some flak. overall, yes, he will get what he wanted in terms of taxes. he has given up very little in terms of cuts. look, he didn t run on cutting the government really. he ran on raising taxes and so republicans keep saying there is knockouts, there is n no cu. chris: this isn t going to do anything about the national debt. i totally understand that. for the republicans to expect the president to have led on that i don t think they were paying attention to the election. that is not his area. here is what they should have done. should have a month ago agreed on some sort of deal on the tax cuts. then they should have hammered the president every single day on spending cuts. instead they got out maneuvered. spent all of the time arguing over taxes and now in the end obama is going to basically get everything he wants and the republicans will be left with almost nothing. chris: senator bayh? the president will get what he wants but as you pointed out
the fiscal cliff. time for our sunday group, bill kristol. evan bayh, byron york and kirsten powers. well, bill, you just heard mitch mcconnell say he is hopeful and optimistic. will congress pass something in the next 48 hours, something to avoid the fiscal cliff? i don t know. but i guess probably. and it will be a bad deal but i suppose better than doing nothing. amazing every working american s taxes will go up on january 1. they are doing nothing about the payroll tax which is a big increase, 2%. and we will have totally irresponsible defense cuts. everybody agrees this is probably bad policy to have middle class americans taxes go up and this is what congress thinks is a good deal. chris: i m not sure they think it is a good deal but a deal that avoids the worst of the fiscal cliff. senator bayh, obviously we don t know what is your sense? no filibuster in the senate.
needs to testify first as and have you been assured she will testify? it has been three and a half months since benghazi and she still has never really answered questions about benghazi, her role before, during, after the attack. do you have reason to believe she will testify as secretary? she has said she will and i believe she will. she has had a very real accident and she is recovering from it and she will be back i gather her first day of work may well be next week. so i think that is good news. having said that, i think benghazi is a real learning very hard learning example for us. our part of it, the intelligence committee s part of it is the intelligence and i have gone through the intelligence and there were two full binders of intelligence and there is there was a great deal of intelligence that would indicate that something well could happen. it wasn t tactical. it didn t say on september 11th
we can start to make decisions. i don t see how a businessman would have any idea what is going to happen as a result of what is happening here or go what is going to happen to the debt ceiling. i think president obama outmaneuvered congressional republicans which maybe isn t that hard sometimes. he can t outmaneuver reality. this deal does nothing toimulad irresponsibly cuts defense. that is reality. we will pay a terrible price as a country. he is the only president we have. this is a terrible failure of leadership. he is the president and the truth is the speaker can t do it. the minority or majority leader of the senate can t do it. he has to be serious about dealing with reality and reality is the real cliff which is a debt cliff and monetary cliff and up worried a foreign policy cliff and not merely the little fiscal cliff we have to deal with january 1. chris: panel, we have to take a break here. we we come back, our panel dusts off the crystal ball and
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