they have the advantage of being able to point to 89 votes in the senate to scott brown and dean helder and say look, this is a consensus product. you don't get much more consensus than 89 votes in the united states senate. the problem for speaker boehner and i think it is his problem. he wants to solve it and he's got a tea party caucus in the house of representatives. they are not satisfied with this. a republican house member said i have never seen the caucus so angry and irrational. politically brave and politically stupid. republicans are behind the eight ball because they can point clearly and say the reason why your payroll taxes go up if they do is because of the house republicans. >> what does minority leader mitch connell do now. does he stand with the deal he struck with harry reid or walk away from that and run to hospitals is friend speaker boehner? >> mitch mcconnell has been a good ally to speaker boehner throughout the years. that's why you could assume that mitch mcconnell would not have made a deal if he didn't think that john boehner wanted to move forward with it in

gop senator dean helder of nevada said this of house republicans. what is playing out in washington, d.c. this week is about political leverage not about what's good for the american people. senator helder is a republican. is he wrong about house republicans? >> i would say this. if you want to quote the president of economic advisers, this bill will create 600,000 to one million jobs. why are we not doing it on a one-year basis to have that job creation. >> the president wanted that. >> 11 days is plenty of time. i have seen bigger deals in shorter periods of time come together. y am confident that mr. boehner and mr. reed can make this happen. i'm going to agree with you. a lot of finger pointing and partisanship. get away from it, but get in an isolated place and make it happen. it can be done and we need to get it done. all we are saying is we are willing to compromise and don't want to leave town until we have a deal. it puts us at a disadvantage, but will harry reid appoint to hammer out the differences which by the way is done for over 200 ye

the supreme court agreed with helder ruling the ban vit lated a second amendment. d.c. now allows people to own guns, but there are strict registration requirements. >>> one man called about a broken toilet, and a woman called angry about not being able to see her grandkids. these are not emergencies, but they are the types of calls 911 operators in prince georges county have to deal with every day. we take a look at what officials are doing about it. >> reporter: the prince georges county 911 center gets more than 1 million a year, and about fall into this category -- >> i hate you. i hate you, that's my imagine. >> they have to go through the protocol systems that we have. >> but no training can get back the minutes that are lost called by prank callers. the county has fallen behind and are two seconds out of the natalie accepted standard when responding to emergency calls. >> you are under immediate threat, there's a crime in progress, you need to get through to have emergency services right away. that's what 911 is for. >> since the nonemergency number has been in p

the hearing record will be helder if 10 days. the hearing will stand in recess and will reconvene in 10 minutes in closed session in a room which is down one floor directly below us. >> coming up this morning in just a few moments, "washington journal" the today's headlines and your phone calls. then at 10:00 a.m., "newsmakers." with freshman senator mark kirk. and a recent amendment putting sanctions on foreign financial institutions that do business with iran. >> for my military career i prided myself on not being afraid to tell people what i thought. because one, the worst thing you can do is let a senior leader head down the wrong road. in the back of your mind you're thinking no, sir, ma'am, maybe we ought to take another look at this. maybe we ought to look from this perspective. because people's lives could be at stake, or we have an obligation and an duty to be good stewards of resources that the public can trust us with. sometimes you have to be kind of courageous in a meeting where everybody else's head is going up and