mary katharine, we ignored you for far too long. you have the next two minutes. >> as far as the swation tax situation's tax has gone up because the tanning tax has gone up. i'm with you bill on the talking points you said this has illuminated a remarkable ability of the democrats to deny there is an actual issue here with the amount of money that we are borrowing and the amount of money that we have. and they think you can deal with it with a corporate jet tax which is not the case. the american people actually wanted a down payment with cuts so where we are right now, if you will excuse the metaphor is in the methadone clinic for addicts to spending. it's not a pretty place. that's why we are having this awful fight and that's why everybody is kicking and screaming to get there. what we are doing is taking methadone, which is not actually, you know, going to be the solution to the problem. but it may get you to a place where you could get off spending. >> bill: that's what i say. have you got to get to the next presidential electi

mary katharine, we ignored you for far too long.ave the next two minutes. >> as far as the swation tax situation's tax has gone up because the tanning tax has gone up. i'm with you bill on the talking points you said this has illuminated a remarkable ability of the democrats to deny there is an actual issue here with the amount of money that we are borrowing and the amount of money that we have. and they think you can deal with it with a corporate jet tax which is not the case. the american people actually wanted a down payment with cuts so where we are right now, if you will excuse the metaphor is in the methadone clinic for addicts to spending. it's not a pretty place. that's why we are having this awful fight and that's why everybody is kicking and screaming to get there. what we are doing is taking methadone, which is not actually, you know, going to be the solution to the problem. but it may get you to a place where you could get off spending. >> bill: that's what i say. have you got to get to the next presidential election. i

mary katharine is, this fuzzy map or voodoo economics?m i not grasping juan's calculations properly. >> no. i think it's pretty clear that unemployment is higher. not only that what american people are sense something we have paid a trillion dollars for it to go up. >> bill: for unemployment to go up. what kind of a good deal is that. >> representative peter fazio ally liberal guy said last week the slogan the idea of the campaign it could have been worse is a hard thing to sell. that's the probable is he having. >> bill: that's like saying, look, the kansas city royals could be worse. >> i know. >> bill: come on. they are not winning. they are getting pounded it could be worse though. we could win no games. come on, juan. this is a crazy argument. >> no, it's not. >> it's insane. >> it's a perfect story. >> bill: go ahead, mary katharine. >> there is a perfect story out of seattle reported by local seattle tv news last week about the 20 million grant they got as part of the green jobs stimulus. supposed to get 2,000 green jobs. 20 millio

juan and mary katharine will weigh in. >> this the first president in the history of the country who under his watch we have seen a downgrade of united states' credit. >> bill: congresswoman michele bachmann will be here to tell us how she would get america out of the economic chaos. >> the music is about to end. this game is going to be over. >> caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. saving the folks from economic hardship. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. by now most americans understand there is a crisis of leadership in washington. the s&p downgrade on friday basically says there is no confidence in the federal government's management of the economy. the president and both parties are to blame. but it is we the people as usual who are going to suffer the most. the dow down today another 634 points. unbelievable. the chaos in the financial markets will set back the american economy a good six months, at least, cons

not a. >> laura: all your patent lawyers are bris ling at mary katharine's comments. leslie thanks so much. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. billionaire investor warren buffet says the super rich need to pay more taxes. ben stein agrees. bernie goldberg on how michele bachmann is handling the mainstream media we hope you stay tuned for all of that >> laura: in the personal story segment tonight, stop cod ling the super rich. that's what billionaire investor warren buffet said in his "new york times" op. ed today. america's third richest man, worth about $50 billion said he only paid about $7 million in taxes last year. buffet's buddy president obama mentioned this during his bus tour today in minnesota. >> he pointed out he pay as lower tax rate than anybody in his office including the secretary. he figured out that his tax bill, he paid about 17%. and the reason is because most of his wealth comes from capital gains. you don't get those tax breaks. you are paying more than that. and now i may be wrong, but i think you are a little less wealth

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[applause] >> thank you very much, katharine. what i'm going to do is comment for 15-20 minutes introducing my book, and then katharine and i will have a friendly dialogue and open it up for q&a for the audience. it's great to be here at the historic stowe center. she spent the last two decades of her life -- i've done research here and truly appreciate everything the stowe center has done, and this is such a great year to come to the center in hartford. the 200th anniversary of the birth of harriet beecher stowe whose novel created such an uproar that lincoln called her the little lady who made this great war. it's possibly an understatement. i think it's true from the research i've done, but a lot of people were saying very, very similar things about that novel other than abe lincoln. it's the 150th anniversary of the civil war, and so the ideal time to reconsider stowe and her war in igniting the civil war and influencing american history up to modern times. although it's associated with the civil war in most people's minds, s

