nice pass by jameer nelson and the easy layup.ye who lost the handle goin' up and gets it back. >> almost double dribble. >> foye's jumper is good, so the first field goal comes with 86:00 to play in the first quarter. i think -- >> something like that you can't -- >> i don't think he controlled it when he went up with it. the official recorded that as a bump or a tip, even you're the one who did it. >> yeah. haywood, nice move on howard, but he couldn't get the shot control back on. >> to me this is a situation where you can, if you know what your money play is, what your go-to guy is, this is the time when you have time to work that, operate that play, whatever it is, with whoever it is. >> carter off the front rim. roommate in college, antawn jamison there for the rebound. here is foye again for the open look and that's a little strong. randy fighting for the loose ball but picked up by rashard lewis. howard bothered by haywood, now tries the lane for the left hook, not there. a loose ball foul will be called on mat barnes who

ron nelson, here it is. >> phil: nelson in the first half, bothered him, played post out top.ets a bit of an angle he has the strength and the size over jameer to committee the foul. >> steve: wizards cut the lead to 9 and could get to 8. they have trailed by as many as 21 and have never led in this game. randy foye second only to steve nash in the noon in free throw shooting and caron butler checks in at ninth best. >> phil: that means you're really good when the announcer can talk about your free throw shooting and you still make the free throw. >> steve: very little fear when foye, butler, or boykin making free throws. tip-up no good. off the glass. haywood the rebound. how about this come back from washington. jamison for three. oh, just missed it. rebound number 12 for howard. turnover, washington the other way. butler is fouled, scored the field goal, he'll go to the line. >> phil: they have got dwight howard away from that basket, he hadn't really gotten back into the defensive position, so jameer nelson, forced, this is a transition but he just doesn't get down deep en

>> well, these children are scarred, just like nelson said. it impacts not just their mental health but very often their physical health. the process of recovery from that is long. children can get better but the resources required to help them are tremendous and, unfortunately, they tend to blame themselves for this. they feel that they were punished because they deserved to be punished, something was wrong with them. >> we'll continue this conversation and find out how she was finally found in the closet and talk about that and, also, how does a girl go to school every day, she's 12 but look like she's 8. no one notices? we'll talk about that and take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln. >>> finally a study says teaching abstinence in sex-ed classes can work. some convincing numbers. are you convinced? are you willing to take a look? call in, 1-877-tell-hln. >>> welcome back to "prime news" on hln taking your calls on this, horrific, a 12-year-old locked in a closet by fo a year by her own parents, let out to go to school but right back in the closet

tomorrow marks 20 years since nelson mandela was released from prison. millions watched him emerge karen allen has had rare access to the prison where he spent those final months. >> this is the villa in the prison where he spent his last year in custody. you can see that even haa swimming pool in the shadow of the mountains. by the time he reached here, it was clear that he was being prepared for bigger things on the outside. >> extraordinary to think that 20 years ago this was the nerve center of an attempt to liberate nelson mandela from prison. senior figures included bbc.co [unintelligible] in the last weeks of his incarceration he was secretly driven to cape town to hold talks to negotiate the terms of his release. >> on the 11th of february, 1990, nelson mandela was set free. he is now preparing to reflect on his past. his ex-wife has recreated the historic walk through the gates, joined by some of the heavyweights. 20,000 people are expected to mark this anniversary, knowing that despite the coming of democracy and the end of white minority rule,

nelson, thanks for joining us. trish, over to you. >> a quick break and then time warner beats the street and boosts its dividends. ceo jeff bewkes joins us in a cnbc exclusive interview to talk about the media giant's profit picture. >> plus the market call heading into this afternoon's trading session. you are watching cnbc, first in business worldwide. whwhwhwhwhwhh >> welcome back to "the call" with your daily realty check, i'm diana olick in washington. mortgage applications soared to their highest level in over a month, driven by rates hovering around 9%. purchase apps up 12%. homebuyers paid 2.7% in december, a bigger price cut than november and not quite as much as the 4.5% cut a year ago. zilo reports 20% of their listings had price reductions versus 32% aiary ago. more and more borrowers are paying their credit card debt before their mortgages. that according to trans union. the percentage of those crept on their credit cards rose to 6.3% up from 4.3% when the trend earning merged in 208. check back with

