situation then. >> congressman tom mcclintock. a republican who has been supporting this bill. thank you for joining us from capitol hill. >> thanks for having me. >> you saw in the lower right hand corner of the screen. wall street, the markets, they closed at the top of the hour. reaction to the late-breaking news. to find out what wall street thinks of the abrupt change of course. msnbc's ali velshi standing by. >> a slight down arrow on the dow ght now. the context of this is about midday. the dow was 100 points higher than it closed yesterday. what happened is around 1:00, 1:30 when it looked like there were some problems, meetings being canceled. press conferences canceled, the dow lost half its gain. it was 50 points higher. in the last little while as we learned the vote is not likely to take place today, the dow gave all its gains up. we didn't lose a lot. on wednesday the dow had its