in march of 2010, with the house on the brink of passing the affordable care act, members of nancy pelosi s caucus rebelled. the question tonight is whether enough right-leaning democrats will go along when the votes are cast tomorrow afternoon. tonight it s down to the wire. conservative democrats, led by michigan s bart stupak, refused to vote for the bill without assurances that federal funds would not be used for abortions. you think the bill will pass right now, congressman? right now, today, no. house speaker pelosi joined forces with the white house and brokered a crucial last-minute compromise. president obama agreed to sign an executive order guaranteeing no federal funds would be used for abortion. with the help of the president, the speaker, we were
in march of 2010, with the house on the brink of passing the affordable care act, members of nancy pelosi s caucus rebelled. the question tonight is whether enough right-leaning democrats will go along when the votes are cast tomorrow afternoon. tonight it s down to the wire. conservative democrats, led by michigan s bart stupak, refused to vote for the bill without assurances that federal funds would not be used for abortions. you think the bill will pass right now, congressman? right now, today, no. house speaker pelosi joined forces with the white house and brokered a crucial last-minute compromise. president obama agreed to sign an executive order guaranteeing no federal funds would be used d for abortion. we come with an agreement to
white, particularly on these kinds of issues. what do you think of that. i think the generational stuff ends up having more sailiance than the racial ones do. reporter: yeah, i mean absolutely. what joe biden said about james eastland and tal mj, who were segregationist democrats. not talking about bipartisanship. he wasn t talking about bipartisanship because they were also democrats. at the time right-wing conservative democrats. but what he said resonated so differently with older people we spoke with here, white or black. and when you think about it six in ten democratic prime voters were black. and older black voters view those through a different lens. i just had a guy come up and explain why he likes joe biden and probably in his early 40s, midsgifrts. he said this is the way it is.
in march of 2010, with the house on the brink of passing the affordable care act, members of nancy pelosi s caucus rebelled. the question to want is whether or not right leading democrats will go along when the votes are cast tomorrow afternoon. tonight it is down to the wire. conservative democrats led by michigan s bart stupak refused to vote for the bill without assurances that federal funds would not be used for abortions. do you think the bill will pass right now, congressman? right now today? no. house speaker pelosi joined forces with the white house and brokered a crucial, last-minute compromise. an executive order guaranteeing no federal funds would be used
be okay, if you will. it s absolutely all right for democrats to get a little more radical in some aspects. i m old enough to remember when medicare for all was a radical concept, that everyone said was too far left, that would tear down the fabric of health care as we know it. now we ve got democrats from all over the spectrum talking about a universal health care, what could medicare for all look like? i think it is absolutely okay for democrats to be across the spectrum to be exploring all different types of issues. we are, in fact, the big 10 party, john. how far is too far, though, robby? i ve had conversations with democratic activists over the years where they feel like what they want to do is triangulate, sit in the middle, try to find that common ground. conservative democrats. how far do you think is too far? first of all, that s up for primary voters to decide. i think sometimes we forget that in these house races and the