could include new spending measures. this bill is all tax increases and very little spending cuts. when the republicans got together yesterday afternoon, there was a rebellion among house republicans. they all wanted spending cuts, both boehner and his number two, eric cantor put out a statement saying there was near unanimous concern about spending. the debate for much of the day is what do we tack on to this turkey the senate sent us? do cuts that we know kill it as the poison pill or there was some conversation about attaching cuts that democrats might find acceptable that the president has been for in the past. in the end, mark, republicans decided they couldn t be stuck with the idea of a middle class tax cut that they couldn t have the cliff totally on their hands. they couldn t get enough votes for those spending additions. so john boehner votes yes, cant cantor, mccarthy and other
movie. you know his teeth are going to come out. [laughter] it s not. actually santorum was exposed last night more so for title x. i mean, you can t wear your religion on your sleeve and then justify voting for planned parenthood. megyn: he was questioned about, for the viewers who didn t see it, he said it was a huge bill, that it had all sorts of spending measures in it, i didn t want it, but then i pushed for title xx, so at least i did something. you didn t accept that? no. he compromised his morals. he s catholic, he professes to be catholic. abortion is an intrinsic evil. how can you compromise on something like that? megyn: so you re jumping on that bandwagon. but mitt romney has taken so much heat for reversing himself on the issue megyn, here s the thing. being a d.c. insider is toxic. you cannot have that. mitt romney is the only one now that is the d.c. outsider. megyn: okay, but that s a
daley s exit. john king is here. i knew there were issues because a few weeks ago because the chief of staff was taking on the day-to-day responsibilities but this did come as a surprise. a bit. bill daley said sometime around the end of the year he s going to make another re-assessment and he s decided to go home. his brother just lost his wife. it reminds him to be with his family. he s not a young man. he came here expecting remember history. kmer secretary and the clinton administration. he thought he would be that liaison, the bridge-builder with republicans on issues like the debt ceiling and deficit reduction and some grand compromise to bring it down or reformed entitlements but we know none of that is happening. jack lew coming in, the budget guy, now the chief of staff, it will be about temporary spending measures. bill daley said, i ve done this before. i don t want to be in a campaign
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with
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