i don't just get to decide what bartlett says. i get to decide what everybody else says and does too. it's a lot easier for bartlett than for a real president. >> jeff, what is it like to work as an actor with someone like aaron's words? because he famously -- strides over everything himself. this is absolutely his stamp on almost every word you will be in the end acting. >> every word, yeah. you memorize every word. that's the drill. i was doing a movie with meryl streep once. "the hours." we were going to walk through a doorway. the director said -- they said, meryl, just say a couple things coming through the door. she said, what, i have to write it too? i've never heard an actor say that. ce up witho harris sitting he's got every word on it. >> the same token, when i'm writing it, i get to know that jeff is going to be playing it. that emily's going to be playing it. john gallagher, sam waterston. that these people are going to be playing it. you don't need a half panel speech here. it's going to happen on jeff's face when he

. >> congressman roscoe bartlett always a pasure to talk to you. weould like to wish him a happy birthday today. the congressman turns 86. up next, an innovativerogr helping veterans and the economy. we will tell you how a after the break. this country was built by working people. the economy needs manufacturing. machines, tools people making stuff. companies have to invest in making things. infrastructure construction, production. we need it now more than ever. chevron's putting more than $8 billion dollars back in the u.s. economy this year. in pipes, cement, steel, jobs, energy. we need to get the wheels turning. i'm proud of that. making real things... for real. ...that make a real difference. ♪ ♪ >> when i sat down with congressman bartlett, one big economic issue he wanted to highlight was finding jobs for the men and women who have served our country through military service. in 2011, the average unemployment rate for veterans was 12%, well above the national average. that number is expected to be higher this year. he talked t us about new l

when you wait for the bartlett pear to get too soft to does not taste that good. i am your fresh grocer, always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. one more thing about bartlett pears, there are also great for baking. >> calls lovers getting up close and personal to their favorite players. we are talking about the u.s. open where frank mallicoat joins us from the olympic club. so who do you think will win? >> that is a good question, i asked some experts here and let me tell you that in years gone by, in the other four u.s. opens, jack fleck, billy casper, scott simpson, ... billy casper won five majors, but mostly not a big name in the bunch. but the runner up, arnold palmer, payne stewart, 27 it is for the runner-up. sometimes the guy that comes in second is the best golfer of all. i like tiger woods and i hope that the winds. it is good for golf if he is in the running. it is going to be a great weekend. >> thank you, enjoy yourself and we'll talk to you later. that will do it for the cbs 5 news at noon. >> have a fantastic afternoon! nice day to get to the

(laughter) because no liberal president can be as liberal or as presidential as bartlett was. >> oh. >> it was an idealized portrait of what it was like to be a democratic president. >> a liberal catholic democratic president, yeah, yeah, uh-huh. >> i thought that you would respond to that. >> no, no i'm a conservative catholic former presidential candidate, okay. (cheers and applause) >> back when it was something wow do as josiah bartlett would you put your jacket on like this. >> yes. >> do you know what mi about to do. >> yeah. >> you're aide would hand you your jacket like this. >> no, no, they wouldn't hand it to me. >> no, i would do it. >> your mike is on there, chief. >> oh. >> so you're interested in seeing nobody hands it to you, you hand it to yourself. let me see, you go this, go, throw it over your head. directly. >> directly over your head. >> yes, yes. >> yes, now you're really feeling you're ready for battle. >> yes, indeed. >> feels like a piece of armour. >> you had an unhispanic name originally. >> it was originally geraldo rivera. >> no, no, i still have the name

