think first governor romney has a few words that he's going to say. >> i get one bite in. >> i don't want to get in any more trouble than i already have. >> i'm delighted to withdraw the compliment. >> withdrawing the compliment. that was a good one. don't forget, tomorrow night republican hopefuls face off in washington. cnn hosts a presidential debate on national security and the economy. your moderator, our very own wolf blitzer. that's at 8:00 eastern tomorrow night right here on cnn. and "cnn newsroom" now continues with gary tuchman. gary, good to see you. >> jim, nice seeing you in atlanta. have a nice day. i'm gary tuchman sitting in for randi kaye today. here's the news. it is a tough job but somebody's got to do if -- just not apparently these people. any time now members of the so-called super committee who have been trying to come up with a plan to cut future deficits by

$1.2 trillion are expected to give up. that's supposed to mean automatic cuts in almost every federal department in 2013. same bottom line -- $1.2 trillion half from defense, half non-defense. but congress can and likely will change it. meantime stock markets are tanking again,down jones down more than 2.5% today. again the u.s. credit rating may be in for a down gragradedowngr. much more on fallout in our "face time" segments minutes from now. in cairo, 1,700 people have been wounded during the worse violence to hit egypt's capital since the revolution. at least 20 people have been killed. there are now reports a government official has resigned over the violence. coming up we head to cry row aia

live report. the former head of the fbi will lead the penn state investigation, an independent panel. >> i'm committed to ensuring that our independent investigation be conducted in a thorough, fair, comprehensive manner, leaving no stone unturned and without any fear. >> the panel will not have subpoena power but the ncaa and federal education department are said to be closely watching how the school handles the allegations and the outcome of the investigation could affect the future of penn state's fund-raising. the head of campus police at the university of california davis is on administrative leave today over this. >> move! move! move! >> during a night of non-student protesters, a number of students got it in the face or scalp with pepper spray.

the uc davis chancellor is refusing to resign and agreed to take part in the student rally two hours from now. the terror suspect being held today in a new york city jail allegedly claims he was one hour away from finishing his first bomb when he was busted. the 27-year-old had been on authority's radar since 2009 but not arrested until yesterday. he is accused of targeting police officers, patrol cars and u.s. troops coming home from iraq and afghanistan. authorities say he bought his components off the shelf but found inspiration online, in part from an al qaeda posting called "how to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom." new tough words from the administration about iran and its budding new clear program. today the u.s. will name iran and its central bank as a primary money laundering source. so far no sanctions against the bank though. but, a senior treasury department official tells cnn the united states will place sanctions on iranian companies

that allegedly support iran's nuclear program. some in congress say current sanctions are not working and they hope sanctioning iran's central bank would slow that nation's nuclear ambitions. actor hugh grant testified in great britain's official phone hacking trial today. for the first time, grant accused the "mail on sunday" tabloid of hacking his phone. remember, murdoch's "news of the world" hacked into thousands of voicemail message, over a period of eight years. names among them hugh grant. >> we might be a bit naughty but we get the story. but when the story's been obtained by hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl or the family of a soldier killed in afghanistan, i don't find that lovable and naughty. i find that cowardly and bullying and shocking.

>> grant is the first celebrity to testify. a major league baseball player is dead. and his brother is under arrest and being questioned as a suspect. police in the netherlands say greg halman was stabbed to death today. he played for the seattle mariners but was born in holland. he also played for a dutch team. he was 24. his brother is 22. that's all dutch police will say for now. it wasn't the warm welcome the first lady and dr. jill biden were expecting. take a listen. >> and now, please welcome our grand marshals, sergeant andrew barry and family, first lady of the united states michelle obama and dr. jill biden as they deliver the most famous words in motorsports. >> gentlemen, start your engines! >> sounded like there was some booing. with us right now is chad meyers.

i bet you that you do not know and most people do not know that chad used to and nascar reporter. >> back before nascar was cool. that's how old i am. i could be 60 or 70 years old. i found that disrespectful. i found those comments, those boos, disrespectful. although for the past 20 minutes before that driver introduction, drivers are introduced, they're booed, they're cheered. this was nothing like kyle and kurt busch boos. the first lady's approval rating is over 60%. that doesn't mean 100%. right? 60% is not 100%. so there were people out there, this is the nascar fever. it is that fever when you're cheering or hating someone. you love someone, you hate a driver. there's no gray area and there was some early morning day drinking. didn't start until 3:00. >> you see that at baseball games, politicians throw first pitches. they get booed sometimes. should that apply to the spouses of politicians is. >> no, absolutely not.

mrs. obama and dr. biden were there for joining forces, trying to raise money for vets. the exact opposite reply should have been because they were doing something for the people that the nascar nation loves. there's nobody that supports the veterans more than the nascar nation. it just got lost in translation somewhere. >> i would not mind watching nascar this weekend and seeing you -- >> i have some old footage. i'll bring it over. >> chad meyers, thank you very much. the super committee may not be so super. some are even calling it an epic failure. why our next guest says the decision could lead the u.s. into a shaky financial future. but first we have to give a shout out to a 98-year-old man who just bwrote a book only two years after learning to write his name. he didn't learn to read and write until his mid 90s. now he's written a book called "in a fisherman's language."

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to be posted for 48 hours before the committee votes and has to be scored by the congressional budget office. today is the 48 hours before and the six committee democrats and six republicans have nothing to show for their efforts except of course disdain for the other side. >> our democratic friends said we won't cut one dollar more without raising taxes. i think that tells you a lot about the atmosphere here in washington. we went into the exercise to try to reduce government spending. when we get to the other side, no, not unless you cut taxes. >> the idea that the wealthiest people in america ought to get a bigger tax cut while everybody else chips in, i don't think anybody in america thinks that's fair. >> to be fair to the committee, we understand meetings are taking place and barring some break-through, no one else thinks their plans will come out

before the market closes. the dow jones down 281 points. 2.39% for the day. a long-time financial journalist, now editor of "thompson reuters digital," joins us. the fall-back to the super committee supposed to be drastic spending cuts in 2013 but what happens in the meantime? >> well, i think the first thing that we need to watch is what is the impact on market confidence. a lot of people were saying ahead of today that the markets had been skeptical from the beginning. walk through it right now -- wall street doesn't have a lot of confidence in washington's ability to get things done. people were saying the markets have priced in failure of the super committee. it is not going to be a big shock. that could be, but i think that it could -- a more unpleasant scenario is also a possibility. if you think back to the summer

