the great character of america, the rule of law, the economy. people still want to come here and realize the american dream. we have to, all of us, have an obligation to make sure that it remains as true for the next generation and the generation after that as it was for all of us. >> tom brokaw, it's been a pleasure. thank you very much. >> my pleasure, piers. >> that's all for us tonight. >> that's all for us tonight. ac 360 starts now -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com thanks, piers. no one's going to be reaching into your pocket when the christmas bills come due. late today house republicans agreed on a deal to renew those payroll tax cuts that you've been getting all year, at least for another two months. they're going to extend jobless benefits and fix medicare funding. if all of this sounds familiar, that's because other than a minor change or two it's nearly identical to the senate legislation that passed with overwhelming bypartisan support. all of that opened up a divide

between house hard liners and the gop establishment. by yesterday leading republican voices were openly calling on house speaker john boehner to back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. tonight looking pretty grim he did. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren't willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. so i'm proud of the efforts that they put into this. >> dana is going to join us to explain the mechanics of the deal, the spaks. president obama was quick to praise the outcome. the statement read thg is the real money that will make a real difference in people's lives and i want to thank every american who raised your voice to remind folks in this town what this debate was all about. and to give you an idea of some of the pressure, intense pressure lawmakers were feeling, take a look at these two entries

from rick crawford's web page. the first one is december 20th. the headline reads, quote, crawford rejects irresponsible payroll tax deal. now today a seemingly 180, quote, crawford to boehner, let's compromise. joining us to explain the compromise, how it works, what it means to you, your bottom line, dana is joining us. just this morning house republicans were saying they weren't going to budge on this at all. what changed between that and this afternoon? >> reporter: even when they were saying that, sanjay, we talked about it last night, the pressure on them was enormous. this morning right after that press conference the senate republican leader basically issued a statement breaking his see sentences lens and really shoving the house republicans into this position saying enough is enough effectively. you've got to go ahead and pass this two-month extension. i'm told privately he was even more stern. he doesn't want negotiations. secondly, very interesting thing happened.

the speaker called the president this morning asking for help from the white house to negotiate something kind of a middle ground. the president refused. the white house refused to send anybody up here to the hill so that the speaker had to negotiate with the senate majority leader. he and his people tend to take a harder line. lastly, maybe this is the most important, sanjay, it's the constituents. people who sent them here, they were very upset. we heard from many republican sources that the members who did go home for christmas were hearing from people, you are going to be there in washington and you won't pass this extension and make sure that i have this extra money in my pocket? that's just not going to fly. >> i want to point out something as well, dana, that may be a formality but an important one. the speaker said he's going to get this passed unanimously without having to call people back to vote. here's what congressman mike kelley told john king about that this evening. >> you could come to the capitol tomorrow and say i object and break this deal if you don't like it. will you do that? >> hey, john, you know what?

i'm not so sure i'm not going to do that. >> dana, are we sure that this is really going to happen, that this is going to pass tomorrow? >> reporter: after covering this congress for the past year i will not say i'm sure about anything anymore, sanjay. the speaker's office, they certainly feel pretty confident that they are going to be able to get this passed without having to call members of congress back to do it in person. i'll be here tomorrow night telling you if that's going to happen tomorrow night. >> get a chance to check in with you on that tomorrow. stay with us now, dana. i want to bring in john king and candy crowley as well. john, we've been talking about this, you and i. a few days ago we heard house republicans a braveheart-type references about fighting to the end. this looks like a sur rener. does it? is it? >> they fought to the end and they surrendered, yes. they did both, yes. they're getting a small tweak in the language here and they caved. dana just went through it.

