Eat the cake. We are on Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Breaking news. The president holds a lastminute press conference and calls on the senate to act on the fiscal cliff. But with four days to go, will his push make a difference . Plus, politicians promised that the newtown shooting would change our National Debate on guns. Are those just empty promises . We count down the top five political rivalries. Who won, who lost, what it means for 2013. Lets go outfront. Breaking news. The president makes an 11th hour announcement tonight putting the pressure squarely on the senate so broker a deal on the fiscal cliff. Senators reid and mcconnell are working on such an agreement as we speak. But if an agreement isnt reached in time between senator reid and senator mcconnell, then i will urge senator reid to bring to the floor a basic package for an up or down vote, one that protects the middle class from an income tax hike, extends the vital life line of Unemployment Insurance to 2 mi
eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we ll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class mean to you? to the debt-laden u.s. postal service it would mean two to five days instead of one to three days. trying to help trim $20 billion a year from the postal service by 2015. it would mean closing more than half the agencies 463 mail processing facilities across the country. going to mean a lot of layoffs, too. i ll have some questions for the post master general in our face time segment just minutes from now. saving the euro could mean rewriting the rules of the your on. ahead of yet another eu summit this week in brussels, the president of france and chancellor of germany today agreed the 17 nations in the eurozone should face strict new caps on deficits. violators
stomping grounds, saturday night live. plus, jay versus dave versus conan. what s it like to play beer pong with betty white? jimmy fallon, keeping it real. even when he imitates other people. he s next on larry king live. larry: i love our openings. thank you, folks. good night. we are out of time. jimmy fallon is here, he s host of the double emmy award winning late night with jimmy fallon. hosting the 62nd annual emmy awards this night on nbc. it s not the 60-second annual prime time longer than 60 seconds. i don t want people thinking it s larry: i meant the show is 62 years. longer than 60 seconds. longer than a minute. larry: i have in front of me an emmy i won. hey. larry: yeah. so i thought it would be appropriate to display that s a beautiful award. larry: you have probably gotten them. i got one recently. i think they mail them to you. i haven t got mine fed-ex d to me yet. larry: how did they ask you to host this. it s on nbc thi
us know what s in their area, and we ll look it. we definitely want to increase our service and try to help people. thanks, shannon. good to talk to you again. thanks for helping out. joins us from florence, south carolina. let s go to the situation room with suzanne malveaux. happening know, the senate moves up its big vote on health care reform. and whether americans have hope for the new year. and why the holidays can be debtly. why you are more likely to have a heart attack this friday than any other day in the year. wolf blitzer is office. you ve in the situation room. oak. so maybe senators didn t want to work late on christmas eve. we learned a short while ago that their vote has been scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on thursday. there had been some talk it would happen later in the evening. another hurdle toward reform that has been cleared. dana bash, she s been covering this story almost 24/7. when we heard the news the vote was going to move up, there was a ch
secretary. of course he used to work for bob rubin clinton administration. that s the other interesting thing. you re on citigroup, and you also talk a lot about the folks that were with the clinton administration who started some of the deregulation that created the problem. let s talk about that as we go into cnn.com/live, for those who warrant to stay with us, with matt taibbi. meanwhile, wolf blitzer is taking over. president obama stares down wall street backers. did his bark about fat-cat lenders have any bite? if you send personal texts and e-mails at work, do you have a right to keep them private even if you re abusing the system? the u.s. supreme court takes on a case that could affect millions of americans who sent out electronics messaging while on the job. the italian prime minister is reeling from a smack on the face. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. thanks very much for joining us. it s wrun thing to call them fat cats in a national tv