wyoming senator john barrasso is one of them kind enough to join us tonight.or, good have to you with us. senator, i just want to point out something from the mcclatchey newspapers. they point out the cans vags advocacy group in washington says civilian courts have convicted more than 200 accused terrorists since 2001 attacks while military commissions created by congress have convicted only three. what's wrong with ksm in a civilian court? are you afraid that we wouldn't get justice? >> this is wrong for a number of reasons. the cost issue, the security issue, and it's just not appropriate. you talked about that large number. those aren't people that actually attacked the united states. that's not al qaeda terrorists. those are people who may have perjured themselves or been issues of illegal immigration. we're not talking about the terrorists who have come here to kill us and who have killed 3,000 people in new york city. the cost, the priolice commissioner of new york city said it would cost $200 million to do this. no one asked him ahead of time. the attor

senators judd greg, john barrasso, bob corker. from the white house, stenny hoyer, eric cantor. also john har would be b will be here to talk about whether or not this high political drama is just for show and if democrats are simply going to press on with reconciliation. guys, i can't hear you, but here is the front of "usa today." this new poll from usa today and gallup talking about how three out of four americans do not predict the president and congressional leaders will reach an agreement. we all know what has happened to the overall poll approval ratings of the democratic bill. and bottom line, joe, they are against a reconciliation in any form by a pretty wide margin. we'll see if today simply sets up that process, which will be an entirely different story. >> i guess you can't hear us, carl. >> i've got you now. >> oh, you do. already. because in recent sessions, it's not just the op-ed pages twieg to clean what will happen between "the wall street journal" and the times, this is moving forward, everything looks great in one article yesterday, the big bill is coming. but

member of the health committee, along with health committee member tom coburn, and finally, senator john barrassos attending include house speaker nancy pelosi, house majority leader steny hoyer, majority whip james clyburn, ways and means committee chairman check rangel, education committee chairman george miller, henry waxman, and the chairman emeritus, john dingell, xavier becerra, louise slaughter, and congressman robert andrews and jim cooper. on the republican side, john boehnerill be attending, along with eric cantor, and joe barton, ways and means committee ranking republican dave camp, john kline, marsha blackburn, charles waboustany, peter roskam, and finally, paul ryan. coverage begins at a half an hour, and watch it on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen to it on c-span radio. guest: "washington journal" can -- >> "washington journal" continues. host: julie rovner from national public radio joines as. guest: the issues on the table, what is ostensibly on the table, is is there room for some common ground to be found between the democrats and republicans? the president laid out his own plan

do you want to go to john barrasso? reform issues? going to john barazzo., all right, we'll let you guys split time on this one. mike. thank you plpmr. president, whe we're talking about insurance refochl. that's medicare. seniors out there are really nervous. seniors are the ones objecting the most in the program and it's because they see half a trillion dollars coming out of their program. if medicare were separate and any savings that we did in medicare reform went back into medicare, it would do a lot to relieve the tension that's out there, it would even be a way to pay for the dock fix. i'm hoping that could be a piece that we're doing. i really appreciate this exchange, it would have been helpful if we had had this nine months or a year yearearlier and it for more days. we had a bill that was half started and we got the markup on it and we got the other half. since we did not have any input into the drafting, we had 117 amendments. 17 of those amendments were where senator markowsky had 11 -- so the ideas that we had, when senator kennedy and i were