board of ethics and the government accountability ruled that jim gramm had violated the code of conduct. the council chairman of cs holding a special hearing to consider the council's official reprimand. is this an ethical violation? it was not a crime, there was not a lot broken. >> the council member it crashed the president insisting he has done nothing wrong. minutes earlier, he told reporters he is taking away his oversight of the abc board and holding a hearing to reprimand him. >> he has harmed the public confidence in the air -- and the integrity of the district government. >> he allegedly told a developer he would support his bid for a lottery contract if the developer would withdraw his bid for a mattress station project. the ethics board and others said it was a conflict of interest. >> this has been investigated to death. members need to be above reproach. he's that good for this area. >> he's done a lot of good for the community but at the end of the day, you have to keep yourself clean. >> his colleague, marion barry, is opposing the reprimand yuri -- 've been the victim o

. -- jim gramm is fighting back. phil mendelson asked the council to reprimand felt -- jim gramm.ted that the gramm violated ethics rules in 2008. the board concluded he improperly intervened in a contract dispute. he is challenging the ethics board ruling. the time now, 5:37. about 31 degrees outside. >> still ahead, we will show you the unique way one of the biggest airports in the u.s. is [ harry umlaut ] here we go. [ sally umlaut ] what? the five stages of muller. ah yes... stage one: suspicion. "it's a yogurt how good can it be?" stage two: revision. "actually, this ain't bad." stage three: surprise! "look at this cool cornery thing! i love this stuff!!" stage four: desolation. "it's gone!" stage five: anticipation "i guess i could always have another"... "have you beenbehrough the five stages of muller yet?" "yeah, just now." [ male announcer ] muller. the european for yummy. >> good morning washington. >> i love that. good morning washington. it is friday. we are all happy about that. i do not think you're going to get out of school early today kids, even though we have wi

lindsey gramm has been in this thing almost as long as i have. he is effective. all of the people engaged in these negotiations have the respect, i think, of their colleagues. >> when you and lindsey gramm were here in november, mitt romney had just watched -- lost the election. he said, it is one thing to get hit by a fast-moving train. it is another thing to get knocked off the road by a slow- moving bus. pawlenty gramm was so candid about the mistakes the gop made, and was clearly advocating this line of thinking. when you look at political commentary coming out from the gop, they seem to be unaware of the things you and lindsey gramm work. how big a divide is there between the perspective of what it will take to save the republican party and connect with this new crowd of voters? >> i think it is a number of things we have to do. one of them fundamentally. but they are things we can before rather than be against. now other than being against the deficit. against the things president obama is trying to do on taxes. we have to be four things. we have to explain

phil gramm from the great state of texas, he's the gramm in gramm rudman.ng us. >> thank you. >> steve: see, we lived through it in the '80s. well, you thought this was bad? turns out paying for this federal employee's vegas bubble bath was one of the cheapest conferences federal taxpayers picked up. we're going to show you the bill that just came in. plus, one of the oldest stories being told in a brand-new way. the bible brought to life by that hollywood power couple, mark burnett and roma downey, they explain how and why coming up next if youthen this willbrids arbe a nice surprise. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max come. c-max go. c-max give a ride to everyone it knows. c max has more passenger volume than competitor prius v and we haven't even mentioned... c-max also gets better mpg. say hi to the super fuel efficient ford c-max hybrid. by the armful? by the barrelful? e carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. >> brian

senator gramm. >> i am often asked what happened to the committee. nothing? we just disagree on occasion. this is a good committee. we have a good chairman, good ranking member. i like my colleagues. it is the times in which we live. democrats will get almost universal support the republicans and republicans would get almost no republican support. and while -- how is that? well, john kerry is a good friend. so is chuck hagel. i find myself disagreeing with senator kerrey on occasion, but i think he is in the mainstream of thinking and will do a good job for the country. i don't vote against nominees very often. senator obama to me if we use this standard, i think we would all be in pretty good shape over here and vote a lot. the we're not. at the end of the day, it is just not the vote about the iranian revolutionary guard but a series of votes and statements that paid a unusually disturbing picture. there is the left lane in politics, the right man to man the middle-income and when it comes to some of the iranian israeli issues there is the chuck hagel lane.

