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Improvised explosive devices. >> reporter: they will start looking at that restricted prohibited list of eye tefplts he says the last thing the tsa wants to do is hastily change their policy and have a terrorist take advantage of a new vulnerability. gregg: peter doocy thank you very much. martha: we are awaiting the president. there is a look at the white house briefing room. we expect him to come out any minute now to deliver a statement and take questions from the press. he is expected to urg...

Economy is going over an january 1st. one is the spending cuts which i actually think will help the economy. you showed the debt clock. my gosh, we have $15.5 trillion national debt. we have it start bringing the deficit down. the other one is the tax rate increases. i think, gregg, those are the bigger problem for the economy because i dont think the economy can take the blow of higher capital gains, higher dividend, higher investment taxes next year. >> i think it is $55 billion in defense spe...

Services, gregg. gregg: what kind of legislation are they talking about. >> reporter: we have two tractiotwo tracks here. we have the leak investigation. lawmakers are trying to curb the leaks ever classified information. so there is no mistake, there is the substitut stutnex computer program, the predator drone campaign and this new al-qaida bomb plot. >> we need to put together a policy, people need to know what the policy is, if you violate the policy you will be held accountable, that is imp...

Now and well get to it. these cuts are exactly the kind of ton nick this economy needs to prove to global financial markets america is serious about getting its deficit under control. gregg: the same bipartisan policy center predicts that gdp will actually decline by half a percentage point because of these cuts. could you buy that. >> no. i worked for ronald reagan and i also worked for newt gingrich when he was speaker and bill clinton was president both those periods, gregg, we cut spending. ...

Representatives. they can hold hearings. they can recruit democrats. they can write op-eds. >> senseless to do the work and waste the governments time when the supreme court will decide this case. >> nobody is willing all right, nobody is willing to do hard work on capitol hill to pass tough legislation. martha: that may be true. reason there is 15% approval rating for congress overall. >> there you go, martha. martha: robert, brad, always good to see you. gregg: it is that high, 15%? shocked. m...

From. >> absolutely. if i were -- i spent six years in the white house on the front row there in the press room, thats the question i would ask today. is mr. president, will you appoint a special prosecutor to look into where these leaks came from, and do you believe they were damaging to the national security of this country? martha: well see if that question comes from the front row. we expect it will. thats one of the reasons we are following this so slowly this morning. chris, thank you very...

Terpbg around, and youve got ben bernanke basically very concerned about the future of the u.s. economy, and -- >> gregg: though not taking any immediate action. martha: how much further can they go? theyve released a ton of money into the economy to quantitative easing and its not produced the business and loans and job growth that everyone would like to see. also what we may hear about is europe, increasingly over the past several days, the president has been expressing his own agitation about...

Saw a bunch of guys in a cave plotting to take down the twin towers. when sources and methods are revealed, names are given out in a systematic pattern ever leaving in event, after event, after event, what you could see is not only damage with our foreign intelligence agencies and informant has might want cooperate with us aeu abroad, but we could see lives in danger. gregg: senator finestein is angry about this. she says its a avalanche of leaks, jeopardizing skwraeug national security and live...

Republicans on the committee which would include you, are simply trumping this up for political purposes. what do you say about -- >> gregg, first of all im glad you raised that. one of the things that you have to recognize even if that was true under the bush administration we didnt have anybody that lost their life because of this. the second thing when you look at politics of it, it is the attorney generals office that is really making the politics because they refuse to give this information...

It 60 days from the time that youre supposed to do it. >> right. gregg: so you backtrack it from january 2nd, that means four days before the election. >> i know that. there will be some layoffs and some hits to the economy. egg gregg, you have to understand, when government spends a dollar has to take the dollar from somebody. you will get reductions in the companies that are government, do government contracts but companies that, you know, companies dont do government business, theyre going to...