>> it's friday november 11th on veteran's day. here's what's happening. winning. >> i have been through hell. >> it didn't kill me or slow us down one bit. >> for hasn't, godfather. a new poll shows you are still the leader of the pack. >> that's the person herman cain is. >> a lot of people have a problem with the fact that i'm doing so well and i'm so likeable. >> watch out, godfather. the king of bling is back. >> what? >> yes, newt rises in the race for anyone but mitt. >> we end the week that was with the stories that. herman cain still on the trail after what he calls his week from hell. >> it's probably not politically correct to say, but you know i didn't take a political correctness class.

so i'm going to say it. i have been through hell. here's the good news. it didn't kill me or slow us down one bit. >> no, sir, it hasn't slowed him down a bit and hasn't stopped him from sticking his foot in his mouth again and again. >> did you hear the latest news today, anita hill is going to come -- >> is she going to endorse me? >> that's hilarious, mr. cain. the hermanator is finding humor in the fact that four women have accused him of harassment. we would like to give our thanks to several people who kept his week from hell from getting even worse. herman cain would like to give thanks to the conrad murray jurors for returning a verdict

just hours after this. >> he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals. >> guilty is the verdict for dr. conrad murray. >> the jury has just reached a guilty verdict. >> dr. conrad murray was found guilty in the death of his patient, michael jackson. >> yes, instead of leading the news cycle with that sound byte, conrad murray leads the way. perhaps herman cain's deepest gratitude goes to rick perry and a moment frozen in time. a moment that in 53 incredibly awkward seconds made most people forget about cain's incredibly awkward press conference just a day before. governor perry's attempts at hume or on the subject were at least funny as were david letterman's. >> listen, you try concentrating with mitt romney smiling at you.

that is one handsome dude. >> nice to see a guy running for president who is only groping for words, isn't it? >> all kidding aside, mr. perry's blunder gave a nice bit of cover on his own debate brain freeze. >> the legislation has already been written. hr 3000. in the previous it was hr 3400. we didn't hear about it in the previous congress because princess nancy sent it to committee and stayed there. it never came out. >> leave the jokes to mr. letterman. your mesogynistic quip to the first female speaker of the houz has no one laughing other than yourself. it's been a week of hell for mr. cane and he is still smiling. why? because of this. the latest cbs news poll shows

the hermanator still on top with 18% of republican voters backing him. >> wow! winning! >> 18% is well below the 20s he has been scoring and who is that tied for second with mr. romney at 15%? it's the king of bling! newt gingrich. perhaps this is a week from hell for mr. cain and the cain train is slowly coming off the tracks. let's bring in our panel now. professor michael eric dyson of georgetown university and msnbc analyst and msnbc analyst and former dnc communications director, karen finney. after those sexual harassment accusations, one might have thought a sensible person would be more cautious, but in the debate, he denigrates the only female speaker of the house and yesterday made an incredible joke, i call it incredible about

anita hill endorsing him. what is going on in this man's mind? >> now, the key word is sensible. we know that's not generally a word associated with mr. and his actions and behavior. clearly this is part of his whole attitude to make light and show that it's not stopping him. it's not slowing him down. in addition to the performance we saw earlier this week where it was all about blaming the victims and talking about himself in the third person. one thing they thought was interesting in that cbs poll, note he is losing support and losing support among republican women. i would imagine if this story continues along the lines we think it will, that number will continue to grow. >> professor dyson, despite what karen said, 61% of republican voters say the allegations levelled against herman cain won't make a difference about whether they support him. he raised almost $10 million in

october. are we to assume that mesogynistic behavior, accusations of sexual harassment don't matter to the electorate? >> not to the people who support mr. cain. i don't think if we can draw a general conclusion, but within republican party elite circles and the grass roots that the concern about sexism and patriarchy pale in comparison to cain's ability to lead the pack and make light of and humor of serious issues. not only does he think conrad murray, but joe paterno for taking him off of the front pages. what he is engaging in are allegations of the utmost gravity and he ought to be more sincere for apologizing or acknowledging the seriousness of the charges alleged against him. >> i remember you making comments about anita hill and treating that with a most serious gravity that you could possibly summon.

