people would know about that. >> and as your watching him, you're taking him at his word but his eyes are darting all over the place. >> yes, i noticed that was happening. i just think that he was nervous. this was a guy that was able to write about his experiences in the book and i think talking about it was much different for him. and if you watch the entire interview, the raw material of it, he loosens up as it goes on. he was really uncomfortable talking about it. >> one more thing, there is a section where people are trying to impersonate him all the time, even when he's institution allized. >> i walk in there and say, what if people recognize me from tv? >> he says, no, they are out of it. so i walk in there. the second we walk into the lockdown, this guy comes up and you do the guy that does clinton

on tv. and i'm like, i think you have the wrong man. and. [ bleep ] you're not going to do clinton? and i had a college girl that offered to flash me if i did clinton and i said listen, young lady, that is very sick. that is so sick. i'm sorry. >> so if people want to watch a little more, they can find your interview at cnn.com. >> he's a really nice guy and seems to be doing a lot better. >> good. thank you so much. >> thanks, brooke. and now this -- here we go. hour two. keeping you in the loop, texas governor perry is going to talk about his new plan.

here's the thing. he announced his flat tax plan. in this hour coming up, he's going to take questions. it's a big move for republicans who has been plunging in the polls. we'll take you live there as soon as it happens. but, first, sorority sisters warned about a rapist on the loose. also, a new health recommendation for boys. netflix taking a huge hit and a hurricane picking up strength. time to play "reporter roulette." i want to begin with he had lavandera in texas. sorority sisters in their 50s, 60s, bring us up to speed. >> right. they all belong to an alumni sorority. it's a national worldwide chapter. it's dallas sigma theta. it's a well-known predominantly african-american sorority. these attacks have occurred during the course of the last

year or so and the investigators have put two and two together that they believe one man is responsible for these attacks and that perhaps their connection to the sorority is the reason behind it. they released a surveillance video of the man who they believe is responsible and the man that they are trying to track down. they hope that people looking at this videotape, it will jog people's memories and point them in the right direction. but it's extremely frightening and scary for members that belong to this organization. they are being urged to stop wearing sorority t-shirts, placards, whatever. to just lay low. >> frightening for the deltas there. next, alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. alison, moammar gadhafi is gone. but libya has a lot of loyal. are we about to see a rush for libya? >> oil companies are anxious to

get in on the oil action. i'm talking about big companies, like conocophillips and they are going to keep tabs on how things change. during the regime, there was a 93% tax. looking at the comparison, a 75% tax in nor weigh. oil companies want to see if they are going to be the changes that happen. will the royalty rate change? will they have more access to explore for oil and the legal contracts that they enter into, will they hold up with the new government? you're going to see oil companies treading very closely because they know that there is big potential for profit but they don't want to be left hanging. brooke? >> i also want to ask you about netflix. we talked a lot about netflix in the last month or two. they have lost thousands of customers. >> they have made some big missteps. the hits keep coming.

they lost 800,000 subscribers from july through september. that's after a huge pr headache. that's after netflix announced price hikes streaming into two separate accounts and then the spinoff and big apology. clearly it wasn't good enough. you know, netflix shares really taking a beating. shares down 35%. and get this, brooke, netflix expects to keep losing customers. it's a tough situation to be in for netflix, to try and gain back that situation again. >> alison kosik, thank you, as always. next on "reporter roulette," we still have a month to go before the hurricane season will pick up. chad myers is watching, it's spinning besides you, where is it right now? where is it headed? >> you can truly see the eye as well. it's headed to cozumel an cancun. there's a left possibility and a

right possibility but it's going to be a major hurricane affecting those coastal towns, anywhere from playa and strengthening. it's not completely out yet for the u.s. this is south florida. this cone looks something like, this all the way from ft. myers all the way back to cuba. the middle that which look at here is somewhere in the florida straights and that's sunday athat's south of key west. but i'm not sure that i believe that. i'm not sure that this couldn't miss cancun and remain very, very strong and head into south florida. that's four or five days away. keep watching. if you have any interested in the keys, south florida, north of tampa, not out of the cone yet. >> hurricane rina. chad myers, thank you very much. still ahead, rick perry reveals his flat tax plan and in a mere minutes, he'll take questions on it for the very first time.

