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Why is it democrats are saying republicans don't want comprehensive health care as if republicans aren't coming up with other options. are there options that democrats are ignoring? >> yeah, i believe if we take those portions, like for instance port built and individuals purchasing heath care have the same advantagess that businesses have. i think we could be unified. we could have done that months ago. but it's been held up with the notion that we have to have everything at once. the congress in a bipartisan way has rejected that. if the speaker had the volts she would have passed this month...

Poll numbers from the official. >> people like the idea of health care reform. they would like to see something to bring the costs down. there is no polling out they like the plan working its way through congress. latest numbers, 41% in favor, 56% opposed. intensity those that feel strongly overwhelmingly found in opposition of the plan. something else that is interesting, 44% of americans now rate the u.s. health care system as good or excellent. that is up 9 points since the president started to try to reform the system. while they haven't passed anything, people do feel better about the sys...

When pressed about the vote counted. >> i believe that we will have the votes to pass this in congress and the president will keep fighting and the american people want to have this kind of health reform. >> you don't have the votes yet. >> look, the president will have more to say about that this week and is working with the congress how best to address that. >> at this point the challenge is keeping and winning over swing democrats, in the house, abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives. >> gregg: the philosophical divide may be rather large. but that didn't stop folks from trying to twis...

With rental income and blamed it on the fact he didn't speak spanish in the dominican republic and other, blamed on his wife for sloppy bookkeeping and never takes responsibility for any of this and these are all his taxes, his personal affairs and his disclosure. and, it is clear, he has been cheating on his taxes and lied to congress in his disclosure statements and had to amend five years worth of disclosure statements and there are 8 or 9 or 10 different issues, still outstanding... >> gregg: and in fact, let's put them up on the screen. because, it's not just the evidence of corporate cor...

It is over and maybe you got the gold, and, they say, well, no, not quite, we have to go a couple more weeks and start over again, the lobbyists are gearing up, at one point, talk about unemployment, there were 4500 lobbyists hired for the whole fight and that is 8 per every single member of congress. which, you know, is just amazing. and, $200 million spent in ads, they continue to do that and the pharmaceutical industry is fighting against any regulation, they are hoping to make changes at the edges. because, at this point, we still don't know what the plan looks like. but, for every industr...