His case. Here we are at the eleventh hour, and the president still isnt serious about dealing with this issue right here. Its this issue spending. Reporter the president left his spokesman to respond that republicans were pushing a plan of fantasy economics that raised more revenues while also cutting taxes on the wealthy. What spending cuts have the republicans put forward . The proposal that weve seen is a twopage letter, and the much discussed second proposal is less than half a page. There is no specificity behind what the republicans have put forward. Reporter right now, the risk is rising that we will avoid the fiscal cliff, but end up with what some call a worst case outcome. We get some sort of hoaky deal thats put together with gimmicks and baseline adjustments and all that stuff. They get by the fiscal cliff without much damage. Wall street breathes a sigh of relief, but weve done nothing for the longer term debttogdp ratio. Worst of all, most of what they do will take effec
Here we are at the eleventh hour, and the president still isnt serious about dealing with this issue right here. Its this issue spending. Reporter the president left his spokesman to respond that republicans were pushing a plan of fantasy economics that raised more revenues while also cutting taxes on the wealthy. What spending cuts have the republicans put forward . The proposal that weve seen is a twopage letter, and the much discussed second proposal is less than half a page. There is no specificity behind what the republicans have put forward. Reporter right now, the risk is rising that we will avoid the fiscal cliff, but end up with what some call a worst case outcome. We get some sort of hoaky deal thats put together with gimmicks and baseline adjustments and all that stuff. They get by the fiscal cliff without much damage. Wall street breathes a sigh of relief, but weve done nothing for the longer term debttogdp ratio. Worst of all, most of what they do will take effect immediat
This is nbr. Captioning sponsored by wpbt tom good evening. Im tom hudson. With the january 1 deadline to avoid the fiscal cliff about two weeks away, neither side appears to be giving any ground. Susie im susie gharb. The u. S. Stock markeis expeed to be the worlds best performer in 2013. Thats the prediction of john rogers of the c. F. A. Institute. He joins us tonight. Tom and new rules for health care also are around the corner. Tonight, we look at how Small Businesses are preparing for the changes. Susie that and more tonight on nbr tom theres no deal, but the two sides are still talking. House Speaker John Boehner and president obama met earlier this evening at the white house in an effort to move forward the stalled fiscal cliff talks. There are now just 18 days before the tax hikes and spending cuts thatake up the clf take efft, and today, there were few signs of progress. As darren gersh reports, the tone of the talks, if anything, is getting worse. Reporter House Democratic l
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Oh, that is you know what . You didnt that is cold. Didnt just do that. When you call somebody and youre watching then and they look at the phone and they turn it over. And they mute it. Arizonas donald trump doug ducey yesterday. He was signing the certification documents that declared joe biden the winner of the state. Thats cold. Its chilly. Would you like a blanket . Willie, do you have a blanket. Would you need one . Sometimes he needs his little night night. No. No. So willie, thats thats the governor of arizona and Donald Trumps watching him as is set to certify this. And trump starts calling him. Trying to get i mean that is unbelievable. Trying to get him to stop from doing what hes legally required to do. I mean, thats the final scene in the movie, isnt it . Where you had a republican who felt like he had to always answer to donald trump literally ignoring donald trump and silencing the music that welcomes him into the room as he certifies the election in the last swing state