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needs? what's the white house feeling today about the passage of health care? >> reporter: you know, they're feeling good. i just hung up with a senior official. they know they're not there yet but they are confident they are going to get there. they're getting some movement. obviously kucinich moving from no to yes. that is a good thing. there have been some of these so-called stupak 12, some of the anti-abortion democrats who were concerned that the senate language didn't get far enough. some are starting to peel off like congressman kildee. stupak is holding strong and will likely vote a...

Break it down where to watch this arm twisting. >> ohio is the perfect place to watch. 216 is the magic number, the number of yes votes democrats need to pass this bill. looks like it's going to happen this weekend. ohio is battleground central. you mentioned dennis kucinich voted against the house health care bill last year. it's no surprise when president obama is in the cleveland area today, that's dennis's congressional district. and he was a no vote. a yes with degree house. he's one of those bart stupak 11 or 120 lo says he has concern about the abortion language. this is the arm twistin...

Suggestions. suggestions that the stupak 11 or 12 really aren't there. it might be three, four-or five. but remember, these are all people who voted yes for the house health care bill last time around. they need to get every single almost as many as they can to pass this thing. >> folks, mark murray and the team is going to be delving into these swing voting democrats all week slicing it up and a reminder that some of these public vote counts are not so easy to track. >> they aren't. mark will be whipping votes ala clyburn. thank you so much. there are questions this morning in the toyota st...

Whether it is suspension of disbelief, i don't know. first thing is democrats are not accepting what the parliamentarian pointed out to the republicans. whether it is this self-executing thing or some other kind of two-step with the original bill and reconciliation, harry reid has something up his sleeve on how to try to do this, how to combine the two things. so the democrats are not conceding the parliamentarian's point, number one. number two, it is not quite true despite what the a.p. says that the leadership has given up on the stupak 12 over in the house. they are leaving them alone for ...

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