apparently not threatening enough for schumer's colleagues. dave rockefeller and hken to say hands off medicare, hands off medicaid, hands off social security. and there eliminates the entire spending issue. so the president himself said to raise the tax burden on the rich, now he wants 1.6 trillion dollars in taxes, but double what he wanted earlier this year and we hear that schumer wants even more. you see where this is going? and now wantso include cuts agreed to last year to count the same as cuts this year. and i think they call that double accounting, double booking, using two books or booking yourself, i don't know, but it is confusing, double this. and democrats say election consequences they do, but don't give the winners their own set of facts. for the life of me i couldn't find a single exit poll on this network or any network that said more spending and more stimulating. i did hear something more worrying, deficits that keep getting worse and a washington that just doesn't work. i will give the president his due, he might have got

senator schumer, let me start with you this morning.ianne feinstein, the senate intelligence committee chairwoman indicated this after the news of petraeus -- do you wish he had not resigned over this? >> i leave this to general petraeus. he's been such a hero in so many ways. i have known him, he's new yorker, i spent time in iraq with him. your heart breaks for him and his wife f he thought it was appropriate to resign, i will leave it with him. >> senator coburn, your thought on that. >> i think leadership matters and setting an example. i don't think he had any choice given the sensitive nature of everything he does that he could have any questions about his character's integrity so i think he did the honorable thing. >> senator coburn, let stay with you, the benghazi questions that bob woodward mentioned. petraeus's own fact finding on this, preparing to testify, both republican ups and democrats as well with a lot of questions about the cia's role, whether there was enough communication, whether there was enough security on the gr

senator schumer, let me start with you this morning.feinstein, the senate intelligence committee chairwoman indicated this after the news of petraeus. "i wish president obama had not accepted this resignation but i understand and respect the decision." do you wish he had not res yind over this? >> i think i would leave that decision to general petraeus. he's been such a hero in many ways. i've known him. he's a new yorker. i've spent time in iraq with him. your heart breaks for him and his wife. if he felt it was appropriate to resign, i leave it with him. >> senator coburn, your thoughts on that. >> i think leadership matters and setting an example. i don't think he had any choice given the sensitive nature of everything he does that he could have any questions about his character's integrity so i think he did the honorable thing. >> senator coburn, let me stay with you. the benghazi questions that bob woodward just mentioned with new information this morning. petrae petraeus's own fact finding on this preparing to testify. both republ

graham and schumer teamed up on immigration back in 2010, and that plan went nowhere.epublicans may have fresh motivation after election losses last week. >>> two newly reported deaths in new york have raised the death toll from superstorm sandy to at least 113. nearly two weeks after the storm crashed through the northeast, residents in new york and new jersey are still clearing debris from their homes and battling the cold. communitying to get a little easier for new jersey residents. the p.a.t.h. train system from new jersey to manhattan will resume at 5:00 a.m. more on the power outages across the region in just a few minutes as well. >>> israel fired warning shots into neighboring syria today effectively telling syria keep that civil war inside your own country. an israeli military spokesman says a mortar shell from syria hit an israeli military post. it's the first time israel has fired on syria since 1973. >>> some people in indianapolis are returning home now after a massive explosion last night tore through a neighborhood killing two people. seven others were

senator schumer, we are so honored to have you here as well and to be part of this record. so, please, you're recognized for ten minutes followed by senator menendez. >> thank you. first, madam chair, let me thank you so much for having this hearing, for your caring and compassion. as you mentioned, you were on the phone with us the minute sandy hit, and, you know, i feel so good about several things in this committee, many things. but the fact that you are chair of the committee and you are such a good legislator and so compassionate about these things gives us some hope. the fact that senator vitter has shown an active role in many areas and has been through this makes us feel good about it. and the fact that both senator gillibrand and senator lautenberg are on the committee as well as senator whitehouse, three states affected by the area, gives us a lot of faith and hope in these terrible times. >> and without taking any time away, so stop the clock, i p want you to know that senator carper also had impacts, and he -- >> yes. >> -- he's on the committee and senator card

