i frankly can't believe rahm emanu emanuel.that's just too grim, too ugly, i can't believe he did that, frankly. i find that very far-fetched. >> larry: mark, why do you think he's leaving congress? >> my gut says where there is smoke, there's fire and there's something to these allegations. i can be sure i don't believe it's about health care. and ben, i hope this isn't due to rahm emanuel. i have been a big critic of rahm emanuel from the beginning. i think he's a bull in a china shop. i question his politics, i question his motives, but i hope he wouldn't do something like this and i hope it's not true. >> i hope --. >> larry: go ahead, ben. >> we've had barney frank who is openly gay, who has had lots of gay stories to tell, why hasn't anyone harassed him? we had a very good ex-president, bill clinton, who had lots of sexual ventures. nobody forced him to quit. something weird is going on here that i don't quite follow. >> larry: we'll pick up with mark hill and more on this in a few minutes. new motrin pm. >> larry: mark h

. >> chris: what washington is really buzzing about this is future of white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, with the failure of health care reform and cap-and-trade so far, some democrats are calling for his head, but washington poet columnist dana build milbank blamed everyone else including the president, obama's first year fell apart in large part because he didn't follow his chief of staff's advice on crucial matters. arguably, rahm emanuel is the only person keeping obama from becoming jimmy carter and there was this about the president's, what was scenes unproductive friendship to china, jared, gibbs and axelrod went along as courtiers and rahm emanuel struggled to keep alive the health care bill, he didn't want in the first place, it seems they are throwing everyone including the president under the bus, the rahm emanuel camp is throwing everyone, including the president under the bus. >> that is not what you see when a presidency is viewed as successful but it is typical in washington when people think there is failure going on and things are not going well you see leaks li

brand and the rahm image. do think when you have these stories, it's not good for the white house for it to be playing out on politico. >> dana has to protect his source. and if that means you say it's not rahm and you figure out a way artfully to do it, he's going to do it. we had somebody on here tell us that knows rahm, and everybody in washington is about as tied in as you can be, saying that rahm was, quote, very promiscuous in his leaking. >> that's looked down upon in this white house. >> everybody in washington, d.c., that if you knew rahm, rahm was telling you, jim, i was there. i told him what to do. they didn't listen. >> and there's no doubt that there's a fair amount of that going on and that rahm talks to so many people in this city. like you cannot exaggerate how many people he talks to in a given day, whether it's reporters and all the different news organizations, members of congress, lindsey graham on the other side of the aisle. the guy's in constant contact. and he's like a nonending conver

you know, i heard rahm referring to letting people purchase across state lines. well, you know, there were bills on capitol hill to allow americans to purchase health insurance across state lines like we buy life insurance, like we buy car insurance. this massive government-run insurance exchange is not that. it's not a free market system, it's a government-run system and i think that's why it's being rejected by deice may have skwror tease of americans, even at this hour. >> brown: well, there are polls still a majority against it but there are some polls that suggest even in recent days since it passed some swing in support of it. >> well, you know, i expect that... i expect that that's the case. i mean, that, you know, there will be americans who see one or two small items in the bill that sound attractive to them. but i think as the country continues to digest this legislation the enormous tax increases that are contemplated here, the idea... again, i go back to... mandating that every american purchase government-approved health insurance whether they want i

in this case, it's rahm emanuel and sort of the intrigue around this idea that the chief of staff maynd the scenes, somehow, having some conflict on policy decisions regarding the president both on health care and on the khalid shaikh mohammed decision, among other things. no new news in this piece, but, boy, the intrigue is not going over well at the white house. >> no, it isn't. i mean, front page of "the washington post," and it's really of a piece of prior writing in "the washington post," a narrative that rahm emanuel is -- has been standing up to other forces in the white house, and if only they had listened to rahm. as you can imagine, that's probably made for some uncomfortable moments in senior staff meetings, for sure. >> it is. it's the internal strife that this creates. a very un-obama way of doing things. if you remember, during the campaign, we didn't see this. didn't see it in the obama campaign. that's why it's not going over with some. >> an interesting read, at the least. >>> we move on to the nation's oldest civil rights organization. it's undergoing a shake up. the

