and later, ashley judd on a mission. tonight's american spirit. ♪ ♪ ( cheers ) >> glor: when the u.s. sent 30,000 more troops to afghanistan earlier this year, it also beefed up another front in the war against the taliban. american farmers are trying to persuade their afghan counter- parts to grow something other than poppy, the source of the opium that finances insurgents. but terry mccarthy reports tonight it's a tough sell. >> reporter: for horse and cotton farmers david and donna mull, the chance to go from the green fields of georgia to the arid lands of afghanistan was a calling of sorts. >> i look at it as an opportunity to not only serve my country but help some people that are probably in need worse than i am in afghanistan. >> i think growing up on a farm, taking that experience over with me, will help them, help me, even. >> reporter: so far, more than 60 american farmers have been sent by the u.s. department of agriculture to afghanistan as part of president obama's civilian surge. their mission: to wean afg

senator judd gregg of new hampshire, the ranking republican on the committee and one of our good friends, in mock debates at the ranch, arrived as i was -- senator kennedy invited us to sit on the couch as he continued chatting about anything other than the horrific images unfolded on the tiny screen across the room. i looked around his shoulder but could see very little and i was still trying to pay attention to him and his conversation. it seem completely unreal, sitting in this elegant sunlit office as an immense tragedy unfolded. we sat as human beings driven by smoke, flame and searing heat jumped from the top of the twin towers to end their lives and as firemen in full gear began to climb up the tower stairs. i often wondered if it was ted kennedy's defense mechanism. after so much tragedy, the death of his oldest brother in world war ii, the assassination of his brothers jack and robert and the death of nephew's including john jr. whose body identified when it was pulled from the cold dark waters off martha's vineyard, if after all those things simply could not look upon another g

the nation which we watched clustered around a small television perched on the desk, ted kennedy, judd greg and i walked out to tell reporters that my briefing had been postponed. i said, you heard from the president this morning and senator kennedy and senator greg and i joined his statement. our hearts and our prayers go out to the victims of this act of terrorism, and that owrp support goes to the rescue workers, and all of our prayers are with everyone there right now. as i turned to exit, lawrence mcquillen of usa today said, children are struck by this, is there a message you could tell the nation? parents need to reassure their children everywhere in the country that they are safe. as we walked out of the briefing room, the advanceman rang and a friend told him cnn was reporting an airplane crashed into the pentagon. within minute, the order given to evacuate the white house would be given. the secret service decided to take me temporarily to their head quarters located in a nondisscript federal office building a few blocks from the white house. their offices were reenforced to

singer actor justin timberlake, actor morgan freeman, actress ashley judd, singer dolly parton.was not born in tennessee. >> i'd have to say ashley judd. >> reporter: that's correct. good job. >> yeah. were. >> reporter: the most famous play in tennessee titan here is the music city miracle do. you remember it? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: two parter. who did the titans beat in that game? >> i should definitely know this. >> reporter: and the second part so, i'll let you think about them both is who scored the game ridge winning touchdown. his name rhymes with mike tyson. >> oh, kevin dyson. >> reporter: and who did they beat that first game? >> was it -- i can't -- give me a multiple choice. >> reporter: the raiders, the chiefs or the bills. >> it was the bills. >> reporter: hold on, judges. we're going to give you 4-5. >> appreciate. it. >> reporter: good job, jeremy, thanks for playing know your opponent. >> i appreciate. it thanks for having me on. >> he did great. >> you guys are always good sports. you played along. i had brian and shawn both at 2- 5. >> really? >> and he wa

republican senator judd gregg sits on the commission he went on the record.to see you. >> thank you for having me on. >> greta: where do we stand on this debt commission and the report? are we going to get 14 out of 18 so there will be a single report being issued? >> first, it is really important. my view is the last best hope now of putting in place something substantive that will get our deficits and debt under control. the proposal was a serious effort. i don't agree with all of it but it was a serious effort. it is going to be hard to get 14 votes. everybody is trying hard, serious and sitting around the take and engaged. there's a lot of differences of opinion as to how to do this. there's unfortunately, not a lot of time. >> greta: can you live a serious effort? if you are not getting everything that you think is right and i suppose the same is true to the other 17 members of the is there enough that you can all agree and it is worthwhile? there's are dramatic enough steps they could reduce the debt? >> in my opinion we should be able to do that. we kn

