republican house leader eric cantor sent his members home tonight after leadership failed to pass a bill. keep in mind, both boehner and cantor spent all day saying that they had the votes. boehner introduced plan b to save face with his caucus after rejecting an offer by president obama. he should have taken the president's deal. in a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll it shows that 24% of americans will blame republicans if we go over the fiscal cliff, compared to 19% for the democrats. 58 -- 56% will blame both parties. 38% trust president obama to handle the fiscal cliff. only 19% trust john boehner. and in the wake of tonight's developments i would imagine those numbers would get a little worse for the speaker of the house. joining me tonight, former governor howard dean of vermont and cnbc political analyst. mr. dean, good to have you with us, governor. >> thanks, ed. >> give us in short order your commentary without question, what do you think has happened here this evening? >> well, the inside baseball of this is really a problem for the speaker. you can't -- this is somethi

the question you asked cummings and garamendi in the previous segment, how hard eric cantor really workedhis. i pictured him maybe as being like mitt romney's pollster. the guy who told romney don't worry, you've got new hampshire in the bag and all that stuff. cantor may be feeding boehner bad numbers because cantor of course has his eye on the speaker's chair. and as steve mentioned, that vote is going to happen on january 3rd. and that vote is now very much up in the air. so they put up a united front publicly for the purposes of this vote. but i have a feeling there were a lot of machinations going on behind the scenes. >> all right. steve benen and michael tomasky, great to have you with us tonight. we are going to be joined by steny hoyer when we come back, who is the whip in the house for the democrats. and he said earlier today he hasn't seen anything like this in his 30-plus years in the congress. what does he make of this situation? that's next. stay with us. ♪ don't know what i'd do ♪ i'd have nothing to prove [ male announcer ] zales is the diamond store. save 25 percent off a

i go to eric cantor and he tells me what? >> he already has this covered, to boehner's great credit. he brought paul ryan in, eric cantor in, mccarthy in who might be the one -- >> the guy from california. >> yeah. and he brought them all in on this plan "b" and all on the negotiations. so he's covered there. he needs mcconnell. if he can get mcconnell and a couple senate republicans, then -- >> what about the body of 40 or so tea partiers who are holdouts. how does he reach them? the ones necessary for any kind of majority? >> he doesn't necessarily need them. if he can get senate republicans, then -- >> is that his game right now to go around his hard core right? >> it is. because then the hard core right isn't just blaming john boehner for all the troubles of the world. they're also -- >> can he allow the house of representatives to work its will with the minority of republicans? >> yes, he can. >> glen, is this your view? if we get a solution next week, it's probably because the speaker allows a minority of republicans, m

eric cantor says republicans are not going to adjourn this year until a deal is reached. is that a sign of early capitulation? he knows republicans can't go home to their districts with absolutely nothing to show for it. that's not what the american people voted for. john boehner says he's willing to stick around town to get a deal done? >> i'll be here and i'll be available at any moment to sit down with the president, to get serious about solving this problem. >> but president obama says john boehner's presence is not the solution, it's the problem. >> the holdup right now is that speaker boehner took a position, you think the day after the campaign, that said, we're willing to bring in revenue, but we're not willing to increase rates. and i've just explained to you why we don't think that works. >> senate majority leader harry reid has also called republicans out for sabotaging the democratic process. now, putting this all into context, he tweeted out today, harry reid did, "i share the frustration of americans lamenting the lack of progress in negotiations to avoid a

eric cantor saying, we're actually gone already. it's a weird night in washington. more live from capitol hill when we come back. >>> there is breaking news to report tonight out of washington. strange breaking news out of washington. within the last hour republican house speaker john boehner appears to have completely lost control of his own caucus. a dramatic turn of events as the white house and house republicans were trying to negotiate a plan to avert the across-the-board tax increases and deep spending cuts looming on january 1st, which is just 12 days from now. mr. boehner planned to hold a vote tonight on his own john boehner house republican plan to avert the growth-killing taxes and cuts combination that the cbo says will put us into recession again in the new year. his self-titled plan b, which has nothing to do with emergency contraception but rather was basically just a wish list of conservative ideas, his plan b was a vote to preserve tax cuts for all income below $1 million. passage of the plan was essentially supposed to be a sign of republican unity