republican senator phil gramm and his banks are buddies particularly those over at enron where his wife when he was on the board didn't like that at all so in the final year of the clinton ministration they put an end to the glass steagall act with a law called gramm leach bliley and that glass steagall act of been protecting us ever since the great depression it's gone the result just like in one thousand nine hundred nine it was predictable the banks gambled lost and crash and they took us all down with them it's time to put back into place that fire wall between commercial and investment banks and and banks that are too big to fail it's time to stop big bank cronies c.e.o.'s like jamie diamond from padding their wallets our expense let's turn banking back into the boring and safe industry it was before phil gramm and his republican buddies. and that's the way it is the night wednesday if you're a twenty seven twenty thirty for more information check out our website to tom hartman dot com free speech or r t dot com and hulu dot com slash the big picture and don't forget the barbarousl

the white house firing back republican senator lindsay gramm after he threatened to all the nominationsbenghazi attack. >> what is unfortunate here is the continuing attempt to politicize an issue, in this case kutcher nominees that themselves had nothing to do with benghazi and to do so in no way that only does harm to of our national security interest. they need to be confronted. lou: joining us, fox news security analyst. convicted the blind shaken also the author of spring fever, the illusion of islamic democracy. that's his most recent book. but the only one by any stretch of the imagination. good to have you here. you know, i feel sorry. he seems very upset that senators mccain and gramm would actually show leaders and insist upon information about unrest in carrying out there functions. is there anything we can do to correct senator mccain? >> i think if he was that of said he ought to suggest the president did out there as strongly support his candid it's. this is very similar to what happened in george bush 41. he nominated mild boss, john tower. secretary of defense. terrible,

host: senator lindsey gramm of south carolina. joe is on our independent line. caller: i have interest in giving you a call because i have been doing research on the government. at this time, i have to publicize to the world that the government has committed an act of tyranny. they are doing what they should -- -- they are not doing what they should be done -- be doing for the sake of our people. and this time to play hardball against these individuals were shown in the past 80 years who have not been in the better interest of our children. that means 300 million of us need to get really involved in our government and participate. these guys do not care about this. history is showing it. the congress and senate -- this is why the federalists, james madison, set up the federalist act -- the new that this would transpire. -- they knew that this would transpire. these loopholes that congress is pushing past and pushing back, they are never going to truly do it for the better interests of the people. the people need to truly wake up. we are seeing these guys getaway

a crossword puzzle is a bit checkered, you may have fallen foul of the ingenious 91-year-old john gramm, a former vicar who has been setting puzzles in a national paper for 50 years. he sees clues everywhere. is it an affliction? >> i too would be an exaggeration to call it an affliction, but it is there. you are not appreciate it because you have been sidetracked. m o one across -- article 4 crosswords and powder, eight letters. magazine. come see the privates on parade ♪ >> simon russell beale knocking them dead in the west end in "province on parade" finds the crosswords a nice change after all that cross dressing. >> for the company i'm in at the moment, -- when you say through the evening, not while the show is going on? really? >> well, you've got five minutes. there is a direct connection. i think a lot of his solvers think they know what type of man he is, and i have an absolutely clear picture of the type of sense of humor he has. >> it is a wonderful process because i do not get to know my solvers but they get to know me. i do not understand quite how it works, but they do. th

as senator graham, phil gsh as senator gramm, phil gramm said in a speech, it was never the objective of gramm-rudman to trigger sequester. the objective of gramm-rudman was to have the threat of the sequester force compromise and action. it was designed to create so much pain politically that the two sides, which again were in a similar point of gridlock in 1985, would begin the process of negotiation to deal with a structural deficit. if you look at the history of what occurred from 1985 up until the early 2000's, that pressure did actually force congress to face up to the fact that we could not continue to pile up deficits and burden our children and grandchildren with further debt. unfortunately, in this present congress it's taken a little longer for the message to get through. but nonetheless, the meeting that's scheduled friday morning is hopefully going to begin the process of having the two sides do what their predecessors did in the 1980's and 1990's and begin the process of a balanced plan to eliminate the structural deficit that our nation confronts today. yesterday, presi

lindsey gramm has been in this thing almost as long as i have. he is effective. all of the people engaged in these negotiations have the respect, i think, of their colleagues. >> when you and lindsey gramm were here in november, mitt romney had just watched -- lost the election. he said, it is one thing to get hit by a fast-moving train. it is another thing to get knocked off the road by a slow- moving bus. pawlenty gramm was so candid about the mistakes the gop made, and was clearly advocating this line of thinking. when you look at political commentary coming out from the gop, they seem to be unaware of the things you and lindsey gramm work. how big a divide is there between the perspective of what it will take to save the republican party and connect with this new crowd of voters? >> i think it is a number of things we have to do. one of them fundamentally. but they are things we can before rather than be against. now other than being against the deficit. against the things president obama is trying to do on taxes. we have to be four things. we have to explain

