osbourne. you got to be kidding me, man? man? crazy from new york. captioned by closed captioning services, inc bret: next on special report, coming together from further and further apart. the day before the bipartisan white house healthcare summit has more political posturing, we have fox team coverage. president obama talks to business leaders about the economy and republicans agree with what he says. toyota s chief executive talks to congress about his company s problems. and the 50th state talks about moving forward by taking a step back in time, we ll explain. all that plus the fox all-stars right here, right now. bret: welcome to washington, i m bret baier. president obama says he will use thursday s healthcare summit to seek common ground. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports others were spending today digging in for what is shaping up as an increasingly partisan/bipartisan meeting. [ chanting ] reporter: the political jockeying is well underway in
president barack obama s achievements in his first year in office. washington journal is next. . we begin with a piece from the washington who writes after healthcare we need senate reform. you see the line for republicans, democrats and independents. host: 55 votes is not enough to win or anything close to it. it is enough to get five from 60. you need to shut down a filibuster. only then can a lobby pass. the modern senate is a radically different institution frómç the 1960 s and the dysfunction over healthcare, absence of bipartisanship, useç of the filibuster to obstruct progress, the ability of any senator to hold theç bill hostage has convinced many inside and outside theç chamber that it needs to be fixed. from the weekly turnaround there is a piece byç two authors sayg a fine mess and they write the end game has unfolded and all eyes are on the unseamly process taking place in the halls of congress. rushed votes to minimize scrutiny and secret deals and
and looking benignly at me as i argued. i even thought there was a nod somewhere. when the opinion came out, it was 7-2, and he was one of the dissenters. i wrote a law review article about the issue of was addressing in the lawsuit, and essentially said don t take people for granted on this issue. justice stevens wrote a dissent that is a roadmap of how legislation and administrative actions ought to be taken to steer clear of some of the problems he saw in the federal statute i was defending. . . the style of each justice as you prepare. certainly the more of an advantage it is the more you know but i think there are many advocates to show up for the first time who ve never been to an argument before who do a wonderful job simply because they ve mastered their case and they have participated questions without knowing precisely what questions they might ask. she was not engaged in bona fide and lawful services, particularly in this case where the government told the jury
wars and that the this idea that we re a global economy or a global society is i think a little bit of a farce in the long-term because people are not integrating. they want to be with their own not race but society, around i think it s time to start focusing on overall education and stop looking at when refuse want to caller: thank you for taking my call and thank you for c-span. before i go to my main point, ip wanted to say something about the caller before the one previous to mine. . caller: you read long words out of columns. the caller that called, the ones that call on republicans for your and your part they are no more republican than the man in the mode. they are saying that to uphold the party line. i made the comment in the barber shop the other day i think obama, god bless him, i really don t think he likes the united states of america. i think he is anti-american. by vicki has an agenda to completely bankrupt us i think he has an agenda to completely
host: does he plan to bring in a legislators out to hawaii to set down the agenda for trying to get this bill reconciled? guest:?j that we know of. he is deferring to the leadership in congress, the democratic leadership in the house and senate and that will happen again as i go to a public conference committee to iron out the differences between the senate and house bills. i do not hear any talk that they will bring people physically out to hawaii. . it is quite a complicated assessment we have to make here, but i think as far as dealing with the military, i think he has been careful because he is in contact and seems to be quite possible with the military, too. the book is from mount vernon to crawford, the history of presidents and their retreats, its author, ken walsh, chief washington correspondent for u.s. news and world report has been our guest. thank you for being onto program. thank you for having me. host: we want to let you know who is on washington journal