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Were in washington where lawmakers have just 34 days left to reach a deal before the a potentiaff deadline. That ning funded by cbs confidence is slowly starting to fade away and major is with us major garret is with us in the studio. Whats happening . Americans might say, look, it feels like time is running out. They would be correct. Nal republicwhite house and ote mostional republicans say theyll devote most if not all of this week, and things are slowing down and were looking at a potential fiscal cliff stalemate. Desmight republicans to put higher tax revenue from the wealthy on the table, democrats are scoffing. He they talked happy talk about are skofg. T we only have a auple of weeks to get something ouple of we have to get away from the happy talk and Start Talking aout specific things. Dent obama hasbama has no new witht talks scheduled with congressional leaders but will cong phila suburban philadelphia aiday to press for an immediate bushto extend bush era tax cuts for m ers. Blicans call that agningless electioneering. We congratulate him on his reelection. We dont know if he has enough todership qualities to push democrats. Cost savings to health care aregrams like medicare and medicaid. Everyry dollar thats ever been secured for anything is sacred. To theyll defend it to the wath, regardless of what it means for jobs or the economy. A tough white house ally, nglinois senator dick durbin argued against using fiscal cliff pressures to scale back paidare and medicaid benefits. These are people that have paid in over a lifetime into protectecurity and medicare and fully expect the protection bech theyve invested in to be thatsnd it has to be there. Republicans anyblicans are demanding in any fiscal cliff deal. O raisew never to raise taxes on the w o entitlement programs now gobbling up more than 60 of annual federal spending. That means the white house to dough if i liberal democrats or the p enrage republicans. Ted to thesident is very committed to the proposition itht we can deal with these challenges if we come together oach. Dopt a balanced approach. I may sound glib what im about to say but this white house is really serious about an issuewhen it goes to twitter. Anew white house hash tag on preserving the middle class tax preserving. Thats 2,000, average amount that taxes would rise if the bush era texas cuts are not ttended. Eek white house plans to hammer its issue all week, believing it will increase its leverage later if it happens when tax cut talks get serious. One possible idea to raise revenue is hitting millions of americans very close to home. Congress has refused until now to touch the very popular mortgage interest deduction. Millions of americans count on iscal cliffar. Ath the fiscal cliff looming it has come up now for discussion. A look at how that could affect home values and your taxes. Ing. Morning. Good morning to you, norah. Families tak one the mortgage interest eduction on their taxes each. Ear. Those families see an average how it n of about 2,000. So here is how it currently works. Families making less than 40,000 a year see a tax savings of about 100. Families making between 40,000 ave 75,000 save 542. Weenlies earning between 75,000 and 250,000 see a tax savings ytween 1,200 and 2,600 a year than e highest earners making more than 250,000 see an average savings of about 5,400. To raise more revenue, congress newonsidering multiple new plans. Pl administratiministrations plan, thamily making more than 250,000 would see their 28 uction cap at 28 rather than fhe current rate of 35 . Ter the next ten years, that rould lower rather increase federal tax revenue by nearly 600 billion. Critics argue that lowering the cap would hurt home values, the cularly along the coast here the prices are the highest, and just as theyre beginning to rebound. Tsodys chief economist mark zandi says he expects that the economy would benefit ultimately eventhe measure, even though slightlyes would grow slightly less. Rebecca ja u. Rah and charlie . Rebecca jarvis, thank you. Susan rice met with some of her republican critics. Fter that meeting there are ecretary of rices future as the secretary of state nominee. Na charlie, ges is on capitol hill. Good morning. Reporter charlie, good orning to you. Emambassador rice told a trio of epublican senators that she regrets the talking points she was working off of when she went on those sunday talk shows were flawed. Info she was simply working off the at the ormation that the thtelligence community had at buyinme. They werent buying it. They said she was privy to ormation t information that was telling a much different story. Ambassador rice, what do you ay to republicans today . Reporter if ambassador rice was hoping to appease her oming toby coming to capitol to face itet them face to face, it didnt work. Cantly troubleificantly troubled by many of the answers that we t getnd some that we didnt get. That l i can say is that the oncerns i have are greater today than they were before. Thewere not even close to ter critie basic answers. Fiveeir criticism centers around rices comments five days shows shebenghazi attacks. On several sunday talk shows she said the assault appeared to be spontaneous and not that untr later proved to be untrue. Yesterdatement after yesterdays meeting rice said while we certainly wish that we had had ation just drmation just days fter the terrorist attack, the intelligence assessment has evolved. An afternoon meeting with independent senator joe ng werman went far better. I felt that she was telling me the truth, the whole truth ugh nothing but the truth. Reporter but that may not be good enough in the senate where a Single Member can stall a nominees confirmation. At this point its ambassador rice is nominated to be secretary of state, will you put nominatin that nomination . Quehere are still questions ed. T need to be answered. s reporter does that mean ellll put a hold yes, there are still additional questions we have. Reporter the white house tsists she has shared all that she can. Ill simply say there are no Unanswered Questions about