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$111.7 billion. now, that s a big number, brad. it is. megyn: is that something that the republicans can get behind, if for no other reason than to save themselves politically? because you can hear, you know, dick and other democrats are going to come out and say they protected the rich, you know, at every turn, but when it came to giving the middle class tax break, they said no, that s where we have to draw the line and tighten our belts. it s time to create opportunity, not dependency, it s time to give the american people the tough love they need across the board, rich, poor, middle class, everybody needs to sacrifice in a bad economy. but it s got to be cutting taxes, cutting spending, reducing the decifit. it can t be one and forget about the others, and the fact of the matter is, the president had a perfect opportunity to show leadership on the decifit, he refused to do it, he went off to the apec summit, went globe trotting, instead of being where he needed to be, and democr ....
Going to take over the future of egypt, if the military should step aside. jenna: just a final thought here robin. i know this is a fast moving situation. but do you think the egypt that emerges next will be an ally of the united states? it depends upon how this plays out. the longer this disorder goes on the more the united states is seen as an ally of the military, the greater the danger the people also hold the united states accountable. so a lot of this will be determined really by the time factor. jenna: very interesting perspective, robin. always nice to have you. thank you for joining us and happy thanksgiving. same to you. jon: in washington, economic policy is very much in the air as you know with the failure of the supercommittee to come up with some kind of a deal to cut the decifit. now a worried federal reserve might be ready for more monetary stimulus. what that means for the value of your hard earned dollar. plus are you travel fog thanksgiving? some important info ....
2 trillion. reporter: but republicans say they are interested in negotiating with the white house on extending the payroll tax cuts, and some of these other measures, but some republicans want offsets in the budget to do this. they don t want this to add to the decifit. jon. jon: it always where does the money come from. that s the big question mark in washington right now. peter, thank you very much. okay. jenna: certainly not coming from wall street. we re keeping this there it is, that bug, just showing you where wall street is trending today, down nearly 200 miles. mia mcginnis maya mcginnis, nice to have you back with us, we are talking to you about the go big coalition, you ve been a big part of getting this together on the hill. what is next as far as where lawmakers go from here? well, as discouraging as it was, the skpr committee wasn t able to come up with the savings necessary, there seems to be no letting up on the focus of the need to do something in terms of g ....
Mitt romney and i m not mitt romney and we have two top contenders, newt gingrich and herman cain. bill: we had the cbs poll we led with last hour, seven in ten of republican voters still say they could change their mind. we ve got a ways to go, scott. absolutely. bill: scott rasmussen. heather. heather: speaking of indecisiveness, this is a fox news alert, word there could be some movement within the supercommittee charged with cutting government spending in the form of a new committee, a breakaway group of six, a bipartisan group of three republicans and three democrats meeting privately. now, if the six can find a deal, they would only need one more member to achieve a majority and get it passed. the deadline, though forbes a deal, november 23rd. so bill, the clock is ticking. bill: that it is, but any deal on reducing the decifit is going to take billions out of our military budget, leon panetta warning that could be a very bad thing, he s the defense secretary, ....
Companies that offer it, and the federal government will subsidize it. the problem is that will dramatically increase the cost of omabacare and as we saw with the class act which was a long term compare component of omabacare, they completely miscalculated what the cost would be and that program has been scrapped by the obama administration itself. if the cost controls simply get blown out the window with this part of the program, we re going to be seeing more explosive growth and costs and any possibility that this was going to reduce the decifit will go out the window. bill: that is of course unless you ve got a waiver and then you re free and clear. kidding to the side now, the exchange you describe is government-backed, right? absolutely. bill: so is it the way the far left wanted to push more americans into a single payor system? what some liberals wanted was something called the public option, which would have been a government-run, government-structured insurance company. th ....