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Perspective we are seriously disappointed with the president. he is turning his back on 25 years of sound energy policy for blowing a kiss to the republicans and senate graham on this drilling fiasco. >> if there is the political calculation more than the, you know, seven or eight billion barrels of oil that might come out of it, or even if that number were 70 billion, if it is more about getting enough republican support to pass significant legislation in terms of climate change, in terms of energy and emission standards, is it in any way to your mind worth the tradeoff? >> we have to see a b...

On this drilling fiasco. >> if there is the political reasoning behind this more than the 7 billion or 8 billion gallons of oil that might come out of it or if that number were 70 billion, if it's more than getting enough republican support to pass significant legislation in terms of climate change and energy and emissions standards, is it worth the tradeoff? >> we have to see a bill first. the president is unilaterally disarming himself. we saw two or three weeks ago he pledged to do new nuclear power in georgia. we see the oil and gas development. he's got to talk about goal. he's got the tr...

>> if it -- if there is the political calculation behind this more than the, you know, 7 billion or 8 billion barrels of oil that might come out of it, or even if that number were 70 billion, if it's more about getting enough republican support to pass significant legislation in terms of climate change, in terms of energy and emission standards, is it in any way, to your mind, worth the tradeoff? >> we have to see a bill first. i mean, the president is essentially unilaterally disarming himself. we saw two or three weeks ago where he pledged to do new nuclear power in georgia. we saw this only...

People like or maybe some parts you would like to see repealed. this is question this morning. just a couple of responses. on the twitter page, first. let's go to miss kim. says replace health care with what? more tax cuts for the rich? after a year of fear and hate rhetoric, gop has offered nothing but fear and hate. we'll go to linda who says in order to make informed decisions, a class would need to be studies about the bill first. this is problem number one. another says republicans had eight years to replace the health care you have suffering of americans. they did nothing. one more sayin...

And we just heard that senator bernie sanders is going to insist that a vote comes. >> i'm all for that. and the signatures are mounting. bernie sanders has been a real fighter on that. this is starting to boil to a head. do you think that nancy pelosi, this leap of faith that we're all talking about, do you think that the speaker can get the votes on the senate bill over on the house side? >> i believe she can. as long as the reconciliation actually fixes some of the problems house members have with the senate bill the american people don't get it and that process says, we have to vote for th...