this would affect every american's bank account. as he sits on death row, a man convicted of killing a woman and her two daughters, he admits that he he has killed before and that's not all. >> what is outlined in the complaint was a betrayal of his oath of the highest order. a group of police officers both active and retired busted in new york for helping the bad guys. wait until you hear what they are accused of smuggling. and it's america's most powerful nuclear bomb. so powerful, in fraact, it's 60 times stronger than the one that destroyed hiroshima. this is being dismantled. that is next.

snoof if. if it is interesting, it's happening right now. beginning with these images. you have to see this. this is a baby 2 weeks old. rescued in turkey two days after the earthquake hit. later they got the child's mother. in fact, that's her. that's her head. you can see they are about to load her on to an ambulance. also, they got the child's grandmother but the father is still missing. police in china make an arrest in connection with this horrifying video of this little girl being run over. this man is being accused offal hitting this little girl. the incident caused a national outcry in china. more than two dozen people can be seen driving, walking, bicycling past this little girl and not offering to help her whatsoever. today, hundreds of people gather for the funeral of the

man who was the heir to the saudi heir. sultan bin abdulaziz was in his 80s and died of cancer. quite the southern exposure. i love these pictures. the official name, seen here on youtube, usually people in u.s. cities like seattle and boston, you get to see them. but last night it was seen as far south of oklahoma city, memphis, and atlanta. next, to amarillo, texas, where the nation's very last b-53 nuclear bomb is being dismantled today. the 10,000 pound bomb was first put into service nearly 50 years ago, back in 1962 at the height of the cold war. the final components of the bomb, about the size of -- take a look here. about the size of a mini bus.

it will be broken down today at the assembly and disassembly service in am mill row. they are supposed to serve and protect but today officers are under arrest in this massive gun smuggling ring. they trafficked more than $1 million in illegal weapons and stolen goods. the fbi calling it a brazen misconduct. >> it's really embarrassing to have a story like this. we just had a shoot wearing a woman was shot and killed trying

to cover up her kids. this is not far from the precinct where this happened. it's really disheartening to the new york city police department. but like the commissioner said, not everybody is like that. there are a lot of good officers out there. >> certainly. these officers bragged about the guns they could get and i'm quoting, they could get anywhere from a to z. what kind of guns are we talking about? >> well, they had a total of 20 guns. handguns. they go from 400 to $600. and anywhere from 1500 to $1700 out in the street. so these guys are transporting these from new jersey to knew yrk. they did it recently. december # 2nd was one of the last times that they did it. the fbi put a good case together and they are in big trouble after this case. >> i know that the serial numbers were scratched off of the guns. so where are the guns now? how tough will it be to find

them and do we also know who bought them? >> well, they had surveillance and an informant and they sold the guns to them. the guns they sold to them did not work, as opposed to the ones sold in mexico, the fast and the furious. when you scratch something off a gun, that's because you stole the gun or are using them for a crime where you don't want them to be followed up. >> gil alba, thank you. >> three civilians are also charged in that case. still ahead a. killer sits on death row for the brutal home invasion in connecticut. we're now learning that steven hayes has admitted to killing 17 people and raping many more than that. how he describes it is so

shocking. one newspaper called his rant a twisted pornographic fantasy. this, as a jury right now, deciding the fate of his partner in crime. plus, drama in the michael jackson death trial. >> i'm feeling really, really, dizzy. my vision has become a little blurred. if you can give me a minute. >> michael jackson's nurse takes the stand and breaks down. find out what happened and what she says the king of pop asked her to do. sunny hostin is on the case next. woman 2] ring ring progresso. they fit! awesome thank you ring, ring [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y... okay??? you don't understand. i've been eating progresso because there's... 40 flavors 100 calories or less and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

want to remind you we are a mere minutes from this event in columbia, south carolina. you can see an empty podium right now.