behind the scenes of the negotiations has been president obama's chief of staff, rahm emanuel.ging, high-octane emanuel is a former influential congressman from chicago, who is known as an arm twister on capitol hill, an enforcer with a reputation for getting things done. he was brought into the obama administration for moments just like this. ironically, when health care reform began encountering opposition last summer, rahm emanuel reportedly urged the president to scale back his ambitious plans. if you had your druthers, would you have said, "let's take smaller bites that... that are more palatable to the american people"? >> rahm emanuel: my druthers is whatever the president wants. >> we spend one and a half times more per person on health care. >> once president obama made the decision to go forward. >> couric: once president obama made the decision to go forward with a massive overhaul of health care, his chief of staff started selling the plan. according to senior white house advisors, health care reform would have died long ago had rahm emanuel not worked the phones an

and if it's true that rahm emmanuel had nothing to do with it, then rahm emmanuel probably ought to seek a public forum, a friendly forum and go on and just blast these stories and say that barack obama is the toughest, most decisive guy and his decisions have been the right decisions. and i'm there to serve. i mean because-- . >> lehrer: do you think -- >> i just think it's unhelpful. >> lehrer: do you agree, though, do you agree, michael, that somebody's got to do something like this, it can't go on like this. >> i agree with that suggestion. he is going to have to try to get in front of this. i think it's probably out of the question to have a change of chief in staff in the middle of a health care debate. i think that that wou ld be very destructive in itself. but it is hard just to pretend like it didn't happen. >> lehrer: the point that was made that john boehner made in ray's piece that the, you add up the charlie rangel situation and the david pat errson thing and now congressman massa resignation an you have chaos among democrats, do you see chaos. >> not necessarily. these thin

i think president obama has said he would send rahm emanuel to moscow.nd we all immediately endorsed that offer. >> i think a lot of democrats if they couldn't send rahm emanuel to baghdad, they'd be happy to send him to -- no, there is a schism in the democratic party now. barack obama united the democratic party, but on the left. he united them for a trillion dollars in spending, $500 billion in taxes and medicare. >> i'm trying to make a joke about rahm, and you come in with all these talks. >> but rahm emanuel is a pragmatic guy. he's the guy who last election was very successful for democrats moving him towards the middle there is a big division there. >> hats off to the obama team for doing something that no president has ever done. hats off to nancy pelosi who was a real big winner out of this thing. >> let's go back to the team. you mentioned the other night you were for howard dean. the white house, washington, secretary clinton. >> she is just scrubbing the date on that. but there is an opportunity for her. obama has united the democratic party

rahm 'em nume.'s a lot of bad blood there. >> i would suspect that there could be ramifications at home for president obama. how do you see it playing out domestically? >> it's a really tricky rope that he's walking right now. because he's already getting a lot of criticism from republicans who say that israel is our ally, he should be beating up on iran, why is he doing this? the apac lobby and a lot of the pro-israel lobby in washington and all around the country is not entirely sure, you know, that they trust president obama anyway. that he hasn't proven his metal to them. -- mettle to them. it is a risky strategy for him but in a lot of ways almost like he's shooting for the fences. he's got health care. >> and why not peace? >> and people are looking to see if he's tough enough. gwen: and relations tenuous with israel they moved forward with russia as the intention to sign on to a long promised arms treaty. nor president obama this means a chance to keep another promise moving toward a nuclear-

certainly republicans and sort of my friends would suggest the big bang theory, as rahm emanuel said that they would try to address very large issues in the next year proved to be daunting more than they anticipated. and i think some people in the country might argue that, you know, the focus -- there's not a lot of oxygen in washington. if it's used up on health care, how can you focus on jobs? >> i think he did. at some point he did miss the boat on this. this is a conversation that i had with him on the campaign trail in st. louis. take a look. >> folks are losing jobs. we've got to put people back to work. that's why i want to give a tax credit to every new company that creates a job here in the united states. we've got to create the kind of infrastructure and improvements and put people back to jobs, making sure that money is in people's pockets. that's the next important thing for the next president. >> that was obviously, something that you're part of that you heard, the rhetoric during the campaign. yet another thing that i heard is, i don't care about health care or anything

