we were on a second short break and heading to the fieldhouse. he collapsed outside the fieldhouse. the heat proving to be fatal in georgia. two high school football players collapsed while out practicings under the sun and the heat. they both later died. if you have kids who say, mom, dad, the coach says i have to practice, i have to be out there, maybe in full pads, i want you to listen to the father of one of those high school players who just passed away. when your body tells you that you re tired, you need to tell somebody, the kids need to tell their coaches or whoever, there s something wrong with me, i need a break. also this, the heat is warping train tracks. yes, in missouri, in oklahoma, in texas, inspectors are hitting the rails every afternoon. checking and fixing what day ca they call sun kinked that could cause trains to derail. i want to turn your attention to the town of robert lee, texas, the water source is about to run try. it s a towny town ther
cigarette butts the suspect may have smoked on board the hijacked plane. when were they smoking on airplanes? and starting today, the tsa will begin training agents at boston s logan airport in a new screening process. they re learning interrogation techniques designed to root out suspicious behavior. logan is the first airport in the country to try the system. now back to our friends, peter and gretchen and dick. good show. the trigger mechanism in the debt deal is supposed to make sure congress really cuts back on out of control government spending but can it be enforce ed? dick morris doesn t think so and rejoins us with his own solution. what do you make of this? because the triggers were supposed to make sure that this 12-member committee actually does something because they don t want to face the triggers of cuts to medicare or cuts to defense. yeah, i mean, the only thing that binds congress is a constitutional amendment.
no supermajority, each leader will appoint three, a committee of 12. we need to do something because the trigger that kicks in is very, very difficult. we need to do this. and it has to be one that s fair. the american people demand fairness. it can t be more cuts to programs that have made this country what it is. there must be a sharing of sacrifice. it s really unfair for billionaires and multimillionaires not to be contributing to the arrangement we ve just made. but they re not. my friends, the republicans, held firm, and no revenue which is really too bad. we need to have a fair approach to this joint committee, and i m confident we will do that. and the one reason we re going to do that is because of the trigger mechanism that kicks in. now, this committee that was going to have, be appointed, the
there s no reason it couldn t work now. no supermajority, each leader will appoint three to the committee of 12. we need to do something because the trigger that kicks in is very, very difficult. we need to do this. it has to be one that s fair. the american people demand fairness. it can t be more cuts to programs that have made this country what it is. there must be a sharing of sacrifice. it s really unfair for billionaires and multimillionaires not to be contributing to the arrangement that we ve just made, but they re not. my friends, the republicans held firm. and no revenue, which is really too bad. we need to have a fair approach to this joint committee. i m confident we will do that. and one reason we re going to do that is because the trigger mechanism that kicks in. now, this committee that was
programs that are the battle ground. to put people on that that have a passion and are protective of those programs. and to have the kind of tough minded people that are going to be part of the debate, the necessary debate on revenue generation. that cannot be off the table. she needs people on there that are going to make sure it states on the table. i m wrong, i really do that we re going to end up in a deadlock and then looming over us is this trigger mechanism that will be devastating to many, many programs across the country to many people. but i hope that doesn t come to pass. i do i m a little pessimistic that s where we re going to end up come december. and this as i know you re a no vote. there seems to be a lot of democrats waking up this morning feeling as if maybe the white house did better in these negotiations than they thought at the beginning. do you feel that way?