to work together. for her, just walking away from the table when they are saying they want to compromise, it is actually sad. it could be described as either indifferent or heartless to those lives that may be in jeopardy and those workers who are without a job when she is having a great time in hawaii. congressman, democrats are going to be taking over the house next week. how does this then get resolved? well, i think there are two things to remember. first of all, the bill is sitting in the senate. chuck schumer could get this through without nancy pelosi if he had the will. he doesn t have the will. the next thing that s gonna happen is that the democrats have a lot of folks back in the d.c. area that aren t going to get paid. they are going to start putting pressure on the democrats. necessary where you are going to see some leverage that comes in. we are going to have to wait it out, actually, i think. pam, the problem is the
the table when they are saying they want to compromise, it is actually sad. it could be described as either indifferent or heartless to those lives that may be in jeopardy and those workers who are without a job when she is having a great time in hawaii. congressman, democrats are going to be taking over the house next week. how does this then get resolved? well, i think there are two things to remember. first of all, the bill is sitting in the senate. chuck schumer could get this through without nancy pelosi if he had the will. he doesn t have the will. the next thing that s gonna happen is that the democrats have a lot of folks back in the d.c. area that aren t going to get paid. they are going to start putting pressure on the democrats. necessary where you are going to see some leverage that comes in. we are going to have to wait it out, actually, i think. pam, the problem is the filibuster.
she says she ll be doing more of that in the days ahead to get both immigration and a gun-control package passed this year. mike, always interesting in any two-term presidency, who stays all eight years at the staff level? what s your prediction? will valerie still till the end? she will. we asked her about the post-presidency. she joked she hopes the president will spend a lot of time in hawaii, that she ll probably go back to chicago. she also said that in the next few she also said in the president s inaugural address, he s going to take a hopeful tone and he s going to talk to every citizen about the role that they have to play in the agenda that he has for the next couple years. boy, that s going to take a lot of time, talk to every citizen. not just the 53%. mike allen, thanks very much. still ahead, chuck todd, eugene robinson and david gregory, and we re going to be back in a minute. at 1:45, the aflac duck was brought in
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florida is a big prize, with 50 delegates up for grabs in a winner-take-all contest. it s time to turn to cnn political reporter peter hamby who s live in plantation, florida, a suburb just west of ft. lauderdale. reporter: they are not letting up on newt gingrich. i ve got to tell you, every television ad i ve seen has been negative and most of them have within negative from romney or his allies against newt gingrich. today they re out with a brutal new ad that s sat rating air waves here. it features tom brokaw talking for 30 seconds in a news clip from 1997 after the house voted to sanction gingrich when he was speaker. take a look at this ad that s running here, gary. tonight he has on his own record the judgment of his peers, democrat and rip alike, by an overwhelming vote they found him guilty of ethics violations. they charged him a very large financial penalty and they raised several of them raised several questions about his future effectiveness. reporter: so