it's signed by eric cantor. >> and paul wrien. >>> and paul ryan. any leader who the rebels, shall we say, within the republican conference could have, is now aligned with wehner completely. strengths his hand. he's the sole negotiate, whatever he gets from president obama will be the rule of law. and i think what's really emboldened boehner, ironically, mitt romney's loss. it's this idea that john boehner's survived, he's the one who came through. we were able to keep the house. he does get a lot of credit for that among house republican circles, they were able to keep the house. people think -- >> he raised something like 100 million dollars. >> he's the kingmaker. i suspect that, from folks that i've talked to, eric cantor will not be a thorn in boehner's side. eric cantor realizes he has time, niece his 40s, he wants to be the first jewish speaker of the house. sit back, relax, you know what? if boehner becomes unpopular you don't have to lead a charge against him. you can say, well, that's too bad, john, you don't have the support. but he doesn

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do the republicans favor the leadership of eric cantor more than the leadership of john boehner and? will this cost john boehner his -- more than the leadership of john boehner? will this cost john brennan his speakership? guest: boehner said the members were not angry with him. they were not showing dissatisfaction with him. one of the other things about that was that standing next to him at the press conference was eric cantor. that was a clear sign that these guys are tied together and eric cantor is not ready to unseat john brennan. there was a lot of symbolism in that press conference. -- ready to unseat john boehner. if he goes back and stars to negotiate with president obama and tries to bring back the deal at this conference cannot accept again, the danger to him does arise. from what i was told thursday night, he gave a well-received speech to the conference. he said, i did not have the votes. his speech was well-received by them. he is well liked by those members. as of right now, he is not in in any immediate danger right now. depending on -- he is not in any immediate dan

another thing about eric cantor. most of these guns we get up here in the new york area according to beer bloomberg, they all come from virginia. -- according to mayor bloomberg it, they all come from virginia. i suggest if people are really serious about these guns, they take their first amendment rights and they take their second amendment rights by going down to virginia and buying some of those bushmaster automatic weapons and lock and load and march around his house and see how he likes it. this guy, he is a millionaire, and he wants to be the speaker of the house. the tea party people -- they are crazy. they are ready to take the kool- aid and take us with them. bring the whole country to its knees, over what? the difference between $100,000.200000 dollars for millionaires? how sick are the regular republicans who will go along with this? host: joe is calling us from north carolina on the republican line. caller: i think it is like the best piece of literature ever written was open " we the people." it is time

is it eric cantor's caucus? negotiating with john boehner when he doesn't control things is not tenable for the white house, not tenable for john boehner. >> well, i guess in the beltway here where i am tonight and the micro, it's cantor or boehner, but the bigger picture, if the president succeeds in terming the country around on this whole obsession with protecting the rich and protecting no tax cuts, that's a big moment. possible transformative moment in where we are in american politics. krystal ball and richard wolffe, thanks for your time this evening. >> thank you, reverend. >> be sure to catch krystal on "the cycle" weekdays at 3 p.m. right here on msnbc. >>> ahead, he tried to get attention with a disasterous soup kitchen op, and now he wants to rebrand himself as someone who cares about the poor. we reveal paul ryan's makeover plans. and more on the box republicans are in and president obama's power play. senator barbara boxer of california joins me on that. >>> plus, it's the gop's worst nightmare com

house majority leader eric cantor released the schedule. this is bipartisan.u're a democrat or a republican. i'm sorry. i'm trying not to sneeze. eight days in january, two in august. you got to have august off, right? france. compare that to the average american worker to works about 230 days a year. rihan and maria, okay, i'm sure we can all agree we would love that schedule. okay, especially if your compensation remained what it was. now, eric cantor, being serious here, says the new calendar allows lawic makers to spend time at home. 126 days in washington is 25 workweeks. that's only 50% of the year. >> members of congress are still doing their jobs when they're in their constituencies. they're still working on legislation and much else. if you're concerned about congress wasting time, i think we ought to be more concerned about the fact that individual candidates are raising money, rather than parties. being out there in their districts, getting in touch with folks who understand their interests, that's really, really important as a part of their job. >>

immediately and longer term, how much danger he's in of facing a coup and worrying about eric cantor or anybody else behind him. how much is that factors in to the thinking? >> people have worried about this in the past. i'm not hearing a lot of that right now. john boehner is weakest speaker until the next speaker having the same problem he has. there's no indication that eric cantor is anything but on board right now and the truth is there's a good reason for that. they realize this is a lousy job right now. >> terrible job. >> no way to govern the caucus. >> dana, our own chuck todd gaming the talks today, and he said in "first read" that if they, obama and boehner, don't see each other today, brace yourselves for going over the cliff. do you think it's today or never? >> i don't know but what's this thing to get together and have tea? they could have a phone call. i mean, the real question is, are the staffs hammering something out here? i don't read a lot in to does he show up in the oval office. you want the guys to be talking but we know pretty much we all know what the agreem

