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0 welcome to weekends with alex witt. let s get to what s happening right now out there. there is new intrigue in the fight over the fiscal cliff talks today. both sides have messages out this morning that seem to echo the same old position. this on the heels of president obama holding a campaign-style event in suburban philadelphia to sell his solution. he said if congress does not extend the bush tax cuts for the middle class, everyone s taxes will go up january 1st. i m assuming that doesn t sound too good to you. that s sort of like the lump of coal you get for christmas. that s a scrooge christmas. meanwhile house speaker john boehner says the latest proposal from the white house would cripple the economy. the plan calls for a boost in revenue by $1.6 trillion over the next decade. they want to have this extra spending that s actually greater than the amount they re willing to cut. i mean it s, it s not a serious proposal. so right now we re almost nowhere. mike viqu
0 knocked off course, while president obama changes the change line. we ll talk with senior obama campaign advisor david axelrod about that. plus, slew of new battleground polls confirm the president s lead, and it means we have a new battleground map. here s a hint. the toss-ups are narrowing and romney s path to 270 is as well. lashing out over libya. after hedging for days, the white house is now calling the attack that killed the am an act of terrorism. was politics behind that delay? and what would have happened if al gore had defeated george w. bush in the disputed election of 2000? would 9/11 have happened? would we have plunged into a recession? we re taking a deep dive into a fascinating alternate universe that jeff greenfield wrote about. but we start with the normal course of events. good morning from washington. it is friday, september 21st, 2012. this is the daily rundown, i m chuck todd. mitt romney s week started with a plan for new ads and a newly focused me
president obama changes the change line. we ll talk with senior obama campaign advisor david axelrod about that. plus, slew of new battleground polls confirm the president s lead, and it means we have a new battleground map. here s a hint. the toss-ups are narrowing and romney s path to 270 is as well. lashing out over libya. after hedging for days, the white house is now calling the attack that killed the am an act of terrorism. was politics behind that delay? and what would have happened if al gore had defeated george w. bush in the disputed election of 2000? would 9/11 have happened? would we have plunged into a recession? we re taking a deep dive into a fascinating alternate universe that jeff greenfield wrote about. but we start with the normal course of events. good morning from washington. it is friday, september 21st, 2012. this is the daily rundown, i m chuck todd. mitt romney s week started with a plan for new ads and a newly focused message. that plan q
blogger in a basement somewhere he has a line to people with feeling, unlike mitt romney. there was cheeto dust coming off that speech. so we have alex corson. since he works here, he is of course a left-marxist because mika hires everybody who works here. as the president is going, instead of another round of tax cuts for the rich, alex goes, isn t he the one that gave the last tax cuts? willie, he is the guy that extended the bush tax cuts when we around this table were saying maybe he should listen to chuck schumer and not do that now. this is the republicans? no, that was his fault. and his own people are saying, we ve got to do it because the economy is bad. it was a remarkable speech not just in its context but for its tone for a man who has lamented the lack of civility, a man who was supposed to rise above, a man about hope and change, this was down in the