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joining us "time" magazine columnist joe klein and former reagan speechwriter, peggy noonan. plus forme clinton press secretary dee dee myers, a contributor to "vanity fair," and michael duffy, executive editor of "time" magazine. welcome to you all. you just heard the reporting from our two correspondents and the two senators and, joe, it sounds like-- surprise, surprise-- they haven't reached a deal yet and the idea of going over the cliff is a real one. >> yeah, but they will reach a deal. it may not be in the next 48 hours. it will be in the next couple of weeks, and we should always remember, with all of this crisis talk going on, that what's about to happen say return to the clinton tax rates of the 90s, which when they were imposed in 19 network everybody predicted a big recession, and what we had was a big economic boom. so there are really negative aspects to going over the cliff, especially for the very poor, and there's going to be a lot more chaos in the pentagon and throughout the government because contracts, but, still, it ain't that huge, i don't think. and i

roundtable with newark mayor cory booker, anti-tax activist and nra board member grover norquist, peggy noonan of "the wall street journal" and katrina vanden heuvel from "the nation." >>> hello, again. the president and congress are off for christmas fleeing a capitol filled with political rancor and political dysfunction. fiscal cliff talks have completely collapsed. questions about the president's new national security team has forced him to announce the appointments piecemeal and the nra's first response to the tragedy in newtown provoked a fierce debate. we'll cover that starting with the nra's choice to lead a national effort to protect schools, former congressman, asa hutchinson. good morning, mr. hutchinson. thanks for joining us this morning. >> hi. >> you emphasized at the press conference friday you will be independent. but as you begin your effort, this national school shield, initiative, i wonder if you agree with the analysis of the problem laid out by wayne lapierre who says americans have to face this truth. take a look. >> politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones, and i

megyn: peggy noonan talks about the possibility that more and more parents will choose to homeschoolren now out of fear. liz stern, your thoughts on that? >> i don't think that, we might see that for a little bit but i don't think that is something parents are going to be doing for the long run. keep their kids in regular school. megyn: keep them in regular school? >> keep them safe where they're supposed to be. the schools will make regulations and they will start to put in some practical, laws or things that they really need to do to prevent this from happening. megyn: we had the nra come out today and call for armed police officer at every school. i don't want to make this a gun debate because we've already done that, but would that make you feel better? bring you some comfort? t.j. mccormick? >> that makes sense to me in literal level. we put armed guards to protect banks. we have armed guards at airports. the thing jarring all of us and keeping a lot of us up at night what happened to these little babies, these babies. if we won't protect babies the same way we protect money wha

peggy noonan, a republican a fair-minded person not always a partisan observer, was on talk shows yesterday and here is what she said about people who do decide to buy guns. >> they also have guns because they are afraid. they think their society and culture are very frail and in trouble. they think some day they may be on their own. they want guns to protect themselves and protect their families. i think that has to be respected and not denigrated. >> don't you agree that the right to choose to buy a gun has to be respected? >> well, the difference between guns and an assault weapon ban. >> but peggy was talking about all-- >> yes, and there's a right to have a constitutional right to have a gun, but the court decision also was that reasonable restrictions on ownership of guns are permissible and talked about reasonable restriction. >> isn't that the type of person who buys the guns and making sure the checks are done as they should be? >> that's a whole different issue with the checks and right now i was embarrassed to watch the congress earlier in the year take up a bill, ban the bill se

then we'll look forward to 2013 with an all-star panel include peggy noonan of the "wall street journal." dee dee myers of "vanity fair." "time" magazine's executive editor michae michael duffy, and also "time" columnist joe klein. and we'll hear from major garrett and nancy cordes. >> you going to get a deal today, sir? >> hope so. >> o'donnell: it's all ahead because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. substituting for bob schieffer, cohost of "cbs this morning," norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good morning, again. tom coburn and dick durbin are here, and we'll turn to both of you in just a moment. but we want to start with some new information from chief white house correspondent major garrett and congressional correspondent nancy cordes who are here. i know you have both been speaking with your sources this morning, and, nancy, what's the latest? >> reporter: nora, democrats will at this point are very pessimistic that leader reed and leader mcconnell will be able to strike that deal that they were

