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Rate in regards to perhaps social security. he says it's not a deal breaker. if they don't want this, we can drop it. and he essentially said, af been waiting 18 hours for a counter proposal from senate majority leader harry reid and so that's when mcconnell went to the bullpen and called the vice-president, his old buddy to see if they could cut a deal. >> andrea. >> mike, i've heard the reason, i know bob says mcconnell got in at the last minute and democrats and president didn't want nancy pelosi in the room if you're going to have mcconnell you've got to have pelosi in the room. that's a s...

Mark. the question is, will you get enough republicans to buy in if that is the deal? shannon? >> thanks to mike on capitol hill. we will continue to check in. now to ed henry, continuing our live team coverage from the white house. good afternoon, ed. >> reporter: good to see you, this is the president going out and trying to frame this debate on his own terms, appearing on a sunday talk show for the first time since 2009, when he was pushing health care reform, now, obviously trying to sell a fiscal cliff deerl deal. he went on nbc's "meet the press," again and again, he hammered the message...

Yet speaker boehner decides not to go back to the capital. >> it's interesting. the other part of this of course is that as we reported on the way into the meeting we were told by an official on the democratic side that the president was going to say, look, here's my proposal, in terms of this slimmed down bill dealing just with taxes and smaller spending cuts, not major entitlement and 2 millionu)qv'e getting unemployment benefits extended if you have a counter proposal, the president said in the meeting, put it on the table now. otherwise give an up and down vote on the president's plan the...

Lawmakers today upped the stakes on the fiscal cliff negotiations. house speaker boehner revealing the plan "b" to extend the bush tax cuts, a plan that the white house quickly shot down. our first read team says despite the ups and downs we are perhaps close to a deal. nbc news senior political editor mark murray joins us. jay carney today mentioned newtown and the negotiations. what's the latest on what's happening behind the scenes? >> it's a fluid day and as of yesterday afternoon when president obama offered his counter proposal, we had seen a lot of optimism that you had essentially a fr...

Seriously. what is the funniest television show of all times? survey says... >> what's the show about? >> about nothing. >> seinfield the show often described as the show about nothing was voted funniest in the new poll winning 22 percent of votes. it's not just jerry seinfield people find fun me. apparent there's men in general. in the same poll 60 percent of people think men are the funny e gender. that is your 5@5:30. not sure how i feel about that. >> funny in different ways. >> house republicans are trying to compromise to avoid a owe called fiscal cliff. they released a counteroffer in...