there is some calm at least in washington for a change. sandra: as you said that he walked into the room. we were following his movements there as you mentioned. as you can see there are protests going on ahead of him taking a seat. we ll keep an eye on that. charlie hurt. there has been a night to digest it and what it means for the party. how do they proceed? well, i think that it s kind of funny talking about the environment around her. republicans are very concerned. conservatives are concerned around here. it s insane. the last time we had predictions of a big blue wave coming were in 2016 when donald trump won and republicans kept the house and kept the senate. so i think it s a little bit people around here get a little worked up. the bottom line is things are going very well for republicans. the economy is going very well. and the biggest problem that they face is kind of they are
congress. no you re probably not going to get the mental health counseling program through congress that you want buchlt what did we find here? we found what the guest that s we had on friday the grandchildren of one of the victims saying hate won t win and stop looking to washington for a change. have the change happen in your heart. in this case that s exactly what happened in charleston. that s right. you used the word healing with the president s speech and also with the reaction by the families. i think that is exactly right. but we saw faith and religion at its best. not only for the individuals to draw on personal faith to be able to grant forgiveness to this young man who is so destroyed their families, but also how faith can be healing in terms of the community and the community coming together. i think that was a great thing for fellow americans to witness. well moving on now.
numbers of people who have signed up and paid for obama care. that number, 20,994. there are another 96,980 signed up who have not yet paid. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. we re going to continue to watch this story as well. later here in the situation room, a major debate coming up. congressman steve israel, a democrat from new york, will debate daryl issa, a republican from california. that debate coming up at 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. in the meantime, we re watching all of this news. i ll be back later today. thanks very much for watching. newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. wolf, thank you very muff. i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. in just a couple minutes, some inspiring news out of washington for a change. how about that? president obama expected to award the medal of honor to a
burning up the campaign trail. of course they are. and who else would we have covering other than kral cameron, on the ground in washington for a change. campaign carl, what are we looking at? what we re looking at is an easter recess where lawmakers are around the country, hoping to turn the gears again and hope to go prevent the fallout. let s take a look at the balance of power now. first in the house, we ve got house democrats are the majority, obviously, and in the senate, they have the majority, obviously, in the senate, they have 57 seats, republicans have 41 seats. there are two independents, bernie sanders and joe lieberman, vermont and kentucky respectively, the magic number for the republicans is therefore ten seats they got to get in order to take back the majority in the sen. in the house, 253 seats, that is a huge, huge advantage over republicans with just 177. there are five vacancies and