so it's john kyle who is keeping track of how many republicans will vote for health reform. senator kyle, how many republicans you got onboard so far? >> for either the bill that has passed the house committee or the bill that's passed the health committee in the senate, i don't think a single republican in the senate would support either of those bills. >> not a single republican. so that would be zero. yea bipartisanship. the bottle neck is the gang of six inside the senate finance committee f these three republicans and three democrats who are supposedly going to come up with a compromise bill that they can move forward in a bipartisan way. two of the three republicans in the gang of six have frankly taken themselves completely out of the realm of negotiations on this. senators mike enzy and chuck grassley say it should take 80 votes to pass health reform in the senate. 80 votes. new rule. even beyond that, senator grassley has spent his summer vacation warning that the legislation on the table right now is about to pull the plug on your grandmother. the chances of mr. enz

john kyle says he doesn't want a single republican vote on that bill. >> on that point, or the lack therehis is what the president said during an interview this week with michael smerconish in philadelphia about what republicans made a decision about. listen to the president. >> i'm confident we are going to get it done and as far as negotiations with republicans, my attitude has always been, let's see if we can get this done with some consensus. i would love to have more republicans engaged and involved in this process. i think early on, a decision was made by the republican leadership that said, look, let's not give them a victory and we can have a replay of 1993-94 when clinton came in. we got the majority. i think some folks are taking a play out of that play book. >> is he right? is that what they want to make it? >> i wouldn't call it that. it's extremely important. what they are trying to do, almost anything you look at, look at the two senate and house bills. number one, they demand a public plan, whether a co-op or not, it's going to be a government plan. two, they want employer

john kyle said does he not think a single republican senator would vote for either the house bill or the one senate bill that made it out of committee so far. and after republican chairman michael steel openly declared or dared rather democrats to go it alone, taunting that their reluctance to do so proves that democrats know the democrats -- the american people have rejected their vision of health care reform. >> don't come up in my face talking about i'm an obstacle and we're blocking this process. you got the votes, mr. president. pass the bill. they want to have this thing signed, sealed, delivered to the president's desk by july 31st. all right? they could have done it. they know it's poisonous. they know the american people will not tolerate it. >> of course, polls show americans not merely tolerating but supporting the public option. but a new poll now shows fewer americans supporting president obama on health care in general. 46% now approving the handling of health care, dproun 57% in april. 50% disapproving, doubling from 29% in april. let's turn now to clarence page, syndi

. >> the final straw may have been a comment by a top republican senator, john kyle of arizona. there is no way republicans are going to support a trillion dollar bill. >> it is not necessarily their first option what they have been left with. >> they can go it alone. >> go it alone. >> go it alone. >> the public doesn't like, you know the whole go it alone mentality. >> robert gibbs will go to great lengths to say look, the democrats are not going to go this alone. >> the go-it-alone talks come day after a particularly feisty town hall meeting in massachusetts. congressman barney frank giving back as good as he got if not better. >> my question to you is why do you continue to support the policy as obama has expressly supported this policy, why are you supporting it? >> when you ask me that question i am going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question. on what planet do you spend most of your time? it is a tribute to the first amendment that this kind of contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you w

. >> in terms of a compromise though, jeff, you had senate minority whip john kyle saying on the co-ops it doesn't matter what you call it, they want to accomplish something republicans are opposed to it is a public plan by another name it is a trojan horse and therefore, no, i don't believe republicans will be inshrine klined to support a bill. so if the republicans won't support a co-op and bernie sanders won't support a co-op and you know the house democrats aren't there how does the president, how does rahm emanuel craft a compromise? >> that is one thing they are trying to figure out here the next couple of weeks before september 7th when congress resumes. this isn't necessarily about trying to get republican republicans on board this co-op idea it is about trying to get senate moderates on board. look at senator ben nelson from nebraska, for example, holding his first town meeting this afternoon in omaha. i would like to see what the reaction is there from voters in nebraska. look at other moderates throughout the senate. this is about getting them on board. and the president and

