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Agent. the top democrat on this house committee, congressman elijiah cummings, has written what we are told is a long letter to house speaker john bane everybody -- i've actually seen part of it -- urging him to hold off on tomorrow's contempt vote suggesting there were some errors in the mechanics leading up to the vote among other bases. as we get the speaker's response, we will bring it to you. we are also standing by right now, we are less than 24 hours away from one of the most important supreme court decisions in decades. this is the most important decision we've seen out of this court...

The president giving his thoughts and we heard from speaker boehner. i have to be honest with you. a lot of people are quite confused. we know the president as he stated wanted a one-year extension and this is the deal. the high five moment with mitch mcconnell and it was believed that the house republicans would support this or most of this. help us understand where things are. >> tamron, right now we are in the blame game situation where on december 31st nothing is done. taxes go up for millions of middle class americans. right now there is a game going on between the white house and we saw ...

People at the top of the pyramid on both sides don't want it to happen. they don't always controlç events. i think most people in the newsroom around me would bet they find a way to avoid this, because both sides are so uncertain about who would ultimately pay the political price. sometimes events get out of control. that could -- that is a very real possibility in these last hours. >> how would that play out? the out-of-controlness? >> it would basically be if john boehner -- any deal that is acceptable to harry reid and president obama can't be sold by john bane tore his caucus. that would...

Was no progress. everyone has their own narrative. the democrats are trying to drive a wedge between the two party and speaker boehner and the republicans are trying to say that the democrats are not ready to deal. >> right. you get the meat eaters on both sides who their game is all about the warfare and it is all about the rhetoric. you're not going to hear the compromising words from eric cantor and not going to hear them from schumer. it is their job to carry the message for the party. the people to watch are john bane, watoehne boehner, john daly. it looks like they are in the realm of wh...

>> reporter: thank you, mr. president. president obama, are your respect and permission, because of the translation questions, could i direct one first to president hu? >> of couse. >> thank you. president hu, first off, my colleague asked you a question about human rights which you did not answer. i was wondering if we could get an answer to that question. and then also on capitol hill, senate majority leader harry reid, house speaker john bane remember not attending tonight's state dinner. many on capitol hill see china as an economic threat. what can you do to allay their fears?