how am i doing? i will not do this again. i have hurt my brain. i think i prefer iambic pentameter, more like normal speech. haiku art in the big old city, best new thing t is really hard. now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. please print this out, you will enjoy it more that way. have a good night. herman cain continues to cling to the wreckage of his campaign, for at least another week or so. >> 9-9-9, doing fine. >> every time he goes on tv, mr. cain damages his campaign more. >> stupid people run in the middle. >> this is a character assassination on me. >> herman cain is calling it a character assassination. >> the totality that herman cain is asking us to believe. >> 61 text messages. >> 61 calls.

i talk to a lot of people 61 times. >> five people all aleming this, all of whom are lying? >> my star was shining and rising too fast. >> ginger white gave more details. >> it was a very casual affair. >> 9-9-9. >> women romney a little hot under the collar. >> romney disheveled his perfectly coifed hair. >> romney did. >> a very condescending. >> a bit testy. >> gets maybe overly testy. >> pop some pop corps, 'cause it's getting good. >> climate change, abortion, immigration, gay rights. >> your list is just not accurate. >> romney is not comfortable. >> one, we are going to have to be better informed. >> andrea, you will have to be better informed. >> this is an unusual interview. ha ha ha. >> let's listen to newt describinging how -- >> call himself a celebrity. >> celebrities leave and gradually fewer speeches every year. we are selling more. >> a celebrity. >> in his words, a celebrity of

sorts. >> angelina jolie doesn't say i'm a celebrity. >> i was charging $60,000 a speech. >> that was a ballsy statement. >> if he makes a mess, he eventually cleans it up and maris his mistress. >> people like herman cain but think he was too monogamous. >> the future of herman cain's campaign is now up to gloria cain. tonight, cain told fox news how ginger white's allegations of a 13-year affair with herman cain affected his wife of 43 years. >> it has had a very damaging effect on her emotionally. >> did she ask you did this happen, herman? did she ask you that? >> yes, she did ask me and i have told her exactly what has happened and what the situation is. but that's -- you know, my wife loves me. she just told me that again

today. >> you will notice that herman cain said my wife loves me. he did not say my wife believes me. this is a very different description of gloria cain than the description herman cain gave us when he was faced with sexual harassment charges. >> she said i've known you for over 40 years. that stuff doesn't even sound like you. let alone that you did this with somebody that, you know, is making these accusations. >> tonight, in new hampshire, herman cain explained why he was going home to georgia on friday. >> i'm evaluating the impact of all of this on my family, first. >> how is your wife? >> she is doing great, number one. since i have been campaigning all week, i haven't had an opportunity to sit down here and walk through this with my wife and my family. i will do that when i get back home on friday. i have talked to my wife many

times since monday about this situation. i have not talked to her face to face. i am not going to make a decision until after we talk face to face. >> a reporter asked cain about his relationship with ginger white. >> last one. yeah. >> we have all had long-term relationships, long-term friends. what do you want people to understand about ginger? who is the ginger that you know? >> all right. let me answer it this way. 9-9-9 is going to turn this economy around. peace through strength and clarity is what we need. >> this morning, ginger white offered more details of the alleged affair. >> it was a very casual affair that herman flew me to -- on several trips. i went on several trips with herman. we -- one particular trip was the mike tyson/holyfield fight in las vegas.

>> republican media support for cain has now completely collapsed. >> looks like it's all over for herman cain. the bad publicity has wrecked his presidential chances. >> now clear herman cain will not secure the republican nomination for president. >> i agree you looks like herman cain is through. >> the media believe that they have accomplished their mission to kill the cain campaign. and i don't know, they may be right. all they have to do is create enough doubt about the candidate in the minds of his donors and then the money stops and that's it. that's all they have to do. campaign will die. >> joining me now, washington correspondent for "time" magazine, jay newton small, who was in new hampshire where cain gave the speech tonight. also, "washington post" editorial writer and msnbc contribute per, jonathan capehart. jay, you were there with cain in new hampshire tonight, making

very different sthoupsd time around as he was confronted with accusations. that last part when he was asked to describe what he wanted us to know about gloria white and about his relationship with gloria white, he absolutely refused to say one word in response -- ginger, not one word in response to that but just went right into had the 9-9-9. do you think that's the way his response will hold on that particular question? >> i think so i mean, he just doesn't want to talk about her at all. any questions that all day when people have been asking about this affair, he's just really gone back to policy every time saying we are trying to assess. we are going to take a few dies see how things are going. and it is sort of a really disjointed answer because the one hand, earlier on in the evening in new hampshire, he said i'm going to quote yogi berra, it's not over until it's over and five minutes later, he

