likely is gitmo for 50 grand and is that the scenario that is developing. i think so and that is exactly the right question. and i think when you see them, there is so little political will on behalf of lawmakers to back the administration s initial plan, you have to wonderer how long the administration is going to stand by its plans and in an election year ask democrats to stand up and support this when clearly the country thinks it is unpopular and majority of the country thinks it is unsafe and certainly thinks it is unwise. i think it will be hard for the white house to continue to press this for, you know, through nof. bill: steven, thanks for coming in today, i mentioned the christmas day body bomber and you are still reporting on that and i m out of time and we ll do it next time. thanks. bill: you ve got it. from washington, martha. martha: new developments in the case of acorn owe opponent and film director james o keefe, the attorney general, recused himself, outside of m
in which he vowed this year, 2010, would be focused on job creation, and critics say the stimulus program, didn t deliver what it promised and the bank bailouts were hugely unpopular and this program, aims to provide a bailout for main street that would create more jobs than small and small businesses are the engine of the country s job creation, martha. martha: what does the schedule look like for the president today. reporter: he ll leave in 30, 40 minutes and visit a small business in nashua, new hampshire, presumably where the owners can talk about the difficulty in getting loans from their local banks and then, he ll hold a town hall meeting, first town hall meeting in new england since the democrats lost ted kennedy s senate seat and with it, their veto-proof majority in the senate and the president held a town hall meeting in tampa, florida, last week, it was the. he may get an earful today, tea party protesters, are vowing to get
air and why are these critics fired up? well, martha, gets a little technical and right now the allowable ozone levels over an 8-hour period is 75 parts per billion. okay? so, the epa is proposing to lower those allowable limits, to between 60 or to 70 parts per billion. sounds like a good deal and wouldn t be that hard to do but it is, because ozone levels have been coming down, 25%, since 1980. and that is mainly through increased efficiencies in automobiles and formulated gasoline and the supporters of this, including the american lung association, say, look, this ills a gos a good thing, b owe zoep we know is a nasty, toxic gas and has short-term health effects, especially on people who have asthma, or respiratory illness, we know that the rates of asthma are going up, and one in ten kids, now suffers from asthma. so we know that reducing ozone exposure to those people will be a good thing and we also know
tell the story and we could sit here and put up owe numbers and people at home could figure that all out. what is going on here? well, we have a congress that is complete out of touch with the american people. i mean, you know, to fly this many people to copenhagen for a climate change summit which produced absolutely nothing in terms of i mean, anything meaningful. it is pretty astonishing in the current climate, if you will, economic climate i m talking about. it is amazing they would even consider doing this and, frankly, you may have the house numbers and that is hard to come by and you don t get a fully detailed account even with the house numbers, senate has not even put their stuff up for our review and we don t know how much the administration spent. so, this is going a huge number. if we were to get to the bottom of it. martha: you know, there are two sides of this. what are these congressmen and, you know, the rest of them, as you, thinking, of spending $2200, a night,
house and senate members and we could have been represented at the thing with three or four people, probably. am i wrong. absolutely. am i wrong. no. i mean, i i think the taxpayers will get it and this is like a congressional field trip and is a carbon footprint that is like big foot and, it is the cost of martha: there is the other irony. exactly. the carbon footprint of big foot. so much for being, efficient, and being green and being cost-effective, and not spending a expending a lot of internally and it is almost comical, a saturday night live skit it is so ridiculous and they wonder why taxpayers are so disgusted? all you have to do is point to this small slice of spending. to get the feel for why. and there is a lot of hypocrisy. martha: you want think about it. these people are in public service and are serving the people of the country, are not high-paid ceos, they are not