up over the cliff. they really do keep creating these cliffs and brinks and crises and then veering to safety right at the last minute, or right after the last minute in the case of the cliff. so understandably, we done panic as much anymore now when they tell us it is a new crisis. everybody just counts on them fixing it at the last minute somehow. can we count on them doing that again? the senate today voted on both a republican plan to not do this thing. that failed 38-62. then the senate voted on a democratic plan to not do this thing. and that one actually got a majority. it got 51 votes. but the republicans filibustered it. so that failed as well.

when i looked up into the cliff, i saw stacks of rock behind a little spall of the cliff that had stuck out and i realized there was a granary up there. i immediately started for it, climbing hand over hand up the cliff base. my breath tasted hot with discovery. i had found a secret. in past travels i had seen many granaries belonging to the anastasi but they had all been broken open by pot hunters or even by the residents themselves. this one had been built so no one would see it, like an attic accessed through a hidden floor. the structure was rectangular, like a cupboard. i touched its face with probing, diagnostic fingers, measuring it my eyes. 3 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep. i got up on my haunches and lightly dusted off the granaries roof which was undamaged. for 3,000 years not a breeze had entered this chamber, not an inkling of light. what tightly woven baskets were here, what woven textiles, what stockpile of cobalt blue and honey-colored seed corn left many years before the boom of spanish rifles. with my fingers i traced through the dust of fallen rock debris on th

say forty years ago is nothing compared to big business i mean you can't compare the two ok cliff what you think about that people calling it an industry. i think it's out of place as well look at it look at me look at me to look at haiti ok for a shake haiti is a good example well it turned into an industry sure you have n.g.o.s competing with how do you know there are injuries try to provide humanitarian relief. you have some competition between them for them to maintain themselves and even grow and i mean it's in that general sense you might see it as kind of an analogy might be to the corporate world but i think david's absolutely right you don't go into n.-g. o. work to get rich and you typically most people would go into it with some very moral or political goals in mind and so that's that's a distinction but yeah good place to look at how you're going to get organizations competing with one another for. growth for maintaining themselves in any kind of context and that's what's happened in places like haiti with competition over relief there or so you know. and everyone is just a

cliff do you think that in jail should get government money paid but the payment i think. i think that n.g.o.s in certain countries are just naturally going to look for government money and i think the key thing is to really have them disclose where their money is coming from and many countries actually do it by or that i think you know calling yourself a non-governmental organization when you receive one hundred percent of your funding from the government is obviously wrong but i think roger many i would call a geo political you raja and you're not an ngo then well ok i think many people will in that situation talk about gun goes government organized n.g.o.s and business organ to n.g.o.s are also a term that's out there obviously just like any other group that's trying to promote itself i think the customer if you will needs to know where of what the organization is saying but i think most of us are and are aware of the fact that you know the groups even private donors are going to have their own biases their own interests and that's what makes n.g.o.s quote unquote polit

well i think that there are two things first of all i would very much echo what cliff just said about the that there are if you will n.g.o.s on both sides of most major issues so the idea that somehow the u.s. government or european union or whatever has bought the n g o x subject seems to be a bit farfetched the second point to make is again cliff i think the issue is is transparency. the international rescue committee to take up a large american relief development and refugee resettlement organization which receives a great deal of money though by no means all its money from the u.s. government publishes where the money comes from every year you know those books are perfectly open nobody is making any great secret of it both the european union but they don't have a do you do they have the political or do they have a political agenda what are you talking about by political agenda i mean is are refugee rights a political agenda if they are then yes they have a political agenda are you know where is the political agenda but if i can just come back to want to raise that i don't want to

ok cliff where should be the nexus between foreign policy objectives and n.g.o.s meet or not meet. i'm not one hundred percent sure i understand a question but if you're asking for instance whether and she owes somehow serve the foreign policy interests of particular countries i'd say some might some might not i mean i think. there are n.g.o.s that clearly have a similar set of goals to those of particular countries and some extent they then help serve those interests if but then again there are many n.g.o.s particularly in the human rights world that are often at odds with the policies both domestic and international of prominent western countries so i don't i don't see them as handmaidens for one another and i don't i don't think that we can say that n.g.o.s are simply tools of foreign policy of particular countries there may be particular cases in which that is the case even where they act as front organizations but many of them truly are independent and critical of governments ok david what do you think foreign policy and n.g.o.s is it a good thing is it a good thing well. i me

there are cliff dwellings that you find up in the alcoves. this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who j

