superman and wonder woman and the tin man and the wizard of oz, the glasses made in china, federal regulators worrying the toxic chemicals rub on the kids hands, could get in their mouths. we re going to have to take away that glass! bill: you always get me! it s operation hemorrhage, a magazine affiliated with al-qaeda reporting the terror group wanted to, quote, bleed the u.s. economy when it targeted cargo planes about a month ago, al-qaeda in the arabian pen lanes boasting it sent $4200 on the plot that parked the national security scare. this was in print, folks. jamie smith, former cia officer and president of ftg international, a global security firm, good morning jamie. is al-qaeda or its affiliates ever gone to print wit its intent to specifically spell out how little money it spends to send a scare throughout the western world? good morning, bill.
presidential, we saw it during the campaign, she is in command of the facts and is articulate and, doesn t have to look at her hand for crib sheet notes and this is a woman who is uncommonly talented and that is coming across and we forget that when she s not in the public eye. martha: we gotcha. richard, thank you, and we have to leave it there. we re out of time. a lot of speculation, i guess that will continue for some time. on the topic. bill: would make a wonderful, delicious, juicy story! right, tailor-made for cable news! some cities, so cash strapped they can t afford the basic services that you are used to. is outsourcing the answer? we ll take you to a california town trying to figure that out. martha: plus, he s an architect behind president obama s historic road to the white house but at home david axelrod and his wife have been fighting a different battle. that story, straight ahead. fy÷@>m9
looking for date rape drug or something exists. martha: fascinating. we will see, we ll find out, just less than a day from now. if indeed that jawbone is natalee holloways and would begin the next stage of answering a lot of questions in this case. still a lot of questions. martha: dr. baden, appreciate your calling in. bill: five years later, you can test the tooth and find out whether or not something was inside the body. martha: incredible. bill: and, a tourist apparently found it on the beach and brought it to the hotel desk and said, what is this? and the hotel called police, right way and that got all of this going. martha: and, loren van der sloot in a peruvian prison, on charges for another murder. we ll see what happens. bill: there are many pits and strikes on this, and we ll get the announcement one way or the other tomorrow, a drop in emergency room visits for babies and toddlers and has nothing do with healthier kids. why is that, we wonder.
bill: some inside the beltway believe higher and newer taxes are a quick fix for the bulging deficit. right now, the but deficit commission proposing a half trillion dollars in new taxes. to close the $10 trillion gap and those who don t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, they say. that is what my next guest argues, stephen moore, senior writer for the wall street journal, good morning, stephen. you crunched a lot of numbers going back to world war ii and did it with an economics professor from ohio university, athens, ohio. what did you concluded. concluded what p. j. o rourke said, giving new taxes to politicians is like giving a bottle of booze and car keys to a teenager. it doesn t turn out well and we found, every time the last 75 years, or so, bill we have raised taxes, the money has almost never been used to reduce the deficit, almost always has been used to increase taxes and so, remember, last week, when we talked about this idea of a
social aid this, is about fighting the enemy that hates our way of life, this is a fundamental clash of cultures and i think it s important in the war on terrorism that we understand what s at stake. this isn t well, let s go out and figure out a way to apologize for americans. martha: the polices may be playing a role in some of comments, some think bobby jindal may have his eye on the white house, along with other people. will he run in 2012, we ll see. bill: regardless of every interview, he ll ask him that, what about 2012. a shocking story of a t. tsa screening gone terribly wrong, 60 year old tomas sorria. special ed teacher said he was humiliated by an enhanced patdown at detroit s airport, a cancer survivor, he wears a device, collects his urine daily and the scanner picked up the device, he was targeted for a patdown, during the procedure, the seal on the bag broke. i was so embarrassed and so petrified of going out