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♪ my mom can print amazing things right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] my mom makes trains that are friends with trees. [ train whistle blows ] ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ 19 minutes after the hour. time now for "scrambled politics." two op-eds of note this morning. first, after a week of back and forth, jeb bush is going after donald trump's foreign policy credentials in the national review. and secretary of defense ash carter is making his plea for a budget certainty in "the wall street journal." did richard nixon predict this week's canadian election?

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Be continued for the next couple of -- at least for the next year. >> i think there's not a tremendous argument on that. certainly not from here. but i will say, senator, what is going to change in the next two weeks or so to get something done on this? i mean, what does this tell you about congress' prospects for getting things done overall in 2014? the tenor that does not allow unemployment to be dealt with some three days, you know, after christmas, people are going to run out of money. what's going to change that makes it viable? >> well, i think people in both parties have to do more to w...

Budget certainty and relief from sequester will carry the day. >> dick durbin described getting these votes as a struggle. do you think that that's a fair description of how it's going to be to make it through? >> it is, but i think in the end we should have the votes because if you vote against it, what are you voting -- what are you voting for in a sense? you're voting for shorter term budget measure that say make no sense and you're voting for more uncertainty, more acrimony. and we need a lot less of both. >> bob casey, senator, thanks for joining me. i appreciate your time. >> thanks, tho...

Especially if it has a defense department established stamp on it. but i digress. now to that big deal in washington and the big move closer for one paul ryan to be the next speaker of the house. mike with the latest on both. hey, michael. >> neil, busy afternoon here on capitol hill. supporters of that bipartisan budget package received some good news from the nonpartisan congressional budget office saying that the $80 billion increase split between defense and domestic spending is fully paid for by other cuts. let's take a live look at the house floor where lawmakers are debating that budget...