now live from the rose garden. rememberman's secret love pad? the reports of skirt chasing emerges as the lawyer for the tv producer accused in the plot launches a public defense. i'm monica novotny. >> good morning, i'm tamron hall. in afghanistan, the deadliest attack on american forces in more than a year. eight american songs were killed and now the military says there is proof that the taliban was behind this. the intense battle happened in the east about 20 minutes from the pakistan border. nbc's adrian monk joins us live from kabul. what is the very latest on the taliban's part in this and this ambush that took place when you hear the description is just horrifying. >> yes, the u.s. military officials have confirmed that it was a well coordinated attack on two small combat outposts in

nuristan province. the attacks happened early saturday morning. while the u.s. forces were able to repel one of the attacks on the bases the other base located deep in the valley surrounded by rough terrain the firefight lasted more than six hours. it's still not clear how many enemy fighters there were. some reports say up to 300. the u.s. military official said yesterday about 80. they have now identified them as taliban and said that they launched rocket-propelled grenades and use heavy gunfire and the safety of the mountains to attack this small outpost. u.s. military officials say the outpost became close to being run over despite a strong counterattack by u.s. troops by helicopters and air attacks. u.s. officials have confirmed eight u.s. soldiers died as well as four members of the afghan security forces but also claim about 50 of the enemy fighters were diled and possibly senior taliban leaders. >> adrian, thank you very much.

adrian mong live from kabul this morning. toos, first doses of the swine flu vaccine available for health care workers in two states to start. tennessee and indiana. this week, 600,000 doses of the nasal spray will be distributed among 21 states and four large cities and initial shipments are reserved for health care workers and certain at-risk children. deliveries are expected to begin this week of enough vaccines to inoculate nearly every american what wants it but state and budget cuts are expected to slow down the process. "the washington post" reporting unclear how many americans will line up to get the vaccine. a poll conducted by the harvard pool of public health found only 40% said they are sure they will get the vaccine. a live report on the latest swine flu developments in the hour. david letterman tapes his first show since revealing he had sex with coworkers and was the target of a $2 million extortion plot. the man accused remains free on

bail and faces 15 years in prison if convicted. this morning on "today" his attorney spoke out. >> it's a case described by the prosecution makes absolutely no sense. the history of extortion attempts there has never been, as far as i know, someone paying by check. i assure you that the public should not rush to judgment. >> nbc's peter alexander is live outside of new york ed sullivan theater. peter, do we know if this is a topic for letterman tonight or is going to try to put this behind him? >> a good question. at the end of those revelations on thursday he said he was pretty much done talking about this topic but that hasn't stopped people from trying to get a seat in here today to see the show. it tapes in 5 1/2 hours at 4:30 today. the line has been busy the last five minutes now. a tough seat to get and one of

hi guests tonight is steve martin. after he does that first show he will tape this friday's show as well. he will have two opportunities to address the whole situation if he so chooses. as for the man accused of extorting david letterman, robert joe halderman, the veteran cbs news producer with the program "48 hours mystery" is out on bail and suspended by cbs. he was seen yesterday at his home in connecticut barking at reporters. interestingly this former investigative reporter who used to chase people around was now trying to keep the reporters off of his front lawn. also worth noting that that man is accused of first degree attempted grand larceny. if convicted is a 15-year punishment. the house where halderman lived he shared with 34-year-old stephanie birkitt. she is one of letterman's assistant and according to "the new york times" had a past relationship with letterman. it's reported today there may have been a grudge between the two men. >> peter, any idea how this may or may not affect letterman's

ratings? over the weekend, you've got headlines about a secret bachelor pad at the office place allegedly used by david letterman and women. he was having a relationship with. any idea how this could impact him now he is back and live there? >> a good question. to be fair, we should clarify there were reports in some of the newspapers in new york suggesting a secret love den. i spoke, only a couple of hours ago and et cetera he said, peter, let's be clear. he works long hours and often comes into the office in early morning and stays until late in the evening. he didn't have a secret love den. an office with a couch that pulled out into a bed where he would sleep on occasion and no secret to anybody. in terms of how it affects his ratings and remains to be seen and a lot of competition with jay leno moving up to the 10:00 time slot and against conan o'brien on nbc. women are a significant demographic for david letterman. it was just last year, that 58% of his audience, 58% of his

