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new york times" mega best selling author latest book out today portrait of a spy now available daniel silvangratulations. >> thank you. >> sean: let me start with the debt debate. i love what the house did today. cut, cap and balance. you have kids. kids. kids. i am scared to death. it makes the most sense to me what bothers me the most is why would the senate on this day give president obama this opportunity to deflect attention away from what i think is the best bill? >> what is the senate? democratic controlled. i'm kind of interested in certain aspects of that bill. if you can get that kind of deficit reduction. if you can really simplify the tax code some, make it more efficient. make it more productive to business in the united states, which we really need. >> sean: when they say simplify the tax code -- >> let me finish. the devil is in the details, as we say. the problem with this is, once again, we are going to rush through something. first, we do health care in a week and a half. now we are going to rewrite the tax code in time -- it is not going to happen. there are aspects that

. >>> it's been more than a decade since best-selling author daniel silva first introduced us to gabrielnow gabriel and his team of operatives are back for a new adventure in a new novel called "portrait of a spy." and for the record, daniel is married to jamie gangle. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> this is a long time writing about this character, like being involved in a long-term marriage. are there days when you wake up at the computer and are tired of this guy? >> no, it's like my own marriage, perfect, wonderful. never thought about, you know, setting him aside at any point. he's like a part of the family. and, you know, i used to think that authors would exaggerate when they say that they really, you know, think of their characters as real people. but at this point, i'm afraid that gabriel allon is a real person. >> i'm trying to get over the fact that you just sucked up that much on national television. unbelievable. let's talk about this book a little bit. there has been a series of terrorist bombings. and gabriel is drawn back out of retirement, which happens a lot w

silva. >> as long as they are out there clearly we can see the kind of violence, kind of daniel they can do in a short period of time. so what we don't know is whether or not they are in palo alto or between here and colorado oyshtion many say the murder of three-month old baby isaac last month whose family was mistakenly targeted in a gang shooting broke a cody of silence on the streets. >> nobody wants to be a snitch but if somebody shot my baby and i saw it, i'm telling. >>reporter: the mayor says people are also coming forward because the tips are resulting in arrest. >> if you give them information that information will be acted upon quickly and some sort of aprehension or action because they are coming in and actually providing information. >>reporter: green says family just want to live in peace and now willing to work with police to make that happen. >> want to be able to walk around and enjoy life without fear. i think participating about to the better of the community. >>reporter: up take in violence is prompting him to increase parole over at least the next month. even cancelling