good for the economy. >> tarp, tamp, hamp, hemp, all the programs -- >> bret: i don't think there was ron paul is on that one. >> hemp. the item is the president has to give appearance of action in motion. we saw it in the "state of the union" address. there is nothing large he is proposing. a huge overhang in debt. it's the appearance of motion which is what a president wants. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see one interesting project from the white house science fair. jooz ask. >> bret: finally tonight, president obama spent some time this week touring the white house science fair and was particularly interested and impressed with one project, an air cannon that the student inventor says shoots marshmallows. apparently it might come in handy on the campaign trail. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. i think. [ laughter ] >> terrible problem with jobs. whoa.

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again, and everybody live inside over-sized hampster balls, and i mean the plastic ones, not actual hamp sters' balls that-- why don't i let the man finish his report. >> internal health officials say the best way to protect the public is release the research. >> the world health organization will release full details now of two studies on the bird flu. >> jon: what? wait, what? release the research on how you mutated the bird flu virus to us? have you met us? ( laughter ) we can't be trusted with that information. we can't be trusted with an electrical outlet and a fork. you know why there are little pacpactets of silicon gels this that come with your shoes say, "do not eat on them," because we would eat them. to be fair the information was going to get out soonerrer later. you know if they tried to keep the information secret it would have wound up on wikibeaks, the wikileaks equivalent run by penguin assange. ( applause ) that really felt more like pity than anything else? ( laughter ) come on! releasing the information on how you mutated that virus to the public? what do security exp

we have tried the home affordable modification program, hamp. we have tried the home affordable refinance program, h.a.r.p., and then the hardest hit fund. what makes this most recent attempt to help homeowners different? >> this is a hard problem and the housing market is starting to stabilize and it's a mix. it needs a lot of work. i think the settlement last week is an important settlement. that will get the money out to approximately 2 million homeowners to help with modification and refinancing. the program that the president just announced which takes advantage of one of those charts that we talked about earlier, the historic low interest rates, we have too many homeowners paying interest rates above the rates. yet they're stuck and they're current and in the president's program which he announced, will allow those folks, both gse, those mortgages that are owned by fannie and freddie and non-gse holders to refinance and take advantage of the historic low rates. >> i applaud you for this. what is the source of revenue you're going to use to

the so-called hamp program provided 1.8 million trial loan modifications since develop but 700,000 homeowners could in the keep up payments. the president's reify plan could help some homeowners. >> you might not get the 4-1/4 rate because there is mortgage insurance or faa premium tacked on. if you are at 6.5 or 6-3/4 24 could be a great deal. >> election year politics may determine if the republicans sign on to the plan if they want to help voters in the key states hit hard by the housing crisis. >> are the debt negotiators closer to a second greek bail bail-out? >> more protesters as they discuss the spending cuts. they are looking at 22% reduction in minimum wage over there. 20% cut in pension. talks reportedly stalled. >> bret: thank you. the dow inched closer to the 13,000 mark gaining 6 today. the s& s&p 500 was up 3. nasdaq finished ahead 12. a lot of workers who pay union dues do not want to invest in the political causes. they do not personally suppor support. chief national correspondent jim angle tells us they are beginning to get help from elected officials. >> the issue is simpl

a whole industry of people that can capitalize there's doggie diet pills there and obviously that hamps would really quickly let's john boehner the speaker of the house we all know that he likes to tantalize think like. if you do when you become speak you will probably have the deepest hand of any speaker in american history there's actually been a poll out in your state of ohio saying thirty percent of the voters think you spend too much time on your ten and twenty seven percent don't like it is this something you have to go there ababil you weren't there yesterday when i was called in my group. mad well all jokes aside the indoor tanning industry is political action committees contribute five thousand dollars to speaker john major's campaign i like it they should you support them why wouldn't they support him is there a better model is that america right there a man with a fake tan and people paying money to congress to keep that industry go yeah i think clearly agreed are you guys thanks so much for joining me tonight that's it for tonight so thanks for tuning in make sure to come ba

the latest victim was found stabbed to death on hamp road on wednesday. michael wyatt turned himful into police yesterday. he previously served ten years in prison for the other killing. tonight he is being held in a cell by himself. >>> forensic teams will resume the search for human remains in san joaquin county after the rain lets up. over the weekend crews found 300 bones near the former home of one of the so-called speed freak killer who's went on a massive induced killing spree years ago. we talked with a dna expert about the identification process. >> this is probably the worst kind of situation to try and get dna results out of. >> reporter: 300 bone fragments have been uncovered so far. giving grieving families new hope they'll finally have closure after their loved ones were murdered by the speed freak killers. but according to bob blazer, identifying the remains will be extremely difficult. as a member of the oj simpson dream team, he is known ash the world for his -- around the world for his knowledge in dna and continues to testify as an expe

