tri-stri. gregg: back to the drawing board on the bush era tax cuts, u.s. senate defeating two democratic plans that would have extended tax cuts only for some americans. molly henneberg is live in washington and been following the story. explain why democrats were unable to get the votes to pass either of these two measures. molly: they didn t peel off any republican votes and lost five members so democrats couldn t reach the 60 vote threshold. on the vote to extend the tax cuts for families making $250,000 left. russ fine gold and ben nelson of nebraska and jim web and joe lieberman joined republicans to oppose it. the president obama said he was, quote, very disappointed that the senate did not follow the house in passing the measure. today s vote cannot be the end of discussion. it s absolutely essential to hard working middle-class families and to our economy to make sure their taxes don t go up on january 1st. molly: republicans argue it doesn t make any sense t
2nd. the tea party is force to be reckoned with but will have to switch gears after tuesday in order to survive? how will it attract more young voters. injecting us is a charlie hertz. let s talk about the tea party makeup, tea party supporters don t tend to be young. latest polls, folks between ages of 18-29, are you a tea party supporter, only 11% say yes so this is not harvard university, not fox news, what do you make of that? it s an under statement that the tea party doesn t seem to attract don t think it s necesa bad thing. tea party has emerged as the anti-obama movement. obama was able to attract the
Argues. but the internal things are good for a party. it makes people more honest inside that party. when you are not talking about specifics and not having a fight inside the party, you probably missing something. let s take a look at some of the senate tea party candidates. these are politicians that have been backed by various tea party groups. not all of these candidates are going to win. christine o donnell is way behind in delaware but a lot of them will be going to washington. what happens to the tea party and to these politicians who have had the movement and support once they get to washington, charlie? i think that will be the most fascinating story of next year is watching, not only how the tea party keep together and will they wind up being disappointed
cartridge contained a powerful explosive that could have gone off. what is the latest. reporter: officials are telling me that they feel they have arrested a key suspect in the case of these sordid terror attacks against the united states. jaws short while, yemen president spoke to the press. he spoke about the yemen security forces surrounding a house, the suspect that the what the yemeni force are interested in. after the press conference was over, ten minutes later. word came from the president s office that the woman had been taken into custody. this capped and intense activity. security on the streets was absolutely blanketed. all packages headed to the u.s., seized and looked at. workers for ups and fed ex were questioned. those offices of the firms were shut down. then an apparent arrest from my government source. i think a lot of people are very grateful that there is perhaps a breakthrough in this case but at the same time. think a lot of people are wondering wha
new material and what does it mean? he started the wiki leaks that started a public service that protects activists and other people, say that classified military reports mostly related to afghanistan has, quote, em bold and other people and provide more material, that includes, he told nbc, papers that relate to bp and detail instances of after i because including sexual abuse in the u.s. military. documents will be posted on wiki leaks within weeks. gregg: do we have any idea who gave the documents to wiki leaks? they seem to be focusing on a analyst bradley manning but he has not an suspect in the case. he was however arrested in may that o charges that he released aerial cockpit videos of a 2000 fire fight in baghdad. manning was moved from a field jail to a brig in virginia where he may face trial. gregg: talk to us about the impact of these leaks? defense officials say they put u.s. soldiers at risk as well as afghan families. that the state department warning