it s a great pleasure, ari. how are you? i m doing great. let me ask you out the gate, how is this child s life going to be different from prince william s? well, it s interesting. prince william was present for the birth of his son. when prince charles was born, his father, prince philip, was playing squash and was informed after four games that he had in fact become a father. so there s a distinction. i think the fact that this announcement was delayed, there was no announcement for over four hours even though the child had been born, is indicative of the kind of control that the royal family has retaken over their media operation. prince william does not like the media. and that s obvious. his wife has been extremely observant of all of the royal protocols in relation to privacy, has not spoken to journalists, is not minded to leak stories martin, i was going to say, i m surprised someone would dislike the british media. i mean, that strikes me as unreasonable. really? t
couple of questions with him, to satiate the appetite. the problem with the royal family now is what happens when you go to a university and every single person is a citizen journalist, every single person is a blogger. that s the challenge. that s why they ve beefed up their media staff. these two have a very large and very efficient team. it s almost as if the media operation is now equivalent to the security operation that applies to members of the royal family because these are the new fresh challenges that confront members of the royal family in the 21st century. indeed. a lot of americans in politics in other ways would be good to take that advice. tom, back to you. we don t have a name yet for this little boy. do you think that s because of family politics? there s a lot of things that must be considered before we choose this long name for the child? oh, no.
of eight senators who came out with a framework who have been extraordinarily cautious in trying to protect the bill. you have someone like made are compa marco rubio, ambitions running a presidential media operation and trying to debunk some of the conservatives who are attacking this because it s not going to be easy. even if it might be good for the republican party for this to get done and democrats want to see it done, it s a tough road ahead. you re seeing a lot of hearings in the senate judiciary committee, senate commerce will have a hearing this week. joint economic committee is having one. this will be worked out through regular order and that comes with some of the downfalls of that, everyone will talk about it, people will find faults in it. but at the same time, they re trying to do this in a way that makes it easier for republicans to get onboard. . we ve watched this congress and last congress and it s difficult to get anything done. so it s hard to be as optimistic as t
i m erin burnett, outfront tonight. the group of 12 taxed with axing $1.2 trillion from america s deficit. last night, we brought you what was frankly a breakthrough. the architect of the plan told us he would support an increase on tax revenues on some of the wealthiest americans. today the top democrat said toomey s plan didn t go far enough. we came to the table to begin with and every day have said that for us it s extremely important. this whatever we end up with at the end of the day is balanced and fair and has real revenue on the table. we still haven t seen from the democrats is a plan that deals with our structural debt crisis that actually solves the problem. this bickering is pretty sad because $1.2 trillion is not very much and it means this issue is going to come back really soon again. so can the super committee step it up? tonight, we go to the front lines with our strike team. that s the group of 20 enstraw praer ins, ceos and investors that i picke
from america s deficit. but will they stop bickering and get the job done? our jobs could depend on it. let s get it done and go outfront. i m erin burnett, outfront tonight. the group of 12 taxed with axing $1.2 trillion from america s deficit. last night, we brought you what was frankly a breakthrough. the architect of the plan told us he would support an increase on tax revenues on some of the wealthiest americans. today the top democrat said toomey s plan didn t go far enough. we came to the table to begin with and every day have said that for us it s extremely important. this whatever we end up with at the end of the day is balanced and fair and has real revenue on the table. we still haven t seen from the democrats is a plan that deals with our structural debt crisis that actually solves the problem. this bickering is pretty sad because $1.2 trillion is not very much and it means this issue is going to come back really soon again. so can the super committe