was saying we need to reassess that kind of is at the in it or is he not in it? you can't have the bomb door's halfway open. you're never halfway running for president. right now, he really is. which is going to be very tough with donors, i think. did he say he has been having a hard time since the accusations came out earlier this week that they thought fund raiseding you plummets and just starting to come back again, but the's a problem. >> jay, is anyone on the road with herman cain in the cain campaign giving any of you in the press any scenario by which he stays in the campaign? >> he is traveling with his ramp pain manager, mark blotch, the famous smoking man from that advertise tomorrow and also with his spokesman, jd gordon. and in talking to them, they both just say -- they are even more gentler than what the -- mr. cain is saying. they are saying we are not -- gordon is saying we are not going to pull out of the race, just reassessing really how we are going to go forward with our

strat jand we are not even thinking about pulling out of the race. herman cain actually is saying i'm not sure i'm going to be in it. i asked him earlier tonight if he was going to unveil the third leg of his policy. he is supposed to be unveiling -- he did his 9-9-9 plan, which is the economy and foreign policy on mon day and the energy plan. and i asked if he would do the energy plan next week answered said he is not sure a lot defended with the conversation with his wife. kay part, i want you to be the jury as we listen to cain's answer on fox news about why he was give this woman money. let's listen to this. >> you did give her money over the years and that raised questions -- a basic one, why? >> well, neil, over the years, because i have been successful, i have helped many people financially. i have helped people stay in their homes. i have helped people buy groceries. directly, not through an organization.

someone i considered a friend, apparently she was not, that i was helping because she was having financial troubles are. it was over an extended -- two and a half years that i was doing this because -- because of the job market. and so, this -- she is not the only person that i have helped. the only thing about this particular one, yes, she happened to be female. >> jonathan capehart, you do not have to keep a straight face as you evaluate the credibility of that answer. >> thank you, lawrence, for giving me the liberty. look, herman cain is in trouble. when that reporter asked him in manchester to describe the relationship with ginger white and he resorted to 9-9-9 and peace, strength and clarity, he can't anticipate the questions anymore because all the answers are bad. if the person you're talking to at 4 in the morning and the person you're giving money to

who you're talking to at 4:00 in the morning not gloria cain, you have got serious, serious problems and that ginger white is not a family friend? none of this makes sense. none of this holds up to his explanation that he has given that she is just a -- just a friend. you know, she was -- oh, fine. she was destitute. she was desperate. she has been out of work. we all know about her legal and financial problems. but still, herman cain is now faced with a fifth woman with whom he has some sort of relationship broadly defined that's not his wife. >> jay, fox news, you will not be surprised, forgot to ask herman cain if his wife knows this woman. has anyone on the campaign trail been able to ask him that question? >> actually, wolf blitzer asked him a couple nights ago on cnn

and his wife said, no, she has no knowledge of this woman, never met ginger white. it is clear he kept these two women apart that they were completely separate and if he was giving 13 years worth of charity to ginger white, his wife clearly had no idea about t. >> jonathan, in your understanding of the way the healthy marriage works in america, when you are giving 13 years of financial support to a woman not your wife, your wife is supposed to know about that and go along with it isn't she? >> absolutely. the key thing, lawrence, here, let's say ginger white and gloria cain were friend these this story about ginger white comes out, wouldn't you expect gloria -- the campaign would orchestrate a statement of some sort from gloria cain, you guys are ridiculous you ginger white has been a long-time family friend, we have been helping her the last few years because she, like millions of other americans have been hit hard by the

economic problems facing the country and we are lucky enough to be able to extent a helping hand. but that's not what we got. gloria cain doesn't know ginger white. >> alan west saying herman cain has to really think about maybe just wrapping this thing up. alan west is thinking herman cain is hurting had the republican party. i think, you know, one of the house members who has hurt the republican party image more than any other is now worried about herman cain. >> the republican party should be worried that herman cain could be dragging down an already dragged down field of candidates. but look, herman cain is not fit to sit in the rose val office, definitely not prepared sit in the oval office and the longer he stays in the race, he makes a mockery of those people on the stage who actually do stand a chance of getting the nomination but he also makes a momry of the -- of those people who still are hanging on to some thin thread of belief that what herman cain is saying is the truth and that he is someone who is worthy of

