we start with senator charles schumer, a democrat from the great state of new york. senator schumer, thanks for being here. what's the exit strategy? how might this flap over the payroll tax end? house blinks, senate blinks, or does it expire? >> well, i don't think it will expire. i think that basically there is so much pressure on speaker boehner. he's basically standing alone, that the house is going to have to do what the american people want and what many of us have been asking which is very simple police to pass the two-month extension and then we'll negotiate for the rest of the year. speaker boehner had a very bad day. it started out with the "wall street journal" editorial which you mentioned. in the course of the day senator mccain tweeted the "wall street journal" editorial to thousands of republicans and said he agreed with it. later in the day, both newt gingrich and karl rove, two leading republican strategists, said that boehner ought to just go along here, so he's sort of