audience was women most of them under 55. >> wow. curious to see how the women react to the story. peter, thank you very much. at this hour at least 4,000 residents of wrightwood in california remain under mandatory evacuation orders and ffs fighting the fire may get a break from the weather but still struggling to get it under control. the governor schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency. it has scorched 12 square miles and just 20% contained. more than 85,000 oregon residents without power after early winter blast hit the central region. about 7 inches of snow fell causing trees and power lines to snap and making for some very slick roads. the supreme court is starting its new term this morning. its first with justice sonia sotomayor on the bench. upcoming argument on current campaign finance laws that regulate corporate and union spending. other high profile cases will

include arguments local and state gun control laws and another big one there and challenge to laws allowing life sentences for juveniles. developing at the white house. president obama is putting his focus back on health care this week. he is expected to speak any minute now from the rose garden rallying doctors as his health care overhaul plan heads for a critical vote in the senate finance committee this week. let's get into it with chuck todd. i understand 50 doctors with the president. what is the big goal here? >> one from every state. as you know, doctors, you know, when people talk about their health care, the average american, the person they trust the most is their own doctor. so that the hope here by the white house is if you have doctors sort of the most trustworthy group in the health care debate, more so than insurance companies and more so than politicians, that it can help the credibility for the president to sell his plan. let's be realistic.

the big news today on health care is not going to come from this event with doctors. it's the number that's going to come out of the congressional budget office, because that's what this white house is waiting to hear from to see how their health care bill, the max baucus health care bill out of the finance committee how will it get scored and why does that matter? it matters in order for them to get republican olympia snowe's support. that is really the drama on health care today behind the scenes. this doctors' event is more of an attempt by the white house on the pr effort. >> back to the doctors, chuck. a recent poll of doctors who said that they, in large number, support public option. so i'm curious with that said, i don't know if any of those doctors will be present, were a part of it, but we still know that public option may be on life support but it's out there and when you look at the polling recently, doctors supported it. >> there's a lot of drs. i've interviewed doctors from all political spectrums over the years and some are very

supportive of single payer, the idea of -- one of the reasons? doctors, when they run their offices, spend a lot of money on administration costs. so anything that can cut down on that, you know, that their own bottom line. doctors, they get fired up about two issues when you talk to them about it. one is the amount of paper work they have to fill out for various insurance companies and then, of course, medical malpractice. it's one of these odd coalitions doctors can have been supportive on single payer and at the same time the pro about the idea of medical malpractice. one thing that liberals love and conservative loves. it's always been surprising to me how doctors haven't been able to become more of a mediator in this debate but publicly they have never been as strong as some of the other key players like the pharmaceutical and insurance industry. >> great point there. chuck, thank you very much. it brings us to the next part of this one. is the president ignoring doctors who don't agree with him? joining me is dr. paul pasano

from tulane university school of medicine. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. privilege to be here. >> it's tamron but monica is with me, too. we both can talk to you. >> i'm sorry, tamron. >> it's okay. you were not invied invited to the white house today. you heard chuck say that the doctors have not had a powerful voice to match the pharmaceutical industry but what would you tell the president if you were there? we're looking at a live picture of the rose garden and 50 directors who are there. >> well, thank you. i wrote that op-ed piece in the "the wall street journal" today with two other former president of the american medical association, and what we're saying is that there are solutions to the problems that exist. there are some problems in the health delivery system, but we have the best medical care in the world. what we ought to do is get rid of the public option. >> how do we measure being the best? >> there are a lot of differences about our lifestyle

