2010," and a t-shirt to last. >>shepard: great to see you. glad you were not on there and here is what it was like on the boat. a passenger will join us like shortly. he was one of the first people off the boat because today, veteran veteran, is his birthday. they let him off early. >> he described the food, toilets and situation on the ship, all that to come. >> the white house now is indicating that the president may be willing to cut a deal with republicans that would extend the bush tax cuts for everyone. those cuts are set to expire at the end of the year unless congress intervenes. the president has said he wants to renew them for the middle class, renew them for everyone but not for the portion of your income above $250,000 a year saying that would save $700 billion the next 10 years. but republicans are pushing to keep all the cuts because they have been so helpful and now the