i mean, jim cooper in the house, you could pass a bill with or without him. he doesn't matter compared to what rahm emanuel and president obama are deciding in the white house should be in that senate bill in order to get to final passage. so, again, isn't that where the attention should be now? >> the attention -- every democrat's going to sink or swim together on this. if we pass a bill that just is a big giveaway to the insurance industry, which is what the senate's working on right now, every democrat will suffer, from president obama right down to even democrats who vote for the right thing will suffer. we're all in this together as a democratic party, and we've got to do the right thing here. >> step me through a scenario in which a bill comes to the senate floor for the final vote on it, a bill that you oppose, it has no public option, no real cost controls, no ability to really subsidize insurance at the level it would need to be subsidized to make it affordable, and you end up recommending to vote against that. and let's say the vote against that car

their latest target is congressman jim cooper. the accountability now has set up a website naming mr. cooper as a key opponent of health reform under president clinton. they are threatening him with a democratic primary challenge. president obama beat john mccain by 13 points, which means mr. cooper can't cite the inherent conservative of his constituents. they are in trouble because they are on the wrong side of public win in their districts, but face ing their own party. chuck schumer told us about jay rockefeller's plan to force a vote. we know that has been delayed, but it is still expected to happen on tuesday. if you take all this together, it looks like the prognosis for real health perform is not as bad as it was a week ago. our friend bill seems fragile. 50+ advantage... has gingko for memory and concentration. plus support for heart health. ( crowd roars ) that's a great call. one a day men's. [ female announcer ] think again. experts at good housekeeping gave pantene nature fusion their seal. for damage protection resul

you thk one case, a guy named jim cooper, a moderate mocrat from tennessee who has been very active in health care for 20 years. he had opsed the house plan that had comeut -- that was comg out of the house. and he had written publicly about why he opposed it. i called him the day after obama's speech and he s very cited. he thoht the president had made real prress in allayi a lot of his concerns and adjusng some of the policys -- policies so it wod be fiscally responsible d address things. the blue dogs, modate democrats wereuite plsed. so the presint really cured that part of the party. >> lehrer: do you think he's wonny support among republicans or changedr soften thepposition in any y? >> not yet. but you ow it's possible he cld get a few in the nate. y it for this reason. to me the key part of the spee was i will not alw this to inease the deficit one dime nownd forever. now to get to that defici neutrality level the house bill generally goes away because that blows a he in the deficit. you start with the sene bill. but then you'vstill got to make som changes to bri it within that

case in point, congressman jim cooper of tennessee is opposed to a public option but his constituentspublic plan even though cooper is from a red state. he represents a solidly democratic district. he's got 66% of the vote in 2008. for more, let's bring in our panel. steven a. smith, journalist and commentator. also michael graham, radio talk show host. wtkk in boston. steven, is it a good idea for the democratic liberal groups to get aggressive on the people stopping public option? >> i have no problem with it whatsoever because you're holding the politicians responsible. making them stand up front and center, putting them on front street and saying you represent us. what do you stand for? what are you going to do? not only that, yourself digging into the records, history. who's paying for them. trying to buy them off. i have no problem whatsoever on politicians who are put on front street. i think it's a beautiful thing. this is as american as it gets. >> michael graham, on the conservative side, tom delay was good for pulling people aside and twisting their arm. running ads against

. >> chris: let me bring in senator graham, democratic congressman jim cooper one of the so-called blue dogs who actually teaches health care policy says between private and public health care we waste about $700 billion a year. so it should be easy to find these kinds of savings. >> well, no one found them before, and, the only way you'll find them now is to do something that no one has been willing to do and that is get in here and change the system and you will not find $300 billion in medicare/medicaid savings, the trigger idea that at a certain point in time, we'll stop spending and go back and cut things, has never worked anywhere else, and the trigger is a phony-baloney idea and they said the same thing in tennessee and we'll make system efficient and pay for ten-care and listen what the governor of tennessee said about that and i voted against medicare part d for the reason we don't pay fors things around here and the widen senate bill, 7 republicans and 7 democrats is revenue neutral and would like to talk to the president about it but one thing we learned from the show today,

. >> lete bring in senator graham, because jim cooper, one of the so-called blue dogs who teaches health care policy, says that between private and public health care, we waste about $700 billion a year, so it should be easy to find these kinds of savings. >> well, no one's found them before, and the only way you're going to find them now is to do something that no one's been willing to do, and that's get in here and change the system. you're not going to find $300 billion in medicare, medicaid savings. this trigger idea that at a certain point in time we'll stop spending and go back and cut things has never worked anywhere else, so the trigger is a phony baloney idea. they said the same thing in tennessee about tenncare. listen to what the governor of tennessee had to say about that. i voted against medicare part d for the very reason we don't pay for things around here. seven republicans and seven democrats is revenue neutral. i'd like to talk to the president about it. here's one thing we've learned from this show today. the house bill is dead because deficit politics apparently not i

