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he makes a classically clumsy comment and plays to the notion that he was a heartless corporate job cutter. >> i like being able to fire people. i like being able to fire people. i like being able to fire people. >> but were those words wrenched out of context as we just did there? plus, we'll look at cbs's launch of a newsy morning show with charlie rose and gale king, and her interview with michelle obama and a controversial book about the first couple. >> you would think michelle obama is angry, she's unhappy, she feels burdened, she feels frustrated. do you feel frustrated as fir...

These days it is proving pretty true to life in italy where the mafia is making a lot of ir refusable offers because it is now italy's number one bank. yes, the country's debt problems have gotten so bad that the infamous crime syndicates have become the go-to lenders for small business. a well respected italian business group reports that the four biggest mobster groups have combined liquidity of $83 billion with a b in the mob. and are raking in $127 billion with a b in annual profits. and bull the mob is stepping in loans to customers an bits and businesses. of course you pay quite a price ...

Flat tax system that will -- by the way, dramatically reduce the $483 billion that americans spend to comply with the current tax code, but secondly, you see a moratorium on regulations, federal regulations according to sba cost a trillion dollars today, $10,000 for every manufacturing job, third, you see specific reforms in social security and medicare, that helps secure those programs for our children and grandchildren, and finally, you see a commitment to a balanced budget amendment to finally stop the borrowing. so we're not leaving our children and grandchildren with so much debt that we'...

Late, and that is from a democrat. california congressman dennis cardoza, a long time critic of the administration, says this, it's far too a little, it's just baby steps. they're still not getting it. cardoza said the housing collapse is a leading cause of the recession but the last issue to be addressed by washington. more on that coming up in a great fair and balanced debate with bob and andrea on deck on that. martha: debt is such a burden to some states in this country that they are digging a deal hope to try to stay above water. how deep? look at this report that came out this morning. i...

That's for military operations, foreign aid reconstruction, and so forth. the creation of a sprawling new bureaucracy, the department of homeland security, over the past decade, that agency has spent more than $424 billion. consider airport screening and other forms of travel security, that alone has run up a tab of over $66 billion, huge, huge numbers. we've added about $18 billion in foreign aid to pakistan. the country where much of our hunt for bin laden was focused. of course, we ultimately found him on our own and many think they were hiding him. in new york city, the attack on the world...