Welcome back to the cnn news room, im martin savidge. If youre just joining us, thank you for tuning in. Were following the breaking developments on a store i that affects every single american. Thats the fiscal cliff. We reach the brink in two days. Lets go live now to dana bash on capitol hill. Because of news of a setback. Dana, what do we know . Thats right. We got this word from democratic sources about a half an hour ago. Maybe a little bit more. That they consider a major setback to be going on right now. A poison pill, something that the republicans offered last night and democrats rejected today. Its called technically chain cpi, the buzz word for it. What it means for real people and real terms, would be that Social Security recipients would see smaller checks on a monthly basis and thats why democrats are saying that this is a nonstarter. The president did propose this to the House Speakers as part of a larger deal. He even talked about it again this morning on nbc, the pres
After this experience. She has been able to find a plan that helps her avoid all six of her doctors including a five specialist in the primary care physician. Here is the catch. The new plan . Its out of pocket costs are now going from 4 ,000 to 45 00 range. Its now going up to an expected 5,900. It was a tough decision for her to make. She ultimate decided to pay more money in order to keep seeing the doctors that have been treating her for the past four to six years. Its a real live story of a Medicare Advantage recipient in the country whose out of pocket costs are going up because of obamacare. Its wrong. It is unfair. It should not stand. I yield the floor. Mr. President . Senator from New Hampshire. Thank you, mr. President. I came to the floor yesterday to share so many stories im receiving from my constituents about them receiving cancellations for policies they wanted to keep, higher premium under the law. Each story is very sad. I feel badly for the people of my state and acr
Because, obviously, the reason we know about this threat is the capabilities at the National Security agency. Well, its a reminder of the other side of the story, which is that we depend on intelligence. We depend on surveillance, and particularly, we depend on signals to keep the country safe. It doesnt change much about whether theyve gone too far or whether we understand enough about the basic outlines of what theyre doing that affects american privacy. Schieffer do you think i mean, because people always say this when Something Like this happens. People will say, you dont suppose theyre making more of this threat than it really is because they want to make the point that this is what they do. I dont have any reason to think that. The one reason to doubt it is that the french and the british are also closing embassies, particularly in yemen, which is a much narrower slice of their diplomatic world than the whole north african front from the u. S. But they, also, are taking the threa
Ready to back trump. What hes saying is, look, i want to get there. I think i will get there, but i want to talk to donald trump, and i want to work with him. Reporter priebus, trying to explain why ryan and some in the Republican Party are so reluctant to back their new standard bearer. For some people, an endorsement is a full embrace, and so for some people it takes a little bit of time to get to a full embrace. Reporter the chairman, not promising 100 of the party will fall in line, but optimistic that there wont be a contested convention come july. The platform of our party will be written in cleveland, and i think youre going to get another very conservative platform out of our party. Reporter but not so fast. Trump firing back at ryan in a statement saying im not ready to support speaker ryans agenda. You know why its never trump . Because im going to stop the gravy train for all of these consultants and people. Reporter ryan making clear his focus is on one thing. Protecting th
Gentlemen the rnc chairman Reince Priebus. He said the two men agreed to speak again soon, maybe even today. We get more from dana bash. Reporter its hard to believe just one week ago we were all talking about the Republican Party split straight down the middle starting at the top with paul ryan, the House Speaker and the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee, donald trump. Fast forward to now, we are ending the week in a very different place thanks in large part almost exclusively to Donald Trumps trip here to washington yesterday. His meeting with paul ryan at the at the behest of and with the help of the rnc chair Reince Priebus. This was the first of several meetings that trump had, it was just the three of them, it was a chance for ryan and trump to get to know each other, they hadnt spent time together at all, then it was expanded to the rest of the House Republican leadership and then later trump was able to go over and talk to Senate Republican leaders. At the end of the