and the debt ceiling negotiations, those had really a profound and very negative impact on the markets. what i'm also concerned about right now is what the international impact of this is. in the aftermath of the debt ceiling discussion, something that i heard a lot from outside the country -- and you have to remember that international investors now have a big voice in the american economy, particularly in u.s. debt. so i heard from a lot of people outside the united states saying, you know, we just really didn't think american politics was so juvenile and so dysfunctional. >> yeah, we hear a lot of people -- >> we thought the u.s. could get things done. >> we hear a lot of people saying that. the bush era tax cuts appear to be a major sticking point but they were due to expire at the end of 2012 anyway. right? >> right. but the question is do they get extended or not. and i think you're absolutely

right zeroing in on the tax cuts. it's something that i think is really the conclusion you have to come to, following the debt ceiling debate, following this apparent failure of the super committee is, at the end of the day there is a profound ideological divide in america. republicans on one side are saying, you know what? we just think that taxes are a bad thing and there is no way we are going to agree to an additional penny of tax revenue, the tax pledge and so on. then you have the democrats saying, actually, we are for balancing the budget but we think you have to do that through a mix of tax increases and spending cuts and i think we might have to wait for the election next year to have a resolution of that really profound issue. it is not a technical issue, it is an issue of belief. >> one-word answer to this -- should the politicians on the super committee be embarrassed?

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now to arizona for a story we think has been "undercovered" thanks to affiliate knxd in phoenix for the investigation into this. in phoenix the labor department says more than $434 million in unemployment benefits were paid out in error and that's just the tip of the iceberg. nationwide the government says nearly $19 billion in state unemployment benefits were paid to the wrong people. the amount of more than 10% of the $180 billion in jobless benefits paid nationwide during the three years that ended in june. talk about a waste of money! take a look at this map. states that are the worst offenders are in red. arizona in the southwest there, the labor department is cracking down on the grand canyon states in a bid to end improper payments. with us now, mark darmer with the employment services division of the arizona department of economic security on the phone from phoenix. first off, how does something like this happen?

>> i think it is important to fully understand the issue. as you disclosed the chart from the department of labor, arizona's three highest improper payment rate categories have to do, the largest of which is the work search related issue and what arizona has that some other states don't have is our state statutes actually require that people who are receiving unemployment actually go out and do a work search weekly in order to continue to qualify for benefits. arizona's improper payment rate associated with that category was just over 44%. in these economic times as you can well imagine, any time an employer posts a job announcement, they may get hundreds of resumes and applications for that position. now when a claimant provides the work search to des, they indicate which employers they went out and applied with.

des then goes through and checks with those employers to ensure that what is reported from that claimant is true and accurate. as you can imagine, employers don't keep records especially when they keep giving hundreds of resumes and applications. so when we've been calling employers, if the employer cannot unequivocally state, yes, this person did apply with me, we've been counting that as an error rate case on several other states what they have done is changed the process, given the economic times, that if the employer cannot positively state that that person did not apply with them, they have been accepting the claimant's work search log as being true and accurate. >> this is the big question. what is the state of arizona doing about this? >> we've made several improvements. what we have done is we are now working with our claimants to keep them better informed of the

requirements of the program. we are working with employers to keep information more relevant to the claimants that we are serving, and we have improved our processes and are modeling our processes to some of those other states whereby a state may provide a warning to a climate the first time they encountry work search related issue instead of counting it as an error rate case. so we are looking top to bottom in the prom to locate areas where we can make improvements and i think we have stepped up to the plate. i think you will see arizona state, by the time we get to the first quarter of calendar year 2012 you'll see a marked improvement in arizona statistics. >> mark darmer, thanks for joining us. good talking to you. penn state bringing in a big

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will lead a panel to investigate the school's handling of allegations against former football coach jerry sandusky. sandusky's denied charges that he molested at least eight boys. freeh says he'll appoint a team of former fbi agents and former federal prosecutors from his law firm to assist the probe. a reporter for "the patriot news," freeh says he doesn't have spb power and we can't get anyanswers from anyone who doesn't want to give them freely. what's the reaction on campus to today's announcement? >> well, actually, this is a break for student here. thanksgiving break for penn state students is a whole week long so there aren't a lot of people here and we aren't hearing much reaction at all. a lot of people when they left on friday were really relieved to go home and have a break, some were telling us that they expected a lot of questions from people in their hometown

communities when they got home. to be honest with you, i think they were mostly relieved to have this break from the chaos. >> louis freeh is a very smart guy but are his hands tied? does he have any real power to do anything? >> i'm sorry, can you repeat that, please? >> louis freeh is a smart man. we all know that but it doesn't seem like he has the power. he doesn't have subpoena powers. are his hands tied? will it be hard for him to really appreciate anything in this role? >> well, you know, i don't know. i think when you're a non-governmental agency you might have some issues. but those were the questions from this morning. non-governmental agency can't ask questions and force people to answer them but he has done this before an he has been successful at it so i guess we'll have to wait and see. now there are a lot of agencies taking a look at penn state right now. i think this is probably the fifth or sixth investigation that's going on so we're going to get a lot of answers from a lot of different directions and

i think we just have to wait and see who's got the muscle. >> the ncaa, u.s. department of investigation are also investigating the school's actions. so ultimately what this new panel is doing is window dressing or will it be three different investigations? it sounds like it could get pretty complicated. >> yeah, i think it could get very complicated. like i said, there are a lot of investigations going on. they all have slightly different agendas, i'm sure. but they are all going towards the same goal, same end result and they are all investigating who knew what and when. i think that's the bottom line here. the second mile, the charity jerry zussky stasandusky starre. it is the same questions they are asking. and the ncaa wants to know and the state attorney general wants to know if any criminal laws were broken. then have you all these potential lawsuits that could come from this. there's just a giant scope of questions and everybody's taking a slightly different approach

but they're all going to the same end result. who knew what and when do they know it. >> sara, you've done a wonderful job covering this very tough story. thank you very much for talking with us. the super committee is heading for a less than super ending. how it is expected failure played politically. that's "fair game" next. but first our political junkie question of the day -- 19 former presidents also served in the house of representatives but how many of those were ever speaker of the house? not lyndon johnson. that's a hint. answer is next.

