outfront tonight, crisis in america. just take a look at this video. sums it all up. you at home watching me, all of us are hurtling full bore into a cliff that could be our doom. this is the so-called fiscal cliff. $15 trillion in debt climbing every day. $2.8 trillion in tax cuts scheduled to expire this year. if we hit this cliff, fellow lemmings, we ll die. tonight i spent the day hearing the conversation at the fiscal summit from the key players, a bipartisan group including president bill clinton, treasury secretary timothy geithner, house budget committee chair paul ryan, house speaker john boehner, alan simpson from simpson-bowles and what i heard from all of them is a bipartisan call for action and alarm. the next few years could be the most consequential two years we see in washington and have seen in the last 50 or 60 years. and interest rates will go up so fast you won t be able to catch your breath. how much? how much are they going up? wall street investor
hope the supreme court will look in a fair manner at the number who is will be impacted. let me say this, the state did not send in numbers regarding african-americans. they didn t send in numbers regarding asian or seniors or home bound or disable persons who may lack opportunities to get a picture voter i.d. this is not a joke and this is not race based except for the fact that the voting rights act says no barrier should bar a citizen of the united states from voting regardless of race or ethnicity. it s the right decision to make. thank you for your time. obviously, this is not going anywhere any time soon. thank you. british police are arrested rebecca brooks. brooks and her husband were among tix people arrested in connection with raids in the phone hacking scandal. the couple are being held on suspicion of destroying some kind of e-mail evidence.
political university for the republican white house hopefuls. most of the candidates have iowa on their schedule today with their eyes on the all important caucuses less than three weeks away. that includes newt gingrich, who s iowa campaign director resigned amid reports he called romney s mormon faith a cult. but do voters share that view? and could that be part of the reason why mitt romney isn t xweting even more support? joe johns is joining us with more. he s been taking a closer look at romney s faith. i guess the question is mormon faith holding him back? it s a very good question, wolf. what about mitt romney s faith? one of those questions a lot of people dismiss as soon as it s asked. partly because people of both parties say they want to believe that a presidential election ought to be about issues, that the religion is beside the point, but polls show it was an issue four years ago and believe it or not, it s still an issue today. when you ask a lot of evange
states. hear that? if you head to anywhere in asia on american airlines, the overweight bag sets you back $450! but if you pack light and stay in the united states you could pay up to $38 just to check one bag. in the trunk they re free. we have been telling you about the guy who told a 9-1-1 blurted to the operator he shot his wife. five times and now after he made the phone calls we are learning what he did, e-mail evidence is next. and it is impossible to predict earthquakes seismologists say but that is not stopping prosecutors putting scientists on trial for failing to predict an earthquake.
the e-mail evidence shows that the analysis done by the administration s officials said this company would be out of money in september of 2011. guess what? they are. and the white house only now say if we are going to unwind this deal after sean mentioned the e-mail that said they are not ready for primetime. they said we are going to unwind this deal, we better do so quickly. why? the that white house targeted this deal to be the showcase for the green jobs. no green produced here. a lot of unfortunately, economic losses and a lot of people lost their jobs and the american taxpayers are out half a billion dollars. it sounds like this was a bad decision and a bad loan. you are speculating it had anything to do with donation or political influence. they may have just made a wrong decision. now looking back at may have been a bad decision.