he ruled over a period of dizzying economic growth and gramm repression.he laid out the kind of country she wanted to help build in her five-year term. >> we need to work together towards a new era of hope so that we can all become partners, meaningful in a new chapter. >> it was a central platform in her campaign to make sure that a wider section of society benefited from the miraculous rise of south korea. she also called on north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons and promised to chart a new pact with pyongyang. >> by honoring promises that have already been made, it is my hope that north korea will abide by international norms and make the right choice so that the process on the peninsula can move forward. >> she campaigned on engaging with north korea and the recent rocket launch and nuclear test notwithstanding, she affirmed that desire today. no specifics on the policy at or how pyongyang will react. >> state media chose to show scientists in north korea being congratulated by government figures. since the nuclear test they have already promised a

lindsey gramm has promised to block the senate from voting on the nomination. he wants hagel to provide more answers -- he wants the president to provide more answers in regard to the attack on benghazi. >>> defense secretary leon panetta signed off on a memo yesterday that said it is fundamental that we provide similar benefits to all of those men and women in uniform who serve their country. it should happen in the next few months. >>> more members of the military are dying from suicide than in combat. wusa9's jc hayward salutes an organization designed to fight this disturbing trend. >>> tomorrow the white house is going to issue an executive order aimed at boosting the nation's defenses against cyberattacks, according to the website the hill. it will abvoluntary program for utility companies so they can get classified information when it comes to cyberthreats and methods for friending them off -- fending them off. >>> catholics around the world are still reeling from monday's surprise announcement from the vatican. pope benedict xvi is resigning at the end

i do want to follow a little bit on some of the questions that senator gramm was asking a few minutes ago. secretary leon panetta a few minutes ago, you indicated that we didn't have boots on the ground, we didn't deploy the force is because the attack came to an end. but as senator gramm pointed out, this is an attack that lasted nearly eight hours from start to finish. so at some point there had to have been a decision made not to deploy them. at what point in the timeframe was it me or was it not made until after the attack had been dead nearly eight hours after it began? >> senator, just to bring you ought to get the answer is there was this attack on the facility after benghazi. that ended and very frankly we thought that was the end of what had occurred and we had no intelligence the second attack would take place at the ex to 2 miles away. >> but we didn't know and what we did know is a lot of people were still unaccounted for. so the immediate attack was not visibly under we were not certain that there wouldn't be more fighting. >> obviously you are not certain about what may

chiefs abetted the secretary of state was not even engaged in benghazi we did not respond and lindsay grammrought out extraordinary testimony not knowing how long it would take did not respond and you would give the same people the power without a process? >> it should never be done. >> this is absolutely incompetent leadership. >> just like trade on margin. i was justified to kill this person but the difference is the government proves but now it doesn't. >> nobody wants to deal with this, we want the cia to handle this we don't want, let me rephrase those who are better occupied intriguing but what the president involved because we have a different world now with political offices and the white house and you cannot tell what is preeminent republican or democrat. >> the concern is the timing for those who have determined to be those who propose the imminent threat. lou: every citizen in this country should be comfortable the drones are flying over? >>. >>. >> this is the ramifications >> as an american citizen you are entitled. >> they blew the guy away without due process. lou: which by?

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. >> lindsay gramm questions focusing on gun-control instead of background checks. >> in the real wardo nothing to enforce the laws on the books. >> in a heated exchange milwaukee police chief took issue with gramm. >> i want to stop people from buying guns illegally that is wet background check but does. >> the public mood has changed. >> vice president biden spoke about the white house is government gun ban proposal. >> on the same day school safety experts testified on how to does react to the crisis. >> in the senate because of gun violence of before lawmakers. >> a lot of talk about the issue but it is still unclear whether the talk will lead to any real action. >> the senate judiciary committee began considering gun-control bills as soon as today. they could improve school security and beef up background checks on gun sales and the assault weapons ban will follow the latest and see what happens. >> act 4:21 let us take a break. looking our roof camera looking at downtown san francisco. erica gave us a forecast a moment ago will visit with her again at 430. >> ( male announcer):

