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good morning from new york. i'm in for chris hayes. a spokesman for george h.w. bush says his condition has improved and he's moved from intensive care back to a regular room at methodist hospital in houston. members of congress are scrambling to beat the january 1st deadline to avert a broad package of spending cuts and the expiration of all the bush tax cuts. the latest in just a moment. right now, i'm joined by jamelle buoy. a staff writer for the american prospect magazine and "washington post" reporter, suzy kim. kevin williamson, dep deputy mag editor and a nonprofit group ...

fight. it is better to work together. everything doesn't -- >> see what the house speaker john boehner has to say. he speaks live next hour. meantime, the biggest battleground still hangs in the balance, the election is not yet over in florida. the nation's largest swing state too close to call. oh, yes, brooke, they're still counting the absentee ballots. >> we'll go there. also happening right now, the market. we have to look at this, plunging down 264 points right now. investors turning their attention from the election to the challenges ahead, including, we're going to be talking...

job, which is accent wait the personal and highlighting president obama as a father and family man. dana bash, what do you expect her to say? >> looking back four years ago, she was kind of seen as a potential liability. she was kind of harsh and the goal was to soften her. >> now she's so much more popular -- >> he wishes he had her approval numbers. >> which tends to happen with first ladies. kind of val dater for her husband. and her speech will talk about her own accomplishments and some of the things she's done in the white house with children and with -- >> the whole health. >>...

family man. dana bash, what do you expect her to say? >> looking back four years ago, she was kind of seen as a potential liability. she was kind of harsh and the goal was to soften her. >> now she's so much more popular -- >> he wishes he had her approval numbers. >> which tends to happen with first ladies. kind of val dater for her husband. and her speech will talk about her own accomplishments and some of the things she's done in the white house with children and with -- >> the whole health. >> nutrition and things like that. those are some of the things i'm told she'll talk about...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ >> up next the christian broadcast network's cheap political news correspondent david brody on the relationship between evangelical christians and the tea party. discussed his book and the national viewer female and -- e-mails and tweets on washington journal. >> next guest at current gauge job is newses. david brody wrote "the teavangelicals" the inside story of how the evangelicals and tea party are taking back america. welcome. tell us about teavangelicals as a term. >> it was 2009-2010 and all the tea party rallies were ...