a good thursday morning to you. i'm richard lui today. two months to the day, the occupy wall street protests began. organizers are calling for a major day of action. that includes flash mobs, student strikes and rallies. in new york, police have made some arrests. demonstrators say they are planning a series of actions from the streets to the sub waughs and it culminates with a rally scheduled near city hall. in dallas, people arrested up to 20 protesters as they cleared an encampment in a city park this morning and police in san francisco began arresting protesters who stormed into a downtown bank of america and just refused to leave and then in boston, a judge has ordered0 the city not to remove protesters or their tents from a downtown encampment without court approval. back to new york city, mara

schiavocampo at zuccotti park. the plan was there was supposed to be a large turnout, big impact. what are you seeing? >> things are pretty quiet here at zuccotti park because the action is taking place at wall street. this morning, protesters started a big march to wall street to mark this two-month anniversary of the protest movement and their goal was to disrupt the workday. as someone said to me, they want to take all the anger and frustration and direct them at those financial institutions. they were not able to get on to wall street because police barricaded that area off. so they started to block employee access to wall street. police had set up check points where they were checking people's work i.d.s to make sure only the people who worked ochb wall street were able to enter. around the time the opening bell was scheduled to ring.

protesters blocked those enentrances. they also tried to block subway sbrenss and exits so people would have a hard time doing so. right now, people are able to get through and get to work, but there are still pockets of protesters around that area making their voices heard. now, this is part of a larger day of action that has been planned for some time. now to mark this anniversary, later today, this will be a big march and rally planned. they are planning to go over the brooklyn bridge. they will be joined by labor unions. the occupy wall street folks are hoping this is a very large event. they're saying they're expegting people in the thousands and they're hoping this could be one of their largest eventsç yet. you can see behind me, zuccotti park is empty. they're trying to figure out what they are going to do next. are they going to look for another location? are they going to try to move

indoors or altogether abandon this phase of the protest movement. >> they're supposed to be in the subways in a bunch of hours, we're going to go back later in the show. thank you. joining me now is the assistant managing editor with time magazine. i was reading what she had written. you say that the impact of occupy wall street really is greater than just the protester that we've seen so far. what do you mean? >> absolutely. the protests in zuccotti park were really symbolic. i think we've seen an impact in the presidential race. obama distances himself from financiers. i think we're seeing changes this corporate boards. i was actually speaking the other day to a board member of a fortune 500 company who told me that when the issue of compensation came up, they said, oh, no, we can't raise compensation. this is the age of occupy wall

street. >> but also financiers that you've spoken with. >> what's interesting is that people are coming out of the park and working with financiers -- >> what do you mean? >> bankers working with the protesters on ideas on how to better regulate ideas. that's where the real impact is going to be. >> also in your article, you say governments worldwide are basically staffed with exfinanciers. you use the word government sacks or were quoting. still, at this two-monthç anniversary, what should they be doing? should they change the focus and move toward government? >> in europe, you have all these techno crats. at the bottom line, you need politicians running countries that have public backing and that's what's happening here. i think that's what is about.

>> we're watching live pictures. are these live pictures that were from san francisco? boston, it's early in the morning in those areas. we're watching what is supposed to be a major day of protests all across the county fri on the two-month anniversary. i want to turn our attention -- wall street have ahuded to a study, this is what they found. in the top 1% and more than two-thirds of the 1%, they think the wealth gap is a problem, so it seems to be working against each other. >> i think what's interesting about the numbers is that it's hard in this country to discuss class and wealth. we like to think of ourself as a place that's classless, but social mobility is declining.

