and iowa. doug, since you ve been there, what does a conference look like? how many people are involved in that, from the senate, from the house, i assume safers as well as members? yeah, initial meetings will be a small group of staffers, maybe six to ten to 12 members. you ll have anywhere from four to six, the top leadership. and then the committees of jurisdiction members. ultimately, every member has a say. when the republican conference house republican conference meets tomorrow, they ll have something that s called open time where any member can get up and say whatever they want to on anything. i can tell you, it won t surprise you. a lot of members aren t shy to get up there and express their feelings. maybe even using some kind of scaramucci-like language. anderson, look, the republican leadership, especially in the senate, is at a crisis point, because they ve been exposed as liars. the entire leadership has been exposed for lying. remember root and branch, root
drugged out. my love for my children came through strongly. what s your relationship like them now? really really close. it s a good question, i took my son to the movie, he was 18 with my ex-wife together, we wanted to show him what was true. i never punched my wife in the stomach. that wasn t true. did you hit her at all? we had a struggle on the safers. the time i hit her was the day i got sober, 17 years ago, we had a struggle on the stairs. that s true with my daughter and the whole thing, didn t happen at the end it happened in the middle of our relationship. the day i got sober. playing devil s advocate, you say i was always a great father, kicking your kid s mother in front of them. when i m on drugs, though, you can t be a great that s what i said to you, that moment was the highest i had been in my life. i hadn t slept in probably two months because of all the cocaine. in that blip, of course, when i
are invested in the market. a lot of you say, this has been a bad few years for me. people who are safers who don t have money in the stock market, just consider cds or interest on bank savings, it s been hard. you get nothing for your money anymore. it s terrible. it s a crime, actually in my book. because the banks are making money, right? we could get into all of this. i know what you re going to say. reporter: they are making money. they are. and the people who put their money in the banks are not. thanks, i appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom , which fix will be the fix for obama care? the president has his plan, the house has its plan. we ll discuss next. [ coughs, sneezes ]
chairman bernanke made it clear that the feds could change its plans if the economy suffers any set backs. home buyers might not like the news from the fed today but for safers that have suffered low rate for the last couple years this could come as welcome relief. shep? shepard: peter not only were the markets down today one stock in particular men s wear house took a beating. got out after word got out that the company it fired its famous founder. you know the guy. you are going to like the way you look. i guarantee it. bill: is he george zimmer. he had been the company spokesman for decades and earlier today he slammed the company s board of directors in a written statement. he said the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns on the company s direction by terminating me as an executive officer. no word from the company on why it fired zimmer. or if we ll still like the way we look. another potential scandal for the irs now as one lawmaker says the agency is set
going after the lit but italy has always spent way much more than they have and they are in good shape in terms of private debt with little of that. the people have money. tall yarns very conservative safers but in terms of government spending they have been out-of-control and have not shown strong signs of getting it together. neil: great reporting, as urge, greg, thank you from rome. italy gets it. my next guest says why don t why? republican senator from utah pushing forward a balanced budget amendment but it has been an uphill fight and it continues to be. guest: it does, but we will get it passed and the question is, how long? it is frustrating that it looks lick a couple of our european counterparts could beat us. germany beat us to that point and it sounds like italy is next. neil: berlusconi bounced this off the german leader and everyone was happy about that or