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Month ago. >> that's a friday. i'm going to go with january 10th. the speaker is doing what he's -- what republicans and democrats when they run the house do what they always do. it's just a little late in the game for this. they are trying to let some steam out of their caucus or conference. >> it's a little late in the game for this because it's partly a negotiating ploy with the white house. as you -- as you pointed out before. to demonstrate to them there's very little give and the white house is going to come closer to their position. i'm not sure the squeeze is worth the juice. >> jennif...

>> eric: why wouldn't? they proposed $1 million. i think there was 50 something democrats who said yeah, a couple held out but yeah. moving to 2010. now no way will it fly. >> bob: it's negotiating ploy on everybody's part. i don't think boehner think he is will get away with $1 billion. it will be lower than that. they can't take -- >> eric: how democrats bring it to republicans to say do this and make it $1 million. >> eric: we move the goalpost again. the stock market knows you will get a deal. because it's eminnocent. but you get a bad deal for everyone. >> andrea: the republicans meet beh...

>> well, they put on $400 billion in medicare cuts. so there were some specifics in there. but was it a hardball opening? yeah, of course it was. the question is, what's the counteroffer, right? they're trying to not just provoke a no. they want the counteroffer. and the counteroffer is, what is it? there isn't one. >> it looks like right now it will probably come back now as $800 billion in new revenue, probably higher specific cuts. >> you forget one extra demand, of course, which is ban the debt ceiling piece. that's huge, right? that's, like, unilateral disarmament. we're going to offer yo...

Wake of the shooting which killed 16 afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier says the relationship has been damaged, and this needs to be done. now, president karzai can't actually enforce these demands under the current agreement. he is somewhat powerless to enforce this, but u.s. military officials have to work with him, and these are demands that he is saying time and time again. now, the taliban also saying they have suspended all talks with the u.s. government in the oil-rich nation of qatar, the taliban claiming the u.s. military and government keep changing the conditions for talks, and they...

Officials here in kabul who have reconciled with the afghan government, they say this is more likely a negotiating ploy as opposed to a long-term suspension, they think the taliban's just trying to gain more ground in the negotiations than really truly suspending it. but the other blow to the mission here is that president karzai announced today he wants u.s. troops to pull out of the rural afghan villages where a lot of u.s. troops are stationed, supposedly trying to provide security to afghans. karzai says he wants them out of there, he wants them back on the large bases, and he wants the af...