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Balcony with a breeze coming from -- bruise, breeze. >> that happens during fights. >> careful. healthcare reform is messy. ask any democrat or republican fighting on this. the latest mess has to do with something they've been fighting about for months, abortion. today democratic leaders dropped all pretense of come dating or placating pro-life democrats. bart stupak and others voted for the house bill only after they got a promise and amendment banning taxpayer abortion services. now the house has to pass the senate bill n the absence of a ban it's a problem. steny hoyer says they're not goin...

Are we going to control cost? is there a way this thing will lower cost? i don't know what they'll have in it or not but i think they'll have today things particularly with moderate democrats. the key to passing the bill is getting people who voted no last time to switch and vote yes. healthcare reform, according to the polls, is less popular now than it was then. to get somebody to vote yes now, there has to be something to take back to the district. i don't mean a free by, they have to say this is going to protect businessmen, be better for you and lower costs. i don't know what it is but th...

Woods related and coming to you the moment i get my stuff together. first, developments on healthcare, the white house announcing the president will delay his first official trip overseas this year to continue pushing reform plans. as you know the president said he wanted lawmakers to finish working on the bill by thursday the 18th, he still wants that. it's also the president -- he was scheduled to leave for australia, indonesia and guam but a number of lawmakers said they would not make the deadline. now the president will leave three days later. this morning, nancy pelosi said we'll take wh...

Three days. if they postpone an international presidential trip and nancy pelosi came out talking with excitement about the president being here for the signing of this bill or the passage, if they don't get it through, it's going to be the biggest omelet in the world on their faces. they're all in, all committed on this. i've never seen anything like this and a president and speaker coming up empty. >> shepard: apparently behind closed door meetings i assume there's giving and taking going on. they got rid of handouts to the state in the bill. i mean you could probably find one but they got r...

Remember 2010 quick mike we all said, if you collect us, you give us the majority, we will read the bill.n: >> sean: if you don't learn from your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them. that is mistake number one. at the very least, republicans had a major make education issue as it relates to this bill. the big question tonight is, all right. going forward, how do we make sure this never happens again? for starters, i would say the republicann leadership, before you release any bill, there has to be a consensus built from all the different factions of the g.o.p. in otherdy words, the moderat...