thank you for joining us, emily ethridge. now we switch to the physical fall-out.e are joined by lynn sweet, the washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun-times," and bill schneider, our contributor, professor at george mason university and distinguished fellow and resident scolar at the think tank third way. will the president's speech change minds. will we have two competing proposals - obamacare - one in the house and one in the senate. >> the news conference was the point on the hill. it's the temporary fix that barack obama is offering that democrats wanted to know about. now, republicans are against obamacare - they are rooting for it to fail. really, with the vote friday, it's a test vote on the bill to see how many democrats have to vote for it. obama will have kept some democrats off it, offering an alternative, which is why the bill was timeded today. the press conference where he was contried, that is for political -- contrite, that is for political cover and to calm nerves. the democrats who were so angry at him on this, they want to know is the temp