Maxine Waters: Health Care Bill Will "Certainly Die" Without the Public Option - Video 12/21/09

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Here is video of Maxine Waters being asked by Lawrence O'Donnell if the health care bill can survive without the Public Option included.

Maxine Waters said that she and others will fight "as hard as we possibly can" for the "extremely important" Public Option to be included and said that if it is not "some of us are going to have to not vote for the bill." Lawrence O'Donnell then asked Waters "so that would mean if the House held to their position on the Public Option, that means this bill would die in the conference correct?" Waters answered "absolutely, if we held to our position it would certainly die."