morning. ets it s going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. thank you. lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the defense secretary. the british soldier was also injured in that incident. leon panetta is in the capital and he s going to be meeting with the afghan president, harmid karzai and that comes days after a u.s. army sergeant apparently went on a violent attack and went door to door in the middle of the night killing 16 afghan civilians and most women and children. this morning, that suspect, a father of t
really, really fat and we do not want them targeted with junk food ads and we have been debating this since the jimmy carter administration, and we are having this conversation becausearents are failing their kids so we should protect vulnerable children from the predatory advertising campaigns. is this a job for the parent guest: absolutely. the more we let government intervene in these areas the less parents feel they have to do. this sends the wrong message to kids. we want payments to take responsibility. we know kids are fat but it is not up to the government to decide what kids watch on tv. guest: the fcc, the ftc, and all these government obligations who are supposed to let us know what we should and should not watch for children. this is not about adults. guest: this is typical feel goodism. guest: i have never been
authorized by law including debts for payment of pensions, pensions that is a very important word, and bounties for payment of services in suppressing inch sur recollection or rebellion shall not be questioned. your key point is that pensions, government obligations have to be paid. reporter: i think that is the point. of course the constitution as we know is fought overall the time and the inch interpreter nation of it and this issue has never come up since the civil war because the congress has always moved to extend the debt limit since that was imposed i think in the middle of the last century. what s happened here is we have a showdown, and will the president decide, look, i m going to go ahead unilaterally to do this. if he did he could assert the constitutional power. there would be a political uproar but he would have to say to congress, stop me, make me not do it. it would be a little bit like
public debt secure ties to the form of bond and sold to someone is roughly $10.1 trillion and the chinese own a trillion dollars plus of that. the total debt is over $15 billion. but the difference between 15 billion and. bill: trillion you said billion. trillion. government obligations. one part of the government owes the government another part. the cbo said that the end of 2022 that that would be roughly $18 trillion the administration had forecast $15 trillion. and, look, historically the administration the obama administration is underestimated the deficit and underestimated its spending but you are right. it represents a huge threat and they re doing little, even congress is doing a little bit to restraining it but the president s budget proposal, which is what we are talking about here calls, you know, sort of says after next year we are going to dramatically increase spending again and let it go wild. bill: so, look. and as i said in the talking points memo. barack obama