you have the president who used the bully pulpit today. he surrounded himself with real people today. you have the senate republican leader who said, look, i cut this deal with the democrats. a majority of my republican members voted for it so the republicans lost their leverage when that happened. when you had a majority of republicans in the senate voting for the two-month extension, they lost their leverage in washington politically and they were losing the narrative out in the country. they cut their losses. >> candy, if you give us a little peek behind the curtain. was there a sense, do you think, that the republicans thought that they could really win on this issue? >> reporter: as hard as it is to believe, the great mystery of this is that this was such a losing issue for the republicans from the start of this six weeks ago. when you looked at it, there is no way that you could allow this tax cut on payroll -- on a payroll tax to expire without

people saying, wait a minute. the republicans fought all year long against tax increases for millionaires and now they're doing a tax increase on the middle class. that's exactly how the democrats portrayed it from the very beginning and here is a party, the republicans, who has spent an entire year saying we can't do any tax increases. it just was a very, very hard one to do. i must say, i think that there were some in the tea party portion of the republican party on the house side that saw a string of victories that they had been able to have often working with the president, which may be why the president sent john boehner back to harry reid. nonetheless, they may have been encouraged by past victories. you know what, we're on an election eve year. it just didn't work this time. >> i want to sort of explore some of those details, dana, that candy's bringing up. we like to keep them honest here on "360" as you know. people should know this is a two-month fix.

their promise is they will start negotiating right away on a year-long extension. we don't have a guarantee that will happen. that was part of the resistance that we heard from the house republicans, right? >> reporter: that's exactly right. the resistance more importantly from the senate democrats why they felt they needed -- and senate republicans, why they needed the two-month extension. the issue at this point in time is that everybody says they want the one-year extension but how do you pay for it? the whole package itself costs between 120 to $160 billion. the whole reason why they had this short-term fix in the senate is because they couldn't come to an agreement on how to pay for it. does it sound familiar? it should. this is the issue we've seen all throughout the year on various battles. there are partisan divides on just how to do that. that is not going to stop. it's going to continue. it won't be easy for them to come together on even this year-long extension even if they have more time. >> right. speaking of paying for it, one of the narratives, john king,

that was part of this was that millionaires are going to get taxed to help pay for this. were you surprised by some of the statements by democrats that sounded a bit like they were gloating. >> they're gloating today but you make an important point. the democrats have not gotten what they want and that is to change the tax rates to have millionaires pay for more. the democrats can gloat today. when we come back from the holidays, as candy notes, we will be in 2012, we'll be in the election year, not just talking about it. all of these issues will come back up when they negotiate the long term as dana noted, they'll have to pay for it. they won't get their tax increase on millionaires. what programs are we going to cut? that's a tough one for democrats in an election year. then we're talking about a tiny issue here, the payroll tax. there are a lot of people who don't like this because it comes out of the social security trust fund. we're going to get into a tax cut debate again next year. the republicans will use the

quotes the democrats said this week. how could they possibly raise taxes right now. those quotes will come back. this chapter is closed but the fight's not over. >> absolutely. i think we'll hear some of these sound bytes. candy, any idea of the impact of this on any of the republican candidates? are people feeling on the defensive? should they be engaging more? >> i'll tell you, the republican candidates stayed as far away from this as they could get with the exception of michele bachmann who said, no, this is a quick fix. this is a band aid. etc., etc. this was not something they particularly wanted to get into because what was driving the opposition was the tea party. what's driving the primaries is the tea party. you don't want to get caught between the tea party. >> right. i couldn't help but notice, dana, if you looked at speaker boehner's demeanor, you talked to him directly, you notice his demeanor in the press room, he did not seem happy. you get this idea he's leading this caucus filled with people who don't care as much about the

political consequences. how tough a year has this been for him, do you think? >> reporter: obviously it's been a great year because he became speaker of the house but incredibly tough, sanjay. you're right. i was struck by something candy said earlier about the fact this was a politically terrible idea for republicans from the beginning to fight this fight. the house speaker didn't have much of a choice. he is a very smart politician. there's no question he knew this was a bad political fight to pick, but he had a conference, republican caucus which revolted when he said he wanted to make this deal on a two-month extension. there is no question it's been incredibly tough. so far he navigated it pretty well. i'm told on this conference call he had, generally he comes to them and he asks them for approval. not this time. he said, this is my deal. this is what i struck and this is what i'm doing. did not take any questions and it was over. i was told that he sounded, quote, tired and ticked off. >> i bet. we saw a lot of this unfold.