in america that are different from other places. the most important thing is that you don't see americans going to other countries to get coronary bypass or brain surgery. people come from other countries to america. >> you aren't getting health care who are -- >> and -- >> who are dying without the health care that they need. that is available -- >> well, first off, everybody gets emergency care under current and federal law. if you go to emergency room and emergency room the hospital and doctors are obligated to treat for you that emergency. what we need to do is focus on the problems and not change the entire system. most people, the overwhelming majority of people are pleased with their current health insurance. what we need to do is help the people who pay too much because of all the burdensome regulations, let them buy across state lines and fix the broken medical liability system to get rid of the defensive medicine. let's allow people to own their own insurance with health savings account but the public

option, we need to keep a stake in the heart of that thing and put that to rest and when you go to other countries, i just got back from australia. they are encouraging people to buy providence insurance and giving them 30% subsidy. >> doctor, you said most people in your side of the poll are happy with their health care meaning they are happy with their doctor but i can counter that with polls saying that the majority of people want public option. why put a stake in the heart as you put of one or not the other if we are going to play numbers here? >> well, okay. you want a public option? let's take a real longstanding program. medicaid. all of the people on medicaid have insurance but it doesn't do to have any insurance if you can't find a doctor. they pay the doctors so little that the doctors say i can't afford to treat all of the medicaid patients and that is not fair to the medicaid patients. let everybody who needs help get hem and let them have array of

choices. federal health benefits program is like that. we need to get less government in medicine and allow the patients to own the policy and let the doctor be the trusted adviser. >> let's bring it down so folks can understand this. with your colleagues in the sense, this doctors in the white jackets in the rose garden with the president, what do you think would be the most important thing that could come out of this today in your opinion? >> well, the most important thing is for everyone, the president and the people in congress, to listen to all viewpoints. let's all work together. it's like a scientific experiment. we already have some of these scientific experiment results. we got maine, we got tennessee and these programs have been disastrous there. those are public programs, public options. let's learn from that and let's go back to were savings account for the people who want that. works very well and they have become prudent purchasers and let people own their own insurance. don't rush.

this could be like congressional malpractice if i operate on a patient with aneurysm or a ballooning of the aorta and in the abdomen and we didn't know what was in there and didn't know who was going to help and didn't know if we would have the graph, no one nose what is in the is in the finance bill. have you seen it? how many pages is it? the cbo is putting a price tag on the summary of the bill the way i understand it. let's do this very cautiously and appropriately. let's do the right thing for the american patient. >> doctor, i appreciate you joining us with your side of the conversation. >> a pleasure. >> thank you. >> to key democrats threaten to throw up a roadblock as the senate finance committee gets to health reform vote. >> he is accused of stalking aaron andrews. the alleged peeping tom today heads to court. >> a rain check for the dalai lama? why the white house is delaying his meeting with president obama. you're watching msnbc. your place for politics.

following developing news from the roads garden at the white house. president obama with 50 doctors one from every state, discussing health care reform. let's listen in. >> dr. hershey garner and dr. mona and dr. richard evans and dr. amanda mckinney who are representing, as we were talking about in the on the floor office, red states, blue states, recal states and high cost states and low cost states, rural, and urban states. so we're so pleased to have them. in addition, the organizations that are represented here today, the american medical association, the national

medical association, the family physicians, the american college of physicians, the doctors for america, american college of pediatrics and american college of cardiology. i am thrilled to have all of you here today and you look very spiffy in your coats! all of you represent all 50 states. some of you are members of physicians organizations and others are simply respected members of their community who work in hospitals and clinics and private practices. all have devoted their lives to the healing of others. and all understand that their jobs would be a lot easier if we finally reformed our system of health insurance. now, we have now been debating this issue of health insurance

reform for months. the united states congress has been working on it for the better part of a year. last week, the final congressional committee involved in shaping legislation completed their proposal and will soon vote on it. at this point we've heard all of the arguments on both sides of the aisle. we have listened to every charge and every countercharge from the crazy claims about death panels to misleading warnings about a government takeover of our health care system. but when you cut through all of the noise and all of the distractions that are out there, i think what is most telling is that some of people who are most supportive of reform are the very medical professionals who know the health care system best, the doctors and nurses of america. now, these men aep and women here would not be supporting health insurance reform if they