before the break i asked you how many presidents also served as speaker of the house of representatives. 19 presidents were in the house, but only james polk was the man in charge, was speaker from 1835 to 1839. six years later polk won the presidency. now you know, james polk is the man. time now to go beyond partisan talking points to the heart of the political debate where all sides are "fair game." we've got a lot of really good topics today. joining pea now, cnn contributor will cain and democratic political consultant ed ez know

za. how did the committee's failure play politically? >> well, first of all, welcome to the jungle and no better music to introduce us to something like this super committee which ends up kind of being a super flop. but there are some things we know from it. we agreed on $4 trillion of deficit reduction. we agree that there needs to be cuts in entitlements. what we can't agree on are tax increases for the 1% and this is the hardest part getting past all of this. a negotiation means both sides have to come to the middle on some things but if republicans in congress are going to dig their heels in on this, then we can't make any progress. thankfully the debt deal that we signed last summer -- by "we," i mean congress. obviously i'm not a member. but the debt dealing does call for some automatic triggers. that will help so the markets probably wouldn't be affected but that doesn't mean that our confidence in congress is not.

i think it is clearly affected. we are at 9% in the polls right now. >> you're right, ed. do both sides deserve equal blame in this? >> there's enough blame to go around. i'm going to have to push back on my friend ed for just a moment. he started with the narrative the dividing line has been tax cuts, tax revenues and he is right to some degree. if he invokes that we have to point out the other side. let's narrow our focus for one moment on the super committee. why did it fail? there are many reasons. onevy to respond with now is the democrats came into this process with limited engagement. here's why. because the automatic cuts ed talked about came in the form of defense cuts and some discretionary spending. everyone knows in order to put a deficit package together you ultimately have to focus on medicare, medicaid and other tax. if the democrats can look at this and go why would i focus on medicare and medicaid when i can get these cuts that focus so

heavily on defense? there's no motivation to put a package together here. there doesn't need to be a less right deal between ed and will or republicans and democrats. the truth is the blame lies with the american people. we take polls that say we don't want deficit reduction, yet we don't want our medicare touched or social security touched and we can tax the rich people but that is not a formula that will work. >> a new poll, this poll "usa today"/gallup poll on the gop race shows mitt romney 20%. gingrich 19%. cain 16%. what does it tell you, ed? >> well, it tells me that there are two things going on and that romney's never really been able to coalesce in iowa. keep in mind, iowa's one of president obama's strongest states. but we've always seen somebody else beat romney in the republican primary in that state. gingrich in front now.

cain in front a couple weeks ago. by the way, cain's slippage tells me that herman cain's less ready to be president. i'd rather see will cain on that ticket. >> will cain, what do you think of the poll? what does it tell you? >> it tells pea that newt gingrich is the mitt romney alternative for this month and what goes up must come down. we've seen this over and over and over. so, about a month ago i feel like, gary, we were being asked, hey, why hasn't rick santorum or jon huntsman dropped out? i don't understand why they're sticking around. well here's your answer. because we got six weeks to go and everybody gets a turn at the top. why would you drop out? >> tim pawlenty's not feeling real good about dropping out right now, is he? >> i've been covering these races now since 1980 and i've never really seen anything like this with a new leader every on couple of weeks. that was "fair game." thank you for joining us.

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was toppled from power. the celebrations are being totally drowned out by this new egyptian anger. what's at the heart of these protests? >> reporter: i think a lot of people here, gary and this bloody drama that's playing out over my shoulder, a lot of people feel that they left too early february last winter when mubarak stepped down and that they were tricked that the military council that then took over has not been true to what they were protesting for which they say is freedom and democracy. so they are back out and instead of chanting against hoseni mubarak, the deposed dictator, these are taking place on rooftops in the streets beyond ta here square there and very bloody as well. there is a constant stream of wounded people being rushed in to the square, overwhelmed by

tear gas, shot, some of them birdshot it appears, then a constant stream of ambulances then rushing these people out to hospital. at least 22 people were killed in last the last two to three days. >> ivan, it is depressing. next week in egypt there will be parliamentary leaks. protesters worry that those elections are not the transition they are seeking. how big of an issue is that? >> reporter: everything is in flux right now. the stock market here dropped more than four points. flights are being canceled in and this is a country that relies on foreign tourism for much of its economy. it was supposed to have an historic parliamentary election next week, the first of three phases, and now that is all up in the air. will those go ahead? can you still have an election when you have basically a war downtown in the egyptian c capital? some of the political groups are calling for those elections to be postponed. some of them are calling for the military council to step down

immediately. some groups like the muslim brotherhood say we've got to stay on that course, otherwise we'll get very angry. what's very clear is that the tens of thousands of people back here, gary, they're not going anywhere. blankets are being brought in, medical supplies, food as well. they are going to hold on to this area with great tenacity unless some kind of political settlement is reached or unless really dead force is used to clear them out of here and we certainly don't want to see that. >> we've been looking at live pictures while we talk to you and see shots of ambulances going through the crowds. it is incredible seeing these pictures after such triumph back in february and march. one final question to you, because of what happened to reporters months ago, do you feel safe right now? >> reporter: well, you know, egypt has gotten a lot harder to work in as a reporter. just a couple months ago i saw

an egyptian tv producer already torn apart by a mob in front of the israeli embassy here and i really feared that she was going to get raped right in front of me and couldn't do much to control it. here the crowd is encouraging journalists to come in. we feel safe here. but it is very fluid situation and iffive alearned anything in egypt over the course of the last ten months it is to very much respect the mobz when they are out in the streets. they are very excitable and all it can take is one person to direct the mob against you. it can be very dangerous. >> ivan watson, thanks for talking with us and please stay safe. he's calling himself the new newt. we look at the old newt gingrich. but first it is a turkey, it is a sinking ship -- no, it is the not-so-super committee. at any moment the 12-member bipartisan debt committee is expected to announce its failure to reach a deal on budget cuts. the one job the panel was tasked

