>> is it bad we're celebrating valerie bertinelli on the cover of a "people" magazine. >> if valerie is happy, if that makes her happy. that wouldn't make me happy. i don't want to see a 49-year-old woman in a bikini, no. >> but seriously, it's known that jenny craig has the best tasting food. that's a fact. >> that's cute, though. that's a little smackdown trash talk. >> see treat over here. >> reporter: the companies had different weight loss models. >> salisbury. penne pasta. >> reporter: jenny craig sells prepackaged portion-controlled food as does knnutri system. >> we have to learn other ways to get bless our. >> reporter: weight watchers is lifetime based, using a point system to count calories. >> i ate, ate, ate and got physically sick. >> reporter: they also have weekly meetings to keep people motivated. >> we use points as a simply fighted way to keep track of. it's not supposed to be a diet. >> reporter: at the start of the new year, these companies ramp up marketing efforts. jenny craig featured the new commercial right after christmas. >> one by serious lab geeks. i lov

. >> shepard: major, i know you spoke with the white house advisor valerie jarrett today. what did she have to say about that? >> she said, look, republicans are focusing on things that have been proposed. she said what the president was doing with the speech today is setting the record straight on things he has already done that in her opinion are extremely pro business. take a listen whancht we have done just in this year's budget is reduced taxes $70 billion for corporations. that's 10% reduction in the corporate tax rated. we have credits in there for small businesses. just today a bill was passed through congress to try to help create payroll taxes to induce small businesses to get going. >> and, of course, as the white house points out, shepard, the senate and its democrats will be doing more on the jobs front. there is already a second jobs bill in the works. >> shepard: major garrett live on the north lawn tonight. thanks. a fox urgent now and the u.s. senate voting to extend the patriot act for one more year. that, of course, is the bill passed by congress after t

she's close with valerie jarrett. questions over what happened in the office last fall with the big state dinner for the leader of india and the salahi's were able to join the delegation. they were able to walk in even though they were not on the guest list. they were able to get in and mingle and have photographs taken. there were complaint that is desiree rogers could have done more to have somebody from her office with the secret service. she could have done more by having somebody with the secret service at the gate. she pointed out the secret service was able to call anytime themted. they could have picked up the phone. it became a hot political potato in washington. they testified in congress, even though they invoked their rights. wouldn't answer questions, they step forward to the microphones. they would not let rogers go to invoke a fifth amendment rights. this have been a political hot potato as far as an opportunity to go after desiree rogers. they may not think it's much of a big policy po sigsitiopositio

valerie jared, one of the president's top advisor advisor last week, jared was asked by a smart man intie, the administration would consider drafting up some sort of a booklet on healthcare. you know, for dumb, dumb, dummies, including those people in tea party, that riffraff that just doesn't get it. here is what she said -- >> if the obama administration -- and i'm ask this of you -- could write some much simpler booklets on housing foreclosure, of the healthcare bill, wall street collapse, whereas a typical person including those in the tea party, et cetera, could understand the basics of it, because i feel that many of them simply don't, do you think it is an analogy and -- >> i think it's an excellent analogy. hope and change were so catchy because it was very simple and something that everybody understand the definition of. death panels were catchy because nobody knew what it meant but it was really bad. part of what your challenge is to find a simple way of communicating. >> glenn: yeah, i think -- did i mean she just admitted that the really super smart obama voters who are lik

valerie jarret said thousands and thousands. wouldn't be a surprise if i hear robert gibbs today say billions of jobs have been created. it's a game. what is the game on the number of jobs saved or created? to get you to focus on that number. instead of well, you know what? they are playing the same game all over. watch this from the "state of the union." >> the truth is these steps won't make up for the 7 million jobs that we lost over the last two years. >> glenn: the 7 million jobs lost in the last two years. what does that do? that gets you to forget the last two years. the last one year during the bush administration, the last year in office, 3 million jobs were lost. that leaves him with jobs lost this year 4 million. see the game? that goes really to the openness and transparency of the game. how are we supposed to -- wouldn't it be nice? how refreshing it would be to get a glimpse in how the government solves problems or writes bills. eight times he said c-span would broadcast the proceeding of the negotiations with heal

