Obama Takes the Healthcare Debate Public
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Is it just bravado or is President Obama really as confident as he seems about next week's bipartisan White House summit on healthcare reform? Guest host Lawrence O'Donnell talks about what advantages Republican leaders will have in the unprecedented televised negotiating session. Will it be the President's final meeting on healthcare reform or the beginning of a new bipartisan strategy to pass a bill? Also, Toyota considers another recall, AND how a New Jersey judge changed the sports horizon for American girls.
Banner image: President Obama (2nd R) meets with House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), House Assembly Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on February 9. White House photo: Pete Souza
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Obama Takes the Healthcare Debate Public ()
On Thursday of next week, President Obama will host an unprecedented televised bipartisan negotiation on healthcare reform. Already there is partisan jousting over the ground rules. Republican Congressional leaders want to start the meeting with a blank slate; President plans to use a single compromise version of the bills passed by the House and Senate as his negotiating starting point. But will the President and Congressional Democrats be able to agree on a single bill? Will Obama's mastery at the microphone carry the day, or will Republican attacks on the bill's policies drive the final nails in the coffin of healthcare reform?
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- Ezra Klein: Columnist, Newsweek, @ezraklein
- Tony Blankley: Co-host, 'Left, Right & Center'
- Susan Dentzer: Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs journal
- Norman Ornstein: Congressional Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, @AEI
- Trudy Lieberman: Contributing Editor, Columbia Journalism Review
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- Marie Hardin: Associate Director, Penn State's Curley Center for Sports Journalism
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