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these days -- on tv, running for president, on the web looking for donations, on the bookshelf offering several titles and in the latest polls. a "usa today"/go up pogallup po has mitt romney virtually tied with newt gingrich. one point separates the two men. in new hampshire many consider newt gingrich the smartest, most in-depth poll significance among the republican field but one with plenty of baggage, including a reputation as aggressive and combative personally and politically and this assessment from george will -- "gingrich is an amazing efficient candidacy and that it embodies everything that is disagreeable about modern washington. he's the classic rental politician." he's certainly hoping to rent the white house at least for the

next four years. who is newt gingrich really? a slimmer newt. he was sent to washington for the first time in 1978, 33 years ago. gingrich won a house seat after two straight defeats. in 1989 gingrich helped oust speaker then jim wright who wound up as minority whip. then he crafted the republican revolution with the clinton administration, wrote the contract of america and was speaker of the house. but the revolution and his popularity faded and faced with an ethics investigation about his use of donations, gingrich left congress in 1999, 12 years ago. another more personal side of newt gingrich from the appearance friday at kennedy school of government at harvard, he grew up the adopted son of an army officer. never wealthy until now. but he remembers back then. >> i take seriously that every american of every ethnic background in every neighborhood has the right to pursue happiness and that it was endowed by their creator.

that means you'll see from me extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in america and to give people a chance to rise very rapidly. >> that is newt gingrich, presidential candidate for the republican party. we have breaking news right now. breaking news in egypt. tahrir square, back to ivan watson for the latest. ivan? >> reporter: gary, we just got off the phone with the spokesman for the egyptian prime minister's office, and he has told us that the egyptian cabinet, the government, has resigned. that would plunge this country even deeper into an already-growing snowballing political crisis, as you can see, with the tens of thousands of people in tahrir square behind me. many of them demanding the resignation of the ruling military council. here we have the civilian government which many would say is subservient to the ruling

military council. now according to a spokesman for that government, it has resigned. again, plunging this country further into a deep political crisis less than a week before what's supposed to be the first round of parliamentary leaks. >> ivan, really quick. you know the country week before elections. >> you know the country well. what does this mean? could this lead to panic? >> reporter: i think we're in new territory right now. we don't where this is going to go or where it will take the country. if you travel around cairo right now, there are an awful lot of billboards up, campaign advertisements. outside of this media, it looks like a lot of people people are getting ready for an aelection. but there's bloodshed going on, a constant stream of wounded people, at least 22 people killed here in the last three 0 d days, more than 100 police officers wounded in the clashes between the police and protestors who are cursing the ruling supreme council of the

armed forces. lots of concerns that this could be a death blow to the egyptian economy that has not recovered from last winter. a lot of concern now, but a lot of the people in the square, gary, they're saying they're proud because they've retake be the revolutionary momentum here. perhaps it was naive of us to think that everything would end here, that the politics would move forward smoothly and democratically after last winter, gary. >> drama in egypt's capital. thank you, ivan. you want to be the face of the united states of america? an interesting opportunity for 40 people. felipe cousteau which he explains live. plus, things are heating up on e street. why? the boss is back. ♪ glory days thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new...

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let's check stories making headlines across the country from street level. in college sports news out of college park, maryland, the university of maryland will be cutting eight sports teams beginning last june to balance their budget deficit. that includes men's track teams, men's and women's swimming, men's tennis and women's walter polo and acrobatics and tumbling. the school president says all scholarships commitments and coaches' contracts will be ordered. new jersey native bruce springsteen says things are heating up on e street. springsteen and the e street back is going on tour next year. we've been waiting for this for three years since their last tour. this is their first outing without their saxophonist.

great news. in miami, a family is suing a hospital alleging a nurse p injecting this man, 79-year-old richard smith, with the drug used to execute inmates instead giving him an antacid. according to wsvn, smith's son said doctor told him went into cardiac arrest after he was given the wrong medication. smith survived but died a month later. family's attorney says the nurse is still working with patients despite the investigation. congress is once again proving it can't agree on much. it did pass the south korea trade pact. that move alone shows how important south korea is to the united states. it's no wonder the next year's world expo in south korea is proving to be a big deal. who will represent the united states will be just as critical.

that's where philippe cousteau comes in. the u.s. state department chose you and your team to operate the usa pa vil yoon yoviliopavilion students as ambassadors. tell us about that. >> it's an exciting it opportunity. what we wanted to share with the world today is that we are inviting 40 college-level students to supply for student ambassador statuses. what we're doing basically is on top of providing actual a wonderful, exciting attraction for the usa pavilion for the millions of people participating this summer, we also want to have 40 college-age students here in the united states participate as well and really help tell that story of the u.s. so on our web site at pa criminal on2012.org, we just opened the application process for 40 -- well, anybody, but we'll choose 40 college-age

students. they have to be american students and be proficient in korean and come over in the summer of 2012 to be the face of the u.s. and really tell the story of the united states to millions and millions of folks going through the expo. >> philippe, what a cool opportunity. so you need to speak korean whaxt are the other qualifications? a student in united states? >> correct. and a citizen of united states. we're partnering with the university of virginia but it's open to all students across the country. all the bad news about scandals and jobs, this is really just a positive and empowering story. all the expenses are paid for the students. they apply online and the lucky few will have an amazing adventure and experience for four months in south korea over the summer. we're just thrilled to be able to offer this it opportunity to american citizens. >> i know a lot of people are watching thinking that sounds great. maybe you can narrow it down a little bit. >> it's going to be a lot of

fun. >> sounds great. what kind of student are you looking for, someone talkative, r rambunctious, smart, fun, all of those things? >> all of those things. we are looking for people who are good at working with people. we want kids willing to explore the culture of south korea and be proud they have the opportunity to, again, be the face of the united states, to represent this great country at this pavilion and world expo where we estimate 8 million to 10 million people will be p participating and going through. there's well over 100 different country soz there will be cultural opportunities, lots of events from the south korean government and culture but also awful the other countries participating. so it's going to be really a spectacular once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for those lucky 40 who are chose be. >> philippe cousteau, thank fs r joining us and congratulations.

