joining me now on capitol hill, chief congressional correspond mike emmanuel. mike? >> bret, good evening. and it's been quite a day out here on capitol hill in the wee hours of the morning the senate passed this and the question is what would house republicans do? a lot of leadership felt like they had a bad hand this, is passed by a wide margin, the clock running out on the 112th n congress by noon, on thursday there would be a new congress sworn in. i've got to telling talking to democrats and republicans there is a great dissatisfaction, if you will, if you were to poll them about job performance, they'd not feel good about it because they feel like all of the major deals that come up are becoming last minute deals, negotiated by two people, and the congressional committees are not picking up the deals they're not challenging or tackling big challenges of our times. whether entight element, the debt, you name it. there is grit dissatisfaction here, because here we are on newor's day after the fiscal cliff deadline passed and many republicans in this case feel lik

mike emmanuel has more. >> we have to in some way address spending. people told me that if they wanted to increase taxes we'd have to cut spending. >> reporter: only $15 billion in spending cuts comes out to 1 dollar in cuts. recognizing there would be trouble in getting enough support for the bill, vice president biden returned to capitol hill again to encourage democrats to endorse the bill. they pushed for an up or down vote on the existing package noting it's already after the fiscal cliff deadline. >> taxes will be going up on everybody in america if we don't act. those who are relying on unemployment insurance, millions of americans relying on unemployment insurance to make sure they can support themselves and their families. if we don't act, we'll be at risk. >> it was a bill that was passed in the united states senate 89-8. tell me when you've had this on a measure as controversial as this. >> some house republicans pushed for quick passage arguing it's too late for amendment. >> it's too late in the game. there's a point in the deal where it'

chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel is live for us on capitol hill. mike, do you think they will act? we heard nancy pelosi asking for the straight up or down vote. take us through the steps. what would that involve? what does that mean? >> it is interesting, heather, listening to that. everybody on capitol hill is wondering what the house republicans thinks about the deal. the deal was struck by the vice president and the senate republican leader. the house republicans haven't embraced it yet. they have been meeting behind closed doors. there are a lot of questions about what they are hearing about republican support, how many democratic votes they can bring to the table. the straight up or down vote is they are saying they want to vote on the bill as passed in the senate by a wide bipartisan margin last night. that's interesting because a fairly senior house republican said a very short time ago that he cannot imagine this bill passing in the house without it being sent back to the senate with some amendments. spending cut amendments which a lot of h

mike emmanuel live on capitol hill. there was a lot of talk about iran today. >> indeed. once he is confirmed secretary of state, it will be one of the major headaches, iran and its ambitions. senator kerry took heat for president obama's foreign policy which he supports, but says time is running out for the regime. >> the president has made it definitive. we will do what we must do to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and i repeat here today, our policy is not containment. it is prevention. and the clock is ticking on our efforts to secure responsible compliance. >> i hope you would help me with because in your testimony you alluded to president obama's vision for the world and the two years i've been here, i've struggled to fully understand what that vision is. >> on syria, another hot spot they'll face, senator kerry and senator mccain, a democrat and republican, said every day that goes by, it gets worse, shep. >> shepard: he was also, senator kerry, put into position to defend another of the president's cabinet nominees. >> that's right. his nomination is

mike emmanuel takes a look at the tick tock as we call it in the news biz of monday's main events. >>l hill is expected to be milder than it was four years ago. the crowd size will be down substantially. they will take the ceremonial oath and redirect the crowd. the nuts and bolts of the inaugural the capital offered a few stats about the preparation. it set up nearly 30,000 chairs on capital grounds had to run 23 miles of cabling and had to install 4 miles of snow fencing. after the speech the president lawmakers and other vip's several00 guests will have lunch at the capital hall they will dine on a three course meal, toasts gifts presented and some speeches then it is off to the parade where mr. obama and the first lady will thank supporters and be joined by marching bands and military units. after the celebration back to work in a tough political environment. >> politics now are very divisive with the extremes in both parties punishing any sort of compromise. it used to be back in my father's time and in my early days compromise was an act of statesman ship. now for too many parti

mike epps. now, it's me. five years from now, it'll probably be, like, emmanuel lewis or something. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: itf life >> but every year, i try to pick up something new, so i started to do stand-up to play richard pryor because if i'm going to play the greatest comedian ever, then, i feel like i should do some stand-up. that's the method actor in me, you know. >> jimmy: how'd it go? >> it's going good. i'm touring and everything. i'm getting much better than i used to be. i'm sucking better. that's the whole thing. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: you were sucking. >> i suck better than i used to. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> every year -- like, last year i picked up piano. no, like, five years ago i picked up piano. guess what. sucking way better than i used to. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, now you can now actually play piano. >> i suck pretty good now, yeah. [ light laughter ] and i'm going to start guitar next year. and this year, i'm going to start sucking at guitar. >> jimmy: wait, but you -- that's the thing. you say you suck, but you actually don't suck. >> i tell my kids, i say -- i say, "