you heard austan goolsbee on the show saying just the opposite, the white house believes the financial regulation reform will actually set up a consumer protection agency and a high-risk commission that will basically oversee these banks and make sure they re not too big to fail. make sure they don t get into the same pickle we saw almost two years ago. and so i think the battle lines are drawn. but what s sort of going on behind the scenes at the west wing, the white house feels the turning point in the health care reform effort was when the insurance companies started raising rates. yeah. reporter: it was an unpopular boogie man for the president to go after. now, they see the republicans looking at least like they re defending wall street. white house realizes wall street about as unpopular maybe as the media right now and they re more than happy to pick that fight and show the president standing up against wall street. the republicans, again, looking like they re standing up fo
seats in november. bill: do you concur, frank? well, i ll go back to what he said about a bump. that will be a rally effect. we ve seen them historically, the president does something or something happens to the country, they get a bump. the reason i say that, bill, i think a lot of americans have already factored this health care reform effort into their thinking, he s at 50% job approval and gallop number as of today i think 60% on both sides did. bill: to what. in the disapproval in the mid 40 s. bill: it s close. 3% margin error shall the country is divided. i m not sure he ll get a bump. a lot of people health care reform is going to pass. bill: i m trying to measure what the anger level is and you know that the talk radio guys, primarily republican conservative guys, they re going to go wild this week. cable, a lot of anti-obama stuff on cable. there will be cheerleading, but and i hate to say this, but it s
neil: it was one of those unusual moments in a series of unusual moments, we call this heath care palooza, nancy pelosi walking arm and arm with her democratic colleagues, i would say most because this next fellow was not among them. even though he is supporting the health care reform effort, democrat from massachusetts, congressman, why weren t you with us? no reason. i had other things to do at the time. neil: i don t want to make a bigger deal, but doing this arm and arm thing, we would like you to come? i tend not to be one of those that like the theater of politics. i ve declined most of those things over the years. neil: was your office asked? i don t know. even if they were, i would probably ignore it. neil: so you called it
entertainment. we start tonight on capitol hill. i m dana bash on capitol hill, where in the senate democrats will be trying to finalize their latest attempt to address job loss in this country. jobs is the most politically potent issue as far as democrats are concerned. but behind the scenes the big focus still will be on health care. and what the house speaker calls a heavy lift to find enough votes to pass health care in the house in two weeks and finally send something to the president s desk. i m ed henry at the white house. and this week the president will be on the road again. on monday in philadelphia pushing health care reform. on wednesday he ll be in st. louis right in the middle of the country, again, trying to build momentum for his health care reform effort. the bottom line is the president s going overseas to indonesia and australia in the middle of the month, and right now white house aides say their deadline is to try to get this done before the president leaves th
we start tonight on capitol hill. i m dana bash on capitol hill, where in the senate democrats will be trying to finalize their latest attempt to address job loss in this country. jobs is the most politically potent issue as far as democrats are concerned. but behind the scenes the big focus still will be on health care. and what the house speaker calls a heavy lift to find enough votes to pass health care in the house in two weeks and finally send something to the president s desk. i m ed henry at the white house. and this week the president will be on the road again. on monday in philadelphia pushing health care reform. on wednesday he ll be in st. louis right in the middle of the country, again, trying to build momentum for his health care reform effort. the bottom line is the president s going overseas to indonesia and australia in the middle of the month, and right now white house aides say their deadline is to try to get this done before the president leaves the country. i