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the payroll tax cut. its set to expire at the end of this year. president obama called john boehner today and the white house has even put a counterdown clock on the home page of its website. it says if the house does not act, taxes on the middle class will increase starting the first of the year. lets go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is standing by with the latest on this dramatic political showdown. what is the latest? >> the latest is that ...

Republicans from doing the right thing and make the country more divided. that would be an unfortunate effect, but the electoral effect for democrats long term is quite good, because the tea party represents only a minority of the country. >> how does your party square this thing? john, you hang around with these people. are people like michele bachmann and glenn beck, are they deciding whos kosher and who isnt? im looking at bachmann who went after chaff chaff its went after -- >> there will al...

Congresswoman from minnesota, all right, that dont have much of a power base at all, why do they care what she says? >> right. we have former sexiest man alive chris matthews taking a shot at bachmann. listen to this. >> this kind of talk from michelle bachmann, i dont know why shes allowed to be an extremist and everybody is coaxing on the right republican saying the president should move to the center and be reasonable and moderate where shes allowed to be out there as a screamer and in many c...

I could see perhaps jon huntsman once new hampshire comes along give a slightly nuanced answer to that, but i think that signified the whole thing. these candidates are afraid to alienate the most activated, energized set of voters in their party, and that is one thing, perhaps one of the only things, thats a bright spot for this white house, is that they think this field of candidates is veering so far right they wont be able to correct. im not so sure thats the case. at the end of the day i th...

Name it. the one thing that keeps them together is taxes. chris, ive told you this before. ive had republican pollsters tell me it would break the republican party apart if they somehow split on taxes. >> let me go to jeff on that same point. this was the bicentennial moment yesterday. jeff, to make it, follow on on has chuck said there. they make backtrack on that, some of them, in three, four months. but none of them asked for a clarification. they immediately, knee jerk response. they all put...

Trust her. those comments on the debt ceiling, i think, ended any chance she had to make that leap. i think its a very, she put herself in a very tough spot. >> so lets watch tim pawlenty take on michele bachmann and her record last night in that fox news debate we watching. lets listen. >> its an undisputable fact that in congress her record of accomplishment and results is non-existent rcht when it came to health care i brought tens of thousands of americans to washington to fight the unconsti...

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