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bipartisan support and house republicans rejected earlier this week. that opened up a divide between house hard-liners and the gop establishment. leading republican voices were openly calling on john baner to back down to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the bran. tonight, looking pretty grim. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. and while everyone asks for a full-year extension of these programs, a lot of people wrn willing to p...

between house hard liners and the gop establishment. by yesterday leading republican voices were openly calling on house speaker john boehner to back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. tonight looking pretty grim he did. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people werent willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get...

back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. tonight looking pretty grim he did. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people werent willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. so im proud of the efforts that they put into this. >> dana is going to join us to explain the mechanics of the deal,...

is the candidate still making money from layoffs? were checking the facts. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com lets 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. lets go to our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, hes up on capito...

stadium in texas. you see they finally get it stopped but a couple of people had to go to the hospital. also, many of you are getting ready for the holidays, getting ready to travel somewhere. some of you need to be getting ready for snow. a major winter storm expected to drop more than a foot of snow in a number of places. reynolds wolf will have the very latest on what you need to know. youll remember it started with shock and awe for americas long military involvement in iraq is...

Colors, the secretary joined leaders in honoring our service members while being candid about the road ahead for the nation. chief foreign correspondent richardengel, has covered the war from the start and join us live from baghdad. richard, a solemn days in many ways, with the secretary of defense saying to the troops, your nation is deeply indebted to you. all of us, of course, honor their service, but this departure leaves many questions unanswered, doesnt it? not least, remaining diplomatic ...

A lot of time during the hot fighting itself. just share some thoughts. >> im very concerned about one thing in particular. this base where i am right now, this was a u.s. military base, but the u.s. flag is still flying here because this is nowen embnow an embassy compound. one of several structures remaining in iraq that will host this embassy footprint that includes 16,000, 17,000, we dont know exactly, hard to get information about this, security contractors, diplomats, and this will be an a...

Theyre not shiite or iranian pawns, but they do feel a certain affinity to iran, and iran has a great deal of economic influence here, many travelers from iran are coming, and when you compare irans influence, which is exerted through political friends on the ground, through charities that it funds, compared to americas influence, which is now going to be carried out by the face of thousands of hated security contractors, i think long-term, iran is probably going to have more success in winning ...

Very dire. muqtada al sadr and others have tremendous power in this region. sunnis feel theyre being squeezed out of power. and the u.s. embassy here is going to be like no other diplomatic mission in the world with 15,000 to 18,000 people working here with most of them being security contractors. this will be a new phase with, i think, tremendous challenges ahead. but it wont be americas war anymore. but there may be another phase of the iraq war. >> nbcs richard engel, richard, thank you. 25...

over and out. the u.s. military lowers the flag in baghdad. the final u.s. troops leaving iraq with pride. and putting a fragile nation in the rear view mirror. >> breaking news for your paycheck. big compromise on capitol hill that could put $1,000 or more back into your paycheck next year. occupy gingrich. newt gets heckled by wall street protesters. they get it back on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 15. welcome to "american morning." go...