senator jeff bingaman of new mexico, on the senate finance committee, and a member of the gang of six, now declares he'll support reconciliation in the senate to get health care reform this is a big development. things are shifting during this august break. now, score at home here. of the three democrats, two are now embracing a public option, and one is willing to go reconciliation. for more, let me bring in joan watch, editor in chief of salon.com. i think this is a big development. so much is now hinging on what the senate finance committee does. this gang of six. you've got a couple of democrats okay with public option, at least that's what max back us said the other day. have you jeff bingaman, saying if we have to go reconciliation, i'm on the bandwagon this makes kent conrad the fly in the ointment in this whole deal, doesn't it? >> yeah, all eyes on kent conrad right now. and i don't know what to expect. he's been a staunch defender of this nonprofit co-op idea, which i think all of us know probably won't work, and also won't get republican support. so it's a tough position fo

then at 8:00, we've got an opportunity to sit down with kent conrad, jeff bingaman and jack reed. you guys promised me that if i came along with you on the next one of these things that everything would be all -- >> i never promised you that. >> you didn't? >> no. although this may be the last time we get out out after -- >> what did i ask you, is my car up there? >> before we get to the political news of the day, let's get a quick check on markets this morning after this incredible run where the s&p is now above 1,000. futures are a lot lower, i think by about 50 points so so. developly the pause refreshes? >> it means mb back to 80. >> golding putting up a good file. we are whack in the low 90s. >> 70/72. the ten-year note, who wants treasuries these days? anybody who is willing to take a 3-6 yield. know mentioned the dollar is at its lowest level of the year and you asked the question whether or not this is intming disorderly or not. >> so orderly within and that's what they always is say. a lot of people are reading the tea leaves that the administration at times isn't quite a

on the list today, democrats including kent conrad, jeff bingaman and jack reed. we'll have judd gregg, lamar alexander, and kay bailey hutchinson. there's a lot hal happening here. as the senate has to tackle cash for clunkers, they've got a lot of things on their desk this morning. >> we are in the dierkson senate building. i don't think any live television program, other than the hearings themselves, has ever come out of this room. >> hasn't been done. >> and they didn't know what they were in for because already we figured out how to use the microphones. >> i like -- the teleprompter is so far away. if we say something that makes no sense, it's because we're reading absolutely no idea what it says. what about if it was 6 members host house? 1.3%, i think. >> and then we're going to move down here where we're going to have some senators up here and i hope they start asking me questions like they did those poor banking executive peps. >> well, also, boone pickens has testified here severales