. the blame game after congress's super fail to cut the deficit, accusing the president of being disengaged. where can we go from here. super committee member and congressman jim clyburn will join me live. >> let me go ahead and make mine and then i will listen to you and you listen to me. >> interrupted. the president forced to respond to protesters in new hampshire as he tries to push for a payroll extension and vows to not let congress off the hook when it comes to the jobs bill. >> autumn awakening. the count rae's cabinet. they resign and military leaders promise that elections are coming. and storm of trouble. the weather that could keep a lot of folks that keep grandma in town in time for the turkey.ç

>> i'm craig melvin in for tamron hall. the full out from the collapse of the super committee on this tuesday. a short time ago at a high school in new hampshire, president obama urges congress to do the right thing on the deficit and his jobs bill. they said next week lawmakers have a chance to vote on extending the tax cut and warned if republicans voted down, the average american family would see their tax guess up. >> the question we will have to answer when we get back from thanksgiving is this. are they willing to raise taxes on the middle class just to play politics? >> we have team coverage on the developments in washington. kristen welker is at the white house and luke russert and our democratic candidate from south carolina. kristen, the protesters booing the president, do we know who

they were? >> we do. they were basically occupy wall street protesters. it was difficult to hear what they were saying. they were saying mr. obama, 4,000 peaceful protesters have been protested while they destroy the economy. we have audio of it. let's play that and i will talk to you on the other side. take a listen. >> i appreciate you making your point. let me make mine, all right? i will listen to you and you listen to me.ç >> so the president there saying okay, i heard you and now let me make my point. he tried to empathize with the occupy wall street protesters, but he was there in new hampshire and politically important state.

not only the first republican primary state, but an important battle ground state. president obama won the state back in 2008 and right now polls show him about ten points behind mitt romney in a matchup. mitt romney by the way according to the latest polls is letting his republican challengers in hypothetical primary matchups. he is taking that chance to lash out at president obama. he released a number of ads and newspapers today, slapping president obama for economic record and released a commercial hammering president obama on his economic record. president obama of course knows that state is important. he is there and likely we will see him in new hampshire several more times over the coming months. >> kristen welker, thank you. more now on what's next after the failure of the deficit reduction. the super committee. luke russert joining me now from

washington, d.c. house speaker john boehner issued a statement in response to the president's remarks today. what did speaker boehner have to say? >> good afternoon. what you are seeing now is due to the failure of the super committee, you will see a pivot on capitol hill to very important legislation that needs to be figured out by the end of the year. that is an extension of the payroll tax holiday that you heard president obama talking about and an extension of unemployment benefits. all things that are essential of keeping theç economy afloat an moving forward. on the issue of the payroll tax, speaker boehner had this to say. we told the president in september we stand rate to have an honest and fruitful discussion with him regarding the invitevation and that stands. the american people continue to await action on the jobs bills passed that are stuck in the democratic-controlled senate with one statement he could dislodge the jobs bills and make sure they are brut to a vote.

i hope he will put the country before the party and vote immediately after thanksgiving. that necessarily won't happen because harry reid, the democrat who controls the senate and a lot of the democrats are not bipartisan and they have been in the past with democrats and they have taken a couple of things they don't agree with. the bottom line is december is going to be a very busy month. unemployment benefits that a lot of folks including a lot of bipartisan economists allow the economy to keep growing because people spend that money and go to the grocery store and the gas station. the payroll tax is 2% on middle class families and there is a fear on most of the democratic side that they lose that 2% and it could hurt the economy. those are things they want and republicans see them as adding $300 billion to the deficit and you will have to see my guess as

a compromise between once again, house speaker john boehner and president barack obama. they have done it twice already and it will be a third time. it will be my guess is going to christmas eve. >> holiday theater in the nation's capital. we want to bring in super committee member and congress jim clyburn of southç carolina. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, craig. how are you? >> i'm well. you wrote just four days ago that you were optimistic and the model of south carolina while i breathe. that's what you ended the op-ed with. what happened to the super committee? >> as often the case, my hopes were dashed. the fact remains as i said in the piece we had found the way. we worked to develop the will. all of us are very familiar with

what we did with the control act. we cut over $17 billion and all cuts. we knew with these various documents we had and the bowles simpson document. all of those things contained a combination of things we should do to make smart cuts and also increase revenue. you never can get the will. >> i want to follow-up on something. you talked about political will. time and time again, people in the country, republicans and democrats looked at washington and they have shaken their head in disgust. whether it's the brink of default or the brink of shut down. we had 12 congress men who had several months to come up with a deal and we got nothing. >> you may recall these things have been going on for sometime.

