president obama's top dealmakers on capitol hill awaiting in the wings for the senator max baucuses to call a vote on the senate finance committee's health care plans so that they can start merging the senate plans. national political correspondent for "time" magazine joins us now who has been watching every, every move on health care for so many months now. >> we have the delay until the cbo scores this, but our own ken strickline now reporting from the hill that the congressional budget office says they'll come up with their numbers tomorrow. how critical is that, karen? >> well, you know, there was a gentlemen's agreement and i know where congress is concerned, that sounds like almost an oxy moran, but that the finance committee was not going to vote until they actually had the nnu in front of them. but at this point it looks like passages pretty much assured and now we move into an even more