alan simpson gave an interview to the "l.a.own republican party to stop talking about gay marriage and all these other social issues. mr. simpson told the "l.a. times," quote, what is this homophobic strain in our party? you're a republican, you believe in get-out-of-your-life and the precious right to privacy. the right to be left alone. well, then, pal, i don't care what you do. you can go worship the great eel at night. i don't give a rat's --. worship the greet eel. one thing he might be referencing is world of warcraft, the devious greet eel in world of war craft. that cannot be what alan simpson is referencing. if you are an avid video game player and world of warcraft player i will apologize if that's what you meant. but i don't care if you are worshipping the great eel and i don't care if you're gay and worshipping the greet eel and the green nine if i and the 310 million feets, anything else? makes me wish i could bang on my desk and have another alan simpsonism pop out. >> i think grandchildren don't write a thank you

jessica simpson backstage. >> i haven't met her yet.her and i was hanging out in front of her dressing room. because i've got a new baby. they're all new, babies, right? i've got a 4-month-old baby. i was hoping to get a photo of my baby with jessica, and then maybe just running away. because i know she likes babies. she might keep it. you know i mean? i know it will have a better life with her. or just swapping it with one of her babies because i know that will be a better-looking baby. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what is your baby's name? >> my baby's named hank. >> jimmy: you have a baby named hank? >> i thought moving to america, going to call it hank. real man's name. hank's a guy with big genitals who can fix things. >> jimmy: yeah. >> that's all you want to do in life, right? >> jimmy: your show is based on your life as an australian comedian who comes to los angeles and before you had the son. >> actually, my girlfriend was in the pilot and i knocked her up. so that was all based on that, yeah. it's based on me -- based on a friend o

and volz simpson calls for a tax -- volz simpson calls for and bowles simpson calls for major tax reform. >> thank you, madam chair. there is certainly similarity that there was called for the deductions and credits and various strategies to bypass the ocean of revenue -- the question of revenue. we've talked about 30 companies that make about $70 billion in net revenues that don't pay a cent in taxes. that type of spending through credits and reductions have grown conservative. the powerful in this country want their projects to be funded through the tax code. unlike appropriations, they are not examined every year. that is a very clever strategy and it puts them in a different class than working people. .ut it's unacceptable the actual language that is in the reconciliation instructions refers to the level of revenues, but the explanatory instructions in the back talk specifically about addressing this unfairness in the tax code, this spending program in the tax code that should be examined as thoroughly as any other program and should continue to serve the interest of the most powerfu

burns, the boss of homer simpson. bart simpson in front of the judge, mr., no word if the guy that brought him into court was chief wigham or not. >> what is mr. burns real name? >> montgomery burns. excellent. >> excellent. bart simpson. ♪ ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it. bee happy. bee healthy. with clusts of flakes and o's. oh, ho ho... it's the honey sweetness. i...i mean, you...love. >>> this morning on "world news now" -- eye to eye. president obama and israel's prime minister settling some differences as they face serious threats from iran and syria. >> as president obama makes a promise to a major ally and sends warnings to enemies with nuclear ambitions. it's thursday, march 21st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >>> good morning, everybody, a big question in the mideast this morning, will presi

tonight -- jessica simpson. comedian jim jefferies. and music from luke bryan.h cleto and the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: hey, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching, thanks for being here tonight. as many of you at home i know are watching from underneath an enormous pile of snow right now. winter storm saturn has been piling on. please allow me to be your big fat hairy human snuggy, i'm very warm. most people have an average body temperature of 98.6 degrees. mine is double that. i run at almost 200 degrees. i invite anyone to feel me on the way out. [ cheers and applause ] where were you when i was in high school? some parts of minnesota got a foot of snow this week. flights were cancelled, power went out, and whenever the weather is terrible, our nation's news channels never hesitate to force their weather people out into it. joe johns of cnn was covering the storm from a sidewalk in winchester, virginia, when his brain froze over, causing him to provide us with our unintentional joke