being followed. >> jay newton-small, do you know which campaign bus you're going to be reassigned to next week after mrs. cain tells herman to stay home? >> i cover all of the campaigns, lawrence, so i will still be covering all of the campaigns as of next week. i think is so fascinating. he is supposed to be opening his campaign headquarters in atlanta on saturday and he is having this heart-to-heart talk with his wife friday night. you know, she is supposed to be standing next to him on saturday it will be fascinating to watch and see what happens. >> jay newton-small of "time" magazine and jonathan capehart of the "washington post," thank you both for joining me. >> us that the, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, gingrich versus mitt, the fight is really on with those guys and the obama campaign could not be happier. white house press secretary jay carney will join me to talk about the president's push for tax fairness and mitt romney's

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how badly is this going to further damage herman cain's credibility? >> this one is bad, seriously. do you know how often married men give money to single women they have been acquainted with for 13 years but haven't had sex with? never. [ morgan ] the super bowl.

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one of the real changes that comes when you start running for president as opposed to being an analyst on fox is i have to actually know what i'm talking about. >> the obama re-election campaign is watching with glee tonight as newt gingrich's rise in the polls has finally gotten to mitt romney, who the obama campaign considers their most formidable possible opponent. romney launched his first attack against gingrich last night on fox news. >> he spent his last 30 or 40 years in washington. i spent my career in the private sector. i think that's what the country needs right now. i think to get president obama out of office, you're going to have to bring something to the race that's different than what he brings. he's life-long politician. i think you have to have the credibility of understanding how

the economy works and i do and that's one reason i'm in this race. >> gingrich took romney's attack on him as a compliment. gingrich told the "washington post," you're talking to a guy who was dead in june. i'm now being attacked by the former front-runner. tonight on fox news, gingrich described the campaign's new dynamic this way. >> people are saying, you know, i think we need newt gingrich because we need somebody who can debate obama. we need somebody who has actually done it before. we need somebody with very substantial big ideas. and so i think whereas i would have thought originally it was gonna be mitt and not mitt, i think it is going to be newt and not newt and that's very different formula than frankly -- having to redesign our campaign strategy because we are at least 60 days ahead of where i thought we'd be. >> that was gingrich playing softball with sean hannity tonight. fox news has clearly chosen its candidate for president and it is former fox news player newt

gingrich. mitt romney had a much tougher time in his turn on fox news. >> you have been on both sides of some issues and there's videotape of you going back years, speaking about different issues, climate change, abortion, immigration, gay rights. how can voters trust what they hear from you today is what you will believe if you win the white house? >> well, brett, your list is just not accurate, so, one, we are going to have to be better informed by about my views on issues. >> do you think a mandate -- mandating tomy buy insurance is the right tool? >> brett, i don't know how many hundred times i have said this, too, this is an unusual interview. all right. let's do it again. absolutely. what we did in massachusetts was right for massachusetts. this is not a federal plan it is a state plan. >> joining me now is republican strategist rich galen, a former

aide to newt gingrich and editor of mullings.com. thanks for joining me tonight, rich. >> glad to be with you again, lawrence. >> rich, when i watch the rough ride that romney had last night on fox news and i watched the softball that sean hannity played with gingrich tonight for an hour, fox has made its pick, haven't they? >> well, i think probably so, but it is also true that brett baird is a real reporter. when he was covering the pentagon, he was one of the top guys in the country on defense issues, so he is a real reporter. sean has never pretended to be a reporter around he is not. he is sean hannity. so it is a different deal all together. but here's the thing about the romney interview that struck me. and that is this is -- this is what happens when -- when you -- it's like spring training are, where you don't do any of the drills. you don't do the covering first on a bunt. you don't want to take batting practice, you show up for the game, ie, the debates but don't

do anything else in the middle. governor romney hasn't done very many interviews and i think it has shown there he hasn't grown the tough skin he is probably going to need between now and the end of january certainly. and if he becomes the nominee, all the way through next year. i think what's showing is the downside of not having been challenged for the last four, five months. >> rich, let's take another look at the democratic national committee ad against mitt romney. >> from the creator of i'm running for office for pete's sake comes the story of two men, trapped in one body. mitt versus mitt. >> i will preserve and protect the woman's right to choose. the right next step is to see roe v wade overturned. two mitts willing to say anything. >> rich, any professional can see that the democrats and obviously the obama re-election campaign believe that mitt romney is their biggest threat. that's why they came out with that as their ad against romney. they weren't even thinking about doing a gingrich ad.

