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Campaign capitalize on that and talk about how they can win in november? >> great to see you both this morning. thank you. lawmakers are ready to lock an extension of the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans through 2012. conference members announce the agreement to continue the tax cut in the early hours of the morning. along with extensions of unemployment benefits and the doc fix. and leader pelosi discussed the latest on this deal just minutes ago. take a look. >> it appears that we may be shortly voting on this legislation to give a payroll tax cut to 160 million americans. we do r...

Republicans are cool with the idea of raising taxes on 160 million americans by allowing the payroll extension to expire. here is speaker boehner on that. >> i will not allow the democrats to continue to play political games and raise taxes on working americans. so we made a decision for bring them to the table so the games would stop and we would get this work done. >>reporter: we have been waiting to hear from the negotiators that the comprehensive package extending the payroll tax holiday, unemployment insurance, and the medicare reimbursement known as the doc fix was done, but the top demo...

Which expires at the end of this month for the rest of the year without paying for it. but the sticking point comes in extending unemployment insurance and also what is known as the doc fix. the medicare physician reimbursement. they are trying to find pay-fors for that. we'll explain all of this as we bring in the panel. steve hayes for "weekly standard." jeff zellng national political correspondent of the "new york times." syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, the meetings are ongoing. republican leadership essentially trying to sell the caucus. that this is right thing to do. the...

Our part. maybe it's possible that in this circumstance, we both wanted the same thing. >> you wanted a deal. you wanted him to cut other stuff to pay for it. he said no. and he got away with it. >> it was a large group of us who were not focusing on the pay for on this particular portion of the bill. republicans have said for many years that it's peoples' money to begin with. when we cut taxes, that's not the same as spending. what you're talking about was the pay for for the doc fix. >> congressman, i respect you a lot, but here's the problem. why has this been held up all these months if it...

Year extension on the payroll tax cut and allowing people to keep more of their money is a cave on our part. maybe it's possible that in this circumstance we both wanted the same thing. >> but you wanted a deal, you wanted an offset you wanted him to cut other stuff to pay for it and he said no and he got away with it. >> a large group of us were not focusing on the pay for on this particular portion of the bill. republicans have said for many many years it's peoples money to begin with, when we cut taxes that is not the same as spending, we don't need to pay for it. what you're talking about ...