>> caller: i was watching as they were walking out of the house, and i saw the look on eric cantor's a big smile from ear to ear. and i truly, truly believe that what they are doing is they are trying to get obtain out and cantor in. and that scares me to death because i am on disability. and everything that they want to do, the tea party wants to do is everything that i depend upon to live. >> bill: of course. all of those programs that you depend upon and millions of americans like you, uh-uh. they will pull the plug on those for sure. right? >> caller: exactly. >> bill: i think eric cantor while he professes -- as the number 2 guy processs labilityoyalty, i bet he orchestrated this vote last night. >> caller: i agree. >> bill: with the teachers against obtain. joan, good to hear from you, jb in greensboro north carolina. >> caller: merry christmas, bill. >> bill: mer rechris massachusetts to you. >> the clown bus ran out of gas last night. >> bill: they did. didn't they. >> i am pretty sure it was tom ricks. if it's not, i apologize to him but i am pretty sure it was him i heard s

quick break more of what eric cantor said just moments ago.his 42 years in congress brooks is best known for voting to significantly cut government spending and to pass several historic laws including the civil rights act of 1964. what a life. jack brooks, dead at 89. bill: 25 minutes past the hour. there could soon be a major shortage of primary care doctors. the journal of the medical american association says 22% of internal medicine residents are planning to become internal medicine doctors. what does this mean to you? marc siegl joins us now with the latest on this. doctor, nice to see you. >> good to see you. bill: what does it mean. >> i want to explain to our views out there exactly what an internal medicine doctor is. we always talk about primary care. primary care is a pediatrician, obstetrician, gynecologist for women's health, family practitioner or a general internist, which is what i am. someone who does the internal organs of the pwaopbd say body and says i'm not going to become a lung specialist, i'm going to stay as a general

. >> according to senator reid, the battle is between boehner and congressman kevin mccarthy, eric cantorone paul ryan. ho, ho, ho. let's get right to our panel. with me here in washington is msnbc political analyst david corn, and in new york msnbc political analyst professor michael eric dyson. david, can i start with you? the president began with, o come all ye faithful, and now we have speaker boehner singing in the bleak winter. how far does the president have to go to give boehner something that helps boehner go to his caucus and say let's just do our deal. >> you want someone to be singing "i'll be home for christmas." >> there you go. >> first, it's nice to see you in d.c. >> it's a great pleasure. >> we have this little bubble of optimism in the conventional media the past few days. although they're talking, they're not saying much, there must be progress, but we still have a fundamental divide here. the president says rates have to go up. he doesn't want to trade the debt ceiling for anything. he thinks that should be separate. and boehner put out a proposal saying we'll raise i

house majority leader eric cantor released the schedule for the house of representatives.his is bipartisan. i don't care whether you're a democrat or a republican. i'm sorry. i'm trying not to sneeze. but you're going to love this. the house will be in session 126 days. that includes eight days in january and two in august. i mean, you have to have august off, right? france. compare that to the average american worker to works about 230 days a year. writer for the national review and maria, a cnn contributor. i'm sure we can all agree we would love that schedule. especially if your compensation remained what it was. now, eric cantor, being serious here, says the new calendar allows lawmakers a week a month to spend back at home. when ip did the math, 126 days in washington is 25 workweeks. that's only 50% of the year. >> erin, members of congress are still doing their jobs when they are in their constituencies, when they are reaching out to their constituents. they are still working on legislation and much else. if you are concerned about congress wasting time, we ought to

. >> let's do something more topical, which is john boehner and eric cantor.osphere up on capitol hill has been like the roman senate for a long time now. these folks working together in leadership, but even over a year ago, politico was running an article saying boehner and eric cantor call for a truce, talking about a year of behind the scenes bitter fighting. their staffs were trying to find a way to work together. speaker vote is coming up january 3rd. boehner had a bad beating in the plan "b" vote. you don't think this is going to get better, do you? >> the main thing he has going for him in that rivalry is he has the worst job in the world. >> really, the worst job? >> certainly the worst job in congress. basically, speaker boehner has to sit there and eat a lot of stuff that you wouldn't necessarily eat because there are a lot of republicans who basically want to emote, they want to act up. and speaker boehner just has to take it and try to hammer deals. and eric cantor goes into his role, he has to do the same thing boehner has to do. >> the starting q

