[ theme ] yeah, its the Stephanie Miller show. This is chris. That is jim. Chris is sick as a dog and stephanies not here. It will be a wonderful show today. We only had a day off the fiscal cliff. So theres that. Representative john boehner told senator reid to go f himself. Twice. Really . According to the folks at politico. So im shush well be talking about that if stephanie gets here. Hoping and praying she gets here. Happy new year to everyone out there. Yeah, Jacki Schechner happy new year. Happy new year to you too. Some things dont change. You like to step all over my news before i start. Oh, geez, did i do that . Oh god okay. Theres stephanie. Stephanie happy new year. Lets go to Jacki Schechner in the current news year. Whatever, steph. Thanks for joining us good morning everyone. Happy new year to you. Not only did Congress Wait until the very last minute to come to a deal to stave off the fiscal cliff but by all accounts, nobody is generally thrilled with what they came to
Stephanie you let down the team. Are we going to get one of those awkward letters from you . One of those awkward phone calls . Stephanie i told her that our teacher, one of our favorite teachers called us booboos in class and thats mine and jackis thing. She calls me booboo. She stole that from us. Or not. Were going to pretend. Stephanie this is television packing material. It is all awkward. Stephanie good morning. So effective and important to everybody else. Good morning, everybody. Congress now in recess for the next five weeks and senators john mccain and Lindsey Graham are traveling to egypt at the president s request. Theyre planning to meet with the Nations Interim leadership and try to nudge the nation back into an effective democratic process. The military cant keep running the cub. The brotherhood needs to get back into the political arena and fight your differences there and we need to put egypt back to work. If this continues, it is going to be a failed state. Thats why
Government shutdowns and shouty town hauls about health care. I got told on twitter yesterday, screaming, all the old talking points. Something called with a talking point this week. The president has no transparency, nobody was able to see. It was all passed under the cloak of night and secret. Right, oh, that was musty, it had math balls on it. Here she is, nurse jacki, today, president obama will meet in with Prime Minister and the the i. M. S. Has has given the struggling european nation billions of dollars in bailout money said greece is on the right track, but needs to raise taxes. The white house has announced to president obamas going to make a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial this month further 50th anniversary of Martin Luthers i have a dream speech, called the let freedom ring event. It commemorates the march on washington, which drew some 250,000 people. We heard from Mark Zukerburg about why he is backing Immigration Reform. He is launching an ad campaign to try
Show. [ theme ] stephanie happy wednesday everybody. Jacki schechner, you know i have so few things in my life. Look how happy i am about my new coffee mug. What does it say . Stephanie it is green in time for st. Patricks day. Ooh. Does that mean theres no pinch ug . Stephanie here now is colin farrell. Messing about with mrs. All the rumors are true. I got about a third of that. Then again if he looks like colin farrell, it doesnt matter. Stephanie all right. Now here we are. Were getting lucky. Jacki, news clover leaf. Good morning everybody. President obamas got a busy day today. After his morning briefing in the oval office, hes going to head up to the hill to meet with House Republicans for the First Time Since june of 2011. The goal now is to find some sort of compromise deficit reduction deal before the summer. But president obama is expected in this meeting to bring up other items including gun control, raising the minimum wage and cyber security. When it comes to finding a de