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Developments. >> tea partiers like senator ted cruz, sarah palin, this rally in d.c. got people worked up. what you can tell us about that? >> it d.c. is always a place wh demonstrators really get fired up. today is a good example. you had large crowds. many of them carried those things associated with the tea party. don't tread on me sign. they made a symbolic move with barricades. that is something that police get very nervous about if you touch or tried to move barricades that have tried to be established here. so that got police in a high response posture. what they did is they took barric...

Weather center. about to hit d.c. >> the bulls eye west of the d.c. area. take a look at this thing. the northeast is now in the sights of this next winter storm. let's take a look at it winter weather advisory still stretching from chicago down through cincinnati out towards the d.c. area. philadelphia. look at our friends in boston. winter weather advisory for you because, yes, we do indeed think that boston could get hit or at least west of boston with upwards of a foot of snow, shepard. we're going to continue to watch that winter weather advisories posted for more than a dozen states. we ...

You know, if you saw something like the nih budget cut really seriously, that would hurt in maryland, for instance, where there's a lot of companies built up around that. but if we're seeing things mo mostly like social security cuts, that's obviously going to be disbursed across the country, and so it's not going to hit d.c. in quite the way that some other cuts would. so i think it's this really big pending question. but we know that defense and security is going to take some brunt of the hit. >> hey, annie, i am in charge here of asking the single dumbest question of the day, and i've been ...

"the washington post" reporting today, guys, is a very high percentage not going towards the actual political effort. >> that's right. >> the overhead is way too high. >> there's a lot of money being spent on raising the money itself. we've seen that over the last couple of years. especially in some of these other -- the dnc is not immune from spending too much money -- i shouldn't say too much. from spending a lot of money on their own meetings. at their annual winter meeting out here when the snowstorm hit d.c. so hard they spent about $170,000 on a downtown hotel. so you're right. there is ...

Paralysis, a political version of the snow pocalypse that hit d.c. joining us debra saunders. and kelly goff and here in washington, lynn suite from the "chicago sun times." >> he wants to meet with republicans, hold hands, sing songs. is the press right to be reacting so skept cli? >> sure, because nothing in congress has happened in a bipartisan year for the first year of the obama wlous, no major legislation that passed has done so. this upcoming meeting that obama is calling is a chance to see once again, and i guess the press will evaluate, is it real bipartisanship or some kind of a sh...