Hi, everyone, happy new year. Im diane macedo joining you live from fox business headquarters in new york. Were following the breaking news in washington. Were waiting for the house of representatives to vote on a fiscal cliff deal that the Senate Passed early this morning. They have been in a Conference Meeting a little less than an hour. Speaker boehner, majority leader eric cantor walking into that meeting. Still waiting to hear how it is going. Even before the meeting was called, cantor and other Top Republicans were saying they wont support the bill. The fate here is really uncertain. Rich edson is live on capitol hill keeping track of this for us. Rich, is there any word what specifically theyre discussing in this meeting and whether or not theyre making any progress . Well, diane, the point here is whether or not to amend this bill, to change this bill or bring this bill, the proposal that passed the senate last evening up to the house floor to a vote. This is a decision that Ho
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Legalese and wording of the specific justification that gave the nsa access to that data. And from the companys side, i think that theyre starting to realize that they might have thought that data was not, you know, very big in terms of privacy violations but, in the context of collecting all that data from different companies, pro providers, nsa can build a really good profile on people. Melissa charlie you have a keen nose for bs. Do you have a smell of bs at this meeting. These are all his supporters. Melissa thats a great point. Eric schmidt is great obama supporter. Zuckerberg holds fundraisers in facebook offices for the president. To say we need a big meeting to voice our outrage is absurd. One way to voice outrage, not give him anymore money or break his chops at facebook headquarters, at googles headquarters with his hat passing around. Theyre not talking about any of this theyre talking about their brackets. That is what they care about. Theyre not doing anything about this.