chris cuomo, abc news.be it's because i'm here to ask about the lavish congressional pensions that allow them to retire earlier and collect more money than almost everyone else in or out of government. and guess what, you are paying for it. the fact is, a 20-year member of congress who is at least 62 collects over $50,000 a year for life. >> i represent taxpayers back home, chris, who don't make a whole lot of money. >> reporter: meet the face of the resistance, congressman howard coble of north carolina, who has been trying to cut back the pension for 28 years. right now coble is sponsoring one of three bills that either replaces the pension with a 401(k) or brings it in line with the rest of federal employees. >> and, of course, you can imagine, chris, how many co-sponsors i have. >> reporter: how many? >> none. >> reporter: did you say seven? >> no, none. hardly any. none. >> reporter: and that's what brought me to washington, to find congressman dan lungren. he chairs a committee that's been sitting on

i could give you other examples of things of economic strategies to be developed a andrew cuomo did a great thing organized york into 10 regions and the legislature set aside money and they are competing with this to get the cash $200 million they have not decided how to divide it but they have to come up with the regional development plan new york is a very diverse state. my went the other day up to all the need to meet with the thousands of people that represent these regions and i am telling you know, even those that don't get the money are way ahead because they're actually talking about what they want to do and how they will do it instead of having idle political debate that is what i think chesley is referring to. we ought to give the tiniest the market? even though we have greater capacity and domestic demand am much better venture-capital than they do? and the price drops precipitously? and if you know, what should we do about it? the government and the private sector the same thing with the wind in governor cuomo just signed a great bill kidney york called on bill accounting.

>>guest: if cuomo is dumb enough to budget a senator way that he thought the super committee would worke should not be government. anyone that thought this was a pun, this is --. >> and you had a backup punt. >> this is a punt. if you think this would work and you are the chief executive of any major state you should not be in that state. it sounds like a blatantly political message what is the fall back if assuming they don't have a deal, but, but, but they try to change the sequestration, the automatic cuts, the move on part of some republicans to cool it open the dense cuts or maybe shelf them or shelf the automatic backup cuts entirely, wouldn't the market tank or our credit rating tank again? >>guest: zanzi was on fox news yesterday and he is moody's economist and he said probably not. he said they have made some progress at least that is what i thought he said. and, the ratings are what they are. s&p took a lot of heat for cutting us the one notch they did. think about it, is france really a better rating than us? is it a better credit risk than us in >>neil: but if we are downgra

and he's won a lot of support and good for the state of new york, what cuomo is doing, but presidentma is so scared of his base that he would rather just push off this decision, knowing, as chris said, it's going to get built and he has to make sure that he wins first, which i think is so selfish. >> kelly: af got to jump in, guys, it's clear that the president has a tough political decision and made that decision already and people have been protesting in front of the the white house and saying if you don't, if you do this, we're not going to be your base for 2012. but the bottom line, there are people hurting out there who need jobs. >> that's right, now. >> kelly: chris, you said this is going to happen, why not do it now? >> well, you know, it's going to happen, but get rerouted away from that aquifer, you cannot sacrifice a freshes natural resource like drinking water. so valuable. in new york, we've got plenty of drinking water, in the midwest it's a scarce resource and we've got to proekt it. that's why republican in nebraska and others in the middle of the united states have

i could give you other examples of things of economic strategies to be developed a andrew cuomo did a great thing organized york into 10 regions and the legislature set aside money and they are competing with this to get the cash $200 million they have not decided how to divide it but they have to come up with the regional development plan new york is a very diverse state. my went the other day up to all the need to meet with the thousands of people that represent these regions and i am telling you know, even those that don't get the money are way ahead because they're actually talking about what they want to do and how they will do it instead of having idle political debate that is what i think chesley is referring to. we ought to give the tiniest the market? even though we have greater capacity and domestic demand am much better venture-capital than they do? and the price drops precipitously? and if you know, what should we do about it? the government and the private sector the same thing with the wind in governor cuomo just signed a great bill kidney york called on bill accounting.

