proposal of a bill. i m joined now by john camney, senior economist for h.d. wing economics. good to have you with us, welcome. thank martha. martha: it sounds a lot to me like a vat tax, when i read this. what s the difference? a vat tax taxes a good that you re making throughout its production, everything from the steel in the car, all the way to the car. with this, it would be a straight consumption tax. in a perfect world, we would have only consumption taxes, but this would be a tax on top of all the other taxes we pay which are set to go up next year, so it s very problematic. martha: you know, lanny davis argument in this piece is look, democrats and republicans need to get together, we need to basically cut spending, but we re also going to need to raise taxes. he says that s just something everybody needs to accept, we need to jump into this pool together. let me pull up a little of what he says about this whole idea overall and we ll take a look at that. he says are you
into this story. he joins us live. what have you learned about this decision. reporter: so much for solidarity. this conference is held between the four border states and the six mexican border states to the house. this year the conference was scheduled for phoenix. but the six mexican governors wrote to arizona and said we are not going to attend in protest because of arizona s tough new immigration law. two weeks ago governor brewer wrote to the mexican governors and said listen this would have been a very good opportunity for us to get together and discuss the law, but because they refuse to attend brewer said yesterday she had no choice but to answer he will the meeting. from her perspective according to her office the mexicans essentially killed this meeting, martha, by their refusal to come. martha: i mean it is surprising that we re getting this response from the other governors who deal with the border issues in california, new mexico and in texas.
policy is critically important, also afghan policy. i m not for the withdrawal at all, the arbitrary date is a mistake in my view and that should be looked at, hopefully will be looked at by david petraeus in the coming days. greg gregg peter brooks, thank you. thank you. martha: a new british report clearing scientists in the climategate scandal, finding that the researchers did not skew scientific data to show a rise in man-made global warming. the case surfaced after more than a thousand e-mails were released to the public. a separate investigation found there was, quote, no substance to the allegations that one researcher violated those research standards. gregg: a spy for a spy? the russians want their people back rather quickly and there are brand new reports of a swap in the work, but in the works but one intel expert says not so fast. he is here to explain why. martha: and two people are missing today after a sight seeing boat, you know these duck boats, they re in a lot of
this country. doesn t mean the changes come in as much as we need but clearly the american people still are on the side of the democrats. gregg: better bernard, mary katharine, good to see you. good to see you. martha: all right. it is the hottest question in the country right now. where will le bron james play basketball next year, will it be new york, miami, chicago, some say he will stay at home in cleveland. tonight is the night that we find out. in an unprecedented prime time special, dubbed the decision , but if the son of akron, ohio decides to bolt it would be nothing short of devastate fog cleveland, downtown cleveland businesses figure to lose $48 million over the season if the king as he is known leaves for a new castle in greener pastures, the cavaliers, thought to be worth around somewhere like $487 million but that could drop like a rock. he s considered a huge boost
ohio.com and he s been following the story every since lebron has been playing there. and zach joins us as well. obviously it would be a very sad day if lebron changes his mind and heads out of there tonight. it would be. lebron is not real shy but i think he really is loyal. i think he knows how good he has it here. he s certainly enjoying the attention, he always does. ultimately i don t think he s going anywhere. i think he looks at martha: do you think he s going to have a 9:00 one hour special tonight to go to greenwich, connecticut and stand there and say, oh, no change i m staying where i am. yeah he s enjoyed not only the 7-day build up that is beneficial but the three-month build up and the three-year build up. he s lived up to the expectations. the lebron brand is huge, he