i think robert gibbs worked monday. no. we expect to see jay carney today. i think he ll do a great job. i got a chance to talk to him on saturday. there s a nice fraternity of press secretaries. what you don t see often is that the press secretary, what you see every day is defending the president. what you don t see is the press secretary also has a responsibility to defend the press to the president and make sure their access is there and that they have the right to ask a question like the one that got president obama riled up yesterday. speaking of that, there s some argument today that the whole idea of the way in which the presidency and the president handles the press is changing because of social media such as twitter and facebook and this president and his team seems to be very good at getting their message out through those avenues as opposed to the old fashioned press conference and some people are saying that s a way of controlling the media. it is. and remember
so wake up your deer hound. this is a big moment. scottish deer hound. meanwhile, dana perino will be joining us an hour from now. tim jennings, the guy that s won more money on jeopardy than any other human is squaring off against the computer created by, that s right, ibm. he s going to be dropping by to tell us give us a preview on who s going to win tonight. round two did not go well for human beings. if you re pro human, you re not happy today. angie harmon will be stopping by as well and cheryl burke has a new book out and some personal revealing information in that. the rest of your headlines and developing story overnight. right now, pro iranian government supporters clashing with opposition protesters, the violence erupting at a funeral for a man killed on monday. police firing on protesters during a third day of rallies in the capital that left one person dead. thousands crowding the main square calling for political reform and protests also spilling int
businesses. now he suddenly likes fox news and says it s all about democracy and i m sure we could come up with a couple of other changes even though in the same interview, he said he has not changed as a person. he has not come to the center. i don t know, i m a little confused. when you talk about people have a point of view, he s also again taking a hit at fox by saying you have a point of view and a long history. i think judging by the person if you re an opinion show, that s the point of view. there s nobody reading a point of view. i think this all goes back to when anita dunne who is one of the communications people. who s gone. she is gone. she s moved on. yeah. she said, you know, don t confuse fox news with as being a real news outfit. but come on, we are a real news outfit. we have a news wing and then we have an opinion wing and it is clear that at the nighttime, those are opinion guys and during the day, it s news stuff and this program, we have a little of bot
arlington later on but anyway, here s your headlines and we start with the fox news alert. thousands egyptians are returning to cairo s main square for a 15th day of protests against the government. protesters who are calling on a million people to turn out today are hoping for an appearance by a google marketing manager whose facebook posting apparently sparked the entire uprising. the protesters say they won t be satisfied until president hosni mubarak leaves office even though mubarak is promising reform, today he formed a committee to discuss changes in egyptian elections including term limits for the presidency. that would be a change. and a pay raise for civil servants. three teenaged boys shot to death in the mexican border city of juarez. two of them american citizens who went to high school in texas. their bodies found outside of a car dealership where they were looking to buy a car. more than 60 bullet casings were found at the scene. right now, no lead on a motive
these are a lot of solutions guaranteed to create strong reaction in washington, d.c., with the deficit commission. we want to thank both of you, senator john cornyn and senator warner for talking to us this morning. we want to start out with the deficit commission and some of the recommendations. we realize this is just a draft, a chairman s mark as they call it. but i want your reactions and what the two of you might actually sign on to from among these issues. raising the age to receive social security, cutting benefits. for higher income retirees. any takers there? reforming the tax code, including ending tax breaks for mortgages in the child tax credit. $100 billion in tax cuts on defense spending to senators from states with a lot of military, freezing pay for non-combat pay for three years, raising the gas tax. are any of these things that either of you can sign onto or can you reach some agreement somewhere, say today? we have to do this on a bipartisan basis becaus