the fiscal cliff, we didn't go over the fiscal cliff. they cut a deal, january 1. they cut a deal on the fiscal cliff. >> to raise taxes. >> to raise taxes so republicans, seven weeks ago, or whenever it was, had to raise taxes. i believe the white house miscalculated or underestimated or whatever you want to call it, the republicans, in saying, ok, they're going to now close these loopholes which is effectively raising taxes again after they just did that seven weeks ago. i also believe that republicans could be in the process of underestimating how this could affect their standing with the public. right now they've got a 29% favorability rating. the president sits, 49%. he's gambling the public will be with him because after all he got re-elected partially on the issue of fairness. >> and he's reading the polls. >> and he's reading the polls and the republicans are saying, you know what, we're on the right side because the public believes the government should be smaller and more efficient. the problem that the republicans have is that this particular slice of th

these are portions of the cliff rotates out to sea. >> when we look at this cliff, can you tell us what of the features that we can see? >> we are lucky to have a very fresh exposure. there is a large overhanging block. at the very edge, you can see the roots coming out. they are part of the problem. in addition, these are sandstone and shale. they have been uplifted and faulted and put into the position they are in today. on the cliff face, you can see the bedding of the shale. there are vertical cracks that filled the water and plans is growing. -- and plants are growing. the cumulative effect of the fresh cut with the debris sitting on the ledge, luckily we have a chance there to protect us from rocks going on the street. >> this is one type of rock salt and we will look at a few others. what will we see? >> i think it would be appropriate. we have been talking about rock salt. there is instability that occurs at telegraph hill. this was more in the earth flow and debris flow kind of movement. this moves downhill as a result of the rations from the earthquake. that is where we are he

the fiscal cliff occurred, but we don't like the tax code it has produced. therefore, we are proposing a new tax code that is more of a progrowth tax code. let's take obamacare, the affordable care act. we don't like this law. his is why we are proposing to repeal the law in our budget. more importantly, we believe that this law is going to collapse under its own weight. please know that when americans see exactly what the law entails, which they have not seen all these details are those of us who work on these oversight committees who know what is going to happen through the provider networks, they are not going to like this law. this is why we are not only repealing this law because we don't think we can afford to borrow $1.8 trillion in extra spending that it entails, we think we can replace it with a better healthcare system. that is also something we are going to be proposing. here is a better patient -- centered system to replace obamacare. this is consistent with everything that we believe in, which is getting rid of obamacare because we think it dest

. >>> and she's the girl whose boyfriend pushed her off the clip cliff. >> on the way down you heard her say -- i'm breaking up with you. >> now see the moment after the >>> a soccer match over the weekend between zurich was won 4-0 by zurich. the real star of the match was this little guy -- >> is that a cat? >> that's a pine marten, which is like a weasel. >> he's not wearing any clothes, he's technically streaking. >> he's totally streaking. as he runs on the field. all of these players are chasing after him, trying to take turns catching him, they can't. but this move from this player -- >> oh! he tackled him. >> it looks like he got bit. >> he grabs it, rolls and as he picks him up, he does get bit on the finger, but he's able to carry him off the field to the side. he weasels his way out of that player's grip and but you know it he's back on the field. >> finally, one of the goalies says i've had enough, he runs after him, whoa, the marten does go out of his hands, but ice got more production than the other player. he runs off the field with this thing and the game continues. >

up over the cliff. they really do keep creating these cliffs and brinks and crises and then veering to safety right at the last minute, or right after the last minute in the case of the cliff. so understandably, we done panic as much anymore now when they tell us it is a new crisis. everybody just counts on them fixing it at the last minute somehow. can we count on them doing that again? the senate today voted on both a republican plan to not do this thing. that failed 38-62. then the senate voted on a democratic plan to not do this thing. and that one actually got a majority. it got 51 votes. but the republicans filibustered it. so that failed as well. in the house today john boehner reiterated his often stated claim that his side, the house, has passed something to not do this dumb thing. when pressed by the press today, though, he did have to admit that his congress has not actually done something in this congress. they passed something last year, in the old congress. anything passed in the old congr

he won on the fiscal cliff, on that kind of argument.ame out and wins the next round on the sequester, i think he will have weakened and fractured the republican house in a way that will clear the way to his being the dominant actor in washington for the next term. >> democrats, republicans, business leaders and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in washington as the sequester, are a really bad idea. >> john: and though the president says he is willing to cut spending, he spends much of his one-hour speech proposing new programs. >> i'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. >> and use some of our oil and gas revenue. >> put people to work as soon as possible on most urgent repairs. >> make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. >> redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates, training and equipping forces. >> and invest in capabilities, reduce waste in war time spending. >> invest in worldclass hacare including mental care for our warriors. >>

