CNBC MEDIA ALERT: CNBC’S MARIA BARTIROMO SITS DOWN WITH ERSKINE BOWLES AND ALAN SIMPSON, CO-CHAIRS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S DEFICIT COMMISSION, TOMORROW, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH AT 4PM ET ON CNBC’S “CLOSING BELL WITH MARIA BARTIROMO”

WHEN: TOMORROW, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH AT 4PM ET

WHERE: CNBC'S "CLOSING BELL WITH MARIA BARTIROMO"

In a special edition of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" at 4PM ET, tomorrow, Thursday, November 15th, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sits down with Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, Co-Chairs of President Obama's Deficit Commission for a "Rise Above Summit." Simpson & Bowles will give their reaction to the state of the fiscal cliff negotiations. As the markets continue to tumble on what President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have been saying, Simpson and Bowles will lay out what they think needs to get done, in a bi-partisan way, to avert the fiscal cliff and solve America's debt crisis.

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