neil: i think this whole budget thing is looking wak. very, very weak. am telling you that because of this. the details we are getting are not encouraging. welcome, everybody, i am neil cavuto. this is the scene today. they came out of the white house looking like progress is being made. but what we are being told is not entirely encouraging. a lot of talk about tax hikes. in fact, doubling the total amount than what we were been told fore the election. and also more spending. it's hard to believe, but chuck schumeand some others are saying a half trillion dollars for a jobs bill to stimulate the economy. my only reason i'm mentioning this is the election had consequences. but it doesn't get its victors an opportunity to review the facts. they did not give a pass to recognizing the severity of the issue. we are spending and we are spent. now, we are seeing more spending. it is not good. the rebound from pete domenici and craig barrt. what do you say? encouraging or not encouraging? >> i'm on your side, neil. the other half loaded keep taxes flat, you hav

you've got more wak you can around the state to do. see the long lines for early voting. i'm actually going to vote on election day. it feels so retro. >>> welcome back live to cleveland. these last few days have been a homecoming for me. i am an ohio native. raised just outside of cleveland, minutes from where president obama was on saturday and where both sides have been fighting for votes. so here's a personal look at one county at the center of a a political storm where i grew up. welcome to my hometown. it was a great place to grow up as a kid. very much a working class community. it has gone through a number of ups and downs since then. like a lot of towns in the industrial midwest, factories were the life blood. hundred of thousands of people workeded here, including my dad, who was here for 37 years. $12,000 a year and a -- the community of immigrants, my grandfather in fact worked -- now abandoned. this is the downtown, which obviously is still not in great shape. much better than most of the country with an unemployment rate

steve, i want to start with you because it is the president's first day wak back on the job already. there is talk of the fiscal cliff. what's the best way to move the republican party back from the fringes, out of the quicksand and back on solid ground in washington. >> i think the good news for the country is that john boehner and his president actually have a pretty good relationship. they like each other. that's a really good starting point. it's something you don't see in washington these days. and all you see between democrats and republicans is acrimony. i think boehner set a great signal yesterday. i think the person who called boehner yesterday and said let's get back to work is a big deal. >> i want to ask you. do the american voters really get the attention of the gop now? do they send a clear message that misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic candidate es just dot fly. how do they get the party back on track? >> losing does a lot more parties, and spending time in the desert does a lot toward figuring out how to get to water. the republican party obviously has a lot of work t

[laughter] e up ando hours, wak cry. but this time, mitt romney will be there for ohio.se] can i ask all the veterans in the crowd so we can thank them for their service to this country? [cheers and applause] thank you. people are sick and tired of a commander in chief that does not lead. it has allowed a debacle in been where four americans lost their lives and they did not have to. that was a terrible period in benghazi. the president was awol. there were warnings of al qaeda. there were warnings that there were ready two attacks on our consulate. everybody knew. we need more security there. i am hearing from veterans and our military men and women all over the world. they want a commander in chief that they can believe in and trust. that is mitt romney. [cheers and applause] my friends, mitt romney understands the leadership of the united states. he believe we should leave from in front and not from behind. he understands as ronald reagan did the greatness of america and the necessity for american leadership. i promise you that mitt romney as president of the united s