consulate and strong and significant. that is not in the talking points and frankly not supported by the record of what happened. the talking points came from the intelligence community. you don t hear one criticism of david petraeus. it was his shop that produced the talking points that susan rice talked about. is there a double standard here? it appears there is, very unfair one. gregg: last week rice met with members of the senate armed services committee to try to explain the situation. lindsay graham saying that ambassador rice did not help herself very much. heather: supporters of mohammed morsi staging a demonstration in washington, d.c. standing in front of the egyptian embassy armed with signs. opponents were also out carrying signs with slogans like egypt deserves better. gregg: the highest court
i i totally agree with you analysis of susan rice. i don t think she is great person for the john but i disagree with you with why. the new c.i.a. director will have to contend with a growing world instability and world threats and boosting the reputation of the agency. what do you think the president should do in terms of the c.i.a. director? i think they need to pick someone with less testosterone but enough is enough. there was great cartoon, some guy looking like a bum, i can be c.i.a. director because i know enough not to use g-mail. heather:ly agree with you there. thank you both for joining us. we appreciate it. gregg: how about the weather nightmare, residents facing dangerous flooding, a third
just snap a picture, hit send and done. take a step forward and chase what matters. . gregg: december is historically a good month for the stock market but fiscal cliff decline could dampen and mute the impact of the slew of economic data out this week. joining us now is brenda buttner. i was amazed to read december markets in 16 of the last 20 years have actually been big, good months for investors who were counting on the market to go up. that is broad market. so your 401-k ends the year on a high note. gregg: this is different, why? we can t look at historical factors in this because do i
if you have different directions, they want to go further, they should lay that out to us. today, house democratic leader nancy pelosi turning up the pressure on speaker boehner with a vote scheduled on extending the bush tax cuts for the middle class. heather: thank you. gregg: from the fiscal cliff to will i don ting the debt ceiling speaker boehner disagreeing with president obama under the white house proposal. the president would have the power to raise the debt limit on his own, whenever he wants, as needed. speaker boehner saying congress isn t budging on that issue and here is what he had to say on fox news sunday. congress will never give up the power and i made it clear to the president that when we get to the debt limit we need to cut some reforms that are greater than the increase in the debt limit. it is the only way to leverage the political process to produce more change than if left alone.
i m giving you an honest. heather: this has to be the last word in five seconds. if i gave you every tax increase you wanted, it would take us one time for the solution, we have to talk about spending cuts. heather: as we discussed in the next, we have to wrap it up. thank you so much. we appreciate it. good conversation. gregg: i broke out a sweat on that one just listening to it. army private at the center of the wikileaks scandal is in court again. his attorney says prosecutors should drop the case against him because he gets a little depressed. we ll talk about that with our legal team coming up.