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>> reporter: so we expect midnight to come and go and then these spending reductions will start to gradually kick in. as we've been talking about of course the president will have top four congressional leaders at the white house tomorrow. at this point it sound like that will be mostly an informational meeting. we're not expecting a huge break through at this meeting, jon. jon: or fisticuffs, we're not expecting fisticuffs to break out that one either, are we, mike? >> reporter: no but harry reid is boxer so you never know. jon: that is interesting. mike emanuel on capitol hill. jenna. jenna:...

Club, very polite. i can hear the audience, excellent point. well put, vice president. this second rate -- they all agree, they wouldn't have approved these people. wyoming doesn't deserve this guy. it's a beautiful state. >> i think that maybe dick cheney has a case of drone envy here. >> yeah. >> really? >> well, i mean -- >> go on, sir. >> okay. he's the guy who is used to being attacked by the aclu. >> i see. >> you see what i'm saying? actually president obama has got some weapons that dick cheney wouldn't mind having had, and the president -- >> this is getting way too -- pull back. >> a...

Point out that his two home state republican senators voted for john kerry. so they don't agree with him that he's a second rate person. he really doesn't have the kind of power that he had before. he's been fully discredited, and yet, yes, we are still going to talk about it when he says things like this because it's so ridiculous to be trashing this president all these years later when he's had a stellar record on foreign policy. >> but you know these babbitts that sit in the audience for people like him. these bergers. you can see them from the rotary club, very polite. i can hear the audie...

Jon: weird things happen. weird things happen in the middle of the night i guess. well-put, jon scott. she is all right. jon: good for her. fox news alert. we are waiting for president obama to unveil his new gun control proposals about 40 minutes from now. the president is expected to step to the microphones to outline his plan to reduce gun violence in this country. everyone agrees such atrocities as the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut should never happen again but the debate over how to prevent another tragedy is dividing americans. talk about it with "washington tim...

Or secretary of defense. i think the president of course has the prerogative to appoint whom he wants but this appointment raises a lot of questions because senator hagel's positions are so much out of step and out of sync and out of line with the president's positions. when the confirmation hearing occurs i think we'll have an opportunity, and senator hagel will have an opportunity to explain, to convince, to reassure the american people that some of the positions which he has taken are either not his positions now or that they may have been misunderstood. but unless he does that convincingly...