andrew cuomo did a great thing. organizing your content regions and got the legislature to set aside money and the reasons are competing with it to get this cash. i think it's $200 million or something and they haven't decided how much they're going to provide it. other regions had to come up with regional development plans. new york is a very diverse state. so i went the other day up to albany to meet with the thousands of people that represent these regions coming up with these plans and i am telling you, even the regions that don't get the money are going to be way ahead because they are doing something they never had to do. they talk about what they want to do and how they are going to do it instead of having some idle political debate. so that's the kind of thing that i can chelsea is referring to. the federal government ought to be doing this. we have to be -- do you want to give the chinese and the germans the whole solar market even though we have greater capacity just in domestic demand and much better vent

cuomo this constant james damn well then let's you know ok well this is a first for me ok in the snow actually for me too so. what's the idea about today what's going on well it's a golf tournament so you play golf almost the same rules us for some money you have of course some local rules. over us rules are you know code and conditions of weather conditions right now ok so now we're trying to play in mind holes. but always been in the good walk spoiled camp when it came to goal but louder was obviously a down pound and she said she could give me a few pointers. what do we need to do so the first thing you have to set up your ball on the tee ok you know then those but to make up position in them so prepare yourself to make a suit and then to break. you out of the headlock. not exactly in a special start not always thought go for the non-contact sport. all . walking wounded. i want to get out of the way of the person playing. some soothing tea i was ready to teach. the ladies went on when i decided i'd play a solo round. as long as i wasn't attempting to drive. ahead in the right direc

as an i italian-american i would be incredibly insulted of rudy giuliano -- rudy guiliani are mario cuomo used an italian accent to appeal to my a better nature. professor cornell west don't use black english or tavis smiley except for emphasis would you address that issue by the mechanism is so popular and in use? >> guest: that is a fine question. when the president of the united states when they get before an audience they try to figure out how to connect with the audience. that is pretty typical in terms of people trying to be persuasive. when black politicians are more predominantly black church or the naacp or another organization, they will often speak in a way or make allusions a reference is they think that will connect with the audience. there is a fine line between doing that and engaging in unattractive pandering. it is a fine line in sometimes people go over the line, but by and large when the president changes his diction and a little bit, what he is doing is what politicians typically do. not just politicians. if i am speaking to my audience at harvard law school i will oft

abc's chris cuomo reports. >>> bend over the bed!rter: this video can be disturbing to watch. it is over seven minutes an it has gone viral the world over. a father in texas whipping his 16-year-old daughter for being on the internet when she was told not to. you don't need to see much of the video to get what it is. a father's idea of discipline. 17 lashes. what he calls spanking. but why the tape surfaced may be more revealing. the girl in the video is hillary adams and she set up the camera. >> another discussion was escalating in severity. i could tell that a beating was going to take place sooner or later. so i set up the camera and waited. >> reporter: this was in 2004. hillary held the tape for over seven years. then another argument with her father, this time she tells him about the tape and she's he basically said, so what? hillary says she released it to confirm what she had believed for so long. this is wrong. >> i just wanted somebody to see it and tell me that, no, hillary, this wasn't right. i am glad you were able to g

the really fascinating things in terms of trying to change this and break the bottleneck is andrew cuomoor of new york -- >> yeah. >> -- said something sensible, you know, we have to cut budgets and we have prisons upstate new york where, you know, they're being underutilized, you know, we have to close some of those down. he's having so much trouble trying to close these prisons. all of a sudden people are saying it's hurting jobs in upstate new york, there's literally a prison industrial complex that, you know, has an economic interest. >> and that's an important point that we need to think about. and, michael, you know, i know you've done a lot of work on the criminal justice system both on the activist side and as an attorney. what does it mean for there to be a financial stake in prisons as barry just pointed out that there are actually jobs attached? we go to some cities where towns would shut down if the prisons shut down. how do we make sense of that? what do we do about it? >> there's money to be made in the prison industrial complex, no doubt about it. but if it was only about

new york state you have governor kumho when he was attorney general, he pushed -- governor cuomo when he was attorney general, he pushed through legislation so the people have power to consequence date. they have thousands of taxing districts up there. reporter: some local officials say a one size if it's all solution may not work for other towns considering consolidation. >> i think you have to consider when municipalities merge and create one government entity when there were two, that's going to be a larger government entity covering a greater amount of ground. consolidation and municipal merger is an interesting debate because it's the one time you hear it said that bigger government is more efficient and more effect. >>> it. reporter: in a statement to fox news governor chris christie says he hopes other municipalities in new jersey will follow the princeton example as the state looks to create more savings and efficiencies during this difficult economy. in princeton, new jersey, laura ingall, fox news. >>> next on the news edge at 11:00 the price of catching a cab in d.c. could

