inside the white house about whether or not to go over the cliff, whether or not it s actually a politically more advantageous for the white house to actually go over the cliff. maybe that strengthens the president s hand. the same conversation is going on among house republicans about whether or not they would be strengthened if in fact this happens, we go over the cliff. two things happened today, one of think is bernanke came out and started talking about the volatility of the markets. the other thing that happened was boehner essentially came out and seemed to give a non-answer around this question of whether or not he would back just voting on the middle-class tax cuts. so those two things i think both show on the one hand bernanke that there could be a point when the rubber really meets the road here, when the stock market starts to really react and in that way people would be more jittery and the sort of reality of the fiscal cliff would actually be upon us. and then with boehne
golf club. but romney supporters say he needs to direct his attacks toward newt gingrich. joining me is garrett haik. what are they saying now? this has been the subject of the day for the last few days since newt s seen this rise in the most recent polls. i saw a quote saying that romney has to step up and go after newt. they can t sit back and watch him rise. it s a question of how deeply do they want to engage? do you send romney out there to attack newt gingrich? do you stay back and not say anything at all and risk newt pulling a mike huckabee and rising even farther or do you go a middle path and have surrogates like chris christie or maybe romney s superpack sitting on mountains of cash try to engage him. but mike huckabee snuck up on him in ohio and they re determined not to let that
whatever it takes to chart a middle path, and yes, a lot of conservatives is part of that(m+]=/oóñi be realize they will likely have the house of representatives still and they feel like they have no, listen, this is a guy, mitt romney, who was pro choice and then pro life, pro gun control, then pro second amendment. he s a guy that was waffled on the kasik battle. the amendment.ç this is a guy who developed a program that was and he can say what he wants to say, but this is what the conservative base believes and the obama people believe. that he gave the obama administration the blueprint for obama care which is enemy number one for any conservative activist i know. so they sit there and think, okay, we re going to get behind him now? you can see it in the polls week in and week out. i think you re noticing between the establishment of the
i m wondering, do you think it s diminishing the chances of it going further out to sea. is it going to turn? yeah, no one is talking about the turn anymore. if you can put the map up one more time, you see that cone of uncertainty, shows where it could go. look right there, it s going to be felt, the impact, brian, in portions of pennsylvania, it could wobble a little bit but right now, it is it looks like it s going to be impacting coastal northeast. if it follows that middle path, it starts to break up hopefully. it will probably dump a lot of rain at the very, very least. absolutely. once it gets up into the problem right now is it s over the warmer water of the caribbean and it s warming up. that s a furnace and that s what is going to turn it into a category 4 later today. once it gets into coastal carolina s water, the water is 10 degrees cooler. that will slow it down. more news that you need to know. warren weinstein is a
argument on the other and said we reject both of those and taking a little path. there some who said we never should have done this. if this drags out and goes poorly, some say we are doing half measures and we shouldn t be taking second seat to france. both of those, there is a tax from both sides of the kind of middle path that the president steched out. do you think anything happened in the speech to affect substantively the debate about the president seeking overt authority for what he is going to do in the future or what he has already done? do you think anything changes about that or stays as is? i was struck that it was not mention and not, lewded to. there was mention of consulting with members of congress. that largely remains enunciate