you can apply for the program at the usa pavilion web site,. well, that will do it for me. i'm gary are tuchman in for randi kaye. tonight on anderson p cooper 360, i have a special report on the gulf oil spill and what's happened to the food supply in the gulf of mexico. some is scientists say, for some people, that food may be very dangerous to eat. some disagree, we'll have the story tonight at 10:00 eastern time. now to more of "cnn newsroom "with my good friend brooke baldwin. thank you so much. hello to all of you. let's get you caught up on everything happening this hour, rapid fire. still no deal from the super committee. right now republicans, democrats on the panel are debating a plan to cut $1.2 trillion in government spending over the course of the next ten years. we are expecting them to announce today that they have

failed to reach an agreement. and if that happens, it would very likely lead to automatic cuts in both defense and domestic pramtograms. one with of the sticking points is whether to end the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. a news of a possible failure has the dow sinking, triple digit down, 326 point s we'll keep an eye on that, most of it due to concerns over american and european debt. we'll watch the markets for you this hour. also we're watching egypt. news here just in to cnn, the cabinet submits its resignation. that word coming from the prime minister's office. this follows three days of violence that left at least 22 people dead and more than 1700 others injured, this is all according to government health officials there. keep in mind it has been ten months now since scenes similar to this here have been playing out on the streets that really helped lead to the end of roz any mubarak's regime.

but now protesting egyptians says the present military government has got to go. >> translator: nothing has changed. gone backwards, the military council is garth. mubarak is still aalive and well and the people are dying. >> shouts this man, mubarak is running the military counciled and the whole country from prison! mubarak and all the corrupt businessmen around him. >> the government is asking people to wait for elections that happen september 28th. at oklahoma state university, we're awaiting a memorial service for two women's basketball coaches who died in a plane crash last week. the two were headed to arkansas on a recruiting visit when the plane went down. i'm told they these are live imajz of students, faculty sitting in on this memorial that's happening at this hour at oklahoma state. former state senator who was

piloting that plane and had his wife also died and are being honored. president obama signs legislation to help businesses hire unemployed veterans. businesses will get up to a $5600 tax credit for each veteran they hire and a $9600 tax credit for every veteran with disability. >> today the message is simple -- for businesses out there, if you are hiring, hire a veteran. it's the right thing to do for you. it's the right thing to do for them. and it's the right thing to do for our economy. a sad day at the university of arkansas. 19-year-old football player garrett eckman was found dead in his dorm room yesterday morning. the school says the cause of death is not known. they don't think anything suspicious was involved. his parents say he was living his dream playing football for the razorbacks. police in the netherlands say 24-year-old seattle mariners

greg halman was found stabbed to death. investigators have arrested his 22-year-old brother. the mariners issued a statement, the mariners family is deeply sad bed by the tragic death of greg halman. a new york man behind bars this hour is charged in an alleged terror plot. investigators say jose mimt epi planned to bomb post offices, police officers and others. the mayor called him an al qaeda sympathizers and showed this after the arrest. take a look. police staged that blast just to show the power of the bomb pimentel was allegedly building. louis freeh will lead sexual

abuse investigations at peb state. >> we will immediately report any evidence of criminality to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. if our investigation identifies any additional victims s of sl crimes or exploitation of children, we will immediately report this. also today, microsoft co-founder bill gates is in salt lake city for an antitrust lawsuit against the software giant. ute-ba ute-based noef elle incorporated sued claiming microsoft rejected their word perfect software. they denied saying the program crashed its windows 95 system. the system is an offshoot of the case settled more than eight years ago. here's one for you. file this away in the just amazingly cool file. a dinosaur nest believed to be 70 million years old found in mongolia with the fossilized

remains of 15 young dinosaurs called protoceretops. experts believe a sandstorm probably buried the dinosaurs aalive. affection was shown for a bullied teacher last night. ♪ you need is love ♪ all you need is love love ♪ love is all you need >> students showed up at the teacher's home, his name, fittingly, mr. love, he is a 92-year-old substitute teacher at kingwood high school. and this is in response to a student telling him friday, you're old and you're going to die any day. what are the students thinking? i don't know. more to cover for you in the next two hours including this.

foolish. reckless. those are just some of the words tossed around describing your super committee. they've had months to come up with this plan. so where is it? i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. three days of blood shed and no end in sight. 1700 protestors hurt, nearly two dozen dead, adds bullets fly and tear gas rains down. cnn is there in the middle of the chaos. hugh grant takes the stand. >> she was being tailed by paparazzi. >> reporter: the actor says the press hacked his phone and printed secrets about his love life. plus, the republicans running for president sit around a table and are sold, bear your soul. >> i had seen her as less of a person. >> we can do this. >> what drove three candidates to tears? and -- >> i see pepper spray as a tool for officers to use.

>> new fallout and outrage after police pepper-spray sitting occupy protestors.

plenty of talk today about the super committee, the committee of congress trying to write this legislation to slash the national debt by wednesday. here's what wall street is saying. you saw the numbers, let's bring them up again, the dow down 308 points so triple digit drop on the dow based largely on the reports the super committee has failed. greg sergeant wrote in "the washington post", here's why it's failing.

the democrats want the rich to pay more in taxes, the republicans want the rich to pay less. based on the plans, that is accurate. but hack hang on a second. this morning we pretty much chased down the committee's co-chair patty murray, democrat, and she says the clock is still ticking. >> we're still talking but the hours are short. >> you wouldn't call it a failure yet? >> no. not yet. >> not yet. kate bolduan, live on the hill, what is the state of play up there? why is senator murray saying, hey, maybe it's not over yet? >> reporter: senator murray all along saying she's still sitting at the table and she is ready to talk. but there's a big caveat there. they still have not been able to bridge the p gap between democrats and republicans on this committee, which is the issue of taxes as you were talking about off the top. the state of play really, the

latest we have, that aides are still telling us it is likely that this committee will be announcing that it has not been able to reach agreement, possibly issuing a paper statement in the next few hours, saying just that. but, at the same time that i say that, i will also tell you that there's an impromptu meeting taking place that may be wrapping up as we speak. i just walked away from it. meeting of a bipartisan group of super committee members happening just one floor below where i am right now in senator john kerry's office, including senator baucus, senator kyl, portman, von hallen, senator murray who you just heard from. described to me as an impromptu miegt, described also as trying for a hail mary pass. but i'll say that there is still all signs, barring bay breakthrough, point to that this committee has not been able to find the common ground needed to