some of the images in this story are disturbing, as "20/20" anchor chris cuomo takes us inside the nationaltonight. >> bend over the bed. >> reporter: this video can be disturbing to watch. it's over seven minutes and it's gone viral the world over. it's a father in texas, whiching his 16-year-old daughter for being on the internet when she was told not to. you don't need to see much of the video to get what it is. a father's idea of discipline. 17 lashes. what he calls spanking. but why the tape surfaced may be more revealing. the girl in the video is hillery adams, and she set up the camera. >> another discussion was escalating in severity and i could tell that a beating was going to take place, sooner or later. so, i set up the camera and just waited. >> reporter: this was in 2004. she held the tape for over seven years. then, another argument with her father. this time, she tells him about the tape and she says he basically said "so what?" she says she released it to confirm what she had believed for so long. this is wrong. >> i just wanted somebody to see it and tell me that, no, this

ministers and officials play a big role in it too for example recently got hold of a speech by governor cuomo of. greece's governor right now he was meeting with his subordinates and in a specie repeatedly made outrageous statements that were totally unconstitutional. so governors mayors local officials they're all working to give one party competitive advantage over others to make sure it remains the ruling party. so it is not just the crumbling many local officials are doing this as well. you just said something that our audience me consider terrible he said the region is getting weaker but russia is a vast country with nuclear weapons to some extent you are poor. g.m. so we have a member of this regime saying it is weakening isn't that dangerous for the world why. i think dictators like a dolphin saddam hussein poses a much greater danger for the world i think that energy in a country like russia or china or the u.s. would be much worse i only said that the current regime is getting weaker which means the opposition is getting stronger we are ready to take responsibility and power we are r

the catskills in the hudson valley and people of course protesting against it for what a governor cuomo do that great democrat he just signed off on them to do it and they're a hundred thousand is a reservoir and joe just to compare the fracking obvious that seven hundred forty seven million dollars twenty thousand lights in two thousand and eleven i was looking at trans canada which has that keystone pipeline they spent one point three million dollars in two thousand and eleven less than that before it so i don't know if they just didn't pay the right price high enough price i don't have time to ask but i will get back with that with you after the break just a short break out if you could hang tight we'll have more with terence alexy. all right it's time now for the word of the day where we break it down a financial term or concept for our very smart viewers but perhaps not the financial expert in the crowd so today it is free trade area which is very fitting because i was just talking about this with gerald's with the asia pacific free trade agreement that obama is pushing for the fre

as an i italian-american i would be incredibly insulted of rudy giuliano -- rudy guiliani are mario cuomo used an italian accent to appeal to my a better nature. professor cornell west don't use black english or tavis smiley except for emphasis would you address that issue by the mechanism is so popular and in use? >> guest: that is a fine question. when the president of the united states when they get before an audience they try to figure out how to connect with the audience. that is pretty typical in terms of people trying to be persuasive. when black politicians are more predominantly black church or the naacp or another organization, they will often speak in a way or make allusions a reference is they think that will connect with the audience. there is a fine line between doing that and engaging in unattractive pandering. it is a fine line in sometimes people go over the line, but by and large when the president changes his diction and a little bit, what he is doing is what politicians typically do. not just politicians. if i am speaking to my audience at harvard law school i will oft

and if it features perry cuomo come apparently it does not. we'll hear from italian and greek officials . we are on this story because it is your money no matter where you live. >> hello, everyone. i am uma in washington and this is a fox news alert. future of the world economy in question. greece tries to avoid bankruptcy and prevent the crises from sweeping over europe and beyond. the prime minister pushing for a new coalition government . protestors hit the street necessitily sending word that italy's prime minister may not be long for his. the world is looking on with worry and wondering when the next crisis may come. we begin with greek burke who is standing by live in rome. >> that's right. it is interesting. george papandreou got through the confidence vote. but today. it is clear that the problems are real still for greece and for all of europe. a new days and a new challenge for george papandreou. we he went to see the greek president and in an effort to make a government in which it is easier to pass the tough cuts that are part of t

. >> andrew cuomo the secretary of hud told them waive your down payment requirements. don't require money down. don't require income verification. and subsidize interest rate. >> bill: give them the mortgage and if they get in trouble help them with it that's why they build up, build up. >> it wasn't a question of helping them with it give it to them for basically nothing down. if he they fall behind in the interest payments, the inflation and the value of the home will take care of it they can always tell it and make a profit and move on. it was never designed for a static or declining market. >> bill: that's why it collapsed. >> then the government had to bail it out. >> then what fannie mae did bread this virus in a petrie dish and then they spread it all over wall street and the world by security advertising the mortgages and say you buy a slice. you buy a slice. so everybody had one percent of these horrific mortgages and when they fell apart, it caused the whole financial system of the world to collapse. >> bill: remember when i had to yell at banky frank for lyi

