mr. cooper or anyone to agree with my position.m saying is let's at least have the honest decision without the rhetoric of politics and without the optics of politics. bill: i think the american people are calling for that. >> i understand that's why i what's elected. bill: congressman cooper, thanks to you as well. there are other ways to do this. we'll see whether or not in the next 16 days it happens that w way. martha: you wear that open microphone. nicholas sarkozy was caught on tape talking to president obama and wait until you hear which world leader he called a liar and says he can't stand. bill: herman cain's accusor has spoken. it's time to hear from herman cain and we will later today. steven cain is here with what he thinks will happen today. and sharon bialek says what she wants to hear. >> i think what he's going to say is he's still going to deny it unfortunately. my hope of all hopes is that he won't. companies you're just a policy. at aviva, we're bringing humanity back to insurance and putting people before polici

mr. cooper? >> why not mr. cooper? we've got the piercing blue eyes, right? pretty incredible.gover." he says he's a 36-year-old single guy in hollywood, so people assume that makes him a player, but he doesn't think of himself as a ladies man, but he loves women. there's a difference. we like that about him. >> how does this work? there needs to be someone who, he's in a lot of tabloids. people want to know who he's dating. been in a couple of popular movies that people love. you just have to have a hot streak, if you will? >> maybe the spotlight shines a little bit brighter on this guy. that's kind of how he bubbles to the surface, but you want a guy who's humble. when he heard that we were wanting to name him sex yas man alive, he thought he was being punked. that's what you want. you don't want a guy who thinks, i'm sexy, this works. you want a guy that's like, really? and bradley has fun with it. he's having fun with it and most of the guys we choose also really enjoy this title. >> how does this process work of choosing these folks? do you have a little committee? and als

mr. cooper, a member of the armed services committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. cooper: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen said that our worst enemy is not any foreign power or al qaeda. it's our own national debt. that's right, it's official now. congress has become basically america's worst enemy. i wish we would take it upon ourselves to cut spending to balance budgets. we are failing in doing that. and we've failed repeat think. i wish the supercommittee would come up with a super solution, but that does not look likely. i regret we are at the stage where we need a balanced budget amendment. i regret we're at the stage of partisanship, where just 10 years ago, 72 democrats voted for this, including two of the three top members of our leadership. we have to live within our means. the nation's future is at stake. it's sad that we have become so lame that we need this crutch but we need it. america's overspending, our obesity in this body is so great that we have become

through any transit nations all leaders again a stressing the importance of this cooperation for energy security and quoting mr been dead if he said no economic sound alternative to cooperation bear and angela merkel say calling it one of the most important energy infrastructure projects of our time again we just saw all that unfolding live a very big moments indeed for all those involved all right well you are watching our team at this moment and for now let's go to the sports desk for all the latest with you then. thanks tessa great to have you with us this is sports today we begin with some news former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has died at age sixty seven following a brief battle with liver cancer the legend was diagnosed with cancer just last month he passed away at home in philadelphia surrounded by his family the one nine hundred sixty four olympic gold medalist he was also included in the international boxing hall of fame smokin joe he became the first man to beat. in one thousand six thousand nine hundred seventy one in what was called the fight of the century drew fraser was sixty

mr. cooper: as part of my tennessee job creators tour i've met with over 40 businesses. they have a clear mess a g on how washington can help create jobs. yet government -- get government spending under control, create a fair, flatter, simpler tax code and repeal job-killing regulations that hurt theirable to do business an hire more workers. mr. desjarlais: they can invest, grow and hire. to accomplish this, we have passed a total of 17 job creating bill this is year and they are stuck in the senate. please go to jobsgop.gov and read the plan. the democrats' suggestion that poor sales are driving unemployment is shortsighted an out of touch considering the overwhelming consensus among businesses i have visitted. it's time for the senate democrats and president obama to follow the lead and pass these 17 bills. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. pascrell: just recently they produced a job loss r

mr. mosey was not cooperative and officers had to use force. >> reporter: moseyed a mets he resisted because he was confused having shown up to's friend in crisis. he is also considering a lawsuit because of his injuries. joce sterman, abc2news. >>> the airforce's top general is taking personal response in the way soldiers remains were mishandled in 2009. the general testified at the senate armed services committee. three supervisors have been suspended. >>> governor martin o'malley has ordered all flags flown at half-staff. >> reporter: on the eve of this veteran's day we get the news that our area has lost army lieutenant colonel david cabrera. he was a social worker and assistant professor of family medicine assigned to the health sciences located in bethesda. he was living in hole ni, survived by his wife, three sons and a dawmplet graduated from high school in houston, graduated from texas a&m. he was the man teaching doctors out in the field how to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. he landed in afghanistan september 30th. less than a month later he was killed by a suicide bombe

