travel to arizona for fear of harassment, understandably so. and the newest star of the fashion world has emerged it s a giant rat from louisiana. the show starts right now. well two big stories in america today, both with big implications for how we as a country and as a government define capitalism in this country. and we re talking about both of them right now. first, the senate just minutes away from a second vote to open up the financial reform bill to a legitimate floor debate. will the white knights like bernie sanders be given the opportunity to improve legislation through a provision to break up the banks and stop the cops working for the crooks. we ve got our eyes and ears on capitol hill and we ll be talking to republican senator, jim bunning, live in the moments to come as to what the republican alternative plan may
president calling the summit, saw him go to republican caucus so, i suspect they re kind of looking at some of the numbers in the white house and trying to adjust to this. a lot more americans think the republican, ben, aren t doing enough to cooperate with president obama. it s been fairly steady back in april, 61%, now 67%. so it s gone up there. so, americans don t believe the republicans want to cooperate either. well, there s a fairly steady drugmaker ba drumbeat coming out of the white house, the bully pulpit, saying the media is largely with what the white house says. this is true. and i blame the republicans very much for it myself because they have not come up with any alternatives, any really meaningful alternatives for health care. i mean, this stuff about cutting off lawsuits and having people be able to sell insurance in the interstate. that s trivia. they probably should be coming up with their own alternative plan, and i think if they did that, if there were meaningf
attempt to compromise on health care reform? today president obama spoke to business leaders and said opponents are using politics to confuse voters about reform. in the wake of extraordinary measures we took to rescue the economy, it s been a political tactic to characterize any kind of reform as big government takeover. let s look at the truth. the truth is the opposite. we have not called for elimination of private insurance. we ve been extraordinarily careful not to, in any way, undermine the employer-based system. fighting out of the blue in the showdown, ryan grim, senior congressional correspondent for the huffington post. president of the research institute and author of the top ten myths of american health care which argues against government involvement in health care. sally, let s start with you. the white house put the plan up to see for the last couple of days. no alternative plan that s been
he wants war with iraq. he pushed and pushed and pushed and wanted to go to war with syria. name a country in the middle east he didn t want to go to war the. and now he wants war with iran. one of the issues he s particularly devout about is getting this nuclear deal with iran to just go away. so he can do what he wants to do, which is bomb. he wants to scrap it. he has said, i want to bomb. he is very, very skeptical about the iranian regime yeah, that s exactly the way. his alternative plan has been, he s written about it extensively, bomb. what we re seeing is a president going away from people who are giving him that moderating voice of reason, because he doesn t want to hear it anymore. he doesn t want to hear it on the iran nuclear deal, he doesn t want to hear it with his own defense against robert mueller. we saw that today with the resignation of john dowd. this is a pattern we are seeing. the president wants to surround himself with people pugnacious, dog ed
was saying, skepticism here at the white house as to whether or not they could make a deal. smoke signals could be out of the capitol. you saw heidi heitkamp and now they are putting pressure on other democrats. the white house press secretary has been tweeting with them saying get on board. but anderson, i just talk to a white house official in just the last few minutes about whether or not there might be the chance for some kind of alternative plan beyond this four-week cr that they have been talking about, whether a short-term cr could work. and this white house official