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Presidential duties. accusing the united states of a number of bizarre things, not only accusing the united states of trying to intervene in politics but that they could be behind chavez's cancer. what we will most likely see is the opposition leader running against him in the elections and if polls have it right, this will be won by maduro. he will benefit from that sympathy vote and a lot of people here in venezuela have benefited from this oil-backed socialist policy, wolf. >> do you no he if those two americans who were expelled from the u.s. embassy in caracas, have they actually left the...

I'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." it's sort of like a movie moment in washington. an old-fashion filibuster. not the threat of nonstop thinking but a member of the united states senate actually refusing to yield the floor for more than five hours today. senator rand paul has been doing just that with the help of some fellow republicans and at least one democrat. the issue, the possibility that drones could be used against american citizens on u.s. soil. watch this. >> i will speak until i can no longer speak. i will speak as long as it takes until the alarm has sounded from coa...

Even if they show that it doesn't work, that they are not all going to get together, they've at least still made the effort, which is what the public wants them to do. >> what's your take on this, john? you've been watching white houses and congress deal with these kinds of issues for a long time. >> well, i think in a word it's pathetic that it's taken four years and a month to get to this point. that's not just blaming the president. it's blaming all of them. he'll sit down with the senate tonight. no, they are not going to come away with a deal to pass the sequester and maybe when they get ...

That's very moving when we see the recovery that she's made. here's the question, are you going to be bold in terms of dealing with the issue of background checks? >> we're working strongly and very much in a bipartisan manner, wolf. we're looking at all of the rights of people that have guns, people that come from a gun culture, people that don't come from a gun culture and i think we've got a working group that's moving favorably forward. >> so walk me through where we stand right now in terms of expanding background checks because right now private sales you don't need a background check. y...

Both sides have doubt that breaking bread can fix a broken government. >> for anyone to think that this is going to be a come to jesus moment, they've got another thing coming. >> reporter: but they are still going to try, not just at dinner tonight but also next week. that's when the president goes up to capitol hill to meet with lawmakers in both the house and the senate. it's something that he has not done in years and getting back to this dinner tonight, here's a menu from the restaurant where they will be sitting down and breaking bread. there's an $85 fixed price menu. get this, wolf, fo...