we did have one vote for eric cantor. we've had cantor vote for john boehner. i believe we just had a vote for colin powell. that just goes to show you that the 113th is vying to be as whacky as the 1 129. we've had votes for nancy pelosi, and obviously most of the votes coming in for john boehner from republicans. coming back out to the panel, i mean, the thinking is, karen, that john boehner really isn't in actual jeopardy unless, of course, 20 republicans were to decide to do the colin powell/cantor gambet here. >> just the very fact -- think about this -- that john boehner went into today with stories sort of swirling around whether or not and questioning whether or not he would really stay the speaker of the house, watching the vote count, let's see how many more general powell gets. that's not -- that just doesn't start him off very well. particularly in a house that will have more democrats in it. he has the senate will have more democrats in it, and so in terms of this divided government, i mean, he is going to have to work even harder to bring along th

eric cantor came out and said he will not support it. there has been tension between the top two republican leaders, a rivalry. many people have written about it. it's not a big secret. i'm not talking out of school here. eric cantor stood four square behind boehner throughout this negotiation over the course of the last two months. ten days ago, in the speaker's plan b, when that crashed and burned, eric cantor stood behind john boehner. so we don't know -- it doesn't appear. we can't report there's division among them now. but it certainly is a significant development. obviously cantor is influential, particularly among house conservatives who are the heart of the republican party. john boehner has said in the days leading up to this, as it was being negotiated this deal between mcconnell and biden, that he would not put something on the floor that was a democratic -- would require a majority of democrats to pass. a lot of people talked over the course of the last several weeks about the majority, the majority tradition in the house of

and then it is eric, it is first name eric, with eric cantor.veryone thinks that chris christie wants to be a republican presidential candidate. it is getting stranger and stranger, imagining chris christie on a republican primary stage with all of this bashing of republicans he is willing to do. >> yeah, it is amazing, palace intrigue at its worst. eric cantor is now the new jersey and new york's politician's best friend when it comes to sandy relief. the worse, he is a terrible speaker and doesn't know what he is doing. but 85 members had to walk the plank, vote for tax cuts with no spending cuts. he didn't feel like he could make them walk the blank again. he is in a bind, john boehner is in an impossible situation and has this deputy, eric cantor, in an impossible situation. >> and you're from staten island. i don't think everybody understands that the new york delegation normally sends exactly one republican to the house of representatives, that is your congressman, michael grim, who you just reelected. he had a serious problem with what we

cantor didn't look like he was undermining boehner. what's the governing dynamic between the two of them? is it cantor biding his time, making sure he plays nice with conservatives, but doesn't try to overthrow boehner? >> i think there was a little bit more to it, probably in 2010 or slightly before and people thought there was more going on. i think that eric cantor, after that, and after 2011 and the debt ceiling showdown, has shown that he wants to be able to be within leadership and work with boehner and sees that also, there is a faction of establishment republicans who are backing john boehner. and if eric cantor at some points wants to be speaker and make that run, he can't completely alienate all of those folks. but i don't think all of this, it's a little too machiavellian to suggest that all of this is going on and is totally orchestrated. i think that mccarthy and cantor are people who know that they're going to be around for a while -- >> they're playing the long game. >> and they can't alienate all the members, whether th

who's the real challenger if not cantor? >> listen, eric cantor has the best chance. there has been rumors inside the house that he has circulated a paper to actually think about ousting boehner. >> what kind of paper? wait, wait. that's a very important charge. what kind of paper is mr. cantor circulating? and bob costa, do you know anything about that? >> there were serious rumors circulating the last few days that cantor or some other senior -- establishing republican, so nobody that i'm working with, it was just a one-pager, saying how basically to get it on the floor, and who to vote for besides john boehner. >> bob costa, do you know anything about that? >> with all due respect to my friend ron, i've spoken to aides close to speaker cantor, they are not working against boehner. >> of course not. he might as well be the pr agent for cantor. >> i think people are misinterpreting cantor's big nay vote yesterday, which was very significant. he broke with the speaker. but at the same time, he is not a machiavellian character at the moment. >> you think for this debt

cantor from virginia. mccarthy from california. >>> house republicans have turned every spending bill into a debate. that is an accomplishment for the political party that wants to be the party of small government. but this week, that produced an embarrassing fight over aid for the victims of superstorm sandy. after boehner pulled a $60 billion sandy spending bill from the house floor late on tuesday, perhaps worried what was going to happen after the fiscal cliff bill, that it would go down, that didn't sit well with some republicans from the northeast who raked him over the coals. >> we cannot believe that this cruel knife in the back was delivered to our region. >> the federal government doesn't have a role in this? absurd. absolutely absurd. >> i think it's inexcusable that we did not have this vote. >> we have been devastated. and i would hope that the speaker will bring this to the floor as quickly as possible. >> but the worst tongue lashing came, again, boehner came from new jersey governor, chris

