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And that is in the form of unemployment insurance. it is in the form of infrastructure spending. and up until monday it was in the form of an extension of the payroll tax cut. those are the measures that the president does want to see. that a lot see are necessary in the current state. and so what john boehner is doing here essentially is calling the white houses bluff. the white house wants to deal in those measures and they wont get one if they dont pass. >> what surprises you, if anything? >>...

>> sam stein, isnt plan b good for the white house? isnt the white house just kind of pretending theyre not crazy about john boehner? especially the part where he says he will bring the senate bill to a vote in the house? >> well, yeah, it is good in one sense, that they will have a number of republicans voting for a tax hike. how many republicans they will get is another question entirely. but lets keep in mind the white house has incentives, as well, to see a deal passed, a bigger deal. and th...

We understand they will have two votes, probably thursday, one would renew all so-called bush tax cuts for those making less than $1 million a year so republicans can say, well, we didnt vote to raise taxes. there will be a second vote to renew all of the tax cuts for those making less than $200,000 a year or couples up to $250,000 a year. that is interesting here, they are trying to call the democrats bluff. speaker boehner thinks he can muscle this through the house because they are not raisin...

Out. we dont want what happened to one of the best officers here to happen to somebody else. >> the brushy mountain correctional complex in eastern tennessee serves a unique purpose in the states prison system. for first-time inmates, its often just a point of entry. for the most violent prisoners, its the last stop. as a result, brushy mountain has an unusual population, young men facing the harsh reality of life without freedom and hardened lifers who find it difficult to remember anything els...

Each in the first half, in the second half. the high school athletic association does not currently have a mercy rule in place. how about the coach of the other team? coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," majority leader harry reid says it could take a christmas miracle to get both sides to agree on a fiscal cliff deal. meanwhile, the president said hes confident republicans will cave on the tax increases. well discuss the fiscal cliff with our "morning joe" panel. and now, merc...

Ceiling, things shifted. i dont agree with bob corker on that issue. it shifted the way it has on taxes. senator mcconnell put on the floor a resolution that said it was his idea, not ours, that let the president raise the debt ceiling. its money congress has already spent and let congress by two-thirds override it. he thought we democrats would run from that scared as could be. within a half hour we had 51 votes, we called his bluff and he filibustered his proposal. the sure footed mitch mcconn...

Ceiling, things shifted. i dont agree with bob corker on that issue. it shifted the way it has on taxes. senator mcconnell put on the floor a resolution that said it was his idea, not ours, that let the president raise the debt ceiling. its money congress has already spent and let congress by two-thirds override it. he thought we democrats would run from that scared as could be. within a half hour we had 51 votes, we called his bluff and he filibustered his proposal. the sure footed mitch mcconn...

Welcome back to "the ed show." we have seen a lot of obstructionism from the republicans. trying to stop progress has z how they do business. latest move from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell just might take the cake. he threatened to filibuster his own bill. mcconnell proposed legislation to give the president the authority to raise the debt ceiling. under the plan, congress would need a two-thirds majority to stop him. its a proposal that president obama likes. so why would mitch mcconne...

Welcome back to "the ed show." we have seen a lot of obstructionism from the republicans. trying to stop progress has z how they do business. latest move from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell just might take the cake. he threatened to filibuster his own bill. mcconnell proposed legislation to give the president the authority to raise the debt ceiling. under the plan, congress would need a two-thirds majority to stop him. its a proposal that president obama likes. so why would mitch mcconne...

Mcconnell proposed become in july 2011. but even though it is mitch mcconnells idea, even though he came up with it, mitch mcconnell is not for it. mitch mcconnell at this point does not support the mcconnell plan at all. he didnt think democrats did either. and yesterday he wanted to call their bluff. now that is when c-span 2 suddenly became amazing television. yesterday afternoon mitch mcconnell asked the senate to move to an immediate vote on the mcconnell plan. vote on it now. you figured h...