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megyn: fox news alert with breaking news on a major financial crisis brewing in europe, a crisis putting the united states and the world economy at serious risk. welcome to "america live," i'm megyn kelly. finance officials in europe are at this moment in the middle of desperate meetings to save the euro. if that currency sales analysts are predicting now it will send the united states, asia and the entire global economy into a quote, debt-induced financial tsunami. economists offering this dire warning saying if the euro crashes european bank lending could freeze. stock markets would likely crash and europe's economies would crate era tpebgtiner, affectth
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thaffecting the united states in more ways than one. stu varney joins me now. it cannot be overstated, the dire warnings that they are offering. the meeting in brussels to save the euro has taken on an air of desperation. if this euro collapses we would be looking at a situation globally that is far more deaf stating than we even saw here in 2008 after the mortgage implosion and the debt krep crunched that followed. is this overstating it? >> no it is not. it is here now and happening at break-neck place. there are crisis meetings taking place in washington d.c. president obama is there, hillary clinton is there. geithner is there. in brussels there is another crisis meeting of european finance ministers. they are trying to get together a lot of money, trillions for this bail out fund, and they are
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having a very hard time doing it. you mentioned that ap report. they are using expressions like desperate, dire, and they are actually using frequently now, in europe, the expression, the collapse of the euro. megyn the downward spiral is starting. governments are finding it difficult and extremely expensive to borrow money, so they can't pay their bills, the banks are losing their shirts and some economists are beginning the early stages of a crash. all of this is happening right now. megyn: let's talk about how this is going to affect the united states and why we are so interested in watching it so closely. you have for example, italy which needs over $600 billion, that is how in debt they are. they don't have it to pay. they need someone to bail them out. they are not the only government in europe. those countries who are part of the euro don't want to bail italy out, and yet there are constricting sort of monetary over sights that are looking to
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these european countries to say we are all in to together, we can't let one fail, we are all in this together. they are looking at the united states, even though the president said yesterday we are not going to bail them out, we seem to be mulling it over because we also have a lot of skin in this game. >> reporter: internally the europeans don't have enough money to do the job and the germans will not pay up. they are looking externally to organizations like the imf and america contributes 17% of all the money that goes into the imf. you can bet that at those crisis meetings in washington right now the role of the imf in providing some kind of bail-out money, that is being actively discussed. megyn: let me just stop you there. even though it won't be america directly cutting a check to the europeans, through the imf we could indeed wind up contributing. is that likely? geithner has a seat on the board of the imf, ben bernanke has a seen the that board and we have our president saying, don't look
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to us, we have our own problems. >> reporter: you can bet that america will move heaven and earth to prevent the euro crashing. if that means putting in a half trillion or even a trillion from the imf and contributing american money to that, so be it. the last thing america wants, and especially press i president obama is to see the european economy implode. that would ripple over here and hurt our economy. megyn: worse than 500 billion. >> reporter: we've already committed 500 billion, not america but the imf committed $500 billion in 2009 that was to get over the 2008 crisis. more money would be required if the imf is to play a significant role in any current rescue of europe. we are talking serious money here, megyn, and i'm not sure it's there. megyn: this sounds like another too big to fail scenario. wall street imploded they said they were too big to fail. we had to use taxpayer dollars to bill them out, otherwise we
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would all have to pay. now we are looking at europe, they are you two big to fail, we are talking about the imf and what role they will play. >> reporter: it's precisely the same situation, are we going to let things crash or spend some serious money? either germ answer, americans, or the rest of the world, are we going to let them crash? odds are, no, we'll print some money. megyn: wow for italy, and european ultimately ourselves. stu thank you. at the same time as europe stands at the brink we get a new warning from credit agencies on the u.s. debt crisis. fitch, credit agency, one of the big three siting the failure of the supercommittee to strike a deal is giving us a warning. they give us until 2013 to come up with a credible debt reduction plan or our credit will suffer a second downgrade. for now we get to keep our aaa rating but our long-term outlook
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has been revised from stable to negative. new numbers out today on home prices and they are taking another fall in major cities. this comes after the housing market saw some small gains over the summer and prior to that in the spring. a new report suggests recovery will not come any time soon. standard & poors says the national index is down 3.9% compared to the same time last year. high unemployment and weak job growth deterring would be homeowners. 2011 home sales are on pace to match 2010 which was the worst year in 14 years. fox news alert now we are getting new video as violenceee ruptsz at the british embassy violence erupts at the british embassy in tehran. the mob burning a british embassy vehicle, british flags and throwing documents from windows. all this in kwropbs to the
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iranian parliaments approval of a bill that cuts relations with great britain. all part of london's support of sanctions against tehran for it's nuclear program. this similar to the 1979 storming of the british embassy and the taking of several hostages. we've got breaking news today on the campaign trail. candidate herman cain now saying he will reassess his presidential bid in the wake of new allegations of misconduct. this time it's over an alleged 13-year extramarital affair with a georgia business woman. the gop presidential candidate insisting that it's not his campaign this he's worried about, but his family. >> i'm more worried that this is going to hurt my wife and my family, because it's going to be proved that it was probably something else that was baseless, and the court of public opinion does not consider
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that when they want to pass that judgment. i can take the lumps. i expected this kind of stuff when i made the decision to run for president of the united states of america. but the thing that i'm worried about is the impact it's going to have on my wife and family. megyn: mr. cain making those comments last night and cnn. now the woman at the center of the latest allegations, ginger white, who you see here, she is a headhunter from atlanta. the question is whether her claims will prove powerful enough to derail mr. cain's campaign for good. chris stirewalt following this live from washington. chris, all right, we had obviously sexual harassment allegations come out. this is something different, this is a woman saying she had a 13-year consensual affair. mr. cain came out and said it's absolutely not through, that he is simply friends with this woman. according to his narrative he is the most maligned candidate we've seen in a while with every single woman coming forward with
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blatant and extreme lies about him and his conduct. >> that would be a very wild allegation indeed. the problem for mr. cain in this. megyn, is that yes he says he has been friends with this woman for 13 years, that she did have his cellphone number and records of calls back and forth, and apparently that he gave her some money at some point, that he found financial assistance for her. those are not normal things that 65-year-old men, businessmen and preachers do with woman. that is just sort of not usual. and for mr. cain, here is the thing, even in the light most favorable to him, a charitable telling of this. he's right, at a certain point this does affect his family. to have this as part of the national discussion and as it looks increasingly unlikely that he's going to be able to get back to the top of the polls as we've continued to see downward momentum from him, owing not only to the sex scandals but foreign miscues on libya and other things, is it really worth
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this to drag this out? one assumes that the assessment the campaign is undergoing now has to do with what is a reasonable exit strategy. megyn: this woman has gone public in a piece that was obtained by a fox affiliate, by an investigative team. unlike some other accusers who suggests that he sexually harassed them, she is be on the tv showing the cellphone and the viewers have an opportunity to look at her on calm are and make an assessment for themselves whether or not she is credible much here is a sample of the sound bite she gave. >> it's pretty simple, it wasn't complicated. i was wear that he was married, and i was also aware that i was involved in a very inappropriate situation. i didn't want to do this. but it was something that i felt at the end of the day was the right thing to do, and is it going to hurt a lot of people? yes. i'm sure i will be one of them.
