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Contrary is not a fact. secondly, we will not diminish or increase the opportunity for abortion, and this bill does not do that. third, we are going to pass a health care bill, so the compromise language in the senate bill i don't think makes everybody happy, but the fact is it honors those principles of no federal funding of abortion and no expansion of abortion rights and it moves us toward passing a bill. >> you will lose some of the democrats if the language stays the way it is. >> we will see what the substance is. this bill is not about abortion, this bill is about innovation and prevent...

The results were out a couple days ago, the american people do not want us to use that kind of parliamentary device to jam this down their throats. >> i want to go back to one question, and that is is there something within reconciliation, which does appear will happen despite the objections of the majority and some democrats that it will happen, but is there something within that process that you can do? >> it won't surprise you to know i would not want to layout in advance the approaches that could be taken to prevent that from happening. you know, i think in washington they want to portray ...

And not knowledgeable about it and don't have alternatives. we laid out a number of different things that we think would make more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem, and also it's important to remember, the american people do not want this bill. they paid a lot of attention to the issue. they focused on it like a laser for months. >> if you took something like malpractice reform, which you all have really wanted to put in there in a real form rather than pilot programs here and there. suppose the president said fine, let's have something meaningful in malpractice reform, we will...

Taking over the show. >> thank you very much. let me start with your ending possession after the summit, and that is start over again. short of that, is there any way the president can reconfigure this bill that would get your support? >> i don't think so, candy. this is a massive overhaul of one-sixth of the economy. republicans don't believe half a trillion dollars in medicare cuts and half a trillion dollars in new tax and possibly higher insurance premiums for all in the insurance market is reform. we had a chance on thursday to actually display some of our brightest, most knowledgeable re...

Because they by and large approve of each of the provisions. and when we showed them what the priorities that have been boiled down to and what it means to them as they sit around their kitchen table rather than us sitting around a table at blare house, i think that will have a very positive result. it will be great for the american people. >> but you know because you have heard from some of these house members, i am sure, who come to you and say i cannot live with this or i am getting nailed back in my district for this, it's going to be a bit of a chore, isn't it, to bring the left and the m...