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breaking news tonight, congress is back on track to renew the payroll tax cut. house speaker boehner bringing his members back on board saying this about his earlier opposition to a deal. quote, it may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world. more now on what this means for the speaker, for president obama, here to talk about it

tonight paul begala and former bush white house secretary ar ri fleischer. ari, everyone thinks they lost the optics on this issue. what do you think went wrong? >> what i think went wrong is house republican's put perceptions first. they tried to do something long term. it's why the tea party got elected to change the way washington does the business. my message is congratulations. you're now governing in two-month increments. what a wonderful way to lead a country. i think that's what they did for us. they mistook washington for a town where you could do it for a year long. politically it didn't work. >> you have to agree, ari, that a lot of people who have been paying attention on both sides of the aisle, look, the optics of this in the end was that the house republicans looked like they weren't going to allow this tax cut to happen. that's a core issue for them. >> no, republicans passed a

measure that cut taxes for one year. it was the senate that didn't let that happen. i don't think there's no dispute about that fact. they got into a dispute about whether the tax cut should be two months or one year and you had a washington standoff. they passed a one-year tax cut. the notion that republicans aren't for tax cuts is a laughable notion. what's happening is the democrats are getting dragged along through republican position. they did outmaneuver the republicans in terms of the december 31st deadline. >> one of the things you brought up, ari, when we talked about this earlier in the week, paul, i want to ask you about this, is a little bit more about what the deal is all about, and the substance. what is paying for these tax cuts? one of the things the president wanted, paul, all along is taxing millionaires. he didn't get that. is this an unqualified victory for president obama and the dems? >> i think that's a very good point. that's the real dispute. democrats didn't want two months and republicans want the a year.

what happened is republicans wanted a year-long tax cut for the middle class so we wouldn't lose the money out of social security. the payroll tax comes out of the social security trust fund. we don't want to lose the revenue so democrats put forward a proposal that would ask citizens who make more than a million a year to pay 1.9% more. less than two pennies on the dollar after you make a million bucks to pay for this middle class tax cut. that's where the republicans balked. they don't believe in tax cuts per se, not if they go to the middle class. if it's about the rich they will pay any price, bear any burden, oppose any foe to make sure that millionaires and billionaires don't have to pay even two pennies more. that's really the heart of the republican problem is that they're seen now as the party of the wealthy elite and the democrats are now seen as the party of the middle class. that's what this fight was about. >> ari, i want you to respond to that. the issue all along was how this

was going to be paid for. that does seem to have gotten buried over the last couple of weeks in discussing this. >> paul's exactly right. the democrats want to pay for everything with another tax hike on somebody. that's why the taxes always go up when you have democrats in charge. the reason that's so destruct e destructive, if social security is no longer a retirement fund, you take money, you give it to the government, they're supposed to invest it for you in social security. they're supposed to not spend it which they always do. as soon as you break the bond where your money that comes out of your payroll taxes goes for your social security and you pay for it out of general revenues, it's a welfare program. you have broken the bond that fdr, lbj and all of those who came before us fought for. now social security is nothing more than another redistribution of income program. one year from now when this same tax cut is up again? what will they do? let's tax somebody else and make them pay for somebody else's social security. let's a polish all payroll

taxness that case and make it all come out of income taxes. that's the inevitable logic. >> happy holidays to both of you. i know you're spending time with your mother as well. wish her happy holidays. >> thanks and to you too. >> thank you guys. in iraq and now with u.s. troops gone the violence is ramping up. a string of coordinated attacks killing more than 60 people today in baghdad. what does this say about security there without american forces and could this be a step towards civil war. former players suing the nfl. they say the league didn't fully prepare them for the impact of con kugss. ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of a pain free holiday. ♪ this season, discover aleve.

