next year. but here s the thing, folks, both parties want this. they agree that there should be an extension of this tax holiday. the problem here is that house republicans refuse to settle for the two-month band aid, the two-month extension that has already been passed by the senate. listen. our house gop negotiators are here and ready to work with their counterparts in the senate. he s not lucy, i m not charlie brown. we re not falling for that football stunt, again. okay, lucy and charlie brown. that s what we ve come to now, kate. it can be silly season up there sometimes. but just getting more and more silly, it seems. so, is this just all for show and eventually what people want to know, whether or not this is going to get done, is it? well, it s a good question. right now there s no clear answer, to be quite honest, as it seems both sides at the moment are more dug in than ever before. as you said, the house rejected the senate compromise that two-month extension
stood by his call for more negotiations. let s extend the payroll tax credit for a year. all we re asking for is to get the senate members over here to work with us to resolve our differences so we can do what everybody wants to do. less than two weeks before the iowa caucuses republican ron paul, now the new leader of the pack. in a new poll 28% say paul is their man compared to 25% who back newt gingrich. paul is holding a town meeting. that is happening in iowa this hour. more on the surge in the state later, our political ticker. turkish police detain dozens of people in an alleged ter or plot. many of them, journalists. journalists held this demonstration in istanbul. it was just hours after the police roundup. now they say free press is under attack, but the government says those detained were suspected members of the press and propaganda wing of a banned separatist group. some american troops who just returned home from iraq have just learned now that they may
landslide created a wave of the magnitude or greater than we just saw in japan. and you re not worried about the san andreas fault out in california and those nuclear plants? look, chris, i m worried about everything. and i m worried about coal mining accidents and climate change and mercury pollution. i think the question right now is both looking forward and looking at the existing facilities. there will be a hard-core look at existing u.s. facilities. just to put my perspective, there s a difference between in a coal mining accident where the courageous, gutsy coal miners get trapped down there, and that s a horror, and it affects the workers. there s a we ve had a deep drilling problem down in the gulf, which was scary in terms of environment. but nuclear affects human lives immediately. and in the long-term. it kills we saw what happened when we dropped nuclear weapons on japan. we saw the dangers of chernobyl and the reality, the horror of it. and almost the horror of t
going the try to understand the impact on the u.s. and we don t have tsunamis in our country, you re saying? it was 4,000 years ago that the last major underground landslide created a wave of the magnitude or greater than we just saw in japan. and you re not worried about the san andreas fault out in california and those nuclear plants? look, chris, i m worried about everything and i m worried about coal mining accidents and climate change and mercury pollution. i think the question right now is both looking forward and looking at the existing facilities. there will be a hard-core look at existing u.s. facilities. just to put my perspective, there s a difference between in a coal mining accident where the courageous, gutsy coal miners get trapped down there, and that s a horror, and it affects the workers. there s a we ve had a deep drilling problem down in the gulf, which was scary in terms of environment. but nuclear affects human lives immediately and in the long-term. i
they are made from the petroleum products. gregg: oil an coal. and, electricity from coal and carbon and mercury pollution, from the coal that pollutes our waters. gregg: and caused by the shipping from china and so forth. all right. and 30 million trees are cut down every year and, really, that is insignificant, isn t it. it is, the vast majority of the christmas trees are grown on christmas tree farms and the farmer will plant 1-3 trees for every tree they cut. gregg: and, it is a great family experience and pick out a tree or cut one yourself. harris: i m old-fashioned and i have little kids, one and three and i like the smell of the real tree in my house and you have other tips for us, too, here. in terms of green decorating, first of all, you can get led lights that use a tenth as much electricity as the traditional gregg: and they last forever.