shomanship for the cameras. they are back and forth and he they will be behind closed doors very soon. laura: bret, what about the mcconnell plan that everyone gasped at when they first heard about it i actually didn t gasp because i thought is he a smart guy and there is something to this the mcconnell fail safe if all else fails where you would have three votes to raise the debt ceiling. some linkage and some triggers add later on. if the end could that be what emerges from all of this chaos of the last week the plan that everybody pretty much said they thought was a nonstarter? it could be. it really could be. it could be an element of the boehner plan, the mcconnell plan, and the reid plan that comes together in some frankenstein that goes to the house and then is voted on because basically what the mcconnell plan allowed republicans to do a no vote. essentially disprove a debt limit increase down the road. and that was easier for people to get through.
punching. he waited until boehner took his best shots, how many of them there were, and now is he going to try to counter punch. he waited very long to do. this he will could have had his own plan, his own bill in the senate any point along the way here. he took a few shots, now is he going to try to take his best shot. laura: is ed henry with us at the white house? yes. laura: are the white house watching this? are we going to get any file photos of the family watching this vote? i mean, is it that dramatic there or are they off doing something else? not that dramatic. they are keeping an eye on it but they are not watching minute by minute per se because they realize that this is just the prelude to the real battle that s going to happen this weekend. they are essentially the boehner bill will now be used by senate majority leader harry reid as the underlying vehicle legislatively to make dramatic differences between the reid and boehner bill. to use james analogy and