sticking to. i think there8 another map. let s dig down in to the map. do we have the different rit ration it rations? but the game but the game was always that you could change throughout i got new information and i changed i got new information. we are so had the right map first. nate cohn after you that s so wrong. after you picked my map and steve edged closer to me and toure wholesale adopted my map. no no. now trying to take credit. nate how smart do you feel today, nate? as i said beforehand, i think that people that look at the deserve too much credit here. states in the election could have been done by any fifth grader who knows how to calculate. a 4-year-old. a fourth grader i don t know. but, the pollsters nailed it. accurate as they have been in the past despite the reasons to doubt whether they could do so. steve, i want to note before
it s making them feel good. i think there s a distinction here between interest and ideologs. clearly, the agenda of the republican party is going to help their pockets just in the most vision of taxation. that is clear. there s a certain amount of self-interest. the coke brothers believe in what they believe in. chevron, they don t have fixed beliefs. they just want what s good for chevron. what we have seen is them dominating over interest. but we should be clear, this is just the first it ration of it. the norms are going change. it s not just going to end where it is now. if i could say, we are sitting here now on nbc, the media companies have a big stake in this, too. they are making a lot of money on the ads.
that editorial in the new york times in november 2008 also decided they needed the bridge loan. what you have is romney trying to go after both ends of that formulation. not easy to pull that off. one of the things that s still an open question about this it ration of the romney campaign is whether or not they acknowledge previous statements by the candidate that seem to contradict current statements or whether ta pretend those older things went away. on the bin laden thing, do they wrangle at all with the fact that mr. romney was asked would you overrule the leadership in pakistan or go behind their back and he said absolutely not. i wouldn t do that. that would be a horrible mistake. do they wrangle with that at all or hope it s lost? they wrangle with it a little bit because one of the things romney said at the time when he was going after barack obama as hillary clinton was is he said we shouldn t say those things
available, and this does that. of course, it was all a question of what role the churches were willing to play. they didn t want to be the ones to put money towards birth control, but liberal catholics were willing to say the federal government has a right to do what it does in these cases. they control health policy. there they go. here s tim kaine, one of the many democrats caught in the middle of this. he s running in a tight race in virginia for the united states senate. he pointed to some of the problems in that rule, but now he supports the president s latest it ration of it. let s listen to governor kaine. my only concern was that a church or a church affiliated-institution not be required to do something or purchase a coverage that violated religious doctrine.รง that concern has been conclusively solved by this compromise. now u.s. senator bob casey of pennsylvania who was strongly
poker game. the president said i m in the middle of a high stakes poker game right now, harris. harris: no doubt. either optimism or fantasy on his part. we have to see what really happens next week. ed, thank you very much. we want to get more on this from bret baier the anchor of special report. he was on the air as it was breaking. hi, harris. harris: what is in this boehner bill that republicans like and don t like because 22 voted against it. sure. they like the balance budget amendment added to this new boehner bill, the third it ration of it. they don t like the fact that it doesn t cut deep enough, according to some of them. and the one holes volted against it, largely, wanted to stick with the first version, which was cut, cap, and balance, which passed the house. and essentially was tabled in the senate. so, despite the fact that they lost those numbers, speaker boehner this is a big win for him because he is now in the game and these negotiations as they go on as e