and as governor of massachusetts, ace administration, missing robyn gardener and a suspect in custodyrgan tonight" in a moment. >>> i felt the ball. >> my shot? >> you are more handicapped with the eye than the eye without the arm. >> that's running cheap shells on me again. >> performance by jeff bridges in "true grit." you are pretty good at this, aren't you? and the drinking. >> yes. >> have you been a big drinker in your life? where do you get this master portrayal of drunks? >> you know, i've -- i've been puke drunk before, a few times. >> when was the last time? >> that i've been puke drunk? >> yes. >> i would say 20 years ago, something like that, you know, a long time ago. >> so you just hold it better these days? >> yeah. i don't like getting hung over. i made the mistake early in my career of you know saying i have a drunk scene. i'll just get drunk. that seems to be the easiest way to approach that, you know. so i made that mistake. it was a movie, salli field. and i made myself a drink at 6:00 for my scene at 9:00. and i danced my off and then there was the next scene and

>> the obama administration thinks it's got a secret ace in the hole in these debt super committee negotiationse coming up in the fall. they think at the end of the day, the trigger is tilted in such a way that it's going to hurt republicans much more than democrats. i think that could be what tips things over. >> will it bring republicans back to revenue hikes? >> that's what they're bet bug actually the republicans don't care about waging war anymore either. >> speaking of 9/11 and the 10th anniversary, "time" has a documentary airing on hbo, you'll hear dick cheney praising president obama for what he did with osama bin laden. chris: when we come back, the big question of the week, will barack obama come roaring back after labor day and get the upper hand over republicans? [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more

notwithstanding the independence of the ac rares and of the social security administration, it is possible that political pressures could create incentives to shade the analysis in optimistic directions. those of you who are older than chuck will remember that during the nixon administration, some people in the white house had obsessions with certain data series and tried to tinker with them, so it's not totally fanciful, but neither would it be surprising to any of you that while in theory that exists today in practice anyone should lose a minute's worth of sleep over. the office the actuaries are committed to their reputations earned over the years for developing sophisticated objectives and analysis that the staffs who support the ex officio trustees are professionals who take their mission of objectivity very seriously as does the staff at ssa. it's clear through having gone a cycle and watching the give and take that occurs when the reports are put together that there is no administration position. each department and agency has its own perspectives and own views and as far as i could