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is the candidate still making money from layoffs? were checking the facts. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com lets get right to the breaking news. a possible deal in the stalemate over extending the payroll tax cut for at least another two months, but potentially for the entire year. the year of 2012. we have all of our reporters standing by. lets go to our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, hes up on capito...

are going to be making some statements i suspect as well. at least the president will talk about whats at stake for them. john, you and i have covered these games of chicken for a long time. president will be walking out in a moment. cant believe personally that they wont work out a deal between now and december 31st, because the stakes are too enormous. >> the stakes are enormous. i think youre right theyll try to work out a deal. if republicans this morning didnt think theyd wake up ...

>> well, i think what we wanted to do, michael, we were working with the white house, and again, the president laid down the gauntlet. he said we need to have a one-year solution to this. and through the negotiations of the fall, we took him for his word. we put in other issues. some of the reforms on unemployment insurance. we put in the medicare so-called doc fix, and we put in the keystone pipeline, and so one of the epa rules on boiler regulation that we thought was onerous, we had it remove...

Are saying, not only do we want it extended, its not being extended long enough in the scenario thats been proposed. >> well, i think what we wanted to do, michael, we were working with the white house, and again, the president laid down the gauntlet. he said we need to have a one-year solution to this. and through the negotiations of the fall, we took him for his word. we put in other issues. some of the reforms on unemployment insurance. we put in the medicare so-called doc fix, and we put in ...

Road. how is anybody supposed to know where the can really is if speaker boehner and the rest of the republican caucus keep moving the can? >> we havent moved the can. our vote was loud and clear. maybe you didnt hear it the first time. the american people did. we voted by a one-year extension. thats what the president asked for. we delivered. we stat down. we thought up a thoughtful bill that makes sense. its a reasonable pragmatic bill. thats what the american people want. they dont want more ...

To do, michael, we were working with the white house, and again, the president laid down the gauntlet. he said we need to have a one-year solution to this. and through the negotiations of the fall, we took him for his word. we put in other issues. some of the reforms on unemployment insurance. we put in the medicare so-called doc fix, and we put in the keystone pipeline, and so one of the epa rules on boiler regulation that we thought was onerous, we had it removed. now, we are willing to compro...

Loves getting free stuff. and medicare is kind of like getting free stuff. and its not free, you said, i paid into it for years, every check, well, yes, you did. but on average, most of you, you say, will get back three times what you paid in. and thats why medicare is it unsustainable. its growing broke. its off the cliff, its 46 trillion dollars in debt. and politicians promised to cut some costs and in fact, the balanced budget act forced them to cut doctors fees by get this, 29%, starting ne...

Loves getting free stuff. and medicare is kind of like getting free stuff. and its not free, you said, i paid into it for years, every check, well, yes, you did. but on average, most of you, you say, will get back three times what you paid in. and thats why medicare is it unsustainable. its growing broke. its off the cliff, its 46 trillion dollars in debt. and politicians promised to cut some costs and in fact, the balanced budget act forced them to cut doctors fees by get this, 29%, starting ne...

Takes the view that if its passed one house it would not be a government shoulddown. i think everybody should be reassured thats not going to happen. >> shepard: either way those payroll tax cuts are still very much up in the air. and again developing now, a possible deal is in the works. mike emanuel is all over it on capitol hill tonight. a flurry of activity there, mike. fill us in. >> in the last few minutes, senate republic leadership on the republic side met with their members in one side....

Discuss. we have sticking around for the entire program, heather boucher, randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers and josh barrow, a contributor and fellow at the manhattan institute. congress had a lot to take quar of before their holiday break. on friday, they passed a trillion dollar spending bill that will fund the government through next december. they agreed to a payroll tax extension for 160 million americans and unemployment insurance and funds it the medicare ...