"wall street journal's" peggy noonan, "republicans need to talk." 's just dissolved slowly into peggy's column. could we have some music? no, that doesn't work. no, let's try that again. i want to dissolve. you don't have to set the stage here, t.j., because i've told everybody. you don't have to show -- here we go. if we could have a little mood music, too. peggy noonan in "the wall street journal," "republicans need to talk." >> cinematic. >> no timing. it's fast. always too quick. yeah. so now it's time for today's "must-read op-ed." and let's go to "the wall street journal" and peggy noonan. >> another dissolve. ah. >> that was nice. that was nice. >> great. >> that was. right now, everyone's open to the idea of change. the party can either go the way of the whigs or they can straighten up and fly right, get serious and make their philosophy feel new again and pick candidates who can win. but party leaders should -- come on, guys. i'm reading a serious column here, don't laugh. everything moves faster now. there's no particular need to let positi

afterall everybody from peggy noonan to karl rove assured them they would be in the white house by this time so they're understandably shock and distressed and poor speaker john boehner is hopelessly stuck in that stage. his is, of course, willful denial. a stubborn refusal to recognize reality are. but it is denial nonetheless. today, he dug in his heels. he refused to budge. he released a statement blaming the president for the impasse saying "we don't have time for the president to continue shifting the goalposts. we need to solve this problem." in fact, his approach all along has been to deny reality altogether. his plan is essentially a rehash of mitt romney's. closing loopholes to raise revenue and remember, mitt romney lost. and democrats of course, rightly are calling him out on it. representative sandra levin who released a statement yesterday saying that republicans "remain in a state of denial." well, here he is on monday, going even further. >> the republicans have a major decision to make. and that is essentially who's running their party? is it norquist? is it the people w

. >> karen, peggy noonan is advocating much the same, actually, in the "wall street journal" saying do something, do anything, but do it now. >> absolutely agree, and i think it's critical. the "new york times" wrote a great piece over the weekend about some of the members that the department of justice looked at after aurora that can be done without congress, that the president could take action on this week if he wanted to. i hope that that's part of the conversation that is going on in the white house about sort of looking at steps going forward. here's the thing that i think the reason why we have to press the action now is we do know this game from the nra. they're going to be quiet. they're going to come back. they're going to start knocking on those doors again on the halls of congress, and that's exactly what they do. i also think we need -- i wrote a piece for the hill today, reframe this conversation because when we talk about gun control, that plays into the right-wing paranoia narrative about, you know, they're going to take your guns, obama is going to take your guns. we c

the great peggy noonan written speech where ronald reagan showed that leadership is really important.t gettysburg but mainly a statement of political philosophy. now i think we would have a hard time electing a president not pretty good on this these on horrible occasions. think of something that happened in johnson's presidency. these "apollo" astronauts died on the launch pad and there was no national sharing experience like what we saw last night with the president at the center. nowadays there would be. >> well, now we have to see whether there's action as comfort. >> indeed. >> michael, thank you so much. thank you for your tweets, my friend. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow, special guest nancy pelosi. also former white house chief of staff john podesta. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next. hi, tamron. >> hi, andrea. remembering the young victims. just today two of the children killed in the massacre friday have been laid to rest. we'll tell you more about them, what they meant to their friends, their family and so many others.

and peggy noonan had a call the other day about that, would we all be satisfied if we solved the fiscalg-term , basically we were taking 50% of the g.d.p. and spending it? we would say at least we have stability. at least we're paying for it. we don't care that we're taking after of all the money in the country. >> senator, i would say that to our discussion this morning, it's about the quality of what you're getting. ers kin bowles is famous for saying, you spend this money on health care but what do you get for it? we don't rate on any of the rankings. what do you get for it? >> is the continued left movement nevitt -- if the continued left movement is inevitable, we might as well figure out a way to deal with it. >> i'm not sure i'm in that camp. >> every time we talk about the cacks code -- tax code you talk about revenue neutral. what if somebody said, we'd like to get revenue out of that. that happened in 1986. >> simpson bowles $1.1 trillion in deductions and exceptions annually to reduce rates to $100 billion an reduce debt. >> the corporate world has, i think, very much in the