germany, check it out, curious ostriches peered into the camera. "hot shots" pictures worth 1,000 words. i'm wolf blitzer, join us in "the situation room" at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern and every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. thank you very much for that, senator obama makes a promise to the american people. >> we're a day away, after a year of debate, after every argument has been made, by just about everybody, we're 24 hours away. >> more from the president and why he believes that at this hour. if you're in the midwest this hour, pay attention, an

unusually late winter blast is taking hold, where is it going next? and the pope has written a letter to those accused of abusing children. and has it gone too far? some have called for this racy video to be banned and now they're going after their concerts too and not just hers. a new call for a concert rating system. it's really crunch time, we can't say it enough or capitol hill for health care reform, that bill. now the stakes are so high and the votes are so close that president obama personally went to capitol hill this afternoon to appeal to reluctant democrats and there are many of them. there he is you saw him on capitol hill earlier. right now the sun is going down in washington but they are still at work and they're going to be there until late in the evening and we're going to be here as well. more than two dozen house democrats are still undeclared

meaning they have not said how they'll vote. only six of them need to vote no for the bill to die. six, only six need to vote no for the bill to die. a new number, just in to cnn, a total of 38 vote no, the bill is defeated. dana bash, our senior congressional correspondent and mark pressen, our senior political analyst. we're getting breaking news and you and mark may have to verify it for. president obama and democratic leaders in congress have a lot riding on this vote, the outcome could define the rest of his presidency. mr. obama was upbeat but serious. he spoke before the house just a short time ago, listen to this.

>> don't do it for me, don't do it for the democratic party, do it for the american people, they're the ones who are looking for action right now. >> that was really just a short sound bite of what the president had to say, but that's how his speech went. and there was some interesting moments there, ahead you'll hear some extended comments so you can judge the content for yourself. we'll play it so you can hear it. it almost sounded like a victory speech. we're learning more about exactly how this process will unfold, democratic sources tell cnn that there will be three separate votes and there they are, let's go live to capitol hill now and you see mark pretty on the and our dana bash, they're both there, mark of course is our senior political editor, he is in our washington bureau and dana bash is live on capitol hill. here's what i'm getting here, jim mathson, he voted on the

house bill in november. now that's 32 no votes in the opposition's column. >> that sounds about right if that's our count, that is one yes that went to no. i think we might have another one as well. but i think more went the other way. we have had more in the past 24 to 48 hours, democrat who is actually voted no on the house health care bill in november and are now going to switch to yes. but i wanted to set the scene and show you what's going on. i'm down the hall from the house speaker's office. you can probably see some of our colleagues and competitors down there standing outside of nancy pelosi office, they're doing that because right there there is a last-minute meeting of house members and they're going through exactly name by name. they're not telling us where their vote count is, but that's what's going on. they have been very confident tonight. the house majority leader

stanley hoyer said they have the votes now but they want to be sure and leaving nothing to chance. >> you see these behind door meetings, i don't know, do you think democrats, they may be keeping a confident face to the public, showing the public confidence, but when you keep hearing, there's another no, that doesn't bode well, it appears. >> it could be, and as i said, there have been democrats switching both ways over the past 24 to 48 hours. so i think on the other side, i think there have been -- there were a number of democrats who voted yes in november who are in very, very tough political races and you heard the president allude to that today who actually surprised me and surprised many other people around here who decided when they announced that they were actually go to stay yes. but it has broken both ways, we'll see tomorrow if they're

right. maybe if they're not right, they'll have egg on their face, but for now they're saying they're pretty confident inside that house chamber. >> mark, do you want to add anything to what dana had to say about this last-minute, late i should say no vote? >> what dana is showing right behind her is that they're counting every vote, they're making sure that they're lined up. if president obama loses the vote tomorrow, it would be devastating to his presidency, it would be devastating to the house and senate democrats quite frankly. i just got off the phone with a leadership aid, they say they know where the votes are and they have them. >> mark let's go back to dana. what are you seeing there. >> he just walked by, it was chris van holland, a member of the leadership, a pretty important member of the leadership when it comes to the politics, he's one of the many people walking out of nancy pelosi's office in that meeting

i was just telling you out. >> mark, i'm sorry about, i think i get the gist of your point, but here's what i want to talk about with both you, mark, and dana. we have the steelworkers in western pennsylvania, they're saying do the right thing, they're talking about jason at meres, the democratic representative, they want him to vote for it. and the tea partiers are trying to kill the bill chanting "get your hands out of my pocket." mark, so apparently there's some things that went on that were not so savory at least, those are the allegations when it comes to some democratic representatives. >> sure, and i think dana probably can speakmore directly to it, don, but i think what we saw today was protests in washington, d.c. as you would have with any group, we heard some slurs directed at members

