>> let me say -- >> is he done -- john bainer? >> this is the story that is coming i think, that hasn't been written, which is john boehner's leadership is threatened. it's almost untenable. it is clear that john boehner had a deal with mitch mcconnell, his republican fellow leader in the senate and they had a deal with the white house. okay. but boehner couldn't deliver. if you can't deliver, you are not in control of your troops. >> i am wishing he wishes he could crawl down into the canadian pipeline. thanks a lot. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> coming up, bret bozel is here to break down the most biased news reporting of 2011. the year in review mission of media mash. al qaeda reclaiming iraq, after more than a dozen explosions rip through bag baghdad. will they crumble back to chaos? that and much more straight ahead on "hannity." i take an omega for my heart. but to be honest, i find the omega choices overwhelming. which one is right for me? then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum, a name i trust. it

time i checked with our people at cnet news, it appears to have the votes and then a floor vote by john bainerhen merged up with something called protect ip the sister bill over on the senate side. so we should watch this thursday. >> only because i gave one away, the kindle fire, there's an issue with that? >> big software updates coming up. >> they are big christmas gifts. >> it's a huge christmas gift. you gave one and got one at the same time. >> all right. >> it's going to happen in a lot of places. there is a kindle fire software update coming up in a couple of weeks making the browsing speed faster with some complaints about that and sometimes it won't stay on wi-fi consistently. those are the complaints. that's what they are trying to address and i'm sure many other small bugs, keyboard response, things like that. >> all fixed before the holiday? >> just in time. >> thank you, cnet editor-at- large brian cooley. great, back to you. >> thank you. >>> coming up we'll have the latest on a house fire in menlo park. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [ male announcer ] dandruff, meet micro-beads. any la

john bainer and house republicans rejected. >> nice to see up thank you so much. like senator mccain with long traditions of bipartisanship. john mccain wants fellow republicans in the house to get their act together. he said the standoff is damaging his party and is unfair to the american people. senator john mccain joins us live now from phoenix. good to see you. before we start on this discussion, i know have you a lot to say about it. earlier this week, you were one of the dissenting voices about the -- marking the american departure from iraq. you feel we should have left troops there, active troops there. not just civilians and advisers. now after what's happened overnight, what are your thoughts? >> unfortunately, what i anticipated is taking place. condoleezza rice said after we reached an agreement with iraqis, we always envisioned leaving a residual force there for a variety of reasons, including providing some additional stability. the president is going around, spouting how we have left a stable and democratic iraq, and, look, that's part of his campaig

john boehner's back. eric captor has sort of taken himself to be the representative of the rowdy tea party caucus and the thorn in bainers side every time he has a grand bar gape. your point about gingrich v romney, we talked about this on the show, this is part of the larger cleave in the republican party, a group of very archconservative, deficit above all else, incredibly right-wing republicans against the establishment and that's exactly what you see in the capped dash so i was newt gingrich and mitt romney and the split in their supporters. now, richard, if we were to ask boehner and someone did whether or not he caved, here's what he said. >> sometimes it's politically difficult do the right thing. may not have about politically the smartest thing in the world but i'm going to tell you what, i think our members waged through a good fight, we were able to come to an agreement, able to fix what -- what came out of the senate. >> am i -- am i crazy or is this position i tried do the best i could but things were just tough. is that not the corner they have about trying to put president obama in for a while, going on fo