don t like these ideas, what is your plan? right. economic inequality is something that the president s been talking about, like john said, the whole time he s been in public life. it s what he worked on when he was a community organizer back in chicago. so the speech today is the culmination of a lot of years of putting together some pretty big ideas, and it s important to note that it s not just a choice between the president and some land of perfection. it s the president versus, well, what are the republican ideas. when you look at health care, the thing that s important, there are problems with the rollout. there were problems with the website. but they were all problems that could be fixed. they re clearly getting fixed. the republicans have done the only thing they could do politically that would be helpful to democrats, which is support the position that american people don t support, which is repeal. american people want to fix it, not end it. i want to talk about my favor
adds a couple of republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the american people don t support, it isn t just bipartisanship, it s political cover. clearly, kiran, this is not going to be bridged here. but the president is moving forward, i m willing to put this out on the table, but i m not going to do this in a piecemeal fashion t will be comprehensive legislation, democrats get this thing done. we ll see how republicans respond. besides what you said that it is political cover. suzanne, thanks. breaking news, somali pirates captured a saudi tanker and crew of 14 off the horn of africa. they were taken over monday in the gulf of aden. joining us on the telephone is john harbor. thanks for being with us. can you tell us the circumstances surrounding this
republicans. the president is now saying i like these ideas, i m going to sign off on these ideas. republicans are saying, wait a minute, hang on here, this is not the approach that we are advocating here. we heard from minority whip eric cantor who s already spoken out saying if the president simply adds a couple of republican solutions to a trill dollar health care package that the american people don t support, it isn t bipartisanship, it is political cover. but the message, kiran, clearly from the president today is, let s get this thing done, and democrats, we need you on-board. so any word on the likelihood this will be another step in that direction, that this will happen? reporter: it s such a hard question, kiran. i mean obviously there are a lot of democrats looking at this, they re not particularly pleased with the president s version of this bill. there are still those who oppose abortion, who don t like some of the language, there are those who still think that this is
eric cantor in this statement, he said that, if the president simply adds a couple of republican solutions to a trill dollar health care package that the american people don t support, it isn t bipartisanship, it s political cover. the president, fred, will make it clear, however, he s not interested in starting all over and he s not even interested in doing things kind of in a piecemeal fashion in a smaller, plan b, if you will. he is going to be pushing forward once again comprehensive health care reform adding some of these republican proposals saying essentially why don t you get on-board? if the republicans aren t up for it, the audience that he s trying to go for are those democrats who say this is the final thing. suzanne, i remember house speaker nancy pelosi summarizing it this way if perhaps the plan is bipartisan because it does borrow some ideas from the gop, perhaps the vote won t be bipartisan. that s the main strategy of the white house, look, if you can t get