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just into "the situation room," brand-new poll numbers confirming a new lineup in the fight for the gop presidential nomination. the cnn/orc survey has just been released and shows a two-man contest at this point. the poll shows 34% of republicans asked say santorum is their choice. 32% say romney. with a sampling error, that means its a statistic cal tie. ron paul and newt gingrich are far behind at 16 and 15%. first big picture, ron, what do you make of santorums rise? >> i think thi...

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Medicare doc fix and we can now move on to other business? >> let me say the republicans and the tea party, of course, have a way of trying to shift the debate away from what is really important and thats creating jobs and turning the economy around. i just have to say, as it relates to this latest rule and what theyre doing in terms of politicizing womens contraceptive, access to contraception and health care, you know, martin, i was raised a catholic. i was a practicing devout catholic. i unde...

Credit card and buckle down. >> the vote to disapprove was part of the debt deal last summer. democrats, the majority in the senate, the measure is not a threat to president obamas ability to borrow. still the republicans are pushing president obama to address the drivers of the debt. >> where is the president entitlement reform plan? where is his tax reform plan? where is his regulatory reform plan? where is his litigation reform plan? mr. speaker, i have seen his re-election plan. >> the house...

The least productive years in history. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us there is not an abundance of optimism about get things done. >> as congress starts the 2012 session, one of the first fight will be the one that ended 2011, extenting the payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefit and medicare doc fix for the rest of the year. senator row blount now member of the republican leadership says this is a critical first test. >> there are plenty of votes to get it done. it ju...

The least productive years in history. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us there is not an abundance of optimism about get things done. >> as congress starts the 2012 session, one of the first fight will be the one that ended 2011, extenting the payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefit and medicare doc fix for the rest of the year. senator row blount now member of the republican leadership says this is a critical first test. >> there are plenty of votes to get it done. it ju...

Accounting, adds up the book at the end of the year. they dump this and they usually do it before christmas day. its called net present value. that is what we owe now plus what we have promised to spend. its the usual suspects, its medicare, medicaid, social security. in particular the troubling thing with how the gao came out with the numbers is that they havent actually factored in a couple of key things. what they are saying is we will owe $33.8 trillion if we had to pay up today if the presi...

The tea party yesterday in the deal? >> no, absolutely not. the speaker didnt betray anyone. first of all, you have to remember something, just like myself, speaker boehner has an obligation to govern. and governing is not an easy thing to do. we went into this with good faith. we wanted to push -- thats why i got a big kick of your first segment how were not protecting taxpayers. were pushing for one year because its good policy. everyone has told me since i took office in january, dont do band...

Different ways. we have to be somewhat inventive. during this past few days ive had many calls from my caucus members about ideas that they have would protect the people that need the extra few bucks each month but also save money in the long run. unemployment, we have to figure out a way to extend that. we, this is the first time that we paid for unemployment tax extension, which i did not favor but significant number of my own caucus did so something we had to do. well continue to fight for th...

We dont -- we can do the doc fix -- >> okay. but, wait a second, though. youre saying that republicans should be for raising taxes on middle class americans? >> no, they should be for eliminating the payroll tax entirely. thats what im saying. >> entirely. and what happens to the social security trust fund then? >> righted. and how do we pay for that? if were not willing to make millions and billionaires pay their fair share, how do we pay for that, j.p.? >> but this is another interesting thing...