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Half, their office budgets are cut in half and their time in washington is cut in half. martha: no doubt that got some applause in the room. congressional approval numbers are not in great shape. is he going to get anywhere with that? >> no he's not. first of all he -- first of all he ought to read the constitution, the president doesn't make or break what the congress does. richard nixon, a lot of presidents would have done it a long time ago. to a certain extent, it's an applause line but it diminishes him somewhat. people are not taking him as a serious scholar, against a gingrich, who is a...

Anybody, as fox viewers know when he's been on many shows, how good he is and to a certain extent i think we'll hold this position. he's the alternative to romney and we'll see where it goes from here. martha: he has add a lot of questions, the fannie mae issue comes up and it's bad timing the executives will be filing into this congressional hearing who will being paid millions of dollars and it raises questions about how he was advising them. they say he never advised them, that there was a bubble, and that they should run from it, that wasn't the nature of what he said to them at all. >> i ...

Or not they can get a handle on t. a gas line explosion there. in the meantime, the penn state scandal has rocked college sports. now allegations of a coverup at the highest level, leading some to call for that school to cancel the rest of the football season. do you agree with that? should they? >> martha: plus, will the american public be able to watch the historic arguments over president obama's health care law. a new push for cameras in the supreme court. that is next. uh, i'm in a timeout because apparently

Bonuss are still being paid, even as taxpayer money bailed them out. twelve executives at fannie and freddie received $35 million in total salary and bonuses in 2009 and 2010 and so far taxpayers have paid out about $170 billion to rescue those two firms, that's the most expensive bailout of the financial crisis, and it's not over. the government estimates that the bailout could reach up to $220 billion through the year 2014. martha: that bailout is ongoing, and the ceos of both fannie and freddie are expected to testify at today's hearing. a lot of reasons being given for why these people des...

Questions. i was in state college last week when his press conference was canceled, i think a lot of people did want to hear from him, he was ready to go, they decided against that. he needs to stand up and say something. mike mcquery to me has been the biggest mystery, what has been said in the grand jury report and in the attorney general's presentment has been somewhat contradicted by later reports about what he did or didn't do when he came across that very disturbing scene in the showers at penn state. his reputation is very much in jeopardy. we'd love to hear from him. but he may also ha...