really believed it would lead to government bureaucrats making decisions that are best left to doctors. they wouldn't be here today if they believed the reform in any way would damage the very critical and sacred doctor/patient relationship. instead the reason these doctors are here is because they have seen firsthand what is broken about our health care system. they've seen what happens when their patients can't get the care they need because some insurance company has decided to drop their coverage or water it down. they have seen what happens when a patient is forced to pay out-of-pocket thousands of dollars she doesn't have for treatments that she desperately needs. they've seen what happens when patients don't come in for regular checkups or screenings because either their insurance company doesn't cover it or they can't afford insurance in the first place. and they've seen far too much of the time that they want to devote to taking care of patients, spent filling out

forms and haggling with insurance companies about payments. so these doctors know what needs to be fixed about our health care system and they know what health insurance reform will do, that it will go a long way towards making patients healthier and doctors and nurses be able to perform that -- those tasks that are so important to them and led them into medicine in the first place. so let me just outline, once again, what exactly we're seeing coming out of all of these committees and although details to be worked out there are general principles i think we can have confidence on. number one, if you have insurance, the reforms we've proposed will offer you more security. it will be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a preexisting condition, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it most.

insurance companies will no longer be able to play some arbitrary pet on how much coverage you can receive in a given year or a given lifetime or in a lifetime. we will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses and insurance companies will be required to cover, at no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care. now, if you don't have health insurance, reform will finally offer you affordable choices. we will set up a new insurance exchange, a marketplace where individuals and small businesses can shop for an affordable health insurance plan that works for them. this is how everyone in the federal government, including members of congress, get affordable insurance and there is no reason we shouldn't give every american the same opportunity that we give ourselves. now, these doctors also know that reform will make their lives easier by moving to the

electronic medical records in a system carefully constructed to protect patient privacy, fizz physicians will have less paper work to fill out and more critical information at their fingertips and more time to spend with their patients. expensive tests won't have to be repeated over and over again. there are also proposals to provide loan forgiveness for primary care physicians who choose to practice in rural and underserved areas. since i've talked to enough doctors who feel they are forced to practice defensive medicine, i've also direct my secretary of health and human services to move forward with programs that will help us put patient sab esafety first and allowing doctors to focus on practicing medicine and we are working to fix the flawed sustainable growth rate formula by which doctors are reimbursed under medicare.

you know, every one of you here today took an oath when you entered the medical profession. it was not an oath that you would spend a lot of time on the phone with insurance companies. it was not an oath that you would have to turn away patients who you know could use your help. it was not to devoting your life to being bean counters or paper pushers. you took an oath so you could heal people. you did it so you could save lives. the reforms we're proposing through our health care system will help you live up to that oath. they will make sure that neither some government bureaucrat or insurance company bureaucrat gets between a patient and their doctor. they will offer security to those americans who have insurance and insurance to those who don't.

and i want to thank every single doctor who is here and i especially want to thank you for agreeing to fan out across the country and make a case about how why reform is so desperately needed. you are the people who know this system best. you are the experts. nobody has more credibility with the american people on this issue than you do. and so if you're willing to speak out strongly on behalf of the things you care about and what you see each and every day as you're serving patients all across the country, i'm confident we are going to get health reform passed this year. thank you very much, everybody. thank you! >> speaking from the rose garden with -- joined by 50 doctors one from every state. this is the senate finance committee expected to approve its bill this week, and get a cost estimate from the congressional budget office and could be key in getting the support of senator snowe. we heard so much about her role in this and the president's need

quite essentially for senator snowe to back this so it can -- the white house can say this has been a bipartisan effort. the president -- i thought he was walking back over to the microphone for an encore. looks like they will be greeting these doctors and saying that they are key to passing health care reform. the president, over the weekend, also linking the overhaul of health care to the sensation nation's economy. more guests to get to the insight of this. >> we have a.b. stoedard with the hill newspaper and joining us now on this. a.b., here we are just a day or so before the senate finance committee set to vote on the health care overall plan and senators wyden and rockefeller at least hinting at a possible revolt. will we see liberal revolt here and why? >> well, it's possible. i don't think that it's likely. i think this is a true test of leadership, not only for senate majority leader harry reid but also for president obama himself. at this hour, we are not sure if

