pass in the next few weeks. so if the president really wanted to fix the economy with the new measures, why didn't he introduce it six months ago when it had a better chance of passage? the white house retort is if the republicans are saying these are popular tax cuts they're ready to support, let's do it in the next couple weeks. and then the argument will be over. >> ed, on a different topic, we hear that the chicago mayor richard daily says he's not running for re-election and is rumblings that rahm emanuel may want to become his honor. what do we know about that? >> reporter: ram he manual is keeping his cards close to the vest. the last thing ram he manual wants to do is look like he is jumping in right away and not giving richard daily his time in the sun here. but when you talk to people close to rahm emanuel, they note he is publicly said before he wants to be mayor. they say privately he still wants to do it. they're not sure if he's going to jump in now. but the smart money in