movie and the television serious of the simpsons. the show thank you thank you very much for being with us well first of all even russia as we just heard you worked in the best cartoon studio that that we had at that time and maybe maybe that. still is so why did you decide to move and start working in the u.s. for economic reasons for political reasons certainly not political ones. probably the canonical reason so at the time of ninety four i was part of the job for probably more than a year i was thirty it was already building economically so when i got the invitation from the president of the class kitchen governorship and definitely a group of insisted. on having me over there so i gladly accepted his invitation and at the time it was just invitation to come over for a year probably two and to see if i like it or not and we'll go from there was the decision and we. went to los angeles. one year past another one and i'm still there. it makes make stuff which is pretty different from what you were making when you were working here

simpson bowles proposal. >> simpson bowles. >> the bowles simpson commission. >> simpson bowles commission. >> the simpson bowles commission did that. why can't they? >> everyone was talking about the commission that heralded the arrival of the recommendations of the commission. but unfortunately, the simpson bol commission couldn't actually agree on a final set of recommendations. however, to be fair, the new supercommittee may have a better chance. that's because if it can't agree, this new supercommittee, if they can't agree on that 1.5 trillion in debt reductions, the new law call for $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts designed to be painful for both sides. on the other hand, one or both side may try to stack the deck with committee members who simply will not compromise. house speaker boehner says he won't approve anyone who'll even consider raising taxes. wall street -- dow plunged 2865 points today. the only bright spot is moody's which had threaten today downgrade america's credit rating keeping it steady at aaa. that may change if the new supercommittee lays an egg. i talked with glo

simpson joined us here on the stage. he is known for his hit including "in snow mountain high enough here " we are glad you joined us for the conversation with nick ashford. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: along with his wife valerie simpson, nick ashford and some of the biggest hits in motown history. -- wrote some of the biggest hits in motown history. he joined us for a terrific conversation about their life together and remarkable caree

what was involved in simpson-bowles? 18 of us appointed by the president and by the leaders in congress, pretty evenly divided in terms of democrats and republicans, business sector as well as people who work in government. and we sat and considered all the options. at the end of it, and i thought erskine bowles did a masterful job, they said, here it is. and when i looked at it, i thought, at the end of the day, there aren't many options. you have basically three things -- spending, general spending, the entitlement programs and revenue or taxes. and if you don't put them all on the table, you're going to take too much out of one or the other. i voted for it. 11 out of 18 of us voted for it. >> jon: this did not make it to congress. >> no. >> jon: they never got a chance to do anything with it because the group that was formed to make it rejected it. >> 11 out of 18 did. and we were supposed to get 14, but the clock had run out on us to be honest. that's how the gang of six came about. >> jon: that's next step. >> saxby

but then moved on to a protege of alan simpson of the simpson bowles commission. just bej director but trade commission so he know it. close with ben carden of the house. sow knows bipartisanship but he is a loyalist and he is a real key player. >> warner: now the house democrats, norm i will begin with you but maybe combine it. do we see any mavericks here? javier was era, james clyburn and chris van holden. >> all key people in the leadership close cho-- chosen by pelosi because of their persons, van holden is the ranking democrat on the budget committee at the talks. clyburn also at the talks. becara almost became trade representative. smart shall savvy pros, leaders, they're to the going to diverge very much from what pelosi wants or what the caucus wants but they've all indicated a willingness to cut a deal. >> warner: becera was on simpson bowles also. and yes, these are all people-- . >> warner: so he voted no. >> he voted no, you about he was there. and when it am cans down to a deal like this, when you have such a compact time frame, knowing the landscape

nick ashford and his wife valerie simpson co-wrote some of the biggest songs in motown history. next tuesday night we'll bring you a memorable hour with ashford and simpson also recorded on this very same stage in 2009. remembering two songwriting giants coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> at toyota, we celebrate dimpingses and the people who make them. -- differences and the people who make them. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. kcet public television] tavis: the fall of muammar qaddafi represents great opportunities and challenges for libya and the middle east. pleased tonight to be joined by mansour kickia. -- el-kikhi

tour webb simpson claiming his first title with victory at the wyndham championship in north carolina is nearest rival was george mcneil who had a bogey free final round of sixty four but his steady game including this beautiful shot wasn't enough to overhaul simpson. simpson started the day with two shot late and never faltered here he is in nice he was finding the greens with some pinpoint irons and his putting was pretty spot on to polling. on the eighteenth for a round of sixty seven enough for a three short break and when his check of just under a million dollars. and it was a first in motor sport so you ferrari driver sebastian ogier he won the latest stage of the world championship in tray in germany the drivers racing on tarmac and before that weekend yet had never won on this surface but he has now getting the better of fellow citron driver sebastian he suffered a punch at the day before that effectively ending his chances of a nine straight win finishing just under forty seconds behind who shakes his hand with his copilot there the spaniard danny saw what i was just the resu