the obama campaign has to be cheered by the gingrich surge. is this the surge that will last? every other surge we have seen in the anti-romney candidate has collapsed. this one starts to feel like the one that could really last for a while and maybe even go all the way. >> i don't know about going all the way you certainly the romney people think it's got legs because they are responding to gingrich where they didn't -- pardon me, particularly respond to bachmann, perry or cain. but the other side of that is that -- and we talk bud this once before on the show that this is really the harry reid playbook. you run ads against the strongest opponent in the -- in the other guy's primary, hoping that the the weaker candidate emerges from it, which is what senator reid did and was successful at it. i'm not so sure that will be the outcome here t may well be it has the opposite effect. by forcing romney to be tougher earlier than he would prefer to be if he does win the nomination, by the time we get into the jeep election, he is

going to be tough.ed up by having to go toe-to-toe with gingrich, whereas if they had just left everything alone, romney might well have been able to just kind of skate through and then obama could just kind of sheer the skin off, we have been better prepared at that point. >> newt offered a new defense of why he was not a lobbyist. i, of course, insisted for practical purposes he was. i know you made the case that technically he wasn't, but newt's defense he absolutely wasn't a lobbyist was basically i didn't need the money because i was making 60 grand a speech everywhere i went. and so he would have left open the idea i would have been a lobbyist if i needed the money. how does that sound in south carolina? >> i wrote about that today a great question. i wrote about that today and i said two things, one there are event planners all over the country being pilloried by their bosses because they paid $100,000 and didn't know they could get him for 60. that is the first thing.

the second thing is i went and looked at the census data and the chart i looked at showed the median income in south carolina for a family of four is $58,000. so, newt made the case that he made more in a 45-minute speech than the median income of families in south carolina made in a whole year. and i'm not sure how that fits the message of being the out-of-beltway man of the people that he has been trying to -- trying to build for himself. i don't think that is the right approach. but this is what happens when you don't have -- not people like me, but kind of skilled people around you that you can say let do don't that. let's do this. if you say that, that's gonna happen. but that is not the way newt operates. we will see whether he us in off. >> did he very well for himself as a politician when you were around him. rich gail opinion, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> any time, lawrence. coming up, white house press secretary jay carney joins me to talk about the one tax cut republican reasons don't like.

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congressional republicans are refusing to govern but the president still continues to try to push tax fairness legislation through congress. white house press secretary jay carney will join me next and the i will ask him about how the president plans to deal with the way mitt romney lies about him. and even fox news has given up on herman cain and simply wants to know when he is going to drop out but cain still has one true believer left in the political meter. stephen colbert will show herman cain how to rewrite his scandals into campaign assets.

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the revenue that would be lost to a payroll tax cut by immosting a small surtax of 3.25% only on incomes above $1 million, a position that has earned very strong support across the board in polls of voters. the president's message seems to be getting through now that the tax discussion in this country has passed through its ridiculous 9-9-9 phase. >> the republicans said they were the party of tax cuts, that's what they said a lot have sworn an oath to never raise taxes on anybody as long as they live. that doesn't square against this vote with these tax cuts. i mean, how is it that they can break their oath when it comes to raising your taxes but not break their oath when it comes to raising taxes for wealthy people?

that doesn't make any sense. and that's the very simple choice that's facing congress right now. are you going to cut taxes for the middle class and those who are trying to get into the middle class or going to protect massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, many of whom don't even want those tax breaks? are you going to ask a few hundred thousand people who have done very, very well-to-do their fair share or are you going to raise taxes for hundreds of millions of people across the country, 160 million americans? are you willing to fight as hard for middle class families as you do for those who are most fortunate? what's it going to be? >> joining me now white house press secretary jay carney. thanks for joining me tonight. >> lawrence, always good to be with you. >> i want you to listen to this ad that mitt romney has put out quoting the president. let's listen to this.

