research poll done last year that showed that catholic church attendance in the united states was at a low, a decades-long low of just 24% going once a week. so i think a lot of people are hoping that at some point we will have some statistics to show that francis is, in fact, bringing people back to church on sundays. john? jon: amy kellogg joining us from london, thank you. jenna: well, a new company is now flexing its muscle in the billion dollar fitness industry. why its workout to method is catching on bigtime. jon will be doing burr pees in the studio during commercial to show us why. jon: yes. jenna: plus, david beckham is swarmed. what happened to the fans and to the soccer superstar, next. i want to make things more secure. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat mo dogs. our business needs more cases.
pay your taxes when you go to the store and consume things. like you pay your sales tacts. i ve always liked that idea because then the government wouldn t have to know how much money you make you wouldn t have to keep all your records for the i.r.s. and april 15th would just be another spring day. jenna: that would be amazing. matt, what do you think about that option, and also the fact that we ve talked about tax reform just so much that when you look at actually who is trying to do it, for example, senator baucus one of the reasons he says he can do it or one of the reasons people have been saying that he s going for it is he s going to retire so he doesn t have any mythical consequence. what do we do about not only having new ideas like the one steve mentioned or having lawmakers that are really, really willing to fight for it? sph i thin i think you re in the middle of a paradigm shift in washington d.c. we have legislators like ted cruise who are willing to do it. we are litera
you don t they re not supportive, you know? jenna: what do you attribute that to? because, you know, they could have a great partner, and they could help a company build. obviously, there s some nervousness about the credit bubbles we ve been in in the past. how do you navigate that? well, i mean, we need them. without them you can t, you can t take risks. without them you don t inspire the younger generations to come up and want to go out there and build their own businesses on their own. these younger generations also see the difficulties when they re working at the workplace, and they hear the banks are not helping you. well, yeah, i m just going to stick around and work for somebody. this whole downfall jenna: to your point, though, it s been a couple years about the message to businesses, right? you have occupy wall street, people are angry at the banks, but we also see some of the different regulations going into effect for small businesses as well. you have about ten emplo
jon: right now the new u.s. ambassador to libya is settling into her new post. deborah jones arriving in tripoli today where she met with the libyan general congress members. jones takes over for u.s. ambassador chris stevens who, as you know, was killed during the benghazi terror attack last september. three other americans also died in that attack. jenna: well, some word today of a potential prison swap offer from the taliban in afghanistan. a senior spokesman from the group telling the associated press the taliban now stands ready to free sergeant bowe bergdahl, the american soldier who disappeared in 2009 and has apparently been held hostage all this time. there is a condition, though, for his release. it will only happen if the u.s. frees five of the taliban s senior operatives now being held at guantanamo. this offer comes amid
knowing that the men that are trying to kill them, their government is sitting down with? look, this whole to me, the afghanistan surge never made a lot of sense in the very beginning because we immediately sate we re going in, but we re on our way out. that signals we re not going to stick around, so as far as the taliban guys, they used to say in afghanistan when they tap their empty wrist, you ve got the watches, we ve got the time. jenna: now seeing the plans after the surge might be another one. let me just ask you something really quick because a story was on the front page of the wall street journal , and it s slightly connected. there s a country, the country of georgia, that that has given troops to also help in afghanistan. but now we re learning according to the wall street journal that georgia is actually serving as a proxy market for the iranians to get around their sanctions. and they re making a lot of money. and a lot of the companies set up in georgia apparently