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Place in just a matter of weeks. our mike emanuel is on the top story at the bottom of the hour tonight live at the pentagon. mike, where do things stand tonight? >> well, shep, we got an update from secretary of state hillary clinton just moments ago. lets take a listen. >> there will be a great deal of further consultation, not only among the p-5 plus 1 but other members of the security council and other member nations during the next weeks. >> let me translate a little diplomats p-5 plus one ...

Fast. >> this is an area where were going to have to have a 60% majority in the senate and the house in order to actually get a bill to my desk. were going to have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk. that is not just a 50 plus 1 majority. >> not just a 50 plus 1 majority. you are intimating the process of reconciliation earlier. has the tune been changed here? >> no, i dont think so. remember, the senate has already passed a very comprehensive health care reform bill with 60 votes and t...

All of which had to pass congress with nothing more than a simple majority. i, therefore, ask leaders in both houses of congress to finish their work and schedule a vote in the next few weeks. >> all right. you noticed the word "simple majority" there. thats what the president said, right? now i want you to listen to another barack obama, back when he was senator obama, the candidate, back when he said he wouldnt settle for a single majority on health care. didnt want that. >> this is an area wh...

Democratic party. >> trial lawyers probably give both ways. >> come on, baby. come on. but to mikes point, said a little differently they tried to do a little of that, but it doesnt seem totally sincere. jump in, negotiate two or three important issues for republicans. frankly, some of them are smart ideas, and lets move forward. its clear, some republicans dont want a health care bill. and some dont want to give in on republican ideas. the vast majority of them are ready to get something done. ...

Well, were not going to -- were not going to get it through -- youre not going to get legislation through congress if only 50% plus 1 in the country think its a good idea. thats why you if you look at poll after poll, people want -- people want health care reform, and the debate on health care reform to continue. >> welcome back to "morning joe." live look at the white house. kind of a dreary day in washington as well. joining us from washington, the moderator of "meet the press," david gregory ...

Billion it got 53 votes, but it failed. >> 53-43. >> let me ask you this quickly, chris. the left warned against this, especially during the civil rights era, of the tyranny of the majority. the left always told us we are not a pure democracy. were a constitutional republic. majority shouldnt rule, because if you do that, then you go back to the barbarism of a straight 50 plus 1. and anything can pass that way. is the left now moving away from this feeling that you have the senate to -- >> first...

Yesterday, of course, having to defend the fact that the president wasnt going to use 50 plus 1 tactics. they have to do this. the question now is nancy pelosi going to get 218 votes in the house. stupak announcing he 12 people with him that werent going to support this bill. >> i think its going to be very difficult. the position theyve taken is tell those wavering democrats now, just dont make a decision yet. lets have a conversation about it, look through the bill, look through the proposed f...

Of up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the childrens health insurance program, that was used for cobra health coverage for the unemployed and, by the way, for both bush tax cuts. >> ed, kind of a dig at republicans there, just a reminder that they have done this method in the past before. i want to read you something though that president obama said about health care overhaul while campaigning in chicago back in 2007. and as critics say, look this is just -- he flip...

>> now it is same kind of up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the childrens health insurance program, that was used for cobra health coverage for the unemployed and, by the way, for both bush tax cuts. >> ed, a kind of a dig at republicans there. a reminder that theyve done this method in the past before. i want to read you something though that president obama said about health care overhaul while campaigning in chicago back in 2007. and his critics say, look, he f...

Sure that the budget is meeting its requirements as passed by congress. megyn: they say this does relate to the budget. its 1/6 of the u.s. economy and its brupght us and it does relate to the budget. >> senator bird and senator obama to an editorial board condemned this he said we cant have this in this country with this 50 plus 1 mentality where we squeak it through and force the will of some over the will of others. if we are going to have this universal healthcare reform, which is going to m...