united nations r...

President to bring both sides together. it is a dangerous position for the republicans to be in because when the cameras are rolling and they are live, david, they have to come up with some answers. it has been pointed out there are a number of things the republicans have advocated for that are in health care reform. we are going to find out how strong the president is when he gets the republicans in the room. he is going to have to call them out and be forceful if they want to get anything done...

Eventually vote for kavanaugh. theres a lot of head counting. but one thing we know, senator mccain likely isnt going to come back and cast a vote. obviously, everyone hopes he does. likely he isnt going to. the calculation changes. as far as the numbers. >> dana: anything bee should know about your interview with vice president pence that will air on "special report". >> hes up on capitol hill, we will be heading up there shortly. and we will be obviously talking about the rollout, and the left...

Of course, adding the balanced budget provision late yesterday so the vote could take place today, i would assume that the speaker would lose a lot of votes and would be then on democrats to pass what would be the reid mcconnell bill. >> bret: and probably some more boehner factors in there. try to merge one would think the reid, mcconnell and boehner bills. there will not be the balanced budget amendment because democrats would not have that. and as the press conference is wrapping up the hope ...

Speaker boehner has proposed and that is why we will fight against anything that pretends to solve the problem, but doesnt. the majority leader proposed a plan yesterday that is nothing more than another attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the american people. >> and thomas, what the minority leader is referring to is republicans are taking a look at some of the deficit savings that democrats are putting forward and saying that is not the kind of savings that they want to see. majority lea...

Meet. theyll have a meeting right after the vote is done and keep negotiating. there are lots of issues that separate them, but they say theyre continuing to make progress. that is going on as this vote plays out. that, again, youll be surprised everybody believes it will fail. the start debate right now. >> hoping olympia snowe, senator grassley, would join to get the 60 votes they need. does it look like all 59 democrats, the 57 democrats, two independents, caucus for the democrats will they v...