the produce of sending bulk mail is increases well. they are trying to make up for $2.8 billion in loss revenue brought on by the recession and e-mail. i am sure my mom is going to love the e-mail christmas card. have to do what we have to do. this year, we got an eye full for the legal and most of them were gripping courtroom drama off television. let s bring in two criminal defensive attorneys. merry christmas. thank you so much for being with us. what a year. whether you are a lawyer or not, there was plenty to watch. i have to start with george zimmerman. reminds me of the criminal that walks and he gets in trouble
subsidies? for all the energy companies? republican senator, what do you think? guest: well it is time to get government out of the business of picking winners ands therers in industry. so we ought to get rid all the subsidies and that is which why i proposed legislation i sponsored to end all tax credit subsidies in the energy industry. neil: now, the quick turn around you may have heard newt gingrich earlier, that would be like a tax hike and he is against tax hikes, what would you say? guest: well, this bill contains an offset so corporate taxes as a whole are reduced to a correspondingly degree so it is not a tax hike. neil: you would look at a way to make up the loss revenue, but, how, to the oil companies? guest: well, just cut taxes, corporate taxes across the board so that this is not a benefit going to specific players in a
absolutely not. no. reporter: the american lung association agrees it won t help smokers quit but says it might keep them out of the doctors offices. we think there will be more hrt attacks, more lung disease problems and that will end up costing more in the long run. reporter: ray doesn t buy it. he s had four open heart surgeries due to a defect from his mother s smoking during pregnancy. it s got to start somewhere. reporter: the federal government funds a majority of medicaid. if utah lawmakers back his bill they must seek a waiver to charge a co-pay. if successful representative ray says his next target could be the obese who he says should have to pay more for an unhealthy lifestyle. martha: thank you so much. gregg: republicans giving up their faith against the extense of a payroll tax cut saying the ko gs of los cost of loss
but people that do not have a lot of money and maybe that buy coffee at starbucks. guest: the industry has gone from being able to borrow and lend and make a lot of money on the interest rates which are lower, and they cannot do that so they are going to increase their fees, going into overdraft fees and different ways to make up the loss revenue. but the problem is we have seen regulation as a result of the lower income customers getting hit saying it is ridiculous $35 or $40 for a $3 cup of coffee and this along with a durbin amendment changing fees that banks can get, this is part of the reason why we are now seeing $5 a month debit card charges and up to $20 a month for a checking account and the banks will say this is how they make the charges more trance parent. shepard: remember when they changed the rules so the bank
last sunday. dozens of families have lost their homes to wildfires. in oklahoma city alone, fires destroyed 25 homes just this week. and in texas, crews are still battling 14 separate wildfires. they have been making some progress, but a weather system is expected to bring high winds to texas to tomorrow. and that could turn the embers back into flames. politics and sarah palin s latest appearance in the critical early voting state of iowa. the former alaska governor and former vp candidate was a keynote speaker at a tea party rally. she didn t use the rally to declare her presidential bid but she definitely sounded like a candidate. watch. candidate obama didn t have a record while he was in office, but president obama sure does and that s why we re here today. candidate obama, he pledged to fundamentally transform america and for all the failures and broken promises, that s the one thing he delivered on. we have transformed from a country of hope, to one of anxiety. t