we're uncomfortable with that. it's not going away. >> we're going to continue to watch these pictures all across the country and thank you for coming in today. new developments also from penn state on this day where a lawyer says more alleged sex abuse victims are coming forward. jerry sandusky is already charged with assaulting eight boys and this morning, we've learned penn state has banned him from the campusç and polic are disputing claims from mike mcqueary. he says he told them about the rape of a 10-year-old boy, also, football hall of famer, franco harris, fired by a local casino for defending his former coach, joe paterno. michael isakoff is live in state college, pennsylvania. you've been covering this for us and lots of questions this morning about coach mcqueary. >> exactly. and one of the things we've learned is just weeks after

mcqueary says he saw jerry sandusky sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in that penn state locker room. he was playing football at a charity football game with sandusky to raise money for a kids charity and then a few months after that, he again participated with sandusky at a second mile charity event, a golf tournament, as he did in scent years, so this is raising new questions. mcqueary said he saw this horrific sexual assault committed by sandusky. he went to top university officials about it, but then he was participating in a football game and golf tournament with sandusky shortly after that. so, you add that to the des crepesies with what sandusky --

i'm sorry, to what mcqueary's account to the grand jury has been and then what he says in this e-mail and then you've got mounting questions about the testimony of a very crucial witness in this case. >> absolutely. and also, you're hearing more dcoécw have been told such graphic details and said to jerry.

defies any type of reasoning i've had in my life. >> now, this -- these really go to the case against the two top university fishes. tim curley and gary schultz. they're the ones charged with purgery. they're the ones charged with not reporting the incident to local police. they say mcqueary never told them the graphic detail in that grand jury report. so, these contradictions or discrepancies in mcqueary's account may help them. they give their defense lawyers something to work with. it's not necessarily going to help jerry sandusky because there, you've got multiple witnesses and the attorney general's office says they have multiple victims who can testify. although not the 10-year-old boy

that mcqueary says he saw in that locker room. the grand jury report says the prosecutors haven't been able to find or identify that child. >> national investigative correspondent, michael isakoff, with more developments this morning for us. thank you so much. we're watching what is happening here on the second month anniversary, these are police officers dealing with some protesters we believe related to the occupy wall street effort in new york city. this as they try to make a major effort to make a statement about this second month anniversary. again, what they're doing. we'll continue to watch these pictures all across the country. the nation's most powerful union is backing president obama, the leader of the seiu will tell us how they plan to defeat romney, cain and gingrich and the rest. mary kay henry will be here in the next few minutes. >> a group of 12 lawmakers who gained their powers after having been bitten by a radioactive

accountant, go forward, super committee, the fate of the nation is in your hands. >> all right. it's a job that may be even -- might be too big for superman. the debt deal dead lynn is just six days way and the super committee's task is growing by the minute. the treasury department saying the national debt has crossed further into record territory. see that number? $15 trillion. it's past that now. i'm joined by msnbc contributor, ezra klein. you watch that clock as well. >> up in my bedroom. only clock i have in my house. >> our nation's debt now soaring 267%. if you divide that $15 trillion, it's like $48,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. has this number become white noise to the super committee? >> it's white noise.

it's also not helpful to do it like that. the debt gets paid off over a long period of time. it has to deal with the economic growth. it's an easy way to think about it, but we're not all going to be paying $48,000 for the debt and really the big question is economic growth. as you say, it does underscore the task of the super committee and is not one they look particularly well suited to serve. >> i'm going to get to what you have been writing about recently. if we look at the core of the argument right now, they're basically what, taxes on the wealthy on one side. democrats want that. on the other side, you've got the revenue issue. 300 billion. republicans won't go higher. what will get them to meet in the middle? >> it's not clear anything will. what is sort of remark abl about this is that both sides are agreeing to a massive tax cut. they want to pass a $2.7

trillion tax cut instead of a $3.7 trillion tax cut at the end of 2012. republicans want to do -- either way, it's a big tax cut and if you say nobody in the political system thinks we should raise taxes, let the bush tax cuts expeer, that's wrong. mayor bloomberg thinks we should. peter orszag thinks we should. the fiscal committee raised taxes more. it's sort of a remarkable thing. only in washington could they decide, just make up a new base and say they're going to raise taxes when they're agreeing to cut them massively. >> as you write in your column, it's what they agree on that is most frightening, not what they disagree on. thank you so much. great perspective. i hope we can talk about this soon. >> probably will to be honest. >> president obama is in bali participating in the east asia summit that will not only focus on a stronger role in the