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megyn: you know, in the wake of that you have herman cain talking about his family, his family, how he's worried not about his campaign but his family, is that a red flag, chris? is he trying to tell us something else? he said that last night, now this morning we get the, i'm reassessing my candidacy. >> you see the trap door opening a little wider for herman cain to dive out of this campaign. because at what point -- if you know that you can't win at what point is it not worth blowing up your marriage or in addition making yourself a toxic commodity for future revenue sources as an author or media personality. cain has to consider all of that. at the same time he can't just jump out of the race right now, that would cause more alarm and more curiosity. you may be look at a moment, megyn where what cain wants to do is basically slide into the next month and finish poorly in the iowa caucuses and sort of quietly leave the race as
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opposed to a jumping out right now jo it's been something to watch, his precipitous fall as these allegation came out one day after the next. chris stirewalt, thank you, sir. new fallout today in the penn state child sex-abuse case. defense attorneys for jerry sandusky, the man at center of those child rape allegations are now coming out very aggressively questioning the credibility of mike mcqueary. he will be the key witness for the prosecution, claiming that he actually saw a rape in progress. in three minutes, could this latest move unravel the prosecution's case? that's next. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.
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megyn: there are significant new developments today in the penn state case, as lawyers for the three men who have actually been charged so far in connection with this sex-abuse scandal are now going after a very key
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witness in a very aggressive way. assistant penn state coach mike mcqueary's grand jury testimony helped deliver the charges against jerry sandusky. he's the one accused of the child rapes, and two other penn state officials who are accused of failing to report it and of covering it up to the grand jury. a private email, this guy mcqueary sent to his friends just in the past month reportedly contradicts his grand jury testimony, and all three lawyers for all three defendants who have been charged have noticed. could this put the entire case in jeopardy? dino costa is a walk show host an joins me now. they are all focusing in on mcqueary. they say if they can discredit the mcqueary allegations a lot of people will wonder about the rest of the allegations. i want you to tell me how badly did this guy coach mcqueary hurt
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this case when he came out a couple of weeks ago and try to save his own reputation in an email to friends saying, i did the right thing, you guys know me, i just didn't turn and run, i made sure it stop, not physically. i had to make quick, tough decisions. all the lawyers said, what do you mean you made it stop that is not consistent with your grand jury testimony. you're a liar, we are going to try and discredit you and the whole thing goes away. >> i'm not an attorney, but i think what mcqueary has done is he's really hurt the process of going after sandusky, because sandusky is going to use the contradictory testimony that he's given, and his legal team is going to use this against mcqueary. megyn: both of these guys, the two penn state officials, they claim that neither they, no joe paterno the coach of the team were ever told that there was a child rape. they said this guy mcqueary same and said it was horsing around,
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that's all he said. >> after-hours in a shower and a little ten-year-old was with him. they were just horsing around. megyn: they are trying to say mcqueary didn't report anything about a child rape, and now that they can cause credibility problems for mcqueary because his grand jury testimony may not have been consistent with the email from his friends, i mean what is the word about this mcqueary, is he a person that can be trusted? >> he was an anonymous figure. people close to the penn state program knew who he was. he's been a penn state lifer, he was not someone that would be named joe paterno's replacement. i believe sandusky is a pedophile. i believe the majority of things alleged about sandusky are true.
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what i really fear, though and i think i mentioned this the last time we were torbgts is there going to be enough evidence, hard, tangible evidence to get a jury of his peers to convict him in a court of law, if we even get that far now? megyn: what normally happens in these cases are the victims are reluctant to testify, they have a lot of shame, completely wrongly. they blame themselves. you hear it again and again about sexual abuse victims, saying that they invited it. you have sandusky's attorney saying the victim raped in that shower was denying it never happened. >> they have him, they are going to bring him out at the right time. megyn: you have sandusky saying it didn't happen, you have the alleged victim saying it didn't happen, so it comes down to mcqueary and whether his testimony is credible. now you have the contradictory emails and all the lawyers involved are making him, you know, cross-examination number one. >> let me turn it around and bring it to you. you have a legal background, you're a lawyer yourself. i mean would you feel if you were a prosecutor that based
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upon what mcqueary has said that you had enough right now to bring this to a grand jury, to get this into a courtroom to go after sandusky? megyn: i don't know, i'm not sure. the thing that concerns me about kei mcqueary is he went golfing with sandusky after he sees him raping a child. the two lawyers for the officials, he socialized with sandusky after the alleged incident. they said most people do not socialize with individuals they believe to be child rapists. now, they have a good point, do they not? >> i think they do. megyn: could we see this entire case collapse, and if we did, where would that leave penn state? where would that leave sports in general in the wake of what we've seen at syracuse this week and at penn state the month before. >> as far as syracuse is concerned, last night i was hammering the syracuse thing on my show.
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i think since i signed off the air i have a little renewed perspective in regard to the syracuse thing. on the heels of the penn state stuff, the angry feelings we all had, as soon as the syracuse stuff came out, we were kind of ripe to want to believe, oh, my goodness another one is going on. as to penn state if the whole case collapses, i think that my feeling instinctive lee with what i know, with the people i've spoken with and what i've read that's been reported i believe that sandusky is a pedophile. i think that he did commit many of the thins that have been alleged against him. if this case collapses completely and we never see him tried for the crimes that were alleged against him i think that will be a shame. going back to the genesis of this a lot of people dropped the ball on the way to the point where we are right now. megyn: there will be accountability one way or the other. >> absolutely. megyn: thank you. >> thank you. megyn: there are new angry claims of a double standard when it comes to political protests.
