carney elaborated on it this afternoon in his brief. there is an opportunity on the table here to achieve $1.2 trillion in additional spending cuts. it seems like folly to walk away from that opportunity because you don t want to ask somebody making $995,000 a year to pay a dime more in income taxes. it seems like terrible folly, and i don t think the american people would support that. certainly the president doesn t believe that. senate majority leader harry reid was a bit more blunt. everybody should understand john boehner s proposal will not pass the senate. but some in john boehner s republican caucus are intent on keeping their vow to grover norquist. once you cross that line and say like, some people it is okay for some people s taxes to go up. i think it is a mistake for the republican party. i don t want to raise taxes
plan to extend all the current income tax rates, except for income exceeding $1 million, and increase the rate on capital gains and dividends from 15% to 20%. the house will also hold a vote on the senate passed bill which would extend the current income tax rates for incomes up to $250,000. the white house swiftly rejected john boehner s plan b today. white house press secretary jay carney elaborated on it this afternoon in his brief. there is an opportunity on the table here to achieve $1.2 trillion in additional spending cuts. it seems like folly to walk away from that opportunity because you don t want to ask somebody making $995,000 a year to pay a dime more in income taxes. it seems like terrible folly, and i don t think the american people would support that.
of flights. 6 bucks are how much some are paying for a gallon of gas right now. price is up to $4.49 and analysts say they are going to keep going. finally $995,000 that s all you would have to pay to live here in the amityville horror house. i said horror house. [ laughter ] the home suspect for sale just in time for halloween. remember that movie. it s called a horror house. i m from philly. a horror house. better, thank you. the department of justice is denying the suspected terrorists being held at n. guantanamo bay are coming to the united states. after the white house bypassed congress by spending $165 million on a new federal prison some lawmakers are calling this a back door move begin the process of gitmo prisoners. a military mom, a resident of
inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that s because we got usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what s happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we ve known each other now through a lot of presidential races. a long time. no, i don t tell anybody how long we ve known each other. also, got alex axis, he s a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we ve got some of the dishes this morning. i m going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. parse that one out. yeah. i can t keep working on that. let s get right t
thank you for much for being was. and joe bebe is back, contributinged for for rolling stone. let s get right to it this mo morni morning. the investigation into whitney houston s death, her body is back in new jersey. they are refusing to say whether or not she drowned. they re waiting for the toxicology reports. in past cases, we know it could take weeks or weeks. he also won t comment on whether alcohol or drugs may have played a role in her death. look at a body and not know what the cause of death is. you might have a suspicion, but the person could have suffered a heart attack or an embolism or something. and no matter what medications they re taking, until we run a toxin and see the level and see what s in the system, we re not going to speculate. he s been on tv a lot saying a lot of nothing lately. how come it takes eight weeks to do a toxicology report? this is typical. let s be honest. we re talking at many, many tests. you know, initial reports say i r