. >> but you've got chuck grassley, you've got max baucus, and john kyle. three big republicans. >> well, he's acting like a republican. he's chairman of the senate finance committee. but he is quick to cave, he wouldn't even let single payer at the table, and of course public option, he's thrown that under the bus -- >> it wasn't going to happen this year. >> they were never at the table. he took that bargaining chip off the table. that's what bothered me. >> the public option is peripheral to the really important stuff here. >> it's not. i respectfully disagree. because the public has been sold on this, everybody covered. >> i've been covering this stuff for 20 years. you can have universal health insurance without a public option. what does a public option do? it gives bargaining power to the public against the insurance goes. that is precisely what the health insurance exchanges are going to do. you're going to have the market discipline of big pools of individuals and small businesses negotiating as a group against the insurance companies which will bring prices down. >> but

john kyle says democrats should think about scrapping their estimated $1 trillion proposal and starting all over. meanwhile, house democrats want to see detailed financial records from dozens of large insurance companies. this move is part of an investigation into executive compensation and other business practices. the probe comes as the insurance industry is voicing opposition to a proposed health care overhaul. >>> our time right now is eight minutes after 5:00. the temperature is 77 degrees. speaking out, the doctor at the center of the michael jackson death investigation is breaking his silence in an online message. >>> plus, amazing video of a powerful twister catching shoppers off guard. >>> and the deep cuts coming to northern virginia and how they wi yot iu.a . . >>> weather and traffic on the 1s. a steamy 77 degrees here in washington. there's some showers south of washington right now. there's one south of fredericksburg. we have other light showers as well ming across the northern vehicle neck of virginia through the eastern shore. elsewhere, we don't have any precipitation,

. >> mccain joins fellow arizona senator john kyle in opposes sotomayor, both texas republican senators are on the record saying they will vote no, but as many as six republicans say they'll break with the party and support sotomayor. >>> president obama turning 48 years old today, it's a working birthday, at 11:05 eastern, he'll meet with the national commander. and at noon, welcoming senate democrats for a white house lunch. they're going to be talking a lot about the president's birthday wishes like health care reform and more funding for the cash for clunkers program. then later, the president will meet with vice president joe biden in the oval office. >>> yesterday, in fact, we asked for your thoughts on president obama's drop in the ratings, here are a few of them. julie wrote this to us. i do not know if i can rate the job of the presidency, it is one of the toughest jobs in the world. i will say, however, that i am very disappointed by the stimulus plan. and then marcia tells us this, the president is trying to do exactly what he promised. the lower ratings are a result of the g

. >> now lamar alexander and john kyle react to the -- kyl react to the discussion about health care.a few minutes ago i was getting ready to do an interview with msnbc and robert gibbs was on. he said he was there for a press conference, to correct what i thought was a truthful impression that was left by the members of the obama administration. both lawrence summers and tim geithner did not rule out the possibility of a tax increase for the middle income. that was reported across the country today. they were taken to the woodshed this morning. gibbs said that they would not raise taxes on the middle income. but that is misleading at best to the american people. most people know that, an article in the new york times said that the pledge to tax the risk cannot pay for it -- the rich cannot pay for everything. among the people who were quoted include another veteran of the clinton administration, the director of the tax policy center, they said that the government should be paid for the top 5%. there has been -- the senator remembers sawhill's service. she says that there is no way to

senators john cornyn, and as well as mccain's fellow arizonan, john kyle, previously announced they would vote against her, as well. still, sotomayor is expected to easily win that confirmation. >>> his golf buddy thought he was behaving badly, his antiques on the lengths got him impaled by his own golf club. how it happened and how he's doing now. >>> i'm jane velez-mitchell and here's my issue, michael jackson's long time friend arnie kline is back in the custody mix. many suspect he is the father of the two oldest kids, but dr. kline continues to dance around the issue. well now he's acting like the father. going to court, saying he should have a role in the kids' lives when it comes to major decisions on education and medical care as if he gave michael jackson such great medical advice. jackson's kids have already been through hell, so dr. kline needs to stop feeding the old gossip machine. he should take a dna test to determine once and for all if he is the father. if he is, step up, if he isn't, butt out and shut up. that's my issue. >> find out what else jane has on her mind, watch