after your victory in the 2010 mid-terms, now it s your turn to cave on tax rates. listen, what s the difference where the money comes from? we put $800 billion worth of revenue, which is what he s asking for, out of eliminating the top two tax rates. but here s the problem, chris. when you go and increase tax rates, you make it more difficult for our economy to grow. half of that income is small business income. it s going to get taxed at a higher rate. as a result we are going to see slower economic growth. we aren t going to be able to cut our way out of this problem, nor can we just grow our way out of the problem. we have to have a balanced approach. what the president wants to do is slow our economy at a time he wants the economy to grow and create jobs. the white house says that while you have given this kind of talk about, well, let s close loopholes, let s limit deductions, you haven t offered any specifics, have you? we ve laid it all out for him
her mother? are they on speaking terms after she wrote this book? what s the answer to that? the story itself comes to a shocking and explosive end. as you said, you don t know how this can all resolve. and, you know, my mom makes some decisions in the end that i find pretty appalling, we end up our whole family sort of falls apart. and we haven t had a relationship for more than a decade. and writing this book was a lot about, um, my own children asking me, my 6-year-old asked me, you know, where my mother is. and, um, i didn t really have an answer for him. and i realize ld that he wasn t going away with that question, and i needed to figure out what the answer was going to be. and i needed to be okay with it. megyn: it s ironic given the beautiful on-screen family that you were adopted by pa and ma ingals and had it all, and yet behind the scenes, a real struggle us we merging was emerging. a real struggle, but i feel like in my own life i turned it around. i said this cycle
information about michael landon. you know you re getting old when he switches from a father figure to hot, and we re there. [laughter] read the book, diary of a read the first two pages, if it doesn t grab you, i ll send you your money megyn: troubling as a lawyer. just kidding. melissa, good luck. thank you. megyn: great seeing you. thank you. megyn: it really is a good book, and the funny thing is, my husband who has written this book, ghosts of manhattan, was reading melissa s book at the same time she was reading his book. he never watched little house on the prairie. i mean, it s nuts, who doesn t anyway, he loved it, and you ll love it too. check it out, diary of a stage mother s daughter. well, a dramatic new twist to the story of damage from hurricane sandy. up next, what reportedly happened to a secret vault in lower manhattan that may have ruined about a billion dollars
dangerous. i mean, there were all kinds of you could fall into the mill, there were so many potential dangers. megyn: melissa got here to fox, and everybody was like she was on little house on the prairie, but she doesn t like to talk about it. so all of us were like, when can we talk about it? you wrote this book, and now we get to. fabulous. megyn: i have read it, my husband has read it, and it is not just a chick book. it s good for guys and girls, and it s a fascinating life story about how you got started. you had done a lot before this show, but this is what put you on the map. yes. i mean, i grew up acting from the time i wasless than a year less than a year old, i did a johnson & johnson shampoo commercial, and i m not blond megyn: look at that face. you re so adorable. there you go, there you can see. but i grew up in front of the camera, and i loved that. a lot of people say that child acting is tough, and it is grueling, but it is very fun and
you know? i m going to choose to have a different life, and i m going to choose to go down a different path. and i think that a lot of people have realize the book and said to me, you know, i relate to you so much, and they say why, and we really don t have that much in common, but what we do is they hit some sort of obstacle along the way, a big one, whether it was an abusive parent or something traumatic that happened in their lives, and they had to make the decision, you know, to have, to take a different path and to have a happy life after that. i have a wonderful husband, i have two beautiful kids. for a long time i was afraid to be a parent because of the way i was parented by my mother. i you what i didn t want to do, but i didn t know how to do it better. megyn: there they are. and, you know there they are, yep, there s my family right there. megyn: i just find you so impressive. i didn t know you at all before you got here, but you re funny, you re self-depracating, you te