Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110421:08:03:00
The house chamber, even with that, hours into this vote, republicans still could not get the votes they needed. the hill newspaper reporting at the time, shortly before 5:00 a.m., an assistant of george w. bush summed up the dire situation. we need to wake up the president. and they did. the same paper later reporting that president bush on a extreme -- cell phone was passed around the house chamber at 5:00 in the morning, to lobby republicans by cell phone to change their minds. by 5:30 in the morning, three hours after that 15-minute vote was called for, mission accomplished. >> on this vote...