the next guest is going to be bill bradley. he's pursuing, as he has in the past, a by bart san approach. i'm picking up on some of his ideas with senator dan coats for tax reform that produced 6.3 million jobs the last time we did it. we ought to do it again. >> talk about the political molecule as you see it. as mike was saying from the white house, the leadership -- seems like the president and boehner at least are trying to work in good faith to try to craft something that can get through the house. if you go too far on the tax revenue side, you lose the tea party republicans. if you lean too heavy on the entitlements, you really risk losing some on the left. what's the right way to think about how to thread the needle? >> the right way is to focus on approaches that generate revenue that both political parties can support. tax reform will do that. right now we're spending a boatload of money on unemployment, food stamps. more than ten million folks unemployed. let's put them to work in the private sector with growth-orient

house trying to come up with an agreement as to how to keep the country from defaulting on the bill. bradley has more from the white house. >> president obama and congressional leaders met for roughly 75 minutes trying to work out a deal on the deficit. the president was asked if it can get done in the next 10 days. that may be difficult after the house speaker john boehner over the weekend walked away from the beginnings of a grand bargain. sources say the president and the speaker showed interest in a $4 trillion budget deal that included tax reform, entitlement reform and deficit reduction. an enormous deal that some hoped would resolve the debt ceiling crisis. >> we have an extraordinary opportunity to move forward in a way the government lives within its means. >> before sunday's meeting it appears boehner was open to raising additional revenue if president obama was willing to make cuts in medicare and social security. but the speaker, knowing tax increases are a hard sell for the party abandoned hope. he now wants a smaller deal. the republican leader in the senate says the big deal i

senator ron widen and former senator bill bradley are coming by to help us make sense of the debt ceiling in-depth look at the all-important couch potato vote. the show starts right now.

bill bradley, and our guest, david walker, says levin taxes on oil would drive down oil contentions. set the scenario for us. guest: this is an example of how the federal government has gotten totally out of control. i partnered with former senator bill bradley, a respected republican that is a former governor, to talk about non- partisan solutions that can get bipartisan support. the structure is deteriorating dramatically. i live in connecticut. i can literally run faster than that train goes between new york city in the stamford conn.. most of our investments is not based on economic situations. the so-called trust fund that was supposed to fund our surface transportation is dry. we now are generally -- if you look at other countries, every other country into having a self sustaining critical infrastructure system. the plan for making investments is based on natural considerations plaint -- planned well in advance. so you can plan intelligently that will stimulate growth and stimulate jobs. we need to learn from others. this is a comprehensive plan to put us on a more sustainable

bill bradley, and our guest, david walker, says levin taxes on oil would drive down oil contentions. set the scenario for us. guest: this is an example of how the federal government has gotten totally out of control. i partnered with former senator bill bradley, a respected republican that is a former governor, to talk about non- partisan solutions that can get bipartisan support. the structure is deteriorating dramatically. i live in connecticut. i can literally run faster than that train goes between new york city in the stamford conn.. most of our investments is not based on economic situations. the so-called trust fund that was supposed to fund our surface transportation is dry. we now are generally -- if you look at other countries, every other country into having a self sustaining critical infrastructure system. the plan for making investments is based on natural considerations plaint -- planned well in advance. so you can plan intelligently that will stimulate growth and stimulate jobs. we need to learn from others. this is a comprehensive plan to put us on a more sustainable

bill bradley, and our guest, david walker, says levin taxes on oil would drive down oil contentions. set the scenario for us. guest: this is an example of how the federal government has gotten totally out of control. i partnered with former senator bill bradley, a respected republican that is a former governor, to talk about non- partisan solutions that can get bipartisan support. the structure is deteriorating dramatically. i live in connecticut. i can literally run faster than that train goes between new york city in the stamford conn.. most of our investments is not based on economic situations. the so-called trust fund that was supposed to fund our surface transportation is dry. we now are generally -- if you look at other countries, every other country into having a self sustaining critical infrastructure system. the plan for making investments is based on natural considerations plaint -- planned well in advance. so you can plan intelligently that will stimulate growth and stimulate jobs. we need to learn from others. this is a comprehensive plan to put us on a more sustainable

. >> at the same time, i remember a candidate i worked for, bill bradley, when "the new york times" did, his health, this happens to candidates all the time. it's male candidates as well as female candidates. their health is something that gets discussed. >> you can't be saying that the migraine question is a sexist question. >> i think that the way it has been framed and kind of honed in on, absolutely. migraines, carl? really? >> i had migraines in my 20s, i don't have them anymore. >> you are okay? you can function? >> they have debilitated. if george bush had them that would have been terrible. michele bachman has been serving in congress. have you ever seen her slumped over? >> i think it would be as big a story if it were a male candidate. i think we have an idea which candidate. if it were a male candidate, would you give it the same play? >> i -- >> yes or no? >> if a candidate was slumped over and couldn't function -- >> it's not a paragraph in the story. it's no evidence it's been debilitating to her or changed anything she has done. i think it's kind of a nonstarter. plus, th

to buy time to get on television so you don't spend all your time raising money and i think as bill bradley once said you raise all this money and basically hand it over to the broadcasters to get on tv. >> host: how much is in the pot, so to speak, when it comes to -- when it comes to public financing? >> guest: well, you know, in the past the levels have really been sufficient to fund whatever the candidates raise. and, you know, it's a system where, in the primary, you got a max in the -- match in the primary when you were running so you got the match for the small donor money and got the spending limits and then, in the general the major party candidates got a grant, an absolute amount. that amount in the last was 60, 70 million, somewhere in there and basically from labor day until the election, the republican and the democrat would have the same amount of money if you were both in the system. and that took the candidates, the major party candidates that are competing for the most powerful office in the world out of the business of fund-raising during the general election. so what they

bill: are you going to say i'm wrong on that. >> i will say the prosecution never corrected the record. i will say contactually that. exactly that. they never corrected the record. their defense is that bradleyreaching out to the prosecution, that his emails and telephone calls to them were quote, unquote. misdirected. >> bill: unintended consequence that's geraldo rivera are sympathetic to casey anthony. >> as i said on this program i'm sympathetic to the justifiable. >> bill: do you believe the jury is sympathetic to her. >> i have said that her behavior was reprehensible. i have said that it is probable that she had something to do with the death of that child, whether by accident or by other own. i'm sympathetic to people who are wounded and underdogs. i hope she is put it together. understand the enormity of what happened in that household. >> bill: are you going to get the first interview, geraldo? >> i very well may. >> bill: can i be there with you fair and balanced? >> i think that i'm fair and balanced in and of myself. >> bill: let me just be around. i will bring coffee. >> can you come back to the vets vessel. you can be a dock hand on voyager. >> bill: show -- >> you get sea sic

beginning with the late paulson who became a true friend, jackson tayler, susan, bill, jones, william bradleyand the amazing. having reached on their knowledge they are people i've never met yet i feel closer to some of them than i do members of my family. they've read my work and still they accepted me. that is love on a closer front - loved by a remarkable woman committing ourselves without her love i would have been silent. my voice on the heard and i wouldn't be sharing my thoughts today with you. [applause] >> much more for the opportunity in the great opposition to be one of you i think you and salute you and ask only that you continue to fight to help others. many who may seem unlawful to save their lives and reach out to those less fortunate than yourself i include myself in that category although i remained strong and resolute it has been a long battle and i've incurred damages by a tired. this old man is ready to go home. patrick norman come 881834. thank you. [applause] >> on behalf of all of us here from the early college, thank you for honoring us with the opportunity to speak he