first of all, we should i think speak precisely and say ex-conservative bruce bartlett. anyway, and obama saying positive things about the gang of six deal, you know, i had a slightly more cynical take on that. that was his way of killing it. given the atmosphere you've described the quickest way for obama to kill a deal he doesn't like is to praise it publicly out front. maybe i'm being too clever and clinical, i don't know. here is the problem to restate it. i've actually, i'm surprised norm hasn't brought it up, i've toyed with the idea maybe we should raise the taxes on the 1% because so many vote for obama and they deserve it. but the more serious part of the theory is that if you want people to want less government, maybe that will pay for all the government they're getting and they'll want less of it. i think that's the check philosophy. i'm an outlier there and no longer welcome at grover's wednesday meetings. however here is the difficulty. we've seen now under obama is we have seen the federal government's share of gdp go from historic range of 21% to 23% in pe

they will let the center's bartlett for free.his is a nice resource. -- they will let the centers borrow it for free. this is a nice resource. you can borrow it from the adoptive living center. any other questions about using the wii? are you looking forward to having the opportunity to use the we at your center? no? [laughter] ok. some people might not be into using the wii. that is perfectly fine. yes? blind person. there may be some opportunities for people who are visually impaired. >> the director of our center is blind. she was telling us a story. she had a lot of fun playing bolling -- bowling. if you can remember what movement and where you had to do it, it is very fond -- very fun. bowling is one of the possibilities with the wii without having any adaptation, just having the remote and directing the person in the right spot. >> i have heard a couple of people have commented they cannot afford the wii. go to your local senior center. the broadband technology grant program has purchased

i want to bring in paul bartlett, the crab shack deck. we're returning to the roots of chesapeake food. we're looking at the oyster war -- bars, fish and chips with the summer crab deck cuisine of ocean city, crabs, beer, tomato on the deck. hooper's island, kent island, the different islands in the chesapeake bai. the chesapeake is an indian word for the great shellfish bay. it was settled by the dutch and amish, and generations, multicultural. maryland and baltimore has been synonymous with the greatest food in the world. we have the chesapeake bay. we have the eastern shore struck farms. we have western maryland cattle ranches, lamb and beach and goat and all that sort of thing but here we're focusing on the bay. >> paul, everything we see here, we scan get local -- can get locally, the corn, oyster and mighty blue crab. >> we're involved in the whole idea we want to preserve these resources that are so important to the land of pleasant living. >> yes. >> many different resource projects and programs that we take part in. >> we're goin

joining me now, bruce bartlett, who served as a senior policy analyst in the reagan white house and asecretary of the treasury during george h.w. bush's administration. he is now columnist for the fiscal times, a contributor for "the new york times," and author of "the benefit and the burden: tax reform, why we need it and what it will take." also joining us, sam stein, political editor and white house correspondent for "huffington post." bruce, when i listen to tim pawlenty comparing romney to reagan, i think in a way he's on to something. he's saying that in massachusetts, romney governed in a kind of reasonable bipartisan way, where he got support from the legislature of another party, and by the way, ended up doing things in massachusetts, like the health care bill, that the current republican party despises, just as reagan as governor ended up doing things, raising taxes, at times, that the current republican party would attack him for or would have attacked him for if he had been in this republican presidential primary this season. >> well, i think that's right, except that that

it wasn't like maybe bartlett was the bad guy. >> no. >> stephen: you make a decision, who is the gooduy and the bad guy, your tv shows. >> i do. emily is right in that argument and she is swashbuckling. >> stephen: i'm watching the show, i'm enjoying the show. >> i'm glad. >> stephen: thank you very much. i live to please you. do you think that people care what happens in the news. because my only concern about this show is that with the west wing, people cared about our politicsment those embody ideals that are universal. you think the ideals of news really matter to anybody? you know, i think that this show is going to succeed or fail for the same reason any other show does. how engaged is the audience with the character, with their personal lives, with their relationships. it's not going to succeed or fail depending on if you are a news junkie or not. same thing with the west wing or anything else. i was going say, we shoot our show in the exact same states she shot the monday keerx we are after the same thing. >> stephen: really. >> our goals are the same as theres. >> stephen: he

