COOPER: Well, the Democrats, of course, see it differently. They say the NIE report shows the war on terror has gone off course and that we should pull out of Iraq or redeploy and focus on capturing Osama bin Laden.
Back in the Senate, as we just talked about, the cots are ready. Both sides are hunkering down for a long night, and it's really not likely to change the outcome for Democrats.
CNN's Tom Foreman is here to explain now the politics and the raw reality -- Tom.
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The raw reality, Anderson, is, this is a tremendous political tug-of-war. What do the Democrats know?
They know, as Dana mentioned, that, in fact, many people thought when they were elected more than a half-year ago that they were going to change the course of this war, and they know there's a lot of public sentiment for doing that right now. Why haven't they done it, though? Take a look at this. This is the problem.
Democrats over here, blue -- Republicans in red -- yes, the Democrats have a majority, 51 to 49, but, even if they could get all the Democrats pulling the same direction -- and they're not all pulling the same direction yet -- they still would need 60 votes to make a real difference in this, 60 votes, because that's what it takes to overcome a Republican filibuster, which can stop everything.
Without 60 votes, they can't put a piece of paper on the president's desk, saying, this is what we want. And, while all that is happening, the president, and his men, are pushing back with things like this intelligence report, Anderson. And what they're saying with this intelligence report really is that you must take this very seriously. This can't be about politics. This has to be about the overall question of war.
So, what we're talking about in this country of 300 million people, for all this war, is a struggle over six to 10 people in the Senate and whether or not one side or the other can pull them that way. Right now, the Republicans are winning.
