movies ever. the problem is o.j. simpson, no one saw it anymore because of o.j. he s unbelievable. no kidding. what a legacy. all right. let s talk a little bit about the holiday weekend. did anybody have trouble at the airport? wednesday was supposed to be opt out day. was it easier than expected? did you have any trouble? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. the national story was there was no trouble. mean, and the opt out day was a bomb and it did not hurt airplane travel. just think about it. if you re going to the airport and trying not to miss a flight, why would you want to slow it down? i didn t get it to begin with. i didn t get it either. the guy who was in charge of it said he wasn t going to do it. that put the cabosh on it on wednesday. what did you did for thanksgiving? brian and i were in town. steve was traveling. we wanted to share with you a few of our highlights of our personal lives. we have this wonderful celebration at our church, first presbyterian churc
they say it hurts jobs and can drive away the oil companies for good. don t shut down all the airplane travel when you have a single airplane crash, you don t deny people the access to their cars and drive their cars when somebody has an automobile accident. you try to find out what went wrong and to fix it. the interior secretary is expected to issue a revised drilling suspension this week that is expected to be a little bit more flexible but a little bit unclear exactly what that s going to look like. meantime, the government and drilling companies squaring off this afternoon in new orleans before a three judge panel. thanks, malini. senator mary landrau who is a liberal democrat coming out saying you cannot reinstate this moratorium. go with the judges. that s right. people seem to be missing that story. this isn t a republican-democrat thing. i just wonder where the administration is coming in at because we have a $787 billion
know, decide. we don t make those decisions at the national level. those are constituents on the ground and people nominate those they want to best represent them. i wish the senator well tomorrow. i also of course want to ask you about some of the spending habits. we haven t seen you since hawaii and first of all, what are you thinking in having that event in hawaii? what about the spending? i know the democrats spend a lot of money to raise money? what are you talking about? hawaii s a state of the union, for goodness state. a pretty lavish way, considering airplane travel. are you kidding? i m not kidding at all. what evidence do you have of lavishness at our winter meeting in hawaii. while your having lew ous, we
campaign, where there are some things i can t do this. i can t do this. actually, i was able to really i m sure you as well know, you know you have limitations with your energy. for me if i felt really tired or overwhelmed, i was like time-out, i m done. that would be it. neil: my job is easier than yours, ann. it just read a prompter. you re going sometimes five, six states in a day, right? not me, but mitt can do that. i do travel with him when i can. but i don t travel all the time with him. it s just too tiring for me. i think the airplane travel is the most difficult. neil: as the spouse and former presidential candidate, the governor, how did you deal with that, governor? in what ann could do, help you, not. do i m sure you didn t want to overwhelm her. did you treat her differently or what? ann was such a partner in
about this still to come in the next hour or so. he might if he s the average patient go home as early as tomorrow or the day after. he was obviously speaking to president obama an hour or so ago eastern time, as we speak to you now live from new york. and there is an expectation that there will be a news conference or a statement issued by his cardiologist at the bottom of this hour. we hope to bring that to you as it happens. in the interim, new charges tonight that the abuses perpetrated by the private security contractor which used to be known as blackwater in iraq and afghanistan possibly even worse than previously imagined and a lot has been imagined. two former blackwater employees, a married couple named brad and milan davis filing a lawsuit in which they allege the company put a filipino prostitute on its payroll in afghanistan, then billed the u.s. government for her salary and plane tickets. the prostitute s salary categorized as part of the company s morale welfare recrea