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To get hit by this and understand this was a raw deal for them. bill: steve, thank you. well see you later on "special report". stephen hayes on washington. tucker carlson, alan colmes coming up in 30 minutes with a different take on this. steve, see you soon. here is arthel. arthel: a oil rig runs aground off the coast of alaska. worries about a potential environmental disaster. well have the latest on that. bill: where is all the money raised by the fiscal cliff deal headed? why hollywood and ...

Bronchitis-related illness. mr. bush continues to improve and thanks everyone for their prayers and good wishes and we certainly send ours. had to be a tough christmas down there in the hospital for him and the whole family. arthel: continued healing to president bush. bill: thats right. arthel: 167 house members voted against the fiscal cliff deal. marsha blackburn was one of them. she joins us live to tell us why its a bad deal for america. bill: there is tragedy when a man tries to take a pic...

Bills that they have already remarked up through the laws they passed. i let me repeat. we cant not pay bills that we already incurred. if congress rethe united states government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic, far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff. bill: what about all that? and are we really just warming up the, well, the dogs in the cage? alan colmes, host of alan colmes radio show, tucker carlson editor of "t...

Arthel: thanks for that report. bill: a whole new context after ambassador stevenseports on onee bloodyist attacks in syria, a shocking estimate of the casualties on the ground there, and n now we hear the rebels are mounting a new strategy. arthel: washington swerving hard to avoid the fiscal cliff. did lawmakers do anything to address the countrys real problem? >> all thats left is spending cuts, so the only question we have to ask ourselves is what programs do we cut and how deep do we cut th...

To around $1 trillion. in exchange he is looking for cuts in entitlements, a number close to $1 trillion. the last offer was $600 billion. both sides would agree to broughten taxes and reform and include mow triggers in fiscal cliffs. it would raise the debt ceiling to last until next year, possibly buying down sequestration. i will take you live to newtown, connecticut with the first press conference of the day. >> relative to educational process here in town. lets talk about the schools right ...

Talk to us about spending at the national level. >> be glad to do that. jenna: thank you for the time. jon? jon: get away from all this earthly talk of fiscal cliffs and other problems and get to dramatic new findings from space. nasas hubble space telescope has helped astronomers discover something never seen before. well tell you about it coming up [ malennouncer ] its tt time of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you realldon...

Sources saying 35-45 billion. >> you look at the infrastructure new york city, the tunnels, boston elsewhere the number really starts going up. >> flooding unique flooding, salt water. this is an uncommon storm unusual cha will be involved as well. >> the economy is certainly growing at not too great rate. an anemic rate. what does it mean for the overall economy. >> it is pretty frightening. you couple this with the notion of fiscal cliffs. the last couple weeks the stock market is getting hamm...

Polls much better for democrats? >> i think right now we are seeing the economic times without a doubt, the talks of fiscal cliffs, problems that our global economy is in. everyone is very on edge. and the fact is, that everyone knows medicare cannot continue the way its going. we cannot continue that spending. we simply cannot afford it. i think a very honest straight forward conversation about it is something that the republicans can potentially win on because people need to hear real answers ...

Track, we need some sensible tax increases but also some entitlement reform. its the inability -- >> which is the position obama has endorsed. >> its the inability to get anybody to cooperate. were again and again and again hitting these fiscal cliffs. thats the problem. >> whats interesting or not interesting, perhaps the more depressing handle on this is that we talk about whats happening in washington but what is happening in the state level is i think much more entrenched in terms of economi...

Minimum wage. celine nashgs does he have a point? >> he does have a point but there is a political grandstand. doherty is in a fight with the city council. they have always had a toxic relationship. he always had a toxic relationship with unions in that city. he wants the tax hike. the city council doesnt want it. the president of the city council, january nest evans wants to be mayor, which is the position that doherty has. so --. megyn: internal politics there? >> yeah, absolutely. megyn: but ...