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It would essentially take off the table the argument democrats have made pretty effectively that this is a tax cut for the wealthy paid for by cuts to health care for poorer people. we are hearing republicans say it's one of the things they want to take off the table. conservatives won't like that. one of the things they want to see are the obama taxes. still a wide berth before they get to any kind of agreement. >> jonathan, is that the big surprise, let's get rid of the taxes? from an optics standpoint, a conservative could say these taxes make no sense but they're there for a reason. if the...

The humanitarian catastrophe that the bill is going to be for the nation. and there was a lot of kerfuffle over the fact that rand paul and and ted cruz and mike lee said they're not ready to vote for it. trust me, those guys aren't going to save the country from the disaster of the health care bill. it's going to be the folks in the center of the caucus. i think they're listening to their constituents. and to the extent that we can drag this process out over the weekend, as long as we can next week, it will give them more time to tip the balance. i think he's close to having 50 votes but i do...

A fellow senate from connecticut richard blumenthal is also a democrat. you' both opposed to the bill. i imagine tomorrow you're going to hear support for your position, i say that statistically because what the republicans have pulled together here is very poor, very unpopular. but public opinion doesn't necessarily drive things directly. it's individual senators who are going to have to make the decision on how they're going to vote on this. what do you think about the susceptibility of your republican colleagues to constituents complaining, to protests and activism of the kind we saw today?...

But for republicans this is really about a bet. a bet that if they rush this through as quickly as possible people won't get to the bottom of how truly evil this bill is. they know this is an embarrassing product. they know this is going to hurt millions of americans and they hope that if they rush this thing through people won't have the time to figure it out. but they will. they already have. they know that this is a big -- bill that is essentially a cost shift from all of those people that you just showed, the disabled, the poor, middle class americans who have gotten insurance through the ...

That's not how this is going this year, to say the least. but what can be done about that. as long as the republicans have decided there will be no official hearings on their overhaul of the health care system, as long as there are not going to be official hearings in the actual congress, our next guest has decided that maybe he can try to do it for them. next best thing maybe? he's going to hold what they're calling an emergency field hearing tomorrow with voters in his home state which i guess is technically the next best thing to real hearings being held about the bill in congress. it's the...