melissa: cliff, do you know the numbers?e that information. >> without that study -- melissa: let him finish. go ahead, cliff. >> we have information about the mortgage performance. we're not sure why people have lower default rates, but it's significant. what they care about is minimizing defaults, foreclosures. that's not good nor homeownerrings or banks. what we see here is the energy efficient homes have lower rates, 32% lower. melissa: cliff, what i noticed is the sale price was higher on the energy efficient homes. the average square footage was bigger, maybe those with energy efficient homes have more money buying more expensive homes able to pay the mortgage because they pay the mortgage and are richer? >> well, we're talking about pretty much the same coss -- cost of homes, they are middle class homes, and there's no difference there. the difference is something like 2 # 18461 dollars against 221,000. it's insignificant difference in the price of the home. the difference here is the homes are energy first time, and

. >>> hitting the cliffs of hawaii for extreme cliff jumping. >> what?id he need a parachute for that? >> i mçó4+y?i >>> they tell you don't feed the animals. irpt to see in this case don't tease them. it is mean. got the girls in the car and they have french fries and you have birds at the window come d ing to get them. you notice the window? >> it is closed. >> and the poor birds can't get at the french fries. >> it is a good way to get the window broken. a bird could easily come flying in and shatter the window. >> it is more than just one bird. there is a whole group of them. we know what these birds are doing. they're hanging out waiting for the krispy kreme guy to drop the doughnuts. this is like an appetizer. >> and you wiped the fry all over the window and you wasted one that nobody will eat. >> and it hits the window and flies away. >> bird enthusiasts will not be happy about this nor french fries. >> the guys from the whatever youtube channel keep coming up with just creative weird ways to get girls' numbers, strangers. we saw them once before

you know, this fiscal cliff ended up with this tax increase and the spending cuts that were supposed to be so terrible, there would be the incentive not to do them. but i do hear especially from republicans, they don't want a government closure. that did not work out well for them in the mid 1990's. so there is a pull-back. but there are a lot of hurdles to make any significant changes beyond this. gwen: i'm curious though about this revenue issue because in some ways, one of the things that john boehner, the house speaker came out and said that it's off the table that there would be anymore revenue. from the short run he's right. >> it certainly looks that way. but what's intriguing that the administration's response is let's not try to move around the immovable object of speaker baner or the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who is dead set against that. that's why you set the outreach to paul ryan, the chairman of the budget committee perhaps in hopes of maybe doing an in-run around the leadership. gwen: does what happen in washington matter when it comes to wall street or wh

. >> i can jump off high cliffs and small cliffs. >> the kid snippets are super funny.e kids the scenario and asks them to talk about it and use their imagination and they film the interaction and take the audio and have adult actors act out what the kids say. >> do you want to do it? >> i want to do it. >> why are you so, so scared? >> in this case they chose devan graham and richard char, one of board shorts tv regular actors. >> this is brilliant, to see de devan like this. >> the crossover is very appealing. >> fun to hear him count down. >> 3-2-1. >> and of course there is a behind the scenes video as well. they shot this at a park called thanksgiving point and you can see they're not exactly on the edge of a tall cliff. >> i am waiting for devan to jump off a cliff once. >> yourturn. episode is super o it. funny and the behind vane is interesting. click on best of rtm to see it all. >> what do you get when you rig up this many go pros and people doing awesome stuff. looks like something like 16 or 17. >> watch the cool stuff you can do when you have a guy going of

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. >>> and we showed you that video of a guy pushing his girlfriend -- >> off a cliff! >> we were all mad at him for having done it. >> i broke up with him over this. >> now find out if she did. we have the whole story. one made me yosemite sam mad. i was so irritated when i saw this helmet cam camera from jean paul, a motorcycle rider in las vegas. it's bumper to bumper traffic. the car to his left is putting on its right hand indicator. jean paul slows to let that car in. watch what happens. he gets rear-ended. watch who comes up to greet him. >> no. it was not the cop who rear-ended him. >> the cop did rear end jean paul on the bike. listen to the cop's reaction. >> you always hit your brakes like that when someone changes a lane? he was way up there. getting this on film because i am? >> yeah. >> because i got your brake lights and the car clear up there. >> yeah, because i wasn't sure he saw me. >> because you're clear over only white line. >> right. you understand that, right? for my safety. >> no, you stay up with traffic. you don't hit your brakes when somebody