there he is making a joke about her endorsing him. >> nothing is in poorer taste than that. we have the self referencing of himself in the third person. cain doesn't say this. beyond that, to talk about anita hill whose 25th anniversary of her engagement with clarence thomas, this is not only in poor taste, but poking fun. american women ought to be insulted. >> it's also i think that's right, but remember it is also undermining the seriousness of what we are talking about. all day we saw reports about little and high school kids, kissed are feeling the pressure of sexual harassment. he should at least as a leader, if he wants to be a leader be conscious of the fact that kids are watching and talk about women and the seriousness and we

know for example from the joe paterno case and victims don't want to come forward. to undermine the seriousness, it is pretty stunning. hopefully on saturday night's debate which is supposed to be on foreign policy, we will get back to the things you have been talking about, u becky becky becky stan. >> cane is here and the tea party darling raising money at the russian tea room and our valu valued. >> i want to get back on message. that's not on message. i'm back on message. i want to fix this economy. so people can go back to work. not continue this stuff that does not matter. >> your polls are still up, do you think your message is working? >> yes, i do. >> he said his message is working. his support is starting to erode as you say especially among women.

do you think we will see it drop even further as the reality of herman cain begins to sink into the minds of conservative voters? >> absolutely. i like to believe and i could be wrong, but i like to believe the reason that these claims don't bother people is they don't see him as a serious candidate anyway. they dismiss him anyway. certainly i think when we get back to talking about foreign policy and national security, for example, in this debate on saturday night, we will get even more evidence as to why this is not somebody we should take seriously as a potential president of this country. he doesn't even know who has nuclear weapons and who doesn't. >> indeed. professor, i read something that suggested he could win in iowa based entirely on conservative male voters. is that possible? >> it absolutely is. i will not under estimate herman cain because it's not so much herman who seems to have taken 9-9-9 and borrowed the german

word, no to everything that is trying to engage him, what he is doing is appealing to base impulses and the electorate as karen finney said has no understanding of the critical nature of me sojinizing and sexism, herman is the other black meat. this is our black guy as ann coulter said. his a hyperer investment to prove that the republicans are not racist and they can receive the leadership of a black man. it's a convergence of the worst of both worlds. >> it's offensive and we will end up back on hannity with this conversation, but what the heck. >> you are on that show more than ours. >> it's offensive because i agree with what they are saying. to think that i know, they have a black so let's get one of our blacks and it's all even. what an offensive statement that

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the investigation into a child sex abuse scandal may be moving beyond the borders in pennsylvania. a town in texas is looking into whether jerry sandusky sexually assaulted a boy on a train trip

in 1999. sandusky is facing 40 charges including the sexual abuse of young boys over a period of 15 years. for more on this, i am joined by an investigative correspondent in windy pennsylvania. >> good afternoon. >> this story is moving by the day. doesn't it reveal that large institutions, the powerful, the huge, when they get to this size, they can actually get away with anything for years. doesn't matter in wall street or penn state. it's the same thing. >> well, look. it's absolutely true that the power and aura of the penn state football program, the importance of it almost certainly played a role in how these allegations were handled. that the idea of doing anything that would tarnish the

reputation of the football program was probably a major inhibiting factor on the part of universal officials in not acting more vigorously when they got that report in 2002 about mr. sandusky's conduct. you know, we are also seeing the power of public disclosure here. when the facts come out and they are laid out in front of the public, even major institutions like this one have to react and to have both coach paterno fire and the university president fired in response to this is a testament to that. >> this story or investigation about it spreading to another state, does that raise this to the level of a federal charge? >> conceivably, but this is not -- >> i'm thinking of a violation.

