truman and mostly eisenhower didn't cut our way to prosperity in fact i'm not sure of any country that has they spent money like crazy you know the national highway system the g.i. bill. even the marshall act is that oh well i'm glad you bring that up because those are some of the things that i'm working on to clarify in my book right now it is true that it one moment at the end of world war two federal debt was one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. but in the depression we wiped out all of the private debt during world war two there was rationing and massive pressure for people to save because there was nothing to buy the shelves were empty so even though we had a lot of. we had virtually zero private so that from the beginning to the end of the war believe this or not the total debt of our society for a business household government went down not up then we had truman who balanced the budget three or four times we had eisenhower who yes did the interstate highway system and that's been productive but i was dedicated to fiscal responsibility he balanced the budget and even more importa

and government went down not up then we had truman who balanced the budget three or four times we had eisenhower who yes did the interstate highway system and that's been productive but i was there to cater to fiscal responsibility he balanced the budget and even more importantly he dramatically cut defense spending from the huge levels that he inherited from truman believing that our real national security depended on it healthy strong fiscally stable economy so there is a lot of mythology i don't know you are not easily and i think that's exploring because we are in that period of time i mean right now it could be corporate income tax share of federal incomes federal receipts dependent over the last ten years spending which you're looking at is run between seven and eleven percent during the truman years and during the eisenhower years it was never below thirty percent and sometimes it was as high as forty percent so we've got the corporations are pain a quarter of what they used to in terms of you know the overall and you have top marginal tax rates of ninety one percent throughout

in two thousand and twelve and if they say no absolutely no way then obama gets to play the harry truman forty eight curd and republicans didn't take the house back again for over forty years after that i mean you know they they lose big time also so they're trying to go down the middle and we've already heard this a both cantor and boehner oh yeah there's some good things there but those things that are we're going to we can change and if the president caves in or compromises even on the things that frankly i'd like to have him to compromise on i don't think that the free trade agreements for example should progress even if he if he makes any any any kind of middle ground isn't the. and he put himself in his own canvas it was well i think he is absolutely you know the other thing that harry truman sad to offset that was and this is this paraphrase gets used a lot and it isn't a precise but the gist was in a race between a republican and a republican the republican wins every time meaning if you don't draw a sharp enough distinction you just seem like a washout republican and what we're

what happened in 1946, harry truman. he found himself with a republican congress, his approval rating was down to 32%. and he got back against the do nothing congress. he turned in a round. i think it is possible for obama to turn it around. >> colby, i knew -- harry truman was a friend of mark, barack obama is no friend of truman. not that conflict -- complicated. obama is over his head. a great orator, he came out of nowhere. he has never run anything. never enacted anything even in the legislature. he had not run a state, not run a city, or a business. he is running the biggest enterprise in the world and he has not succeeded. and that is why all of these independents, all of those who believed in a soaring rhetoric, including probably a couple who swooned in the aisles as he spoke in 2008, are now waking up and realizing he is over his head. >> i think this like for obama is getting away -- in the way of sound analysis. week after week it is a personalized attacks. -- attack. then a great orator who is a very smart m

members of your base are asking when are you going to get your harry truman on?sean: did you see rick santorum's face? little bit of a difference here? >> let's go to the republican one first. we counted in the republican debate, 26 ideological questions, questions from the left or right with an ideological bent. out of 26 questions, how many do you think came with a left wing ideological bent? >> sean: none. >> 25. 25 out of 26. >> sean: all right perfect. >> now, that is fine, if you are going to play devil's advocate. tim russert was good at that. that's not what these questions are. they are not hardballs, they are spitballs. designed to trip you up. they are designed to make you look bad. if you are going to do that fine, then do it to the democrat. he turns to obama and asks him, when are you going to get your harry truman on? isn't time for a good old fashioned jobs work bill? he doesn't ask the republicans are you going to get your ronald reagan on? isn't it time for a good old fashioned tax cut this is a good snapshot of the two-sided news media. >> sean

truman also didn't like donovan. on the one hand you have a successful wall street republican lawyer. on the other hand, you have a diehard democrat. there was never going to be good karma between these two guys. so in october 1945, truman shuts down the oss to he wasn't naÏve to the threats that were out there overseas. he knew he was facing an impending cold war threat. and he needed an intelligence service. he just didn't want donovan's organization or the oss having any part of it. truman in 1947 formed the cia, central intelligence agency, patterned after the vision and the idea that donovan had. donovan lobbied through surrogates to try and make himself cia director. but truman wanted -- didn't want any part of that. dwight eisenhower comes into office in 1953. donovan thinks he has his best chance to become cia director. eisenhower was republican. thought a lot of donovan's work. instead the eisenhower makes allan dulles as cia director which deeply disappointed donovan. he thought dulles was going to screw up

