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>> chris: senator durbin you and senator cornyn are the whips, the vote counters, know whether or not there are are enough votes. are there enough votes when this comes up this week for you to pass the manchin toomey compromise on expanded background checks? >> i think john will concede that pat toomey of pennsylvania is one of the most conservative members of the republican senate caucus and joe manchin one of the most conservative members of the democratic caucus. the two have come up with a b...

Terrible tragedies. >> chris: senator durbin you and senator cornyn are the whips, the vote counters, know whether or not there are are enough votes. are there enough votes when this comes up this week for you to pass the manchin toomey compromise on expanded background checks? >> i think john will concede that pat toomey of pennsylvania is one of the most conservative members of the republican senate caucus and joe manchin one of the most conservative members of the democratic caucus. the two h...

Idea. >> lets move on to whether or not this is reasonable. lets talk about the fiscal cliff in terms of what is going on there. we have on friday house speaker boehner who tried to explain the failure of his plan b. then the president urge congress to pass a bill to keep the taxes from increasing on 98% american people taxpayers. lets take a listen. >> we have a number of our members who just really didnt want to be perceived as having to raise taxes. >> i expect democrats and republicans to ge...

Just a handful of battleground states. so lets check in with our reporters at several of them. alicia acuna at the county clerks office in denver, colorado. steve harrigan is in tampa, florida. steve brown is with vote counters in columbus, ohio. shannon bream at the republican watch party if des moines, iowa. good evening, shannon. >> reporter: hello, bret. well, republicans here in iowa are hoping that romney will pull off a somewhat unexpected win. there is something down ticket that could he...

So you know 113 could go either way. you can bet both campaigns are watching this with baited breath right now. vote counters continue totally. and when you look at the counting and how its come down between candidates it tells a story. >> you can see it directly on fox news.com/iowa. if you go to that site you can track the counties and precincts. and here is something interesting. herman cane got 57 votes. and as you scroll down, you can see the colors of the counties. brown is rick santorum. ...

So you know 113 could go either way. you can bet both campaigns are watching this with baited breath right now. vote counters continue totally. and when you look at the counting and how its come down between candidates it tells a story. >> you can see it directly on fox news.com/iowa. if you go to that site you can track the counties and precincts. and here is something interesting. herman cane got 57 votes. and as you scroll down, you can see the colors of the counties. brown is rick santorum. ...

Yes, 4 votes of 122,000. one precinct is out in clinton county. we just heard from some of the vote counters, they believe there are 75 votes in that precinct. >> if mitt romney wins that precinct, that vote by the same margin he is carrying the county, five percentage points over rick santorum, we will have a dead even tie. that will mean he will pick up 4 votes, statewide on rick santorum and it will be a dead-even tie. >> again, quickly, to repeat about story, there is the issue? >> story cou...

Yes, 4 votes of 122,000. one precinct is out in clinton county. we just heard from some of the vote counters, they believe there are 75 votes in that precinct. >> if mitt romney wins that precinct, that vote by the same margin he is carrying the county, five percentage points over rick santorum, we will have a dead even tie. that will mean he will pick up 4 votes, statewide on rick santorum and it will be a dead-even tie. >> again, quickly, to repeat about story, there is the issue? >> story cou...

Millionaires and billionaires and not those who are, as the president wanted, making 200 or $250,000 a year, do the senate democrats get behind it? >> reporter: well, ive talked to some vote counters in the senate on the republican side who estimate youll still lose a few senate democrats like senator ben nelson of nebraska, other moderates if you have this surtax for millionaires. and so the president will be far short of the 60 votes hell need to get cloture to cut off a filibuster. so its hig...

can pass it in the next day or two and avert the first default on our national debt in history. >> i am worried about the size of defense cuts that may be contemplated, but that doesnt mean im therefore rejecting the agreement. im just worried. >> this is a head scratcher. stocks take a tumble after the debt relief rally that happened earlier this morning. the dow surged more than 120 points, but a weak manufacturing report, just sanction the market. stocks posting the worst weekly per...