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Going on a cross country tour, if you weren't doing, hyping it, and the topic. the president is helping stoke the flames and most people didn't know what the fiscal cliff was. how many people out there truly understand the debt ceiling debate. if the president keeps coming out and says the republicans are going to shut down the country and kill us, every-- >> that's what he believes is true and according to the latest articles, let me finish up. the latest articles politico, saying that they'll-- >> some members of the g.o.p. feel that way. by the same token, 244 billion dollars that come into...

Military. some of these things, like medicare, back to the states. medical malpractice reform, strengthen work force by attrition. i've got the bill and it's there and i want people to look it up. it's senate bill 3473. it solves the problem. we have other ways. whatever happened to the old democrats? remember it was kennedy back in the '60s that said we got to raise more money, more revenue for the great society programs and the bestncrease revenue is to reduce marginal rates. he did it and what happened? he increased the amount of money that came from rates, 94 billion. then along came reaga...

does work. meet the president of a country where austety led to growth. finally, fidel castro on yoga. really. first here is my take. it's hard to find any good economic news these days. europe is teetering on the brink, emerging markets like china, brazil and india are slowing down and the united states is in a slump. let me try to cheer you up. the cost of sequencing a human genome is down to $1,000 and it takes two hours. that is an acceleration of capacity that is faster, much faster than moore's law which says that computing part doubles while costs go down by 50% every 18 m...

Talking about subprimeoans on the badges. fannie mae reporting they had, for example, $4.8 billion in 2007. the number was more like $43 billion. and freddie mac reporting $2 billion to $6 billion and they had $244 billion, so misleading investors, and this was a quasipublic company at the time but representing us, as well. >>shepard: what motivated this? >>gerri: money is a good motivation. look at the pay the s.e.c. will try to get back from these people. the fannie mae c.e.o. made $16 million as c.e.o. over the tenure. and another made $16.9 million. very impressive. and these guys were not...

>> steve: money we paid them back we gave them? what? >> to make it worse. federal reserve helped them earn money to help pay us back by printing funny money and put thag in the accounts. what is even worse some of the money went to general motors, the government let general motors off of the hook for 45 billion in taxes so it looks like general motors balanced the books. >> brian: we have graphics . the amount of tarp money that went to banks that we gave them. 245 billion and apparently they payed back 244 billion. >> and owe 31.4. >> brian: what happened with the other five billion. all kin...