. >> the man's name was john whitehouse. his friends tell the coroners that whitehouse's wallet is missing. so is his social security check. police find his wallet hidden behind the sofa cushion. it's empty. >> there's no money in there. he had a history of frequenting prostitutes who would come into the house. he would always draw out a lot of money the first part of the month. >> neighbors have told the coroners that the prostitutes were drug addicts. >> did you look in the medicine cabinet? >> six bottles of medication are missing too. the circumstances of this death look increasingly suspicious. the coroners head over to his mother's house. it's a tough part of their job, dealing with grieving families. >> i been expecting it, too. >> she still needed comforting. and she still needed somebody to talk with her in a human and kind way. and i think -- i think we did that. >> the coroners have told mrs. whitehouse that an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of her son's death. she's left to inform other family m

chairman whitehouse. >> thank you, senator kohl. senator coons has joined us.he order on our side is senator franken first. you, mr. chairman. i notice that former congressman jim branstad is here. i would like to recognize him, too, for his leadership in parity andlth care today for treatment of addiction. minnesota has actually been the leader in addiction treatment, and we are very proud of that. minnesota, we have seen drug courts do very good things. when you talk to return on -- you talked to return on investment in your opening statement and in your response to senator kohl, and part of this is recidivism. we have found that in minnesota, participants in drug courts are less than half as likely to be arrested for another crime as offenders who are prosecuted in traditional courts. this, of course, is the equivalent kind of a rest, etc. i want to know if you are seeing now a nationwide -- get trend nationwide in drug courts in terms of recidivism? >> with respect to recidivism, senator, we are seeing them nationwide. in fact, drug courts -- one of the pri

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, senator kohl. i'm delighted that the senior senator from minnesota, senator klobuchar joined us, and senator from delaware joined us, senator coons. the order from our side, senator franken, klobuchar and senator coons. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i notice that our former congressman, jim ramstead, i would like to recognize him too, for his leadership in mental health parity and parity for treatment of addiction. minnesota's been a leader actually in addiction treatment and we're very proud of that. and minute in -- and in minnesota we've seen drug courts do pretty good, do very good things. when you talk to, talked about really return on investment, both in your opening statement and your response to senator kohl. and part of this is recidivism. we found in minnesota that participants in drug courts are less like, are less than half as likely to be arrested for another crime as offenders who are prosecuted in traditional courts. of course, i mean, this of course with equivalent kind of arrests, et

. >> we were going to play some golf and the whitehouse called me and said arnie forget it. and i said why, i said i want to go do it. and they said well, he hurt his back and he's going to take some time off. i don't think he's going to play golf for a while. that was the end of it. >> charlie: this is the famous. >> this is the shot. well, i'm going to. >> charlie: arnold palmer, makes them and breaks them, handles anything, no house calls. [laughter] >> we're going to go right here back to the right now. >> charlie: all right. you've always had a very good relationship with the press. >> enjoy, i enjoy the press. i understand their business. and doc has helped me with that. but guys from the press were guys that, you know, i could get with. i could talk to them. part of what made. >> charlie: there was a fence that you were this guy that could, who played to win but there was a sense that you were of them. >> buddies. >> charlie: buddies. >> that's the best way to say it. >> charlie: they were buddies. arnie was their buddy. >> we'd have a beer together. >> charlie: these

. >> woodruff: and jack lew, the house ended up fighting this republican turfs, even the whitehouse anduse republican turf. >> there's no doubt the willingness to twhretten and undermining the full faith and credit into a tail spin with something that was meaningful risk. with members of the other party. the responsibility leaders understood that was not a place to go. and we were able to negotiate a compromise. >> woodruff: finally, another comment from one of your friends, the minority whip in the house of representative a lawyer democrat, he said that the president should have offered that much sooner. in essence that time was wasted and a lot of this could have been avoided if the president had conthat. >> he's shown through his engagement over the last months his willingness to lead and negotiate. we have a bipartisan agreement between the president and the speaker. it's something of a tragedy that they're willing to go to the finish line. ultimately the speaker could have. i hope we get back on the track and talk about the kind of balanced policy to do, it's what the american peop