really, alan simpson, give us a warning or something next time.so the green weenie, the 310 million mmph and now alan simpson does it again. he implores his party to stop talking about gay marriage and other issues. he said, quote whab is this hope phobic strain in our party? you're a republican, you believe in get out o of your life and the precious right to privacy. the. well then balance, i don't care what you do. you can go worship the great eel. i don't give a -- this can't be what alan simpson, if you are a i havo gamer and it is the world of war craft, i apologize. but i don't care if you are worshipping the great eel and green weenie and 315 million teets, makes me want to bang on my desk and have another alan simpson pop out o. >> i think grandchildren don't write a thank you for christmas presents. they are walking on their pants with their cap on backwards, listen ing listening to snoopy poo '03 ypoop dog and they don't like him. >> he is an inexplicable but tell appropriate body general rig generator. from the green weenie to the snoop

could one recipe be simpson bowles 2.0. revised version was announced of their fiscal reform plan, and joining me now is former senator alan simpson, co-chair of the campaign to fick the debt and the moment of truth project. moment of truth. sounds like heavy stuff, heavy going. let's talk about that, though. >> i watched them struggle, and they didn't want to go off the cliff. they were talking about constructive things about revenue. you can't tax your way out of this. you can't cut spending your way out. you can't -- you got to have a plan. we just thought, well, we would be clever and piece together what they talked about in december and threw it out here a couple three weeks ago. they all have gone back to their rigid holes and idealogical stance and back into their comfort zone, but it wasn't a lot of creative stuff. it was what they talked about in december. it's tough to watch. i was just thinking maybe the lunch consisted of watery gruel. >> let's talk about that. >> no, i think it was good. >> shouldn't he have be

what simpson-bowles said was 3- 1. it is really a 2-1 ratio. it is best to also remember we had one round. if you add all of these things together, we are at the 2-3-1 ratio in simpson-bowles. we ought to balance these things against that. at the end of the day, if we do the $4.50 trillion of cuts simpson-bowles recommended, the total would be 2-1 or 3-1 spending cuts to tax revenue is totally inappropriate. >> i think it is important to appreciate two things. the projected cost increase of social security and medicare are primarily because of rising real benefits. we are making them more and more generous as they go along relative to the cost of living. some people might say we ought to have those things proportionate to the size of the economy, but the original mission was to supply a measure of security against poverty and old age. if i were to collect social security at the right time, -- we cannot keep projecting. i do not view 70 years from now as a promise. it is a big increase. i think we have to get these programs under control. with r

." >> we have music from luke bryant and jim jeffreys is here and jessica simpson is pregnant again and she will accidentally tell us the sex accidentally tell us the sex of the baby she well, well, well. growing up, we didn't have u-verse. we couldn't record four shows at the same time. in my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. and if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, that's all we watched. and we liked it! today's kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. rethink possible. anticipation oakland's new police consultant made an appearance in the city. the police chief suggested lowering crime rates there and in new york and planing to do the same in oakland. john alston is live at police headquarters with the story for us. john? >> reporter: he has been in town for three days. he has been meeting with officials including governor brown and mayor quan. he is the man for the job and so now oakland's problems are his problems. >> the former head of

and when simpson bottles simpson bowls did that threw out the window. am i crazy here or not? >> i don't know whether you are crazy or not but you are right on this issue. the fact is that even as smart as kirsten is, she brought up something that is not marketable savings when you say we are sure by and by pie in the sky we are going to be able to negotiate a better deal when we have seen with the doctors when he has said oh we are going to negotiate better deals with the doctors, they retire they are getting out of the business. there is no savings in getting there. >> bill: she is aassuming president obama will say oh we are going to negotiate with johnson or johnson or glasco and we will save $800 million by doing that and there is no guarantee that they are even going to talk to you and as you pointed out we will bring the doctor's fees down and all the doctors say no you won't because we are out of here and we are not going to accept it. >> this is what is driving me crazy. let's get along to the golf thing. this isn't going any place. you knew it wasn't going to go any

now, jessica simpson has slipped about the sex of her baby on national tv last night.ickness has been much worst second time around. >> and i never knew that a wiener could actually make me nauseous. >> oh! [ cheers ] well, i guess i just told the whole world that i'm having a boy. >> oh, okay, i didn't even know what was happening. >> yes, she was talking about the baby, who will join 10-month-old maxwell in just a few months. >> it doesn't get any better than that. >> you cannot make it up. the magic. >>> we've introduced you to eddie who is the basketball shooting otter. remember him. do we have video of that? robin came back and i felt like i needed to do a basketball story then, of course, who can forget holly the swimming cat, and today, everybody, we teased this, here she is, heidi the dog paddling rabbit. the 4-year-old bunny is swimming laps to help her arthritis. she has it in her knees and in her hips. she goes to a professional animal hydrotherapy pool in the uk and helped her. heidi is a lot more confident, we understand, when it comes to diving in. at fir

