welcome to "jansing & company." a jam packed friday morning. i'm chris jansing. julian assange is free on bail, living on luxury on house arrest he is as defiant as ever. his fascinating interview with nbc news in just a moment. right now, we're waiting for president obama to sign that new year's gift to millions of americans. a massive bipartisan bill to cut taxes. and that hero whose quick thinking probably saved lives in that terrifying school board shooting in florida talks with me about his split second life and death decision.

this morning, on the grounds of an estate where he's under a kind of house arrest, julian assange is defiant, determined and declaring his innocence. less than 24 hours after his release from prison, assange promised to fight both rape and possible espionage charges while continuing to release tens of thousands of documents. nbc peter alexander is in suffolk, england, for us. good morning, peter. >> this is the ten-bedroom, 600-acre estate where julian assange will stay for the foreseeable future. a large celebration inside last night. just a few weeks ago assange was viewed as one of the most wanted men in the world and today one of the least likely house guests. this rural part of england may be one of the few places in the western world where assange is not a household name. >> julian assange, he's been in the newspapers lately. >> yeah. >> he will come to live at elium

hall. >> reporter: he stepped out of a british courthouse and stood before a worldwide audience, confident and upbeat. >> well, it's great to smell fresh air of london, again. >> reporter: he thanked his supporters and, again, denied allegations of sexual misconduct in sweden which led to his arrest last week. >> i hope to continue my work and continue to protest my innocence in this matter. >> reporter: in court, the judge raised his bail requirements to $370,000. and added more restrictive conditions, including a curfew, day visits to police and electronic monitoring so authorities can track his movements. by night's end, assange was relaxing by his mother's side. >> every journalist and every politician should spend some time in solitary confinement, actually, some of them should spend a lot of time. >> reporter: addressing recent reports that federal prosecutors

are seeking to build a case against assange in the u.s. for leaking classified government documents. he told me, i'm less concerned about extradition to sweden and more concern about possible extradition to the united states. peter alexander, nbc news, suffolk, england. peter, thank you very much for that. the investigation that peter just mentioned is part of what matt lauer talked with assange about on "today" show. >> we should remember that this is not the beginning of the end, rather, it is merely the end of the beginning. we hear credible reports today in the guardian newspaper confirming what we heard yesterday that there is something like an espionage indictment made secretly against me in the united states. >> our company this morning keith boykin, christina bellitoni of roll call and tim carney of "washington examiner." good morning to all of you. you heard a little bit of julian

assange. he is facing a questionable and secretive investigation. he also said it is being pursued because people in a lot of high places have been embarrassed by the revelations. keith, let me get your take on where this all stands right now. >> kind of remind me of the al capone case. they end up getting him on charges of income tax evasion. here, we're going after julian assange because of rape charges not because of the leaks that are going on. they're not going at him for the substance and the u.s. is trying to build that case right now. it's not clear they're going to be able to do that. >> are you suggesting the rape charges are fapricated? >> i'm not suggesting that. they're unable to prosecute him for what they really want to prosecute him for. they are using this as a lever to get him in some other way. >> do you think, christina, they don't have their case together yet? what is going on with the u.s. investigation, do you know? >> i don't want to cast judgment on how they're investigating this, but i do think you'll see some elements happen in congress, as well, when they'll

start looking into this in the new year. part of this issue, one thing that came up in the case with the judge, he actually didn't even bring up the issue of internet access and mr. assange will have that freely while he's out on bail here. >> assange spoke about what's to come from wikileaks in the days and weeks and maybe months to come. let me play that for you right now. >> as we have seen, wikileaks is a robust organization. during my time in solitary confinement and in the basement of a victorian prison, we continue to release media partners continue to write stories of the important revelations from this material continue to come out. we have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. >> tim, what are you expecting here? both in terms of what we might see from wikileaks and what we might see from the federal government. >> i agree with keith's assessment. the old line that a prosecutor his job is show me the man and i'll find the crime.

and that's what i feel they're doing in sweden and probably doing here in the u.s. i've heard rumors of, oh, well, he can't be charged with the espionage, with the leaking classified stuff because he didn't have classified access, he's not an american. but maybe he's involved in a conspiracy. any time you hear the words conspiracy or racketeering to go along with a charge. they can't find him doing anything illegal. yeah, i don't think it is going to be effective in stopping wikileaks, it's the opposite. unfortunately, making this guy a hero. he rubs me the wrong way and a lot of people don't necessarily like what he's doing. it seems he is getting persecuted and probably having the opposite effect. it is making him a hero. >> keith, let me ask you this real quickly. this david versus goliath idea is a big one. this big guy throwing the scrappy guy entothe basement of a victorian prison.

