unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it wasn't for much because i didn't do anything. but the fact of the matter is i'm not aware of a settlement that came out of that accusation. if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am not even -- i wasn't even aware of it, and i hope it wasn't for much because nothing happened. >> but then just hours later, he changed his story. >> but i do remember that a formal allegation she made in terms of sexual harassment. we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement, quite frankly. >> let's bring in our company. senior contributor at the daily collar, matt lewis and jonathan capehart. gentlemen, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> you got to wonder if this campaign just doesn't know how to do damage control. there's even more conflicting sound bites. i want you to listen to one more. >> can you remember everything about an incident from 12 years ago? i know that there was an

agreement, whether it was a settlement, agreement or whether it was termination, i don't remember what it was called. so that choice of words, i'm not going to say that it's changing my tune. >> matt if you were accused of sexual harassment 12 years ago, is that something that would slip your mind? >> i think i would have remembered it. by the way, rule number one of political campaigns is do opposition research on yourself first and then when in doubt, bring it out. if there's any chance that anything is going to come out about you in a campaign, you want to bring it forward. that allows you to frame the debate, to choose the reporter you want to talk to and to frame it and to really -- the timing as well. you control the timing when it comes out. so aside from the allegations, he is clearly guilty of running a bad campaign. >> yeah, that's the thing, jonathan. it's always, it seems like the denials that trip people up. so is it a completely different

story if he comes out and said you know what? i was accused of it. there was nothing to it. nothing was ever found to be to it. we made a decision to settle it, to move forward, and then it goes away. >> that -- yes. that could have happened. and here's the number one reason why this story is going to keep going. remember, politico bent over backwards to get him to tell them his side of the story. >> i think for ten days they asked him. >> october 20th. they went to him october and his campaign october 20th. by sunday, this past sunday when jonathan martin of politico approached herman cain outside of the cbs studios here in washington and asked him, have you ever been accused of sexual harassment, what was cain's response? he put the question back on jonathan martin. he should have seen this coming. matt is right. he should have seen this coming, had an answer and blaming, you know, his faulty memory is just

not going to cut it. >> yeah, he was adamant he never sexually harassed anyone. but is it worse sometimes that, you know, he flip-flopped about this and not only then did he say that he knew about, you know, whatever you want to call it a settlement, he actually then started later on to remember some details. let me remember that. >> one incident with the one who made the formal charge, the only one that i could recall after a day of trying to remember specifics was once i referenced this lady's height and i was standing near her, and i did this saying, you're the same height as my wife because my wife is 5 feet tall and she comes up to my chin. this lady is 5 feet tall and came up to my chin. so, obviously, she thought that that was too close for comfort. >> i'm not sure how that gets interpreted as sexual

harassment. just honestly. >> i'm not either. and it very well may be that it's frivolous. it very well may be that herman cain managed a lot of people and that a couple disgruntled employees misinterpreted something he said. keep in mind the actual meat of the allegations here are very vague. the politico story says something about hand gestures that were not sexual in nature and that he said some things that made people feel uncomfortable. god knows, i do that every day. so we don't know -- we don't know how serious the -- what he's accused of actually is. not yet. but that's a different issue over the sort of process story, which is that he has clearly mishandled and botched the damage control of this. there's no doubt about that. and so now we're on like day two and probably going to have a day three of this story. >> and jonathan, i guess the question that's been asked all along is he's been rising in the polls. is he the real deal? can he handle anything beyond

saying 9-9-9. do you think this is going to speak to a lot of voters about that very issue? >> well, so far no. but it -- it fits a pattern of herman cain's where he is confronted with -- he's asked a question or confronted with an issue. he gives an answer and then hours later, he gives a different answer. says he was joking. says he was misinterpreted. says he was being pigeon holed. this is something that's a lot more serious and could be a lot more damaging to his campaign because it says, as chris matthews described it last night, these rolling disclosures yesterday from, you know, the morning right through to the evening are just going to make people wonder, can i believe him when he tells me something the first time? >> and jonathan, there's something else that you haven't played, which is this sort of parsing of words. he actually at one point said, well it wasn't a settlement. it was an agreement.