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. >> yes. >> oh, i absolutely think boehner is better than eric cantor, i don't trust cantor as far asan throw him. >> why? >> for boehner to hold a press conference and say the reason republicans didn't vote for t.a.r.p. was because nancy pelosi did not say nice words about him, and at the last minute he himself turning against it. >> interesting stuff. guys, thank you very much. we will continue this conversation. >> thank you. >>> other news we are following, new york police probably don't make many arrests for possessions of explosive in greenwich village, and that makes the latest plot they interrupted all the more bizarre. meet the five-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max says ha. c-max says wheeee. which is what you get, don't you see? cause c-max has lots more horsepower than prius v, a hybrid that c-max also bests in mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. ...so as you can see, geico's customer satisfaction is at 97%. mmmm tasty. and cut! very good. people are always asking me how we make these geico adverts. so we're taking you behind the scenes. this coffee c

coming up, reaction to that interview with eric cantor. did what we just hear provide some real hope for the end of the dysfunction in washington or is it the cold swiss air that is making me hear things? so...how'd it go? well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you've mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is different now. you don't even have to bid. master hahn taught you all that? oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little work. ♪ let's go. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing the all-new cadillac xts... another big night on the town, eh? ...and the return of life lived large. ♪ >>> welcome back to "your money" i'm coming to you from the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. you just heard my interview with eric cantor. one of the most influential congressman. christine romans is the host of "your bottom," john avlon, contributor, and margaret hooven is a cnn contributor and consultant. congressional approval ratings

eric cantor did not vote for it. he voted against it. >> while. >> that is what we understand right now. what is the next cep, and when will the president get that? if you want to comment on what we just learned about the votes from speaker boehner and paul ryan. the budget grew roll from the right voting for it and. cantor's saying no. >> i think it's fairly extraordinary. there has been a lot of talk, a lot has been written and speculated upon about eric kanter and the rivalry between eric kanter and john banner. folks happen to think -- i am getting an update here. let me update you. this is a press release just sent out by the press office just behind me. remarks will be open. 11:20 will get a statement here in the briefing room. you and i have been talking earlier, punctuating this long campaign, this long after that he has had to pass this bill averting the fiscal cliff. people on the left have been disappointed in the fact that he did not stick to that $250,000 threshold that he and has raced up to $450,000. b

scheduling a vote for sandy relief so i mean and i know that they haven't always agreed to him in cantor and i do think that the situation you know it got better and it clearly got worse after today because even chris christie said that cantor personally told them that he disagreed with banner about not voting for it the other night you know cantor also didn't vote for the fiscal cliff legislation so i think going in the hundred thirteenth congress that's a really interesting relationship to keep watching but but i don't think it i'm not out of this so love to see the house run but your cantor and kevin mccarthy. i mean like it was the labor party very recently and they are all given to behave like he wasn't invited cantor and mccarthy i'd be back on your show and you'd be complaining to bring boehner back though i never thought corporate personhood corporations are out. one corporation particular hobby lobby which is owned by a fundamentalist or very super whatever arrived through the religious family the so that they don't believe that they should and they don't want to they they belie

cantor had a vote for steve pierce. cantor had a auto vote for a new member from oklahoma. as this roll is stretching out, who knows what else is bubbling up there. second by second. >> and andrea, what we're seeing is members are less and less beholden to leadership. as you know, over time that would have been unthinkable to dis the speaker like this, but among the factors are the lack of the ear marks where frankly money was one of the ways that you could keep members in line. access to media, access to donors. now in the digital world a lot of these members have that. they're not as dependent on leadership for that. we're even told that the famous phone calling cubicles over at the house republican campaign committee aren't used as much as they were because members can be on their cell phones. this is an example of how leadership's grasp is weakened, and we're seeing it in these members who are responsive to people in their district, responsible -- responsive to not necessarily hearing leadership the way they would have even a few years ago. >> mike, what was your take-a