truman ran against a do-nothing congress. this congress hasn't done much so far, but it still has an opportunity over the next several months to do something that helps the american people. and i want to give them a chance. i'm pleased to see that so far speaker boehner and some of the other republican leadership have said that some of the proposals i put forward deserve serious consideration. and i'm going to be open to any ideas they have in addition to how we are going to grow this economy, but what is not an option is doing nothing. >> did you come to a decision that what the country needs is in large part a good old public works bill? >> what i came to the conclusion is that given all the headwinds we have been seeing this year -- high gas prices as a result of the arab spring, the tsunami in japan which disrupted supply lines but probably most significantly what's been happening in europe and the turmoil that's taken place there, financial markets that are affecting what businesses are making decisions about here in the

the answer, harry truman.n and a friend owned a men's clothing store also known as a haberdashery in kansas city, missouri from 1919 to 1922. fascinating. you learn something new every day. we'll be right back with gene sperling. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. we're centurylink...a new kind of broadband company committed to providing honest, personal service from real people... 5-year price-lock guarantees... consistently fast speeds... and more ways to customize your technology. >>> today's jobs report comes less than a week before the president is set to offer his plan to get more americans working again. how might this latest report impact the president's plan? gene sperling is the director of the national economic council. gene, thanks for joining us. let's get immediately your reaction to these numbers? zero jobs gained or created in the month of august. >> there is no question we need faster growth overall in the economy, stronger job growth to get the kind of recovery this president

president truman votes in his hometown, independence, missouri.e has been campaigning against heavy odds, the close election and it becomes evident that victory is there for president truman. >> bill: which newspaper screwed up by prematurely printing the famous headline, dewy defeats truman. which newspaper screwed up? and that is correct, ladies! the chicago tribune. dewy lost because of his mustache? and number two, i actually have that newspaper in my office. he hasn't come up and taken a look at it. >> thank you so much! >> bill: look at that. we'll be up soon. question number 3, barack obama was elected in november 2008. >> is anyone out there who still doubts that america is a place where all things are possible? the power of our democracy. tonight is your answer. >> bill: now, mr. obama became the 15th president from the democratic party. who was the first? a, andrew jackson. b, martin van burren, c john tyler and d, millard fillmore. you went with van burren. do you even know who? >> he was shortly after that. >> bill: yes, he was. he was

truman was one of the most -- eisenhower was one of the most politically experienced people to enterhe presidency. he had, he had been, worked for the chief of staff in the 1920s, he'd been in paris in the 1920s working for general pershing at the battle monument's commission, he was the war office -- war department, rather, in the early 1930s. he spent the late 1930s as macarthur's deputy in the philippines, building up the philippine army as, prior to independence. general marshall brought him back prior to pearl harbor because he had recognized in eisenhower a gifted junior officer. he brought him into the war plans division. he actually tasked eisenhower who was barely at that point a brigadier general with the plans for the defense of the philippines. he did the same thing with, when it was decided after pearl harbor to, um, mount an invasion of north africa from the west. the british were pushing rommel from the east, and we were going to land in morocco, and marshall tasked eisenhower with the, with the design of those plans. so eisenhower came to the presidency not only a gre

harry truman, blueprint, 1947. complete and utter contempt by the republican congress. 1948.hey had no use for him. he went out. he ran against a do-nothing congress. nobody expected him to win. that was the famous tribute -- the famous chicago tribune, this may be barack obama's best chance to run against the do-nothing congress. >> awe know, the harry truman thing, obviously, is interesting, because harry truman represented a couple of things that the president is clearly trying to do now. fight back. throw a punch. stand up for what he believes, and yet the biggest difference in this -- this occurred to me last night, not for the first time watching the speech. had did so many people in public life, in congress, lose respect for the presidency? this idea of one side sits, the other side stands to applaud. it's ludicrous. they're like children. did it begin with bill clinton? did it start then? because reagan used to -- he'd get bipartisan support. >> richard nixon. i don't think the democrats treated richard nixon with the greatest of respect. >> and the democrat s certain

