that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let s go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their disaster relief funds that are much depleted and could run out, but they said they could stretch the funds through the end of this week. this is different than prior predictions which many had said would be depleted by the beginning of this week. in a statement, i will read you just in part, wolf, quote, estimates from over the weekend indicate the disaster relief fund could be fully exhausted by the
while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runner s status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romney s father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. here s how he explains it. my plan is bold because it throws out the tax code and imposes a business flat tax of 9%, personal flat tax of 9%, national sales tax of 9%. it replaces all of the taxes that people are now having to grapple with and it provides search engine to the business community which is what they re looking for in order to grow this economy. governor perry jumped into the race for the gop nomination. that was just six weeks ago. instantly topped the polls but critics say that perry s debate performances
i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers morgan tonight. morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i ve come to realize, he s also a great man of his word. a few months ago he promised he d join me in the studio face to face for a one-on-one interview, and here you are, morgan freeman. yay. an actor keeping his word. yes. i m stunned. yeah. we won t talk about how it came about. we won t. i know it s got nothing to do with me. everything to do with one of my very attractive booking team. right? yes, yes. i must admit. the most stunning woman i ve ever met. don t say that. it will go to her head. please. please don t say that. i also said when i interviewed you down the line remotely by satellite that you appeared to be remarkably youthful for a man of your, let s be honest, fairly advanced years. and here you are in the flesh and you re even more youthful in the flesh. what is the s
she s played everything from the president to thelma in thelma and louise. i loved commander in chief, which was the great series you took part in. it was like my west wing fix and suddenly i woke up and it was gone. what happened? that s what happened to me, too. i woke up and my show wasn t on anymore. were you disappointed as i was? devastated. if it was ever brought back, i have the whole publicity angle worked out that it was have maybe a profile shot of me at the desk and say, look who just got re-elected. the weird thing is, i reckon after watching that, you were more presidential in that role than many of the presidents i would say over the years, like martin sheen. both of you were very electable in those roles. right. in your case, i know you ve become this great standard bearer for all things women, but in that role, that was doing it for you, i felt. absolutely. is that how you felt? absolutely. it was funny how many people would say, i would
this man can do just about anything. i ll have to ask him to do me a personal favor. i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers morgan tonight. morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i ve come to realize he s also a great man of his word. a few months ago he promised he d join me in the studio face to face for a one-on-one interview, and here you are, morgan freeman. yay. an actor keeping his word. yes. i m stunned. yeah. we won t talk about how it came about. we won t. i know it s got nothing to do with me. everything to do with one of my very attractive booking team. right? yes, yes. i must admit. the most stunning woman i ve ever met. don t say that. it will go to her head. please. please don t say that. i also said when i interviewed you down the line remotely by satellite that you appeared to be remarkably youthful for a man of your, let s be honest, fairly advanced years. a