on finding a common solution. but this president has been intent on attacking. attack mode is not the way that a leader tries to get people to work together. howard dean is former governor of vermont. here in our 30 rock studios former rnc chairman michael steele. it s great to have you here. michael, i want to wait with you. you ve been waiting patiently. listening to what s going on and how we re hearing what the right is saying about this, we have congressman van hollen saying he doesn t see speaker boehner, he doesn t see eric cantor. it sends a message that nobody on the hill is talking to each other, period. democrats aren t talk to republicans. republicans aren t taking amongst themselves. i still haven t figured out or gotten a clear explanation how there was a lack of coordination with the house republicans passing a bill with a one-year extension, which democrats in
santorum who has done close to 300 home visits in iowa. he s been able to amass something that goes beyond organization and structure that really will hopefully serve him, they think on election night in two weeks. we shall see. gentlemen, thanks for your time this morning. good to see york, governor. thank you. always a pleasure, michael. we re going to head to the white house. team obama putting the payroll tax fight to you and asking you to weigh in. we re going to explore that ahead about what $40 means to your household. plus, i hope that package did not require a signature. watch this one. a not so special delivery from fedex. unless there s a lot of grass on the other side of that fence i don t know if that tv s going to make it. every single day. that s why every day we help people across the country get into their first homes. prepare for a comfortable retirement
put aside issues where there are fundamental disagreements and come together on something we agree on. and let s not play brinksmanship. the american people are weary of it. they re tired of it. nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell joins me now. we re boing to be speaking with democratic congressman chris van hollen in a moment. first explain to us as we watch the clock ten and a half days to go now, what is going to happen now, and what does all this say about boehner s leadership? there is an unusual quality to this kind of scrap they actually do say they want to achieve the same thing, which is extending the benefits and the payroll tax cut and a number of other things rolled into the package for a year. we don t always find them agreeing on the end goal. lots of political under currents have been going on. that has got us to where we are. speaker boehner s leadership has been questioned many the public. one of the things that he and his members tried to do y
put politics aside. put aside issues where there are fundamental disagreements and come together on something we agree on. and let s not play brinksmanship. the american people are weary of it. they re tired of it. nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell joins me now. we re boing to be speaking with democratic congressman chris van hollen in a moment. first explain to us as we watch the clock ten and a half days to go now, what is going to happen now, and what does all this say about boehner s leadership? there is an unusual quality to this kind of scrap they actually do say they want to achieve the same thing, which is extending the benefits and the payroll tax cut and a number of other things rolled into the package for a year. we don t always find them agreeing on the end goal. lots of political under currents have been going on. that has got us to where we are. speaker boehner s leadership has been questioned many the public. one of the things that he and his m
table and they didn t take it. many of us can say we don t know if he was calling your bluff or not because you guys have shown that into r no matter what you put in your ideology and your right-wing wish to make sure that you run this country in a way that rich people are protected above the interests of the people. so i think the president, if there that was his move, he won. if it wasn t his move, we ll never know. michael aaron dyson, does the respect go up in the minds of the base tonight where they re showing frustration as of late? it has to. what it shows is the utter intrans jents that he s been dealing with. what they made clear tonight is that we are dealing with a group of people who are incompetent in term of their political sensibilities. they have not adjusted to the ways of washington. and the best sense of that word. learning to compromise, learning