0 steve: meanwhile fascianista and mentor about to get a major promotion from the president? is she qualified to be a u.s. ambassador and run an embassy? we ask you ladies and gentlemenn of the jury. brian: she would be best dressed. fired for being a man. bell ringer was silenced because the girls bring in more christmas cash. is that true? fox and friends starts right now. steve: welcome aboard, folks. live from studio e. brian has a lot of friend exercise family members that watch the program. call him throughout the program today, because unbeknowns to you. prian cell phone has fallen through a hole of the jacket phone. gretchen: most sewing i have done for years. all right. brian: who is it from. gretchen: it is a 317. brian: my tailor said you have a hole in your pocket. gretchen: seriouslyy answer it. steve: how did he get your number. brian: are you watching the show right now. gretchen: are we on in [inaudible] brian: you want to know if oh, this is
0 really for proponents those against more muted in their opposition but they carried the day. andrea? and chris, this is, of course, the backdrop for why things are so difficult to do here in washington. the fiscal cliff, we just heard from the president and with julie anna on bloomberg, his first interview about the latest state of play, and a lot of people are asking why can t they get together? why can t they meet? they were together at the christmas party at the white house last night and there was no real conversation along the sides between the president and speaker. right. in the same room but did not talk. you know, andrea, i think you heard in the clip in the opening, president obama is insisting a balanced approach and we ve talked about this before, balance is in the eye of the beholder. john boehner would say this is a balanced approach, we re putting revenue on the table as well as entitlement cuts. president obama seems to be indicating balance means getting more fro
0 hard. is this an ultimate political genius move by the obama white house? are they thinking they re going to take this into a fight for senate confirmation? day two of this pr campaign to face the critics on the hill. senator corker is who we re going to have the opportunity to rice will have the opportunity to meet with him at noon. in advance of today s meeting, she always delivers the party line, the company line, whatever the talking points are. is this an example, though, of rice facing critics explain the type of diplomacy she would need to display if she s going to go into negotiations with china? it s different than, you know, facing your foes on the hill when you re facing those from a different country. right. i think frankly it s inexplicable on the republican side. i do think this is a prelude probably to rice being nominated. and i really don t see how the republicans would stop her from getting the jom nation. nomination. i think the idea that the republicans
against it all day, as long as six or seven republicans vote with the democrats. boehner has to bring up the bill and allow it to occur. that s a totally different dynamic for him. to your point at the beginning of this, this was an appearance of conciliatory language. the devil is in the details. he is going to have to find a way to get his conference, which has not been willing to engage on these issues in the past to do so here. he has more impetus to do it now because of legacy and the reality this is politically unpopular at the moment to where the republican party has been. they need to move forward in a different way, and that rga meeting where you saw governors say the people have spoken, they re all feeling this. ken conrad retiring, democrat said today about these republicans talking about revenues and how unprecedented it is to his ear. revenue is the issue.
the devil is in the details. he is going to have to find a way to get his conference, which has not been willing to engage on these issues in the past to do so here. he has more impetus to do it now because of legacy and the reality this is politically unpopular at the moment to where the republican party has been. they need to move forward in a different way, and that rga meeting where you saw governors say the people have spoken, they re all feeling this. ken conrad retiring, democrat said today about these republicans talking about revenues and how unprecedented it is to his ear. revenue is the issue. i ve been involved, as you know, in intensive negotiations with republicans and the group of six, the group of eight, hundreds and hundreds of hours. at the end of the day, the big difference is on revenue. republicans, until now, have absolutely been opposed to any