-- since simpson-bowles -- added anothe another -- mr. sessions: one more question then. do you say -- do you still stand by the promotional material that went with the budget and in the budget document itself that you have reduced spending over current law by $1.85 -- the deficit over current law by $1.85 trillion? or isn't it a fact that eliminating the sequester reduces that to approximately $700 billion in saving? mrs. murray: mr. president, over the baseline, which we are very clear in what we are using, we are not hiding the ball, as he's trying to do when he's mixing numbers here, we reduce the budget by an additional $1.5 trillion, absolutely. mr. sessions: mr. president, i would just say that the associated press disagrees. it's plainly inaccurate. plainly i asked that question, over current law, did they count the sequester increase in spending? and the staff admitted in our budget committee that it did n not. that increased spending, and, therefore, we would reduce the deficit saving from $1.85 trillion to about $700 billion. t

. >> "bart simpson," "homer simpson" that we...those ones did raise red flags, and we told to call our client back, and say, "hey, give us different names." the follow-up names would be like a john doe, jane doe, bill doe, you know, jane smith, bill smith, et cetera. >> pelley: these weren't real people? >> as far as i know. i mean, how many jane does and john does do you know? i mean... >> pelley: and when you got the prescriptions with bart simpson's name and homer simpson's name, you went back to that client and said what? >> can you please, you know, give us legitimate names or people that you know? sometimes, they'd take a phone directory within their office, and scribble out their extensions and fax it over to us. >> pelley: it's obvious what was going on, and it was obvious to them...? >> yeah. >> pelley: ...that this wasn't above board? >> right, i mean, if you're in your position, if you're a buyer, and your job is to save money, and you're going to get a brand name for $40, and we offer you a $20 vial for the same drug, s

other thing that simpson-bowles said it should not disproportionately affect the poor. budget -- what's happened now, i blame to some degree democrats for this the goal posts on the right are the paul ryan budget. the senate democrats' plan isn't even taken that seriously by the white house because it's too extreme. it's too left. if we're really looking at this in sort of a fair playing field, we should be looking at the house progressive caucuses' budget and the paul ryan budget. if you want to start where, in a sort of like -- >> and now the criteria. >> either side's budget. you should be looking at what's going to get the job done for america. that's the problem. we're all looking for victories, we're going to protect our side, they're going to protect their side. the only way people are going to recover in this country is if we create a climate that's going to lead to growth. your point. and the only way to do that is by controlling our debt. >> i don't see the time between these two things. deficits have nothing to do, because the federal government reduced its d

simpson. mesmerized the country for months.to do it. >> eric: do you watch it at all? this prosecutor, wow! >> andrea: i do. >> eric: he is just nailing her. >> andrea: you have an attractive couple and you read details of the case. she was assaulted allegedly after she dropped his new camera after she was taking nude photos after a day of sex. you read details and this is stuff you watch in open operas but it's real. we'll get to pistorius later and you have an attractive, athlete, model. but again, you can't believe someone would stab somebody 27 times. someone would shoot somebody else on valentine's day's day. hollywood can't make this stuff up. that's why people watch it. >> i'm shocked that she took the stand in her own defense. she is getting fileted. >> greg: of course she is innocent. she is wearing glasses. you see that. somebody is a killer and says you know what? we'll have you put on glasses. you will get, look as drab and librarian as possible. grizzly -- these days, grisly crimes are less depressing than the worl