535 congress people couldn't come up with anything. the president and the speaker of theç house working very closel could not quite get it all done. in fact they walked away. we had the biden group. and the republicans, eric kantor walked away from that. we had the documents and the way was very clear. they did not have the political will to stand up to grover norquist or whoever else may be saying we ought to do this with all cuts and revenue. no economist i talked to said this could be done in a meaning i ful way and not have revenue. they didn't have the will. >> a growing course of scent iblgs claim that the white house never really wanted to see this thing succeed in the first place

because the president wanted to be able to run against a do nothing congress. the critics said the president should have swooped in and tried to save this thing in the 11th hour. had president obama been more engaged do you think we might have seen an 11th hour deal? >> absolutely not. i think they wanted to make president obama the issue. some people wanted him to step in so that they can once again walk away from him as a speaker did sometime ago. i think the president did exactly what he should have done. the biden group was his creation and the simpson bowles was his creation. he sat down with speaker boehner and how long, i don't remember. a great amount of time. all of that was the president's involvement. to say that he could have stepped in at the 11th hour and saved this deal, absolutely notç they wanted to make him the

issue and it was not to be the issue. >> congressman, always a pleasure and happy thanksgiving, sir. >> thank you. same to you. you ought to spend it with us. >> i would love to, but they keep me working. >> tomorrow marks one of the busiest travel days of the year. major headaches for the millions of travelers. more than 42 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home starting wednesday. however there is a storm system expected to bring rain, snow, heavy wind as well to much of the northeast and thunderstorms that could strike as far south as florida. they are keeping an eye on that for us. from the headquarters in atlanta, hey, jeff. >> hey, craig. you are right. thunderstorms have broken out and severe weather for some of you across the deep south and if that weren't enough if you head further north, since nat to pittsburgh and those of you in new york, filly and boston will be heavy rain over the next 24

hours. you know that's going to snarl the airports and if you are driving, that's no fun either. we have the red airports for boston, new york, filly and d.c. and pittsburgh. holiday delays are likely. your eyes are not deceiving you. that's snow. good news for ski resorts, but travelers in northern new england, not so nice. the big problems will be in the major cities along the eastern seaboard through the carolinas into the southeast. if your travels take you further west, we are not looking all that bad. if your travels are up and down the east coast, i don't envy you whatsoever. >> that's great. i have family coming from the south. thank you. up next for "news nation," herman cain said his race isç going to help him win over african-american voters and the gop to victory as well. is he right? we will talk about that. we are continue to following developing news in egypt where

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to the republican race for the white house, the gop candidatings will take part in their 11th debate. the topic is foreign policy. in light of the supreme failure come up with the assigned budget cuts, defense spending could be a big topic for tonight.

michael smerconish is an msnbc contributor and mark murray who is a political director. tonight's debate in d.c., let's look at two polls. newt gingrich i few months ago in single digits and right now in this new poll he's at 26%. mitt romney behind at 22%. in another poll, newt gingrich also on top at 24% to mitt romney's 20%. newt gingrich the front-runner in two polls. is he going to be the pi nata in d.c.? >> this is the first where newt gingrich has been the national front-runner with mitt romney. that's a dynamic we will be able to watch. one of the things that has gone on is a new flavor of the month has come about whether michele bachmann or rick perry or herman cain has come with scrutiny.

we have seen on the campaign trail and the investigative reporting. the question is can newt gingrich be like all the others who haven't been able toç with stand the scrutiny? >> what have we seen with herman cain in the polls? >> he has dropped. part had to do with the allegations of sexual harassment, but also very high profile gas on foreign policy and again there is a debate tonight on the second straight debate on foreign policy. we will see if herman cain is up to the challenge. >> herman cain has this mailer out in iowa. we got ahold of it earlier. i wanted to show you an excerpt. in part, as a descendent of slaves, i can garner a large share of the black vote. something that has not been done since dwight eisenhower. 40% of the black vote in 1956. herman cain using the race or

