Conservatives on the hill are counting on us. And the Supreme Court court takes on gay marriage. Well break it all down with george will, James Carville and mary matalin. Paul krugman of the New York Times and abcs own matthew dowd. Hello, again, just over three weeks away from that fiscal cliff, we just come off a week of press conferences, symbolic votes in senate, but less than an hour of serious negotiating. What will it take to break the stalemate . Well get into that this morning, with two big roundtables of elected officials and experts. Lets begin with the lawmakers. Senator tom coburn for the republicans and Debbie Stabenow for the democrats. And congressman hensarlingg. The president said that for there to be a big deal, tax rates on the wealthy are going to have to go up. If thats his bottom line, can there be a deal . Again, as the speaker has said, unfortunately what we see out of the president is my way or the highway. One dollar revenue for 2. 5 of spending reductions. N
Conservatives on the hill are counting on us. And the Supreme Court court takes on dwa marriage. Well break it all down with george will, James Carville and mary matalin. Paul krugman of New York Times and abcs own matthew dowd. Hello, again, just over three weeks away from that fiscal cliff, we gave off a week of press conferences, symbolic votes in senate, less than an hour of serious negotiating. What will it take to break the stalemate . Well get into that this morning. With two big roundtables of elected officials. The lawmakers. Senator tom coburn for the republicans and Deb Jie Stabenow for the democrats. And congressman hen sarlg. He said that for there to be a big deal, tax rates on the wealthy are going to have to go up. Again, as the speaker has said, unfortunately what we see out of the president my highway or the high wway. One dollar revenue for 2. 5 of spending reductions. Now, after the election, its a little bit of bait and switch. Now hes asking for 1. 6 trillion. For
Headlines today. X steel understood investigates how drillers see opportunity in big oils problems. Lets begin with peter cook and has the tales on a new report being released this hour on egg bank subsidies. Good afternoon. Has been nearly six years since the financial crisis and washington continues to debate whether some banks are too big to fail and if those institutions have a competitive advantage because the government will ride to their rescue once again. The hearing act k starting this hour in the senate inking committee is releasing a longawaited government report onlity office the issue. The report is unlikely to end the debate altogether. The key findings the gao concludes big banks enjoy more funding compared to their smaller peers during the crisis but goes on to find most models show that advantage has declined or reversed in recent years as the economy has improved will stop the gao concludes the advantage could return if the country faces a new economic crisis. They sa
Reporter held the victims as gunpoint. This happened on the first floor of this building here on 40th avenue. The victims say they often leave their front door unlocked because theres a gate. If we pan down, we can show you the gate in front of the building. Thats usually locked but the residents say they admit this gate sometimes sticks and they think thats maybe how they got in. This happened before 3 00 a. M. The victims tell us there were eight people inside the building. The five men broke in and went from room to room, waking people up and bringing them into the living room. Ive never had a gun in my face before. That was pretty intense. Reporter did they all have guns . One of them had a knife. One of them grabbed a knife from our kitchen and i saw two guns. Reporter were they covering their faces . No. They all had really bagby clothes on and hoods on. But you could see their faces. Reporter victims say they ransacked the place, they believe, looking for drugs. They broke at le
The Nuclear Weapons laboratories at the department of energy as well as pentagon. Nih, departments of commerce, treasury, state, homeland security, its a lot. Several nongovernmental organizations also came under attack were told. Today in moskow and to the surprise of no one putin denied any involvement in any hacking of u. S. Targets. The Russian Hackers have never interfered in the elections. They have never helped trump get elected. This is all just wild conjecture. This is just a pretext to try to sour the relations between russia and the u. S. Still nothing from the outgoing president about any of this as we said. But president elect biden did issue a statement that read in part and we, quote, i want to be clear my administration will make Cyber Security a top priority at every level of government, and we will make dealing with this breach a top priority from the moment we take office. Among other things imposing substantial costs on those responsible for such malicious attacks,