maria cardona and amy holmes are back with me now to talk about this.ver nordqvist. nordqvist and his group are the ones that pushed that no new taxes pledge signed bay majority of republicans in congress. here's what chambliss says. i care more about my country than i do a 20-year-old pledge. he's willing to let the political consequences take care of themselves. raising taxes has been at the center of the fiscal cliff dispute. democrats demanding it. republicans saying no way. so amy, is this a sizable crack in the republican armor? >> we are seeing that the two sides are going to need to negotiate if we don't go over the fiscal cliff. i would point out that patty murray, a democratic senator from washington state says we should go over it, certainly in contrast to the rest of her party. so i think that we're seeing negotiations on both sides. but i want to point out what the fiscal cliff really means. it means the tax rates go up for everyone across the board. if you earn a paycheck, your taxes are going up. that's not just your federal income tax. t

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joining us here in washington, amy holmes, anchor of "real news" on the blaze.ce smith and margaret. terry, what do you make of all the pressing accounts. the number, were they linked to paula broadwell? is it good journalism? >> it's obsession is what it is. it's hollywood on the potomac. hollywood loves a sex scandal. and you notice the way there was an election. are you aware of that? it dropped out of the headlines, out of the news. fiscal news, boring, difficult, numbers no good. so what i was struck by, though, was the obsessive quality of the coverage. i know of one young woman who actually interviewed petraeus at a think tank on the stage. she got a call from "the washington post" saying, did he grope you in the green room. that's fishing. that's a fish iin fishing exped >> have the media been much harder on plaul broadwell and jill kelley than the two generals? >> i should say so. they were the actual public serva servants, the people who were supposed to be putting their attention on running wars, not on parentally this blizzard of e-mails to a doctor'