and that reminds a lot of people of the -- depends on what the definition of "is" is. so it seems very much playing around and parsing words and very legalistic ways. i'm not sure once people really start delving into that how that's going to play. >> all right. matt lewis, jonathan capehart. as you both say, probably to be continued. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. as the federal deficit grows by the second, members of congress are getting richer by the minute by millions. we'll tell you who is in the money coming up in just a few minutes. police gearing up for what they fear could be a massive demonstration today ahead of the g-20 meeting in the south of france. protesters are calling it people first, not finance. and right now, more than 12,000 police and security officials are on the scene. nbc's adrian mong is on the phone from nice on the french riviera. what are you seeing? >> we're seeing people slowly show up. just outside the commercial

district in nice. organizers had said that they were expecting around 6,000, maybe more. right now, we would say there's a fraction of that. they did decide to hold a protest on a holiday. it's a big holiday. all saints day, rather, hoping to keep participation levels high. they were supposed to start their march around about now, but it looks like they are waiting just a little bit longer, and they are hoping to end this march at an old slaughterhouse where there will be a whole evening of events lined up. there's a very high security presence. roughly 1,500 security officers deployed along the protest route but if by sea, lan and air, two helicopters have been circling above us all afternoon. lots of the specialized french riot police on every street corner. and, of course, police manning speed boats closer to cannes where the venue of the g-20 summit will start on thursday. back to you. >> thank you. we'll keep an eye on that. the obama justice department is taking aim at south

carolina's tough new immigration law which requires police to check on a suspect's immigration status. i'm joined by nbc news chief justice correspondent pete williams. pete, governor nicky hailey who is the daughter of immigrants, is named as the defendant in this? >> right. this is the third time the obama administration has sued a state. the first two were arizona and alabama. similar pattern there. sued the state and the governor as well. and in each case, the obama administration is saying the states cannot have their own immigration laws that are at odds with the federal law and a balance of federal policies. the justice department says one thing that south carolina has plainly said it wants to do is have a law that is so tough that it pushes illegal immigrants into other states and the federal government says that's not the way to have an immigration policy is to shove the problem from state to state. now the governor spokesman put out a statement saying if the federal government would just do its job, the states wouldn't have to. here's the statement. if the feds were doing their jobs, we wouldn't have to address illegal immigration

reform at the state level. but until they do, we're going to keep fighting in south carolina to be able to enforce our laws. the federal government has been mostly successful in challenging these laws. and it says that it's going to look at tough immigration laws in three other states as well. utah, indiana and georgia. many of those laws are already on hold because of other legal challenges. but the justice department says it may file suit against them and will decide shortly what to do against those states. >> nbc's pete williams. pete, thank you. the owner of nascar's top team and his wife are recovering from a crash landing today. a small jet carrying rick and linda hedrick ran off the runway in key west, florida, last night after losing its brakes. the plane landed just about 20 feet in front of the airport's boundary fence. the couple, as well as the pilot and co-pilot were not hurt -- were hurt but not seriously. rick hend rick is the owner of hendrick motorsports which fields racing stars such as jimmie johnson, jeff gordon and dale earnhardt jr.

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today's the deadline to file for president in south carolina. but it looks like iowa is the 2012 focus for most of the field. in just about an hour, rick perry, newt gingrich, rick santorum, michele bachmann and ron paul will all take part in a candidate forum in pella, iowa. notably absent, mitt romney and herman cain who lead in the latest poll in that state. hillary clinton canceled a trip to london and turkey because her mom is sick. she'll stay in washington to keep an eye on 92-year-old dorothy rodham. we do not know the nature of rodham's illness. john boehner using the speech at the university of louisville to take a swipe at the president's executive orders over the last week. >> he decided that maybe the

constitution doesn't matter. it's the president who taught constitutional law if i'm correct, so he understands that article 1, section 1 of the constitution gives the congress the power of the purse. >> meantime, doctors have declared that the sprt tobacco-free after his annual physical. his physician also reports at 50 years old, the commander in chief is at a healthy weight, physically active and fit for duty. and speaking of staying fit, four members of the white house staff say they've lost a total of 110 pounds thanks to michelle obama. the chef and kitchen staffers say the first lady's campaign urged them to eat right and exercise. it could be one of the new reasons the first lady is overwhelm league popular. 63% of registered voters have a positive impression of michelle obama. americans keep getting poorer, but are lawmakers are getting richer. take a look at this new analysis out from roll call this morning.