new york wants to be and it has been so what chuck schumer is talking about, is imposing higher taxes on capital which is going to make lop done or hong kong the financial capital. it is like nebraska senators voting if higher taxes on corn. it is kind of a crazy thing. >>neil: what do you make of republicans coming into this thing, and it is good to put things on the table and that is what speaker boehner did and some republicans have criticized him for creeding -- ceding a point. >>guest: he said the right thing, we are willing to compromise, we are willing to be flexible on taxes, that was an olive branch and after you lose an election that was an appropriate thing to say. but he and mcconnell laid down the line. they said we will not raise tax rates because this is harmful to the economy and i happen to agree with them i think if we go to tax rates at 45 percent to 50 percent that actually can cause a double dip recession. if that happens, we are not going do have more tax revenues we will have less because more will be unemployed and businesses make small are profit. the problem

charles schumer and lindsey graham say their plan involves a tough love path to citizenship. that plan went nowhere when they teamed up. there may be fresh motivation after election losses. >>> the death toll from sandy climbed to at least 113 with two more deaths reported in new york. two weeks after it crashed through residents in new york and new jersey are still cle clearing debris from their homes. the path rail system into manhattan will resume 5:00 a.m. >>> serious divergent rebel groups are formally united after the pressure from u.s. and arab nations. opposition leaders met in qatar and agreed to call their new group the national collisialiti forces of the syrian revolution. it's considered a final step no order to oust bashar. his group is fighting terrorists bent on destabilizing syria. >>> israel fired warning shots telling syria keep that civil war inside your own country. a spokesman said a shell hit a post today and they are deeply concerned about the potential for he kalejs. >>> israel is ready to ramp up its reaction to recent rocket attacks from gaza. this i

charles schumer and lindsey graham says their plan is a tough-love look at immigration. went nowhere, but republicans may have more motivation after the losses last week. >>> and after a massive explosion last night in a neighborhood, 200 people were evacuated. in indianapolis, the spark damaged 30 homes and damage is estimated at $36 million. about 200 people were evacuated and the federal and the local authorities are still investigating what caused the explosion. >>> in north dakota, no question about it, winter has arrived. parts of bismarck got ten inches of snow this weekend and other parts of the state got as much as a foot and a half. no more snow is expected this week, but the temperatures are not expected to rise above freezing until friday. >>> okay. ever been to a nascar race and a hockey style fight broke out? it happened today in phoenix. take a look at this. there's jeff gordon who got revenge after being clipped by clint bowyer. or boyer. gordon took out boyer's 15 car and then the entire team went after gordon, and you see it there. but gordon's team cam

schumer said he's going to make sure that doesn't happen.id, quote, the state and federal government both classified this storm as a post tropical cyclone, not a hurricane, and insurance companies shouldn't try to alter reality to save money on the backs of homeowners. and, ted, other politicians including governors of new york, new jersey, connecticut, have said they'll make sure nobody has to pay hurricane deductibles for this storm, but the president of the insurance information institute told cnn money the insurance industry isn't trying to charge it and individual insurers like allstate and liberty mutual say their customers will not, i say not have to pay the hurricane deductible. ted? >> good news for them. maribel aver, thank you. >>> if you want to help storm victims in the northeast, logon to cnn.com/impact. you'll find all kinds of information on how to contribute to the relief effort. >>> up next, more than a woman behind the former cia director, holly petraeus, she has stood by her husband for 37 years. and she is a leader in he

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this is senator schumer.a deal to avert the fiscal cliff can, in fact, be reached by christmas. there's a look at the markets right now. perhaps that's what brought the dow back into positive territory. now sits with a gain of 20 points. s&p 500 up one-third of 1%. market's recovering at least part of what they lost during those comments earlier from house speaker john boehner. let's do a market flash now with mary thompson. retail big story today, mar. >> big story. we're watching some of those retail names go down today, scott. a number of retailers actually came in weaker than expected. same-store sales for the month of november including target, macy's and kohl's. all reporting a decline in same-store sales as analysts had been expecting an increase. target, a little more cautious on its comments. macy's saying despite a decline in same-store sales it still expects same-store sales for the fourth quarter to be in excess of 4%. kohl's also sticking with its profit outlook for the quarter as well. expecting