of congress which is clearly not appropriate. we have to note that not all the opponents of health care reform would act that way or the proponents of health care reform would act that way. >>dana, you got response from all of the members who are supposedly involved, right? >> we actually have something new to tell you about, last time you and i spoke, we spoke about john lewis, the civil rights icon who said that a racial slur was hurled at him by protesters and congressman barney frank who was openly gay and another slur was hurled at him. and since then we heard about congressman emanual--excuse me, congressman cleaver, and he said that he was actually spat on. he released a statement and he specifically said that he was walking to the capitol to vote when a protester spat on him. a spokesman said the congressman

would like to thank the policemen who escorted him to the capitol and diffused the tense situation. but the bottom line is, we have seen this -- the intensity that we have seen for many months, we have seen that come right here to the capitol. and it was a nice day today, members were walking outside from their offices to the capitol and they were followed, and they were taunted many of them, particularly the democrats, kill the bill, kill the bill, and unfortunately in some cases a lot uglier. >> just so our viewer also know, and it was emanual cleaver says that people spat on him, that's what he said, the n-word that's what we're talking about here? >> that's what he told our congressional spokesman. >> the "n" word that rhymes with maggot? >> yes.

>> dana and mark, we're going to see a lot of you throughout this weekend. dana go get ready for the gridiron dinner. i want to continue to tell you about this bill, if passes and signed into law, health care reform will affects americans for years to come. many provisions won't kick in for years, others however will be felt almost immediately. as a volt comes down to the wire, president obama takes his message straight to the people. touting the immediate benefits of his health reform bill. >> starting this year, thousands of uninsured people with preexisting conditions will be able to purchase health insurance. >> the full impact of the bill won't take place for several years. in the meantime, uninsured americans with preexisting health conditions will get temporary coverage from a $5 billion fund.

young adults would also be immediately covered under their parents plan. >> to all the young people here today, starting this year, if you don't have insurance, all new plans will allow you to stay on your parents plan until you are 26 years old. >> and right away, people with serious illnesses, including cancer will no longer face coverage caps from insurance companies, and if people feel their insurance company unfairly denied them coverage, they can appeal through an independent process. and right away for the elderly when they exceed is limit of drug coverage under medicare part d, they'll get $250 a year to help plug the gap. >> do not quit, do not give up, we keep on going, we are going to get this done, we are going to make history. we are going to fix health care in america with your help. >> a quick reminder for you, our special health care vote program, it begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning, we

will be covering it all day long, as a matter of fact our wolf blitzer is going to step in here in the afternoon and helm the coverage in washington, so you want to tune in to cnn if you want to get the right information, the correct information and the best information. stick with us, up to the minute updates and am cyst from the best political team on television. at least one congressman says he is not going to vote the way his constituents want him to and that is risking a chance at re-election. why would he that. >> it's not wrong to vote against what my constituents want but it is wrong to vote against my own conscience. >> joseph gow joins me live next. you. ing we have stein -- seen this video. has music gone too far? are the images that you might see at concerts too much?

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overwhelm democratic, overwhelmly in support of this health care reform plan. are you going to pay at the polls? >> if i were to vote against the health bill, possibly. i don't know. >> do you think it's wrong to vote against what your con stitch wents want. >> it's not wrong to vote what my constituents want, but it's wrong to vote against my own conscience. >> representative gao is here to talk to us about his vote. and from philadelphia, we have margo margolis who's a former congresswoman. she served one term after casting the final vote for president clinton's tax hiking budget and you probably know when president clinton took on health care and what happened then. i want to say thank you to both of you for joining us, representative gao, before i asked you why it changed, what worried you and all that stuff, what's going on behind the scenes now, what can you tell our viewers about what's happening now in a push to

either be for or against this bill. >> well, there are a lot of people on the hill, at of conservative members of the public who are here pushing for a no vote and obviously there are members of the administration who are calling questionable members to push for a yes vote. so there is a lot of pushing and pulling on both sides. >> and is it, how can i say this? if you can speak up, because it's very loud there. i'm getting a lot of ambient noise and you're soft spoken. a lot of people are saying it's strong arming and they're questioning the tactics, can you speak on that representative gao? >> there is a lot of pressure being exerted upon members to vote one way or the other. but, again, the representative must vote based on the needs of the district as long as the vote does not go against who core moral beliefs and i believe that we have to defend our core moral