congress now has a combined net worth, are you ready for this, of $2 million. nearly a 24% jump since 2008. i'm joined by roll call investigative editor paul singer. good to see you. >> thanks, chris. >> $2 billion you say. grossly underestimates even what congress may really be worth? >> yeah, that's a minimum. the 2 billion is a minimum. my guess is it's probably closer to 3 billion. but congress is able to report in broad categories what they actually own. and in some cases they can report, oh, it's worth more than a million. how much more than a million? we'll never know. so all we can do is tally up the minimum and say they are worth at least this much. >> who is richer, republicans or democrats? >> it's funny. it doesn't break down by party, except in the chambers. so the senate, most of that, like 80% of that money is democratic money. in the house, about 80% is republican money. i don't know why. >> interesting. >> and how does congress compare to the rest of us. we know all these statistics

coming out about americans struggling and how the average income is going down. >> they are doing better. basically, they are doing better. a lot better. >> we found that when we did this assessment of congressional wealth two years ago, it was about 25% lower than it is now. so they've increased 25% overall wealth at least in two years. your average american household has not. probably half that at best. and even the average member of congress is worth somewhere in the range of $500,000, $700,000. the average american household is worth less than a quarter of that. >> so we have that statistic up. 2010, $513,000 for -- this is the average member of congress? >> this is the member of congress in the middle of the pack, yes. >> and about 100,000, the entire net worth of the average american family. where is all this money coming from? are they mostly like businesses that they owned or -- >> a lot of it is real estate. a lot of it is investments. a lot of them are smart and marry well.

they inherrite. >> well, let's talk about that. the top three. third richest, john kerry. is most of that money from the heinz fortune? >> it's all from the heinz fortune. we think this wildly estimates what he's actually worth. he doesn't have to disclose the true value of most of it. just the minimum values. >> and darrell issa. he's an inventor. >> he made a lot of money in the car alarm business. now moved that money into the real estate business. >> and the richest worth, at a mimum, almost $300 million. michael mccaul of texas. >> he's shot up the list over the past five years. he used to be worth about $70 million. now about $290 million. he's inheriting large chunks of money from his father-in-law. the clearchannel fortune. and so, again, marries well, inherits well. that's how a lot of these guys make their money. >> we often hear these stories, especially when new members of congress come in about two or three or five or six of them sharing an apartment. i mean, when you look at the

average, there are members of congress who don't have much money, who are struggling to travel back and forth, right? >> yeses, you have to keep two homes. one in your district and one in d.c. half these people are worth more than a million dollars overall. and that doesn't include the value of their own homes. there's a whole bunch of stuff they don't include in there. half of them are millionaires. >> yet we're having this debate on whether we should charge people more taxes who make more than a million dollars a year. is this a conflict of interest? >> i don't get involved in that debate. all i do is count the numbers. >> roll call's paul singer who is a diplomat as well as a numbers cruncher. thanks for coming in. score one for the ocpcupy wall street crowd in nashville. they will no longer be arrested or forced to leave the ground. they had used a curfew as the reason for arresting and dispersing protesters. but they agreed the curfew could

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herman cain still trying to do damage control. he did yet another interview just a few moments ago answering questions about his ever-evolving response to allegations of sexual harassment. >> 12 years ago, i was falsely accused, and secondly, the word settlement suggested to me some sort of legal settlement. and as i recalled what happened 12 years ago, i recalled an agreement. i wasn't thinking legal settlement. and so the words have been fly spect and i do recall an agreement. i recalled as i went through the day that there was an agreement

with this lady who made these charges and they were found to be false. >> meantime, it's a new wall street mystery. hundreds of millions of dollars are reportedly missing from a financial company run by former new jersey governor jon corzine. corzine has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but mf global filed for bankruptcy yesterday. nbc's kayla toushi joins me now. >> that's exactly what an alphabet soup of regulators is trying to figure out after a conference call yesterday. the s.e.c. was monitoring the situation over the weekend and was maid aware of the missing money. how such now a matter for the cftc since it remains uncertain on the commodities side. now it's up to the sipc, the securities investment protection corporation. they are going to do just that. they are trying to recover this money. they have appointed a trustee to transfer mf's customer accounts presumably to some of the firms previously bidding on the whole

