jetson. if you put just one gallon of gas in a prius and one gallon of gas in this new chevy, the chevy would still be going when the prius ran out of gas. it would still be going for another, say, 180 miles on that one gallon of gas. we have the total geeky details coming up. >>> first, it's time for today's holy mackerel stories in today's news. in 2006, nine u.s. federal attorneys, prosecutors, were surprisingly fired by the department of justice under former president bush. paulson was fired when he was in the midst of building a case against republican congressman rick renzi for an allegedly illegal land swap deal that would eventually lead to a 35-count indictment including charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and extortion. and in san diego, carol lamm had spirited the investigation that brought down republican congressman duke cunningham, who eventually pled guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes. the dukester is still doing more than eight years in prison

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the jetsons. in the future, i would accept into a glass contraption own go where i wanted to go. earth? walking? that was for suckers. the score's still, gravity 1, humans 0. it's not that no one is trying. this dutch aeronautics student, built a bicycle, that uses pedal power. he managed to stay in the air for several seconds. nice effort, buddy. and there were are some jetpack aficionados. it's cool. but what about this? you want to fly around with this thing at night? and what about dating? pick you up at 8:00. for the inventors out there, here's the kind of thing i'm looking for. ♪ oh. and i'm going to need a trunk and an extra seat for astro. >> excellent, kent. i have a transportation cocktail moment for you, too. >> oh, very good. >> i'm an average parallel parker. >> average. all right. >> and i wanted to be able to lift up the back of the car and scoot it in sideways. >> wouldn't that be great? >> this dude in egypt figured out how to do it. a retractable wheel that swings it in and out of a parking place. it says, an employee invents a unique way to park his car. i have

the jetsons. >> in the future i would step into a glass contraption and fly wherever i needed to go just like elroy. earth, walking? that was for suckers. the years passed and the score is still gravity one, humans 0. >> uh-oh. ♪ come fly with me >> it's not that no one has tried. this dutch aeronautics student bought a flying bicycle that uses pedal power. he managed to stay in the air for several second. and there are some jet pack experts out there. it's cool. but, hey, answer me this. you want to take this thing out at night? what about dating? hey, pick you up at 8:00? to all you inventers out there, here's the kind of thing i'm looking for. oh, and i'm going to need a trunk and an extra seat for astro. >> ha-ha. excellent, kent. i have a -- a transportation cocktail moment for you too. >> very good. >> i am an average parallel parker. average. i have always wanted to be able to lift up the back of the car and scoot it in side ways. wouldn't that be great. this dude has a way to do that. a retractible wheel, swings the butt end of the car in and out. the text in arabic, an employee

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elements, the public option and the end-of-life counseling as another example, which has already been jetsonned, they have been stuck with defending proposals that are not going to be there in the end and are really hurting them. >> actually, the problems, chris, started before these town hall meetings. if you go back to the final few weeks in congress when you had those intense negotiations with the blue dogs to get this bill through the energy and commerce committee, you saw as you were talking about earlier some of those high scores from the congressional budget office. >> high scores meaning the congressional budget office said this is going to cost more than we were told. >> they were caught offguard. they should have known their numbers going in, but they didn't. so the problems actually started before the recess and then you had the town halls. and interestingly enough, you've seen this administration for really the first time since he came into office on defense, which is never where you want to be, especially when you're trying to sell a major legislative initiative like this. on the o

the price for health insurance reform, should be the democrats to jetson their attempt to nationalize the health care system. they're not doing anything approaching it. that is where the president has put us on the wrong track. what john mccain was pointing to, the last time that congress did something big. 1986. the tax reform that year. the senate took that proposal away from the president. president reagan had a proposal. it was not going anywhere in congress. bob hackwood, in particular, took it away. rewrote it. and got a better result than the president accepted it. that should happen here. >> isn't david getting to the heart of the issue here? it's clear if you look at the votes in the house and the senate, while there's significant p significa significant polarties between the republicans and democrats. >> but the president needs a strong base behind him to give maximum negotiating strength to the other side. and he cannot engage in preemptive negotiating. giving in before he gets anything back from the other side. on both of these counts, the white house is not doing it in a

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if he jetsons that for political compromise, he'll have a harder time selling that. >> there are democrats who are worried they may have to compromise more on this bill. even former president bill clinton said the democrats may need to take a, quote, less than full loaf. how damaging could that be to the democratic party? >> i don't think it's damaging if the they compromise. if they get a bill that expands insurance and does some of these control costs, they can claim success. it will certainly anger some of their liberal supporters. i think the liberals will stay on board. they're going to lose the republicans, the conservatives anyway on this. they're already dead set against the democratic plans. if they compromise, it might help them shore up independence and moderates because the actual compromise z might take away some of the ideologically charged parts of the bill and making it more appealing. >> if the democrats fail on this plan and health care reform doesn't passion, could that lead to a resurgence of the republican party? >> i think it already has led to a resurgence of the rep

. >> the jetsons meet main street. ♪ george jettison >> the electric car is quickly catching attentionrom consumers. we talked to one venture-backed fund that wants to make charging stations as easy as gas stations. we're charged up and ready to go as the second hour of "squawk" begins now. ♪ >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" on cnbc. i'm becky quick with joe kernen along with carl quintanilla. we've been watching the futures. after many, many days of gains there was tepid gains yesterday. you're going to be looking now at futures above fair value. not by a whole heck of a lot. right now up by 9 1/2 points a lot of stories we're following this morning. citigroup selling 20 businesses in consumer finance. many of these businesses are located in europe. the ceo says the move was due to a shift in the consumer finance market where he says there is less funding availability. "the wall street journal" reporting treasury plans to ramp up sales of bonds to help fund the nation's growing deficit budget, china is largest holder of u.s. government debt. it's saying among invest

were senior pilots have three years of experience and on like back then they are going right into jetsonlying into some of the busiest air space in the world with for years of experience (202)628-0205 pilots. we have got to offer them better tools. i am not saying that you've got to have 10 or 15 thousand hours under your belt, that is not what i'm saying that there is something to be said for having been flying around the system for a few seasons as you develop your experience. again, having experience is not enough. the people who have the experience need to make certain we are exchanging it. we need to make certain we are mentoring the ones who don't have that. this needs to become part of our professional dna. this transcript. if you have got experience in you are not sharing it, you are doing a disservice to the profession. this is not a time to be a man or woman of few words. no these new pilots need to hear from you. you need to point out the things you have learned in have those experience exchanges because this is about safety. safety is about saving lives. right now there's a r