there, alan simpson will be here. i think continues to be the unstated the economy and today's the on that payroll tax holiday. we will be right back. >> book tv is live on saturday from the savannah book festival. it begins at 9:30 a.m. with tom kalidclavin. at 1:30 p.m. eastern, bragggreg mirey. at 5:15 p.m. s.e. quin on the rise and fall of the command chief. in 1966, due in bonn was prevented from taking his elected seats on the georgia state house after he was voted not to seek can do to a stance against the vietnam war. >> i went to the court to hear the argument. i was sitting in the court just behind the bar with the lawyers in front of me. i was sitting next to my lawyers partner. the attorney general of georgia was making an argument that georgia had a right to throw me out because i said things that were treasonous and seditious. i think it was judge white who is said to him, "is this all you have?" you come all the way appear and this is all you have? [laughter] so i said, we are winning, we? >> more on bl

host: reaction to alan simpson? guest: he was appointed to come up with tax increases and spending reductions. that commission never put anything in legislative writing. it is in outline form. paul ryan was on that commission. he read the outline and said, this is a true trillion dollar tax increase. -- 82 trillion dollar tax increase. -- a 4$2 trillion dollarn tax increase. this takes the corporate rate down to 25% to make us more competitive with the rest of the world. that is a budget that all but four of the republicans voted for. the democrats have not passed a budget in three years. when alan simpson says, what would you do? the republicans in congress have passed a budget that reduces spending from 25% down to 20. it and does the damage of the obama early years and a larger restraint to reforming the budget. it does that for housing subsidies. 77 different means tested welfare programs. what was done for welfare was done by the republicans. these are serious reforms. former senator simpson, who did not write

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>> he was claiming he was alan simpson. >> no, i'd never do that. i'm not tall enough. >> al abrams? well, you tell al, give him the usual greeting, you ornery old goat. >> i will, just for you. >> thank you for coming by. this is madness. who was that? who was that? some phantom. >> secretary of transportation, you have a longstanding relationship -- [inaudible conversations] >> starting out minimum wage, so -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> grover calls it a tax increase, he called it ludicrous, tom did, and i call it deceptive. >> yeah. tom's helping on this. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm gaining ground. [laughter] >> well, that's good. ann is in there. >> oh, she's in there? >> sam donaldson said -- [inaudible conversations] >> the money all goes to the author. i don't get any. [laughter] it's true. >> thank you so much, sir. >> you're very welcome. >> senator, i used to work with -- [inaudible] in senator thurmonde back in the '80s, and we are big fans of yours. >> i need them in my line of work. >> oh, well, you're a sweetheart. s

>>host: let's bring in alan simpson. this is what he had to say.video clip] >> tell us what you really think when you watch of the sacred role of money to the system which is the payroll tax. you know that eventually it will have to be put back. you cannot covered with spectrum. you will borrow the money from the feds to do it. i want to know how you will do that and know that when you put it back, it will be called a tax increase and grover norquist running the earth in his white rose will call it a tax increase and 95% of the republicans will be terrified what can grover do to you? he cannot defeat for reelection. -- he can defeat for reelection. if that means more to you and your country and patriotism you should not be in congress. host: a reaction? guest: alan simpson was the obama appointment to run a commission to come up with tax increases and supposed to be spending reductions. that commission never put anything in legislative writing nothing. paul ryan, the republican congressman from wisconsin, was on that commission and read the outline

host: your reaction to alan simpson. guest: he is obama's appointment to run the commission to come up with tax increases that are supposed to be spending reductions. that commission never put anything in the this letter writing. paul ryan, the republican congressman from wisconsin was on the commission. he read the outline and said that this is a $2 trillion tax increase. and the spending cuts are iffy and they're not written down. so he voted against it. the republicans in the house actually passed a budget that paul ryan developed which over the next decade -- a light obama's budget -- reduces $6 trillion dollars of obama's overspending, does not raise taxes, allows for tax reform, taking the individual corporate rate down to bring as competitive with the rest of the world. all but four republicans voted for. the senate and house have not passed a budget in three years. the republicans in congress have passed a budget that takes spending further 25% gdp to 20%. it undoes the damage of the early obama years. there is l

