u.s. senator john mccain of more blunt saying that boris murder occurred in a secure part of the russian capital raises legitimate questions about the circumstances of his killing and who was responsible. there must be a full investigation of boris murder, and those responsible must be held accountable. the world will be watching. now to other news we re following. after some back and forth between lawmakers, the department of homeland security will keep running at least for now. congress passed a measure late friday to extend funding for seven days averting a partial shutdown of the agency. soon after, president obama signed the extention. here s dana bash with the details. reporter: less than two hours before the clock was set to strike midnight and the department of homeland security would lose its funding from congress, they actually voted finally to extend that funding just for seven days.
it did not come without incredible drama, nailbiting suspense and a lot of chaos on capitol hill. the house voted overwhelmingly to do this after a very surprise vote that failed just a few hours earlier to do the extention three weeks. and what happened were conservatives opposed the measure, but also at that time all democrats opposed the measure because they were holding out for full funding for the department. the same kind of measure that the senate had passed earlier in the day. why did the democrats give in in the end? we re told s because they got assurance that when this runs out next week they ll be able to pass funding for the department of homeland security that will run through the end of the fiscal year. that s why nay gave in. republican are why they gave in. republican are saying not so fast. we ll see where it ends up. the backdrop the reason why at this point one of the main
i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, rejection and dysfunction. the house today rejecting the senate s plan to extend the payroll tax cut. now, that means that your taxes are going to go up somewhere between $700 and $2,300 next year unless, ooh, the big unless an all new congressional committee and it is an all new committee comes to the agreement by the year s end. president obama s approval ratings are up as congress falls on this, and he seized the moment today. but now, even though republicans and democrats in the senate were willing to compromise for the good of the country, a faction of republicans in the house are refusing to even vote on the senate bill. a bill that cuts taxes for 160 million americans. and because of their refusal to cooperate, all of those americans could face a tax hike in just 11 days. and millions of americans who are out there looking for work could find their unemployment insurance expired. and just for good measure the white house web
harry reid and john boehner was the triggers. that is the only thing that the only distinction and now we know that john boehner has been telling the truth the entire week. the bill he first intro dulsed in t introduced in the house s the bill he and harry reid worked on and if he had enough democrats to vote with john boehner, this would have passed on monday and we wouldn t be at the moment of crisis that we are at right now. governor granholm, and what at the end because senators are strained by the politics, but what in the end should be acceptable to the president at this point? obviously, he wants to see that we don t have an extention of the debate for the next few months and make sure it is taken care of. he obviously has said that we don t want to do further damage to the economy and that you have to have a balanced approach and honestly, in listening to my colleague over here and not my colleague, but the colleagues of others in the house, and i appreciate being here w
he it s compromise. and that s part of the thing that the american public had been saying, can t you guys get together, bipartisanship, and then he will be accused, as you have done, of saying flip-flop. how do you reach compromise if you if you don t well, i would say, though, that it is a flip-flop in his position on because he was so adamant about not allowing the tax cut extention to take place for job creators and then all of a sudden one day, he was fine with it. so again, i appreciate that he you can term it compromise, i term it flip-flop. how did robin roberts do? was that an aggressive interviewer or a friendly interview? i thought it was relatively friendly. i thought palin was on the defense for moments. robin endeared herself to palin. that s importance because she has such antagonism for the mainstream media. i think the flip-flop thing gave currency to anybody frustrated with palin as being an abject conservative with no ability to