[ theme music ] stephanie hello. It is current tv hour one. Thanks jim for talking to us about your tech support. Thats important. Yeah. Stephanie good morning Jacki Schechner. Good morning. Stephanie were fine. Nobody help us. All right. All of jims emails are broken so stop trying to email him. Yeah, well what am i supposed to do thats a big part of my time is emailing love notes to jim. Stephanie you sent me a story about a guy who hacked into somebodys email account and convinced people to take their clothes off. Would you do that jacki . Yeah there was a nigerian friend who asked me to do that. Stephanie i just automatically go, oh jim, stop emailing me, how many times are you going to ask. You know he cant see you through the computer right . Stephanie if you have a little camera. Yes, with your permission. Its former senators chuck hagels turn on capitol hill today as he faces his confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of defense. Expect the toughest questions to come fro
Political geek talk just 24 7. Then it gives us something to talk about the following week. We create havoc and debauchery and then we we can talk about it it. Hmm. Stephanie now you set off the perv boss. Jacki schechners. Shes in pants. Its not pantsless friday. You cant see her. Stephanie we just took a peek. Wow, here is Jacki Schechner in the current news center. President obama is travel to go hatfield, pennsylvania to tour and give a speech at at the factory that makes tinker toys and other connect brands. Its a Third Generation Family Business and employs 150 people at that particular facility. The president s visit would highlight the impact that the taxes would affect the season. Its all to garner public support and back republicans into a corner as fiscal cliff negotiations continue. Tim geithner went up to the hill yesterday and laid out the president s offer. This is what it looks like. The goal is to get to 1. 6 trillion in revenue. Letting the tax cuts expire for the top
[ theme music ] stephanie hello. Happy friday, everybody. Jacki schechner chris can you get your organ out for me. Jacki schechner im in two thruples with you as you know. Yes. I went out with one of our thruples without you tonight and that was a big mistake. I went with Melissa Fitzgerald to a dinner party that i could walk to, and drank entirely too much red wine. [ applause ] i knew you were going to have a drink. Stephanie yeah it was a big, big huge stephanie you know how i am going to remedy that . Were all going out tonight. All right. Here she is the deeply sober Jacki Schechner. Good morning, everybody. Ed koch passed away. He died this morning at the age of 88. He serves the city of manhattan from 1978 to 1989 and was a congressman before that. He became a regular media figure, and was a judge on the Peoples Court. A new documentary on the mayor run opens date. A suicide bomber a and caused a blast in cur i can outside the u. S. Embassy. At least one other person has been se
I was in a hotel room in chicago and found current on the television there. Little surreal to be watching the show from that arena, not actually on it and watching you guys try to fill the top of the hour. Stephanie wasnt that something . Thanks a lot, jacki. A little scrambling. Did i wave back at the screen as if you guys could see me. Stephanie that was sweet. We were perving out on you long distance. You should have seen me though. As i was watching, in my pajamas. Stephanie in bed, jim. Here she is, Jacki Schechner back in the current news center. Good to be back. Good morning, everybody. President obama and Hillary Clinton are having lunch together at the white house today. No word on what the two plan to talk about or why exactly theyre having lunch. The former secretary of state has been basically giving speeches making money doing that since she left government in february. And even though both the pro clinton ready for hillary pac and the anticlinton stop hillary pac are alre
Stephanie would you like to know why . Why . Stephanie because i rescued another dog near my house. I hate everybody but you two. This dog, no collar you could see his ribs. And he is so sweet. He let me carry him home like a baby. Where is he now stephanie my house. Oh, dear. Stephanie so i am a new foster mother, and im a little flustered this morning. I hope your furniture survives. Stephanie in the meantime here is my bff. Good morning everybody. President obama has put a new fiscal cliff offer on the table. now we are at 1. 2 in revenue. The president says he is okay with extending the bush tax cuts for everyone making up to 400,000 a year. Raising the estate tax on estates over 3. 5 million to the rates they were back in 2009 which is 45 . As for savings were asking for 800 billion in this new deal. I know its a lot of numbers but here is the key. Is the friars time that Social Security cuts have been on the table. The administration insists that they will pro text the poorest, b