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President obama on suesan rice really back down. can he afford to look that weak again on chuck hagel when it's clear that that is his favorite right now? >> the question is also -- >> that's another question. >> you never knew. >> he clearly really wanted her in there, but how many other people -- >> how many we'll never know. >> we'll never know. >> to jen's point, the white house -- white houses have always floated trial balloons. any time there's a nomination, you send those up, whether it's judges or cabinet secretaries. whatever it is. you send that up. you vet it through the senate and ...

Twice. he has met with law enforcement officials, with mayors, and more excitingly, you've got people on the hill already announcing bills that are going to put forward on day one of the new congress. we've got senator feinstein proposing an assault weapons ban. we've got someone else with a high capacity ammunition clips. think it's maybe lautenberg, and you have the president publicly saying now that he supports those bills. this is the most momentum to date. this is the most we're going to see for a while. they have to build now or go home. >> that's the question. we go back to the question...

Today with no plan, that would be really, really quick for congress to move, and i think they can go to january 1st with the idea that treasury comes on to freeze everything. this is the first new year's eve session we've had here on capitol hill since 1995. everything old is new again, guys. >> new again. most of the american people would if they could deny all of those members of congress their bottle of champagne. >> i absolutely -- >> give them nothing. >> it's the most pathetic place in the country right now. >> i cannot -- that's a good note to end it on. luke russert, appreciate it. aft...

It's certainly not feeling like that to me. this is something that, you know, that was the worst day of my presidency. >> president obama is planning to put the full weight of his presidency behind passing new gun control measures next year. it's expected that the legislative response to the president will discuss -- the legislative response that the president will discuss during his state of the union address next month will include a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. >> there are different ways about what people think should be banned. a recent gallop show shows a majority ...

Two-thirds of the spending. >> 24% defense. health care spending, which is medicare, and health care for our veterans, and medicaid is 22%. education is only 4% of the budget, and it's the biggest thing. welfare doesn't even show up. it's in other. the question always for me is what is it that republicans want to cut, and isn't that the reason, and i'll go to jen on this, that they keep going at social security, which doesn't contribute to the deficit, but which is a big pot of money. >> the elections took over everything, and everything is debating until now, and they still can't get it done....