Chuck Todd on What Happened at Monday's Health Care Meeting

Says he believes two things happened at Monday evening's meeting with leaders at the White House:

"At the beginning of [yesterday's Surgeon General] announcement, we heard something from the president that we haven't heard in a couple of months. And that is a re-utterance of his campaign pledge that he wasn't going to raise taxes on families making $250,000 or less. Well, what was that about? Was that just about reiterating a campaign pledge? Or was that sending a message to Charlie Rangel, the committee chairman on the House Ways and Means, and Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee, who were both talking about different ways of funding health care that would have put an extra tax burden on folks making less that $250,000. So that was a message to them, 'Look don't be sending, I have to keep this campaign pledge. I'm keeping it. So don't send me a funding mechanism that's that.' That was one thing that happened at that meeting."

"The second was to put some pressure on Harry Reid and Max Baucus to say, you've got to publicly say, cause there's a lot of House Democrats, Mark, who are sitting there going, 'Wait a minute, you want me to vote on health care now but the Senate gets to walk away in August? No way.' You know, it's all a little bit of a game of chicken here.  The House doesn't want to vote unless they know the Senate is going to vote too. So getting a commitment both publicly and privately that the Senate will stay in session until they get a bill was important for House Democrats and the White House."

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