that cold winter and survived so let's hope that poor family in maine does the same ok it is david sullivan thanks for being with us and. thank you tom it's always a pleasure currently one in five americans are economically insecure it's a fancy way of saying it can't afford to pay for the essential oils to live so thanks to republicans this winter twenty percent of the country will have to make a choice to stay warm at home or put food on the table this is a disgraceful reality of the richest nation on the. just. the. it's the good the bad in the very system likely ugly the good senator tom harkin democrat from ohio was telling his fellow members of congress to hold off on making plans for christmas at least until they do something for the millions of unemployed americans and pass an extension of unemployment benefits or an extension of benefits and such to expire at the end of the month harkin said let me just put it this way there will be no war no christmas for congress unless there's an extension of the unemployment insurance benefits i hate to inform my republican colleagues but wall

to death that's where here to answer that question from new york is conservative commentator david sullivan david welcome back. thank you for having me on thomas always a pleasure please gavan please mr scrooge to have a lump of coal why do you hate president poor people. well i got to tell you the bone of contention is not with the poor people it's not with wall street and it's not even with the middle east it's with the obama administration and their attack against charitable giving if they would just relax the rules and make it more attractive for people to make contributions the private sector could take care of this problem and we wouldn't have to look to the government to spend our money david you and i think it's going to be hundreds more of right now he have we think we can give money to charities that provide right now and it's one hundred percent tax deductible but. it's not nearly as tract of his that you know if you could it is if you have any got to raise the little guy in the the spigots would be wide open and the money would flow right in our women or anybody who is if anybod

sullivan and his family. >>> a texas man says god was looking out for him and his family and that's why they're alive today. davider got stuck in a blizzard on the way to a new mexico skiing trip. help took nearly two days to arrive. the family's suv was covered in four feet of snow. david higgins talked about the ordeal earlier this afternoon. >> we were completely entombed in the snow bank. there was nothing else around us. these are kind of the plains on this rural road, and we were the highest object out there, and the snow just started building up around us. by 5:00 that afternoon we could not even get out of the vehicle, the snow was halfway up the doors. >> incredible pictures there. higgins says hi wife is still recovering from pneumonia, but making great progress. >>> a fake "people" magazine cover is making the rounds today saying twilight superstar taylor lautner is gay. we'll debunk the rumors straight ahead. plus, find out why louis vuitton is suing warner brothers over the "hangover 2" movie next. it's different. first...it's been re-engineered with micro-particles. second, it enters the bloodstream