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north korea. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the showdown over the payroll tax cut lasted for weeks, but the stalemate ended in a matter of minutes today after house republican leaders bowed to overwhelming pressure and gave into the democrats. today, the house approved the bill that got almost 90% of support in the senate. president obama signed it into law and the threat of a new years day tax hire for 160 working americans is over. lets go straight to dana bash whos ...

here is the current u.s. debt ceiling. it 14i$14.3 trillion. we hit it in may. if they dont comeup with a dee. they have a scheduled meeting in about five hours. listen to how far republicans, other republicans and democrats are. this is from "anderson cooper 360" late last night. first majority whip steny hoyer. >> even within their own party, it is deeply divided party, divided against their leadership, angry at their leadership, and a party that has divided itself, has difficulty wo...

A prooeft amendment approved the use of the auto pen but a former aid to george w. bush says its policy was to never use it for free a judge may rule a law invalid. obama administration says the alternative of flying the legislation to france for the president to sign it could have allowed the patriot act to expire which it called an unnecessary risk. an example of do as i say, not as i do at the dnc. thats ahead on the grapevine. but first, obama says time to [ children laughing ]

The state releasing the names as families grow more frustrated with the search. >> thats down from 1500 people unaccounted for. the patriot act due to expire at midnight. president obama has directed the use of what is called an auto pen to sign it. the president is in france for the g-8 summit so the machine replicates his signature. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deal with legalizes tactics like roving wire taps and searching the personal records of terror suspects. ...

To, theyre actively helping iran get around sanctions or wink-wink as iran does it on their own. i dont think the republicans are trying to thwart start 2 at this point so you have as theyre trying to hold the obama administration to the promises the obama administration made at the time. and for some strange reason, the administration doesnt want to do that. they dont want to make good on things they said at the time. that means the republicans take that. i think theyre right. that they didnt m...

Joplin, missouri. officials under fire for the slow process of identifying victims of last weekends monster tornado. right now, 232 people are still considered unaccounted for. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan this morning for talks aimed at mending relations between the two countries following the u.s. raid on osama bin ladens compound. meantime the cia has been granted access by the pakistani government to return to that compound and conduct a bigger search. the agency pla...

Accused obama of being, quote, arrogant. he was asked about the risk of being on bad terms with the u.s. >> if you create too much of a rift with america, with the president obama, if you go back into power, they wont forget that and pakistan is reliant on this aid money. its a lot of money. >> money is coming. it is there. theres no doubt about that. that doesnt mean that pakistan can give up its sovereignty, its national interests. now this has to be dealt with in a diplomatic manner. we have ...

Video of these auto pen which is mimic a persons signature. >> well, obviously the framers could not have foreseen an auto pen. but actually the issue of people being able to sign for you goes back before the -- one of the earliest case is the lord lovelace case. less racy than it sounds. in 1632. the -- you can start -- starting with those cases courts allowed other people to sign for clients or other attorneys. and thats done routinely. i have colleagues that signed for me if i am out town. th...

Because hes in france. this machine replicates his signature. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deals with legalizing roving wire taps and searching the personal records of terror suspects and some say other americans. its extended for another four years. it had to be signed. use the auto pen. >> is that the equivalent of holding your nose. >> it could have been sent to him, right, technically? had theres been other legislation where people have been able to sign it. >> aut...

The secretary says now is the time for decisive steps. this is a turning point in our relationship with afghanistan. you saw her use a standard formulation now with regard to the question of whether or not anyone in the top echelon of the pakistani government knew that osama bin laden was living where he was living, said theres no evidence anyone at the highest level knew. theres loopholes in that, at the highest level what about lowest levels? to say theres no evidence is opening the question w...