mr. friedman, i can turn a turbine.i heard the craziest status and i'd go back to my room at the end of the day and empty my pockets in my hotel room of business cards from all these innovative rock stars. i did business cards, but they really exciting in their own way has got to tell you. but what they tell you is the country is alive. it is so alive, which is what i've always said if i could try picture of america, it would be a picture of the space shuttle taking off. all that incredible thrust coming from below, that's us. if all those innovators, all the people down there who didn't get the word. unfortunately, our booster rocket, washington d.c. and the five-part formula is cracked and leaking energy and the pilots and the cop made are fighting over the flight plan. so great that we can achieve escape blossoms. we can't get to where we need to go even though there's all that is coming from below and that's why we have to fix the booster rocket and we need to get the patterns to stop fighting over the flight plan.

mr. friedman, we were just too dumb to quit. this country is still full of people too dumb to quit, thank god. in my last book, got to travel over the country and talk about energy, environment and energy innovation. i would end every talk with people coming up to me and giving me their business cards of all of their energy ideas. amazing stuff. mr. friedman, i've got a duck. it paddles a wheel, methane, turns a turban. i heard the craziest stuff. i go back to my hotel room at the end of the day, rock stars get room keys. i get business cards but they're really exciting in their own way, i've got to tell you. what they tell you is the country is alive. oh, it's so alive. which is why i always said if i can draw a picture of america today, it would be a picture of a space shuttle taking off. the space shuttle, all of the incredible thrust coming from below. that's us. all of the innovators, all of the people too dumb to quit. all of the people who didn't get the word. unfortunately our booster rocket, washington, d.c., five-part

mr. friedman talked about in the idea hit being created and tied to the universities is absolutely critical. the next step is that we also build it here. secretary grayson's term now is build it here, selling it everywhere. what are some of the things president obama is doing to support vigorously consistently reported in innovation tax credits he's encouraging tax policies that will allow companies that are abroad to be able to retain their profits and bring them back here and invest them either in manufacturing or research and development that leads to manufacturing. all of these things are linked and you are absolutely right. services are very important. they will continue to be important but we cannot forget the importance of manufacturing to the economy. >> on your issue on travel, and it goes back to what i said is important to make the case that the value added to the economic impact because the voters don't understand, and so for me i work with the regional chamber of commerce in the council and have the business community to gup my travel and i can tell you in a tough economy the b

friedman abc 7 news. >>> isn't that fascinatingment one mr. animal story to tell but. incorporating to the salt lake tribune animal shelter tried to put a cat named andrea to sleep twice. she survived the first attempt so they tried again. they saw the second time took so they put the cat body in a cooler but when they checked on her she was still alive. she's now been adopted out and shelter said this cat obviously really wants to live. talk about 9 lives. right. >> well as we continue tonight. goodbye ketchup. coming up. american condiment barrened in goodbye ketchup. coming up. american condiment barrened in french schools. find out winter christen the new year with vengeance in the east. in virginia they help the drive that slid on the ice roads and crashed. and series of multiple accidents on interstate 81 brought traffic to stand still n.central pennsylvania chain reaction crash left cars and tractor-trailer littered across interstate 80. snow squall caused the interstate to freeze over very quickly catching a lot of drivers off guard. and certainly we don't want

mr. buckley's legacy. weekly standard founding editor, william crystal, and neil friedman, founder and director of the pbsshow, "firing line." this is -- [inaudible] >> it's an apt question to be asking about bill because bill's concern from the beginning of the career, it had to do with his own performances, it had to do with his own writing, much, much more importantly, it had to do with helping to shape the -- the direction of the country. as various people remarked so far, he didn't use the word "conservative" of himself as a young man. terms like "radical" and "individual" were the terms he favored, but that soon changed when he started -- when he and billy started thinking about this new magazine of theirs, it was not meant to be another "time" magazine. this was going to be a magazine that would shape a movement, the conservative movement, and he started using that word, "conservative," and he specifically didn't want to gather just people of his own particular way of looking at the world and politics. he deliberately brought together libertarians, traditionalists, people who were predominantly ant