story, it s unfolding tonight. mike: it s a drama like few others. new york basketball has two teams, brooklyn nets, nothing, but good news this off season and new york knicks, longstanding favorite team here in the city and jeremy lin reenergized, led them to an unlikely run to the playoffs and got injured, missing the playoffs. and this off season theyed him to get resigned and see if they gets any offers. a chance to match it. the houstons rockets will pay piem 25 million dollars over three years, 15 million dollars after the third year and what caramelo anthony and teammates referred to as quote, unquote, a ridiculous contract. that s how absurd this money is for jeremy lin. knicks have until tuesday night whether they want to match that contract and he s a fantastic player, but 25 million dollar player? we ll see, the guy makes 500
proegs or authorization legislation and the administration asked the house it reconsider the fee proposals which are essential for dod to successfully address rising personnel costs. are there ways to responsibly make those cuts without cutting health care benefits? i think so, i think that we, you the dod is going to have to cut 500 million dollars and potentially a trillion, if not mistaken, but there are different ways to cut responsibly, whether it s programs, weapons programs or potential things. i think it s a mistake to ask for service members, retirees and active service members and retirees to pay for the co-payments. thank you for being with us this morning. thank you guys, have a wonderful day. dave: let you know on twitter, do you think the
that make it for romney to thread this needle? well, i wouldn t agree that he did exactly the same thing at all. how is it different. in massachusetts it was different. he didn t try to impose it on all 50 states and second of all didn t cut medicare by 500 million dollars without shoring up the long-term financing, didn t hike taxes 21 times as the obama health care law did and didn t have the fake game that i know congressman wax marn trying to talk it go, but isn t. the fact is that they represented to the american people that it s something that it wasn t and now justice roberts said that it clearly is a tax. mike: would you be okay with if obamacare looked more like romney care, would that be okay with you? what i would like to see is more experimenttation, more ability of the states to show some flexibility. governor romney s plan calls for nor flexibility by the states and individuals to tang their own choices and allow market mechanisms to go into
500 million dollars in annual tax cuts will take effect at the end of the year. the cbo says that along with spernlding cuts you mentioned will put the brakes on the economy, forcing it to shrink by 1.3% in the first half of next year. listen. the congressional budget office is saying that could cost us economic growth and we all believe if we don t get these tax rates extended what s going to have a profound impact on the economy and it will cost a lot off growth and a lot of jobs. what is even worse than the reality is the uncertainty of not knowing what s going to happen and that affects business decisions more than the reality would. reporter: republicans have been warning about the impact of this for some time and are determined to stop it. we are going to try every way we can to make sure taxes don t go up on anybody. we have to make sure we are doing everything we can instead
world news begins with george zimmerman being taken out of a patrol car at sanford police headquarters. he s wearing the same red jacket and blue jeans that he was wearing when he came across trayvon martin who was on his way home from the 7-eleven with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. now, the police report says he was bleeding from the nose and back of the head and was examined by emts at the scene before being taken in for questioning. attorney sonner says he believes that martin broke zimmerman s nose. we have frozen a portion of the video showing his nose and face so you can look more carefully and decide whether it s consistent with the kind of fight that zimmerman described. granted, it s surveillance video. it s not up close and the lighting is not good and the angle obviously could be better. but it s full of clues. here the officer touches zimmerman s sleeve and a few seconds later wipes off his hand. is it blood? that s a question. and then you see here the offi