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[0:00] is deemed unhealthy, the government will

[0:02] give it more money and assume a greater

[0:04] stake of ownership.

[0:06] >> The problem with government stepping

[0:07] into the marketplace is that they have

[0:10] so many consequences to their behavior

[0:12] that they don't think about.

[0:14] >> Still others believe the government

[0:16] should just fully take over all the

[0:18] banks in jeopardy.

[0:19] >> It makes no sense to keep pouring money

[0:21] into them. They're black holes.

[0:23] nationalize them, wipe out the

[0:25] shareholders, spin out the entities as

[0:28] free, clean standing, no debt, well-

[0:31] capitalized uh financial institutions

[0:34] and reboot the whole financial sector.

[0:37] >> Now, the fear is is that as the economy

[0:39] continues to deteriorate, housing prices

[0:41] will continue to decline, foreclosures

[0:44] will continue to go up, and so banks

[0:46] will, of course, be facing more and more

[0:48] write downs. It's for this reason that

[0:50] proponents of nationalization say it's

[0:52] important for the government to do this

[0:53] soon because otherwise these stress

[0:55] tests and this little bit of money

[0:58] happening along the way will just

[1:00] forestall the inevitable. Brian

[1:02] >> Trish Reagan at the NYSE starting us off

[1:04] tonight. Trish, thanks as always. And

[1:06] now to where the money is going to come

[1:08] from for the president's plan to bring

[1:10] down the federal deficit during a time

[1:12] of record government spending. The

[1:14] president's going to need friends for

[1:16] that and he knows it. That was clear

[1:17] today. NBC News White House

[1:19] correspondent Savannah Guthrie on duty

[1:21] tonight. Savannah, good evening.

[1:23] >> Good evening, Brian. At this time of

[1:25] unprecedented federal spending, the

[1:27] economic recovery package just signed

[1:29] being the first example. The president

[1:31] wants to show he can cut as well as

[1:33] spend.

[1:36] The president convened the first ever

[1:38] fiscal responsibility summit at the

[1:40] White House and made a big promise to

[1:42] cut the $1.3 trillion deficit in half by

[1:46] the end of his first term.

[1:48] >> We cannot simply spend as we please and

[1:51] defer the consequences to the next

[1:53] budget, the next administration, or the

[1:55] next generation.

[1:56] >> To do it, the president will have to

[1:58] raise some taxes. By 2011, those making

[2:01] more than $250,000 a year would see tax

[2:04] rates rise nearly 5%. The tax rate for

[2:07] capital gains would also rise 5%. And

[2:10] the president is counting on big savings

[2:13] up to $90 billion a year from drawing

[2:15] down troops in Iraq. Budget watchdog say

[2:18] it is possible to shrink the deficit

[2:21] that much that fast, but the president's

[2:23] plan relies on estimates that the

[2:25] economy will improve down the road. If

[2:28] the recession turns out to be longer and

[2:30] more severe than we're currently

[2:31] expecting, then it will become more

[2:33] difficult or even impossible to reach

[2:35] the deficit reduction goals.

[2:36] >> The president also blasted Washington

[2:38] for engaging in accounting gimmicks over

[2:41] the years, leaving big ticket items like

[2:43] war spending out of official budgets,

[2:45] >> budgeting zero dollars for the Iraq war.

[2:48] Zero for future years, even when we knew

[2:52] the war would continue. Closing out the

[2:54] session this afternoon, the president

[2:56] opened it up. One by one, political

[2:58] friends and foes rose with questions,

[3:00] more like the British parliaments in

[3:02] Washington.

[3:03] >> We have to make some tough decision.

[3:04] >> But the president called first on his

[3:06] rival, Senator John McCain, who

[3:08] questioned the cost of a new line of

[3:10] presidential helicopters ordered by the

[3:12] last administration.

[3:14] >> Your helicopter is now going to cost as

[3:16] much as Air Force One. I don't think

[3:18] that there's any more uh graphic

[3:22] demonstration of how good ideas have uh

[3:26] have cost uh uh taxpayers enormous

[3:29] amount of money.