do you think he's winning pr award here. people who like him, like him. and people who don't like him, don't like him. >> i don't think he comes off too well living in the 600-acre mansion and the comments he's making make him look like he's a little full of himself. and i think in the end, everybody loses. what we need to do is find a way to protect classified information in the future. we don't have to focus on this one guy. he is just a symptom of a larger problem. >> thank you to our company, you'll be back. what has come to the man who has been leaking the hundreds of documents to julian assange? new questions raise details to the treatment of him. this morning americans woke up to the promise of lower taxes next year. all that is left is for the president to seal the deal with

his signature later this afternoon. around midnight the house passed that compromise, but only after liberal democrats put up a fight including this fiery speech from nancy pelosi who didn't even vote on the plan. >> is that fair? does that meet any test of fairness that we have? i salute president obama for getting in the bill what is in there. i'm sorry, the price that has to be paid by our children and grandchildren to the chinese government to pay for the increase in the deficit. >> let's go to nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, the signing is at 3:50, as i understand it, washington time. the white house is looking at this as a pretty good photo-op. >> certainly for them because they can make that point, again, that middle class tax cuts will stay in effect. and, so, at a signing ceremony, you don't have to address some of the things in the bill, now law, that you don't like. they can emphasize the positive and make that a big photo-op

before the president will ultimately leave town to go to hawaii for the holidays. kilwa still waiting on some other hill business to get done. some other things will be bubbling. for that long tax compromise, there was a long vote. interestingly a large number of republicans and democrats who voted yet and there was bipartisan in that, but you had to look through a lot of grumbling and fighting to get to that. more than 100 democrats chose to vote no because they felt it was too generous to wealthy families and it adds to the debt. they wanted to have a narrower piece more focused on middle class families and, of course, keeping unemployment benefits going. they are happy about that. chris? >> kelly, thank you so much. a houston jewel rry store owner. they were trying to tie him up, he took a handgun out of his waistband and killed the first suspect. then he grabbed a shotgun and

killed the other two in a gun battle. castillo didn't even realize he was shot until after he untied his wife. now he is in the hospital on critical, but stable condition. mike jones says he's not a hero, but a whole lot of people might disagrooe. he is credited with stopping an ordeal on tuesday when an ex-convict opened fire at a florida school board meeting. mike jones is us with, along with his wife, colleen. good morning. >> good morning. >> you're in that room where so much happened. 14 shots fired. i'm wondering what's going through your mind, what your emotions are right now. >> when i got out of the hospital and i just came by that afternoon to see how i would react to. they already had everything cleaned up. they were painting and that quick.

this morning i'm feeling a lot better. yesterday was very emotional. when i came back in this room and saw the superintendent again and every time i see him i cry, i hope he's not here this morning. >> you know, i know that you're a former police investigator, mike, but few police ever have to fire a weapon in a life or death situation the way you did. i have to tell you, i was so moved at the news conference yesterday when you talked about having to shoot a man and sending your condolences to clay duke's family. >> i shot the man in the back the first time and i thought i was going to jail and just so many things that go through your mind, but it was the instinct and the training and i'm just glad that they're all here and alive. i'm not a hero, folks. i'm just doing my job. >> have you enhad a chance to process all this? >> no, not really. it's just been so quick. you know, i spent the first day after i got out of the hospital

with my pastor at northside baptist and my wife and my kids and my grandkids and i'm so appreciative of the news media because i asked them to give me one day and i will do every interview you ask and we did a bunch of them yesterday and they gave me that one day to be with my family and that's what i needed. just to regroup and get my thoughts together. so, i appreciate you all doing that for me. >> well, i don't want to impose on private moments, colleen, but what was that day like? how happy are you to be sitting next to that guy? >> there are no words to explain it. i never thought with him being in the school system in the police system there that i would ever have to worry about that call. when you get that call and you don't have any details and you really don't realize the magnitude of what's going on and the fact that i can't even get to him, it was very traumatic day.

