and snail mail? about to get even slower. time to play reporter roulette. kate bolduan on capitol hill, democrats have taken another shot, extending the payroll tax cut before it expires at the end of the year. here s my if to you. if congress doesn t get it done, they can t compromise, your paycheck could be a lot lighter next year. what s the difference in this version of the plan today? reporter: in this version of the plan, this is now the kind of newest proposal to come forward, this coming from senate democrats, this keep what this proposal does is extend the payroll tax cut for employees and actually expand it so employees would be having to pay even less in the payroll tax. so it would go from 4.2% tax to 3.1% tax. a big change, though, is this proposal does not include it has dropped the payroll are tax cut employers. democrats say that was done in an effort to bring down the overall cost of the package. it s now about a third of what democrats had originally
iran says the drone was an rk-170. that s one of the most secret drones in the u.s. military and intelligence arsenal, essentially a stealth drone, flies undetected, gathering intelligence and targeting information. what is the u.s. say something so far the u.s. is using the alternate aplooins lines in afghanistan to issue a statement is only saying the uav which the iranians may be referring to may be a u.s. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western afghanistan last week. the operators of the uav lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status. that is what the u.s. is saying about all of this, a loss of flight controls before the drone went down. but what the u.s. isn t saying is that it was shot down or one of the highly classified drones. the key question is do the iranians have their hands on classified u.s. intelligence technology? let s talk more about the pentagon s concerns. how concerned is the pentagon a