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Megyn: new reaction from president obama after calls for a special counsel to investigate mayor cap chief law enforcement officer. house republicans demanding an independent investigator to determine whether attorney general eric holder lied to congress. questioning his testimony about the botched federal gun running sting that may have led to the rder of an american border agent. mr. holder said he only learned about operation fast and furious in april or may of 2011. but memos show he was told about this operation nearly a year before that. so why did he tell congress it was in may or april?...

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, i've talked to some vote counters in the senate on the republican side who estimate you'll 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 he'll need to get cloture to cut off a filibuster. so it's highly unlikely that would get through the senate and, certainly, house republicans have no intenti...

Deal, this isn't a campaign effort, this jobs bill, and he's going to get ready to blame the republicans if it doesn't go through. meantime, let me start with this, sally, because he's sparring with boehner, but the democrats in the senate are not onboard yet. he doesn't have the vote from the democrats yet, so it's not really just between the president and the republicans in the house. >> i mean, first of all, to hear john boehner saying this when he said his was the party that their number one priority is to make sure barack obama is out of office in 2012 -- megyn: that's a mitch mcconnell s...

>> let's bring in nbc's mike viqueira live at the white house this sunday morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> sounds like the white house digging in its heels. >> isn't it interesting even given the disaster in the gulf, two hot wars in iraq and afghanistan, it boils down in an election to the economy and that is the point of reference today. i think we've sort of reached an inflection point here in terms of the dialog here in washington. politicians really getting geared up for those november elections. we've heard the president out on the trail the past couple weeks, even event...

>> group americans united for change is out with an ad attacking republicans who refuse to support extending benefits as part of the budget deal reached this month. >> you know who had a merry christmas? the richest 1%, that's who. republicans in congress made sure of that, protecting billions in taxpayer giveaways. for those facing tough times, republicans stripped 1.3 million americans of jobless benefits, folks who want to work, but cannot find a job. kicking them to the curb during christmas. >> joining me to break it down two of my favorites, casey hunt and cnbc contributor ron insana. ha...