. >> you heard gramm smith was here for abraham lincoln vampire hunter andrews said i need to follow that up. >> that is where i got the idea to launch here. [laughter] >> i think the staff and without you we could not make these shows success to. [applause] >> thank you very much it is the pleasure to be here, i am honored to deliver the lecture. my greatest books, i have to confess it is my only book. [laughter] i spent 30 years going to saudi arabia as day editor talking to officials about oil, iraq, iran, u.s., geopo litical issues. when i return all -- retired from the "journal" one thing i was interested in doing with my new found time was trying to understand saudi society. what did the society looks like? how did they look at their rulers, us? as i speak about saudi arabia people constantly ask me why did you do that? why did you spend five years going bear dressed -- they're dressed in black. my editors said why did you do this? i said because of interest be. she said paris is interesting. [laughter] why did you do this? may meander stand that was her own the editing point*.

gramm unveiled the the new phone last week.in the new crop of revamped blackberries will be the touchscreen ziti in. it was released in the u.k. last thursday and will be released in canada today. >> we are waiting to hear whether not stocks will bounce back. we will have that coming up next with that report. >> we will have more on your forecasts and your weather when kron4 morning news continues. sleep train has your ticket to tempur-pedic. experience the pressure-relieving comfort of tempur-pedic, and sleep risk-free with sleep train's 100-day money back guarantee. get 36 months interest-free financing: no down, and no interest for 3 years. plus, get free same-day delivery. sleep train's 100-day money back guarantee, interest-free financing, and free delivery? that's the ticket! sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic is on now. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >> thou futures showing the dow was up 55 points. the computer is going private. it has been publicly traded company for years. this is going for

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madness police said the city is in a good position to be one of the six cities nationwide that when the grammighborhoods for the program include building would, the 23rd street corridor, and the area around richmond high school. >> thank you for watching kron 4247 news channel. here are the top stories that we are following. today we are expecting to get an update from fairfield police about the teenage girl whose naked body was found in a fairfield park last week. investigators have released a new photograph of the 13 year-old girl. authorities believe that this image a of genelle conway allen was captured minutes before she went missing. the manager of a nearby store says that he believes that he may have seen her in the store before she was found dead. >> police are also investigating a triple homicide that happen in sonoma county. it happened at a house on ross station road just outside of sebastopol. police say that the brother of one of the victims discovered the bodies inside of a bedroom. investigators say that this was not a random crime, but they do have any do not have any suspects

appointed william gramm of new jersey as the council of the united states to keep town, south africa. the priceless document was given to the pratt library in 1940 and is part of the special department which includes historical documents. abraham lincoln would be 204 years old today. >> 42 animal lovers, it might be a chance of a lifetime. >> imagine going to work caring for exotic animals. for the right person, the opportunity awaits you. >> if you are looking for a job, you might want to check out the maryland's in baltimore. they are hiring. it was feeding time this morning for the penguins. feeding the penguins is not as simple was you might think. the keepers at this exhibit feet of twice a day and keep close track of what each one eats. ashley loves her job at the zoo. >> people think it's not possible. they say i never do that. but you just get in there and work hard and it's possible. once i started getting into the business, you can move up and you have to be willing to start lower sometimes. >> the zookeeper is one of the many positions. >> we are hiring for keeper positions

lindsay gramm talked with president obama only once on the day of the attack. >> he relied with myself and the generals capabilities. he knows what we deployed and we presented that to him said he knew generally was deployed with as specifics to time he left that up to us. lou: he said he was bothered by the lack of security and admitted the state department never ask for any help from the military. >> did you ever get the message they could not sustain an attack on the consulate? >> was tracking that intelligence. >> did you receive that information? >> i did. >> get to the bodies. >> a great deal. >> why were forces in place ready to respond? >> we never received a request to do so. lou: we never received a request to do so. meanwhile the defense secretary could not answer a simple question was in charge trying to save the lives of the men murdered that night. >> simple question the families ask me is it fair to say you were in charge? >> it is not that simple. the people in charge or those on the ground. >> was secretary clinton in charge? >> people in charge were the ambassador. >>

