the tea party who gave speaker boehner a fit and can mitch mcconnell deliver the republican votes, to of have some sort of a bipartisan compromise, with harry reid, the next couple of days, because, let s not forget, even if they forge that they then have to they can the legislation and go back over to the house, whereas we can see, john boehner is having all kinds of problems with his caucus and you can see a situation where mitch mcconnell and harry reid, pass a deal the next couple of days and then it has to go to the house and is highly unlikely a deal like that would get many house conservative votes and you have to see john boehner go to nancy pelosi the democratic leader, and maybe deliver a small number of house republican votes, and get a lot of house democratic votes, to push it through, and then get it to the president s desk. and, gives you an idea how far away we are. to really getting it done. martha: not a lot of working days between now and then, either. reporter: and
specifically, this morning? that is a good question, because, frankly, the white house is saying they don t really care about influencing what is going on in the house because they believe the boehner bill, even if it gets the votes, to get through the chamber, is immediately dead on arrival in the senate, and, that is why you see the senate majority leader, harry reid saying a few moments ago, he ll move ahead with his legislation, rather than waiting around for the house legislation, and, now move ahead later today with his legislation. his version of the debt bill, with tweets and we ll have to take a close look. what are those modifications, and will that bring along some senate republicans that could give this a little bit of momentum? i think the bottom line for the president, he s heard criticism as you talked about, maybe he has been out there too much and that it has not had an impact. and the white house laughs, because on one hand, critics say he has been out there too muc
mcconnell deliver the republican votes, to of have some sort of a bipartisan compromise, with harry reid, the next couple of days, because, let s not forget, even if they forge that they then have to they can the legislation and go back over to the house, whereas we can see, john boehner is having all kinds of problems with his caucus and you can see a situation where mitch mcconnell and harry reid, pass a deal the next couple of days and then it has to go to the house and is highly unlikely a deal like that would get many house conservative votes and you have to see john boehner go to nancy pelosi the democratic leader, and maybe deliver a small number of house republican votes, and get a lot of house democratic votes, to push it through, and then get it to the president s desk. and, gives you an idea how far away we are. to really getting it done. martha: not a lot of working days between now and then, either. reporter: and that tells you the house and senate will likely work throu
house is saying they don t really care about influencing what is going on in the house because they believe the boehner bill, even if it gets the votes, to get through the chamber, is immediately dead on arrival in the senate, and, that is why you see the senate majority leader, harry reid saying a few moments ago, he ll move ahead with his legislation, rather than waiting around for the house legislation, and, now move ahead later today with his legislation. his version of the debt bill, with tweets and we ll have to take a close look. what are those modifications, and will that bring along some senate republicans that could give this a little bit of momentum? i think the bottom line for the president, he s heard criticism as you talked about, maybe he has been out there too much and that it has not had an impact. and the white house laughs, because on one hand, critics say he has been out there too much and divides the parties further and other critics saying he is invisible and has
undecideds is definitely in the mid 20s or so. it would be a little hard to believe they were that far away. i mean, when they bring a piece of legislation to the floor the idea that you sort of roll the vote sometime in the hours leading up to it and do horse-trading and cajoling and so on and if the number is up in the 40s, that is a real problem and the 20s is within striking distance. bill: you have known john boehner 20 years-plus. reporter: yes. covered the first race in southwest ohio. bill: there s a lot on the line for him. does he pull it out? reporter: one thing i ve noticed about john boehner over his career, that he has nine lives and i ve seen him come back from the absolute brink a few times and the first race when i covered him at the college, in 1990, he was down against two other candidates, and rallied to win. and one of his aides described to me he is like captain kirk, you remember, in star trek