dr. frieden? guest: most reactions to eggs are not actual the other's reactions. and this to develop hives or have trouble breathing, you should not worry. host: democrats line. laura. caller: i'm a 49-year-old african american. back in the day my parents used to give me this thing called father john. they made sure they gave us our vaccination, however i have learned that bad stuff builds up in -- that stuff buildup in the immune system. i also take cod liver oil. my daughter thinks that is the worst stuff, but she has never had the flu. i think sometimes we forget there were things we did not have in the past, and the things that people were taking to keep people alive, and just with the air we breathed now, it is dangerous. people could reflect on some of the things that old people take back in the day, like cod liver oil, which is still very cheap. you can build your immune system at an early age because he did not have to worry about the flu shot later on. i have a 16-year-old was never had t

dr. thomas frieden is encouraging people to get vaccinated.ing this year's flu vaccine is a match with the strain that has been circulate l and it's been 487 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? got some good news from automakers. november was the best month for u.s. auto sales since january 2008. >>> our fourth story, showdown. house speaker john boehner today gave president obama a taste of his own medicine, putting out his own proposal for avoiding the fiscal cliff. i spoke with tom coburn this hour and he said the deal boehner's put on the table is the best compromise out there. listen. >> i'm certain that if this is not good enough for the white house, we will go over the fiscal cliff. >> if you read though, the boehner proposal carefully, no tax rate increases, which we know is a nonstarter for the president. so where does that leave us? john avlon is here to help us read through the lines of the deal, also crunch some of those numbers. first, we're talking about the $800 billion figure. that'

dr. thomas frieden. he's director of the centers for disease control in atlanta.n the new test and the old test? >> really, the new test is both good news and bad news. it will be quicker for doctors and patients. it will identify potentially even more org natianismorganism could lose what allows the track of the spread of germs or that what one person has is linked to what another person has and because of that, it may allow us really -- it may prevent us from identifies outbreaks and stopping them early. >> so is that really in advance? >> well, as i say, it's both good news and bad news. it's better in the short term for an individual doctor, but it's going to create new challenges, and we're working with the companies and with the food and drug administration to try and make sure we don't lose that critical information that would allow us to identify outbreaks early and stop them. >> does the cdc have a position on all of this? >> well, what we'd like to do is as new technologies like this are introduced, we don't have unintended negative consequences. at cdc