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lets go "outfront." good evening, everyone. "outfront" tonight, questions and sorrow over the death of whitney houston. this is what we know right now, family and close friends will say farewell to the poplar pop star saturday in newark, new jersey. chris christie has ordered the flags at half-staff in honor of whitney houston. sources tell us that her body was found by her assistant mary jones who she often called aunt mary. her ex-husband bobby brown released a statement about bobi...

good evening, everyone. "outfront" tonight, questions and sorrow over the death of whitney houston. this is what we know right now, family and close friends will say farewell to the pop star saturday in newark, new jersey. chris christie has ordered the flags at half-staff in honor of whitney houston. sources tell us that her body was found by her assistant mary jones who she often called aunt mary. her ex-husband bobby brown released a statement about bobbi kristina saying this, obvio...

to his day job. he would have to make a choice to fill up the gas tank to get to work or do i give up my entrepreneurial dream. $40, he wrote, means a heck of a lot. it means a heck of a lot. thats what this debate is all about. this is whats at stake for millions of americans. this is why it matters to people. it matters a heck of a lot. im asking the american people to keep their stories coming. tell us what $40 means to you. if you tweet it, use the hash tag $40. call, tweet, write ...

>> we have two countries in the middle east that are the most isolated and they are our enemies, syria and iran. the united states not in the worst of all positions for once in the middle east. and lets talk about iran. the pentagon is reporting that ahmadinejad is talking about a big nuclear announcement. what do we do? what do we do with iran that the bush administration couldnt do and the obama administration hasnt been able to do for the first three years? >> were not quite sure what this an...

>> reporter: good question. look at their track record. we apparently have been talking to them this group has continued political assassinations underground intimidation in afghanistan. look at september 2006. pakistani government is dealing with the taliban to end five years of violence tribal areas and stopping attacks in southwest afghanistan and given that the u.s. wants to be on out of afghanistan the taliban knows that the negotiating position gets weaker over time. >> shep: one senator c...

It is another round of embarrassment. by the way, then has to go into the negotiations for the year-long deal and how weak is the negotiating position from the get-go on that? so he really doesnt have much of a leadership position after all of this. and the presidents numbers keep on rising. and he -- you know, bill clinton used to say you could be strong and wrong cause that always beats weak and right. in this case, john boehner has come out being weak and wrong. >> let me ask about this new i...

Administration officials have been very cagey and indefinite in terms of their idea of where the money is going to come from. granted, we were talking in terms of a longer-range extension of unemployment insurance and the payroll tax holiday. now if were only talking about two months, obviously thats less money that has to be found, by my understanding of the republican negotiating position is that youve got to find the money somewhere, so where does that money come from? >> the congress doesnt ...

In terms of their idea of where the money is going to come from. granted, we were talking in terms of a longer-range extension of unemployment insurance and the payroll tax holiday. now if were only talking about two months, obviously thats less money that has to be found, by my understanding of the republican negotiating position is that youve got to find the money somewhere, so where does that money come from? >> the congress doesnt want to hurt anybody, but they cant make up their mind on exa...

Holiday now if were only talking about two months, obviously thats less money that has to be found. but my understanding of the republican negotiating position is that youve got to find the money somewhere. so where does that money come from? >> well, the congress doesnt want to hurt anybody, but they cant make up their mind on exactly how theyre going to pay for this. >> exactly. >> so theyre at a stalemate. so they are going to be home for the holidays. >> lets go home for the holidays and wel...

Americans could see their taxes go up if they dont get a deal. the democratic plan, if you make $50,000 a year you get $1500 tax cut. if you make $200,000 a year, you get at $6,000 tax cut. republicans will give $1,000 tax cut to those making $50,000 a year and $4,000 tax cut to those making 200,000 or greater. for republicans what happened to the argument cutting spending or paying for the things we are covering in washington today? is that argument getting through? >> well, i think in the end ...