people, put up to the deadline and we have fighting back and forth, the president came out today and he chastised the house republicans and looks like everybody has fled town. american people are sitting back at home, american people sit back and say how can do you this to us? how can you not sit down and talk? that is exactly what we have done today and speaker has appointed a house confer ee. i have asked that when i was asked on the floor talking with the minority whip hoyer he and minority leader pelossi appoint their conferee so we can get it done. we are willing to work. our confereast will be ready to go to work. and we re asking them to come
washington and that s why we are staying here. we re going to get it done and we are going to get a long-term solution that people can rely on. you are on this committee but the senate, i understand, sir, has left. harry reid could reconvene the senate but that s unlikely, maybe it could happen. so who are you talking to? well, right now we are just waiting on harry reid and the senate to name their conferees. like you said, with the stroke of a pen, harry reid can have the senators come back here and do work. i understand it s the holidays. i would love to be home with my family. but i m going to be here in washington doing the work for the american people because that s what they deserve. that s what they sent us to do. neil: you are on this conferee but you have no one to meet with now. if he does not, that is if harry reid does not call the senate back, you have nothing to do. well, what we have is we are going to do the work on our side and come up and go through the propo
and listen to what s really important. i saw today that one of the house republicans referred to what they are doing as, quote, high-stakes poker. he s right about the stakes, but this is not poker. this is not a game. this shouldn t be politics as usual. this is not a game for the millions of americans who will take a hit when the entire economy grows more slowly because these proposals aren t extended. joining me now is congressman tom reid, freshman republican from new york. congressman, first, thank you for coming on the show tonight. well, thanks for having us, reverend. i appreciate it. now, let me ask you. will you and the republicans be able to reach an agreement with democrats before the holidays? well, that s my intention. you know, i ve been named to the conference to be a conferee to stay down here in washington and work through the holidays. we have 11 days to get this done, and what we re talking about is getting a one-year solution on the table rather
good morning to you. it is tuesday, december the 20th. i m ali velshi joined again by alina cho this morning. good morning. good morning to you. so glad you re with us and up first, the u.s. keeping an eye out for advancing troops and any other threatening moves after the death of a dictator in north korea. north korean media show the images of kim jong-il s body laid out in a glass coffin. his third son and successor, kim jong un, paying respects. and live for us in seoul, south korea, anna, good morning. the south korean government sending its condolences along with a dose of what some are calling christian mystery diplomacy. what s that all about? reporter: that is right, alina. the sense of condolence, the official wording from the south korean government. this is a real thorn in relations because relations between the two countries hit rock bottom of late. it s worst of the relationships for years. offering sympathies certainly seems to be an act of south korea reach
the honor of being a senate con firee on the most important legislation of the year, the tax bill negotiated between the house and the senate in the con frerns committee composed of republican and democrat conferees. bob menendez will be the only conferee under indictment on federal corruption and bribery charges. in fact, democrat senator bob menendez will be the only senate conferee in the history of important tax legislation who has just emerged from a hung verdict in his federal corruption trial. and is awaiting the federal prosecutor s decision on whether to retry him. such are the complications of life for a political party that s trying to take the moral high ground on matters of sexual misconduct. no matter what ground politicians think they re standing on, no matter what ground politicians want to stand on, their occupations always leave them standing on political ground. as the cases of senator al