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megyn: fox news alert, we've got breaking news on this situation where the iranian students are storming the british embassy in tehran. the british government is asking iranian police for help protecting their diplomats inside the embassy. would you look at this? the mob pwufrpbd an embass burned an embassy vehicle, burned a flag and through documents from the scene. all of this because of approval of a bill that would cut relations with great britain. new accusations today of a double standard in one capitol
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city's treatment of protestors. the richmond, virginia, tea party claims it was charged big bucks to hold rallies alternate the very same spot where occupy wall streeters are camping out for free. the city says, not true. trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom. what are we to make of that, trace. >> reporter: the richmond tea party chapter said it played by the rules. when it organized three rallies, they went by the rules, they got permits, they paid $8,500 in fees to cover insurance, police, cleanup, barricades. the occupy richmond protestors, as you said the very same plaza they were there for 16 days and didn't pay anything reportedly. the tea party claims that is because the mayor of richmond, a man named dwight jones is a democrat who support the occupy movement, even visited the occupiers, and they say the mayor is playing favorites. we called the mayor's office, so far they have not got even back to us. the tea party has demanded their
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$8,500 back. not only have they not go gotten their money back the city hit them with unpaid exeyesess. they said it went out to 700 groups and businesses. they didn't realize the tea party was upset until the media began contacting them. the tea party claims because they got a special per hit for the rallies that they do not have to pay the excise tax, so we contacted the city and asked if in fact the occupiers have to pay this excise tax. the city said they will have their financial guys get back to us. so far they have not. we contacted occupy richmond and said, did you have to pay the city tax, the excise tax? and so far they also have not got even back to us. it looks very much like those tax bills were never given, or at least billed to the occupy movement, they were billed to the tea party, megyn. megyn: who is going to cut that check? who do you find in the occupy masses to actually write a check? >> reporter: the bill was never given, it's unlikely the check
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will ever be given back, they were never billed for it. megyn: good point. trace thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: europe, as we told you at the top of the hour is desperate here trying to get a handle on its financial crisis which appears to be coming to a head right now. top european officials are today meeting with timothy geithner, with secretary of state hillary clinton and a host of other top officials in washington one day after they met with president obama. do you think the u.s. has some skin in this game? answers right after this break. a mysterious explosion rocks an iranian missile base. iran says it was an accident, but the new images of the site tell a very different story. and presidential candidate newt gingrich raising a few eyebrows after suggesting that some illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the u.s. new evidence today, though that this could be a winning political message, and we'll show you why. >> i would support a universal registration of those who are here illegally, and i think you'd have immediate deportation if you did not sign up within a certain time.
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megyn: new details today on a suspicious explosion at a key military base in iran. the powerful blast killing that country's leading missile expert, and the explosion came at a missile plant, as i said,
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but now new images are shedding light on the extent of the damage there and what scientists may really have been working on. leland vittert has the latest from jerusalem. leland. >> reporter: megyn, nobody is taking responsibility for this blast, but it might just be a coincidence two weeks before the israeli prime minister said it was finally time for the world to take action against iran, it's missile program and nuclear weapons program. take a look at the pictures, it comes from the google earth satellite. this is the missile facility itself. it's hard to tell mourn it's a well guarded and isolated compound. take a look at the after picture, the whole thing is totally destroyed. according to the iranians it happened during an accident while they were trying to put together some new type of missile, it must have been a big accident to blow all of that up. according to the israelis they think this base is out of business but they say there are certainly other bases around, something else to keep in mind and that is that a key iranian missile scientist and engineer
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was killed in this. it goes along with the continuing narrative with the israelis trying to delay the iranians, there were two other nuclear physicists already assassinated in iran a few months ago. if history tells us anything, this is what happened with the iraqis. iraqi nuclear scientists in the 1907s and 1980s, disappeared by the droves all over the world, some of them detpepbgted defected, others just fell off the face of the earth, that is well before israel went out and did that air strike on the iraqi nuclear facility. however this story goes, more covert action or some kind of air strike, you better stay tuned. megyn: leland vittert, thank you. black now to our top story and the financial crisis now brewing in european threatening us. in addition to what is being called a desperate meeting in brussels right now, some top
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european officials are today meeting with secretary geithner, secretary hillary clinton and a host of other top officials in washington. so what is at stake for the united states? why are we so involved here? democratic strategist dan gerstein, and fox news contributor, and lars larson a fox news contributor joins me now. europe is having financial problems, all right i get it. this turns out to be a huge deal for the united states. yesterday you had these two guys who run the eurozone, they are worried about the euro that currency, come over and meet directly with president obama. now they are meeting with geithner, now they are meeting with hillary clinton, they are meeting with top democratic leaders. it's not often you get all the heads of our government sitting down and meeting with folks like this, and it appears to be that we are worried about the euro imploding, and we are worried about the affect it would have on the united states and whether we need to get involved through the imf, which we are the major
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shareholder in. dan, do you think that is like lease, and would that be disastrous from a political standpoint for president obama and the democrats? >> well first off to answer your question, this is hugely important, and all you have to do is look alternate the projection that came out from the oecd. megyn: what is that. >> about the u.s. economic growth. they've downgraded our projection for growth from 3.1% to 2%, that is by a third, economic growth dropping in the u.s. purely based on the potential chance of the euro and the crisis they are in right now. when you look at the scale of the affect on the u.s. and how interconnected we are, and how those markets that we trade with would be shut off potentially if the euro collapses, we absolutely have to be involved in these discussions, we have to have a leadership role. what would also be disastrous politically is if we were perceived ton quote unquote bailing out using tax dollars.
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that's why the president has smartly said, absolutely, positively we are not going to use u.s. tax dollars, we will use u.s. leadership, leverage, u.s. lending institutions -- megyn: could that mean the imf. >> yes. megyn: if the imf has to pay, we are the biggest single source of funding to the imf. we have veto power over it, but would we exercise that veto power if we're talking about we fund more money in the imf, american taxpayer dollars, or europe collapses and our markets collapse because we are so intertwined with europe. >> you're right, i think dan is right too, this is hugely important. it's not just wrong politically, it's wrong from a practical standpoint. to do these kinds of bail outs stretches out the pain waoefplt found that out during the great depression in the united states. when you try to fix things by having the government intervene it never really works out well. japan's government found that out during their lost decade.
