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Namely that. >> want to add about $330 billion in spending cuts to that bill. then at 5:30 this evening, the house gop conference meets again. by now, the senate has warned them they will not entertain any amendments, in other words, if it comes to them. that will not put it to the floor. and sure enough, gop opposition cannot gather enough support to pass those amendments anyway. which brings us to tonight. live on the floor at the moment, we look. house members preparing to vote on exactly wha...

Also, eric cantor is very tied in to wall street. and a lot of finance republicans, the ones i talk to who talk to those guys from the big banks, they did not want to see the markets open tomorrow with this deal up in the air there was definitely a pushback from that community as these negotiations move forward. >> we saw the dow react positively there the other day. and then it could go negative again after we have seen a long string of decreases in the dow index leading up to this vote. and th...

I dont think thats going to be the case. but youre asking how it could fall apart. thats how it could fall apart. >> were hearing now, chuck, that the vote timing could be as late as 11:15, 11:00, in that range. should we make anything of that? >> no. its just part of the way -- they have to debate the bill. right now theyre debating the rule on the bill. this is all procedure. and the timing of the actual vote will depend on how much debate time each side wants to take. and i wouldnt be surpris...

In action. even when we gave them what they wanted, they said no to what they wanted. and so i will be satisfied when i see 218 votes counted on the board, and i will tell you again that house democrats will provide the difference on a deal that the president supports, the vice president supports, harry reid support, mitch mcconnell, for goodness sake sorts. 89 senators support . >> what is your thought on boehner to take to it the floor, have an upper down vote here? weve been talking tonight a...

>> all righty. stay with us here on msnbc. well bring the vote to you live. stay with us. well be right back. this is america.

Youre looking at the floor of the u.s. house of representatives on this january 1st, 2013. it is 21 hours into the first day of the year, and we are awaiting a final vote to keep the u.s. economy from falling to the bottom of the so-called fiscal cliff. good evening. im richard lui. we will be with you throughout this hour as we await a vote in the house which we expect to happen soon. the senate did its part early this morning by passing a bill to extend the bush era tax cuts for 98% of america...

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They -- right now today theyre expired. if we can force them into law for good, well mean we might never rise them again. we can take another bite at this. and another part of the long game is what mike was saying. in two months theyre going to get a fight on what they think, what tom cole says, lindsey graham says is favorable ground to them on the debt limit. democrats are not convinced. democrats think republicans are going to lose that argument too. but there is a sense of exhaustion and a s...

He didnt know what to do. there was a rebellion, and he didnt do enough to squash it. so there is two views out of it. but i will say, richard, its fascinating. boehners philosophy has been in all these fights, give this rebellious part of his conference a voice, and its kind of a prodigal son routine. they get angry, they go out, he ends up welcoming them back with open arms, and then they move forward as a unified republican party, at least in their discussions. but we in the media then sort o...

Shrinking away, doesnt that argue that we are still a two-party system and it still is as powerful as ever? >> no. i think people are undecided, just because theyre undecided doesnt mean theyre happy with the choices theyve got. i would argue that people arent particularly happy with those choices. >> but thats happened before? >> sure it has. sure it has. but, you know, in this environment if we had a different option, if we had mike bloomberg or somebody else out there, i think that you would ...