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Virginia. msnbc will, of course, have live coverage. now, previously, the campaign was saying it would use this app to announce the choice, and speculation has been swirling about potential choices. the names that have been bandied about range from rob portman, marco rubio, tim tau lenty, bobby jindal, chris christie. but it seems right now all eyes are on paul ryan, in terms of vice presidential buzz. we want to go ahead and bring in our del kelly o'donnell in high right now. kelly are you with us? >> reporter: yes, i am. >> kelly, let's go over why they would break this on a friday night. wh...

The whip count. they want to wait and see exactly what the legislation is as it's unfolded. is the white house prepared or is the president already started to engage in the arm twisting to get some of those 39? >> well, the white house says that their legislative affairs office has obviously reached out to those members who voted against the house health care bill back in early november but they have not received any firm commitments from any house democrats that they're going to flip, that they're going to switch their votes to the yes column once this new bill emerges. so right now they're f...

It makes no sense in the front room where in congress we're debating seemingly every day the deficits, the debt ceiling coming up, the huge economic problems we have. but in the back room, we're spending money on a military situation in libya. >>ed president hopes to address the issues tonight in his address. msnbc will, of course, have live coverage of that speech tonight beginning at 7:30 eastern. tomorrow, nbc "nightly news" brian williams interviews the president about his use of force in libya. in other news around the middle east, the syrian government has deployed security forces to a...