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the fact is is that americans are not going to tolerate any president, republican or democrat using u.s. funds, and by the way, we are broke, so we don't have the money to begin with. i just don't think it makes sense for us to be involved economically. now, as far as the president using his muscle i think that is a great idea for him to use his leverage, if there is any, because he hasn't really shown much, not even domestic lee with the supercommittee. i'm not sure what he means he's going to do that he stands ready to aid but we're not going to put the money in. our money should not be used to bail out europe, and the fact is we don't have the money to bail them out any way, unless we borrow more. megyn: just italy, that is only one country that is involved here in the eurozone, there ar they are over $600 billion in debt and they need a bail out. they are looking to the kwroerpl yaeuropean countries to help them. they apparently don't want to do it. they are looking to the imf to
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be the cosigner on the loan. the imf doesn't have the dove righdough right now. we'd have to put additional money into it. >> we don't have it. megyn: how are we going to say no to that if you have all the economists saying the world economy is going to collapse unless the imt steps in? >> i think we're going to have to draw a line and we're going to have to basically say there is a european solution to this. what is the challenge for president obama and secretary clinton? it's using their diplomacy and not throwing money at the problem but using diplomacy to convince the europeans that it's better to take the pain now than to deal with the potential calamity that will happen if they don't take the reforms. that's been the problem all along, the european leaders are fragmented and they all want to protect their own national interests and deal with their own national politics, so we've avoided with dealing with the pain. if that sounds familiar, that is exactly what is happening in the u.s. we are aeu sroeugd dealing with
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thwe are avoiding dealing with the pain in the hopes that someone will take the burden off of us. we have to convince the europeans of that. megyn: how are we going to do that lars. >> if the president has the ability to do this. i don't know that he does, he hasn't demonstrated it here. he could go to european say, you need free trade, you need to open up some of the barriers you have within the eurozone and in and outside of the eurozone. you need to cut government spending dramatically. megyn: do you think our president has that kind of influence right now with those leaders. >> he doesn't. those are the kind of things that will fix the problem. dan is right, you take the pain now or stretch it out but it isn't going to change the amount of pain. in some ways by stretching it out you may make it even worse. megyn: do you agree, dan? does hour president have that kind of influence with these european leaders, and if not why not? >> i think he does. more important hraoet u.s. has this kinimportantly the u.s. has this kind of influence. it has not to do with the
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day-to-day partisanship, we have the largest economy, we are a key trading partner for europe. they recognize that they have to play ball with us to a certain degree. the challenge i'll go back to is using diplomacy to put the pressure on now, now that their backs are truly against the wall and they've postponed dealing with the problem to the point now they are at the brink it's convincing them that they have to act collectively to deal with this problem, and make some of the structural reforms. megyn: quickly, lars, i've got to go. >> quickly, if the president is willing to do that for europe, why wasn't he willing to do it with the supercommittee for our own country? i beg to differ. i don't think the president is willing to use his muscle even if he thinks he has a muscle. >> the reason he didn't do it is because the republicans won't play ball just like the europeans wouldn't play ball. megyn: you keyed up our 2:30 debay. we are going to talk about that in a little bit. thank you so much. police in kansas city say they are getting ready to search a
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hard to reach spot for new clues in the disappearance of baby lisa irwin. after the break we'll take a look at where they are about to go and why. president obama is suddenly being hit of accusations of campaigning on the taxpayers' dime. we'll show you how the white house is responding. lawyers of the man convicted of killing robert kennedy say there is new forensic evidence that could clear their man. five mystery shots and a bullet switched in evidence? we have the incredible details. >> this is a generous and compassionate country. that's what i want this country to stand for. not violence, not lawlessness, not disorder, but compassion and love and peace, that's what this country should stand for and that's what i intend to do if i'm elected president. princesses. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown.
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this comes after a tip came in from a well-known psychic. she claims she had visions that little lisa was accidentally killed, and then her body was dumped a few miles from the irwin home. rod wheeler is a former d.c. homicide detective euf an and a fox news contributor. this psychic comes out, stephanie almaguer. she said she had a vision that the baby was accidentally killed in her home, i believe she said in the bathtub and the body was dumped near a former casino called old sam's town casino. they went and searched there based on this psychic's tip and they said they didn't get any significant discoveries except that of an old well. and now lo and behold the police are confirming to us that they do think that is interesting and they are going to investigate the well which was full of about four to five feet of water. how unusual is this? >> it's not really that unusual,
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megyn. the reason i say that is because the police department out there, they are trying to exhaust every lead that they possibly can. i mean they are looking into everything. the significance, though, about this particular well is the fact that this well is only a few miles away from the home in which lisa lived, little baby lisa lived. this is a particular well that the police had not previously searched. a group of volunteers searched this well or this area this past weekend, and based on that alone the police feel as though there is enough information at this point to search everything, including that well. megyn: how often do police go to, you know, professed psychics for help in cases? obviously this case has gone it appears a bit cold. >> sure, excellent question. not often at all, megyn. let me tell you, very rarely will a police department go tow a psychic for advice. you know, we don't use tarot cards, crystal balls, things like that. however, every now and then, and
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i underline the word every now and then there may be someone with some inclination. the police will try to corroborate that with something else. the fact that this particular well is so close to the irwin home, along with the fact that there was other information in that area is i think what prompts the police to look into this well a little bit further. it's not only based upon the psychic but it's other information as well, megyn. megyn: rod, do you think they are out of leads, that this is a cold case, they don't know what happened to this baby and they are not likely to know? the latest reports are the police have broken up their command post, they've dispanned banded the special squad of investigators looking into the case. i can tell you my own sources on the case aren't reporting anything new and haven't in days. >> right. i don't think they are completely out of leads. i think that they still have sue seasoned investigators assigned to this case. as leads come in they'll continue to look at them. i don't think they have anything specific at this point, megyn but i think they will exhaust
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every possibility. megyn: how often in a case like this. now we are going on two months since the baby disappeared. how extraordinary and unusual would it be for them now to find this baby alive and well somewhere, rod? >> you know, that is a tough question. to find this baby alive and well is very difficult, to say the least. the problem, megyn that we have really had, law enforcement really has had in this case is the parents. even the attorney for the parents this morning on fox & friends say the parents haven't had any discussion with the police over the past few weeks. that is the problem we have in this case. is the baby still alive? i don't know, nobody knows at this point. hopefully the baby is, but highly unlikely, megyn. megyn: yeah. we hope you're wrong. time may tell. rod wheeler, thank you. >> thank you, megyn. megyn: there are some new poll numbers today that could signal a critical shift in the gop race for president. they have to do with newt gingrich and his controversial stand on what he calls a humane approach to immigration. was that a deal breaker for you? it appears it is not for many,
