more competitive with the rest of the world in growing american jobs here at home and frankly, expanding manufacturing if we lower that, but also that the american middle class desperately needs and wants a tax break, and i think the more that we can do with that, so this is something that i think we're going to be continuing to work on and we'll have more on that later. >> reporter: how much credit will the president take for the outcome of this health care bill? >> i'm iffing to refer you to the last eight people. let's see where we go from here. >> reporter: quick follow-up, is the white house as confident as they were earl whier in the week and president still as confident as he was earlier in the week that this health care bill will pass? >> i would suggest to you my answer that i said to kristen is, that we are confident that we have done everything, and it is now up to voters. the reason the president's called for a vote and respectfully obviously the