it's monday, november 21st and here's what's happening. ladies and gentlemen -- >> your republican front-runner. >> go get a job after you take a bath. >> the moralizer in chief plays dirto occupy as a new outrage ignites. plus, surprise, surprise. congress poised to fail. a happy thanksgiving? more like a bunch of turkeys. >> we begin as protesters prepare to hold a massive rally after perhaps the worst images of police brutality to emerge from the occupy movement. the target? u.s. davis students linked in a passive protest blocking a pedestrian walkway.

the shock resonating worldwide as two officers are taped assaulting them with pepper pray appearing as casual as gardeners watering their plants. after the spray, students dragged calling held down by police with batons and chanting shame on you. >> newt gingrich said this advice. >> go get a job after you take a job after you take a bath. >> he said to our students, our children, linking arms to protest tuition hikes that are making their education unaffordab unaffordable. >> cleanliness is next to god leness. you heard it. newt gingrich leads mitt romney

leads today. right now he is the man to beat. with all the confusion and the anger and unrest, gingrich has a simple solution for the 99%. >> go get a job after you take a bath. >> students are in fact taking to the streets at this hour. kristin, that pepper spray video caught fire around the world, but what's the scene like today. as young people gather to rally. >> that video got 1.3 million views and i spoke with a student who said he never had any idea it would grow into this. when it was happening he knew there was something wrong. he said he saw that that show of force was going-over the line. take a look behind me. it's a general assembly meeting

is what they are calling it here. there a lot more people here today than were here on friday. there were about 200 people and only about 20 protesters that linked arms and were sitting in the quad here. they were in a peaceful protest and witnesses say they didn't do anything to provoke police who were in full riot gear and ended up as you have seen in the video pepper spraying the students. earlier today, it was announced that the police chief here on campus had been placed on administrative leave and the two officers identified from the video were placed on leave over the weekend. a lot of calls for the chancellor to step down. she is expected to address the crowd and the student body for the first time since the incident. she didn't answer questions and saying she takes support. meantime the president of the entire university of california's system said he is appalled and would like the

chancellors to get to talk about what police should do in the event of peaceful protests on campus. i spoke with a professor here earlier today who said what were they thinking and why on earth at the university of california would they need full riot gear, weapons and chemical weapons to be used. a lot of outrage here today and you can see the people in many cases holding up signs asking for the chancellor to step down. >> we have been monitoring developments through social media and noted a number of other students from as far a's way as oakland and berkeley, the students have rallied to the cause of those? >> yeah, we spoke with a representative of student government and said she got calls from all over, people offering to come in and help when she said she spoke with the entertainer earlier and he was going to be posting things on his website. this has gotten a lot of

attention and also it is believed that the occupy sacramento people will be here as well. they will show their support. it's important to keep in mind what they are protesting here. it has a lot to do with tuition hikes they were talking about. it went from $5,000 to $12,000 now. it's expected to go up to $22,000 and they can't afford to pay that much for an education. >> nbc's kristin dahlgren, stay with us throughout the hour. let's bring in the panel as the author of money and power. joining us from washington, msnbc analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney. i want to begin with you. you heard the offensive critique that newt gingrich offered, telling protesters to have a bath and get a job. these protesters have a point. they looked at what's happened on wall street and have seen the global economy tank and haven't seen one criminal prosecution for anything. they are justified.

they are getting pepper sprayed. >> they are beyond justified. peaceful protests have a long and important history in the country and that's all these kids were doing at the uc davis campus last friday. the reward for that is pepper spray as if he was watering the lawn. it's beyond inexcusable. the police should have relieved of their duties and the chancellor should be relieved. this is beyond unacceptable. >> you were referencing an image? >> it reminded me probably even worse. it will probably have the lasting image as that 67 pentagon image where the student was putting the flower power into a barrel of a gun at the pentagon and had a lasting image, a powerful image and i think the same thing will happen here. >> what is newt gingrich now the republican front-runner for president hoping to achieve by

referring to protesters as dirty and in need of a bath? >> well, i think what he is trying to accomplish is he is trying to connect with parts of the very conservative republican base, some of whom may have been republican primary base who have been looking at what's going on and i'm sure we have heard some of the snide comments people have made. they heard here in washington about the kids stink and they should get a bath where the encampments are. that's a political tactic for the primary, but a bad strategy and missing the point about what the kids and it's not just kids, but the 99% are trying to accomplish and actually are accomplishing right now. >> bill, you know about economics better than most people and how recessions occur and how to be resolved. newt gingrich has students as young as 9 years old and this is what he said about resolving the

