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Reid wants, then you have a commitment for boehner to vote on it. it will pass, because there are enough democrats that will meet with republicans to pass it. >> ryan grim, thank you very much. remember to answer tonights question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. an ugly power grab is causing tea party turmoil. why one founding member is being forced to hang up his tricorner hat. coming up, a republican p...

Short to come back to washington, d.c., meanwhile, house republicans are literally phoning it in, this is the ed show, and as ed would say, lets get to work. >> this is something within our capacity to solve. it doesnt take that much work, we just have to do the right thing. >> six days away from the fiscal cliff and there are real consequences to millions of americans if no deal is cut. congressman elijah cummings and ryan grim of the huffington post are here with the latest. a tea party giant ...

It will pass, because there are enough democrats that will meet with republicans to pass it. >> ryan grim, thank you very much. remember to answer tonights question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. an ugly power grab is causing tea party turmoil. why one founding member is being forced to hang up his tricorner hat.

By this very hard right tea party caucus, and so theyre not in a position of strength. theyre in a position of -- sme, theyre in a possession of strength. that dictate what is issues get tackles and the interaction between congress and the presidency. >> as long as the hard right is only afraid of the hard right back home, the further hard right, they have a lot of strength. >> yeah, and i dont think this type of party can become a governing party for those reasons. >> do they want it? do they w...

>> well, its another one of the parlor games we will keep watching. krystal ball and ryan grim, thank you so much. >> thanks. >> thank you. next, mitt romney had no desire to be president? its a special christmas message to the thousands of volunteers on his behalf. stay with us. >> oh. this is where i wanted to be. ♪

But boehner was saying .2%. and if you look at the tax benefits because you would be -- you would be holding the rates where they are for people between 250 and a million relative to what the president is talking about, its actually a tax cut of about 110,000 per year for millionaire families. how are you making up the losses of that revenue? by cutting the heck out of food stachs and medicaid and kids insurance. this is the stuff we were arguing with ryan and mitt romney about. >> well, let me ...

Washington is broken and youre going to have to work very closely with your representatives. it gives him an opening with his mass globalization. everybody is saying what is he going to do with the 60 million people that he has in his data base. hes going to call the members of congress and say you better change it because were on the presidents side on this. >> now, ryan, the president cheerily has made the appeal, the compromise. the american public has opposed. they think the american party i...

The tea party wave as long as he could. now, its coming back to haunt him and his party. when the dust settles, what will it mean for the rest of us. joining me now, president and ceo of latino and an msnbc contributor and ryan grim. ryan, let me go to you first. from the start, republicans took an extremist stand against president obama. now, with just 11 days until the fiscal cliff, it seems the tea party is leading the gop into chaos. is there a way out? >> no, not for them. they seem to be o...

Compromise, a lot of americans look up and say oh, theyre going to sell me out. >> so you did compromise? >> we found common ground. >> why wont you say -- youre afraid of the word. >> i reject the word. >> that was, ryan, two years ago this month. now hes saying lets compromise. and the tea party republicans are saying exactly that. youre selling us out. has the chickens come home to roost for the speaker? >> well, they sure have. you know, and he knew from the very beginning that this was goin...

Producer. >> were such a small group of women and men that have had the privilege of living in the white house, although i never lived there, but spending time in the white house, even though were defined by so much more, our careers, husbands, children, its a privilege. we thought it would be wonderful. >> a white house christmas, first families remember airs tomorrow night on nbc at 8:00 p.m. thats going to wrap things up for me, thanks for your time. see you back tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. east...