tough time casting that vote for raising taxes at those levels. we don t know, that s what republicans are saying, and mitch mcconnell is confident that that is going to be a very difficult vote for them, but you don t know until you have to cast it whether democrats can hold all those votes together. bill: great news about your son. thank you very much, he s back home doing well. bill: nice. we are all thinking about you. thanks, buddy. bill: see you at 6:00 special report every week night monday through friday. check out bret and the gang on the fox news channel. alisyn: millions tuned in last night to hear some major rock legends. alisyn: wow the biggest names in music took the stage for the 12-12-12 concert benefitting sandy storm victims. how much money did the rock and roll legends raise? we ll tell you.
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talking, whether house democrats or the white house but i think the bottom line in all these negotiations, if you do not go after spending now, does it happen at any point over the next four years? you know, it is just a hope and a wish and a prayer. there are opportunities down the road. you have the debt limit increase. continuing resolution vote that comes up in march that might present an opportunity to do something on spending but the longer we wait, harder it gets. their people get more and more locked in you don t have to do any spending reductions. this is really, i think the philosophical difference that exists between the way to solve this problem, the president and his people. by the way, trillion dollars in spending cuts you talk about, they re banking cuts that occurred last august. bill: understood. they are not doing anything meaningful this time around. bill: senator, thank you. republicans argue now or never. john thune in washington. thank you. alisyn: coming to
declined to the lowest level in six years. alisyn: we have breaking news now on the civil war in syria. nato s secretary-general says the assad regime is on the verge of collapse. we ve seen sharp escalation in the war with regime forces firing scud missiles on the rebels. general jack keane, retired four-star general, former chief of staff of the army and fox news contributor. hi, general. good morning, alisyn. do you agree with nato all the signs point to the assad regime being in a state of near collapse? wer certainly moving towards that but we ve been predicting the collapse of this regime a long time. we re 20 one months into the conflict. the fact of the matter assad owns the skies. in other words he has air power, air supremacy, that really protracted his staying in power as long as he has been able to do this. alisyn: the fact he is firing scud missiles now, does that tell you he thinks
back then. alisyn: that s how you explain it. obviously 9/11 was a much bigger tragedy than hurricane sandy, not to downplay hurricane sandy, but the fact that this event last night raised so much more than that 9/11 concert, it s twitter, it s facebook? so many more effective ways to raise dollars. one of the things that really kind of bothered me about it was there was a black market that kind of rolls out of this. people actually resold their tickets, but what was great in the end, crisis always breeds opportunity. what was great in the end is that the ticket broker actually donated $860,000 that they made from thieves back to the organizations, and that is just powerful. alisyn: what was your favorite moment? i think my favorite moment was just seeing all the people together at the end, with alicia keys singing. and all of the a-listers that came out -rblgs it . it s hard to get these guys together. when they come out for these events it really shows they will do the charity.