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a wave of bombings across baghdad today killing more than 60 people. it's less than a week after the last american troops left iraq. some are comparing this to the worst days of the insurgency when sectarian violence brought the country to the brink of civil war. it includes a market, a coffee shop, even a school just as children were arriving for class. they hit almost exclusively a neighborhood shared by shy iets and sunnis. it's setding the stage for a battle. talk about it, let's bring in arwa damon who is live in baghdad and former cia director, robert bear. he's a columnist for time.com.

thank you both for joining us. arwa, i've read some of what you've written today. you say what's happening right now is the iraqi's worst nightmare. what is the latest that you're seeing there from baghdad? >> reporter: well, sanjay, when we think about what took place here, 16 explosions in the span of two hours during morning rush hour. this very much is exactly what many iraqis feared would take place when the u.s. military withdrew. this casts a huge question mark as to whether or not the iraqi security forces can actually protect the population. it wasn't just the explosions in the morning. there were four explosions that took place at night as well. once again, civilians are thrown into the mindset of that utmost fear not knowing if when you leave your house you're going to see your loved once again. >> i can't imagine living under those circumstances. bob, you say it could be even potentially worse than that. you say your sources inside iraq tell you that they're already

stockpiling weapons for potential all-out civil war? >> i've got multiple calls today from people inside that are worried about a civil war. they thing that malic can i is going to make a grab for power. they think there will be ethnic cleansing in baghdad and soounys will be forced out. the indictment or not the indictment but the arrest warrant for the vice president is a really bad sign and they're taking it as a bad sign. they are preparing for the worst. >> so you're talking about the prime minister who's shii. the vice president you're talking about who has this warrant out is sunni. arwa, you've talked about the fact that many of these attacks have the hallmark of an al qaeda affiliate. how much do you think it's terrorist groups asserting its control on the power vacuum? >> reporter: sanjay, all of that more ofs together in this gray

area when it comes to iraq. the attacks appear to bear the hallmarks of al qaeda-linked groups because of the level of sophistication and coordination amongst them. that being said, there is also the reality here that with this political instability a vacuum is created. that tends to be filled by violent extremist groups from both sides of the spectrum, groups who don't believe that dialogue is the way to settle political disputes but, rather, that violence is. the great concern again is that this is once again going to set off that cycle of tit-for-tat suny versus shy a attacks. >> to be clear, bob, there are still 17,000 american diplomats and private security contractors in iraq. you've said you're very concerned about the safety of those people as well, is that right? >> well, the security forces are contractors. they're well-qualified, but they can't contain an assault from a

militia group. they've talked about the embassy being too large. it's vulnerable. in the event of a civil war even right now it could come under attack. i think the state department should be very worried about that and we could have to rescue that mission. >> arwa, there on the ground given that there's no military muscle to speak of left in the country, does the united states have any influence on events happening there on the ground? >> reporter: not a lot, sanjay. the u.s. doesn't have a really strong trump card that it can play against the iraqis to try to force or influence what's happening here. the best that they can do right now is to urge these various leaders to try to sit around a negotiating table. the political crisis right now is actually monumental. you have the government collapsing like a house of cards each side by the day growing more polarized against the

other. it's sunni versus shiia. all of these various fault lines that are existing are crumbling apart. there are so many points percolating that at any given moment in time could erupt into war along any sort of sectarian or ethnic line. >> bob, building on what arwa is saying, iran has been talked about the real power player potentially in iraq. what are your sources telling you in terms of how the iranians are involved in this and the relationship with al-maliki? >> there is a power vacuum there and you'll see three powers being sucked into this conflict if it turns bad, and that would be iran, it would include turkey and saudi arabia. they have said they will defend the sunni. i think they will. it will send arms and money. the iranians can't avoid getting

involved. they worry about the kerdish north. >> bob baer, thank you so much. arwa damon, please stay safe. there's a lot more going on. >> sanjay, we're getting our first look today at what one group told us of the mass sac ker on the street. be warned, the pictures are graphic. the group says people were surrounded by security and military forces then slautered. another group said 35 more people died today in clashes throughout the country. a 360 follow on an investigation when an experimental drug to treat small position called st 246. the obama administration awarded the $432 million contract to seek technologies. several republican congressmen have signed a ler to health and human services secretary to kathleen is he beel yas demanding services for the deal. we're interested in finding more

information on the threat of small position. the hhs strategy to address this threat, the basis for the cost of the procurement, and the evidence supporting the department's belief that it will be achieved. a major contributor is ronald paul man. walmart is voluntarily pulling cans of infant formula off its shelves after a baby died of a rare bacterial infection. it's enfamil that's involved in the case. so far they're being cautious. no link has been made between the formula and the baby's death. four former nfl players are suing the league saying they failed to properly inform them of the long-term effects of head injuries, especially concussions. the league responded saying it has long made player safety a priority. sanjay, voters in england removed a felt tip pen from a woman's stomach. it had been there for 25 years.

