An outfront investigation. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, let there be light. Finally, some bulbs turned on in washington this evening. Well, on the congressional christmas tree, that is. Pretty beautiful. Lights, love, camaraderie, song. But while our lawmakers took some time to celebrate together, they still werent showing any spark when it came to negotiating a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, which is the Christmas Present the country needs. Today we heard president obamas response to the proposal that House Speaker john boehner put on the table yesterday. The speakers proposal right now is still out of balance. Of out of balance. Kind of similar to what republicans said last week when the president sent over his terms. So now what . Will they sit down and talk it through . Well, not according to at least one senior republican aide who told cnn today, no conversations today, no emails, tweets, carrier pigeons. As for boehner and obama, t
And theres no plan to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. Broken record, broken record. Im Christine Romans in today for john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Up first, president obama standing his ground over the fight in the fiscal cliff. Americans face crushing tax hikes and severe spending cuts in 27 days if democrats and republicans cannot come together on a deal. By the way, congress breaks for the holidays in ten days. Slash that number. In an interview with bloomberg news, the president made it Crystal Clear hes not about to blink on the issue of tax hikes for the wealthiest americans. Well have to see the rates on the top 2 go up. And were not going to be able to get a deal without it. White house correspondent dan lothian joins us live from washington this morning. Very nice to see you, dan. Good to see you. Heres the deal. We have republicans pitted against democrats. Now we understand there are issues amongst republicans as well. Thats right. Theyre in a tough spot he
Film makers had access to. An outfront investigation. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, let there be light. Finally, some bulbs turned on in washington this evening. Well, on the congressional christmas tree, that is. Pretty beautiful. Lights, love, camaraderie, song. But while our lawmakers took some time to celebrate together, they still werent showing any spark when it came to negotiating a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, which is the Christmas Present the country needs. Today we heard president obamas response to the proposal that House Speaker john boehner put on the table yesterday. The speakers proposal right now is still out of balance. Of out of balance. Kind of similar to what republicans said last week when the president sent over his terms. So now what . Will they sit down and talk it through . Well, not according to at least one senior republican aide who told cnn today, no conversations today, no emails, tweets, carrier pigeons.
Here are the figures, when you look at it. Oecd started after world war ii. You could at least tell what the revenue was. We did know what the gdp was. No. And we are now, all governments, spending 42 of the gdp. And we want to make any effort to stop that . Or are we discussing to say it has never stopped before . I think the earlier Social Security, not fully implemented. There was no medicare. It has been pretty stable since 1980. It goes up and down with the business cycle, but it is pretty stable. This is the division between the right and left. Who will continue to fight about bigger government and smaller government. We will not do it by refusing to pay for the government we have, thinking the economy in the process. That would be a good start, as a backdrop. I want to touch on your question about corporate and individual taxes. The third piece is small businesses. We work out how develop a tax code that is good for competitiveness. You need to think about how those play into it
Jumpers. When you have leaders of parties and people from the administration saying, i think it will be to the advantage of the democrats to go off the cliff, wealthy it will be advantage to the republicans to go off the cliff or the president to go off the cliff, thats like betting your country. Theres stupidity involved in that. This is bigtime stuff. Surprising exactly no one, senator Mitch Mcconnell took to the senate floor yesterday to blast the Administration Strategy as a campaign maneuver. Incredibly, many top democrats, including the president , seem perfectly happy, perfectly happy, to go off the cliff. But in a new quinnipiac poll out today, the American Public gives the democrats the benefit of the doubt by a margin of 18 points, Americans Trust the president and democrats to avoid the fiscal cliff over republicans. The same poll gave president obama his highest Approval Rating in three years, with 53 support. In the next hour and a half, president obama will continue the g