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>> juan, 23 days and counting until we go over the cliff. do you see, and you heard senators corker and schumer, any sign that were getting closer to a deal and it sure seems, listening to senator corker, like republicans are caving on the top tax rates. >> you were listening carefully. >> chris: it didnt take that much careful listening. >> thats right. thats a sign. republicans dont have leverage. you look at the polls, its not one or two polls, its overwhelming, the american people would blam...

>> juan, 23 days and counting until we go over the cliff. do you see, and you heard senators corker and schumer, any sign that were getting closer to a deal and it sure seems, listening to senator corker, like republicans are caving on the top tax rates. >> you were listening carefully. >> chris: it didnt take that much careful listening. >> thats right. thats a sign. republicans dont have leverage. you look at the polls, its not one or two polls, its overwhelming, the american people would blam...

>> juan, 23 days and counting until we go over the cliff. do you see, and you heard senators corker and schumer, any sign that were getting closer to a deal and it sure seems, listening to senator corker, like republicans are caving on the top tax rates. >> you were listening carefully. >> chris: it didnt take that much careful listening. >> thats right. thats a sign. republicans dont have leverage. you look at the polls, its not one or two polls, its overwhelming, the american people would blam...

Minister of foreign relations might run again, and she created a movement, theyll create more pressure internally on israel and more pressure externally. the germans decided to abstain and this is a big blow. when angela merkel, a year ago, was asked she said we dont know. but then netanyahu called her and said he was upset about this. she told him she was disappointed he did nothing towards the peace process. >> if this does end up sort of laying the groundwork for a peace process, because it p...

Language, he can pull over to his side here. >> yeah. look. its 85 votes. in the senate, you watch when it happens, it will be a rush. you will have a majority of the republicans will end up signing on to the bill thats negotiated between graham and schumer. they have talked about this. we know the white house has involvement in this. its going to happen. and its going to happen with remarkable speed. sometimes the ballot box does speak. >> quickly, chuck, senator lindsey graham made a new state...

Schumer and graham talking their idea today. it includes a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the united states. >> deportation is not going to work. fix it in a way we dont have a third wave of illegal immigration 20-years from now. that is what americans want they want to fix illegal immigration after all. they will do nothing until you secure the border be identified start paying taxes pay a fine for the law they broke. they cant stay unless they ...

The day after the election is all you see the fiscal cliff, doom and gloom headlines. boehner is saying okay, president obama, you want to talk about the fiscal cliff. go first. were waiting. what do you want to cut? i think that the conventional wisdom in washington among democrats and republicans is the president need to embrace simpson bowles. a great starting point. it allows him to not come out and put cuts on table, which i dont think he wants to do. i think some democrats, too, come out, ...

Front lines during the fiscal cliff negotiations right after the election. theyll be intensified depending on what the outcome of the election is. i want to get you to respond to something senator chuck schumer, a fellow democrat said, whos been actually critical of the bowles-simpson proposal. heres what he told me on monday. >> they made one big mistake. they used old-fashioned tax reform and they said the first thing we do on the revenue side is not find new revenues but lower taxes on the we...

Barack obama last time around, is he doing this because he doesnt want to lose florida, you say? >> i say he is doing it because thats what he believes. the president has never wavered on his stance on israel. >> bill: schumer didnt know what he believed. >> thats a reflection of schumers i had gross, not obamas stance on israel. >> bill: you may be right. >> you are giving way too much credit. >> bill: what i said in the talking points memo is not a union find party. its all over the place. >> ...

Andrea mitchell is still with us. joining us former democratic congressman harold ford, jr. were also have democratic senator from new york, senator chuck schumer. and democratic representative from maryland and ranking member of the house budget committee, congressman chris van hollen, who wants a bloody mary. >> he wants a bloody mary. >> wait until the conventions over. >> lets serve one up for him. last week george pataki. this week the good congressman. its a question that has a thousand an...