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Way that washington works. and they know that only 11% of the country approves and they want things to change. unfortunately for them, they were opposed on policy grounds to an extension of the pay roll tax cut to begin with. then they changed their minds. now they want a full extension. this is very hard to break through. to explain to americans who hate the congress, are tuned into christmas and out of the fighting in washington. want to keep their thousand dollars or more in some cases and don't want to hear any more about people staging stand-offs and brinksmanship. it will be very hard fo...

To go to state schools. >> the republican race is intensifying, the debates are becoming more combative. in part because they think president obama is increasingly vulnerable to defeat. 49% of voters will never vote for barak obama. for an incumbent in the democratic party, that's frightening. republicans could hardly be more excited. >> bret: carl cameron, just outside. we'll find out what you want the candidates to answer thursday in orlando. your questions will be part of our debate co-sponsored by google and the republican party of florida. you can look at some of the questions already sub...

Back to you. >> ron, regarding the military and the defections, there is a divide even within the military, though. >> reporter: there are reports of stand-offs and confrontations between militaryç units in the streets and around the capital today squaring off essentially. the military's divided. loyalties divided. the defensemen said that the military's supporting the president. earlier top generals including one of the most influential generals and ally of the president said, everybody's supporting me, or come and support me. it's a real muddled and chaotic situation that's very dangerous....

Entitlements like social security and medicare and majority leader eric cantor says this. >> i would expect the house to continue its -- its process of cutting $2 billion per week until we can see where the -- the gentleman's caucus and then the democrat leader in the senate is. >> and the white house's line on that coming from national economic director gene sperling is "we are willing to cut spending further if we can find common ground on cuts that we can agree would help reduce the deficit without harming the economy in the short term or harming our long-term competitiveness" and that comm...

Now 2,000 smaller ships, many of them volunteers following that inland. there is a slight switch in strategy and also an attempt to try to communicate better with the locals. over the past week we have seen stand offs between the coast guard and local officials with their own clean up operation. the locals often consider both bp and the coast guard as on stack cans for their own more aggressive approach to the clean up. >> shepard: steve, even today we are hearing new complaints from people there on shore about how the oil is affecting them. >> we really have seen those dramatic pictures of oi...