eric burns from bullfight strategies here with us as a "friend of bill." in this hour. of you guys. >> bill: congressman the big issue of course, everybody is talking about the fiscal cliff the fiscal cliff. john boehner seems to be saying we know what the american people said and we're ready to compromise. but is he really? >> we'll see. show us the money. that's essentially what it boils down to. what he is saying is the right thing. the election was about two things. one is people want us to work together because they know we have to in order to get things done. second, they want revenues to be part of the solution. they really want it. and what -- speaker boehner is saying is that there is maybe some tax code changes we could make that would provide some revenues but the problem with that is it really doesn't add up. that's essentially what the vague presentation was for the romney campaign. >> bill: right. >> in fact, the deductions he was going to eliminate would be things that would whack the middle class pretty hard. so if that's where they're at, we have to -- w

. >> stephanie: eric burns co-founder of bullfight strategies. eric. >> i feel for you but stephanie, i got to tell you, as you know i'm stuck with carl and right-wing world all the time. we live in this strange land. i'm really troubled, i'm really questioning the adjustment of bobby jindel after attacking mitt romney. what he said was all fun and good, but have these guys not figured out that the republican base--they don't like a person of color telling them what to do? >> stephanie: exactly. yeah we're going get to all that later. so much to talk about and we thought all the news was over after the election. mitt romney, wow wow if you thought he was a douche during the campaign, this tells you when he tried to take back the 47% commend comment he didn't mean it. he double downed it there is no difference between the presidential candidate and rush limbaugh. >> when you have bobby jindel saying hey, mitt romney, stop dividing america that's a problem. >> caller: the 2004, 2006 state of the union response where he was kenneth the page in "the

last two years so i think it's a good question let's talk now to our panel discussion now with eric burns co-founder and partner of both fight strategies as well as vince call and he is a senior online editor at the daily caller thanks fellas for joining us absolutely . so we've been talking sort of about the results of what we've been hearing and what it all means so if in fact again this is just m s n b c are projecting that pennsylvania has in fact gone for president obama what does this mean. we all would say that some entirely unexpected pennsylvania. no for president obama if he's going to support that at all it would seem that if i were in the president's camp right now that i would i would be fairly pleased that things are kind of going as planned for them their numbers seem to be strong. is that they need to be winning so. pretty please to be. pennsylvania i mean that's that's a big deal that obama takes pennsylvania but i don't think democrats expected it to be close going into this i mean in the past week or so it began to seem like there was a chance for republicans to take it

confused chambliss terrified now that erick erickson is talking about taking him i got a flash burns reading eric's column this morning. but so i think that what's going to happen is people get twisted up there's a great fever to try to get people to sort of defect chuck schumer put out a press release based on his floor remarks in the senate yesterday saying that certain republicans want a divorce from grover norquist i will tell you no such divorce is happening ok well thank you for the insider report. horace isn't a guy who asks a like that if it were self is not elected official he's a multimillionaire k. street lobbyists and acts asks elected officials to behave in a particular way to swear loyalty to him rather than the constitution isn't he an enemy of the state i don't know that he's a multimillionaire i'm getting in his car i've seen his car then do is house and when i look at the public reports of lobbying activity his name isn't listed but moving from that i think the question us fails to appreciate this fact many republican voters in fact an overwhelming majority of them share the no ta

. >> eric: and it goes to the burn institute. nonprofit to help burn victims and their families. cute kids. >> kristen: that is great. all right. next, dispute between sheriff's. part of his job that he refusing to give up. >> and convenience store that anything but convenient to neighbors in a peninsula community. new direction the battle is taking. >> let's take a look at live doppler. we have light rain falling. moving across the bay bridge, heading towards berkeley, oakland and san leandro. next wave of water is moving towards the peninsula. all of us is going to get wet by 7:00 this morning. forecast, let's start over in south san francisco where we're going to have waves of rain all day today. we will be hover in the 50s. cpxp >> kristen: good morning on this friday. it's 5:30. this is the day you get wet at you wake up. >> eric: i'm eric thomas. let's find out where the rain is. >> good question. live doppler 7 hd. we're watching the rain move right into san francisco, daly city, colma, san bruno, san mateo all the way down to redwood city where it becomes more scattered i

