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>> some senate republican colleagues made news when they made their own alternative bill to obamacare. one was orrin hatch. first, i'm curious what you think of the plan and if the tea party is going to unveil an alternative. >> i look forward to seeing the coburn-hatch plan. it doesn't yet exist in legislative form, but i look forward to seeing it. i think that as a party, and as conservatives, we need to get behind a plan as some point. in the meantime, we need templates. we need to offer up our own alternatives, and this is an important first step in that direction. >> picking up on that po...

Something. the senate passed something. something that the country needs. that most people want. ah, what do we do? what a dilemma? they emerged from that basement after talking it over for hours with a clear sense of exactly how stuck they are. because they refuse to allow a vote on the senate bill. they say they cannot pass reform by doing it piecemeal or at least everybody else talking an that strategy knows they cannot do it that way. they do not have an alternative bill of their own. and very important, they do not want to do nothing. so refuse to do a thing that can be done, do not have ...

They say they cannot pass reform by doing it piecemeal or at least everybody else talking an that strategy knows they cannot do it that way. they do not have an alternative bill of their own. and very important, they do not want to do nothing. so refuse to do a thing that can be done, do not have any idea how to do it any other way, and it is of utmost importance that something be done. this is like coming to a fork in the road and saying do you want to go left? no. do up to go right? no. go. you have to go. okay. should i go left? no. should i go right? you have to go. you have to pick one. i...

This amount of money will not do much what will ultimate happen. >> it's depressing. the slaughter of 20 children and you can't get anything done. >> sign of the climate on capitol hill, we have a scoop up this morning that senator charles grassley republican in iowa is working on an alternative bill and might be a way out of that fillibuster is likely to come because of senator cruz and senator rand paul and mike lee of utah. a way out of that. a much narrower bill and focusing on keeping guns away from schools and that would be a real watering down of what anybody expected, let alone what is...

Get an alternative bill passed through the house last week. that failed. the focus shifts to the senate. reid and mcconnell will really be charged with trying to hammer out the fine details of that deal that can make it through the senate and through the house so that is the challenge moving forward. of course, president obama here in hawaii for his christmas cray case. he played some golf over the weekend. also, attended the memorial service for the late senator daniel inouye. thomas, on a much lighter note, he asked me had i taken my flip flops out last hour. i hadn't but i did since my work...