there are reports that a letter was found inside of a package apparently sent by holmes. according to the cbs news, the letter talked about shooting people. the package was discovered in the mailroom at the university of colorado. in syria, the city of aleppo is bracing itself for major all out offensive on a rebel strongholstron strongho stronghold, and there are clashes through the country today leaving 91 people dead with 19 of them in aleppo. and then there is lots of excitement as you watch the torch there going through its last route of london. the golden torch making its victory lap so to speak. you are looking here at the millennium bridge. it is one of the iconic sites where the flame is being carried. the torchbearers took a pass through trafalgar square a short time ago and just past the prime min ster s residence at 10 downing street, and then off to big ben and a royal welcome at buckingham palace. mitt romney does damage control after his remarks of the lo
two days. i feel so guilty because i did not do that. he did not care. john fugelsang, nothing from you hereto, not even a phone call. mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university. i really did send flowers. you sent nothing, you lie. this is what i got from my colleagues, nothing. he came in thinking you d be here. oh, blah, blah, blah. i m not going to talk to you for the entire morning. kidding. let s get right to our starting point this morning. we have a major development to talk about that could complicate george zimmerman s case and could get his attorney into trouble. mark o mara will let the judge know while he was originally pleading poverty in order to get george zimmerman out on bail and a relatively low bail it turns out his client has raised more than $200,000, that is exactly how much he s raised, $204,000 is exactly what he s raised in donations from a now defunct website he helped set up to pay his legal expenses, a major revelation beca
you think the white house is getting their point across? that is a countdown clock showing nine days that that is how much time the white house has to extend the payroll tax cut or your taxes are going to go up. americans can go to this site and actually share their stories of what will happen to them if they lose their $40 per paycheck. that s the average an american will lose. let me bring in dan lothian and, dan, this seems like a full-on pr campaign by the white house and they re keeping the pressure up and i don t know if people saw it on the screen. this is what happened if congress doesn t act. it crossed out the word congress and it specifically says, the house doesn t act. they ve been keeping the pressure now on house republicans all week and now it s another effort by this white house to drive that point home today where the president is holding an event here at the white house shortly after noon to show what s at stake. you ve been talking about how the white ho
are going to be making some statements i suspect as well. at least the president will talk about what s at stake for them. john, you and i have covered these games of chicken for a long time. president will be walking out in a moment. can t believe personally that they won t work out a deal between now and december 31st, because the stakes are too enormous. the stakes are enormous. i think you re right they ll try to work out a deal. if republicans this morning didn t think they d wake up and make a deal, the president of the united states is winning the optics of the political war right now. now he s going to add some rhetoric to it as well. let s listen in. thank you, everybody. please, please have a seat. good afternoon to all of you. merry christmas. happy holidays. we ve been doing everything we can over the last few weeks to make sure that 160 million working americans aren t hit with a holiday tax increase on january 1st. we ve also been doing everything we can t