commissions with outstanding americans to know this well, you reference to the plan, and i think simpsons- bowles, they are not that different in many recommendations they make, but the president commissioned simpsons-bowles. he put it on the shelves. it has been collecting dust. no one took it seriously. my question is why do we have these ideas in these reports that include sequestration, but nobody has taken seriously? >> they were both good plans. inre's a lot of overlap similarity, lowering the rates for everyone. they would have taken the rates down to 28% and much lower for low income folks, so that would have been a huge benefit, and i would love to see that happen. there is a lack of process any more. washington does not work the way it used to. he used to have a process with these issues. 1983 is a good example. i worked under bob dole. i remember in 1983 there was a bipartisan commission he was involved in, and they produced a bipartisan recommendations for getting social security fix, which was going to run into serious trouble in the near term, and it worked. it was a combina

but we are two years down the road from simpson-bowles, and that is when simpson-bowles said we ought to be done with holding back and we ought to get around to getting to the process of controlling our deficit. even beyond simpson-bowles, i remember back, it has been for years now, going on 5, where we did the $800 bill in stimulus package on borrowed money at a time when many of us thought we ought to be controlling our spending then. the argument then was made, we do need to do deficit reduction, but not now. now is when we need to spend harder and really push our way through this crisis with more stimulus spending. i disagreed with that then, but that was over four years ago. we did that, and every year since then, as we have increased the spending in the federal budget, the argument has been made, it's not time for restraint. it's time to keep spending. we've got to keep stimulating the economy. we've got to keep the growth of the federal government going, and there will be at day, next year, actually, probably the year after next, that we can get around to may be some serious de

we talk frequently about simpson-bowles. some of us may have disagreed with the expectses but we thought -- specifics, but we thought it was the right blueprint between -- the right balance between expenditures, and the senate democratic proposal is very similar to simpson-bowles on the ratio of cuts. actually it has more spending cuts and is a little bit less revenue. the gang of six, again, very similar. we're proud our colleagues came together with an effort to try to bring democrats and republicans together. the democratic budget in the senate builds on that bipartisan cooperation. very similar. when you look at the house republicans, they are totally out of step with what is necessary in order to get our country back into balance. this provides a framework for investment. i very much appreciate senator murray, the fact you have provided ways we can invest in infrastructure, how we can invest in research and development, how we can invest in education because that translates to job growth. the more jobs we create, the mo

simpson trial?es to cash in on that cash with a series called "the run of his life: the people versus o.j. simpson." it's based on jeffrey toobin's book of the same name. the show will go behind the scenes of the trial of the century. to talk about this now, my crew is back. changes sometimes. some of the boos weren't here earlier in the week. author and fitness expert, donna richardson joyner, peter shankman, and social media consultant at the geek factory, and from the dede in the morning show, dede mcguire. dede, you better behave this time. >> i am. >> david beckno, host of the social media show "news breaker." >> hey, don. >> thanks to all of you for hearing that. dede, i'll start with you. are we obsessed with murder? we're not hating on our sister network hln, rising tides lift all boats. ratings are soaring, people are tuning in. >> i think what we're obsessed with is real life. what really happens is that you get a chance to look at somebody else's life and think to yourself, my life isn't

simpson, it mesmerized the country for months and months. it will continue to.think it's not unusual at all and i think frankly, whether you like it or not, it does get millions and millions of people engaged. >> you watch at all? you following close? by the way, this prosecutor, wow. he is just nailing her. >> it think it's because you hae this attractive couple and you read the details of the case, i mean, she was assaulted allegedly after she dropped his new camera after -- she was taking nude photos after a day of sex. you read all these details. this is d stuff that you watch n soap opera, but it's real. same with i know we're going to get into pistorius later. but you have this attractive ant athlete, this model.hl but again, you can't believe that someone would stab somebody 27 times. someone would shoot somebody else on valentine's day. i mean, hollywood can't even make this stuff up. i think that's why people watch it. >> i'm shocked that shepl took e stand in her own defense. i mean, she's just absolutely getting belaid. >> of course she's innocent. sh