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megyn: an update for you now on these iranian students storming the british embassy in tehran. we are getting new information on that situation. we will bring that to you momentary. what's happened so far is they have been storming this embassy after the iranian government
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moved to cut off diplomatic relations with great britain in its push for economic sanctions against them. the united states is condemning the attack on the embassy, and urging protection of the diplomats inside. the mob burned an embassy vehicle, some flags before they attempted to clear the area we'll bring you more updates as we get them right here. significant new claims about the assassination of robert f. kennedy. lawyers for the man convicted of killing the brother of president john f. kennedy who was himself a presidential candidate at the time, rfk was coming forward with new forensic evidence that they say will prove their client's innocence after more than four decades. trace gallagher has the details. >> reporter: sirhan sirhan is 67 years old. remember he admitted killing kennedy, quoting with 20 years
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of malice aforethought. he has repealed that confession and it has always failed. his lawyers say they have new forensic evidence that will set this conviction aside. they said 8 shots were fired and four of them hit kennedy. the lawyers have used sophisticated audio equipment to go back and listen to the recordings of the assassination to show that 13 shots were fired from multiple guns, and that sirhan's pistol was only able to fire eight bullets. they now claim they have proof that the bullet that was taken from robert kennedy's neck did not match sirhan's gun, and that it was switched with another bullet before the trial. there is no explanation of how they plan to prove that. the lawyers say that a second gunman was there, they just don't know who the second gunman was. california's attorney general is the one who is handling the appeal. there has been no comment at all from the california ag, so now sirhan's lawyers are asking a judge for an evidentiary hearing
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in this case, megyn, and there is no response yet on that as well. megyn: wow. trace, thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: new details today in the search for a florida mother who went missing after the airing of a people's court episode. here you see her. see why the defendant who stared her down in the courtroom is now officially the prime suspect in her disappearance. and what a difference a month makes in the race for the republican nomination. coming up, big new polls out of new hampshire, wait until you see this. plus, three wealth managers from one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country claim one of the largest lotto jackpots in history. was it all a front? the new theory. stay tuned. hey guys, i know i told you that head & shoulders
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and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. megyn: breaking news on the european economic crisis that is threatening the u.s. and global economy. we are getting reports that the european union will throw greece a $10 billion bailout, a small downpayment. italy alone needs $600 billion. a desperate push to save the euro. if that currency fails analysts are predicting it will sernld the united states, asia and possibly the global economy into a quote debt induced financial tsunami. >> i have been a bit concerned the past few months. but during that time somebody
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stepped in and put band-aid on this wound we have in europe. i think we are to the point now where we can't put band-aids on anymore. something drastic has to happen. if it does not there is a real chance that the eu breaks up, the euro disappears. that send not only the u.s. and asia, every country in the world with any ties to europe into a frenzy. it comes down to what happened was these countries borrowed too much money. they now cannot pay the money back. the people they borrowed the money from are the european a u.s. banks. so suddenly they are not getting paid. if they don't get paid the banks can go under and have a similar financial crisis we had three years ago. if he lose a major u.s. financial institution, our gdp
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falls off the cliff and we go back into a double-dip recession we are not prepared for. in the past this country had money that could stave off a depression. i don't believe we have the money anymore to stave that off. megyn: you see the two guys from the eurozone meeting with president obama directly. the top democrats from the senate and so on. that's unprecedented access to the people in near the united states. what do you think we are likely to do to try to prevent this? >> the problem is what can the u.s. do? we are trying to get past our deficit. megyn: can we funnel them money through the feds? >> they would back stop the u.s. and european banks and buy up bonds from these european countries by buying their bonds.
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it puts a band aid back on this wound for a year or so. megyn: does that fool the taxpayers? >> that's our money. imagine the uproars when people realize our taxpayer money is going pay off european countries that spent too much money. megyn: people heard the banks were about to fail. they were doing questionable things with the mortgage-backed securities. then they said too big to fail, we had to fail them out. we did. is it not the same thing. the european countries overspent. >> it's the same thing. imagine the uproar we are going to have now. we are not just bailing out american workers at american banks. we are bailing out countries that have nothing to do with us. the germans are up in arms because they are bailing out greece. imagine you and i, they are
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taking our hard earned money, a country that refused to pay taxes. megyn: there is a question about whether we have to do something. >> it's not letting our economy fail by the wayside because of their actions. i think the next two weeks we'll have tough decisions as a country if we back to them and save them. saying let's take our medicine we'll get through this in the next couple years. megyn: a new rasmussen poll shows newt gingrich surging among new hampshire voters. when asked who they would vote for if the primarily were held today. he jumped 16 points in one month to second place. he's going down according to this poll and gingrich is going up. ron paul and paul huntsman third and fourth respectively.
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mr. cain dropped to 5%. also on the campaign trail, a growing number of critics are now challenging president obama's itinerary and asking if he is campaigning on the taxpayer's dime and if so whether that's appropriate. the president is setting a new record for visiting swing states. jay carney defended the president's travel during this briefing yesterday. >> he expanded the electoral map. isn't the criticism the campaign and not the taxpayer should pay for it. >> he can't make official travel to any state that is considered contested or close. and we reject that. the president has a responsibility as commander-in-chief as well as the leader of the country on domestic matters to go out and meet with americans.
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megyn: ed henry was asking the question you just heard, and he's live in the briefing room right now. >> reporter: as you heard jay carney yesterday, he makes a fair point that president will be aso has expand the electoral map. in 2008 he won states like virginia and indiana that had not been won by a democrat in years. when you compare statistics to president bush, when he visited virginia, that would not have been considered by professors as a visit to a battleground state because virginia was not considered a battleground. their points is this president expanded the electoral map in terms of battle grounds up for grabs. however, several people were asking yesterday the basic
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question is not whether he should be traveling. but as goes to a state like north carolina a fourth or fifth time, should the campaign be picking up the tab rather than the taxpayers. there is official business there and it's also clear he's trying to get a political benefit as interacting with voters in a battleground *. jay carney's basic answer is the president is entitled to interact and speak with any state he wants. he believes the taxpayers should pick up the tab and he will continue to do that. megyn: a fox news alert with new details on a story that broke an hour ago. a california judge not holding back. michael jackson's former doctor receiving the maximum punishment the law permits. he was convicted of supplying the king of pop with a lethal dose of propofol.
