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if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> welcome back. my guest justice antonin scalia and bryan garner, co-authors of their book. why do you believe that people who burn the flag in america should be allowed to do so, yet you personally, if you had the chance, would send them all to jail? >> if i were king, i would not allow people to go about burning the american flag. however, we have a first amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged, and it is addressed in particular to speech critical of the government. i mean, that was the main kind of speech that tyrants would seek to suppress. burning the flag is a form of expression. speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. it could be semaphore. burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea, i hate the government, the government is unjustice, whatever. >> if you're not sure, then in the end, no one knows the constitution better than you do, doesn't it come down to your personal interpretation of the constitution? if it isn't clearcut, which it clea

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talk to your doctor about crestor. [ female announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca be able to help. >>> i'm a friend of sarah conner. i was told that she's here. can i see her, please? >> no, you can't see her, she's making a statement. >> where is she? >> it may take a while. want to wait, there's a bench over there. >> i'll be back. >> arnold schwarzenegger in the role that launched a million imitations. "the terminator." he is back with me literally. you are back. do you feel that you could go back into politics after all that's happened or is that now like the bodybuilding, done? >> well, you know, i have really no interest to go and run for office or anything like that. i jumped into the race because i felt that california was in a disastrous situation, and i felt that it was time for someone from outside the box to come in and not the typical politician, that people were kind of really looking for somebody like that and someone that is in the middle and that really wants to go and fix the problems rather than thinking about every decision in a political way. a

if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> tonight's only in america, only just the greatest comeback in sporting history, a verdict so breathtakingly bad, we're talking dewey beats truman. now, after saturday's ryder cup action, we saw the americans take a pretty good lead. he wrote the following, for those who think the ryder cup is finished, think again. team europe can still win if the following things happen. keegan bradley is abducted, team usa captain davis love iii inserts cup spectators michael jordan, president george w. bush and the reverend jesse jackson into the lineup, or make lee westwood a u.s. citizen. so funny, because he wasn't playing well. marty mcfly shows team europe captain how to go back in time, last friday morning will do. number five, team europe wins eight of the remaining 12 matches to retain the cup. team usa has a two-day lead that cup casts pray for. it's as difficult as trying to climb mount everest wearing flip-flops and cargo shorts. he still wasn't finished. if mrs. potter had had quinn uplets and they all played gol

if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> after the debate i had a bunch of folks contact me saying don't be so polite, don't be so nice. but i want everybody to understand something. what was being presented wasn't leadership. that's salesmanship. >> president obama taking on mitt romney in his post-surge debate. let's bring in my political all-star panel. charles blow, columnist for the "new york times" and former romney foreign policy spokesman, rick grinell. welcome to you both. let's start with this stacey dash thing. there is a very nice, attractive, talented young black actress who decides because she has come to this conclusion i'm -- i voted for obama before, i'm voting for romney now and all hell breaks loose. she's the subject of a vicious attack on twitter by all sorts of people. what do you make of it? >> listen, i think it's unfortunate that anybody can make up their mind and vote however they want. i think also, you do have to realize that there are people who kind of gravitate to vote in groups and they kind of think in groups. i think we s

if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> hi, i'm susan hendriks.e from anderson in a moment. >> a federal criminal investigation has been launched into the practices at a new england compounding center. that is the facility linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak. the outbreak may not be limited to steroid injections. black flecks were found inster vials returned to the center. >>> illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. returned to mayo clinic today for a followup evaluation. jackson is being treated for depression and bipolar disorder. he has been on leave of absence from congress since june. >>> also today, jerry sandusky has been transferred to a pennsylvania state prison. he will be evaluated to determine where he will serve his 30-year sentence for sexually abusing ten boys. the former penn state assistant coach is appealing his conviction. >>> on wall street, the dow slid 240 points to a seven-week low. the s&p and nasdaq also posted sharp declines as well. the sell-off was prompted by weak earnings reports from three major industrial compan

first up, astrazeneca, shares today are actually off their lows but they are to the downside.on? >> they were down a little more earlier. but the company is suspending or ending its share buyback program. that spooked people out especially after the close. it has come back a little bit but analysts saying that really this could be either the disappointment about how well the program worked, ie the buyback, or something about astrazeneca's strategy. of course they faced a lot of criticism lately about their absence of late stage drugs in the pipeline and they have underperformed the majority of their peers this year. >> it is about pipeline, pipeline, pipeline for these companies. we've got microsoft as well which is getting a downgrade today. >> just when microsoft was looking good the last couple of months. rbc downgrading from sector perform to outperform. this is mostly a valuation call. a lot of the gains around windows 8 are already probably priced in to the name. hitting the stock about .5%. >>> 3m buying se -- krechlt radyne. >> they're in a lot of thinks but one of the

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if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >> pelley: a *s last night's debate, one of the sharpest disagreements was over defense spending. it's a huge part of the federal budget and it employs a lot of americans so we asked wyatt andrews to tell us about the candidates' very different views. >> every piece that you're seeing right now is custom made. >> reporter: george hill is president of advex, a defense contractor in hampton, virginia, a firm now making precision parts of the aircraft carrier u.s.s. "gerald ford" due for launch in 2015. do you vote based on defense spending? >> i vote based on what i think is best for the country. >> reporter: but is defense spending up there? >> sure. it's what i do for a living. >> reporter: the president has already cut projected pentagon spending by $487 billion over ten years and will keep actual spending flat. that's still enough, he says, to keep the military the strongest on earth. >> we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined-- china, russia, france, united kingdom, you name it, next ten. >

call or click to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca maylp. >>> the so-called lava lake inside the volcano in hawaii is running very high right now, with the level rising in the giant vent there in the top. it is within at least a 100 feet of the rim. the whole mountain top continues to expand and move there. it is wild there, it has been active since 2008. now it will be wild in the skies for the next couple of nights. and some folks in the san francisco bay area got a spectacular preview last night with a large meteor streaking across the sky. the shower happens every october, right now, just like clock work as the earth passes through the trail of the old haley's comet. >>> during the adult lives of most of our viewers there has always been times and news week at the checkout. now there is only time. news week is going away in 2013. it was always the upstart, going against the conventional wisdom of time. "newsweek" took more chances, more edgy, risky, a great time for artists and writers when "the washington post" owned it. >>> up next