guess what, yeah? it still writes. the woman told doctors she swallowed the pen while using it to poke at her tonsils, we don't know why. she forgot about it until she went in for tests and doctors found the pen lodged in her tummy. >> you know what this reminds me of, the old adage, the pen is mightier than in this case the hydrochloric acid in your stomach. >> that's such a geeky -- >> the doctor writes hello. >> that is such a doctor joke. >> come on. you got it. >> yeah. >> she satisfies calling me a geek or a nerd. i'm not sure. >> let the audience decide. you did just say the pen is mightier than the hydrochloric acid. >> keep going. >> a 360 investigation. they catch criminals simply by following their nose. scent dogs. they've become a valued investigative tool. the question is are these canine cops reliable enough to send someone to prison for life or

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this week we've been taking a look at the science involved in catching criminals. the amazing breakthroughs we see on popular television shows that may or may not be quite so amazing in the real world. police have long used scenting dogs to search out suspects or

look for evidence. lately more and more evidence found by these canines is being relied on to convict criminals. the question is how reliable is it. >> reporter: across the country in places like vincent, alabama, dogs like these are being trained to help investigate crimes. they are energetic, smart, and one of them could put you into jail. just ask professor larry myers of auburn university. he spent a lifetime studying their abilities and he said they can even identify murder suspects. >> reporter: so they're fully capable of doing this? >> oh, yes. if trained properly and if they're in good health, yes. yes. capable. >> reporter: sound farfetched? not in cold spring, texas. that's where a few years back a school janitor named murray burr was murdered, stabbed dozens of times in his home, and this young woman, meg began

winfrey was convicted of the killing because a dog by scent alone put her at the murder scene. now she's in prison serving a life sentence. >> the dog scent thing, that's the biggest joke there ever was. >> reporter: her father, richard, was stunned that the evidence stood up. after all, he and meg began's brother were also identified as suspects by that dog. but the courts dropped the charges after deciding the dog evidence was fatally flawed. >> i just can't believe that that's even thought of, that they can take somebody's life away over a dog. >> reporter: so how are dogs trained for so-called scent lineups? professional trainer and police officer, david vladimir gave us a demonstration with some unused pizza boxes. at a crime it may be bits of clothing from suspects and others would be placed where a dog could only smell them.

>> we'll close the box so that there's no visual cue. >> reporter: the dog would then be given a scent from, say, the crime scene and brought in to sniff around. if he sits in front of a sample, he's matched a suspect to the crime. >> good boi. >> reporter: but here's the problem. if the handler knows what investigators want with a slight nod, pause, or even a blink he can send a signal. >> there are many, many different ways in which you could accidentally tell the dog where the target was? >> right. and to be fair, it's usually unintentional. >> reporter: the trainer whose dog helped convict meggan win tri is involved in another lawsuit. professor myers who has taken part in hundreds of case including hers said the dog handling was abysmal. he has complete faith if all the guidelines are followed, but that rarely happens. >> reporter: is this more science or art? >> it is an art mostly that

needs to become science if it's going to be used in a court of law or for other critical issues. >> reporter: authorities in texas found no dna linking meggan to the murder. they did, however, find people who testified that she talked about the crime. still, even the prosecutors are cautious about dog evidence. >> it should be corroborated. a person should not be con vingted solely on a dog scent. >> reporter: meggan is waiting on her latest appeal. >> i've never been this hopeful. >> reporter: then again her family never thought she would wind up in jail in large part on the word of a dog. tom foreman, cnn, vincent, alabama. >> lots of questions about this. want to dig deeper. we spoke earlier with jeffrey toobin and dr. laurence kobalinsky. jeff, best we can tell,

