how do we feel about this apology from brent mussberger.y his comments yesterday during monday night's bcs championship game were inappropriate and they apologize and he understand they were inappropriate. this is what he said when the camera spotted this beautiful young lady, katherine webb, girlfriend of a.j. mccarron. >> i'm telling you, you quarterbacks, you get the good looking women. what a beautiful woman. if you are a youngster in alabama, start getting the football out and throwing it around in the back yard with pops. >> wow. hey! espn said this. we always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an auburn grad who is ms. alabama and the current alabama quarterback certainly met that test. however we apologize, the commentary went too far and brent understand that. >> i think they hit it exactly right. not a gross infraction, but he kept on talking a lot about it right now. growing up to quarterbacks so they can land the cute chicks. >> the person who is going to be offended is going to be her. if it's ok

and an eyebrow race raising comment, yes, we're talking to you brent mussberger. >>> chuck hagel named defense secretary nominee. his confirmation will be anything but easy. >>> and we have a date. the u.s. could default on the debt ceiling earlier than expected. what it means for you. >>> and an exclusive exchange when piers morgan sits down with a man who wants him deported. >> 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms. >> more from that, coming up. >>> members of the championship crimson tide football team, mike xwnch olic, and mike greenberg. mike buttry. talk about addiction with patrick kennedy and christopher kennedy lawford and the former university of texas track coach, bev kearney will join to us talk about her lawsuit against the school. tuesday, january 8th. "starting point" begins right now. welcome back, everybody. "starting point," a crimson tidal wave fair to call it. alabama crushed alabama, 42-14 was the score at the end of it all. won the bcs national championship. the game was pretty much over, kind of not long after it started. alabama scored the fir

not like what brent mussberger kept saying in the stands.caller: jim, big california booyah. a very important call. i am getting married in a week. the wedding is not cheap, the honeymoon is not cheap and that ring sure as heck was not cheap. we need to make some money here. >> why the heck are you doing it? >> caller: two major questions. >> you are getting married, i'll let you have two. but you are facing that prolonged sentence to the green mile, i'll let you have two. >>> a big part of game stop's business, selling hard copies of new and used games. obsolete. so much time to play, i mean in between when i'm switching avatars @jimcramer. game over. come on -- ah! >> jim, are you not controlling this. >> i'm not? ah! >> avatar. a graphical representation of a person used in virtual worlds, games, or online community. like twitter. >> tweet me @jimcramer, new aafia tar. why can't we get as my avatar. we should change avatar constantly. i want this to be my avatar. coo, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up

. >>> an apology from espn about the remarks made by brent mussberger.e got overly excited and a little creepy when he spotted a.j. mccarron's girlfriend in the stands. in case you missed it, here is a bit of a sample for you. >> wow, i'm telling you. you quarterbacks, get all of the good-looking women. what a beautiful woman. a.j. is doing some things right. if you are a youngster in alabama, start getting the football out and throwing it around the backyard with pops. >> i'm more offended if you are a youngster in alabama, this is what you need to do to get that. >> we always try to capture interesting storylines and relationship between an auburn grad who is ms. alabama and the current alabama quarterback certainly met that test. however, we apologize, that the commentary went too far. we will be joined by jenn sterger. a similar comment by mussberger years ago actually helped launch her career. >>> the baseball hall of fame nounces new inductees this afternoon. some believe we could see a complete shutout. largely because of the stain of steroids. al

we could make as much fun of him as we did brent mussberger. be great. >> south carolina could have beat notre dame last night. >> that's what i was telling all of my friends. south carolina and clemson could have beat notre dame, certainly the way they played last night. >> bill: yesterday david historic day at the white house. it looks pretty clear that on this nomination, president obama is going to fight all the way right? >> yes, very much. >> bill: hagel and john brennan. >> right. especially on hagel. brennan has a few critics because of the enhanced interrogation technique issue. but a lot of focus will be on hagel. frankly, i'm surprised. he heard he might not go with hagel. now he's going forward full blast. >> bill: they have a personal relationsship which is important to obama. in many of his picks. >> absolutely. he admires hagel quite a bit. when president obama went to the senate, hailingel is one of the people -- hagel is one of the people he looked up to and now he's repaying the favor. >> bill: yesterday he made a -- i thought

that could be seen as a little bit low brow, but i think people just take it as good natured -- brent mussberger73. i think he thought he was being funny and pitchy. i don't think he meant any disrespect. >> some people were calling it creepy actually. >> you can't argue with that. a little creepy. >> sportsillustrated.com anchor. thank you for joining us. get some rest, girl. >> thanks. >> six minutes after the hour. if the u.s. doesn't raise the debt ceiling, the country could be in default, five weeks, half a month earlier than expected. according to analysis by the bipartisan tax center. it will almost certainly happen before march 1st, despite ordinary measures taken by the treasury department. >> new overnight. a tragic helicopter crash. officials say two americans were on board when it went down in a village in central peru. the chopper crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff yesterday afternoon. three of the bodies recovered away from the crash site. four are still crashed in the wreckage. >>> day two of a court hearing in the case of james holmes, the alleged shooter in the aurora th

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>>> alabama rolls to its third bcs tight until four years but it was announcing brent mu mussberger's comments making news this morning. ♪ let's dance, put on your red shirt and dance the blue ♪ >> bowie's back and it's his birthday, ziggy stardust celebrated giving his fans a new song from his new album. ♪ let's dance, while color lights up your face ♪ >> good morning to you. thank you so much for joining me, i'm carol costello. we begin with a debate over gun control and new efforts to force stricter laws. former congresswoman gabrielle giffords launching an online campaign to raise funds and public support. she's unveiling the effort two years to the day since a gunman shot her, along with 18 other people, also marking the anniversary, a second initiative founded by new york mayor michael bloomberg, it targets illegal guns and features the mother of the youngest victim in that tucson killing spree. >> my 9-year-old daughter was murdered in the tucson shooting. i have one question for our political leaders, when will you find the courage to stand up to the gun lobby? whose child has