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Troopers -- prison on lock don after prisoners got into a brawl. officers were quickly able to break up the fight. 17 inmates hospital, two staff members hurt. visitations are canceled while the officials investigate what started that fight. our secretary of state handed mohammed morsi $250 million in aid. next up he'll meet with mahmoud abbas in the saudi capital today. >>steve: you remember the white house's doomsday scenario if those sequester spending cuts took effect. look at that. president obama and his team now appear to be retreating from those warnings as he signed the order for th...

If congress allows this meat cleaver approach to take place it will jeopardize our military readiness to take place, border controls will see their hours reduced. fbi agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which means more delays at airports across the country. thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. >> president obama made it real today showing exactly what will be cut if the sequester spending cuts take effect next week. the president also made it clear that an...

Government, and then the sequester spending cuts that have been delayed for 60 days. no one in the republican conference is talking about a default on our sovereign debt. but we do need to use these moments to address the spending explosion that we've seen in the last four years of the obama administration. >> are you saying you want to say debt ceiling, maybe set that aside and focus more on the other two? >> i'm saying the treasury has more than enough tax receipts every month to pay the interest on our sovereign debt. so there's nobody but barack obama who's talking about a default on our s...

How's he going to keep those republicans happy? >> he does and he's going to be a lot tougher. we're told he may even, as they say, shoot the hostage is the expression that one person used with us. that is has to be willing to go over a cliff, has to be willing to shut down the government, default on debt. in an interview with "the wall street journal" today, speaker boehner says that he thinks that the ultimate leverage with president obama is that republicans are very willing to let the automatic spending cuts, those sequester spending cuts that had a two-month extension in the fiscal cliff ...

Minimum tax, which is patched every year, will be fixed permanently. several tax credits, including ones for children, college tuition and earned income, will be extended for five years. and long-term unemployment benefits will be extended for a year. now, the big issue not addressed, those sequester spending cuts, which are simply being delayed for two months. nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell has more on how it went down. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. this new year means a new day for possible bipartisanship. we've been building up to this fiscal cliff...