gloating during this segment tonight. i m so shocked i can t even gloat. howard dean, the former governor of vermont and former head of the dnc many thanks for your time. thank you. today nancy pelosi expressed confidence about the way forward for health care reform in the house but another democrat bart stupak says he s ready to kill reform once and for all if the language about abortion doesn t change. and later, karl rove s revisionist history. rove answers the big question, would we have gone to war in iraq if we knew saddam had no weapons of mass destruction?
corrected. is the timetable of march 18th realistic for at least getting the house to pass the senate bill? i think this timetable is perhaps more realistic than any of the other time tables that have been set in the recent past. i think that members of the democratic caucus have gone through a grueling debate and, you know, many of us have fought very hard is it starting out from wanting single payor to public option to national health exchanges, but we realize i think most of us that we ve got to move this bill. i think the president is correct. the american people deserve comprehensive, universal health care reform, and that if we don t get it done now, perhaps it will be another maybe 15, 20 years before it can even be attempted again. so i think people are pretty much ready to move and get something done. when this two-stage process
clearly said he does not oppose reconciliation for the house senate changes to the senate bill. which contradicts key republican talking points. white house press secretary robert gibbs said today that the house and senate were on schedule to get something done on health care by march 18th. the house passing the senate version he explained would be the first part of that. let s bring in congresswoman maxine waters of california s 35th district. thanks very much for your time tonight, congresswoman. you re welcome. delighted to be here with you. we know what the process has to be. the house in an unprecedented move has to pass the senate bill without changing anything in it. that bill gets signed into law and immediately you start working on a reconciliation bill to pass both the house and the senate that will correct many of the deficiencies or other issues in the senate bill that the house wants corrected and now including some senators want
but they feel like he s leading them off a cliff on this i may be wrong, but i think the democrats in the house will not vote for this senate bill and they will not believe this idea, let s make this law and we ll fix it later. greta: did president obama say anything today that you think okay, i can live with that portion? so you moving closer on something. what he did today was pouring one clean glass of water in a polluted lake. he took a few ideas and said we ll try these in a limited form. but kept his 2700 pages of nonsense. greta: did he give you anything? i think i m afraid something that sounded close to arrogance. that he knows he s right. he s going ahead. i don t think he did himself any favors today. but we re very close to the final showdown on this health care. i think it is gonna be in the next week or two a lot depends on the people. if they have lost interest in this, it could pass the house.
congress with nothing more than a simple majority. looks like he lost his place on the teleprompter there for a second. he did but one word that was not in there at all on the prompter was reconciliation, right? right. that s what it s called. nuclear option, that wouldn t go well for the president s cause nor did it for president bush s cause when he brought it up again to the judges. and this would cause john mccain to stand up, even though it s a republican president, i m not for reconciliation but i think there s one thing that as the president ticked through all the times that republicans used reconciliation and as bill clinton used reconciliation, he also should say that each one of those issues he had some bipartisan support. republicans got democrats to vote for them from welfare to the bush tax cuts, to everything else. and democrats got democrats got republicans to vote. so they were both on board with that. i believe unless something titanic happens, there will not b