without tax increases. we got a good deal. now the president wants to take back off the table spending cuts that are already in lock. so when he talks about spending restraint, he is adding $1 trillion, $1.5 trillion, you might count $2 trillion, in additional spending by taking the $1 trillion away and deciding he ll put off the sequester forever. he has a massive spending increase because he is trying to undo his previous agreement. i opposed going over the cliff two years ago. we didn t. we cut spending. i m not for it this time. two years ago, we extended all the bush tax cuts. we didn t go over any cliff. it s the president who is in the bank screaming he ll shoot the hostages and it s your fault if you don t give him everything he wants. that s not a reasonable position, and it won t hold. congressman, what are the chances we do go over the cliff this time? i think the chances are better that we will not go over the cliff. i think we will be able to get an agreement on the se
sequester forever. he has a massive spending increase because he is trying to undo his previous agreement. i opposed going over the cliff two years ago. we didn t. we cut spending. i m not for it this time. two years ago, we extended all the bush tax cuts. we didn t go over any cliff. it s the president who is in the bank screaming he ll shoot the hostages and it s your fault if you don t give him everything he wants. that s not a reasonable position, and it won t hold. congressman, what are the chances we do go over the cliff this time? i think the chances are better that we will not go over the cliff. i think we will be able to get an agreement on the sequester to replace the across the board cuts substituted with other savings. and i believe we will come to a resolution on this tax issue. but i believe it because what senator mccaskill and secretary geithner said is true, which is i don t think people i don t think it s sustainable to go into january saying that the great mass
and eventually we got $2.5 trillion in spending committed without tax increases. we got a good deal. now the president wants to take back off the table spending cuts that are already in lock. so when he talks about spending restraint, he is adding $1 trillion, $1.5 trillion, you might count $2 trillion, in additional spending by taking the $1 trillion away and deciding he ll put off the sequester forever. he has a massive spending increase because he is trying to undo his previous agreement. i opposed going over the cliff two years ago. we didn t. we cut spending. i m not for it this time. two years ago, we extended all the bush tax cuts. we didn t go over any cliff. it s the president who is in the bank screaming he ll shoot the hostages and it s your fault if you don t give him everything he wants. that s not a reasonable position, and it won t hold. congressman, what are the chances we do go over the cliff this time? i think the chances are better that we will not go over the cl
hi, veronica. you said it right in your headlines, the question about the cease-fire, will it hold, that is indeed the question. it went into force at 9:00 in the evening last night. 15 hours later, so far so good. there s been no violations of it. there were a couple sirens in israel and they were false alarms. there were great celebrations in gaza, celebrations by the palestinians what they perceive as their victory over israel. in israel, no such scenes at all. there was no celebrations at all. here, there s a sense there s nothing much to celebrate. even the defense minister said he expects it to be honored but could be a short term cease-fire. the israeli army is beginning a drawdown of its israel armed
the president s international policies. in 2012 it was only at 15%. this is certainly an area where we still have a lot of work to do. no. it s absolutely true. i don t think it s a surprise. i mean as soon as arab spring happened, people knew exactly what you ve just heard, that this was going to be a period of tremendous change, it s a work in progress. there might be parties elected in that we would be less comfortable with in the short term, but this is part of getting to beater place in the arab world and i believe that and that s why it s going to be so important to handle this. i do think it s going to spread. i think it s interesting that the afghans shut down youtube and you re right, it can t hold, but temporarily, it s almost an emergency measure. i think we may see protests in pakistan. i think it s going to make it very difficult to do this foreign policy pivot to asia everybody was hoping for. what do you think in terms of the international policies, is the the drone