senator olympia snowe, republican of maine, will comment with the democrats in commit comooet. it's likely and possible but we're not sure so you can't count her in. they need every democrat they can get. senators wyden and rockefeller have different concerns. rockefeller is pushing for a public option. he believes it's the only way to cut costs and cover more people. the bill as it stands out coming out of the committee covers 30 million new customers. senator wyden of oregon is very concerned that the coverage that the bill mandates won't be affordable enough and that even if you end up providing these hardship wavers, people still aren't covered. i think they are coming to the table after the leadership gets to them and say i have all of these concerns and i want to push this bill out of committee but take my concerns to the floor and fight for it there. i don't know what going to happen but that is my prediction. >> all eyes have been on senator snowe some weeks now. we heard chuck todd telling us

about the cbo scoring the baucus bill and that could determine which way senator snowe goes on there. >> yes. a real concern remains among senator snowe, the one republican looking to vote for a health care reform bill out of the senate and, obviously, moderate centrist conservative democrats whose ultimate goal is keep this around 900 billion and make sure the bill cuts costs. if you cover more people you're not cutting costs enough. that is the balance they are trying strike between the conservative and liberal wings of their parties and senator snowe joins the conservative democrats in that concern that the bill really has to cut costs and stay affordable. >> i want to shift gears here. we need to talk about afghanistan as well. you have your paper reporting the house liberals floating a bill to prohibit more troops being sent into afghanistan. what can you tell us about that? >> the thing is president obama undoubtedly is under the

pressure from the liberal wing of his party on a host of issues, most of them domestic, from car check, a favorite of the unions, don't ask, don't tell. the public option for health care. it is no secret that tensions have been building for a while now that liberal democrats are really wanting to get out of afghanistan. we don't have the resources to fight this war. it's not going well. we've been there more than eight years and it's time to direct our resources -- some of our resources elsewhere but pull out of what they are concerned will become a quagmire. as you know this debate is raging in the white house about whether or not to switch from a counterinsurgency strategy to a counterterrific counterterrorism strategy. i think there is, obviously, across the spectrum from general powell to general jim jones and vice president biden pushing for a counterterrorism strategy. so he is under pressure from all sides on that issue for sure. >> a.b., great to have you.

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first swine flu vaccine will be delivered to hospital in two states, indiana and tennessee. health care workers will be first to get the nasal spray version of the vaccine. in the meantime, health officials telling the rest of us to be patient and, soon, everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one. robert muzel is with us here. bob, exactly, is that an

accurate statement? >> there will be plenty over the next several months. not all at once. it takes time to produce it and distribute it but enough seasonal flu vaccination and the new swine flu or h1n1 vaccination for the entire population. >> the natural fear that you hear from people about having to get the vaccine, should they get both seasonal and swine flu? we saw upstate new york some nurses who did not want to get the vaccine. when you hear medical workers not wanting to get it, it raises the question of should we be getting this vaccine? >> well, nobody is forcing anybody to get the vaccine. >> sure. >> except in certain situations and one of them is new york state passed a law that health care workers should get the vaccine. health care workers have always had a pretty dismal record of getting vaccinated. they are susceptible to a lot of the myths that other people are getting that flu vaccine gives you the flu. >> it makes you sick. >> it doesn't make you sick and doesn't cause side effects.

