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Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin held a two-hour video summit Tuesday in which the US president said he would warn of painful sanctions and increased military support for Eastern Europe if Russia invades Ukraine.
Opposition pulling out a controversial tactic called reconciliation, pulling it out of their playbook, ready to roll on that allows a measure to pass on a simple majority, that is 51 votes. we have the story covered from two different angs. ed henry and senior congressional correspondent dana bash. ed, i want to begin with you. we just mentioned the simple majority, 51 votes. is the white house confident they can get that? >> that's still an open question. when you talk to top white house aides about this notion of going ahead with only democratic votes, no republican votes, they say look, we'...
Reconciliation act. now, jump ahead a little bit to 2005. there was a reconciled deficit reduction act. we heard senator tom coburn saying it's not a good idea, it's not going to work. wait a second. he also voted in favor of that act in 2005. then in 2007 the remaining republican senator who was in that room last week of wyoming voted in favor. holding people accountable, david axelrod was actually right. that every single republican senator who was in that room last thursday during the 7 1/2 hour summit has voted in the past for reconciliation. >> so any time i think it's important to point ...
Saying no to reconciliation, yet you've checked out the past. >> yes. one thing we want to do to kind of help get through the weeds we've been talking about, take the things people are saying on our air. -- has voted in the past on reconciliation issues in favor of. we wanted to break that down and see if it's actually true. that's what we did. >> what did you find? >> if you take a look back in 2001 which you talked about briefly already, president bush pushed through tax cuts that totalled 1.35 trillion with a "t" doctors. five senators at that summit voted for the economic growth and tax re...