now i think the president is on his fourth -- they give them different names like ramps and hamps and all these according ad none have worked. one of the things they could do, again, in my view, is looking for relief for people who close to being able to afford to stay in their houses by reason of their income and foreseeable income. we could work on that. but it's still very tough here. >> i'm always curious, in terms of what a president romney, a man you endorsed or president santorumer and president paul or president gingrich, you have a republican house and senate, you are much more likely to get what you want. in light of the fact there's a high probability the senate will remain democratic, what difference does it truly make to have a republican president on something like housing? >> well, i think, first of all, the federal government can do enormous things. unfortunately many times without the approval of congress. the second thing is if government it going to restore housing most quickly, it is an economic recovery and we all know there is a slow recovery going on now. why is

district attorney says the 67- year-old collins was a thief, who stole at least $1.2 million from the hamp di -- archdiocese of new york. her attorney, howard simmons, says its client is sorry. >> she's incredibly remorseful and ashamed. and i'm told at the arraignment that she has made a full confession. >> reporter: collins worked as a clerk at the archdiocese for nearly eight years. she allegedly wrote over 450 checks and plailingsed it in her son -- placed it in her son's account. each check was under $2500, which meant she didn't have to get approval from officials. joe swilling is a spokesman for the church. >> she was very careful in how she did this. as the d.a. said, this was a sophisticated fraud. >> reporter: collins lived a modest life, sharing this apartment in the bronx with her daughter. but police removed paintzings and box -- paintings and boxes, with collectible dolls. prosecutors say she spent more than $37,000 on clothing from barney's and brooks brothers. $18,000 on bloomingdale's. and $19,000 on an irish gift shop, all while earning less than $50,000 a year. >> collin

one of them is this one, hamp, home affordable modification program. 2009 february.as designed to help 4 million member. helped less than 1 million people. a month later we got this other program that was supposed to help 5 million people refinance. also helped fewer than 1 million people. the administration's response to this is that they force the banks to do things to set up systems that would help people and that the banks did a lot of these remodifications on their own. so the numbers don't indicate the success of the programs. but in fact they were more successful says the administration than the numbers will prove, john. >> says the administration, ali. a lot of democrats, not just republicans, complain and say these programs were miserable and didn't work. are the rules of what the president poe poses now different enough that there's reason for optimism or do we not now? >> they think it applies to a broader group of people, so they should be able to get more people into the program. again, they always think that's going to happen. whether it actually happen

sense that romney has been uncomfortable with the message he's had to sell for the last year and a hamp's running -- he's having to run in a way that wouldn't be ideal for him. where his comfort zone is. he's sort of a republican technocrat. and he can't run that way. i feel like all of this has -- and that's what gets these weird ad lib moments. >> let me try this. you are a fair man. both of you are. suppose he was in a board room with a bunch of other people and talking, about we own a couple of kafd lacks. i like firing people. certainly sounds right among that crowd. he's used to talking to people with a lot of money or people under him who are used to the fact he has a lot of money and comes from a lot of money. now he's throughout trying to sell himself as joe six-pack. what do you say? it's not translating. >> there is and has always been for romney a disconnect issue. and there's two dynamics in this primary caucus process. you have had notional voters. the notional voters have gone after every front-runner. michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain. the notion of someone who i

i am dealing with this hamp program from bank of america and they always lose the paperwork.it finally went through. i am disabled. the added income tax on my income where there is no income tax at all. $7,300 a year they added to my income. they said by law they have to, but how can they pull money out of thin air and put it on to somebody's income? guest: it does not sound proper to me. i would call your congressperson for help. if they did not help you, you call me and i will work on your papers and check it. i would have to see the information in front of me and specifically what bank of america is calling for. but it does not make sense that they can add to your income, income you do not have. it is not logical. it needs to be looked into. your congressperson should help you. if not, call me. host: cape cod, massachusetts. rick, independent. caller: my biggest problem is where does personal responsibility, in? these people what these houses, they knew what the cost was, they knew what the interest rate was, and it purchased them anyway. why are people caught up on their

for three years, all we've seen is programs, the hamp program, the hafa program for short sales, the, but failed. brian, you can not solve this problem by refinancing underwater mortgages because all it is is another band-aid. all it's going to do -- and i'm not suggesting saving $3,000 a year is not a good thing, but are you kidding me that that's going to make a difference? until we address the issue of reduction of principle issues that's going to bring people out of this, this is not -- this is nothing but political rhetoric and where have they been for three years for the homeowner? it's been the lenders who were given money. it's been the lenders who don't even loan money anymore and it's a political year and this epiphany that we're going to refinance homes under water. it's absolutely ridiculous what's going on here. >> steve: so what the government is suggesting -- and we don't have a lot to talk about here 'cause we don't know a lot of the detail, but if you can't afford your mortgage now, the government will give you a new mortgage that they hope you'll be able to pay back