his number two, eric cantor voted against the deal. so did most of the house republicans. 151 voted against it. 85 voted for it. and the fight has torn them apart. >> i'm proud of my speaker. >> i think the president did a great job in getting the speaker to undo everything that he promised he would do, the speaker would do, after the 2010 elections. >> what the speaker and the house leadership did was to let the house work its will. >> there's no spendings cuts. >> and i urge a yes vote. >> how much does it bring down the deficit? i thought we were in a deficit crisis? >> now, newt gingrich is predicting the deal will set off a profound fight in the gop. the conservative web site redstate.com says, "house gop is in disarray. . it's not liberal media span." and, tomorrow, republicans will vote on whether boehner keeps his job as speaker. this has been one less after another for boehner. and the pressure may be getting to him. political reports that on friday, he walked up to senator harry reid, just steps away from the oval office and

cantor. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: -- >> mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the clerk will proceed. the clerk: house resolution 5, resolved that -- mr. cantor: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman. mr. cantor: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the reading is dispensed with. the gentleman from virginia is recognized for one hour. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from the district of columbia seek recognition? ms. norton: mr. speaker, i rise to offer a motion that is at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. will the gentlewoman submit her motion? the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: ms. norton of the district of columbia mov

i'm with eric cantor. this bill in its present form is not good enough and the american people are smart enough to know that what you don't pay today and owe tomorrow, you'll have to pay tomorrow. >> we've got to go, congressman. you still have confidence in the speak a speaker? >> i have confidence in the speaker. he's making the process open but of course that includes people like myself and leader cantor who say we have to be open to change. >> darrell issa, thank you very much. >>> much more and the white house reaction to this latest rift between the house speaker and the republican majority leader when it comes to the fiscal cliff bill. what's going on? >>> plus. >> the latest on hillary clinton's blood clot. when she might be released from the hospital, what could it mean for her future. lots of news happening right here right now in "the situation room." look what mommy is having. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice

cantor, to get this done. it has to happen and it has to happen now. >> congresswoman, thank you very much. you heard what governor christie said. 66 days and counting people are still waiting on aid. thank you. >> and, remember, remember, we got the money out to katrina within ten days. and it was bipartisan cooperation. we have to do this now. >> thank you, congresswoman. have a great day. appreciate you coming on. next hour, we're going to talk to minority whip steny high and senator chuck schumer on this same thing. >>> a quick programming note for you, from sandy to katrina, massive storms seem to be far less rare events, but are we ready for the next superstorm? be sure to watch our special report, the coming storms this sunday night at 8:00 eastern only here on cnn. >>> coming up, speaking of the fiscal cliff deal, we talked about a bit earlier, there is a lot of special interest money included and some of it raising eyebrows today. we're back in 90 seconds. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose lon

except for this guy eric cantor he was also there and one of the most important things we've learned over the last four years watching eric cantor lead the insurgent republican party is that things aren't just fine. four years ago inaugural day as the new president barack obama was making the rounds of the inaugural balls with his wife eric cantor had gathered powerful members of the republican party at up still steak house in washington d.c. in the penn quarter neighborhood in a private room in a restaurant called the caucus room their agenda was straightforward sabotage the american economy blame it on the young president and then retake the white house in four years paul ryan who four years later would replace the vice president would be chosen to play replace the vice president and thus fulfill this agenda was also in attendance at night as was newt gingrich and one of only two people who are elected newt gingrich and frank luntz and over a dozen prominent republicans including kevin mccarthy the number three republican in the house of representatives jim de mint now heading up t

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you know,. >> so there is an essence between speaker boehner and eric cantor? >> yes, i would say so. working in the middle is the majority risk of kevin mccarthy. mccarthy has only been in for three terms. so he is practically a freshman himself and he became sort of the big brother to them and that was a clever move on his part. so to the extent that anybody knows their whims and sentiments, they are very close. .. >> mitt romney's running mate, is everyone mountain republican leadership, and that matter, republican ranks happy to see him there, any resentment of him? do they respect him as much as they are said to for the brain and facility for numbers and all of that? >> they do respect him, and there are those who resent and distrust paul ryan in the republican party are the ryan budget, and the republican house budget, they had -- ryan's budget kicked around for several years as ranking member of the house budget committee back when pelosi and the democrats were in power. he would introduce that budget as the minority budget, and i think 20% to 25% of rep

