to david walker, might clean it up but not water it down, filed to run for lieutenant governor of thenecticut, mr. walker, good to have you. >> good to be back. neil: you know, you are i am a little bit more dramatic and maybe italian in fearing it but we have dug ourselves a deep hole, i'm not sure we can dig out there total spending, direct spending and tax preferences we're about 5 trillion a year could in addition with regard to direction spending and tax extenexpendtures, a vast majoris on autopilot, the deficits have come down about half, in but we have not addressed 3 things to address to put our finances in order, social insurance program, not rationalized health care promises and done more to control costs and not comprehensive tax reform that includes -- >> every time anybody gets brave and says obvious, they are crucified. you might discover this in your run for lieutenant governor, in knuckle head will run out or david walker also politics are don't understand that american people are a lot smarter than they realize. they know we're in trouble. they can handle the truth. t

u might discover this in your run for lieutenant governor, in knuckle head will run out or david walkertand that arican people are a lot smarter than they realize. they know we're in trouble. they can handle the truth. they are willing to accept tough choices if they are part of a comprehensive plan they deem to be fair. and that is what i'm going to do, believe it or not connecticut is ground zero of fiscal irresponsibility and uncompetitiveness in america, it is at or near the bottom in virtually every category. if we can turn this state, it will be heard around the crownry, and then - and -- coune washington, d.c. neil: if you can put out that tough love and not get rip apart for it that is a good sign. >> thank you. neil: this is under category. if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. somebody talking sugarless gummy beer-- bears has abeasy an easye weight, you are going to lose something else, after this. >> thank you. (vo) you are a business pro. seeker of the sublime. you can separate runway diculousness... from fashionhat flies off the shelves. and you...rent from natio

and gas chambers for more on this i'm joined by david benno its partner price benefits i'll be david walker thank you. is there actually a chance that we're going to go back to the firing squad in the gas chamber and then in the old sparky i think there's certainly a possibility in their states that have these big law and order agendas they have to keep the death penalty going and if it means going back to old fashioned ways of execution i think they're going to try and do it why do they have to keep the death penalty oh well i think it's political in nature i mean the people of the politicians who are pro death penalty ran on a lawn for law and order platform so if they if they lose the ability to promote that platform they're in trouble but it's a plan i mean it's a that's a platform that's based on a lie there's no there's no evidence that the death penalty causes people not to commit murder you know murders are typically crimes of impuls not you know an absolute. ok well into the to the drugs then we put down dogs and cats and we use typically overdoses of barbiturates and in washington

comptroller general, david walker and noah breast low. noah, i want to start with you. work with small business owners and lend them money. what is their attitude and how do they feel? >> we lend money to 700 different industries of small business owners. what we've seen there is real diversity with regards to their opinion on the minimum wage. many small businesses are already paying their employees more than minimum wage. so you think about doctors, electricians and plumbers, industries like that, skilled trades and so forth. what you see at other end of the spectrum, folks rely more on minimum wage employees will have to make real adjustments for the minimum wage to go up. melissa: david, what did you think of what you heard from jody? >> let's do some math. much the president is proposing a 39% increase in the minimum wage. that is only one component of compensation. it will clearly have an impact. we're much better off to deal with the disease which is our dysfunctional education system, our inadequate training programs, and to augment the earned income tax credit,

university of houston was center and author of the book things i've learned from die a book about life david walker. thanks very much happy to be with you tell us why you wrote things i've learned from. i wrote it because i was dealing with the. really different events in my life that overlapped i've been. in texas for about twenty years and if your taxes you have a lot of experience when you see a lot of people die you see a lot of family members people who get executed have a difficult time dealing with you see family members of victims who still have an emotional stake in the execution and so after doing that work for twenty years i thought i knew everything there was to know about the emotional range of death and how it affects all of the different people who are implicated by that. and then i experienced two other deaths in my life and they changed the way i viewed the relationships that people have with those who are facing imminent death the first was the death of my father who was diagnosed with melanoma when he was fifty eight years old. died from cancer when he was barely sixty years old

he followed up and said that the former comptroller david walker might he such a candidate. the lack of president walker aside, -- and on the other side aisle, thelogical day after the column appeared making the argument that the obama realignment might not last the on the next presidential election, which doesn't make it much of a realignment. what strikes us about the way that these folks are thinking about american political parties is that the expectation is for major durables sustained dramatic change. the argument we want to make is that people who are looking for that kind of change are going to be waiting a while. what we want to do today is try to make three empirical points that come from a theoretical perspective. the first is that self identifying moderates are polarized from each other. this makes it for difficult for a centrist party to rise and be a viable third party in the united states. -- second and finally, the argument we ant to make is that -- begine our argument, we with evidence from poole and , that congressional elites are reliably divided along a s

