The major sticking points remain the same, Congressional Democrats want to raise taxes on the highest income earners while keeping the current lower tax rates in place for the middle class. Republicans want to extend tax breaks at all levels. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. We are going to be talking about the fiscal cliff, the statements the House Speaker made about being a stalemate and what the president said during his trip to a toy factory in pennsylvania. Here are the numbers. You can also reach out to us by email and twitter and facebook, all of the social media as. On twitter the addresses cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan. More from the article by jake sherman with the headline fiscal cliff. He writes lets go to the phones. The first call comes from debbie in flint, mich. On the line for democrats. Caller i think they need to pass a law that these guys did not get paid. If i go to work and did not do my job, they will not pay me. They have not done their jobs in the
It down and its there for a terrible provocation. In either case, there is no disagreement that the thing was shot down. It is also worth being doubly, triply clear about the fact that this was a machine. A remotely piloted machine. No u. S. Personnel were physically involved or at risk in the shootdown. The pentagon said the drone was an rq4a global hawk. Im not sure thats what you should use to describe it. This is a large aircraft designed for surveillance. We think of drones as being if you think of commercially available drones, its the size of an Old Fashioned model airplane. This is more like the size of an airplane airplane. The Defense Department released video earlier today that they say shows the american drone being taken out by an iranian surface to air missile. You can sort of see what looks like a trail of smoke after the drone is hit and as it falls toward the earth. This incident happened last night in terms of u. S. East coast time, that means it was just before dawn
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