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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 think that's right. i think they will pursue the parliamentary device called reconciliation, which in effect is senator byrd, who wrote the budget law and had something to say about the use of this device within the last year, he said it would be an outrage that must be re...

Taking over the show. >> thank you very much. let me start with your ending possession after the summit, and that is start over again. short of that, is there any way the president can reconfigure this bill that would get your support? >> i don't think so, candy. this is a massive overhaul of one-sixth of the economy. republicans don't believe half a trillion dollars in medicare cuts and half a trillion dollars in new tax and possibly higher insurance premiums for all in the insurance market is reform. we had a chance on thursday to actually display some of our brightest, most knowledgeable re...

Because they by and large approve of each of the provisions. and when we showed them what the priorities that have been boiled down to and what it means to them as they sit around their kitchen table rather than us sitting around a table at blare house, i think that will have a very positive result. it will be great for the american people. >> but you know because you have heard from some of these house members, i am sure, who come to you and say i cannot live with this or i am getting nailed back in my district for this, it's going to be a bit of a chore, isn't it, to bring the left and the m...

Majority and, frankly, a kind of arrogant way saying we are smarter than you are, americans, we are going to give this to you whether you want it or not. >> you mentioned the polls a couple times. the news media lives and breathes on polls, and they are always important, but one of the calculations here when people are looking at this, the critics of the republican party are saying the reason they are doing this, they looked at the polls and they don't want to give the president a break, and they don't want to move forward for this country because they believe this is an issue that will win th...

>> let's talk about the fairness of it. just because it has been used before for lesser issues doesn't mean it's appropriate for this issue. you had senator byrd himself, the former democratic majority leader saying within the last year to use this device for something like health care would be an outrage, which must be resisted. that's a democrat, candy. that's not republicans. there are a number of other democrats that do not think something of this magnitude ought to be jammed down the throats of a public that doesn't want it through this kind of device. >> you heard the speaker say, i thin...