we'll see the texas governor hoping to unseat president obama. rick perry is going to be talking about this big announcement he made today, talking about the flat tax. this is what he calls part of his cut, balance, and grow plan. what is significant about this particular event. we'll take it live. not only will he be talking about this flat tax proposal but he will answer questions from members of the media and the crowd. moving on, though, still no word on a possible motive in yesterday's school shooting in na yet, north carolina. this is a story that broke this time yesterday. 18-year-old tavon and a 15-year-old not being identified were taken into custody last night in connection with the shooting of a teenage girl. they were spotted on security camera video holding a rifle. it was a.22 caliber daisy rifle found at the scene. the boys were arrested last night at their homes. the girl who was wounded is

reportedly in stable condition today. the final phase of a horrific case, the murders of jennifer hawke-petit and her two young girls. steven hayes has been sentenced to die for them and today sentencing begins with for his accomplice, joshua komisarjevsky. what happened today? >> well, the defense is certainly putting on a defense. this is the penalty phase and they are trying to save his life. they said that joshua komisarjevsky was doomed at birth. he was adopted by these evangelical christians who, instead of getting him help for his mental problems, preyed on it. they also said that he was horribly sexually abused,

physically abused by another foster child that was brought into the home and that jash wa komisarjevsky obama felt safe in the woods because he did not feel safe at home. so really a sad picture that the defense has played out for the jury. i will say that. the prosecution only had one witness and that witness talked about joshua komisarjevsky's record and that record was extensive. a lot, a lot of burglaries and larcenies and then they rested in terms of the penalty phase. so my sense is that they are going to do what they did in the case of steven hayes, which is just to rely on the horrific facts that were brought out at trial. >> as we mentioned, steven hayes will be put to death and we're also learning today, in connection with this case, chilling letters written by hayes. apparently he wrote these letters while in prison. he claims that he's raped dozens

people, killed 17, and kept trophies from every victims. trophies being shoes. the 17 kill trophies meant the most to me. each trophy was one of a kind, completely specific to each victim. he also writes about the precision with which he chose his victims. like any great hunter, timing is critical. hayes goes on to say that jash joshua komisarjevsky would have been his next victim. i realize that had we gotten away, i would have killed josh. he was not even close to being worthy of my partnership. his sloppiness and lack of control would have been my downfall. was my downfall. wow. sunny, will these letters be introduced during komisarjevsky's penalty phase? >> i think there's no doubt that the defense wants to bring this before the jury because all throughout the trial they've painted stevens hayes as the

mastermind behind these crimes. i covered the first trial, the steven hayes trial. and in that trial they painted joshua komisarjevsky as the mastermind. i will say often times you hear this type of letter writing coming from defendants on death row. the question is, is it reality? is it fantasy? interestingly enough, there were shoes that he had taken from the petit home that were found in the get away car. and so certainly his fascination with shoes is apparent. whether or not all of these other things are true, we just don't know. but there's no question that this is something that the defense will try to bring in front of the jury. >> how long, sunny, is this phase supposed to last? >> it's supposed to last about five to six weeks, brooke. so we are going to hear a lot more from -- about joshua

komisarjevsky. some are saying that we may hear from his adopted parents, the komisarjevskies, the really devotely religious parents who cared for him since he was 2 years old. so a very long penalty phase especially given the fact that the prosecution didn't really have any witness bs, just but for the one. >> case number two, the defense taking over in the manslaughter case of the michael jackson doctor, dr. conrad murray. how are murray's lawyers laying out their case? >> well, they certainly are trying to take the focus off of dr. conrad murray and on to the lifestyle of michael jackson. they are portraying him as addicted man, really desperate for sleep, someone doctor shopping and looking for medical professionals to treat him. today on the witness stand, there was a lot of drama. nurse lee who treated michael jackson for his insomnia, she's a holistic practitioner and she really was broke down on the

witness stand. i which we have it here for you. >> we do. >> let's roll it for you. >> you know, i'm feeling really, really dizzy. and, i'm sorry, my vision has become a real blur. >> well, miss lee, if you are not feeling all that well, do you want to rest a little bit? >> yes, if i could just rest a little bit, if you don't mind. >> it was extraordinary. she appeared to be having a panic attack, anxiety stand. she had to leave to get herself together. it's very difficult for her, she mentioned. she made it clear that she didn't want to testify for the defense. i think she's having some trouble doing that. she treated michael jackson for insomnia. took copious notes. but she did say that michael jackson p jackson begged her for propofol.

the defense trying to paint michael jackson out to be a person addicted to pro ppofol a would go to any length to get it. >> sunny hostin, thanks. >> and now this -- >> this post card, this is what we're talkinging about right here. taxpayers are going to be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that. >> rick perry revealing his flat tax plan and how he would change social security. how would the republicans -- we'll find out live from rick perry live in south carolina. next coming up. plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number?

