we have both sides still, the republicans say they are not raising taxes, temporarily,. reporter: it will not include the mail air surtax that president obama wanted. jenna: how will they do it. reporter: i talked to a lot of senate republicans who are very high on this deal. take some of the ideas to cut spending that were in the supercommittee that didn t get approved, take some of those cuts, and pay for the payroll tax cut with that spending reduction. jenna: it will be interesting to see if the president would be open to that. it seems sometimes the simplest solution is one that no one seems to find. that s why we call this the sanity freeze is on. jenna: the about the had words about the payroll tax extension. we are hearing from the republicans this moment that they may want to attach the keystone pipeline deal into some sort of package to pass the payroll tax extension. here is what the president had to say.