. >>> our staff received a phone call from congressman jim cooper's office in tennessee. he says he is firmly supporting a public ogs. two great things. number one, i'm glad they're watching and number two, most of all he's on the correct side of the issue. what do you think? do you think liberal groups targeting democrats is a good or bad idea? 92% said it's a good idea, 8% say that's a bad idea. that's "the ed show." "hardball" is next. >>> will israel attack iran? let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, will israel attack iran? that's the question. yesterday iran fired long-range missiles capable of reaching israel in a show of strength and will that raises the prospect that israel will strike first. will they? can they do it without our help, without our okay? would they? what are the consequences if israel does strike in iran's nuclear facilities? to israel? to the united states? what will the consequences be if iran gets nuclear weapons? would that mean the end of israel as a safe haven? >>> next, do you rememb

if i may thank the democrats who participated, that's john yarmuth, chad edwards, jim clyburn, jim cooper, mike doyle, burt stupak, and ed perlmutter, i want to thank the ryder cup team for their participation. thank you very much. i yield back the balan of my time. the chair: without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 10 printed in house report 111-225 by the gentleman from indiana, mr. donnelly, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 10 printed in house report 111-255 offered by mr. donnelly of indiana. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a record vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this shall be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states h

councilmember jim graham says he will cooperate with the fbi's veg into his chief of staff, ted loza.is now on paid administrative leave after being arrested and charged with taking bribes. according to indictment, all of this was caught on tape. loza is accused of taking $1,500 in two separate cash payments from someone in the taxi industry in exchange for influence over future taxi legislation. yesterday, the fbi searched loza's office inside the wilson building and left with several boxes. he is charged with two counts of taking bribes. loza was arrested yesterday morning at his home in columbia heights. counsel cul member jim graham said lza had little to do with taxi legislation and of a court hearing, loza's attorney said his client will be cleared. >> we fully believe that once all the evidence has been put in front of a jury he will be completely vindicated. >> i never hay conversation with teddy loza where he came to me and sid will do you this or do that. >> reporter: now, graham does chair the committee that oversees the taxicab commission and did recently introduce legisla

cooperating. there's a $5,000 reward posted in this murder case. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, thank you. >>> the supreme court has been asked to take up the case that involves the name of d.c.'s football team. seven native americans have been working through the court system since 1992 to have the redskins trademark declared invalid. they sayhe name is offensive. the national football league won a lower court decision on a technicality. >>> today a d.c. superior court judge dropped the fenty administration's efforts to evict a popular tennis program in southeast d.c. the judge ruled the southeast tennis center must be given another chance. tom sherwood is live downtown to tell us about this. >> reporter: there's never been any criticism how cora barry has run the tennis center and the judge said today she can't just be thrown out into the street. the tennis certainty draws hundreds of people to sports and education programs in a poor part of town. >> i've been living in terror really of not being able to touch these children and not being able to

anderson cooper will have a two-hour edition of "ac 360" coming up and jim moret will be back to hosto of "larry king live." you see darkness kind of setting in now over forest lawn cemetery and the upcoming masoleum interment of michael jackson. tomorrow night we'll do a very

. >> it was a nice coordinated and cooperative response to a tragedy that we with couldn't imagine. >> 11 news caught up with baltimore county resident jim smith after his office released a timeline of how emergency crews jumped into action. some of the highlights include at 4:15 p.m. the call came in. within minutes, the command center was established. by 6:15 the main had been shut off and waters began to recede. by saturday around nun noon, most basements had been pumped out. >> i tell you what, it has been a nightmare. because i pumped water out of mine. i pumped until 5:30 that morning. >> residents we called up one week later still feel like it was yesterday, most still having problems with insurance. y haven't gotten any money yet from my since company. it's supposed to be in the mail a week ago. we're just helping each other and trying to do the best with what we have to do with. >> baltimore county officials say 275 residents required pumping, and the lul lucky ones, an additional 163, had no damage at all. con county executive smith said county support will continue until everyone's life is back to normal. >> nobody has left th

jim smith. what is the latest on the water main break? >> the latest is, it was a great example of a cooperative of baltimore city and baltimore county and state of maryland. the governor and i flew over the site around 9:30 this morning. most of the water had receded. we have full cooperation. bge was sending personnel to meet with the chief electrical inspector from the county. as soon as the basements were available, they went through to determine what the condition was. our fire department, the city and county and public works were pumping out basements. there were lots of good things. neighbors were helping neighbors and it was impressive. however, it has not at all the good news for it with every tragedy, some creditors come in and try to take advantage. a couple of contractors have come in and said they were sent by baltimore county and encourage people to sign a contract to clean up their basements. baltimore county did not send any contractors. we sent public service but anybody who is asked to sign a contract, baltimore county did not send those folks. as soon as i got to one of the areas in the village that was hard hit, peopl