[3:29] >> Uh I've already talked to Gates about a

[3:32] thorough review of the helicopter

[3:34] situation. The helicopter I have now

[3:36] seems perfectly adequate to me. Um

[3:40] >> well, tomorrow the president will

[3:41] address a joint session of Congress for

[3:43] this first time. The economy will

[3:45] dominate. And he'll also talk about his

[3:47] plans to reform in the areas of health

[3:49] care, education, and energy. He'll frame

[3:51] it, Brian, as a way to save money down

[3:54] the road.

[3:54] >> All right, Savannah Guthrie at the White

[3:55] House for us tonight. Thanks. And a

[3:57] reminder, the president will speak to a

[3:59] joint session of Congress. That's

[4:00] tomorrow night at 9 Eastern time, 6 on

[4:03] the West Coast. NBC News will have live

[4:05] coverage from Washington, of course, on

[4:07] this NBC station. As you may know, all

[4:10] this week, we're teaming up with our

[4:11] friends at our financial news network,

[4:12] CNBC, to bring you a special series of

[4:15] reports aimed at making sense of this

[4:17] economic meltdown. We begin tonight with

[4:20] David Faber, who takes us back to the

[4:22] roots of what ultimately became

[4:24] history's biggest house of cards. And

[4:26] David, you're first. And we thought it

[4:27] was helpful to kind of take a look back

[4:29] and see how we got here.

[4:30] >> Sure. Uh, very important to do that. Of

[4:31] course, the economic crisis, Brian, has

[4:33] many causes, but its genesis can be

[4:35] traced to the US housing market. It was

[4:37] there that a combination of greed and

[4:40] lack of regulation built the foundation

[4:42] for a house of cards.

[4:45] In the aftermath of 9/11, then Federal

[4:48] Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan feared

[4:50] the shock to an already weak economy

[4:52] could send the nation into collapse.

[4:55] >> I was very much concerned that we were

[4:58] we were in the throws of something we

[5:00] had never seen before.

[5:01] >> He oversaw a series of sharp interest

[5:04] rate cuts to ease borrowing. And for

[5:06] many, that cheap money came in the form

[5:08] of new mortgages.

[5:10] >> This week, 30-year fixed rate mortgages

[5:12] dropped to the lowest level since 1971.

[5:15] >> Mortgage rates are falling.

[5:16] >> Mortgage rates mortgage mortgage

[5:18] mortgage mortgage mortgage mortgage

[5:20] mortgage.

[5:22] >> Enter Wall Street bankers who smelled

[5:25] profits. They began to buy up mortgages,

[5:28] bundle them together, and sell investors

[5:30] shares in the monthly payments those

[5:32] mortgages produced. By 2002, the number

[5:35] of mortgages Wall Street bought each

[5:37] month was exploding.

[5:39] >> Once we saw $100 million, we very

[5:41] rapidly blew right past it. And within a

[5:44] six-month period, we were doing $500

[5:46] million.

[5:47] >> To keep it up, Wall Street needed a

[5:49] constant stream of mortgages. So, they

[5:52] encouraged lenders to ease their loan

[5:54] requirements.

[5:55] >> You're not verifying any assets. It's

[5:57] the breathe on a mirror, and if that if

[5:59] there's fog, you sort of get a loan.

[6:01] Quick Loan Funding can help put you in a

[6:03] low 30-year fixed rate program. Today,

[6:05] >> companies like Quickloan Funding became

[6:07] experts at offering so-called subprime

[6:10] mortgages. L Pacific ran a sales force

[6:13] that wasn't exactly seasoned.

[6:15] >> With the loan officers, I mean, you're

[6:17] taking a kid who used to sell pizzas,

[6:19] literally, and he's making $20,000 a

[6:22] month with no training.

[6:24] >> Pizza delivery men.

[6:25] >> Pizza delivery men

[6:26] >> became loan officers.

[6:28] >> Yes. Car salesman. pizza delivery man.

[6:32] Uh kids who worked in electronic stores.

[6:34] They're helping people deal with the

[6:36] largest investment of their lifetime.