pushing permanent and now there are others joining his call, judd greg the republican from new hampshire, also, and because liberals and nancy pelosi represents that, look, we've had the tax cuts in place since 2001 and 2003 they didn't help avoid the difficult crisis, mess that we're in. so why extend them now? she has been firm and vocal about that. at the opposite end of this. >> nancy pelosi has dug in her heels and that's why we're seeing her run for minority leader and will she dig in her heels and say no compromise here. she'll have that argument and can you raise taxes in a recession. not only as a job raiser, but can you punish people in the middle of a recession. >> and president obama says look, it's going to add 3 trillion dollars to the overall fiscal debt and how are you going to pay for this. >> a permanent extension. >> whether or not there's a compromise on a two-year extension it seems open to that and of course david ax axlerod will be on. and president george w. bush waded into the talk and he tried to awide it, but finally this week he weighed into it with bill o'rei

martha: meanwhile, retiring new hampshiregen toroo senator judd gregg says the u.s. economy is on an unsustainable track. >> the problem is very simple, we're on an unsustainable tract, we're going to double debt in the next three years, the damage vet will be tripet the next ten years. we're not greece but we are on the exact same track. martha: that's cheery news this monday morning. airing bolling from follow your money -- eric bolling from fox business news joins us. we are heading towards financial disaster in this country. >> in fact, senator gregg was offered a job in the white house, also commerce secretary, and he said if i take that job i'll have to give up my senate seat. it's important to get fiscally responsible in the senate and now he's retiring but he's on to something. in two years, in less than two years, mr. obama has managed to rack up $3 trillion in debt, 670 days that, equals, $3 trillion, from george washington's inauguration through ronald reagan's last day in august, 200 years, the velocity at which we're adding to the debt is out of control,

senator judd gregg, thanks for your time today. >> thank you, shannon. appreciate it. >>> investigators are hot on the trail of the man they he believe shot and critically wounded a utah park ranger. investigators say they found the suspect's rifle, backpack, and a bloody shirt they believe he used to stop a bleeding wound. the park ranger was shot three times while patrolling a bike trail on friday. he's listed in critical but stable condition. >>> some folks who want to get an early start on thanksgiving travel are heading out today, but is weather going to be on their side. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is at the fox weather center. how does it look, rick? >> sha shannon, we've had a coue couple weeks. all of that is changing when people start to do their travel. big winter storm across much of the west has winter storm warnings in effect from colorado back to california, up to washington, northern rockies. some areas are seeing another two to three feet of snow, and especially across the sierra nevadas, we've already seen two to three feet of sn

. >> jimmy: it was ashley judd. >> yeah. >> jimmy: destroyed us. >> destroyed us. >> jimmy: you were no, that does not -- that cannot happen. you were throwing like -- you had crudites from the green room. >> from the green room. >> jimmy: it was like mario brothers. you were throwing banana peels and things behind you and then hitting us, except, this time, i think i got you beat, i'm very excited about this time. >> really? >> jimmy: do you want to have an adult, big wheel race? >> absolutely. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this is very exciting -- >> i'm the big wheel champion of my neighborhood, by the way. >> jimmy: what's that? >> i'm the big wheel champion of my neighborhood, by the way. >> jimmy: you're the big wheel champion in your neighborhood? >> yeah. >> jimmy: so i could overturn the king right now? >> yeah. >> jimmy: absolutely, yeah. when we come back, jimmie and i will face off in a "late night" race. jimmy versus jimmie. come on back! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ turn the tub around ♪ talking about nutrition [ female announcer ] "i can't believe it's not butter" w

we also lost tony judd a great friend of yours. >> indeed he was. great, great. you mentioned two dear friends of mine who sadly passed away. and both tony and i, i think, fought the battle not only for the literature of fact not only for nuanced understanding of europe but also to try to restore this true mening of the word liberal. >> so the most important responsibility of america for its own future is to one, give true meaning to what the word liberal means but also come to some kind of political collaboration as they may have done in britain in order to create as efficient a process for dealing with its big problems including the debt and including energy and including taking care in the traditional way of health care and social security. a safety net. >> physician, heal thyself. what we most need from the united states is that it does those things you've described and so releases the fantastic energies and dynamism of this society which you see every day of the week at breakfast at 7:30 in silicon valley. with the indians and chinese and australians sitting

