>>> and the griswolds are back. the cast from that goofy classic, as you've never seen them before. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. with drastic spending cuts and tax increases looming in just over a month, republican lawmakers appear ready to deal. >> long-time tax breaks, like the mortgage interest deduction, could be on the chopping block. abc's tahman bradley is live in washington with more on the intense negotiations that are now under way. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: good morning, rob and bapaula. some republican lawmakers are signaling a willingness to cut a deal with president obama. but doing so, it would require republicans to break a long-standing gop pledge. some republican lawmakers say they're now willing to defy party politics and cut a deal on taxes. if congress doesn't act, $650 million of spending and tax increases will take place on january 1st. but there's fresh hope in washington that republicans and democrats can strike a deal. >> the world has changed. >> reporter: the biggest obsta

>> behold the griswolds' lightacular!p instead of the house. the family is flipping out about the pants while clark flips out about the insanely lit house. i love the griswolds. i love that movie. get this too. the cast will get back together in october for the 29th anniversary of national lampoon's "vacation," the original movie, which is insane. great to see the griswolds back together. love the movie. >> do you watch "two and a half men?" >> i used to. >> well, jake, played by angus t. jones. wants you to stop watching it. he played on the show. he wants out of it. he came to the conclusion of taking an ivan jell ivan jell l god is good, and convinced the show is filth. posted it on youtube channel. sitting next to a seventh day adventist pastor, christopher hudson. take a listen to what he had to say about "two and a half men." >> jake from "two and a half men" means nothing. a nonexistent character. "two and a half men" if you watch "two and a half men", please stop watching "two and a half men." i am on "two and a h

. >> the griswolds are back. >> if you've ever seen "christmas vacation" it's so funny.courtesy of old navy. take a look. >> old lady pop heads are making this the most colorful christmas ever. >> behold griswolds lighttacular. make the season bright with beautiful cords and jeans. >> i love it. >> it's magnificent! >> decorate the family all the way with pop heads. adults 19 bucks, kids 15. >> joy to the world. >> does it catch on fire and burn down? >> i don't know. i like the movie. >> that doesn't make too much sense. they just got a free commercial. >> yes, they did. >> on nbc. so there you go. what's with jimmy kimmel who i thought was our friend? >> he claims he is. there's a promo out. we're not 100% sure. >> we haven't heard it but we've heard about it a little. >> jimmy's got big news. >> are you excited about this? >> on january 8th he'll make his biggest move yet. >> my goal is to be on so early we go head-to-head with kathie lee and hoda. >> so that vera. i love jimmy kimmel. what's he mean? >> we're on so late? we don't understand because we're not that sma

. >> you're like clark griswold. >> i thinktator and you're like eddie. >> and what happens when you're in maryland, do you keep the lights on. >> yes, i do. >> i have a team that helps me put this together. >> yeah, no kidding. >> and you know, i used to do it myself and-- >> the lights go on automatically when the sun goes down. >> and this is now you know it's a good heart. >> and i read some stories about this and read it in papers and blogs. >> as a matter of fact, we won the championship for small houses over the last year. >> and has al gore ever called you to say as a democrat you should rethink your car been footprint? >> i can say this, i had

is a part of the mainstream to have a judge who criticizes griswold against connecticut and i think toestablish a right to birth control. most people think that was a pretty good decision but work thought it was a very bad decision and so the bork battle focused on a few key things like that, a big constitutional teachable moment for the country and people have drawn very different lessons from it. but i think what it told us is that the mainstream, the quote mainstream remains very contestable. so what's going to happen next with this confirmation process? i mean, but a little surprised at "the new york times" had a wonderful interactive tool upon the web site where it has one of these clouds of how many times a particular words were spoken by anybody speaking at either the republican national convention or the democratic national natil convention. you could put in any phrase and see how many times various words were spoken. so i use the tool and i typed in supreme court and it came out zero times for the republicans in zero times for the democrats. so you know even though we all know

>> griswold want to say i agree with what christian said.s from the republican side and i don't see an incentive for president obama to do anything because he has everything going his way now, he can push through whatever he wants. the parties are so divided on these issues, i don't see it happening. dennis: christian, what is the one biggest concession republicans can make to move this thing forward? if republicans agreed to the tax hike on the rich, still spending the budget by more than a trillion dollars, would that be enough to get the democrats coming in any happier? >> it is not necessarily about tax increases on the rich, it is the whole idea of revenue raising needs to be a part of the dogs approached the deficit reduction and fixing our fiscal shift. the fact is not taken off the table by speaker john boehner makes it impossible to have any sort of a real approach to deficit reduction, let alone a bipartisan compound. >> i always felt it was more of a symbol than anything else. you tell us, what is the one big concession democrats

. >> do you believe in the right to privacy which was put forward with griswold vs. connecticut? >> this is an important question for people to know -- >> i accept the decision of griswald. >> i take that as a no. >> then you misunderstand it. >> do you support an amendment to the u.s. constitution, the person had amendment that was proposed in the state of mississippi and failed? >> i would look at the language of that, but generally speaking, if so inclined to be supportive of the finding -- defining life at the conception and the catholic church in the five basic positions of the church with embryonic stem cell research. i would want to see the language. >> if you years ago you showed a scale model of a wall that should be built on the southern border with mexico. do you still feel that this is the way to go? >> people said we cannot build a wall. i said, i would get down to the tinker toys and show them. i put together a model and said, this is how we do it. we could build a mile of this per day. this puts aside the argument, that we have 5,500 miles of the great wall of chin