. >> guest: hannah arendt, goethe, hobbes, montaigne--well, we'll get montaigne in there again. c-span: let's go back to locke--john locke. >> guest: yeah. c-span: he's number one, far and away, more than anybody else. >> guest: how interesting. well, locke, 17th century british philosopher, wrote a treatise of government--second treatise of government, the one we read, a small but incredibly densely woven pamphlet about the--the relationships of property, what constitutes a society. he creates this philosophical fiction of the state of nature--how do we get out of it--and so on. and a lot of it--a lot of our notions of the--what holds us together, property and mutual respect for one another's right to exist, and also our notion of rights that--very important for jefferson and the other founding fathers that, you know, locke provided a kind of de facto justification for revolution. it was at the time of the glorious revolution in england that he wrote this. c-span: you say, actually, that he was--locke was thomas jefferson's master. >> guest: yes. people have debated this. some

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and democrats of both the house and senate will come together to find some sort of compromise they goethedo extend the pay roll tax cut as leaders on both sides and both parties think it's an important vote. we clearly are not there yet. >> talking about that 11th hour deal there, kate. >> reporter: yes. >> live in washington, kate, thank you. >>> and senate bob casey is the man behind the new democratic pay roll tax cut plan. and senator casey joins us now from capitol hill. good morning. >> good to be with you, thank you. >> you say you've come up with this compromise plan, but you heard what senator orrin hatch says. this is not compromise, because republicans weren't involved. so why weren't republicans involved? >> certainly they were involved, because we know exactly where the parties stand as of last week. we put forth a pay roll tax cut last week which was for employees and employers and they didn't agree with that, and they put up their own proposal, and that got just 20 votes. here we are now trying to come together as democrats and republicans. this is really simple. it's about

concerns that the euro zone deal won't do enough to address europe's real financial problems, slow goethng that risk coming from europe when it meets later today. most analysts expect the central bank to hold off when it comes to announcing any new big strategy to boost the american economy. economists, of course, forecast the fed will keep interest rates close to 0% because the fed itself has said it will until the year 2013. >>> at&t putting its t-mobile merger on old. postpone an anti-trust lawsuit that it needed to win in order to keep the merger alive. the justice department and fcc opposed that deal saying that deal, if it happened, would lead to higher cell phone bills and higher competition. >>> in just a few minutes we'll find out how strong retail sales were with all that holiday hype going on. we'll get you those numbers as soon as they're available. >>> up next, tragic training exercise and two army choppers go down killing four u.s. soldiers. we're live near the crash site with the latest. "american morning" back right after a break. the other office devices? they don't get