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to repeat our old mistakes? a new report says the white house pushing hard to get more people loans for homes that have lower incomes and lower credit scores. isn't that how we got into the financial mess five years ago? and the president's other big push today. the one for more gun control. is back on. with a trip to denver. he is calling for more background checks to stop gun violence. but here's the thing. it is generally not the people who actually undergo background checks that we have to worry about. "the kudlow report" starts right now. all right. welcome back. a lot to do t...

0 another country. >> well, sir, the bilateral security agreement is in mind for the interests of both countries. we understand that the issue of immunity is of very specific importance for the united states. as was for us the issue of sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of international forces in afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself. with those issues resolved, as we did today, part of it, the rest was done earlier, i can go to the afghan people and argue for immunity for u.s. troops in afghanistan in a way that afghan sovereignty will not be compromised, i...

♪ you can go your own way, go your own way ♪ congress has not been able to get this stuff done, not because democrats in congress don't want to go ahead and cooperate, but because i think it's been very hard for speaker boehner and republican leader mcconnell to accept the fact that taxes on the wealthiest americans should go up a little bit as part of an overall deficit reduction package. the offers that i've made to them have been so fair that a lot of democrats are getting mad at me. i mean, i offered to make some significant changes to our entitlement programs in order to ...

>> well, i think that's right. i don't think anything has been settled. there have been on going conversations, but obviously the discussion will heat up this week now that the thanksgiving is behind us. >> what does the white house hope to accomplish with these types of events? >> well, look, this was not a side issue in the campaign. throughout the last presidential campaign the president made very clear that his number one focus was jobs and the economy and also having a long-term plan to reduce the deficit in a balanced way and that means in addition to cuts you would also have r...

sometimes choppy waters? >> i don't know whether you could have heard kenny just a second ago, isn't that interesting. first, stocks marching higher as we kick off a monster week of earnings. keep in mind the dow just about 6% from its all-time high set back in 2007. how much higher can we go? listen to what john taft told cnbc earlier today. he's the ceo of rbc wealth management, managing more than $225 billion. >> i believe that if congress were to pass and the president were to sign something that resembled simpson-bowles, you would see the market take off and move thousands of ...