Crunch time for the fiscal cliff. The key players to meet at the white house with just four days left until the deadline. They called him Stormin Norman. America remembering general Norman Schwarzkopf. And have gun, will teach. Hundreds of educators get a handson lesson in firearms. Controversial proposal. Good morning. Welcome to early start. 5 00 a. M. In the east. It is the last friday of 2012. Ive just had that pointed out to us. One final desperate attempt to dodge the fiscal cliff, just four days left before we go over the edge triggers tax hikes, spending cuts that could send the nation back into recession. The president calling for members of the congress the back. A gang of six attending. Vice president biden, harry reid, House Minority leader nancy pelosi, Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner representing the republicans. Brianna keilar is live from washington. Is anybody optimistic that a deal could be done today around a table . I will tell you the optimism is sort of sinking.
The goal or the purpose of the books to not only talk about how to revive the constitution and restore the republic, but to inform people on what the republic is supposed to look like, how the constitution is supposed to function and to move some of the Decision Making away from the centralized Government Back to the state legislatures acting collectively as the framers intended. Host you write in the liberty amendments about the 17th amendment. The 17th amendment serves not the public interest, but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advance, it is not because they championed democracy or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling Constitutional Republicanism. Guest right. The framers didnt create a pure democracy. That would be absolute nonsense and crazy. In fact, if you look at the constitution, its very complex, what they created here. Yo
The federal government is so completely out of control with the constitution that when you look at the various phases of what it is doing, it would be nice if we could break them into three separate branches. But it is more much now than ever before. And they dont check at much as they used to and of course sometimes it is never even contemplated, this massive Administrative State. And so its all quite important. And the goal is to not only talk about how to revive the constitution but to inform people with above public is supposed to look like and how the constitution is supposed to function and to move some of the decisionmaking and the centralized situation and you write about the 17th amendment. Because it serves not the Public Interest but the governing mastermind of the disciples. Not because they championed democracy or the individual but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for unraveling the constitution. That would be absolute nonsense and crazy.
Between christmas and new years. I do not know. Maybe they should finish their work. You will see some push in the next few days to get a small deal done. Viewers are fan of the process. Anything that gets done needs to be done quickly before new years to be signed into law. Today is the 27. And so you have a few days left for lawmakers to make a deal. The president s should land at some point. There is a 5 hour time difference. They have to figure out something. It seems likely will go over the cliff. It has been looking like that before the holiday, but certainly now, particularly if you remember for congress broke for the christmas break, speaker raynor was not able to get the backup plan through his caucus, so there was no pressure on democrats to try to counter that immediately. Senate democrats saying we passed a bill that raises tax rates on incomes over 250,000, we ran on this and this is what we are offering. House republicans were saying, no, we want to negotiate something, f
Lashing speech that included violent movies and video games as he said his plan would train those to guard our schools. In this edition of todays program, were going to begin the first 45 minutes of the program to talk about the nras response to the shootings. They broke their silence yesterday with executive director and Vice President wayne. Well talk more about what he had to say. But we want to get you involved in the conversation. So the numbers on your screen. Guest we also have a special line this morning for members of the n. R. A. 202 5853883 this is for n. R. A. Members. You can also reach out to us at twitter. Com cspanwj and f. S. A. And facebook at and the headline face of the n. R. A. Mountains a forceful defense advocate of armed School Guards excels at lighting fires under supporters and critics alike. Guest well get back to more of the newspaper articles this morning regarding the n. R. A. s response to the newtown shootings. First up leslie from wash burn, maine. Lesl