Living on the Edge

" I'm yesterday when I saw that they were doing this big health care bill anyway even though most Americans don't want it. I thought boy and know how mine gonna run my business and a lot of people feel same Wayne Ellington on how to houses can turn things around. -- wanted to get an expert on in a different way and talk about. Hostages. Danny -- he's a former deputy assistant director for the FBI and former commander of the FBI's hostage rescue team. Denny don't mean you don't expect ever worked for the FBI again after -- How we're expecting more from renewal. I'm glad -- going through it okay. I I have no idea what it -- feels like to be a hostage and I just know and I don't wanna compare this to a hostage but. I just know that I don't feel as free as I used to to do the things that I. I no longer feel like I'm in control of my own destiny or feel like it's slipping through my fingers. Here with what's happening in Washington from both sides of the -- But I -- to approach this from a different standpoint. If you're a hostage taker. You say there are three things that they all have in common they they do when they take you."

" Hostage what -- sure. That they use speed surprise balance of action take you prisoner case they -- useless violence to frighten you. Okay tell me let's go through these one by one speed how do you mean okay. They come on get you very quickly they hit you fasting -- hard. They surprise you and the effect of that plan is to make you implement it makes you lose your ability to respond. And doing things the same technique we usually rescue hostages we do that the terrorist wolf terrorist. Do that. To the people they're trying to think I could -- results are we scared the daylights out of."

" May I and I don't wanna put any words in your mouth this is this is my theory. Because I feel in a way that we five feel like the country's being taken hostage in a -- speed could be used as hurry up. Hurry up or what what it was -- the President Obama said otherwise. The the system as we know it may not survive if we don't sign the stimulus package by Friday. That would be rather -- speed speed."

" Clearly that's that's being pushed it down right now. Let's get it done so quickly nobody has suggestion though we're doing here and we're not doing so that's the same type of thing."

" How would how would surprise play into that it's like when John Conyers is like yeah -- and really read is that the no surprise to what do you mean surprise. In --"

" To do something unexpected something that that nobody expected gonna happen I think that. That the American people of expected and it can and should be demanding. That they know what's in these bills and that they have a chance to look at them to review them even on the Internet but we're being surprised now by a whole conglomeration. Of bills. That frankly our elected representatives had been read yet so that's a surprise."

" All right and the violence. Of action I -- get to that hearing in just the second we're gonna come back and -- will want to remind the White House. That the phone line is here you can call anytime I mean because you know we got introduced America to some people that. -- like these guys and we. You have the number you called for wrong. Or we'll take a break with we would you you'll probably -- we'll take --"