And theres no plan to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. Broken record, broken record. Im Christine Romans in today for john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Up first, president obama standing his ground over the fight in the fiscal cliff. Americans face crushing tax hikes and severe spending cuts in 27 days if democrats and republicans cannot come together on a deal. By the way, congress breaks for the holidays in ten days. Slash that number. In an interview with bloomberg news, the president made it Crystal Clear hes not about to blink on the issue of tax hikes for the wealthiest americans. Well have to see the rates on the top 2 go up. And were not going to be able to get a deal without it. White house correspondent dan lothian joins us live from washington this morning. Very nice to see you, dan. Good to see you. Heres the deal. We have republicans pitted against democrats. Now we understand there are issues amongst republicans as well. Thats right. Theyre in a tough spot he
Apr 14, 2021
KEN: Did you ever think millions of Americans would be so comfortable with surrendering their rights, releasing their rights, complying to the most ridiculous things and then either nodding in agreement or ignoring the most overreaching things? And I think back to how President Obama was surveilling the news media and wiretapping and surveilling and tracking people that he shouldn’t have been.
Well, like President Donald Trump, to begin with. And that was an outrage. If anybody else did that, they would have been charged with all kinds of things. And no one really cares. That’s the… Well, I know you do. You’re listening, obviously. But the fact that we can’t get the FBI to care, that’s… That’s another thing that’s kind of frustrating. But, again, we are in the majority. Over 80 million of us reelected Donald Trump. That’s what I believe.