israel and whhamas. is israel snaf particularly when we know that palestinians and gaza may just rest unand rearm for the next round? finally as you head out into the thanksgiving traffic, ask yourself where president obama still hasn t given the green light to the keystone pipeline that would give us jobs and energy n independence? now a truly bipartisan group of senators is telling the president to make a decision right now. first up this evening, this is the big question. will we get a deal done or might president obama just let us go right over the fiscal cliff, take the recession, and simply blame the gop? this is a serious question that i m hearing from washington all the time. so let s talk. we have cnbc contributor jack bernstein, former chief economist, and art laffer, former reagan adviser. i m not attacking obama or anything. i m just saying there is a lot of talk of stalemate. well perhaps go through where, why and how. staffs have been meeting unsuccessfully. s
but there are different opinions and viewpoints. we have details straight ahead. larry, at the white house we have a flurry of activity on the fiscal cliff. exchange of offers and not sure how much real progress there is. but we ll have the details. and optimism. and the fed driving the market higher. first time since mid october. the kudlow report begins right now. all right but we begin with the breaking news coming out of michigan where republican governor snyder just signed into law a right to work bill. lawmakers passed it today despite thousands of union workers who came to protest. we have the late ev. good evening ron. this one got pretty rowdy didn t it? it did indeed. but because there were two arrests as we are told. two people tried to storm into the governor s office building across the street. police were happy with how folks hafed themselves today. probably 10,000 probably a smaller group than we saw in wisconsin last year when that issue blew up in nei
that only 50% have actually paid. team obama finally just fired the company that built the terrible healthcare.gov website and health insurers now are petrified that they are going to lose their federal government bailout. all those stories and more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. good evening, everyone. i m larry kudlow. this is the kudlow report. we re live here at 7:00 p.m. easter eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific. new jersey lawmakers released thousands of documents. cnbc s own eamon javers is joining us. a lot of this stuff has been subpoenaed over the last couple of months between folks in chris christie s camp and the port authority. we re seeing e-mails from people who don t like each other very much to other people that they don t like very much but nothing so far here to contradict what chris christie said yesterday, which is that he had no idea that this all was going on. let me give you a sense of the flavor of the e-mails. one of them in partic
coming up on the kudlow report, beginning right now. first up tonight, president obama kicks off his three-speech tour on jobs and the economy tomorrow at knox college in illinois. will the president put forward a pro growth plan for tax reform or more of the same, higher taxes, failed health care reform, wasteful government spending? let s talk. here now is jack bernstein, former chief economist to vice president biden and grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. i begin with you, grover norquist. what do you expect the president to say? the president is going to say we should have the government spend more money on many different things and we should raise taxes to pay for it. and he will explain that this is pro growth. it is what he s done for the last five years. jared, do you agree with that? no, unsurprisingly i don t. i think what the president is going to say is that while this economy has been growing, that growth has done an end run around
just flat out refuse. but here s the problem outside of the republican caucus rooms and quiet gop rooms where the big money men make their deals, there are real live american families who will be unnecessarily hurt. thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. tens of thousands of parents will have to deal with finding childcare for their children. hundreds of thousands of americans will lose access to primary care and preventative care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings. and the longer these cuts are in place, the bigger the impact will become. the impact is clear. but republicans are putting their heads in the sand about how bad it s going to get. do you have a sense of how many jobs will be lost as a result of this xwester? i do not. really, mr. speaker? you re the guy in charge. and you don t know? well, here it is. the congressional budget office says there will be 750,000 job losses. another independent economic group says 700,000 jobs loss