and we can get them back with an effort on our part. >> two years ago, president obama called schumer and graham's proposal a promising framework. >>> the greek parliament has approved an austerity budget for the next year. let's take a look at the early markets. cnbc's julia chatterly is live in london. greece had to do this, despite mass protest in the street. >> absolutely. one difference we saw was there was no reported violence, which is something we've seen over the last few votes. this budget vote did pass. along with the austerity vote we saw last week. and what this means is now, greece is qualified to unblock the next bailout. somewhere around $40 billion worth. this is crucial at the same time we have the eurozone finance ministers meeting today. they're not expected to sign off on the $40 billion worth. why? we're waiting for the debt sustainability analysis. this is a crucial issue, too. greece has warned they could run out of cash as early as this week. we're watching this week as they try to raise cash to bridge the gap in the interim. we try to take it to the brink. tw

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we have issues with senator schumer's specific ideas, but we applaud his enthusiasm. we're trying to get him on the set of key elements of comprehensive immigration reform that are important to us. >> where would you disagree with him? >> a national id card, we think that does not need to be part of the solution to fixing a broken immigration system. >> to you see any republican allies going forward? >> john mccain has always been an incredible on this. lindsey graham has been good. we are seeing more and more interest in the house from people that i think willbroken . make themselves more known as we get into the new year. we are incredibly excited that the coming together of the latino community in this last election has awakened a bipartisan agreement that we need to act on immigration once and for all. we look forward to making it happen. >> what are the odds and we go over the cliff or get some kind of deal? >> i pray to god that we reach an agreement as a nation. the majority of americans need us to. for me, it is about can we get taxes on the table and can we g

jonathan, senator chuck schumer fired back at what karl rove just said there. take a look. >> karl rove's reputation is going to take a significant hit. if cross roads were a business and rove was the ceo he'd be fired for getting a poor return for his investors. >> the senator went on to say that american cross roads will be less of a factor in the midterms. jonathan, is he write? >> he's not at all. we have been talking to a lot of donors. everyone who is disappointed with results fully understands the contribution that we had in the 2012 election. the critical thing that gets lost with all of this analysis is that the president did a very, very good job of raising a lot of money. he outspent by $154 million in tv ads. and mitt romney was buying all his ad time late when meant he was buying higher prices. a lot of the outside groups were balancing out a really good and well-executed campaign by the president. but one where they had a disadvantage. >> i heard that from a lot of republicans that it it would have been worse had the money not gone to places. >> w

charles schumer says being antiimmigrant does not work for him politically. >>> and in san francisco, race for the district supervisor seat remains too close to call. through six rounds of voting, norman yee has 11,945. labor deed leader -- leader crowley has 11,924. that's a difference of just 21 votes. election workers say there are 3,000 provisional ballots to count. >>> we're hearing that some people who registered to vote at dmv offices found themselves not able to vote. the federal motor voter law enacted in 1995 requires the dmv to offer people the ability to vote. >>> a memorial will be scheduled held for david beanie will be sold -- will be held saturday. a memorial ceremony was held last week for strobel at the airport. >> that wreath was laid by president obama at the tomb of the unknowns. he size america will never forget the sacrifices made by veterans or interest family -- or their families. the president praised the 9/11 soldiers. >>> the mission solano shelter is dedicating a flagpole as part of its tribute to homeless victims. one/fifth are homeless victims. a fly ove

the real issue is, as senator schumer highlighted it, it's with this political tool, club if you willwill abbas do with this? and you know if you're an optimist, you say there's a slim possibility here that a re-elects president, potentially re-elected prime minister, netanyahu in the alex wagnelect january, can find a way back to negotiating process otherwise this just reinforces the current stagnation that we have within the middle east peace process. >> in terms of how this affects the men people, on the ground you have a long history here, what is your sense of this moment for palestine? >> well, the war in gaza empowered hamas more than ever. remember a year ago, israel negotiated with hamas, empowering hamas while abbas was submitting his first bid a year ago to the security council israel was negotiating with hamas and releasing 1,000 prisoners. every israeli policy, so far since netanyahu was in office four years has been to negotiate whether clearly or under the table with hamas and empower them and ignore abu mazen. hoping a year ago he will have some kind of recognition, so

