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To congress because you end up having those lectors as part of the electoral college. if one says i was supposed to cast my lot for barack obama or mitt romney, but i changed my name, all the sudden it goes from 269-269 to 268-278. >> interesting dynamic if that happens. mark murray, thank you so much for clarifying that for us. >> thank, richard. >> thank you so much. federal officials bust a plot to blow up the federal reserve building in new york city. details ahead in the news now. plus, going off a fiscal cliff. president obama prepared to play hardball with congress against legislati...

To do here? >> reporter: hey, good morning, richard. my sources are telling me that you are correct. president obama does plan to veto any legislation that does not allow the bush era tax cuts to expire for top income earners. essentially, raising taxes on top income earners. to take a step back and talk about the fiscal cliff, here's what it is. it's the expiration of the bush era tax cuts for all americans. it's also the implementation of that sequester, those cuts to defense and nondiscretionary spending. economists have said that if we go over the fiscal cliff, it could be a potential econ...

Actually get that number up to 42% of his first appointments. >> is that a yes? >> you know, also, we know the numbers did decrease as the years went on in the romney administration. that's actually a trend that we have seen, you know, throughout that administration and others. it's something we're working on strategically to respond to that. >> all right. executive director of the massachusetts women's political caucus, also on the executive board that put together that binder that governor romney was alluding to. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. president obama may be planning to...

The problem, richard, is that these two sides have not come together in months. my sources tell me that president obama and speaker boehner haven't discussed the fiscal cliff since about july. with this election on the horizon, there is no indication that the two sides are going to start discussing this point any time soon. of course, this is the type of gridlock americans get so frustrated with. this is one of these issues that could potentially come down to the wire. the circumstances would be disastrous if that did, face-to-face, happen. -- in fact happen. >> kristen welker, thank you so mu...

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