very imperfect solution because at least it got us through the debt ceiling. >> pelley: senator chamblisse one of the most conservative members of the senate. the president came out today as soon as the bill passed the senate and said there would have to be tax increases. what do you make of that? >> well, there are not going to be tax increases, that's one thing this committee will not even consider and i don't think they should. >> pelley: but how can a joint committee accomplish what the president himself and the leadership of the house and senate were unable to accomplish? >> well, i think there's enormous bipartisan and frankly support from american people who have not been very happy with what we've done. i've been embarrassed by even being a member of congress over the last few weeks, that everybody has been finger pointing as opposed to trying to find solutions. >> pelley: senator chambliss, you've been here for a long time. what's gone wrong, what's different right now? >> well, too often i think people tend to listen to outside forces who are single minded or single focused, rat

sacksby chambliss just gets up, come on, let's do it. anyway, special day. it's our president's 50th birthday, and i am no ingrate. i got him a little something that i think he's going to really enjoy. >> massive 500-point sell-off dousing wall street in a sea of red. >> and the bears are mauling wall street. >> watching it fall like a rock in a swimming pool. >> the 14th-worst point decline for the s&p 500. >> extreme fear and panic. i don't know what happened. [laughter] >> jon: ♪ happy birthday to you [cheering and applause] by the way, i don't have a receipt for that. so... [laughter] you know, america's recent fiscal troubles in the economy shouldn't take away from the fact and shouldn't let us forget that we all hate each other. [laughter] a quick reminder of that in our new segment "culture war update, the dividening of america." our first dispatch comes from a veteran culture warrior, mr. lou dobbs, who seemed a little alarmed last night over a recent development in the world of comic books. >> peter parker, who was a white orphan from queens, was ki

thank you, vice chairman chambliss, senator coats, good to see you in senator wyden, senator udall come senator warner. i'm delighted to be to introduce matt olsen. his parents are from north dakota, people live in a very long time. matt's roots are deep in north dakota. he returns every chance he gets with his family, his wife and his children, elderly come and meet and will come his sister, susan, is with us as well. as i said, i've known this family for a very long time coming and they are the best that it gets. his father was the chief of staff to the man the white defeated for the united states senate. and so i know how good he really is. van passed away three years ago, but i know he's looking down with a twinkle in his eye today proud of matte and all that he has accomplished. you know, after defeating the boss for the united states senate, i came here with some trepidation of what my relationship might be like with a van and his wife, the treated me with the greatest courtesy over time the cancer indifference. the highest quality people that our state has to offer, and i believe

. >> saxby chambliss of georgia, mark warner of virginia said, can we take this bold idea and actuallyegislation. >> jon: you were on the gang of six, as well. >> i was. >> jon: the gang of six -- simpson bowles sounds like a british wedding announcement. that's not going to be. but "gang of six," this is serious business. now people are going to get hurt. [laughter] what happens then? >> first the tattoos. [laughter] >> jon: the teardrops. terrible. >> a few secret handshakes. then we sat down for about five, six months and worked it through. how do we turn this idea into a law? it wasn't easy. but we did it. and unfortunately we did it too late. if there's anything, any fault i would have with our effort, we should have done this weeks before so we were players in this last conversation. but here's what was interesting. we held a meeting about three weeks ago, invited 70 members of congress who had expressed an interest in this to come around and let us tell you what we've decided. 49 showed up. equally invited. then we said, all right, let's take the next step. are you ready to sign

would you be comfortable with that, senators crapo, coburn and chambliss? >> i can't figure out whether it would be doing somebody a favor or not to appoint them to this committee. there will be a lot of attention and power on the committee. i don't know who senator mcconnell is going to appoint. i can guarantee you one thing. he's not going to appoint anybody who will vote for tax increases on this committee. i know that -- >> you just eliminated the three -- you eliminated the three gang of sixers. >> well, i don't know how senator mcconnell will make his final choice, but i'm confident, as between who senator mctonl will appoint and the house rejecting tax increases that those really will not be part of the solution. we can't keep on doing what we're doing now and have been doing a long time, which is spending money we don't have. so we're going to have to cut. i know it is painful and it runs against the grain for a lost people who see government as a means to hand out more goodies. but we simply have to change our ways or else we're looking at economic

thank you very much, madame share and vice chairman chambliss for providing me with the opportunity to address this question raised. let me just say at the outset essentially has ali understand from congressman blair or two questions. one is that we offered information or that that information was offered in the course of the task force review and that there was intentional misleading during the briefing and i would say at the outset neither of those occurred and i appreciate the opportunity to provide additional explanations of that. first, the question of whether or not that information was changed or altered over the course of the task force review. the job i had as the executive to return of the guantanamo task force in 2009 was to bring together career professionals and compile all of the information that have benefited over the course of several years but each detainee. something that hadn't been done before, and to bring that information together in one place or give that information a fresh independent and objective review. we've taken that information and under my leadership a

chambliss: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, later on this afternoon, the senate intelligence committee is going to vote out the nomination of matt olson to be the next director of the national counterterrorism center, and i rise today in support of the nomination of matthew olson to be the next director of the otct. following the september 11 terrorist attacks, we did a lot of self-examination as a government and putting it simply realized that pieces of intelligence that should have been connected had not been. or, in other words, the dots had not been connected. congress understood that we could not afford another lapse like 9/11, so we created the national counterterrorism center to analyze and integrate counterterrorism information across the government. while we have not suffered another 9/11, our record is not perfect. from the christmas day bombing attempt to fort hood, times square and the new york subway plot, the threats to our homeland are very real. at the same time, changing political landscapes and chal

i then took that idea with some others senator mark warner of virginia senator chambliss of georgia, senator crapo of idaho senator coburn of oklahoma, senator conrad of north dakota and senator warner of virginia and sat down with a gang of six senators and we took those ideas, turning them into what we thought was a legislative approach that would work. i still think that has merit and i still think it should be actively considered when we talk about the long-term reduction of debt. it is bipartisan, it is honest, it achieves real deficit reduction, and it does it in the fairest possible way. it puts everything on the table everything. there are no sacred cows. everything's on the table. it means it goes beyond spending cuts to the entitlement programs which make those of us on the democratic side particularly nervous, but it also goes into revenue, new revenue to reduce our deficit which makes those on the other side of the aisle nervous. but what we should be nervous about is a continuing deficit and a weakening economy and a debt left to our children. i believe that this proposa

>> i had a conversation with saxby chambliss our esteemed senator in may and he shrugged his shouldersand said, i had the best voting record of anyone. that is what we have to dispute. >> judy's point was a republican senator in georgia have pointed out that he was recently named one of the -- will he was recently named by "national journal" i believe the most conservative senator in the senate even ahead of jim demint despite having supported the whoosh immigration plan, they gang of six financial compromise, the farm bill and a host of other things. i just wanted to point out one of the things mike said about how they were so few people who scored so well and heritage action scorecard, most republicans scored very well on most scorecards because the scorecards i designed for them to score well. heritage action for america actually does its doesn't scorecard based on legislation, not on who needs a slogan to put on their mail piece in the election. [applause] >> i could not have said it better than eric but i will try. there is one scorecard in washington that is perceived as the gold