Colleges are making tuition free for Native students Will more students graduate? wfae.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfae.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
i ve got to tell you, with last week s grand senate compromise on health care all but dead, president obama sits down with the 60 members of the senate s democratic caucus today, hoping to save the reform effort. brianna keilar is here and joins us live now. brianna, time, clearly is short. how did we end up back at square one. reporter: well, basically the senate democrats had come to a tentative agreement on this idea, tony, of instead of having that controversial public option, that government-run insurance plan, what they were thinking of moving forward with was called a medicare buy-in. they were going to allow people ages 55 to 64, because now the cutoff is 65 at this point, they were going to allow people of that age group to buy into medicare. this was seen as something that could be palatable to liberals if they were giving up that public option. well, senator joe lieberman of connecticut, an independent who normally sides with democrats on domestic issues, says he