his inclination is to offer the nomination to nelson rockefeller. new york then, really was the empire state. at 45 electoral votes. it was the biggest states, biggest prize that way. and nelson rockefeller probably could've helped and carry into newark. the nelson rockefeller zito is such done that he does not want to take that number two spot. he turns them down. at this point, nixon makes a horrible choice. he selects henry cabot lodge, from the united states senate from massachusetts. then, the united states ambassador to the united nations is his running mate. it's kind of like a peace offering still to the eastern liberal or moderate establishment in the republican party and it is a horrendous choice. for one thing, having lost the senate seat in 1952, and to jack kennedy, he has demonstrated repeatedly he could not carry his own state in the general election. he was also terrible campaigner, unable to inspire crowds. it doesn't come across all that well on television. and he's lazy. he's just plain lazy. he will take naps in the afternoon. an

. >> 20 years since nelson mandela walked free fom jail as the man that steered his divided country away from its racist past. tomorrow the people from south africa will celebrate the momentous day. our correspondent there reported his release in 1990 has been back to south africa, where the man that freed nelson mandela asked if this was one of the biggest days of his life. >> one of them. i realized that after the announcement that i made, south africa would be changed forever. >> not to diminish what you decided in did, but to suggest that south africa was under intense pressure, internationally. there was a run on the financials from outside and inside. >> absolutely. we were caught up in a downward spiral of growing isolation. and of growing violence and terrorist methods. >> how much were you influenced by what had happened in europe? >> the collapse of the berlin wall played an important role in what i could do. if that did not happen, it would have been very difficult to unveil the south african communist party. and its military wing, which were financed and supplied with arms, e

his inclination is to offer the nomination to nelson rockefeller. then at new york really was the empire state with 45 electoral votes and a big estate and the biggest prize than nelson rockefeller could have helped him but that ego is such he does not want to take the number two slot. he turns them down. at this point* common nixon makes a horrible choice. he selects henry cabot lodge former senator from massachusetts, then the united states ambassador from the detonations to be his running mate it is like a peace offering with the moderate establishment wing of the party and a horrendous choice. for one thing, having lost to the senate seat in 19522 jack kennedy, henry cabot lodge has demonstrated there are a few that he cannot even carry his home state in the election. also a terrible campaigner and able to inspire crowds and does not come across well on television. and he is lazy. plain lazy. he will take naps in the afternoon. people are assigned to shepherd the campaign say you have to change -- we don't mind him taking naps but does he have t

for more than a quarter century, this was the only moving image of nelson mandela.is picture could not be published anywhere in south africa. his words could not be quoted. banish him from the public mind, the authorities reasoned, and you will bury what he might represent. faithful milantwa, now an educational publisher, was 4 years old when mandela went to prison. the very name was forbidden even at home. >> if you start talking about mandela in a home situation, mother would say, shh, be quiet, you will go to jail. >> reporter: yet from the riots that swept through the townships to the uprisings of the mid 1980s mandela became a larger than life symbol to the politicized young. to those who secretly joined the african national congress as a teenager. >> because of what the government did it looked as if they were talking about somebody who could overthrow the government within a day or minutes. that's why he became such a great person. i mean, they didn't know him. we said, wl, he must be some big stuff. >> reporter: mandela also provided the worldwide anti-apart

he plays nelson mandela? >> it's okay. think that's the academy ticking off a box. >> rose: the box of what? that we know... >> morgan freeman playing... >> rose: he's a good actor and nelson mandela is a famous person. >> noble character. >> rose: extraordinary person. >> so it's funny i haven't heard critics talking about that performance, i can't think of anyone who hated it. but it does seem like the kind of thing they would nominate but it doesn't make much of a splash anywhere else. >> rose: okay, best actress in a leading role, sandra bullock in "the blind side" helen mirren in "the last station" carey mulligan in "an education" and gabourey sidibe in "precious." meryl streep, finally, in "julie & julia." everybody's talking about meryl streep here. >> it's meryl streep's 16th nomination. if she wins it would be her third win but still not close to katharine hepburn who had four. i'm rooting for "julie & julia which would have been in my top ten. i was still hoping... >> rose: for best movie in >> for best movie. i

