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Happening now, new details of the meeting between president obama and congressional leaders for what could be a lastditch effort to avoid the fiscal cliff. Families in the making ripped apart. Russia officially bans the adoption of russian children by americans. And for the second time in a month, a man pushed to his death from a new york city subway platform in the path of an oncoming train. Wolf blitzer is off. Im Candy Crowley. Youre in the situation room. All eyes on that white house this hour. And the meeting that may be the last best chance to keep the country from going over the fiscal ...

Hi, don. Hi, suzanne. Thank you very much. Im don lemon. Brooke is off today. The eyes of the world are focusing now on the white house. Within the next hour, congressional leaders will begin to arrive for what is likely to be a very tense meeting with the president. This is perhaps the final effort to avert the tax increase that is expected to cost the average family several thousand dollars a year. Four days remain to reach an agreement, get it passed by the house and the senate and signed into law by the president. Were talking a long shot here. Now, want to show you the players. President ...

How much work they are doing. And these charities are doing sort of, you know, they are really the unsung hero of the humanitarian crisis in syria. Over and over again the kuwaitis are the only theyre the ones that are first donor in every case for humanitarian work. I think theres an aspect of this, too, that is sort of i think i mentioned one example that where do you exactly draw the line on this . So, you know, if youre supporting a hospital that is run by a particular brigade is it humanitarian aid . Does it have sort of a lethal component . Its a very sort of spectrum. Its not sort of bl...

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 rem...

The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in...