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insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit... guide and find out... how you could start saving. >>> welcome back to the big picture. the top two democratic leaders in the house appear to be at odds over a public option. >> and that has been a topic of today's face-off. yesterday house speaker nancy pelosi said the public option for health care reform is not an option. >> there is no way i can pass a bill in the house of representatives without a public option. unless somebody comes up with a better idea. that's how we're going forth. >> then today house majority leader sten yy hoyer had this t say. i'm for a public option but i'm also for passing a bill. the public option is a necessary, useful and very important aspect of this but we'll have to see because there are many other important aspects of the bill as well. marjorie, let's start with you. democrats who think that the message from the democratic party has completely gone off the rails when the house speaker and her top deputy with a different message on successive days, h

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insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit...nd medicare guide and find out... >>> we're live at the john f. kennedy library where ted kennedy is lying in repose and this sunday on "meet the press" a look at the kennedy and beyond with senator john kerry, kathleen kennedy townsend, doris goodwin and bob shrum here with us today with a special look at your 45 years of appearances on "meet the press" so join david gregory on sunday. bob, you, of course, are going to be on that program with doris kearns goodwin and john kerry and kathleen kennedy townsend. as a historian, the importance of ted kennedy, is it too early to assess his role in the senate and how you compare that with what his brothers achieved in their short lives? >> well, of course, there will be a deeper and stronger impression as years go by and historians have access to the records but right now i think there would be a consensus among historians already that ted kennedy was one of the most important senators in the country's history and, of course, as a member of

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insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit... and medicare guide and find out... >>> it was a privilege to be a friend, a real friend of one of the giants in the senate. and it's just a privilege, a privilege to serve along side him. the word "great man" he was a great man is thrown around a lot these days but in ted kennedy's case it was really true. >> known as the lion of the senate, ted kennedy was well respected on both sides of the aisle. spent nearly five decades defending the poor and politically disadvantaged and worked for compromises that could attract republican votes. he worked to improve health care, education, civil rights, and labor laws. he cast more than 15,000 votes. he wrote 2500 bills, 300 of those became laws. he worked on the religious freedom, restoration act of 1993. he was the senate's leading voice on civil rights including the 1982 voting rights act extension. in 1996 and again in 2007 he was the lead senate sponsor of legislation increasing the minimum wage. joining me now on the phone, new hampshire

insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit...... how you could start saving. >>> welcome back to msnbc live. a frightening preidiction about the spread of swine flu this fall. officials say 30 to 50% could be affected and 30,000 to 90,000 could die from the h1n1 virus. first vaccine not available until october but kathleen sebelius insists they are working as fast as possible. >> we are working with manufacturers and working with five of them right now. that's good news. we have a lot of people working on this. we asked them to fill in and finish based on what we know so far we think is the right dosage but we need to make sure the vaccine is effective before we roll it into people's arms. >> dr. nancy is back. we couldn't get enough of her and she will stay with us through the rest of our show and her own show. part of me feels good my government is preparing for a worst case scenario but part of me asks is this a scare tactic? >> it's not a scare tactic. these are the hard numbers. we have the best computer models we know how t

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insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit... and medicare guide and find out... how you could start saving. >>> welcome back.. pretty big sell-off on wall street today. here are the widely held stocks and how they are trading. it's virtually reflective of the broader market. and the banks are certainly leading things lower. with the likes of citi, b of a, jpmorgan, wells, goldman down between 3% and 5%. take another look at the markets now as we continue our coverage with the dow down 183, with eric marinack, chief investment officer at victory capital along with charles ortel, managing director at newport value partners. gentlemen, it's good to have you on the program. >> thanks for having me on. >> talk about what this sell-off today means if anything.g. is it just a reflection of the market getting too high too fast or is this something that is more indicative of what's to come second half of the year? what do you think? eric? >> well, maria, i think this is just a little bit of a pullback. we've had a very powerful surge sin

insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit... and medicare guide and find out... how you could start saving. >>> welcome back to "hardball." time for "the politics fix." despite heaps of criticism lately on how he's handling health care reform, it appears president obama has done a few things right. today we got a report of a huge jump few things right. he got a report of huge swrump? home sales, 7 prs, the largest monthly increase in ten years. analysts say the tax breaks for first-time home buyers have a lot to do with that rebound. ben bernanke said the u.s. economy is on the verge of a recovery. we've got the cash for clunkers program which has been extremely popular with the consumers. nearly 500,000 cars sold in just a couple of weeks. jean cummings from "politico" and phil let me go to you. nobody thought you could push cars this fast off the lot. home sales in the 250,000 to 325,000 level which has nothing to do with the san francisco market, i assume. the market is up almost to 10,000 now. what's going on? is this all ju