comptroller david walker might be the kind of independent candidate who could ignite the radical center to victory in 2012. so the lack of president walker aside, on the other side of the times of ideological outcome of the day after the election a column appeared making the argument that we have entered an obama realignment within the next breath of the column that realignment might not last beyond the next presidential election which doesn't make it much of a very durable realignment. what strikes it's about the way these folks are thinking about american political parties is that the expectoration is for major, durable, sustained dramatic a change. the argument that we want to make with respect to the state of the party is that people are looking for that kind of change are going you waiting a while. what we want to do today is try to make thre three empirical pos that come from a theoretical perspective that i would will de in a second to the first point is that self-identified moderates to the extent that come to stand there in the electorate are in a lot of ways polarized from eac

didn't release the names but there's a list of names because the hunter walkers of the world keep digging. the names, kevin o'dowd, david samson, bridget anne kelly, charlie mcken that, the governor's council, the incoming chief of staff, the press secretary, bill beroni, patrick foye who is the kind of truth teller in the middle of this story at the port authority. people remember he's the one who wrote the memo when he discovered this saying it was outrageous and looked like it was a violation of law. this list that we're seeing looks like the basic first stage that you would go to, especially most of these names appearing on the e-mails that we've seen. and authoring most of the e-mails that we've seen. >> absolutely. you know, i've talked extensively with assemblyman wisniewski that's doing their investigation. and also senator weinberg who's chairing the senate committee. and both of them have indicated to me that there's going to be sort of a round one here. none of them would rule out that this could eventually go up to the governor, but they're kind of not running straight to that door. and they're hitting this

walker, let the good times roll, brother, on "fox & friends"! >> david>> he was kid dynamite. and he's still doing standup today. i know a lot about jimmy walker. i should do his biography. >> today is the perfect day to read up on him because a lot of poem will stay inside. yesterday the mayor of indianapolis banned driving, it's so bad. they've even grounded a whole bunch of airplanes because of frozen fuel supplies and that's where we're starting with an extreme weather alert. want to know how cold it is outside? watch this guy. this guy right here. okay. so he set up a camera. he opened his apartment window there in chicago just to show how icy cold it was yesterday. >> it gave me goose bumps just looking at that. >> how cold is it going to go today? right now outside our world headquarters, maria, i'm seeing over your shoulders, it's 4 degrees. >> yeah. it's very cold outside. it's so cold that we did a little science experiment and we posted it on instagram so you have to check it out on our instagram page. it's a video of taking boiling water, run

walker. i was interested in the one major discrepancy when he said turkey was off your list david immediatelystarted shaking and looking at his top risk even before the holiday surprises we had. it almost seems pressing so i want to press you on the turkey question. >> so yeah i am very very concerned about turkey and i am concerned that turkey is one of a bunch of countries emerging market countries that have selections this year but i think that it's also very vulnerable to the cross-border stuff from syria but my biggest concern in some ways is i think we are heading back into the pkk kurdish question leading to a return of conflict and erdogan is just getting more pressure there, the increasingly combative and conspiratorial and paranoid he gets. it's really a constitutional arrangement with having more power in the presidency. you are potentially setting up a huge fight within the akp. so i am really quite concerned about turkey. i think we are heading into very very nasty territory there. >> does erdogan run? >> yes, yes and i think he probably becomes president but this real uncertaint

david and nancy, my sister, took the christmas tree out and said it is nicer day than i thought, i will take a quick walk before the rain comes. he is an avid walker inside and that was something he would normally do. his phone is charging. >> his phone was being charged when he left. that is information i didn't know. there are canine units being assigned. it is 16 days in. there was a report one of this credit cards was used in mexico. what came of that? >> there has been nothing verified in that. it seems one of the fraud things happening. but we have gotten no connection from that. >> he has two teenagers and has been married for a long time. how is the relationship with the family? >> loving dad, great father, boy scute leader and involved in the family activities. we are desperate to have him back with us. everyone is trying to stay strong. it is obviously a very difficult and tense time. but the community is embracing the family and we are overwhelmed by their care and the police department who have been dedicated, professional and overwhelming in their response and the amount of resources they bring in. they are keeping us positive. >> the