mr. chairman, that the white house is attempting to cooperate with this committee's investigation and for my part and for mr. waxman, mr. dingell and the rest of the members on this side of the aisle we would urge the white house to go overboard in cooperating with this committee's investigation. but it is inaccurate, if anybody intend to leave the impression that the white house documents were requested eight months ago. that is incorrect. they were requested two months ago and there have been good faith efforts to produce documents. secondly, mr. chairman, i've reviewed the proposed subpoena. we got that from your staff late last night to the white house and it is a very, very broad subpoena. it says, documents to be produced. all documents in the possession of the executive office of the president relating to the $535 million loan guarantee to solyndra, inc., by the department of energy, including but not limited to notes, analyses, reports, memoranda, and all drafts of such documents. my concern, mr. chairman, is twofold. the first one is, since you're dealing with a very broad docume

want cooperation we live in the time when confrontation turns to cooperation and i give a good wise to your minister of foreign affairs mr lavrov to accept the invitation to be engaged and i think our principles are very clear that is transparency predictability cooperation and as much as russia is in gauged in the system i think we can dispel all misperceptions and misunderstandings we have turmoil one of the arguments i know russian diplomats have is that if this system can the damage russia as nato claims then then then what proves it if nato isn't ready to give legally binding guarantees to moscow this system cannot dummy's russia this is not directed against russia that is directed against common threats may be stretched against russia and against nato countries and if you will speak about. legally. binding assurance i say this system is based on trust the system is based on confidence we can put it in writing you you can get it written but a sink if you look for an international treaty that is it will last a long time but that is not what is necessary and the don't know what this purpose should serve we should buil

mr. larsen for his cooperation. i remind the members, i think this is on balance an excellent boish effort that moves the coast guard forward and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: all time for general debate has expired. pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute, it shall be in order to consider as original bill for the purpose of amendment an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of the rules committee print dated october 28, 2011. that amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered read. no amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute made in order as original text shall be in order except those printed in house report 112-267 and amendments en bloc describes in section 3 of house resolution 455. each amendment other an an -- other than an amendment en bloc may be offered only in the order printed in the report, by a member designated in the repor

he's at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in hawaii. and mr. obama is pushing for a new free trade agreement, the transpacific partnership. it would include the u.s. and nine other countries and cover about one-third of the global economy. president obama says it would create jobs in the u.s. >> this is where the action is going to be. if we're going to not just double our export but make sure that good jobs are created here in the united states, then we're going to have to continue to expand our trade opportunities and economic integration with the fastest growing region in the world. and that means, you know, in some cases some hard negotiations and some tough work as we went through in south korea. i think that was a great model of prioritizing trade with a key partner. it wasn't easy. i said at the outset that i wanted -- i had no problem with seeing hyundais and kias here in the united states, but i wanted to see some chevrolets and fords in seoul. and after a lot of work and some dedicated attention from president lee, we were able to get

this committee and the american people can be assured that there is active cooperation on your part, ok? >> yes, senator. >> mr. hillman, i have read reports of the person and the telephone, the person who is just a pass-through, and our encouragement of the small business people being able to be involved in dod procurement, how serious is that part of the problem? >> well, we all value be participation by businesses. in this instance though, in this investigation, what we have learned what several purchases we have made is that individuals are proposing -- posing as the representatives of multiple companies and are willing to supply parts to us that are not authentic. where no actual part numbers exist. >> i thank you, witnesses. thank you, chairman. >> thank you, senator mccain. senator udall? >> one of the best things i have heard is that this is a serious and growing problem. i would like to add on to what the chairman and senator mccain asked, and i think senator mccain really put his finger on this. the government and industry have to work together. mr. toohey, afford to hearing the results of your incre

mr. cain and the women worked in the 1990s trying to get them to release her from her confidentiality agreement. this is what he said to anderson cooper the truth? >> yes. >> can you elaborate? >> how so? >> it's difficult. there were two women who filed complaints at the time. it's unclear which one he's speaking about all the time. to the extent he's made statements he never sexually harassed anyone and there was no validity to the complaints, it's certainly not true with respect to my client's complaints. >> he's not formally asked them to release her from the confidentiality agreement. he would like the group to take action on their own. we have contacted the association for response on this. this is what they said. we have seen media reports saying joel bennett is making requests on behalf of a former national restaurant employee. mr. bennett has not been in contact with the association. if we are contacted, we will respond as appropriate. he's not contacted them. he wants to wait until he meets with his client. that could happen as early as today. he needs to get a copy of that confidentiality agreement which he client is going

