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Improvised explosive devices. >> reporter: they will start looking at that restricted prohibited list of eye tefplts he says the last thing the tsa wants to do is hastily change their policy and have a terrorist take advantage of a new vulnerability. gregg: peter doocy thank you very much. martha: we are awaiting the president. there is a look at the white house briefing room. we expect him to come out any minute now to deliver a statement and take questions from the press. he is expected to urge congress to pass bi-partisan legislation to get the jobs market moving in this economy. he may ver...

Economy is going over an january 1st. one is the spending cuts which i actually think will help the economy. you showed the debt clock. my gosh, we have $15.5 trillion national debt. we have it start bringing the deficit down. the other one is the tax rate increases. i think, gregg, those are the bigger problem for the economy because i don't think the economy can take the blow of higher capital gains, higher dividend, higher investment taxes next year. >> i think it is $55 billion in defense spending will be cut and rest of it, up to 109 billion. >> right. gregg: would be domestic programs, r...

Services, gregg. gregg: what kind of legislation are they talking about. >> reporter: we have two tractiotwo tracks here. we have the leak investigation. lawmakers are trying to curb the leaks ever classified information. so there is no mistake, there is the substitut stutnex computer program, the predator drone campaign and this new al-qaida bomb plot. >> we need to put together a policy, people need to know what the policy is, if you violate the policy you will be held accountable, that is important. we would love to find out who did the leak here. >> the fact of the matter is when you have ...

Now and we'll get to it. these cuts are exactly the kind of ton nick this economy needs to prove to global financial markets america is serious about getting its deficit under control. gregg: the same bipartisan policy center predicts that gdp will actually decline by half a percentage point because of these cuts. could you buy that. >> no. i worked for ronald reagan and i also worked for newt gingrich when he was speaker and bill clinton was president both those periods, gregg, we cut spending. what happened to the economy? you remember what happened in the mid-'90s. oh, my gosh we can't cut ...

Representatives. they can hold hearings. they can recruit democrats. they can write op-eds. >> senseless to do the work and waste the government's time when the supreme court will decide this case. >> nobody is willing all right, nobody is willing to do hard work on capitol hill to pass tough legislation. martha: that may be true. reason there is 15% approval rating for congress overall. >> there you go, martha. martha: robert, brad, always good to see you. gregg: it is that high, 15%? shocked. martha: picked up actually. gregg: all right. a close call at boston's logan airport. thanks to a qu...