[6:38] >> It didn't matter that many of those

[6:39] people were getting mortgages they

[6:41] couldn't afford as long as home prices

[6:43] kept rising. But when the demand for

[6:46] homes was finally satisfied, prices

[6:48] began to sink and mortgage delinquencies

[6:51] began to rise. Investments backed by

[6:54] those mortgage payments collapsed,

[6:57] bringing banks tens of billions in

[6:59] losses. The federal government has been

[7:02] pouring trillions of taxpayer dollars

[7:04] into efforts to support the financial

[7:06] system and rouse the economy out of

[7:08] recession. But despite the painful

[7:10] lessons we're learning, Alan Greenspan

[7:12] fears it's inevitable it will all happen

[7:15] again.

[7:16] >> Somewhere in the future, we're going to

[7:19] have this conversation again.

[7:20] [clears throat]

[7:21] It will not be for quite a period of

[7:23] time, but it will occur because the

[7:27] flaws in human nature are such that we

[7:29] cannot change that.

[7:32] It doesn't work.

[7:34] >> Of course, right now we're still dealing

[7:35] with many of the significant losses yet

[7:37] to come at many of our nation's banks.

[7:39] Brian, you heard Trish talking about

[7:40] that earlier.

[7:41] >> With the difference, Mr. Greenspan, I

[7:43] was going to say, let's deal with this

[7:44] one first. Uh, thank you very much,

[7:46] David, for being with us. and David's

[7:47] superb documentary called House of Cards

[7:50] is going to reair on CNBC this Wednesday

[7:53] night tomorrow night from Washington.

[7:55] Carl Cantonia is going to be with us to

[7:57] look at President Obama's economic plan

[7:59] as part of our series here on this

[8:00] broadcast, Meltdown, making sense of it

[8:03] all. Can you blame them? More than 36

[8:06] million Americans decided last night

[8:08] they needed a break from the economy and

[8:10] so they tuned in to the Academy Awards.

[8:12] By the way, that audience about 4

[8:14] million over last year, which was the

[8:17] smallest Oscar audience ever. And the

[8:19] viewers witnessed a big night for a

[8:21] little movie that proved it could. Our

[8:23] report tonight from NBC's Chris Jansing

[8:25] in Hollywood.

[8:26] >> AND THE OSCAR GOES TO Slum Dog

[8:29] Millionaire. Slum Dog Millionaire.

[8:31] >> The eight Oscar statues for Slum Dog

[8:33] Millionaire are as improbable as the

[8:35] winning streak that's at the center of

[8:37] the movie.

[8:38] >> You're absolutely right. Slum Dog tells

[8:41] the story of an 18-year-old orphan from

[8:43] Mumbai slums who goes from ghetto to

[8:45] glory [music] on a popular Indian game

[8:47] show. A ranks to rich's tale come true.

[8:50] >> When we started out, uh we had no stars.

[8:54] We had no power or muscle. We didn't

[8:56] have enough money.

[9:01] >> It's child stars, not professional

[9:03] actors, but plucked from the slums where

[9:05] they still live and only flown to the

[9:07] Oscars at the last minute. We were

[9:09] worried that it might overwhelm them,

[9:11] but it was so extraordinary for them.

[9:13] >> Oh, you got a little mini one.

[9:15] [laughter]

[9:16] >> Their unbridled excitement, a highlight

[9:18] of the night.

[9:19] >> It's unbelievable. It's still not sunk

[9:20] in. You know, we're on the red carpet.

[9:22] Wow. It's unbelievable. We never came to

[9:26] Oscars.

[9:27] >> To understand just how unbelievable the

[9:29] story is, you have to go back to Slum

[9:31] Dog's initial screening here in Burbank

[9:33] to movie executives. It reportedly got

[9:35] an icy reception, bounced from one

[9:37] studio to another, and initially opened

[9:40] in just 10 theaters.

[9:42] Nearly a hundred million dollars in

[9:44] ticket sales later, Slum Dog's success

[9:46] is a dramatic sign of the globalization

[9:48] of Hollywood.

[9:51] >> The Oscars were hosted by Aussie Hugh

[9:53] Jackman. Britain's Kate Winslett won

[9:55] best actress. Spain's Penelopey Cruz

[9:57] best supporting actress.

[10:00] >> Has anybody ever fainted here? Heath

[10:02] Ledger's family traveled from Australia

[10:04] to accept his postumous award, leaving

[10:07] best actor Shaun Penn, the lone American

[10:09] winner in the top categories. But the

[10:12] night belonged to Slum Dog.

