About the milk cliff with candy crowley. The the situation room with wolf blitzer begins right now. This is a special edition of the situation room. It has now been more than a week since we learned the devastating news of the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, connecticut. Today, well remember the victims. Well also go in depth on where the investigation stands, and talk with dr. Sanjay gupta and drew pinsky, about what medical science has learned about the mind of a killer. Well also look ahead of where do we go from here . Especially when it comes to the right to bear arms in the United States, and what president obama called the nations epidemic of gun violence. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. We begin our special edition of the situation room by focusing in on the search for answers. Why . Why would a 20yearold man kill his mother, then gun down 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary
Communications remained open. Both sides of the fiscal cliff negotiations are much closer than you may think despite what law makes say publicly. Jackie calms of the New York Times picked up on something that lawmaker tim cole said recently. The republicans should just declare victory and taking the 98 of the tax cuts that they agree on and work next year on tax reform and see if they cant get the top rate back down again. Its hard to think that thats not where theyre going to end up so why not make it clean instead of ugly. I think its true that many people are saying privatery what tom cole said publicly on the show. But they believe that the politically right thing to do right now is to cut that you are losses, let tax rates go up for the most wealthy and really try for significant tax reform so that 39. 6 is going to be mute. So the good news is that negotiations do continue, there was a meeting today between president obama and House Speaker john boehner. That happened at the whit
Thats what i said back on july 25th. The only reason we ever allowed that vote on that proposal is i said at that time was that we knew it didnt pass constitutional muster. And the democrats were really serious, they would proceed to a revenue bill that originated in the house as the constitution requires and as i called on them to do again last week. To repeat, the socalled nate bill is nothing more than a glorified sense of the senate resolution. So lets put that convenient talking point aside from here on out. Last night i told the president wed be happy to look at whatever he proposes but the truth is were coming up against a hard deadline here and, as i said, this is a conversation we should have had months ago. And republicans arent about to write a blank check or anything Senate Democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. That wouldnt be fair to the American People. That having been said, well see what the president has to propose. Members on b
Happening now, new details of the meeting between president obama and congressional leaders for what could be a lastditch effort to avoid the fiscal cliff. Families in the making ripped apart. Russia officially bans the adoption of russian children by americans. And for the second time in a month, a man pushed to his death from a new york city subway platform in the path of an oncoming train. Wolf blitzer is off. Im Candy Crowley. Youre in the situation room. All eyes on that white house this hour. And the meeting that may be the last best chance to keep the country from going over the fiscal cliff. Right now, the leaders of the house and senate are sitting down with president obama in a search for an 11th hour deal to prevent severe tax hikes and spending cuts from automatically kicking in with the new year. Cnns chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin is getting new details. Jess can ka, what are you hearing about that meeting . Reporter candy, the president is going to explai
There was a massive house fire that ravaged homes overlooking lake ontario. The house fire spread as firefighters tried to dodge gunfire. The firefighters apparently walked into a trap just as they were responding to this. At last word, two firefighters are dead, three other First Responders are wounded, and alleged gunman is dead. Authorities cant say whether other bodies might be found in the eight homes destroyed or damaged by the fire in the town of webster. Shocking, bizarre, tragic today. Cnns poppy harlow is in new york, trying to piece together this horrible chain of events here on Christmas Eve. So what happened, because authorities are saying potentially this was a trap laid out for the firefighters. Thats what the police chief Gerald Pickering said in the last press conference, were awaiting right now another press conference that should start any minute. But he did say that it appears that possibly these four First Responders were lured into what was a trap. It started at 5