people and doing one-on-one voter contact. martha: i iowa is big question. i don t think anyone knows who will win eye awe. they re looking at each other in their meetings saying get you on the ground in iowa and talking to people and get rid of this herman cain person. the problem if he says he will not do the debates he will be hit merslessly for chickening out. it will look bad. martha: yeah. i will say perry has a point in a sense there awful lot of debates coming up, perhaps a dozen, 18, remember some of the debates were planned when we thought the iowa caucuses would be on february 6th. now they will be on january 3rd. a lot less time. more debates and less time to have them. martha: saturday night live , welcome to the 7th or possibly 8th republican national debate. that was pretty funny. talk about mitt romney. he had back and forth on issue in ohio. this is fascinating issue for him and how tough he will be on the unions.
to blame other people and paul ryan is absolutely right, he has to rely on the politics of division rather than the politics of unity that he ran on in 2008 and 2008 and the idea that you can fund the government we have based on the top 1 percent is ularly dishonest as paul ryan pointed out in his speech, you could confiscate all the wealth of people making more than $250,000 a year and you re funding the government for six months, so eventually the tax burden it has to fall it will fall on the middle. that s what president obama is not telling people. that s why he s dishonest. martha: hold on. i have a question for you christopher han with regard to that. i thought this was a really interesting point. you talk about paul ryan s plan and one of the things in it was to do means testing for social security and for medicare, because the notion is we all know that there s a lot of people out there who don t need these checks and they fall into that percentage, so it s very interes
heat on the investigation into the fast & furious program, grilling secretary napolitano taking her to task for the lack of communication between homeland security and the justice department and eric holder: i find that absolutely stunning, and for you to have two dead agents and to have never had a conversation with eric holder about fast & furious and about this is totally unacceptable. totally unacceptable. the gentleman s time is expired. mr. chairman, i know representative chaffetz has an opinion on this matter as the question reveals but i would simply suggest that no one takes the death of agents more serious than i, and also, that one of the reasons that we have not directly dealt with the attorney general on this is he very quickly and appropriately put this matter in the hands of the inspector general. bill: there is a whole lot more of that happening, congressman darrell issa, chair of the government oversight reform, and sir,
hopefuls are weighing in on the debate.is former massachusetts governor and presidential candidate mittp romney has taken heat from someo conservatives for not coming out strongly enough in favor of the provision, an issue that the governor directly addressedan today while out on the campaign trail in virginia.in here s what he said. w i m sorry if i created confusion in that regard.rd i fully support governor kasich s, i think it s called question 2 in ohio. i fully support that. actually, on my website i think back as early as april i laid out that i support question 2, and governor kasich s effort to restrict collective bargainingic in ohio. o and here now with analysis are ohio lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.side we re joined by republican staty senator keith faber and democratic state senator joe sis hiv oney is with us.lo it doesn t impact state workers as much as local municipalities. this is a 10% contribution of
finally breaking her silence, speaking to a sunday magazine and speaking to the new york times , the entire interview not airing until sunday and being published sunday but she s talking about christmas eve 2008, roughly a month after the revelation that her husband was behind the largest crime ponzi scheme in history, stealing billions from his clients and ruth madoff went on to say, as far as that suicide attempt, that they had had terrible phone calls, hate mail, just beyond anything, and she said i just can t go on anymore. of course, it was a failed suicide attempt. but that was their state of mind on christmas eve 2008. martha: so why is ruth breaking her silence at this point do you think adam? reporter: that s a great question. there is a publicity tour, for lack of a better phrase, that s going on. you have her daughter-in-law, stephanie madoff mack, who published a book, this is widow of mark madoff who committed suicide and in her book she says