attempting to use his race as an advantage here in iowa. any chance something like this works for herman in the hawk eye state? >> i doubt it and i don't think it's truthful. his status as a republican is a bigger factor than skin color and playing a role in the out come of this election. the president enjoys tremendous support among african-americans and all of the polling data i have seen thus far, that is bedrock. he continues to hold that support. i think his number fading and newt gingrich being the flavor of the month is more about mitt romney than any of these individuals. craig, what i see is this support like a wave going from all of these candidates from bachman to perry to and now to newt. each time they are rejecting mitt romney. each time they find a new candidate, they say no to mitt. >> we have seen dozens of polls and mittç romney consistently

poled between 20 and 25%. they are not dropping, they just don't rise. >> they are static and similar to ron paul's numbers except they are larger. mitt romney doesn't need to win the process. he needs to survive it. it's like the tortoise and the hare. he is the tortoise and probably will be the last man standing. i don't think newt will maintain this level of support. >> tomorrow morning after this debate, what are we talking about? >> it's probably a rerun of what we have seen in the other debates. we know that mitt romney continues to do pretty well at the debates. rick perry not so much. ron paul's foreign policy views are clear and he doesn't believe in a military interventionism whatsoever. herman cain is not as well-versed on foreign policy. it will be the same thing we have seen over the past debates. >> always a pleasure.

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expected to swarm retailers and websites in search of the best deals. that's up from 138 million just last year. 90% of black friday shoppers are expected to make a return trip this year. a staggering $45 billion in sales were tallied over the 2010 weekend alone. this year again, it could be bigger. cnbc's courtney reagan joining me from toys 'r us in new york city.ç what's the word? >> it's busy here, craig. black friday is three days away. toys 'r us is not wasting any time. they will grab those consumer dollar when is they get them. toys are us is the retailer that is opening the earliest. not just on black friday, but 9:00 p.m. on thanksgiving. it is tryptophan thursday for those folk who is want to get out and lineup for the latest toys. wal-mart opening at 10:00 p.m. target and kohl's opening at

midnight and gap opening about 1,000 stores at midnight as well. christmas is moving further into thursday. a lot of experts think it will probably be worth it. the folks that will be shopping on thursday will be a different group of people than the ones that will get up early and hit the stores. >> retailers hoping that this boosts their bottom lines and shoppers in search of deals want to get to the stores earlier and earlier. what about the workers. hasn't there been fallout for the folk who is want to man the registers? >> there has. as you can understand, they top the have that time off and spend time with their families. there was one employee, a target employee that started a petition online and got over 160,000 sicktusic signatures from trying to push back because it was cutting into the holiday. the workers are getting paid

overtime and being compensated for working there. a lot of folks taking the flip side saying at least you have jobs. the unemployment rate is high. it isn't at least changing ç retailers's minds. they are opening at midnight. >> in the thick of it for toys 'r us. >> thanks. >> coming up in gut check, do you think that stores should be open thanksgiving day for early shopping? we will tell you how to weigh in. what president obama told al sharpton about indulging on thanksgiving dinner. looking for love. jenny mccarthy. jenny said she joined match.com. we will get the scoop here on news nation. on november 26th you can make a huge impact by shopping small on small business saturday. one purchase. one purchase is all it takes. so, pick your favorite local business... and join the movement. i pledge to shop small at big top candy shop.

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of thousands of protesters packing tahrir square said that's not soon enough. >> why a judge pushes back jerry sandusky's preliminary hearing and chaos in parliament. south korean lawmakers blasting rivals with tear gas after a trade deal with the u.s. is passed. how much is thanksgiving going to cost you this year? the average price of a turkey dinner soars 13%. the "news nation" following developments in egypt on this fourth straight day of bloody protests with at least 29 protesters killed since saturday. right now massive crowds are gathered in tahrir square. you see it there at 9:30 at night. the call had been put out for a million people to turn out to demand that the country's military rulers hand over power to a civilian government. over an hour ago, egypt's military ruler delivered an address and raised the possibility of holding a

referendum on immediately transferring power. egyptian tv showing pictures of three americans arrested yesterday near tahrir square. they remain in custody. they are students at american university in cairo. they are accused of throwing molotov cocktails at egyptian security forces. more now from the chief foreign correspondent, richard engle. >> reporter: recognizing the seriousness of the situation, the egyptian military did offer to make concessions to theç demonstrators. the field marshall who took over gave a rare televised address. he said that he has accepted the resignation of egypt's government and said that presidential elections will be moved forward and the reaction was almost immediate from the crowds here in tahrir square and there hundreds of thousands of people in tahrir.