. >> ifill: but senator bill nelson of florida argued americans may not be able to get into space at all without help. >> if those commercial rockets don't work, then for the foreseeable future of the next decade or so, we're going to be reliant on the russians just to get to and from our space station. >> ifill: nelson said he will oppose the cuts. other senators whose states depend on the space industry can be expected to follow suit. for a closer look at what the president's budget might mean for nasa and the future of human space flight, we get two views: michael griffin was nasa administrator under president george w. bush. he is now director of the center for systems studies at the university of alabama at huntsville. and bretton alexander is president of the commercial space flight federation, a business group committed to developing private sector space travel. welcome to you both. mr. griffin, as we look at costs versus benefit as we do when we consider budgets, is ending human space flight, at least for the moment-- for the time being-- the way to go? >> not in my opinion.

senator ben nelson. >> thank you, mr.airman, and let me add my appreciation to you and your families for your distinguished service. i've long been an advocate for benchmarks or measures of progress, and i think we need to continue to do so objectively. so we can gauge our efforts in both afghanistan and pakistan. and i know this administration as well as our nato allies are committed to objective benchmarks for measurement, and we've done so with past strategies and all talked about this many time. most recently in december about both afghanistan and pakistan. during that hearing in december it was noted that measures are progress were being used and evaluated, and i thought at that time that those benchmarks would be forthcoming to our committee, but at least i have yet to see them, and it seems to me one of the most important times to inform the process is at the very onset of any change. and as this mission changes course, so obviously must the way in which we measure efforts, that will change as well. have comprehens

senator bill nelson, rather like ben nelson, in nebraska, was able to get into the health care bill anin that. most of those who would retain it would be from south florida. so medicare is, though, a powerful program here in florida. i wanted to get back to an earlier point that was made about -- drew was mentioning whether people write into his newspaper about the problems with medicare. we hear much less of that here in florida. probably not surprisingly people crilt sizing the entitlement programs. their criticisms are generally geared more toward spending on other programs. even though george will is fond of noting once you get past social security and medicare and medicaid and the defense budget, everything else is a surrounding error. >> los angeles. linda on the independent line. caller: thank you very much. i think our government needs to learn a few words -- a moritorium on illegal immigration. we still have little, if any, background checks. revoke. they need to revoke social security members of these [unintelligible] babies, because they are being misused. rescind all the sp

this is where the gangster babyface nelson was shot down and buried right in this town. >> wow!point! >> that's a little thing. >> and now a goat grazes over his grave. >> no, no, no, come on. have a look at this house. a big backyard. >> wow. >> too bad you didn't pause on that front picture. this is a very pretty house. >> it is. >> very balanced. this is called a arts and crafts style house. there weren't many built in the turn of the century. this is a new arts and crafts style house and people always pay extra. why? look at the trim on the windows, the simplicity, the balance of the room. people eat this stuff up. it's a beautiful house, light throughout. and remember, again, this is our high-priced house. >> that's right. >> it's $700,000, but worth every penny. >> and balance it out, des moines, iowa, $329,900. >> it's a clackboard home with a quick front. all the bells and whistles you like in a house. a half-acre backyard and nice and flat, beautiful trees. that's all your land. the master bedroom has a walk-in closet, dining room and that's the end! >> beautiful. and i

i would say that the nelson language still sent the -- set the federal government up to be the broker of insurance premium dollars that would be directed to insurance companies that were paying for abortions out of those premiums and to compel the american people, to fund something that is to them fundamentally immoral is an unjust thing for this congress to do, we did it inadvertently in the aftermath of roe v. wade in 1973. by 1976, we had implemented language that prevented federal dollars from funding abortions under either the hyde amendment or the mexico city policy but this language in the house allows some. the senate allows a lot more to go to abortions and i reflect back on my position, mr. speaker, this would have been, i believe in the 1980's or perhaps in the very, very early 1990's, my congressman came to my district and he -- we had a meeting, just a town hall meeting in the basement of the lutheran church, i remember the count of the chairs there, they were mostly full. in fact, all, i believe were likely full. 80 people in the basement of the church at a town hall mee

