things began to unravel big time when house democrats led by the house democratic leader split from the white house, split from senate democrats, and started to say that they don t like some of the things that were in this bill. things that they said hurt consumers. they were for the healthy, like rolling back some wall street reforms. and also campaign finance laws being changed, lifting caps that led wealthy donors to give even more money than they do now. so because of that, it was not clear whether the votes were going to be there. and at the end of the day, you saw the white house cleef of staff come here to capitol hill, try to convince house democrats that this is the best that they can do, that this actually big picture sets democratic priorities before republicans take over in congress.
new set. yes. i was hoping there would be drywalls and ladders and paint splat in the background but it looks totally gorgeous and incredible. well, there s a lot of activity here and there are a ton of people working extremely hard to make it look gorgeous and incredible. do you have construction boots yes, i have carharts under the desk. that s what people want it hear. there is an interesting agenda but the interesting cleef between bell being a realist and a visionary. with tough like keystone he will be forced to take a position that will anger progressives. if there is any kind of grand bargain, that won t make him friend either. yeah, on keystone, the perfect example of when activist do their job right and organizers do their job right, they basically insure that the
she drank alcohol but did not seem disheveled. according to her friend, kelly price, she was dancing and she was laughing, price said. houston was in town for the grammy party of her long-time mentor, legendary music producer clive davis. houston s funeral will be held in newark, new jersey later this week. joining me tonight is dr. denny karise, cleef clinical officer at the phoenix house. so sad, isn t it? it s very sad. it s all too often we see big stars struggle with drug addiction. what is it? is it the pressure? is it the visibility? is it the money? is it not knowing how to handle the fame? to many of those things. i think one of the things is we could answer that, we d know what to do and better how to help. i think that celebrities have more pressure in many ways. they re less likely for people to confront them about their behavior or missed appointments and things like that, but i think it s an equal opportunity
but strengthening the american middle class, health care is part of that. one of cleef concerns that s been expressed, is that tonight s speech won t be so much as a state of the union as much as it will be a campaign kickoff. the president tomorrow, three days, five day, all of them battleground states. what do you make of that? reporter: this is the president s vision of how to move this country forward in a durable way to help all americans. it s his policies that he think will best move the country forward. nancy-ann, thank you so much. appreciate your time. thank you. republican presidential candidate mitt romney released criticism against president obama in what he called a state of the union prebuttal.
always get something new out of these and we certainly did last night. you won t see another one of these for another two weeks. so, we got quite a treat last night. we ll break down what we saw in that showdown, which was over national security and foreign policy. and these candidates, yes, they re all in the same party. it is clear, though, they are not on the same page. you see who will join me, our foreign affairs correspondent, she is jill dougherty. always good to have her. and deputy political director paul steinhauser. newt gingrich may have hurt himself last night. we ll start with a look at how far apart the candidates are on the issues of afghanistan, pakistan, homeland security and jill is breaking that down for us in this report. with eight republicans on stage, president barack obama got a few knicks. . if you love what president obama has done to our economy, you ll love what he has done to the national security. the candidates had the knives out for each