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Allege abuse. he wanted to handle it in a transparent way. that revelation then sort of set fire to the situation. and now what we have is a national scandal engulfing germany that is in in ways very familiar with the pattern of earlier scandals in other places such as united states. obviously,the new element in the german story line, ali, is, of course, this question of the pope's own rule as a diocese and bishop in the late '70s and early '80 sglz this is where the question comes in. maybe i didn't follow this up and understand whether something wasn't made very clear, certainly in -- after ...

Self-executing rule which will then deem the senate bill to have been passed. but not ever having had an up or down vote on it this is alice in wonderland stuff. this twilight zone. as i read article 1 section 7 of the constitution, it says a law shall have passed the house and the senate. not shall have been deemed to have passed. it's because here the democrats are about to change the sixth of the american economy and demanding ostensibly up or down vote but are so unwilling to actually have it voted on that they want to have it deemed accepted in a vote on the rule. it's because members of ...

On it? >> reporter: well, they would do this through the rules committee, it's a practice known as deeming or what's called a self-executing rule. congress has been doing stuff like this for hundreds of years, and back in the '70s and '80s it got kind of acute. in the rules committee of the house, completely controlled by the majority -- in this case the house democrats -- can essentially say that when they put together the language to deal with the reconciliation package, the package of fixes, they can deem that the senate bill has already been passed by the house. that issue would have to be...

Aren't sure that the senate will, in fact, keep its promise as part of the reconciliation to make the changes that they promised. so the ways doing that two step. house votes and once the house votes, then the senate gets to consider and make the possible amendment. under the slaughter deal, the house wouldn't have to make -- take that step. they could say no, we were just looking at the rule and they could hold it in awayance. >> juan, juan. if republicans were doing, this you would be doing a war dance on the table. you would be so mad what they are doing. >> it's hard ball. it's politics. >...

Security or medicare did something for the american people. >> bret: senator mitch mcconnell the minority leader in the senate says you will be history if you vote for this bill, charles. >> i was just smiling. i wasn't laughing outloud. i was being polite. the guy will have to be remembered because he won't be around. look, the reason that pelosi sounded relatively uncertain is because there are two problems. do you have enough votes in the house to pass the senate bill as is? and i think she may not. and that's why they are talking about the slaughter solution, named after the chair of the r...