held our officials to account, we wouldn t have been, well, led into a war that didn t need to happen according to a lot of analysts. they had no weapons of mass destruction. what is to make us believe this time we re fed the truth. shep, that is clearly on the minds of intelligence officials. they also have iraq lists in mind. they will be careful what they say. i think we have to keep in mind, that iran is not iraq. iran has a quite overt nuclear program. hates uranium enrichment facility and we can see what they are doing. they have other elements and plenty of information, it s not as though they are hiding a lot of this stuff. the concern we have in the west, they say it s for nuclear energy. but you look at massive oil and gas reserves. you look at the stockpile of uranium they have built up, it
middle class tax cut that has been given to us for by name, to reduce the amount that we re paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it s going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren t doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that s where the jobs are going to come from. that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. i think, soledad, in an election year this is a no brainer for republicans and democrats. you ve got 160 million people who are getting a tax benefit e6 ry paycheck they get. it s $1,000 over the course of a year. $40 per paycheck, that s if you make $50,000 a year or so. so this was something in an election year you just, you know, the feeling in washington you just can t be raising taxes on people, on working people in an election
lin-sanity. that s some excitement, leading the niknicks to a 17-point comeback. that wonderful three-pointer, look at this place going bananas. we ll talk about what lin-sanity means coming up. even toronto loves him, that s where they were playing. new details on whitney houston, a report on a drug investigation now. folks really want to say their good-byes but they re saying, the family is saying there s no michael jackson-like farewell scheduled for her. they will have a small service at her childhood church. also, it was such a big story, amanda knox being cleared and heaving italy after having spent several years in prison. guess what. story may not be over, the prosecutors want a second crack and they are appealing that conviction being overturned. could she be headed back to italy? could she be going back to jail? we ll let you know all about that. up first here, congress on the verge of allowing you to keep more of your money. negotiators reached a tentative
nuclear weapon, but, i think they ll announce some additional capability. eric: could they announce something that could gain them a nuclear weapon at some point in the near future? well the heavy water production process, is a much more efficient way of generating plutonium they can fashion into nuclear weapons. it could be they ll have another uranium enrichment facility or the deeply buried facility at kum will be at full production. it will not be good news, whatever it is. eric: there are reports they have been expanding their uranium enrichment facility in kum the deep underground military facility, essentially, under ground. as well as potentially in fordo and there are claims israel could attack by spring or summer, or maybe not as sanctions continue. how do you see it playing out. there is remarkably under reported testimony by the obama administration s director of
united nations, john bolton and a fox news contributor. ambassador, welcome, as always. good morning, glad to be here. eric: the u.n. visit was largely seen as a failure as you predicted. interesting in some respects. the u.n. inspectors believe they would have a chance to go to the deeply buried uranium enrichment facility and u.n. inspectors were there as recently as late october but that was before enrichment had gone and it was something forecast out of vienna before they left and they didn t go there. i think that was a significant development but u.n. circles achieved a great victory and they had a meeting in iran and agreed to another meeting three weeks later and the success as they define it, what it means, i think, most important, is that iran has strung it out for another three weeks. eric: they call it having a dialogue and they are happy with this alleged dialogue but, look, they were denied access to the