i think of it violating the man act. >> right. right now we have one allegation relating to that texas incident that could factor into that. but it's also important to remember that this is an ongoing investigation and state officials stressed to me and the police officials stressed yesterday that they're getting continuing reports of new information and they're sinking information from the public about others that may have information about other instances related to this. they are getting that. until we have the full picture, we don't know whether it's going to extend beyond the borders of pennsylvania or not. right now we did have that one instance in texas that is being investigated as well, but i have not seen evidence that the feds have moved in except in the matter involving the department of education.

that did make clear this week that it is investigating whether penn state broke the law in not reporting those 2002 allegations. >> finally and if can e i can ask briefly. joe paterno reached out to a prominent washington criminal defense lawyer to represent him. he hasn't been charged with any offenses. why would he do that? >> first of all, there ongoing legal proceedings in which he will be a key witness in any trial of any of the three people charged this week. joe paterno will be front and center in giving testimony in those trials. he is going to need legal council for that. there ongoing investigations that could relate to him. right now he has been described as a cooperating witness and not a subject or target of the investigations. i think more importantly, there is the prospect of massive civil suits in this from the victims

and their families. we have seen that in every prior instance of sexual abuse cases and catholic church and think there is every expectations that there will be civil suits and joe can be a defendant in the lawsuits. >> the remarkable developing story. nbc's correspondent, thank you very much. we are expecting a press conference from rodney erickson, the interim penn state president and we will bring that to you when it happens. when we come back, two of america's bravest young men. stay with us.

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that was president obama this morning at a sell em ceremony. on this veteran's day, we are focusing on the wounds that inflict our veterans in the form of post traumatic stress disorder. 20% of iraq and afghanistan war vets suffer from ptsd. now concerned vets are stepping forward. joining me now are honor vet.org dateicated to serving veterans with ptsd. a former marine and the son of john mccain. jesse canela is a former marine who serveding to n iraq. thank you for joining me. why did you decide to create this resource? >> it was a joint effort when we got out of the military a couple of years ago, we saw the effects that was happening to our

friends and to ourselves and gotting to and said we can do something about this. >> was it just looking at colleagues who had come home and seeing the condition in which they were living and circumstances? what was it? >> us like many vets had no idea what we were going to be walking into when we came out of the service. we lost a lot of friends and it hasn't stopped. through their own challenges, it's been something that has driven us to do something about it. the stats are grim and we believe through our hard work and the resources we have that we can provide value to the vets. >> the centers for disease control estimates that 18 veterans commit suicide each day. you have been in conflict and you have how have the vets resourced when they return? >> there parts that are lacking. we have been able to see that in the veteran community it's close

and if everyone stands up and we do our part to encourage each other like what we are trying to do, we can lessen that and move forward. >> what do you do through this organization on there? >> honor vet is a unique web organization. we provide a community for veterans and families to interact in and provide a very specific set of holistic services to help them reacclimate and find employment and to get the resources and help they need when they're going through their issues. >> that's incredibly valuable to spouses and family members. neither do they know anything about battling conflict, but nothing about ptsd either. >> when service members deploy and they also struggle with a set of issues that are different and so our goal has been to always provide services to not only the veterans and service members and their families. >> you have a concert this evening in new york and you are

hoping it will raise money and how else can the viewers get involved to support the efforts? >> at honor vet.org and another called unity for vets.org and the way they go on there, it's just getting involved and seeing the issues and the concert is not just about raising money and changing veteran's day towards a good time and we are honoring our vet vans. it's a great privilege for to you have us on your veteran's day. thank you for your service. >> thank you for having us. >> the week's top lines of coming up. >> quiet for a minute. quiet for a minute or i will ask you to leave. ♪

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chaos and desperate attempts of damage control. let's bring it all home with today's top lines, the week in review. >> mr. cain said you want a job right? admit what you did. >> some people don't want herman cain to be the president of the united states of america. >> for you refer to yourself in the third person, you probably have an inflated sense of self. >> that's the person herman cain is. >> it was enough to get martin bashir thinking. >> you hire women to charge them with sexual harassment. >> for they are smart they will. >> doesn't seem to be able to operate without queue cards. >> i agree with you about that. that's not the problem. >> it's three agencies of government. >> i can imagine the conversations they had preparing the government for this. >> when i get there, they are gone. >> let's give five agencies.

