being here. what s the exit strategy? how might this flap over the payroll tax end? house blinks, senate blinks, or does it expire? well, i don t think it will expire. i think that basically there is so much pressure on speaker boehner. he s basically standing alone, that the house is going to have to do what the american people want and what many of us have been asking which is very simple simply to pass the two-month extension and then we ll negotiate for the rest of the year. speaker boehner had a very bad day. it started out with the wall street journal editorial which you mentioned. in the course of the day senator mccain tweeted the wall street journal editorial to thousands of republicans and said he agreed with it. later in the day, both newt gingrich and karl rove, two leading republican strategists, said that boehner ought to just go along here, so he s sort of out on a limb, and i think he knows the right thing to do, but
we start with senator charles schumer, a democrat from the great state of new york. senator schumer, thanks for being here. what s the exit strategy? how might this flap over the payroll tax end? house blinks, senate blinks, or does it expire? well, i don t think it will expire. i think that basically there is so much pressure on speaker boehner. he s basically standing alone, that the house is going to have to do what the american people want and what many of us have been asking which is very simple police to pass the two-month extension and then we ll negotiate for the rest of the year. speaker boehner had a very bad day. it started out with the wall street journal editorial which you mentioned. in the course of the day senator mccain tweeted the wall street journal editorial to thousands of republicans and said he agreed with it. later in the day, both newt gingrich and karl rove, two leading republican strategists, said that boehner ought to just go along here, so he s sort o
lewis had strong words for republicans. here it is. what is happening here today is shameful, it is a disgrace, it is unreal, it is unbelievable. we can do better. if we fail today, how will you face your neighbor? family who are suffering. where s your compassion?! where s your heart?! where is your soul?! dana milbank, where does it end? give me the exit strategy. that s the problem. usually you can sort of see how these things work out. the disagreement here is fairly trivial, and it s not clear that the democrats have any incentive to get in, so they may just let the republicans stew in their own juice for many more days. and it looks like some people are canceling their holiday vacations. it s a hard sell for those republicans to go home and say,
they are upping their movie choice, if you like. passions were high on the floor of the house today. i ll give you an example. democratic congressman john lewis had strong words for republicans. here it is. what is happening here today is shameful. it is a disgrace. it is unreal. it is unbelievable. we can do better. if we fail today, how will you face your neighbor? family who are suffering. where s your compassion?! where s your heart?! where is your soul?! dana milbank, where does it end? give me the exit strategy. that s the problem. usually you can sort of see how these things work out. the disagreement here is fairly trivial, and it s not clear that the democrats have any incentive to get in, so they may just let the republicans stew in their own juice for many more days. i don t think about you, but it looks like some people are
stood by his call for more negotiations. let s extend the payroll tax credit for a year. all we re asking for is to get the senate members over here to work with us to resolve our differences so we can do what everybody wants to do. less than two weeks before the iowa caucuses republican ron paul, now the new leader of the pack. in a new poll 28% say paul is their man compared to 25% who back newt gingrich. paul is holding a town meeting. that is happening in iowa this hour. more on the surge in the state later, our political ticker. turkish police detain dozens of people in an alleged ter or plot. many of them, journalists. journalists held this demonstration in istanbul. it was just hours after the police roundup. now they say free press is under attack, but the government says those detained were suspected members of the press and propaganda wing of a banned separatist group. some american troops who just returned home from iraq have just learned now that they may