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>> fierce debate taking place in a town near you. and targeting the tea party and conservatives. the irs admitting they did it and now they say they are sorry. but is the apology accepted? we report, you decide. "fox & friends" hour one starts right now. get the coffee. >> alisyn: good morning, everybody. good morning, guys. clayton morris, good morning. >> get the coffee this morning. probably glad at the white house that it's the weekend right now. no more white house press briefings that they have to deal with like whew, we get a few days off from the press grilling us over the la...

Forward because those big spending cuts could lead to jobs and issues that will be probably some of the unforeseen consequences of what happens here. the cut are important, because if the taxes are raised the republicans want to be able to argue that they were able to cut government spending. so while this is an important part, there are many chapters that are going to be happening over the next 24 hours, and we will see if they can get it done. the goal to have something ready to look at by sunday. >> thank you, kelly. my eyes did not glaze over, honestly. this has been a rough couple of week...

let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm richard wolffe in for chris matthews. at the 11th hour, just when people were starting to lose hope on the edge of the fiscal cliff the president met with leaders and said he was modestly optimistic about a deal on taxes. meeting this the red room, president obama held firm for tax cuts for families making up to $250,000 per year, and joining me on the north lawn of the white house is kristen welker. kristen, let's listen to what the president said about and up or down vote or what he expects from the senate. >> i had a good and constructive...

By what obama said in san francisco. i was disturbed that he was condescending, an ivy league elitist. i don't like that in american politics. >> let me jump in. john makes a point if you look at polling in aftermath of so-called gaffes, this is not a gaffe but if you look at polling it tends not to move the needle, at least in this campaign. with obama he had the obama of being at the tail end of a process that was largely mathematically -- he did struggle in pennsylvania but at that point we assumed obama would be the nominee unless he had to really get out of the race. romney only has 50 da...

Them. >> but it was what obama says next that's often let out of the tap tapes. he encourages the supporters to reach out and win them over. let's listen. >> i think what you'll find is that people of every background, there are going to be a mix of people, you can go into the toughest neighborhood, working class lunch pail folks, you'll find obama enthusiasts, and you go into places where you think i'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. the important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing. >> joining me is jonathan shade and "huffington post's" john stein....