for health care workers, as one official from mayo clinic said, to health care workers, this is not about you. it's about protecting your patients. one of the things that is very important for people to understand is that somebody like a health care worker may not get very sick him or herself but they have the chance of transmitting the virus to somebody else who is very vulnerable and could get sick and even die. it's so important that people in the health care field get vaccinated. >> i want to switch topics. a medical -- i was stunned when i read the headline that 1 in 100 kids in the united states has autism. what is behind the headline here? >> the autism, the definition of autism has changed over time. it used to be a lot of things that were called other things such as mental retardation and developmental disabilities are now called autism and that is one thing that is going on. there may or may not be something else going on environmentally and i don't

think the scientists have been able to tease it out yet exactly what it is. so that is -- that becomes an ongoing and complex argument. >> what is this new report of these numbers tell us? >> this was something that the government was asked to look into and they came to the conclusion where those numbers. >> thank you very much. great talking to you. always under circumstances that always make us healthier. >> i hope so. get your vaccination. deadliest attack on americans in afghanistan in more than a year. eight americans were killed in an intense day-long battle in the east just 20 minutes from the pakistani border. joining us from washington, d.c. is msnbc military analyst and retired army general montgomery mick a visiting professor at georgetown university. general, good to see you. this deadly attack on u.s. soldiers by the taliban based on previous similar attacks the

decision was made to get those soldiers out of those dangerous isolated areas. it didn't happen for a variety of reasons. doesn't this highlight the urgent need for the president to make a decision here? >> well, yes, sure. the longer the american people sit and waiting the harder it's going to be sell whatever his strategic objective is. the longer the people in afghanistan and pakistan see us debating this issue the more we will assumary not really serious about whatever we finally intend to do. >> general jim jones had this to say over the weekend about general stanley mcchrystal, a public push up to 40,000 new troops. let me play that. >> well, look. >> ideally, it's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command and i think that general mcchrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the president with not just one option, which does, in fact, tend to have a forcing function

but a range of options that the president can consider. >> general, a couple of points he seems to be making there. but to start what seems to be a pretty public slap on the wrist for mcchrystal. is general mcchrystal trying to play politics here and influencing policy by coming out so publicly with his plan? >> no. remember, stan mcchrystal was asked to give his strategic assessment. and that assessment was leaked, which then made this whole debate public. and it's not clear the circumstances under which he made his remarks in london as to whether that was agreed by all in the room to be under chatham house rules, which means whatever the speaker says is not attributable or not. and so i guarantee you that flight officers with these kinds of responsibilities don't compete in the public domain

intentional intentionally. however, stan mcchrystal is the most successful counterterrorist operator we've had and worth listening to. >> do you agree with his assessment we need 40,000 more troops? >> i think the degree of troops he is asking for are necessary. we talk about 37 or 40, but the types of units he wants, we really need to give him. >> general montgomery meig, thank you for your expertise. jordanian teen accused of trying to blow up a dallas building is back in court today. a judge will decide if there is enough evidence to move ahead with the prosecution of this man, 19-year-old smadi. police say he drove a truck he believed had a live bomb into it in a garage under a 60-story building last month. he allegedly dialed a phone he thought would ignite the blast. a man arrested for allegedly stalking and secretly videotapeding erin andrews faces a judge today. barrett will either be released

on bail or returned to california where he he is accused of trying to sell naked videos to the celebrity to tmz. john yang is in chicago. what is the latest on the investigation? i know still getting more details how he was able to allegedly pull this off. >> that's right. this is the criminal complaint. 33 pages long. there are a lot of scary details in this thing. particularly the fbi says that barrett was able to track erin andrews and find out where she was staying simply by calling around to hotels and not only that but the hotel granted his request that he get a room next to andrews. it also says that this is not perhaps not the first time that barrett has done this. it says that the user name that -- and the internet link in the e-mails that barrett used had posted 35, at least 35

videos on one website of naked women apparently shot through a peep hole, through a door which is in the same manner that the videos of andrews were shot. >> john, i don't know if you have the answer to this but i'm curious. this has been a topic on some of the blogs i've been reading. people wondering about the liability regarding the hotels who gave over the information. in erin's case, for example, he would call with her name and get this, what i thought was private information about where you're staying and your room. >> exactly, tamron. i'm surprised -- i was surprised when i read that the hotels actually granted his request. he asked for rooms next to andrews and they said yes. andrews' attorney has been speaking out about this, speaking very harshly about the hotels for giving out this information. i wouldn't be surprised if we see some sort of legal action attempted against the hotels. right now, the hotels are saying they have no comment beyond the fact that they are cooperating in the investigation and they

