failure of mccarthy to get a majority of the caucus or getting what he wanted of the whole house which is a big chunk of the republican party. these questions about whether you stop the government for issues like spending and going along with the debt ceiling extension, planned parenthood. are they going to come up in this argument? they are and they have. they have come up in reasonable discussions taking place and sometimes multiple meetings around the capital. i think at the core of this to a lesser degree to the supreme court itself rules and regulations that supplant the legislation itself pushed by the executive branch would be one. the power of the purse has been sacrificed under obamacare, planned parenthood would be another. if this congress won t say no to the president of the united states with the article authority that we have, power of the purse then it is rendered
there. the feeling about ted cruz in the republican party is about as bad as i can imagine. i think i might beat him in an election in the republican caucus at this point if the vote were secret. and that s not to be expected. the other side of this, though, what ted cruz did is he forced republicans to vote the way they actually wanted the vote to turn out. i mean one of their biggest problems here is that they need to say one thing to the tea party to prevent primaries when they know full well that the right thing to do was to pass the debt ceiling extension. and so ted cruz just forced them to vote the way they thought as opposed to the way they hope they d could describe it to their constituents. now, speaker boehner is also facing attacks, e.j., from the right. he is being attacked for allowing clean votes the clean vote on raising the debt ceiling. listen to this.
$17.3 trillion about to go higher. on this hour of happening now, i am jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. hope you re off to a great day. i am jenna lee. the senate may agree on a one-year extension of the debt limit. approving the increase with no strings attached. john boehner backing off from a fight with the president had spending cuts played out a few times. live on capitol hill with more on this. what is the latest on the timing when the senate may take up the debt ceiling extension? a deal has been reached and we expect less than two hours there will be to vote on the debt ceiling and the senate will vote on the house bill two extend military retiree benefits. they foun sounded somewhat conc. unfortunately republicans on the side of the capital are
would support a kleenex tension of the debt ceiling. everybody else wants to attach something to it. some people want to attach the keystone pipeline to it. some people want to get rid of bailouts for insurance companies under obamacare. some people wanted to do this wp military pensions. none of them could agree on you on nighting behind one of those things so for republicans to pass it on their own, they need 218 out of about 232 republicans in the house. they need 218 of those to do it by themselves. they have to do it with democrats who are insisting that it be a clean debt ceiling extension. jon: so it seems like despite the fact that republicans have the majority in the house, they couldn t come together on one plan of action that they would be able to pass? it was interesting. i was speaking to republicans two weeks ago before the state of the union address and they said, we re definitely going to have a no drama year. we want to look like we re
never-ended war with iran, a war that will start with a bang and end years later after a succession of trouble. we will wish we d never had the to endure. for these reasons, i hope the president gathers his assets, rallies his staff and cabinet, and gets his act together. for his good, for our good, for the good of those who know. but the only way to sell progressive government in this country is to show that it works. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. republicans close out their year on capitol hill, suddenly invested with a new sense of swagger and braggadocio. everywhere you look, republicans are threatening fights to come. the price democrats will have to pay, for example, for a debt ceiling extension early next year. i doubt if the house or for that matter, the senate, is willing to give the president a