from the federal reserve to the capitol to the whitehouse to the european union, many americans have lost confidence in the institutions that are supposed to protect the global economy. >> a lot of this recent loss of confidence has come from a lack of political will to make things happen in washington. and we've certainly see european struggles as well. so people are losing confidence in their governments ability to reduce the long term deficit and create growth. >> reporter: even if the u.s is able to skirt recession, the recovery probably won't feel like one. many economists believe it will take a year or longer, before economic growth is strong enough to make a serious dent in unemployment. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> there's no recession in sight. we're going to skirt it but with a slowdown that's going to be meaningful. >> tom: still ahead, tonight's market monitor guest is investing for a recovery. he's marshall front, chief investment strategist at front barnett. >> tom: the nation's largest bank is cutting jobs. bank of america will layoff 3,500 wor

this one line of the memos are pressed members of congress are pretty outraged senator sheldon whitehouse gave a state. saying i cannot reconcile the plain language of pfizer that it is the exclusive procedure for electronic surveillance of americans with the o l c opinion saying congress didn't say that once again behind the veil of secrecy oh well see appears to have cooked up extravagant or misguided legal theories which would never survive the light of day so now we understand why this information is so highly sought after perhaps it makes little sense or overly censored current administration wants to keep news opinion under wraps he's made no secret about how he feels about the fourth amendment and he thinks that this piece of the constitution doesn't really apply when the us is conducting domestic intelligence operations and we all are where well well aware of us resume remember he's the guy the author of the cia's famous torture memos i mean enhanced interrogation techniques so why does the obama administration ok with keeping all this information secret to save face and we don't

there are some people in the whitehouse saying we tried to get that. i think if they really had understood, a, how boehner would prove to be with this caucus and b how serious how the tea party was, he could have gotten that deal. >> charlie: would he be weaker with his own party if he didn't have eric kantor there. >> if you think back to the reality, thinking back to newt gingrich, the revolutionaries who road into power in 1984, th were newt gingrich people. he was the chief strategist of that revolution. he came to washington with a huge amount of loyalty to him. he was the leader, he saw them that way. i don't think the tea party freshman, john boehner was the guy who happened to be the leader of the party at the time when the insurrection happened. they came to washington without any loyalty to him. >> charlie: they had no leader, in fact,orrect. >> right, as far as i can see. >> charlie: al i want to come back to this point, and peter both. what do we look for over the next two years, other than something triggering the trigger. why are we in te

senator whitehouse. i'm sorry, senator merkley was here first. i'm so sorry. go ahead. >> thank you for your testimony. i really want to make sure we understand fully the job implications. i've heard the estimates ranging from 700,000 jobs at the high end, 500,000 jobs, can a couple of you who feel like they have a real hand on these numbers help us understand what happens when we don't get the reauthorization and we have the roughly 35% drop. >> i can speak from my company. >> thank you. >> for my company, my customers' companies, and our suppliers companies, we are staffed at a level today that is in anticipation of maintaining the current level of funding. if for some reason that declines further, we unfortunately, and our customers, and our suppliers will also have to take further reductions to remain economically viability. we have no other choice. that is our only option. so this is not a theoretical job loss issue. this is real, these are human hn beings, these are members of mr. o'sullivan's union and others who we will not have worked for if the feder

senator whitehouse? >> thank you, madam chair. thank you for your leadership on this issue. i will gladly yield -- okay. um, this discussion that we're having is so often a clash between ideology and just human stories that what i'd like to do is take my time and echo the testimony of ron and andrew and susan with some stories from rhode island. david and rock wrote to me from providence, we now both have active and busy careers, a teenager thinking about college and the financial challenges of college tuition and shrinking retirement assets. we're involved in the community and in our church. we have the concerns of most families. in fact, if we were a heterosexual couple, ours would be the story of a conservative american family; the importance of education, the importance of faith, delaying marriage until financially stable, marriage followed by a shared household followed by child rearing. and then there is doma. we carry our marriage documents, adoption documents and medical care proxy documents when we travel. i'm ineligible for inclusion in military family benefits. we