[10:13] >> I don't think it's a coincidence that a

[10:15] hopeful movie like Slum Dog Millionaire

[10:18] is the movie that wins best picture at

[10:19] the Oscars this year.

[10:21] >> From the stage of the Kodak Theater to

[10:23] the streets of India, celebrations

[10:26] summed up in the movie's catchy theme

[10:28] song. Jiho, roughly translated, let

[10:31] there be victory. Chris Jansing, NBC

[10:34] News, Burbank.

[10:36] >> When the award-winning NBC Nightly News

[10:38] continues here from New York on a Monday

[10:39] night, have scientists found a key that

[10:41] may help them beat the flu for good. One

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[12:56] >> Our medical news item tonight has to do

[12:58] with something a lot of us are urged to

[12:59] do every year. Get a flu shot. But what

[13:02] if you could get just one shot that

[13:04] would then last year after year with

[13:06] confidence that it would tackle whatever

[13:08] strain of flu came along? Scientists may

[13:11] now have taken a big step in that

[13:12] direction. They say our report from our

[13:15] chief science correspondent, Robert

[13:16] Bazelle.

[13:17] >> Scientists say the new research could be

[13:19] among the most important advances

[13:22] against both seasonal flu and the threat

[13:25] of bird flu or some other pandemic.

[13:27] >> We have identified a new area

[13:31] on the influenza virus that acts as an

[13:34] Achilles heel. The virus does not have

[13:37] the ability to evade the immune system

[13:40] when the immune system is directed to

[13:42] this area.

[13:43] >> In mouse experiments with human

[13:44] influenza, the scientists have made a

[13:47] single antibbody, an immune system

[13:49] protein, which strikes that Achilles

[13:51] heel in several strains of flu,

[13:54] including the H5N1 bird flu. It's a

[13:56] conceptual advance because it shows that

[13:59] you can get an antibbody that not only

[14:01] can knock out the virus, but it is also

[14:04] directed against a part of the virus

[14:07] that does not seem to change from strain

[14:09] to strain. Already the government is

[14:11] planning to make large quantities of the

[14:13] antibbody to provide a very rapid

[14:15] temporary response to any sudden

[14:18] outbreak of a pandemic from bird flu or

[14:21] other new dangerous flu strain. And

[14:23] these latest findings move science

[14:25] toward the holy grail of flu research.

[14:28] >> What you would ultimately like to have

[14:30] is what we would call something like a

[14:32] universal flu vaccine. Something that

[14:35] you can give once and maybe every few

[14:37] years boost that would be good against

[14:40] all the varying strains that you see

[14:42] from season to season and even perhaps

[14:45] against the emergence of a pandemic flu.

[14:47] The latest research brings that

[14:49] possibility much closer. Robert Viselle,

[14:52] NBC News, New York.

[14:54] >> When we come back, the government team

[14:56] in charge of saving the US car industry.

[14:58] You might be surprised to learn how they

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[17:33] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader

[17:34] Ginsburgg was back on the job today,

[17:36] back on the bench 13 days after surgery

[17:39] for pancreatic cancer. She was an

[17:41] aggressive questioner, we're told, as

[17:43] the court heard oral arguments in two

[17:45] new cases today. Justice Ginsburgg,

[17:47] who's 75 and the only woman on the

[17:49] court, was the subject of an apology

[17:52] today from Republican Senator Jim

[17:54] Bunning of Kentucky, who days ago told a

[17:56] dinner audience he didn't expect her to

[17:58] live long, adding insult to injury. He

[18:01] misspelled her last name, not once, but

[18:03] twice in today's statement of apology.

[18:06] American Express is doing something

[18:08] unusual. They're asking some of their

[18:10] card holders to send their cards back.

[18:12] In fact, MX is offering them 300 bucks

[18:15] to be former American Express card

[18:17] holders. Company tried to widen the net

[18:19] of those who qualify for cards a few

[18:21] years back when things were good, only

[18:23] to be overextended in a bad economy.

[18:25] Now, Microsoft is asking for money back.

