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And billionaires. senator jim demint on fox news sunday had his own ideas. let s take a listen. we re not talking about cutting taxes, we re talking about keeping current tax rates the same. and i don t think there s any room to negotiate on raising taxes particularly on smaller businesses. reporter: so the republican position is it s not time for a tax increase on anybody as we re dealing with a weak economic recovery. interesting, though, because some democrats want to see an extension of unemployment insurance, so do you give them that in exchange for an extension of the tax cuts for higher income people? we ll have to wait and see. jenna: seems like some bartering going on. mike emanuel at the white house today. reporter: thanks, jenna. jon: remember your first day of high school? well, newly-elected lawmakers are getting the lay of the land today in washington as orientation begins for the freshman class of the 112th congress which convenes on january 3rd. right now 94 newly ....
The barrier that cbp has put up, and you can see them watching us from the other side with their scouts, and we are definitely making them do different things and use different tactics. so we are jamming them up. reporter: now, of course, on the other hand, there are critics saying that while 1200 troops is a nice start, that simply isn t going to make a dent into the real problem out here along the border, especially when you talk to people who live in these border towns and certain members of law enforcement. and, jon, keep in mind the u.s./mexico border is nearly 2,000 miles long, and a lot of folks are saying we need more troops and fast. jon: yeah. 1200 troops not very many for a 2,000-mile border, so what are they doing, and where are they stationed? reporter: well, they re sprinkled throughout the four southwest border states. take a look at this graphic, and it breaks down the deployment numbers for you. about 263 are already at work in california, about 541 here in the sta ....
To say. a number of things have to happen, and she indicates what those things are. jon: and we have to wait until 8 p.m. eastern to a little after, yeah. we sat down with her this morning for about 15 minutes, and in a very, very candid and refreshing interview, she s happy about the tea party, she believes that we will see the government shrink, she s happy that it s acceptable to talk about small government on the constitution and sound money and the gold standard, that was considered fringe ten years ago, and she has some interesting thoughts about her own future. jon: she also talked a little bit about political nuances. i think your producers are going to let us play that clip. let s go to that right now. go ahead. i love this one line, we re going to put it occupy telephone screen now up on the screen now, and then i m going to ask you if there was a little bit of hidden meaning when you were talking about watching mama bears. take a look. i lo watching these mama lo ....
Passing big bills. the problem is it s not exactly the appropriation. that s already done. and that s what mccobble s talking about mcconnell s talking about, you have to drop spending in all these different departments in the lump sums, not the specific earmarks. jon: and senator demint calls himself a recovered earmarker, said he used to like his earmarks himself but he hasn t asked for in i in the past four years. anyway, the battle goes on, and there is the tea party rally that s sort of underway right now with some of the newcomers on congress talking about the budget, the tea party and everything else. i know as you said, bret, we ll be hearing from the minority leader on the senate side a little later today, and we ll certainly hear from you today on special report. reporter: thanks, jon. jon: you can learn more about the orientation sessions for house freshman, check out our web site. great information on what the lawmakers are learning. go to foxnews.com/aehq. ....
Thugs, jon. he also had to come to grips with something else yesterday, jon, four months ago his then-99-year-old father died. paul chandler did not know that at the time, he only learned about it yesterday. he is now, obviously, in mourning. jon? jon: so sad. we haven t heard much about the pirate situation in that part of the world. what s going on? reporter: well, that s the real back story to all of this, jon. as regular viewers of fox news will know, we and others have been tracking the tale of international navies going after the pirates. we followed the fifth fleet, nato, european union, other international navies as they chased these guys, and they are still going out there, and they are still causing problems. the latest statistics we re getting, jon, is right now pirates are holding 25 foreign ships and 500 hostages. at the same time, there s about 700 pirates in jails and courts and about 12 different countries, and just in the past week the reports are that a $10 ....