mr. simpson and mr. ball's. bridging -- writes mr. simpson and mr. bowles.aller: this is over a 10-year term, right? host: yes. caller: i think that the confined in the corporate welfare and the defense department, a big chunk of this. and also to one of the callers about welfare, there is roughly 256 million white folks in america. if you take the percentages that are given on welfare, you know, if there's 9% of whites on welfare, that is almost 25 million. and then black america, it is only 40 million. so if it is 16%, you know that 40 million is 10% of 40, so -- it would be roughly about 6 million black folks in the welfare situation. so be careful, republicans. you are really only hurting your own when you try to label welfare and put the stigma of black people, it is really more whites that will be affected on medicare, section 8, because of a larger percentage of white folks, and like i said, it is 250 million white folks in america. when you play with the percentages, rather than real numbers, it sounds like back -- black people of the problem. but re

mr. simpson would you stand and face the jury. >> reporter: more than a year after jury selection first began after a night of incredible suspense, the trial of o.j. simpson ended. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant not guilty of the crime of murder, a felony upon nicole brown simpson, a human being, as charged in count one of the information. >> reporter: then with the sobs of the goldman family in the background with fred goldman mouthing the word "murderer," the second not guilty verdict was read. >> we the jury in the above entitled indictment find the defendant not guilty in the murder of ronald kyle goldman -- >> reporter: outside the courtroom there was cheering when the verdicts were read by many who had come as so often happens just to be there. [ chanting ] >> then heat hito turned to simpson and set him free. >> the defendant having been acquitted, he is ordered transported to an appropriate sheriffs facility and released forthwith. >> reporter: as o.j. simpson, a free man, left the county jail, he left behind at the courthouse his lawyers, his family an

mr. simpson to be processed and released -- >> yes!> fairly quickly. >> jimmy: and when paris hilton got sent to prison, jake was there to support her, too. >> he ruled that he was remanding miss hilton to sheriff's custody to serve the remainder of her sentence at the century regional detention center -- >> no, no, no! >> jimmy: and today, outside the conrad murray trial, see if you can guess who was there. >> is there anything we can give you, any piece of information that can help you decide? they want a decision. everybody wants a decision. >> we've seen the movies where one person is holding out -- how real is that? one person holding out against everybody else. >> jimmy: that's him, all right. so, jake byrd was all over the trial coverage today. we'll have a full report from him in a few minutes. i think he might be here in the building, too. but before we get to that, we have some very important ballroom dancing news. yet another celebrity eliminated from "dancing with the stars" tonight. why does this keep happening? it seems l

mr. simpson, kindly take the chair. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 2250 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to provide additional time for the administrator of the environmental protection agency to issue achievable standards for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters, and incinerators, and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole house rose earlier today pursuant to house resolution 419, all time for general debate had expired. pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in bill shall be considered as an original bill for purposes of amendment under the five-minute rule and shall be considered as read. no amendment in the committee -- no amendment to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order except those received for printing in the portion of the congressional record designated for that purpose in a

mr. simpson, we used the milk of social security, and we are not entitled to it at the same rate.erhaps he could reduce his pension substantially, and perhaps the government could not fall on their own salaries, unlike the rest of us who have to negotiate, of course, and collective bargaining is now under attack, but congress does not bargain. guest: so far, congress has not reduced salaries for the members of the house and senate. in the past year there have been some reductions in congressional overhead for staff, and some of the other expenses at the capitol, but, frankly, it is real money. it is $100 million here, or one- half billion there. going to bethere's deficit reduction it will come from all lot of places, but the amount of money that could be saved with cuts from congress is a small amount of the trillion dollar deficit, if that is the goal. cuts,'re going to make you have to go where the spending is. host: next up is kathleen, on our line for democrats, calling from coventry, connecticut. go ahead. caller: good morning. i do not know how the super committee members w

mr. erskine bowles and alan simpson who headed president obama's debt task force told us in the budget committee the country has never faced a more serious financial crisis than the debt crisis that we are now on. and one of the reasons is we have had these incredible surges of expenditures in programs over a period of years. we have not watched them. we have not contained them. indeed, we have taken action that made them less accountable and less efficient and more subject to fraud, abuse and waste. so this year proposes another 14% increase in the food stamp program. now, that's $80 billion. the house has proposed only a $1 billion increase. theirs comes in at $71 billion for food stamps. so theirs is more level, but it still has an increase, but certainly far less than this. to give some perspective on what we're talking about when we say $80 billion, let me just share a few facts. the federal prison system costs $7 billion. the department of justice, the entire department of justice which senator wows -- senator whitehouse and i served in and we're proud to do so gets $31 billion. the federa

