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Grace the cover of the white house christmas card. he also started in his own christmas video. ♪ >> colleen birk is the author of "christmas with the first ladies, the white house decorating tradition from jacquelin kennedy to michelle obama." colleen, its great to have you here. lets talk about bo because he is certainly a major member of the obama family, and he played a big starring role in christmas this year as we point out from the christmas card to this video. why is bo getting elevated...

Come to the bargaining table, and this is a team, so maybe they dont want to be out there in the forefront making noise, but i think its understood for their members, though that draw support from the tea party what their position is. its very clear those two who really rely on tea party support and have those beliefs wont vote for a tax increase. i think it is looking more likely that were going to be a year. we talk about actually represented grover norquist whochs the guru had given it a thum...

First of all, their leader, mitch mcconnell, has to cut the deal, and also they know as senator isakkson said, they cant get it through the house. >> david, the washington post is reporting, though, that the tea party in all of this is basically staying on the sidelines saying that members still call and e-mail congress, but have held no rallies. theyve done little lobbying. even that -- is it so surprising that john boehner is having so much trouble wrangling republicans in the house, and is th...

More time, but i it theyre making a big mistake. >> what about the window of opportunity here and the fact that the president needs to push for something a little bit bigger when leverage is on his side on the front end? >> well, i definitely hope that he can and will continue to push for as big a deal as possible. were just a few days away. so i do believe that he has all the leverage right now, but we do have to be back in session. like i said, im hoping that well be back in session before thi...

Over the cliff than not. >> with me now is chief political correspondent for -- and david knock murrah, white house reporter for the washington post. great to have you here. steve, i want to start with you because you just heard senator lieberman say that he thinks its more likely that were all going to be going over this cliff than not. is that the sense that you have been getting from lawmakers as well? >> absolutely. first of all, i just checked about 20 minutes ago. there are no talks going ...

>> so close and yet still so far. democrat senator chuck schumer and republican senator lindsey grap striking similar notes on taxes, but time is running out. theres still no real deal in sight. joining me now is congresswoman karen bass, democrat from california. congresswoman, its great to have you here, and as were hearing about whats taking place in washington or what was taking place before everybody closed up shop to go home for the holidays, were hearing that more republicans are calling ...

To what republican senator johnny isaacson of georgia had to say. >> i felt like the house should have gone ahead and passed speaker boehners bill because it addressed the subject, and we would still be in negotiations, and the presidents statement is right. no one wants taxes to go up on the middle class. i dont want them to go up on anybody, but im not in the majority in the united states senate. >> senator isakkson saying that he wishes that plan b had moved forward. however, that didnt get l...