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Bipartisan, why didn't anyone find consensus on this bill? it baffles me, boggles the mind of the average american that knowing something has to be done with health care and yet no one has found consensus, why is this? >> the same reason they wouldn't find common ground on social security when george h.w. bush and george w. bush tried to do something about it. they want the issues so they can run on it and so they can have political victory. they don't want to solve the problem and rather suffer than the solutionen and the american people suffer as a result. >> and we'll leave it there. cal yo...

>> one day before national elections, iraqis are facing violence and intimidation. a car bomb exploded in najaf. the attack appears to be a wave of violence by insurgents determined to square iraqis away from the polls. hundreds of thousands of expatriates have begun voting on tomorrow's election and could the vote change the u.s. presence in iraq? dr. doug olvent served on the security council and point out you're about to head over to afghanistan. >> i am, brian. >> brian: wow, you're a busy man and thank you for service to the country. >> thank you. >> brian: let's talk about iraq, these el...

Both a course of action that will be used by the democrats to try to win the fall election and also, what will be used against them both by the democrats and the republicans should they oppose the president's initiative. >> all right, doug, you're zeroing in on something, something that the president talked about today, he discussed the fact that the insurance companies gave him no sign as to why rates keep going up and he's fearful that if they do nothing, if they do nothing with any, anything resolving the health care situation, that these insurance companies will continue to raise more prem...

And that's going on right now and the key of course the 12 pro-life democrats led by bart stupak who say they will not vote for this if federal funding of abortion is in it. let's see how things work out with them. >> doug, cal makes a good point. a litany of problems, sticking points for the president moving forward with health care reform. but washington being what it is, it's almost like let's make a deal. but yet, there aren't enough votes to make a deal. >> well, you never say never, cal and kelly in the business until the end. the president is very, very powerful. and if you say to those...

Be jobs, jobs, jobs, one of the reasons the unemployment rate has gone up. so many people are out of jobs they don't have insurance. the risk pool, and you can't compete across state lanes and insurance companies in new jersey can charge i think it's an average of $5,000 for an insurance policy for help and down in ken condition 900 some dollars and we ought to buy insurance across state lines like we can buy wine across state lines and that's the way to do it, competition. >> doug, i've got to have you respond to that. >> there are ideas that cal mentioned that the republicans share with some...