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Not going to have any patience for a politically self-inflicted wound to our economy. >> harris: if congress cannot work out a deal, tax hikes, spending cuts will take effect on tuesday of next week. president obama says he is willing to give congress a little time to come up with a compromise but his patience is limited well as is the rest of the countrys. ed henry with the news live at the white house. ed, first, a dramatic meeting earlier today at the white house. and then this ultimatum from...

A tax increase, spending cut, uncertainty about the future not good for a fragile economy and its a disgrace the president and congress cannot work together. if its mr. romney theyll be able to work it out. mr. obama, hes too dug in. >> hes backed off this before and extended the bush tax cuts. >> if hes reelected he wont. >> can we blame both sides? they didnt want to do hard math and pay for them so we keep moving it down the road. >> i think that is a -- im from -- i agree with this. this is ...

The white house is warning about the dangers of steep cuts to the military and domestic promis programs in congress cannot find a way of automatic spending cuts to kick in by the end of the year. the report leaves no question that the sequestration would be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments and core government functions. letsb bring back our panel in. bob cusack, edward, and katherine, good afternoon. thanks for sticking around. edward, fifgiven the deadly violence in...

Megyn: fox news alert. a dire new warning about americas economy, as one of washingtons most important number crunchers warns this a second recession could be right around the corner. brand-new hour here of "america live." welcome, everyone. im megyn kelly. this warning comes from the congressional budget office where the director is raising red flags today. douglas elmandorf saying that we are flirting with a new recession that could hit in just months if a deadlocked congress cannot reach a de...

dangerous situation for those suffering through record-breaking heat. triple digit temperatures are making life absolutely miserable for about 100 million americans this weekend. thats about a third of our population. heres a look at todays predicted highs across the united states. lets go first to cnns reporter live in atlanta in a cooling center where the heat is expected, nick, to hit 106 degrees. that makes me think back to the record here in atlanta in 2007. lets talk about how da...

Challenge. the court said, no, congress cannot do that, congress cannot coerce the states into expanding their medicaid programs by threatening to take away all of their medicaid money. by doing that it gives congress a serious problem, because of course as you know the court upheld the mandate, so now there is a significant part of the population who must buy health insurance, but the mechanism to do that, the expansion of medicaid that congress had originally envisioned is not going to be ther...

Next year? we are a federal republic. we are not a dictatorship. the president can make decisions and we need to be able to have the force of law behind it and the congress cannot be side-stepped. the constitution cannot be side-stepped. what hes done is good for the individuals today, but at the end of the day, we have to make sure we are doing everything possible to allow the congressional process to move forward and not thwart it. i see that happen time after time with this president. >> i wa...

Again he is about forgiving student loans and lowering the interest rates and fighting for us. and a lot of young voters will see beyond that and they are nervous he -- we will not show up, or, we will vote for governor romney so he will have a tough time, reinvograting the voters with a message of hope and change and i dont know if he can find that. >> thanks for sharing your experience with us. enjoy the memorial day. a dire warning from the congressional budget office, if congress cannot get ...

an event that enraged the catholic church was interrupted by an abortion protester. it was a speech by health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius at georgetown university. lets listen. >> having spent my entire life in public service -- i spent my entire life in public service -- [ cheers and applause ] >> cheers of support there from the graduates. the church had blasted georgetown for inviting sebelius not because of the obama administrations position on abortion, but chur...

news to dmitry medvedev with a new message for mitt romney. high winds drive a fire wild in the rockies. at least one person is dead. several more have lost their homes and danger is on the move. trayvon martin case. deeper the investigation goes, the more complicated it gets. theres only one truth but at least two conflicting witness stories about what happened. not a good time to be in the pink slime business. first the public recoils and then stores stop selling it and plant sto...