harry truman's famous policy of the (bleep) stopped here.laughter) >> years later under president ronald reagan the pentagon issues a directive stating that homosexuality is incompatible with military service. >> jon: so the military needs disciplined well-groomed individuals comfortable in crisply pressed colorful uniforms. no place for gays! (laughter) tell 'em, boys. ♪ the people ride in a hole in the ground, new york, new york... ♪ >> jon: go out there and enjoy some vagina. (laughter) and then, of course, there was "don't ask, don't tell." >> in 1993, a compromise emerges. >> the joint chiefs of staff have agreed to remove the question regarding one's sexual orientation from future versions of the enlistment application. and it will not be asked in the interim. >> jon: (as bill clinton) i mean, it's nobody's business where you're sticking it, right? (laughter) i mean, who are we to judge, you know? >> jon. >> jon: (as b.c.) jon? >> emmy? >> jon: did sunday night mean nothing to you? (cheers and applause) it was a wonderful evening, it m

postcode truman, kennedy, taylor all ranked above coolidge. one other gentleman, the that jenna meant here the pin on the front of your book. >> guest: that was the publisher's idea. postcode u.s. grant. why? >> guest: that's talk about him, too. as a gentleman who had a larger funeral. the american people ignored him. two elections after the civil war, his first slogan was let us have peace. on the other hand, let us have peace, but because of the war, everybody i.q. slavery. no question. they wanted to extend the system. the north knew it was slavery. even the young mr. lincoln knew that slave labor in illinois which i found the price of weight free labor. you name it, whether it's economic class, moral cause is the same. grant had the idea that this could be a war of attrition. he coined the phrase total war. take it to the population. we're going to destroy the enemy's capacity. so when lincoln got the idea that he could use his extraordinary power to destroy the enemies, for your slaves. some people say the proclamation freed no one appea

a lot like harry truman in the same category. you knew where the factory taylor stood. advanced the theory that had zachary taylor not died 18 months into his presidency -- one of the first conspiracy theories did he die of natural causes? he insisted that california come in to the union as a free state. here is a southern slave owner, sugar plantation in louisiana. spent his life in the u.s. army. the only national institution in the civil war. he will not let these people destroy his union. we talk about richard nixon. only nixon could go to china because of a democrat went to china the conservative republicans would have attacked him. if nixon goes to china who could oppose? if you have a southern plantation owner who is a war hero during the mexican war, double the size of the united states and with his death the starting gun of will the new states come in slave or free? there was a proposal to divide california to keep the balance in the senate. he wants california to be a free state and his son-in-law was jefferson davis and we will hear from again, he will hang h

. >> certainly has gone from rod my king, can't we all get together to harry truman. i don't know about superman. something dramatic. that thinking, where did it come from, the go on campaign mode? >> he made this. this is a conscience decision that the white house made, president obama made during the summer. he was going to come out with his economic package. woe have enough things in there to say this is -- republicans have supported in the past but he knew before he even presented it, that this had no chance in congress and his plan was to hang it. he put forth the branch and hang the failure around the neck of the republicans in congress. i was with him this week in new york when he had a huge, very glittery fund-raiser at gone that many theater in front of 400 really, really rich people. alicia keys was singing. fabulous affair. he tried out that line. if they call, you know, standing -- making a rich guy pay as much of the same tax rate as plumber or teacher, then i'm a class warrior and he got standing ovation for that. >> bottom line, he came up with the idea

a lot like harry truman. the same category. sector retailer, and has sex retailer not died in 18 months into his presidency, the conspiracy theories, die of natural causes. well, we know two things about him. he insisted that california come into the union as a free state. here is a southern slave owner, louisiana. his entire life in the u.s. army. the only national institution that we had on the edge of civil war. he is not going to let these people destroy his union. we talk about richard nixon. china. if a democrat had been the conservative republicans. if nixon goes to china, who can oppose it? if you have a southern plantation owner, war hero, a man who was the chief doctor in the mexican war, double the size of the united states and then, of course, with his death becomes the starting gun of these new states coming into the union. there was a proposal on board to divide california. and he said but california be a free state and tells his son in law at the time, a southerner from mississippi that we will hear from again in