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joining me now, elizabeth cohen talking about how the hpv vaccine is now recommended for boys. it was a government panel that made the call. >> that's right. they said they have been giving it to girls for several years now. we think boys ages 11 and 12 should also be getting the hpv shot. >> so now that they are putting it on the schedule, will parents

have to go and get it? >> "have to" is the operating phrase. the cdc will say, yes, we think kids should get whatever vaccine and then it's up to each state to require whether they have to get it to go to school. in other words, does your child have to get it in order to go to school? only virginia and the district of columbia have said your child must have an hpv shot to go to school. or in this case, your girl must have it. whether boys will have to get it too, it will be curious to see which state requires it. >> is it safe? >> the cdc says that it's safe. there's no dispute from the doctors. it cuts down on chances of genital warts when they are older, certain types of cancer, and, number three, a chance that they will give this virus to girls and of course when girls get this virus, it means that

they could go on to get cervical cancer. they see it with no serious side effects. >> okay. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. and, now, as we've been talking about, rick perry is speaking or will be speaking shortly. he is in columbia, south carolina. i want to bring in gloria borger and where shall we begin. why is he talking flat tax in. >> well, there's no coincidence that herman cain catapulted to the top of the polls when proposing his 9-9-9 tax. lower taxes are what keeps the party blued together and if you're looking to jump-start and in the past, the notion of a

flat tax, a simpler tax and it's what he has been doing today. take a look at me. and i bet you'll like it better. >> i want you to bounce it off me, take a look at me idea. this is the "new york times" and cbs poll. take a look who is at the top. he's at the top. and then fifth down, the man who blown the doors off the republican campaign not too long ago, he's sitting at 6%. >> right. >> so this effort in coming forward and talking about this flat tax plan, what's he trying to do? >> well, you know, the thing is, he's trying to get people to take another look at him. because he was an idea that people liked. they liked the idea of an alternative to mitt romney,

particularly the tea party conservatives. we're looking for somebody else. then he came in the field and suddenly they saw him in those debates against mitt romney, against herman cain, newt gingrich, and they said, you know what, he's not exactly what we thought he was going to be. in fact, they thought he was more liberal, if you will, than they thought he was going to be on issues like immigration, for example. so this is a way for him to say to conservatives in the party, the activists of the party, take another look because actually i have a better, simpler tax plan for you that is going to cost you less money and get the economy moving again. you know, it's hard to sell a presidential campaign without ideas. and i think rick perry has been in search of some new ideas and so this is a new idea from perry. >> this is one of his ideas. he's calling it the cut, balance, and grow plan. >> uh-huh. >> and just to remind everyone,

let's pull up the live picture. easy sengs legal being introduced right now. he was in a smaller town in south carolina where he unveiled this plan. basically, we give americans a choice between their current income tax, their rate, or this flat tax. it would be the 20% flat tax that he says, and i'm quoting, set our people free from burdensome tax law. depending on how he delivers this today, and people can ask him questions and he has to answer them, could this be a game changer? could this be a big boost? >> he hopes so. but it's going to be attacked immediately as being a plan that allows the wealthy to pay less taxes. it's also, even conservative economists are saying, it doesn't bring any more revenue into the system. and, by the way, it's really not that simple. because since you're given the option of paying the 20% or sticking with the regular code, you have to do your taxes twice

to figure out which you ought to be paying. so, you know, the devil is in the details. in all of these tax plans. but, again, at least it gives rick perry something affirmative that he can sell and take to republican voters, which he really hasn't had before. >> okay. gloria, stand by. we're going to sneak a quick break in. governor perry speaking live. we'll take you there next.

