jobs. this fails to accomplish both goals. he doesn t like that it eliminates the sequester cuts. paul ryan predicts this will pass. do you think that s wishful thinking or most republicans would go for this. ? i don t think paul ryan would make that claim unless he knows there s solid support. with you there will be sniping. people are positioning themselves. the irony is the more sol i had this deal looks, the less costly it is. if you re on the conservative side, to criticize the deal. it is true as john said. there are people who lernl from the shounl experience but there are others who say wait a second. obama care has been a big debacle. we can be confrontational not and pay a price. i think that s a mistake and paul ryan is getting it right but you ll have some people in a cost-free kind of way who will lodge criticisms. it is a modest deal.
now one of the more outspoken members of the house hopes his colleagues in the senate can save the game. the game is over. we have to get this done. and john boehner has tried everything he can. and there s people in our party that no matter what he tries to do, they won t go along. hopefully we ll get adult supervision from the senate. athena jones joins us from capitol hill this morning. is that possible? reporter: that s the question we re watching to see. this deal looks like it s close to be finalized and announces. but it s still unclear where it s going to start. will the senate go first and send it over to the house or will the house go first. you heard from congressman peter king. and i have a clip from congressman steve king a republican out of iowa who sounds like he might be standing in the way. i don t believe it s a hard break tomorrow. it s just a date they picked on
currently meeting with senate democrats in a closed door meeting trying to get skeptical democrats to sign on to the mini deal that they are trying to avoid the fiscal cliff. the problem that they won t avoid it technically. they will miss the midnight deadline because the house has adjourned for the night. they don t have anything to score. they don t have anything to react to because no piece of legislation has made it to the senate. this s the shot we have been looking at for a long time just outside the senate chamber. if you just turn the camera a little bit you would see the door to the senate and so far there is nothing to vote on. the bill has to come from the senate to go to the house. the house will then react to it and that is really the question mark about how that is going to happen. here is how this deal looks like it is shaping up from what we are getting from reporters
if that s the case, he has got a good shot to win re-election. that is the vital importance of one person, bill clinton, probably you in the end and joe biden? because you are going to see clinton and biden spending a lot of time in places like pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, absolutely. and let me add, chris look at the internals, this big thing we are all worried about europe, but the greek deal looks like it is going through that is solid. we are worried about the straits of hormuz, israel attacking iran, not attacking, whatever, what the iranians might do about it. what is the big explosive convenient that could drive unemployment back up to 9, chris? well, i don t know if it is an event. i think gas prices are certainly, look, republicans are look for something at the moment because if they have premised the entire time of their attack against the obama presidency on the economy this is a guy who doesn t know how to make the economy work it is the famous mitt romney l
be the first. that s why people care about this so much. thank you, richard. one of the major players in this debt debate, house majority leader eric cantor. democrats called him smug, child ir, overbearing but he is leading the conservative wing of the republican party, and any deal looks like it might have to go through him. here s what senate majority leader harry reid said about him an hour ago. house majority leader eric cantor has shown he shouldn t even be at the table and republicans agree he shouldn t be at the table. i want to bring in democratic congressman loretta sanchez and the president had it out with eric cantor if all the reports are true. is he the one holding up this deal? he is catering to the more conservative and tea party type of people within the house republican conference, and of course they have put a line in the sand and they won t step over that period, is what