cooper's northwest d.c. home was destroyed by the fire and firefighters said theyad trouble getting the necessary water pressure to fight that blaze. today council member jim graham held a public hearing on this issue. derrick ward is live to tell us how this went. >> reporter: it was late july when that fire occurred. in the interim there has been a lot of investigating and things going on to figure out if things could have been done better. what came out of this hearing today at the d.c. city council, there needs to be better coordination between the fire department, which desperately needs water and water and sewer authority which supplies it. the fire burned quickly and the closest hydrants didn't work. nearby hydrants on chain bridge road worked but were fed by eight-inch water mains and couldn't fight such a substantial blaze. chief ruben today called it the perfect storm. >> the incident commander needed to use hydrants more than one mile away to eventually secure a reliable, high-volume water flow. this process was both difficult and time consuming to accomplish as it required the use of multiple fire engines to stretch fire hoses between the hydra

jim steinberg, recently returned to iraq to continue our robust gating with iraq's leaders. that partnership between our countries will, of course, continue to build security cooperation while strengthening -- >> we will monitor this from the booth. let's bring into the conversation savannah guthrie. let's talk about the missile issue. we know the czech republic and poland were all set to keep on with the plan that had been launched under the bush administration and now a change-up of plans and moving those stationary bases shot off the coast and more short-range missiles but let's talk about hillary clinton and what she is saying today at the brookings institute. >> i found it very interesting in her speech this morning. she took on those who would say that the administration is shelving missile defense and raises eyebrows here at the white house. they don't like to hear that. from their perspective they are getting rid of the missile defense plan launched under the bush administration call for large scale bases in the czech republic and poland. getting rid of that, no question about that. they say they are moving to something more adaptable that will be ready sooner and p

the buildup was cooperative and does scare and others time to back off a bit and so forth i talk a lot about that. jimy want to weigh in on that also. >> i don'tave too much different to say about. the fact it was a major here is really sort of a random ihink what we chose to talk about, but in the book i do give a lot of weight to this episode where actually the british have an intelligence agency reporting to them who comes to them and says that the soviets thought that nato was on the verge of a strike against them, and their agent says, you kno what are you doing her i thought i was working for all of you in the interest of world peace. and produces a considerable debate, both in london and then in washington, about whether the soviets really thought that the reagan administration was capable of striking against the soviet union. and there is, you know, interviews with people likbud mcfarland was a national security advisor seemed to make clear that reagan really was genuinely puzzled about that. and really he gives a speech at the begnning of 1984 which has a remarkably different tone. and i thin

cooperation from russia. and so, as the president said, you know, this is part of that effort. >> jonathan, thank you so much. colonel, thank you. jim on "the morning meeting." economic czar, car czar, taking aim at 37 czars in the bush administration. how long have there been czars and why the sudden fascination with them? we'll go dancing with the czars, next, on "the morning meeting." walmart checks other stores' prices so we can save on all our game time favorites. and if there is a better price out there, they'll even match it. which means come game time... ...i'm just as ready as he is. game time costs less at walmart. save money. live better. walmart. slker hip-hop.e money. live better. ♪ that can strain your relationships and hurt yourody 'cause we'pride ♪ng a ride ♪ ♪ it's the credit roller coaster ♪ ♪ and as you can see it kinda bites! ♪ ♪ so sing the lyrics with me: ♪ when your debt goes up your score goes down ♪ ♪ when you pay a little off it goes the other way 'round ♪ ♪ it's just the same for everybody, every boy and girl ♪ ♪ the credit roller coaster makes you wanna hurl ♪ ♪ so throw your hands in the air, and wave 'e

by deputy jim steinberg recently returned to iraq to continue robust engagement with iraq's leaders. the partnership between the countries will of course continue to build security cooperation. while strengthening diplomatic relations, but also it will help to build stronger ties and commerce, the level of all, good governance, science, culture, health care through our strategic framework agreement. i even share a coordinating committee along with prime minister maliki. we had our first full meeting in july and we will continue to be engaged in working on this broader agenda. also on the docket for the general assembly will be meetings related to afghanistan and pakistan. president obama has stated our four goals, to disrupt, dismantle and ultimately defeat al qaeda and its extremist allies, and to prevent their return to either country. this is a goal we share with afghanistan, pakistan and with the international community. in fact, pursuing al qaeda and the taliban was the basis of the original u.n. resolution that authorized u.s. military action after the september 11 attacks and created isaf, international security assistance force of 42 nations helping the afghans secu

biden accompanied by jim steinberg recently returned to iraq to continue our robust engagement with iraq's leaders. that partnership will of course continue to build security cooperation strengthening diplomatic formations but also it will help to build stronger ties and commerce, the rule of law, good governance, education, science, culture, health care through our strategic framework agreement. i chaired a committee along with prime minister. we had our first full meeting in july and we will continue to be engaged in working on this broader agenda. also on the docket for the general assembly will be meetings related to afghanistan and pakistan. president obama has stated our core goal, to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-qaeda and its extremist allies and to prevent their return to either country. this is the goal we share with afghanistan, pakistan, and with the international community. pursuing al-qaeda and the taliban was the basis of the original u.n. resolutions that authorized u.s. military action after the september 11 attacks and created the international security assistance force of 42 nations helping afghans secure their own country. our long-term securit