he was close to truman. -- those are the ones that come to mind first. i looked at the list i might add one or two others. >> how would you assess the lack of military experience with members of congress and how it affects their ability to provide oversight? if you look at the members the do have it, the experience in the navy in and secretary of the navy, mccain, senator reid, a little bit more aggressive. they have a platform and understand the institution, but it allows them to have on trade to be a little more critical. whereas some of the members, i think, feel a little bit more sensitive. to you think it has been a factor in the ability to provide effective oversight and understanding? >> not really. military service as a plus, certainly a political plus. the more women we elected to public office the more the percentage of folks with military service is going to go down, just because women are not drafted, and have not served in as great numbers as men. that demographic change alone, which is a good thing, i think, for the country is going to mean

truman did. they were bitter rivals. so stalin made a move. a warning shot over truman's ball to say you may have the atomic bomb but i have psychological warfare. he wanted to send this flying disc to land in new mexico and have people come out that looked like aliens. the engineer told me that the child's eyes pilots inside were the result of deftly human experiments in the soviet union. and that is what he told me. i repeat it in my book because i wrote the uncensored history of area 51, not be censored history. many people take umbrage. a couple people in my book and not happy and i understand why. as they said to me we were john wayne out there saving the free world. no one likes to hear about this kind of possibly this kind of ghastly going on in the desert. but this is what my source told me. i absolutely stand by his veracity and it is what i wrote in the book and it is what a lot of people are very skeptical of and at the same time want to know more about. >> let me ask one follow-up for you. the next one. so the reason, if it was not

big bedrock of the democratic party and in one nine hundred forty eight when it looked like harry truman was going to lose he he recognize israel eleven minutes after it provocatively. declared its independence which the arabs didn't want and so he famously said well i have no arab constituents but i have a lot of people who are for a zionist i'm i'm paraphrasing there but and i think obama is in the same. boat he's a democratic president and now i think both parties the fundamentalist christians are also big proponents of israel on the republican side so i think it's even more locked up than it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when harry truman had to do that for it to get reelected or did it in part to get reelected i think obama really is his back is to the wall the economy's down and he needs every vote he can get it doesn't look good for him to get reelected right now so i think you'll see him tilt toward israel heavily here in this the rest of this year and next year before the election despite its stance towards the u.n. bid the u.n. the u.s. is giving money to both i

starting in one nine hundred forty seven this is this these are the earlier this is you know the truman years the eisenhower years the kennedy years and then and then study slide particularly during the reagan years and then you know the nafta and all that down to the point where eleven point two percent of our gross domestic income our g.d.p. gross domestic product is from manufacturing it used to be well over a quarter used to be twenty twenty five point six percent so what's that been replaced with what is it that we make in america where does our money come from what's been replaced with is finance the finance industry banks stirrers and banks used to be back in one hundred forty seven ten percent of our of our economy it was a nice slow steady boring stable business a guy with green eyeshades working banking hours you know with normal salaries but then we see as the banks got deregulated and now they represent twenty one percent that's two thousand and nine now in fact last year was over thirty percent of all corporate profits in the eyes that were from the financial sector you can

truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford carter and clinton did in the past or . bush should reagan's economics of tax cuts for the rich and screwing over the working people will prevail we're going to target those no you think the poll will be open until tomorrow morning. crazy alert don't go in the spot seriously and guys you know you may not want to look a fifty six year old man in china went to a beauty spa this week to bathe eels that eat away dead skin are supposed to make people look younger but let's just say things didn't go according to plan i'll sit in the water the man felt an immense pain in his manhood reason region and realize the one of these slimy eels was trying to wriggle its way into his body through a rather small hole he later told a trainees newspaper i tried to hold it take it out but the deal was too slippery to be held and it disappeared up my. you know and and then had to have an emergency three hour surgery to remove the six inch slippery eel from his bladder and a new development stories doctors say that he'll was six inches long but t

if the report and on the other hand if the republicans say no he can he can he can play harry truman and run against the republicans but he's got to do the right yeah and that's a question of whether he's willing to do that i guess on the third hand the third third option is he gets this passed a republican say ok fine go along with us we'll give you everything you want and it doesn't pick up the economy as much as it could or should things take time they do and then they he can't run against congress anymore he can't play harry truman he got what he wanted unemployment still is you know seven a half percent whatever it is you know and and and they say you know we tried which way do you how do you think it's going to play how do you think the republicans are going to play well you know i hope for the good of the country and that they're going to play and they recognize that in some point the american people really just want to see things happen in washington that are going to benefit the working families at home and really really get this economy going we don't know what will officer

