need to deal with that route as well and not only with those rescued at sea on the central mediterranean route ok so there s tremendous pressure and also in the eastern mediterranean will moving in that direction is arrangements with turkey are also up for discussion today the focus there being e.u. support for turkey to host large numbers of refugees you might otherwise be heading for europe what can we expect there. well that you turkey deal is absolutely key in preventing more refugees coming to the european union so if that s your goal you need turkey because they re withholding a large part of those syrian refugees and we just heard about the situation in the region earlier in the show so this problem is not going to go away so especially the eastern european countries say we need to keep that deal but turkey wants money in return because the money from that 1st deal is running out it seems there is a willingness among the you to spend more money on that deal they don t really hav
a choice and it s clear also because of that message of the of the 3 countries i mentioned earlier that the e.u. will keep that deal and you know will spend and invest more and it s to be able to control the influx of refugees on that side of the european union max thank you so much. in luxembourg. the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to 3 scientists from the united states and britain they were chosen for their pioneering discoveries of the way blood cells sense and adapt to the body s oxygen availability is the 1st prize announced by the nobel committee this year nobel prize in physiology or medicine jointly to win the m.k. in sir peter ratcliffe and greg gets amounts. this year s winners of one of the world s highest profile awards worked for the most part independently of each other
by congress to frighten itself into passing deficit reduction measures which means unless congress acts in the next 48 hours the bush tax cuts will expire along with federal unemployment insurance and a broad package of the spending cuts including defense spending will take effect. do weeks of fruitless negotiations and john boehner and senate leader are working on a deal this morning to avoid the fiscal cliff, or as chris hayes and i call it, the fiscal curve. the deadline is soft. it s not like every american is going to be handed a bill on january 1st and there s way to manage the damage if the country goes over. the senate is set to convene this afternoon with the house to follow tonight. there s a chance that a compromise will be reached, less than 48 hours before tax rates revert to their clinton dasher are levels and board across the board spending cuts talk effect. when the president took to the podium friday afternoon to urge the law enforcements to get their act together with
it s been a long time. we have congressman keith from minnesota. from you re standpoint and from the standpoint of the house progressive caucus is there a bottom line? if the threshold is too high you won t support a deal? well, there are bottom lines. but the most important bottom line is no cuts to social security beneficiaries, medicare, medicaid beneficiaries. we need the defense department defense is going to have to share in what everybody cuts we see. the most well to-do people are going to have to pay more and we absolutely need some infrastructure spending to get people back to work. those are bottom lines. there s a lot of room to
we ve been talking about the status of house speaker john boehner and the future of john boehner and the status of the fiscal curb negotiations and we have congressman keith elson from minnesota with us. the chair of the progressive caucus. i ll ask you about boehner but first i ll pick up on the point that maya made about the sequester and the impact. i want to ask you about that. there are conflicting reports this morningbility this there is an emerging deal whether the sequester would be addressed or not and i think a lot of the speculation is that it would not be addressed. the cuts would be triggered an maya was talking about the domestic side. the nondiscretionary defense 13e7bdin extending. you ve suggested that the defense side should be okay with this? we should defense cuts. the fact is, though, they should be smarter than the sequester offers. the sequester is just like a big