. >> andrea: i don't know why he wouldn't more like andrew cuomo, democrat, governor of new york and would punt the decision on hydrofracking in new york state and push it off but he had the great point to come out and support fracking. he is the governor that he said obama would be. >> kimberly: he punts, delays, show some leadership. we need jobs. >> greg: on that note. the new ad has president clinton giving advice to president obama. will he take it? probably not? it's friday. he has a date. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses... not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up

after all school he began to get involved in public policy matters, but also worked for mario cuomo in the early 1990's, and then was recruited in the new caucus campaign to work for bill clinton and he ran the economic policy unit of the clinton campaign in 1992. when he left the clinton administration, he joined the workings as a scholar and the council on foreign relations and set up a center for universal education to help children around the world make sure they get education. he spent time as a consultant to the west -- to "the west wing." he was interviewed by a writer and the writer subsequently became his wife. gene is now married with two children. he resides in washington now and is well known, i think, for his enormous encyclopedic knowledge of economic policy. he spent 11 years working on economic policy matters, but also for his workaholic tendencies. for the last 11 years he probably per hour is the least well a person in washington, d.c. it is our great pleasure to have a gene make a presentation, and later we will have questions and answers. gene? >> thank you, david.

. >> andrea: i don't know why he wouldn't more like andrew cuomo, democrat, governor of new york andhe would punt the decision on hydrofracking in new york state and push it off but he had the great point to come out and support fracking. he is the governor that he said obama would be. >> kimberly: he punts, delays, show some leadership. we need jobs. >> greg: on that note. the new ad has president clinton giving advice to president obama. will he take it? probably not? it's friday. he has a date. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. can make it from australia to a u.s. lab to a patient in time for surgery may seem like a trumped-up hollywood premise. ♪ but if you take away the dramatic score... take away the dizzying 360-degree camera move... [ tires screech ] ...and take away the over-the-top stunt, you're still left with a pretty remarkable tale. but, okay, maybe keep the indulgent supermodel cameo... thank you. [ male ann

people didn't want bill clinton in 1992, they wanted mario cuomo.as not pure enough on the ideological. >> his numbers haven't moved. >> but he ended up -- what is there, eight or nine candidates? and by the way, the whole narrative again on the left that somehow conservatives don't like romney doesn't play out in the polls. >> his numbers haven't moved, rick lazio. in all of the polls -- wait a minute. just a second. >> sure. >> he does not move -- >> let me tell you -- >> if i leave out of this studio, get in the car, pull up to the corner and i'm still sitting there five hours later, i can't say i'm consistent. i'm stuck. he can't move. that's not progress. >> bur you're looking -- here's what i would say. forget about the national numbers right now, which is what you're pointing out for a republican primarily that hasn't even picked a candidate. look at the early states where he has a dominant position, for example, in new hampshire. he's got a huge lead in new hampshire. he's lot a lead in sock second quarter, nevada, in michigan. >> governor,

. >> andrea: i don't know why he wouldn't more like andrew cuomo, democrat, governor of new york andracking in new york state and push it off but he had the great point to come out and support fracking. he is the governor that he said obama would be. >> kimberly: he punts, delays, show some leadership. we need jobs. >> greg: on that note. the new ad has president clinton giving advice to president obama. will he take it? probably not? it's friday. he has a date. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ what's better than gold ? free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride. that's a plus. rewards with no blackout dates so you can redeem anytime. and it's easy to redeem your points online. already a gold member ? just select gold plus rewards in your profile and start rewarding yourself now. just go to hertzgoldplusrewards.com to join. hertz gold plus rewards. journey on. tltltltle emotional here? aren't you getting a little industrial? okay, there's enough energy right here in america. yeah, over 100 years worth. okay

