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The rules of the senate has been floating around there. what we re hearing now is that reid is working with mcconnell to make slight changes and that they re working together, that it is a at least now a bipartisan effort to try to fast track some efforts in the senate and not make sweeping changes that we heard of originally. if the senate truly started and it has no rules, 51 is all that s necessary, but 60 is the filibuster threshold. that s the vote that you have to get to currently is 60 votes. 51 is, of course, the simple majority. and that s to get a bill to the floor, they re trying to change how to move the process forward along faster. right now there are talks between mcconnell and reid ....
Emergency funding in the house and january 15th, they re going to vote on the rest of the money but the house is working to make sure that the money is going only to storm victims and to those projects and not to other other unrelated matters, jon. jon: $30 billion worth of earmarks. no wonder we have a fiscal crisis in this country. mike emanuel, thanks. reporter: thank you, sir. jenna: some new political fallout from the last piece of business from the 112th congress. the vote to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, well, it had a tough time in the house. it passed overwhelmingly in the senate. senator bob corker of tennessee, who also voted yes, has a message for those who didn t back it. you can always run from those votes and vote no. i always look at myself on these defining votes as being deciding vote myself and so the question is, are we better with this bill passing or would we have been better with what was going to be law if it didn t? ....
There has been some question about that. we ll certainly have that vote for you with live when it takes place. jenna: well, happening now as our troops begin another year of war in afghanistan, here at home plans are already being made for what happens next. the pentagon considering proposals that include keeping upwards of 20,000 troops in afghanistan after their withdrawal date of the end of 2014. now, while this war isn t in the history books, bears a reminder, of course, comparisons to the past really have been surfacing daily. some point to the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan as both a model and a warning for us. the new york times pointing out what s most remembered about that time is that military humiliation of the soviets and the eventual rise of the taliban. some suggest history is repeating itself. major general bob scales, a ph.d. in history, conveniently, joins us now. [laughter] so, general scales, is that fair? is that a fair question? is history repeating itself? ....
The president did something similar last year in 2012 when he bypassed congress and allowed young illegal immigrants brought here as children by their parents to stay here in the u.s. if they met certain qualifications. jenna. jenna: more on the story as we get it, molly. thank you. jon: lots of outrage from new york-area lawmakers pushing the house to hold a vote on aid for superstorm sandy victims bill. house speaker john boehner scheduling one vote for friday on some of the money and another later in the month for the rest of the funding. the move comes after widespread anger over his decision to cancel action onefof the last congress. it would have sent billions of dollars in aid to help with relief after superstorm sandy. let s talk about it with angela mcglowan. she is a fox news political analyst. what did the speaker do here? he incited the ire of many even within his own conference by shelving that bill until the new conference, the new congress ....
Ahead, bret, and i m sure you re going to be talking about this on special report. i know you were going to stop by for about three minutes, but you ended up doing 18 with us. [laughter] happy to do it. jenna: we ll see you at 6 p.m. eastern time tonight. jon: we are talking about the vote in the house as well, you might have seen that banner graphic just a moment ago that the house has a smaller republican majority now and potentially that could bode some trouble for speaker boehner as he tries to maintain his speakership. we re going to have that vote or the results of it as soon as it takes place. so trust us, we re keeping an eye on that. one of the things that has put him in trouble with some in the his membership, in his caucus is the vote on the fiscal cliff and the effects of that deal are now hitting every single wage-earning american. the agreement did not prevent the payroll tax holiday from expiring meaning social security taxes go up. and soon you are going to notice a ....