you may want to stay away from bourbon street. >> my son is in school. he could tell him where to go. >> humor sometimes deflates tough moments in politics. does this help make it go away? >> it's too bad that guy is not the front-runner and sarah palin is. >> no, i mean, i think the steele issue, the money issue, that's an inside the beltway. i don't think people really care about it. republicans are going to be able to raise the money. it may not be rnc directly, but it will be affiliated committees. our candidates will have enough. >> so it's okay to have fun on bourbon street? >> yes. >> so republicans thanks for coming in on friday night. when we come back, we're going to check on pete on the street. he is our offbeat guy. he has been looking into what members of congress do during their recess. it can be tough living with copd... but i try not to let it slow me down. i go down to the pool for a swim... get out and dance... even play a little hide-n-seek. i'm breathing better... with spiriva. announcer: spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled mainten

oklahoma drawl and he said that's better and he disappeared in the kitchen and emerged with a bottle of bourbon, i think it was jack daniels in a glass, and put it on his side of the table, and a bottle of irish. i think it was jamieson's in a glass and put it on mine. and we were off and became very, very close friends and i said, people over the years, long before ralph passed away, he said, well, what did they say about the reinhardt character in invisible man, john, what did he say about the second novel, and i tried as best i could to explain to him, that wasn't what our relationship was about. it was a friendship, and it was a friendship and i think adam perhaps will talk about this. somehow, ralph has this pull on us all, whenever generation we're -- whatever generation we were from. it was a very controlled friendship. so you know, i wasn't there as a literally scholar at all. in any case, about 10 years later, after we'd become very close friends, i was up visiting the ellisons in the berkshires, and ralph and i were taking a little walk and showing me his tractor, he loved gadgets, ma

street to become bourbon street. people want a measured approach to all of this.achieve both. >> reporter: this woman lives here and walks her dog shadow every day but she says it might be time to slow things down. >> i hate to put down anybody who wants to open a business right now because the economy needs business but in this neighborhood we've just about reached our limit. >> reporter: roby chavez, fox 5 news. >> in the short-term anybody looking to open up a any restaurant will need to get an exemption and it will take a vote of the city council to change the law. >>> a couple of ticks away from 8:20 on it friday morning. a bunch of maryland lawmakers had to evacuate a bar last night and we'll tell you why when we come back. >>> and several lawmakers that decide banning talking on a cell phone while driving. >>> and we're going old school with a d.c. native making it big. we're talking about stacy latissa. she'll join us.  >>> the maryland house plans to vote today to ban the use of handheld cell phones while driving. it is part of a national

there was clarke reed and a handful of bourbon-drinking freedom fighters.we should all raise a glass to him. when he was at the republican national committee, he knew that his home in the south was in reagan paused heart. -- reagan's heart. there had been a handful of switchers prior to the first but the one that i remember so well was the one from louisiana. it was a very brave thing for body to do at the time. -- for buddy to do at the time. when he took that plunge it started a trickle which became a deluge. it became a sea of red. [applause] we went from that trickle to what is the anchor of the republican party, to which some of our friends on the other side often speak to this or imply that having an anchor in the south is somehow a negative or an albatross. it is anything but that. what they do not get and what they will come to learn in a few weeks or months is the southern thing is the american thing. [applause] i never have been visited here since i have lived here or any time that i worked here, i never thought twice about duty, honor, country, f

the people who in order or representative becerra, hensarling, senator bourbon, chairman spratt and chairman konrad are the ones i've noticed who want to speak and we will start now with representative the -- beccara. >> the problems in debt, we've talked a bit already about health care and what is driving up the cost of government. give us some of the other fish taking up more room in the sea than they should when it comes to what the people of the country would want us to be doing and the second question would be when we talk of a systemwide reforms doesn't require us to examine more than just the items that you catalog with in the federal budget? we talked about medicare, about defense, we know about domestic programs but where in that would you put the aid of the 700 billion-dollar bailout of the financial service industry which president bush proposed back in 2008 which the taxpayers had to front load on a deficit basis through deficit spending for us to tackle the problems that we have as a government and as a people, we have to look beyond just what we categorized as the federal budge