so let me just say in the house, i remember sitting down two or three years ago with rahm emanuel in chicago, and he's a tough vote counter. we were in his office back in irving park when he didn't have a sweet there at the white house on the west wing. and we went through. we got to about 190 democrats that he and i agreed with and rahm always having to be open over who would or would not vote for a comprehensive immigration reform. so, look, i'm confident that in the house there are -- again, i said it in the beginning. we need to do more to reach out to republicans but we also need to make sure that our base is strong. in the senate i worked with senator kennedy and senator mccain. congressman flake and gutierrez in the house and mccain and kennedy in the senate. we worked for two years to put a bipartisan proposal together. we can do it again. republicans do exist. we need to bring forward a bill that they see has an opportunity of winning. how can we ask republicans to risk their political capital if we in a leadership position have not set the stage for a victory on immigration

they want 9 sto i think the ying and yang on this debate all year has been nancy pelosi and rahm emanuel. and, you know, at the end of the day pelosi wants credit for accomplishing that. >> the morning after scott brown's election, i will mention dana bash again, she had hill sources, i had people in the administration and outside, we were reporting the morning after scott brown's victory rahm emanuel was calling around town saying can we do a scaled back bill? he wasn't pushing it but floating this idea of a weaker thing. and speaker pelosi was the chief person pushing it. even though it might look fluffy that her staff threw it out to the "new york times" and politico, it may be true. >> i wasn't arguing that it wasn't true, but there are many different versions of history. success has a thousand fathers. we were just talking about process, the majority vote. the media have led an absolute parade of republicans get on the air saying this is being shoved down the throat of the american people. for all the reconciliation t does take a majority vote in each chamber. >> may. this slaughter

and i think president obama has said that he would send rahm emanual to moscow. immediately endorsed that offer. so if you know, if president medvedev wants to take us up on it, we're ready. >> talk about product placement. i guess rahm's reputation for getting votes rounded up is going global. >>> finally a look behind the curtain. this week the white house posted this photo to their online album. it's president obama with chief speechwriter editing the health care speech he's about to give to a joint session of congress. take a look at the edits, you can see the president doesn't just read what's put in front of him. he may use the teleprompter, but he likes to have his words printed on it. >>> now for the number, house speaker nancy pelosi celebrates yet another milestone today. she was signing into law the new package of health care fixes with her colleagues, they brought in a birthday cake. that's george miller there, her fellow congressman from california. it turns out that nancy pelosi is 70 years old today. 70, that's nancy pelosi. pretty amazing, don't y

rahm emanuel has beaming smile throughout and looking over at the media. almost as it if to say we told you so, after many, many months after predictions that this would not happen. you can see that after some of the talk about internal strife here at the white house, talk about the president maybe not being able to deliver on this, they were sending the message very clearly, very directly, they think they delivered, wolf. >> because when they thought only within the past few weeks it was dead health care reform. there were articles galore appearing. this is a president who's weak. he can't deliver. he can't finish. he can't close the deal. there were a lot of articles critical of rahm emanuel saying he didn't have a good strategy, he was not necessarily up to the job, himself. they won. they won big today, ed. >> reporter: they did. and they're going to be very aggressive. you saw the president, himself, doing this, but in talking to some of his senior advisers this evens before his remarks, i was told he is now going to be hitting the road, in fact later

. >> yesterday when i spoke to rahm emanuel, he said there was progress. that's the word he used.e to another administration official who basically said like that. >> below the line in this case. >> very little progress. there's a tense relationship. >> absolutely. but wolf, there are two other relationships that the did go very much in a good direction for the administration this week. in fact one of the president's top advisers said he'd never seen in his long lifetime in international affairs such a turnaround in relation to the united states as he's seen in the last year and a half with pakistan and the russians. and with pakistan, as you know, you just had a -- >> we had the foreign minister of pakistan on yesterday. this relationship, if you remember, it was awful certainly before 9/11, but it's improved steadily. the last few months it's improved dramatically. i was told if the u.s. is going to capture bin laden any time soon -- and they believe that they're getting closer and closer -- it will be precisely because of this cooperation with the pakistanis. >> they certainly

so it wasn't rahm. which is we stood up for against those big bad insurance companies, and what bothers me is, it's just not true. if you want to talk about the morality. we're going to put 31, 32 million people on the roll. we can debate about that. if you want to say we're getting rid of existing conditions, fine, that's legitimate. that's debate that. if you want to talk about we're going to make it easier for small business to get health care insurance, that's legitimate, too. but because i watch is your show every day, i know the truth. >> you know it? >> no, i watch it every day at 4:00. and i know nobody's followed this more closely and that you. the special interests own the republican party. the special interests own the democratic party. and the special interests got away with murder in this health care reform bill, didn't they. >> stunning. this was the perfect health care bill for the uninsured most importantly. and i want to say that before. everything you're saying is absolutely true, joe.