it is a very interesting one, but he misses -- alan simpson mrs. that he is an argument with the american people and the particular are year at about 95 percent of republicans in congress, more like 98 percent said. it is only six guys of the house and not taken the pledge. seven republicans. the good news is the hill newspaper went to interview with those 13, and with one exception all of them said i did not sign pledges for some reason, but i would never raise taxes. we have ivory snow percentages here republicans. 99.99% that are committed to not raising taxes, and that protect all americans. host: gave republican. caller: good morning. -- gabe are republican for growth and request. -- a republican for grover nor rq quist. 14,000 companies have left for china because taxes are hovering around the 40% corporate tax rate. the company i work for did the same thing. they said we are leaving the united states because taxes are too high. where were to go to chat and holland were the rates are much lower. we may someday return to the united states and

alan simpson mrs. -- he has an argument, but not with me.e has an argument with the american people. with 98% of the congress. only six people in the house have not taken the pledge. seven republicans. "the hill," they did an interview with those 13, they do not sign pledges, but they said they would never raise taxes. 99.9%, committed to not raising taxes. host: dave, for grover norquist. caller: good morning. you walk on the right track with the limiting of raising the taxes. i love that. i love what you have done. here's why. i went through this stuff and looked at some figures. 14,000 companies have left for china because taxes have hovered around the four -- a 40% corporate tax rate. they just flat out told us, we are leaving the united states and going to china and holland, where they are much lower. whenever taxes come back down, they might hire the 25 or 35. 14,000 companies have left, in addition to these large, international companies. those 14,000 companies averaged 1000 people per company. a fact check with the number of unemploy

mr. speaker, a recent taxpayers alliance report reveals -- reveals that 38 union leaders were remunerated at 100,000 pounds each including -- including derek simpson. he received over half a million pods. does the prime minister agree with me that it's time for a union boss pay restraints? >> that's an interesting thing. they always listen to the trade unions but they'll never listen to the taxpayers alliance. one of the reasons they don't want to hear about excessive pay in the public sector or in local government o in their pay masters of the trade unions. >> thank you, mr. speaker. here's another question at the prime minister. can he get a grip of his backbenches folling last night's debacle in this chamber relating to the business and the house on the seventeenth of october? does he understand that the perception in the real world that the mp's would like to discuss their own penons instead of a discussing a 22-year-old injustice instead of 19 and 20-year-old children. >> we're going to protect that time for an absolutely vital debate. and we have to show restraint at a time when the rest of the public sector is being asked to show restraint.

mr. speaker, a recent taxpayers alliance report reveals -- reveals that 38 union leaders were remunerated at 100,000 pounds each including -- including derek simpson. he received over half a million pounds. does the prime minister agree with me that it's time for a union boss pay restraints? >> that's an interesting thing. they always listen to the trade unions but they'll never listen to the taxpayers alliance. one of the reasons they don't want to hear about excessive pay in the public sector or in local government or in their pay masters of the trade unions. >> thank you, mr. speaker. here's another question at the prime minister. can he get a grip of his backbenches following last night's debacle in this chamber relating to the business and the house on the seventeenth of october? does he understand that the perception in the real world that the mp's would like to discuss their own pensions instead of a discussing a 22-year-old injustice instead of 19 and 20-year-old children. >> we're going to protect that time for an absolutely vital debate. and we have to show restraint at a time when the rest of the public sector is being asked to show res

mr. burns would probably hold on to the last penny in making "the simpsons."s that, has yet to be determined. with 20-plus years of "simpsons" episodes in the library, "simpsons" is not going away soon. your grandchildren, your grandchildren's grandchildren, will be watching "simpsons" episodes for decades to come. >> reporter: will the actors call fox's bluff? >> we can buy all kinds of useful things like love. >> reporter: fans eager for a 24th season next fall can only hope negotiations are productive. >> why, you little -- >> reporter: and they reach an agreement. >> did someone order a happy ending? >> reporter: the actors, according to published reports, make about $8 million a year. the studio's made billions over the years. there should be enough for everybody, don't you think? >> that's a lot of cash. thanks so much. >>> coming up, a real shocker on "dancing with the stars." high-scoring couple kristin and mark, booted from the ballroom. they'll join us live. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is edith and ellen. i was the first-bor