>> i am confident that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis. who has been in charge of the economy? we need a rescue plan for the middle class. we need to provide relief for homeowners. it is going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we are going to lose. now, jay, as you know and you have seep it the romney campaign creates a lie there by editing you the president's words in such a way. he was quoting john mccain, as we all know, on that line saying if we keep talking about the economy, we are going to lose. and so it leaves me wondering, when the president goes up to pennsylvania today and gives a speech like he was giving today, do you at the white house vet the speech looking for how is the romney campaign or the perry campaign going to lie about what the president has said? >> lawrence, honestly, we don't. i -- what we focus on is having are the president deliver as clear a possible explanation of

what his policy priorities are and the fallacy of the suggestion that the president doesn't want to talk about the economy is demonstrated by the fact he talks about the economy almost every day because it is his number one priority. as evidenced by his speech in scranton, pennsylvania, earlier today. so, today he is calling for an extension, an expansion of the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans. everyone who gets a paycheck. and he is challenging the congress and republicans in particular to support that happened to do it, as you said, by asking millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit extra. he hardly thinks that -- and the vast majority of you americans agree with him, that that is anything but fair and right now, what we have seen so far from republican, unfortunately, is far greater passion behind protecting the tax benefits of the very wealthiest americans

than advocating for tax cuts for middle class americans. >> yeah, i got to say the president talks about the economy far more and in much greater specificity than any republican candidate out there. the only republican candidate who tried to talk about taxation at all was herman cain with the 9-9-9 thing. i don't hear anything from mitt romney about what he thinks the payroll tax cut should be or the payroll tax rate should be going forward. are you going to try to put it onto the leading republican candidates to take a position on where -- what should happen in the senate and what should happen in the house on this bill? >> you know, we are not particularly. we are focused on the congress and what congress can do. you know, to the extent that republican candidates have weighed in general on the economic debate here, economic policy debate in washington. the most notable moment i can remember is earlier in one of the debates, all of the gop would-be presidents raised their happened and said that they

would not support a deficit reduction deal that matched $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in new revenue, which is so far out of sync with mainstream america that it's really eyebrow raising. so, but beyond that, we focus on getting the work done that the american people want us to get done. it is a long time before the general election, as you know, obviously the president doesn't face a primary challenge, so he is not spending much time on campaigning or politics right now beyond his desire to get as much done as he can through congress and through the use of executive authority. >> let's listen to what mitch mcconnell said about this payroll tax going forward and what he think also the outcome is going to be. >> in all likelihood, we will agree to continue the current payroll tax relief for another year, but we believe that it should be paid for. senate republicans will offer an

alternative that would pay for it. at the end of the day, i think the house will insist that as we extend this payroll tax releave for individuals only for another year, that it be paid for in an acceptable way that does not adversely impact job creation. >> jay, it's fascinating to hear republicans talk about paying for tax cuts that is to say replacing the revenue lost to the tax cut some other way. this is something that has never crossed their minds before in any discussion of any tax cut prior to now. they have always made the case that any tax cut will actually just pay for itself by generating economic activity. >> you have identified what seems to be a little bit of hypocrisy lawrence. the passion -- i mean, there was so -- such a lack of passion evidence in that statement that you just played for me when he is talking about the kinds of tax cuts that will help middle class americans and working

americans make ends meet. we don't see the same -- we see a much greater level of intensity when they are insisting that tax cuts for americans who are fortunate enough to make more than $1 million be protected. you know, i -- the president put forward, as you know, in the american jobs act, a fully paid for series of provisions that would grow the economy and create jobs, including a payroll tax cut and expansion. the senate democrats have now put forward an alternative proposal for paying for the payroll tax cut expansion and the president supports their approach. he is for paying for it the issue here that strikes me, lawrence, if imakers you know, senator mcconnell was just talking about an extension of the 2% reduction that americans have had this year in the payroll tax cut. the president put forward an expansion, 3.1% reduction, cutting the payroll tax cult in half for 160 million americans that would result in an additional tax cut for next year, bigger than the one they have gotten this year. because he think it is the right

thing to do for the economy. economists, independent economists on the outside will tell you, one of the most effective thing also you can do to inject energy into the economy is he this payroll tax cut, in addition to the extensionless of unemployment insurance. that's why the president is pushing for it and just wishes that republicans would be as enthusiastic about helping working americans with tax cuts as they are about protecting the tax benefits for the wealthiest americans. >> jay rushing the irony here is the president has lid the republicans to find a tax cut they don't like. they -- the president actually wants to reduce the payroll tax beyond where it's been cut already and the republicans are saying no, no, no, let's hold it right where it is right here. >> and it is very grudging support, you are correct. i mean, we are glad that senator mcconnell now says at the very least, a imagine of senate republicans want extend the existing payroll tax cut. as you know, just a few days ago, another member of the senate republican leadership

