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And asking wealthiest americans to contribute. >> that was earlier today. earlier also we heard from speaker bane been a on potential tax increases who said this -- the president has gotten his revenue already. gotten it, period. >> hes correct. operation of law, bush tax cut expire midnight on december 31, president got some of the taxes he was looking for and got them on the high income people. not by anybody who vote but the law expired. the tax issue is over. we made a commitment, bret, back...

Business. every member of congress believes that. every democrat. every republican. so there is absolutely no reason, none, not to protect these americans from a tax hike. at the very least, lets agree right now on what we already agree on. lets get that done. i just spoke to speaker bane and i also -- speaker bane and i also met with reid. ited is them to work toward a package to prevent a tax hike on middle class americans, protect unemployment insurance for 2 -- insurance for 2 million americ...

Mef can call issues to cruise to try to get those things offset. >> bret: there are,aeff, republicans who are concerned about the impact on the social security trust fund. but at the end of the day the payroll tax cut is what funds that. they worry about the long-term viability of that. aside from the politics of whether its good or bad or pay for it or dont. >> i think that is right. a lot of rank and file republicans and the house members particularly who are running again are eager to have th...

Mef can call issues to cruise to try to get those things offset. >> bret: there are,aeff, republicans who are concerned about the impact on the social security trust fund. but at the end of the day the payroll tax cut is what funds that. they worry about the long-term viability of that. aside from the politics of whether its good or bad or pay for it or dont. >> i think that is right. a lot of rank and file republicans and the house members particularly who are running again are eager to have th...

Deja vu all over again when the white house and congressional republicans would come to a deal and the game is stalemate on saturday. the senate passed this bipartisan compromise that extended the payroll tax for two months and jobless benefits short of the one-year goal, but by sunday after house republicans were briefed by the leadership, speaker boehner said it must be changed. the republicans in the house would support nothing less than a one-year extension. >> how can you do tax policy for ...

press room podium and listen to a tiny bit of what he had to say. >> it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal and, frankly, if you look at the commentary out there, there are a lot of republicans that are puzzled as to why it couldnt get done. in the interest of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party up until sometime early today when i couldnt get a phone call returned. my expectation was that...

After the conference call the speaker had with the president, they have gotten some clarification on the libyan mission but need more and says th speaker appreciates the update but believes much more needs to be done by the administration to provide clarity, particularly to the american people on the military objective in libya, and americas role and how it is consistent with u.s. policy goals. so, some progress in that regard, but according to speaker bane, not enough. all right, well, if we ar...

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