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Can they get anything done in the lame duck congress? jenna: that s a good question. jon: hello, i m jon scott. it s high noon in the east. jenna: and i m jenna lee. coming from the white house, while the president was overseas and now mr. obama is back in d.c., and the lame duck session of congress is getting underway, and the president is keeping his options open on a possible compromise. white house correspondent mike emanuel s live on the north lawn with this story. mike, what is the president s approach heading into this week s meeting, big meeting, we should say, with bipartisan lawmakers? reporter: well, jenna, he didn t want to put all his cards out on the table, but it s interesting the president coming back from a ten-day trip to asia came back to the press cabin came back to talk to reporters about issues. the audio s a little scratchy, but take a listen. are we should be able at ....
Fixing of the problem than we ve had so far. absolutely. you know, listen, the only global warming policy on the books right now is the e.u. policy in 2020. it s going to cost $250 billion every year throughout the century. and do you know what the benefit is? it will have reduced temperatures by one-tenth of one degree fahrenheit. that s silly. instead, what we should do is make green energy so cheap everyone wants it. imagine if we could innovate the price of solar panels below the price of fossil fuels. jon: it would seem you could just about put solar panels on every roof in europe if you wanted to. [laughter] they re trying, but that might not be a good idea as long as they re so expensive. the real point we tried to do in the film is say how could you spend that $250 billion? well, you should be spending it on research and development into green energy because that s the solution over the long run, and you should also adapt. remember, three-fourths of this world still lacks b ....
You ll save one each year. we shoot 300 polar bears each year. why don t we stop shooting them first? this. jon: and there are other examples of this kind of logic. where can people see it if they want to see it? the it s playing in the limited release? yes, it s playing all across the u.s., 125 theaters. go get your friends to see it, and really let s have a cool conversation. jon: has al gore seen it yet? no, i doubt that he has. he doesn t want to engage in this conversation, but i think one of the things we need to do is start having that conversation of the smarter way forward. jon: interesting. thank you for coming in. jenna: we re seeing developments in many downtown manhattan, we re going to update everybody on the other side of the break. also, our town hall panel is gearing up to answer your questions on the lame duck session of congress. what truly can be done during this time? you can log on to our live web chat, just go to foxnews.com and join the conversation. ....
Lame duck session of congress. what should be on the lawmakers agenda, and what questions do you have? come and join jon and i at foxnews.com/happening now. jon: new information on a british hostages just released by somali pirates after more than a year. there s word a big ransom might have changed hands here. greg talcott live in london for us. what do we know about what got them released, greg? reporter: jon, it was a long and winding road but with a happy ending. first, let me give you the latest what we re hearing about the couple themselves, paul and rachel chandler, we are told, are staying at the residence of the u.k. ambassador right now. we re told they ll probably be heading back to the u.k. to their family and friends tomorrow. we re also told they are in good condition this, amazingly, after their ordeal which included being nabbed by pirates on their sloop, being held in captivity for 13 months, living rough in ....
Trey, here s a question, what earmarks will be pushed through? right now there seems to be an awful lot of argument about whether to allow earmarks at all in thisincoming congress. jon, it s interesting, the earmark debate with will be discussed within the republican conference that really will have nothing to do with the lame duck session other than internal to the republicans that they will set a moratorium going forward on earmarks for next year. but, you know, the interesting thing about this lame duck session is that while your viewers certainly deserve high expectations especially after the recent elections, i would urge them to keep expectations relatively low. i ve lived through lame duck sessions as a former staffer on capitol hill, and there are some traditional dynamics in play that typically serve as obstacles to passing major legislation. we have to remember that the government that the people voted for on november 2nd do not go ....