have reacted earlier because in the past we have heard even mr barroso into other of the selfsame talking about silly darity and cooperationin the european union and now we have our own lives this did lie and greece suffers even easily suffers which is a bigger economy and probably will create not probably not for sure it procreates more problems than home if you will so that's something we're reporting on as well but for now focusing on greece very much with your help journalist through it is our computer thanks ever so much for painting a picture from athens for us from our. next it was a journey across the galaxy back again without ever leaving planet earth it was a simulated round trip to mars has been completed off for seventeen months long test to see how a crew might cope with the grueling effects of long distance space travel. to see the crew return to normality in moscow after over five hundred days in isolation. back on earth i was well actually they never left but pale faced. these six men are returning from a five hundred twenty day epic mockup of the mission to mars and back thankful to be back on a fellow ear

mr. obama announced an agreement with australia to expand the u.s. military presence there starting next year. >> this rotational deployment is significant because what it allows us to do is to not only build capacity and cooperation between our two countries, but it also allows us to meet the demands of a lot of partners in the region. >> mr. obama will address the australian parliament tomorrow. >>> campaign 2012, the republican presidential race just got a little tighter. it shows four candidates nearly tied for the lead in iowa. the state holds its caucuses in january. we go now to susan mcginnis in washington with more. susan, good morning to you. >> good morning, terrell. >> reporter: we have had candidates survive scandal and flip-flops and flubs, and now with a surprising come back from behind of newt gingrich, when it comes to iowa and the republican nomination, it is still anybody's guess who gets it. the republican candidates are hitting the campaign trail hard, especially in iowa, where the first caucus is just seven weeks away. a new poll of likely iowa voters shows a tight race with four men near the top. herman cain still holds the lead, despite accusations of sexual harassment and several missteps

cooperating with any request from the ig and coordinating it with, um, our counterparts at fhfa. >> okay. well, you both met full compliance of all requests of information from the office of inspector general? mr. williams? >> congressman, we work with the ig cooperatively -- >> will you commit, it's a question. and i understand you want to give a different answer, but will you commit to providing the documents and information the office of inspector general requests of your entity? >> we have been, congressman. and we'll continue to do so. >> you will continue to do so. >> uh-huh. >> is that correct? >> that's correct. >> thank you. mr. haldeman? >> yes. the only caveat i'd add is that we do coordinate that activity with our regulator, fhfa. >> okay. so the, so to be clear, to you, mr. demarco, so the oversight, the office of inspector general, who is to oversee you, they must request from you in order to request from the entities that you're regulating in order to get information? >> the ig's responsibility is to oversee the which i and efficiency and effectiveness of fhfa, and we -- and that is done to get the effect of some of fhfa's activities, they will request information from the regul

mrs. kutcher. >>> bradley cooper the sexiest man alive are building online and on the streets, too.ongue in cheek occupy movement. >>> and this is going viral on youtube. it's no wonder the clip is called my daughter chooses the dark side. today, she destroys a toy car. tomorrow, who knows. it's 8:06. now back to al with a check of the weather. >> wow! >> like the cackle. >> we have our friends here. what? i can't spell. what does it say? >> longwood dancers. it's a college. >> where is that? >> longwood, kansas. >> all right. sunny, cool, 54 degrees. and we've got a big system coming into the pacific nortes hw it is looking a little on the brisk side there. we'll be expecting to see some rain, snow in the mountains. lake-effect snow showers, tughill plateau, upstate new york, snow showers also. northern minnesota. sunny and cool in the gulf coast. frigid weather throughout alaska, temperatures way below zero in the interior sections of that state. and we've got sweet 16s. what's your name? >> maddie. >> and? >> erin. >> and it's your 9th birthday. very nice. and another sweet 16. >

i urge our colleagues to show the same type of cooperation that we did on the surface transportation bill today. mr president, and our committee. let's use that same spirit of cooperation to get this bill moving with the tester amendment. let us pass it, send it back to the house and hopefully we can get it to the president shortly for signature and help our veterans and help our economy. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i am going to replace you in the chair in a few moments, but before that, i wanted to come over to the floor and talk about our economy and some work that this congress needs to be engaged in if we're going to get things moving on the right track again. today, the stock market plunged 400 points because of concerns that are going on in europe, especially with italy. it's a debt crisis that has been on the front page of every newspaper around the globe for weeks. in some cases, months. and i'm reminded of the discussion that we had over the summer that

i thank him for his cooperative efforts. mr. landry: thank you, mr. chairman. madam chairman, i ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment. the chair: is there objection? without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. it is now in order to consider amendment number 15 printed in house report 112-267. for what purpose does the gentleman from puerto rico seek recognition? mr. pierluisi: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: amendment number 15, printed in house report number 112-267, offered by mr. pierluisi of puerto rico. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 455 the gentleman from puerto rico, mr. pierluisi, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from puerto rico. mr. pierluisi: thank you, madam chair. i understand the other side of the aisle needs a colloquy so i yield one minute to mr. mica. mr. mica: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i'd like to yield to the gentleman for -- from texas for the purpose of entering into a colloquy. >> i thank chairman mica, i rise to enter into a colloquy with him