company at fire sale prices. now in similar bankruptcies, in lehman brothers it took sipc only ten days to recover these accounts because the accounting was at least accurate. in the madoff case, the books were fictional. a source familiar with this process told me it should be more like the lehman time frame because the books aren't cooked so they think it's just figuring out to what trades this money was actually funneled toward. mf trades, client trades? it's really unclear and that's going to spark doubt about the volcker rule. it appears the firm is getting paid back for some of their trades so that sum is dwindling. it's just a matter of whether they can get that down to zero. >> kayla tausche, thank you. the debt supercommittee is holding a rare public hearing. is the group splinter with that deadline looming? that's next. y vision. my eye doctor said there's great news for people with astigmatism. acuvue® oasys for astigmatism. he said it's the only lens of its kind designed to realign naturally with every blink

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day across a lot of the country. we are watching one area of stormy weather in the middle of the nation. that is some snow that's dropping down through the rockies and back into the salt lake city area as well. and that area of snow is going to drive southward right down 25. here's how it works. a couple of things happening. low pressure developing. high pressure to the north. those two areas conspiring to bring a flow into the mountains. we call that an upslope flow. that squeezes out even more snow, and the result is going to be a pretty good hit from cheyenne down to denver. 6 to 10 in cheyenne and 6 to 8 in the denver metro. most of the country looking really nice. and the longer term indications are that it's going to be very mild for a lot of the east for some time to come. that's good news for those of you recovering from the storm in the northeast. 623 65 in charlotte. you'd like to see rain in charlotte. that's not going to happen any time soon. your rain and snow across the interior west.

and about 70 for the high today in san diego. chris, back to you. >> you are right, carl. nice to have more moderate temperatures with so many people still without power. thank you for that, carl parker. some breaking news to tell you about. a plane that left new york, landed in poland making an emergency landing. it's a boeing 767 at warsaw international. apparently what happened was its landing gear wouldn't come down. and so the plane had to land on its belly. you just saw it there. 240 people were on board. they had to circle, which is what they do to burn off fuel because of those hard landings that they make when the landing gear won't come down. but serve oeverybody is off, we told. no injuries at this point. just two weeks before the supercommittee has to deliver its recommendations to reduce the country's deficit by $1.5 trillion. today thereat committee will hear from former co-chairs of the bipartisan debt panel. allan simpson and erskine bowles.

earlier they told congress they must act. >> what's right for this country is to solve this long-term fiscal problem. we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. the fiscal path we're on is not sustainable. they know it, and they've got to stand up to it. we've simply made promises we can't deliver on. >> nbc's capitol hill correspondent luke russert joins us from washington. luke, good morning to you. what's the point of today's hearing? >> good morning, chris. the point of today's hearing before the supercommittee really is to hear this message from bowl bowles/simpson. fail surnure is not an option. they are going to say there could be a credit rating downgrade for the united states. it could be harmful to the economy. they'll also make the point here, which is an underreported story on capitol hill if they don't reach this trillion-dollar deficit reduction and they don't allow for the automatic cuts to happen because there's a lot of people that don't like those automatic cuts, that could even be worse. this comes on the heels of

speaker boehner saying he'd like to see the big deal, but the big problem before the supercommittee is what's been the big problem for this congress. republicans do not want to see any taxes being raised. and democrats will not cut entitlements unless those taxes are raised. that's the issue. expect bowles and simpson to throw their hat in the ring on that. but aside from their testimony, we'll still be at a stalemate here on capitol hill by the end of the day. >> luke russert, thank you for that. let's take a check of some other stories people are talking about. in the manslaughter case against conrad murray, the big question is will he or won't he testify in his own defense? dr. murray told the judge he'd make up his mind today about whether or not to take the stand. yesterday a star witness for the defense admitted he never would have given michael jackson propofol as a sleeping drug. that trial resumes in just over an hour. a seattle man wanted for fatally stabbing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and kidnapping their 9-month-old daughter has turned himself in putting an end to a six-hour amber alert. police say 23-year-old joseph