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rick perry using the president's words against him in a new ad. >> we've been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. >> can you believe that? that's what our president thinks wrong with america? that's pathetic. it's time to clean hout in washington. >> and herman cain happy to be talking about 9-9-9 on the campaign trail again and in miami, he even used his spanish. >> now, i know we have a lot of small business people here. let me tell you how -- helps the small business person. >> he tried to practice again saying how you say delicious in cuban. >> how do you say delicious? >> mr. cain, if you were elected president -- >> newt gingrich is getting slammed from both sides of the al for his work with freddie mac

and for the record, he says he was consulting, not lobbying. >> for fannie and freddie as you know, has been the epicenter of the financial meltdown in this country and whether former speaker gingrich made $300,000 or whether he made $2 million, the point is is that he took money to also influence senior republicans to be favorable toward fannie and freddie. >> oh, yeah, he's a lobbyist. he was talking about the "l" word with newt. lobbyist and liar. mr. gingrich was reprimanded by the house for lying, this is nonsense that he was being paid a million six to talk about the history, the trans continental railroads. >> there's a key endorsement for president obama's re-election effort. seiu plans to reach out to its 2.1 million members and get more black and hispanic voters to the

polls as well. joining us now, mary kay henry. thanks for being here. you are getting into this endorsement early compared to the last cycle. are you concerned about the excitement of voters? >> no, we are very concerned about the choice this country faces for the future and the republican field has made us incredibly concerned that we need to stand out now, trying to protect the rich and tax free corporations in this country. >> what are you telling them as you reach out will happen if a gop presidency does come to pass in 2012? >> well, our members in wisconsin wi wisconsin have a beginning understanding of what will happen that the standard of living gets rower. we lose jobs. public services are cut. so, we don't have to look for far to understand what we face. >> you really believe it's going to be that extreme. >> oh, yeah, and we want to get behind this president because we believe he fights for working families.

he wants to get america back to work and we think that's the top priority. >> we're looking at some of the figures. last cycle, seiu put in about $60 million for the campaign, for obama. >> 60 million come frs 300,000 individual workers who give $7 a month out of their paycheck and so our 60 million is nothing compared to the unbridled spending of corporations. >> so, you ask your members to support this. >> absolutely. >> how much money do you think you'll have this year? >> we're going to expand the number of members that contribute their voluntary money and we're going to reach out to latino and african-american communities. >> how much are you going for? >> and our members all across this country. we think we have to compete based on volunteers and the number of people we turn out to the polls. we know we are not going to compete on the amount of money we invest. >> so, you don't have a number. let's talk a look at occupy wall

street. you announced your endorsement of president obama. what is your thought about occupy wall street? helping those movements right now as we look at some of the pictures from across the country. that movement has been saying what our members believe for a long time, that there's greszos inequality. you've been watching this, right? yes, we have. give us your reaction to what you've seen so far. is this in line with the sieu supports? >> it's been an inspiring move. we support occupy and we are trying to build a jobs movement by declare iing an economic emergency today. and taking to bridges all across this country on this interthashl day of action. >> i got a busy schedule. running around the country. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. zblmpblt shots fired at the white house. we got details, next.

