injected in this bill and now it s in the hands. not going to pass. laura: shell vehicle, right? laura, the problem is that the balanced budget is not it s timing. there has never been a balanced budget amendment that could pass any congress when the republicans controlled congress they couldn t pass it. laura: i didn t say it was probable. i m talking about the tactical advantage and who is actually looking like they want structural form. we know alan and lanny, do we not that this president would never be talking about this issue of whether to raise the debt ceiling or not or whether to cut spending or not. he wouldn t be talking about this if it weren t for these republicans who held firm. do you disagree with that? i disagree with what the country is seeing in washington. not seeing what you are saying. they are seeing tactics at the expense of the public interest. and i think there is disgust with party leadership on both sides here, laura. and for them to bring up a b
a.m. senate vote? this is scheduled last night when everything was falling apart. we couldn t see a clear path for it at all. senator reid laid a 2.2 trillion. some quibble about the math. he said it is not a proposal that hardly any republicans, maybe four at best would sign on to. look, i will set a key test vote for sunday morning at 1:00 a.m.. he s hoping between now and 1:00 a.m. he can cobble together a deal and we hope he does away with the 1:00 a.m. vote. i will be seriously sleepp deprived. it is hard for people to understand. this is senator reid s bill. he is the top democrats in the senate. they hold the majority. what is the ld up. do they not agree on the bill in the hold up is the filibuster in the senate and
night. we are told a test vote on that reid bill could happen 1:00 eastern. that s what we will watch out for to see if that happens. earlier today the senate leader sending mixed messages on where they all plan. it is getting interesting. running around and getting exercise and playing out doors will help the children score points on the on line world. rick has the story. harris apparently glowing up in a high-tech world is not good for kids. they are not getting as much exercise as they used to and packog pounds . three in 10 kids are overweight. ina part, too many are hooked to thes or computers or video games. it is pretty alarming you
it is one fifth of one penny of what we spend each year is what we were going to say. greta: sitting on the house floor and you are voting no and speaker wants you you to vote yes on it. like bad vibes, you sort of want to get out the door? not really. greta: did you tell him yourself you were going to vote no on it. i offer solutions and ideas how can we get certain aspects in place so it might be a better bill and be perfect and we had those conversations but it didn t end up in the posture where i needed it or the other 2 members h who voted no. greta: moved over the senate and kill there and now the senate will vote on harry reid s bill and something will come back to you that certainly isn t going to be as appealing as even speaker boehner s bill. what do you think is going to happen? what i hope happens is that we step back to the one thing that america is behind. that is cut cap and balance.
gives them the green light nothing is going to happen. and they get the vibes and perhaps the direct word, i don t know, from the republican leader don t do anything. we all know in the senate we can t pass anything without a bipartisan agreement. we all know the senate is the only way out of this mess. you have seen the huge difficulties in the house, their inability to even tie their own shoes and so it is up to the senate and that means it is up to senator mcconnell to either negotiate himself or give permission to others to negotiate so that we can finally come to a bipartisan agreement. the only game in town is the modified reid bill. it is a bill that has elements proprosed by republicans including senator mcconnell. it is a bill that has elements