brink of all-out civil war. the peace plan has been ignored by the regime of president assad. watching it all for us from cairo, egypt. bring us to speed when we talk about what s happens with the latest massacre. reporter: good afternoon. let s start with the u.n. observer mission. they were able to get to the village we understand, from a british report that actually is accompanying that special trip to the village. some of the accounts that are coming out actually have been somewhat disturbing, confirming some of the accounts we ve been hearing from over the past several days some of the amateur footage online, accounts from eyewitnesses people went house to house, street to street, killing people at close range, that seems to be so far confirmed by the accounts from the initial reports. but in terms of the investigation, still the syrian government says it was not responsible for what happened. they are vowing to carry out
public sector spending at exactly moment that we need the stimulus. our solutions are right here at our fingertips and just about making decision as a federal government to support the states and localities so they can do the hiring where americans live. and i think that, to me, an optimistic narrative that we could solve this almost overnight. so the economy being issue number one in the presidential campaign, we ve got the unemployment numbers out for last month, not doing anything to help the president s message about the economy turning around. we also just recently got the numbers of the campaign finance funds from both sides with mitt romney raking in $77 million, the president at $60 million. both sides complain about finance money. and this side s making too much and this side s get too much and it needs to be grassroots and all of this other stuff. we ve got all of the money poured into campaign ads trying to convince people to vote one way or the other. only to convince a
i m erin burnett, outfront tonight,a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we ve been saying this all week. and compromise really isn t that hard. here s the decent proposal we ve been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those makes less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you can pay for it by charging more to mortgage lenders and more to millionaires for medicare. it actually comes out even. and there s a lot of differ
big move in washington in a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing in this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we ve been saying this all week. and compromise really isn t that hard. here s the decent proposal we ve been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those making less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you can pay for it by charging more to mortgage lenders and more to millionaires for medicare. it actually comes out even. and there s a lot of different p
a woman married to a predator speaks out on the jerry sandusky case. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, breaking news with a big move in washington in a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing in this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we ve been saying this all week. and compromise really isn t that hard. here s the decent proposal we ve been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those making less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you ca