they made decisions with ben nelsons of nebraska. >> rose: well, those are very different decisions. >> i would say they have this which n common. it was about making practical decisions to get that done. what that missed was the outside context. a country incredibly distrustful of washington that would interpret those decisions as business as usual and which would be revolted. i really don't think you can underestimate the importance of what's happening in the country. >> rose: and i want you to talk to that but what is it that's happening in the country you cannot underestimate which is in some way given expression by the tea party. >> right. and beyond that. there are polls that show if you ask people "do you feel positive about the tea party, republicans or democrats," the tea party come out number one. more than the democrats and the republicans. and i've given talks out in t country and now minx the tea party and 20% of the audience gets up and applauds. >> rose: and what is that about? >> well, off country that is distrustful of washington and suddenly they felt washington was

and it was not privy to see senator nelson -- not pretty to see senator nelson get a special treatmenthimself a disservice back home. i think they thought that was game playing back home. if you really believe in it, if you thought reform is good, he should have been for. if he thought it was bad, he should have voted against it. what is this story? we now have established what eì+ are. we are now negotiating over the price. çi do not think that fully applies here, but it does give that appearance to people. i thought it became offensive. evenç senator nelson is saying, change the provision that i got through for nebraska, because i want all states to get one of% that i was given to nebraska. that is what we are going to have to do. -- to get 100% that i was given to nebraska. president obama. he has been strong and pushing us. she has gone to a joint session of congress. he has used the bully pulpit. he has prodded and pushed us. that is what the president can do. has the congress and week? -- been weak? even with maturities, it has been difficult. in my committee, for example, ther

. >>> a toast today foa smiling nelson mandela.elebrating the an varsity, two decades now of his release from prison, where he spent 27 years. his former wife winnie joined mandela, and other leaders of south africa's anti-apartheid movement. mandela is rarely seen in public these dames. he turns 92 this summer. >>> coming up, women take heart. simple things for health and life. heart a d by a completely blocked artery, another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a art attack caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming clots. ask your doctor about plavix. protection that helps save lives. people with stomach ulcers or other conditions that cause bleeding should not use plavix. taking plax alone or with some other medicines including aspirin may increase bleed

but i would like to see those records, and i think senator nelson blood, too -- senator nelson would,, you were a recipient of -- there are 78 high speed and so called high-speed and passenger rail grants you were a recipient i think amtrak will participate in over 70. i think it is somewhere in the 76 range project, right? of the 78 you are going to purchase of a and 76 of them according to our committee staff evaluation and we do have an evaluation of those i would like to be made part of the record with a full list we have evaluated. spry can't give you an exact number -- >> i'm just telling you the committee staff, the rail stuff -- we will submit that for the record. if you have a dispute that i can tell you it's under 76 out of 78. .. i think we should have the transparency and executive and administrative earmarks. and today i'm going to declare war on agencies who make determinations for rewarding greens behind closed doors, at least where elected officials, at least where elected officials. and i'm not picking on the obama administration. remember when we fail to pass an appr

ben nelson's so-called cornhusker kickback on medicaid in nebraska. lot of the things that have made this bill a lot harder -- gwen: public option, nowhere to be seen. >> public option nowhere to be seen. and so this has made it a lot easier for nancy pelosi to go to her caucus, which does not trust the senate on anything, at the moment, and say, look, you guys have already voted for this thing once. if there's any political damage, it's been done. we've got to carry this through to the finish line and convince the american people that we the democrats are capable of governing. >> and going back to that reconciliation point, the reconciliation bill, the second bill, will have all of those fixes you're talking about in it. that's the little vehicle for it. one or thing, the monday announcement did, it put the president's face on this bill. people haven't liked this process when congress has been in charge of it. and i was talking to a veteran aide on the hill who said we've seen professor obama in the seven-hour -- now we're going to have to see presid

john, i was listening to what you said about the ben nelson and the unions. to say that they dropped both, do you think that is fair? ben nelson gets to keep what he got, but everybody else gets it, too, and the unions get to keep what they got because it's up to 27,000. that almost -- i don't think roberts gibbs could have put it any better than you just put it by explaining it that way, john. do you think that's a fair way of explaining it? >> yeah, i do, actually. >> you didn't get rid of the ben nelson deal, john, you just gave the same deal to everyone else. and you didn't -- right, but -- >> and you're not taxing the cadillac plans of the unions. they still get -- they don't go up to 27,000 excludes the unions. so they both get to keep the benefits of the deal making, john. they didn't get rid of those deals. >> yes. but part of the objection, joe, to the deal making is it's special deals for an individual senator, like ben nelson like holding out and saying, if you want my vote, treat my state differently than other states. if you treat all the states

