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Heather: welcome back. president obama back in hawaii vacationing with his family. he arrived there yesterday before the bill to the avoid the fiscal cliff was delivered to the white house. so the president signed the deal into law using a device called an auto pen. that is a machine that basically produces a copy of the presidents signature. it is the third time that president obama has used the device and it has been used in previous administrations. bill? bill: who needs an oval office? techn...

Least three weeks. >> you mentioned peter king, representative peter king. you add that to representative michael grimm who yesterday were blasting the house leadership and yet today they seem somewhat appeased. they say they will support him as speaker of the house. do you expect him to be reelected? i mean, is his leadership damaged from all of this? >> im not a republican. im not going to get into the internal politics of the republican party, but as an outside observer, i do expect him to ge...

January 2013. one congress cant bind the hands of future congress. >> super committee member jon kyl says the group has until sunday night to produce legislation for the congressional budget office to evaluate, but there are already signs this panel of 12 is on life support already. shannon? >> shannon: mike emanuel live on the hill. thank you, mike. president obama has signed legislation to keep the government running through december 16. the president used what is called an auto pen to mecha...

Your debt reduction and debt limit meeting later on today because we have come to an impasse. we have hit the point where were not getting anything out of this so were going to essentially have to call your boss. >> yeah, this is a big concern to see some of these key republicans step out of these talks that have been going on for so long. weve seen a lot of things come down to the wire in washington lately where everything is solved at the last second and suddenly theyre signing things with the...

Of the western way of life. period. not even a loving letter written by president obamas auto pen. a government established by islam representing unity of the muslim nations around the globe. washington doesnt care who, or care to understand what coming. what worries washington in what worries them? jobs and stimulus packages? the debt and spending? oil and green programs? getting re-elected. but that is low. middle east and israel? i contend they depths care about jobs. they care about the stim...

They passed the extension and sent it to president obamas desk. president obamas desk was empty. he was not there. he was in europe. he was in france, to be specific. since this was a time-sensitive matter, the white house did not have many options. they put out this statement. failure to sign this legislation poses a risk to u.s. national security. the president will, therefore direct the use of the auto pen to sign it. auto pen. the auto pen isnt austrian. its a robotic signature device that p...

He had pizzas from the best place on the planet, ginos east in chicago and sent the leftovers to president obamas campaign fundraising head quarters there in chicago and to prove it, theres a picture that he tweeted of the delivery boy. >> i dont know if thats a jab. you call that a jab. >> is that just friendly? >> just an extra pizza. >> leftovers. well, ok. >> maybe it was just a friendly gesture. youre right. >> meanwhile, the patriot act, of course, was almost about to expire and the presid...

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 finish the job in libya. host: coul...

Handwriting from afar and fills in the document. its rarely used but its quite a cool gadget. >> john hancock never saw that one coming, you know? why does everything have to come down to the very last second. why do you have to wait for the last second to sign the patriot act back into business? talked about how critical this is to protect america and protect us from terrorists and down to the last second where you have to whip out technology to make it happen. >> yeah, it was most like the bud...