i can tell you something else tonight, the negotiations are ongoing. the man in charge of this committee, senator chuck grassley, set a 10:00 p.m. friday deadline for her to respond. he dialed up the pressure with this statement saying, dr. ford s attorneys if they don t respond, they will go forward with a vote on monday. that, in turn, has earned a new response we got just within the last hour from dianne feinstein, the top dem on the committee and she sounded outraged saying bullying a survivor of attempted rape in order to confirm a nominee at a time when she s receiving death threats is an extreme abuse of power. given all of the late night action and flurry, we have nbc news capitol hill reporter and producer frank thorpe who s followed many of these. what can you tell us? what we re doing now is waiting to hear back from dr. ford s attorneys here, going through this counteroffer from the chairman of the judiciary committee chuck grassley trying to figure out whether or not t
voracity. i can tell you something else tonight, the negotiations are ongoing. the man in charge of this committee, senator chuck grassley, set a 10:00 p.m. friday deadline for her to respond. if dr. ford s attorneys don t respond, they will go forward with a vote on monday. that, in turn, has earned a new response we got just within the last hour from dianne feinstein, the top dem on the committee and she sounded outraged saying bullying a survivor of attempted rape in order to confirm a nominee at a time when she s receiving death threats is an extreme abuse of power. given all of the late night action and flurry, we have nbc news capitol hill reporter and producer frank thorpe who s followed many of these. what can you tell us? what we re doing now is waiting to hear back from dr. ford s attorneys here, going through this counteroffer from the chairman of the judiciary committee chuck grassley trying
from having to directly question dr. ford or challenge her voracity. i can tell you something else tonight, the negotiations are ongoing. the man in charge of this committee, senator chuck grassley, set a 10:00 p.m. friday deadline for her to respond. if dr. ford s attorneys don t respond, they will go forward with a vote on monday. that, in turn, has earned a new response we got just within the last hour from dianne feinstein, the top dem on the committee and she sounded outraged saying bullying a survivor of attempted rape in order to confirm a nominee at a time when she s receiving death threats is an extreme abuse of power. given all of the late night action and flurry, we have nbc news capitol hill reporter and producer frank thorpe who s followed many of these. what can you tell us? what we re doing now is waiting to hear back from dr.
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you said here yesterday and expressed confidence that you were going to pass sure did. that bill. [ laughter ] what went wrong? there was a perception created that that vote last night was going to increase taxes. we had a number of our members who just really didn t want to be perceived as having raised taxes. what went wrong indeed. house republicans are heading home for the holidays as visions of fiscal cliffs dance in their heads. that was torture. that was house speaker john boehner this morning before they left town trying to explain why his plan b didn t take. nbc s luke russert was there for all the late night action. hey, luke, what now? what a night. what happens now? that s a very good question. i don t think anybody in washington, d.c. really knows