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to send it to the senate where it can receive action. >> well, the vote was scheduled for yesterday, rescheduled for early this evening and then put on hold again so the leadership could wrangle votes. they're going that literally as we speak. still promising a vote sometime tonight. we'll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to "get their asses in line". apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. >> we want to make sure we never get he...

expected to roll out a plan to cut spending by $2.7 trillion while raising the debt by 274 trillion. reid's plan would not include tax increases which republicans refuse to consider nor would it touch entitlements. my colleague, dan lothian is watching it all from his post at the white house. dan, what is the president's position first on raising the debt in installments? >> reporter: he want it is to go through 2012 and there is a sense at the white house and treasury department in particular even if you had some sort of short-term fix that raises the debt ceiling through the rest o...

Quickly, which is you are right, even though individual elements of this plan do poll well, overall democrats have never been able to get into the position where most americans, particularly most white americans, there is a difference in the polling believe it will help them. that's why i think it's a gut check moment for the democratic majorities. i think if you poll them privately, the clear majority in both cleave they produce add plan that is a reasonable way to approach universal coverage if that's your goal. the question is do they believe they can sell it to the american people if they ...

Begin roving once they complete a check of all of the systems in the next couple weeks. those are your 5@5:00. >> let's talk politics. mitt romney slamming the welfare reform policy in a new ad. white house is firing back. peter doocy covering the story for us. >> mitt romney's favorite threat to go after president obama for wanting to make it too easy for a well tefare check. the president wants to resource course on welfare work requirements that have been around for the 90s. now it is going on the defensive with a powerful new ad. >> in 96 president clinton and bipartisan congress helped en...

John? >> if the president doesn't like the house proposal what is the alternative? >>reporter: he is trying to marginalize the house which is being driven by a minority of the majority party and the president says the democrat and republican leaders of the senate have both offered plans and he is looking to them for a compromise. >> senator reid a democrat has introduce add plan that contains cuts agreed upon by both parties. senator mcconnell, a republican, offered a solution that could get us through this. there are plenty of modifications we can make to either of the plans in order to get t...