achieve the $1.2 trillion minimum in deficit savings that they are headed for failure, brooke. >> so, hail mary. you never know. you mentioned senator kyl. i want to play this sound. let's listen to arizona republican senator jon kyl sort of painting a silver lining about a possible failure of the super committee of which he is a part. >> people should realize there's still going to be $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, it's just it won't be done through what the committee recommending but in across the board cuts and those aren't as -- those could be more difficult for the defense department, for example, and dmeomestic programs. >> so he's talking about, as you well know, those automatic cuts supposed to take effect if the super committee fails. i give air quoteses because when you read the fine print, kate, doesn't it say the automatic cuts don't come until 2013? so, in other words, alost stuff

can happen between now and then. >> reporter: a lot of stuff can happen. that's an excellent point, brooke, and something that is very much worth noting and emphasizing. these cuts, they are painful and are supposed to be that way because they were put in the place as the so-called trigger to motivate the committee to act. they were supposed to be such a horrible alternative that the committee would have to find common ground on these very tough issues. but they have not been able to reach agreement and they have written into the legislation from the summer's debt ceiling debate that these would not set in until 2013. so that will give us an entire year of members of congress trying to fight over whether or not to overturn the sequester, abc it's called formally, whether or not to carve out to limit the kind of heavy impact on the defense budget that is set to set in, regardless in election year this is going to be a fight we'll continue to talk about and is not over, at least that part of it, brooke. >> well, if anything happens with that impromptu meeting and

a hail mary passes is thrown, kate, i assume you'll brick it to us. >> reporter: yes. meantime, dozens dead, 1700 hurt, all of this in egypt. so what is the message? what do these people want? we're doing to tell you the story behind these violent protests and brand new video of an incredibly violent attack. that's in two minutes. plus, have you seen this video? this it actually happened right here in the united states. more than a dozen college students -- you hear people booing -- they're sitting down arm in in arm in protest. they are pepper-sprayed. we're going to talk to one of those students. and file this one under one of the most bizarre stories i have heard of. a fake doctor is accused of injecting a combination of cement, mineral oil, and fix-a-flat into a woman's

rearend. i'm not making this stuff up. stay with me.

egypt's cabinet has submitted its resignation, all in response to recent bloody

clashes. just a warning for you, some of the images are pretty tough to look at. first i wanted to show you, this is a flashback, january of this year, the masses in protest against then-president hosni mubarak, reportedly more than 350 people died then. and then this here, this is egypt right now. so when you look at the death toll -- again, the numbers changed -- three days of clashes later, 22 people, according to government health officials there. wasn't this supposed to end when president he hosni mubarak's government fell months ago? what happened snd cnn's ivan watson is live for us in cairo. we know the news that's just come down, ivan, the egyptian cabinet submitting its resignation. set the stage for me. i hear sirens. tell me what you're seeing, what you're hearing and now that they've submitted the resignation, is this what the demonstrators wanted? >> reporter: brooke, let's just bring you up to date on the

political crisis here very quickly. we've just gotten off the phone with a spokesman for the ruling forces military here. when we asked them, has the military council accepted the resignation of the government? his answer is, yes, it's accepted, that's enough. so definitely the civilian leadership of this country has stepped down in the wake of the bloodshed of the last three days and that brings me to the ambulances that you're hearing. there's a constant stream of ambulances that are in tahrir square, which is full of thousands if not tens of thousands of demonstrators and they're cob instantnstantlily rt wounded people from the street battles taking place in the alley ways and roads beyond tahrir square between those demonstrators and police and in some cases soldiers as well. eyewitnesss saying they're even

fighting on rooftops in those neighborhoods back there. and in the midst of this, this has brought down the civilian government, tarmy still runs th show here, very important to note, and brooke the thousands of people in there that are chanting, they want regime change, they're now chanting that they want the ruling military council to step down. so it's not even clear if this government -- a collapse is even going to satisfy the people fighting in the streetzs right now. >> ivan, isn't that the crux of the issue, the crux of the demonstrations, that those people, at least the people demonstrating in tahrir square, they do not want the military to be in charge? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, the military was welcomed when hosni mubarak resigned some ten months ago, but in in the interim there's been growing anger and frustration at how they're running the show.

frequently protests have been broken up by force. the army has been brought in to do that. there have been allegations of human rights abuses, of infringement on free doll of expression and freedom of the press. and a lot of people simply don't trust the generals to run this country anymore. and the fact that this is happening just a few days before egypt is supposed to go to the polls in its first post-dicta torial parliamentary election it throws everything in flux in the most populous country in the arab world. a real linchpin in the whole arab spring, brooke. >> election day there in egypt november 28th. we'll be watching along with you as we continue to hear the sirens ring out in cairo. ivan watson, thank you so much. now take a look at this. >> i see pepper spray as a tool for officers to use, and like any other tool that we carry and we utilize, you hope and pray that it's used correctly and

within policy. >> that was university of california davis campus police using pepper spray on those student protests. you're going to get the story behind the video when with i talk to one of the students who got sprayed. what was she thinking and what's going on at the campus police department today? that's after this short break.

have you seen this shocking video from just over it this past weekend? campus police at university of california davis pepper-spraying students at this nonviolent protest. take a look. >> you're going to get it in the face. move! move! move! >> again, this was the scene that played out friday, uc davis. officers struggled with students associated with the occupy wall street movement to get them to clear this sidewalk. the demonstrators, they sat there, you see them sitting

peacefully, arms linked, protesting tuition hikes and the use of police force against student protestors. that's when one of the officers pulled out that can of pepper spray, spraying the zmon straighters at point-blank range in a sweeping motion. today the campus police chief was place placed on administrative leave after the two officers were placed on leave yesterday. on the phone with me now, sophia camer cameron, one of the students sitting there who was pepper sprayed by police. sophia, first just take me back to friday. it looked like maybe you and a dozen other students sitting on a sidewalk. you didn't want to leave. police wanted you to leave. then you see the pepper spray. describe those moments for me. >> it was the simultaneous moment of absolute love for my friends and come lads who were sitting with me and holding each other and total fear at the police officer who was clearly not afraid of us because he had his visor up and was very

nonchalantly walking by us. after they sprayed us, it felt like we were being showered in the liquid, it got all over our bodies, hands, our clothes were soaked and we were burning, even hours afterwardsed when we tried to remove our clothes and shower, it was the first burn all over geron. >> you sent this picture of you 0 post-pepper spray, something putting saline solution in your eyes just so you can see. how long did the spraying last, sophia? >> my eyes were clear after about an hour, once i removed my contacts, but my hands and face burned for days afterwards. and part of my wrist actually like had a red mark until today. and friends were hospitalized because of third-degree burns that were sustained in.

