felt frustrated and in his own mind, he didn t want to dignify himself by taking a stand. he feels it s a sham. you get the final word on that one. i think the reason he didn t testify is because there s overwhelming evidence he was involved in organized crime for a decade and murdered several people and he couldn t stand the cross-examination on those counts. he couldn t testify and now we re up to the point where there s closing arguments and the verdict. it was whitey bulger on trial for his own actions. good day to you. jenna: more evidence today that sugary drinks are really bad for you. who is at risk? according to a new study and what you can do to lower the risk to improve your health. from our vantage point, it didn t look that bad but it did go bad. how it happened next.
have enough breathing room to prosper. over time if government grows faster than a private sector that wedge means the burden of gdp, it is not like one straw causes it to collapse, but there is a tipping point . are we five years away from being greece or italy? twenty years? i don t know. this trendline is bad. happening under bush and obama. it does not work. john: good intentions and that go bad. clean energy s. solyndra. the tip of the a s spurred. dozens of companies go bad. the story behind the story. campaign contributors
have enough breathing room to prosper. over time if government grows faster than a private sector that wedge means the burden of gdp, it is not like one straw causes it to collapse, but there is a tipping point . are we five years away from being greece or italy? twenty years? i don t know. this trendline is bad. happening under bush and obama. it does not work. john: good intentions and that go bad. clean energy s. solyndra. the tip of the a s spurred. dozens of companies go bad. the story behind the story. campaign contributs contributors, interest free loans from the government,
days. right. he s going to talk about the effect it would have on the economy, on debt, on social security checks and whether they could go out to recipients. i have talked to enough house republicans about it. they don t buy it. they don t believe in these warnings about catastrophic consequences. they think that you can find the money to be able to fund things while a deal is worked out and even if things do go bad, they think it s worth it. they feel they have to have this fight. they talked about it in the campaign, many of them won elections because they promised not to increase taxes and to dramatically reduce the size of government. they think this is a crisis and they will use this opportunity to fight for that smaller government, even if there is a risk which at least privately, many of them will say yes, there probably is a big risk, we just don t think it s as bad as the white house and tim geithner will portray. except that you don t want to find out because of the poss
plebiscite on a regular basis, nuclear energy is probably good because it avoids carbons, but it carries huge stakes where it probably won t go bad, but if it does go bad, you can t even get insurance for it. is that something you can t sell to the public so governments generally go with nuclear because it s a better bet in terms of bang for the buck, but that bang is very dangerous? well, you see that in all countries, but particularly in japan, chris, where, of course, the nuclear allergies are much greater than they are even here in the united states. and it s fairly remarkable that in the country that suffered, you know, the only major nuclear attack, the only nuclear attack done in war, that you ve got 30% of the energy coming from nuclear power. and that was out of necessity, and the government pushed it through, just as michael suggested before, and has found itself frequently in the position of having to suppress