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Amy walter, editor in chief of the hotline. thanks to you both. i'm glad you're here. >> thank you. >> so let me just ask the next question because i think people out there are going reconciliation means they're fighting? i think it has this whole backwards feel to it. so the most simplistic terms you can give-u what happens next? >> well, if they proceed with this thing called reconciliation, it means that they would only need a simple majority, which is important in the senate. instead of the 60 votes to pass a filibuster, you'd only need a 51. this reconciliation would be -- think of it as ...

That's not going to happen. the senate top republican senator mcconnell. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. congratulations, candy, on taking over the show. >> thank you very much. let me start with your ending position after the summit. that is start over again. short of that, is there any way that the president can reconfigure this bill that would get your support? >> i don't think so. this has been a massive overhaul of one-sixth of the economy. republicans just don't believe that a half a trillion dollars in medicare cuts and new taxes and possibly higher insurance premiums for all...

You only need 51 votes to pass a filibuster. the reconciliation bill would be -- think of it has the fixes. in other words, the things that the house members don't like in the senate bill and they have been doing some negotiating on, the reconciliation, some people call it a side car would be the fixes to that. so it won't be the entire health care bill, but it would be many significant changes from what we have seen so far. even though everybody says simple majority, as you well know, candy, it ain't simple. >> and it's not simple in the house, either. i think -- i asked six ways from sunday,...

You are still in the minority. you cannot write the bills. people voted for democrats. why not get as much as you can into it and vote for it? >> that would be great, but that's not enough to compensate for the massive government takeover of the u.s. health care system. it's simply not symmetrical tradeoff, if you will. that would be a step in the right direction, but i don't think that alone will get many of our votes. we think we ought to start over, candy? >> i understand. you say since he will not start over, it's done, and all the republicans will vote no on the senate side? >> yeah, i th...

Know, candy, it ain't simple. >> and it's not simple in the house, either. i think -- i asked six ways from sunday, do you have the vote, do you have the vote? the house speaker says they are working on the substance. do they have the votes? >> well, i mean, i have to say she deserves a tremendous amount of credit forgetting the bill through the house in the first place, and she was right when see said we have not had an easy vote yet, right, when you think about the energy bill, and all of the stuff that has been pushed through that has been very difficult. the environment now is even worse t...