>> and we'll hear here from mike and colleen in the next hour, including what is ahead from their son, which just graduated from the police academy. the big weather word for the weekend, nor'easter. much of the mid-atlantic is still digging out after that serious snow storm on thursday and now the question is, will there be more on the way just in time for monday morning's commute. bill karin is here with the forecast. >> i want to tell you guys they increased the font size on the questionmark and make it even bigger because still a lot of unknowns. yesterday at this time i probably would have told people in new england make sure you have the shovels out and gas ready to go into the snowblowers. today you probably need a broom and that's about it. the storm will stay off the coast. but we're not commroetly ruling it out. d.c. up to new york city look like they'll see hardly anything at all and this will be a storm that will affect extreme eastern

sections of new england. it does not appear this will interfere with a lot of people's plans and getting things done this weekend. our friends on the west coast, you have a huge storm system. a lot of heavy rain. rain for five days in a row in los angeles, that doesn't happen that often. here's a look at your saturday, light rain in the southeast and by the time we get to sunday, still have light snow affecting areas from providence to baosto and up into maine. chris, the bottom line is this does not look like our first nor'easter of the season. there's a storm, but it's out to sea. >> we like that, let's hope that's with the question mark is. >> you can get my christmas gifts for me. no excuses. >> thank you, bill karins. what sparked teenagers to attack a pregnant woman on a bus. all caught on surveillance camera. quite an economic roller coaster ride this year.

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this was the scene this morning, julian assange outside the estate where he is under a kind of house arrest vowing more wikileaks revelations but there is another person at the center of this who is still under lock and key. u.s. private manning stole those war documents and gave them to assange and wikileaks. manning has been in a military jail since may.

glen greenwald writ. he is being held in inhumane conditions and you even used the word torture, what is your argument? >> well, for seven months now manning has been held in solentary confinement and he is kept there for 23 to 24 hours a day. that has been the case since the beginning of his duration. he is prohibited from doing anything while inside the cell, such as exercising. he is monitored to prevent him from doing that. he is denied even the most basic, minimal at tributes such as a pillow and sheets and there is ample literature done by psychologists and even by the military that shows when you keep somebody in solitary confinement for a prolonged period of time it starts to have

extremely devastating psychological damage over the long term and a lot of people consider certain forms of solitary confinement. this is not a form of torture, but even prolonged solitary confinement that amount of time is considered torture around many places around the world. >> we did reach out to the defense department and the pentagon for a statement, but we haven't gotten one yet, but we know that manning is accused of leaking information that the u.s. government believes could jeopardize national security. that certainly he broke with the rules, the laws that are in place in the military. is it understandable or at least arguable that officials don't want him communicating with other folks, other prisoners? >> well, first of all, bradley manning has been convicted of absolutely nothing. he is accused of being the person who transmitted substantial amount of information to wikileaks. >> people are held all the time on accusations and not having been convicted of anything.

>> but you just seem to link the accusations against him which is essentially punitive detention. the issue is whether he's being held in accordance with minimally civilized and humane conditions, even if he committed these crimes, we should comply with the standards of western norms for how people are in prison. he is allowed out of his cell for an hour a day and there's been no indication that he's done anything to jeopardize the security or anything else. this is purely punitive as a way of punishing him for crimes in which he's not yet been convicted. >> i'm curious about the reaction to your piece on both sides, positive and negative. what you've been hearing and the kind of things people have been e-mailing you about it. >> well, during the bush administration there was substantial controversy over the fact that the united states was abusing detainees, foreign detainees who are, in many

cases, rather clearly guilty of extremely heinous, terrorist acts. bradley manning is not accused of having harmed anybody. even if you believe that he is the leaker, even the pentagon says that there's not a single person who has been killed or even physically harmed as a result of these leaks. so, i think the standard will establish certainly among democrats and republicans that detainee abuse is wrong even when it comes to foreign terrorists, yet alone an american citizen who is a member of the military. i think reaction, some democrats who are write , but, by and large, i think people have been consistent and have said no matter what you think about bradley manning or the wikileaks disclosures, we ought to be abiding by western justice and how we detain certainly our own citizens and really every human being. >> just literally this second got the statement that we got from the pentagon. so, let me read it to you.

