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That this idea that the senate last night had an 89 members voting together in a bipartisan way, that this was missed on his colleagues in the house does does this mean? eric cantor said he was not for it as it currently was. he wanted to see an amendment. john baoehner has been silent about this. i'm hearing harry reid would essentially laugh at that and say are you kidding me? we spent this time, joe biden and mitch mcconnell spent all this time trying to get an agreement. what are we supposed to do with this? this leaves the question out there, could we go over the fiscal cliff entirely? we...

In that direction. it would have to go back to the senate. the senate has scattered to the winds at 2:00 this morning. a lot of ifs and buts in this thing. there is the possibility this could carry over into the new congress which would mean the slate is wiped clean. they could not take up the senate bill. they would have to started again. >> they would be sworn in at noon on that thursday, the 113th congress. they would have roughly about 80 or 90 new members, including democrats as well as republicans. as luke was speaking about the timing here, what could happen, despite cantor saying he co...

Eric cantor, has said that he will not support the bill. now, for a leader to come out publicly against it means that it is most likely not going to be put on the house floor. the republicans are strongly leaning towards as you read from that statement from the spokesman for both cantor and house speaker john boehner, towards amending the bill and adding more spending cuts and sending it back to the senate. okay. that's the normal legislative process. that's the way it goes, this game of ping-pong between the two claim berchambers. problem is time is out. we are over the cliff. no harm there. ...

But now a big question mark hangs over this legislation. >> needless to say, nobody wants to see this drag on anymore. needless to say, you have been covering this. let's go over to luke russert also watching this for us. what are you hearing in terms of eric cantor and speaker boehner now. >> it's a wild story, richard. i have some details about that meeting that happened on capitol hill. i heard there are about 40 members who spoke um in that meeting. 37 of the 40 who spoke up spoke out against the bill. one member who is pretty close to the house speaker, john boehner, told me "it was like ...

>> first of all, i mean that would involve a fascinating dynamic internally with the house republican conference. eric cantor came out and said he will not support it. there has been tension between the top two republican leaders, a rivalry. many people have written about it. it's not a big secret. i'm not talking out of school here. eric cantor stood four square behind boehner throughout this negotiation over the course of the last two months. ten days ago, in the speaker's plan b, when that crashed and burned, eric cantor stood behind john boehner. so we don't know -- it doesn't appear. we c...