my mother said, well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace. so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, look, we ve got this little hot dog cart, and it s on a really good corner. let s see if we can buy the property. and the branch manager said, all right, i will take a chance with the two of you. and we ve been loyal to bank of america for the last 71 years. nate silver of the new york times s 5348 blog is out there with his forecast for the iowa caucuses. statistical models based on state polling saying newt gingrich is just under a 50/50 chance to win iowa, coming in at 49.6. 50/50 for newt. next according to silver is ron paul with with a 28% chance of winning in iowa. mitt romney has a much smaller chance of victory, silver says, just under 10%.
what could be the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. good morning to you all. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. i m t.j. holmes. we do need to start with a debate that was supposed to be over already. we are less than three days from a possible u.s. default. this clock is still ticking and a deal is not done. we are expecting a lot of action on capitol hill today. both houses in session, but whether there s going to be any real progress, that s anybody s guess. this is what we ve got going on today. the house starts debate at noon with the likely vote on a democratic proposal expected some time after 1:00 p.m. not expected to pass, however. then over on the senate side, they kick off debate on the democratic proposal around 1:00 eastern time. they could be debating that for up to 12 hours before they even vote on whether to vote. kind of a procedural vote would take place, possibly around 1:00 a.m. we did hear from president obama this morning
i want to start on the economy. the president reacting to the latest jobs numbers in the rose garden on friday offered this assessment of where things stand. let s show that. but the key point i m making right now is that the economy is moving in a positive direction. jobs are being created. they re just not being created as fast as they need to, given the big hole that we experience, and we ll have to continue to work with republicans and democrats to come up with ideas that can further accelerate that job growth. senator, what more should be done and would you support what the president appears to be talking about, which is an extension of that r&d tax credit for corporations? yes, i would. we need to extend all of the tax cuts. now is not the time to raise taxes. the president has openly said that he wants to increase taxes to 49.6. the top rate and let some of the bush tax cuts expire. let s look at the health care
i m marianne rafferty. now, back to geraldo at large. geraldo: welcome back live, everybody. gracing the cover of lady s home journal, michelle obama dishes in the magazine about her diet secrets for the first family admiting that she and the president hate beets. adding that recently beets aside she was on a sort of cleanse during which she only ate vegetables. as she wages her campaign against childhood obesity some say sh she is in the let them t cake versus let them eat vegetables. as the president deals with friday s mediocre jobs report and bounces from the low earning 45.3% approval to 49.6% disapproval in the latest real clear politics average even fans of the first lady like your humble correspondent wonder why she chose to attract
large . large. geraldo: welcome back live, everybody. gracing the cover of lady s home journal, michelle obama dishes in the magazine about her diet secrets for the first family admiting that she and the president hate beets. adding that recently beets aside she was on a sort of cleanse during which she only ate vegetables. as she wages her campaign against childhood obesity some say sh she is in the let them t cake versus let them eat vegetables. as the president deals with friday s mediocre jobs report and bounces from the low earning 45.3% approval to 49.6% disapproval in the latest real clear politics average even fans of the first lady like your humble correspondent wonder why she chose to attract