a fellow westerner, alan simpson, no relation, from wyoming, joining us friday morning. he of course is the former co-chair of the simpson bowles commission which looked at trying to rein in the federal debt and deficit. he'll be with to us take your calls and comments. friday morning, the washington journal, heard every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on c-span radio. we're asking the question, is washington paying enough attention to the year to attention to the year to year deficit and the overall debt now approaching close to $16 trillion. give us a call here at c-span radio. it's our listener feedback line. here's the number. 202-626-7962. we ask that you leave a message, tell us where you're calling from, we'll use some of your comments tomorrow and friday on "washington today." 202-626-7962. >> more "washington today" in just a minute. first, other news. on wall street the dow fell 97. nasdaq down 16. s&p down 7. federal officials plan to kill a private company's plans to start a national high-speed wireless broadband network after concluding it would in some places

alan simpson had his own view on santorum. >> he's rigid and homophobic. he believes in gays and lebanonance and mentioned about beatality and gays and lesbians. that's disgusting. >> g.o.p. primary voters may not agree with romney and santorum tying in michigan. leaving the president singing the blues a happy blues number at a white house performance last night along side the legends mick jagger and bb king ♪ come on ♪ baby don't you ♪ want to go ♪ sweet home chicago ♪ >> having previously heard a little of him pretending that he was al green reporters wanting to know when we might hear from that president again and getting a comment from jay carney. >> i can't predict. maybe the next time at the inauguration next year. >> joining us on the dually tax plans i'm join with miss ms. anderson. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> the dead on arrival what was the point of it. >> it was well a well really a way for him to get a new talking point. this was mentioned in the state of the union speech. he had been mentioning raising taxes on oil and gas lower

. >> and on the cnbc news line retired wyoming alan simpson, former co-chair on the president's fiscal i knew clint would say that. he's a great guy. wonderful guy. great american. go ahead shoot the works. what do you want? >> i'll bring you back to his words. that's a waste of time, waste of money, waste of effort for everybody. i want to get your take on the budget in a minute. sthapt the way you feel about the work you did? >> no, not at all because this is like a stink bomb in a garden party. it won't go away. how does anyone believe it's going to go away when you spend a buck and borrow 42 cents. how does anybody believe it will go away when today your country borrows 3,600 million bucks. how do you think it will go away when it heads to 2.6 trillion. if you spend a buck a second you wouldn't reach a trillion for years. >> you raised an issue that by default will not go away. how do you respond to the white house that now says look not the time for austerity, economy still in trouble and we need to continue to accommodate it before we address some of these longer terms concerns.

after that, former senator alan simpson.the house debate on the payroll tax cut extension. >> hello. i had of the lcv project. the purpose is to collect programming from outside washington d.c. staff each one of these with one person with a small video camera and a laptop editor so they are able to roll, produce, and added things from the road. we want to get out of washington, d.c. and collect programming for all of our networks. we are doing it and lcv city store. one will do historic programs and the other will do book-tv programs. the other one does community relations events. the last thing important to know is that all this not only goes on the air, but it gets archived on our web site, the c-span video library. we are also doing extensive social media. he will see us on facebook. you will see four square which is location based and tell people where we are going. you will see us on twitter as well. it is a chance to get -- a chance to see as online and through social media as well. we want to get out of washington d.c

that's in "the hill" newspaper and alan simpson's former chief of staff just wrote a book "shoot from the lip" about senator simpson. book tv attended a book party for form simpson. former vice president cheney was there and elizabeth dole. that will be on c-span this week you can find out more information at book tv.org. this column, the article about the gap between mitt romney and the rivals, look no foote than his campaign's financial report. at first glance the numbers may seem like good news for romney given he is the largest fundraiser in the field. he had raised $62.7 million more than twice as much as the next most successful candidate, which was ron paul. but look more deeply at the numbers and a trend emerges. romney is getting considerably less support, those who give less than $200 at a time. these small donors don't give because they have been invarietied to a fundraise tore meet the candidate. they are the type of supporters who will help by volunteering their time and talking to their friends and neighbors about the race. gingrich and santorum have raised more than hal

