the economy lousy through election day. let me ask you, if the president is really serious about fixing this economy, wouldn t he have drafted a jobs plan he spoke about a few weeks ago that would be more likely to garner partisan support and get done. the problem the president is facing republicans have said no to basically everything so far. i think they will agree to certain provisions, certain tax cuts in the president s plan but it s going to be like pulling teeth for the president. when i said republicans want a lousy economy on election day, i certainly didn t want to paint with too broad a brush. it s not every republican. but undoubtedly the just say no policies of the republican party do tend to lead one to believe that a lot of republicans wouldn t mind a bad economy on election day because that is almost a sure way to get rid of president obama. there is a danger, though, with that. this economy, which is shaky right now, takes another current, a clear turn do
is it possible to have a 40-year career in hollywood makeover, 60 movies, and still have a reputation as mr. nice guy? everybody tells me in the business and out, you re the nicest guy in show business. how do you plead? i m going for guilty. have you always been easy to work with? the running theme is that you re just the nicest guy to work with. yeah, i think i have, you know. i take my lead from my old man, lloyd. lloyd bridges, you know. my dad. yeah. great man. who loved showbiz so much and, you know, i got to work with him as a kid. whenever there was a role for a little kid, he would say, come on, get out of school, play with dad. you know, that kind of thing. but as an adult, i got to work with him twice on tucker and a movie called blown away and it was a little different experience, you know, as an adult i saw when he came on the set how much fun he was having and how that fun was kind of contagious, you know, and when you re having fun you kind of rel
revenue, and no one is talking about raising tacks. brianna keilar on capitol hill for us. thank you. just ahead, i ll get a republican perspective on the unemployment benefits extension. georgia representative price will join me in less than ten minutes. bp gets the go-ahead to keep testing it s recapped oil well deep in the gulf of mexico. oil has been found seeping from the sea floor but not at the busted well head. the tests are expected to show whether keeping the well capped is the right thing to do for now. it looks like the relief well will be the game changer. that s the thing that could put an end to this process. even if that solves the issue with the well itself, john, we still have long-term effects on the environment, the economy and something that could last tore generations. with the cap mostly holding, are people returning to the coast and the beaches?
capito, the president said he was willing to he also called for beefing up irs enforcement. raising tacks on the wealthiest americans who have done extraordinarily well during the pandemic. it would mean opposing the very enforcement of the 2017 tax law. $1 trillion infrastructure plan is about more than rebuilding the nation s crumbling roads and bridges. it s a test for whether washington can work in the biden era and the president is making it harder for republicans to turn down the deal. we re still hoping we can come to an agreement on a fully paid for and significant infrastructure package. reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell must soon decide whether to accept biden s concessions. if not, democrats will need to figure out how to pass the bill on their own. at least trying to find
ticking clock. troubling signals overnight from the congressional super committee charged with cutting $1.2 trillion from the nation s budget. there s only one week left before severe mandatory cuts kick in if they don t come to an agreement. secretary panetta saying those would result in the u.s. armed forces becoming a paper tiger. tracie potts has the details live for us this morning. it looks like gimmicks are the big talk. reporter: well, you know, you were talking about the defense department. actually half of those cuts, if those automatic cuts kick in, would come from the defense department. that s why they re concerned. democrats and republicans with the same arguments. at this point majority leader harry reid on the democrat side, the senate side, is saying doesn t look like much compromise here. democrats with the same argument from last spring. republicans fear bringing in more revenue is a code word for raising tacks. they want to lower tax rates and