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he really appears, by all accounts, helped to move the needle forwar. he has more than 30 years service as a u.s. senator. the 23 of those were spent serving alongside mitch mckonl. they have a good-working relationship. a strong-working relationship. the vice president knows how the inner workings of the senate work here in d.c. he is certainly someone who has been useful over the course of the past 24 hours. president obama, for his part, has been placing phone calls, as well. he has launched this two-pronged approach behind the scenes and launching this very public cam paraphernal campaign. democrats, you heard him come out today and sail this is not a perfect plan. it doesn't do everything we wablted. as you know, he ran on that campaign of increasing taxes on those who make $250,000 or more. the deal that is coming to fruition is those making more than $450,000. and there's some other compromises. so the president really taking a two-pronged approach here as these negotiations come forward. more reaction on capital hill. let me talk about this whol

. ♪ >>> 2012 election is over, but never ftoo early to look forwar to 2016.lary clinton looks to be above all political comers who are the rising stars? we have the political editor of buzz speed with a list. he joins us to reveal who they are. welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me on. >> a couple of stars in florida top your list. tell me about it. >> yeah, senator marco rubbio ad jeb bush, former governor of florida. both of them have been long-time allies and also are seen as leaders on immigration reform in their party. >> think we'll hear from both of them. scott brown. >> scott brown has the chance to reclaim his senate seat that he lost with john kerry's appointment to the being secretary of state. he'll have a chance to come back. if he doesn't, he won't be running as a tea partier, the way he did when he first became senator there. he will be running as a moderate. which might be forshaedoing of what's to come. >> a gun owner, nra member and talking about bans on assault rifled, and he's really been on the news. >> he came out, said it's

there was a mplan moving forwar.lican leader now or leaders that can bring us together even when we're wandering through the wilderness? trying to figure out how to get to israel? >> i happen to live in paradise here, so i'm not quite as pessimistic as y'all are up there. and i'm not -- the world's not anti-big business or pro-big business, it's just the reality of economics is that the greatest number of jobs, which is what everybody out in the real world is concerned about, are created by start-ups, and they're created by small businesses. and the way to jump start that is our principles, which are the same as you go up the ladder to big business. we need regulation that doesn't strangle us but that cements the kind of rules of the road for all businesses. and we need tax reform. we need energy reform. we need all those kinds of reforms that have only been espoused by republicans. so we're saying we're not winning, but i'll say again, we're winning at the states. we're rinwinning at the legislae level, and change c

i think tomorrow is what many are looking forwar ining toward. don't dismiss the income.ssues pulling forward some of the fiscal cliff issues might have affected that number. but i'm sure that's going to be open to some debate, as well. we top 91 on the dollar/yen. hasn't happened in 2.5 years. we're going to continue to pay attention to what's going on in japan. a bit of depreciation in the currency. trying to appreciate their economy. i'm not sure if investors in the long run will appreciate the looted currencies. back to you. >> all right. steve, you're digging through? and you were going to tell us beforehand -- >> yeah. i guess you know, joe had asked me if i was ready to glom on. it was two weeks of good numbers so i was very happy about the jobless claims number. but i had shortly thereafter been informed i was wrong about that. it was a seasonal issue, similar to the '08 calendar, timing of different holidays. so i feel like we're back to a 350 range which is the bottom of the range. what we were looking for to say there was some kind of step improvement was a not