senator ben nelson. >> thank you, mr.man, and let me add my appreciation to you and your families for your distinguished service. i've long been an advocate for benchmarks or measures of progress, and i think we need to progress, and i think we need to continue to@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ b be forthcoming to our committee, but at least i have yet to see them, and it seems to me one of the most important times to inform the process is at the very onset of any change. and as this mission changes course, so obviously must the way in which we measure efforts, that will change as well. have comprehensive and final benchmarks or measures of progress been developed to reflect this new strategy? and if so, when will these be made to the committees? to the committee? secretary gates? >> i think they have, and i frankly thought that they had already been provide to the committee and i'll check on it after the hearing. >> okay. thank you. could you talk a little bit about some of the areas of measurement that would be in these measures of

so now it's not just ben nelson and mary landrieu, but every state is going to get this extra mon and everybody is asking, how aregy going -- are we going to pay for that? >> let me certainly say the concern about those provisions was that it was unfair, that nebraska got help in providing health coverage to more citizens and other states didn't, and that was the unfairness of that, was really what the objection was. megyn: but now that it's fair, how do you pay for it? >> well, and this bill will reduce the decifit, and as you know, states are struggling -- >> megyn: i don't hear an answer, how do you pay for it. >> as you know and if you looked at the president's language on this, too, is that they're going to pay for it in half by savings within government, which most americans want us to do, and the rest is paid for through individuals and physicals -- and businesses and wealthiest americans contributing to what is going to really benefit all americans, which is access, meaningful, ongoing health insurance coverage that you can count on. that's going to be true for every american

i think ben nelson in a way that he won't recover. it's over for ben, gentle ben.aska compromise or the nebraska kickback or whatever they call it. isn't it fascinating, people in the state saying, keep the money, we're offend by what you did, and we're going to run you o out of office. and mary landrieu getting emotional on the floor because she and these other moderates under extraordinary measure. >> that's so much what politics is, getting money for local projects, getting money for your people, but $100 million, and folks are saying, no. >> she was bragging it was actually $300 million. >> that's the amazing thing, to go back to your constituents and say, i got this money, and for people in these times say, we don't care about the money, we don't care about that, we're more concerned with the process and more concerned about a deal that got us there. >> we've been talking about conservatives for the past year, mary landrieu, trouble because she voted for the health care bill. ben nelson, trouble, because he voted for the health care bill. evan bayh, in trouble

reese nelson sitting it out after eye surgery. tyler honey cut closed the rebound down.at the buzzer. ucla takes the lead into the break. honeycutt spotting up outside the arc. knocking down the three-pointer. bruins win it. juan porter. outside the arc. hits the three-pointer. he had 16. then porter again making the steal. to kendrick longmeyer. oregon outscores them in the second half and wins it by 10. the full 30 minutes of highlights including all the action if a very busy saturday in college basketball. tune in later tonight after boxing for "the final score" presented by burger king. until then enjoy the second half. >> steve: welcome back to the "acura halftime report." we're back in berkeley. cal has a great guard and free-throw shooter in jerome randle. don maclean talks with randle about his time on the line. >> hey, jerome, take us through that free throw routine. >> first, i come up, come up to the line. make sure my feet are parallel and my right is always in front of my left. take a deep breath. let it out. kiss my tattoo. three dribbles. eyes on the rim.

. >> a former political activist and friend of nelson mandela, ramaphosa is still pushing for changeka, a company that owns the country's only coke bottler managed by blacks. >> we're changing from a horrible past to a promising and prosperous future. and coca-cola is part of the journey with us. >> part of the journey and part of society. here the global company is a local sponsor, supporting community events and small businesses by providing them with signs and refrigerators, with coke's name on them, of course. its return? brand loyalty. coke has a 90% share of the soda and water market, ensuring its logo is everywhere. as in other parts of the world, coke has managed to tap into what excites the locals, like soccer. >> welcome to coca-cola soccer zone. football on the coke side of life. >> it's committing hundreds of millions of dollars to sponsoring the world cup in 2010. >> it's probably half our budget at the moment i would imagine is spent on football. we certainly have used the event in every way we can. >> by plastering the world cup logo on billboards, bottles, and cans, t

