Hello, i am adam shapiro in for lou dobbs. Rich edson is live on capitol hill in washington dc to bring us up to speed on the latest. It will be get a vote tonight . We could get a vote tonight. Reporter they will be heading up to meeting and some details exams in 400,000 for individuals, 450,000 for married couples. From a tax increase. It would go back to clinton era rates for Capital Gains dividends under 450,000 per year would save the current rate. Income amounts above that, we are talking about a 20 tax. Taxes would increase there. The alternative minimum tax would be couch. It sounds tens of millions of middleclass americans, and this would be a permanent exemption for those people. As for the estate tax, it would go to 40 . There would be a oneyear extension of longterm unemployment benefits. Adam what is the Sticking Point . It seems to me that the democrats felt they wanted, even a delay on the spending cuts. Reporter they did, and thats the problem. It is the delay on the sp
Gerri adam we want to bring you uptodate on the latest of the efforts of the senate. The white house is where rich edson is. We are waiting for the president come out of the meeting with Senate Democrats. We have a video showing him going in almost 40 minutes ago. Has he said anything . Have you heard anything . Is continuing on capitol hill. Joe biden was cut this deal. Mitch mcconnell is trying to sell it to some skeptical democrats. Congressional leaders are essentially giving the okay on this, but this is something that has to get through both houses of congress. So what you have here is the Vice President trying to relate to concerns of a number of the more liberal democrats who think that the Tax Threshold is too high for them. But there are other provisions of the one included that are not in there, and they are going to say, fiscal cliff is going to hit soon and this is the best deal we are quite yet. After that comment on the House Republicans and House Democrats that will nee
Just to give you some sense of it, in very large jurisdiction of the United States, the rate of recidivism for criminal offenders can be as high as 50 or more. When i. C. E. Can come in and remove offenders from a Given Community so that they cant reoffend, guess what . We take the recidivism rate to zero. So, for example, if you 100 criminal offenders, get them out, that is 50 crimes that will not happen over the next three years as a result of our enforcement efforts. Do you agree with former director morton as to the power of security working in the . Well, i dont believe we should scrap secure communities. I believe given the reality where we all with this program in this country that we need a fresh start. We have mayors and governors signing executive orders and passing laws that limit our ability to effectively carry out this program. I think the goal of the program is a very worthy one that needs to continue. So as part of the overall effort im embarked in right now i want a fr
He made it clear that the United States stands firmly in the face of russian aggression. Ed henry is in wales tonight with our report. Reporter president obama struggled for the second time in six days to have a strategy to deal with isis. Saying that the second beheading of an american journalist, Steven Sotloff, would not intimidate them. We will not forget and our reach is long and justice will be served. Reporter yet went to american reporters today question the president on last weeks miscue about having no strategy to deal with isis, he gave two vastly different answers. The bottom line is this. Our objective is clear. That is to degrade and destroy isis because its not only a threat to arauca to the region and to the United States and we know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink the isil sphere of influence and its effectivene in financing and its militarycapabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem. Reporter the tentative
He made it clear that the United States stands firmly in the face of russian aggression. Ed henry is in wales tonight with our report. Reporter president obama struggled for the second time in six days to have a strategy to deal with isis. Saying that the second beheading of an american journalist, Steven Sotloff, would not intimidate them. We will not forget and our reach is long and justice will be served. Reporter yet went to american reporters today question the president on last weeks miscue about having no strategy to deal with isis, he gave two vastly different answers. The bottom line is this. Our objective is clear. That is to degrade and destroy isis because its not only a threat to arauca to the region and to the United States and we know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink the isil sphere of influence and its effectiveness in financing and its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem. Reporter the tentat