This hour. Well talk about his decision and new job. And syrias civil war is in a very dangerous perhaps decisive Tipping Point right now. Can the world prevent Bashar Al Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obama taking his battle to extend tax cuts for the middle class into the heart of the middle class suburb today. He visited a family just outside washington, d. C. , using their story to dramatize what will happen in just 26 days if he and congress cant make a deal on the socalled fiscal cliff. A source of great concern for so many people, everyones taxes will go up, will go up if theres no deal. Lets go live to our White House Correspondent dan lothian. Hes on the scene for us over at the white house. How did it go, dan . Reporter well, wolf, weve seen the president do this before in the past whenever hes locked in negotiations with lawmakers. He heads out on the road, either goes to a back
Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theater around here right now, you could say tickets. One of todays acts was the house leaving. Lawmakers streaming out of the capitol hill, racing to their cars to get to the airport and go home. Its a scene you usually see on a thursday afternoon or friday morning, not wednesday at noon. Good morning. House Republican Leaders told members theyre free to leave, because they have nothing to vote on. I understand that you are saying legislation has been put on the floor. When it comes to just pure opti
Unemployment rate. But if you look closer, theres a disturbing trend in the latest job numbers. Plus, president obamas top strategist as youve never seen him before. And during this hour, a member of the cnn team is ready to up the ante and reach for his own shaving cream. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Lets get right to the breaking news. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to decide a pair of cases that could determine the future of gay marriage throughout the entire United States. At issue is the federal government defense of marriage act that defines marriage as only the union between a man and woman and californias proposition 8 which banned gay marriage was overturned by an appeals court. Cnns crime and justice correspondent joe johns has been following both cases for us. Joe, explain the impact of todays decision. Well, it is big impact. As you know, this is one of those cases that people talk about over the water cooler. Lets sta
Again, we say theres no prospect for an agreement that doesnt involve those tax rates going up. Remember, its 2 . Remember, all of those americans, too, get a tax cut into that framework on the first 250,000 of their income. That said the president and Speaker John Boehner discussed the budget by phone yesterday. Susan mcginnis is in washington with the latest on this game of fiscal chicken. Susan, good morning to you. Right. Good morning, terrell. Yeah, that phone call does raise the possibility that some serious talks could start soon, but now we learn that a lot of members of congress are heading out on a long weekend, not to return till tuesday. This as the impasse here on capitol hill continues and the nation waits. Social security workers marched outside their office in baltimore wednesday. Theyre protesting the Government Spending cuts due to kick in at the end of the year as part of the fiscal cliff. We dont want to see our public hurt in any way. Just down the road in washingt
Shall shah at the sochi olympics. Its saturday february 15th, 2014. Welcome to the weekend. We have some great guests for you this morning including chef tony known for hugely popular restaurants around boston. Why some are calling him the outlaw of the culinary world. Plus they have opened for the stones and ac dc. The band that makes a tv debut in their saturday session. We begin with this relentless winter and another round of snow on the way. The snow is barrelling down. Some areas may get blizzard conditions after millions havent had a chance to recover from the last storm. Homes and businesses still have no power. Most in South Carolina and georgia. We are in central park in new york where all the snow is going to go. Terrell, you are in the calm before the storm, huh . Good morning to you. Here we go again. It is storm after storm after storm. Of course, after every one of those storms comes the big clean up. The story, up and down the east coast with the major winter storms is