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We were telling you and releasing who voted yea and may. you have the boehner/client ray. and then you have to ask the question about leadership going forward and what this means. if you just look at the gop count, 86 yea for this, 151 day. let us reflect when we do have the conference who will or will not vote for john boehner to keep his speakership? >> i don't think there is any doubt that john boehner will be speaker. that will happen on thursday. there is a lot of confidence from folks that say there are not a love votes to overtake him. some real conservative members can say they are ups...

On thursday, he simply played it safe. they knew this was going to be a very tough thing for him to put on the floor. the fact that he has done that and voted in support of it and now has eric cantor, his number two, the top deputy as the majority leader in the house of representatives voting against it, that is a fairly extraordinary development. paul ryan very influential, people have been watching him to see how he was going to be voting on this. he voted in support of it. i want to reemphasize something, extraordinary, democrats, 172 against their leadership and behind president as well. >...

Cantor had been in john boehner's side throughout this ordeal regarding the fiscal cliff. the last press conference john maynard did when plan b failed, eric cantor was right there saying we are in this together. tonight, a little broken up. they went there different paths. that is something we should not read too much into. the same thing people said -- >> the president speaking right now. let's stand by. >> happy new year, everybody. the central premise of my campaign for president was to change the tax code that was too skewed toward the wealthy at the expense of working, middle-class ameri...

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