is the candidate still making money from layoffs? we re checking the facts. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s 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. let s go to our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, he s up on capitol hill hill. for viewers just tuniing in, wht was just happened? what we expect is that the house republicans that they will not go for a short-term two-month extension of this payroll tax so that americans taxes will not go up on january 1st, we believe they are going to give in, back down on that and they will in fact go for it. this deal is being worked out, the final details of it as we speak. but our understanding, jessica yellin, kate bolduan and myself, basically what we re hearin
inflammatory writings to paid subscribers during the 80s and 90s. they were written in the first person in random publications such as the ron paul political report and the ron paul survival report. now this all flared up about three years ago when the liberal new republic did the story. more recently, though, the same reporter writing are for the conservative weekly standard flushed out even more details as have new york organizations from the new york times to cnn. what we ve all uncovered are e items like this from a 1992 newsletter shortly after the l.a. riots titled special issue on racial terrorism. listen to this one line reads, order was only restored in los angeles when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks. in fact, order was restored when the national guard moved in. two years earlier in another ron paul publication an article criticized president reagan for signing legislation approving the creation of the federal martin luther king jr.
of explosions that rocked the capital. some of them were so powerful that our location actually shook. these explosions were suicide bombings, roadside bombs and car bombs. they were targeting busy intersections, marketplaces, one of them exploding in front of the integrity commission located in the heart of the capital. another explosion taking place very close to a school, just as children were arriving. these attacks taking place in a two-hour time frame from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. exactly when the streets would have been at their busiest. people right now absolutely terrified. many of them fearing the situation is potentially going to worsen. we just spoke with the minister of finance who said that the current political crisis lends itself to these types of attacks in the sense that the extremists in society that are going to be carrying out violence look to the political chaos, the government disintegrating and they will continue to carry out acts of violence because the
the u.s. defense officials saying mistakes were made in a deadly attack and anyone traveling for the holidays, you have to listen up here. chad has some weather news for you. jessica yellin, the senior white house correspondent. we heard from you, the president putting the pressure on house leadership as he is really making this personal, personifying this ill pass to the american people. reporter: think about the stalemate the president faced earlier this summer where he was fighting with congress over a vague and confusing issue. the debt ceiling that didn t hit americans in any direct way. contrast that with this issue which hits americans directly in their wallet. if this isn t resolved by january 1, your average american family will see $40 less in their paycheck. it couldn t be more simple and a more clear argument for the president to be making, that congress should get its act together and resolve this one way or another. a very clear fight for the president to be h
are going to be making some statements i suspect as well. at least the president will talk about what s 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. can t believe personally that they won t work out a deal between now and december 31st, because the stakes are too enormous. the stakes are enormous. i think you re right they ll try to work out a deal. if republicans this morning didn t think they d wake up and make a deal, the president of the united states is winning the optics of the political war right now. now he s going to add some rhetoric to it as well. let s listen in. thank you, everybody. please, please have a seat. good afternoon to all of you. merry christmas. happy holidays. we ve been doing everything we can over the last few weeks to make sure that 160 million working americans aren t hit with a holiday tax increase on january 1st. we ve also been doing everything we can t