meredith shiner here from roll call as a "friend of bill."e disagreed with you all week. but i agreed with you today. obama is on it and has been since the shootings last friday. but lisa fox says give it a rest. if you bleeding heart liberals don't like it, then move. we're not going to give up our god given right to the second amendment. you are the reason why we're closing in on end times. say good-bye because you are all going to burn in the lake of fire. well that's tomorrow according to the mayan calendar. i guess lisa must be a mayan. bye-bye. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: good morning everybody. what do you say? it is thursday. thursday december 20. great to see you today. this is the "full court press." welcome to the program. we'll tell you what's go on around this great country of ours and take your calls at 1-866-55-press. and the big news is president obama yesterday announcing a new task force on guns. vice president joe biden is in charge. the president giving them one month to come up with

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weisman daniel day lewis is not that tall ridiculously skinny has short surprisingly gray hair meredith shiner tweeted sort of disrespectful to hold recess subject to call of chair for senators to watch movie when gallery sergeant at arms plus cap police staff have to stay she also said particularly when those are the same people whose holidays might be cut short through no fault of their own. that's right the center require the sergeant at arms and capitol police to work late for the movie screening now little background the sergeant at arms is the largest in size of staff and budget in the senate the capitol police officers had a house a force of about one hundred but it's uncertain how many of them had to work overtime for this movie screening so as senators mingle with the stars others at the capitol are working overtime just in time for the holidays meanwhile congress is embroiled in a debate over how to cut the country's deficit which is in the trillions and how to stop the u.s. from falling over the so-called fiscal cliff the movie magic really cast a spell over congress the hope as rid

. >>> want to bring in david nakamara and meredith shiner. david, i'll start with you. you know, the president coming back for appearance sake as some might say or, you know, when we look at what he can do tomorrow what might he have in the works here? >> richard, i think to get a look at that, look at friday scaling down the proposal. he said i want a big deal ultimately but before the new year we don't have time and probably going to work with senate -- the senate to sort of come up with a possibly smaller stop gap deal. he wants the tax breaks for those under $250,000 and maybe temporary measures to delay the spending cuts or a stop gap measure to buy time after the new year. >> in addition, as a part of that smaller deal you talk about, david, to you here, meredith, there will be extension of unemployment insurance, perhaps also putting off the automatic cuts and as david was noting, extending the tax cuts for incomes up to $250,000. some folks are asking, though, meredith, is this the best they can hope for? >> well, so, right before the president left for hawaii h

. >> joining me now, congressional reporter for roll call meredith shiner and washington bureau chiefusan page. susan, you heard congressman cummings there say he now gives the deal a 70% chance of happening as opposed to a few days ago when it was like 20, is that what you're hearing in washington? >> i think there is increasing optimism, although not certainty that they're going to reach a deal before we head off that mythical cliff at the end of the year. you know, the two people who matter are now talking to one another, john boehner and president obama. all the other players, they have parts in these plays but the central is clearly can these two guys come to a deal acceptable to both of them and then can they turn around and sell it especially for john boehner to those conservatives in the house republican caucus. >> you know, meredith, nancy pelosi childed house republicans on friday for allowing congress to return home instead of debating a deal. take a listen to this. >> this is a moment of truth. the clock is ticking. christmas is coming. the goose is getting fat. but in man

house reporter for the "washington post" david nakamara and congressional reporter for roll call, meredith shinergood to see you. david i'll begin with you. with the president's proposal in part it includes 1.6 trillion in tax hikes over ten years. that is raising rates on the top 2%, those making over $250,000. the proposal also calls for 50 billion in immediate stimulus and 400 million in long term savings from entitlement programs. the gop says this is a wish list for the democrats, that it's a nonstarter. can you explain where we are right now in negotiations? >> lakers, even though we've been about three weeks into sort of serious negotiations now, still sort of at the beginning in terms of the offer. the white house sent treasury secretary geithner up to the hill to present this offer and got the reaction you might expect for a first offer. the white house went for everything here. the revenue the president's asking for is twice what he appeared to agree with zwrjohn r ago. this is the white house saying this is our first offer. we'll take a hard line here and make you come to us. i think t