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So they're certainly milking this for all it's worth because they're here until thursday morning when the new congress begins in the afternoon. >> all right. ed, thanks so much for joining us. still to come, toure's thoughts on this cliff-mas eve. ♪ [ male announcer ] why do more emergency workers everywhere trust duracell...?? duralock power preserve. locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. now...guaranteed. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere.

Example, nobody would say, drug laws are imperfect. so let's not have any laws against drugs. the idea you can't create a perfect law so criminals get access and make it easy for them doesn't make sense. the point of gun control is to make it more difficult to get the weapons. why reason earth would we make it easier for them? >> no perfect answers for this and probably continue to debate this in the new year. my thanks to you all three. lynn, keith and alice, i appreciate all of your time. >> thank you. next, a not so merry cliff-mas for retailers or wall street. how the stalled negotiation...

Meltdown led to dodd-frank, a very controversial piece of legislation, so do you think that there might be those kind of precedence here? is this big enough, like a meltdown of sorts, where people might change the calculus in congress? >> that's what's fascinating about what happened this morning. as michael mentioned, they had an opportunity to diffuse the anger and the action against them if they had come out and said something that sounded reasonable and had mullified everybody. people might have said, okay, something is going to happen here. people's attention span is tragically short. now...

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Seat. i don't know if people will still vote for him. >> it's a crowded primary too. the other news as you mentioned cory booker released a video yesterday. one touting all his accomplishments as newark mayor. but, two, essentially ruling out that he would run for new jersey governor, but three opening up the possibility he could run for new jersey senator in 2014. the problem is frank lautenberg who currently holds the seat has not retired yet. >> there is a democrat sitting there. >> yesterday frank lautenberg's office released a hot statement saying frank lautenberg is focused on big things...