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Play out this week and bigger picture, what effect if any, will it bring in the mid terms. if it's any indication, it is clearly a narrative at this point, that the republicans are attempting to seize on, even if some of the facts and the realities they create around it are not necessarily true. for instance, not everybody in america is against it. nor is everybody in america for it. although you hear a lot of that around here. another for instance of course, they'll call it a government takeover of health care. when in fact it is a government reform of a lot of health care practices, and ther...

Problem. we cannot continue to rely on all the imports from china without some process that allows us to say, look, enough is enough. >> you can't manipulate your currency to force us to subsidize the development of your country using american jobs and american money. >> it cannot be done. and the question is how dot republicans and democrats work together on something thatunit we need to deal with the chinese problem, because if we don't deal with it, we have a problem here at home. >> paul krugman said it in the op-ed yesterday it was. and i have to agree with him -- i don't see any other le...

While at the same time, republicans are trying to play to say well you voted for it and i gotcha and i saw you did it and i didn't do it. when the reality -- what does that say about the degree of confidence that the politicians have in it, that there is this much gaming going on right now? >> what i would say about this, look, if this were easy, it would have been done before this president, a number of presidents have tried and not been able to get a bill out of committee. here we have meaningful health care bills passed through both houses. we're in the last spasm. and you're right, the rep...

I think republicans and democrats administrations have been stuck in this political box of trying to figure out how tough they want to be on china. here i think is the political problem in both the policy problem. the political problem is how do you deal with it right now. when they control a significant portion of our debt and that's enormous economic leverage that they have. >> it is and it isn't. because they're so dependant on the us paying it back. america is to big to fail for china. >> and the policy is, we've got to get tough with the chinese on this level. because they're going to bec...

Legislation to force democrats into voting on the senate bill or at the very least to go on the record as backing the leadership's deem-and-pass method. it feels like a junior high school, right? anyway, why are both sides resorting to such procedural complications? they want to keep their jobs. the answer may lie in our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, which suggests that any vote for or against at this point is a lose-lose. 36% of american says they are less likely to vote for representatives who vote with democrats for health care. 28% say they are more likely to re-elect the incumb...