senator whitehouse -- sorry. senator murphy first. senator merkley. >> thank you for your testimony. i really want to make sure we understand fully the job implications. i heard the estimates ranging from 700,000 jobs to 500,000 jobs. a couple of you feel you have a real hand on these numbers help us understand what happens if we don't get this reauthorization and we have a 30% drop. >> i can speak for my company, my customers's companies and our suppliers's companies. we are staffed at a level today that is in anticipation of maintaining the current level of funding. if for some reason that declines further we unfortunately and our customers and suppliers will have to take further reductions to remain economically viable. we have no other choice. that is the only option. this is not a theoretical job loss issue. it is real. the they're human beings. these are members of mr. o'sullivan's union and others who we will not have work for if this federal program is not maintained at current levels. >> the number i mentioned earlier was a 3

adam also had the wonderful theme it is new year's day in 1861 at the buchanan whitehouse. what was that they like, both in the white house and maybe you could give us a brief assessment of president buchanan? >> well, you know buchanan of course has been vilified by many generations starting with his own generation. he was seen as sort of a loser and a misfit and disastrous president before he had ever led -- left the white house. not that this resonates with anything in our own time of course. [laughter] >> democrats you can take that as you will and republicans you can take that as you will and insert face here. but buchanan, actually i love these characters from history who have been sort of push to the margins because for me in many ways they end up being more interesting than the heroes. it is so it easy to celebrate the people who were on the right side of history but in my book i also try to sort of get into the hearts and minds of people who ended up being on but we think of is the wrong side of history. so there is this scene of new year's day. buchanan was a tota

adam also had the wonderful theme it is new year's day in 1861 at the buchanan whitehouse. what was that they like, both in the white house and maybe you could give us a brief assessment of president buchanan? >> well, you know buchanan of course has been vilified by many generations starting with his own generation. he was seen as sort of a loser and a misfit and disastrous president before he had ever led -- left the white house. not that this resonates with anything in our own time of course. [laughter] >> democrats you can take that as you will and republicans you can take that as you will and insert face here. but buchanan, actually i love these characters from history who have been sort of push to the margins because for me in many ways they end up being more interesting than the heroes. it is so it easy to celebrate the people who were on the right side of history but in my book i also try to sort of get into the hearts and minds of people who ended up being on but we think of is the wrong side of history. so there is this scene of new year's day. buchanan was a tota

adam also had the wonderful theme it is new year's day in 1861 at the buchanan whitehouse. what was that they like, both in the white house and maybe you could give us a brief assessment of president buchanan? >> well, you know buchanan of course has been vilified by many generations starting with his own generation. he was seen as sort of a loser and a misfit and disastrous president before he had ever led -- left the white house. not that this resonates with anything in our own time of course. [laughter] >> democrats you can take that as you will and republicans you can take that as you will and insert face here. but buchanan, actually i love these characters from history who have been sort of push to the margins because for me in many ways they end up being more interesting than the heroes. it is so it easy to celebrate the people who were on the right side of history but in my book i also try to sort of get into the hearts and minds of people who ended up being on but we think of is the wrong side of history. so there is this scene of new year's day. buchanan was a tota

. >> senator white house -- senator whitehouse, thank you for the question. spending in the business world where we invest heavily in large equipment the answer to that question is obvious. when the united states spends money building infrastructure you have created an asset. it will last literally for decades. we are traveling on an interstate system that has been in existence, many parts of it for four or five decades. unfortunately, there is not a federal balance sheet like there is in the private sector where we can look at our investments over the last 10 or 20 or 30 years and say, here is a real asset. it is producing economic efficiency. it is producing revenue. it is a long-term value- enhancing assets. -- asset. somehow, we do not see that. >> we have no budget in the federal government to work with to accomplish that. >> nice to see you. thank you for the question as well. we talk about accountability. i think we all believe that whatever money we are born to spend on infrastructure there has to be account -- going to spend on infrastructure there h