mario cuomo was the first guest. he was fantastic. >> allows me to be a jew. >> you work from 9:00 to 10:00 every night. my agent was the late bob wolf. bob called me up and said it ain't a bad deal, doubling your pay. if at the end of the year you're unhappy, you can bail out. i said i'll try it. i tried it. >> in this prison, does it get worse every day? >> no. it gets a little more exciting every day. >> interesting choice of words, karla. >> prison interviews are always difficult. >> unfortunately two people were killed. >> and brutally killed. >> brutally. >> how to yourself do you explain that? >> it was her and her friend. she did it with a pick ax. she hurt the other person and killed one person. >> did you enjoy the violence? >> at that time in my life i was very excited about doing different crazy, violent things, yes. >> she would subsequently be executed by texas. >> god bless karla faye tucker and her victims and their families. >> george bush said he watched that interview, but he did what he thought a

. >> democrats in new york and in california, mario cuomo son, andrew, the new governor of new york andown who will be sworn in tomorrow as governor of california are facing some deep, deep problems. >> they are facing billions of dollars in debt. and that means taking on the public employee union, some of the biggest supporters financially and otherwise of the democratic party who helped put these people in power. both governors have said in so many words we cannot afford the pension and health-care costs that are bankrupting or close to bankrupting the states and causing souse spend less on things like education and roads. so for cuomo and brown, they like boehner, are going to have to deal with twhar own base in trying to make politics work next year. >> it is going to be an interesting year. >> i think we're going see a lot of stuff even before the presidential campaignñr starts. >> jeff, thank you very outgoing california governor arnold schwarzenegger. vi >> three of the country's newly elected governors were sworn in yesterday. and more are due to be inaugurated this week includi

difference in governing and running for office, the poetry of politics and the prose of governing as mario cuomo said, from what he said tonight? >> it's the losing control of house which allowed him to decouple himself from nancy pelosi and realize that he could no longer continue to govern in a partisan crisis mode, which did he dur the first two years. there's an accidental conflewence he had to make the changes because he no longer has the parry in control of the house but the crisis are over. yes there's a crisis in unemployment but the necessity to pass big legislation i don't think the democrats would be inclined to do that any any case. he had to decouple from nancy pelosi and he spent a couple months figuring out now that i'm decoupled what options does that give me? as i said at the beginning he has only returned to the person he was before he has not invented a new persona. >> partly by necessarily and the partly by choice, the president in the first two years came across, and he is aware of this, came across looking like the chief negotiator or a prime ministerial figure, a leader of

well, when you become president, we have to remember what mario cuomo said, that you campaign in poetry, but you dporch in prose. -- govern this prose. and campaigning is different from being president. most of the speeches that presidents give are boring. most of the statements presidents give are designed to be informative. they're not designed to move you and get you to jump up and down or anything like that. ask so all of -- and so all of those speeches that the speech writers write in the presidential -- in the white house speech writing office where each one has an assignment of an area where they're writing this or writing that, they are incometive, but they're not -- incometive, but they're not designed for that purpose. so, in fact, that is the challenge when you become president. you make a statement. you may be a great communicator, but you may not with able to use all of what you have available to you in terms of your style. now, what is it that obama, then, can do about this? i don't know. he didn't campaign for health care reform. will he campaign for any of his other init

andrew cuomo who succeeds david paterson and follows on the footsteps of what -- of his father mario cuomo. >> we have to pass a property- tax cap in the state of new york because working families can't afford to pay the ever- increasing tax burden. nothing is going up in their lives. their income is not blowing up, their bank accounts are not going up, their savings are not going up. they cannot afford never ending tax increases in the state of new york. and this state has no future if it is going to be the tax capital of the nation. we have to send that signal this session by passing the property tax cap. host: the fred hot -- headlines from "the new post." let millionaire taxes die out. he is saying, read my lips, no new taxes, and that includes levies on wealthy new yorkers, he is setting. he is against extending a temporary income tax surcharge on high income earners in 2009 set to expire at the end of 2011. back to your calls. would stay to run the country facing budget deficits, what are some of the solutions? donna is joining us from michigan. you also had a new governor, republica

schneider took the oath in economically distressed michigan while democrat andrew cuomo was sworn into the job his father, mario, once held in new york. new mexico inaugurated the nation's first latina governor, republican suzannea martinez. the biggest freshman class in more than 70 years will be taking the oath of office in the u.s. house of representatives this coming week. most of the new members are republicans committed to making congress change course. bob orr in washington sets the scene. >> reporter: freshman florida republican allen west arrived in washington with an agenda and an attitude. >> the whole place is abuzz already about what is about to happen. >> reporter: west, like many of the 87 new republicans who will be sworn in wednesday, is vowing to shrink government spending and he's taking a hard line. >> compromise is not something they think is a great thing if you surrender your principles. >> the motion is adopted. >> reporter: it's a warning of sorts that the collaborative spirit of the recent lame duck congress may soon dissolve into renewed partisan bickering. president obama, vacationin

albany, new york, over the weekend, here is more from andre cuomo who succeeds david paterson and follows on the footsteps of what -- of his father mario cuo. >> we have to pass a property- tax cap in the state of new york because working families can't afford to pay the ever- increasing tax burden. nothing is going up in their lives. their income is not blowing up, their bank accounts are not going up, their savings are not going up. they cannot afford never ending tax increases in the state of new york. and this state has no fure if it is going to be the tax capital of the nation. we have to send that signal this session by passing the property tax cap. host: the fred hot -- headlines from "the new post." let millionaire taxes die out. he is saying, read my lips, no new taxes, an that includes levies on wealthy new yorkers, he is setting. he is against extending a temporary income tax surcharge on high income earners in 20 set to expire at the end of 2011. back to your calls. would stay to run the country facing budget deficits, what are some of the solutions? donna is joining us from michigan. you alshad a new governor, republican g