listen. there is a cost to government, and that cost where appropriate should be borne by the people using the program or the facility or what not. jamie: michael graham, radio talk show host, columnist for the boston heard. a nice to see you this morn. happy to be here and happy not to be in jail. jamie: take that would be okay. it at least has cable. you could be watching but we wouldn t have you on. meanwhile they say it s a revenue generator for the community. that s not a bad thing but you should you be able to pay your way to a bert environment? it is only for people charged an convicted of misdemeanors? we know that deal here in massachusetts with white collar criminals. we ve had three speakers of the massachusetts house in a row convicted of felonies. by sheer coincidence, all democrats. my attitude those guys want to pay extra to stay in a jail where they re more comfortable and city end up making money? that s great. i m a lot more worried about
on this with 51 rather than the traditional 60 votes. if you listen to harry reid, he spoke this morn at the center for american progress, a liberal think tank, he said, look, this is a small change born of necessity. we have to do this because these are the president s picks and republicans are blocking them for blocking sake. if you listen to mitch mcconnell on meet the press yesterday or virtually any other time he s talked about it, what he says is this is a pandora s box. once you start changing the filibuster rules for anything, you can change the filibuster rules for everything. so so much of where you think the rightness or wrongness, andrea, it tends to divide right down party lines at the moment. and in fact the last time this issue arose in full bloom, it was bill frist, then the republican leader, and john mccain, then and now tried to broker some sort of an agreement. this is harry reid today explaining his purpose. i wasn t talking about clanging the rules for nomin
to solving these investigations, very, very helpful. hundreds of parameters on the flight data recorder that can tell us what the airplane was doing, what was being commanded at the time. the cockpit voice recorder will tell us not just about the last moments right before the crash, but the minutes and the hours before the crash so we can understand the communication, the coordination and any issues that were raised in the cockpit. and so has that i mean it was recovered. has it been like preliminarily reviewed at this point or when will that play out? the recorders left here in san francisco on a red-eye flight just before midnight. they were scheduled to arrive back in d.c. very first thing this morn. they ll be escorted back to our labs and within the first 24 hours we hope to do a preliminary audition. that s to make sure that the data is there, the quality is good. there wasn t any damage from the crash that information was recorded and we ll have a sense
thank you. coming up on the show, brand new pictures just in to fox and friends this morn. a brand new look at the devastation as the sun begins to rise in oklahoma. [ jackie ] its just so frustrating. the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. i m fed up with always having to put my bladder s needs ahead of my daughter. so today, i m finally talking to my doctor about overactive bladder symptoms. [ female announcer ] know that gotta go feeling? ask your doctor about prescription toviaz. one toviaz pill a day significantly reduces sudden urges and accidents, for 24 hours. if you have certain stomach problems or glaoma, or can not empty your bladd, you should not take toviaz. get emergency medical help right away if your face, lips, throat or tongue swells. toviaz can cause blurred vision, dizziness, drowsiness and decreased sweating.
weather to be occurring. can you bring us up to speed on the damage that you ve been able to witness and see at this point? i know it s dark now. you re dealing with heavy rain, flooding hail.xfcñr what have you been able to witness? stillñv various aspects of damage. it appears significant structure damage is west of oklahoma city. that is partially rural area, too. a lot of horse ranches and farms have been damaged. how many counties are involved?. approximately six counties here. what do you expect so-to-see when everyone wakes up in the morn something what do you need to let them snow. going to find damage that may not have been as evident through the night and dark.