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Middle class families will bear the entire burden of the challenges that this country faces. that's not fair or responsible. >> how do we do it? how does this country manage to get a decently fair deal in time to beat this cliff, avoid it? >> tom cole said it all. take what the president has offered right now. make sure that 98% of the people aren't affected by any tax increases. that's how we get it started. and patty is absolutely right. we have all these problems facing us and this is the way to do it. a bad deal would be saying to the millionaires and billionaires, you're going to get a bi...

We have all these problems facing us and this is the way to do it. a bad deal would be saying to the millionaires and billionaires, you're going to get a big tax break. that's what the elections was about. we held an election. it isn't as if this was a sidebar issue, chris. this was a main issue. >> i know. >> so, we can fix this. we can stop the sequester right now. we can make sure that 98% of the people don't pay one penny more in their taxes. and we get off that fiscal cliff and we're on to the new year. and the markets will be happy. and the people will smile. and i think tom cole, again,...

Take what the president has offered right now. make sure that 98% of the people aren't affected by any tax increases. that's how we get it started. and patty is absolutely right. we have all these problems facing us and this is the way to do it. a bad deal would be saying to the millionaires and billionaires, you're going to get a big tax break. that's what the elections was about. we held an election. it isn't as if this was a sidebar issue, chris. this was a main issue. >> i know. >> so, we can fix this. we can stop the sequester right now. we can make sure that 98% of the people don't pay o...

I do care about other political issues. this is not the main one. a lot of gay activists and a lot of people who oppose gay marriage are going to make this sidebar issue come 2012. >> i do think you accomplished getting people talking about it for sure. rich benjamin, thanks so much for coming on. ♪ fresh off her appearance on "saturday night live," today's tweet of the day comes from lady gaga who writes, my water just broke. no, she's not having a baby. her new album, now available in stores worldwide. gaga tweeted this photo of her monsters waiting outside of a best buy store writing, "...

And how important it is. there is another sidebar issue we discussed, about the whole site, about the world trade center site and i remember, because i used to work at the world financial building across the street, that there was a nice little greek church there. st. nicholas greek church right across from the world trade center. it was -- it crumbled during that attack and they went very much, the people of the church to rebuild it. why is that being blocked. >> i don't understand. it makes no sense to me. because, st. nicholas greek orthodox church was the only house of worship destroyed on...