. >> my favorite story comes from joe bartlett who was a page in the mid to late '40s. he told stories of the pages would be the first one in the capitol to go to school. so they would turn the lights on in the hallways in the basement of the capitol. at the time, it was damp there and nobody had been there overnight so they were the first ones there in the morning and got to turn the lights on and see the rats scatter. it got to a point where they had to put a page in charge of catching rats, to get rid of the rats. and he was paid by the rat, every rat he got. so they noticed after a while, he was catching lots and lots of rats and making lots and lots of money yet the population of rats was still going up and nobody could figure out what was going on until they realized he was breeding rats. so talk about mischv chif on capitol hill. on the more serious side, some of the stories that are my favorites are -- let me take a step back. typically in the spring, the president and first lady would host pages at the white house for lunch and a movie. for many, many years. an

it was reed, simpson, thatcher and bartlett. and he lived this great life in wall street. you know, he was a very financially successful guy. but he hobnobbed with the really interesting people in the city of new york including mark twain and he -- reed gave a very funny testimonial talk at twain's birthday party just a few months before reed died. >> reed was 63 when he died, i think. >> let's see. 1902, yes. >> served in congress from 1877 to '89. speaker three times. >> three times. >> as you were doing your research on him, when did you start to really like him and why -- and how many books have been written and why haven't there been more? >> i'm afraid that my sales will bear testimony to this hypothesis. my hypothesis is that what people want to read are lives of people they know, and so there are an end to the inth number of biographies. and one of lincoln -- conrad black came out with a great doorstop, a wonderful book. so i think that the commerce, the powers that be in commerce line up behind the biographer who is taking up a known subject, and fortunately, i ha

inmates so they can add their own wallets for example two thousand and nine former sheriff greg bartlett was sent to jail after pocketing more than two hundred thousand dollars of the state money that was supposed to feed jail inmates some of the law has yet to be repealed with numerous attempts to change it dying before they reach the governor's office as we told you last week all across america prisoners are subjected to an extraordinary rate of sexual assaults and rapes so in alabama a population that's already at risk of physical and sexual abuse is now being denied the most basic of human the sense of these needed to survive good food just so a few people can get a little richer and that it's very very. there are a lot of questions being thrown around this presidential campaign between mitt romney and barack obama questions like how many jobs did romney really these straw is a capital right as a corporate raider over a bain capital or how much should the super rich pay in super rich like him pay in taxes he's paying by the way the loss of fifteen percent or were was president obama

bartlett on that.t something together for you that is truthful. >> eric: no way anyone could have said that. >> bob: he said it over and over. freddie i am suffering from exhaust -- >> greg: i am suffering from exhaustion. from the word exhaustion. when a pop star or celebrity ends up going to a hospital, it's always for exhaustion. just say you were doing too many drugs and getting wasted and now you need i.v. drip. >> kimberly: that is uplifting. >> eric: banned word of the day?

rainfall desperately thunderstorms southern end of lake michigan today southern cook county and bartlett enough rainfall to alleviate the dryness slight chance next seven days any additional rainfall time lapse cameras show clouds over chicago skies again that no rainfall of any consequence except some of the southern suburbs. chicago just a dry day looked like it will be dry next two or three days. look at the temperatures and 90 degrees high temperature in chicago today the eighth-90 degree above temperature we have seen this year this early in the season only three other years. since records began 1871 look at the cold air push it across the northern states sweeping it to chicago dropping daytime high temperatures to about mid seventies thinking 75 degrees tomorrow. temperatures tonight still pretty warm out there 82 degrees of official chicago temperature notice warm northwestern indiana as far as wind fairly gusty o'hare airport reporting gusts to 20 mi. per hour this our sustained wind about 10 mi. per hour throughout the night wind speed generally 70 mi. per hour range. the cool a