believes, irrelevant of the political cause. >> so that gets me to this. so you're voting no to this, you're voting no when it was a yes last time, right? >> my vote is no because the senate bill has less strict -- a less restrictive language on abortion than the house bill. the house bill has a much stronger language prohibiting the federal funding of abortion. >> last time i believe your comments were that you represented a district in new orleans, i think most of them are democrats or maybe minorities as well. you said what was in this current bill that you believe helped your constituents, so is it one issue for you that's make or break, this one abortion issue, is that the most important thing to your district now? >> i have made this public on a number of occasions over the past year, and abortion issue is an issue that i cannot compromise, i believe that abortion is absolutely a moral wrong. and there's no way i can compromise on the issue.

>> okay, i want to go now to ms. margolis, you wrote an op-ed on tuesday talking about your fateful vote 18 years ago, you say, quote, i was pressed on all sides my constituents opposed, my president needing a victory and republicans promising my demise. i voted my conscious and it cost me. i am your worst-case scenario, and i'd do it all over again. >> i also think it's not a zero sum game. it's very possible that you can vote against it and have your constituents turn on you anyway. i think we have been discussing health care for decades now and this is a beginning, there are things in the bill that are strong, you just had a piece on it, which i think was a good summation and there are things that may not be, who know what is the cbo conclusions are.

but i think that the important thing is that when you're sitting in a congressional office, people don't call in when they're satisfied, they call in when they're against whatever it is. the screamers, the people outside the capitol, are the ones that are anti-. these are the votes where you have to go in and quietly close the door and decide what to do. i think in this case. i think those people who came in especially with the president have to back him and also the midterm elections, same is thing with clinton, midterm elections are going to be challenging no matter what. >> i really want to drill down on this, i was trying to do it earlier with the two doctors, most americans know about the process, you can read, but until you're involved in it, it becomes a whole different thing for you. what the gentleman from arizona was trying to explain to me

earlier was that this is sort of part of the process to get it done, and then several single bill no matter how big or how small usually ends up being tweaked. >> that is correct. >> so what do you say about the american people learning about that do you think that should make a difference? >> it should and i think the american people have to figure out how they can trust their members and they can go down there and not necessarily say what they want to hear, say what they need to hear. >> real quickly, yes or no, do you think it's going to pass? >> i do. >> what about you mr. gao? >> i don't know. >> we really appreciate you guys, great information, representative gao, we know you're busy, so we appreciate you coming out. ms. margolies, we appreciate you too. it was a fiery speech and

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he says the church in ireland must acknowledge before the lord and others serious sins committed against defenseless children. >> the pope says priests who abuse children must come forward, take responsibility and answer to the demands of justice. a 16-year-old boy is under arrest in new jersey, he's accused of going on a p.a. system at a local walmart and telling black people to leave the store. walmart is apologizing its customers and says it has updated it's intercom system to prevent this from ever happening again. former interior secretary stewart udall died today of natural causes. under his watch, the interior department established protection of public lands and helped push through key

legislation to help protect endangered species. president obama makes his final argumentle argument to push democrats into the health care yes column. >> after a year of debate, after every argument has been made by just about everybody, we're 24 hours away. >> 24 hours away. will it work? was it enough? just a day before that big vote?

jackqui jeras, developing weather news wharksz do you have? >> snow across the southern plains, we'll start out with fargo, north dakota where the red river continues to rise, expect it to crest tomorrow afternoon below record levels but well above major flood stage, the dikes and sandbags are holding that river back and hopfully they'll stay that way. in oklahoma city, snow has been coming down for most of the day today. patricia smith sent us these beautiful temperatures but she says the roads are extremely slick. you'll see the rain coming down from oklahoma city on towards kansas city, over six inches on the north side of town, but slightly less in oklahoma city. eastern parts of the country, looking at a beautiful day today, but as that storm moves eastward, expect rain and thunderstorms for your sunday. >> we'll see you jacqui jeras. it's not just politicians, doctors are at odds over health

care too. >> the problem is that if it's unsustainable, if it's unaffordable, we cannot spend more money on it. >> if you didn't see this in our 5:00 p.m. eastern hour, it really was a heated debate. it went on a long time and we didn't get a chance to ask all the questions we wanted. doctors on both sides of the issue weigh in right here in the cnn newsroom. you want to see this next segment coming up. it adds a fourth color, yellow, to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors you can't see with your tv's three color technology. but, you can see this. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ]