and now i want to take you live to columbia, south carolina. the texas governor is hoping to be the next president of the united states. governor perry talking about his flat tax plan. listen. >> these representatives of the

people are helping our campaign build the right team in south carolina as we go forward into january. and i feel pretty good about the prospects. strong support of conservatives in south carolina legislature, commonsense conservative message that appeals to voters here, against people in south kir carolina, and they understand the principle of trust and verify. they know that you can't just trust conservative rhetoric. you have to have a record to verify. i've stood by my conservative record. i'm the first governor in texas since world war ii to cut spending. i cut school property taxes by one-third. i signed the most sweeping lawsuit reform in the country. and i've done more to secure the border than any governor, dedicating some $400 million in

state funds, teams of texas rangers and local law enforcement to cut off the trafficking of drugs, weapons, people. and as president of that conservative leadership and proof that the conservative leadership works, texas has led the way creating nearly 40% of the jobs in america since june of 2009. [ applause ] now, today i announced a plan that has spread prosperity far and wide by cutting taxes and spending, balancing our budget by 2020 and growing jobs and the economy. my cut, balance, and grow plan is a revamp of the tax code. it is a 20% flat tax, simple enough that you can file your

tacks on a postcard. that size right there. that's all you need. [ applause ] by the way, i told someone, that's so simple even tim geithner can get it. we'll cut taxes across all income groups, reform entitlement so that social security and medicare are available for our grandchildren. bring our budget into balance, future budgets into balance as well through a balanced budget amendment to the united states constitution and when i'm president, will not let a federal bur ra kra see where they can go to create jobs. [ applause ] listen, my campaign is not about

appealing to the washington establishment. it's about restoring hope and opportunity to main street. it's about freedom from federal government's oppressive one size fits all mentality that is being injected into our lives. we're campaigning in every state in between and speak to the pro military, pro freedom, patriotic values so prevalent in south carolina and we will offer a different direction for this country that we love. got bless you. thank you all for coming out. [ applause ] thank you. we are going to open it up for those of you in the media and you have your hand in the right place. >> jim acosta, cnn. just curious, what will it take you to convince you that the

president was born in this country and -- >> i'll cut you off right there. that is one of the biggest distractions that there is going. we need to be talking about jobs. somebody that wants to see my birth certificate, i'll show it to you. but that is a distraction and americans don't really care about that, if you want to know the truth of the matter. americans want to talk about jobs. who is going to lay out a plan of which will get america working again. what i did this morning is give confidence to job creators that they know for a fact that they are going to be able to risk their capital and have a return on their investment. they know that they are not going to be losing jobs because of regulations that are tilling these jobs all across the country. that's what americans are looking for and that's what we're going to stay focused on. >> governor?

>> yes, sir. >> any concern that your flat tax proposal will benefit mostly the wealthy? >> we're interested in getting americans back to working. if folks who have money are going to be creating those jobs, then i don't have a problem in the world with that. i think that is very, very important, that we focus on getting americans back to work. and when you put a flat tax of 20% in place on the personal standpoint, when you put a 20% flat tax in place for corporate, that is the type of confidence that americans are looking for. when they see a president that will pull back those regulations that have been put in place since 2008 that are killing jobs, whether it's the epa or whatever agency it may be, then they understand that here is a president that is committed to job creation and tp doesn't make any difference to me who creates those jobs. whoever is sitting at home watching this around their kitchen table or listening on the radio and read it in the newspaper tomorrow, they are interested in having a job and having the dignity of taking care of their familiar three and

that's what we're going to focus on every day. >> sir, you proposed cutting government spending 18% to gdp. that would involve spending cuts of a trillion dollars in one year. the committee in congress is getting trouble getting that over ten years. could you be specific about the trillions of dollars in cuts that -- >> what we're talking about doing is having a balanced budget by 2020 and this plan does it. we will release a report on how we get that done. and that's the issue. it's not that we're going to get it done in one year but over the period of the next eight years and 2020 is the target that we're focused in on. so i don't -- think that -- we're going to have the budget balanced by 2020, travel across