in part, they say that your postings are inaccurate and marine corps base quantico has provided mr. greenwald the correct information. i assume there has been some back and forth between you and u.s. officials. >> there absolutely has been. i interviewed the public affairs official at the request of the marine brig in quantico. and he contacted me and said he had some qualms with some of the impressions i had left. i is asked if there was anything that needed corrected or you want to be heard on? first he said no and then said one small item. he contested the claim that manning is barred from during tv time accessing news programs. i added indicating that the marine spokesman at the brig contest that fact. but he said that there were no

factually inaccurate facts. he is 23 to 24 hours a day in solitary confinement and they don't believe the restrictions imposed on him are, in fact, accurate. >> even as julian assange is taking many of the headlines, thanks for coming on, glen. >> my pleasure, thanks for having me. a college student suicide sparking a scandal at the university of notre dame. why her parents are accusing the school of betrayal. ♪ oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. ♪ [ male announcer ] you know her. we know diamonds. together we'll make her holiday. that's why only zales is the diamond store. where you can get up to $1,000 off now through sunday.

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you're watching a brawl that took place on a seattle bus. the teenage girl getting hit from all sides is also pregnant and her boyfriend is the one in the middle trying to break things up. the incident all started when one other teen took the pregnant girl's mp3 player. she was cut near her eye, although her unborn baby was

unharmed. police arrested three suspects within 230 30 minutes of the attack and arrested two more suspects two days later. a teenage girl's tragic suicide left her family stunned with grief and brought scand tool the university of notre dame and its popular football program. lindsay was a student at nearby st. mary's college. she accused a football player of sexual assault back in august but after an investigation by the school could not confirm her allegations. she ended her own life. susan filen is a legal analyst. good morning, good to see you. >> his family has a century of members of her family that went to notre dame and campus police conducted a superficial investigation. where does this investigation stand, as you understand it? >> the family has had to hire a former federal prosecutor to bring justice for lizzy and i that is a travesty and good for

following and giving lizzy the voice from the grave that she is entitled to. it needs to be determined why notre dame didn't immediately follow through on lizzy's sworn statement. she gave a written statement to police indicating who her alleged assailant was, he is a member of the football team. that person or his friend allegedly texted her shortly therefore basically warning her or threatening her not to mess with notre dame's football team. because nothing happened, lizzy took her own life. >> let me read to you a statement we got from notre dame. they say they take the allegations of potential violations of the law or university policy very seriously, that's why they have a thorough process in place to pursue the facts and make determinations about right and wrong. the prosecutor, they say, also has a process in place in which he knows all the fact and issued a statement that speaks for itself and they continue to adhere to their own internal processes. how difficult is it in the law

when you have, essentially, two systems in place and this isn't the first time we've heard a case like this on a university campus where you have campus police, campuses protocol, campus investigations versus, i guess what you would call the civil investigation, civil courts. does one sometimes slow down the other? >> no, this should not have been difficult at all. if lizzy's trail had been followed like it should have been immediately if text message records had been gotten. if what lizzy said had been investigated immediately after. if campus police would go and interview the boy. they didn't go and interview the boy until after she took her own life and then days after that and weeks after that. they had gone and interviewed him after, and if they had gone and got the cell phone records immediately after. we wouldn't have to have layer upon layers and the police and then prosecutor's office.

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angry florida woman sure seems to have taken a page from that playbook. she set her boyfriend's crotch on fire while he slept. she is being held on $65,000 bond. and if you want to dawn the threads worn by the abbey road album cover. five years ago it sold for $1 o20,000 and presumably the person who bought it thinks they can make a profit now, we shall see. a lot of folks might be glad tosy farewell to 2010, because some good news ahead for our economy. richard lui, 2011, at least looking like there are some good signs. >> some reasons to smile here, chris, when we look at some of the indicators right now. if you're an optimist, i want to give you some reasons to cheer here. yesterday's job's report showing that 3,000 fewer people applied for benefits last week, that's really good to see and the

four-week average which is less volatile also fell for the sixth week in a row as the lowest since august 2008. also good news, housing starts up 3.9% from october to november to 555,000, which could mean that housing is coming off the bottom and we're certainly hoping for that. as for the santa claus rally, that time at the end of the year which people like to talk about when the market spikes for december. the dow is up 2% and for the year it's up close to 9%. there it is. all said, we're at a two-year high this week. a couple times, you retirement account, it's looking stronger. add to that the gdp forecast for 2011 and the holiday shopping estimates, as well, both getting revisions pointing up, so far. it's not all roses. the two major mountains to conqur remain just that. housing 11 million of us owe more on our house than they're actually worth and unemployment the other mountain hovers around