judd gray joins us. i've seen your comments this is a threat to the u.s. second only to a weapon of mass destruction, explain. >> basically other than a terrorist using a weapon of mass destruction against us nothing is going to do more damage to our culture, prosperity is going to do more damage to us than us going into fiscal bankruptcy. we are incurring massive deficits and are projected to be incurring for the next ten years. a trillion dollars a year over the next ten years. we will get to the point where people will lose confidence in our money and be unwilling to buy our debt at a reasonable price. at that point you'll have a massive implosion of our economy and it will have a devastating affect on a lot of americans. shannon: you and others have been raising the cry on this for years. we are being asked to make sacrifices based on what has come so far from the debt commission and secondary commission, they are not set in stone just yet. what we know involves a lot of sacrifice. do people get it that that's what it's going to take, do you think? >>

senator judd gregg weighs in on the latest proposals to slash the deficit ap.e done and what happens if it isn't? those stories and much more at the top of the hour. jon: well the session of congress in residence right now is a lame-duck session but senate majority leader harry reid plans to push votes on a couple of controversial issues. he wants to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military and also vote on the d.r.e.a.m. act, a bill that would offer young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. let's talk about it with fox news contributor and democratic consultant bob beckel and kevin madden, former national press secretary to mitt romney's presidential campaign. bob, put on your harry reid hat for a moment and tell us why he chosen the two bills which have certain amount of controversy with each of them, why he wants to push them? >> i can tell you why he is pushing the dream act. he got his margin of victory to get back in the senate from hispanics in nevada. jon: that is pay back. >> that is pay back, sure. jon: i took the words right out of

. >>> coming up live from washington, senator judd greg said we're sliding toward a face fiscal melthelp our vets. two of the furry friends will join us in the studio coming up at the top of the hour. >>> speaking of our furry friends, let's just say our feathery friends, thanksgiving is four days away. many people are planning their parties, their holiday celebrations. you might get sticker shock when you see the supermarket shelves this year. peter doocy live in our new york newsroom. peter, what should we do? >> jamie, this week as you head out to the grocery store to stock up on sweet potatoes and cranberries, you'll be dealing with two things. a ton of other holiday shoppers around every year and high prices, up 1.3% this year. that 1.3% increase is an average on a dinner for ten. here's how it breaks down. according to the american farm bureau federation, pie shells are up 12 cents. pumpkin pie mix is up seventeen cents. turkeys are up 28 cents. we visited a poultry farm in upstate new york in week where the owners told us they had to raise prices for their customers because th

there is no better united states senator than judd gregg on either side of the aisle. one indication of that is the last three leaders in the republican senate have asked him to sit on the hearings to get his wisdom and advice. he's been the voice of our party, and we believe the voice of americans who are concerned about fiscal responsibility, about spending and about too much debt. senator blanche lincoln has been a pioneer throughout her career throughout public life as a staff member, then as a senator, occupying senator carraway's seat, the first woman to be elected to the senate. blanche was the youngest would be to be elected to the -- woman to be elected to the senate. arlen specter from pennsylvania, the word to describe arlen is courage. the or word is survivor. and they both go together. arlen has had a distinguished career from his youngest days. he was a member of the warren commission investing president kennedy's assassination. his work has spanned the entire mark. one of the things i appreciate both about senator specter is work on constitutional law in

idaho, senator dick durbin, covered majority whip in to the senate, and fudge, former ceo, senator judd gregg, representative jeb hensarling, alice rivlin, at representative paul ryan, presumed to be the new budget chief on the house side, representative jan schakowsky of illinois, representative john spratt, just defeated, and andrew stern, head of the service employees international union. those are the members of the commission who will have to vote on what senator simpson and erskine bowles have proposed. richard in new york city on the independent line. caller: there is a simple answer for that. one of the biggest problems i see i for example, if you increase the social security retirement age, we have enough problems employing our youth at the present time. insisting that people work longer to have adequate social security if there is such a thing is detrimental to employing others. the only thing that i think would be really directly approachable is the fact that i have yet to understand why there are multi-billion there's in the world. what are they going to do with their money.

