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While sitting around the kitchen table, he told the family he felt optimistic. >> the message that i think we all want to send to members of congress is this is a solvable problem. the senate has already passed a bill that would make sure the middle class taxes do not go up next year by a single dime. just to be clear, im not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2%, but i do remain optimistic that we can get something done that is good f...

>> obama is not letting up. >> there is no hard deal on the table yet. >> this is a dangerous game. >> they dont believe republicans are going over the cliff. >> lets go over the cliff. >> are they going to raise taxes on everyone? >> they will be push ping that and well go to the senate and well loose. ♪ ♪ >> there are 25 shopping days for a deal between congressional republicans and president obama before we go flying off the fiscal curb. today, from a kitchen table in northern virginia. >...

Opened up, we might have possibly mano a mano. >> or as i say, mano a mano. whatever. the effort to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff is now a two-man operation. interesting. president obama and speaker boehner. nobody else. with 24 days before a year-end deadline, "the new york times" says boehner made the request to clear the negotiation room going forward, leaving it up to himself and the president to reach a deal to avoid automatic tax hikes and deep spending cuts. and while the two men may b...

Deadline. this is the four corners offense. cliff, fiesta, follies and slope. if you want your own corner name tweet us for four corners or post on our facebook wall. in todays news the president a little more than an hour ago went to northern virginia to push the middle class tax cut message by spending time with an actual middle class family. >> the message that i got from tiffany and the message that i think we all want to send to members of congress is, this is a solvable problem. im not goi...

"the new york times" national editor sam sifton, the author of "thanksgiving: how to cook it well." i want to go to you first on this, when with you talk about the problem of hunger in america it is hugely underdiscussed issue and you look at the numbers both for households and children alone. i know share our strength is focused on child hunger in america. its -- the rates have remained virtually unchanged in the last five years. what needs to be done to address this problem? >> well, think one...

How to cook it well" sam sifton writes quote -- >> sam, we got to juice book sales in a big way. this is an awesome book. awesome book. first i want to go to bill shore over there sitting patiently in washington, as we talk about you pointed out, bill, we talk about hunger and poverty and the needy at specific times during the year but of course this is something a year-round situation. it is a way of life for millions of people in this country. what more should we be doing in our personal lives...

>> well, im not going to be like the administrative branch and the legislative branch and point fingers at either one. problem is is that both of them are not working together. they need to compromise. its a solvable problem. the legislative branch has direction that they think the city should move and the administration has another. what they need to do is they need to sit down for the betterment of the city of scranton and its employees and they need to solve this problem. thats what they were...

We are obligated for $120 trillion with 10 years g.d.p. total everything going in taxes so, the book makes the point, that this is a solvable problem. its going to require some courage. and some difficult choices. but its immediate. and its severity is real and each day we wait to fix the problem means the pain is going to be significantly worse. all one of the problems is half the country gets something free from the government and no one wants to give up the free stuff. so, where would you cut...

christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. >> its a full week. >> and ali is preparing to eat one. >> thats right. >> so theyre off today. im carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to "american morning." first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much...

Seriously, and we know there has to be reform -- >> but you say youre happy to put them on the table, about you are you happy to do what someone like senator mcconnell is suggesting which is taking something of an ax to these. >> no, im not willing to do that, and we dont have to. what he does is keep the revenues off the table. he keeps the pentagon off the table. he keeps tax expenditures including to the oil companies off the table. if you want to solve the problem all the tools that are avai...