it s in nine weeks. january 7th. the government will have to raise the debt beyond $17 trillion more borrowing. the farm bill, which means billions of dollars to the agricultural economy in this country, is literally a year later. it s stalled. they re supposed to be fixing that. the president is big on immigration reform. he went out on a fundraising swing to the west coast, and he was out there raising money as well as pushing congress, particularly republicans, to get working on immigration reform the senate has already passed immigration reform. these big massive bills like, for instance, oh, maybe obama care, haven t been working out so well, so the republicans in the house say we re not going to do it all at once. we ll do it in pieces. we ll have one bill for different types of visas. dreamers, et cetera. that will take a much, much longer amount of time. so now look at the calendar, and consider all of that. the house is on vacation for thanksgiving. they will be back next week
over. as president obama departs the white house today, departed the white house today for a west coast fundraising swing with an immigration event, as well, republicans are saying he misled the american people about obama care, and that the program simply isn t going work. kevin mccarthy of california says it s time to go back to the drawing board. i do not believe you can fix the law across the board, we have to scrap it and start anew to get a bipartisan con sense us that puss the patient first and puts the patient first and lowers the cost. he says two promises were broken. one, that people could keep their existing insurance, and prices on the insurance would be lower than they were. harris? steve, thank you very much. our report from washington tonight. former alaska governor and fox news contributor sarah palin is now speaking publicly for the first time about some crude comments made by a cable news
he did not hurt anybody by what he did. shepard: does this guy like just a little bit like the barefoot bandit? remember the barefoot bandit with his own animation on this program, remember him in remember that guy? he is off to the big house. we will see what happens to this guy and let you know. the barefoot bandit music in the background. governor mitt romney is not likely to win electoral votes in new york and new jersey, but campaign contributions, that is another matter altogether. governor romney s big fundraising swing in the northeast and he is kicking butt and taking names in the fundraising category. have you seen this? wait until you see what he can do in new york. campaign carl cameron is coming up in a moment. or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.
money. ed henry is live at the white house with more. ed, governor romney raising a lot of money well, the president raising a lot of money. it looks like governor romney is going to outspend him. that s right, shep. president on a two day fundraising swing. he was in boston last night. today down in atlanta as well as miami right now. the bottom line is that he put out a fundraising pitch to his supporters today in writing the president saying in the modern history the first president outspent by his challenger. some of his aides think that mitt romney may raise $100 million this month alone on top of republic super pac money swamping democrats right now. that s why the president at a fundraiser in atlanta said this will be uphill battle. theyal say, you know the economy is bad and it s obama s fault. [ laughter ] and because times are tough and because they re spending these ungodly sums.
i am. i don t use it very often. did you change your password? a lot of people did overnight. drives me bananas. with all the things that are password protected, i hate having a lot of passwords. they say you have to make it super complicated. you re a mom of two kids, working full-time, hard to remember those details. it s 5:00 in the morning, welcome to early start, i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. i m 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started for you. this is cnn breaking news. we do begin with breaking news this morning. defense secretary leon panetta making a surprise visit to afghanistan. panetta arriving after a deadly wednesday in afghanistan. a twin suicide bombing on a market in kandahar killed 22 people and injured 50 others. nato also under scrutiny after an air strike killed 18 people, including women and children believed to be civilians. the u.s. also saying one of its armed helicopters was shot down by enemy fire, killing two crew