President elect donald trump naming his Top White House officials his campaign ceo and the former executive editor. Most influential advisor to the president elect is a guy who practices and promoted whites the premises of and anti semitic behavior. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus will serve as chief of staff. And, he is really on the same page with a lot of the things that almost everything, but i dont agree with as far as advising president elect trump. And, mr. Trump reacting to the allegedly racist acts committed following the election. And, i am so saddened to hear that. And i say stop it, if it helps, i will say this right to the camera stop it. While protests against him continue around the country the rnc are saying that they believe that people will see positive change when the new administration is in place. I think that what i would ask everybody is that the American People voted express yourselves as is a right in our constitution but give them a chanc
50. Concord is there, and there are plenty of cold conditions. And sierra for tomorrow. And lots of sunshine today along with a seven the breeze. And that could make for those conditions. I dont think that there will get in on that. And all of them are in the 30s as well. And its going to give us increasing clouds tonight. And, 60s on the temperatures may feel like this. And, things are slow. And, is there anything you like to get to right away quick every once in a while, right the middle of traffic, and im more surprised to see how long it takes. And, it takes about 30 minutes these days. And, even on the friday, when volume is Getting Better than normal. And, both directions you can see traffic is moving along nicely. And, as we look at the issuer freeway, you can see that the traffic is going to be busy on 80 after the Hilltop Drive exit. And it gets slow again. And, as a goat onto berkeley. And, lets go back to that. The city of San Franciscos reactivating a hotline and, we are li
The old pharaoh, unbelievable. We have full coverage on that coming up, but first, lets get the news live at 5 30 a. M. At 30 rock in new york city. The effort to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff is now a twoman operation. President obama and Speaker Boehner. Thank you. Nobody else will be in the room. With 24 days before a yearend deadline, the New York Times says boehner made the request to clear the negotiation room going forward, leaving it up to himself and the president to reach a deal to avoid automatic tax hikes and deep spending cuts. And while the two men may be negotiating privately, yesterday the president took his mess dwrooj the public, visiting a local virginia family as a part of his social media campaign. While sitting around the kitchen table, he told the family he felt optimistic. The message that i think we all want to send to members of congress is this is a solvable problem. The senate has already passed a bill that would make sure the middle class taxes do not go
New york city. We begin with 25 days to go until the year end fiscal cliff deadline for the first time in days president obama and Speaker Boehner spoke on the phone yesterday. Both men agreeing not to publicly characterize how the conversation went. But the stalemate in negotiations entered bold New Territory yesterday with treasury secretary tim geithner suggesting the white house is ready to go off the cliff if republicans refuse to raise taxes on the top 2 . If republicans do not agree to that, is the administration prepared to go over the fiscal cliff . Absolutely. Again, theres no prospect to an agreement that doesnt involve those rates going up on the top 2 of the wealthiest members. Only 2 . The size of the problem in some sense is so large it cant be solved without rates going up. Again, there is broad recognition of that reality now. One fallback option, republicans are reportedly considering to accept tax cuts for the middle class, allow rates to go up to the wealthiest and
Of at least one family that says they could be socked if a deal is not reached. Eugene. Thats right, tamron. This is the president continuing to put on the pressure. Hes winning the public argument. This is the more favorable field of battle for him, is out in public opinion. Hes out in the country. So he continues to do that. The more favorable field of battle for the republicans is inside a closed room where they still have the power of the majority of the house. So the president continues to do whats more favorable for getting the outcome hed like to have. Michael, i hate to bring you in. I hate to say this is how the game is played, but at this point its about optics because both sides put the first proposals on the table. Here you have this family, the face of america or so Many Americans talking about the punch they will feel. This at a time, michael, when theres a new poll showing 65 support higher taxes on households making over 250,000. Talk strategy, and does this one impress