Attack on the United States embassy in iman, jordan. Ill ask the countrys foreign minister for details. Hes standing by live. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin this afternoon with brandnew republican offers to try to save the 2. 2 trillion and avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. The acrosstheboard spending cuts and sharp tax increases that hit in just 29 days. Lets get straight to our senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash. Shes watching whats going on. Dana, the tax rates, first of all, lets get to a major Sticking Point right now. Theres been a counterproposal from House Republicans to the white house. You have details. Reporter thats right. Lets start exactly where you just began on those tax rates because that has become the big divide between the two sides. The answer is the House Republicans are not budging. They still want to continue the bush era tax rates at all income levels. Lets get specific. First of all, the counterproposal, they say they would get
Thats been confirmed by those on the ground. A lot to tell you about, heres what the day looked like. [ sirens ] day six of rockets crisscrossing the border. A spector of Israeli Ground invasion is still very real. This strike occurred monday when we were live at 2 00 a. M. Also, two media centers. That was a rather large explosion. That occurred, just look out here, i cant actually see where the impact of that was. Its actually set off a number of car alarms but that was probably the largest explosion that weve heard just in the past really in the past hour. By daylight, the results of that strike were clear. And this is the results of the explosion that we witnessed last night. Its the Police Station or a Police Station in gaza city. Local people say it was still being built so there werent a lot of Police Officers or anybody inside. Two people were injured, they say, its not clear who those people were. But the building is pretty well destroyed. It will take quite awhile to rebuild.
Intercepted. Its not clear how many may have gotten through. A building several blocks from here that houses a number of media organizations, local media and foreign media organizations, a building that was struck on sunday and had largely been evacuated. Today the building was struck again, the lower floors of the building were struck again. One member of Islamic Jihad was said to be killed. Thats been confirmed by those on the ground. A lot to tell you about, heres what the day looked like. [ sirens ] day six of rockets crisscrossing the border. A spector of Israeli Ground invasion is still very real. This strike occurred monday when we were live at 2 00 a. M. Also, two media centers. That was a rather large explosion. That occurred, just look out here, i cant actually see where the impact of that was. Its actually set off a number of car alarms but that was probably the largest explosion that weve heard just in the past really in the past hour. By daylight, the results of that strik
Hamas militants [ gunfire ] there they are. Hamas militants in gaza keep unleashing rocket attacks on israel and get alarmingly close to jerusalem. A new provocation as they continue the air assault on what it calls terrorist targets in za. The death toll i rising along wiars of anallout Israeli Ground invasion. The Israeli Cabinet has just approved the callup of 75,000 Army Reservists in addition to the troops already positioned along the border with gaza. A visit to gaza by egypts Prime Minister failed to stop the bombardment and pull the region from the brink of allout war. U. S. Officials blame hamas for starting this conflict. But they are also urging to be measured in its response. The defense secretary leon panetta says israel and the palestinians need to negotiate a more permanent piece his words, a more permanent piece in the region. Our pentagon correspondent barbara starrs been watching whats going on. Barbara, what is the u. S. Military most concerned about right now . Wolf
From our studios in new york, this is charlie rose. We begin with the crisis in iraq. Sunni militants expand their control over northern and western iraq. Over the weekend Extremist Group known as isis capture strategic border crossings with jordan and syria. Secondary estate john kerry met with iraqi Prime Minister maliki to discuss the prices the iraq leader had been criticized for fanning the flames of sectarianism. Secretary kerry spoke following the meeting. The very future of iraq depends on choices that will be made in the next days and weeks, and the future of iraq depends primarily on the ability of iraq leaders to come together and take a stand united against isis. Not next week, not next month, but now. Joining me now is Dexter Filkins from the new yorker. No one knows the story better than him. His latest feature in the magazine is called, what we left behind in iraq. Thank you. I know you, how many years have you spent on this story . I went in after when we invaded. 2003.