robert costa the d.c. editor at the national view and can you do low report and soon he will be heading to the walk post. crawls on that. brean boiler political writer, shauna thomas, white house producer, so i want to sto start with what happened in the house yesterday in this evote,er with hearing predictions wednesday and thursday. fred upton who offered this plan in the house that supported the affordable care act says they would have gutted it if it had passed, we are hearing prediction maybe 50, 100 democrats might support this thing. there might be momentum. in that context, 13 seems leak a small number. i imagine the white house is happy about this what happened to bring it about? >> well, we had this week happen, which was the democrats went to chief of staff dennis mcdonough and behind closed doors and complained complained loudly and said if you don't figure out some way to do this, we, looking towards 2014, are going to have to support a bill like this. we're going to have to support something.