senate, but it didn t pass the senate. so people are going, wait a minute, you said you had the votes and you don t and you said you could do this, but you re not. what s really going on here? and i think that s caused a lack of trust. another thing, david, it s interesting, though, the president has taken a lot of political heat. he s seen his poll numbers drop for supporting things that progressives and liberals are in favor of. things like the health care reform and the bailout. isn t he between a rock and a hard place because of this? because some of the things you want him to go further with he s losing support for doing. well, i don t think that progressives and liberals are for were for the bank bailout and i don t think they were for the health care bill as it was constructed. well, let me clarify about the about the bailout. there were a lot of of economists like paul krugman and others who say he didn t do enough, it should have been bigger, the stimulus should ha
martial. so based on what we talked to with some of the families, they want to hear, not only how he planned this, but sort of what his motivations were. we may not get those answers in this hearing, john. chris lawrence watching it for us in ft. hood, texas, today. chris, thanks. less than a month left before the midterm elections and president obama is trying to fire up his own party now. but how much trouble could the democrats be in this year? especially if their base is not as fired up? well, we re going to speak to the syndicated columnist and the founder of a progressive blog about why they feel that in many cases the president let them down. 32 minutes past the hour. [ male announcer ] the next big thing from lexus is not a car.
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santiago or something like that, they would have to go back in the mine if they want to continue to provide for their family. that would have to be a really tough decision. it will be a tough decision. and some of them won t be able to handle that. some of them may be able to go back underground and then, i m sure, a majority of them may not want to. and they may have pressure from their family members to not go under too because you ve got to realize the emotions they put their loved ones through. so they re going to get pressure from them, don t go, don t go. well, in your experience here in the united states, miners who have been involved in accidents, did they want to go back into the mine? do they have personal feelings about it? or succumb to family pressure? you know, i ve seen both, it s a mixed bag out there. i ve seen miners go through such trauma that they won t go back underground. i saw it happen at the jim walters explosion, we saw it at upper big branch, you know,
anticipation building here. reporter: well, john, we have been here for seven weeks now watching this rescue operation unfold. and i have never seen things moving as fast as they are now. look over my shoulder there where you can see the lights. and that is where the rescue, where the extraction point is going to be. and things, as you say, everything is a go. the steel encasing is in place, the cement platform, we re told the cement has dried. and then we saw video of one of those test runs of the phoenix capsule, a capsule that is going to haul these men back to the surface. and that was dropped down, right down to the depth of almost 2,000 feet. and you can see they ve attached the camera on it as it went down that shaft. it s going to be a tight fit, but you can bet as each miner comes up that shaft, it s going to be the ride of their lives. what s left to do? what are they waiting for before they send that capsule down there, i guess, with a paramedic and another official in i