perhaps rahm emanuel's status inside the white house changed dramatically after this win. >> the white house has been protected. poll lit co and new york times both had stories this morning describing most of the momentum behind this resurrection if you will to nancy pelosi not to emanuel he was the one in favor a much smaller approach along the lines of a linton model. he lost to congress in 1994. bill clinton went to leaders he said that will be approaching healthcare from the speaker's voint -- point of view. the white house is protective of him they are more than w willin and happy to that i can this victory toward the midterm elections. >>> as we are creeping toward the 214 number let's go to karl cameron. before i tossed you i may have to interrupt you and i don't like to interrupt. >> oh, yeah, right, brett. i am going to ask jackocationnally go to the side we are at 211-5-2 overpass sandaling as the healthcare debate winds down. for the last year it has been conducted in a nationalized campaign. ten's of millions of dollars in advertising. ten's of millions of dollars in direct

rahm emanuel for president obama. lindsey graham for john mccain and got to have a working relationship that's extended to a bunch of issues. could even result in an energy bill down the road. >> huh. >> all right. and the "r" word. how are both parties trying to spin the upcoming showdown over health care? the word being, of course, reconciliation? >> or rahm is through as dred likes to call it. a big vulnerability is having this portrayed as some sort of back-door trick or parliamentary sleight of hand. they are out there looking and saying republicans have used it in the past and rather than calling it reconciliation which nobody can say and nobody understand, they are saying simple majority, which sounds lemon scented and nobody can argue with. >> is it a good idea for them to push it through on simple reconciliation if only 35%, 40% of americans support this bill? >> i would say this is a big gamble. you are taking something unpopular on substance and unpopular on the procedure and doing it right before a tough e

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from rahm, we have this. -- from rome, we have this. >> silvio -- silvio berlusconi has turned the regional ballot into a test of popularity. he has again been on the attack in the final days of campaigning. it is the opposition and the judiciary heat accuses of trying to undermine him in office. -- he accuses of trying to undermine him in office. >> you must be aware our democracy is seriously ill. >> election campaigns have been fought on many bitter fronts, including tv studios, leaked a wiretap transcripts, and mr. berlusconi has allegedly tried to get some political talk shows off the air. ed a european union commissioner is running for the opposition against mr. berlusconi and the rhone area. she says mr. berlusconi and others are the only ones able to run in an election campaign. these are not democratic elections, she says. silvio berlusconi's party is in only two of the region's being contested. but they are being closely watched to see if support holds. their concerns about his personal scandals and his brushes with the courts. his supporters insist his only concern is with italy,

bottom line, rahm emanuel, robert gibbs, david axelrod, top i'd were on the other side of the room. in jeans, casually dressed. almost midnight when the president came out. rarely they'd be here working that late. smile, almost smirk, on rahm emanuel's face looking over at me and print reporters were there as if to say you guys didn't think we'd do this. if you think there was a bounce in the president's step after stories about internal strife and the like, his staff was beaming. >> seeker of the house came out. her work is going to get tougher and the president as well. not just with this but the lawmakers who are concerned, dan that, about what happened back home. i want you to listen to this. this is congressman ellie ingle. i talked to him in new york talking about what cost. >> it's always a fear. you always look at the political aspect of a vote. i think, you know, we're here to vote our conscience and vote our hearts and vote our districts and vote what's best. i think at least for me paramount is i need to do what i think is right. i think political considerations are impor

. >> the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel? >> excuse me? >> what did she call him? >> the funny thing about rahm, there were stories where she talked about his little bill, his pared down bill he wanted, as kiddie care. i asked her about that. she said, you know what, it wasn't really kiddie care that i called it, i called it the insuraneensy weensy spider. those of us who have kids have read that book to our children and i'm sure she has too. >> i can't recite it though because next i go one on one with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. can the republicans really repeal the new health care reform law, even if it might cut the deficit? at quicken loans, we're obsessed with finding a better way... for you to get a home loan. we've got a way for you to check the status of your loan online. securely, any time, anywhere. our e signature technology lets you sign... your documents from home, at your convenience. we've helped over three-quarters of a million families... refinance or purchase their home. it's how we've done things at quicken loans for 25 years now