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beautiful, but it's the nation's work, america's work being done inside those halls right now. the president visited that place today and i want to tell you if you're just joining us, president barack obama went to capitol hill today to speak directly to democrats. at stake is the fate of a health care reform bill that has been more than a year in the making. some say it's really been happening since president clinton was in office. a make or break vote tomorrow, and so far seven democrats have said that they will break ranks with the democrats and vote against the bill. six more to defeat this. listen to the president as he makes his last-minute pitch for passage today on capitol hill. >> but even before this crisis, each and every one of us knew that there were millions of people across america who were living their own quiet crises. maybe because they had a child who had a preexisting condition and no matter how desperate they

were, no matter what insurance company they called, they couldn't get coverage for that child. maybe it was somebody who had been forced into early retirement, in their 50s, not yet eligible for medicare, and they couldn't find a job, and they couldn't find health insurance despite the fact that they had some sort of chronic condition that had to be tended. every single one of you at some point before you arrived in congress and after you arrived in congress have met constituents with heart breaking stories. and you have looked them in the eye and you have said we're going to do something about it. that's why i want to go to congress. and now, we're on the threshold of doing something about it,

we're a day away, after a year of debate, after every argument has been made, by just about everybody, we're 24 hours away. as some of you know, i'm not somebody who spends a lot of time surfing the cable channels, but i don't live in a bubble. i have a sense of what the coverage has been. and in a sense, it's what will this mean for the democratic party? what will this mean for the president's polls? how will this play out in november? is this good or is this bad for the democratic majority? what does it mean for those swing districts? >> and i noticed that there's been a lot of friendly advice offered all across town.

mitch mcconnell, john boehner, karl rove. they're all warning you of the horrendous impact if you support this legislation. now it could be that they are suddenly having a change of heart and they are deeply concerned about their democratic friends. they are giving you the best possible advice. in order to assure that nancy pelosi remains speaker and harry reid remains leader and that all of you keep your seats, that's a possibility. but it may also be possible that they realize after health reform passes and i sign that election into law, then it's going to be

harder to mischaracterize what this effort has been all about. because this year small businesses will start getting tax credits so they can offer health insurance to the employees who currently don't have it. >> this is a segment that you guys have been writing me about and that really sparked a whole lot of controversy, so if you're at home, i want you to sit down and pay attention to this because you're going to get some alternatives to what the democrats are offering there from someone who doesn't agree with this bill. so if the bill does passes and it is signed into law, it will be the medical professionals who will be required to deal on a daily basis with all the new regulations. >> the problem that i see with this bill here is that we are spending a tremendous amount of money in order to bring about health care reform and we are doing that in a system right now

where we know it is bankrupting our country. we have already said that our country cannot afford this type of health care plan that we are currently on. and despite that, we have a bill out there that is going to increase our costs by a quarter of a trillion dollars. that is unsustainable. we cannot afford it. >> according to the analysis that was just released by the cbo, this plan does in fact generate enough money to pay for itself and over the next ten years reduce the deficit by $148 billion by closing some of the loopholes in terms of cost. >> he's saying this is ducks in a pond. >> this is ducks in a pond. i agree, i have read the cbo report, the cbo report, all they do is they determine whether it reduces our deficit. it doesn't say one thing about the national health care expenditures. >> dr. hill was opposed to the health care reform bill. so i asked him to take some

questions from you, our viewers and what he would do differently. >> all right, so doctor, we ran out of time with you and the other doctor, so thank you for talking to us about this. and this is what i wanted to ask you, but it's clicking in my head but we don't have. ask him what he wants to change in the bill and how he thinks it would affect the uncorradoed americans. what would you do differently? >> i think we need to change the way the structure is currently arranged. patients are completely removed from the cost of health care. they have no idea the cost of health care, it's the only system that we have set up in that manner. >> changing the structure how? >> we need to look at consumer driven health care plans, hsa health care plans. if you actually look at indiana, a great study that came out of indiana where they developed a consumer driven health plan with health savings account. >> this plan doesn't do that at all? >> number one, a consumer driven

health care plan. >> 11% cost savings indianain' this year because they have 70% of their state employees on that plan. 11% cost savings that they can then put back into that plan. >> i'm a cancer survivor, unable to get health insurance, the bill is not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing, i'm already rationed. >> it's not better than doing nothing, because we're now creating a bill that's going to cost more money, it's going to make it harder for that person to get health care down the line. we need to decrease the costs and find fisht si in our health care system. the academy of actuaries said 12% to 14% cost savings. that can go to that person so they can have money for health care. >> you said that you're scared. >> i'm really scared. >> they said if you're scared,

