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Face-to-face negotiations on sunday. as the clock ticks down it appears some republicans may be softening their stance. nbc's brian moore has the very latest on this story. >> reporter: president obama and house speaker john boehner were behind closed doors trying to break the tax and spending stalemate that threatens to take the country over the fiscal cliff in just over three weeks. meanwhile, one by one republicans are bowing to the president's demand that takes go up for the wealthy. >> will i accept a deal? >> yes. >> we don't have a lot of cards before year end. we have one house. that's...

Cards and that way we can live to cut another day and cutting spending. >> here's bob corker the republican from tennessee. >> a lot of people are putting forth a theory and i actually think it has merit. where you go ahead and give the president the 2% increase that he's talking about. the rate increase on the top 2%. and all of a sudden the shift goes back to entitlements. >> and so corker went on to say, the debt is growing, congress is going to have to vote early next year. perhaps in february to raise that debt ceiling that we heard so much about a year and a half ago. and corker says the...

Jump over the cliff together or fall back. whatever it might be, let's join hands. >> well, i'd like to see a little more working across the aisle, but right now we're a little hobbled. we're dealing with a lame duck as a representative which i believe is much worse than the one we're gung to see coming in. there's 10 or 11 of the radical tea party types who aren't coming back and i think speaker boehner has been trying to move a little bit back more toward a moderate position. the question is if you want to cut taxes, that is after january 1st, then a lot of republicans, especially newly elec...

Decision. it is a decision that we believe fully comports with existing constitutional law. >> the court made the point that we still have the right to present nativity scenes on private property. the court should tell the secular people, the atheists, that they can take their free speech and move it to private property too. >> reporter: the christian group, jon, is promising an appeal. back to you. jon: and the battle goes on. rick folbaum, thanks. jenna: as the clock ticks toward the so-called fiscal cliff, we're getting new details about the possible compromise. who will see higher taxes? w...

Construction. the environmental lobbying groups are saying well, that keystone pipeline, if it is developed it will undo the auto fuel efficiency standards in terms of pollution from the oil that it will basically transport. expected 900,000 barrels a day from the keystone pipeline. so this fight is now being waged in washington, d.c. on different fronts. you're also seeing the epa with emission standards and still talk after carbon tax as well, jenna. so we'll be watching this one closely. the oil and gas industry still faces some hurdles to be fully, reach the potential that it could, if the...