certainly one of the more high-profile chicagoans to come in, and there's all kinds of speculation about rahmink we'll just have to see in coming weeks. >> let's look ahead for the first lady. because this has been a high-profile first lady. what does the white house look like, what does a washington look like now with a new social secretary, absent desiree rogers now? >> well, i think we will probably continue to see events, affairs of a similar kind. i think people are pretty happy with the kinds of events that desiree rogers and her office were putting on. it was probably just more the front and center role that desiree rogers was taking in all of this. i think what we will see in the future, the new social secretary will be julianna smoot, a veteran fund-raiser. i think we'll be seeing less of her than we did of desiree rogers. and that'll be i think the challenge-s that now that desiree rogers has made the job so high-profile everyone will be wanting to know so much more about julianna, we'll be watching her closely. it will probably be contingent on her to reel that back in. >> amy, lis

this moment. >> well, you know, the job of the chief of staff is to provide options and certainly rahmvided options for the president and gave him choices. >> rose: the kind of options he presented were... >> well, certainly... >> rose: let's look to the republicans, maybe there are places we can... >> there were variations on what you could do. but there were two things about it. one was there was no... no one was at the end of the day really persuaded that it would be that much easier to pass something smaller than to do the comprehensive plan. and secondly, we all knew-- and the president most of all-- that in order to achieve the major things that everyone agreed we need to achieve you needed to do in the a comprehensive way. health reform is like a rubik's cube and everything fits together. so, for example, if you don't have everyone in the system, if you don't cover everyone, you can't really deal with the problem of pre-existing conditions and getting people with pre-existing... ending the discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions because you need to spread the

he once rahm in that position because he trusts him. your reaction?uest: a good, dynamic chief of staff will probably always find himself in that position. rahm is properly one of the more dynamic people we have seen in that position. i think that he is where he belongs. he has a reputation for running a tight ship in the house. he belongs in the executive branch more than the legislative branch. he does know the process. whether he sees eye to eye with everyone operating inside the washingtowhite house is another. . . guest: that that led primarily to the meltdown in 2008. i don't think that begins to explain it, but that is the conventional wisdom. host: we talked about in the first hour, you had both senator bob corker and senator chris dodd working on a compromise. senator bob corker says that there were at the five-yard line and then senator chris dodd announced that he would work on his own way to get the todone. guest: this is the pattern for major legislation. things are contentious. there are lots of ball in the air. the different bills and a

i think i saw at least one of the inner circle every day, whether it was rahm or axelrod or gibbs, andt cloud nine but let's say it's cloud seven. >> they're walking on sunshine. >> exactly. and they're feeling pretty good about it. and i wonder how that carried over, frankly, into the -- cockiness is not the right word but they have a bounce in their step. gives them a renewed sense of going -- feeling better about dealing with netanyahu on israel. it gives them an injection of confidence to deal with other tough issues. >> that's good because anybody that knows barack obama knows one thing he's lacked his entire life is confidence. so there's a positive development, mike barnicle. >> chuck n one of the polls we showed, you can see the spike upward in the president's approval rating. and the data that is about three weeks ago when the chart starts moving up. it's almost tied to the point where the president decided to hit the road and finally take on the insurance companies. if you believe, as a lot of people do, that presidents need opponents in order to get something done, he found

. >> the president has said he would send rahm emanuel to moscow, and we all immediately endorsed that offer. >> reporter: and david, u.s. officials also say that one of the reasons negotiations took so long is that russian leaders thought that 1991 treaty, signed just months before the ussr dissome ved, nay thought it was negotiated from a point of weakness. they pushed for fewer inspections. still, the secretary of state said the treaty lives up to the russian proverb, "trust, but verify." >> we heard what else she said there, any response tonight from mr. emanuel on the proposal to send him to russia? >> reporter: no response. i think after all the press this month, that's the least people have been saying about him. >> thank you, jake. >>> there is news tonight from three international flash points. israeli tanks took positions today, following the deadliest day since israel pulled out of gaza. four palestinian gunmen were killed in the fighting which began after an army unit crossed the border to dismantle a mine. >>> a mystery off the coast of south korea tonight. one of their na

