stages. he had difficulty selling his republican conference on it. and it seems around 5:00 p.m. tonight he was going to muster votes needed but it became clear he didn t have them. he needed 216 votes to secure passage. if he eeked by. it s presumed to be dead on arriveal in the senate. and democrats are waiting in the wings to see what happens over on the house side. if the boehner plan is passed they might pass it and send it on to the president. that seems unlikely. or fit gets passed they might vote it down, then proceed with a plan as crafted by senate majority leader harry reid. and the people who oppose it tonight, so called tea party want a balanced budget amendment. and they were not satisfied to have that sort of a separate bill. the boehner bill has capped on the spending so that seems to
there because you can pick up democrats because of the changed bill? yes. there are a lot of republicans and i think a lot of the reason speaker boehner was able to get people to support this bill that didn t want to support sit because they understand the economy really tanks because of a default and republicans take the brunt that have, goitsing to be tougher in 2012. number two, obama will ont economy, soley. and three, they might lose their leverage. my theory is that i know people think after august 2 their leverage increases because then everybody sort of got to go and say fine, what do you want to get out of this hole. i think at that point they go look. we re going to go into a corner. everybody thinks they re winning and nobody is. greta: and this discussion should be political. i mean should be about the substance, i agree. but people do put politics does matter. who is plitly losing on this
and a price based on the car s history. free, at thousands of reputable dealers. just say, show me the carfax. greta: okay we re in need of help. we re out of money. tuesday we re out of credit. now that is only a few days from now. and then, our nation s credit rating, another thing could take a nosedive z now, the house vote on speaker boehner s debt ceiling plan was called off, what is the next step? all right, david. now what? won t we like to know? looks like they re going to try again to tweak the bill to make it more palatable to conservative that s are holding out. the more inflexible conservatives of the bunch. greta: how do you tweak? if they re so hung up on the balanced budget amendment how is that a tweak? that is a huge difference. figure of speech. you know?
greta: okay we re in need of help. we re out of money. tuesday we re out of credit. now that is only a few days from now. and then, our nation s credit rating, another thing could take a nosedive z now, the house vote on speaker boehner s debt ceiling plan was called off, what is the next step? all right, david. now what? won t we like to know? looks like they re going to try again to tweak the bill to make it more palatable to conservative that s are holding out. the more inflexible conservatives of the bunch. greta: how do you tweak? if they re so hung up on the balanced budget amendment how is that a tweak? that is a huge difference. figure of speech. you know? it s huge. there are other things you
because no one has problem as lone anymore? yes. there are many layers including security and this is important to be stable and reliable and we feel, in the reamin. greta: there is more of our interview with ehudbarak including israel s growing fear of iran. we re going to show you that interview and more in the coming days. and coming up, house republicans abandon plans for a vote tonight. it seems house leaders are having trouble getting the vote. but they re expected to meet at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. what can we expect? and senator john mccain is here, he says speaker boehner may have votes he needs to pass the debt plan in the house but there is a catch. what it it?