xbox congressman's tupac, >> you baby-killing mother-[bleep]! i hope you die!" -- congressman stupak, you baby killing mother bl--, i hope you die. >> words have paula. they are received differently by people in an emotional state. we have to take responsibility for words that are said that we do not reject. >> the president bgins travelling throughout the country to sell the benefits of the legislation. his first stop is i wacity, where he first unveiled his reform plan in 2007. >> today osama bin laden is threatening to kill captured americans if the u.s. executes any terror detainee's. he makes the threat in a new audio tape that airs today. he mentions the suspected 9/11 mastermind, lead shaikh mohammed. he says if the u.s. decides to execute, or other detainee's, his terror network will kill american soldiers. many u.s. soldiers are being held. he was captured by a terrorist group last june. robert gates has approved new rules making it harder to discharge gay people from the military. the guidelines go into effect immediately. they apply to cases already o

this mollified tupac had he voted for it. -- qualified stupak -- mollified stupak. >> many say that thexecutive order does not change anything. is that true? >> there is some merit to that. i think that bart stupak felt that he may had to -- may have had to cut some sort of deal. shell is not clear exactly what is and -- so it is not clear exactly what is and what is not going to happen. >> let's talk about the bill, not the politics, but the content. six months after being enacted, no insurance company can drop someone if they get sick. no insurance company can limit the amount of coverage to get in a lifetime. children can stay under their parents' plan. they are 26 years old. >> that is right. those are significant changes. the question is whether it will raise health care costs for everybody else. if insurance companies have to cover everybody, that they cannot deny people they considered low risk, will that end up with higher fees? >> aipac kidneys to go to the senate. -- a packet needs to go to the senate. will that change anything? >> that will be a lot of the land until or if ch

i'm like what's wrong, mom and she said i have a bain tupac amaruor.but my dad said i would be fine. i wanted to go ahead and help find a cure for brain tumors. >> reporter: what he is going through is a lot. in march of last year, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor which sits on his optic nerve. any type of surgery would almost certainly result in blindness. it does not affect his day to day life save for the fact that most 1-year-olds don't have to worry about their own mortality. >> when we told him thated a brain tumor, he asked me, point blank, daddy, why did got give this to me. you thought to myself for i split second, i said god gave you this brain tumor because he knows you are going to beat it and you are going to make a difference. >> reporter: justin is making adifference by shooting hoops, 40,000 hoops. the number of people in the united states diagnosed with a brain tumor each year. he also s his own web site which tracks his progress. it is called justin's quest.com. >> i just want to go help other people and whoever gets di

and they solved that on both sides whether people respect bart tupac after this a separate issue. but politically, they solved it. and to be, it should be reminded that nancy pelosi made a lot of compromises. the public option was something they really cared about. >> lehrer: she through that away. >> the senate bill, they really did do what it takes to get things passed. >> lehrer: all right, david, mark, thank you both very much. >> thank you >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day: the u.s. and russia agreed to sharp cuts in their nuclear stockpiles; iraqi prime minister al-maliki vowed to challenge election results that put his secular challenger ahead by two seats in parliament; and the obama administration unveiled new initiatives to help homeowners at risk of foreclosure. the newshour is always online. kwame holman, in our newsroom, previews what's there. kwame. >> holman: on "newshour plus," our science and technology series, "wired" magazine's mark mccluskey has the latest on sprint's 4-g network. gwen ifill dissects the rhetoric behind the health care reform

it goes on to say bart tupac seceded -- succeeded in tight coverage of abortion. that is some of the expected were going on today. it is about healthcare. it is about art is to pack being a part of capita -- it is about the artist tupac being a part of that. what is going on specifically with him and think like him on abortion? guest: we are seeing a replay of what happened in november. he succeeded in inserting some tough curbs on what participate in the exchanges. he wants a blanket ban on taxpayer funding for abortion. in december, at the senate came up with its own abortion restrictions. it is more of a compromise they are trying to insert the original house and which back into the compromise. he has made some headway. >> is there a separate vote involved in this now? >> our understanding is he is trying to enable this group to introduce a concurrent resolution, a joint resolution, that would enable them to put the abortion restrictions in the senate bill. these are normally used to correct grafting areas and normal areas. this is unusual to use this on such a

vote against the bill of they don't get a guarantee some time down the line and then there is less tupac pro-life members that say anything that does not meet the standards they set out in the original house version will cost them their votes. there is some ways to go. >> four people who don't know what is the cbo and water they breaching four? >> for the cbo to score the congressional budget office but nonpartisan budget scorekeeper student whether the bill is paid for and if it affects the deficit. >> the headline reads the majority it hunts for the final but what is happening behind the scenes? >>guest: there is a very muscular effort to figure out where members are. at this point* in the week and this happens before any big photo lot of members will continue to tell leadership write-up until the deadline they are undecided so there is a very aggressive effort to 10 members down to figure out where they are also to round of the 216 votes they need for that matter milan for passage thate0c holds on to the yes votes then flipping those that voted no on the original house passage. >>host

if she and folks like her, people who voted in favor of this tupac amendment, if those folks stars they will vote in favor of the bill, you will see many of these other members coming around. bart gordon, he is retiring. a couple of members have announced they are retiring. folks that voted against the bill the first time are likely to come over the second time. freshmen are key to this issue. scott murphy, first elected in a special lection in march, likely to be a key vote on this, already has signaled he is likely to vote for the bill. he has had a couple of conversations with the president. it will be a big boost to other freshmen. people like john adler, betsy markey. these people have not said how they will vote at the end. i think that we can expect a lot of pressure on them to get the democrats to 216. host: that you for being with us, we appreciate your time. caller: thanks a lot. host: "the washington times" has a piece of news that is expected to come today, " congressional budget office feels crushed of health care requests. as the legislative gatekeepers, the analysts scori