is there any ashford and simpson songs that you said, "man, i wish i had recorded that one?"ly could say that about most of their songs. >> reporter: smoky robinson was there with ashford and simpson. >> they came in guns blazing and they just, you know-- everybody was very excited about them. >> reporter: jerry lieber knew all about excitement. he and mike stoller penned some of the biggest hits of the 1950s, including one written for big mama thornton but made famous by a man from tennessee. >> ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ >> reporter: there was another tune that became most of the recorded popular songs ever. >> ♪ darling, darling stand by me ♪ >> jerry and mike were innovators because they were the first ones to ever put violins on an r&b song. there's a song called "there goes my baby." >> ♪ moving on down the line >> jerry lieber was one of my song writing idols as a kid growing up. >> reporter: over five decades, lieber and ashford wrote 20 number one hits. >> their songwriting was just phenomenal. songs are rerecorded and rerecorded and rerecorded. they live

for the right reasons, he was on the simpson balls commission. he voted against it which is the right to vote. i think is wrong to think these guys will be living in a world of their own. patty murray is the chair of the senate democrats. she is part of leadership. i think you will see a lot of discussion taking place between the caucus and those three people. >> we had the bulls-simpson report. -- we had the bowles-simpson proposal and the gang of six proposal which was similar and now you have president obama making the case recently on a daily basis that we need to compromise and have a balanced package. his idea of a balanced package is cuts in entitlements and increases in tax revenues. is the president fundamentally wrong that that is where the middle ages? guest: i think most americans believe that in fact the president and the democrats have compromised far too much and the republicans have given virtually nothing. i think john boehner said that after this deficit reduction package was passed, he got 98% of what he wanted. i did not hear

simpson started the day with two shot lead and never thought it here he is a nice he was finding the greens with some pinpoint behind and his putting was pretty spot on holing. on the eighteenth for a round of sixty seven enough for a free shot big three and win his check of just under a million dollars. and it was a first in motor sport so for rally driver sebastian gear he won the latest stage of the world championship in tray in germany to drive his racing on tarmac and before that weekend had never won on this surface but he has now getting the better of fellow citron drivers the bashing he suffered a punctured the day before that effectively ending his chances of a ninth straight win finishing just under forty seconds behind. shakes his hand with his copilot the spaniard danny saw what i was the result leaves twenty five points behind in the driver's championship with all races left. while in cycling team sky chris sutton has won the second stage of the spanish well after the time trial riders wrong the open road for the first time yesterday tough going to temperatures were topp

i think the bowles simpson or the gang of six are balanced approaches, would be more effective in the long-term and would create a fair balance so the wealthiest and best off in america would help, that we wouldn't be giving big tax breaks to big oil and other taxpayers making extraordinary sums of money as we see the disparity between the middle class and the wealthiest in america continue to grow. so if i could look back and say, look, let's focus on bowles simpson more than we did. >> and let me ask you this, how many votes do republicans in your mind need to provide for this deal in the house? >> i certainly think that republicans need to provide certainly 150 plus range for this deal. this obviously fgets them a lot of what they wanted. i think that the leadership is going to be tested to see whether or not they can deliver. they haven't been very good at it on the house side. delivering for what they believe was the best way forward. the speaker had to walk away from two deals he had with the president and the republicans walked away from him in the final analysis on thursday ni

server asli ugly first good former republican senator alan simpson simpson was one of the co-chairs of the president's deficit reduction commission and one of the guys and said the tax cuts of loopholes for the wealthy are unsustainable and emissary see simpson blasted republicans who are opposed to closing loopholes and in particular republicans who are slaves to their anti-tax overlord grover norquist. the only thing the grover can do to you he can't kill you he can't burn your house the only thing he can do to you is defeat you for reelection and if that means more to you than helping your country out of a terrible situation you ought to be there well said senator unfortunately that is most of our elected representatives care about the bad. eric cantor period on fox so-called news yesterday the backstabbing house majority leader offered an interesting take on airlines that are now making big bucks off the f.a.a. being shut down with the f.a.a. shut down the agency can't collect taxes on the airlines but instead of passing those savings on to customers in the form of cheaper tickets

he will just gradually fade in people's mind. >> john simpson speaking to me from tripoli. in nigeria, 18 people were killed when a car bomb ripped through the united nations headquarters. the u.n. general -- you wind capital -- the you can secretary to iran-- the -- the u.n. secretary-general condemned the attack. >> two stories were destroyed and many of those with and. >> the security agents just came around. i saw the whole window shattered. the other portion of the building was actually collapse. >> it is the worst attack on a u.n. building in over three years. suspicion fell on the local extremist group. the group called the bbc in nigeria to claim responsibility. this marks a major escalation. up until now, their targets were mainly nigerian officials. they are radical nigerian is lummis. they believe western education -- they are radical nigerian islamists. they have killed 250 people in the last year after a failed government attempts to crush them. the u.n. secretary-general was quick to condemn the blast. >> they devote their lives to helping others. we condemn t