then you still have some of the older, retiring senators, republicans -- voinovich, judd gregg, who might be open to supporting this. they will be pretty close to having two-thirds. it is a big, massive, international arms treaty. the time it takes to handle that, as well as dealing with tax cuts, dealing with unemployment insurance benefits, and a few of the other things, including defense authorization bill which has the don't ask- don't tell issue, no one is sure if they have enough time to take up of the start treaty and give it its full time it would require. it may get squeezed out just on the timeline. host: how long are they in session for? guest: they would like this to be in essentially two weeks. in now, break on friday, go home for thanksgiving, come back a week after thanksgiving and stay just one week. it is possible, if they do decide to take up the start treaty or defense authorization bill in the senate, it is possible we could stretch this out a little bit longer. they do not want to be here christmas eve the way they were last year at 7:00 a.m. casting votes on health c

she fills the open seat left vacant by a retiring senator judd greg. she served as attorney general from 2004 to 2009. now an interview with jane goodall. during this event cheaper biden -- presented several awards to people whose or she admired over the years. this was held at george washington university here and last month. this is an hour and a half. >> her early and ongoing work on primate behavior has captured the imagination of millions. she has expanded her efforts to include promoting conservation and in powering used to strive for a better world. it is also a pleasure to congratulate the recipients of this year's leadership awards. they embodied her values, embraces her vision, and advance our commitment to the sustainability encouraging of all life on the planet we share. here at george washington we engage the world from this nation's capital, and one of the ways we do so is by convening discussions of the most important issues of our time. our efforts to educate, enlighten, and reform are strengthened by the many partnerships we have broug

democrats could lose and the republicans have been shut out of congressional seats except for judd gregg in new england. >> let's suppose you are all correct and the house goes republican. do you think nancy pelosi will stay as the leader of the democrats? if so, how long will she stay as leader or not stay? >> i think she will retire in six months. >> i think she is starting to tell people that she would make sure she would be allowed to hand off the power. there is no underestimation on how much she controls. and then set the stage for what happens in her own district. i do not think mainly because he will win mostly moderate democrats. i do not think there are enough liberals who will live with him. i think there will be -- if democrats lose 60 seats or 70 seats, you will have an entirely different complexion of the democratic party and they will want change. >> i think the other reason people like him is because he effectively rejected the aside. i think that will be on most democratic minds. >> one of the variables that none of us can speak to with any certainty is the dynamic that

i agreed when this whole thing was first proposed several months ago with judd greg, who called it nothingwhole thing is, how gesture politics it all is, is the fact that what's going to happen with the report if they actually get agreement on it? nothing. ther is no requirement that congress do anything about it. >> alisyn: they say they would move it to a vote if they could get agreement. but they agree with you that it is very hard. they say to get 14 people to even agree on a time to meet every day, no less on all of these major proposals. but they say the reason they've put it out now is to begin a national dialogue. let's hear from the co-chair of the commission. >> we give people the option that once we eliminate all of the tax expenditures, they can add back various expenditures if they want to. for example, if someone says we want to add back the earned income tax credit or child care tax credit or add back the mortgage interest deductions, we say fine. how do you want to pay for it? whose taxes do you want to raise >> brian: timing is everything. >> right. it's all puppet strings

judd gregg, the same thing, conrad comeau trusted each other. so it's a tough order.in the coin of the realm in legislating and here is trust, not more career or bs. that's it. that's where we are. so erskine and i will only ask for your honest participation, your intelligence, your wisdom, your honesty, your goodwill. and as corny as it sounds, your patriotism. no one will ever do this fateful exercise again because it seriously messes up what we, you and me, politicians were trained by her handlers to do. and that is to get good at all cost and whatever caused. there is no easy answers that we will be better served. we will be better served by our better natures as each and every one of us knows deep down in our gut that this might be the last best hope to write this listing ship state of ours. and i thank you, each and every one of you for your willingness to pitch in to see if we can make a difference. and i believe we can. and i feel we must. thank you very much. >> thank you. i want to make a couple of suggestions. why do we care about deficits? obviously when d

democrats could lose and the republicans have been shut out of congressional seats except for judd greggn new england. >> let's suppose you are all correct and the house goes republican. do you think nancy pelosi will stay as the leader of the democrats? if so, how long will she stay as leader or not stay? >> i think she will retire in six months. >> i think she is starting to tell people that she would make sure she would be allowed to hand off the power. there is no underestimation on how much she controls. and then set the stage for what happens in her own district. i do not think mainly because he will win mostly moderate democrats. i do not think there are enough liberals who will live with him. i think there will be -- if democrats lose 60 seats or 70 seats, you will have an entirely different complexion of the democratic party and they will want change. >> i think the other reason people like him is because he effectively rejected the aside. i think that will be on most democratic minds. >> one of the variables that none of us can speak to with any certainty is the dynamic that wi