i appreciate what chuck schumer said, but harry reid is the leader and dick durbin is the whip. out yesterday and said he's running again and he's not even up for re-election. there is a hierarchy in the senate. it is the place where they send cra crazy legislation to cool off and become better. i think you will find the max baucuss of the world and others that come together and get a deal and get it done quickly before the christmas break. >> you talk about the hierarchy of the senate. let's talk about the star of the incoming freshman class, elizabeth warren. do you see her going on the obama model of things or the hillary clinton model of things to put your head down and be a workhor workhorse? >> i worked there for seven years. senators that come in and do what they're supposed food in their first term, which is sit on the back bench, be quiet and learn everything you can possibly learn and get into that good old boy and women's club, 20 of them, that's a smart way of doing it. the hillary clinton way of doing things, which is coming in and learning and not being a grandstan

. >> just to follow up on that, chuck schumer, senator chuck schumer who some people think run the senate and that may be unfair to harry reid, but schumer is an unspoken guy in the leadership, but he wants to raise tax rates and i can't believe that he's going to go along with obama who, of course, campaigned on raising tax rates and would like to go much further than this fiscal cliff business. >> in particular, he has done things like sort of denigrate the idea that we call loopholes. he says they're social policy and means of achieving certain things so i can't imagine that he's going to stand up and basically say to the republicans in the house, yea, we'll go along with that and i assume that a lot of what they'll do is eliminate some of the tax expendz itexpen expenditures which means taxing the tax expenditure side. >> how long will this common ground compromise atmosphere last? how long before the liberal wing of the democratic party which believes they had a large victory on tuesday want their whatever, ounce of flesh, pound of flesh, social policy, energy policy and economic pol

eliot spitzer, he was quoted by saying how great it was a and chuck schumer one of the sponsors and even critics said this report shows they are spending far too much money on the and a chess so there was the widespread bipartisan end thought that played a very vague role. and a big difference between now and the response to the industrial revolution is people no government and they do not necessarily like it. americans like it less than bet native canadians with the british choosing and a chess as a symbol now i will refer you to another broke called the severed state by a woman who is a political scientist at cornell. what she argues there is a bipartisan deal to hide funding of state services the only way democrats could get state services funded was to farm out. the results is that americans don't recognize government does good things for them. >> the attitude toward the political rats in europe to the extent that you talk to those people do you have the same undercurrent of resentment the game the bear 10 plutocrats got it right? or are they more in my and? >> there is general and t

political side of this, chris, your reporting so far, we've seen speaker boehner today, what chuck schumer had to say, the president's expected to announce that he is inviting all of the leaders to the white house to discuss the fiscal cliff. >> right. i think what we've seen broadly is marking out of territory, with a strong emphasis on willing to work across the aisle. i don't expect president obama to go into specific detail of how he's going to get this done. i do, however, expect kind of this, you know, the election is now over, let us come together tone. and to be honest, i think he does have a stronger hand in this, than maybe even he thought he might have. simply because of the election results. could be looking at 332 electoral victory, larger than i thought, democrats picking up seats in the senate, picking up some seats in the house, not a huge number. if you're john boehner in the press conference he had, one of his lines was, i think we have a lot of work to do as it relates to the republican party. the republican party is trying to figure out what happened and i don't know if

senator schumer was with the president. we saw him in the picture. schumer, you know, the more you read about it, "the nork times" has been good about covering this and the other papers up there. the sense that this isn't a bad week or two or a bad month. >> oh, no. >> this is destruction of homes without any home left. the home thaz are lost, that have been destroyed, talk about it if you can. the whole country. how bad is it? it's like katrina. >> it is awful. it's close to katrina. you know, the first day i flew in a helicopter with the governor in maine and i saw how widespread it was. in the last two weeks i've been going in all the communities. you see how deep it is. it's a combination. there are probably 100,000 homes that have been destroyed. that's 300,000 people without homes. that's the size, you know, that's a middle-sized american city. we have lots of office buildings downtown that can't work. nyu hospital, one of the leading hospitals in the country, all their machines were on the first floor in the basement. hundreds of millions of d

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