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The administration s decision to separate children from their parents at the u.s. mexican border. 12 republican senators now calling on the trump administration to end the practice. president trump though tripling down. during a speech to small business owners today, trump was clear, he stands by his policy to quote, take the children away. when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, you have to take the children away. they ve got to go through the process. and maybe it s politically correct. or maybe it s not. now, the president went further on twitter says quote, democrats want undocumented immigrants to quote, infest our country. infest. now the word infest is a loaded one. it s a verb. obviously. refers to insects or animals. present and large numbers to cause damage or disease. that s what it means and that s what it feels like when used. ....
steve: don t know. brian: it was a good idea. the president and republican congressional leaders will meet with several ceo s to brain storm how to avoid falling off that fiscal cliff. doug is joining us live from washington with the latest. are we going over the cliff or is this a slope? it s that thelma and louise moment. yeah. just over a month to go before we reach the cliff, if it gets that far. these are obviously the key players in all this, president obama and congressional leaders from both parties. they re not the only players and both sides are now look for input from the business community as to what should really happen here as get closer and closer to the cliff. from the president today, we re going to see the start of just an all-out pr blitz to raise taxes. he meets with small business owners today, tomorrow it s ceo s that will pay higher taxes. while the white house says he s seeking vicious his mind appears to be made up. ....
Mad and it s going to depend on what the details are and i think dr. peterson is right here that you don t have a false equivalence but sometimes to get a deal through you have to yield a little bit. the question is how much. the president has been talking about that compromise. dr. peterson, while the president met with small business owners today, speaker boehner got a visit from some nude protesters decrying budget cuts to aids funding. so i guess the negotiations are quite lively, are they not? they are. and these protesters are raising the real issues of humanity that we we need to have more humanity in these discourses. i ll concede the point that it s not a false equivalency but the way we are talking about the fiscal cliff is we re not acknowledging what our priorities need to be. so, for instance, if we cut military spending the way the fiscal cliff will, that is not quite as detrimental as eradicating or irrevocably changing medicare and medicaid. they re just not equal ....
i m sorry to jump in. i ve got to say i really don t appreciate when you ve got all these lines on the one side, and i ve heard not only you say this but other people say this, oh, both sides lie. both sides. it s a false equivalency. these are boldface huge lies. the thing about the plant a boldface lie to me is saying the press is pro-business. that s my wheelhouse. and i look at small business owners today. as soon as we get back because there was a promise of 12 million new jobs. monica, i m going to ask you whether or not that was just a falsehood or whether or not that s reality and i m going to let you in on this one. why should our wallets tell us what our favorite color is? every room deserves to look great. and every footstep should tell us we made the right decision. so when we can feel our way through the newest, softest, and most colorful options. .across every possible price range. .our budgets won t be picking the style. ....
isn t this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. don t you wish one day we d say there s nothing going on, go home. change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns it s a campaign stop. it s a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. he ll meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. he s been making his pitch for job growth and sounding a familiar theme that republicans are playing politics with the economy. the problem we have is not with our country. the problem is, that our politics is broken. [ applause ] the problem is, is that we ve got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country. that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. well, the president was glad handing after a town hall meeting in iowa, he ....