cantor said he was disappointed with the bill. here's how it was sold to republicans. >> so by making republican tax cuts permanent, we're one step closer to comprehensive tax reform that will help strengthen our economy and create more and higher paychecks for american workers. >> what's interesting is with a lot of big bills you see the speaker get up and try to fire up his troops to vote for it you will see the majority leader eric cantor try to get up and fire up the base to vote for it. in this case, it was left to the chairman of the house ways and means committee, dave camp. jon? >> jon: not a lot of holiday cheer among two of the most powerful people on the hill. >> that's right. you could definitely feel the tension going higher and higher the closer it got to the deadline. last friday at the white house, fox news has confirmed speaker john boehner told senate majority leader harry reid to, quote: f himself twice after reid had said boehner was running the house like a dictatorship and said boehner was essentially more wo

or can boehner dump cantor? >> guest: i don't think you're going to see speaker boehner dump cantor. i don't think they are the best of friends but they have a close professional relationship. this is a conference that needs the leadership to be working together. in the past there has been discussion of the regard between boehner and cantor but moving forward, there continues to be in the political corner working together as a better solution. the most important thing to watch is that cantor isn't saying much published in -- publicly and at least there's doing that i doubt you will hear about cantor working gets boehner. >> host: gilbert go kentucky, independent caller. >> caller: good morning. it seems to me that cantor goes behind speaker boehner's back. [inaudible] there is a lot of sacred stuff going around in the republican party. they need to be more united and they are not. the american people elected the same people over and over and over. until that stops i don't know how americans are going to move for

also, eric cantor is very tied in to wall street. and a lot of finance republicans, the ones i talk to who talk to those guys from the big banks, they did not want to see the markets open tomorrow with this deal up in the air there was definitely a pushback from that community as these negotiations move forward. >> we saw the dow react positively there the other day. and then it could go negative again after we have seen a long string of decreases in the dow index leading up to this vote. and that one pop in the dow of over 100 points. >> right. >> because there was word of a deal coming through there. they're feeling very positive about that. >> and foreign markets are opening, as i'm sure are open now in some parts of the world there is that fear that the foreign markets will start to go down on the u.s., and that it could lead to it all going to haywire tomorrow. >> january 2nd in many parts of the world. now one of the -- just to drill down a little more on this hiccup, and those who were against this senate bill, why did that ne

and cantore made a very declarative statement today.re already immediately were grumblings that some house republicans will go along with this i'm not sure that democrats will, too. it remains to be seen whether, indeed, john boehner and cantore can get passed what they want to do. then again this is just another three-month extension. now the good news for the vix watchers out there is that this puts it past, you know, the coming showdowns on sequestration involving the budget which will all kind of happen in march. so this is one cliff that may not happen as two other cliffs are under way. three months from now, depending what happens with those cliffs and what happens with the economy, the house republicans, the tea partiers and the let's blow it to hell members of the republican caucus may not want to go along with this for another extension. the president has clearly won, steered them down, as he said he would, and come up with a temporary retreat that may turn into a permanent retreat. but it's still not quite resolved. >> i total

cantor wanted to vote for it and boehner was against it and this is it the latest example we saw the house vote. and lib ramedia versus gun owners. it is nbc david gregory takes main stream media arrogance to a new level and showing a large capacity gun clip on air . publishing of names and addresses of gun owners; is that their job? >> i am a man who follows the rule of law. we are not talking about the rule of law anymore. we are talking about endangering our citizens. these laws were written 30 years ago. 30 years ago we didn't have computers and facebook and we didn't have social media and we certainly doesn't have google maps and that's what broke the camem's back on this request. >> the clerk for new york's putnam county standing firm on his position not to release names and addresses of resident in his countiy that have lel pistol permits. he denied the request from the news. they had already shown the names and applications of permit owners in other counties. the action that the paper pulled got a lot of reaction. >> is it it their job or just to make headlines? >> they could

boehner can't go over cantor on this one. he needs cantor to back him up on any final deal, right?> what they're attempting to craft is something to get to 218 votes which has been an elusive target in this 112th congress. but i sensed that if they came up with something that was responsible and reasonable and laid down the marker on spending that we'll be there with the spooeker. >> going forward, do you think -- how many folks in your conference would support the bill as it is right now? >> that's hard to say. but it certainly wouldn't be the majority. the majority i don't know if you'd hit triple digits. i can only speak for myself that if the bill came up in its current form, i'd vote for it because i think it's unreasonable to hold hostage 95% of america and say you're getting a tax cut because we can't get our business taken care of. that doesn't mean i think it's a good bill. it would be a hold your nose and jump off the platform vote. >> so you think the number obviously boehner wants the majority. but for anything on this bill, 60, 70? could you get that? >> i don't know.