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the man suspects of firing shots at the white house is scheduled to appear in federal court in pittsburgh in a couple of hours. they believe the shots fired by the man cracked a window at the white house while the president was away. pete williams is live in washington, d.c. and what's the latest officials are learning about the suspect? >> well, i think the picture that's emerging of this young man, he's 21 years old. had just turned 21. is that he was, had become increasingly emotionally troubled. he had been say ago lot of things about the president, that he thought the president was a antichrist. at the same time, his father tells our spanish language network that he had become obsessed with the date last friday of the shooting. 11-11-11 and the young man

worried that's when the world would end and investigators are checking into some threatening comments he made about president obama. the president was not in the white house that night. about 9:00. the car they came from was later found abandoned. had an assault rifle in it. authorities say it was an ak 47 style. you're looking at a graphic that shows where the shots were fired. the distance from there to the white house is about eight football fields. one of the questions is, how, if he was moving in the car, which is what the initial report said, how was he able to hit the white house. one of the rounds hit a window there where wrou see those officers there. that's on the truman balcony and that thing in the little blue tent is a device, you can't see it because it's protected by the tent, but it's a way of analyzing the trajectory of rounds. now, these pictures are from a resent shooting in 1994.

they know that two rounds hit the building. they're looking to see if others may have hit it. they're looking at pockmarks in the building to see if they are a sign that other rounds. they believe nine were fired. they don't know how many other than two hit the white house. >> great detail on that. a dangerous night of storms in the southeast. let's get to mike seidel for the latest. >> yes, another deadly day yesterday. let's go to the video first from the town near the davidson county area. this is thomasville, north carolina. north of charlotte, where we had two fatalities. a possible tornado. officials will assess the damage today and we'll find out. but an adult and child were killed here. now let's go south to rock hill, south carolina, just on the other side of the state line. these are ariels of more likely tornado damage.

there were three killed here in york county in the rock hill area. six fatalities yesterday, one in georgia. now for the year, the deadliest year we've seen since the 1930s. over 550. november's the second season for twisters. it's all just rainfall now. raleigh up to virginia. this is heading up into the northeast. we have flight delays this morning at newark running about an hour and a half. the rainfall is adding up. in philadelphia now with the rain yesterday, this is now your wettest year on record. you've had almost 57 inches of rain and by the way in new york city today with enough luck or unluck, we'll probably end up being the second wettest. meanwhile, we look down to the gulf coast and things are quiet. there's your forecast for this afternoon. the rain in the northeast, a little snow around the plaks. t lakes.

we'll get a taste of some arctic air across the northern plains going into the weekend. by the way, the high temperature yesterday in fairbanks, alaska, was nippy 27 below zero. if you want cold air, head up to fairbanks. richard? >> i will leave it over there. thanks a lot. here's a look at some other stories we're covering. people are talking about police using pepper stray to clear protesters where california state trustees approved a 9% tuition increase. protesters began chanting we are the 99% and demanding financial institutions that they pay more taxes to fund higher education. the disruptions reflect whid spread anger among students who are unable to keep up with rising education costs. a mid pressure, johnson & johnson is continuing to remove two traces of harmful chemicals from its baby products. a coalition has been pressing

the health care giant to remove two potential ly cancer causing chemicals from products. johnson & johnson saying both will be removed within two years. sooner for shampoos. it's been called one of the most significant drug smuggling passages along the u.s. border with mexico. officials unkoring tunnel that stretches about 400 yards that linked warehouses in san diego toty wa na. i.c.e. officials seized 14 tons of pot. and third time's a charge. ricky gervais will host the awards despite ruffling feather last year. the measure to ban congressional insider trading is gaining momentum. jon tester weighs in on the practice in about ten minutes and the occupy wall street protesters continue to clash with police as the number of arrests mount in new york city. we continue to watch the live pictures for you.

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more pictures of flash mob, rallies and marchers. protesters in new york and across the country are marking two months, calling today a major day of action. craig melvin is keeping an eye on the epicenter, but also around the country. >> good morning to you from coast to coast, events planned today even as some cities crack down on groups camping in public areas and even as police make more arrests. first, to san francisco, where several were arrested wednesday. demonstrators stormed into a downtown bank of america. more than 100 people injured. police in riot gear started cuffing them and hauling them away.

