lawmakers will ask how he wants to pay for them. finally, his first duties dealing with the debt ceiling. that is coming up again. march 15th. write it down. that is the deadline to raise that cap on how much the government can borrow. we will watch that today. i think they will ask about avat avatar. people say goldman sachs alum. he went on to have a varied investment banking career. there are a lot of goldman sachs people at the seat with donald trump. ironic after all of the attacking he did on goldman sachs. president obama held the final news conference as the commander in chief. what is the sense of the direction of the country from him? that s coming up.
is based. but michael, how does that stack against the fact that katherine bigelow, the director, would be the first woman to win in this category and there seems to be a real desire for a woman to win? anyone who upsets katherine is a huge upset. for her to be the first woman director, female director, to win an oscar is absolutely huge, and if anybody else besides james cameron, of course, is in it. if he won or anybody in that category were to beat her, i think it would really take away the night, but i think the big controversy that will take the hurt locker out of the running is the controversy of the producer writing e h-mails of t academy saying, vote for us. because the next day it would be scandal, oh, the e-mail is why we won. that s why i think it will go to avat avatar. james cameron is up for