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Our rolling coverage of breaking news coming out of capitol hill. this as we're getting word, that cantor said he could not support the senate bill that was passed earlier 89-8. boehner did not say either way. we are also hear iing that as t bill came to them from the senate, he would also be a no. luke russert has been following this throughout the last 24 hours and all the things. you have with you the representative. >> you're a close ally of speaker boehner. what happened in conference today? what was so problematic with this bill? >> the difficulty is it's heavy on tax increases.

Latourette, thank you. richard, back to you. >> thank you. very insightful there. getting an and wering of what's being discussed in capitol hill. house republicans expecteded to have another meeting in the coming hours. we'll watch that and look at what some of the repercussions are, based on what rptdive latourette told luke russert on this issue of eric cantor not supporting the bill as it stands coming over from the senate. 89-8 earlier today. stick with us. we'll get back to capitol hill in a bit. [ man ] ring ring... progresso

He will not support the bill that passed the senate last night. it was about 1:40 last night in the morning, 89-8. the senate passed it. they largely left town. they left it up to the house of representatives to decide what to do to avoid the fiscal cliff. the house must act on the senate bill and pass it if it's to come to the president's desk for his signature. the house leader said last night they will either do that -- first they will take time to look at it, talk about it. they will either pass it as it stands or amend it. evidently what we found out right now, the significant fact that t...

R50i9 right now our members after very thoughtful dlab rations and review are continuing to review the legislation weighing the pros and cons, the equities of not going over the cliff, but we're all very eager to see the form that the republican leadership will put onto the floor today. i think that we've made gigantic progress. i hope that we can have a bipartisan agreement as we go forward. >> all right. house minority leader nancy pelosi, gigantic progress is the word she used there, and then just about 30 minutes ago we learned this. this coming from a spokesperson for eric cantor saying t...

Know what they're going to say. you just had eric canter, the house majority leader saying the day before that they were going to pass that he had the votes. does he not communicate? do these guys not talk to each other? i don't understand how john boehner allowed himself to be really humiliated by his caucus. that said, it isn't surprising because this isn't the new congress that was e lekted in november. this is the same congress fuelled by this tea party, hard core rejectionest group that hasn't been able to pass anything in two years. they came here to blow the place up, not to make legisl...