he took office and started to have to deal with it. political answer and process answer. political answer is more important than anything. what have been covering since the day obamacare passed seven years ago and political fallout and more importantly political promise amongst republicans we re going to repeal obamacare. congressman israel watching it over and over. more than 60 times house republicans voted to repeal obamacare knowing it didn t really matter because obama was in the white house and wasn t going to sign it, never mind the senate. now he s not in the white house and they have a republican senate and republican in the white house all of whom promised over and over again to do this. that s the political reason they felt they had to tackle this
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on
yesterday, he was breaking it down into small pieces and saying, you know what? there aren t insurance companies didn t they raise your premiums out in california? let s talk about that. if you go back to let s just pick the date that the corn husker kickback was agreed, to it was in the papers on december 20th. if you look at the polls that were taken in the week preceding that deal, which was sort of the worst of all of the deals, the most highly publicized of these deals. polls at that point showed that people didn t d. not favor it by 15 points, 17 points. you know, respectable, mainstream polls, sort of across the board. it s the policy. they think it s the process. they are answering it with a process answer. it doesn t change the policy. bret: it is taking a lot of oxygen out of the debate on whatever here in washington. and it likely will next week, too. be sure to log on to special report home page. get more on all the stories we talk about here as well as web exclusiv
yesterday, he was breaking it down into small pieces and saying, you know what? there aren t insurance companies didn t they raise your premiums out in california? let s talk about that. if you go back to let s just pick the date that the corn husker kickback was agreed, to it was in the papers on december 20th. if you look at the polls that were taken in the week preceding that deal, which was sort of the worst of all of the deals, the most highly publicized of these deals. polls at that point showed that people didn t d. not favor it by 15 points, 17 points. you know, respectable, mainstream polls, sort of across the board. it s the policy. they think it s the process. they are answering it with a process answer. it doesn t change the policy. bret: it is taking a lot of oxygen out of the debate on whatever here in washington. and it likely will next week, too. be sure to log on to special report home page. get more on all the stories we talk about here as well as web exclusiv