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Tracy burn is my guest now. put this in perspective. how much money are fan crane freddy getting. -- are fanny and freddy getting? >> this is a heads they win, tails they lose. the ceos are making money. they are living large. the ceos make 15 times more than the president of the united states who happens to be their boss, and well lose in the end because they got a christmas gift saying basically anything you need well be there for you. megyn: i dont think its news to people that we funneled bi...

Megyn: just want to clarify something getting into the newsroom. the wave video we have been showing you, the first video we showed on the deck is not this particular incidents. its from a different incident on a different ship. but im being told the interior video we showed you where you see the wave come over, that many the actual ship in connection with this actual incident. sorry for that confusion. we go to the crisis in chile. new numbers from the earthquake. it could take three or four ye...

Going to be close and nancy pelosi, the speaker and president obama are putting on quite a full court press here. megyn: for those of us who do not live inside the beltway and arent all that accustomed to how things work, would this be unusual, this kind of trading if it is trading of political favors? >> , no, trading political favors is pretty common, but what distinguishes this one is the timing. as we said areaer. but also the value. to get on a court of appeals, on the tenth circuit, i gues...

Or do they not care? >> i think this could be an explosive issue. the merits of the healthcare reform bill. i think a lot of people think this goes too far. its an inrulessive government involvement in the relationship between the doctor and the patient. i think they will be very unhappy about that and they may be very unhappyry with the fact that they feel they have sent their message to the polls and especially through the race in massachusetts where scott brown campaigned as at 41st vote agai...

>> we are no more blurring that line than anybody else who bends any other -- lends any other service to law enforcement. >> dow points out red flex is not based in the united states which means their collections are going to a foreign country and not benefiting arizona, another reason, he says, the cameras, he hopes, will be voted out in november. thats it from here, megyn, back to you. megyn: douglas, i have to say, its clear, if you speed and you get caught by a traffic cam, youre get, right,...

Pilots had any problem with this. mig mig the problems all sounded like they took it in good spirits and were talking right back to the kids and sort of laughed at it. row, let me ask you this: they are talking about potentially as they investigate this, potentially firing this guy and the supervisor. i mean, he could get dismissed or suspended without pay. if that happens, whats your reaction? >> its an absolute overkill, and it shouldnt be. thats sad that faa would do a stupid thing like that ...

Their hands and they need to pay attention, but was there some harm done in actually arguably in even putting them on the microphone? i mean, werent they just repeating what the dad was saying? >> new york city megyn, because first of all, this traffic controller, hes a highly professional individual, he knows what hes doing, he has a dual mic button with a kill switch on it, he could step in at any time he wanted to, and the kid was actually doing a perfect scenario. as you noticed, he did not ...

Oxford, yale, so son and so forth, he has impressive academic credentials. is there any getting to the bottom of this one or does it remain a matter of speculation, can we find out for sure whether there was a wink and nod with respect to to this nomination? >> this is a deal, i dont think its the kind of thing that you get certified and someone says heres the dotted line that connects these two events but to my eye, i watch politics like you do and i think its inescapable that you would draw th...

About it. clearly its not something that i would tolerate and certainly would not want presented to me, and were dealing with it administratively. megyn: but you know, listen, im pressing you on who it is but i -- because i want to know if theres going to be punishment for what you say is a problem. this is your judgment. >> i dont know. ive asked the director to take a look at how its put together whorks is responsible for it and well deal with it certainly -- internally. i dont know. i just go...

Are concerned about. >> i think youre right about a lot of that stuff. people want to see washington do something. and i know the president has got his plan but robert and i know you know this, theres a story in "the wall street journal" today where two people familiar with the planning, theyre at the white house, say apparently you guys -- if this doesnt go through, the plan youre pushing right now, you got a backup plan that would cover half the number of people. it would cover -- cost about a...