more incredible he he survived the whole thing. oh, my goodness. he was apparently wanted on an amber alert and now he s under arrest. a little update on paris hilton now, banned from tokyo? she s heading back to the united states. officials there were about to decide whether to admit her to the country because of her drug conviction in las vegas. under japanese law, immigration authorities can deny entry, imagine that, to people convicted of drug-related offenses. ok. happening somewhere. guys? that s right. hey, first it was christina romer and then it was peter orzag and now president obama s top economic advisor larry summers says he s leaving the white house at the end of the year. why is president obama s economic team jumping ship? stuart varney from the fox business network joins us live. good morning. it s an admission of economic policy failure and they want to get them out of the way before the election and maybe get somebody new in who is going to present the new face
what surprised you most? first of all, consider the wide range of people leaving. you have like chris dodd, who s been there for 30 years. bob bennett, who was voted out by his own party. kit bond. judd gregg. a lot of republicans are going to tell you they areust heartbroken about this guy leaving. and forhout them to sit down wit the camera, whiccompletely changes the dynamic, and talk about topics, partisanship, regrets, gave a view that really bucks the view of the way washington works. the first question was about partisanship. what s interesting, last week, you were saying that on the issue of the partisanship, there was one change that all of the senators ced. one big change that happened with the gallery. both in actuality and sort of virtually. we re going to do a four-part series and tomorrow, we talk
reconciliation, you only need 51 votes. maybe 50 to get it passed. now the question is will the coalition of democrats that barely got it through the house in the first go-round be there for nancy pelosi because you have the pro-life crowd which is calling it unacceptable. progressives are upset with dropping the plan. the dennis kucinich crowd won t vote for a period. it s effectively dead. then you have the skittish conservative democrats who looked at scott brown s victory. what s so amazing, steve, you ve got nancy pelosi who s blessed with a 79-vote majority. you know what they re sweating right now? they re sweating out fact that neil amber cross-examine buy may resign and move back to hawaii. so with a 79-vote majority, they re worried about one guy leaving will kill the bill.