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Is that for those individual congressmen, when the vice president says, think of newtown, those congressmen say, no, i'm thinking of my own political future in my own constituency. i am not interested in newtown. >> well, i think that's basically right. i think a lot of members of congress, republicans, are thinking about re-election and they don't want to face an nra-backed pro-gun primary challenge in a gerrymandered district where the winner of the primary is the winner of essentially the general election. in the senate you've got a filibuster problem where literally 11% of the population o...

About the tax issue, because to repeal obamacare, we always thought that it would require 60 votes in the senate because that's typically what it takes to get passed the filibuster problem that the senate had, so, a majority would pass the house, but the senate is a tough nut to crack because of that 60 votes water mark. however, there is a quirk, because now, the court has defined this as a tax. explain why that high water mark may have been lowered. >> governor, as you said, it's always a great concern about the repeal effort. the reason there was so much focus on the court case, was we were...

The tax issue. to repeal obamacare, we always thought that it would require 60 votes in the senate. because that is typically what it takes to get past the filibuster problem, the senate has, so, a majority would pass the house and the senate is a tough nut to crack because of the 60-vote water mark. however there is a court, because the court defined it as a tax. explain why that high water mark may have been lowered. >> as you said, there was always a great concern about the repeal effort and the reason there was so much focused on the court case, we were hopeful the court would get it right...

That was upheld. >> and, scott, let's talk about the tax issue. to repeal obamacare, we always thought that it would require 60 votes in the senate. because that is typically what it takes to get past the filibuster problem, the senate has, so, a majority would pass the house and the senate is a tough nut to crack because of the 60-vote water mark. however there is a court, because the court defined it as a tax. explain why that high water mark may have been lowered. >> as you said, there was always a great concern about the repeal effort and the reason there was so much focused on the court c...

That was upheld. >> and, scott, let's talk about the tax issue. to repeal obamacare, we always thought that it would require 60 votes in the senate. because that is typically what it takes to get past the filibuster problem, the senate has, so, a majority would pass the house and the senate is a tough nut to crack because of the 60-vote water mark. however there is a court, because the court defined it as a tax. explain why that high water mark may have been lowered. >> as you said, there was always a great concern about the repeal effort and the reason there was so much focused on the court c...