gramm iscil member jim finding against a possible reprimand tied to of this conduct investigation. a misconduct investigation. >> we will see you then. a new jersey family is hoping to rise above any future flooding problems, literally. this family's home was damaged by a superstar miss at the last october. the family had to temporarily leave the home -- super store sandy last october. they decided to raise their home some 12 feet. >> i've decided to get back in the house. i can't wait to see it go up and not worry about nor'easters, hurricanes, or any kind of flooding. >> raising a home is very labor- intensive and expensive. they say are spending about $14,000 and building the concrete foundation will cost $34,000. >> you'll need a poll to get in and out. >> it shows you how much they love of the bread. >> good luck. much they love of the neighborhood. pretty heretting but out west, they are suffering through lots of ice and snow. let's give you a look at one of our weather but the cameras. bubka cameras. look at the sunshine as we look at the sunshine. still clear skies for us.

lori: melissa was in bed for viewing melissa -- congressman gramm and one point ave raise is the riskf roiling the bond market. you see rates rise sharply, has not happened yet but still could and what would happen? what the fed be in a position to get an exit strategy that would contain at risk? >> as ben bernanke reference in his testimony there is interest in offering a very measured and slow pace of withdrawal at some point in the future but the progression of policy ends up more like this. purchases the s q e 3 taper off and doesn't communicate how long it wants to maintain a balance sheet at this elevated level and that process could include investing the proceeds of the portfolio as it pays off. what we see is very very detailed guidance about how long the fed wants to make the balance sheet and the pace of selling and as long as you provide a clear signal to the markets i don't think there's a huge risk of excessive sell-off. lori: we have been on this track for so long we haven't had any market roiling. i am very concerned it is only a matter of time before the shoe drops esp

it was part of the gramm-rudman sequester. fill gramm writes in the -- phil gram writes in the "wall street journal" journal today in anticipation of the sequester there were a lot of people in washington talking about doom and gloom and the sequester hit and it never happened. the reason it never happened, phil gramm writes today is the fact that the federal government actually has a lot of leeway. and despite the chicken little sky is falling stuff, if they make some smart allocation, move money around, it won't be that bad. >>gretchen: if they would just look at the real problems, which are entitlement spending, maybe more americans would pay attention to the issue as well. >>brian: straight ahead, he lived a long life and loved everything about new york except "the new york times." the man who got his final say in his obituary next. >>gretchen: moving economies in america and they all have one thing in common. common. we'll explain next. look what mommy is having. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop

and phil gramm, former texas senator wrote in today's wall street journal back to 1985, a democratican senate and white house agreed on a sequester of across-the-board spending cuts that amounted to nearly four and a half percent on nondefense spending in 5% on defense spending. look, it's a day when we are talking about the spending slowdown of less than two and a half%. not even close to 1985 or the early 70's. look, we are going to survive. it is going to be okay. is that the end of western civilization. the only thing the might not survive is the reputation of saudi's hysterical politicos. with more on this republican congressman of utah. welcome back to the show. to see you. do you think that people have lost their minds? does the coverage -- it has been unbelievable. so disconnected from the real numbers. >> the president has been turning around the country campaigning that the sky is falling. homeland security taking an unprecedented move in releasing people that were incarcerated for being here illegally. you have ray lahood, the transportation secretary saying that we will h

both gramm and senator john mccain said the meeting well. still, no deal.i: and there is where we stand. thank you. fox news chief white house correspondent. one of the state's potentially hurt most by the defense request to cut is virginia. get this. some 90,000 civilian defense department employees to be furloughed. the army space operations funding would be cut by about 146 million in virginia, and funding for air force operations in the state would be cut by about $8 million. my first guest, virginia congressman randy forbes, a member of the armed services committee offering his prognosis today. >> if you take the wrong medicine to try to cure an illness, it can sometimes be worse than taking the medicine. if you have the wrong compromise , it can be worse than no compromise a vault. i want to point out to everybody , the dca itself, sequestration, the problem that we are all now facing was, in fact, a compromise, a compromise that was proposed by the president and even though i voted against it, we are looking at it and facing today. lori: the congress

host: senator lindsay gramm, senator of south carolina, is to block two nominees. he will hold up defense secretary john brennan as the head of cia unless he gets more answers on benghazi. here is what he had to say yesterday. [video clip] >> did the president ever pick up the phone and call anyone in the government to help these folks? what the the president do? we know he talked to the israeli prime minister on september 11 about a gust of the democratic platform and the fact he did not need the prime minister of israel when he came to new york. but that is not related. what did he do that night? the american people need to know. >> i am not sure i understand, what do you plan to do if they do not give you an answer? are you going to put a hold on these nominations? >> yes, i am going to ask my colleagues. no confirmation without information. host: senator lindsay gramm on face the nation yesterday. our coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow night. if you go to our facebook page, we have this for all of you. if you are low -- if you are planning on wa