meanwhile, protesters in boston protesters in boston, massachusetts, claiming a temporary victory there this morning. a judge has ordered the city cannot remove protesters or their tents without court approval. at least for the next two weeks. meanwhile, protesters worship occupy boston movement plan to march today to the charlestown bridge. it was a much different story in dallas, texas, where police arrested up to 20 occupy prot t protesters there. at the same time, an attorney said an agreement with the city was reached wednesday allowing protesters to stay for four more weeks. there were also arrests made in south carolina and city officials have told them to leave. occupy indiana protesters have been given 24 hours to clear out their camp on state house

grounds. a lot happening with the movements. >> good to hear because we know they've laid out a certain schedule and things could escalate. more hopeful signs from the job market. new jobless claims have slipped to their lowest level since april. brian sullivan here with what's moving your money. brian, unemployment claims still high though. 388,000, but it seems like we have a glimmer of some good news. >> one economist described them as encouraging. the key, the trend and four-week moving average is below 400,000 again. still way too lie, but at least the trend is in the right direction. >> let's talk about thanksgiving travel. tripaaa is is releasing its forecast. >> that's a 4% jump from the last time. that's a lot of people on the

road. no thank you. and they're going to be paying more because oil's still at 100 bucks a barrel, which means gas prices are going up. here's the simple math for you. the average family uses about 1100 gallons of gas a year. so you'll spend an extra $100 a year on gas, which is left money you have to go holiday shopping perhaps or you eat a pheasant instead of a turry. >> thank you. well, all phyllis campbell wanted was a voter i.d. card, but after running into hassle, the couple from tennessee ended up testifying. right now, 15 states have laws requiring a government issued photo i.d. to vote in elections and tennessee is one of six states this passed laws requiring the i.d. proponents are saying these laws crack down on voter fraud.

but critics say it makes it more difficult for some to vote. joining me live from nashville is lee and phyllis campbell. thank you for being with us this morning. good day to you. >> good morning. thank you for having us. >> phyllis, i'd like to start with you. so, you walked into the driver's license testing center in your area. you asked for a voter i.d. card. tell us what happened after that. >> well, as we walked into the door, people were lined way, way up right to the door. i thought, well, probably most of these are wanting to get their driver's license or get it renewed, so lee thought well, he's going to go see if they have an express lane, you know. >> how big was the line? 100 people? >> no, probably 35. there were also people sitting

inside waiting, so i don't know just how many. >> right. and then lee, what happened at thor? you testified before the panel of house democrats. what did you tell them about your experience, lee, about what they said to you when you asked for that voter i.d. card? >> well, when i got to the counter, the information desk, i told the person there that my wife was needing a photo i.d. and would like to get a free photo i.d. i stressed free because the tennessee legislature had passed the legislation last spring and it said these would be free. >> did they give you the required documents and steps to do that is this what did they say to you? >> they said, why don't you just get the duplicate driver's license for a fee of $8 and the $8 was not the question. i said, no, we want the free one.

>> why did they say that if the law was suggesting you do the other process? >> i think because that would be an easier process for r them. in fact, the person said oh, you don't want to do the separate photo because that just involves so much paperwork. and i said, well, we still want to go with the free. we'll go ahead with the license then. >> as the law stands. so, to you, phyllis, do you believe that there is concern that this law may affect certain groups of others because of what you just described? the long process and paying $8? >> yes, i do because while i was waiting there in line, a little lady with a cane came in. she saw is line and went back out again. i have a feeling she was wanting to get her photo so she can vote and i think that's what's going

to discourage people because it took almost an hour, which wasn't a big thing with us. but you know, someone that can't stand very long, it would be. and there wasn't in chairs. >> it's not just the two of you. there are some 300,000 people that may have to go through the process that you had gone through. i wish we had more time. i thank you for being with us on this thursday. >> thank you. for 180 passengers flying from india to britain, it was pay up for jet fuel or stay fwrounded. during the refuelling stop, the flight crew told passengers they had run out of money and would need to hand over $30,000. >> we need some money to pay the fuel to pay the airport, to pay everything we need, so you want to go to -- you have to pay. >> can you believe that? well, after a six-hour shatando, passengers actually forked over

