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The house where any legislation has to go through a series of committees. most notably the rules committee. nancy pelosi controls it. there are democrats on the committee other than her. but she is the boss and she told the rules committee to explore the possibility of using the language to retroactively get the senate bill passed in the house without votes montgomery white house press secretary robert gibbs so the result would be the -- megyn: so the house would deem it passed and it would go up to barack obama for signature and it would be law? >> reporter: there would be a vote on the recon...

I -- i think the process is well tainted by now. in the level of resistance i have never seen before, in the sense on a bill that the sponsors continue to push, i have never seen anything pushed this far for this long in the face of such resistance of this size. this is unprecedented. you know, megyn, most of the time on the week of a major vote like this, on a main presidential priority of this kind, reporters covering the story and others around town will basically know where the votes are. we don't know. the reason we don't know is none of us has ever seen anything like this before. i know ...

Because the provisions of the poll had changed. the fundamental benefits that will be provided to american people remain exactly the same. the majority support that. what they don't support all of focus on process in this politicking behind it. so the reason why we've seen it slide in support because this conversation has gone on long. we've got to bring it to an end. we have to have a vote on the bill. ultimately the american people, i believe, will be very happy when they actually see the benefits provided. >> tucker, does he raise a point that the process people don't like not the process. ...

Proceeds on this. is the president involved in any way in making that decision? and is the white house involved in making that decision? >> we have been involved for many, many months on getting healthcare done. i don't know what all at conversations were in that process. >> the decision is hers, not the white house? >> yes? >> the special deals. you went through the different states where there had been special deals, nebraska and louisiana, vermont, montana. do you stand by the list of deals that were taken out of the legislation? >> i don't have any reason to believe -- ice the president fi...

One place or one state rather than something that can be -- that can affect a broader group of people. >> does the president support keeping that in in montana? you stand by it now? >> what constitutes an up or down vote? >> i think that you are going to ask people how they stand on healthcare. you are not going to ask them how they stand and deem and pass. you will have a vote count that constructs where you are on healthcare. >> since you exposed the virtues of an up or down vote, you would be satisfied with a deem and pass? >> again, i think there are many that would want to conflate this p...