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. >> after that, in conversation with alan simpson. tomorrow, on "washington journal," kim dixon reduce the tax proposals for the budget. yun and the national association of realtors discusses the u.s. housing market and usa correspondent talks about his analysis of state spending for services employee converse a -- income glory compotation -- employee compensation. >> in 1966, he was prevented from taking his elected seat in the georgia state house after representatives voted 184 to 12 not to seek him -- seat him. >> i went to the court to hear the argument and i was sitting in the court, just behind the bar with all lawyers in front of me. i was sitting next to my lawyer's partner. the attorney general of georgia was making an argument that georgia had a right to throw me out because i had said things that were treasonous. i think it was judge white who is said to him, is this all you have? [laughter] you come all way up here and this is all you have? i said to him, we are winning are we not? >> discover more about african- american

alan simpson said this budget is a first step towards getting some of these difficult decisions made raising. granted rear not there 100% but simpson himself is saying this is a first step. >> i don't hear him say that. i'm sure if you say it i have tremendous respect for your. i'm sure he said it. i see it in a different way. this budget is such a nondocument i don't even really want to debate it. it's strictly a political document that does nothing and makes no real cuts. cuts that happen way out that we have nothing to do with today, they are not real, and so, again, this is not a real document. i did hear yesterday that secretary geithner says they are going to propose some new corporate tax reform. i look forward to that and i hope it comes forward. i'm excited about the economic news. i'm glad the private-sector is saying we shall overcome the bad behavior in washington. so there's some positive things that are happening but this budget document is not one of those. >> are you sitting on a burr or what's going on? >> all i was going say, senator, this idea it doesn't go far eno

bowles, president clinton's chief of staff, president obama chose to head the debt commission and alan simpson said this nation has never faced a more predictable crisis, quote. and what he was saying was if you don't change the debt course, we're going to have a financial reckoning, it's just a question of when. mary? >> [inaudible] >> um, it's 350 bill we score over five years would have been saved had this bill been in effect, and it does prohibit what we call -- [inaudible] a mipg of the hand -- manipulation of the mandatory spending, changes in mandatory spending, and that can create more integrity in that process. but it does not mandate any fundamental changes in mandatory spending. >> [inaudible] >> okay. one more question. over here. >> [inaudible] house democrats, are they against this bill? >> well, let me just say i think what is represented here on this stage today is a huge first step as it relates to this bill that, um, originate inside the senate and, certainly, we have made the appropriate changes for the house. as you know, our points of order are different animals, and we ha

erskine bowles, the man chosen by president obama to head the deficit commission with alan simpson, theyed a written statement to the budget committee last year, and they said the course we're on will lead america to the most predictable financial crisis in our history. so you can clearly see the path we're on. it's a path to financial crisis. we've got to realize we cannot continue to put this off. and i find it deeply disappointing that the president of the united states in his fourth year in office lays out a plan that does nothing to improve the financial status of our country, that does nothing to talk and deal seriously with our entitlement programs, and indeed what he's indicated is that anybody else in congress, whether it's congressman ron in the house budget committees or members of this senate, who have the temerity to make any suggestions about containing and saving social security, medicare, will be attacked by him. so not only is he not proposing a plan that would help the situation, he's lying in wait to politically go after anybody that seriously proposes changes that cou

and a book party from "shooting from the lip, the life of senator alan simpson," written by his former chief of staff. >> there are millions of decent americans who are willing to sacrifice for change, but they want to do it without being threatened, and they want to do it peacefully. they are the non-violent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. these are the people whose fourth i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on american politics. >> can you remember in the depression, when times were really hard and we left the doors unlocked? now we have the most violent crime-ridden society in the industrialized world. i can't live with that. can you live with that? >> mitt romney's economic plan calls for abolishing the inheritance tax, cutting the corporate tax rate to 25%, and raising the retirement age for social security. he talked about his economic plans in detroit earlier today. this is about 50 minutes.