than a billion bucks of his customers' money. that's not stopping him from going back into business. telling "the wall street journal" corzine is looking for office space in a small brokerage firm around the corner from the new york stock exchange. how does that happen? brian? >> please don't make me answer that question, gretch, because i don't know. all eyes on the republican primary race, who's watching president obama in the meantime? is he getting a pass on some of his policies that can be deemed failures or at the very least controversial? let's ask our washington insiders. we have a white house correspondent for talk news radio service, victoria jones. welcome, victoria and susan. good morning, susan, the chief congressional correspondent with the washington examiner. susan, to you. is president obama getting a pass? >> well, i think part of the issue is congress is not in session. they will be back on january 17th and tn we're going to be taking up yet another increase in the debt ceiling and you're going to see congress in the house vote against the debt ceiling increase and in the senate they'll vote in favor of it and it will end up on the president's desk and it will