. >> these people are so far away from each other and we keep saying over and over, simpson-bowles, simpson-bowleswork with but when paul ryan said, and i was stunned, look, we will cut the rate of growth, not the automatic growth spending of 3.9 percent, rather than their 5 something, and i said did anyone hear the prosecute of us have to have budgets, we don't get automatic budgets? all that people are getting from paul ryan is he wants to cut medicare and medicaid. >> but rather than doing the deferring of the health care, put a proposal that you lost the election on, does not make sense which is repealing. >> i do think that there are seeds of a potential deal here. simpson-bowles is not that far from some of this stuff. in simpson-bowles, medicare was not included. we have the president the other day going to the democratic house members and asking them to give him wiggle room. >> what did they say? >> no! >> nancy pelosi said she was open to changing cpi for social security and how that is computed. >> that is scary "changing cpi." >> meaning re-doing the index. >> it is all washington talks

and angela, you bring up simpson-bowles.owles talked about cutting the exact loopholes that the president is talking about, corporate jets and storing your profits in the u.s. and overseas and on and on and republicans-- >> i'm up against the clock. >> and won't allow that conversation to happen. until that conversation is allowed to happen, i think that boehner's numbers are going to stay where they are. >> jamie: angela. >> and frankly almost double what the house's numbers are at 14%. >> jamie: quick response from angela, please. >> first thing boyehner has a diviid have the discussions during the fiscal cliff. it's obama as job to preserve, protect and defend this country and basically your party put politics over policy and that's why we're in the mess we're in today. >> jamie: all right, thank you guys so much. great to see both of you, steve and angela. >> thank you for having me. >> jamie: see you back here again soon. kelly. ♪ >> james brown is a music legends, an american icon and was able to thrill millions around

. >> bart simpson, homer simpson. those ones did raise red flags and we called our client back and said "give us different names" and follow up names would be john doe, jane doe, bill doe, jane smith, bill smith, et cetera. >> pelley: it was obvious what was going on, it was obvious to them it wasn't above board. >> right. if you're in your position, if you're a buyer and your job is to save money and you're going to get a brand name for $40 and we offer you a $20 vial for the same drug, same size, same everything, what are you going to do? you're going to get two for the price of one using us. so most of them knew that. some of them wouldn't do business with us, the ones we didn't have as clients or the ones that knew you can't be doing this, you're not doing it right. we'd run into that a lot but we move on to the next one, there's more big fish out there. >> pelley: the salesman asked us to disguise him and not reveal his name because a connection with n.e.c.c. would ruin his career. n.e.c.c. was shut down, its pre

simpson and it makes for networks to get ratings.ow one of those in competition with us, getting ratings out of it to go to zero after it's over. to make this in to profit-making operation, i find distasteful. would it happen without tv? i don't think so. >> suffering from the ptsd. but when they're grilled you get a feeling it may not go in the favor. >> andrea: i think they were helping to make the case stronger. i disagree with the jury trials on tv. this verdict is on behalf of the community and the process should be taken seriously. this is educational. i love to watch this stuff. what happens tv shows like "judge judy" she deliberates in seconds and it is turned in to a game. >> eric: do you like the courtroom camera? >> greg: it's hypnotic. er you don't want the lifetime movie about you. you are a killer, or dead. i find it ironic it's called lifetime and every show is ending one. >> andrea: i call it the victim's channel. >> andrea: you didn't like "not without my daughter" or quot troph"trophy wife"? >> greg: it's all about

embodying a compromise such as simpson-bowles or ruben domenici. this is the washington debate? >> this is the washington debate right now and we had -- erskine bowles came to harvard business school when we had the first big event of our u.s. competitives project where we had about 100 c.e.o.s and other leaders from all across the country and he spoke the evening before the first big seminar session and talked about the whole journey that they've been on with simpson-bowles and talked about the plan and so forth and i can tell you that if we had taken a vote that night of these hundred c.e.o.s it would have been 100 for and zero against. >> rose: where were they when simpson-bowles came out and even the president didn't support it. >> yup. and this is a great failure on the part of the business community to get behind the kind of steps that all of these eight things represent. so i think we're now seeing a different discussion in the business community. we're seeing a different point of view in the business community. it' emerging very, very rapidly. i think we hope we've had i

you use the words that erskine bowles and alan simpson say. it's not ad hominem, look at what you said for the past 15 years. >> that's very disappointing. >> it's disappointing to you because you act as if these people that have been warning about the deficit and the debt have been wrong for decades. >> no, they've been wrong in this crisis. a crisis is a very different -- >> over the past two, three, four years you've changed your tune and that's fine. >> because the world changed. >> the world can change again. we had a nasdaq bubble, it blew up. that world change. we had a housing bubble, it. >> i've talked about this, we entered an alice through the looking glass world where virtue is vice and prudence is folly. i wrote that. i'm not sure people got it. times like this are very, very different. give me an a strong economy, give me a situation that looks something like the 1990s and i'll become a deficit hawk. not a hysterical deficit hawk but a deficit hawk. >> rose: you will become a deficit hawk when we have a strong economy. define for

