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Want a fair agreement. they want to be properly rewarded and its the intention of the bargaining team to make sure that happens. >> you talk about the ways in which you feel gms proposal fell short. they came out publicly with what their offer was, including $7 billion in investments, 5400 jobs, lump sum increases in each year of the proposed contract. some solutions for unallocated plants. you talk concerns of health care and the use of temporary workers. this is all happening as the union is f...

At once. so their bank accounts unfrozen. we have $100 billion of their oil money that has been frozen in banks. they would like all the trade restrictions stopped at once, but we obviously want to see them implementing the deal, doing what they say they were going to do before we start releasing this, and we dont want a flood of money going into iran and having iranian leaders use it to buy new arms they might be able to ship, for example, to hassad in syria whom they support. so thats what the...

Comrades for? come over here, you knuckleheads, we do business. what a business for the russians. how humiliating. the country that conquered states, rel quated to hitching rides with the people. passing our leadership role to the world because theres no way russia or china or iran will take advantage of that power vacuum, right? incredible, and demeaning. but look at the bright side. we locked in the space rates for the next three years. back last april, apparently, nasa signed a new agreement ...

Play political games and raise taxes on working americans. we made a decision to bring them to the table so that the games would stop and we would get this work done. >> speaker boehner says a vote could come this week. one of the bargainers is on the legislation, democratic senator max baucus, says leaders are just putting on the final touches. >> were there. there are just a couple little weres that sometimes get in the way but i think theyll be all ironed out today. >> nbc captain hill corres...

>> shannon: the battle over the payroll tax cut extension far from over. tomorrow the house will take up the legislation passed by the senate yesterday and a lot of house republicans are clearly opposed to it. it is the bottom of the hour, peter standing by with the top storys. >> house speaker john boehner says he is opposed to the senate approved bill approving a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits extension for just two months. in a "meet the press" interview he says congressional bargainers...

Its funny. that financial times article that we referenced earlier, there was also this quote in which he says i would not be at all surprised if we did something that would be very dramatic and good for both countries. and i hope so. so perhaps a little bit of foreshadowing of a deal. what kind of a deal do you think though that china might agree to? >> the chinese are tough bargainers. theyre very smart about the diplomacy. theyre a lot better over it over time. you notice how they approached ...