kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to the house where the house expected to follow up with a vote and at the top of the next hour and, according to a house republican leadership aide, leaders do expect that this bill will go through, which means that both the house and senate both chambers of congress will have passed this two-month exteng, but, again, we caution with this procedure it only requires one member to stand up in the cham
lenny kravitz exclusively plus a never-before-seen look at work on his new album. this is piers morgan tonight. lenny kravitz may just be the coolest guy in america. he s sold 35 million records. he s won four grammys. among his huge hits let love rule and american woman. he plays every instrument you can imagine.st t epitome of cool, aren t you, lenny? just admit it. get it out of the way. i don t know. the kind of guy we all would like to be, the kind of guy all our women would like us to be. i think you re doing pretty well, piers. i think you re doing pretty well. it s this huge presence. i ll play second to you in cool today. now you said it on the record. you ve just done my street cred. to be serious, i hope the answer is yes because it gives me some succor in this relationship we have, is being so cool itself a terrible burden? i truly don t think about it. i think if you asked my daughter, i wouldn t be so cool. your daughter is cool. sh
bill, if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people even though it s not exactly what we want. full details of the deal, the compromise and reaction. president obama said, for the past several weeks i ve stated consistently it was critical congress not go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 mill americans. an agreement meet that s test. more reaction coming as well. latest on the details and the political fallout. dana bash is with us and jessica yellin. let s go to the hill first. house republicans are saying we have a tweak in the language here to help small businesses, but this is cave with a capital c, no. reporter: tweak with a little t, barely you can see the tweak. house republicans gave in here. you could see it in the house speaker s demeanor. you could hear it in his voice. he all be gave a concession speech. both on the politics and on the policy of this. policy meeting as he said we fought the good fight.
the payroll tax cut. it s set to expire at the end of this year. president obama called john boehner today and the white house has even put a counterdown clock on the home page of its website. it says if the house does not act, taxes on the middle class will increase starting the first of the year. let s go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is standing by with the latest on this dramatic political showdown. what is the latest? the latest is that the white house believes there is only one way for the nation to avoid an increase in the payroll tax cut and that is for speaker john boehner to bring that senate pass two month extension to a vote. just this morning, speaker boehner said that s not going to happen. we re here, we re ready to work. we re looking for our counterparts to sit down with us so we can do what the president and leaders want and that s to extend the payroll tax cut for one year. now, midday today, the president ho
this tax cut for the american people and jeopardizing our economic growth. north korea s newly declared great successor steps to the forefront. kim jong un views his father. it is the first time the 20-something-year-old has appeared in public since his father s death. he has inherited the north korean leadership, including its weapo nuclear arsenal. many around the world are worried about how he s going to lead. state-run tv continues to show pictures like these, north koreans weeping uncontrollably as they supposedly mourn the death of their so-called leader. the nation is now if an 11-day official mourning period. reactions from the international committee to the death of kim jong il are somewhat muted. south korea s government did express their sympathy to the people of north korea but will not be sending a government delegation. the last u.s. air man coming home from iraq arrived today. they touched down on u.s. soil just a short time ago. they had a lot of great sup