Shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. And the National Rifle association speaks out for the First Time Since the attack. It proposes a controversial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. Lets go out front. Good evening, everybody. I am Soledad Obrien in forever inburnett tonight. Out front this evening, lowering expectatio expectations, just ten days until we fall off the fiscal cliff and no deal in site. Tonight president obama urged congress to broker a scaled down deal. I just speak to speaker boehner, and i also met with senator reid. In the next few days a asked leaders of congress to work towards a package that prevents a tax hike on middle class americans, protects Unemployment Insurance for 2 million americans and lays the groundwork for further work on both growth and deficit reduction. Thats an achievable goal. That can get done in ten days. Yesterday the House Speaker john boehner failed to garner e
Was blind but now i see Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me outfront next as we quickly approach the fiscal cliff, president obama makes a new proposal to congress. One week after the Deadly School shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. And the National Rifle association speaks out for the First Time Since the attack. It proposes a controrsial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. Lets go out front. Good evening, everybody. I am Soledad Obrien in for erin burnett tonight. Out front this evening, lowering expectations, just ten days until we fall off the fiscal cliff and no deal in site. Tonight president obama urged congress to broker a scaled down deal. I just speak to speaker boehner, and i also met with senator reid. In the next few days a asked leaders of congress to work towards a package that prevents a tax hike on middle class americans, protects Unemployment Insurance for 2 mil
Bernards healthcares of democrats say they want 75 of democrats want somebody other than sleepy joe to run for president. Fox news hit the streets to ask voters about the very topic and the answers, oh, theyre not good for joe. Some say hes not living up to his promises and others say hes older than the milk at gas station coffee bar. Most people, they just want someone else, watch. I think the democratic field is a little bit splintered now. I think cory booker has a shot. I think Pete Buttigieg has a shot but its hard to say. Probably hillary, but shes not very well liked. Probably kamala harris. She has a fair amount of support, a woman candidate as a front runner seems almost impossible to beat, especially because biden is old and withering away. Probably the popularity of the california newsom. Newsom, i dont think would be a problem because hes a little bit on the crazy side. I dont know of any candidates that i would be happy to support. Im definitely democrat. Oh, what a reendo
Spending. They want to raise the federal debt limit without congressional approval. No spending lets. The brakes are off. With more on this, the ag holds 18, president of American Action far and former cbo director. Welcome to you both. I just want to mention a couple of other things that are in this proposal which frankly shocked me. The payroll tax break continues. We have bipartisan agreement that it would expire. And then a permanent increase in the debt limit. We said that. A oneyear extension of expanded jobless benefits. The list goes on and on. Its like a christmas tree. I think its very unfortunate there was a moment not too long ago when we thought there was a fair amount of consensus of apparel taxol they going away, a very modest extension of the benefits. We would focus on narrowing down the tax differences. Middleclass agreed. We had to worry about the high end and the sequestered. Now we have a plan that is dangerous because the fiscal cliff means a recession, nothing li
The two leading lights of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Senators Elizabeth Warren and of course, Bernie Sanders. The stakes could not be higher going into this week. Despite the disorder at the rnc, donald trump has now pulled even with Hillary Clinton at the polling average and the Democratic Leaders are presenting a unified front, the same cannot be said for the rank and file. For the thousands of demonstrators in philly this week. The convention was officially called to order in just the last hour or so with one person conspicuously absent, dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz, longtime lightning rod for sanders supporters dissatisfied with the party and the primary process. After leaks, internal emails showed top dnc officials disparaging the Sanders Campaign, Wasserman Schultz agreed to step down at the end of the convention after officially opening and closing the proceedings. This morning, she showed up to address delegates from her home state of florida and this i