i think it's even more locked up than it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when harry truman had to do that for it to get reelected or did it in part to get reelected i think obama really is his back is to the wall the economy's down and he needs every vote he can get it doesn't look good for him to get reelected right now so i think we'll see him tilt toward israel heavily here in this the rest of this year and next year before the election despite its stance towards the u.n. did the u.n. the u.s. is giving money to both israel and to the palestinians do you think there is a way for washington to keep this balancing act between the two sides after a possible vote. well it's not really a balanced policy that gives aid to both but the. aid to the palestinians is dwarfed by the three billion dollars that military aid that the us gives to israel so and in fact. the netanyahu the israeli prime minister just intervened with the with the republican congress to get them to pass the palestinian aid because that goes to police officers that works with the peace in the west bank so i t

grant and like harry truman in the same category. had zachary taylor not died 18 months into his presidency she died of natural causes we know two things about him, he insisted california commended the union as a free state, and here is a southern slave owner, sugar plantation in louisiana, spent his entire life in the army, the only national institution that we had on the edge of the civil war and he's not going to let these people to decide his union. because of a democrat the conservative republican would have attacked temps. if nixon goes to china who could oppose it? well, if you have a southern plantation owner who is the war hero which is the man that is the chief of staff during the mexican war double the size of the united states, and then of course his death becomes the starting gun of will the new states come in and there was a puzzle on the board to divide california, keep the ballot in the united states senate and he told his son-in-law of the time jefferson davis, we will hear from again. had he lived and take in that c

somewhere left/right like truman. we know who the candidate is. your party, we know what kind of campaign it's going to be. it's going to be angry, it's going to have some heat in it, maybe some hatred in it, it's being very tough on obama. you need someone to wear that uniform, but you know what kind of campaign it's going to be, anti-obama. >> right. and that's going to go but so far, i think. because the country is fed up with the anti. and now they're looking for -- >> really? >> i really believe this. >> but the red-hots in florida weren't. >> but they're the red-hots in florida. how does that the translate to other parts of the country where the vote really is going to matter. >> i've got to say with all due totally disagree with that. i think the anti mood in the country is colossal. i think if people could press a button and get rid of every member of congress on both sides of the aisle, they would do it. >> they would do it, but that's not the reality. when they get in that voting booth on election day, that becomes the reality, and they'

to be in the war, then other priorities ought to be postponed for a while, and that's what harry truman did when we went into korea, what f.d.r. did when we went into world war ii, and it's very fair to say, republicans were in congress, i got nowhere with that argument. you're quite correct. the costs were added on. i'm just saying that when you look forward at the problems that alarm me, and i really believe should alarm every american who cares about the american promise of upward mobility that's at the heart of this country, then relit gaiting that is not going to get us very far. the real question is what steps can we take to... >> jon: that's a fair point. when we come back then we'll talk a little bit about the steps that we can take and we won't re-litigate. we'll be well, thank you both for coming. oh, thank you so much. i love the vermeer collection. vermeer? dutch painter? only painted, like, 34 paintings? oh what an odd name. you've got like five of them in your hallway. those were actually in the attic when we moved in. we just both really love the color yellow. uh... [ hos

two points on this, first of all, when harry truman ran in 1948, the unemployment rate was less thant situation. the other thing, 1992, when you got george bush running for re-election, congress' approval rating hit what was an all-time low 18%. it was a democratic congress, didn't help him out. >>> let's turn to the republican candidates. there was another debate this week, lot of controversy over -- lot of controversy over the hpv vaccine. let's listen to what michele bachmann had to say about that. >> the governor's former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company, the drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor and this is just flat-out wrong. >> i raised about $30 million and if you're saying that i can be bought for $5,000, i'm offended. >> i'm offended for all of the little girls and the parents that didn't have a choice. that's what i'm offended with. >> so, cokie. >> well, i'll let my colleagues discuss the politics of this. but i have to say that, the disservice done to public health as a result of that debate is enormous.

