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Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theater around here right now, you could say tickets. One of todays acts was the house leaving. Lawmakers ...

Of clemency. I do not think the Death Penalty is appropriate punishment, nor life imprisonment. Ofse who call for some sort frontier justice need to understand there should be equal protection. ,ames clapper committed perjury punishable by five years in prison, if you want to throw the book at snowden, it is hard to say we are not going to do anything about James Clapper lying to congress. You are not going to compare what he did with whats noted n did . With what snowde i think i just did . [indiscernible] clapper did something worse than snowden . It is not my job to compare them, but James ...

Compromised even more. That was the strategy all along. Does it offer a playbook for the year . Obama has brought up inequality and things like that. Both sides want to make this an issue. These are republicans saying it was a failure in democrats saying that agenda has been a success. Eme all year a thin long. Theyre trying to get people out of the working class would they can pay taxes. Approvale having low ratings as we are opening up the congress. I am wondering what will his ideas provide . I think you will hear a lot about the minimum wage and things that affect the middle and low income...

Thank you so much for your efforts. Theres significant city wide efforts going on. One of the cities leading the way is the city of chicago. We are proud to be joined by chicago commissioner of Public Health. Thank you very much. Would you standup . [ applause ] one of our great partners at the federal level, assistant secretary of defense dr. Jonathan woodson. Dr. Woodson is leading an effort across the military to stop smoking and tobacco use. We can all agree that deserves some applause. Thank you dr. Woodson. [ applause ] we are pleased the local champions and statewide champions are here ...

Of control. At one point over the weekend, there were 15 shootings in the span of 15 hours. All told, 28 separate shootings that took place on saturday and sunday alone. For reference, during the same time period last year, there were only five shootings. Look at your screen. This video from friday shows the moment when twoth armed gunmen shooter 28yearold man in broad daylight around 7 00 p. M. And on sunday, 1yearold baby boy, Davell Gardner,tw jr. , was shot to death in brooklyn. How do we absorb this kind of evil . This innocent child was in the stroller at a cookout near a public playgrou...