bill cunningham is a scratch golfer. i don't think he has played that many rounds in a year, have you? >> sean hannity we have is gone over the cliff. we are in the gully. $16.4 trillion of debt on top of us and obama says let's add 4 or are 5 trillion more. we have gone over the cliff already. >> sean: thank you both on what we are are calling america on the brink. the fiscal cliff battle continues right up to the very end. when we come back, former governor bill richardson will attempt to explain where president obama's leadership has been on the fiscal cliff showdown. a hannity one on one shootout and then senator dianne feinstein is introducing a new assault weapons ban and believe it or not she s actually now talking about gun owners being registered and fingerprinted. we will get to that and much more. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it r

it -- >> come together in a tragic moment and start to work together as a unified group-- >>> bill cunninghamcongressmen said that the president should exploit t. we know what ram said, never let a tragedy go to waste. >> compromise means agreeing with me. see, i am a perjury friend of john boehner. i have known him for 25 years. viconversations with him. i am not going to share over national tv those conversations. but he had a promise from obama, if you raise tax rates, i will fulfill my promise of 2 1/2 times spending cuts to tax increases. it took a lot for john to come forward and say, okay, we are going to increase taxes by $twenty1 trillion over 10 years. mr. president, show me the $2.5 trillion in spending cuts and he wants 2 1/2 to 1 to 1 to 1. lanny davis, over the next 10 years, there will be $45 trillion spent by the federal government -- $45 trillion -- you talk about $1 trillion in cuts?! that's ridiculous! >> well, look, i han to agree that we have to do something about this national debt. president obama has put for the first time, against the base of his party, to increase th