. >>> if you are in the market for a house with a hollywood history, you can buy katharine hepburn's former connecticut estate for a cool $28 million. oh, yeah. >>> which mlb players will be packing their bags for home and close but no cigar for justin verlander. plus two timely double plays off the cubs end a five-game losing streak. >>> in weather, the big story is the heat wave in the middle of the country. also temperatures in the intermountain west finally cooling off. cc1: >>> very good morning to you. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports lawmakers were in a race against time with a debt deadline, major league teams had a deadline of their own to beat. here's mario solis with a look at your sports headlines. >> good morning. the trading deadline has come and gone but not before a flurry of transactions around the league. play of the night turned in by kerry wood. he snags it. red sox acquired pitcher erik bedard from the mariner, then h: completed his best july in history. dustin pedroia. sox win their 20th game of the month beating the white sox 12-3. uba

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. >> "on golden pond" where she appeared alongside katharine hepburn and her own father as a daughters love. >> i want to be your friend. >> i know that you really tried with your father. i mean "golden pond" was really your tribute to him. >> i knew he was dying and i wanted to make a film with him. it was so close to the way it wale was. >> for jane, the film was a painful echo of reality. >> he was critical of you too. >> he was critical. as i became an adolescent, i was fat. i wasn't really fat. he let me know i wasn't good enough physically. that's hard. >> that criticism helped lead to 20 years of eating disorders. she admits it's been tough to reflect on some of the darker parts of her past. but deems it critical for happiness now. she calls it a life review. something she recommends to everyone approaching their 60s. examining her relationship with her mother was especially difficult. >> i knew shee didn't love me and -- >> you knew she didn't love you? >> yes i knew she didn't love me. >> her mother committed suicide when jane was only 12. it wasn't till she began her life re

gregg: my frustration is i wish i wad more time to talk to you guys, mary katharine hamm, alan coomesyou. martha: sometimes times are so busy you might need a vacation from the vacation. president obama has dealt with a hurricane, a revolution in libya, an earthquake, not to mention the political crisis that seems to go on and on, all of that from martha vineyard, a pretty nice place to be while on vacation. so what do it -- what does it do to the poll numbers? doug schoen on that. gregg: and how to wreck your ride and save the day in one fell swoop. >> i saw her rapidly trying to throw stuff into her car and get out of this. >> i got in my van real fast and drove over there. martha: this can't make folks in the white house too happy but when you look at president obama's approval rateing it has sunk to a new low this morning and there is the number, according to gallup's daily tracking poll, they talk to about 1500 people a day, they've got his approval rating at 38 percent, 54 percent disapprove of the job the president is doing. that's just one of the numbers we're going to look at

>> thanks very much, katharine. i'll comment for 15-20 minutes introducing my book, and then we'll have a friendly dialogue, and hopefully open it up for q&a from the add yuns. it's -- audience. it's great to be here at the historic stowe center, the home where she spent the last few decades of her life right nearby to mark twain. such an incredibly rich environment here, and i've done research here, and i truly appreciate everything that the stowe center has done, and this is such a great year to come to the stowe center in hartford. the 200th anniversary of the birth of harriet beecher stowe who created such an uproar that lincoln reportedly called her the little lady who made this great war. possibly that statement, i happen to think it's true from the research i've done, but a lot of people were saying very, very similar things about that novel other than abe lincoln. it's the ideal moment, and it's the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war, so it's the ideal time to reconsider stowe and her role in

i want to start first off by thanking katharine and ronny for organizing this and inviting me here as i said. many trips 20 manhattan, and i've attended events here, and it's an hoer nontore on this side of the podium, so thank you for that. i also apologize for being late. i know that's not respectful of your time ring so please accept my apology. we started out at five o'clock in the morning at fox and friends., and we literally have gone nonstop until cnn a few minutes ago, and when one interview goes late, in piles up, and everything is late. i sincerely apologize. what i want to do tonight is really address what's on your mind and answer your questions, and not just about the book or about the 2010 campaign, but also about moving forward. i'll try to keep my remarks short to get to the q&a. i want to start by talking about why i wrote the book and what i hope to accomplish with this book. i wrote the book because our party is certainly at a cross roads, and there's a division, and going forward i truly believe we have to unite. as a matter of fact, i extended on one of our fox in

in the occupied city that's evacuate the around them, elizabeth gave birth to the first daughter, katharine, in the comfort of a house. around her in the city, everything is in motion and turned top simulator tour vie. it's impossible to explain the confusion. one buys everything he can to complete his goods, the second is searching for a pass to another garyson of his troops, and third is going house to house to collect his debts. they have no property to handle, they also faced fresh choices. william was due to ship out to new york city. far away and likely facing imminent evacuation itself, new york made little sense as a destination for elizabeth and the children and this time decided do go to st. augustine until he could join them there to establish the family home. in early december 1782, she stepped into a small boat with her family and a black nurse and road out into the harbor to board a florida bopped scooter. it was like a jigsaw puzzle. above her were the curved wooden walls with a city afloat. the outlines of figures going along decks and rigs, sails stretched on a lattice of m