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The faces that they're putting out there. >> steve, robert, good to see you always, guys. thank you. >> thank you. also making news this morning, a major winter storm is taking aim at the northeast. two systems actually expected to collide bringing strong winds and heavy snow from new jersey all the way up through maine. the worst of it expected friday into saturday. more than 10 million people will be affected by this storm and parts of massachusetts, new hampshire, and maine could see up to two feet of snow with wind gusts of 70 miles per hour. and it's exactly one year until the start o...

To get to compromise. or maybe he feels he has an election mandate, and is operating from a position of strength. which one is it? >> that's part of it for sure. but you heard him say yesterday, look, this was our starting point. we know that both sides are going to have to make some painful concessions, and we'll see where things go. but, yeah, i mean the fact that he's going out there to, you know, swing congressional districts in pennsylvania, he may make similar trips in the coming days, sort of shows you that he knows that he has the popular mandate, that he did this a few years ago when ...

An agreement was reach and what is the response to what is expected to come in in a few short hours? >> right now the administration's response is the same as senate leader harry reid's response which is the house has to act. they put up the countdown clocks and calling attention to the house's failure to act on this. they have the advantage of being able to point to 89 votes in the senate to scott brown and dean helder and say look, this is a consensus product. you don't get much more consensus than 89 votes in the united states senate. the problem for speaker boehner and i think it is his pr...

>> bret: i really do need. >> i really do need your help january 3. i believe the people of iowa are smart enough they can see the difference between somebody is trying to help the country and somebody who simply running a negative campaign. >> that is a cannon shot to south carolina. very quickly, the field is going to thin out. we think we are going to be exactly where we need to be. >> the fact is you want to win here, you don't have to. i think we will have a good showing here. >> i have been saying the same thing for 30 years. all of a sudden there is excitement. >> bret: there is a lot o...

Also, charles blow, i felt like while the president may have played this well on many levels, his speech with the washington monument, i'm not sure people were sitting there biting their nails wondering if the washington monument would be open or not. i think they were really wondering big picture about themselves. that countdown clocks in our minds to the government shutdown, that was only in the minds of the media. would you disagree? >> i don't think people pay as klose attention to those things as people do inside the beltway. we do have to back up and say for most americans, this is about...