. >> reporter: good morning, to you, martha, we spoke to vernon hunter's now widow, valerie and she dider husband, 67-year-old vernon, was the second casualty in the case, tragically and late last night two bodies were pulled from the building behind me and one of which we are under the impression is that of joe stack, the alleged suicide pilot in this case and the other, now confirmed by the family, 67-year-old vernon hunter, i'm told that he was a revenue office manager, at the irs building, he was responsible for collections, and we have also learned that valerie, again, his now widow, also worked inside this building, with her husband, and i asked her, if she had ever seen or heard the name joe stack and she tells me that she has no idea who he was and as you can imagine, martha, i know you are a mother, a wife, and she is confused, she's hurting, angry, and obviously, at what is being reported, and, now, we know, you know, obviously learning more this morning, and, together, she and vernon have six children, all of whom she says are grown and living on their own but are on their wa

. >> bill: there is still axelrod and emanuel and valerie jarrett, they are not bouncing up and downnd saying man, that was a big win. that's not what's happening. let me go over to jim angle. do i have to call the or kin guy, the exterminators for the spiders? so, nancy pelosi gets out there and nancy pelosi says there is no way we are going to tamp it down. we're not going little. we're going big. you have to give it to the speaker. she is very consistent. >> absolutely. >> bill: what's behind the scenes? are they going she is crazy? she has no clue or what? >> no. she has a lot of people in the house behind her. and, of course, have you got the liberal base in the party, 100 people in the progressive caucus in the house who are behind her. they are a all a little disappointed that the public option is not going to be part of a final bill, which it appears it will not be. their problem, bill, is that they have got to figure out how to get something passed in the house. the house bill has been set aside. now, they are trying to figure out how to get the senate bill through the house

>> reporter: the answer to that, if he steps down valerie will replace him. i don't think that is a big improvement, but i will say that you have to judge by results. you are absolutely right that he went in and twisted arms. doesn't things done. on the big legislative agenda items, namely health care, he failed. and when you see comments like this on top of it it looks like he has become more and more of a liability. he is a political animal and he is trying to pull the obama white house more to a reasonable medal. i don't necessarily think he has been all that effective. megyn: we will see whether this behind the scene apology puts an end to it. sarah palin fired up. >> reporter: she is right. megyn: what a pleasure. in roughly an hour the head of every major u.s. intelligence agency may face some of its toughest questions yet. just ahead we will show you by janet napolitano may be facing some extra heat. plus it is groundhog day. >> ladies and gentlemen, may i introduce to you punxsutawney phil. megyn: it is groundhog day. it is groundhog day. get it? afte

, one of the president's advisers said he was not aware of this and one of the other top advisers valerie were following you for years and your work in oakland and wanted to get you to the white house, so is it hard to believe when they say they don't believe about these things? >> look, i was fl fully candid about the ideas and explored. i was a mid level white house staffer and i reported to a senate-confirmed nominee. mid level white house staffers go through a vetting process that is very, very rigorous. but i was not a cabinet secretary. i was a worker in the white house. some people decided to give me this crazy title of green job czar in the media. i came out and said, i'm not the green job czar, but i'm the green czar handyman. >> randy lorr leveled this criticism saying that the secret service under previous administrations if they saw your background they would not allow you a visitors' pass at the white house much less the job you had held, and do you believe that the white house could have done a better job in vetting you and basically preventing this whole thing from happenin

he is 68 years old and is survived by his wife valerie who also works for the i.r.s. in the same office building. along with six children and stepchildren, seven grandchildren, and a great grandchild. according to his son, vernon was planning to retire from the i.r.s. and go back to school. he wanted to teach children with special learning needs. vernon was also an active member of the graint zion baptist church in austin where he ushered and where his funeral will be tomorrow. i hope my colleagues honor me in honoring vernon hunter and expressing our condolences to his family, friends, and those who worked with him at the i.r.s. he made the ultimate sacrifice while in the service of our nation. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam president, i'd like to