mr. burns? >> yes? >> what is your occupation? >> mobile. >> i was wondering when you were going to get to me. >> what is your least favorite word? >> canceled. >> the simpsonst history for three reasons, amazing talent, brilliant writing and the wisdom of ralph wiggam. >> so -- do you like -- stuff? the doctor said i swront so many nosebleeds if i kept my finger out of there. >> we're trying not to get too freaked out that simpsons get canceled. it would be pretty bad. no more couch gags. no more tree house of horrors. no more barney, cleatous or disco stew. there is gauge of whether someone is datable or not? what about them? i'm telling you the in other words are crazy about this. the only way to cheer them up is to remind them that arrested development is coming back. >> i want to shoot down everything you say so i feel good about myself. >> hey! >>. [ beep ] >> you old horny slut! >> no one is going to top that. >> i like that show. that's "arrested development" coming back for a few more episodes and a movie.

mr. johnson, briefly who has the better side of the argument? >> guest: there are no profiles in courage on either part. i think the real answer was available to us in the simpsonowles commission and had both republicans and democrats embraced that philosophy of cutting entitlements and reforming the tax at the same time to give business confidence that we have a total commitment to our debt and our deficit and to creating jobs in this country, i think we would be much better off. and unfortunately, that's not the case. and i think looking forward for the next year we are at stagnation and i think the economy will reflect that stagnation. we are in a political cold war and i don't see anything changing until the public makes a decision about which ideology they like best in the 2012 elections. >> chris: gentleman, give me a quick answer to the final question. in the fox news poll, we asked voters, if president obama had been the ceo of a major company instead, what would you do and 52 percent said he would have been fired by now . 38 percent said he would still be in charge. bob johnson what would you do if barack obama was running the company and had the recor

sara babcock, sara harshman, madeleine forbis, steven simpson, jonathan goldman, and miranda dalpiaz. the presiding officer: without objection. mriding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i rise today in strong support of s. 1619, the currency exchange rate oversight reform act. first, i want to say this bill is the culmination of years of hard work and collaboration between democrats and republicans. i'd like to thank senator lindsey graham of south carolina. he and i have been partners in this endeavor for over five years. we have traveled to china together. we have worked long and hard to troy and gain -- try and gain some fairness in the way china treats american industry, particularly in regards when it comes to currency. i'd like to thank senator sherrod brown and senator debbie stabenow. both made very valuable additions to the proposal on our floor today, and in fact senator brown is the lead sponsor of this legislation because of the strong and good work that he has done. and they both have worked long and hard, realizing the industries in their state are at such a competitive advantage. i'd like to thank m

simpson character? >> how about my favorite episode. >> okay. >> i like lisa. >> okay. >> lisa. >> yeah. >> you and that girl power thing. >> yeah, yeah. the plow episode. >> the plow? >> okay. mr. plow. >> okay. >> at least that's one of my producer's favorite. >> i like the things that come from it. doh and things like that. and things we have learned over the years. >> i didn't do it you can't prove it. nobody saw me do it. >> yeah. and bart and all his little things. yeah, man whatever he says. >> i cannot believe it's still on. >> 25 years, that's -- 25 seasons is a long time. >> that's a long time. >> there you go. all right. well, bart, and you know also it should be said that the cast makes 8 million dollars a season. each season. >> we are not going anywhere. >> they are okay. still ahead on "eyewitness news" saturday morning... >>> wjz goes behind the scenes and we will tell you which one and what it is and all that when we come back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> now rogers and hammerstein south pacific makes the da by at hippodrome. >> we sit down with two -- debut at hippodrome. >> we sit down with two of the cast. >> reporter: sailors is part of what you get. >> life and love

mr. dykes, are you familiar with sam's safety and environmental management? >> yes sir. i am. >> did bp have a simpson >> they have a complete functional safety environmental management in place? >> they had it in place. >> was that something that came within the scope of your review? >> yes, it did. >> was there any part of that bid failed which caused the accident? >> from the aspect of the program, no. the program did not fail. there were certain aspects that we pointed to, for example the risk register that bp had implemented to determine the risk dealt with the drilling of the well. their crewmembers or the engineers anyway, not the crewmembers but the engineers did not properly use the risk register. the management of change program that bp had in place, they were in transition from a paperwork management of change process to an electronic management of change process. there were still some gaps in that management of change, but for the most part everything was intact. >> , so there is nothing that would say -- every company out there had a functioning sims and that would again prevent the accid