jenna? jenna: jim angle live in washington. jim, thank you. reporter: you bet. jon: for more we re joined by nina easton, columnist at fortune magazine and fox news contributor and jamie weinstein, senior editor of the daily caller. no one says it better than joe biden, nina. we didn t want this to start off as shaky as it did but it is complicated. winning world war ii was complicated and took less time for the nights to win world war ii then for them to build a working website. jon, it is complicated, that is such an understatement reengineering 1/6 of the economy. it is complicated and look at the size of this legislation. thousands of pages and look at number of regulations. it is complicated and led to a lot of fallout that hurt people like their policies being canceled. like losing doctors and coverage
good morning to you, i m jon scott. jenna: great to see you, everybody, i m jenna lee. with a little more than a month to go before open enrollment ends, the vice president says they may fall short of the white house s unofficial goal. initially we talked about by the end of this period having seven million people lined up. we may not get the seven but we ll get to five or six and that is a hell of a start. and there s a drop-dread date for the first round in the beginning of march but, but there s a lot going on and so i mainly came to say thanks for negotiating this. thanks for helping people negotiate it. and just see this getting better and better and better. jenna: our chief national correspondent jim ingle live in washington on this story today. jim? reporter: hello, jenna.
inland. admiral thad allen with an update on the oil cleanup efforts. patti ann: a dire report just released by the nonpart son congressional budget office, the message is simple reduce government spending or head down a path of financial unsustainability. they are presenting the 2010 long term budget outlook and it is not looking good. jim evening he will here to bring it all down. he is live in washington. i understand the cbo director was in a special place for the latest projections. reporter: that s right, the director was delivering a presentation before the debt commission, the group that is trying to figure out how to solve our debt problems, which the cbo describes as you said is unsustainable or a word he used today daunting. the main problems are the rising cost of healthcare and the aging of the u.s. population, listen. cbo proceed skwebgts that if current laws do not change
2003 tax cuts deficits would go to 90% in the overall economy by 2020. cbo also said today that the recovery is going slowly and that unemployment will not return to the rates of about 5% until four years from now in 2014. so high unemployment for the next four years. patti ann: all right, jim ingle live in washington thank you. jon: they lived in suburban communities for years in some cases, even raising families, building careers in this country and through it all virtually no one had a clue that they were spies for america s former cold war enemy, at least that is what the u.s. government is alleging. if true, how did these suspected russian spies maintain their act for so long? [ male announcer ] at toyota, we care about your safety.