obviously valerie jarret was there but i just wonder if there were comments made to the cell phone executivesy various people that set one or the other off. there always are. there is barney frank. >> looks like he's got the wind in his sails doesn't he? he has something open. >> his hair is sticking up. >> another guy who is usually pretty interesting no matter what he has to say. >> yes, he is. >> fed chairman ben bernanke set to speak. when he starts we'll have it. >> also testifying on capitol hill today the top of toyota, akio toyoda, himself. the grandson of the great grandson of the founder of toyota and toyota is the focus of our street poll this morning. the company says sticky pedals and floor mats are to blame. it is still investigating. do you agree? squawk on the street.cnbc.com. >>> oh, breaking news again! ben bernanke is speaking now in front of the house -- i mean it's breaking because we didn't know this was going to happen did we? let's take the testimony. >> concerted efforts by the federal reserve, treasury department, and other u.s. authorities to stabilize the financial

valerie, active member, fort meade, maryland. are you with us? let's go on to michael who is active military in fort meade. caller: hello? host: welcome. caller: hi, how're you. i'm in an active unit that is non-combat and we actually have several members of our unit that are gay, and while they are not out of officially, i think any units, what you are come back or not, you tend to get to know people very well and we all know each other's spouses and partners. and while it is not offical, nobody has a problem with it. if they have a personal problem with it, it has never become an issue. and i have been active duty for nine years. i personally think it should be repealed because what i see is the people that are gay that are in situations when, say, we have a unit holiday party or something like that and they are not allowed to bring their significant other and they always show up as though they are single and yet they are 42 years old and a senior member of the military, that creates a large amount of strife for them and it winds up affecting t

host: let us go to our next caller, valerie from tennessee. caller: i have one of the major credit cards with chase, and they did raise my interest rate. i made the payments on time. but at the same time they were very generous with the line of credit, but at the same time i am unemployed so i thought that was kind of risky on their part. as far as the mess that got us into it -- risky behavior, and why we had to bail them out. host: a look at "the wall street journal" -- jackson, michigan, frank on the democrats' line. have you tried to get a loan recently? caller: just a little over a year ago. we went through an awful lot of red tape, it was tough but we got it through chase bank. host: 8 business loan? caller: it was residential. host: was the red tape to much to go through or was it due diligence? caller: it was tough. it was an fha loan, the first time and the rest of the ring appeared we are glad we got it because the economy is really bad. we are pretty much the worse in the country. we just received a letter from our governor that our

smart and savvy and makes the other officials in the white house less so, whether david axelrod, valeriearrett or robert gibbs, for example, and dana milbank basically names those names. >> and i think they're friends of the other chicagoans that took great umbrage of the criticism. if this major gamble that the president is taking on health care with a summit, trying to put a comprehensive bill, if that fails we'll see more of these kinds of stories coming. once again, the allies of rahm will be saying he didn't want this big comprehensive bill. so we're at the early stages of what could be a bigger controversy at the white house, but we should keep in mind that there are two things. one is there are always tensions, as there are here, between say the david axelrod wing, which wants to be the keep are of the flame, the idealists who would like the package passed which the president promised, versus rahm emanuel, who is the pragmatist, has to get the deals done, and understands the politics on capitol hill. there's always a tension between the keepers of the flame and the pragmatists, an

who are journalists as well to talk about less and a little more what rahm emanuel said and more on valerie jarrett said. in this particular community, you know? >> thank you. >> diane, st. louis, missouri. issued each of you sharing with us and your insights. my concern with healthcare reform and other progressive legislation addresses what mr. klein called a speedy process versus open and accountable transparent government and how you balance that to ensure a sense of trust that they're not all idiots on capitol hill. that we can get something done. and i'm afraid that speedy process kind of throws that out of balance. so could you address how that trust in government can be inlayed with our message for reform? >> of course. and, you know, this is a very, very hard thing for people to plans, you know, and you saw it with obama, right? he made this pledge. everything is going to do be open to c-span but, of course, not everything can be open to c-span. there's a reason why your board meetings aren't open to c-span and there's reason why my fights with my girlfriend is not open to c-span. o