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I mean that's the headline. this thing will go to a runoff. what is the feeling among the ossoff camp and among supporters about what the road ahead will look like, what this fight is going to be like to win this run off against karen handel. >> no doubt there was disappointment in the room, a hope that perhaps he could achieve that 50% thresh hold and win the seat outright. but at the same time no one -- top officials in both parties were not expecting jon ossoff to get to that 50% thresh hold. public polling showed he was probably in the 40s, mid-40s and even internal polling suggested the h...

Atntion and i think that has alarmed republicans and they have gone into georgia now. and it hurt them, have been, that there are 11 candidates but i think it will prevent him from getting to that 50% thresh hold. the grassroots enthusiasm has undercut the probability he is going on get to that 50% and went outright in the race. >> i have two jennifers here so i'm going with last names. palmieryi. better for the democrats nationally if ossoff could went outright now? or does that show more strength? >> it would be harder to went the second time if there's a run-off. but it will be difficult to...

A familiar refrain. and mike emanuel is covering this from capitol hill. democrats say weed in to extend it for a lot of different reasons. some that affect gist families and some that affect everybody in america. >> shep, they're saying it ill have an impact on the economy, and also calling it emergency spending. it's about helping american families that are struggling to find -- during this difficult time to find a job. >> it's not one job for one an mix -- an palestinian applicants. it's 1600 applicants for 36 jobs. they're trying. they're trying awfully hard. but unless we pass this legisl...

Party don't like. he put on the cpi on social security and agreed to some where around $400 billion in medicare cuts. he but entitlements on o the table in big, big numbers. john boehner was the guy who said a week ago we got to have a trillion in revenues and a trillion in cuts. that was the basic frame work for the deal. so then the decision in terms of where the tax rates would go up, whether it was 250 a year or 500 a year or what that thresh hold was, that was within the realm of achievement and the art of the possible. so we had the framework for the deal until the republicans in the hou...

That's what it's about here. it's not about a personality but about the issue. that's what drives people to sign that. >> this election, as soon as grover couldn't protect the people who signed his pledge all of a sudden this so-called principled stance started falling apart. we're starting to see republicans say hey, we'll take a hard look at tax policy. let's talk about entitlements and tax policy for a minute here. if we look at social security, for example, seems like there's two easy solutions on both sides. if democrats said all right, we're going to raise retirement age basically a coup...