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Yawn. in fact, in about a minute and half when the market opens it looks like the dow will open higher by about 40 points. it's interesting when you listen to what a lot of market participants say. rick santelli, our cnbc's rick santelli down in the pits at the cme was talking about it this morning, he's been through these situations before even as a trader. he said look, most people down there just believe this is political theater, gamesmanship and even if they miss that deadline tonight it's not something that's going to stretch out very long, monday morning if even then. the other thing th...

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Nbc's mike viqueira and luke russert. gentlemen, thanks for being here. our cnbc colleague john harwood is reporting that there will be no vote in the house tonight, and according to his sources, the u.s. will go over the fiscal cliff. what's your reaction to that? have you heard that -- >> we can confirm that. >> i love john harwood, but luke and i have been reporting the same thing, jonathan, so there. >> okay. so we're going over the cliff? >> apparently. that's the bad news. the good news is, the parameters of a deal are definitely there. as you described, jonathan, the sticking point rema...