ambassador rices appearance on sunday shows. Reporter rices republican critics dispute that and say there are still plenty of questions about what happened in benghazi and why the administration said what it did in the days after the attack. Rice herself is back here on ndpitol hill this morning, meet ing with two more republican senators. Norah and charlie . Nancy cordes, cbs news erson is director john. Ickerson is here. Good morning. N good morning, charlie. T what questions does the administration have to answer to satisfy the republican critics . Its a good question. N a sense the administration feels they can never be stringing satisfied, that theyre thatging this out. Hats happened is that they want questions answered. The cri critics of rice are no longer longer targeting rice for herself. Targetingrgeting rice as a oroxy for the administration and y what ty what they want is what was the deal with security in benghazi . These calls for security at the oment when it was happening. Who was in charge of security at of moment and also in the ftermath of the attack . Differentcame out in different pieces. Sas this the result of an effort to massage the story because we were in an Election Year or was alexandt the fog of the moment . Thats great but ambassador rice was at the united nations, moment not at the state department. Those questions should probably fall to the secretary of state go the secretary of state is undergoing an internal review, tary of state very tough on their handling of it a lot of eople are saying. Hat are these republican arnators doing . Susane not going as far as lock g theyre going to put a dold on ambassador rice and that. Her. Mccain has suggested that. Hat but ayotte has not. This reminds you of, say, jesse helms who once put a blanket hold on all clinton ambassadors, on all 400 people at one point, because he wanted attention paid. Senator shelby put a hold on tions from tfrom the Obama Administration based on a tanker senators say on thes say im going to put a hold to bang on the table. Timee they serious about it, f thatg a hold on her nomination if that nomination comes . I thenk if they dont get the answers, they will. If they dont get the answers isy want. The question is whether they can get the answers. The president is off on a the pr trip trying to sell the ideas he wants. Tax rates will go up for the wealthy and republicans say we voteever going to vote for thy. Hing where tax rates will go cole, the wealthy. But congressman cole is a ed in acan in the house who has uggested a report in politico that maybe republicans should wy, okay, well let rates go up for the wealthy temporarily as part of a twopart deal. Ndll let those rates go up at his argu have comprehensive tax reform. Basically give in on this, knock the legs out of the president s argument, which is republicans are so ideologically fixed on onis. Thats interesting because, a, its in the house. And, b, tess a political if we give in on this question i taxes now, it gives us leverage in the coming debate the ebout tax reform. Ignificant a significant development. Theres a you have what suggests a movement by the House Republicans to go ahead and what is the white house plan, which a t twopart deal. Theect the middle class, those eho make 250,000. Do that, leave the question of the wealthiest taxes and tax hiestm to something later which taxesmore time. If boehner and tea party epublicans move on that, that auld be a significant development. Taxt . Think about it. Two years ago, antitax Tea Party Voters gave republicans gaveol of the house on the tax epestion. Now two years later, republicans of the rse going to vote for a tax please . That would be a significant aange. Again, the idea is that they tax allow a tax increase icause it would help them in negotiations later when rates negoti might come down. Art2013 as part of a omprehensivee tax deal. Even the white house is okay with rates coming down if there is if the tax code is changed. John dickerson, thank you so much. A group of military women is uing the pentagon this morning, trying to overturn the ban on women in combat. The lawsuit is the second one this year. Targeting the 1994 rules preventing women from serving i fromd bat units. Tour women say it limits their ability to be promoted and anyone deployed to a war zone thes danger. Modern battlefield means liness no front lines and areas. S no safe areas. Every time a woman or any Service Member steps foot into n they arfghanistan, they are serving in a combat zone. My gender has never been a factor in accomplishing my units mission and it should not be a factor when selecting personnel to serve in combat enles. Women make up 14 of active military personnel and the pentagon says more than 144 wo iraq have been killed in iraq nd afghanistan. Eother 860 have been wounded. In egypt, new protests this morning against president mohamed morsi, following the monstrationsnstrations yet on tuesday. Ens of thousands gathered in tahrir square, demanding that he demanding hdrawnce his administrations giving him broad new powers. Reporter things are much calmer here today. Yesterday in cairo, we saw scenes that were strikingly reminiscent of the egyptian revolution of nearly two years ago. Tahrir square, the birthplace of the revolution, once again was carpeted by protesters. Chanting the same slogan. Eople want the downfall of the regime. This time, the target of their anger was egypts first ctedcratically elected president , mohamed morsi, who they accuse of behaving like a f phara pharaoh. Who want everybody who believes ing toedom of speech and freedom get today and never get back home until they release ntations br violent police. Rations between protesters and police. It was mostly a peaceful demonstration by people who say they will keep protesting until president morsi gives up his sweeping new powers. Mohammed amer, a retired teacher, now says things are worse under morsi than they were the democr under the previous regime. It means that the president can become a dictator. Presiden president morsi is not backing down. 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