10%. some reasons to smile as progress could be afoot on some of those major economic hurdles that we're trying to get over so far. >> all right, thank you so much, richard. meantime, there have been some signs of a thaw in sarah palin's often icy relationship with the media or lame stream media as she has branded it. she's now doing interviews with journalists that she long avoided including "time" magazine and "new york times." just this morning she explained her reluctance to "gma's" robin roberts. >> every word i speak is scrutinized and it gets spun into something it is not. there has been the temptation to kind of pull back and a little bit and maybe not be as candid. >> keith bokin, christina and tim carney are back with me.

what do you make of what seems to be a decision by her if we believe what we read in politicoa decision by her to at least give a try to what she calls the lame stream media. >> if sarah palin is considering a presidential bid, as many believe she is, she needs to sort of talk to the media in a way because that's one of the biggest cruteaks of her potential rivals in the gop primary. she hasn't been as forthcoming with what she would plan to do for the country and she's only been talking to fox news. but this is an area where she's sort of courting them on her own terms. she becomes this coveted interview that more watch. so, they know that people watch when she's on television. >> you know, tim, everybody leaves the tea leaves about everything she does and what does it mean for 2010. the fact of the matter is that she has come to the realization or maybe came to it a while ago

and now has decided to implement it. you can only get so far sort of preaching to the converted. you can do twitter and you can do facebook, but that doesn't get you beyond the people who already know and like you, right? >> her whole, she became what she became because of places like msnbc and andrew sullivan's blog because of main stream and liberal media outlets that attacked her unfairly. and it took a while for them to get to the fair criticism of palin. but at first, it was going after her family, making up lies about who was whose mother and just basically beating her up for being a socially conservative pro-life conservative mom of five. and, so, all of her initial sort of jump came off of that. now, that's dying down. people on the conservative base i talk to are kind of getting tired of her. maybe she needs to find another play to do besides just getting the main stream media to hate

her. >> as part of what i consider to be the main stream media, i don't like being paint would a broad brush any more than she apparently feels there are some people who have misrepresented her, although i don't know anybody in politics who doesn't think at one time or another they have been misrepresented. keith, sarah palin reacting to our new msnbc/"wall street journal" poll she trails president obama in a 2012 head-to-head matchup. let's listen to that. >> well, a poll number like that is, oh, that doesn't look really pretty today, but a primary is months and months in the process and there are thankfully many debates and if i were to participate in that contested primary, i would be in it to win it. >> so, keith, this is an interesting question for you, as a democrat. if you were advising sarah palin, is there a way forward, do you think, for her that maybe

even some main stream republicans say a karl rove don't see? >> yes, i but i don't think she's likely to do it. what makes sarah palin so attractive is that she's a fascinating public figure. the media, i think, loves sarah palin. every time she post a twitter or facebook announcement, people cover that. she does a reality show, people cover that. the problem for her is people don't take her serious as a politician or candidate and in order to do that, she has to lay off facebook and lay off twitter and start being more serious and talking about real issues and showing us that she has real grit. you can't be the governor of the state of alaska for two years and drop out and expect people to take you seriously. she has to be real serious and she hasn't done that yet. >> one thing she was asked about this morning was something we heard talked about ever since john boehner went on "60 minutes" and that is his occasional habit of crying. here's what she said about that. >> i'm not sure a woman would we

given a pass. if i did a speech and started breaking down and cried about how important our children and grandchildren are provided great opportunities, i'm sure i would be mocked a little bit for that. >> you know, christina, one of the things that is so compelling to people who like sarah palin is that they feel that she sort of is like them. but christine o'donnell said that she was and that, you know, that she is relatable. when she makes those kinds of statements, do you think it helps her? >> it's hard to know if it helps her. you see the polls where the majority of americans wouldn't vote for her for president but it makes her that likable, relatable character. that's a fascinating statement she just said. on her show there was a moment maybe two or three weeks ago where she did joke up and tear when she saw a child, an older child, it was like a cousin of the family who had down syndrome like her own son and sort of looking at what her own son would grow up to be like and it was a very poignant moment and i

had that same thought she was showing some emotion where you never necessarily see her tear up in the way other politicians have. the bottom line in all of this, if sarah palin continues to flirt with a bid for the presidency, it ultimately helps all the other republican candidates. you saw in the democratic primary when you had a very contested primary in 2008, you had more and more attention placed on the democrats. so, the republicans, if she's potentially running, there's just going to be a lot more conversation about her and about the primary. >> christina, keith, tim, thank you so much to all of you. >> thank you. truly something for everyone at theaters near you. for the guys one of the sci-fi classics from the '80s is back. "tron legacy." for the ladies reese witherspoon plays a softball star caught in a love trieningal in "how do you know." for the kids the latest installment of "yogi bear."

