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To keep our eyes on the senate foreign relations committee hearing. we'll bring you any developments as they happen. we're focusing on the cliff, folks. as a cliff compromise seems to be getting farther away, the frustration is now boiling over on capitol hill. congressman steny hoyer, number to democrat in the house, has some harsh words for his colleagues. he joins me next. first a look ahead at the president's schedule. an empty schedule today. but, boy, a lot of things he could end up doing today. keep an eye on this. don't be surprised at some point if the speaker and the president phys...

Students. and the race to fill john kerry's senate seat. first, fiscal cliff talks. countdown clock tot screen. the senate is shouldering most of the weight of that deadline. senate leaders working behind closed doors to come up with a cliff compromise, something that the house and the president has failed to do so is far. the president has tasked senator majority leader harry reed. >> i have asked senator reed to do it, put a by on the floor to make sure that taxes on middle class families do not go up. and unemployment insurance is still available for two million people and lays the groundwo...

Least three weeks. >> you mentioned peter king, representative peter king. you add that to representative michael grimm who yesterday were blasting the house leadership and yet today they seem somewhat appeased. they say they will support him as speaker of the house. do you expect him to be reelected? i mean, is his leadership damaged from all of this? >> i'm not a republican. i'm not going to get into the internal politics of the republican party, but as an outside observer, i do expect him to get reelected. i don't see any significant challenge. >> okay. how about this, the president having ...