suggested that he opposed an extension of the payroll tax cut. so there is progress here t is grudging, but it is progress. and this president is just going to fighting for every provision in the american jobs act because he think it is the right thing to do for the economy. we are not growing fast enough and we are not creating jobs at a substantial enough pace to bring the unemployment rate down so this president is going to focus on doing everything he can to make that happen and he is going to push congress to take action and he is going to continue to take executive action, to act without congress where he can. >> jay is it your sense in the white house that the republicans on capitol hill they can get away with their wild inconsistencies on these tax cut issues because they think america's not watching? if america's watching anything in politics, they are watching herman cain collapse and newt gingrich rise and they are watching mitt romney contradict himself every day? >> i think that will be up to

the american people to decide come election time, not just obviously for the presidency, but for races in the house of representatives and the senate. i do think that polling i have seen suggests that people are paying attention. there's overwhelming evidence that americans of all political persuasions, democrats, independents, republicans, support the approach the president's taken to job creation, through the american jobs act. they support the way we pay for it by asking millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit extra and the american jobs act, closing loopholes for corporations and subsidies for the oil and gas industry. and they support his approach to balanced deficit reduction and debt control that he put forward in september. you know, his approach is broadly supported by the american public and the approach that republicans unfortunately have taken so far is not nearly as popular among the rank and file american people as the president's approach. >> white house press secretary

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in tonight's episode of profiles in greed, greed loses, for once. yesterday on a cold drizzly day in atlanta, two fulton county sheriff deputies and a moving truck showed up at a home to serve an eviction notice after chase bank foreclosed on the property. but then the deputies and the

movers met the mother and daughter living in the house. the mother is vida lee, 103 years old. >> i know god said if things go wrong, he make it right. >> three weeks shy of her 104th birthday, she has shared this road on penelope road with her 83-year-old daughter for years. >> howl has this been your home? >> 53 years. >> how much do you love this community and this house? >> i love t it's a mansion. >> the moving company and the deputies took one look at ms. lee and decided this would not happen today. >> i saw the sheriffs who came to put them out take off and leave. i gave all glory to god. >> you weren't worried at all about them trying to take you out of your house? >> no. i didn't even know what they was doing. god don't let you do wrong. >> this house and case has been in the courts for years. tuesday, possible eviction proved too much for ms. lee's 83-year-old daughter. she had to be rushed to the hospital.

>> please don't come and disturb me no more. i have -- when i'm gone, y'all can come out here and do anything you you want to do. >> i hope you stay around a whole lot longer. >> yeah. thank you. >> the deputies called their supervisors to make sure they could stop the eviction. those calls went all the way up the chain of command to sheriff theodore jackson who backed up the deputies and told them to stand down. we invited sheriff jackson on this program tonight to commend him for doing the right thing but he modestly declined to appear. the sheriff's spokesperson, tracy flanagan, told us today that carrying out the eye vix order might very well have constituted elder abuse. she said, "a little sensitivity was needed." tracy flanagan also said that the sheriff's department would examine the val let of the eviction order around in the meantime you hope some kind of arrangement would be worked out. as media attention heaped embarrassment and we can only

hope shame on chase bank, today, chase bank decided that it was doing just fine this year and allowing vida lee and her daughter to sleep in their beds tonight would do nothing to knock chase off track on its way to another year of $17 billion in profits. chase bank issued this one-sentence statement. "we will work out a resolution to keep them in the home." laws alone cannot make a just society. if we strictly enforce all of our laws, we can get some cruel and unjust outcomes, a just society must be ready to temper its laws with mercy and what the sheriff's spokes person called a little sensitivity. as we've seen during the occupy wall street protests and, in fact, throughout this country's history, american police too often violate the law and basic

human decency in their physical abuse of citizens, including, in some casesing, their cues eust of deadly force. they should be sharply criticized and held to account for every such abuse and i, for one, will continue to do so. but tonight, thanks to the quick thinking, good sense and humanity of sheriff these dore jackson and his deputies we can all go to sleep knowing that vida lee will continue to sleep in her own bed. sheriff jackson had to choose between the law and his conscience and he have a more just society tonight because this man of the law chose his conscience. as the son of a man of the law, it is an honor to commend you tonight, sheriff jackson. you have given your children a permanent point of pride in their father, the most invaluable gift a father can give. your action deserves a place in the annals of american police bravery. vida lee