mr. levin: and i thank all of our colleagues for their cooperation. and i understand the vote will now take place. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate move to bring to a close debate on s. 1867, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2012, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is is it the sense of the senate that debate on s. 1867, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2012 shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 88, the nays are 12. three-fifths of the senate having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. a senator: madam chairman. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. nelson: i ask unanimous consent that stef knee peterson, an

mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. opinion. we're not talking about russia's dependence we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sector the stream is viewed as a priority project both by russia and the oil because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six not recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy. which was and from all appears from problem meant. that the energy minister stream pipelines have already been laid what top of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet i don't know that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic metres could be the question of whether a third or even feel like climate living or that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom in the order and holland's got sunni. in germany and the s.f. winter certainly like the investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline through a privately finals might we're not talking about things like the

mr. schultz as far as what occurred that night. he has been cooperativeith the investigators in this case. he is not regarded as a target at this point. >> over the weekend, paterno issued a statement. he said he did not understand the full extent of what took place in the shower. the statement says, and i read part of it, it was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw but at no time did he relate to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report. we could learn more from joe paterno tomorrow when is he expected to hold a news conference here on campus, shepard? >> shepard: lee, the prosecutors say the man charged here sandusky found his victims through a children's charity. >> not just any charity, shepard. it was the second mile foundation. it was a charity that he founded back in 1977. all of the victims, they say, came from that charity. let's talk very specifically about one of the victims that's mentioned in the grand jury report. victim identified as victim number 4. he was taken to a a bowl game and jerry sandusky

mr. obama traveled to his native hawaii where he hosted the asia pacific economic cooperation summit. he visited australia and indonesia. the president says the most useful thing to come out of the tour was the opening of asian markets for u.s. goods. >>> and relief that the hour for homeowners and firefighters in the sierra foothills near reno. snow helping to extinguish the massive wildfire that charred 2,000 acres and destroyed 32 homes. the nevada governor says it as miracle more weren't lost. most of the 10,000 evacuees now back home. investigators say power lines likely sparked the flames. i'm marianne rafferty. now, back to "justice" with judge jeanine. for the latest headlines, go tm fox news .com. faulkner. now, back to the judge. >> judge jeanine: what was accused rapist going out on the streets? arrested on a charge of forcible rape, flagged as an illegal immigrant. yet for some unknown unfathomable reason the rape charge is dismissed, the deportation process stopped. so santana a free man, free to commit murder. a reporter with the dallas morning news and michael wylde imm

general mattocks will go and come the men of the meetings in january to discuss future security cooperation. some of mr. secretary, and i presume for the record we are prepared to entertain any of these discussions at any time with primm and mr. maliki and his cabinet. it seems to be the key point in this juncture is the point at which prime minister now that he and his government begins to read on your way to their position and their perception of the need for additional american military support, and without that the in the 2008 agreement which they negotiated the agreed to the scene to accept stands as the law. >> that's correct. >> thank you. i have no further questions. >> thank you. senator. >> thank you mr. chairman. i want to thank secretary leon panetta and for being here on this important topic. i think all of us want to make sure everything that we have fought for and those that have sacrificed in iraq but we would we have done doesn't become underlined, and my husband is an iraqi war veteran and all of us share that. we would like to bring our troops home but there are serious questions tha

have the same aims be objectives and i believe we'll continue to cooperate and collaborate closely on that issue. dan lothian? >> thank you, mr. president. last night of the republican debate, they -- some of the hopefuls -- they hope to get your job -- they defended the practice of waterboarding which is a practice that you banned in 2009. herman cain said, quote, i don't see that as torture. michele bachmann said that it's, quote, very effective. so i'm wondering if you think that they are uninformed, out of touch or irresponsible? >> that's a multiple choice question, isn't it? let me just say this. they're wrong. waterboarding is torture. it's contrary to america's traditions. it's contrary to our ideals. that's not who we are. that's not how we operate. we don't need it in order to prosecute the war on terrorism. and we did the right thing by ending that practice. if we want to lead around the world, part of our leadership is setting a good example. and anybody who has actually read about and understands the practice of waterboarding would say that that is torture. and that's not something we do. period. nora o'donnell.

mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. we're not talking about a dependence on russia we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sector. north stream is viewed as a priority project by both russia and the e.u. because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six is recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy ministers or problem meant. that the interview minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what the third one will be added and what will be its capacity. that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters the question of whether a third or even fourth pipeline will be laid should be answered by european stock holders as you know we have gazprom on the one side and. hollins got sunni france's g.d.s. suez and germany's and b.s.f. windowsill on the other if investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline privately financed mind you we're not talking about stink financing and then it could be done i do not know whether they will make s