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leaders head to the white house this afternoon to meet there with president obama. lawmakers are increasingly looking at the period following the december 31st deadline we're told to come up with a fix to avoid massive tax hikes and spending cuts, affect lives of nearly every american many economists say could plunge the economy into another recession. chief white house correspondent ed henry live with the latest. so in this meeting, ed, is there any hope they will accomplish anything? >> reporter: well it is pretty low expectations, jon. what we're expecting when you talk to top off...

>> lehrer: and mark shields and michael gerson offer their pre- speech analysis. >> ifill: then, margaret warner examines the power shift in lebanon that has ignited protests in the streets. >> lehrer: and betty anne bowser has a cancer conversation with a doctor turned storyteller. >> it would cure... the word cure is such a productive word, such a tand liesing word. the implication is two things. number one is there's one cancer so that you can cure all of it and the second thing is that it's a curable disease. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for th...

that's smart. >> ifill: we talk with two illinois senators who will cross party lines to sit together. tonight: democrat richard durbin and republican mark kirk. >> lehrer: and mark shields and michael gerson offer their pre- speech analysis. >> ifill: then, margaret warner examines the power shift in lebanon that has ignited protests in the streets. >> lehrer: and betty anne bowser has a cancer conversation with a doctor turned storyteller. >> it would cure... the word cure is such a productive word, such a tand liesing word. the implication is two things. number one is there's one ...

and republican mark kirk. >> lehrer: and mark shields and michael gerson offer their pre- speech analysis. >> ifill: then, margaret warner examines the power shift in lebanon that has ignited protests in the streets. >> lehrer: and betty anne bowser has a cancer conversation with a doctor turned storyteller. >> it would cure... the word cure is such a productive word, such a tand liesing word. the implication is two things. number one is there's one cancer so that you can cure all of it and the second thing is that it's a curable disease. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's news...