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American Morning
Morning Buzz
Aired January 24, 2002 - 08:24 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Time now to take a couple of minutes and look at some of the other stories that we've been looking at so far this morning.
In other words, it's time once again to do a little buzzing here on "AMERICAN MORNING" -- buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: I got quite a buzz going this morning.
CAFFERTY: Yes. President Bush, in his proposed budget, wants another $48 billion for the military for not only military overseas, but for domestic security in the wake of the situation on September 11. And that combined with tax cuts and the recession and all kinds of other things, prompted the Congressional Budget Office to issue a rather dire projection for the next couple of years of $100 billion plus deficits, as opposed to those big surpluses we were anticipating just six, eight months ago. So ...
COOPER: This is like the biggest increase in defense spending in the last 20 years, I mean. Right?
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely.
COOPER: Yes.
ZAHN: So the Democrats haven't waited -- they haven't wasted any time to jump on this. One, because they're very concerned about not only deficit spending, but, apparently the president in a meeting indicated, or at least his team, that somehow the Republicans could gain a political advantage from declaring that the Republican Party was much better-suited to fight this war on terrorism. And now the White House has to be very careful that this argument for the $48 billion extra in defense spending will not be added to that mixture.
CAFFERTY: In conjunction with that, did you catch Tom Daschle yesterday talking about he doesn't want to "Enron" the country. He actually said that in some sort of an interview that I saw using the problems at Enron as a verb.
COOPER: It's like Nasdaq is becoming a verb.
ZAHN: Right. CAFFERTY: I don't want to "Enron" the country, or I don't want to "Enron" the people or something. It's like, "Hey, George, I'm back from vacation."
COOPER: There's an interesting piece in "The Dallas Morning News" this morning about a new census report. The statistical abstract of the U.S. for the year 2000, which comes out, I guess, every year. The headline was "Abstract Offers Glimpse of America's Favorite Things".
Now we have apparently, according to this -- according to new census figures, 4 in 10 Americans used a cellular phone in 2000 ...
ZAHN: Before you go any further, you know ...
COOPER: Jack ...
ZAHN: ... Jack is one who refuses to use a cell phone. We're going to actually buy him a shredder. We're going to give him a shredder first so he has one to use at home ...
CAFFERTY: I'll put my cell phone in it.
ZAHN: ... and then he'll use a cell phone.
COOPER: It's interesting, like, in 1990 only five million people used cell phones. Now in the year 2000 it was 110 million.
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Also ...
ZAHN: Can I offer an editorial penny?
COOPER: Yes.
ZAHN: Too many of them use them in cars -- thank you very much.
CAFFERTY: Oh I agree.
COOPER: Also more people are eating more red meat, sugar than ever before, and more people prefer crossword puzzles to bingo.
CAFFERTY: Paula's ...
CAFFERTY: Paula's on the right side of that red meat story. I saw that today.
COOPER: Yes.
ZAHN: Jack walked into our green room, where we're all getting prepared for the morning show, and was quite appalled to see that at 5:30 in the morning I eat hamburgers smothered in grilled onions.
CAFFERTY: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
COOPER: Where do you fall on the big bingo-crossword controversy?
ZAHN: Probably crossword puzzles -- preference that to the bingo.
CAFFERTY: I don't do either of those either.
(CROSSTALK)
ZAHN: Can you imagine how they ...
COOPER: I like bingo because it's a social atmosphere.
ZAHN: ... how they put these research ...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Yes the fact that USA is spending money about bingo and crossword is kind of interesting. Anyway, that is all the time we have for Morning Buzz. You can get in on The Morning Buzz by e- mailing us this morning.
We'd like to know what you think about new regulations proposed to block phone calls from telemarketers. We talked about that a little bit yesterday. What should the government do to protect you from telemarketers?
We'll share your comments with the director of the Federal Trade Commission and the president of the Direct Marketers Association in our next hour. Our address is am@cnn.com, so send us those e-mails.
ZAHN: Can I tell you what my husband did last night with a telemarketer?
CAFFERTY: Yes, I want to know.
(CROSSTALK)
ZAHN: I said -- because I said oh let me -- let me get my husband for you. So he took the phone, and then he put the release button as he picked it up and gone was that telemarketing call.
CAFFERTY: Yes -- I mean ...
ZAHN: That's one way of dealing with it.
CAFFERTY: It should be made illegal. It's an invasion of privacy. How dare they come into my home at dinnertime. Just a -- just a thought.
ZAHN: We're going to take a short break here. We'll be right back.
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