Conservatives on the hill are counting on us. And the Supreme Court court takes on dwa marriage. Well break it all down with george will, James Carville and mary matalin. Paul krugman of New York Times and abcs own matthew dowd. Hello, again, just over three weeks away from that fiscal cliff, we gave off a week of press conferences, symbolic votes in senate, less than an hour of serious negotiating. What will it take to break the stalemate . Well get into that this morning. With two big roundtables of elected officials. The lawmakers. Senator tom coburn for the republicans and Deb Jie Stabenow for the democrats. And congressman hen sarlg. He said that for there to be a big deal, tax rates on the wealthy are going to have to go up. Again, as the speaker has said, unfortunately what we see out of the president my highway or the high wway. One dollar revenue for 2. 5 of spending reductions. Now, after the election, its a little bit of bait and switch. Now hes asking for 1. 6 trillion. For
Terms of the way they conduct their personal lives and i think if we could do that as a party more openly, we would have more representation directly in the northeast. All right, congressman nan hayworth, thank you very much for joining us. Cnn newsroom with Victor Blackwell begins now. Good morning brooke and john. Happening now, their homes in ruins, their lives in limbo. Frustrated victims of Superstorm Sandy lash out at congress and the latest delay to their longawaited help. All of yous stink. Yous have no compassion, and you got, you dont have blood in your veins. You got ice cubes. Just ahead well talk to a couple who lost their home and their plans for retirement. Plus this there are going to be consequences. How long can we continue down this path . Tea Party Activists are disgusted and angry over the fiscal cliff deal. Now some tea partybacked politicians may have to answer for their vote. Well talk to amy cremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express. He may be the best middle
For the white house. All agree that people should not be using marijuana and driving. Reporter a new roll for police in colorado trying to spot motorists driving under the influence of pot. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. Ukraine is in the middle of a tug of war between russia and western allies but a symbolic vote is threatening to redale a diplomatic resolution and in crimea they voted to reunite with russia. Next week voters there will decide whether to do so in a referendum and russia says it will support the peoples decision. The sus slapped a visa ban on officials and president obama followed with an order laying ground work for sanctions and eu suspended visa talks with moscow and threatened to impose travel bands and freeze assets and cancel a summit with russia. For the second time in a week president obama and putin spoken the phone and mr. Obama urging there putin to hold direct talks with ukraine and we have coverage on the situation in ukra
Cspan. Ok. Com first, jeremy herb with the hill was quoted joining us on the phone. What did they get out of this . What did the two sides agree to . Some 63 billion dollars in sequester savings over the next two years. Have for defense and half for discretionary. The numbers right in between where the house and the senate each wanted. They picked a number right between the two. When it comes to sequester, the automatic spending cuts that were agreed to under the budget control act of 2011, how do they deal with it . 63 billion is restored. What does that mean . There are still some sequestration that happens. How much and when . Back somey will give of the sequester cuts, but still not all the way there. The pentagon, for instance, they will reduce sequester by 22 billion next year. That would have meant that the budget level that they are at this year would have been cut by an additional 22 billion. Is still 30 billion lower than the budget proposed by the pentagon and by the house a
[ theme ] stephanie oh im sorry. Are we on . Glug glug, glug. Stephanie good morning Jacki Schechner. Is she there . Hold on. I just had to sip some water. Stephanie were you also drinking . Totally parched. Stephanie wow. Dry as a desert in here. [ laughter ] sean hannity said that was the best response to a state of the union hes ever seen. Stephanie awkward he was going along fairly well. Compared to jindal and some of the others in the past. He looked like he was running for a fraternity president. Stephanie he didnt get the Chris Matthews oh, god until that point. Always look so young too dont they . I dont know if it is the background or the setting. Stephanie nervous much . I think im pretty sure boehner was drinking bourbon. Well talk about that in a bit. In the meantime, Jacki Schechner in the current news center. Good morning, everybody. President obama heads to asheville, North Carolina, today, where he takes his state of the Union Proposals directly to the people hes going