or a theft of a debt default ongoing. but they are willing to look at just how much you raise that debt ceiling, wolf. and that could potentially give all sides some breathing room to deal with a longer term budget. if not a grand bargain, perhaps a little bargain, sometime in the next few months. jay carney is scheduled to hold that briefing in this room within the hour. we ll have to test carney to see how far he s willing to go. how much he s willing to say in terms of what that debt ceiling deal might look like, wolf. perhaps an opening, a small opening but perhaps an opening. president obama saying i ll be happy to talk to republicans about anything. suggesting maybe there some areas they can avoid any default. stand by, jim. gloria borger standing by. dana bash on capitol hill. much more assess when we come back. dad, you didn t show me, you showed him.
negative campaigns are totally wrong for this year when america is in these kind of problems. and you can do that by refusing to vote for anyone who has run negative ads, and you can insist on voting for someone who has been positive. finally, the conservative movement has an opportunity to take advantage of all of obama s weaknesses and win one of the great historic victories of the 21st century with your help. we will try to lead that movement to a decisive change in washington for our children, our grandchildren and the future of our country. thank you very, very much. former speaker newt gingrich addressing the crowds in cedar falls and the caucus site there. david gergen, gloria borger standing by. what has happened to newt gingrich? what does he need to accomplish
tonight, the first test of the republican presidential candidates that counts. anyone could win. what should the role of government be? and everything could change. we are not going to spend more money than what we re bringing in in this country. it s iowa s choice. will iowans embrace mitt romney? i want to restore america. i want to turn around america. make ron paul the spoiler? i think we have too many laws is what the problems are. turn back the the establishment witches i d go away. choose rick santorum? if we don t have strong family, we won t have a strong family. or another come-from-behind candidate? we will repeal obama care, it will happen. only one republican will face off against the president. i believe in america. in a new year of challenges and economic pain. there s no more important task for the next president. the candidates have spoken. vote for me on january 3rd. thank you all very much. god bless you. good l
chats. the house speaker continue. reporter: thank you. john boehner came out and said that house republicans, they oppose the two-month extension over the weekend because it doesn t provide the certainly that americans need, the kind of stimulate the economy in the way that the payroll tax extension they would hope would do. so he made it very clear that they are not ready to budge from their decision. he says they have acted and now it s time for the president and senate democrats to do the same. i think we have a sound bite from speaker boehner. now it s up to the president to show real leadership. he said that he won t leave town for the holidays until this bill is done. and the next step is clear. i think president obama needs to call on senate democrats to go back into session, move to go to conference, and to sit down and resolve this bill as quickly as possible. reporter: in the absolute immediate term, we know that the senators are not here right now and th
your first impression from what we learned from the eight republican candidates? i think there were a couple of really explosive parts of the debate for me. the first one was obviously iran. i thought that perry and gingrich led the way with strategy when it comes to iran. but the thing that sort of blew up in newt gingrich s face, i think, the discussion on immigration. he had a rick perry heartless moment with this. i think this is really going to impact him tomorrow. it s really going to impact him with grassroots conservatives. i can see both sides of the argument here. he was reaganesque, 84- 86, reagan signed a huge amnesty bill but i don t think he made that differential during the debate. this is one of the most substantive debates, we really were able to see a lot of different sides on the candidates on this side of the issue. ron paul did surprisingly well on a couple of different parts. perry talked more than normal. it was good. i think gingrich gingrich prob