meggan was charged with the murder of this janitor in 2004. there was no physical evidence, no dna, nothing that linked her to the scene. everything was circumstantial except for the dog scenting. should we be be in a place where dog scenting could be relied on as the only scientific evidence? >> there are some legitimate controversies about blood spatter, bite, bite evidence but this is an absolute travesty. the idea that you could ever rely on dog scenting as evidence that could lead to someone being convicted of a serious crime, we don't know how good dogs are. we've all loved dogs and we all think dogs are very smart, but how often do dogs make mistakes? how often can a dog tell the difference between a true scent and a mistake. we have no statistics, we just have anecdotal evidence. the idea that this was allowed in a courtroom is a disgrace. >> again, i heard the story

along with you. i was quite surprised by it. dr. k, you hear this all the time. dog handlers who say their dogs can track scents across water, for long distances. there's been calls for tougher certification standards. what about this case? were you surprised by it? >> i was. i think one has to be very careful when working with dogs. i've never seen a dog testify on the stand. i worry, quite frankly, about false positives as well as false negatives. in fact, you can't really talk about dogs in general because every dog is unique and different the the training for a particular dog will be different from the training for the next dog. we really don't know if the dog is just excited about a cadaver or drugs or whatever it's trained to sniff out or it may be catching the scent of another dog of the opposite sex. so i have a lot of questions about this. i would say it's not science. i would say it's great for an investigative lead, great for law enforcement, but not ready for the courtroom.

>> right. i think that's an important point. it's not like dogs should never be used if you want to try to find someone or find a body that hasn't been located and you use a dog to get to the location, that's great. then you get the evidence at the location that can be scientifically investigated. >> dr. k, you were involved with the casey anthony trial. a lot of people remember the scent that emanated from the trunk. people wanted to know what that was, what it represented. how useful is evidence like that, the idea of aromas, scents being called into question here? >> again, if you're using a dog and it's reacting to the scent, it gives you an investigate ga tiff lead, perhaps. but if you try to prove it through instrumental analysis as is what happened in the casey case, it had better be published, validated, go through

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pakistan is disputing the results of the pentagon's investigation into last month's airstrike that killed 24 of their soldiers. now defense department's report blames a string of mistakes fueled by miscommunication, poor coordination, and ds trust. it says the incident started when american soldiers came under fire. they dispute this telling cnn the u.s. fired first and it was pakistani's returning fire that prompted the airstrike. while all of this is raising tension between two strained allies, their chilly relationship with neighboring india is showing signs of a thaw. that may be hard to tell from where half a century it's still business as usual. it's something you have to see in order to believe. reza has the story. >> who's tougher? who's stronger? who's got more swagger? this is the daily show down between nuclear neighbors pakistan and india at the border

crossing just outside of lahoi. this war dance is a symbol of six decades of bad blood and mistrust sparked by a violent separation in 1947 after british rule then fuelled by three wars, a nuclear standoff, and a seemingly endless barrage of accusations from both sides. ever since 1959 the long-time rivals border guards have met here at sunset and faced off in a flag lowering ceremony. >> it's just involving spirit and patriotism. >> reporter: each angry stomp, each glare, another dagger in this battle of bravado. >> reporter: if you want to know what the bitter rivalry feels like, this is where you come. >> reporter: the ceremony starts with a furious 50 yard march to the border gates. then comes the stare downs

followed by the synchronized lowering of the flags. the event is one of the region's most popular tourist attractions. thousands line the stands on each side of the border. few ee electrify the pakistani crowds more than this sergeant. at 6'6", 240 pounds, no border guard here is bigger. the towering figure who doesn't speak on camera but makes clear that his country is not to be messed with. >> reporter: over the past years there's been some developments and some signs that show maybe, just maybe this icy relationship is thawing. >> reporter: pakistan and india are meeting again. leaders talking peace not pointing fingers. and work is underway to expand trade. despite signs of improved relations, the border gates are still slammed shut after every

