the ticket. shameless plugs, john? for my family in des moines. my reporter friends, my cousin josh works with my best friend pete and my other cousin works at zombie burger to typical. i m going to be so boring by comparison. our colleagues at the washington post have been doing a great series on life under the drones. the latest installment is today. great pieces. absolutely. i am starting to read shaun trend s back the lost majority. if you re a political junkie or there s a political junkie it your life, you should get this book. absolutely. anytime we can do book recommendations. on the fix we have best political books of 2011. if you need a last-minute or let s be honest a late christmas gift, go look. go buy. that s it for this edition of the daily rundown. tomorrow on the show, chuck todd, the goateedhimself is
guilty with explanation. this is the third such hearing that i myself have been involved with this offender relative to this behavior. obviously, you know, he is aware of what he can and cannot possess. weir s defense is that he did not realize that he still had these particular photos. he claims that he thought all of his photos of minors were confiscated the last time he got in trouble. i thought she got them last time, ma am. i really did. granted, i should have gone and checked. i was out four days before i got rolled up again. i just i had other things going on. when i got back, what i did overnight for about four years you can ask graveyard, they kept coming by asking if i was all right i tore through every single piece of paper and envelope i had looking for anything that could cause me further problems. we re done with the pictures. we are done with the pictures. you understand why i m a little bit skeptical of that? go look.
in trouble. i thought she got them last time, ma am. i really did. granted, i should have gone and checked. i was out four days before i got rolled up again. i just i had other things going on. when i got back, what i did overnight for about four years you can ask graveyard, they kept coming by asking if i was all right i tore through every single piece of paper and envelope i had looking for anything that could cause me further problems. we re done with the pictures. we are done with the pictures. you understand why i m a little bit skeptical of that? go look. no no, absolutely, ma am. it s easy to get pictures if you want them bad enough. well, i haven t been going and checking out anything out in the library. i just canceled my one magazine subscription. i m pissed off about it.
still no deal on the debt limit but yesterday, there may have been finally a breakthrough. a bipartisan group of six senators, gang of six, offered up a plan once again to raise the debt limit and cut the deficit by trillions. even the president praised it. the good news is that today, a group of senators, the gang of six, democrats and republicans, i guess now the gang of seven because one additional republican senator added on put forward a proposal that is broadly consistent with the approach that i ve urged. joining us right now is one member of the gang of six, georgia senator. good morning, senator. good morning, steve. good to be with you. there are a number of other senators that have taken a look at the proposal and people on capitol hill and they go wait a
somebody has tested positive for alcohol as an air traffic controller. then again, isn t it time for zero tolerance policy? maybe air traffic controllers wouldn t be asleep on the job, wouldn t be showing up to work drunk if they thought they were going to be fired the next day. well, it is an interesting double standard because look at the pilots at northwest who maybe a decade ago, three of them flew an airplane into minneapolis all under the influence and boy, the next day, the same day, they were gone. they were toast. but f.a.a. does not have the same policy but there has been this double standard issue on rest, as you mentioned with the controllers falling asleep. this is all the all these issues coming back to roost for f.a.a. right and coming to light so we can see what s going on. rob mark, you, again are the editor of jetwhine.com. thank you for coming in with your expertise on these. you re welcome. sarah palin making a big announcement. she s expanding her role.