i'm john o'neill." and i explained to him, i'm from the white house, and i do terrorism, and i need some help. and i told him our story on the classified phone line, and he went into action. >> narrator: in 20 years, he'd chased a lot of bad guys, but nobody like ramzi yousef. >> yousef is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, very smart. getting him and incapacitating him was a significant public safety issue, and john o'neill recognized that, was not about to take no for an answer anywhere before he was taken into custody. ( telephone dialing ) ( telephone rings ) >> white house. >> o'neill put together an arrest team that managed to catch ramzi ahmed yousef in pakistan just before he moved into afghanistan, which would've been beyond our reach. it was a pretty intense couple of days, but it worked. >> narrator: for the next six years, o'neill and his agents would follow the bloody and complex trail from ramzi yousef to osama bin laden. >> the picture was still fuzzy-- i mean, it was by no m

kennedy, i've seen orin hatch and russ fine gold and john mccain and people come to congress to do this. congress is the same constitution that tip o'neilld regan made work. the problem is not the institution. it's the people. and it's a small group of people who don't negotiate. if you're not willing to negotiate, nobody can make something happen. we had a group of people who actually argued for default. we had a group of people who were willing to hold the entire economy of our country hostage to the shooting of the hostage. and they were willing to shoot the hostage. if that's your situation, everybody winds up being hurt by it. and, and so i think people have to stop and say who's caused this? i am very sympathetic with the anger that the tea party feels and i respect the grassroots movement that says you guys have ogot to get serious about the debt and deficit, well i am. i'm prepared to put social security, medicare, medicaid on the table to talk about how we reform and fix them, improve it. we don't have to cut the benefits of them. but we certainly can structure them going into the future. but i also believe we have to create job

i'm curious, john, if you think this is a moment, a lot of us who covered ronald reagan back in the '80s remember the deals he worked out with tip o'neill, who was then the house speaker. is this a moment where there's a new relationship now between the president, the speaker and the republican leader in the senate along the lines of what happened back in the '80s? hold on one second. >> any senators wish to change their vote? if not on that question, the ayes are 74 and the nays are 26. the motion to concur in the house amendment to senate bill 365 is agreed to. >> so there you have it. dick durbin, the democratic senator from illinois, the majority whip, announcing the official vote. 74 in favor, 26 opposed. gloria, that's sort of the number we anticipated. i assumed it was going to be more than 70. >> yeah. there's a little bit of padding there. i'm curious to see who the 26 are and how that breaks down. >> some republicans who are seeking re-election. >> and how many of them are up for grabs, right, or facing challenges. we'll have to take a look at that. in terms of your last question to john about the relationships, it's interesti