drove up there in the center of rome and stopped in front of the eyeglass shop and all the people that were around, of course, started snapping pictures and thought it was a phony and realized it really was the pope and he went in and fixed his glasses and came back out in a space of ten or 15 minutes. that was a kind of rare occasion when he actually got to go out and that s the case for most popes. john paul ii wanted to get out, as well. one of the things about the pope is he always tries to balance the kind of formal occasions and the circumstance that he has to do with the meetings with regular people and he does that in the vatican and will do that tomorrow after the meeting with congress. he ll go straight to the meeting with catholic charities and 200 homeless people and that is going to be something to see, as well, because we know his work already at the vatican for the homeless and everything that he s done there. so always attention as soon as
martha: pope francis sneaking out of the vatican on his own making a surprise visit at an eyeglass shop nearby. he drew a large crowd as you imagine he was walking down the street. i need some glasses. what is it called? gregg: sunglasses store. martha: not optometrist. anyway he insisted that his old frames be reused. he said they re perfectly good. he would pay for any upgrade that needed to happen. the shop owner who made eyeglasses for the pope saying he did not know the pope would come to the shop himself. the pope will visit the united states in a highly anticipated trip later this month. gregg: he needs a pair of ray bans. looks cool. hundreds of frustrated refugees are stuck at a train station in hungary for days
you can call me nuts, can you call me ching little, if you want. but the political battle being waged over extending the bush tax cuts is blowing those storm bands over our heads. look, you don t need me to tell you our economy is on the brink of weakening again. you feel it every day. latest cnn/orc polls just 27% of you say the economy is in good shape. 73% feel that conditions are pretty poor. and while rays of hope peek through the clouds from time to time, the u.s. economy is fragile right now. families are facing long-term unemployment. there are foreclosures. higher student loan payments. higher medical costs. so the notion that you may have to pay higher taxes by next year could make you decide not to spend money you otherwise would have spent. i get it. everyone wants lower taxes. but you can t have lower taxes. because for years and years, your federal government, both political parties, mismanaged the books and spent more money than they took in. our tax system i