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 susta

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

. >>> after three decades of public service, retiring new hampshire senator judd greg is not pulling any punches in his assessment of the economy which is headed for a, quote, inevitable fiscal melt down. he joins us live from new hampshire. senator, thank you for joining us on a sunday. >> thank you, shannon. thanks for having me on. >> let's talk more about how grim the picture is if we don't do anything. >> we're on an unsustainable track. we'll double the federal debt in five years, triple it in ten years. the average deficit will be a trillion dollars a year for the next' 10 years. you saw what happened when the world took a jaundice view of greece's situation. we're not greece, obviously. we're a more vibrant nation, but we're on the exact same track. our public debt will be 60% this year, a percentage of gdp. greece was at 100% when it had its problems. there's no way off this track unless we start to make some tough decisions. the programs exist, the spending comes at us. the government is growing. it's gone from 20% to gbt to 24% of gdp in the last 20 years. it's headed towa

. >>> 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

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

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