white house as the president and congressional leaders try to avoid tax hikes on the 0% of all americans and deep spending cuts that economists warn could plunge us into another recession. welcome to a brand new hour of america live . imheather childers. gregg: i m gregg jarrett. we re in for megyn kelly. a live look at the white house where president obama and house and senate leaders will make a last-ditch effort to try to reach a deal to avert an imminent fiscal crisis. this meeting between the president and congressional leaders is their first since november 16th. really? and they are just meeting now more than a month later. a few days before all the tax increases and spending cuts will kick in. we will all obviously feel the pain if that happens. ed henry, is live at the white house. ed? reporter: gregg, it is hard to understate how critical this meeting will be. one of the president s top democratic allies on capitol hill, max baucus, the
passed in the united states. it puts travel bans, visa bans and asset freezes on 60 russians that the u.s. congress believes were in some way involved or complicit in the death of sergei magnitsky in 2009. he was a lawyer who had been working with an american firm in russia investigating a major fraud. the company believes that $230 million it had paid in taxes to russia had ultimately been stolen by a group of russians who were linked to the government. so, again, this appears to be a tit-for-tat though it s in the name of a child who died in u.s. custody but it is a very big deal. harris, of course, because americans are the most enthusiastic adopters of russian children around the world. it goes into effect january 1st, harris. harris: we have pending cases. amy, before i let you go, what are the repercussions of this? reporter: yes. you know, this bill passed
country will give the credit whoever comes up with solutions the president doesn t have to run for re-election. the political calculus is wiped out for him to a great degree, not that there isn t always some element of that, tara is right. but beyond this we ve already gone over the cliff. we did that when we had the automatic debt ceiling raise system in d.c. which essentially says we ll keep raising and spending more than we take in. so the small ball, the small small deal, it is plan k. it is political kibuki theater on both sides and we are not hearing any solutions. therefore the alternative minimum tax, 33 million americans will be affected by that the obamacare taxes, medical device tax, all these things will come into play with or without the fiscal cliff. by the way sequestration has already hit military families. not just the 55 billion that will come after january 1 out of the total of 500 billion. it s the fact that this will affect military readiness. heather: it will. i
greed and bankruptcy and insolvency. they have a mandate. if they go along with raising taxes on the job creators in america, they can plan to be wiped out in the midterm election. they know that. they know the mandate is. if we can keep looking at the schools, the 50% approval rating of the president right now, these polls will not remain stagnant. the economy will suffer dramatically. we are going to have higher unemployment. we are going to have higher national debt. that is going to have an impact on the american people. it is the republicans thatneed to be in a position of holding the line, looking out for the middle class and the working, hard-working americans and the job creators. if they are able to do that, then hopefully there will be this reevaluation and embrace us stimulating the private sector and the free market and taking us dramatically in a different path, rather than obama s massive expansion of government as the only means to stimulate the economy. jon: thank you b
a new study is revealing a scary trend in this country. the number of americans getting routine cancer screenings has dropped over the past decade. a common test, seeing the drop often include mammograms for breast cancer, pap tests for cervical cancer and colonoscopies for colon and rec call cancer. so why are more americans skipping these life-saving tests? we have a doctor that is the chairman of the department of medicine at newark beth israel medical center and he joins us now with more. thank you for joining us. thank you, heather. great to be here. heather: why are more people skipping these screenings? i think it is a question of economy for one thing. i think the tests are costly. there is also secondarily confusion among physicians what to do, what to scan, what tests and how often they should be performed. for example, let s take breast and mammography. a lot of physicians are confused about that. mammography should be done after age 50 and up to age 74 on a yearly basis