from what i see, you're sitting in silence, you're peaceful, but my question is, and i have to ask, sophia, when the police asked you to get up, why didn't you want to get up? >> 50ii'm lucky enough to live in a country where political dissent or civil disobedience is encouraged or should be. our friends were arbitrarily arrested while we were protecting our encampment. because of that, we felt compelled to protest their arrest. they got our camps. they didn't need to take students as well. i watch much of this video. you can hear some of the students -- i presume students in the crowd -- booing, chanting "tha "shame on you," the chief of uc davis police placed on administrative leave and the chancellor saying there will be an investigation over the course of the next 30 days. let's listen. >> we have an event it that i

hope we will not ever see on our campus. we have been in the last 2 1/2 weeks dealing with student unrest. our students are very upset and they are very frustrated and they are trying to find ways to express this frustration. on thursday they tried to -- they created a camp. they set up a camp on our quad, which is against university policy for a number of reasons, safety primarily and health. >> so that was the chancellor of uc davis. i also saw the head of the uc system announced that he's beginning an urgent assessment of campus officers' actions systemwide. sophia, i guess ultimately, from your perspective, is that good enough? does that satisfy you? >> no, it's absolutely not good enough. we've seen the perspective

changed. finally the lieutenant was put on leave, then spacuzo was put on leave. it just shows they're trying to cover up something that they know was truly wrong. we asked for her resignation. we stand by that. our online petition has i think almost over 60,000 people signatures now. asking for her resignation. we also are moving toward finding a way to remove cops from campus to demil demille te the campus. >> sophia, thank you for calling in. straight to this. we're getting breaking news in to krn krb. a man with a gun has barricaded himself in a deployment processing building, this is at the shriver air base. public affairs say they think the man has a handgun. the building has been evacuated. they also tell us this

individual is an airman assigned to the base's 50th security squad rob. there are no hostages we know of. we're making calls, working on it. as soon as we get more information, we'll bring it to you live on cnn here. celebrities, victims of violence, even reports of royalty, police saying more than 5,000 people were victims in this massive phone hacking scandal. >> if someone like me called the police for a burglary, a mugging, something in the street, something would have happened to me or my girlfriend, the chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up on your doorstep before a policeman. >> more of his testimony. plus, the man accused of shooting rememberive gabby giffords in the head under constant surveillance in prison. we're now learning about these cameras, guards logging his move, even using a color-coded system. details on jared lee loughner behind bars. and a story we've been talking about all day.

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back to our breaking story. we're getting a little bit more information on this armed airman who has barricaded himself inside the schriever air force base in colorado. we hear from public affairs he's assigned to the 50th security squadron. he's barricaded himself inside a quote unquote processing building. no weapon there, essentially where servicemen and women get their paperwork before they deploy. he is believed to be armed with a personal handgun. the building has been evacuated except for law enforcement trying to obviously end this peacefully. no shots have been fired, no

one's been hurt. again, this is from public affair as. no operations on the base have been affected other than obviously it this building in which he's holed up. this building is a place where service members as i mentioned go get paperwork before they deploy. and this air force bases is home to the 50th space wing which does command and control for satellites for the department of defense. as soon as we get more information and hopefully it ends peacefully, we'll bring it to you live here on cnn. want to move along and talk about actor hugh grant. he takes the stand today and accuses a tabloid of illegally hacking his cell phone's voice mails. this is the first time "the mail on sunday" has been named in the scandal. >> i cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for this story in "the mail on sunday" except those voice messages on my mobile telephone. what i'd love to hear, what the sunday mail's explanation is, what their source was, if it

wasn't phone hacking. >> the story falsely accused hugh grant of a flirty relationship with a movie executive and he later won a lawsuit against "the mail". it hasn't responded to the allegations. the british court, this is all investigation into what could be widespread unethical media practices. until today, only publications owned by media mogul rupert murdoch have been implicated. in the most outrageous case, "news of the world" was accused of hiring a private investigator to listen to and delete a murder victim's voice mailz while trying to get a scoop. and then that give millie daler's mom false hope. >> downstairs in reception, i rang her phone. >> yes. >> and it clicked through on to her voice mail so i heard her voice. >> yes. >> and i was -- it was just like, she's picked p up her voice mails, bob, she's alive! >> "news of the world" as you know closed in july amid this

scandal. the parent company paid the family more than $2 million in damages. this hearing will continue this week with testimony from other hacked celebrities including harry potter author j.k. rowling. jared loughner's day-to-day existence has been reduced to a series of color-coded charts fltsdz we're getting new details about this man'ses life behind bars, the man awaiting trial for the tucson shooting rampage. six people died, 13 were wounded in the attack back p in january, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. here's what we're learning from the "arizona republic." they examined court testimony to figure this out. cameras are there, they watch every move loughner makes so every 15 minutes a guard checks on what he's doing, logs it on this color-coded chart. blue means he's in bed, green up and awake and red means he's pacing. he's pacing the floor of his 8 by 10 cell he in this federal medical facility in springfield,

missouri. a little more detail with regard to this life behind bars. we'll talk with sunny hostin on that next hour. now this. you may have heard of fix-a-flat. most people use it on flat tires, let's say. but police say it was pumped into a woman's rear end along with cement and mineral oil during a botched plastic surgery. and the incision was sealed with super glue. now, police have arrested this transgender woman, this is oneal ron morris, for posing as the doctor. you see this? they say she may have been part of an under ground network of scam aifrts doing illegal operations. the victim became sick, nearly died. she was so embarrassed she didn't tell police about it for months. >> they agree on a price of $700 for had him to enhance her butt tocks. a short time later she develops very serious pains in her abdomen, throughout her body. she knows something's wrong.

that cocktail had serious complications and serious effects on this young lady. >> morris would not comment on the accusations. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich has said quite a bit in the last 72 hours. he said this about occupy wall street protestors. >> go get a job right after you take a bath. >> he also said this about child labor. >> most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitor, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. >> and this about immigration. >> i think they handle the -- u.p.s. handle 24 million packages a day. they allow you to track it in realtime, virtually. federal government cannot apparently find 11 million people. >> we go "in depth" on newt gingrich, next.