you mention the tax increases that came from raising rates in the fiscal cliff debate and include $716 billion in medicare cuts through obama care that you opposed in the last campaign. question, is it fair to say that at least those parts of the president's policies make it easier to balance the budget? >> it is fair to say that. what we also say is end the raid of med did he care from obama care. all that money that was taken from medicare was to pay for obama care. we say we get rid of obama care and end the raid and apply the savings to medicare to make it more solvent and extend the medicare trust fund. the fiscal cliff is current law and that is not going to change and we propose progrowth tax reform and we think with the current revenue lien w line wed have a system to bring all rates down. good for economic growth and creation and taxpayers by having less loopholes. stop picking winners and losers. those things are still achievable and we achieve that in the budget and do reflect the realities that you just mentioned. >> chris: in the last budget you cut spending $5 trillion ov

because when you fall off a cliff you die unless the real little cliff so that's that's part of the impact of what all of this is going to do. so the the. the group the you have the s.b.a. yes small business advisory council in chicago. you are. working with the the possibility of rolling out the ability of small local companies to do crowd funding and yes flowing with this is yeah well with with all of the uncertainty that's out there and with the great difficulty that small businesses have getting access to capital and we have twenty banks in the s.b.a. see and the bankers on the ground they do want to land but sometimes it's very difficult for them crowdfunding was in the jobs act there were a lot of things in the jobs act but one of the things in the jobs act would allow small business owners to raise up to a million dollars from their community from their friends from their business associates it would empower us in small increments to raise money it would create competition for the banks and for large venture firms and really allow us to take matters into our own hands we cann

and tax increases. >> the fiscal cliff was a classic example.hat happened? >> you keep putting these things off and another election came up. >> the 2012 election settled nothing. they re-elected president obama but let republicans keep control of the house. like it or not a divided nation left government by crisis a second term. >> with one crisis averted and another on the way the president speaks to the nation. e lobster m or new grilledobster and lobster tacos. come in now and sea food differently. visit redlobster.com now for an exclusive $10 coupon on two lobsterfest entrees. >> welcome back. you have seen how president obama used fiscal crisis to maneuver republicans. taxes went up. the sequester the long threatened budget act was postponed. the fractured gop failed to have a winning message or strategy. we resume ors on february 12th. lawmakers are taking a chance to make their own point ahead of the president's big speech. >> we have to get spending under control. ron johnson of wisconsin questions budget director officer. don't tax inc

the house democrats during the fiscal cliff deal were uncomfortable with some the things that president obama put on the table in cuts in medicare and medicaid and changed cpi. if there is a budget deal, are those things that the president put on the table things the house democrats could get behind? >> we're willing to talk about it. the president has put some proposals on the table. some are not on the table in terms of his budget. raising the age for medicare. i think that is very troublesome. when you look at it, what is going to happen to the people will no longer be covered? half of people retire before 65 today. even more retire before the age of 67. the president has put some ideas and we are unwilling to talk about entitlements. the problems with what republicans are republican, it is kind of the same thing. this cannot happen. the public does not want it. in terms of medicaid, i do not know it is understood how much of medicaid provides long-term care for people. to simply say take all of this money and ship it to the states under cut an important part of the purpose of medica

and tax increases. >> the fiscal cliff was a classic example.hat happened? >> you keep putting these things off and another election came up. >> the 2012 election settled nothing. they re-elected president obama but let republicans keep control of the house. like it or not a divided nation left government by crisis a second term. >> with one crisis averted and another on the way the president another on the way the president michael, tell us why you used to book this fabulous hotel? well you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it, and i got a great deal without bidding. and where's your furry friend? oh, i don't have a cat. now you can save up to 50% during priceline's spring hotel sale use promo code spring for additional savings on all express deals, including pet friendly hotels. express deals. priceline savings without the bidding. you know, from car insurance companies shouting, "save 500 bucks over here!" "no, save 300 bucks over here!" "wait, save 400 bucks right here." with so many places offering so much buck-saving, wh

