a good analogy. back when medicare first was passed, there was a tremendous anxiety. i think ronald reagan called it a great socialist experiment, a popular program. and very efficient one. you have conservative republicans protecting medicare saying keep the government out of my medicare not making the connections it is a government program. part of this, by the way, a serious part of this is just the information that need to really get out there. it is already way behind in terms of the, really, flooding the public with, with important information about this. let s listen to what the president said today about some very, very rich republican billionaires trying to convince people not to participate in this new health care program. some of taet party s biggest donors, well thooes men in
but cnn newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. we ll speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. we ll carry that live for you. so stay tuned for that as well. let s begin here. as the clock continues to tick, nine hours now remaining until a potential default of the u.s. government. and congress still hasn t voted on the debt reduction agreement announced last night. we heard the senate would be voting first. then we heard the house would be voting first. but the house still hasn t voted. that tells me there may be a problem rounding up some of those votes. we have just heard from vice president joe bide
were repraling, we would have had a deal a while ago. they were reasonable and wanted to do the right. the straw that is stirring the drink are the taet party extremists who want to keep this language in about a woman s right to choose and try to litigate whether an environmental protection agency has oversight over the environment. the very fact they re on the table should raise questions in the minds of the american people. why are these considered in the context of keeping government up and running? it s clear they re not the issues any longer. they seem to be resolved according to speaker boehner. i heard wolf ask a direct question about whether or not you would vote if they re taken out. we need people to say by the way, some of the more extreme voices in the republican caucus, even they have said enough of dealing with all of these riders. michelle bachmann who is hardly a mainstream person says to take it out. it needs to be resolved. the issue of the
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let s hope, because as i say, a lot of millions and millions of americans are waiting desperately to make sure there s no government shutdown. let s dig deeper right with our national political correspondent, jessica yellen. all of aed sudden the debate in the final stretch, if you listen to harry reid, boils down to abortion rights for women, abortion rights in the district of columbia, planned parenthood, when all these other issues are out there. all of a sudden it s down to these issues? why did a spending fight become fundamentally about these issues? because they speak to believes passionately held by a vocal minority of each party. realms insist that democratsed should give to keep government runs. democrats say the republicans are are sacrificing women s rights to serve a social agenda that has nothing to do with spending and it s gotten emotional. the answer is cutting unnecessary spending in washington. that s what the people at the kitchen tables of america are