and for example, simpson and bowles just came out with a proposal, savings on the entitlement side.lot of different things you can do in that arena that are really creative that i think can get you the number you need. which isn't a dramatic number off the base. you're talking maybe $400, maybe $5 hur $500 billion in medicare savings over the ten years. that's not a big number when you compare it to the medicare spending over those ten years. i suspect it's less than 4% maybe even less than 3%. >> what about the tax loopholes that the president wants to close? is that a nonstarter. ? >> no, i think you've got the house ways and means and senate finance committee moving very aggressively down the road towards tax reform and that's the way you've got to do it. and it's tax reform again along the lines of what simpson/bowles proposed, which is a commission i served on, which is where you reduce exemptions and deductions, use the revenue to reduce rates, and use a small percentage of those revenues to reduce the debt. and that is a template that i think will work, if it is coupled with

but i just think jessica simpson has an issue with oversharing.eneres" show and talked about farting and amniotic fluid and puking. so she shares a little too much. now the world knows she's having a boy. but i think she could have gotten away with saying hot dogs make me sick. >>> this is awesome. japanese tv, leonardo dicaprio waits a bunch of years to bust out a really good impersonation of jack nicholson and he doesn't say a word. listen up. >> how great is that? >> check it out. >> let's see what they look like. how good is that? that's good. >> and they worked together on "the departed" about seven years ago. but that was on japanese tv and apparently the hosts all loved it there. i love it too. that's good. >> very cool. >>> moving on. you know snooki very well because you live on the jersey shore. >> yeah, we're buds. we hang out, absolutely. >> you're neighbors. >> absolutely. >> any way, she's changed her look. she's dropped 42 pounds since she had her baby. she's now on the cover of "us weekly" and she looks good. but not only that, she

there is simpson-bowles ii now. >> we never did an analysis of the simpson-bowles proposal. it was never brought to us by the chairman or ranking members of the committee's. for us to do an official estimate. the work they did drew on a lot of informal estimates that we provided to the congressional committees overtime. in the course of the past few years, as the congressional leadership and the ministration have worked on proposals, grand bargains, we have provided tremendous amounts of the estimates and analysis behind- the-scenes. the way cbo works, if the proposal is in the public domain, if someone has introduced a bill, our estimates of that bill are always public. in order to give the committees a chance to work on developing proposals, when people are developing proposals confidentially, i work for them in confidential. we have filled notebooks full of estimates over the past few years that are not in the public domain because the proposals were largely private as well. what one can take from the process is that there are a wide range of policy changes that can be ma

simpson-bowles does not do medicare, that is not part of simpson-bowles and he still ran away from simpson-bowlesnator rand paul talking and talking and talking and he should have put on comfortable shows, with the filibuster lasting 13 hours. was this meaningful or a publicity stunt? our political insiders are back in a flash. ÷÷ michael, tell us why you used to book this fabulous hotel? well you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it, and i got a great deal without bidding. and where's your furry friend? oh, i don't have a cat. now you can save up to 50% during priceline's spring hotel sale use promo code spring for additional savings on all express deals, including pet friendly hotels. express deals. priceline savings without the bidding. ah. 4g, huh? verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pure lte build. moe most consistent speeds indoors or out. and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously... you know how fast our home wifi is? yeah. this is basically just as fast. oh. and verizon's got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. oh, why didn

and in the end has more than the simpson-bowles' goal of deficit reduction. it is a plan specific and can be done if we adopt the budget we will achieve deficit reduction and create five million jobs. i thank the gentleman for his leadership and yield back the balance of my time. mr. horsford: thank you, congressman scott. and thank you for your hard work and that of your staff in bringing this forward. and to close us out, to lay out the two options and approaches that are before us, we have what i would like to coin as the compassion nature people's budget offered by the congressional black caucus and then the ausetert budget. the compassionate budget is focused on the people and the austerity budget continues to protect special interests and corporate interests. and to talk more about that, the gentleman from new york, epresentative jeffries. mr. jeffries: thank you. i thank my good friend, the distinguished gentleman from the silver state for his leadership in co-anchoring the c.b.c. special order, for giving me the opportunity to lay out as best i can th