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>> the request for probation is denied. the court imposes the high term of four years imprisonment in this case. megyn: that's the least of what the judge said today. adam housley outside the los angeles superior court. that judge let us know how he felt today. >> reporter: the defense team said they felt the judge was openly hostile towards dr. murray. that comes as catherine jackson said she felt the judge was extremely fair and she said she wished the sentence could be more than just the four years mandated by law -- not mandated by law, the most he can give by law. the judge went through a detailed account of why he felt he should give dr. murray the full extent. he says i believe mr. murray is so reckless i believe he's a danger to the community. that's coming from the judge himself. we didn't hear from the jackson family. but we did get a statement from
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the jackson family which was read by their attorney. here is part of that. >> the bible remind us that men cannot do justice. they can only seek justice. and that is all that we ask as a family, and that is all we can ask for here. >> reporter: that was just part of the statement read by the torn of the jackson family. the prosecutor laid out why he felt the full extent should be given to dr. murray. the defense said he should be give up probation and the judge said no way. there will be a restitution hearing in february. at the most dr. murray will only serve two years which is the normal for someone like him to serve 50% of the time he's sentenced to. megyn: the judge actually said the fact that michael jackson participated in it is no excuse. he said dr. murray could have walked away as countless other
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medical professionals did. more from california as we get it. newt gingrich has been taking heat for his recent statements on immigration. some saying his position is not conservative enough. but michael reagan on why he thinks ronald reagan would likely agree with gingrich's approach. plus chris christie throws a right hook at president obama. >> listening to the spin coming out of the administration about the failure of the super committee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure so he didn't get involved. then what the hell are we paying you for?
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skyrocketing to second place among republican primary voters. that's up 16 points in one month. he was at 8% last month. he was 8% last month and now you have him at 24 per. his momentum is rather remarkable. >> it certainly is. part of this may be his general national improvement because he has become the leading alternative to mitt romney, replacing herman cain in that roll. there are two other factors. john huntsman is up to 11% in the poll. he's doing well among independents who can vote in the primary and non-tea party activists. the final thing, newt gingrich himself, gingrich and romney are
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the only two candidates in the field that 70% of republicans say have qualified to be president. megyn: herman cain, only 28%, rick perry 38% believe he's qualified. these are republican likely voters? >> these are people who would vote in the republican primary. and in new hampshire that includes independents. megyn: i want to ask you. in iowa, what are you showing. according to the latest real clear position particulars poll. gingrich has a healthy lead. >> real clear politics is an average of polls. we show gingrich up by 13 points in iowa. other polling is showing begin grip of leasing in south carolina so there is a path right now that says it's good for the speaker. but only 42% of republican primary voters in new hampshire
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said they finally made up their mind. we see similar numbers in every one of the early states. so it's still very fluid. megyn: gingrich is taking a lot of heat after he laid out a moderate stance on immigration during the last presidential debate. now we are hearing there is a sharp divide between republican voters on how to handle this issue and whether there was team gingrich or whether they are with folks who are more conservative on the issue like team romney, team santorum, team bachmann. michael reagan said his father would be proud of newt gingrich's stand. i want to ask you, some conservatives got upset when gingrich said he was in favor of not just shipping 11 million illegal immigrants out of the country. you say it's not that radical and ronald reagan would have
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agreed. >> he would have agreed. i was on your show last week saying ronald reagan would support this position. he was somebody who believed in the family. he would find a more humane way, if you will to deal with this issue. why newt gingrich is where he is is he's attacking the issues and offering solution to the issues. most people whether it's the republic chance in that poll other independents or democrats, they don't want to pick up 12 million people and throw them outside the country. they know that is an impossible situation. there has to be another way. newt gingrich said there is another way. the red card solution being a start point. that's why you see newt gingrich going up, not going down. megyn: he wants local citizens review boards who would look at etch individual immigrant and make assessments.
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you have a family, you have been law-abiding. you broke laws, you go, you stay. is that in your view a workable solution that the party, the gop could get behind? >> i think it's a start point. it's a place to start with a solution. having a local review boards if you will. my father wouldn't be throwing someone outside the family and leaving the family here to fend for itself. he also would have looked at the children brought here by their children as babies. never lived in a foreign country. went through the school system. and he would find another way there. but he would bring the sides together and say let's find how we can soft problem. let's not find a way to exacerbate it. right now it's being exacerbated whether on talk radio or what have you. it doesn't soft problem. it needs to be solved.
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newt gingrich and ronald reagan would have found a way to solve it. megyn: you have to think about latino voters. according to the information i read, latinos are the fastest growing voting group in the nation. and next year a record 12.2 million latinos are set to vote according to a univision and latino's television parole. they say they are split. but democrats and independents are against shipping out 11 million illegal immigrants. so does your polling suggest a more moderate stance on this issue would be beneficial to whoever the gop nominee is? >> this is the most mis understood policy issue in -- this is the most misunderstood policy issue. most voters say we should look at what happened to prevent
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future illegal immigration. but they are not angry at immigrants. they are angry at the federal government. they understand why they would like to bring their family here. but they would like them to do it legally. ultimately most americans say they would like a welcoming immigration policy to let anybody come here legally except those who are triple nams or national security threats. the idea that there is an opening for something different than the harsh rhetoric we have heard is have much a positive when you get to the general election and ultimately it will be positive with the republican party. republicans are even more supportive of a welcoming policy than democrats. megyn: is this something they need to be concerned about? they are going to need a substantial portion of those latino votes. >> i think what they need to look at is the fact that ronald reagan was the last republican
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to carry the hispanic vote and the last republican to win in the state of california. what did he do snow didn't do it by backhanding the i will grants that were here, he did it by welcoming them and finding areas of agreement moving on from there. that's what they would need to do if they want to win a general election and get the hispanic vote. megyn: it's turning into an interesting issue and one that's getting a lot of attention. the governor of new jersey blasting president obama over the debt deal deadlock. a leadership debate five minutes away. three big money managers win the lottery and the rich guys say they plan to give part of the jackpot to charity. now a new theory emerging that they may not be the real winners after all. why would they be claiming they are? we are live with that story. >> everybody is extremely
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megyn: a rowdy welcome in washington state as thousands clash with lawmakers arriving at the capital for a cost-cutting bonanza. union members with the occupy movement and social service groups represent shouting at state lawmakers as they began a month-long special session. several people were physically removed by police. one state trooper was about iten in the process. protesters want to raise taxes on the wealthy instead of cutting state program. it could be one big lotto
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switcharoo. a man is coming forward saying the three banks are not the winners and the promises that a lot of this loot is going to charity aren't true either. trace gallagher has more on this story. what is going on. >> reporter: the ticket was bought november 1. it was almost a month before somebody came forward to claim it. then as you saw those three connecticut money managers all reportedly well off came forward to say they were the winners of the $254 million jackpot. they decided to take the lump sum. but at the news conference the lawyer did all the talking. he said they bought this at a gas station and mulled it around for a bit and most of the money was going to go to charity. only one of the actual or alleged winners spoke and here is what he said.
