middle class tax cuts permanent, that we give certainty to the 98% of americans who are affected by those tax breaks. shannon: all right with more on the message mike emanuel is live at the white house. reporter: david axelrod is a political pro, he knows exactly what needs to happen here. there has to be a deal struck with the lame duck congress, if not everybody gets a tax hike in the new year. david axelrod told the liberal roughing ton post, quote, we don t want that tax increase to go forward for the middle class but plainly what we can t do is term lee permanently extend these high income taxes. that suggested perhaps a temporary extension of a year or two for people at higher income levels. even though president obama was in south korea it did not take long for questions to be fired at him and his aids. some asked if the white house had caved on the bush tax cuts, others suggested the president s team was signaling a deal. earlier today in seoul president obama wei
will not get in here until late monday and tuesday. until then, more fine weather with a warming trend this afternoon and as we get into saturday and little miss saturday and sunday. lots of sunshine and beautiful afternoon. 64 degrees. winds nice and light at 5 miles an hour. more details on the weekend forecast coming up in a minute. allison. thank you. our top story this friday morning, a great weekend to spend time on the national mall. the weather will have many heading out to the museums and monuments in our area. along with the weather is the free admission into the smithsonian museum. sherri ly has the details. reporter: when you have $4 trillion to cut from the national debt over the next 10 years, everything is on the table. the president s debt commission is going after the smithsonian and the national zoo. under the proposal, it is time to end the free ride. cutting $225 million in government funding in 2015. the system s 30 million visit visitors would
president barack obama: we ll sit down and discuss how we move forward. my number one priority is making sure that we make the middle class tax cuts permanent. that we give certain the 98% of americans, affected by those tax breaks. gregg: malini wilkes is live in washington with more on the story. why is the president strongly against expending taxes for the wealthy, tax cuts, i should say? reporter: good morning, women the president says we cannot afford to extend those upper income tax cuts, he says, we need the money to address the deficit and people like him, who make a lot of money, should be should pay. president obama arrived in japan, now, for another economic summit, and, talked about these tax cuts before departing the g20 in seoul, south korea and the issue is, president obama wants to extend these cuts for the middle class and not for the williest americans, making over $250,000 a year. republicans want them for everyone and, this week, david axelrod, sen
then he failed to win strong support for his get tough policy with china on tried and currency disputes. the president returns to washington sunday facing critical meetings next week with congressional leaders of both parties as they stake out positions on key shoes. chief among them, whether to extend busch-era tax cuts for wealthy americans. mike viqueira joins us from the white house. we heard the president a little testy in his answers regarding what s happening at home. we also know he s getting heat from progressives and liberals who say the president must keep his promise. beginning monday, tamron, we have to wait for the new year for the new republican majority to take over, but beginning monday it s in with the old. speaker pelosi will still be residing over the house of representatives with a significant democratic majority. the question is what if anything is going to get done in terms of if tax cuts that appears to be a must-do piece of legislation. the presiden
were attacked while driving through juarez across the rio grande from el paso. other student who is mexican was also killed. it s getting worse there. police are testing a bone they found in north carolina saying it could belong to the missing 10-year-old zahra baker. the finding comes after jailhouse letters from the girl s stepmom to deny that she or the girl s father killed the girl but adam did say something horrifying to her. they found her initial leg that she needed after battling bone cancer. no one is charged yet. both their stepmom and father have been arrested on other charges. an arizona man arrested in the nation s capital after police found several guns in his truck. the truck hauling a camper behind it was parked alongside the national mall close to the national air and space museum. no word yet of what the suspect was trying to do with the guns. with the holocaust museum shooting fresh on their minds,