that came from her. what is the point of that and does that insult the judge s intelligence in some way? i don t know if it insults the judge s intelligence, steve. i think he s doing his job. look, what you need to understand is that in the criminal justice system, there s no shot clock, and defense attorneys will do what they can. as they re doing in this case to go to the four corners to try to run time out on the clock to take some of the momentum away from this legislative committee s inquiry, and all that these lawyers are doing are making arguments that they believe have some basis in fact, some basis in law, is that the argument that carries the day? i don t think so. but he knows that if you were to concede anything in this business, the minute you start conceding that your client had the proverbial smoking gun or the scandalous e-mail, you re going to be working at dave & buster s. you re talking about adding time here, running out the clock a little bit, that brings in t
but one eu member, the uk, is refusing to give up any of its budget powers. we ll get details from our own richard quest just moments from now. and still no agreement in washington on the future of payroll tax cuts. both parties say they want to prevent what amounts to a tabs hike on 160 million americans come january 1st. but they differ on how to pay for it. democrats want a surtax on millionaires. republicans want spending cuts. well, now republicans in the house want to tie a tax cut extension to approval of a controversial oil pipeline. if nothing passes, anybody who draws a paycheck will pay 6.2% into social security in 2012. all this year we pay 4. 2%. that tax cut extension it on the lips of of the gop candidates campaigning in iowa today. front-runner newt gingrich is not there. he s signing copies of his book in washington, d.c. and just four weeks until the iowa caucuses we re seeing more attack ads. now rick perry is being attacked for his attack ad. i m not