dennis cardoza just said santi does prevail here. we have heard from so many of the folks they were trying to protect. what does it matter? if we take this vote, it's a tough vote. we'll be hit no matter what. let's do it on the up and up. >> dana bash, thanks so much. the president hasn't left the white house yet so you're not mistaken, he is not there at the capitol building yet. he will be. our white house correspondent ed henry is at the white house. maybe you have a better timeline. >> i can tell you the media has been gathered about a half hour waiting for the president. it's a warm day in washington. they are looking for air conditioning at this point. the president may be fine-tuning that speech. we are told he is going to speak for some time. this is really his last pitch. when i've spoken to his senior aides, they tell me the president wants to lay out for house democrats behind closed doors, what are the stakes? he's been doing that around the country. he wants to get up close and personal with these law makers and say tha

she needs to get that wavering democrats, dennis cardoza, democratic member of congress who is on the. they need to see the president publicly put one final piece of skin in the game type of thing. and that's what wednesday is about and show he will have a full shoulder in on making sure not to let up on the senate, that they will cut their deal. ultimately, it does look like the house is going to end up going before the senate in this sort of two-prong strategy. remember, the senate is not voting on the sboentire health e bill. what the senate is doing, via reconciliation is the so-called fixes, what would have been done if this had been a conference committee, if there had been an old-fashioned conference committee between the house and senate, what they would have negotiated on. now it's going to be in a separate budget bill. >> jonathan allen, let's talk about the house senate combination. what pelosi has to deal with is a lot of democrats who don't trust that the senate will come through with those fixes, getting rid of the cornhusker deal and louisiana purchase and all the other

for example, congressman dennis c c cardoza, how does she gets them to use courage? are her words. >> pelosi is one of the most effective speakers in the history of the house of representatives. she's going to have to use every tool at her disposal if she's going to coral 217 votes to get this through. it is possible. if anybody can do it, pelosi will be the one. >> i'll go back to the congressman who talks about anti-abortion language and the cost bugging him. >> right. it's definitely not going to be easy. a lot of house democrats are worried that they are going to be hoodwinked by the senate in the sense, okay, you pass the senate version first and we'll go back and fix it using reconciliation. the house passes the senate version. then oh, geez the republicans stood in the way. we're not going to get this through. they tried. that will make it that much harder to pelosi. she's going to have to appeal to their own existential angst. if this doesn't, it's going to be a total disaster. >> some possible looming disasters for the democrats when they come up in 2010. th