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I'm a member of the tuesday group and member of the study committee, a member of the texas delegation, and paul is meeting with us tomorrow morning. so we'll see where all that goes. people around here, they're good vote counters, and they generally can tell the way things are going to go. >> what was your reaction? from the outside, and i have no dog in this fight for a variety of obvious reasons. the whole thing looked to me like watching two people talk themselves into a relationship, that is going to clearly end in tears later on. paul ryan doesn't seem to want this job. >> no, he does not...

Strategy is just purely on a basis of winning and losing obviously has been successful. what you are saying, charles krauthammer is saying to the world tonight is that liberals are morally bankrupt. they don't believe in anything. they don't believe in helping the down trodden. they don't believe in protecting the defenseless. they don't believe in anything. they are a bunch of cynical vote counters who will do anything for power. that is what you are saying? >> no. that's what o'reilly says that krauthammer is saying. and since i'm more of an expert on what krauthammer is thinking, i will giv...

Mccain, questioning why he would trust the word coming from the ayatollah versus the words coming from a decorated war veteran like secretary of state john kerry. that's the way the president characterized it during this press conference. but, you know, this is an issue that is going to follow the president right into next week as congress comes back hearings will be held bob corker chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, will be trying to move his legislation forward. and our vote counters at cnn were looking at a situation where potentially republicans and democrats might be able...

On this. because of this, they decided to go ahead and postpone that vote until later on this morning, 10 cln 30 this morning. that's when they were making the case that this extension is only for another three months. the republicans are saying, wait a minute this is going to cost $3.6 billion. the president saying he's only going to take a part of these benefits. late yesterday, our vote counters over in the cnn unit over on capitol hill said that senate democrats may be one vote shy of the 60 votes that they need to clear the threshold in this test vote later this morning. we're going to ha...

>> chris: senator durbin you and senator cornyn are the whips, the vote counters, know whether or not there are are enough votes. are there enough votes when this comes up this week for you to pass the manchin toomey compromise on expanded background checks? >> i think john will concede that pat toomey of pennsylvania is one of the most conservative members of the republican senate caucus and joe manchin one of the most conservative members of the democratic caucus. the two have come up with a background proposal supported by 90% of the people in america and 75% of the members of the national ...