republicans ever agree to a tax hike deal? text a for yes and text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog and leave a comment. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me tonight, congressman steny hoyer of maryland, the house democratic whip. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. appreciate it. always good to be with you, ed. thanks. got some folks nervous talking about entitlements. when you say entitlement cuts are on the table, what does that mean and how far are you willing to go? well, when i say everything needs to be on the table, ed, i want everybody to put their cards on the table and tell me what they want to do. i want not only to see that myself, i want to see what others want to do, including my republican colleagues, in terms of entitlements. now, there are some things we are absolutely not going to do, as you well know. made it very clear during the election, we re not going to
they ve been on the table for some period of time. that does not mean that i d be prepared to adopt them now. but they re clearly, i think, on the table. republicans don t want to talk about entitlement reforms. you see, they just want the democrats to roll over and give them everything they want. the president is done playing around. he has the gop right where he wants them. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, will radical republicans ever agree to a tax hike deal? text a for yes and text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog and leave a comment. we ll bring you the results later on in the show.รง joining me tonight, congressman steny hoyer of maryland, the house democratic whip. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. appreciate it. always good to be with you, ed. thanks.
news. meantime here is good news. housing prices are up 6.3% on average from last year. it is pretty good news for the market despite the fact that income levels have been relatively flat. it is also the biggest increase since 2006. and an even better news because that s what you like to hear at 5:45 in the morning. even some of the hardest hit states like arizona had big gains. and as always, let us know why you re awake. shoot me an e-mail in way too early at msnbc.com. you can tweet me or text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. still ahead, the most you powerful man in d.c. shows up
conversation to make people think they really have some plan out there. they don t. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, whose plan is better for the middle class? text a for democrats, text b for republicans to 622639. we ll bring the results later on in the show. joining me tonight is robert riech, former u.s. labor secretary and author of beyond outrage. i have been following your writings on all of this. in a short phrase, you have gone down this road how quickly we can explain who gets hurt. let s take the republican plan for what they are presenting. who gets hurt in this deal? it s reverse robin hood, ed. it s the same plan that paul ryan and mitt romney were touting. it s exactly the same. they want to have limited
back in 2000, we saw richard branson sir richard branson selling 49% of his virgin airline group to singapore airlines. singapore now trying to sell that. they paid nearly $1 billion for it in 2000. we don t have a price yet. a lot of talk about delta might be interested. part of the reason that gives them some of their 304 takeoff and landing slots that virgin has into london s heathrow airport. the busiest hub in the world, i think. back to you. well, if they get it, i hope they don t affect virgin because it s the best way to get to london. geoff cutmore live from london, we appreciate that. as always, shoot us an e-mail, waytooearly@msnbc.com and let us know why you are up right now. or text awake followed by your response to 622639. we ll read the best responses. we ve got to wake you up in the