Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131216:16:23:00
Between both parties. it may be short-lived with a potential fight over the debt ceiling looming, but if we look at how the chips are falling, we see the "usa today" -- we see in the papers and how coverage of this is going today. do you expect that there is going to be the support necessary to get through the senate? >> thomas, i'm not paid as a vote counter. dick durbin is our whip who takes the roll, so to speak, on votes. but i believe that we'll get it passed in the senate. i think it will be pretty close, but i think we'll pass it. i think the main reason will be not just that there's a ...