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he said it feels good. that's all he said. one childhood friend of one of those alleged winners say they are not the winners. they are the front men for an anonymous clients who does not want his name published. the three then run a startup fund and they are going to take the money and manage tonight their fund and collect the millions a year in fees. the connecticut lottery has not confirmed any of this. but this is the biggest powerball jackpot in the history of connecticut. the last we checked there is no law against rich guys winning the lottery. megyn: should there be? >> reporter: i don't know. megyn: you don't get the same feeling which see somethingo somebody who run as laundromat, this is going to change my life.
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thank god. >> it feels good. megyn: i'm out of here. >> reporter: it's there are money. megyn: we already dislike the rich, right? that's a fundamental principle of america. a woman vanishes after appearing on the people's court *. that is on the docket in today's "kelly's court." plus new jersey governor chris christie blasting president obama over the failure of the super committee to reach a deal on the debt. >> listening to the spin coming out of the administration about the failure of the super committee and that the president might was doomed for failure so didn't get involved. then what the hell are we paying you for? this season better than the last? how about making it brighter. more colorful.
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megyn: a fox news alert on the debt crisis. republican senator pat toomey is scheduled to do an online media briefing about what's next following the super committee's failure to reach a debt deal. that comes less than a day after the fitch ratings agency declared america's credit outlook is negative because of washington's inability to fix this problem. last night new jersey governor chris christie took president
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obama to task for his leadership on this issue. >> i believe that the occupy movement and the tea party movement -- their genesis is from the same feeling which is an anger that government can't get things done. and so now that is the last similarity went tea party movement and the occupy movement. but i believe the cause for their anger comes from the same place. they look at washington, d.c., and they look at a president who is a by stand nirts oval office. i was angry this weekend listening to the spin coming out of the administration about the failure of the super committee. and that the president knew it was doomed for failure so he didn't get involved. then what the hell are we paying you for? it's doomed for failure so i'm not getting involved? what have you been doing exactly? i mean, i will tell you that i think both parties deserve blame
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for what's going on in washington, d.c. both parties do. they are spending more time talking at each other than talking with each other. we all know what the solutions to these problems are, we have done them in new jersey in many areas. but we don't have the political will to get them done. in new jersey the reason they got done is because i called people into the room and said we are going to solve this problem and i had people of goodwill on the other side who said they believed it was their obligation regardless of party to get things done like pension and benefit reform. the mayor can tell you how much that's helping her in camden. why the president of the united states refuels to do this is astonishing to me. if he wanted to run for senate again and just be one of 100 i'm sure he could have gotten reelected over and over again in illinois. when you are president, 41-21
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and 1. he's the 1 in washington and he's got to get something done. it's not good enough to say i'll get it done after the election. megyn: 41-21 and 1 is how you get things passed in new jersey. christopher hahn is a former aide to chuck schumer and chris plant is the chris plants show. chris christy spares no words for president obama. he's come out and endorsed mitt romney so let am not fool ourselves that this is not a political hits. but chris plant, does he have a point. is it fair to call the * a by stander in the oval office when he did submit a plan to the super committee that would have caused $3 trillion in cuts. and it included medicare cuts as well as tax increases.
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>> it was a series of poison pills that was designed to be dead on arrival and the president knew it. the president is not only a by stander, there is not a fingerprints of his to be found on this. it's more nefarious than just leading from behind. it is the center piece of his campaign to have failure. without failure from that committee his campaign program falls completely apart. you know, the president of the united states -- gq magazine put together a list which is just coming out now of the 25 least influential people alive. and boik made the list. gq magazine, least influentialpeople alive. boik, the president of the united states is on the list. he's not leading. he's voting present. leading from behind. megyn: there is a difference
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between opposing a solution and work for it. and the white house was questioned repeatedly by reporters about why president obama was not more involved given the stakes. so the press was asking the white house why isn't the president getting more involved, and what we heard from the white house was -- this is from jay carney, there wasn't a seat at the table for a member of the administration. the super committee is suppose to be for members of congress. they need to do their job. is that a fair defense by the white house? >> i think it's more than fair. it's nice to see questions is reading gq, that explains the haircut. but second, everything the president has been involved with with republicans in congress has fallen flat. they do not want to work with him, they don't want to give him a win. so it was wise for him to stay
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out of it and hope the republicans and democrats in congress could come together on their own. the problem was, megyn, this was doomed to fail from the beginning because the deadlines were not real. congress behaved much like college students do. they only work with a real deadline. the the push tax cuts don't expire in 2013. you will see a flurry of activity this time next year to stop those things from expiring and happening. right now there is no will on either side to do it. republicans will not under any circumstances raise taxes going into an election year, though they will raise taxes on the middle class. they want to take away the payroll tax president obama proposed. megyn: is it fair to say it was doomed to fail? what chris christie sees him saying, that's not your role as the chief executive.
