for talk is over. the republicans are promising they will use every tool they have left to kill the bill. how the president plans to get this done almost a year after it began. we are learning the air-traffic controller that let his son direct flights at jfk s airport last month let his daughter do the same thing a day earlier. and critics say linda mcmahon, the wife of prowrestling boss is trying to buy her way into the u.s. senate. first the last stand. president obama saying it s time to vote on health care reform and he is ready to move forward with or without the other side. every idea has been put on the table. every argument has been made. everything there is to say about health care has been said. and just about everybody has said it. so now is the time to make a decision. our suzanne malveaux is at the white house this morning. the president said he wants an up or down vote within a few weeks. he suggested ways that that could happen as well. how does he pl
bush for the federal election commission. a democratic senator held him up over a voting rights issue. which senator? senator obama. reporter: that s right. then-senator barack obama. so it was not because i didn t have the qualifications. it was because he disagreed with me on a substantive issue. reporter: now the president has a different perspective. well-qualified public servants shouldn t be held hostage to the pet project or grudges of a few individual senators. reporter: take a closer look at obama s first-year success with his nominees before the senate. it looks very similar to his predecess predecessor s. in 2009 the senate confirmed 353 of 569 major obama nominations. compared with 360 out of 513 during bush s first year. senate historian don richie calls the hold a time-honored tradition. it makes them powerful individually and it allows them to stop things that they feel
vote on iraq war corporate bailout. i think what they were asking everyone to do including themselves was to self-assess. your segment is great, don. too bad more people in the u.s. can t be as civil to one another as these retiring congressmen. agreed. how much money are they leaving with? many came to congress with nothing but nothing and now they re multimillionaires. they broke the government. and robbed the bank. very good dialogue. thank you, very good comments. i m don lemon at cnn headquarters in atlanta. see you back here 10:00 p.m. eastern. a jack cafferty file special report on broken government begins right now. good evening. this country of ours is beginning to circle the drain. almost nine out of ten americans think our government s broken. 75% think that our government officials are dishonest. that s great. the question is, whether it can be turned around before it s too late. here s a little bit of a wish list. politicians on both sides of the aisle stop p
obligations, mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps could perform in the next two months, november and december. the forecast said it would have zero effect on merrill lynch s bottom line. bank of america saw the document but did not show us they did any analysis to make up for merrill commissions. on the contrary, the evidence we have suggests that bank of america pulled a number out of thin air. far from being consistent with the actual experience of october or what they knew about the third quarter, the guess, wistfully assumed that the markets for collateralized debt obligation and credit default swaps would be significantly better in november and december. it was assumed that merrill lynch would almost break even for november. then the attorneys at bank of america went to work. they did not question the financial information they were given. . e financial information they were given. they begin with the assumption additional shareholder disclosure was necessary