there seemed to be a divide between cantor and boehner about this.ghts about that and how the whole thing developed? >> really hoping the republicans can work this out. amongst themselves. they are having a hard time. i don't understand what is going on. why they aren't able to work together. why you have two major republicans blasting them. chris christie and congressman king. the clip we saw was sedate. he wasn't sedate earlier to say all new yorkers stop giving money to the g.o.p. you just come here and take money from us. >> bret: as i said, took a long time to get to that point. >> it seems like something they should be able to work out. amongst themselves. it's not clear why it had to come to this. maybe work through the process. why is this con ten insurance >> this is more of a flavor perhaps of the day. senator schumer. >> the senate passed a bill amazingly. with $60 billion. the house was about to follow suit. with a two-tier process that would have sent us the bill. >> this is one of the most sad but also most frustrating and angering they

costa, is speaker boehner stuck with cantor or can he dump cantor?" they have a close professional relationship. this is a conference that need the leadership to be working together. moving forward, they continue to be in a political corner. working together is a better solution. cantor is not saying much publicly against voter -- boehner. host: kentucky, independent caller. caller: that sort of answer my question. it seems like cantor goes behind boehner's back. there's a lot of sacred -- secret stuff going around in the republican party. they need more -- to be more united. until that stops, i don't know how america is going to move forward. the other comment i want to make, too, talking about the left-wing media, that is correct. especially the "hannerty" show. it is programs like that that don't help. host: how about those comments that there is some back and forth behind the scenes that i don't know about -- we don'g know about -- we don't know about? guest: there was no move to break with boehner, kantor, -- cantor, or mccarthy, the top three. c

no cantor coup in the works. if in fact there is something that shakes up the leadership, the thinking is is that cantor could go down with it. would go down with the leadership ship because those who would want a change would want a sea change and that it's hard to see cantor staying there. you really raise a good point that all this talk about will the speaker stay in his job, well, you have to have a speaker, so if not boehner, who? that is another discussion i'm having privately with republicans tonight even in the hallways here. they don't see who the person would be to replace him. >> all right. thank you very much. obviously, dissatisfaction with the question who could be wetter. who will bat boehner and who won't? "outfront," someone who's going to make the decision. republican congressman james langford of oklahoma. new congress is sworn in tomorrow. you're going to be the chairman of the house republican committee. you are in leadership. as you just heard dana lay out, john boehner could lose just becau

he stripped them -- >> the last i heard eric cantor is still -- >> not eric cantor.he house is up for grabs. here is the good news. so for the last more than a decade, 15 years, the house of representatives on the republican side has been operating under something they call the hastert rule. that is named after former speaker denny hastert, and under the hastert rule, to bring a bill to the floor, the speaker needs to believe that he will get what's called a majority -- >> of the majority. >> -- of the majority. now, the fiscal cliff deal, they didn't have a majority of the majority. the hastert rule got shredded. >> what about the norquist commitment? that got shredded pretty -- >> there's a loophole on that. joosk. >> of course. >> midnight dispensation. >> that was what norquist tweeted. on this rule, what we have now is a precedent for boehner using a much smaller group of more reasonable republicans to vote with the democrats. that's what happened on the fiscal cliff. so as long as he can not go through the folly of trying to get back to the hastert rule and jus

is this cantor basically pushing boehner out in front?> you did have a suspicion when this news first broke that cantor might be preparing to run against boehner for speaker, but i just don't think that's going to happen. it's possible, but that would be surprising. but this whole business is surprising because as congressman yarmuth said, the last thing you expected was that the house republicans were going to slap mitch mcconnell in the face. you can't get more bipartisan than an 89-8 vote. there were only eight senators and only five republicans who voted against it. you would think that if speaker boehner would actually allow this to the floor and if he said, look, do we want this or do weigh want $3.5 trillion in tax increases? do we want this or do we want a stock market to crash, they could find republican votes because i think if this doesn't pass and things go very bad over the next few days, it's going to be the house republicans who own it, and it's hard to believe they want to do that, but it appears that their ideological sor