the people who in order or representative becerra, hensarling, senator bourbon, chairman spratt and chairmanare the ones i've noticed who want to speak and we will start now with representative the -- beccara. >> the problems in debt, we've talked a bit already about health care and what is driving up the cost of government. give us some of the other fish taking up more room in the sea than they should when it comes to what the people of the country would want us to be doing and the second question would be when we talk of a systemwide reforms doesn't require us to examine more than just the items that you catalog with in the federal budget? we talked about medicare, about defense, we know about domestic programs but where in that would you put the aid of the 700 billion-dollar bailout of the financial service industry which president bush proposed back in 2008 which the taxpayers had to front load on a deficit basis through deficit spending for us to tackle the problems that we have as a government and as a people, we have to look beyond just what we categorized as the federal budget, don't

there are some better so common that reporting probably wouldn't be worth a bourbon and sampling may be more effective but for the many organisms reporting it is something that is recommended by the territorial ophthalmologists and it is done in most or all states. >> it sounds like we can do a lot better but what are you working on or what recommendations do you have to improve the reporting so that we are able to track with adequate data? >> all excellent questions. one of the things that we have done is to try to use electronic of records to extract information which is then validated by human beings. what would allow us to insure that the injections are reported reliably or assess the complete reporting one of the things essential to make that happen is that electronic laboratory reported this summer in a laboratory gets the result in such a in of the medical record and if it did reportable condition it ends up with the authority which should be reported. we also fundamentally need to make better use of the information so that we implement the programs that we know work and there

we have a warning to rnc staffers, you may want to stay away from bourbon street. just a word of advice. i want to speak candidly about the situation our country finds itself in. here is the good news. i want to make an important announcement. as part of my family's concern, i am not running for president of united states. i have the job that i want. [applause] i am happy to report louisiana is doing better than ever before. since i am not running for president i can speak directly to you without fear of offending you. i am under no pressure to make anybody happy, other than the people of louisiana. [applause] all i have to do is be the best governor of louisiana that i can be. [applause] people who know me know that i like lists. i started off with the top-10 list of things that i need -- things that need to be shared in the open. it is only a top eight list today. the first item -- the first thought is that bill clinton is wrong. i know you probably are surprised. bill clinton was wrong. he said the era of big government is over, but the era of big government is

. -- from bourbon street, just a word of advice. let me be clear.m not running for president of the united states of america. i have the job i want. here's our happy to report that louisiana is doing better than ever before. since i am not running for president, i can speak very directly to you, without fear of offending you. i am not under any pressure to make anyone happy other than the people of louisiana. all i have to do for them is be the best governor of louisiana that i can be. people who know me know that i like lists. i started off with a top-10 list of things i thought needed to be shared today, but due to budget cuts it is only a top eight list. the first item i want to share is that bill clinton was wrong. you are probably surprised i said this, but bill clinton was wrong. he said, "the era of big government is over." but it is not over, it is upon us. we are suffering the worst economic recession since the great depression. in a in the face of this crisis, president barack obama, nancy pelosi, and harry reid are making the problems far

stay away from a bourbon street, just a word of advice. i want to spend my time speaking candidly about this situation our country finds itself in. here is the good news. i want to make a very important announcement today. as far as my family is concerned, let me be clear. i am not running for president of the united states of america. i have the job i am happy to report that louisiana is doing better than ever. since i am not running for president, i can speak clearly without fear of whether i can -- but whether i will offend you or not. all i have to do for the people of louisiana is be the best governor that i can be. people who know me know that i like less -- i liked lists. i made a top-10 list, but since we are cutting everything because of budget cuts, it is a top eight list. the first thing i want to show you is that bill clinton was wrong. you are probably surprised about that. he said the era of big government is over. but it is not over, it is upon us. we are suffering through our worst economic recession since the great depress

we have a warning to rnc staffers, you may want to stay away from bourbon street.word of advice. i want to speak candidly about the situation our country finds itself in. here is the good news. i want to make an important announcement. as part of my family's concern, i am not running for president of united states. i have the job that i want. [applause] i am happy to report louisiana is doing better than ever before. since i am not running for president i can speak directly to you without fear of offending you. i am under no pressure to make anybody happy, other than the people of louisiana. [applause] all i have to do is be the best governor of louisiana that i can be. [applause] people who know me know that i like lists. i started off with the top-10 list of things that i need -- things that need to be shared in the open. it is only a top eight list today. the first item -- the first thought is that bill clinton is wrong. i know you probably are surprised. bill clinton was wrong. he said the era of big government is over, but the era of big government is over, it