popular. a lot of the decisions in terms of getting our budget under control may not be popular, but i think the reason that allen and erskine took on this assignment is because they were convinced i was sear about it and i will stand with them as they come up with the recommendations. thank you very much, everybody. all right, the president of the united states right there. members of his debt commission, the commission on fiscal responsibility and reform, first formal meeting today, 10:00 a.m. eastern and its purpose, trying to crack down the nation's biggest money problem, getting the deficit to 3% of the gross domestic product by 2015, the president says. we'll follow it e special he long term. we begin the top of the hour right now. born in the usa. now on america's most wanted list of al qaeda leaders, we just got this video in of anwar albuquerque aki, he's blaming bombings on islamic militants. we've seen it before, but this is the first time he's been on