when you go back to the simpson trial, o.j.federal judges told me privately, this is a disgrace. in my courtroom this thing would have been f weeks and you hit it right on the head. it is up to the judge to umpire the trial and keep it moving in my opinion. lou: a day in court without the jury present should point out, a defense attorney brought up the fact that prosecutor martina's, by the way, apparently something of a rock star and has had more exposure than most rock stars, posing for photos outside the courthouse with fans planning a prosecutor thereby was misconduct. you agree? >> i don't think misconduct. i think it was bad taste. he had a job at hand, try the case, and he should leave all that signing to somebody else. it is immature. it is silly. >> a little fine a point on a pencil. i do agree that it's not misconduct. however, let's say he is posing for pictures and signing autographs knowing that the jurors watching him. that's problematic, but there is no evidence of that apparently. >> to wanted his autograph, tha

translator) mantanzas is a province where a group of friends from my neighborhood-- the neighborhood of simpson-- we always enjoy ourselves with a rumba. we're always ready to put a rumba together at a moment's notice. the caribbean is a very vibrant area of musical encounters for the past 400 years-- encounters primarily between musics of europe, and musics of africa. you have, in the caribbe, types of music that e very cle to african ptypes. in rumba, especily the best known example rumba guaguanco you have a couple's dance. man and woman dance together in a dance that pantomimes courtship. the man attempts to get close to thwoma the woman coquetshly dances arou him and avoids his efforts (translator) the won that's dancing mes this waynd that. she covers herself so that she doesn't get impregnated. (averill) in rumba, you have a clave. the clave pattern is the key to the rhythmic structure of the ensemble. in rumba guaguanco the clave sounds like this: [claps] the first side, if you divide this pattern in half, has three beats. and the second half has two beats. and this is an asymmetric pat

whoa, simpson just broke this dream's reality wide open!gen, which homer desperately needs to live. (gurgling) (coughing, spitting) marge: homer! the roof is leaking! water's coming in the house, and we've got carpet mushrooms. dad, all the jury summons you buried in the back yard are coming back up.

>> well, neil, i think the balanced point is somewhere in the framework of the simpson-bowles plan. plan reduced the deficit through the balance approach that clued additional targets cuts and also revenue from closing a lot of the special interest tax breaks for very wealthy people, tax breaks which mitt romney and paul ryan talked been on the campaign trail. >> neil: they were without raising the overall rate. now we have the rates raised. so republicans talk of a need for a trigger. they might go along with this tax break stuff and all their closing the loopholes, that they did agree it's sort of wasting time and money and the tax code, but you guys have then got to, as part of the trigger, agree simultaneously to these cuts you talked about. what do you make of that? >> well, first of all, the difference is republicans have never said they're willing to close some of those tax loopholes for the purpose of reducing the deficit. which is what the bipartisan -- >> neil: i got a couple on you. i suspect no angel in the ranks of either party. but they did say that they would be open

tomorrow night, we have visits from jessica simpson, jim jefferies, and music from luke bryan.e bryan, dominic monaghan, and musical guest rival sons. our first guest is an emmy-nominated, grammy-winning performer you know him from his movie "garden state" and the tv show "scrubs." in his latest, he plays both man and monkey alongside james franco in the new 3-d adventure "oz the great and powerful." it opens in theaters friday, please say hello to zach braff. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] how you doing? >> good to see you. >> jimmy: good to see you, too. you haven't been here in a while. >> that didn't used to happen. >> jimmy: it's a budget item we have here. >> very swanky. the audience is drunker, i see. >> jimmy: a little bit, yeah. when was the last time you were here? >> i don't know, i just remember the last time i was here we were talking about the "scrubs" porno that was coming out because that was very exciting for us. you know you've made it when they make a porno about your show, i guess. >> jimmy: how did that do? >> i don't know. i think it did pretty darn well. i do