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you are supposed to say, i am a leader, let me lead. >> to say there is not a seat at the table for the president at this critical name our history is laughable on its face. the super committee, let's face it, was an abdication in the first place. we have a super committee in the united states called the united states congress. the president, however, has a duty and responsibilities to the country to lead in situations like this. >> let's be fair, chris. let me get in here. let, be fair. the president was working with john boehner last summer on a grand bargain where he put everything on the table. something no democrat had been willing to do in recent times and the republicans rejeblghtsd it because they didn't want to put any ref flew on the table and they didn't want to give this president a win. the on thing they care about in the republican party is
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defeating barack obama. they care about defeating barack obama. >> of course they care about defeating barack obama and the rest is scurrilous slander. we are teetering on the edge of the abyss. and the republicans have offered proposal after proposal including revenue increases by cutting out loopholes and tax breaks for the so-called rich. hundreds of billions of dollars. you know perfectly well, chris, that the republicans are passed at least 1 pieces of legislation out of the house of representatives strong do with jobs and the economy that harry reid has stuffed in the lower left hand drawer of his desk. >> all they want is a new tax break for somebody. >> i have got to tell you, they haven't passed a budget -- the democrats -- the republicans have passed a budget.
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the democrats haven't passed a budget in 2 1/2 years. >> it takes both chambers to come to an agreement. megyn: it only takes one to end a segment. bye, guys. coming up next. a young mother of three children vanishes. the day she appears on an episode of the people's court *. the troubling past that has the police naming her former fiance the prime suspect. that's next in "kelly's court." plan. >> in my heart i know she is out there somewhere. and we need to find her. we need searchers, we need the flyers. this is a sad day really. if you're putting off getting hearing aids until they become invisible,
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the case 6 a young mother missing who was featured in the "people's court." she vanished the day the episode aired. now we are learning dale smith, the father of her twin boys has a troubling history. once a marine was dishonorably discharged. previously convicted on drug and domestic battery charges. now police say he is the prime suspect in parker's disappearance. so is an arrest likely? joining me now criminal defense southern joey jackson. all along you see cops saying he's not a suspect and we know he is a suspect. what would lead them to come out and say he's our prime suspect? >> they must have hard evidence against him. we know he refused to take a lie detector test. even though that isn't often
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admissible. unless they find the best case scenario, parker alive, but more likely they will find a body at this point. they are just waiting. they conducted a search warrant in his house. they have spoken to him before so i'm sure they have been slowly able to pick apart what he told him. they aren't going to do a complete 180 from what they were saying just a week ago. >> the refusal to take a lie detector test. you would advice you're clients. they want me to take a lie detector test what would you tell them. >> two issues. on the lie detector test i always advice against it. you take it and you pass it. people say what a psychopath. why? because he knew how to game the system and as a result he's
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probably lying. if you failed the test we knew all along you were a murderer. cases have to be about what you do do. your conduct now. the facts as they exist now, not about what you did yesterday or the transgressions of yesterday. megyn: a history of domestic violence including with his woman is relevant. >> we need to pause. although it is relevant. there are a number of people who may have domestic violence histories who are not murderers or abductors. megyn: that's true. but anna, you don't often see those people with the victim an hour and 11 minutes prior to when it appears she fell into foul play. 3:15 p.m., video surveillance shows her driving to dale smith's home to drop off their twins. an hour and 11 minutes later her brother gets a bizarre text message suggesting she was in
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the waterford lakes area which the cops said she never went to. that spells bad us in for dale smith. >> it's unfortunately not just a coincidence and not a coincidence. it's just the same day their relationship is aired on national television when she is talking about his temper. whatever is going on behind the scenes, she is going to his home, it's the last place she is seen. you start to put the pieces together. i'm sure there are pieces the police haven't told us yet. they haven't found her yet. they are able to come out and willingly tell us he is not only a prime suspect, he's the only suspect. megyn: if she was dropping off her 3-year-old twins. would the police have access to them? would they be able to interview them? >> sit would depend upon in
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whose custody the children are and how forthcoming they would be with letting the twins speak to the authorities. now we have to look at what they say, and whether their children may or may not remember things. megyn: we are not talking about taking it into a court of law. >> interviewing or maybe talking to hem. but i'm hoping there is more than the hour and 11 minutes. but the reality is i have to look at what the police are not telling us. if there is something the police are not telling us that connect the dots and make them a suspect, i say bring them in. megyn: where is the arrest? >> what i know now, it doesn't add up. >> they haven't found her. they may be strategically waiting. maybe putting it out here makes him say or do something to someone that gives them more. megyn: do we have reason to believe the cops are considering
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carjacking and yet still telling us he's prime suspect number one. >> it's always possible and you hope they are keeping an open mind to make sure they are on the right track. but to come out publicly to say they switched gears because they are confident in their evidence that he's the guy who did whatever it is to michelle parker. megyn: there are reports by some that they used teargas. they yanked people out of the house, put cuffs on them while they conducted a serve. how extraordinary is that? >> police tactics like that are not uncommon. police have to root out all the facts and sometimes it's what they gather from doing that that's going to be significant here. megyn: coming up next, we are getting breaking news out of the white house where president obama spoke moments ago about
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the storming of the british embassy in tehran. stay with us.
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megyn: moments ago president obama spoke on the storm of this british embassy in iran. iranian student broke in earlier. theyer to down british flags. they damaged property. our president said the u.s. is deeply concerned about the incidents at english embassy in iran. the rioters to overrun the embassy is an indication the iranian government is not taking its obligation seriously. he went on to say i hope to see definitive action by the iranian
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government after a statement by prime minister david cameron who said the failure of iran to defend the british embassy is a disgrace that will have serious consequences. more on this as we get it. the parent company of american airlines filing for bankruptcy protection. texas-based amr corporation citing high fuel costs and labor struggles among the reasons for its decision. dennis neil joins us live from new york's la guardia airport. >> reporter: the company wants to keep this as painless as possible in terms of b the 48th airline since 2000 to put in a bankruptcy filing in can chapter 11. this is the first one for american and it's the last of the airlines to stay out of chapter 11 since 2001.
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they tell flyers you are going to get your frequent flyer miles. so if you have got $5 billion in cash, what's the problem? they lost $4 billion since 2008. they lost almost a billion more this year, and yet they had to pay or half a billion into their eir pilots earn 2% more than the peers in the industry yet the pension plan is 40% higher than the industry. if you look at the real cost culprit is labor. amr spends $7 billion a year on labor. that is 31% of its costs. the other big airlines only 20%. so they will need a while to work this out. labor and that pension plan will be key points. megyn: we'll be right back.
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