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surge? >> i think that's very fair to say. his numbers have ballooned over the months. remember in may or june, we're asking, is gingrich's campaign dead? he had some controversial comments, campaign was in the red, a lot of advisers and top staffers left. well, now look at him. this is out this morning from gallup and "usa today," gingrich basically tied with romney for the top spot. cnn has brand new numbers. we're about an hour away from releasing them. we're just finishing them up. we'll see if our numbers are similar to gallup showing a surge for gingrich. this has been one wild ride, no doubt about it, in the race for the gop nomination. as you have said, people have gone up and down, gingrich definitely going up now. >> as we wait for the numbers, look, this is a guy who never pious bytes his tongue over the weekend, he challenged occupy wall street, talked about

children working. >> go get a job right after you take a bath. most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. >> okay, paul steinhauser, so he followed that up by saying, our child labor laws are stupid. so one thing hasn't changed, newt gingrich very much speaks his mind, frankly loves to get folks worked up. >> yeah. a lot of these comments creating controversy, you could say, over the last 24 hours both on the cable networks and social media. but for conservative voters he's trying to reach out to, these comments actually may play okay, especially the occupy wall street comments. a lot of criticism among conservatives of that movement. as for gingrich, some people have said his own worst enemy is his mouth. that could be the case. listen, when you rise in the polls it brings more scrutiny. we have a cnn debate tomorrow night hosted by wolf blitzer, this this will be the first

degait where gingrich is basically tied at the top. that will bring more scrutiny. we'll see how it plays out. >> constitutional hall not too far from the bureau in washington, d.c. tune in to the cnn republican presidential debate, tomorrow night 8:00 eastern. and now we decided this headline on cnn.com pretty much says it all. have they gone nuts in washington? let's ask that question of my friend gloria borger. she is all kinds of plugged in with the super committee. i think it's safe to say we're both tapped into your anger over this deadline charade. that's next.

so it looks as though the super committee has fizzled. is anyone surprised? gloria borger, chief political ab lift, i know there was an impromptu meeting on the hill. barring a hail mary pass, we assume they've failed. have they fa are you surprised? >> no, i'll not surprised. when this started and we were talking about the debt ceiling in late july, we all knew that it would be very difficult for a committee to come up with

something in a few months that congress hadn't been able to do in ten years, right? but even members of congress know how bad this looks, brooke. they know that the american public is out there saying, can't you guys get anything done? the markets are going to react poorly. could this mean nanother downgrade? so they're obviously scrambling because they understand what the optics of this looks like, and it looks like, you know, the gang that couldn't shoot straight, right? >> well, we know the stance on either side in terms of democrats want to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for the debt reduction, the republicans say no way. what about the so-called independents? where are they on this? >> it's interesting where the independents are because don't forget the independents are the one whoz are going to determine the result of the presidential race, we keepd independents in l that just came out today, they favor increase taxes on high income americans and businesses by 69%, major cuts in domestic

programs 62%. so you can see that it they really believe that people ought to sort of share the pain, if you will. but when you look at what republicans are thinking, only 39% of republicans in this same poll say that you ought to raise taxes here. so you can understand why all of the republican presidential candidates, newt gingrich today, for example, came out and said, you know what? i'm glad there's no deal because it would have been a backdoor way to raise taxes. we didn't want to do it. he's playing to the republican primary voters. barack obama playing to the independent voters and the democrats. >> well, maybe it's then just up to the voters to see who we elect, i guess, come next november and let somebody else figure it out, whoever that may be. gloria borger in washington, thank you. >> kick the can. >> kicking the can down the road. >> gloria, thank you. today is "music monday" and the artist would love it if you

really feel something after hearing his work. >> often people will hear things and in songs that i hadn't thought of. >> you may realize you've heard alexi murdoch but you don't know him until after this interview. ♪ your road was filled with song ♪

so convict p fegs time. i have a bit of a soft spot for

emotional singer songwriters who also have to be adorable. this drives my producers crazy when we sit down to choose which artist we should feature on "music monday." i have to love the music on this show and feel the interviews. today i give you alexi murdoch, one of the most talented, soulful musicians i have ever met. listen and enjoy. alexi murdoch. >> hi. >> hi. how are you? >> i'm okay. little tired, but i'm all right. ♪ ♪ where i live it gets dark at night ♪ ♪ kind of dark eats up the light. >> your music starts getting

played on tv shows, movies, sam menendez calleds you up and you play nine tracks on his film. ♪ and my eyes confound me >> i feel like people know your music, but they don't necessarily know alexi murdoch. is that on purpose? >> yeah, kind of i suppose. you know, obviously i definitely feel strongly that the music, it's more important that people know the music than know me. ♪ i love you girl ♪ i love you more than i can say ♪ >> so much of your music is just soft and intimate. i mean, that's just how i feel even sitting here talking to you. ♪ someone to love you more than i ♪ >> born in london, scotland is home now, was home then he. >> yeah. >> meandered through a few

countries in the meantime. >> have moved around, yeah. i guess i have always felt quite restless in some way, and the idea of committing to a specific place has always seemed quite difficult for me. >> what is it like being up there and playing to such a small crowd? what does that feel like? ♪ somewhere on the mountain around the rugged sea ♪ >> most of the time, if nothing goes wrong, it feels like where i should be. ♪ sky is pouring in ♪ sky is pouring in ♪ the girl i hear you crying girl i hear you crying ♪ ♪ oh girly don't you cry for i will come for you ♪ ♪ yes i will come for you ♪ and we will go home

>> what is the biggest compliment someone can give you with regard to your music? >> i suppose really that they got something out of it that helped them or that -- often people will hear things in songs that i hadn't thought of. ♪ so rest you now easy ♪ rest my brother john ♪ your journey has been long ♪ your road was filled with song ♪ ♪ but i miss you now you're gone ♪ ♪ miss you now you're gone ♪ i miss you now you're gone >> in essence being able deliver those songs immediately is probably the best part of this job. ♪