current financial problem. watch this. >> it is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children and in child laws which are stupid. most ought to get rid of the unionized janitors and pay local students to take care of the school. the kids would actually do work and have cash. they have pride in the schools and begin the process of rising. >> cent children back to clean the toilets of their schools. >> i thought we had child labor laws. i don't know whether this self destructive -- >> he wasn't joking. >> i know. it's this self destructive behavior that each leading -- whoever happens to be the candidate leading of the week seems to go into self destruction mote and gingrich sat for a few days and seems to be self destructing. >> martin, i think what's important is let's talk about newt for a skt. remember that earlier in the speech he gave where he was

talking about having a bath, crying about he feels so bad for having been such a skound rel in his divorces and he said those guys should take a bath and get a job. what's important is that tells you who the real newt is. he is say mean, vint addictive sob who doesn't care about anything other than power. he has such thin skin that every time he is pressed, we saw this around the very legitimate questions raised about his relationship with freddie and fanny, he is not going to be able to take it. >> karen, he keeps moralizing and he likes doing this. this is a bit rich as you say for a serial adulterer. the morality tale surely is the majority of americans are suffering. that's why they are protesting. >> absolutely. >> she incredibly tone deaf.

he made what, 30 million plus dollars and first said he made 300,000 at fannie and freddie and it's 1.8. he is tone deaf. these protests directly derived from the crisis and the feeling that people don't have a chance to get real jobs and make a contribution to society. >> i think there a number of other people that we can't let off the hook. i went to ucla and grew up in berkeley. uc berkeley is the heart of the free speech and protest movement. there a lot of people who can't be let off the hook. the protests are not going away. i personally hope as a movement they are able to really motivate this into direct action. i know there is a lot of what are your demands, but at some point if we have change, they want to make it happen. at the same time, at all levels,

we need to get prepare for the fact that these folks are not going anywhere. they cannot be treated like that. spraying pepper spray into the eyes of kid who is want to go to college. we will have to do a lot better than that. >> i was looking at all of the footage unedited. they were the most peaceful passive people. if you didn't like them, you could walk around them. did they really deserve to be hit with pepper spray? >> it's beyond offensive. it's completely inappropriate. i was out at uc davis earlier this summer. it's a very pacific campus and beautiful and it's -- you wouldn't imagine that anything like this needed to happen there. it's unexcusable and people need to be held responsible for that. how can people not be held accountable for what they have been doing and yet these people get pepper spray for sitting in peaceful protest. >> incredible.

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>> senators john kerry and rob portman met in a last ditch effort to come up with anything that would enable the super committee to lead the way in reducing the nakz's debt. at this late hour, it seems like there will be no agreement

before the thanksgiving deadline. mitt romney blames the president and newly crowned front-runner newt gingrich offered thoughts on the super committee. take a look. >> it's good for america and it's a mess. they will try to break out and that is creating a committee of 12 picked by political leadership getting in the room to come up with something 535 couldn't solve. it's in the wrong direction. >> popular gingrich, apparently the market disagrees with you. the bores i think are around -- down 260 on the dow today. it was down 400 earlier. luke russert is live on capitol hill and kristin welker from the white house. these candidates are critical of the president for being absent in the run up to the super committee deadline.

what reaction has there been from the president on this lack of progress? >> the white house first of all pushing back against the notion that the president hasn't been involved. the press secretary jay carney making the point that the president did put forth his own plan for deficit reduction. he has been in contact with some of the members of the super committee, albeit not as frequently as this summer in the debt ceiling debate. they point to the fact that congress came up with it so it really is the responsibility of congress go get something done here. interestingly and not surprisingly, the white house said it's really republicans who should shoulder most of the blame for this for not budging on tax increases. having said all of that, if the super committee can't come up with a deal which it doesn't look like they are going to, there will be plenty of blame to go around politically. >> luke, this morning, senator

john kerry took republicans to the wood shed for their allegiance to a well-known lobbyist. listen to this. >> this thing about the bush tax cuts and the pledge to grover norquist coming up. he has been the 13th member of this committee without being there. i can't tell you about how many time wees hear about the pledge. all of us took a pledge to uphold the constitution. >> is that what's going on with republicans in effect putting their pledge to norquist in front of making progress on the nation's dangerous debt crisis? >> that is a very popular democratic talking point, but one thing in regards to the tax issue which is true is what to do with them and a lot of democrats wanted them to expire and a lot of republicans were saying within these, they would not do a deal unless there was an extension of the bush tax cuts. that was an area where both