lester stabbed the woman, then fled with their baby. lester has been arrested. the infant is in protective custody. nearly 2 million homes and businesses across the northeast are still waiting for the power to come back on as they recover from the weekend's october snowstorm. about the same number of power outages caused during hurricane katrina. authorities blame the storm for at least 21 deaths. most of them caused by falling trees, traffic accidents or electrocutions from downed wires. officials warn that in some areas, the power may not be back on until friday. the fbi has released new surveillance video of russian spy anna chapman, including tapes of her meetings with an undercover agent in june of last year. chapman was one of ten spies arrested after sneaking into the country under another identity. and trying to gather information about u.s. policy making. the tapes were released in response to a freedom of information act request by the associated press. jessica simpson uses the halloween costume to confirm

something that the blogosphere has long talked about. details when we go down to the wire in 20. and we're following breaking news from wall street where stocks have been getting hammered on just one day after posting their best month in nine years. we always have new numbers from the auto industry today. so let's go to cnbc's mandy drury with what's moving your money. we just thought the markets were on a tear and now this. >> it was such a good month in october, wasn't it, chris? i guess we were starting to get a little greedy. the greek government has really shocked the financial markets with news it will put its cost-cutting plan to a referendum. i.e., a popular vote which could not only scuttle the plan that was reached last week to resolve or try to resolve europe's debt crisis. but it could lead the country to default on its debt. the greek prime minister is facing calls from within his own party to step down. now you also mentioned the auto numbers. chrysler's u.s. sales which jumped 27% in october. we saw very strong demand for

its jeep and chrysler brand vehicles. also the company's best october sales since 2007. so good news there. as for gm, u.s. sales rose 2% compared to october last year. led by their chevrolet cruze. october of last year saw quite strong sales. >> and more good news because after the big public uproar, i guess more banks are backtracking on those extra fees? >> right. suntrust bank and regions financial are going to stop charging customers for making purchases with their debit cards. this is the latest in the banking industry retreat from that monthly fee that, of course, has drawn quite an outraged response from customers. obviously, we've seen decisions by other banks. we saw last week wells fargo and jpmorgan chase also dropped customer tests on these fees. why do the banks want to charge these new fees? aside from the obvious, making more money, they've been hit hard by a sluggish economy and tighter regulations.

they've been trying to add fees. one of the biggest pushbacks was for this debit card charge. >> cnbc's mandy drury, thanks. >> you're welcome. the campaign trail can be grueling not just for the candidates but for their families. just how involved some spouses and children be in the campaign? here's herman cain's view. >> you won't see my family out on the campaign trail on a day-to-day basis, and that's because it was a conscious decision because my adult daughter with her kids, she has a life. my son, he has children. i am an unconventional candidate and we're running an unconventional campaign, and the involvement of my family is also going to be unconventional. >> joining me now, liddy huntsman and mary ann huntsman, three of jon huntsman's daughters. i guess the implication here is you must not have a life because you are out on the campaign trail. >> or we care and believe so much in our dad so we're happy

to be out here. >> is it fun? >> it is. >> i think you were saying earlier, it's a grueling process for families. i thing best way to handle that is to have fun with it. that's what we've done. we try to have some fun but also send out a serious message as well. >> can we show a little of the fun? your little video has gone viral. it just happens to kind of be mocking herman cain's video where his campaign manager smokes. take a look at this. ♪ i am america one voice united we stand ♪ >> that's pretty much the exact opposite of the approach the herman cain campaign has taken. >> it was a last-minute thing. we said let's have fun with this. >> did you show your dad or mom? >> not until we released it. >> no? >> we sent it to him the exact same time. >> so as you know, i was at a lunch yesterday and said to your mom, does somebody sort of go through their tweets before they go out because your tweets can be just a little bit -- should

we say -- snarky? let me put up one. i think we have one of them up there. there it is. there you are. jon 2012 girls. you have 7,095 followers. you tweeted after your dad stepped up his attacks on mitt romney calling him a perfectly lube riicated weather vane. how does romney know anything about china? he was only there once and that was for olympics. panda express doesn't count. it's funny stuff, but, you know, what do you really think marianne about your dad's competition, particularly mitt romney? >> you know, i think -- i mean, i don't know about you, but i'm kind of getting a stiff neck watching all the different front-runners coming up. we've had a different front-runner every week it seems like. so, you know, but we're having fun being out there with us girls trying to promote our father. you know, and --

