less than one year ago on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s friday, december 23rd. i m deb feyerick an with alina cho on this american morning. good morning to all of you out in. so glad you re with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner saying his side still wants a one-year extension but saw the political reality. we have fought the good fight. i talked to a number of members over the past 24 hours who believe that, hey, we don t like this two-month extension, we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill, and if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people, even though it s not e
taking down newt. also, former new mexico governor gary johnson is dropping out of the presidential race to run as a libertarian. now you might have forgotten that johnson was running, but this year a third party, run by a more serious candidate, could make a huge difference in the election results, and tonight we have new poll numbers to show who might benefit. and barney frank s advice to the colleagues he s leaving behind. that s in the sideshow. finally, let me finish tonight with how the republican party s obsession with opposing president obama at any cost may be costing them way too much. we start with senator charles schumer, a democrat from the great state of new york. senator schumer, thanks for being here. what s the exit strategy? how might this flap over the payroll tax end? house blinks, senate blinks, or does it expire? well, i don t think it will expire. i think that basically there is so much pressure on speaker boehner. he s basically standing alone, that the house
being here. what s the exit strategy? how might this flap over the payroll tax end? house blinks, senate blinks, or does it expire? well, i don t think it will expire. i think that basically there is so much pressure on speaker boehner. he s basically standing alone, that the house is going to have to do what the american people want and what many of us have been asking which is very simple simply to pass the two-month extension and then we ll negotiate for the rest of the year. speaker boehner had a very bad day. it started out with the wall street journal editorial which you mentioned. in the course of the day senator mccain tweeted the wall street journal editorial to thousands of republicans and said he agreed with it. later in the day, both newt gingrich and karl rove, two leading republican strategists, said that boehner ought to just go along here, so he s sort of out on a limb, and i think he knows the right thing to do, but
we start with senator charles schumer, a democrat from the great state of new york. senator schumer, thanks for being here. what s the exit strategy? how might this flap over the payroll tax end? house blinks, senate blinks, or does it expire? well, i don t think it will expire. i think that basically there is so much pressure on speaker boehner. he s basically standing alone, that the house is going to have to do what the american people want and what many of us have been asking which is very simple police to pass the two-month extension and then we ll negotiate for the rest of the year. speaker boehner had a very bad day. it started out with the wall street journal editorial which you mentioned. in the course of the day senator mccain tweeted the wall street journal editorial to thousands of republicans and said he agreed with it. later in the day, both newt gingrich and karl rove, two leading republican strategists, said that boehner ought to just go along here, so he s sort o