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joining us for more on this is democratic strategist alicia menendez and republican strategist doug hyde. they are talking about notion that former treasury secretary henry paulson said on october 14th the banks were, quote, healthy and just accepting this money for the good of the american economy. was that really the case? >> well, according to this report, it's not and i think this gives us a good moment to pause and thank the obama administration for putting in the type of oversights that have led to this type of report and type of the oversights in the future might stop from getting this bad but the report is not good. >> doug, i guess you're not ready to thank the obama administration right now after looking at this? >> the reality is businesses don't really accept anything for the benefit of the good of everybody. they do it for the benefit of their shareholders and that's really why you look at people and who have bank of america stock, people who work for bank of america, they are really

concerned about what is going right now. concerned about the continuity of were their company because one of the number one rules in business is business does not like surprises. when information is withheld and then comes up later, whether you're talking politics or david letterman or you're talking bank of america you've got to get that fgs information out quickly. >> they are raising the possibility in this report the money had been unfairly disbursed to the biggest banks? >> yeah. i mean, that's one of the things i think we're going to see further investigations into. i would would just remind doug the part we didn't see sooner republican senators put a hold on this inspector general and the type of politics that ultimately slows things down and stop answers from coming out and type of things we would like to see less of in the future. >> doug, what is next? what type of accountability do you want to see here? >> we need oversight and this comes when you accept these kinds of the t.a.r.p. funds and so forth. is oversite from the government.

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connection with the kidnapping of the baby, so why isn't the baby with his mother at this point? what's going on here? >> hey, tamron, this was a strange turn of events after we got the word that this baby was located about 85 miles away across the tennessee/alabama state line and they had taken this woman into custody. there was a brief reunion with the baby's mother but all of a sudden we hear that the four kids taken from her custody and taken into state custody and the officials in tennessee are not saying why they've done that and the speculation, of course, that maybe her immigration status, the mom's immigration status may come into play here. there is a court hearing scheduled for later this week and you mention that this is a tough week with this mother. she was stabs eight times in this attack and lost her child and surveillance video at a walmart where they zoomed in on the license plate of a rental car. this woman had followed maria into walmart and exhibited strange behavior and authorities were able to track that car down to recental car company and made the arrest about 8:00 friday night. just a bizarre story but we're happy to hear this 9-day-old baby is safe with his siblings.

>> thank you very much, ron, very strange story, but thank you for the details. we're just learning that a health care vote is not imminent in the health care committee. kelly o'donnell joins us from capitol hill brand-new information on the timeline for the vote. >> perhaps our patients got the best of us because the real work that needs to go on at the congressional budget office, which is tap would the responsibility of looking at everything that is in the baucus plan, the blueprint for health care that was put through last week. they've got to come up with the big number, a score for what it will cost and what's the effect on taxation and all of that. that's not something you can get done in a weekend, what i'm being told by senior democratic aides chairman baucus expects to hear from them later in the week. once they get the figures and they get to lock at what it says the chairman wants to give all the members of the committee

some time to digest it and swaul tow and look it over and then schedule a vote and we thought it might come more quickly and now we know it won't be today, probably won't be tomorrow and we just don't know when the vote will happen. we have to slow down a little bit. >> fair enough. we've been hearing once the cbo gets its hand on this and gets through the work of it, we'll all watch for senator snowe's reaction. she has been such a focus of attention. the republican from maine who has been almost a party unto herself. so much attention on what she would do, she has shown some signs of being supportive of ideas that have been conveyed by democrats. also, very clearly, sticking with some of the more traditional republican and conservative ideas especially when it comes to budget finances, the fiscal side of things. she will be an important person to give us an indication of where things are going and we know behind the scenes a lot of lobbying of her personal, even the president has phoned her

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