Tsipras Kicks Off Bailout Pitch with Math, Bridge Financing Already in Question; Says "Knife Was To His Neck"

``"The Greek government has not received a bridge-financing program yet because some try to block this," Tsipras said in an interview with ERT-TV before a parliamentary vote on the deal on Wednesday. "My priority is to make sure that the choice I made the other day, with a knife at my neck, is finalized."''