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we have senate leadership with us right now. the head of the conference committee chairman joins us now from capitol hill. mitch mcconnell, the majority leader of your party we think is not at that meeting with the president and chuck schumer, why not? i m not sure i know the answer to that, harris. i would hope that the leader would be involved in those conversations and discussions, hopefully the president is going to talk some sense into senator schumer, who is heading us down this path toward a government shutdown. frankly over an issue that is unrelated to funding the government but more important he doesn t have a deadline until the middle of march. there is no sense of urgency about this. the democrats have adopted a position that is inconsistent with the reality of where we are. we need to keep the government funded, we need to make sure our military gets funded. we have health insurance programs for 9 million children that will be funded and
we hope that we re able to get this passed before the 29th of february, but right now, all indications are that we re leading up to another one of these hostage taking situations. wow, that was house democratic caucus chairman congressman john lar son of connecticut on msnbc talking about the latest congressional battle to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million american workers. just before christmas, congress extendsed the cut till the end of february. now, house and senate negotiators are deadlocked in their latest effort to extend it for the rest of the year. democrats and republicans blaming each other on this one. conference committee chairman dave kemp is calling for civility as the war of words is heating up again. luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. as i said, you wonder anymoreful people know what the word civility means. here we are again. indeed, tamron. and about a few minutes ago, jay carney, the president s press