a judge ruling he is competent for a medical evaluation. he can t enter a insanity plea. he claims the devil told him boehner was evil and wanted to kill him by poisoning him or shooting him. he blames baner for losing his job at an ohio country club where boehner is a member. he was fired after the armed robbery is now suing the company. melissa hill come lost her job because she refused to repay the money that was stolen to the restaurant owner. popeye central office came offered her her job back not before the news of her dismissal went viral. she is seeking $5 million and is working at a different popeyes until the corporation can respond to her attorney. a lot of fried chicken and business. now expanding in an effort to redefying the brand.
chuck schumer there and prior to that listening to harry reid saying that whatever bill that boehner was trying to get together to send over would be doomed to failure. the political director of nbc news, also the host of the daily rundown, chuck todd is with me and has been paying attention to the bouncing ball here. chuck, explain what we re seeing, because the left is coming out pretty reactively to the little information that they have on where boehner is, although nancy pelosi was pretty firm in saying that the address that boehner gave was basically a show of hands saying he doesn t have the votes. well, thomas, i m sort of i am surprised by the heated rhetoric i m hearing from democrats on the house republican proposal as we know it. at least the contours of the outline. because the contours of the outline, here s what house republicans did. they essentially bought into the senate structure on when the budget how long they would fund the budget and the next debt ceiling
speaker boehner s spokesperson brendon buck earlier tonight said all of this the back and forth this is all vice president biden and senator mcconnell and he said quoting here boehner and mcconnell have not spoken since last week. the staff is being apprised on what they have been working on. we have not been negotiating with any one which is interesting, ed, when you look at the possibility of whatever comes out of the senate if it comes out of the senate tonight and we keep talking about the possibility of this deal, you are right we have to get over the hump that you have to get over the 60 votes necessary to bring the bill to the floor of the senate and then they have to pass it through the senate. and then it goes to the house. now, speaker boehner the real question is here, ed, whether he brings up this piece of legislation. if it he does his own head check in the gop caucus and realizes that a majority of his majority does not support what is coming out of the senate.
reform, rates will not go above where they are right now. that might be sort of where the disconnect is here. there is two possibilities in terms of where boehner and the republicans are right now on the question of tax rates. one is that boehner who is not in a great position to tell conservatives you have to follow me. he doesn t have that much built in credibility. he needs any deal he makes with obama, he needs cover on it. is he waiting until december 26th or 27th or when we are right up against the clock. they have cred skpiblt they give him cover and say we are at the end and make your deal. maybe he is waiting for that. the other possibility is that he surveyed the republican conference and he looked and said no. there is never going to be enough support in the republican conference for tax rate hikes for me to sign off. we are talking about going down the slope starting january 1st. the other thing is that the rate hikes, the tax hikes that
day because of isaac. t issaheuse of isaac. schedule. speaker of thhn boehner is already at the convention where boehner is already at the convention where he spoke exclusively to abc news of our kids and grandkids if we don t deal with it. instead of getting smaller, it s getting bigger. to drive home the point, you can see it, the republicans started a debt clock meant to show how much the government is borrowing, which they say is going toe fo all right. senator rob portman from ohio. very popse very popular guy, too, done all the practice debates with candidates, you mentioned, he did hillary clinton, dointhi goitle debate with romney and get him ready for the debate. he prepped john mccain four ye he also prepped george w. so this is something that he is