they cried out almost in unison, unjust, unjust. they want the military to step down immediately and want a civilian government to take charge. they don't trust the military. they don't trust field marshall to implement democracy as the government and the military has promised to do. what we are seeing is something of a showdown. the protesters say they will stay here and the field marshall said that the protests are illegitimate and they are trying to destroy the country's economy. the question now is will the egyptian military that has taken a stance against the protest offering some concessions. will the military now try to move in and break up the demonstrations which is what f the

with you. >> we heard from richard about the conseg that is the military gone to the notion that next june they would have presidential elections and this next monday they had elections for the parliament. other parties say one that is not enough and two, it's loaded to favor the other part of the political spectrum and they are very, very disappointed in the military government that moved so slowly in fundamental key reforms and the economy deteriorated with no correction in sight. all of the factors have led to what we are seeing in the

incredible visuals in tahrir square. i don't think there is over. it's not just tahrir square, but where the establishment goes. they are on the sidelines and waiting to see. i don't know where that's going to go. >> let's talk about the complicated relationship between egypt's military and the citizens, the thousands we saw there in the square moments ago. over the past six months, we have seen a transformation of sorts. talk to us about that. >> i think at the beginning when mubarak was leaving, to some degree the military was set up to be the good guys in the conflict. the forces that protected protesters from the police who were reporting to mubarak and others that were involved with that very thuggish outburst of violence against protesters. they were the good guys. they took over as stewards of

the government and the large support of the public. now the view is that the military is trying to preserve their own privileges and to be quiteç blunt had been lazy and have not pushed forward the reforms. they are now more focused on maintaining their control over the system and i think that's what the public is. the public is very, very dissatisfied and they have grown alienated with the military. >> steve clemens, washington editor at large, thank you so much and appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you, craig. >> disturbing details in the case of a missing arizona girl. according to court papers, jesse shockly's older sister told police that her mother ordered her to lie about the child's disappearance that the 5-year-old was kept in a closet and had black eyes and cuts and bruises before she was reported missing. they appeared in court on child

abuse changes. hunter is the number one focus and they do not believe they will find the 5-year-old girl alive. >> authorities in texas are looking for the pilot of a small plane that happened to be full of pot. full of marijuana. it skidded off the runway at the airport and it looks like the plane's nose gear collapsed, causing it to slide into the grass. police are not sure how many were on board because no one was around when they responded. check out this video. chaos inside south korea's parliament. one politician so angry over the agreement, he threw a tear gas canister at the speaker's podium. they called a surprise session there where it pushed through the deal about majority. developments in the penn state child sexual abuse investigation. today a judge delayed the preliminary hearing for jerry sandusky who was charged with

sexually abusingç eight young boys over 15 years. that hearing was pushed back nearly a week until december 13th. nbc news reporting that the investigation may now be widened to include obstruction of justice charges. nbc's peter alexander is covering the story for us and joins us live from state college, pennsylvania. peter, what does the possible widening of the investigation relate to? do we know at this point? >> we are going to tell you more of the details. nbc news was first to report that pennsylvania state prosecutors filed the secret motion to hold -- as we speak a car accident out front. bad weather here. the children's charity was held in contempt after the organization failed to turn over expense reports of the founder, jerry sandusky was subpoenaed by the grand jury itself. the motion that had been filed

was with drawn in october. the charity's new lawyers tell us or sources tell us they are looking for the rest of the records and what they are trying to find is any information that gives us a better sense of what relationship and what time jerry sandusky spent with some of these eight alleged vehicles. the allegations being made over the course of 15 years. as you noted, the next hearing is scheduled for december 13th. that's the first chance prosecutors will have to show they have enough evidence to take this case against jerry san dusk to trial. we drove by his house a short time ago. he left his home with his dog in the car and his wife also left the home. many are saying why is he still allowed to roam free while joe paterno and manyç victims and mike mcqueary have been forced into seclusion because of death threats and other frustrations and the circumstances of the story. >> do we know why they moved the hearing back a week? are. >> we don't. they referred to it on the

website as logistical reasons. i spoke to the administrator a short time ago and they didn't have better details for us about that. we know the attorney for jerry sandusky said within the last 24 hours one of his concerns is jerry sandusky may have new charges against him. it might be an effort to race bail or force jerry sandusky behind bars. it would be a new arrest. she out on $100,000 bail with no restrictions assuming he does show up to the hearing. >> state college, pennsylvania, appreciate that. still ahead, some consider it the greatest sequel of all time. g godfather 2. francis ford coppola said it should never have been made. we will get the scoop on that.

a lot going on today and here are things we thought you should know. reverend al sharpton, the host of msnbc politics nation interviewed president obama about the super committee's failure to reach a deal. the conversation turned to thanksgiving with sharpton asking the president to tell the first lady that he -- >> she probably advises that you do just for thanksgiving. because if you repress yourself too much, you end up going onç binge at some point. go ahead and let loose a little bit on thanksgiving. >> i will blame it on you. thank you, mr. president. >> you can catch reverend sharpton every week night at 6:00 on msnbc. michele bachmann may have stopped on the set of late night with jimmy fallon. talking holiday traditions as well and played a game of one word that drew boos and cheers from the audience.