i go back to the bowles simpson, the approach that they laid out.ed at our entitlement reforms, just last year that was wasted in waste, fraud, abuse. we had over $300 billion that wasn't collected in the department. you start looking at our tax laws. under clinton, the last time we had a balanced budget and had surpluses, that was the tax rate that was in place at that time. why can't we go back to that? on the other hand, for a more aggressive and progressive, if we were able to reduce it, get rid of some loopholes and off set credits where the tax cut has grown so inefficiently. you've talked about corporate. corporate individual. >> let me go back to this. politics. president wants to blame republicans for every bad thing, even as he puts it, this is class warfare. republicans want to hang on to $800 billion for tax cuts and that's blocking any grand design deal. your thoughts? >> he's missing the point. we worry about what racing taxes on what group of americans does. it affects everyone. you raise tax rates on the rich and it will hurt the poo

. >> simon simpson works in the area and records the incredible sight with his camera. >> didn't lookfighters had control at automatic. they were just basically trying to stop it from spreading. >> soon, a crowd gathers and several other people also start to record the growing fire. the flames get higher. the smoke, thicker. >> the police and everyone started to get a little worried about the amount of people that were standing, just watching and filming. >> the chaotic scene spirals out of control. >> it's going. it's going! >> then the flames reach a massive amount of fuel and the gas station erupts. >> i've never seen anything that big. it was a bit of a shock and sort of stunned me for a second to see such a big fireball go straight up. >> before the blast, simpson is about 40 feet from the huge cloud of fire. it seemed like a safe distance. now, he's not so sure. >> when the explosion happened and i felt the heat and i decided to back away and put cars and a wall between me and the fire. >> just hide behind. we'll be all right. >> firefighters are dangerously close to the explosi

. >> joining us from boston carol simpson and author of the. what has given barbara walters such incredible staying powers over the decades? >> because she's just the best. i am sure she will go down in history as the greatest television newswoman ever. and she deserves the accolades and the position that she enjoys. because i have never seen any. i worked with her at both nbc and abc and i have never seen anyone work as hard as barbara walters. and i suspect and i hope it won't be any time soon that on her dying bed she will be calling god looking for an exclusive interview before she goes to heaven. she's just a remarkable woman and i'm so proud of what she has done. >> since you did work with her at two networks. what influence did she have personally, professionally on your career and your aspirations? >> not much because i was always based in washington and she was in new york. so, i would see her at the occasional function by the network. she did give me some advice, though. i toyed with the idea of moving back to chicago, my hometown and

>> a couple weeks ago, we supported the amendment, which only 75 of us voted for, which is taking simpson-bowless a starting point. that puts everything on the table. it is big enough and long enough. only 71 members in congress had courage it actually go out there and say, okay, let's use that as a starting point. >> and few you are of those are actually in washington right now. i think we have a graphic of the actual o congressional calendar for this year. i think many people would be surprise node of the normal business days only about 50% of those in any given year, you guys are actually in session. we thank you for being in washington, but why hasn't anyone said, no one leaves until this is done? >> i'm all in favor of that. i said that on the house floor. what they should do is lock us in a room until they get it done. that was my quote on the floor this week. >> when john boehner clearly walked away and used colorful language about how people needed to get moving. in a way the most honest thing he had done in a while thp there wasn't much compromise coming out of that caucus certainly and

[laughter] no wonder jessica simpson banged him. stuart scott. you mean, old left eye? [laughter] i assume he can't see all of his check. [laughter] $2 million. oh! nobody tell him. [laughter] master p? he hasn't done anything in a long time, but he did own a golden army tank. [laughter] [audience ohs] hold on, i'm gonna be sick. [laughter] that is insanity! oh! that is an oddly specific number, too. [laughter] $661 million? all right. let's find out how much suge knight's worth. [laughter] now i assume, when he's shaking people over the balcony, it's like, "hey, did anything fall out?" [laughter] hugh hefner. i'm gonna say he's worth $45 million. [audience ohs] [laughter] that'll buy you plenty of viagra. okay, larry flynt. if hef is worth $43 million, i'm gonna say larry flynt is in the ballpark of $25 million. [audience ohs] i guess that proves that soft porn doesn't pay as well as watching someone get peed on. [laughter] lesson learned, america. daniel tosh. i think the shocking part is that i made the list. [laughter] $400,000 in the red! [laughter] by the way, the