pressure campaign to pass the tax cuts. the president is also taking time to be fesive. john boehner doesn t sound so merry. no progress report because there s no progress to report. when it comes to the fis e call cliff that s threatening our economy and threatening jobs, the white house has wasted another week. the phone call was pleasant, but was just more of the same. the conversations that the staff had yesterday, just more of the same. it s time for the president if he s serious to come back to us with a counteroffer. even though the president apparently designed the negotiating sessions at boehner s request. according to the new york times, boehner insisted the talks include only himself and the president of the united states. boehner wanted senate democrats and nancy pelosi out of the discussions. democratic senator dick durbin told the times this is now the speaker and the president working this through. democratic leaders say they are satisfied with the briefings that
president obama continues his pressure campaign to pass the tax cuts. the president is also taking time to be fesive. john boehner doesn t sound so merry. no progress report because there s no progress to report. when it comes to the fis e call cliff that s threatening our economy and threatening jobs, the white house has wasted another week. the phone call was pleasant, but was just more of the same. the conversations that the staff had yesterday, just more of the same. it s time for the president if he s serious to come back to us with a counteroffer. even though the president apparently designed the negotiating sessions at boehner s request. according to the new york times, boehner insisted the talks include only himself and the president of the united states. boehner wanted senate democrats and nancy pelosi out of the
110,000 u.s. troops within range of that missile. this comes as a new report says the pentagon is beefing up our presence in the gulf, sending in more navy ships and doubling the number of mine sweepers assigned to the area. michael adler, public policy scholar at and my understanding you attended most of the negotiating sessions with iran in recent memory. is that true? yes i have. jon: as you look at both sides, the iranian side and basically the rest of the world that wants them to drop their nuclear program what can you tell us about the approaches that each side is taking? well the approach of the united states at this point is to try to get some sort of concrete results. mainly they stop enriching uranium to weapons that are closer to weapon grade. and the united states in moscow and istanbul, baghdad and moscow, the last three sites of talks, has been
not a cost of living. not a, you know, an advancement for five years. the money is just not there. we need to get them to the table so they can negotiate with us in a serious level. leslie: the county board says there have been 37 negotiating sessions with the union in the past ten months. the union contends the board is stalling and not negotiating in good faith. meanwhile, kaiser permanente workers are expected to return to work today, they staged a one day walkout over contract disputes yesterday. the kaiser los angeles medical center on sunset boulevard, nurses and other kaiser employees, look to the picket lines over proposed cuts to health care and retirement benefits. kaiser officials say the union hasn t responded to their wage and benefit proposals. phillip: a major prescription drug company is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills. we ll have the details next. leslie: there s a push online for an ethical iphone. we ll tell you about the
animals, including lions, bears, leopards and 18 endangered bengal tigers. officials say only a monkey has not been accounted for. the humane society lashed out at the governor for allowing a statewide ban for buying and selling exotic animals to expire in april. at the end of the day there will be legislation. officials say they had no choice but to kill the animals because of the danger they posed to the public. now, the man who owned those animals was released from prison just a few weeks ago. terry thompson served a year for possessing illegal firearms. he and his estranged wife kept the animals in cages on a 73-acre private reserve. friends say they were animal lovers but he, thompson, had been convicted of animal cruelty. officials have not said what might have caused him to kill himself. secretary of state hillary clinton is in kabul, after after this morning for talks with afghan president and other top officials there. she s expected to assure president karzai