truman did that in 1948.ng to try to paint this running against washington and the republican partisans, if you will. we'll see if, in fact, that actually works. what republicans will say is, yeah, we're stopping president obama in his tracks, and the reason why is because we've given him three years of trying to fix the economy and nothing has worked. so you better believe we're trying to stop this, because we don't believe in the direction where he's taking the country. zee >> peter, do you think the president is raising the stakes by convening this jointd session of congress? can he deliver on all these heightened expectations? >> he has to do this, alex. the fact is that the president was instrumental in stabilizing the economy with the bailouts to the -- they call them bailouts, but the loan programs to the auto companies with the stimulus package, which prevented the loss of even more jobs. what he's saying -- what he will say is, look, we've had 18 months now of private sector job growth. not anywhere

i whispered in his ear and i said harry truman 1948. he smiled. i think that's what you have to have with barack obama. i think he has to be feisty, give his vision. if the republicans won't go along with it, then he runs against the do nothing congress as harry truman did in 1948 when they said he couldn't win and he won because he took it to the american people. >> i don't think we have to remind any of our viewers that you have an aisle seat at every presidential address to congress. we saw you that night as we do every night. i want to read to you a paragraph that appears, as i'm sure you read it already, above the fold on the front page of today's "new york times" about this election. representative debbie wasserman-schultz of florida, the chairwoman of the democratic national committee, said the district's large concentration of orthodox jews made it unusual and meant the race had few national ramifications. congressman, i was shocked to read that as the democratic party explanation as to how you lost this very traditional democratic distric

to be in the war, then other priorities ought to be postponed for a while, and that's what harry truman did when we went into korea, what f.d.r. did when we went into world war ii, and it's very fair to say, republicans were in congress, i got nowhere with that argument. you're quite correct. the costs were added on. i'm just saying that when you look forward at the problems that alarm me, and i really believe should alarm every american who cares about the american promise of upward mobility that's at the heart of this country, then relit gaiting that is not going to get us very far. the real question is what steps can we take to... >> jon: that's a fair point. when we come back then we'll talk a little bit about the steps that we can take and we won't re-litigate. we'll be an airline's job, is to take you from where you are... to where you need to be. and we're not just talking about points on a map. with a more intuitive delta website and mobile app... and the most wifi equipped planes. we let you be everywhere at once. innovations like these are extending our reach so you can extend

and he actually had an exchange of correspondence with president truman on this. it's an interesting little footnote. also in the 1930s, this is a cool little story that i found out later, it's not in the book. pretty boy floyd who was a gangster, and you can see this in public enemies about john dillinger that was made into the movie a while back, apparently, pretty boy floyd's mother was a fan of j. frank norris on the radio and took her other son -- jackie, i believe his name -- to be baptized by norris. and norris for a brief time played intermediary between the floyd family and j. edgar hoover trying to effectuate the surrender. that's all in burrows' book, but i thought that was an interesting postscript about norris, and he was always finding a way to get involved in public events. he had a series of health issues in the late '40s, a couple of strokes, and a lot of the stuff that he had built he sort of splintered off, he alienated a lot of people around him. and by the time he died in 1952 several various splinter groups. the group known as independent fun

you are worried they could be pr trumanized. that's the word from your article today. >> if the republicans won't step up to the table and find some way to support some of the program and if they won't support those ways, they need to find alternative ways that are acceptable to a bill this can get passed. if a bill doesn't get passed, i guarantee the republicans will be blamed and you can see a scenario where president obama runs against the republican as the do nothing congress as truman did. that's a bad scenario. >> what are about quoting an aide who said some of the republicans do not want to support it because obama is on the ropes. why do we appear ready to hand him a victory? what do you make of that statement? >> i'm glad it was just one republican aide being quoted there. i expect to hear some of that, but i am enkornlged that most of the body language is acknowledging that we have to do something. it's right from a policy point of view and good politics in this case. >> a great pleasure having you on. now to afghanist

president to raise the taxes of the wealthy and the federal tax rate has not been this low since harry truman was president. the average pays 15% relative to 1950. >> the problem is not state and local taxes and businesses are overwhelmed with regulations which is a cost and with the existing tax burden. >> now economists say taxes must go up to pay for social security and medicare costs. a super committee is considering simplifying the tax code as part of a deficit reduction plan. >>> well with just a few days to spare, senate balanced a spending mess to your avoid a government -- measure to avoid a government shut down. they will vote on the measure next week. it goes to disaster aid that goes to filibuster the new regulation. it was made after federal emergency officials told lawmakers that they have enough money to make it through friday which is the last day of the budget year. >>> new details are emerging here that caused a patient's death at a medical center in oakland. judith, a cancer patient died. the nurse who made the mistake is reportedly a 23-year-old from new orleans. she is am