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>> the utah senator -- i want to ask you this before you go. mike lee earlier today attached a 20-week washington, d.c. abortion amendment to a cyber security bill up for consideration this week. what's going on here? attaching this bill to the cyber security bill? >> well, again, we need the cyber security bill. the defense department says so. our business community says so. consumers advocates say we need this. yet we want to load up with these amendments. i think the important thing here is that at one time i cheaired the district of columbia meeting. i said i shouldn't be here because the ...

These threats to go after the legal legitimacy of what they're doing. they say, look, this has been dolg over and over and over again. it's been litigated. >> certainly. >> but the republicans are going to attack the process because they cannot, they think now, stop. i mean, when you see kucinich making that move, that is such an important signal. and then the stupak group. james oberstar and others are willing to not take that firm stand on the abortion amendment. >> there is some hutzpah there. dick cheney casting the deciding vote. i don't remember michael saying, oh, i can't work for this ...

>> what's the messaging then, if they get financial reform done? other than this lajrger reform umbrella? what are the key things they will play off of? >> it will be we got tough on wall street, we'll make sure it doesn't happen again. we don't know if the bill will have that effect. you never know with a piece of legislation. certainly with the clinton administration, they passed the financial deregulation bill. it may not have turned out so well. but if they pass health care, then you've got an historic achievement that month white house has gotten done in 70 years. regulation on that it's ...

Leadership, run as fast as you can and you can survive. >> that won't work in the senate. >> there are people who are blue dogs who also voted with bart stupak on the abortion amendment. i count eight of those people. >> you opened up that can of worms. how do they solve the problem? >> six blue dogs. >> how do they solve the problem that you had 12 or so at least, maybe up to 40, who had their votes influenced positively because of stupak and this money going to abortion services in the insurance programs? how do you deal with the fact that won't be in this? >> the way they're going to have t...

Be disloyal to -- >> no, i'm not encouraging anybody to -- i'm saying if you're going to put distance between yourself and the white house, or yourself and the leadership, run as fast as you can and you can survive. >> that won't work in the senate. >> there are people who are blue dogs who also voted with bart stupak on the abortion amendment. >> you opened up that can of worms. how do they solve the problem? how do they solve the problem that you had 12 or so at least, maybe up to 40, who had their votes influenced positively because of stupak and this money going to abortion services in the...