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senators have left town. why? because they passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cut. they passed unemployment benefits coming to people in the new year. but now the g.o.p. in the house say they're going to kill this thing this morning. 9:00 a.m. is when the showdown will happen today. they're looking for this long-term fix. i get that. is this the right time and place to be doing that? i have a scary suspicion that this is going to fall real hard on the house republicans and the general public isn't going to be happy about it. >> bottom line is the premise of their argumen...

what the heck is going on there? senators have left town. why? because they passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cut. they passed unemployment benefits coming to people in the new year. but now the g.o.p. in the house say they're going to kill this thing this morning. 9:00 a.m. is when the showdown will happen today. they're looking for this long-term fix. i get that. is this the right time and place to be doing that? i have a scary suspicion that this is going to fall real hard on the house republicans and the general public isn't going to be happy about it. >> bottom lin...

In fact, the aft just had an anti-bullying conference and yet, here you've got the president of the union, the third largest local union in the country picking on the education secretary's lisp. it's just -- it's -- there's a double standard going on. it's absolutely ridiculous and the interesting thing is there's very little accountable for her other than from the media and the public. her members are not calling on her to step down and so at this point, she still is president of the union. >> so kyle, again, she's pointing the finger at you. she's pointing the finger at andrew britebart but ...

Earlier described. >> when you put this video out, this video was already on you tube. right? there was no analysis on your part. there was no editorializing. you put the video out for other people to look at. >> right, we didn't think it was necessary. her words spoke for themselves and clearly the local media picked up on that. so again, this is -- she's being held accountable. she doesn't like it and so she's smearing us and she's -- >> we did show her statement a little bit earlier and we'll stay on top of this and see what sort of action, if anything, happens to her as well. kyle olson, h...

>> some outrageous comments caught on camera by the president of the chicago teachers union. >> this guy who has the nerve to stand up and say education is a civil rights issue of our time. now, you know he went to private school because if he had gone to public school, he would have had that lisp fixed. people are impressed. let me tell you, i spent those years smoking lots of weed. self-medicating. >> self-medicating, thank you. sounds like you did, too. >> now she's blaming conservatives for the public backlash against this. kyle olson is the ceo of education action group, the organization ...