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American families depends on a consensus agreement in washington, d.c. to avoid the fiscal cliff, and walgreens went on to say that we need fiscal clarity as a business in order to invest in the u.s. economy to create jobs and economic prosperity. so three companies stepping forward now joining other ceos urging a bipartisan consensus on the fiscal cliff deal. we haven't heard from cvs caremark and wall green's. we've heard from walmart, but not these two in the past. arthel: well, and they're both saying this is about our customers, not necessarily about us as a company. are you surprised, th...

Way today, alluding with paul ryan in the front row, to paint the ryan budget which the gop has bought in and gone all in on. boehner earlier today saying not only does he support paul ryan's budget but supports the cuts in medicare he tried to show this as a huge difference between what the republicans stand for as this budget that gives tax breaks to the wealthiest where democrats want to cut a little here, inflated defense budget here but preserve the things that we've grown accustomed to, certain pell grants, certain things for medicare, medicaid, those types of deals. and in terms of com...

Didn't know if there would be a perry mason moment. when asked about it today, he seemed to side with putin over the cia. he was put on the spot. do you believe putin or do you believe the intelligence agencies? perhaps not wanting to derail any talks with putin, the president answered this way. >> all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me, dan coats and some others and they say they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> "i don't see any reason why it would be russia." a very unusual sta...

This is a chance he had multiple times to be more definitive about russia's role and let's point out u.s. officials say vladimir putin specifically directed this action of cyberwarfare and espionage from russia into the 2016 u.s. election. the president is still saying that other actors might have been involved, and clearly we know from other instances there are other nations that have used cyberwarfare, we know north korea has certainly done it. china engages in this. but when we're talking about the election specifically, u.s. officials have made clear that it is their consensus agreement, t...