robert gibbs will begin at 1:00 p.m. eastern, live here on c- span. later, it focuses on the obama administration and hiv-aids prevention, hosted by the white house. that is live at 2:30 p.m. eastern. later, a discussion on reporting for iran. that starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern live on c-span. >> on this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 39. the motion is agreed to. >> with that vote, the senate moves its health-care bill to the floor. starting today and through december, follow the entire debate and how the bill would affect access to medical care, the public option, taxes, abortion, and medicare, why are companion network, c-span2, the only network that brings you the senate gavel-to-gavel. >> our discussion now on issues facing airline pilots, from

robert gibbs, exactly, i write all of those.ttering promotion that i am sure the press secretary was quite honored to have. >> he wanted this? >> i dare say that the president is quite busy doing a number of things. i seriously doubt he was proofreading the press release. i will check on that. >> inbreeding senior advisers on the decision last night, he was closing the book on the internal deliberations of the last few months. there have been some sharp disagreements on approach. i am wondering, is the president at all concerned about the morale of this group of advisers that talked about this for months? there could be winners and losers. >> scott, i know you all have an opportunity to hear from and talk to people that participate. what i think what they would -- what they would say to a person were discussions that have made this policy better. i know that there is a washington game of picking winners and losers. when people step back and look at what the president's ultimate decision will be, i think that everyone sitting in

. >> today's press conference of robert gibbs will begin at 1:00 p.m. eastern, live here on c- span. later, it focuses on the obama administration and hiv-aids prevention, hosted by the white house. that is live at 2:30 p.m. eastern. later, a discussion on reporting for iran. that starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern live on c-span. >> on this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 39. the motion is agreed to. >> with that vote, the senate moves its health-care bill to the floor. starting today and through december, follow the entire debate and how the bill would affect access to medical care, the public option, taxes, abortion, and medicare, why are companion network, c-span2, the only network that brings you the senate gavel-to-gavel. >> our discussion now on issues facing airline pilots, from today's "washington journal." prater is president of airline pilots association international. you are testifying before congress. sellas your message. guest: get the faa reauthorization done. it includes language directing them to update the federal aviation regulations on

we will have a live one spokesman robert gibbs gets under way. until then, your phone calls and comments on "washington journal." us up to speed. what happened over the weekend? guest: we have had about one week off since the last push over health care debates and a rare saturday night session in the u.s. senate that brought the health care bill up for a vote in the first place. it was not clear until the closing hours to live there would be enough support in the first place. but it did pass. host: they write about the tight rope that needs to be walked today by harry reid. "harry reid will attempt toi#@ host: what is senator reid's mission leading up to the christmas break? guest: trying to cobble the other the 60 votes presumably for some sort of a public option. this is what democrats really want. this is the legislative goal, ideological goal, to have some sort of a government-financed health care system by now there does not appear to be that amount of votes for some kind of public option. but that is what the backroom dealing will be all ab

white house spokesman robert gibbs said the u.s. has not gotten official con firlation of the charges from its swiss emissaries, but the possibility is weighing heavily on their families. >> every time the phone rings, we pick it up anxiously and we're hoping that it's new that's our loved ones are on a plane back home. certainly ahmadinejad's statements that we would be treated with ma'am maum leniency and get an expeditious review has had us hoping for the last seven weeks. but we continue to be optimistic that the iranian authorities will see this for what it is, and that is a minor mistake. >> the hikers were arrested back in july after crossing iran's unmarked border while on vacation in northern iraq. >>> new this morning, two astronomers think they can explain a phenomenon that scientists could not figure out for years. now, they wrote in the journal "nature" this blue dot you saw a second ago is a knew trnutron s the youngest we have ever seen. it's only 100 years old. scientists discovered it an x-ray but didn't know what i

press secretary robert gibbs was pressed to weigh in on the amendment that cut abortion rights rightlet's listen. >> i wish we were having this conversation as the last part of this process. but as your network and others have pointed out there are miles to go before we sleep. >> you now obama, president obama pledged in the presidential campaign that he would protect the woman's right. why has he wussed out on this? maxine, would you answer that? >> let me just say what i think about all of this. first of all, the conservatives, the blue dogs have too much power in the house of representatives. and the progressives are losing at every turn because they stick together. they threaten and they're getting what they want. that's number one. and we've got to understand that. and women are going to have to go after some of these people. because again they are leveraging that vote. and that's what they did. as for the president, the president wants a bill no matter what. the president says he will sign basically whatever we send him. that's that. he believes that having health care reform i

press secretary robert gibbs was pressed to weigh in on the amendment that cut abortion rights right out of the house health care bill. >> i wish we were having this conversation as the last part of this process. you but as your network and others have pointed ourgt mile to go before we sleep. >> you now obama, president oba obama pledged that he would protect the woman's right. >> let me just say what i think about all of this. first of all, the conservatives, the blue dogs have too much power. in the house of representatives. and the progressives are losing at every turn because they stick together. they threaten and they're getting what they want. that's number one. and we're back to to understand that and women will have to go after some of these people. again, they are leveraging that vote. and that's what they did. as for the president, the president wants a bill no, matter what. the president says he will sign basically whatever we send him. that's that. he believes that having health care reform is crucial to his re-election, and i don't think you're going to see him getting

and now live to the white house for a briefing with spokesman robert gibbs. >> throughout the conversations between the president and the prime minister. i think this is a show of respect for the value we put on that relationship. i think india is the world's largest democracy, and i think the relationship that we have with them and issues we are dealing with them are tremendously important going forward in our future. >> the president said last week, i believe, that he wawould consider a firing offense the people who leaked information about the afpak decision. what type of report does he plan to ask for, if any, to review this? is he serious about pursuing some type of investigation or inquiry into this? >> let me just leave it at this, jeff. the president as on a few occasions at meetings like this talk about the importance of being able to have an open discussion among his advisers as part of this process. brines people that we have meetings and a decision -- he reminds people that we have meetings in the situation room and not a local restaurant because the importance of and sensitivit