Imagine spending an entire year away from your family and friends, everything that you love all in the name of science. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Thank you so much for being with me. Im carol costello. This should be interesting. Speaker john boehner meets this morning with House Republicans who are angry at his new pitch to raise 800 billion in tax revenue in the fiscal cliff negotiations. President obama has said there will be no deal unless taxes are raised on the wealthiest americ americans. But staunch conservatives dont want any kind of new taxes. Thats where speaker boehners job gets really tough. On piers morgan tonight Newt Gingrich said if all else fails, go over the cliff. I think that no deal is better than a bad deal. I think going off this cliff is less dangerous than letting things build up for a year or two years to an even bigger cliff. I think that the president clearly has staked out a position of nonseriousness. And i think that its very difficult for the H
And theres no plan to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. Broken record, broken record. Im Christine Romans in today for john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Up first, president obama standing his ground over the fight in the fiscal cliff. Americans face crushing tax hikes and severe spending cuts in 27 days if democrats and republicans cannot come together on a deal. By the way, congress breaks for the holidays in ten days. Slash that number. In an interview with bloomberg news, the president made it Crystal Clear hes not about to blink on the issue of tax hikes for the wealthiest americans. Well have to see the rates on the top 2 go up. And were not going to be able to get a deal without it. White house correspondent dan lothian joins us live from washington this morning. Very nice to see you, dan. Good to see you. Heres the deal. We have republicans pitted against democrats. Now we understand there are issues amongst republicans as well. Thats right. Theyre in a tough spot he
Kept billions upon billions of dollars in cargo from getting to warehouses nationwide. Crucial merchandise in these days before christmas. They estimated it was about 1 billion a day that this strike was going on. Its over now. Thats the good news out of l. A. This morning. Now, we turn to the battle over how to keep the nation from going over that socalled fiscal cliff. The clock is ticking now. 27 days to go. And president obama and Congressional Republicans are making plenty of sound bytes about it all. But very little progress. Abcs Tahman Bradley has the details from washington. Reporter democrats and republicans remain light years apart. Heres president obama, in an interview with bloomberg tv, describing House Speaker John Boehners plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. Unfortunately the speakers proposal right now is still out of balance. Reporter the speakers plan would raise 800 billion in tax revenue. But does so without raising tax rates for top income earners. The president says
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