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NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, invited on soon to be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on to discuss today's meeting of Republican congressional leaders with Barack Obama, and in the process tried to force Cantor to move in the President's direction on raising taxes. The Today co-anchor opened the conversation by wondering if Cantor was going into the meeting in the mood for “compromise or confrontation” and then quickly brought up the issue of extending the Bush era tax cuts as he pressed: “Could you not see possibly raising taxes just a little bit?” on those making over $250,000 a year. Cantor responded that job growth and tax cuts were intertwined as he educated Lauer: “We want to make sure that we're doing everything to get people back to work right now and that means we've got to ensure that taxes don't go up on anybody, especially on the small businesses that we're expecting to create jobs so we can finally bring the unemployment down.” read more

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On Today: Matt Lauer Fails to Convince Republican to Go Obama’s Way and Raise Taxes