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the two-month band aid, the two-month extension that has already been passed by the senate. listen. >> our house gop negotiators are here and ready to work with their counterparts in the senate. >> he's not lucy, i'm not charlie brown. we're not falling for that football stunt, again. okay, lucy and charlie brown. that's what we've come to now, kate. it can be silly season up there sometimes. but just getting more and more silly, it seems. so, is this just all for show and eventually what people want to know, whether or not this is going to get done, is it? >> well, it's a good quest...

your paycheck and unemployment benefits? and what's this committee all about? we will talk to one of the members in a few moments. we are still keeping our eye on a massive blizzard that ripped through the rockies and central plains. >> rain to sleet to snow. >> snow has tapered off but the blizzard shut down highways and interstates. the conditions are to blame for at least four deaths in new mexico alone. this one is a survey and among likely caucusgoers, there is a new leader of the pack, ron paul comes in at 28%. newt gingrich has been tied at 28%. at this survey he drops to seco...

negotiators to this conference that we now are talking with so much about to try to hash out the differences between the house and senate. as you well know, senate majority reid has no intention of negotiating and as he read in a letter to speaker boehner, along with speaker boehner and all congressional leaders and the white house, they want that deal and senator reid says not until they have the assurance that the tax cut will not lapse come january 1. so they are pushing -- he is again pushing as well as the white house, to put -- to push through the two two-month extension. but b...

put aside issues where there are fundamental disagreements and come together on something we agree on. and let's not play brinksmanship. the american people are weary of it. they're tired of it. >> nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins me now. we're boing to be speaking with democratic congressman chris van hollen in a moment. first explain to us as we watch the clock ten and a half days to go now, what is going to happen now, and what does all this say about boehner's leadership? >> there is an unusual quality to this kind of scrap they actually do say they want to ac...

majority leader harry reid. >> in his call to speaker boehner, the president reiterated the need and his commitment to work with congress to extend the pay roll tax cut for the entire year. and the fact that the short term bipartisan compromise passed by almost the entire senate is the only option to ensure that middle class families are not hit with a tax hike in ten days and gives both sides the time needed to work out a solution. >> earlier today, the moment that has so many people. democrats tried to get the house to consider the senate passed compromise yet again. >> the house s...