you may not be able to remember. >> commerce, education. tar i don't know three. he can definitely do three. >> the third one i can't. sorry. oops. >> perry paralyzed and cain incapable of saying anything beyond 9-9-9. >> i think things went well. >> for made perry look human. that's something mitt romney would die for. >> i'm a doer, not a talker. >> quiet for a minute! i'm going to ask you to leave. >> oops. >> oops! that is not the-letter word i would have gone with. like it's a juice box! oh, my chance to be president of the united states. oops! >> let's bring in the panel with me in new york. msnbc analyst and columnist for the bloomberg view. joining us from washington, political economist for "the washington post." a man conspeckulously ab tent

from the top lines is the tiffany-loving speaker, newt gingrich. he is preparing a campaign relaunch in iowa. do you think this is the moment when the king of bling is going to shine the diamond? >> no question. it's a process of elimination. we are with newt and we might get down to ron paul and john huntsman if the a certain point. for a lot of republicans, it's a plausible candidate and speaker of the house and they may sweep under the carpet he may resign. he set new records for hypocrisy going after bill clinton for his adultery at the same time he was carrying on an affair with the woman who is now his wife, calista. this is not his first problem in that department.

wife number one totally wanted a divorce in the hospital with cancer. >> mr. gingrich said and i'm quoting him, "the media doesn't do an accurate job of reporting." isn't he s tacking the media because we reported with accuracy and you included his serial adultery and his wife's addiction to jewelry? >> yes, i did a little of that. the reporting that is. yes, i mean newt gingrich has found that this will be the strategy in the debate. he doesn't have a lot of money. his candidacy is all about doing well in the debates. if you look at it, he has gone after an attack on the moderator. even when the moderator was attacking the news and that had the effect of rallying support to him. jonathan is right, it's a process of elimination. it's funny that we are talking about a three-man race.

herman and newt gingrich are two of the three that didn't expect to be there at all. when is it going to be rick santorum's turn. >> we have a new poll and it looks as though cain, i think cain is falling now apparently to third. this is the poll. mitt romney at 23% and newt at 19% and herman is down to third. i guess that's an indication that the sexual harassment allegations, the me soj nift comments about hillary clinton and anita hill endorsing him. that appears to be having an effect. >> you would think so after all this time. the initial polls showed no effect at all. this had to take a toll. it indicates that you could in

the near future sos newt gingrich as the front-runner. cain's support condition continued to go to gingrich and gingrich would surpass romney in the polls. he doesn't have money as dana indicated. he doesn't have any organization. they all quit early on. after they got his bring and other distortions, but you might see and money follows polls. it's important to realize in the race and john kerry was way behind. he ended up winning the nomination. john mccain was way behind. >> we have newt there opening his headquarters. these are live pictures coming in to us. it does appear that newt is beginning to see rise as we have seen in the polling and we have seen this poll.

do you think that the american people will suffer a form of amnesia and completely forget the rank hypocrisy that mark this man when he was attempting to impeach the president, president clinton and carrying on with various affairs? >> i hope so. i don't think the comedy gods would be good enough to allow newt gingrich to prevail. it seems to me that yes, it's true and other cases the front-runner at this point has not been the nominee. it seems in this case very difficult to imagine that they would not have to settle for mitt romney. it seems like the republicans are experimenting with all other possibilities, but they are won and it just doesn't work. they don't like mitt, but he is going to be the only plausible one in the end. >> i agree and that's not what happened with nixon. nobody liked him and they nominated him and he was elected. it's really important to not get

