george bush. joining us to analyze from washington, john, the director of communications for the american cross roads a republican group. and in studio, bernard whitmanmocratic strategist. jonathan, let me start with you. mr. obama was very quick when he was running for president to point the finger at george bush talk being $4 trillion added over an eight-year span. in three years, obama added more than that number on to the debt. go ahead. >> yeah. it's kind of reminiscent of when the president, when avenues senator from illinois, he had voted against extending the debt ceiling. multiple votes in congress when he was a senator and then he came back to congress when he was president and asked them to extend the debt ceiling. i don't think the president wants a fight over this. i mean, i think that since the stimulus passed in 2009, there has really been an absence of coherent economics and jobs policy coming out of the white house. what we've seen, especially recently, is we're not even seeing the economists dishing out the economic policy. it's coming from the political guys in the west wing and from his campaign operatives in chicago. last week we

inside, you'll meet 90-year-old owner george whitman and his 21-year-old daughter sylvia beach whitman. george whitman has provided lodging in his bookstore for aspiring writers since the early 1960s. >> the bookstore started in 1950 when my father was living in paris and he -- he fell in love with paris and he decided, you know, he wanted to stay here, and he found this place and he came to some inheritance and he decided to buy this start which only started as the ground floor next door, not including the other floors. and so 1950 and then it was renamed shakespeare and company in, i think, 1960 or the early 1960s, after silvia beach's sylvia and company. she's the lady i'm named after. >> who was she? >> sylvia beach was a very incredible person, she's very determined. she is famous primarily for publishing james joyce ulysses. and there's a wonderful book sylvia beach and the lost generation which i'm reading at the moment and it describes her contact with the lost generation and what her bookshop was like. and her philosophy which i think my father has continued to an extent helpi