mccarthy decided he was going to run and it s being floated again now that mccarthy is not going to run and the feeling there is that he is sort of a name brand in the house and can possibly bring these sides together and raise money for the caucus, as well. walden out of oregon is saying if he can get enough support and floating trial balloons there. gloria is right about benghazi thing. months ago when boehner decided he would stay on privately, he was saying that he felt mccarthy wasn t quite ready to be speaker and that went in his decision as well as other things to go for the speakership again and of course now we re seeing some of that with benghazi gaffe that threw things into turmoil and today finally ended with him dropping out. i heard someone refer to this
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president s remarks live. we re also going to break down what s at stake for the economy as well as your personal finances. zimplt president obama confronting a looming financial. they have 53 days to come up with a solution to avoid going over the so-called fiscal cliff. what are we talking about? it s a combination of automatic spending cuts to the tune of $1.2 trillion over the next. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin will talk about this, and you bring up a very good point now. during the second term campaign, but she s been pretty clear, right, on his stance regarding the fiscal cliff and his obama line. tell us what it is. that s right, suzanne. he has laid out that his negotiating terms include the following. he is willing to compromise and raise some revenue by altering some parts of medicare and medicaid on entitlement reforms. he is also insistent that some revenue be raised by changing the tax rates. you know, those bush tax cuts expire at the end
out to doug jones in a phone call this afternoon before the tax speech in the white house. he congratulated him for the victory. there s one reason for that. he invited him here to the white house. they need his vote. now it s a 51-49 split after the holiday. after the new year and suddenly, doug jones, the most conservative democrat in the senate or at least representing the most conservative state, he could be a vote for this white house. we ll see if that actually happens. he s invited him here to the white house. jim, that s what used to happen. i remember freshman senator barack obama from illinois being invited here to see president george w. bush. we ll see if bipartisanship happens. i wouldn t count on it. maybe not since they re trying to squeeze in the tax vote before they seat him. outfront tonight, gloria borg borger, mark preston and april ryan, white house correspondent for american radio networks. the president seems to be acting like he had nothing to do with
the bush administration once the head of the rnc lost virginia. also, the two candidates that the president backed for alabama, a sitting president is supposed to have the momentum or in the past, has had the momentum to help at least bring at least a couple of the candidates to the finish line. for this president, he is now taking an assessment of how to move forward. you know, it does not help that steve bannon, who was thought to be a king maker, actually brought the president in on roy moore and roy moore was another loss. so this president has to really rethink how he is pushing forward his approval rating is down at 32%. and now he s got losses for candidates. he really has to go back and reassess and refigure how he can move forward if he s going to continue trying to back candidates. gloria, i wonder if some of this is somewhat predictable.