Our flights, without this kind of stuff? you know, that is a great question. i don t think there is, personally. i think that you know, we re not dictating necessarily these events that are occurring, you know, the events are happening across the world, there is intelligence and there is it is driving us to be able us as a society to have to actually go to these measures. i mean, nobody likes having the 4th amendment violated going through a security line but the truth of the matter is, we are going to have to do it. you know, always i think ask this question: if it was your children or your loved one going through there, not you, would you want them to do everything they could to be sure ensure the safety of the aircraft. rick: i think that that is an easy question for all of us to answer. we want our aircraft to be safe, especially when we have loved ones who are flying on it, but, here we are, sir, we are approaching what is the busiest time of the year for travel,
However, for the chandlers. just after their release, paul chandler learned of the death of his father. his 99-year-old father, four months prior. also, quickly, bittersweet for the 500 hostages, which still remain in captivity, the pirates still very busy, along that coast, and in somalia. back to you. martha: boy, that situation needs to be stopped. greg, thank you very much. greg palkot reporting from london. rick: we keep hearing the argument, democrats say extending them is an unaffordable tax break for the rich and republicans believe an extension would help to crate jobs and what the white house is saying about the bush era tax cuts. martha: the 9/11 mastermind, khalid sheikh mohammed, will he ever face justice, why a new report says his trial may not come any time soon. i would hope that eric holder will do the right thing and he will say clearly, that the trials will not be head in new york, that they will be held in
Huge fire. rick: let s go live to capitol hill now. a rare ethics trial is just getting underway for long time democratic congressman charlie rangel. rangel is representing himself, he has just made his opening statement. let s take a listen: i have no idea, as to the counts, # eight of what could be considered summary judgment i think would indicate that this case may not be prepared for witnesses, that this committee who has asked that a judgment be made based on information that existed. rick: rangel facing a committee made up of four democrats and four
If nothing is done everybody gets a tax increase and he came back to the press cabin on air force one and reiterated his position. take a listen: president barack obama: we. pa paefpaef paefpaef reporter: the key word in that is permanent and obviously giving himself wiggle room, negotiations lead to a temporary extension of the bush tax cuts. for higher income folks. than he has gotten himself wiggle room, rick. rick: maybe another couple of years, an extension on the tax cuts, and what are some of the other possible outcomes here? reporter: as you mentioned,
Leadership table in the next congress. martha: greg walden, and as i said he s the head of the g.o.p. transition team. you see the bus arriving this morning. bright eyed and bushy tailed, congressmen and congresswomen, as they get ready to do their new job and there is a call upon them to be bold in their actions. that is what they were elected to do. and, moments from now we ll talk to representative greg walden and get his take on it, as he watches them all, get to work. rick: a number of orientation exercises, i guess, meetings, being held in washington, d.c. over the weekend. and, there was a lot of hay made between a couple of different gatherings, the freshmen were pulled in different directions, depending on which gathering they went to, people were paying close attention whether the pea party gather which party you showed up at, right? let s bring in congressman greg walden. he joins me now, good morning, good to have you here.
Going to be like and what kind of conversation is there going to be, between president obama, john boehner and mitch mcconnell, who is still the minority leader in the senate but i man who said the number one priority is making sure obama is a within huone-termer. the republicans are coming to town with a huge mandate, the biggest election turnover in 70 years, less spending, less government, simple, period. and i think the republicans wants to carry that mantle and that is how they ll be successful and if the president is smart he ll move to the middle and try and work with the republican leadership and speaker boehner and leader mcconnell if he wants to get reelected in 2012. rick: alla bill clinton, do we see him moving a bit to the right to try and pass some of the legislation. i agree, taking the obama
Washington with a new political landscape on his front lawn, the president s trip across asia, beginning with hand shakes and warm welcomes and ending with the commander-in-chief, defending his economic policies, and, now, coming home to a few sobering realities on american soil. president barack obama: we ve spent the first two years trying to get the policy right. based on my best judgment about how we were going to deal with the short-term crisis. in that obsessive focus on policy i neglected some things that matter a lot to people and rightfully so. rick: recorded yesterday, on the way back from asia, advisor to the clinton-gore presidential ticket, back in 1996 and part of the gore-lieberman camp in 2000
You re not actually even taxing individuals, you re taxing a hire and higher percentage of business in corks and maybe now you re talking about not small businesses but medium-sized businesses but you know what, rick, it s very simple, if you take money out of those businesses they can t hire as many workers as they would otherwise. i talked to restaurant owners and people who own, you know, small, medium-sized manufacturers, and they say look, you raise my tax rate, that s less money i have available to hire additional workers. that s why i don t think there s a lot of support among the public for this idea. rick: you know, another thing that senator schumer said and i want to put it out there and let you respond to it, is that those making more than a million are not likely to take their tax savings and put it back into the economy. they re not going to spend that money. how is his thinking on that point? i m glad you asked that question because that was one of the greatest flaws of his rationale for doing this. he is right that you take more from rich people, they re not going to consume it. you know what they ll do with that money?
Defense fund and then he left the hearing. so let s take a look at what of some of what he said before that happened. i object to the proceeding, and i with all due respect, since i don t have counsel to advise me, i m going to have to excuse myself from these proceedings, because i have no idea what martha: unbelievable. you never know what s going to happen on capitol hill, folks. so this hearing, as you may remember, was postponed until after the midterm elections, max east waters hearing also postponed until after the midterm elections. things were supposed to get going today. he came in, said he doesn t have an attorney, can t represent himself, doesn t are a legal defense fund, and he walked out. rick: i think it s important that people we re he remember he invited this investigation. martha: he could have settled it, he said no, i am completely innocent in this case and i want to come in there and state my case and be clear because i ve had a long prestigious career on capitol hill and i don t
And chip saltzman, a former campaign manager for mike huckabee, thanks for coming in. peter, the president says he may have ignored things that were important to a lot of people. what do you think he was talking about? well, rick, i think he was talking about jobs and unemployment and there s a lot of insecurity in the country about our economic future. and, look, you have a candid president that is willing to look within himself and say, here s what we did right and what we did wrong and, try to make improvements. i think there has not been as big a mandate as the tea party folks would lead us to believe. and, i think the danger for republicans, is they take what i believe is a far right message and they think that that is part of the mainstream of where the public wants to be, and i don t think it is. rick: chip, we talked about the new landscape the president returned to. i guess it will become very apparent, this thursday night, when the new republican leadership sits down at the dinner table with the president, at the white house, what is that