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Sunday, December 2, 2012
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Transcript: 'Meet The Press' (12-2-12)
Full transcript. Excerpt below:
GREGORY: Mister Secretary, welcome back to MEET THE PRESS. Thanks for having us at the
Treasury Department.
MR. TIMOTHY GEITHNER (Treasure Secretary): Good to see you.
GREGORY: You-- you’re the president’s lead negotiator to avert the fiscal cliff. You have been Capitol Hill. You presented the president’s offer. And it immediately was not received well. It was called by Republican leaders unserious. They’ve accused that president and you of wasting precious time here to avert the fiscal cliff. Was this the intended effect, the president’s first offer?
MR. GEITHNER: That's like the normal political theater of this place. You know, what we’re trying to do is to make it more likely, we come together on a good agreement for the American people. It extends tax cuts for the middle class, brings our long-term deficits down. Tough spending savings is-- is part of that, and-- and invest in things that matter to the American economy, like infrastructure, things to help get Americans back to work. And-- and we think we can do that. We have a good chance of do it now and it’s very important we do that. And I think we’re going to get there, David.
GREGORY: Do you think we’ll get a deal by the end of the year?
MR. GEITHNER: I do. I do because the only thing standing in the way of that would be a-- a-- a refusal by Republicans to accept that rates are going to go-- have to go up on the wealthiest Americans. And I-- I don’t really see them doing that.
Transcript: 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' (12-2-12)
Full Transcript. Excerpt below:
FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria.
We will take you around the world today starting with Egypt. The nation has erupted. We'll explain what the power struggle between the president and the courts means for the rest of the Arab world and the world at large.
Then, China's new leaders, we know their names, but just who are they and what can we expect from them. Is Xi Jinping China's Gorbachev or will he take a hard line?
Finally, the Black Swan; it was a best-seller that some say predicted the economic crisis. Its author, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on his fascinating new book.
Also, the next phase of Europe's crisis, which nations might find themselves split apart? I'll explain.
But, first, here's my take. Yasser Arafat's body has been exhumed for investigation, bringing back memories of the unpredictable Palestinian leader and the Middle East in which he operated.
The news broke at a time when a conventional wisdom began to take hold that the Middle East today is much more dangerous, unstable, violent and anti-American than before. So let's take a look at the facts.
In the 1980s, the newly empowered, radical Islamic Republic of Iran unsettled the region with its promise to spread its revolution elsewhere. Lebanon was in the midst of a bloody civil war that engulfed not only itself but also the Palestinians and Israel.
Iran and Iraq fought a gruesome war with over 1 million casualties. Hezbollah attacked U.S. armed forces directly, forcing a humiliating withdrawal from Lebanon. A CIA station chief was tortured and killed, and U.S. secrets and interests compromised. And that was just in one decade.
Transcript: CNN's 'State of the Union' (12-2-12)
CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Let me ask you, the reaction to your going up on the Hill and saying, hey, this is basically the White House position, has been Mitch McConnell saying, I - I think it was just demeaning for them to ask the Treasury secretary to come up here and give a proposal like this.
And by this, we have people saying it's a sham, it's, uh, you know, ridiculous. It's a non-starter.
When you went up there, you didn't think Republicans were going to go, good idea?
TIMOTHY GEITHNER, TREASURY SECRETARY: You know, what we're trying to do is get these guys to come together, reach an agreement that's good for the country and good for the economy.
CROWLEY: And by these guys, you mean you - you all...
GEITHNER: The Republicans...
CROWLEY: - and the Republicans.
GEITHNER: - and Democrats together.
CROWLEY: And the White House?
GEITHNER: That's what we're trying to do.
And what we did is put forward a very comprehensive, very carefully designed mix of savings and tax rates to help us put us back on a path to stabilizing our debt, fixing our debt and living within our means.
We've been very detailed about how to do that, both from the spending side and the revenue side. And we think this is a good plan for the country. And it - and it does the most important thing, Candy, which is that it gives 98 percent of Americans the certainty they) their taxes aren't going to go up. And it gives us the chance to make sure we're protecting Medicare for future generations and it gives us the ability to lock in a set of carefully designed reforms that put us back on a path to fiscal balance.
So it's a it's a very good plan and we think it's a good basis for these conversations.
Video: Rockaway, Queens Residents Still Suffering 1 month after Hurricane Sandy
Source: Occupy The Polls:
Urgent Call to Action and Bloomberg’s Stealth Visit to an #OccupySandy relief distribution hub in the Rockaways -- http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/2012/12/01/bloombergs-stealth-visit/
New York City’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, stepped out of a helicopter midday Thursday in St. Camillus’ parking lot, ironically an Occupy Sandy relief distribution hub in the Rockaways, Queens. The visit had been kept under wraps and not listed on his official schedule.
Cold, mold loom as hazards in Sandy disaster zones
Cold, mold loom as hazards in Sandy disaster zones - CSMonitor.com
City officials estimate at least 12,000 New Yorkers are trying to survive in unheated, flood-damaged homes, despite warnings that dropping temperatures could pose a health risk. Many families have returned to coastal homes contaminated with mold or filled with construction dust.
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