carl paladino, he lost the race by 30 points to andrew cuomo, everybody knew paladino was an art projects campaign slogan the same thing as the bob dob art slogan from the '90s. i'm mad as hell, too, carl, bob, whatever. by the time people were voting on carl paladino, people figured out carl paladino was satire, performance art. nobody figured that out during the republican primary in new york state. mark lazio was a totally respectable candidate. he was the mitt romney of the republican governors race primary in 2010. he'd run for senate against hillary clinton. like mitt romney, he was sort of a perennial candidate who had been running forever, very well known to voters, very mainstream though he was a little squishy, sort of slightly uncomfortable, off putting guy. carl paladino who was an art project about how nuts you could be while still running for office, carl paladino, the bestiality e-mails guy, who sent out a political mailer spiked with a trash smell, carl paladino beat him in the republican primary by 24 points. new york state did not figure out carl paladino was an art pro

mario cuomo had this issue come up when he was governor of new york and he was running again and someyou know, you've got to change your mind on the death penalty and be for the death penalty, most new yorkers are. and he wouldn't do it. and he sat with us in the statehouse and he said, if you change your mind on something that fundamental, people won't trust you again. you're not going to win over the people whose side you went over to and you're going to lose the people who were with you before. and people just want to know who you are, particularly on things like abortion and gay rights that mitt romney has flipped on. and that's what's giving him problems with his own base. but i think it's going to give him problems next year as well. the economy is not going to be obama's strong suit next year. that's what he's going to have to do. >> sam, it's interesting that parties who think the other side might have gone too far to the right or too far to the left have still decided to hit the opponent on being a flip-flopper. i'm thinking back to the mcgovern campaign in '72, the nixon cam

i use it when i was in cuomo last year. with the women, it is, like you said, a very powerful tool. >> right, rights. >> when you get to do it, and there is no category of women that you use that crown or thorns with, that doesn't really speak to them. one of the other parts of the mannerisms, sometimes we try to tilt it a bit, is reaffirming yourself being a woman as a woman, and we do different things like the cat walk. we do different things like -- i remember when we there working with all of these women who had experienced war and asking them to stand up and just describe themselves. it was amazing. last year, we did it with female ministers inly beer ya, and we asked them to stand up and just reaffirm their beauty. one of the female ministers said, wow, i never felt so good in any company because i never ever taken the time to complement myself. it's not about what spectrum of society you find yourself from grass roots, middle, to top level, sometimes women are so busy taking care of the world that sometimes our husba

you have worked for mario cuomo, obama, and bill clinton. >> that would be a great question to answer[laughter] up there with who you love more, mom or dad? greta and your answer to that question is? >> my answer to that question is that i have lived a charmed life as a progressive policy wonk. the privilege i have had to work for people who are of such intelligence and commitment. that is not to say that there are not other people who would be great leaders to work for, but all of them were so intelligent, so thoughtful, so interested in the details of public policy. when i was asked about ron barack's book about obama, i was so upset about the thesis that he was being dragged along by others. i sat in march in a six-hour meeting in the roosevelt room on whether we should go forward with our stress test. the fact that the economic team did not totally agree to meant that the president had to sit there at the most complex financial issues imaginable and go back and forth quizzing some of the top economists and financial experts in the world and then making what ultimately proved to be

. >> the same thing that governor cuomo said in new york. yeah, unions, you can get your own way but then i'll have to cut tens of thousands of you so you either have to come together and the way he did it may be up for debate but i believe and many experts believe, i should say, that this puts president obama back in play in ohio with labor. >> this puts other states on notice how far they were going to go if they thought the wisconsin and ohio plans work. will this be a warning so the that they won't attempt it? there are tons of political ramifications by this vote yesterday. at the same time in ohio, there was a different vote, that was health care and whether you should be able to opt out of the individual mandate, the mandate amendment. 66 approved being able to opt out. 34% were against being able to opt out so this sort of is the reverse of what the people were saying in ohio with regard to political lines. >> exactly. republicans got one defeat and one win as well. what they want -- what they wanted to prove in ohio was simply you c

you're right, you point out governor cuomo.n massachusetts actually signed something very similar, collective bargaining reform for health insurance for local officials. those are things that people -- even rahm emanuel of chicago is doing the same things. honest leaders are knowing you cannot move forward unless you're going to gut services or raise taxes but we took the path that was right for the people of wisconsin. >> got it. and governor walker, always enjoy talking to you. it's not an easy thing you did but no one can question your leadership. thank you very much for joining us today. >> happy thanksgiving. >> same to you, sir. next, the top five companies hiring for the holidays much let's give them a great thanksgiving. some of the jobs are for keeps as well. cheryl casone will be out here. and in 1964 "the leader of the pack" was the number one song. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes? but you've got a meat and potatoes guy? pour chunky sirloin burger soup over those mashed potatoes and dinner is served. fou