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Political downside. and that has me even more worried, i must say. heather: thank you very much for joining us with your insight as usual. fascinating. thank you. >> merry christmas. heather: merry christmas. gregg: all right. there is one piece of good news as the busy u.s. shopping season wraps up. made in the usa for the holiday. that's next. ♪ .
Gun legislation in the congress. >> we have 10,000 elementary and secondary schools in this country. if you had two officers in each that would cost $25 billion. where is that money going to come from? >> reporter: president obama has put vice president joe biden in charge of a tax force looking at reducing gun violence. the president says he wants a report back next month. heather? heather: molly henneberg live for us in washington. thank you, molly. gregg: we're hearing new concerns our foreign policy will get more challenging over the next several months as violence intensifies in syria. an...
Democrats used to support but now they won't. heather: chief white house correspondent ed henry is live for us in honolulu. that is where the president ising christmas with his family. ed, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, heather, great to see you. after speaker boehner had that news conference on friday the president had a brief statement of his own in the briefing room before he left here for hawaii where he did lay out a smaller plan as you suggest. he has been here mostly relaxing with his family. he was at the memorial service for senator daniel inouye yesterday for his burial. bu...
Strategist. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you, heather. heather: so some 800 billion in annual spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to start january 1st, plunging us off this fiscal cliff. what do both sides need to do to come to a compromise? didi, i'll start with you. >> well, actually, heather, here we are again. it feels like groundhog day because we have the government shutdown, fiscal cliff. i mean, washington, d.c. is such a mess, and it's really too bad that we didn't have more change from the election. so what i'm hoping is that president obama will be more of a preside...
All are expected to fully recover. carbon monoxide levels inside the prison have returned to normal. rick: when we come back, the ceasefire in the middle east seems to be holding, but there are some latest hostilities between israel and hamas, a sign, perhaps, that a bigger conflict could be coming. general jack keane is here to break it all down for us straight ahead. heather: and a wave of violence sweeps egypt. take a look at this after the country's president grants himself new powers. a live report from cairo is next.