>> and going off that comment from mitt romney, i think while we are having a little fun, at the same time, our relationship with china is so important, and i think our dad brings something to the table that none of the other candidates do. and that's just an experience on the world stage. and that's what we're trying to send in our message as well. >> so you don't think mitt romney is prepared to be president? >> no, that's not what we're saying. we're saying in a way that people -- when it comes to something dealing with china, we feel that our dad has the experience to be talking about these issues and moving our country forward in that direction. >> i've covered a lot of campaigns. one thing that always strikes me, liddy is when something bad happens or the polls aren't going right, it's often harder on the families because of the love that you guys, obviously, have for your dad. so when you look at a poll, 0%, 1% or 4%, do you say to yourself, why are we going through all of this? >> i think i really think it's way too early, and i think we've also seen that there's a new poll that comes out every day. so i think we've kind of seen as

a family you can't base it off that. you kind vf to just see how you interact with people and how they respond to you. and i think in new hampshire, we're seeing a great response from people. people are gravitating to my dad. i think that's what we're basing it off right now. but poll numbers, there's a poll, i think, on everything right now in the -- in every campaign. so we don't really take those to heart right now. i think it's too early. >> adding to that, new hampshire is going to be huge. what a lot of people don't realize is that everybody can vote, democrats, independents and republicans. >> so you are thinking that that might be a chance to turn around the campaign? >> which he is -- my father is one who appeals to, you know, to all three of those. >> i can promise you this. we are not hoping for a book deal or a spot on fox news through this. we are in this 100%, whether it's 1%, 5%. we're going to go through to the end and fight as hard as we can because we believe so strongly in him. >> it's been fun having you on. it's fun to see you out there. and it's definitely fun to read your tweets.

enjoy yourself out there because it is an amazing experience for anybody who has ever been on the campaign trail. it's an exercise in democracy, right? >> it is. we're having a lot of fun. >> thanks, chris. >> thank you. great of you all to come in. we have some news. we said a little earlier that hillary clinton had canceled a trip abroad to be with her mother who was not well. we just got this statement from the clinton family that dorothy rodham has died. she was born in chicago in 1919. and she died shortly after midnight this morning. it's an american story, really, because she overcame abandonment and hardship as a young girl and, obviously, became a mother to a first lady, a u.s. senator and now a secretary of state and a loving statement was put out by the clinton family about dorothy rodham. so dorothy rodham has passed away, the mother of secretary of state hillary clinton. she was 92 years old.

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the american academy of pediatrics is standing by its recommendations to limit screen time for children under 2. the organization says play time is more valuable for developing brains than tv, and that babies are too young to benefit from educational programs. the aap says children learn best from human interaction. >> a new survey of college educated women finds that a lot of them who make it to the top of the career ladder just don't like the view. it's not that they don't want to work, but they do want to have a life. and they are tired of the trade-offs. >> at 38, leah was a driven top

executive at a pr firm. 24/7, she was working or thinking about it. then just a year into getting that six-figure high-profile job, she walked away. >> i just at that point didn't know anymore what i was striving for. >> and she's not alone. in a survey by "more" magazine, 43% of women say they are less ambitious than they were years ago. 73% say if their boss left, they wouldn't want the job. >> i think it's a little worrisome for all the things that women can contribute and all the great things that women can do for the world. >> what happened? a very small percentage said it was family concerns holding them back. most just didn't want the pressure, the responsibility. they wanted to have a life. >> when prithi was finally offered her dream job but an 80-hour workweek, she said no. >> i don't want to be that

person who regrets not having enough time to do the things i really want to love. >> it's the exact opposite of women in emerging economies who are far more likely to consider themselves very ambitious than americans. maybe they haven't discovered what american women have. there's a high price to pay for success. >> i think we need to rethink exactly how we go about doing all of this. and how we, you know, how we keep women in there so that they are completely involved and they do feel that their ambition is worth it. >> but leah has no regrets. she's adopted a dog. goes to the gym while it's still light out and is freelancing. >> standing on the porch -- >> prithi has time for herself and her girls. >> i'm looking at my kids and i know that they're going to struggle with this in the future. and i want them to know that there's a time for everything. >> a message from the generation that broke through the glass ceiling to their daughters. maybe having it all isn't all it's cracked up to be. i'm joined by jennifer, deputy

