. >> piers, i just got a call an hour ago, and ricco wanted to tell me personally, you know, he's not okay. ever since he met with millie dowler, the murdered girl's parents, he hasn't felt the same. his voice has been cracking, people around him are very concerned, his children are very concerned. this is a man who is more devastated than he has ever been in his entire 80 years, and you know, he is appalled at what's gone on on his watch, and his anxious to get to the bottom of it as we all are. moow hdleser earlier during ws an ki a that just did not happen. and i wrote a book of diaries, detailing my time there, and he just didn't do that. it wasn't his thing. what he would do is discuss them after you published them. but he assumed his line managers, editors, and so on, would have done all of the necessary checking to make sure these stories were publishable according to the law of the land and i think that's why this will hit him so hard. knowing the family, what do you think he will be coming over as tomorrow when he appears on mp? it's a very difficult situation. he's never had

. >> commissioner ricco. >> ms. andrisy. would you come back up? couple questions. we've obviously spoken regarding the western soma zoning district. so i understand your recommendations with regard to neighborhood commercial corridors and i think it's very short sighted on the part of the planning department to create neighborhood commercial corridors and then not do anything to make them work. and that's what we have in the case of 6th street. it's just a label. it doesn't mean anything because as part of the eastern neighborhood process, they just didn't want to touch the whole subject of entertainment. in fact, as dan cider told me, they were afraid that if they got into all the wrangling that goes along with changing the status of entertainment, that it would probably bring the entire eastern neighborhood's plan down. so understandably they left everything just the way it was. but i think it's a real shame that 6th street has the hope of becoming a vibrant, interesting proactive neighborhood that would benefit the community as well as the small businesses. with

. >> piers, i just got a call an hour ago, and ricco wanted to tell me personally, you know, he's not okay. ever since he met with millie dowler, the murdered girl's parents, he hasn't felt the same. his voice has been cracking, people around him are very concerned, his children are very concerned. this is a man who is more devastated than he has ever been in his entire 80 years, and you know, he is appalled at what's gone on on his watch, and his anxious to get to the bottom of it as we all are. >> as i said earlier during the panel, being one the editors, when we tripped up on by what on these standard are relatively minor indiscretions, he was always -- always incredibly quick to be publicly sensourous of me or whatever editor he was offending. i just cannot accept, although there is this huge witch hunt going on to bring him down personally, i don't accept that he himself would be party to a leg illegal activity. >> being features editor at "the new york post" and working for him at "the times" and the now defunct "today" newspaper, i completely agree with you, piers. he became a

why does ricco want to locate their next plant here? why does whirlpool want to keep their plants here? we punish business in this country through our tax code like no other country in the world. now, is there a regulatory component to that, too, we need to solve to make america attractive for business? there absolutely is. is there a health care component of that as those dozens rise? absolutely there is. is there a payroll tax cost in that? we need to address the largest cost of that. absolutely there is. there is only one proposal in the house that does it and the ways and means committee right now. right now across the street, right here behind you, mr. speaker, in the ways and means committee room is holding a hearing on h.r. 25, the fair tax. the fair tax eliminates these income taxes and moves america to a consumption tax model. america is the only country in the oecd nations that does not have a consumption tax. a fair tax shifts us in that direction. what it does for the first time, only bill in congress that does it, it elimin