bartlett on that.o put something together for you that is truthful. >> eric: no way anyone could have said that. >> bob: he said it over and over. freddie i am suffering from exhaust -- >> greg: i am suffering from exhaustion. from the word exhaustion. when a pop star or celebrity ends up going to a hospital, it's always for exhaustion. just say you were doing too many drugs and getting wasted and now you need i.v. drip. >> kimberly: that is uplifting. >> eric: banned word of the day? >> dana: it's a channel. >> bob: anybody see lindsay lohan? >> dana: we have to run. thank you for being with us today. see you >>> welcome to "red eye." i'm greg gutfeld. or as i am known in paraguay, salma hyek. andy, what is coming up on tonight's show? >> thanks, greg. walk away, america. it doesn't concern you. our top story, are pessimism, partisan and twitter making it impossible to lead america? the mainstream media excuse for president obama ahead. and the senate wants to make it illegal for welfare recipients to

agreement where you got some very significant restraint with tax increases and as a group -- bruce bartlett says that when you cut taxes, you don't cut spending and when you raise taxes you do and that is where we have seen those dynamics. i think you see some significant opportunity here to do more than meet halfway with the gang of six plan. steve mentioned the simpson balls commission. when president obama said positive things about the gang of six planned an said this is a framework from which we can work. that killed it for republicans because they were against it. we are not saying that the amount play out. >> this is way too fun. obama saying positive things about the gang of six deal -- i have a more cynical take on that. that was his way of killing it. the quickest way for obama to kill a deal he doesn't like is to praise it. i've actually toured with the idea that maybe we should raise the taxes on the 1% because many vote for obama and they deserve it. the more serious part of the theory is if you want people to want less government, mabel they will pay for the government they're

bartlett on that.omething together for you that is truthful. >> eric: no way anyone could have said that. >> bob: he said it over and over. freddie i am suffering from exhaust -- >> greg: i am suffering from exhaustion. from the word exhaustion. when a pop star or celebrity ends up going to a hospital, it's always for exhaustion. just say you were doing too many drugs and getting wasted and now you need i.v. drip. >> kimberly: that i uplifting. >> eric: banned word of the day? >> dana: it's a channel. >> bob: anybody see lindsay lohan? >> dana: we have to run. thank you for being with us today. see you tomorrow. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >>> the man who wants president obama's job hammers the incumbent on immigration, national security and syria. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i'm john roberts in for bret baier this evening. mitt romney is rolling through the midwest, piling up the mileage, trying to close the distance between himself and president obama. our chief p

agreement where you got some very significant restraint with tax increases and as a group -- bruce bartlett says that when you cut taxes, you don't cut spending and when you raise taxes you do and that is where we have seen those dynamics. i think you see some significant opportunity here to do more than meet halfway with the gang of six plan. steve mentioned the simpson balls commission. when president obama said positive things about the gang of six planned an said this is a framework from which we can work. that killed it for republicans because they were against it. we are not saying that the amount play out. >> this is way to fund. too fun. obama saying positive things about the gang of six deal -- i have a more cynical take on that. that was his way of killing it. the quickest way for obama to kill a deal he doesn't like is to praise it. i've actually toured with the idea that maybe we should raise the taxes on the 1% because many vote for obama and they deserve it. the more serious part of the theory is if you want people to want less government, mabel they will pay for the governmen

. >> bruce bartlett and sam stein, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming romney, and president obama are in tonight's episode of who's the real american? the categories in tonight's contest are sport and food. you will see mitt romney trying to figure out what a doughnut is. that's coming up. >>> this is an announcement now about the governor and [ male announcer ] this is the at&t network... a living breathing intelligence bringing people together to bring new ideas to life. look. it's so simple. [ male announcer ] in here, the right minds from inside and outside the company come together to work on an idea. adding to it from the road, improving it in the cloud all in real time. good idea. ♪ it's the at&t network -- providing new ways to work together, so business works better. ♪ >>> this is an announcement now about the governor and marijuana, and look how it's already being exploited. watch this. >> new york governor andrew cuomo has proposed decriminalizing the private possession of small amounts of marijuana. andrew cuomo, the right choice for preside