simpson-bowles should gain momentum. when you get peopleho work like crazy, many months, person reputations at stake and everything else and you get coburn and durbin, that's... i give credit to both of them, equal credit. i think... i may not agree with tom coburn but think he's a statesman. >> rose: he was prepared to take reductions in... >> absolutely. absolutely. >> rose: in corporate income tax. there is also this. the president's leadership. you have said on most social issues and on distribution of twelfth president and i are in sync. yes? >> yes. >> rose: what do you mean by that? >> i mean in terms of a woman's right to choose, in terms of not having the rich get by with lower taxes than the people in their office, there are a bunch of things that i agree with. there's limits to how much you can do in that. >> rose: what about distribution of wealth? >> i think in the last 25 years, the "forbes 400" has gone from a couple hundred billion of wealth to a trillion two or something like that. i mean you've had the

the boll-simpson commission last year are the copies committees that vice president biden headed. it begs the question.

to do that. >> think of what happened, dylan, if the president essentially gave us his version of simpson bowles and at the same time an agreasive jobs program -- >> listen, i feel we have to go to 1945 and do a comprehensive look at prosperity plan, roll it out and get after it. you guys stick around. we do have to pay the bills around here. we've got a wonderful conversation, ai

huge credit to be done up on the simpsons. >> very true. >>> this comes to us from nbc 5 in dallas. where one university welcomed back students with the perfect way to cool down after one of the hottest summers on record. the campus of southern methodist university was transformed into a winter war zone as hundreds of students participated in a massive snowball fight. the coeds formed attack squads launching 8,000 specially ordered snowballs, for a brief moment ducking and dodgering the lingering dog days of summer. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "nbc early today." >>> a zoo in vienna threw a very special first birthday party. for one of its residents this week. zookeepers presented the panda cub and his mother with wax boxes of his favorite foods. bamboo, carrots and sweet potatoes. he's one of only two giant pandas ever naturally reared at the zoo and a member of one of the world's most endangered species. >>> more than 1,000 teens gathered to compete in china's first annual robo cop. showing off the latest in robotic technology. their robots competed in dance competitions, played so

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and that was the great point emphasized by the bolz simpson commission., high efficiency pool i get a tax break. that's a social of subsidy. it's a form of government spending and the tax law is full of those things. and if we cut back on tho, then we can have lower tax rates and raise revenue. >> i agree with what david said. you have to clearly understand where the mon is. the money isn't the tax credit for families of alzheimer's patients between 70 and 85 or some narrow thing. the big money is in mortgage deduction,ñr in property tax reduction, in charitable contributions, in the exclusion from income for healthcare, the exclusion from income to pension build up and life insurance. those are the big dollar amounts and unless you're willing to really tackle those, you are not going to get sufficient revenue to lowerÑi rates and you're certainly not going to get sufficient revenue to substantially reduce the budget deficit. >> charlie: suppose the president comes to you and said bill let's go shoot some baskes and then he comes back and says economic gr

>> i thought bowles-simpson's framework was right. they reduced the rates. i would increase them.in other words, i would have had some of the ecifics quite different. i'd goack to the clinton rates for people earning over $250,000. >> rose: they eliminated --dedud reduced the top rate to 25%. i don't remember. i would take the top rate to where president clinton had it. when president clinton raised rates at those levels, he was criticized, and i remember one republican lder went on television and said, we'll have a recession, every single job that's lost is president clinton's responsibily. instead we had massive job creation, as well as increasing incomes and the rest. i would raise the rates. the general framework of doing it n, deferring effective date for a uple of years, robust public investment in areas that we need, yeah, i think that framework is -- and the $4 trillion over 10 years, getting to where the debt-to-gdp ratio goes down. i think that's right. >> rose: if they had eliminatedg over $250,000, the effective rate would have been the same as when clinton was preside

. >>> news from entertainment, nick ash ford from ash ford and simpson has died. ash ford and his wife, valerie simpson, put many of his hits, including "ain't no mountain high enough" and they wrote songs for ray charles and many others. the duo were singers in their own right releasing 15 albums. ash ford died in a new york city hospital of throat cancer. he was 70. ash ford is survived by his wife and two daughters. >> ♪ you ain't nothing but a hownt dog ♪ hound dog ♪ >> and another death in the music world, jerry lieber who wrote "hound dog" who elvis turned into a hit and yakityy, yak. >> they worked together since they were 17. they also wrote stand by me and "love potion number 9". he died of heart failure at the age of 78. >> tonight hurricane irene is gaining strength and heading to the united states. nasa captured images of irene as it made landfall over puerto rico. they flooded streets and knocked out power to a million people. irene is now a category two hurricane with 100 mile per hour winds. they say it could increase as it passes over the bahamas a