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north korea. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the showdown over the payroll tax cut lasted for weeks, but the stalemate ended in a matter of minutes today after house republican leaders bowed to overwhelming pressure and gave into the democrats. today, the house approved the bill that got almost 90% of support in the senate. president obama signed it into law and the threat of a new year's day tax hire for 160 working americans is over. let's go straight to dana bash who's watching this on capitol hill. must be pretty empty. it was exciting for a few minutes today. >...

here is the current u.s. debt ceiling. it 14i$14.3 trillion. we hit it in may. if they don't comeup with a dee. they have a scheduled meeting in about five hours. listen to how far republicans, other republicans and democrats are. this is from "anderson cooper 360" late last night. first majority whip steny hoyer. >> even within their own party, it is deeply divided party, divided against their leadership, angry at their leadership, and a party that has divided itself, has difficulty working with the president and with us and that's unfortunate and the country is the poorer for it. >...

A prooeft amendment approved the use of the auto pen but a former aid to george w. bush says its policy was to never use it for free a judge may rule a law invalid. obama administration says the alternative of flying the legislation to france for the president to sign it could have allowed the patriot act to expire which it called an unnecessary risk. an example of do as i say, not as i do at the dnc. that's ahead on the grapevine. but first, obama says time to [ children laughing ]

The state releasing the names as families grow more frustrated with the search. >> that's down from 1500 people unaccounted for. the patriot act due to expire at midnight. president obama has directed the use of what is called an auto pen to sign it. the president is in france for the g-8 summit so the machine replicates his signature. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deal with legalizes tactics like roving wire taps and searching the personal records of terror suspects. it has been extended another four years. secretary of state hillary clinton is in islamabad this ...

To, they're actively helping iran get around sanctions or wink-wink as iran does it on their own. i don't think the republicans are trying to thwart start 2 at this point so you have as they're trying to hold the obama administration to the promises the obama administration made at the time. and for some strange reason, the administration doesn't want to do that. they don't want to make good on things they said at the time. that means the republicans take that. i think they're right. that they didn't mean them when they made the promises originally at the ratification of start. that is a probl...