rahm emanuel was one of the key guys to make that deal happen. that's what i envision.hat do, everything change. and then if you look at the record you will seek the democratic lawmakers and republican said we got to have a special election. they were trying to force me to step aside and get paid or saying i should resign or threatened to impeach me and all of that. what they also were doing was trying to pass a bill they claimed that would allow the people to elect the next senator. i said that's what ought to happen. there are to be a special election, let's vote, but the people vote and pick the next and do. that was blown. had no intention of passing that because the democrats, my fellow democrats were afraid a republican might win. so when they saw that i wasn't going to quit all the pressure and the threats and the care of two years of getting paid as governor or six months of getting pay as governor, incapacity for a while, all of that, when i rejected all that, and i had an obligation constitutionally to protect illinois. and i had to pick a senator. the lisa ma

this is interesting, rahm emanuel has to go back to the gym to work out this deal. shouldn't it be nancy pelosi that works out the deal? >> they don't let her in the men's gym. >> i don't know if i believe this meeting or not. after all this debate, they come up with an executive order? no doubt they were thinking of all these options long before sunday but the main thing now today is can the republicans actually stop any part of this process because the senate continues the reconciliation today. that's when they go through all these amendments and vote them up or down and they have to debate it at least for 20 hours. but republicans are in a tough position, i think, here, because if they continue to try to stop this measure and it's only a situation they're trying to run out the game clock but it's still going to go through, how will the public see that? if they can, in the other case, actually make a difference in this and send it back to the house and have to do a whole another vote on this whole thing, maybe what they're doing is the right move if you're a repub

language. >> rahm says, i'll take that to my grave. >> did you see what the pt they said, though? rahm is missing part of his middle finger. >> we've been to award shows. >> you know what joe is saying right there? >> yeah. this is a big -- what i was really saying is i'm never wearing a straight tie again at an awards ceremony. i never am. >> you have gotten some grease in the past. >> i have. >> immelt. reamed me. >> let's check on markets today. as joe mentioned at the top, up 102. here is some fun market facts. we're at the highest level since september 2009. we're up 10 of 11 on the dow. we did that last july. we have not had ten straight since 1996. so what is going on in the past couple of weeks here does not happen every day. we should mention that the nasdaq, of all the indices off the lows of march, nasdaq is up 90%. so we'll talk with david bianco about what happens next. but this stealth rally, it's both of those things. it's been stealthy and it sure is a rally. we had $118 billion for the week, two-year note auction went pretty well. five-year is today. the dollar is

which means rahm emanuel is brawling the showers like the head of a prison gang. [ laughter ] "you guysote yet?" here's some good medical news. there's a new technique that lets doctors perform kidney transplants in 45 minutes. because when you're getting a kidney transplant, your main concern always, "how long is this going to take?" [ laughter ] "can you do it in less than an hour because i've got to watch a 'glee' repeat." [ laughter ] it's pretty crazy. i just read about a retirement home in mexico that caters exclusively to older prostitutes. [ laughter ] and you thought you hated visiting your grandmother. [ laughter ] it's rough over there. whenever the residents win bingo money, they have to pay 70% to a pimp. to a pimp. [ laughter ] listen to this. in california, a 9-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl helped deliver their baby brother when their mother unexpectedly went into labor. daughter said she says she was glad to be able to help and the son, he hasn't said much since the most horrifying day of his life. [ laughter ] here's a weird story. a man in switzerland escaped fr

there was a thing with rahm emanuel you'll at the white house, where we have to go healthcare light. you remember when the presidential election was going on and the point was made that barack obama had the most liberal voting record in the senate, more than teddy kennedy or hillary clinton, more liberal than john kerry. that's who we have in the white house, maybe we should -- >> neil: the come to jesus moment after brown is when he -- he won. >> he won because he's got a massing massive majority in the house and senate. take that away aforce this country back to the middle. >> neil: maybe the polls pick up or approval picks up for him. sentiment for this, the geragos away. and they're argument is people will see the good stuff up front. the bad stuff -- they run with it. >> from their point of view, the good stuff is also down the road. the coverage of people doesn't happen until 2013 or '14. >> the coverage of kids for preexisting conditions. >> notice for adults -- not for adults. that's three years away. the good things don't happen until the future. also, this is a president wh