editor of "more" magazine. a little more on the findings. they are in this current edition of "more." good to have you. i guess if there's one thing that came out of this, if there's like a catch phrase, it's simply flexibility. i want flexibility, right? >> absolutely. flexibility is about having control. and that's what women want. they want to be able to decide when they work and how they work. and that's going to help them manage this conflict between their ambition and all the things they need to achieve during the day. >> one of the things you did is looked at the kinds of careers where people have more flexibility, like personal financial adviser, pharmacist, web professional. you know, they are good suggestions and there's some of the list and there's more in the magazine. if you are 39 or 45 and you have been doing public relations for the last 15 years and that's what you are trained to do, it's pretty tough to go back to school and say, i think i'm going to become a pharmacist. that's really the challenge, isn't it? >> absolutely. we looked at a combination of jobs that offered good salaries

in growing fields. some of them require more education. some of them require a little bit less. all of them offer an opportunity to reinvent into a place where perhaps you can manage some of the conflicts that you were finding in another career. >> how are women managing? this is another of the surprising things. the first thing i thought, frankly, and people i talked to this survey thought was, well, it's because they can't do the child care. they can't balance the -- and it really doesn't matter whether you are married, single, have kids or not kids. the frustrations are the same now, right? >> yes, absolutely. you know, we asked women what they would do with more flexibility and more time. they told us they want more me time. and what that means to me is that they have kind of figured out how to have a family life and a professional life, but they've left themselves out of the mix. so a lot of them want more time to pursue their own interests. >> do you think the recession has anything to do with this? serve being asked to do more and particularly, i think, on the upper echelons, a lot of people i know, they feel like they

aren't doing a job anymore. they are doing 1 1/2 or 2 or 2 1/2 jobs? >> yes, absolutely. ambition in some ways is about opportunity, and the recession got rid of a lot of opportunities. and so i think women perhaps watching their bosses devote everything to their job and then get laid off thought, you know what? i'm not going to put all my eggs in that basket. i'm going to diversify a little bit and spend some time on my life, on me, on my family, everything else. >> the concern and leslie seymour expressed this, though is that there are all kinds of studies that talk about how women, when they are managers or when they are part of a management group, companies are more successful. their employees are happier. what does this mean? what are the implications if it's true that american women are less ambitious? >> i think this is a real challenge and a shot across the bow for american workplaces and for american employers because exactly as you said. they need women. they need women to make money, to stay competitive. in addition, there's this larger

demographic trend where the boomers are retiring and generation x is much smaller. so to have talent, to take the talent that they need to keep these companies profitable and viable, they are going to have to find ways to retain talent and offering flexibility is a key way they're going to do that. >> jennifer with "more" magazine, thanks for coming in. kim kardashian says divorcing her husband of 72 days was, quote, not an easy decision. kris humphries says he was devastated to learn she filed the papers. either way, the two are kaput and they are reportedly $10 million wedding literally amounts to $139,000 for each day of their marriage. so today's tweet of the day is the trending topic. kim k. marriage was shorter. npr's scott simon, than tim pawlenty's campaign for president. i tweet the jokes. than the amount of time it takes to prepare a microwavable tv dinner. dark side inturn. than most of the skirts she

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i'm veronica de la cruz. coming up, falsely accused herman cain is still out there denying he ever sexually harassed two former employ peeps can he recover and why are some of his defenders making this about race. can you believe the city with the largest asian american population has never elected a marr mayor of asian decent. who did this and what republicans are saying about it is straight ahead. >> thank you, veronica. pregnant jessica, an elephant falls and field of dreams sold. let's go down to the fire. was a halloween theme on "dancing with the stars." ricki lake and j.r. martinez were the showstoppers.

rob kardashian danced to the adams family while his family is standing by sister kim who filed for divorce yesterday. he is offering his unconditional support to his sis. and the kardashian divorce overshadowed the other big celebrity news. jessica simpson is pregnant. she tweeted, it's true. i'm going to be a mummy and wore a mummy costume. she's engaged to eric johnson. this video is unreal. a zoo in the netherlands watched this elephant just tip over. gets a shove. and he broke a tusk but we're told he's okay. he climbed out of that channel and rejoined his family. and here's a festival very close to my heart. the hungarian sausage festival in my homeland. check it out. it's the traditional sausage cooked and eaten for the festival. 100,000 people came out this year. yes, my hungarian compatriots know how to party and we say it rivals germany's october fest.

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