time to have a cliff, a fiscal cliff or slavery cliff where you say this cannot go on. the greatest presidents came to that cliff and did not let us fall over. host: tell us about the event taking place today and who else will be there today. guest: steve from this network will be an interlocutor after the screening of the movie. some elected officials from the district, some television folks from other networks will not mention. it should be a nice crowd. we will see the film. i bet most of the people coming have seen it twice or more. then we will have a discussion. host: harold holzer, thanks for being on the program. now we want to take a look at >> a house divided against itself cannot stand. [applause] i believe this government cannot endure permanent half slave, half free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved. i do not expect the house to fall. i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other, either the opponents of slavery shall arrest the further spread of it and the public mind one of that in the course of altman dis

cliff, you want to see him at guantanamo. justice department though put out this statement last night. the it said the president's policy is clear on this issue, the administration is seeking to close guantanamo, not add to its population. why can't justice be served in this case outside of guantanamo? >> well, a number of robeeasons. he's been read his rights, his right to remain silent. he is somebody we very much should have been able to interrogate thoroughly. he's been living in iran. al qaeda has an agreement with ir iran. al qaeda has what's called by the administration a facilitation network in iran. we needed to know from him exactly what are the relationships between al qaeda, our terrorist enemy, and iran, the leading sponsor of trim in the world. we may never find this out from him now. secondly, it's very important to say this. we are now giving him every right that an american citizen has under the constitution. every right. we are treating an unlawful combatant, not just an enemy combatant, an unlawful combatan

tonight were you watching us ok first all the talk going to this year fiscal cliff just about avoided put off again pushed along but now tonight those big cuts a looming absolutely well as of last year will officially entered the air of permanent fiscal paul. see crisis in the united states so essentially a way of cutting the budget which was part of of waiting raising the debt ceiling that in turn was part of avoiding the fiscal cliff on new year's day so it's all related it was again as usual it's pushed to the wire a bit of hope some of it may be some deal could be brokered but the talks you absolutely it's over so all the details helping you make sense of all of this in the business bulletin just after the storm already you. we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. the program says documentary some spanish what matters to you. but what will turn it to angola's stories. here. altie spanish to find out more visit actuality tito is calm. mission free. education free. or charge free. range three. three. three. old free board video for your media project c.e.o. don c

we have some revenue increases with the fiscal cliff discussions. now the president is saying i want some more revenues, and both probably have legitimate positions in their own ways, but they are just talking to each other and not getting it done. there is nothing to replace it with. our fiscal situation is not sustainable. tavis: there are two or three things. in no particular order, you reference the fiscal cliff conversation in january. i could not have asked this question a couple years ago when you were in the fdic's share. your mind, how much of this is about politics? that is to say the president was reported to have clean the clocks of the republicans in the fiscal cliff negotiations, and everybody knew then when it came to this point, the republicans were going to look to exact some revenge, so we are asking whether or not you see politics all over this. >> i did see politics over this. i think politics are on both sides. there is legitimacy as well. i think the republicans are right. you need something on the spending side. democrats are

i think it dealt with the fiscal cliff. a few other bills. but in general, what we've talked to our leadership about is let's work to get majorities for legislation using working with conservatives, uniting our confreps. and then submit those ideas and those bills over to the senate and make the senate actually do their job for once. the senate hasn't produce add budget in four years. legally they're required every year by april 15th to pass a budget. they haven't done that not once in the last four years through the no budget no pay act which was support bid conservatives, we actually shamed the senate into now having to do a budget. so they're going to do one and we'll be able to contrast our budget with theirs. i think you'll see our budget pass not only with a majority of republicans but it will show that we're serious about getting our fiscal house in order. >> staying with our premise. why do you have your own budget? why does the republican study committee have their own budget if you want to united front get behind paul ryans budget.

. >>> a little girl stumbles on the edge of a cliff. >> oh, my god! >>> a family's roof gone with the wind. >> it sounded like an explosion. >> whoa! >>> one bungee jumper's cord wraps around his neck. >> i saw my life flash before my eyes. >> another's snaps. slamming him into the water. >> i was the most scared i've ever been in my life. >>> inches away from disaster, seconds from death. >>> hello. welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. every day we go about our daily routines never thinking that at any moment we could suddenly find ourselves in harm's way. not much feels as ordinary as a trip to the convenience store, sightseeing in the park, or even filling up your gas tank. but as one ohio man discovered, trouble could be lurking just around the corner. a carpenter filling up his gas tank suddenly finds himself pinned to the ground, surrounded by flames. >> it was the lunch hour so i'm more so on the cashier's desk then, and that time is pretty busy. >> laura works at the sunmart gas station in munson township, ohio, and loves her jo