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this is the reason the minnesota vikings have to play their final game at home monday against the chicago bears at the university of minnesota. this is the latest new video. that's how the snow and wind tore apart the metrodome's roof there last weekend. officials say they don't know when repairs to the roof will be finished. by the way, officials at the university of minnesota stadium still removing five feet of snow from the field and both the vikings and bears, we're told, are not thrilled having played on a frozen field. i always thought real men played outside anyway, right? >> wow. >> wow. don. don is not going to back me up on that. he's saying i'm not going up against those big guys. just as millions of

americans get ready to fly away for the holidays, a new report finds we have something else to worry about besides potential terror attacks. seriously infected passengers. i'm talking about travelers with infectious diseases who are allowed to get on planes even though they're placed on a do not board list. it's happened at least three times this year. the story is front page news in this morning's "usa today." ho loopholes in do not board lists. i'm joined by blake morrison. blake, i'm one of the many millions of people who will get on a plane in the next week or two. what should i know? should i really be worried? >> tsa says its new system, secure flights, have fixed this problem. having said that, i think it was surprising what we found. cdc told a congressional investigative team that three people managed to board this year who had infectious cases of tuberculos tuberculosis. what's interesting about that, the one that we know the most about happened in january of

this year. what happened four months later was the failed times square bomber managed to board a plane in kennedy airport through the exact same loophole process. and the question s if tsa knew about this problem back in january, why didn't they fix it until after the terrorist managed to board a flight in may? >> is something being done to prevent something like this from happening again? >> tsa says so. they say they took away responsibility for checking these lists. took it away from the airlines and took it on themselves through the secure flight program. the question is, is that going to be any more effective than this was? you know, i think every time we do something to make these things more effective we think we have the solution. the reality is in this case this year the do not board list for people who were sick failed nine times. that's a 33% failure rate and it indicates something was not working the way they had

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of course, as you saw this time, they were focusing on the tax battle. i don't know how closely you follow all this, but, but the applications or apps now available for smartphones are pretty unbelievable. the new patriot app for your iphone connects to the epa and other government agencies allowing you to send in photos, for example, that might fit under a title like pandemic or national security threat, essentially being their eyes or ears on the ground. just one of the apps getting buzz this holiday season. natalie morris has some of the more popular picks for your smartphone. you have some cool news apps. >> one of my favorites is called read it later because when we're surfing along the internet we see articles we want to read, but we can't get to. just mark these articles read it later. you install something in your browser, just a little button at

the top of your browser. when you see something you want to read later, you mark read it later and you go to that in your iphone and open the read later app and it will show you the article you can read when you have time like on a bus or on a train. >> let's talk about entertainment. pandora and pan d. >> that is for streaming music and runpee is one of my favorites and it's silly but it's fantastic. it lets you know when you can go to the bathroom during a movie. you go to a movie -- it's silly, right? i'm seeing harry potter and it started at 4:50 and you it will tell you that you can go at 5:20 because you won't miss any action. >> it's brilliant and i just had a baby four months ago and i used it all the time during my pregnancy. >> it is what it says. shopping amazon and yowza.

>> amazon has a new price scanning app. you go to the score and you think, can i get it cheaper online. you can use the phone's camera to scan the bar code and it will tell you how much it is for sale all over the web. you can say, i'm not buying it now if i can buy it for $40 cheaper online. >> so cool. so much cool stuff. come back next week, let's do more next week. >> okay, fun. >> thank you. we just did that story with "usa today" about their front page story. travelers with infectious diseases who were allowed to get on planes, even though they were placed on a do not board list. it has happened at least three times this year. we have gotten a statement from the tsa. "there is no silver bullet in aviation security and watchlist betting is only one of the many layers to keep the public safe. unfortunately, "usa today" ignored facts inconvenient to the story they set out to right. secure flight was developed to plug inconsistencies in the

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