here is eric cantor. >> we want to sit down with the presidt. we want to talk specifics.e put enough on the table now. nothing is going on, meanwhile come the people of the country are the ones that suffer. gerri: i think he kes a good point. when can we sit down and have a conversation about how to solve the problem? >> to answer your question, there has to be action because the alternative is unthinkable. those negotiations are going right now, i am not privy to them. but it is clear to me that an impasse that raises everyo's taxes fothe president's apprch the cost is between 200 and 700,000 american jobs something that cannot be done. gerri: congressman, thank you for coming on tonight. we appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. gerri: coming up, republicans ask for another sitdown with the president and a handful of governors got the chance. oklahoma's mary fallin and e responses she got next [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, now is a good time to think about your options. are you looking for a plan that really ets your needs and your budget? as you pr

second in command, eric cantor warning members n to make any plan for holidays, and kevin brady of texas, vice chairman of joint economic committee, thank you, are we still that far apart? >> you know we are. i started optimistic to get this done before the holidays, but, i don't feel that way, it seems to me the decision has been made, perhaps by white house to take us off this fiscal cliff. i think this is irresponsible to do it we're ready to work out a reasonable sound solution but i do not see that coming from the other side right now. tracy: is it because there is so much going on behind scenes. they think there is a lot of secret wheeling and dealing with john boehner and the president do you agree? >> i do not, i think he -- they have been sporadic talks, i know speaker boehner has been frustrated with how slow the responses have been. again, you know, not just tax rates it is authentic spending cuts, if we don't find a way to face social security and medicare we'll face a downgrade in the future. tracy: is there talk about entitlement reform. >> republicans have laid out prosals

have you seen. >> eric cantor. >> come on. >> bill: yeah, but eric cantor is a known enemy? right?ill has this reputation of being a fairly nice guy and he is not. he is a looser. he has no backbone no balls, you know, no you know, no willingness to -- bill kristol, right? "weekly standard," dan quail's former chief of staff shows more leadership on this issue than john boehner. here is what -- can we play that quickly, dan? here is what bill kristos said. >> at the evened of the day, president obama is selling a simple message: i want to keep taxes low for middle class americans and republicans -- i am worried they are in the position of looking as if they don't care about the middle class and want to keep tax rates low for wealthy americans. >> can boehner get that? >> they are not looking like that. >> that's how they are. >> right. they don't care. >> i think boehner is showing the republicans colors and i congrat late it and hope he keeps it up. the republicans need to be punished more in the next election. the best way to get boehner out of the speaker role is to give the dem

cannot sit here and e with -- the way, december 14 is when the house is set to recess .or the year eric cantoraid they would not adjourn until they come up with a solution. scott thuman reporting. we are weeks away from the , but the decision away from the fiscal cliff, but the decision has people you can read more wjla.com. on click on the fiscal cliff link at the top of the page. two senators were on capitol hill today. they appeared before a senate .ubcommittee for called for aid communities on the eastern shore. they are still suffering from the aftermath of sandy. they testified, along with fema, about the immense challenge of rebuilding after sandy. there'll be significant challenges with housing. does he assistance with housing is limited. the maximum amount that tammy's is about $31,000 if they have insurance. -- the maximum amount that can have is about dirty $1000 if they have insurance. it was not a hurricane when sandy made landfall. police say a man onto subwayer tracks. that man has been arrested. naeem davis pushed a man onto the subway tracks. he is homeless. police suspect he

republicans like eric cantor stand to block legal protection for them over the renewal of the act.as well when we were talking lesbian and transwomen as well. the notion this is the most vulnerable women. >> they are the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable. a woman picking cabbage is undocumented, at the mercy of an employer. wage wise, work wise. on top of that, she's in the content to be domestically abused. you are in remote areas, surrounded by men. you have no recourse because under the vawa you are afraid of getting reported. what they want to do is provide a revision of temporary residents. they are not giving you citizenship. they are not giving you amnesty. if you come forward, we will allow you to stay here while this takes its course. add that on to the retracting of the self-petitioning. you are making latinas or all immigrant women in extremely vulnerable positions. >> there's a coalition i can see beginning to emerge here. for native american women, greg hoffman, my colleague at the nation wrote this. if the final bill isn't approved, native american groups who pus