you're in the wrong profession. >> i live in the operating room every day. that is the easy part of this. the scary part of this is that we have politicians that are directing our health care and they're going to do it in a way that makes it harder to get health insurance. >> evidence shows its decreases costs and that gives us money to be able to utilize later. >> thank you so much for your feedback on that particular segment and any time you have it, make sure you send it to us at cnn m we really do take your feedback and your comments seriously. let's show them a live picture, scottie, of washington, d.c., the capitol, the president made a passionate plea for two democratic votes, four votes today at the capitol. he went to capitol hill, there's the white house. not sure if he's there, of course a big gridiron dinner is going on in wap washington, a whole lot going on and they're working on that health care bill. you're going to hear more of the

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okay if you were out and about today enjoying the beautiful weather in some parts of the country or if you were dealing with the bad weather in the midwest, here's your chance, president obama says a vote on health care is less than 24 hours away, is it? and his closing arguments to house democrats were really powerful ones, words he hopes will push on the fence lawmakers into the yes column, no matter what the political fallout may be. here's the president. >> i can't guarantee that this is good politics, every one of you know your districts better than i do.

you talk to folks, you're under enormous pressure, you're getting row bow calls, you're getting communications tied up in the communications system. i know the pressure you're under. i get a fee comments made about me, i don't know if you've noticed. i have been in your shoes. i know what it's like to take a tough vote. but what did lincoln say? i am not bound to win but i am bound to be true. two generations ago, folks who were sitting in your position, they made a decision, we are going to make sure that seniors and the poor have health care coverage that they can count on. and they did the right thing. and i'm sure at the time they were making that vote, they

weren't sure how the politics were either. any more than the people who made the decision to make sure that social security was in place knew how the politics would play out or folks who passed the civil rights acts knew how the politics were going play out. they were not bound to win, but they were bound to be true. and now we have got middle class americans who don't have medicare, who don't have medicaid, watching the employer based system fray along the edges. who are being caught in terrible situations and the question is, are we going to be true to them? >> and that is the president speaking earlier and you see live pictures there of capitol hill and also of the white house where the president of course lives and you see the lawmakers working on capitol hill to help

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♪ >> okay, guys, look at this video. let it play a little bit, scotty. what did you think of this? this is not the bad part. they're dressed, you know? i don't know.

that's lady -- i'll let you decide. lady gaga, britney spears and beyonce and their concerts can be risque and they're among of many. and in response there is a growing moment online. i'm joined by journalist. contributor for "rolling stones." alan, thank you for joining us. so you saw that video and i think that this started, this particular thing, some parents took their kids to a lady gaga concert i believe it was in australia and they were like whoa we didn't know that this was going on with our kids and now rating systems it's spread across the ocean, it went to here and went to europe and now it's here. should there be ratings on concerts. >> short answer, no. first of all, if in's anything that i would hope would have some kind of implied parental guidance going to a rock concert, you know, this is late at night, it's very expensive, they're mostly adults there. some of them are drinking. i mean i would hope that if

you're talking about sending young kids to a show this is something that the parents would be involved in ahead of time regardless of the decision. >> you said mostly adults but i think that lady gaga and beyonce and others there are adults who go but they appeal to a younger generation so you know i'm not a parent, so i don't know what it's like. when you say "parental responsibility" but maybe parents might know what they want. >> concert tickets are expensive. you know this is not a thing that a bunch of 12-year-olds are going to together without their parents knowing. but you know beyond that i think that anytime that you start getting into putting ratings and restrictions around something i think it's a very difficult direction to go down. >> some people are saying it's art. you you'd be putting a restriction on art. movies have it and television. >> movies, television and video games are very different things. you can make specific ground rules that say, particularly, graphics simulations of violence and have sex. is it there, is it not there?

it's close-up, there's no fantasy to it. it's the same every time it broadcasts. as difficult as it is, you can make rules that will apply in a consistent way and i think that consistency is what's really dwhfl you're talking about a concert, you can't just say, because somebody is provocative or controversy, that's a reason to put a restriction around it and we're not talking about putting ratings on books or on plays. this isn't justice about ideas they raise. what are really going to be the things, the guidelines, that would set these ratings? >> who would think when you look at that and then you think, don't shoot elvis below the waist because he's wiggling his hips. >> that is the question, would there be ratings around elvis because of his pelvis, around the beatles because of their long hair. what's accepted culturally changes overtime and once you start putting rules that becomes a difficult game. >> all right, that's going to have to to be the last word. thank you. always appreciate talking to you and reading what you write as well. >> thank you, don.

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