[18:28] Money that they've already paid out to

[18:30] some former employees. The company says

[18:33] they made a mistake and the severance

[18:35] package they gave to about 1,400 workers

[18:38] let go in January was too generous. It

[18:40] turns out they now want those folks to

[18:43] return the money, something we are

[18:44] certain they'll be anxious to do. A

[18:47] newspaper in Detroit is reporting that

[18:49] the top US government officials in

[18:51] charge of saving the US auto industry do

[18:54] not own American cars. The Detroit News

[18:57] after a check of public records, says

[18:59] Tim Gener, the Treasury boss, drives an

[19:01] Acura. Economic adviser Larry Summers

[19:04] drives a Mazda. and the head of the

[19:05] office of management and budget. Peter

[19:07] Ersag drives a Honda and a Volvo. They

[19:10] are among the eight members of the

[19:12] president's new task force. Two of the

[19:14] members don't own cars at all. Fellow

[19:17] parents might appreciate this next item.

[19:20] It was reported over the weekend the

[19:21] Obama family showed up at a school

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[22:52] We close here tonight with the airline

[22:54] business these days. Put it this way,

[22:56] reaching into the seatback pocket in

[22:58] front of you is like a box of

[22:59] chocolates. You never know what you're

[23:01] going to get. That includes chocolates,

[23:03] chewing gum, or perhaps an Arby's

[23:05] wrapper from the passenger before you.

[23:07] With the airlines flying on razor thin

[23:10] profit margins these days, passengers

[23:12] have noticed a lot of the planes are

[23:14] filthy. But at least one carrier has

[23:17] decided to clean up its act. Our what

[23:19] works report tonight from NBC's Kevin

[23:21] Tibbles.

[23:25] United 896 touches down in Chicago after

[23:29] 14 long hours from Hong Kong. Its 350

[23:33] passengers have left behind a mountain

[23:35] of garbage. From newspapers and crushed

[23:37] cookies to spilled wine and halfeaten

[23:40] meals, a battalion of cleaners is poised

[23:43] to attack. But today, there's someone

[23:45] new on board.

[23:47] >> They call him Mr. Clean. Paul Sanders

[23:50] has a new job sprucing up the airline

[23:53] and its image as United's general

[23:55] manager of cabin appearance. Over the

[23:58] years, that Coca-Cola and coffee has

[24:00] found its way into every nook and

[24:02] cranny.

[24:02] >> The grungy state of many airlines has

[24:05] passengers grumbling.

[24:06] >> Trash and everything in between the

[24:08] seats.

[24:09] >> Since airlines cut down on food service,

[24:11] passengers are bringing their own.

[24:13] >> And more food on board means more

[24:16] garbage. And more people seem to think

[24:17] it's okay just to stuff it in the back

[24:19] of the seat. Now, United is fighting

[24:22] back. Steam cleaning as many as eight

[24:24] widebody jets a night in Chicago. A deep

[24:27] clean every two weeks. Planes mopped

[24:30] down from floor to ceiling. Seats are

[24:32] lifted and inspected for grime. Tray

[24:34] tables cleaned. Windows washed. And on

[24:37] domestic quick turnaround flights, more

[24:39] cleaners speed up the job.

[24:41] >> An airplane comes in and turns around

[24:43] very quickly. We're looking about 10

[24:45] minutes.

[24:46] >> A handheld computer even alerts staff to

[24:48] specific needs, like this unidentified

[24:51] goop on the carpet in 6C. We needed to

[24:54] make sure that we get the level of clean

[24:57] in every aircraft on every flight in

[25:00] every city around the world.

[25:01] >> If the airlines can turn flying back

[25:03] into something that's enjoyable rather

[25:06] than something that's merely tolerated,

[25:08] it's going to be not only good news for

[25:10] customers, but it's going to be good

[25:11] news for their bottom lines.

[25:12] >> One airline hoping the white glove

[25:14] treatment will ensure any fear of flying

[25:17] isn't related to what may be lurking in

[25:19] the seatback pocket. Kevin Tibbles, NBC

[25:22] News, O'Hare Airport, Chicago.

[25:26] >> And that's our broadcast for this Monday

[25:27] night. Thank you for being with us. I'm

[25:29] Brian Williams. We hope to see you from

[25:31] Washington tomorrow night. Good night.

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[25:58] This week on Oregon Artbeat, when is a

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[26:04] Meet Mel Catz, one of Oregon's most

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