actors who are playing, you know, we see it, last christmas, with the christmas bomber, there are people who are out to get us and i m not sure that we should be limiting our defense the christmas day bomber in all fairness had nothing to do with iran and north korea. but, definitely, islamic extremism. right. but he s a nonstate actor. bill: i gotcha. the 20 seconds i have left do you believe the white house wants the missile defense system, in any form or shape, in eastern europe? it is troublesome. i m not sure. i hope they do but they certainly have demonstrated that they are not that serious, maybe back down from the russians demands and russians are once again demanding things of us, if we don t pass the treaty, and so at the end of the day i don t have confidence in the white house to stand up to the russians. bill: rick grenell, thanks for your time today, nice see you, thank you. martha: we showed you a clip of this, it is terrifying, as a man drove his car into the c
speaking very, very candidly about the reality, that they re going to fight in two years, martha, to rejigger this deal again. i mean, this was temporary, both sides, both bases are absolutely furious and i think it really depends on what happened with the economy. if the economy does start to improve i think you re going to see democrats start to argue that we don t need them to continue. martha: i think you re right about that. republicans are going to come out and say we need them because they ve kept them afloat but democrats are doing this little experiment right now and i do believe that the economy gets better, they re going to make the case that we do not need taxes continued for those making over 250. martha: let s take a broader look at capitol hill, you ve got this compromise over the tax deal and nancy, the spending bill was scuttled and as you heard matt kibbe talking about with bill hemmer, that was a watershed moment. to say no to that earmark-laden bill was a real wak
gotten $150 billion, in taxpayer bailouts. now, to avoid bailouts in the future, the company needs to raise fees and charges and joe murin, the former head of the government national mortgage association, says, taken all together they could raise the rates on traditional 30-year fixed rate mortgages by 1.5 to 2 percentage points, and, if that happens, today, rates would go from about 5%, to 6 or 7%. martha? martha: what is the impact on the housing markets and, for, you know, people, home ownership and the biggest investment, in most of our portfolios. reporter: that s right and that is one thing policymakers have to weigh carefully here is the impact on the housing market and the economy, it is a big part of the economy, home ownership is part of american dream. so, that is a big factor as well. but, you can count on all of the big lobbyists down here for the realtors, for the homebuilders and for the banks. to try and fight this. martha: all right, maybe we ll get to better equilib
facebook, and on other places as well, but, they have groups called pthc, pre-teen hard core and they are swapping the most disgusting images anybody could imagine seeing of children and here s the other thing, this has nothing to do with regulating speech. this has to do with security. now, what they are doing is, is predators are going after parents and they are becoming friends with parents on facebook, to get access to their children. this is a very serious issue. and, the same people doing this on-line are the same people who are in the parks, poking around, and, being weird. martha: you are right about that and that is a really good warning for parents, and if you don t know you shouldn t allow anyone to be your friend, that, is it really your friend? if they it may be a way as tamara points out, they are trying to gain access to your children which is serious and these photos fly all over the place, and, it is a terrible situation. thank you very much, you guys, for bringing i
you are in the teachers union, this is nypensionbomb.org, the group that is reporting this. stephen, i know you have been talking about it, the dive rec ni day of reckoning is here. have a merry christmas. bill: you, too. martha: there s a new push across the pond to block internet porn and it would require anybody who wants to view pornography of any kind, on the internet, to have to sort of sign something, to register, to opt in, to have that service provided for them, can you imagine how many people want to sign up for that? supporters argue it will keep children from seeing questionable images but, some say it amounts to censorship, and, that parents should be the ones deciding what their children and cannot do on-line and is a very sticky area of the law, joining me now is our legal panel, criminal defense attorney, tamara holder, and former federal prosecutor doug burns, welcome to you both. good morning. it really caught my eye, because, what they are trying to do in the u.k