judd gregg, the same thing, conrad comeau trusted each other. so it's a tough order.in the coin of the realm in legislating and here is trust, not more career or bs. that's it. that's where we are. so erskine and i will only ask for your honest participation, your intelligence, your wisdom, your honesty, your goodwill. and as corny as it sounds, your patriotism. no one will ever do this fateful exercise again because it seriously messes up what we, you and me, politicians were trained by her handlers to do. and that is to get good at all cost and whatever caused. there is no easy answers that we will be better served. we will be better served by our better natures as each and every one of us knows deep down in our gut that this might be the last best hope to write this listing ship state of ours. and i thank you, each and every one of you for your willingness to pitch in to see if we can make a difference. and i believe we can. and i feel we must. thank you very much. >> thank you. i want to make a couple of suggestions. why do we care about deficits? obviously when d

then you still have some of the older, retiring senators, republican-- voinovich, judd gregg, who might be open to supporting this. they will be pretty close to having two-thirds. it is a big, massive, international arms treaty. the time it takes to handle that, as well as dealing with tax cuts, dealing with unemployment insurance benefits, and a few of the other things, including defense authorization bill which has the don't ask- don't tell issue, no one is sure if they have enough time to take up of the start treaty and give it its full time it would require. it mayet squeezed out just on the timeline. host: how long are they in session for? guest: they would like this to be in essentially two weeks. in now, break on friday, go home for thanksgiving, come back a week after thanksgiving and stay just one week. it is possible, if they do decide to take up the start treaty or defense authorization bill in the senate, it is possible we could stretch this out a little bit longer. they do not want to be here christmas eve the way they were last year at 7:00 a.m. casting votes on health car

she will take the seat of republican judd gregg who is also retiring. the senate is in recess. democrats and republicans are meeting separately to discuss strategies for the current lame-duck session. before recessing senators voted to begin debate on a food safety bill. that debate will begin in about 25 minutes from now when senators return at 4:00 eastern peco we will have live coverage. in the meantime a look at some of the debate that took place this morning. bri >> food safety modernization act ant as it is called is very similar in cr to bring bringing our nation's into t antiquated andhe inadequate food inspection service into theomprehen 21st century. apprch to it takes a comprehensivehe approach to reforming the current system. and i'm pleased to report that the product this bill is a product of strong bipartisan collaboration on the health education labor and pensionsain, i wt committee. again i want to particularly thanks senator durbin and senator gregg who have worked together over many years toproduce ts exc fashion and to produce this excellent bill.king i also

. >> republican candidate, this is a seat held by senator judd gray, former governor of new hampshire. >> right. along with the rand paul seat, what you see is the democrats not making -- not being able to play offense certainly on the senate side. >> frank is joining us from oshkosh, wisconsin. here are the results from the new hampshire senate race. thanks republican hold at 62%. a lot of tension also on shea-porter in new hampshire's first congressional district seeking another term. we'll go to frank next in wisconsin. go ahead, please. >> hi. first off i want to thank you guys for the great work you do every election. i like watching c-span for truly fair and balanced coverage. so thank you for that. but my comment was about if the protection holds true and the republicans take control of the house, i'm interested in seeing what happens with the speaker of the house, apparently he's been preordained that the republican boehner would be appointed speaker of the house. but in the light of the energy that quote-unquote tea party movement has given to the republican party, i think it

and working on it diligently over the past yeemple i would be remiss if i didn't also thank senator judd and senator burr, also for being heavily involved in this bill and working through all of the compromises that a bill like this entaisms the food safety and modernization act enhances our food safety system in three critical ways, madam president. in three critical ways. it improves the prevention of food safety problems. i always think this is key. we got to get in front of this, not just to sort of catch the food once it's contaminated and try to get it done. but to try to prevent it in the beginning. we had success in the meat and poultry industry some years ago with a preventive plan to look at where passage generals would enter the food -- pathogens would enter the food supply and stop it there. in the almost 25 years now, we've learned that to this. now we will have a better system of preventing food safety problems and foodborne pathogens. it improves the detection response to foodborne outbreaks. detect it earlier, stop it earlier, have a better response to what's happening. i