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kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to...

way. in the end house speaker john boehner, he caved in and he gave in to political pressure but still he defends the stand that he took. >> we have fought the fight, the good fight, but i talked to enough members over the last 24 hours who believe that, hey, listen, we don't like this two-month extension. we don't like this reporting problem in the senate bill and if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the american people even though it's not exactly what we want. >> it seems that everything we've done this last year has been a knockdown dragout fight. there is no...

One-year extension. you have the president saying i agree with the senate minority leader. let's get this done and help save the american people an average of $40 as the president and the white house was making an issue out of all this. we will be looking to see what other kinds of reactions we will get from john boehner who after senator mcconnell put out the statement pushed back and said no, we want an immediate one-year deal. all of us who have been following this, the idea that you will get an idea one-year deal to cover the tax cut unemployment insurance benefits and the dock fix is not ...

full fledged congressional showdown with a tax hike for millions of americans hanging in the balance. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." this just coming in. our brand new poll numbers hitting pitting president obama against the republican candidate. the survey puts each toe to toe the president and even though the election is still almost 11 months away, the results still troubling for the gop. let's go inside the numbers with ron brownstein of the national journal. thanks very much for coming in. these numbers, hot, they're fresh right now. hypothetical match-ups b...

Bottom line, everybody seems to be trying to resolve this as quickly as possible. the idea of a government shutdown seemed to freak everybody out. today two leaders on opposite sides of a lot of issues struck a similar tone. take a listen. >> there is no reason the government should shutdown over. this and i expect all of us to do what's necessary in order to do the people's business and make sure that it's done before the end of the year. >> we believe it's important to keep the government open and we believe it's important to finish the work on the payroll tax cut, unemployment insurance, an...