cantor wanted to vote for it and boehner was against it and this is it the latest example we saw the house vote. and lib ramedia versus gun owners. it isbc david gregory takes main stream media arrogance to a new level and showing a large capacity gun clip on air . publishing of names and addresses of gun owners; is that their job? all next on news watch. [ female announcer ] with the 2-in-1 swiffer sweeper, a great clean doesn't have to take long. i'm done. are you thinking what i'm thinking? ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ okay. all righ oh! [ female announcer ] the 2-in-1 swiffr sweeper uses electrostatic dry cloths to clean better than a broom. and its wet mopping cloths can clean better than a mop in half the time so you don't miss a thing. mom, have you seen my -- hey! hey! he did it. [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. >> i am a man who follows the rule of law. we are not talking about the rule of law anymore. we are talking about endangering our citizens. these laws were written 30 years ago. 30 years ago we didn't have compute

eric cantor, a mere 55%. so how do you earn a top grade with heritage action?th carolina's jeff duncan demonstrate. >> madam secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap. and that's national security malpractice. >> joining us now is clarence page, a columnist with "the chicago tribune" and nbc's luke russert live for us on capitol hill. welcome to you both. clarence, what hope is there for gun control, immigration, climate change if true conservatives have to be to the right of eric cantor? >> well, not a lot of hope you would think. it's a real problem for those who want to get any kind of progressive action through at all or any kind of compromise. there are very few people left in the house, especially on the republican side, who feel obl e obliged to their constituency as far as their views are concerned. they feel more obliged to the folks who are funding their campaigns or funding the campaigns of their potential opponents in a future primary fight. so it's gotten to be a very cynical politics that i'm afraid heritage has become a part of moving

eric cantor votes against it.vin mccarthy -- >> bill: it was eric cantor's baby to have the sandy vote and john boehner said you vote against me on this i won't give you this vote. they're playing games. as you point out, there are real people, millions of them who are really suffering and need the help to get back in their homes right? and this stuff is -- >> you saw how fast they turned -- that speaker boehner turned it around after he got such blowback from governor christie and others. >> bill: if we can -- i know you have to go because you've got an important day starting with your own swearing in, if we can get over this fiscal hump, what are some of the other issues that you believe this 113th congress, with the president, will be able to take up this year? immigration reform? or what do you see? >> i think immigration reform is a huge priority for the democrats and for the president. and i think the republicans want to come to the table because they lost everyone except the old, white males. people like yo

eric cantor did not.ther prominent republicans did not. >> well, at the end of the day what needed to get done got done. >> it doesn't get done. i have to differ with you there. nothing got done. >> no, no, the tax policies that all went up yesterday are not all going to go up. there was $3.8 trillion tax increase that went into effect at midnight yesterday. that didn't happen. so don't say nothing got done. >> you have a lot coming up. that's why i'm asking you. >> one, we need a senate that functions, a senate that does appropriations bills. and a president that leads, and all of those things need to happen, should happen. we've got to find spending cuts. we've gotten to a point where i hope we can stay at on tax policy. now we need to get to spending policy. >> not to bead a dead horse here, but you just had peter king in the last two hours sc e excorating the speaker, is that a temporary problem, or does it speak to a bigger problem? your party? >> it's always bad when you have people saying stay out

eric cantor and kevin mccarthy joined the majority of their party in voting no. boehner did find support from one key republican, paul ryan of wisconsin also voted yes. the main sticking point for republicans, a lack of spending cuts. hours before last night's votes, republicans considered trying to amend the bill from the senate and add additional spending cuts in. the senate made it clear they had no intention of revisiting this idea. so if changes were made that would essentially kill it. before the vote, republicans took to the floor and voiced their concerns. >> there are no spending cuts. we're adding $4 billion a day to the debt. the senate failed in cutting spending. >> i thought we were in a deficit crisis. i thought families were put at risk by this massive debt. what does this do about that? >> it was way past those senators bedtimes, they were blurry eyed when they were reading it we are trying to fill in the gap for where they missed a few things. >> i think it's unreasonable for senator reid to say something they produced on new your's eve, by a bun