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is at the highest since the great depression. joining me is tim dickinson and the author of party of the rich that appears in the current edition of the magazine. in the article you say if you want to understand the disparity of wealth you have to go back in time. when did the current problem begin. >> i trace it back to 1997 when congress pushed by newt gingrich and the republican revolutionaries decoupled tax rates from labor tax rates. you get a tax cut for the wealthiest investor class and they start to take bets and you have underlying trends at making wealthy wealthier and exacerbating that. >> what you are saying is that while people who had ordinary jobs and work got tax and those who earned income for money had their tax rates go down and down and down. >> right.

if you look at the top 400 taxpayers since 1997, the incomes have tripled and their relative tax burden has fallen by 40%. you look at the graph of it, the income keeps going up and up and the amount they pay is flat lined. >> incredible. >> the current hopefuls are all for flattening the tax code, but economists say this will favor the rich. is it your view that left to rick perry or herman cain, this disparity in wealth will get worse? >> let's not leave newt gingrich out of that. >> indeed. >> you can't finance the tax cuts with deficits anymore and they are trying to finance them off the backs of the middle class. in herman cain's case you are raising taxes on 84% of americans to give millionaires and billionaires a huge break. it's the same pattern with rick perry and newt gingrich. mitt romney said he loves the

flat tax. he said he wants to close tax loopholes and tax breaks. how much would the treasury benefit if these loopholes were closed. per this is the amazing thing. the treasury would take in more than we take in from actual income taxes. the amount of money they leave on the table -- >> what? you can't just throw that out there. are you saying that if the tax loopholes were closed, there would be more revenue than the revenue that currently comes in from income tax? >> that's right. there is more of what they call tactic expenditures that is treatments for everything from capital gains to second mortgages to close every one of those. the amount of income that would be taxed, the treasury would take in more money from the closure of the loopholes than we take in from income tax. >> why won't they go with it?

>> grover norquist. there has been this anti-tax pledge and everybody understands it. we won't raise taxes. the second part of the pledge said we won't close loopholes unless we can reinvest the safetyings into lowering taxes for generally wealthy people. you have this fleaj has been signed by 98% that is blocking them from making rational decisions in terms of closing a few loopholes. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> we are awaiting a press conference from state university on the situations surrounding the sex abuse situation. we will bring it to you live the moment it happens. first, sue herrera has the cnbc market wrap. >> thank you very much. here's a look at how stocks are doing. it's a big day on wall street. so far we have a triple-digit advance in the dow of 239

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>> on this veteran's day, the nation is honoring the service and sacrifice of men and women in the armed services. my own father and father in law were in the navy in the second world war. both have since passed away, but the reality today is not encouraging. the national unemployment rate is at 9%. for veterans it's 12%. for those under 25, it's 22%. joining me now is colonel jack jacobs shlg a med jacobs, a medal of honor recipient. the book includes 144 portraits of recipients and letters from every living one.

you recently tweeted the incentive to hire vets. given the training and the responsibility that people carry, why is it so difficult for them to find work? >> a lot has to do with public perception. we in the military are to blame. i am throwing myself in that camp right now. we talk so much about pts and the perception among the public that people who are in uniform can't do anything. the fact of the matter is there is no group of people more qualified and have had more responsibility and more authority at an early age than people in the military. if anyone is supposed to be hired not buzz of charity, but capability. >> you talk a lot about the fact that the people, the civilian population doesn't have enough skin in the game. what do you mean? >> in the neighborhood of 3/4 of 1% of the american public is

currently in uniform. when my father and your father were fighting, after that, everybody in our neighborhoods had been a veteran. everyone. when i came into the army, everybody in congress was a veteran. now only about 20, 22% of the congress are veterans. the large majority of the american public has never met somebody in uniform and only time they see them is on television or in airports. >> often in frightening circumstances. >> true. and the american people love the troops and they love the troops because they don't have to be the troops. and i think there's a wide gulf that's developing between the people who are serving and the people who are being served. and that's not healthy. >> absolutely. tell us a little bit about this book, if you can. >> it's got 1414 beautiful photographic portraits of medal of honor recipients. now there are only 85 recipients left, so this is something of a treasure. and it's got all the backstory of each of the recipients. a big coffee table book. 150th anniversary of the medal

