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Then number two, the super committee by law has to have 48 hours to go over the cbo's calculations. that means that the super committee has to get its proposals to the cbo by tonight or tomorrow morning depending who you ask on capitol hill in order to get it back by monday night and get the 48-hour clock ticking. all that is moot, though, if they can't reach a deal in the first place. based on what lawmakers say this morning, they don't seem very close. >> if we're not able to reach that, then we at least thought maybe there could be a coalescence around the savings we had pretty much agreed ...

We have not been able to do entitlement reform or tax reform and so republicans say let's see if we can salvage something here? let's take the areas where we've had some agreement in our meeting, put those together and it adds up to about $640 billion tat we could actually save in increased costs or in some cases, some revenue from asset sales and that sort of thing. my democratic friends said no to that offer because it didn't raise taxes. and i think it tells you a lot. and i think in washington, there are some folks that will not cut a dollar unless we also raise taxes. >> all right. well t...

Always talking about money. even at times you really would not expect him to be so money focused, he talked about money. money is always how he explained what he was doing and what he and al qaeda were trying to accomplish. one month after the september 11th attacks, in october 2001, osama bin laden gave an interview to al jazeera. in that interview he explained the effect of the 9/11 attacks as follows, quote, the losses on wall street amounted to 16% and they said that this was a record loss that had never happened since the market opened more than 230 years ago. such a huge collapse had nev...