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They do. and vice president biden now going to sell to it the caucus. milissa? >> all right, kristen welker, stand by for us, if you please. lets go to nbcs chuck todd. chuck, considering that the house left for the night, what was the senates incentive for staying and hammering out this deal? >> well, they want a deal. and mitch mcconnell is the one who really wanted a deal because mitch mcconnell made the political calculation that the best leverage that the democrats and the white house had o...

With everything you just said. its just lovely rhetoric. it doesnt mean a blasted thing. you have revenues of $2.5 trillion entering the treasury. folks, understand the size of that. thats $2,500,000,000,000. and were being told we cant live off of that, we need -- right now we are spending $3.6 trillion. this is insanity. someone has got to have the backbone to come up with specific -- stop talking about how we need to cut. come up with the cuts. the republicans -- >> stay right there. im going...

20-year-old adam lanza did not leave behind any note describing a possible motive for the attack. so far officials have been unable to obtain information from his commuters damaged hard drive. pete williams has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the police who found nancy lanza, adam lanzas mother shot to death in bed also found his computer. they say its internal hard drive had been removed and severely damaged. attempts to get information from it, law enforcement officials say, have so fa...

Of five. she was found nude, having been stabbed and bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer. it was for this murder that fry received the death penalty. >> you know, you hear a lot of people who come to prison and, oh, i found god. well, i did. >> where are they taking you, man? >> bible study. >> fry leads a weekly bible study class with fellow inmates. >> i was a drunk. i used drugs. i would fight. i was very promiscuous. when you allow one thing to happen in your life, you will make a series...

Negotiating with a hand they do not have. >> and thats whats striking to me. this is a case where i am like, i am surprised, too, if youre the republicans, the president wants this, give him that. and then all of a sudden you can have a larger debate and maybe its going to be a harder debate but -- >> a hard he debate for republicans to win. i want to negotiate with tom cole, with somebody who is willing to give today. you can get the 98% deal anytime. thats the deal. >> you take it off -- >> yo...

Sorry. >> im curious if you think the obama trajectory is aggressive enough. >> when you compare obama like romney, he looks like a peace snake. if you look at obama in terms, he wants to fight leaner wars, he wants a leaner military. drones are cheaper. is that what we want? what do ordinary americans want? most americans are sick of war. most want international cooperation. i agree with ann marie about diplomacy being important. in the past, u.s. diplomacy has been more of a sledgehammer than ...

Drawn towards evil things. >> while robbing a store, fry stabbed his first two victims, then slit their throats. >> when you walk in that path of darkness, you cant help but walk hand in hand with evil. whether you believe it to be evil or not, i never considered myself a violent person. >> in 1998, fry savagely beat a man to death with a shovel. >> i came from a very good family, but i got involved with alcohol and drugs at a very early age. i was looking for something in my life to fill a hole...

Hes not a subtle man, and he-- he never, never uses a hammer when a sledgehammer is available and i dont know how that plays against a guy, a very nice guy who looks like hes a boy scout. a 14-year-old boy scout, but well see. i agree with you though on biden. this is a man thats run for president and been in the senate for decades. he knows how to debate and he has a rare ability in politics, he can be human in public. hes actually a deeply likeable man and i would not underestimate that import...

And the problem the democrats have is that, what mitt romney really did in denver is he demolished to a certain extent their main campaign strategy. their goal was to go out there and present him in a negative light and spent enormous amount of money, saying this guy is an rapascious candidate and presenting barack obama as the alternative. he took a sledgehammer. they cant run on the economy, on the presidents legislative record, people dont like it. now theyre going to go straight after his ch...

When it comes to dog whistling about the presidents race. newt gingrich -- >> im assuming theres some rhythm to barack obama that the rest of us dont understand, whether he needs large amounts of rest, whether he needs to go play basketball for a while. i dont watch espn. i dont quite know what his rhythms are, but this is a guy whos a brilliant performer as an orator who may well get re-elected at the present date. and who, frankly, happens to be a partial part-time president. he really is a lo...