now, time and time again americans have said we can deal with the lies that president obama tells us because we believe in hi heart he has the best interest for the american people. every president is going it lie to you. every politician is going to lie to you. the question is, which lies can you live with. lz, i think that is sad that we re sitting here having this debate. at least you are willing to admit that the president lied to the american people. every president does. he lied to the american people to sell them his signature plan and he lied to them about saying it was personal. this is not about read my lips, no new taxes. you can keep your plan if you like your plan. you sold the american people on theish you ve this is important, this is a trust issue, something incredibly important to seniors and we re not going to mess with
voluntary with regard to the insurance companies. but the key difference and the key reason why democrats were scrambling to come up with a plan of their own and frankly the reason why the president did what he did yesterday was because what this plan would also do is say that any health policy, whether it is people who had them before or in the future, that doesn t comply with the basic benefit minimum standards of the new obama care law, that would be okay, too. so that s the reason why as you said democrats argue that this would completely undermine the whole obama care system, the whole paradigm, because the premise is that people have to move out of the old plans, many of them who are flimsy, and don t have a lot of coverage, and that gets a lot of new people particularly young healthy people into the system. okay, i know it s so very complicated, but the basic premise is republicans are trying to keep people from applying for obama care and the less people who apply for obama c
action to give the president s plan a chance. six democratic senators have signed on to mary landrieu s legislation which would require insurance companies to keep offering existing permanently, not just a year. is he going far enough and are you going to continue to push for a laeegislative fix? the president s guidance was welcome and received. we may still have to fashion legislation. reporter: here in the house there will be democratic legislation offered later today. we don t have the details yet but that is the whole reason why there was such a time crunch for the president making the announcement he did yesterday, because in the house, the dynamic is different. they feel that they have to offer something because later today, as you mentioned, carol, there is going to be a republican vote on the house floor on legislation democrats say would completely gut obama care so politically they want to have an alternative for democrats to vote for, so they
string of serious allegations, bizarre behavior and crude comments. the mayor refusing to go and councilors are fed up, talking about stripping the mayor of his power. we are watching this meeting, we ll let you no he what comkno out of the meeting later. live to the house floor in a few hours republicans and democrats in the house will vote on a republican plan that could end up gutting obama care. today s vote comes on the heels of the president s vow to help people keep the health care plan they have, if they like it. chief congressional correspondent dana bash live on capitol hill to talk about the bill. good morning. reporter: good morning. if you take a look at the specifics of what republicans are offering, you might scratch your head and say wait a minute, this is almost looks like what the president offered yesterday. they are offering in this bill to allow people not mandate but allow people who have insurance policies they like to keep them, at least say insurers can do
the toronto city council has introduced a petition demanding the immediate resignation of its embattled mayor. councilors are now meeting to come up with a plan to deal with rob ford. he s refusing to step down despite the laundry list of allegations against him, including abuse and prostitutes, admission of crack cocaine use. and topping it all off yesterday, he used a sexually graphic comment for which he later apologized. what s happening there now, nic? zwlrt they re trying to do by other means what they couldn t do a couple of days ago. they re trying to take away in this session his power to appoint senior staff position. but he isn t going down without a fight. his lawyer has issued a statement saying that the council cannot interfere the responsibilities of the mayor. and inside that chamber, we ve