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Had happened. you drove all the way from alexander to capitol hill without knowing the shooting took place. >> that'ss right. we left at about seven oh 8:00 a.m. versus 7:30, by the time we got back to capitol hill, we started to get word. it was stunning because, i was just they are 20 minutes ago. steve and i were turning double plays. he's turning and throwing it to third base. that happened five or 10 minutes before he got shot. it's just a real surreal -- i haven't even come to terms to it yetwa. >> tucker: you remember the exchange free will. did he seem agitated or weird? >> i don't kno...

Get you a check of our top stories right now. just minutes to go until president obama lays out yet another plan for a health care bill. he is embracing a few republican ideas in a nod to bipartisanship, he is signaling and will signal we're told very strongly that democrats are ready to push the overhaul through without republican help. you can watch him here live, wolf blitzer and the best political team on television will be joining me momentarily to start our coverage of the president's speech. >> charlie rangel istarial giving up his gavel as the chairman of the house ways and means commi...

His plan will be dumped into medicaid a government program in which half of the doctors won't see medicaid patients, so it is like giving people a ticket to a busline without a bus. it is not real health care reform. >> senator alexander, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for your time. >> lamar alexander is the number three republican in the u.s. senate. lots to digest and absorb. a seminel moment when the president said it has to be done. much more on the coverage right after this. ♪ i have clients down the block. across the street. in the same zip code. basically next door. i ...

Sending a lot more to the states to pay, and they will raise tuitions and taxes, so that the more people get into this, they will see it is the same old car, old model that we rejected in december and that is why 25% in the cnn poll say we like it, and 57% say stop or start over. >> how do you respond, senator alexander to, the president's assertion that the democrats' plan will bring in an additional $31 million largely middle-class families into the insurance programs that are out there, and the republican alternative would only add 3 million families, individuals to the insurance program? >...