what is blanche lincoln, nelson, evan bayh, russ feingold behind in the poll against tommy thompson? if i'm blanche lincoln i'm thinking about what ambassadorship -- >> it is over. moderate democrats get together and say we've had it >> sean: who? >> ones you were mentioning. and they say they are not going to do it and speak out, create a counterweight, independent force in america that could have some credibility. >> sean: if the president goes on national tv in the state of the union and says i'm going to be fiscally responsibility, last wednesday and today, introduces the biggest bun -- budget ever in america history with the biggest budget deficit in history. >> he said he was going to be fiscally responsible next year. >> next year it is over a trillion. >> they don't believe that you create economic growth in in country through the private sector. they believe you create economic growth through government spending. when it comes to washington, d.c. they are right lowest unemployment in the country? washington, d.c.. >> another probably is with the interest payments on the debt

automatic ford for many to oppose it for fiscal reasons and deny their state almost what senator nelsonpting to say. >> that is a different issue there. you know, seniors all to be treated differently in nebraska than anywhere else that's not right. the public is rightfully turned off by that what you've got in the stimulus bill is hundreds of billions of dollars of pork, intention and promises to stave off unemployment and grow jobs and it hasn't materialized. we've got a lot of work to do. it would behoove us all to not sit around and attacking instead we ought to get together to re some of the issues facing families in this country. >> greta: you outlined ways the stpeupl bill is being state in my home state of wisconsin someone who works in a casino was sent to a two day seminar so the staff could handle confrontations with customers. that doesn't create jobs. what's the rationalization for that? should we sort of -- >> unfortunately, this is emblemmatic of the type of spending in the bill that's what republicans said in the beginning. we need to focus the spending. focus our attent

and it was not privy to see senator nelson -- not pretty to see senator nelson get a special treatmentnk they thought that was game playing back home. if you really believe in it, if you thought reform is good, he should have been for. if he thought it was bad, he should have voted against it. what is this story? we now have established what eì+ are. we are now negotiating over the price. çi do not think that fully applies here, but it does give that appearance to people. i thought it became offensive. evenç senator nelson is saying, change the provision that i got through for nebraska, because i want all states to get one of% that i was given to nebraska. that is what we are going to have to do. -- to get 100% that i was given to nebraska. president obama. he has been strong and pushing us. she has gone to a joint session of congress. he has used the bully pulpit. he has prodded and pushed us. that is what the president can do. has the congress and week? -- been weak? even with maturities, it has been difficult. in my committee, for example, there are -- even with majorities in his

and also, thursday i think it's the anniversary of nelson mandela being released from thursday. >> it. >> read something in the paper this morning. ivan watson, manning our iran desk, we look forward to your reports next week. >> thank you. >> we want to tell you at least five people died in a huge explosion in a power plant under construction in connecticut. the huge blast rocked the countryside and could be heard and felt up to 20 miles away. residents described it as an earthquake. more on this story on 10:00 p.m. if you work for the federal government in washington, d.c., tomorrow you will have the day off because of record-breaking snow. you probably won't have time to relax because you'll be digging out. they have record snow in the region there. lots to talk about on that issue. also, the president putting together a bipartisan group to talk about health care. really putting the republicans at their word, taking them at their word and going to meet february 25th and talk about that as well as creating jobs. big weeks to come in washington. now it's time for some of your commen

the one thing they can't do this time is fall back on ben nelson and lieberman to kill it. you can't say you can't lose one democratic vote. you can. you can lose a couple, you can lose up to eight right now. so if that happens, if they're close enough that he can get it, it is going to be hard for them to tell liberals, we just didn't want to try. if you stick to 20, you're still 31 votes away so they have an excuse there. >> go back to your original point about this unspoken terror or spoken terror on the part of the staffers in the senatorial offices. can you narrow down what they're afraid of, be what they're terrified by? >> yeah, the lesson they took from massachusetts, number one, we can't be seen making deals. number two, we need to be seen as being bipartisan. it's what the summit is about. the one thing you can't say about the public option, this is not something the democrats were able to pass into the bill originally. is a bipartisan move. you're going back to the most controversial of the debates, delivering a left cross to the republicans. you're going to have