of honor. and on the inside front cover is a dvd, a 90-minute dvd with medal of honor recipients talking about their lives and their exploits. >> colonel jack jacobs, on this veterans day, thank you for coming in and thank you for your service. >> martin, thanks for having me on the program. if case you didn't know it, today's the 11th of the 11th of 2011. the egypt, the government has closed the great pyramid following interpret rumors that the historic site might be damaged. but in the real world, today's a very special one for a little boy called charlie. that's because it's his 11th birthday. charlie was born with duquesne muscular dystrophy. my brother was also born with the disease, which ultimately took his life. while there's no cure for the disease, tracharlie's mother launched a foundation called

charley's fund, which is working to find a cure. i'm delighted to say that she joins us now. tracy, good afternoon. >> hello. >> good to see you. for those who don't know exactly what duchenne muscular dystrophy is, can you explain it to our viewers? >> sure, duchenne is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. there are nine types of muscular dystrophy and duchenne is the most common. it's a very aggressive disease. and it affects all of the muscles of the body, including the heart and lungs and it's currently 100% fatal. most kids lose their lives from the disease in their late teens or early 20s. >> indeed. my brother died in his 20s from muscular dystrophy, as you know. tell us a little bit about charley's fund. how it got started and what your

goals are? >> charley's fund was formed in 2005, shortly after my son, charley, was diagnosed with duchen duchenne, when he was 3 1/2 years old. and we have one simple goal, to develop treatments for the disease, to give him a long and healthy life, along with the thousands of other kids along the world who are struck by duchenne. >> and do you think that that is now on the horizon? that there may be some kind of treatment that will maybe slow down the progression of the disease? >> i absolutely know it's here. this is the time. the cause of the disease was discovered in 1987. so an abundance of information is known about duchenne. we know exactly what causes it. we are now at the this age where we're not searching for a cure. we're developing drugs that will treat the disease. and when charley was diagnosed, there was not one human clinical trial for a promising medication. and today there are five medicines in human clinical

trials with more on the way. >> i know that myself and many people around the world listening to you will be hugely impressed by the fact that the mother of a child has actually launched a charity that might yet lead to the cure for her own son. i mean, tracy, that's something remarkable. >> thanks. i'm not doing it myself. >> i know you're not, but it is a remarkable thing. >> i'm the heart behind it. thank you. i wish i could say i'm doing this myself, but all i am is the motivation and the heart. i have the ultimate motivation. i want to save my son's life. and there are many other mothers helping us and doing similar work, that we're doing together. and of course, a world-class collection of scientists and drug development experts who are actually doing the work that is developing these drugs. all i'm doing is pushing it as fast as it could possibly go.

>> it's remarkable, nevertheless, whatever you say, tracy. today people are talking about various superstitions because it's the 11th of the 11th. but today's a very special day, isn't it, because it's charley's birthday, and he is 11. >> it is. and i don't tend to think that charley's a lucky boy because he's been struck by this horrendous disease, but he's lucky today. the outpouring of support from random strangers has been unbelievable. people donating $11 every minute, practically, it's truly amazing. >> and the charity continues to grow, continues to expand in its reach? >> absolutely. and today was a crucial day in the development of charley's fund, because we're now in a place where so many more people know about us. we're all over twitter, all over facebook, and thanks to you, we're on tv now. and people are starting to wake up and real that it is within their grasp to play a role in developing treatments and ultimately a cure for this

disease that has eluded scientists for hundreds of years. we're finally at that point. and if enough people contribute, this can happen now, in time to save charley's life. >> tracy seckler, what an ambition. thank you so much for joining us. and will you please convey a very happy birthday for charley from me and all of our team. >> i absolutely will. thank you so much, martin. >> and we'll be right back. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor!

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