now to the monday mega panel, imogen lloyd webber, tim carney from the "washington examiner," the and the host of the majority reports, sam seder. great to see the three of you. a great news day, very i inspiring. i'm feeling great about the world. tim, we argue on the set, big government, small government, you always say, a smaller government has less power, less of an incentive to try to manipulate it. how do you interpret this through our dispute, which yours is being large government/small government, mine being bought government/not bought government. >> i don't think we're going to have very much disagreement here. first of all, i'm for regulating the heck out of our government officials, including our politicians. if we were to mandate that every congressmen had to have only a blind trust, i would support that. but also, yes, the more that government is getting involved in the day-to-day -- >> rule making. >> the more that they are picking winners and losers, the more they're picking which industries are happening, the more ability they have to game this sort of system. >> but

so says washington examiner columnist tim carney. >> are you prepared to live by your statement there. >> absolutely. and newt's statement that he never did lobbying doesn't hold up to any normal definition of the world lobby. i've been talk to republican hill staffers who were will in 2003 which while newell was being paid by drug companies, saying he was rallying rubs republicans to vote for the bill they supported some he didn't register as a lobbyist but what he did was lobbying. and he was lobbying for corporate welfare. and freddie mac and the drug stuff and ethanol and that's one reason -- >> they didn't do anything illegal, i'm sure. and he stayed on the opposite side of being a registered lobbyist. but the problem is that freddie mac has -- and fannie mae have been turned intoand it turns ou that he has been in bed with them. he wants chris dodd and barney frank, who chaired the banking committee in the senate and house, he says they should go to jail for being in bed with freddie mac. well, it was a crowded bed, because -- they were there as well! >> led me say something abo

tim carney, a great reporter, did a column about this. he said not only do we look at the fannie and freddie, which are absolute demon entities in the minds of conservatives, fannie and freddie are the ones that brought the american economy to its knees. the other problem is carney reports that gingrich was help hadding past medicare part d. even though it passed by republicans, conservatives point to it as the moment when the caucus lost its way. we have situations where he partnered and cut ads with al gore to talk about education reform. i think his biggest vulnerability is that his wheeling and dealing in washington is seen by the tea party as an indication that he's part of business as usual. he's part of the conservative establishment that will sell out as soon as he get sboos power. >> congressman king talking about who is going to do well in iowa. herman cain is up 24%. we have to get your take. take a listen to this. >> who knows every detail of every country of every situation on the planet? nobody. we have plenty of experts. an

you're like, tim carney got $400 billion for the weekend, he must have gone to vegas. did he get that money? how do we -- forget how do we. how disturbing is it that we don't really know what's going on. forget us, the bank ceos. >> this is the stuff of absolute nightmares. nobody has any idea. their leaders don't know. obama's busy calling on the european leaders to do something. sorry, they're all in a complete state of denial. it's the biggest debacle in the eurozone since world war ii. fundamentally, nobody has any clue how to move forward. with the eurozone, you've got 17 leaders trying to make a decision. they're not making a decision. >> if you don't know what's going on, tim, isn't the first thing to do is to audit the situation. if you walk into an environment where you don't know, is not the first thing you do is request an assessment of what can be known? >> yes. and the people resisting audit is and assessments are the central banks. the government institutions don't want -- >> 17 nations, to be precise. >> and nobody knows how the u.s. government spends it

. >> well, remember medicare part d and tim carney in the washington examiner did great reporting onas more expensive. >> the great story about the child that kills his parents, and he said but i am an orphan, look at me, feel sorry, and that's the republicans. >> i don't know if we have dealt with health care costs. >> thank you, sir. >> but also, you know, we're talking like we're in fantasy land somewhere. at some point, we have to raise taxes. at some point we have to stop fighting the endless unfunded wars if we get a handle on budget deficits. and perhaps most importantly, you are going to have to do something with the economy that puts people back to work so that you have ordinary people paying taxes again. >> paying taxes ain't consuming goods. >> yeah. >> if you buy goods -- >> well, we need to go back to the initial question, it's attacking basically the private sector job creation. when we look at what has happened over the last couple years, and that may have been true early on, but in the last couple years it's not the private sector, it's the public sector shedding jobs

in is a piece from -- just published, i think, tim carney, just sent to me during the break.aq war veteran, penn state graduate, catholic, acquaintance of jerry sandusky and product of his second mile and i have fully lost faith in my parents' leadership. >> it's an intense, blanket feeling of sort of this crisis, crisis of authority in the country that i think is one of the defining themes. something i'm writing a book about. one of the things i want to talk about is the -- is the taboo of sexual predation on children and the way we deal or don't deal with it. one thing we've seen is how could they not report. how could they not report. well, we have reporting laws when this is not an anollie. this is the norm. the reason reporting laws exist is precisely because reports of sexual assault and sexual assault on children for years, the norm was that they were -- whatever the institution was, they were not brought to the police. liz, i think you probably dealt with this as a district attorney. what is it -- why does it have to be the case that you need to pass a law to make peo

i'm live at tim's automotive and towing in carney.'m with bill and you are the tow recovery specialists. this is one of your smaller trucks. >> we have a bigger trucks. >> check your tires. there is a free car clinic for women this saturday. we will check the forecast. no snow in the forecast. we do have a chance for rain on friday. the storm system will move to the south. temperatures will be mild. mostly in the low 60's. dry weather this weekend. back to the desk. what a great tip for the winter. >> we need all the help we can get. an amazing sight in eight san diego neighborhood as a car levitates 10 feet above the ground. >> we are still taking your answers to our water cooler question of the day. what do you look for when you shop for a hotel? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> it is not quite a flying car . in san diego, this is what happens when a car smashed into eight fire hydrants. the force of the water lifted the car into the air. >> that i

carney road. you are encouraging people to come in and get their cars checked out. winter is coming in. i'm here with the owner, timhat kinds of things do you want people to check on their cars? >> we had an early taste of it. we like to comment and the first thing to do is to check the battery. the battery is the number-one copper went it is cold. we have a machine that we use that hooks up to the battery to test the capacity of it and how old is and how long it will take before it is time to be replaced. you don't want to do with a battery on your way to work or underwear home from work in you got panicked will not run. once the battery is low, you lose all power to the car as well. if you're in traffic or rain or snow, you lose battery power and your car is done. >> that is the worst thing in the cold weather. it seems that cold affects the battery. >> this battery is 3 years old. we will be able to tell how much life is left. you can plan your attack. this is a computer machine with hookup into the car and will test all the centers in the motor to make sure -- all the car is computerized. every sensor is manufa