my curiosity is i didn't like it when big drugs met behind closed doors last june we had the ben nelsonthing behind closed doors. any way now we had transparency today. plan b, what do you think the president has in mind? >> nice six hours of transparency. the end of transparency. here's the challenge to the president, they clearly are willing to try to use reconciliation to pass a bill with 50 votes plus the vice president. >> greta: that sounds more like tough luck, i won the election and you're out of luck. >> here's where there is a plan b, i don't think they can get this done. how do they write a bill which gets 50 votes plus the vice president in the senate and 218 votes in the house? >> greta: the congressman who was just here has problems with the senate bill. >> that's my point this is really complicated. people don't realize how very different it is. >> greta: the two bills? >> the house and the senate and the way in which they deal with reality. and the difference kinds of approaches and the tensions. every member of the house is up for reelection. in the poll you were runnin

wish the president sounded that way three months ago rather than worshipping at the altar of ben nelson olympia snowe pip take it as a good sign. buried in the budget yesterday was the assumption of $150 million of savings, $150 billion of savings over the next ten years for health care reform. so the president's number crunchers still think it's alive. the people in new hampshire think it's alive. people like michele bachmann and whoever talks to her from the mother ship thinks it's alive. that's a good sign but doesn't mean we're that much closer to getting a deal today than yesterday. but if the president plows ahead with this and goes long or short or whatever he has to do here and gets over the goal line, i think we'll be better off. >> drilling down on that, though, you have been very vocal on the fact that health reform needs presidential leadership, presidential energy in order to pass. it also needs to be lent some of his presidential popularity, i think. how does it help? does it move legislators who are on the fence? does it create the sense among the leadership in either hou

controversial cornhusker kickback, millions in extra medicaid funding secured by nebraska senator ben nelsonelays taxes on expensive cadillac health insurance plans and it gives the federal government authority to limit excessive insurance premium hikes. >> there you go. >> important reform for this california mother. >> do i go without insurance? does my daughter go without insurance? what are we supposed to do? >> at thursday's meeting, the white house sees the president's plan as the opening bid for bipartisan talks. >> it incorporates democratic and republican ideas and it's a starting point for those discussions. >> and days ahead of the summit, the white house upped the ante, claiming republicans have not come up with a plan of their own. but republicans have declared the white house proposal dead on arrival, and called on the white house to start over. >> we've now had an opportunity to look at the president's summary of where he would like to go on health care and i would say putting a new name on a whole lot more spending is clearly not reform. >> it's time to scrap this bill, to ge

jay reports that, over the years, people really have tried to sell the brooklyn bridge, as well as nelson'solumn in trafalgar square in london. and in another cautionary tale, still unfolding, pigeons were both the investors and the investment. arlan galbraith-- who called himself the "pigeon king"-- convinced hundreds of american and canadian farmers there was good money to be made raising the birds for food. >> aaron humbert: and everybody we talked to said this guy was, he was on the up and up. nobody had a bad word to say about him anywhere that we could find. >> safer: so aaron and joline humbert, ohio farmers, signed up. >> arlan galbraith: i've had such tremendous demand for the live birds. >> safer: the pigeon king assured investors that pigeons would replace chickens in every pot in america, and the world. he'd sell you breeding stock and buy back the offspring. soon, barns across the midwest and canada were filled to the rafters with birds and high hopes. >> aaron humbert: he was building his herd, building the flock. >> joline humbert: he had to have so many hundreds of thousands

when the democratic leadership was in power to bribe nebraska senator nelson, they saw obama break hishe cut a special and unconstitutional deal with the unions, they saw him not just break his promise, they saw the most blatant and reprehensible manifestation of political chaos in modern memory. [applause] no, mr. president, the american people did not hear and see too little. they sought to much. here again, with all due respect, president obama fails to understand america. he said "with all the lobbying and horse-ñrtrading, the process left most americans wondering what's in it for me/" that is not all they're asking. they are asking what is in it for america. obamacare is bad care for america. [applause] now, when it comes to shifting responsibility for failure, however, no one has been a more frequent objector to obama's approached and president bush. it is wearing so thin that it is a regular jokes on late-night tv. i'm convinced that's history will judge president bush far more kindly. [applause] you will recall he pulled this from a severe and deepening recession after 9/11. he