Good evening. Its 10 00 on the east coast and we begin with brooking news on the looming fiscal cliff. For the past few nights weve been telling you about the frustrating lack of progress to avert a deal on automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that kick in less than four weeks from now. Poll after poll shows the American People want compromise but there werent many signs that was going to happen, nothing was getting done. In a cnn crc poll, 67 said washington officials would behave like spoiled children in the fiscal cliff discussions. Only 28 said they would behave like adults. Tonight signs that maybe some adult behavior might be prevail and a compromise might be reached. Jessica yellen joins us, dana bash and david gergen. Whats the latest . Reporter they are a long way from a deal, but late today Speaker Boehner and president obama did speak to one another on the phone. Now, this is an Important Development because its the first time theyve talked in a week about the fiscal cliff.
been telling you about the frustrating lack of progress to avert a deal on automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that kick in less than four weeks from now. poll after poll shows the american people want compromise but there weren t many signs that was going to happen, nothing was getting done. in a cnn/crc poll, 67% said washington officials would behave like spoiled children in the fiscal cliff discussions. only 28% said they would behave like adults. tonight signs that maybe some adult behavior might be prevail and a compromise might be reached. jessica yellen joins us, dana bash and david gergen. what s the latest? reporter: they are a long way from a deal, but late today speaker boehner and president obama did speak to one another on the phone. now, this is an important development because it s the first time they ve talked in a week about the fiscal cliff. i am told, though, that there was no real progress in negotiations. in this sense there was no breakthrough on th