and by the way, rahm was only pointing his finger. in fairness, i know you're going to get mad at -- i think you're a little rough on the republicans. for constantly repeating the mantra, the health care bill is 222 pages long. put yourself in their spot. just ask sayre rarasarah, that' write in the palm of your hand. i don't blame them. by the way, i know this is all supposed to be humorous, as i'm trying to be, but you know, i -- i do have to defend our administration a moment. especially the recovery act, which i've been put in charge of. republicans keep saying it hasn't created a single job. well, tell that to senator scott brown. by the way, speaking of scott, it's kind of ironic. the man who posed with his pants down, caught us with our pants off. i don't know how this works. we were a little slow, scott, picking up how good you were. but we sort of zeroed in now. you know, it's often said a picture is worth a thousand words. normally, i'd rather go with the words. but i -- i sum up tonight the journey barack and i have had sin

that, according to many reports, was sort of brain child of rahm emanuel and you have the nancy pelosiorning's reporting, to laugh won out, and to have saddled up to the president and said, no, no we'll go for the whole enchilada. >> the argument from democratic leaders has been to borrow from congresswoman slaughter's analogy of pregnancy, if you are already pregnant you may as well go ahead and get the upside, which is, vote for the legislation, if you all rad have votes that have been damaging to your members, if you already went this far, there is no sense in williaming out at the end and that won out -- winning out at the end and you have moderate democrats, who trend republican and they said this is our way out and we'll get a compromise and the answer came from the speaker, absolutely not, you'll walk the plank like everybody else. >> a dramatic, dramatic turn of events and what the ramifications for that will be is anybody's guess, chris, we know you will be watching it closely along with us. thank you very much for being with us on this sunday morning. >> and this broke late f

. >> i think president obama has said that he would send rahm emanuel to moscow and we all immediatelyndorsed that offer, so you know, if president medvedev wants to take us up on it, we're ready. >>> on a more serious subject, john mccain facing a very different kind of threat. sarah palin comes to the rescue today, campaigning for mccain, but can she help survive -- him survive a strong challenge from opponent, former congressman j.d. hayworth? he will be joining us this hour. and now what? that's what the economist is asking today. so is the white house. the president's campaign to build public support on health care and we will have rachel maddow, orrin hatch and karen tim lty on that. >>> the president and russian president medvedev signed off on this agreement in a phone call this morning. each side must reduce deployed warhea warheads. it is the most comprehensive arms treaty in two decades. >> the treaty also shows the world particularly states like iran and north korea that one of our top priorities is to strengthen the global nonproliferation regime and keep nuclear materials

i have to be honest with you, rahm emanuel could have written the same thing when they write their memoirsnted it to signal to gephardt. democrats had swiftly rejected bush's plan by early october. he was complaining about failures of bipartisanship, not only did not resip crate bush's gesture. i'll be honest, i read this and i'm going, this sounds like the obama relationship with john boehner and eric cantor in reverse where the white house sits there and says, they have done these things and boehner has not resip crated. >> let's give your viewers an understanding of the situation. in the aftermath of 911, we had a meeting of dick on air force one flying back from an event to honor american united air crews. >> the president was making an argument that we needed a stimulus. he laid out the options for the stimulus, laid his cards out on the table. the number one priority was the thing that will give the quickest jolt is the cut in the tax rate. we need other things. the president listened to gephardt and said, drop our number one priority and pick up the priority because i want to signal

tomorrow we will be at the white house with a rare interview with rahm emanuel.hat will air tomorrow in "the situation room." you can follow me at twitter at wolf blitzer cnn all one word. thanks for joining us. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." cnn's new show, "john king usa" starts now. >> thanks, wolf. another day in the capitol today. fresh signs of a deepening crisis in u.s. israeli relations. the democrats, some evidence of a democratic bounce we'll search for clues in that. they are demanding more changes. we'll go one on one with the country's money man, tim geithner. we'll ask him where are the jobs and discuss the china challenge. in our polls, a conservative revolt on the right and sarah palin has a health care hit list. in play by play, we'll breakdown some almost viral videos. no you can't is a republican refrain to an old obama tune. wait until you see the presidential push on haiti's helping hand. we begin as always with a few observations. >> this is a show about policy and politics, not cops and robbers, which means something is wrong whe

meetings at the capitol that went late into the evening yesterday, between white house chief of staff rahmmanuel and democratic leaders. talks centered additional subsidies to cover lower-income americans, more medicaid money for states and how to ensure taxpayer funds don't pay for abortions. by today, democratic leaders-- including henry waxman of california-- conceded they'll have to try to pass something without anti-abortion democrats. but they said it's still possible to round up 216 votes in the house, a majority, even with republicans solidly opposed. the plan calls for the house to adopt the bill that passed the senate last december. a second bill would include the changes sought by house democrats. it would need only a simple majority in the senate, under the so-called reconciliation process. one key part of the equation will be cost. democratic leaders want the final tab to come in under $950 billion over ten years. and senate republican leader mitch mcconnell urged democrats today to wait until the congressional budget office answers the cost question. >> democrat leaders are t

