defense budget. reduce health care spending, and reform the tax code, especially for the wealth jest americans and that last idea of eliminating the bush era tax cuts is sure to heat up at a meeting this hour with congressional leaders. dan lothian at the white house, and, dan, i know most republicans say those tax cuts, those bush era tax cuts, should not end for anyone. are they non-negotiable? reporter: right. didn t we go down this road already last year? and here we are again. the bottom line is that the white house believes that there needs to be some revenue generators in order to eat into the massive deficit. so a senior administration official saying that the president does plan during his remarks to call for an end to those bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest of americans. those making over $250,000 a year. the question is, will this be something that republicans will be ale to embrace? and right now, it s a resounding, no.
really. i m serious. the bieb has ticked off the prime minister. zain verjee is covering that story from london. this is such a strange story. it is and the bieb finds himself right in the middle of this, being totally kicked around. he was really looking forward to this trip to israel and he s been going around to the holy sites and says the paparazzi has been following him everywhere. with the political stuff, what happened is ben swra min netanyahu refused to meet him because bieber did not want to meet with a bumpbl of kids in a particular area that had been attacked by rockets. the bieber camp say that s not true, but the prime minister s camp says, look, we weren t planning a meeting, we were discussing it. he certainly found himself caught up in a little bit of
justin bieber reportedly just says no and ticks off the prime minister of israel. a.j. ham hear that and more. a.j., what s with the bieb? it s strange even to hear you say the bieb and the prime minister of israel in the same sentence, carol, but he can t even seem to stay out of politics in the middle east. the biggest buzz over justin bieber in israel now is not about his haircut or upcoming concert. it s about meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that never happened. a spokesman for the prime minister tells cnn bieber s people approached them about a meeting between the two of them. netanyahu s office wanted to invite kids from southern israel, recent rocket attacks to the meeting but told cnn the meeting proved impossible. local headlines speculate bieber backed out of because of the political nature of the event. the concert promoter didn t even know that the meeting was in the works and as for the superstar himself, all he s been trying to do, aside from his