we can find common ground. >> there's the kumbayah, okay, thanks, guys. well, forget all the talk in d.c. permanent tax hikes will definitely hit on tuesday no matter what. the cavuto gang getting ready to tell you what the government is ntelling you. that's at the bottom of the hour, first, angry passengers stranded in airports cursing the weather. but should they be cursing government regulations instead? >> from america's news headquarters, i'm heather childers. it's down to the wire for a fiscal cliff deal. senate leaders from both sides of the aisle vowing to scramble days before a new year's deadline to reach a plan or watch the economy go off a cliff. president obama says he's optimistic that they'll come to an agreement that will avoid across the board tax hikes and deep spending cuts. and here we go again, more snow headed to the the northeast, where a major winter storm already dumped several inches on inland areas. snarling roads, canceling hundreds of holiday flights. two powerful systems expect today come up the east coast by today, from sout

we can find common ground. >> there's the kumbayah, okay, thanks, guys. well, forget all the talk in d.c. permanent tax hikes will definitely hit on tuesday no matter what. the cavuto gang getting ready to tell you what th government is ntelling you. that's at the bottom of the hour, first, angry passengers strandedn airports cursing the weather. but should they be cursingngngng your latest weather headlines, log on to foxnews.com. you're watching the most powerful name in news. >> canceled, that's what thousands of ticked off holiday travelers are sing on airport monitors this week. and while the nasty weather is to be blamed, toby says we should blame government regulations. >> here is a fact when it's a $27,000 fine if you're on the tarmac for more than three he hours in a minute which i was about two and a half years ago before they did this, what happens is, they get fined $27 grand per passenger and now th're doing, what they call in the industry the economic kill and look at the numbers and amount of passengers on the flight and for the idea of may

>> from the market standpoint we want to this riding in the last moment on white horses kumbayah, i believe the last hour the last day. >> the markets have been down had a bad week, selloff. >> in the futures market on friday, just after the guy came outen said maybe we have a deal, shot up a hundred points, but the market is a short-term player. the short-term there's a vote counter, it's voting short-term. in the long-term, gary b is absolutely right and other guys are right, we'll get over this. don't worry about your 401(k) on january 3rd if it's down because we don't have a deal. worry about your 401(k) two years down the road if not only we get nothing, but now we go into a place where, i mean, our country is more divided according to a lot of reports than we were t civil war in terms of where ware. if wneed to get closer on that long-term deficit, people will a fiery leap and then see your stock market race and roar. >> i don't know. jim, what do you think? the market is pretty short-term and toby says take a longer term perspective. is that what we need? >> i think that the market g

is there a chance they will get together and kumbayah come up with solution? >> my view from the very beginning of all they would come, slap together some last minute solution that basically nobody likes. and certainly people who are in favor of smaller government, lower taxes are not going to like because the president and senate democrats i think are running the show now. so they're going to put together a smaller fiscal cliff package, hope that they can win, you know the couple dozen republican house votes that they need and get this through. there's a bright side for politically bright side for republicans if that happens because they, further drive the contrast from the president. but it is typical the way we've seen them do business here in washington, you know, for past couple years and past couple decades really. melissa: steve what does that mean, a cobbled together solution look like? they raise taxes on everybody more than $250,000 and put everything else indefinitely into the future. >> yes. i think they pause, they probably pause the sequester. th

. >> and the kumbayah moment, kid rock also ran into look at that our own wolf blitzer right before the ceremony. >> cut and paste that photo. >> wolf tweeted that picture. my invitation must have blown off my desk. >> still ahead this morning on "starting point," fiery danger that's forced ford to now recall two of its best-selling models. we'll update you on that and the race against time to stop america from plunging off the fiscal cliff. obama administration said to lead the top republican in the house flabbergasted. you're watching "starting point." ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. anne's tablet called my phone. anne's tablet was chatting with a tablet in sydney... a desktop in zurich... and a telepresence room in brazil. the secure cloud helped us get some numbers from my assistant's pc in new york. and before i reached the top, the board meeting became a congrats we sold the company party. wait til my wife's phone hears about this. [ cellphone vibrating ] [ female announ

eamon's i think pretty optimistic, but hopefully correct, vision where there's a little bit more kumbayahe. if they're able to do the tax reform and the entitlement reform, say in february and march, i think they could really turn full bore to immigration after that. >> how does the gun control debate play out? and when does it play out, given that you just talked about immigration, we've got to get through the cliff, you've got these other taxes, you've maybe grand bargain issues and obviously guns in an odd way are such an emotional hot topic that you could see that overheating in its own way. >> i think the task force that the vice president is running is going to take a number of months to come up with a set of recommendations, but it can't take much longer than that. i think conventional wisdom which i subscribe to on this one is that time is kind of your enemy in terms of getting something done. >> did the president say he was going to have something in january, though? >> yeah, i think he's going to start talking about something in january. any legislation that crosses the transom