indicate they might be willing to sign on to this. rand paul was on one of the sunday talk shows yesterday, taking well, if there are offsets, budget cuts offsetting the cost of extending those unemployment benefits for the long term jobless, he would be willing to go along with that. but gene sperling during this press briefing a few moments ago saying the president wants this passed with no strings attached. and wolf, one thing we noticed, keeping in mind, this is the first press briefing of the new year here at the white house and first we have heard from this white house really since president obama held that year and news conference late december. check out what was very different inside the white house briefing room, and that is the press secretary, jay carney. jay carney came out, sporting a beard. usually he is a clean-shaven press secretary. not so much, wolf, as you can probably tell. his facial growth there resembles a certain anchor at cnn. i'm trying to think of the name. it's just not coming to me right now, wolf.