he says last night he support as proposal from ayote and portman. not so sure about toomey's.e fate of that legislation is, the fate of that measure still unclear, but they will get votes on both of them. >> will the senate vote on this bill before thanks giveing? >> that's the plan. senate majority leader harry reid said we're going to get this done. please, he said, the senators, he doesn't believe senators need to use all the time that's left on the clock for debate on this bill. it is set to, i mean after you vote on these couple amendment votes, it is set to pass in the coming days. we don't know exactly when. but the senate also has a lot of other agenda items to do as well. i think harry reid wants to move along and get that out of the way and do something else. >> you wrote about some of the rather bleak prospects in the house. you tweeted yesterday about senator harken saying that he wants the house democrats to circulate a discharge petition on the in the house. what does that mean? >> discharge petition, if you get 218 signatures on that, it pretty much force as bil

. >> before i turn to senator begich and senator ayote go back, quick ps on issues that senator levin has raised. dr. coburn knows dr. coburn is ranking republican, was ranking republican on permanent subcommittee on investigations with carl levin for a number of years. i served with him over a dozen years. he is tenacious and as a dog with a bone. on the issue he raised there is real validity to the concerns he raised. what we tried to do is encourage the states, particularly the secretaries of states to work with law enforcement to see what can be worked out in a way the states could administer it. and are agreeable to doing that. we have been having some meetings. i'm told that that they are good exchanges and we'll continue to nuture that and hopefully facilitate something so we can get it done. i can sit next to this man whom i love, arm in arm and resolve this issue and then turn our attention to spring training where our beloved detroit tigers return to lakeland, florida and we're again friends. having said that, let me turn to senator begich. >> thank you very much. >> [inaudi

>> we'll talk to kelly ayot about that and other they thinks that have come up in the senate includingsses to the benghazi attack more than a year ago. also, we're going to talk to mike mccall, the chairman of the house committee to get the latest update on what we know about the shooter yesterday at los angeles international airport. >> stay here with candy starting here at 9: 0 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. 0 a.m. eastern righ here on cnn. -0 a.m. eastern rigt here on cnn. : >>> okay. remember this video from back in february? watch this. [ gunshots ]. >> yeah, that was a meteor blast over russia that released a blast equal to 300 tons of tnt. a thousand people were injured including 200 children. in september an even larger astroid zipped close. it's believed some day a massive space rock somewhere out there will, in fact, hit the u.s. and reek halve vok everywhere. i sat down with the one and only neil degrass tyson to talk about the looming threat out. >> astroids are out there and surely one with our name on it, earth's name and small ones will explode and take out regions and

. >> i know -- i know people like mitch mcconnell and kelly ayot -- i know that they've been trying to distance themselves from the tea party every since they nearly drove our country into default. but the truth is, sadly, there's very little difference today between the tea party and so-called main stream republicans. ask sheryl kay porter, ask annie custer. they see it every day in the unrepresentative house of representatives. there's little daylight between the tea party and the republican party. think about it. both would have millionaires do less -- cut taxes for big oil, cut taxes for multinationals, reduce social security benefits and medicaid coverage. cut student loans, cut veterans' benefits, invest less in education, in affordable college. do less to combat climate change. do less on gun safety. do nothing to fix our immigration system. and keep families who are trying to survive on the minimum wage from ever earning even another penny. it would appear that the only thing they want more of is rush limbaugh. >> well, michael warren? the argument from the democrats. >> i thou

senator kelly ayote is calling on president obama to order a timeout. the new new hampshire republican wants a bipartisan group to convene about the problems with the website and the law. there are serious concerns about obamacare's long term financial liability. early numbers from state exchanges, nearly all of those enrolled are being funneled into medicaid, not insurance plans that the system will depend upon for financeing. >> look, the system will never look unless there are five to seven million people in the private side of this exchange, not the medicaid side side. they are no near that. jenna: the architect of obamacare says he is not worried. >> we have until all the way to march 31st to get to five to seven million, we expect naturally, i don't pay attention to the numbers. wait, let me finish. people will put off buying until the end and those numbers are irrelevant. jenna: he said by end of november he might have some concerns. peter doocy is live in washington with more on all of this peter. >> reporter: jenna, consumers are still having p

we asked in a hearing that senator ayote, that senator shaheen called on tuesday of this week, we asked of general dempsey, senator manchin did, for a list of programs or expenditures that the department does not want to spend money ont that have been mandated by congress. we thought we would have that list by today. i understand now we're not going to get it until next week but i think for certain one item that will be on that list, general odierno, is the purchase of abrams tanks that you have been somewhat vocal on, that congress keeps demanding that you buyoc thaw don'tal need. my understanding is that you were requesting a delay or halt in production until 2017. and at the cost of that was going to be, savings would be somewhere between 436 and 3 billion over three years. i don't know what the exact number is. either one of those is pretty significant s that still the case that you would prefer toth spend thater money somewhere ela >> itbt is. we have the most modernized tank fleet we ever had right now. it is in great shape. in fact we're reducing our force structure. so we'll nee