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That this idea that the senate last night had an 89 members voting together in a bipartisan way, that this was missed on his colleagues in the house does does this mean? eric cantor said he was not for it as it currently was. he wanted to see an amendment. john baoehner has been silent about this. im hearing harry reid would essentially laugh at that and say are you kidding me? we spent this time, joe biden and mitch mcconnell spent all this time trying to get an agreement. what are we supposed ...

In that direction. it would have to go back to the senate. the senate has scattered to the winds at 2:00 this morning. a lot of ifs and buts in this thing. there is the possibility this could carry over into the new congress which would mean the slate is wiped clean. they could not take up the senate bill. they would have to started again. >> they would be sworn in at noon on that thursday, the 113th congress. they would have roughly about 80 or 90 new members, including democrats as well as rep...

Eric cantor, has said that he will not support the bill. now, for a leader to come out publicly against it means that it is most likely not going to be put on the house floor. the republicans are strongly leaning towards as you read from that statement from the spokesman for both cantor and house speaker john boehner, towards amending the bill and adding more spending cuts and sending it back to the senate. okay. thats the normal legislative process. thats the way it goes, this game of ping-pong...

But now a big question mark hangs over this legislation. >> needless to say, nobody wants to see this drag on anymore. needless to say, you have been covering this. lets go over to luke russert also watching this for us. what are you hearing in terms of eric cantor and speaker boehner now. >> its a wild story, richard. i have some details about that meeting that happened on capitol hill. i heard there are about 40 members who spoke um in that meeting. 37 of the 40 who spoke up spoke out against ...

>> first of all, i mean that would involve a fascinating dynamic internally with the house republican conference. eric cantor came out and said he will not support it. there has been tension between the top two republican leaders, a rivalry. many people have written about it. its not a big secret. im not talking out of school here. eric cantor stood four square behind boehner throughout this negotiation over the course of the last two months. ten days ago, in the speakers plan b, when that crash...

Our rolling coverage of breaking news coming out of capitol hill. this as were getting word, that cantor said he could not support the senate bill that was passed earlier 89-8. boehner did not say either way. we are also hear iing that as t bill came to them from the senate, he would also be a no. luke russert has been following this throughout the last 24 hours and all the things. you have with you the representative. >> youre a close ally of speaker boehner. what happened in conference today? ...

Latourette, thank you. richard, back to you. >> thank you. very insightful there. getting an and wering of whats being discussed in capitol hill. house republicans expecteded to have another meeting in the coming hours. well watch that and look at what some of the repercussions are, based on what rptdive latourette told luke russert on this issue of eric cantor not supporting the bill as it stands coming over from the senate. 89-8 earlier today. stick with us. well get back to capitol hill in a ...

He will not support the bill that passed the senate last night. it was about 1:40 last night in the morning, 89-8. the senate passed it. they largely left town. they left it up to the house of representatives to decide what to do to avoid the fiscal cliff. the house must act on the senate bill and pass it if its to come to the presidents desk for his signature. the house leader said last night they will either do that -- first they will take time to look at it, talk about it. they will either pa...

R50i9 right now our members after very thoughtful dlab rations and review are continuing to review the legislation weighing the pros and cons, the equities of not going over the cliff, but were all very eager to see the form that the republican leadership will put onto the floor today. i think that weve made gigantic progress. i hope that we can have a bipartisan agreement as we go forward. >> all right. house minority leader nancy pelosi, gigantic progress is the word she used there, and then j...

Know what theyre going to say. you just had eric canter, the house majority leader saying the day before that they were going to pass that he had the votes. does he not communicate? do these guys not talk to each other? i dont understand how john boehner allowed himself to be really humiliated by his caucus. that said, it isnt surprising because this isnt the new congress that was e lekted in november. this is the same congress fuelled by this tea party, hard core rejectionest group that hasnt b...