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Why havent they passed the bill today? keep watching tonight. they arent going to pass it and they probably wont vote until late. its embarrassing for speaker boehner and the conservative movement. >> i think rons information is very interesting if its correct. i mean, we are watching dysfunctional government in action. i always said the deciding factor to whether were going off the cliff or not once they started actually moving toward a balanced compromise, which we really did see earlier this ...

The president has kept the dell ceiling as part of this deal. so the idea that the president hasnt brought real compromise to this table is upside down. >> ron, we just had congressman charles rangel on the broadcast. he agreed that speaker boehner has been hopeless and should resign. does speaker boehner have the votes tonight and if he doesnt, should he resign? >> no, he doesnt have the votes yet. from my latest count, i have been talking to people who know the vote count. looks like theres ab...

Real problem, and thats the national debt. cutting a trillion dollars in the next ten years does nothing and leaves the whole bill on the next generation on younger people, on my generation, to pick up the tab for obamas spending and bushs spending by the way and thats not right. and thats not serious. >> ron, im going to come back to you in a moment about speaker boehner, but, jared, hes suggesting that the president has not offered us a balanced plan. >> not only has the president gone beyond ...

Joining us now is ron meier, spokesperson for american majority action and jared bernstein a senior fellow and an msnbc contributor. welcome to you both. jared, this plan b, its not only an affront to what the president has been trying to do in terms of a balanced approach. its also a colossal waste of time, isnt it? >> absolutely. i mean, i have been writing about this in terms of theatrics at a time when really nobody ought to be going to the theater. the fiscal cliff is way too close for this...

0 starting to look likely we go past january 1st on this. >> happy christmas, mike. thanks so much. now we turn to congressman charles rangel, a democrat of new york. sir, i put to you the question we started with, the clock is ticking to the new year. here comes the fiscal cliff. so what on earth is the speaker, mr. boehner and his boys, what on earth are they doing wasting time on these gyrations as harry reid referred to them? >> the best i can make out is that he doesnt have the votes to d...

Our teams have the information you want when you need it. its another reason more investors are saying... [ all ] im with scottrade. speaker john boehner is waging a war on of two fronts over the fiscal cliff. on one side its him versus the president. on the other its speaker boehner versus his own party. one of the leaders of this fight is american majority action and were delighted to say that the group alexander spokesman joins us now, ron meier. good afternoon. >> thanks for having me on. ...

♪ >> wed like to announce we have reached an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> get in a room and make the changes that are needed. >> it sounds like the president of the united states and mr. boehner met face-to-face. >> im not happy. >> go ahead and give the president the 2% increase. >> will i accept a tax increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems? yes. >> you know what the republicans do have is they have debt ceiling coming up. joots a slap in the face of ...