more than now. into the boss. making him look good. working what reagan is doing. what tip need to do the next second. you are on watch. you are on watch 24/7. chief counselor, the great man dedicated the become to. beautiful. we would be talking back and forth. what did you see in the times? what did he write? did you hear reagan said on radio? constantly on watch. monday morning when he showed up. what did you hear? anything special. anything i need to know. some times, didn t know something. a mutiny at work or something. didn t catch sometimes. but that, that thing about losing time. tell you. it s a dangerous thing. the older people work on the capitol. say i m working at 5:30. leaving not sticking around. i have to find a life some where. i am going home. one of the things that makes us always understand. why people leave. i have never said to somebody why are you leaving a job in the house or in the senate.
activity. perhaps. you but i don t here is the thing, bernie. we discussed this yesterday on the show called the o reilly factor. oh, yes. it was we always have a great time there and then afterwards you and me and him go out and we share a tiny steak. gin before the show and then steak and cocktails. shirtless in the steam room. afterthe searches they say must be justified by probable cause. if al-qaeda says something from pakistan we get it because that is what we do. is that okay? i think it is okay. i happen to be down with what president obama said before. i mean look, you know, how soon we forget 9/11 and the boston bombing. everybody is like how come the fbi didn t catch it. well, look, if they are doing this they didn t it remains incuplikable that they are doing this and didn t catch the boston bomber. ericer, this is not hellholes holder s department of
the aisle sharing their views on the impending fiscal cliff. with that clock ticking and no deal in sight the big question is, what will happen next. let s bring in our new year s eve political power panel from the white house. we have nbc news correspondent kristen welker, cnbc contributor and democratic strategist keith boykin and republican strategist allison stewart. kristen, kelly o donnell was saying earlier today that many on the hill see bynum s entrance into the negotiations as a good sign, that something could happen here. why is biden in a unique position here? happy new year s eve to you as well. vice president biden served as a u.s. senator for more than 30 years. few people really understand the way these types of negotiations work like he does. in addition to that, equally importantly, 23 of those years were spent serving alongside minority leader mitch mcconnell. so they have a good working relationship, good personal relationship.
necks of the members of congress to git them to do something by tonight. we only have about 13 more hours. one more thing to show you, folks. we ll take a track here of the limits of this negotiation, the upper income limits we ve been talking about. the president campaigned for quite sometime, $250,000, a ceiling if you will over which your taxes would go up. $400,000 was the last obama offer that we heard of. $450,000. the new democratic offer that we re hearing of. the gop is seeking to get it up to $550,000 per and um for income. and remember plan b that blew up in the face of house republicans? a million dollars and above and that is the key question as we head into this. what will the house of representatives do if the senate were to reach this deal with joe biden today? as the senate convenes we see them gathering on the left-hand side of the screen right now, very quickly is it even physically possible, we have 13 hours to do this. reporter: sure. but in the senate in parti
agreement when it comes to these tax rates and the level? you know, i it was said earlier on the floor that that is not something he supports. i am not going to make any judgments until i see the detaste. we have a lot of speculation, negotiations between the vice president and mitch mcconnell. i want to see the package before i jump to a conclusion or make a judgment. i think it is only fair and it is fair to my constituents. conceptually both sides need to be willing to compromise. we ve shown an ability on the democratic side to do so. the president has shown that ability. he was originally at $250,000 then offered $400,000. the house republicans said no to a million dollars, an increase in taxes for people earning over a million dollars. we need to come back to the middle and get this done. my constituents, people throughout america, want to get this done. there is a very strong appetite to doing that. i want to change topics and get your reaction to the hospitalization o