and debt down, and how you re going to do it and then the american people are going to be able to see either that you re going to see their prescriptions that never have set a balanced budget and just raising taxes which is not the answer. all right, on december 31st or january 1 it was extended until march 1st. the sequestration deadline. has the president called the house or senator reid or any calls back to the president about sequestration? not that i know of. and talked to senator reid. i have not heard from the president, i don t think that speaker boehner heard from the president. in terms of trying to come together, we have for the last 16 months said, join us in fixing the problem and that just didn t happen. so if you re not getting any calls, if you re not talking nothing s going to get done in the next he s got 22 days, got 22 days and we re asking for good faith efforts in addressing
new year s day marked more than the beginning of 2013, it was also the 150th anniversary of a milestone in our nation s history. the dawn of that day in 1863 for more than 3 million enslaved people in a then-divided america brought the end of life as property and the beginning of a new existence as free men, women and children. on december 31st, 1862 african-americans and the abolitionist allies gathered together to pray and to watch and to wait for the coming of the new day on january 1st when president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. it would take another two years and the passage of amendment 13 before slavery was abolished, but after years of deliverance aft
to just make it real simple and start with you dana and go to you, jonathan. deal or no deal? are we going to get a deal, dana? well, they re going to have to eventually. the question is maybe not. not with these guys. you never know. any prediction is perilous here. but it s always struck me, if it is going to be, it s going to be at the very last second or after we go over the cliff. jonathan, are we going to come out on the drive way and sing kumbaya? i doubt it given the video you just showed. that s not minority leader pelosi heading to the microphones in the driveway. it looks like she s on west executive drive trying to get the hell out of dodge. looking for her car. that s right. which could be a good sign. if no one is coming to the microphones and they re keeping it close, maybe they could get to something on 11:59:55 on december 31st. you guys have a great new year.
bill to protect 98% of americans from a tax hike on january 1st. the senate bill could pass tomorrow if house republicans would simply let it come to the floor. despite the impasse in washington, a new gallup poll shows 50% of people still believe it is likely that president obama and republicans will reach an agreement before we go over the curb on january 1st. among the believers is conservative weekly standard editor bill crystal. i think what will happen is republicans will be faced on monday, on december 31st, with having to vote on a much worse proposal than the one they didn t give speaker boehner the majority for. plan b. do we end up going over the cliff or not? i think not. on december 31st when both party members release their voters to vote their conscience, they save americans from a tax hike.
and i am confident that we will ultimately solve it, i m just not sure we ll solve it on december 31st. even the withholding tables, your paycheck should actually reflect the higher taxes that set in once we go over the cliff. the treasury can put that off for a few weeks. none of this is pretty. it s actually ridiculous, pretty dysfunctional politics. we set this crazy trap for ourselves and we re about to inflict a wound that it doesn t need that. we can engage in a set of ma shin nations that look like a fiscal slope and erosion that we can reverse quickly if we can make compromises. i can see why you re a contributor to our sister station cnbc stuff. you put it out there straight and make it understandable. i appreciate that. take care. coming up next, mom and pop shops ready to ring in the holiday shopping season. you re going to find out how to make it big on small business saturday. plus, succeeding secretary