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Welcome to "american morning." >> a lot of budget stuff to talk b a big decision what will affect all of you, have more this hour. >> also the faa. hard to believe it happened once, but seeing it all over again, air traffic controllers falling asleep while on duty. the latest incident happened at the reno tah tahoe internationa airport. the controller was sleeping when a flight with a sick patient was trying to land there here is some of the conversation with the faa in california. >> the plane had to circle for about 16 minutes. transportation secretary ray lahood says they are taking steps t...

Those counts. on this "american morning." welcome to "american morning." it's thursday, april 14th. the whole gang's back together. >> good to be back with you guys again. boy, did we have a lot of news today. this budget stuff is -- what do you call stuff like this? >> boring but important. >> we'll make it interesting, not boring. >> being an air traffic controller the most tiresome job? >> maybe hey was reading about the budget. >> an air traffic controller asleep in the tower while on duty. the latest incident occurred at the reno tahoe international airport. officials say the controller...

Wars. that is what we were talking about in the budget stuff, not enough shared sack krif five. >> confident this will work in the end in afghanistan, it looks like a mess over there? >> i'm not confident it's going to work, i'm happy to see -- i have talked to general petraeus in the room next door here a couple of weeks ago and he think it is going well. i have great respect for him. i hope it is going well. the american people have and rightfully so, a very short attention span, we cannot continue to keep dumping this money. the military, wolf, spends $700 billion a year on what they do, 55...

Magazine and author of "hurting donkeys." was this covered as mainly a political circus? >> absolutely. it was a bizarre world last week with the countdown clocks and everything. >> it's hours ago. >> it's hard to forget at this point. >> there was all this news about no news which was kind of astonishing. it was all about who was up, who was down, who would win politically? >> there were so many news conferences staged for the cameras win wonder how he had time to negotiate. wasn't it like the fourth quarter of a basketball game? >> the media hyped this, they played it at worst a sporting eve...

Those conservative voters who might look at me askance otherwise, certainly the polls would indicate he's done some of that, but you know polls, a lot of it is name recognition early on. >> absolutely. bounce up and down as you say, name recognition early on. candy, it is good to know if we ever settle this budget stuff, we'll be diving right into that 2012 presidential campaign, no shortage of things to keep us busy. candy, thank you very much. fascinating interview. we'll be talking more with you later. thanks. we'll be right back.