My fellow americasns, good morning, good morning. It is friday december 21st. Good to see you this morning. Welcome to the fullcourt press here on current tv your first stop in the morning to find out whats going on and to talk about it. We look forward to hearing you sound off at our tollfree line 86655press. And, boy, what big news this morning. So much for plan b, John Boehners plan b back fired, blows up in his face and boehner is forced to bow out of plan b when not even his Republican Caucus would go along with it. Hey, we told you a long time ago about john boehner. He is no leader. He is a looser. He cant even control his own republicans. How can he make a deal with president obama. Its going to dominate our talks this morning, but first, the latest. Here she is with todays current news update. Lisa fergusons got it out in los angeles. Hi, lisa. Hey, bill. Thats right. Boehners backup legislation is not going over too well. Republicans scrapped plan b from the house after they
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yes, vice president biden s trip is planned to be staged in the fourth of july celebration. at the same time, it does seem at this time he has to come here, because it s a crucial time for the election. the problem with the lack of election in march is we had no government form. at this time, straight to meeting with the iraqi leaders to sort out this problem. brian: is security better there for the vice president now? are we in a situation it s not as dangerous as it has been in the past? reporter: of course, he will be inside a bubble of protection from the security forces. outside the green zone where he will meet the leaders, it s dangerous. we have attack on security forces and anyone that is linked to on the government at this time. for the moment, the violence is spiking up because of the political vacuum we have in iraq, brian. brian: all right, david piper, thank you very much. good to have you with us. secretary of defense robert gates is tightening things up