>> a lot depends on john mccain, then see gramm, if they come out against a think -- lori: let's talkyria. let me retaliation over the israeli air strike warning serious consequences for tell of beef. we know they have the nuclear program. you wrote about this in the "wall street journal" this week. how does all of this end up? it sounds like it could be the precursor for more bad things to come. >> let's look at the reason for the israeli attack which is potentially uncontested. the story a sophisticated air defense system being moved from syria and lebanon. the israelis did not want that transfer to take place. why? because they did not want to have this anti-aircraft system capable of defending hezbollah in lebanon which has a lot armed with rockets that can cover a essentially all of israel. what this means is that tehran was trying to protect hezbollah, perhaps to launch its own preemptive strikes against israeli civilian populations or to be in a position to retaliate if israel strikes and runs nuclear-weapons program. lori: having to go at it alone here in terms of the u.s. pol

outstretched hands from republican senators john mccain and lindsey gramm, both -- graham. both tough critics of obama's foreign policy. >> send me send a comp men'sive immigration -- comprehensive immigration bill in the next few months and i will sign it right away and america will be better for it. >>> also, a star student at u.c. berkley revealed he's an undocumented immigrant. he shared his story as part of an online campaign for the dream act. that's the proposed immigration law that congress is considering that would allow certain students like himself the path to citizenship. critics say that this plan, however, may just encourage and invite illegal immigration. d.c. lawmakers are expected to take up the issue this year. >>> and today pope benedict blessed thousands of pilgrims from his window overlooking st. peter's square. >> that was the second to last angelus blessing before he steps down at the end of the upon. he outstretched his arms. he made no mention of his decision to resign but thanks the faithful for the affection and spiritual closeness. >>> now there'

don gramm has been a real mentor. the former editor of "the post" was with me all the way. >> are you back here for good? >> i would never say that. for now. i always want to be able to travel and go back overseas again. i am not sure i have the chance. i would not say anything is permanent. it was time to move on from "the washington post" and do new things. i wanted to try more writing and teaching. after the book came out, "out of america: a black man confronts africa," a lot of friends have been saying, you have got to write another book. i have not had time to sit down and develop one. as i started to look at it, i am 54 years old. i do not have a lot of time if i want to write more. i got to be in china at an exciting time. this is the time now to step back and use these last healthy years to try to do more types of writing, specifically, book writing. it is difficult to leave "the washington post" but if i want to write more books and do more things, this was the right time to do it. >> if you live in washingto

a reminder of that that yes these are businesses run by the sulzbergers of "the new york times" or gramm of "the washington post" that they have an enormously important civic action and the question we have to deal with as a society is as the paper's no longer support themselves what will come next said that is a part of what people will take away from the book. >>> up next on book tv "after words" with this week's guest host of the pure research center. this week weekly standard jonathan last in his book "what to expect when no one's expecting america's economic disaster" he discusses the implosion in the u.s. and its impact on the economy, culture and politics. this program last summer out in our -- lasts about an hour. >> host: welcome. there is a lot going on here and the main thesis is following the birth rate problem and what are the causes and consequences. along the way you touch on many topics including the rise of individualism in american life, the sustainability of social welfare programs, religion and population aging and we get to all of those in the next hour but first why

president, senator, far r-texas senator phil gramm.yone knew where the physical bodies were buried in the house and the sausages put together in washington, the senator does. order to have you. >> well, listen. i sat there for 24 years. i never went to a state of the union address that there wasn't a base of excitement that's. neil: this one is already worrying some in your party, senator. it is going to talk up more executive actions and measures to combat climate change and some other ills, but a lot of new initiatives. they're not going to beat all spending, but nothing that will shrink the dead, nothing. >> now, look. this is basically the same speech in this same program that the president caved years ago. that program over four years gave us $5 trillion worth of new debt. yet today we have 3 million fewer people working them we had with the recession started. income for every man, woman, and child in the country is $700 less than it was when the recession started. so unfortunately, the sad thing about the whole process is, it is