Keep the country from going off the fiscal cliff . A dangerous winter storm roaring across the eastern half of the u. S. Bringing blizzard conditions and travel nightmares. Plus, the nras controversial proposal to put armed volunteers in every school, well go indepth with the man in charge of the National School shield program. Im joe johns. Youre in the situation room. The u. S. Is now just six days away from the socalled fiscal cliff. And a mad scramble is on here in washington to avoid the drastic tax hikes and spending cuts that many fear will plunge the economy back into recession. President obama flies back from hawaii tonight to be ready if the senate comes back with a plan when it returns to work tomorrow. And house leaders are huddling with members on standby to return. Senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash is following all of it for us. What are you hearing . There was a Conference Call of course members of the house leadership even, theyre back in their districts, but
The United States is heading into what pandemic expert bill gates says will be a very difficult fall. But trump is not preparing the population for that reality. Instead, he is sticking to his discredited script saying the virus is disappearing. The same thing he tried to say seven or eight months ago. You know, reaching for new ways to describe this aberration of a presidency. They will say he is the liar in chief or conspiracy theorist in chief. Here is the new chief. Superspreader in chief. What a 2020 title. These headlines say he is a superspreader of the virus, of disinformation, and of anxiety about the election since he wont accept the outcome. Trumps reelection story is much bigger than any single headline or anything he is tweeting because the president is yanking on every lever of state power in an attempt to prop up his campaign. I am thankful at a time like this for beat reporters who cover all of these agencies. For example, the postal service, who are uncovering examples
Much of a difference between the two candidates when it comes to Foreign Policy. But the president is getting prepared in study hall this weekend out at camp david. I think when you talk to folks out there, most people believe the president does have an advantage going into this debate. We expect hell talk about getting Osama Bin Laden but no one here at the white house, no one with the campaign is under estimating governor romney. He won the first debate. He had a Strong Performance in debate number 2, and thats perhaps why you saw the president out on the campaign trail this week warming up, hitting mitt romney on Foreign Policy. The next debate on monday will be about Foreign Policy. It will be interesting to hear what governor romney has to say. He said, he thought it was tragic the way we ended the war in iraq. Said double down on this. Said we should still have troops in iraq. Just said this a couple weeks ago. I think that was a mistake. Reporter the president still remains vuln
Testify about Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador kislayak. At todays briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. Listen. Reporter how does this Administration Try to revamp its image, 2 1 2 months in, youve got this yates story today, youve got other things going on, youve got russia, youve got wiretapping. No, we dont have that. Regarding the allegations of capitol hill. I have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. Youve got russia. If the president puts russian Salad Dressing on his salad tonight, somehow thats a russian connection. But every Single Person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. Lets talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this
white house and those close to it and ties to russia. We want to show you a flowchart just so that everybody can follow along because it
Immigration. As you pointed out, he spent a threeday weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. On top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. We are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. All of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. It isnt just on the Immigration Issue as you pointed out. It is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. Amazon, nafta, mexico. Some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. Even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. At the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. It is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. Reporter absolu