0 responsibility and compromise. dana: yet, he showed little willingness to do so. i m willing to compromise and find common ground over how to reduce the deficit, america cannot afford another debate with this congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they have racked up. what i will not do is to have that negotiation with gun at the head of the people. dana: interesting choice of words to describe that. eric, you talked about not wanting the country to lurch from crisis to crisis. most americans would agree and want washington to fix fundamental problems. why do we have to have the debate every three months? eric: sure. start with the debt ceiling and how it came about. prior to world war i, everybody was paid. the debt we incurred was paid for through various bonds. world war i to world war ii, fdr got together with the treasury secretary and set let s put a debt ceiling op dana: i want to get to you in a second. i had a sense that what the president was tryi
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m savannah gurthrie. and i m matt lauer. i d pay to watch. i like the free debates. it ll be fun. withless than 50 days to go to the election, mitt romney s ramping up his campaign schedule. he s hoping to turn the page on the controversy over his leaked remarks that nearly half of americans see themselves as victims. it s the latest in a series of stumbles that have one influential columnist using the word incompetent to describe the romney campaign. we re going to get reaction from the governor s camp straight ahead. also ahead, will a former green beret convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and daughters more than 30 years ago get a new trial? his story was made famous in fatal vision. today the author of that could testify at a key hearing in this case. we re going to be there live. then a very interesting legal battle. one mother s emotional figh
amendment that makes it illegal for seth rogin to talk about it. and that other hairy guy. any movie that comes out with 20 or 30 minutes with pot in a few scenes makes it that much harder to legalize the drug. what would make it cool is if they spoke like that about crack. 23 they were talking about crack like they do about pot i would think that is pretty edgy. the constitution was not written on hemp. it was written on parchment. drafts were made from paper made of hemp. i have my answer. tom, you don t agree the occupy yes, sirs and the tea partiers share much of the same an anger. i disagree. they have different ideas on how to make things better. that s called the whole world. i think we all have the same
law buff. thank you, andy. well come, greg. is this where you wish me happy something day. yeah, but there were no good ones. you mean to tell me there is nothing special about today? i guess there isn t. you guess there isn t? great. okay what is this about? what do you mean? you are currently upset about this, and i just don t think it is that big of a deal. you don t think it is that big a deal, great. what did i miss? it is erin moran s birthday. okay. kind of a big day in the gutfeld household. i did not know that. every october 18th, the whole family would gather around the tv and watch marathons of happy days and jonie loves chachi and one year my parents got a copy of the time she was on the love boat and let s just say that little greg gutfeld went to bed with a smile on his face. i spend all year looking forward to this day and you don t even mention. it. i won t make that mistake again. how old is erin? 51 years young.
amendment that makes it illegal for seth rogin to talk about it. and that other hairy guy. any movie that comes out with 20 or 30 minutes with pot in a few scenes makes it that much harder to legalize the drug. what would make it cool is if they spoke like that about crack. 23 they were talking about crack like they do about pot i would think that is pretty edgy. the constitution was not written on hemp. it was written on parchment. drafts were made from paper made of hemp. i have my answer. tom, you don t agree the occupy yes, sirs and the tea partiers share much of the same an anger. i disagree. they have different ideas on how to make things better. that s called the whole world. i think we all have the same thing.