you know, we've got a million reasons for skipping the gym, but let's meet pat leahy to get some motivationis blind, and he is -- but he is not only staying fit, he competes in amateur weight lifting competitions. we caught up with him and asked him, what's your workout? >> my name is pat leahy. i'm a amateur body builder, and i'm blind. i was born blind. it's called levers congenital am rosis. i basically have a very, very small amount of peripheral vision, which is side vision. since day one, my -- 6 or 7 years old, my parents very much encouraged me to be involved with athletics, whether it be swimming or gymnastics or wrestling. and then when i was about 18 years old, i got into the gym and just fell in love with it. although i wear this sweatshirt, i think if you ask just about anybody around here, they don't think of me as blind. it's just oh, there's pat. he might need extra help getting around from time to time, or might bump into somebody once in a while. >> he comes in, he knows the whole gym. he can navigate three floors we have in this gym. >> the only thing i would do different

i do want to thank you, also, as well as senator pat leahy. hopefully, later i will have an opportunity to talk about how directly extension of financial institution definition to non- bank lenders is a direct affect between nine and one of the policy proposals that went to the task force policy committee since then has put out as a rule, which is to extend suspicious activity reporting not just to financial institutions, but to extend to the non-banking lenders. if your question is a good question. my background and my personal view of the task force is that we need to support the agents in the field as well as the non- doj and fbi agents. the way we determine which efforts and press releases and announcements that we highlight through the task force is dependent upon the executive order, which we have filtered into different working groups. you mentioned earlier correctly that there can be some democracy -- bureaucracy involved in such a broad effort to pare the working groups are trying to address that. so mortgage fraud, securities and com

should be able to say whatever they want in the remedy for bad speech is more speech not censorship pat leahy is if i read this right the guy who sponsored this legislation he's the senior senator from vermont he was my senator for a number of years and i lived the reason i lived in for an hour and he's a decent guy and he's a generally a fairly progressive and competent legislator why would he get on board with this kind of legislation. you know this this law's been sold i think as a bill of goods to the legislature or is that a sign onto it you know the idea is we need to protect our american media interests that one of our chief exports in the united states is hollywood entertainment and media industry and we need to protect it at all costs there are these pirates out there stealing everything and and the movie industry can't survive without some protection from congress and you know i mean to a certain extent there is some truth to the fact that piracy is out of control that there are some some very devastating copyright infringement going on that the industry is facing but the remedy for

senator pat leahy from vermont. >> bipartisan solution to raise the debt limit, reduce long-term debte our economy the foundation to prosper. >> carrie, you are in the rotunda there and so much is happening around you. is there any reason for optimism right now? >> it's hard to say. there is so much posturing on both sides between senator reid and senator mcconnell, just over whether they will get in the same room and negotiate a compromise. right now it doesn't look like senator reid has the votes to break a republican filibuster tonight. i've been covering this issue for many weeks now. people like me following this closely have been surprised at the sense things are just not coming together seemingly as we would have expected they would have been by this point. it's been an interesting weekend. there is a lot of sense you need to get something done before monday morning. the clock is ticking and there is not much time left in terms of procedural maneuvering you have to get done. >> can it get done? >> sure. it is still possible. if there is not something by tomorrow, it does become