Reflecting pool. Settling allegations that it misled about allegations of home loans. A record setting 13 billion deal. Saudi women plan to defy authorities and get behind the wheel today. Threatening action for anyone involved in the process with stiff fines and prison time. Saudi arabia is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. Thats your headlines. Go to our website at www. Aljazeera. Com. Youre trying to say that we two after not going after smuggle. Just talking about undocumented presence. These people didnt this state has invented putting charges on people saying they are smuggle themselves across the border. I strongly disagree with that. We dont invent. These cases have been appealed and it must terd th mustered the court, the famous 1070, that was uphold a couple of points and i understand some were thrown out. Sheriff, with all due respect, a lot of these arrests since 2008 that you made in these work site enforcement raids, a lot of these are getti
Now. And welcome back, everybody, to the closing bell. Im mandy drew i sitting in for maria bartiromo. Lots of drama in washington. Congressional leaders have arrived at white house. They arrived there about an hour ago with three days to go before we go over that proverbial fiscal cliff. They are meeting with the president and the treasury secretary timothy geithner, and they are trying to hash out a deal. But reports that the president has nothing new on the table has ended up spooking wall street in a big way just in the last hour, and as bill said we finished down near the lows of the day, down about 157 points for the dow. Settling up right now. Down what, about 165 at the very low, bill . I think so, yes. And the nasdaq finishing down 25 points and the s p off by 15, a fifth straight day in the red. Well, it is the last friday of 2012. Its in the books. Check. Still no deal in sight and no new offer either on the table from the president as eamon javers told us a little while ago
Special ops of our military. All right here this sunday morning. Happy new year, everyone. And for so many of you this morning is a frigid one. Half of the country from the great lakes to the gulf coast, from the rockies to the west coast, the National Weather Service Calls the temperatures lifethreatening. Its recordbreaking cold not seen in decades and another arctic storm is on the way. Lets get right to gio benitez in chicago. Reporter good morning, george. Its so cold here that so many people here are calling chiberia the snow just hammering us, too. Now that wind, too. All morning long. Take a look, it may look like a gorgeous skating rink, but this is actually a harbor, this is lake michigan. I want to show you some of these maps right now, take a look at just how many cities are being affected by this dangerous cold. Warnings from rapid city, to minneapolis, to buffalo, and whats really concerning these wind chills tomorrow morning, look at that. Some areas will see temperature
Fan fiction, the republican budget. They want to fight another day. We are sort of shadow boxing. The special technique of shadow boxing. Shadow boxing the Big Government in theory. Fine, lets get it on. Thats what were beginning to talk about. Jerry, show me the money remember that movie . You know, folks, i just cant get away from this number. Its been in my head for the last 24 hours. 24 billion. You know, now were on to another news cycle. This was yesterdays story, 24 billion. Now were off talking about, well, glitches in obama care. Were back to that. Everybody is all over there in the conservative media. Very little if no commentary has been given by any conservatives on just what the heck 24 billion is to our economy. This is a total disregard for the taxpayers. All these guys that run around talking about how fiscally responsible they want to be when they go to washington. No, they dont. They want to save their ass and thats all they air about. Now, with the republican Governm
Plus, the future of the Republican Party is a hot topic as both sides start plotting the 2016 campaign. Our political roundtable features two former capitol hill insiders, Newt Gingrich and lawrence odonnell. Plus, three journalists on the story. The looming fiscal cliff 22 days away. Is it stalemate or compromise . Well go inside the negotiations with two top leaders in just a moment, but i want to start with the ongoing crisis in syria where the Assad Government is engaged in a brutal cracktown on its own people. And this week something significant happened. The president signalled a big potential shift in u. S. Involvement there. Heres what he said. I want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command, the world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable. Nbc chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in syri