could not agree. understandably so on the democratic side and every aide will tell you that the easiest path is not allowing them to be renewed. that's $4 trillion right there. in the building where i am, the last ditch effort in the 11th hour by members to save face. john kerry and rob portman and fred upton and patty murray. they were meeting in kerry's office a short time ago. trying to grab low hanging fruit and a few hadn't million. they don't want to give up the referage and take any deal and it's cuts only. it doesn't look like it will happen leaving a lot of folks. they will say the last meetings are for esthetics. >> they are likely to be repercussions. they remember the debate and the downgrading of america's creatid

rating. we can push this into 2013, but there is an recovery that we need to generate now. >> there has to be concern because of course this president is going to be judged on one issue really. that's the economy. his approval ratings in the mitt to low 40s. so if this super committee can't come up with a deal if it winds up looking like another sign that this economy is struggling to get back on track, there is no way that the president will escape blame for that. one thing to look for, you talk about the downgrade that happened this summer. some agencies are threatening to downgrade the u.s. credit rating again. if the super committee can't come to a deal on this. that certainly would be another blow to this white house and the president as he heads into what will no doubt be a tough

reelection battle. >> let's talk economy in regards to the super committee. they think is not being done is a lot of issues that are very close to democrats that expire at the end of this year. unemployment benefits. payroll tax and dock fix. the fact that the super committee, we had the leverage and it will be a victory for us. that being said, if democrats want to see unemployment extend and they want to see the payroll tax extended, they will have to negotiate with republicans and most likely what i am hearing from the gop aides is if they make those issues important and couple them with spending cuts, they don't want to see them. while this is a -- you can debate all day and when it comes down to a new year, programs that actually stimulate the economy and the payroll tax holiday and unemployment will be at serious risk in the house

representatives and republicans see them as adding $300 billion to the deficit. >> luke russert and kristen welker, thank you very much for joining us. stay with us. much more on the growing uc davis protests and the weekend's top lines coming up. >> four women and similar circumstances. >> how did you get? >> oh, i'm sorry, is it 9-9-9? you ready for your present? yeah.

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take a bath. >> they are all lying? >> four women under similar circumstances? >> how did you get four? >> i'm sorry, is it 9-9-9? your parents registered voters? >> my mother is a democrat and father is an independent. >> say to your dad for me. >> was there a sex scandal in my past? why don't we ask a former employees? >> you said i was a sharp dresser. >> over the line! keep me away from the ladies. i'm a real dog. bark, bark. >> who let the dogs out? >> do you think he's a socialist? >> absolutely. i think barack obama is a socialist. >> amazingly efficient canned dasy that embodies almost every dig agreeable. he's the classic rental

politician. >> i would like to explore whether or not you can get congress to pass a law who said personhood begins at conception. >> he is a political sociopath. he constructs arguments to defend whatever he is doing at the moment. >> after cashing in on the system and being the biggest hypocrite in the republican field probably in politics today. the biggest hypocrite and then to cast dispursions and peek down to the people is disgusting. >> i was remarkably successful in many ways. in life very exciting things going on. there was a part of me that was truly hollow. >> truly hollow. that may be the best way we heart yet to describe the primary race. julian epstein is a strategist and council to the judiciary committee and a journalist for the "huffington post" and joins

us for the first time. is mr. gingrich serious or does he worry about the fallout later? he is the front-runner. >> here talks about being hollow. i think the opposite. there is too much stuffing in this big bird. whether it's the three wives or the major mean spiritedness. he talks about the wall streeters needing to find a job and take a bath, here's a guy with a million dollar expense account at tiffany's telling the unemployed they need to find a job. he sounds like marie antoinette saying let them go eat cake. he is so unattractive on so many levels, it's hard to see why the air doesn't come out of this balloon. >> can you top that assessment of newt gingrich? >> i don't know if i can top it, but i'm amazed by newt gingrich's obvious disdain for

middle class workers and for the working class in general. i think his comments about saying we should fire the janitors in schools and let children do their jobs? i never heard anything more offensive in my lives. to say the janitors who are doing back breaking work coming from someone who makes $30,000 an hour to advise freddie mac? it's incredible. >> the best paid historian. herman cain was subjected to a withering interview on friday night. mr. letterman seemed to conduct the interview on the basis that most of cain's policies are ludicrous and today's gallup poll has him at 8%. is mr. done? >> i think this guy. he was a roman candle from the beginning. his policies were incoherent and explanations from the various different women never seemed to be particularly coherent.