you recently wrote an open letter saying you would be a good white house chief of staff and rahm emanuel should maybe move along to the sidelines. you should take over. do you still feel like that? >> no. i'm not saying he should. i heard that they may be getting rid of somebody there. if they were, i'd be willing to come and do the job. i think president obama needs somebody in there getting him up at 5:00 in the morning. i'll do the job. i only want $1 a year and a could the in the white house. i'll get him pumped and ready to fight every day. get to capitol hill and get this stuff done. i mean this is -- what part of an overwhelming victory do the democrats not understand? the american people sent them there to do a job not to cower and be afraid of republicans or hold out their hand and sing. this is time now to get these things done for the people. we've got millions who are unemployed. we've got the second economic crash about to happen because we haven't put one rule in place since the last crash. and we have gained real unive e universal health care in this country. tease are job

and all of those officials like the white house chief of staff rahm emmanuel, for example, whose stock was going down, all of a sudden the stock could be going back up. >> funny what happens in washington, wolf. we look back on this, we have to look back to the vote for social security, you have to look back to the vote for medicare. no matter where you are on the political spectrum on this, this is how important this vote is. because it will change the way people behave in this country. all of us in our families and all of our children. so, you cannot understate the significance and the importance of this. one other thing that's so interesting to me is that this is a vote for more government in the congress. you say, kevin, it's just out of sync with the rest of the country. so look at this. barack obama proposes a plan that has more government involvement in your life at a time when trusting government is lower than it was during watergate. and they're passing this. they clearly are going to be political consequences. the debate will change and we'll have to see who's on the right si

>>> cbs' katie couric asked rahm emanuel to account for his foul mouth. >> why do you have such a foulidn't your mom ever wash your mouth out with soap? >> i read a piece in "time" magazine about how swearing is good for your mental health. >> do you swear in front of the president? >> i have cursed before but i do not curse in the oval office. >> ever? >> i probably have done it once in the time we've been here. >> does he curse? no comment. >> look, you know, i will go to the grave with my secrets. time for the big number. these past few weeks we saw the president take ownership of health care reform. according to a white house tally, how much direct pitches did president obama make to democratic house members? 92. no question that helped push the bill past the finish line. president obama made 92 direct appeals to wavering house democrats. tonight's very telling big number. >>> up next, we'll do a fact checking on the health care reform bill. what will it actually do? and what does it mean for the typical american? that's ahead. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. e your stres

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the president high-fived chief of staff rahm emanuel. mr. obama said he knew this was not an easy vote for a lot of politicians but he called it the right vote. >> tonight, at a time when the pundits said it was no longer possible, we rose above the weight of our politics. we proved that this government, a government of the people and by the people still works for the people. >> nbc's luke russert is our man on capitol hill covering all the developments. luke, when can we expect the president to actually sign the senate version that passed the house last night and when will the senate pick up the fixes they dealt with. >> all points say president obama will sign the senate bill tomorrow and it will be a triumphant ceremony from what we can expect. here is the ske. president obama will sign the bill. after that we're going to take up the fixes bill. the senate must pass the fixes bill as is, then president obama would sign the fixes bill. word of caution. while last night was a huge win for the democratic party, there's still a long way to go

and i think president obama has said that he would send rahm emanuel to moscow. and we all immediately endorsed that offer. so, you know, if president medvedev wants to take us up on it, we're ready. >> president obama and medvedev are expected to sign the treaty april 8th in prague. >>> in iraq tonight, we finally have results from the parliamentary elections, a vote that was plagued with charges of fraud. >> it's been nearly three weeks since the elections took place. only today were the final results announced. >> ayad allawi won these elections. now he is a shiite, but he is secular. he is pro american, and he is very anti-iran. the current government in iraq right now is a religious state that leans toward iran. >> ayad allawi has 91 seats, edging out current prime minister nuri al maliki. but there is likely to be upheaval ahead. >> neither came close to a majority and forming a coalition government could take months of drawn-out negotiations. maliki is not going down without a fight, however. he promised to challenge the outcome in court. >> a state depart