Private violence. Just days after utah Police Officer shot dead his own wife, two kids and his motherinlaw, before killing himself, a new documentary opens at sundance looking at the shocking nationwide epidemic of Domestic Violence, focusing on the struggles of survivors of abuse and the advocates who support them. Then, alive inside a story of music memory. When i first met him, he was very isolated and he would sit with his head like this. Then when i introduced the music to him, this is his reaction ever since. [laughter] music change the lives of millions suffering from alzheimers and dementia . Ofwill talk to the director a new documentary on Music Therapy in the social worker who has been putting headphones on nursing home residents and changing the lives of so many. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The International Peace conference on syria opened today with deep divisions over the fate of pres
Reagan raised taxes 11. Dont forget those numbers. This is viewpoint. John good evening im john fuglesang. This is viewpoint. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. The Republican House finally began tackling the immigration issue this week with a closed door meeting wednesday where the senates comprehensive bill was overwhelmingly rejected. We are not going to do the senate bill. Our committees are going to continue their work on a step by step common sense approach to fixing the problems in our immigration system. John a common sense approach that reportedly leaves out a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million undocumented immigrants, apparently rejecting the will of an overwhelming majority of american voters. You see according to the latest gallup poll, 88 of adults support allowing immigrants in the country illegally an opportunity to become citizens. That includes 92 of selfprofessed moderates 91 of liberals and 83 of conservatives. Now, after meeting with president ob
Were already in december. Welcome to the weekend. Were really excited here this morning. Identify been looking forward to this literally for months. We have a legendary chef withs Thomas Keller one of the countrys premier chefs and hell share i had ultimate dish. Well eat. Well chat. Im certain were going to enjoy it and i hope you too. I literally have been looking forward to this for months. We got some great sounds. Five guys from utah who call themselves the piano guys, already a huge hit on the internet. They had 185 million hits on youtube and they will play for us this morning. We begin this morning with the socalled fiscal cliff one from today unless washington gets its act together 90 of americans will see their taxes rise as a series of tax increase and spending cuts take effect. Yet negotiations between the white house and Congressional Republicans are at a standstill. Anna werner is in our washington bureau. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Unless Congress Comes to an a
Melissa how would you like to pay more at the pump . We have the new talk about raising the gas tax. What a great idea. Lori i love paying over four dollars a gallon. Washington not the only one that cannot get a deal done. Entering day 76. Its Small Business that is really on then ice. Melissa time now for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. Lauren simonetti. Washington is playing politics over the fiscal cliff. We are near session lows right now. 11 points away from session lows. The dow is clinging onto that level right now. Consumer discretionary is your best performing sector this month. It is lower today, as is technology. The s p 500 trying to hang onto a monthly gain. Not sure if we can do it. Certainly higher for the week and nasdaq higher for the both of them. A twoday chart of yelled is really interesting. They expect fourthquarter sales in china to decline. Lots of analysts cutting this stuff today. Melissa lauren, thank you very much. Lori after laying out his opening bid to
Class tax cut as first part of any deal. And he linked republicans to scrooge today while touring a pennsylvania toy factory. Listen. If congress does nothing, every family in america will see their income taxes automatically go up on january 1st. Every family, everybody here, youll see your taxes go up on january 1st. I mean, im assuming that doesnt sound too good to you. That is sort of like the lump of coal you get for christmas. Thats a scrooge christmas. Thats pretty scroogy, right . President obamas proposal calls for 1. 6 trillion in new tax revenue. 50 billion for new stimulus spending. And about 400 billion in entitlement cuts. Republicans say, the president s proposals nothing but a political stunt. Here is boehner. The white house spends three weeks trying to develop a proposal and they send one up here that calls for 1. 6 trillion in new taxes, calls for a little not even 400 billion in cuts, and they want to have this extra spending that is actually greater than the amount