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Quad jump. what do you make of that? >> my decision not to do a quad jump was before the games began. a year ago i had a stress fracture in my left foot which came from training that quadruple jump, so i couldn't do anything on the left foot for about six months. before the olympics, i started training in the quad again on the left foot and it started to bother me again, and i had, you know, visions of last year and i didn't want my olympics to be the same experience that i had at the world championships where i was wondering if i would get through it, so the solution was to just take that one...

I saw him, i think, on january 31st, and he was okay. he seemed a little down, but he was at my house for my birthday, so he was sort of, you know, he was -- i think he was trying to be. >> larry: was he working? >> yeah. he was doing a lot of editing, and he is involved in this podcast -- actually, it's my husband's podcast, and andrew films it, and so he -- yeah. >> larry: does he have family? wife, children? >> no. no. >> larry: he's single? >> he's single. >> larry: how are your parents doing? >> not great, obviously. my mom is really being strong and making all the phone calls and doing a...

>> larry: peter, do you think it's broken? >> yeah, i think it is broken. it's not surprising that at a time of almost 10% unemployment, people are pretty negative in washington. that's the way the political system is supposed to work, for him to say the bill would go through if we got 58% of votes. there is no president in american history using the fill buster on a vast majority of the legislation. that's part of the reason it's so difficult to get things done. >> but larry, the reason you say it's been forced, it's not the means by which they get it passed, it's because the american people ...

This is why so many liberals are frustrated, because it includes so many republican ideas. >> but larry, let me ask you, why is it, then, that the democrats have control of the house, control of the senate, control of the white house and they can't get the bill through? >> because they need 58% of votes. >> one of the leaders over there in the house says he does not think this is going to get through, and i tell you now there is a lot of democrats anxious to have a chance to vote it down because they voted for it the first time and they're hanging loosely by that noose over there and they're h...

They can't get the bill through? >> because they need 58% of votes. >> one of the leaders over there in the house says he does not think this is going to get through, and i tell you now there is a lot of democrats anxious to have a chance to vote it down because they voted for it the first time and they're hanging loosely by that noose over there and they're hoping to get out of it by a vote saying, i got the message, folks. i'm voting it down. >> the reason it hasn't been able to pass anything is because the republicans have been, up until yesterday, the party of no. and one of the reasons th...