secret talks happen all the time, and 99% of them fail. but we are rooting for the 1% chance that these finally succeed. because america needs a grand bargain to prevent our debt rising to twice the size of our economy and to prevent a recession really, really soon. today fed chief ben bernanke, the man who has twisted and turned to get interest rates to zero to try to help this country said now congress must act. i urge congress to come to agreement on that well in advance so as not to push us to the 12th hour. if no action were taken and the fiscal cliff were to kick in in its full size, i think it would be very likely that the economy would begin to contract. contract means get smaller. it means recession. and people talk a whole lot about this fiscal cliff, but sometimes, you know, it kind of blurs together. so what exactly are we talking about? to be honest, this cliff is like we re on the top of mt. everest staring down a 29,000-foot crevasse. at the end of this yea
crashing an outdoor graduation. caught rhett handed and rhett faced. a robber sprased and spanked. you re going to see it. good morning, everybody. who love this is one. i love that one, too. bang, bang, don t come back. it s nice to have you here. i m ashleigh banfield. and zoraida. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east so let s get started for you. up first bill clinton getting back on script and back in step with the white house at least for now. in an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer, the former president doing a lot of apologizing after praising mitt romney s sterling business record and suggesting he would be open to extending the bush tax cuts with the wealthy, a position directly at odds with president obama. here s clinton yesterday on the situation room. i m very sorry about what happened ned. i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. he should just stick with his
that s it for us. ac 360 starts right now. piers, thanks. good evening. it s 10:00 in the east coast. we begin with allegations the white house is leaking state secrets, supplying information for political gain. john mccain is leading the charge and has bipartisan support. mccain claims the white house orchestrated leaks to boost president obama s national security reputation heading into the election. the reports include classified data on a computer virus attack on iran, as well as cia drone strikes. the release of the information in these articles harms our national security and puts in danger the lives of the men and women who are sworn to protect it. the only conceivable motive for such damaging and classified leaks of information is that it makes the president look good. we ll talk to senator mccain in a moment. the white house are flatly denying the charges. jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of cl
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jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. all this outrage stems from a wave of news reports of secret operations overseas including an article about u.s. cyberattacks on the computers they ran uses to run the nuclear facilities. the scoop is based on interviews with current and former officials involved in the program. now some of the information came from current officials working on the program. listen to how he refers to the source. he was deep into every step in slowing the program, the diplomacy, the sanctions a senior administration official said. that wasn t the only one. in three other recent stories having to do with national security the source or sources cited were administration officials. one of the things that senator mccain is angry about is the white house is ignoring leaks that make the administration look good with taking a hard li