here's a gi guy that in record time has gone from a phenomenon who will be forgotten. >> do you agree? >> i have to agree. it was so sad to watch cain completely flub his questions on libya. he really doesn't have much to say on foreign policy and to say he would lean on his cabinet in decision making about defense policy, i don't think anybody is going to trust him after that. >> in his speech on friday, rahm emmanuel and former operative at the white house barely mentioned any other candidate aside from mitt romney. i guess this is a clear sign that like everyone else, everyone is anticipating the inevitable mitt as the challenger. >> i don't know that that's true. they think that mitt is the challenger. mitt is the challenger we don't want to see. of course nobody is going to start bashing gingrich because

it's great for democrats to see him as the nominee. once he is challenging obama, people bash him after that. the democrats are afraid and that's why they are poring their focus on to him. >> do you agree with laurel and thinks the democrats are worried about romney? >> i think they are, but as i said before, if romney were running against bernie madoff, he wouldn't get 25% of the vote. he is always the bride's maid and never the bride. the good story for the white house right now is regardless of who the nominee is, we are looking at a 15-point positive swing in the gallup polls. about a month ago, obama was as positive 38. he is close to tie today. the reason is that most are starting to look at the republican presidential nominees and it looks like a star trek convention. people are looking at them and they are very disturbed by what they see. they don't see any compelling candidate and obama's numbers

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to egypt where the cap net is to resign following clashes between protesters and security forces as the army attempted to clear the square. according to morgue officials, the death toll stands at 33 with countless injured in clashes right across the country. this as egyptians prepare for elections that are expected to begin next week. nbc's chief foreign

correspondent is in the square right now and i can see and hear commotion behind you. you can describe the scene for us? >> there is a lot of commotion. probably 100,000 people in the square right now. the mood is mostly festive and i will ask the cameraman if he can come in a little bit. i know it's dark and to give you an orientation, that is the center of tahri rirks square. if he pans over to the center, you can see the big structures. those are the tents that some of the them were burned down yesterday that are going back up and the people say they plan to be in the square for a long time. this is not just reactionary, but the second revolution. it was nothing like this this morning. people arrived by the thousands

and as the clashes continued, some of them offered support and solidarity, but they stop and it is a giant celebration and the start of a very long protest movement. this is different. it's not against mubarak, but against the military that took over after mubarak stepped down. the resignation by the government, we heard a reaction from the people. the people don't have an issue with the government. the government and the cabinet is not very powerful at all. it is the military that runs the show. they want the military to step down and not just reshuffle the government. they want a new set of rules. >> richard, our viewers can recall watching you in the same position you are in seven months ago. six months ago. reporting from that scene. we thought the revolution had transformed egypt. now you are back in exactly the

same place. what is their singular gripe? is it that they don't want the military to be in charge? >> they have lost faith in the military. in february when mubarak was forced out by protesters in the same square, the military stepped in. the military used their authority to protect the people and there were cheers on the streets. the military and the people hand in hand. that hand shake has been broken. the people say the military can't be trusted to carry out the promise it made when mubarak stepped down which was to transition to democracy. since he stepped down as the military remained in power, there is marshal law and thousands were arrested and sent to military tribunals. the military applied it wanted to stay permanently as a caretaker for egyptian politics.

there was violence and now this. >> i read that something like 2,000 people have been injured across the country. these protests are not restricted to cairo, are they? >> there have been protests in alexandria and suez and the sinai as well. this is the center of political in cairo. it always has been or at least since the revolution that toppled mubarak. those other violent clashes are really secondary to this. this could set the tone for what happens in the rest of the country. if you remember in the revolution, it's amazingly, you have the same feeling right now that they are bringing out the slogans. they are not chanting against mubarak, but the military.

and suez and other places around the country. that is something to watch. that is the political movement. >> just a final question. do you think they will endanger the elections that we are expecting? this is part of the process that the military promised and that the people here lost faith in. it wasn't a very complicated process that were leading to democracy. there were the parliamentary elections to take place in about a week's time. those elections were going to take three months. then there was going to be another election for the upper house of parliament. then a group would get together and write the constitution. the constitution would be subject to a referendum. then the presidential elections and the military would step down.

a two-year process that they would basically no longer believe. >> nbc's chief correspondent and our expert in the field. thank you very much indeed. coming up, a congresswoman reacts to the site of young american students pepper sprayed. now brian sullivan has the cnbc market wrap on a difficult day. >> difficult but nothing like what you are seeing in the dow. down about 200 points and well off the lows. you name it, it's the reason for the disappointment in d.c. concern about europe and 1.2 billion missing in mf global money. we have come back a bit. 200 points and the s&p and nasdaq. gold is down big as well. people cashing out and putting their moan wherever they can. it appears like it is. the mattress. that's it from the cnbc

