targets include dean heller in nevada, roger wicker in mississippi, nebraska's deb fischer and jeff flake from arizona, who abandon gases could avoid a challenge by retiring like tennessee senator bob corker. >> they take a look at who's potentially running and i think guys like flake are going to do some polling and they are also going to throw in the towel. >> but flake sees alabama's primary result is a different kind of opportunity. one for incumbents to condemn the winter judge moore. two previous comments about sexuality and a op-ed word representative keith ellison shouldn't serve in congress because he is a muslim. >> try to apply a religious test? that's not right. republicans should stand up and say that's not right. >> also desist >> i would say we don't agree wh those comments. >> regardless, the leader of the senate leadership fund believes out outsiders have all the leverage. "the republican congress has replaced president obama as the bogeyman for conservative g.o.p. primary voters was cool. and officeholders are in peril. >> if you get tagged as a candidate in the leadersh

. >> senator roger wicker told fox if the president gets to make the decision he will accept it amid all of this, a group of 8 bipartisan bicameral lawmakers are concoct ago backup plan and pitching it to their respective caucuses, the thinking is if it passes president biden will not veto anything that comes from congress and they would rather see a bipartisan deal get done. and, bret, fox has brand new information signaling that the white house may reject the g.o.p. plan to use unspent covid relief money, a source familiar with the administration's thinking says about 95% of that $3 trillion is already spent or allocated, including for ppp and unemployment and remaining 5% is for rural hospitals and small business disaster loans. that signals a impasse ahead and republican senator roy blunt told me tonight hind knows that the g.o.p. is not going to sign on to any kind of a deal that undoes the 2017 tax cut and there is about a week or so left of these talks before he says the democrats will likely have to see what they can accomplish on their own. bret? >> bret: jackie, i know you

senate budget committee republican roger wicker says smarter cuts are fine but is skeptical of the predictions. >> not only would it not go to those jobs but also it's not going to happen. if there's one thing that we're committed to, we're committed to keeping the overall budget savings that were negotiated in the budget control act. and to lose that would be to lose everything we worked for. >> reporter: critics note this is the same cbo that predicted president obama's 2009 stimulus package would produce three million jobs and fell short. ahead of the budget office release, leading democrats talked about the effect of the sequester. >> the sequester was an economic punch to the cut for transportation, housing and development programs. >> reporter: while the cuts have had an impact on people in terms of furloughs and some reduced benefits, experts say they have not led to the predicted massive breakdowns in critical services. though democratic senator patty murray held out hope that congress will stop the cuts. >> the impacts of sequestration, like the furloughs of 650,000 defense workers no

mississippi republican roger wicker is a budget conferree. >> i'm thinking about the end of the week we'll have a deal that gets us some sequestration relief and we'll there to pay for it. if it is just like the sale of spectrum, that won't be much of a victory. with were going to do -- we were going to do that any way. >> democrats have been hoping to restore funding for medical research and education. the pressure is on patty murray and republican congressman paul ryan to finalize a deal to fund the government beyond january 15th. a new push from democrats in recent days has been a $25 billion unemployment extension which is due to run sought december 28th. >> right now more than 1 million of americans are poses to lose a vital lifeline, a few days after christmas, if congress doesn't do something about it. >> unemployment benefits have been extended five times at a price tag of $226 billion and some conservatives argue more extensions are not acceptable. >> they are causing them to become a perpetual part of the unemployed in our economy and while it seems good, it does a disservi

capitol's off site mail facility in washington it was sent to roger wicker from mississippi's office. as they are coming. in this testing was at pa libertily sent-out letter was then sent to a lab we are just confirming in fact it was -- it was ricin. talking to me in my ear now on another breaking development. and that is that we have the new pictures with bill hemmer and this is a picture believed to be something they are looking at as a possible explosive device or at least the suspect explosive device that may have been one of the areas of explosion in the boston bombing. there on the spot shadow that bag, that area right there may have been a trash can. you can see that bag right there. they are looking closely at that apparently we're being told by authorities that is what we are getting from 7 news and authorities on the ground. that's whdh. two breaking stories now. that's the boston development. and, again, the ricin development is back here in washington, an envelope sent to senator roger wicker's office confirmed positive the poisonous ricin. we'll follow both of these. we'