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What we expect. bill: all eyes on the hill. lawmakers are expected to put final touches on a first real budget in two years. can they actually get this one done? we will have a live report on that. martha: the race against the clock. a frantic search for six people, four of them young children currently missing in subzero temperatures after going out to play in the snow. >> it is darn cold out here. we're putting everything in, it is the proverbial needle in the haystack.

Democrats don't want another shutdown because in terms of the president's leadership, i don't think that they necessarily believe he could take the hit. and so they'd like to get this thing off the table. so what health care has done is created an environment where getting a deal that's possible was preferable to getting no deal. martha: pay no attention to my left hand over here while my right hand is talking about the health care issue. you know, 24/7 basically. you know, but paul ryan, you know, in terms of his political future, obviously, he was a vice presidential candidate, are people go...

Should. and if they consistently get behind it, then the message will start to -- martha: well, that goes exactly to what bill o'reilly says. but, you know, the classic discussion here is that there's the tea party side, and then there's the, you know, chris christie side that is more of a moderate future candidate, perhaps. and, you know, the party clearly is very torn on which way they should go. that's the biggest elephant in the room here, right? >> i would agree. and i think that to say that there's a tea party side and a chris christie side is a mischaracterization. conservatives and mos...

That says paul ryan and patty murray who, you know, strange bed fellows, very different philosophies on how these things should get done. but that they had the space to do the deal because, you know, the whole world is focused on health care. do you think that's truesome. >> well, i hi that health care -- i think that health care created the motivation for them. it created the motivation for their colleagues to allow them to reach a deal that was possible. so normally what we'd have, martha, is republicans pushing for massive entitlement cuts, massive spending cuts, democrats pushing for a lot...

List, the leader, the standard bearer and could be that person who could pull it all together? >> well, there isn't a leader on that list right now, in my humble opinion. so i believe that it's still too early to tell. martha: all right. maybe it'll be with herman cain. mr. cain -- >> you never know. [laughter] martha: thank you very much. good to see you as always. bill: jenna lee standing by, "happening now" rolls your way in a couple minutes. how are you, jenna? jenna: hi there, bill. congressman darrell issa is here to break some news on the security of the health care web site. that'll be...