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are jerry sandusky's victims ready to talk? i'm going to be joined by attorney jerry anderson. he says he's been retained by victims of this scandal. and the nanny, fran drescher, is going to join us on her latest project about youth bullying. that and much more in the next hour. >> thanks a lot, thomas. lawmakers on capitol hill will hold a hearing to take a closer look at insider trading in congress. this comes on the heels of a report on 60 minutes that found federal law makemakers could us nonpublic information for themselves. >> were you surprised by this? >> i was stunned. and i expected everybody else to be stunned when we put it on the air. it's one of those things, one of those rare things that happens. you say, wait a minute, this could not be true. >> yeah, it also stunned some lawmakers. jon tester is a member of the homeland security and government

affairs committee that will hold that hearing and has introduced a bill. you were stunned right there for a second, senator. do you think some of your colleagues are using it for information to get in their jobs to make money for themselves like in the stock market? >> i'll make no assertions whether they are guilty or innocent or have done anything wrong or not, but what we will do with the stock act and with the help of senator gillibrand and others in the senate is make sure we do not allow people who are members of congress or their staffs to use insider information to personally profit. that's not right. that's not why people serve in congress. and we just need to make the rules clear. shine a little sun light on it and the issue should go away. >> you have not used insider information, right? ? >> gosh, no, you've got to have money to be able to invest. >> there's a bill in the house also that really hasn't gone anywhere.

what's happening there? >> well, you know, we're getting ready to drop the bill into the senate and basically what it's going to do is prevent members of congress from using insider information. >> do you have support on both sides? >> yeah, well i certainly hope so. this shouldn't be one of those partisan battles. this should get bipartisan support. it's clearing things up so people know what the rules are. they're common sense to most everybody, but every once in a while, you need to reclarify the common sense. >> shake the bird cage. i was in your calendar and i understand you've also introduced with senator pat toomey, a bill that would help small businesses borrow money. mitch mcconnell, he's promoted it. with republicans support, do you think you can get democrats on board, too? >> absolutely cht this is a bill that's going to help create jobs

cht going to help small smart-up companies be more successful. these are the folks out there that hire a bunch of folks once they become successful, so we're changing that playing field again a little bit and i think it's going to really help and i think that the fact that we've got, not only senator toomey working on it together, but the minority leader, the president has endorsed this bill. i think it's a good bill. it came through the house almost unanimously. >> you can make that happen, some of these small things as you work with republicans, i have to ask you about the super committee. do you think you can extrapolate that success to what's happening today? >> i hope so. if the super committee really does work together and there's people on there fully capable of that and come up with a proposal that is big and gets our arms around this deficit issue for the long and short-term, there's some real opportunity for democrats and republicans to start working together in a

meaningful way to help move the country forward. we've got issues here in this country. that is an understatement and we've spent most of our time really dealing with this over the last year and haven't come up with a good conclusion yet and hopefully, the super committee can get that done. but that being said, they've got a tough job ahead of them and hopefully, they will come together and get her done. >> and if they do, we might get that same shocked look you gave us at the top of this segment. thank you very much. have a good day. fz. >> thank you. today's tweet of the the day comes from steven colbert. it is this. is our border aiding immigration and is gingrich willing to spend all winter in kai bow to investigate it? ♪

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that might have been one of the more unfortunate places to be. a casting call for a surfing dog. the best of the best will ride a wave on a rose parade float filled with 7,000 gallons of water and no word if they've seen this video of a surfing goat in california last week. doing the real thing ocean style. a new study finds that women are seven time more likely to suffer broken heart than men. that wraps up this hour. thomas roberts is up next. don't forget now with alex wagner coming up at noon eastern. among alex's guest today, jon huntsman's daughters. is this a chevy volt? [ stu ] yeah. it's electric. i don't think so. it's got a gas tank right here. electric tank, right over here.

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