. >>> john boehner wants paul ryan and eric cantor to help keep the tea party from spoiling any fiscal plans. i'm joined with an update from capitol hill. that's coming up. and dick cheney is sticking to his guns and still lying about iraq and afghanistan. find out what he says about the president's handling of the affairs in the middle east. colonel lawrence wilkerson is here to respond. >>> thanks for staying us with >>> thanks for staying us with on "the ed show." this will probably be a long-term problem for governor schneider. these workers are determined to make sure that their voices are going to be heard. labor organizers across the country and across north america are promising to fight. first, governor schneider is up for re-election. they can go after him that way. he will have to win back workers to get near the statehouse in 2014. there's also something called a statutory initiative. activists would need to collect signatures to get a new law past. those are long-term strategies, for now. but the lame duck republicans, you have to give them credit, they are succeeding. the

eric cantor. he is in the same position caesar was in. and that is, knives are pointed at his back every time he turns around. >> well, congressman, the point that i think is so interesting, most americans is here was a guy, senator jim demint, that said i'm going to break president obama. they started plotting the night of the inauguration. they started meeting. they said they were going to block everything. they were going to bring him down. and he's the one leaving washington today and going to a private think tank in washington, leaving capitol hill and staying in washington. so i think the big picture here is the guy that really said he was going to break this president, watched him be reelected with a larger margin that george bush and he's leaving the u.s. senate. >> well, there are winner and losers in the u.s. senate. he was willing to back some of the most extreme and unelectable republicans in primaries and thereafter and many more establishment republicans feel like he may have cost them the majority. so he still wants to be c

eric cantor says republicans want to sit down with the president and talk specifics. president obama spoke with business executives, calling for a balanced approach combining taxes with cuts. the president rejected a gop counter offer, which targeted government cuts but did not add any new taxes. if the deal is not reached by january 1, everyone's taxes will go up and automatic spending cuts will go into affect. >> starbucks makes news for two reasons. why they want you to spend $450 this holiday season for one product. >> a would-be thief sets off a bomb next to an atm. what wins? pictures that will show you. >> feeling like >> ready ms from the district. police are looking -- breaking nes from the district. the victim was stabbed in the side. crews say he is conscious and breathing. the suspect is a thin man wearing a tan shirt. they say he rode off on a bike. >> fbi agents carried out two raids in arlington. the first was in rosslyn possibly targeting the university of management and technology. academic dean explains his town house was also raided. fbi agents refu

eric cantor said he would not bring the bill that is sitting over in the house having passed the senate to the floor that gives certainties to the middle class passing the tax cuts that we all agree needs to be extended right now. i'm hopeful ever hopeful that we can work together and have a balanced approach to deficit reduction to avoiding the fiscal cliff with revenue and spending cuts departments are willing to embrace so we can make sure we avoid this fiscal cliff and particularly raise the debt ceiling and avoid economic disaster. >> if that's the only particular issue to confront us next year if it is not wrapped up in this one negotiation as it should be. later in the show, we'll talk to chris van hollen, your colleague about a motion to dismiss possibility that would circumvent john boehner's extrasty to keep this bill off the floor. we will see about that. look, will rogers famously said i'm not a member of on organized party, i'm a democratic. you seem to tame the beat. under your leadership, the party has been unified. you had remarkable gains in the senate. how did you do i

. >> we have heard eric cantor and house republicans forcing members to be in town for the christmas holiday if the deal is not done before that. >> leave us alone. >> these are the frustrated constituents they will face it social security jobs are cut. >> there will be backlog and disabilities will skyrocket. processing times will skyrocket. >> the few lawmakers left on capitol hill will get some advice when economist mark zandi testifies, and more fallout according to the treasury secretary. >> his did administration prepared to go after the fiscal cliff? >> absolutely. >> a source tells of president obama and john boehner spoke by phone. >> we cannot negotiate by ourselves. >> the hold up right now is that speaker boehner took a position, i think the day after the campaign, but said we're willing to bring in revenue but not increase rates. >> gridlock, 26 days and counting. >> no word on what the president and speaker boehner discussed, but given the fact that there has not been progress, just the fact they were on the phone represents a small development. >> still to come, he has