suppression throughout this beautiful country enables romney to oust barack obama, we will burn this [bleep] down. >> eric. >> bob: it's not obama ad. it's michael moore ad. >> eric: moveon.org. pro-obama. are you kidding me? >> greg: she was only 35, too. "red eye" tonight. we have it tonight and a great line-up. we have ann coulter. what? i'm pitching a fox news show that hasn't been on for two nights, bob. so people know. >> bob: i thought i watched it. >> greg: ann coulter and mcginni s. >> dana: you didn't invite me. >> eric: or me. >> greg: what? >> bob: but ann coulter will be there. >> eric: are you invited? no? >> greg: what do you mean? >> i'll bring the candy. >> eric: his other friends. >> dana: this is something i thought i would bring to greg's attention. bbc news reported this morning there is a wine shortage that could follow poor grape harvest this year. overall protucks expected to fall to just under 250 million hector liters. who says america is in decline? america output for wine expected to rise by 7%. so there is a hope. >> greg: thank you for that. >> andrea: okay. so i have an anno

burn 'em then add 'em. good morning i'm terry mcsweeney in for eric thomas. >> and i'm kristen sze.it is going to be cold out there >> what is roger craig's number? >> 33, i think it was. >> who is 44? [ unintelligible ] >> trying to be funny and clever. >> go with what you know. >> that's what i know, stick to weather. good morning. clear this morning, no radar returns, dry air. let's talk about what is going to happen today around the bay, starting off in the 30s and 40s, eventually we are going to make our way up into the 60s. starting off clear, cloud cover rolls in and we'll hit the -- low to mid 60s bay by 4:00. inland fog this morning, temperatures running from the upper 30s to mid 40s. by 4:00, in the upper 40s -- upper 50s mid 60s. can i start over? [ laughing ] >> i haven't even had turkey yet. then we go to the coast mid to upper 40s know, -- now, mid to upper 50s noon, won't be as breezy as it was yesterday. help sue! >> well, i'm here for you mike each and everyday. very light conditions, good news northbound 680 at jacqueline milpitas earlier water main break had off-r

eric rasmussen is in pacheco. >> reporter: heather, just over this wall you can see how badly everything here was burned. firefighters got here quickly, but some worry if the response was any slower it could have spread to other homes and neighbors next door to actually feel the heat from this fire. within minutes flames engulfed this home in the sun valley mobile-home park in pacheco. firefighters got the call just after 11:00 a.m.. neighbors used whatever they could to try to help. >> that tree right there, if they hadn't watered that down, it would have come over and got my home. >> reporter: no one was inside at the time, but next door neighborhood penny kirby who says the woman who lived there with her son lost everything. >> he i went oh, my god, you know? she has been here, maybe ten years. she has lost her husband, you know and now her home. it's like oh, i feel so, so sorry for her. >> reporter: to give you an idea of the intensity of the fire, right next door we can show you where the side of the cooler was actually bubbling from the heat. three engineer companies with the contra costa county f

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eric thomas. >>> good morning. the dense fog advisories with us until 9:00, it won't be burning back until more like 11, 12:00 hours the worst of it is with us now through 8:00, visibility north bay 101 corridor, bridges, overpasses i-80 and 880 reduced to a quarter of a mile or less look at sfo, 1/8 of a mile, a lot of folks stayed over and thought think would make it a longer weekend, mountain view foggy, quarter mile visibility. chilly temperatures on tap, afternoon highs coming down a little, couple dry days before we get big changes. >>> dense fog all around the bay area, specifically on the bridges this morning, this is the san mateo bridge which jut 10 minutes ago you could see clearly now you could see the fog is settling in visibility limited both directs of the san mateo bridge give yourself extra time, keep low beams on that fog is very thick. update on accident in vallejo, now clear westbound 780 at lemon street. looking at our waze app, it does show a lot of the fog around the bay area, our cameras cannot show you atey west or eastbound it is socked in fog, great way to navigate the commute this mornin

apparently eric holder is considering whether he will stay on as attorney general and ray lahood could be leaving the department of transportation. so is this shakeup as simple as cabinet members get burnedn and be replaced or is this a case of something more, julian? >> this is standard in every administration. these are very, very tough jobs. they are very demanding and taxing on a family. i think you see all-stars hillary clinton and tim geithner likely to leave. i think the interesting question, however, is whether the president will look to bring in republicans, people like chuck hagel, colin powell potentially in some of these positions and folks from the business industry, people like president of the xm bank and even michael bloomberg. the real thing i think we want to look for is will the president signal different directions by trying to bring in some republicans and people from the business community as well. >> there have been peripheral discussions whether mitt romney would be among those. is that realistic when the president says he is entertaining the opportunity to talk with mitt romney, might it have been about a cabinet position or is that just, you know, making good wi

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