brian: they d actually do it and it looked so real. gretchen: i m wrong again. steve: what they would do is turn the camera and they were just walking on the floor. who knew? brian: a month ago before we go over the fiscal cliff and based on what we re hearing and seeing from both the white house and to a degree the republicans in congress, were flabbergasted a agreement is becoming less and less likely. peter doocy is live with the latest. brian, earlier in the week, we learned that president obama wants to make changes to the tax code now and spending cuts can come later. treasury secretary s geithner s presentation of the white house s proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff falls in line with that. the headline is $1.6 trillion in new taxes multi-year stimulus package starting with at least $50 billion in 2013 alone and the white house also wants the ability to raise the debt limit
mashed russet potatoes. what makes stouffer s meatloaf best of all? that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer s. let s fix dinner. brian: quick headlines. an arrest in the 1993 case of a missing florida girl, a man charged with the murder of a ten-year-old girl. cops say he kidnapped her after she bought candy from a convenience store. the body never found. could the dollar bill be a thing of the past? congress looking into replacing it with the rarely used coin. the government accountability office says the move could save taxpayers $4.4 billion over the next 30 years. i m getting rid of my dollars now. gretch? gretchen: thank you brian. a striking two-thirds two-thirds of british millionaires vanished after u.k. prime minister gordon brown pushed a 50% top rate income tax before the last general election. now american citizens making
president is inaugusterateda she is history of secretary of state. in place. susan rice a lot of people would like her. she is under fire because of the five sunday shows when she said it was spontanous. it wasn t. brian: her track record is tumbling. she was in charge of relations when it came with regard to africa. the embassies were bombed by bin laden s henchmen . after being denied more security. sounds familiar. senator collins on this. this an advantage you would think he would remember in greatt detail if you were the person who was the assistant secretary for african affairs. i knew from the report that the ambassador of ken ya.
brian: so if this thing goes the way it has gone for four years and the last month and we go off the fiscal cliff what, does it mean to business people like you? i don t think it s necessarily all that bad. in other words taxes are going to go up anyway. we ll go back to what happened before the bush tax cuts. we ll go back to that. the economy operated okay then. so it will just happen. maybe sudden and bad because of the cuts that are going to be in there, but if the president and the congress can t get together on cutting on doing something about the deficit and doing stuff, fine let the cliff come. brian: but the deficit is not addressed and our defense will be gutted. you okay with that? i m not okay with it. but i think the defense will just trim and get it done. listen, the guys who are in the military have operated that way for a long time. in other words they know somebody gives them something they know how to get a job done with less in many cases. they ll do it. br
this is my third year doing it. so we re getting kind of the hang of it. i will tell you every time you go over, it seems unreal and it seems like it shouldn t be the case. a little rope about the size of your pinky is holding you up. it s very nerve racking. however, because we have to try to make this up the stakes a little bit, at the bottom of the hour, we have all agreed, brian cashman and another brian will up the stakes and learn some tricks on the rope. so we ll maybe try to learn stupid rope tricks like a back flip or something like that, or see if we have the guts for it. that s our plan. whether or not that happens is another story. steve: that would be so cool and exciting headed our way in about a half hour from now. be brave. brian: the other thing is it s good to fight crime. if you can they ll forget about what they re doing steve: or it s good cat burglar training. brian: very good, if you want to go to the dark side and be diabolical. gretchen: you know