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we are looking at live pictures from protestersuc davi. the scene of that pepper spraying incident yesterday, where something like 20 students were seated passively and were sprayed relentlessly by a campus police officer. let's bring in congresswoman barbara lee, a democrat of california. she joins us now from san francisco. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, martin. >> what's your reaction to what you saw at uc davis last night? >> well, i was very shocked and outraged. this is a democracy, martin. students, everyone, we have a right and a duty to exercise our first amendment rights and to peacefully protest. these students were peacefully protesting, and the use of force, and what we saw, everyone saw this. this was an excessive use of force, i believe. i think we all should really condemn that action that took

place and ask for a full investigation. i don't think we should ever tolerate in a democracy this type of overuse of force when students are peacefully protesting, whatever issues they're peacefully protesting. they should be allowed to do that. that's within our constitutional rights, and they were exercising their rights peacefully, mind you. they were not engaged in any violence. >> and we know that what happened at uc davis followed quickly on the hands of what happened at berkeley, where a former poet laureate was beaten in reaction to protest there. >> i talked to the chancellor and expressed the same sentiment. we have got to figure out a way, martin, to allow for people to demonstrate, to protest peacefully without worrying about the use of force, excessive force, by police forces. people are protesting throughout our country. they're protesting many issues.

finally, people are waking up to what has been taking place in terms of income inequality, in terms of poverty, in terms of disparities. in terms of financial institutions gouging consumers are. people are wakie ining up. this is not going away. so we have to find a way to allow for the voices of those who are crying out for full participation in our economic system and in our democratic system to prevail. this is outrageous, what's taking place. and we've got to make sure that we allow protesters to protest peacefully. >> there's also deep frustration with politicians, as you know, and the super committee, particularly. and while some people may shrug off the the failure of congress to reach a deal, there could have very real implications for americans right in their wallets, in the form of payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed. both of them, as you know, are due to expire very soon. are we going to go through this congress with even more

suffering for the middle class and the poor? >> i have to say to you, martin, that we have got to address unemployment compensation in a big way. we must do whatever we can to extend unemployment compensation for people who have been unemployed. but we also have to remember now, 2 million people, or a third of those who are unemployed, now have been unemployed for more than 99 weeks. so they've hit the wall. they're not even eligible anymore for unemployment compensation. so congressman scott and myself have been working very hard with many members of congress to not only extend unemployment compensation with congressman lloyd doggett and others, but we're trying to extend it to make sure that those who have hit the wall of 99 weeks also have a chance to have a safety net until we figure out a way to create jobs. because this is what it's about. this committee should be addressing deficit reduction in a big, bold, and balanced way. they should be looking at how we ensure that we create jobs and stop protecting grover norquist

friends, the 1%, the billionaires, and the millionaires. and that's what they've been trying to do, the republican tea party. we've got to put a stop to this. i think people are getting sick and tired of what is taking place. >> i think i'd have to agree to what you just said. congresswoman barbara lee, thank you very much for just joining us. >> thank you. >> and we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] tom's discovering that living healthy can be fun. see? he's taking his vitamins. new one a day vitacraves plus omega-3 dha is a complete multivitamin for adults. plus an excellent source of omega-3 dha

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affairs and his 9-9-9 economic plan that's dismissed by most leading economists. we've had rick perry, who simply can't remember one third of his plan to close down government. and as i say, most of this has provided late-night comics with some of their best material and has exposed the weaknesses of the field. but these candidates have now decided to attack ordinary citizens. people who just happen to be protesting about the vast disparity of wealth in this country. about the fact that they can't find work and that graduate unemployment is at record levels. and they're also protesting about the lack of a single prosecution against any of those bankers who created criminal financial trades that eventually shattered and shuttered the global economy. and what do these candidates have to say? well, newt gingrich, as you might expect, has adopted a highly self-righteous and moral tone, as he condemns the protests. >> that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has

collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath. >> charming. newt gingrich offers a very personal insult to the protesters, suggesting that they're dirty and need a good wash. but if anyone's dirty, it's newt gingrich. a man whose personal morality has been drawn from the sewer. a man who pontificates about his catholic faith and morality, but repeatedly commits adultery. a man who spreads poison through the political process and is eventually forced to resign from congress. a man who accuses other politicians of being in cahoots with freddie mac, knowing full well that he himself received millions of dollars from the same organization. and mr. gingrich has the audacity to suggest that the occupy protesters need a bath? the only response t