the country and pass a balanced budget for the united states constitution. i'm laying out $100 billion that we will have in spending cuts on nondefense discretionary spending. that is the type of dollar that we can cut out of this budget. for instance, you can take the second dare and elementary department of education programs, cut them in half, and that will save you $25 billion in one year. so that is the issue that americans are looking for. not to get bogged down into what is it going to be at year one? how are we going to get americans back to work? how are we going to have a balanced budget by 2020? my plan does that. it doesn't nibble around the edges. this is real and substantive changes in our tax code and it's real and substantive change on the spending and tax side. it deals with entitlements. it is, across the board, whether

america can get back into the job creators and have the confidence that they can risk their capital and they will have a risk of return on their capital. >> the flat tax plan was offered in 1996 and didn't work out well for him. why do you think this is a win-win situation snl. >> i think a lot has happened since 1996 in the standpoint of our tax code. we have trillions of dollars of debt. you have obama care, and i would repeal all of those. those are job killers. the regulatory side of the world is what is really is hammering our job creation. yes, it's important to get our taxes under control and have a tax system that is fair, that is sinl p

simple, that is flat. how many people in america would rather have the old tax program in place, the lawyers, the accountants, and the cause, and it's almost $850 billion a you're that we spend on taking care of the taxes today. let's do it on a post card. let's do it this way. you pull the regulations back that are killing jobs in america. that's what people care about. they want a president who will stand up and say, here is how we are going to get america back to work. we have done that in the 15th largest economy in texas over the last decade and i think americans are looking for a president who has got a proven tax record and the courage to do exactly what this plan says. >> governor, can you give us a postcard size answer to how your plan compares to herman cain's 9-9-9 plan and newt gingrich's

15% flat tax cut. >> let me visit you about herman's plan. this doesn't have a national sales tax. that's the biggest difference right there. americans do not trust washington, d.c., to have a new form of taxation. what they are looking for is simplicity, they are looking for something that is flat. they are looking for something that is fair. this plan addresses all of those. so i think when you really look at what we're talking about here from the standpoint of getting americans confident that there's a tax plan in place, that will take care of their tax needs, if you will, this postcard is the way to do it. >> governor, is that just adding another layer to this tax plan? >> actually, it doesn't. the idea that you can pick and choose. you may be a business that has for so many years, used the old system whether it was on a host of different issues, depreciations or whatever it is in that old system and you're

locked into it and you think for your best interest that to continue to use all of the lawyers and all of the accountants maybe in your best interest, but for the people who don't need that, don't want that, this is the way to go. >> do you feel good about your prospects in south carolina? you were leading in the polls. the recent poll though showed you at 9%. what happened? >> well, i have always said that polls are going to go up and down. so my bet is that when it's half time and it doesn't happen very often that they are behind at half time but they are not going to call the game at half time. so we are going to continue to be working and working and we may change defense a little bit. but the fact is, this long time

with this campaign and from the security and energy and americans are going to look tat and say, that's where we want to go. he's got the record of doing it and that's the kind of press that we want. >> what have you all talked about? >> as general rule, we keep our conversations private but we talk a lot about the campaign, the time that he had a chance to see the tax plan and you'll have to ask him how much he likes it but i've got to suggest to you that he understands the idea of having simplicity. he loves the idea of having someone who has a track record as the next president of the united states that knows how to

stand up and say no to spending. i shared with him as i share with people all across this country, if congress -- and i'm going to do my best to work with congress. i've done that in texas for quite some time. but when they send a bill to me, it spent more money than what we've got coming in, that's coming out. god bless you. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. so texas governor rick perry, fairly short and sweet when he was addressing what the tax plat proposal is. it's a 20% flat tax. you get to choose between your current income tax rate or my 20% flat tax plan. unveiling this there in south carolina whose primary is january 21st. so not too far away. certainly no coincidence that he is there in south carolina. i want to bring gloria borger