ceremony erasing half a century of mistrust takes time, analysts say. until then conflict, not peace, defines pakistan/indian relations. i've actually been to that part of pakistan just outside of lahore. it's amazing to think for nearly 60 years ceremonies like that have been going on. it may be a sign of thawing of some chilly relationships. ish joins us with a bulletin. >> sanjay, breaking news. two 5.8 earthquakes have hit new zeal land. there's no word on damages or casualties. christ church is still recovering from a 6.3 magnitude quake that devastated the city earlier killing more than 150 people. here at home a new national park service report says the washington monument has

extensive cracks during its peek. it's been closed since a quake hit the area in august. john edward's legal team asks for another delay. they're citing an unexpected medical issue but gave no specifics. he's pleaded not guilty to several charges including violating campaign contribution laws. did you get a visit from a brown suited elof today? it's the busiest day with 26 million packages expected to be delivered today alone. that is almost 300 packages a second. meanwhile a fed ex executive has taken to youtube to apologize for the actions of this delivery guy in california who tossed a box containing a computer monitor over a fence saying his actions go against the company's values. this video of the incident has more than 5 million hits on

youtube. the person expecting the delivery says they were at home at the time and all the guy had to do was ring the bell. as for the worker's punishment, the executive said he no longer works with customers. >> earn burnett out front is ahead at 11 p.m. eastern. >> sanjay, we're continuing to cover that breaking news on the payroll, the republicans caving. republican senator scott brown had been really vocal. he said house republicans were being irresponsible and not doing a deal. he comes out front tonight to talk about what comes next, whether there really is room for compromise. then we'll also talk to the governor in iowa. he cease a sleeper rise. i'll put it that way. someone who may be on the rise and a real upset in iowa. then the battle between the supper powers. there is a big event happening in the middle of the ocean, sanjay. it could be a big blow to america. back to you.

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we've been counting town the top ten ridiculists of the year based on your votes. tonight we have number seven, when someone was caught on tape messing with matt damon. here's anderson back in august. >> tonight we're adding anyone, and i mean anyone, who messes with matt damon. don't do it, people. as a big fan of matt damon, and

i am, i know not to mess with him. not that i would ever want to, some folks haven't learned that. it's a lesson that a certain reporter and certain cameraman had to learn the hard way over the weekend. i think i can call him matt. he was in washington for a save our schools rally. he spoke out against teacher's job security. afterward some reporter from i think a libertarian website took him to task. watch this. >> in acting there isn't job security, right? there's an incentive to work hard and be a better actor because you want to have a job. why isn't it like that for teachers? >> you think job insecuritiy is what makes me work hard? >> see, right there. she just messed up. not a good idea. now she's about to get a well-reasoned, highly intellectual smack down, a smatt down. it is awfully thrilling to watch. >> you have an incentive to work

harder. >> i want to be an actor. it's not an incentive. you take this nmba style thinking. it's intrinsically paternal lis stick view of problems that are much more complex than that. >> snap. holy dictionary matt man. i think matt damon proved once and for all that his brain is a whole lot more goodwill hunting than it is team america. >> matt damon. >> matt damon. >> matt damon. >> okay, yes, tre parker messed with matt damon. this reporter, we're talking about not so much. matt isn't quite done making his point. >> a teacher wants to teach. why else would you take a [ bleep ] [ bleep ] salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really loved to do it? >> she messed with matt damon and she is facing the dragon.

people can debate all day about ed policy. that's the cool way to say education policy, which i just learned from matt damon. good teachers are highly educated and should be compensated appropriately. stand by. a cameraman is about to mess with matt damon. >> the teachers are bad. 10% of people maybe can think of something else. >> okay. maybe you're a [ bleep ] cameraman. >> he doesn't need special effects or stunt doubles or hair. his words are his nunchuks. don't miss with his mom either. >> where did you get that number? >> go matt damon's mom. i loved how she jumped in there. where did you get that number? she's a great teacher and mom and proud of her son. he's a good actor and he has great taste in the ladies. >> i'm [ bleep ] matt