eric cantor came on.at times, even i as a conservative, who would vote probably along with eric cantor 99% of the time. saw him at times over the past couple years being a bit more obstructionist than i think was good for the party. i thought i loved his tone the other day. what did he focus on? he focused on jobs, on proving that conservatism actually helped all americans, not 53%, not 47%. and yesterday when i talked to jim demint on the phone, i expected to hear one thing. instead i heard another. which is we've all been chained to this republican message. we have got to prove again that conservatism helps all americans. we've done a terrible job delivering that message. we've elected leaders that don't believe in that message. and he talked, just like eric cantor talk ed again, not about ideology, but instead saying, how do we show people what we believe in our hearts, that we really do believe that less regulation and lower taxes and more freedom creates jobs for all americans? i'm not afraid to say

we hear from eric cantor about plan b that house intends to take up. then we heard from harry reed, now just behind me, jay carney is briefing. but bottom line from the standpoint of republicans, as negotiations with the white house have broken down, is that as eric cantor said a few minutes guy to reporters, they put the onus squarely on the president right now, saying that the action by the house today, which they say they have the votes to pass is the only concrete action to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> and the president has a decision to make. he can support these measures or be responsible for wreckless spending in the largest tax hike in american history. >> and michelle, as sue indicated moment ago, we will hear from john bainener a few minutes about the road ahead. but source near the talks told me that likelihood is that both chambers of congress will leave for the weekend. that will give more space for the speaker and president, perhaps if they choose, to negotiate and members would have the opportunity, if they come up with a product, to pass

eric cantor looking right over his shoulder. you could make the argument that cantor is the big player who is not in the room. because if boehner does a deal with the president and goes back and tries to get the republicans to vote for it in the house and cantor says no, where are we? the president, calm, cool and collected and remembering what this election is all about. get your cell phones out. tonight's question. the president, calm, cool and collected and remembering what this election is all about. get your cell phones out. tonight's question. will republicans punish e speaker boehner for trying to work with the president? text a for yes, b to no to 622639. we'll bring the results later on in the show. joining me tonight is congressman emanuel cleaver from missouri. great to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> i'd like to talk about the congressional black caucus if i could. they have been very, very strong about do not touch the entitlements, we're not going to move on this. so you have the president not moving o

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. >> just in the last few moments, the house majority leader eric cantor, has said that he believes thelican leadership has the votes to get the so-called plan b through the house when they vote on it thursday. the problem, though, is that senator reid says it would never get through the senate. so we're basically back to square one. forget about plan b. now we may have to go to c or d or e, one of those. >> shepard: all right. ed henry, thanks. there is apparently optimism. in fact, there is that a budget deal could be near and it showed on wall street. in fact, for every two stocks that fell, nearly three finished in the green. the dow jumped by the end of the session 116 points. nasdaq up 44. the s & p 500 climbed some 16 to close at a two-month high. >>> today marks one year since the last u.s. combat troops left iraq. america still has a huge presence in baghdad. the u.s. embassy there is as large as vatican city with almost 200 american troops providing embassy security and handling sales of u.s. arms to the iraqis. it may be a preview of the future of afghanistan in which the uni

for remarks by eric cantor. >> the bill is designed to stop fraud and eliminate waste and frankly, toce the sequester indiscriminate at cuts and aimed at trying to protect national security and also to drive toward the underlying issue that faces this country which is the mounting deficit and load of debt that we're going to leave this generation and the next. we are committed in the house, as you know to address the underlying problem which is the spending and that's why we're bringing this goal forward. together, with our vote today, to extend permanent tax relief in the middle class for the middle class and small businesses, we house republicans are taking concrete actions to avoid the fiscal cliff. absent a balanced offer from the president, this is our nation's best option and senate democrats should take up both of these measures immediately and the president has a decision to make. he can support these measures or be responsible for reckless spending and the largest tax hike in american history. i'll take some questions. yes? >> do you think you have the votes to pass the plan?

eric cantor, the majority leader is a bit different. somewhat younger than boehner, a very clever guy, very, very ambitious, he has his own channel interesting than the obama white house's vice president i. they're very close in a sort of need each other as information sources and they believed it was biden who is leaking to eric cantor is speaker boehner was pursuing separate talks with obama during the so-called talks of which eric cantor was livid and ultimately what data this talks almost certainly because the dynamics going on with honor. that is the excuse he gave was that democrats will low. this is how childish you? >> guest: the question i'm going to ask is if eric cantor what passed john boehner, he wouldn't hesitate to push them, would you? >> guest: is it even-tempered sort. unless the moment is absolutely right, you tend not to get ahead of declaring a mutiny. >> host: said there senescence? >> interestingly, working more in the middle is the majority whip, kevin mccarthy. the carthy has been in for three terms and so in a