back into this conversation. he talks about social security, balancing the budget by 2020. let's still drill down on the spending side. when it comes to reform, what specifics is he talking about? >> it sounds familiar. it sounds like chairman paul ry. on social security, he generally talks about gradually raising the retirement age. about private accounts for younger wokkers, about allowing state and local governments to opt out. he doesn't tell us specifically how. on medicare, gradually raising the eligibility age. perhaps making the wealthy pay more. maybe turning it partly into a voucher system. again, like paul ryan, very few specifics there. just generalizations, but i think what he's trying to show is that he's serious. he's also trying to show he's really different from the other candidates out there. in particular now, herman cain,

as you saw him take aim at his tax plan. >> somebody said, hey, how would you compare this to gingrich's plan or cain's. cain's got a lot of air time recently talking 9 hf -t-9. is this his way of saying bring the attention back to me? >> he said, people don't trust a government in washington to raise any kind of new taxes. and the herman cain plan incl e includes a 9% national sales tax, which is something we do not currently have. the problems conservatives is v with that is okay, you're going to raise a new tax, today, it's 9%. tomorrow, it could be 15%. so, he's saying to conservatives, that is not the way to go. don't open the door to any new form of tax and that may have some salience with republican

primary voters. >> lovely having you on. thank you very much for talking to me about this flat tax. we appreciate it. mean tile, still to come, kind of a special interview this morning i want to share with you where i talk to someone in space. one of three crew members currently sitting in the international space station. these guys have been up there for five months and counting. they're hoping to come home in the next month. what's in like up there and do they miss gravity? next. the postal service is critical to our economy--

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i want to show you tomorrow's news today. beginning with r former senator john edwards expected to be in court tomorrow in north carolina. his lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the charges that he misused campaign funds. edwards says he is not guilty. also, the group responsible for reducing the deficit is going to have a public hearing tomorrow. the congressional committee is charged with finding $1.2 trillion in savings over the next ten years. and finally, betty white, american idol and ten others will be inducted to the broadcasting hall of fame tuesday night. that event is in new york city. the final frontier of space these day ss a 900,000 pound

laboratory orbiting high above et. it's not every day we get to do this. but this morning, i got to talk to mike fossum, and now still accustomed to zero gravity. >> there are certainly times when you miss gravity. particularly when you drop something. when you lose something up here. on earth, you get used to things that get away from you falling down by your feet, so you'll look around the floor and in the media. up here, they don't fall down. they can fall in any direction and they don't stop when they hit a surface. they're more likely to bounce than to lodge, so they can sometimes bounce a long ways and that's a frustrating thing at times, too. >> here's my question with regard to the iss. you're one of three crew members right now. they're working on a fix. hoping for a launch in a couple of days. if it's a no go, how do you get

home? >> we're fine. we have -- arrived on the soyuse rocket in june. there was a failure of that booster, it was a progress cargo vehicle, but launches on the essentially a same rocket. the same one we road to orbit. we don't use that part of the rocket for the ride home. it's a much different game going home. so our ship is fine. and there are no similar components related to that failure for our ride home, so we'll be planning to go home in about a month and no changes with that. >> as a young boy, you actually started a notebook writing about mars. do you think in your lifetime we'll see boot prints on mars? >> yes, i do.

i've always believed that. i had hoped i could be one of the people to help put those footprints there and i still may. it woenn't be my footprints mor than likely, but i think we will. the moon is three days away. mars is six to eight months, then you have to do your work and turn around and come home, so mars trip's a two-year mission and the systems have to work. they have to work very reliablely. part of what we're doing, recycling our water, highest ever on a spacecraft, that's a big deal. that system has to operate flawlessly to and from mars for a long trip like that, so we're making ground. we're learning things from the international space station as a test bed for these kind of systems that are going to be crucial for a long trip to mars as well as the human aspect of

it. keeping us healthy. healthy enough to endure the trip there, be healthy enough to get the work done and then get home. >> mike fossum, thanks again. a lot of these astronauts are on twitter. you can actually follow him, he's a texas a and m guy. and now to a pretty bizarre situation in texas this afternoon. you have a chimpanzee on the loose at the dallas zoo. the adult female chimp loose inside a building at the zoo and according to the dallas police department, a tranquilizer team was called in. the chimp never made contact with any guests at the zoo. we don't know yet how the chimp got out or how the animal was secured. and sure, you know, you think about your wedding day. you want your wedding day to blow you away, metaphorically