>> romney. >> hair. no, adjustment. vice president. >> obama. >> finished. be nice. >> perry. >> that's not one word. i have to do three. governor, texas, i can't remember the third. >> bachman. >> president. >> of course. president obama and the first lady played host to country music legends at the white house as part of the performance the the white house. darius rucker and hooty and the blowfish and lyle lovett were a few of the stars that celebrated country music. let's take a listen.

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>> i'm martin bashir. at the top of the hour, the battle of new hampshire as the president and mitt romney will square off. it may take more than a band-aid. a republican candidate shot out of tonight's debate. we will see if he can top herman cain's knowledge of foreign policy. >> as we prepare for our waistlines to expand at the dipper table, one thing that thanksgiving almost certainly won't be fattening up. the wallet. the cost of turkey day is on the rise. if you are traveling by car, the average price of gas is up 48 cents andç now averaging $3.36

gallon. by air will be 20% more to get to grandma's. even thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, turkey day is more expensive, up 13%. live in los angeles, high there, jane. >> hey, craig. fas price tag for a fat meal. it's going up 13% which is the highest jump in over 20 years. $49.20 to feed ten people. the biggest jump is in the bird. 22% for a 16-pound bird. it will cost about $21.57. yams are a lot higher. what do i have here? the pumpkin price is 16% higher. 53s 17% higher and milk prices are going up. i do this every year. i go out and compare it to the national average. last year it was $43 and change.

i bought the same fixings with my club card for $32. this year it was $49 with the national average. i bought it and it was $44. still cheaper. without the club card, $65 to buy all of this. again, it's hard to tell how much they are jacking things up and discounting it, they are not discounting the turkeys as much as they have been in the past. there is a shortage of birds and high cost of corn to feed them has trickled down. >> is there anything that went down on your table?ç >> one thing. miscellaneous items went down a penny like butter and sugar and coffee. that doesn't make sense because coffee is high. >> those were essential. >> they won't be going down for you. >> appreciate that sad report

there. >> francis ford coppola dropping a bombshell of sorts. will another kardashian take the top spot and jenny mccarthy taking an unusual route to find a date. let's get the latest from the pop culture columnist. >> more sad stories. >> this is a surprise. >> this is a surprising story. >> he found himself in the path of tmz cameras in l.a. the other night and they asked him about the godfather movies. he said that godfather 2 was a mistake. it was only ever supposed to be one godfather and not a trilogy. it should have been left at the one. this is causing all sorts of people weighing in and thinking how can you think that? you and i were talking about this. this is a great movie in and of itself. it's a sequel and sets the bar

for all sequels. one of the actors from godfather 2 said i don't know what he's talking about. we thought it was a masterpiece. i don't know why he felt the way he felt. maybe he was caught on the wrong time. it was a masterpiece and i did reach out to francis ford coppola and maybe he was tire and didn't understand the question. we can all agree. you can definitely agree with that. our nightmare would be over soon.ç kardashian is the younger brother. he is in the final. ricki lake and j.r. martinez, but he is not necessarily bringing in the ratings. he was down from the part one finale. people might be traveling for thanksgiving. i would argue that dancing with the stars is on all year now.

how do you know when to tune in unless you are an avid follower of the show. it will be interesting to see how it shakes out. >> for single guys who might be interested in landing a date with jenny mccarthy, there is hope. >> you too could date a celebrity. she announced she joined match.com and keeping a low profile. she is not saying i'm jenny mccarthy and masking it a little bit. she is looking for just a nice guy. >> when you show up for a date and see her sitting there. >> the jig will be up quickly, but one of her good friends is patti stanger. i don't know if she tried to hand pick someone, but it does work from time to time. cher's last boyfriend she met on facebook. she said her name was cheryl and lived in las vegas. who knows. maybe this is the right passion for her. >> sounds like she might be

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