getting push-back and may have to give a bit. >> it looks like he's going to get the votes but with a big caveat. the president has saying he wants a clean vote which means nothing else added, just raise the debt ceiling so the u.s. doesn't default. but republicans have been pushing for it to be coupled with more spending cuts. white house has repeatedly rejected that until essentially this weekend when secretary geithner was on the sunday talk shows acknowledging, yeah, we'll have to give a little bit to the republicans. i think that's again one of the reasons liberals have been so nervous. seems like every time speaker boehner comes in to negotiate something on the budget the president is giving in. but i think it is just political reality. the white house has tried to negotiate out of strength but they realize the votes are just not on the hill unless they have real serious deficit reduction attached in a separate vote that's right after, before,