the bomb was fake. criminal charges are real. a new report from the surgeon general about smoking. she says just a few cigarettes and a little bit of second hand smoke can do immediate, serious and potentially fatal damage to your body. we begin with the white house and the stern warning for the democrats. get on board or we could slip back into a recession. if this bill doesn t pass, tax goss up in january. here s the tough talk from larry summers the top white house economic adviser. if they don t pass this bill in the next couple of weeks it will materially increase the risk that the economy would stall out and we would have a double dip. president obama s deal with the gop would give all americans two more years of bush era tax cuts no matter how much they make. it extends unemployment benefits for 13 months and gives every american worker a one year payroll tax holiday, a 2
is a huge fight over what our kids are eating landed in the middle of dozens of other fights as congress is trying to get out of town for the elections, trying to finish up their business today or tomorrow. it s a mad scramble here tend. all right. well, how hard is the first lady really pushing for this? obviously, it s so important for our kids. and what happens if it doesn t get approved by tomorrow? reporter: right. try to peel away the curtain at the white house. people here on capitol hill say she is very involved. in fact, some folks in the nutrition arena, some folks who support this bill say it would never have passed the senate, wouldn t have gotten to the senate floor without her help. another sign of michelle obama s reach, other powerful figures in the white house are involved. rahm emanuel, for example, we know called representative mcgovern who you just heard from last week to try and lobby him on this bill. so she s very involved. but she s hitting a wall right now.
in the classroom. we have to keep our students learning. this is a huge victory for american s children. i couldn t be more proud of the leadership shown by the house and hopeful what is going to happen in the house tomorrow. what happens if the bill doesn t pass? well, if the bill doesn t pass, basically, children get hurt, joe. we will see class sizes increase dramatically. we will see after-school programs eliminated and extracurricular eliminated. our children desperately need to have well-rounded curriculum and we need more time, not less. we talked about this. so there is no good answer, no good solution if this doesn t pass the house tomorrow but i m very hopeful it will. secretary duncan, it s willie geist. good to see you this morning. good morning. did you guard lebron yesterday? i stayed well out of lebron s way but we had a heck of amount of fun. amazing day. smart man. my second question is talking about the college goals we have in this country. america slip
mom explained why they re now talking to the media. we never thought we would get to three weeks out and not have kyron here. honestly, i m a little scared at this point. three weeks is a long time and we need to bring him home. kyron s stepmother who was the last person to see him has reportedly taken two polygraph tests and police say she is not a suspect. major disappointment for many unemployed americans, republicans and democrats could not agree yesterday on legislation to extend unemployment. if the bill doesn t pass, 2 million people lose their benefits by july 10th. luke russert is here with today s hill say and, luke, what happened here? quite a startling development, chris. these unemployment benefits pass here in washington on a bipartisan way. kind of called the washington way, if you will. but republicans holding their grounds saying that these
is hoping to pick off one or two republican votes in the senate. it s what he needs, otherwise the bill doesn t pass. you saw it s not doing him any good. the statements from republican leadership were tepid or against the announcement, didn t go far enough, deemed misleading. once again, the president is negotiating against his own party on a major policy area. he certainly is. to health care now. the president was on the road selling the health care bill and commented on the gop attempting to repeal the bill. here it is. now that it s passed, they re already promising we re going to repeal it! they re going to run on a platform of repeal in november. and my attitude is, go for it. you try to repeal. it if they want to have a fight, i welcome that fight. i don t believe the american people will put the insurance industry back in the driver s