thank you very much, everybody. all right. so the president there weighing in on his thoughts, and clearly he s pleased with the senate vote today. of course, it has to be taken up by the house in just a couple of days. they may do that as of monday before they break for the holiday. we re going to go back to luke russert. the president touched on the point i was beginning to make with you, which is the president said he hopes this will be extended from the two months extension through the rest of the year with as little drama as possible. that begs the question, are the senators that you have spoken with this morning, are they aware of how frustrated the american people are with these little incremental successes and then you have to go back and debate this and do this all over again before something gets passed with any sense of permanency do it. reporter: the president is saying it should be a formality,
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harry reid at the behest of president obama has said that he will not move a bill to fund the entire united states government which runs out of funding on friday, december 16th, until they figure out what to do with the payroll tax cut holiday. that is a real issue here on capitol hill that s going to be interesting to see how voters decide which side comes out on top. republicans are now saying, look, democrats have accused us for the last six months of trying to hold the government hostage. they are now doing the same thing. republicans are now emboldened after their vote, chuck. honestly the first real win that the gop leadership has had all year on a substantial budget bill where they didn t have massive defections and even picked up ten democrats. right. they are now thinking because of the keystone pipeline provision, idea to build the pipeline all the way from canada down to the gulf for oil, has split democrats and environmental labor unions, they now can change the narrati
gingrich and obama if he s the number knee, will gingrich be the incredible agent that he can move the country forward? i have a feeling we ll hear that argument from team romney at some point very soon. thank you both. a tremendous poll. i encourage folks go online and go to nbcpolitics.com. dig into it all. a deal to avert a government shutdown hanging in the balance. no agreement on the payroll tax cut holiday. and a not so warm welcome as mitt romney hits fund-raising in new york today. we ll tell you how far the dnc will paint him as out of touch. today s trivia question. yesterday we asked you the most senior junior senator and today we re asking you the most junior senior senator. tweet me the answer. the first correct answer will get a follow wednesday from us. the answer coming right up on the daily rundown. [ male announcer ] wouldn t it be cool
a small piece of assistance to those who could most benefit from it, at a time whenç there this tremendous extraction, there s record unemployment, record poverty, and instead, they re putting a special interest rider for an oil pipeline into a tax and unemployment bill that s a temporary fix. and they believe that this is a credible treatment of the american people. do they actually think that what they re doing is not criminal and abusive and destructive to this country? in their head. well, it s being done to try to garner votes for the republican package, dylan. and the thing you have to look at here is that unemployment benefits and an extension of the payroll tax cut holiday, as a lot of ideological opposition from very conservative house republicans that view that as two programs that don t work. they see the extension of the payroll tax holiday as a, quote, sugar high. they see extending unemployment benefits as partaking in a failed program that will not help people get ba