>> exactly, brenda. i kind of agree with jonas.'m not sure i'd be so quick bail out cities with national catastrophes. they decided to live there and build there. but jonas it right, a lot of tiesike detroit are heavily unionized. they invested heavily in these gold-plated cadillac-like government pensions as the revenues have dropped off and diminishednd detroit is a great example, people leaving the cityow for decades. they find they can't pay these pensions. so in a nutshell,hey mismanaged their money and now they're coming-- don't blame the council woman they did help to get president obama elected. look, we did youolid and unfortunately it's not the right way to go, i d't think anyone wants to bail out detroit for mismanagement. >> brenda: julian, what say you. >> i think we have to define the terms, quid pro quo and bailout are unfortunate terms. i think that jas made the rit point. you have to separate long-term and short-term issues. long-term, the same way that the government reformed entitlement, the state has to reform p

political environment. >> brenda: larry. >> brenda, the younes need to reinvent themselves.y need to get into my skilled jobs and earn higher wages and that's the key. >> you're right and the ia of organizing the lowest end of the structure here is, as jos says, the average lifetime of employee i think is nine months in the fast food business so it's antithetical and-- >> these aren't coal mines and slaughter houses, brenda, these are folding sweaters at the gap, shiers. >> we need to see more unions in china where they could make a difference, they could lift wages and impro living standards there. >> absolutely. >> and keep chinese, work forces from taking jobs away from america. >> good luck with that. >> brenda: thank you for the debate. and sandy victims facing devastation one month later, so is this any time for the united nations to be using them as a fund raising tool? the cavuto gang is all over that one at the bottom of the hour. hour. up here first, forget fees in this family used capital one venture miles to come home for the holidays. that's double miles you can

too big to fail, brenda, the nice thing about this. >> brenda: i never thought i'd hear you say that. and all right, guys, that was then and this is now, it's time for the best name to own in 2013. gary b, your prediction? >> well, i hesitate to go back to the well again, i'll go back with apple, slaughtered recently down 26% if highs, i think it will make new all time highs. >> brenda: jonas bull or bear. >> not quite as bullish, but yes. >> brenda: tobin, your prediction? >> blackberry has got the

>> exactly right, brenda.his is about keeping and creating jobs in a state like michigan, highly skilled work force and they've been bleeding jobs. and unions are big labor is big business in this country and a billion dollars a year on these elections and these are failed, failed policies and that's why the states are losing jobs. you know, instead, redirect those toward more productive uses within the labor force, training workers, keeping them in the work force and keeping them in the state and we don't need another recall like in wisconsin a complete waist of money and union dollars and that's why this is happening. >> toby last word here? >> we're going to see it's a big battle. but this is a battle that if they win, they lose for the state of michigan. >> brenda: okay. that's the last word. thank you all and thanks for joining us. so, you think coal is the worst christmas present ever? not here on bulls and bears, why that's all you should want from santa this clear.year. ♪ all i want for christmas is yo

>> no. >> brenda is not just a counselor, she's a former prostitute with 25 years in the game.n though jenny admits nothing, brenda can tell she's being pimped out. >> and the girlfriend and the girlfriend's kids and the girlfriend's man. that's not a normal relationship. that's how i used to live with my pimp and my wife-in-laws. with e all lived with him. >> you can benefit from kicking it with me. >> in the jargon of the underground sex trade. wife-in-laws are the women working in the pimp stable. the pimp is the daddy and the whole group, including children is called family. >> i know how the game goes. i was in the gang for 25 years. i know it ain't easy to get up out the game. a huge rule is not to snitch. a huge rule is not talk about what goes on in the family. any systems that come at her trying to damage the family system is an enemy. i can help you get a job for now brenda can see jenny is not willing to take the help offered. but she will open a lifeline for jenny if and when she's ready to change her life. >> one thing i leave them with i don't care what happens to

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>> brenda: finally jonas your prediction. >> brenda 2013 is the year the robot takes over, and it's going to solid in the vacuum cleaner robotics business and they're leading in 2013. >> brenda: oh, my god, you cannot replace him. that's, you know, have you ever done anything like that? and quickly guys we're going to go around the brady bunch circle here, the square. mar is the market going, jonas. >> up. >> brenda: and toby, how about a you? >> it's going down and then it's going up. >> brenda: and then gary b? >> it's going up in 2013. >> brenda: cavuto on business in three,two... >> hink taxes are not going up if these guys pull off a last minute miracle? think again. hi, everybody, i'm dagen mcdowell in for neil cavuto and fox on top of a clock ticking down. less than 62 hours until it all goes town and i'm not talking about thatall in time square or those automatic tax hikes and spending cuts lmakers are scrambling to avoid. i'm talking about taxes going up no matter what. taxes in the president's health care law. a new tax on investment income, a tax on medical device mers co

. >> brenda: gary b, bull or bear. >> looks kind of weak it me, bearish right now. >> brenda: and jonas, prediction. >> if you are watching the show you made it through the mayan apocalypse and lend out money 20 years, vanguard. >> brenda: toby what do you say. >> we survived the millennium and get 10% in a year. >> brenda: two years, better than losing money. all right. to all of you out there from all the elves on bulls and bears, merry, merry christmas. don't go anywhere because up next, neil cavuto. >> well, they're goofing off and we're headed off the cliff. i'm neil cavuto. instead of leading down for christmas break, this is what's going on on capitol hill. santa, santa, delivering coal to republican leaders, apparently, is not a fan of cutting government spending. wonder why he wore red, but i digress. house minority leader nancy pelosi using props to deliver pretty much-- >> more than 20 million children will have reduced food and nutrition benefits. merry christmas to you and yours. 1 1.7 sick million seniors will lose meals on wheels. happy holidays to you. >> neil330 million

stocks all the way. >> brenda: jonas, prediction? go for it. >> there's a helium shortage and it's good tore air products and chemicals up 20% for the year, up and up and away. >> brenda: toby? >> and now what? i don't think it's heliu he's ingestingight there. (laughter) >> and happy birthday, toby. >> thank you very mu. >> brenda: take it away, plea please. >> neil: with the fiscal doomsday 30 days away and us 16 trillion bucks in the red. is there any time for shelling out more green. hi, everyone, happy to have you. and so much for the spending cuts to cut our debt and falling for billions in new stimulus spending. get this, it would be part of the dough aimed at avoiding a cliff by creating more spending. are you following this? i'm not. maybe these guys are. ben stein, charles payne, sandra smith and adam and charl charlie. >> you laugh because you want to cry. >> neil: sometimes you laugh simply because you want to laugh. (laughter) >> since november 2011, we're 30 days away from this. are you serious? you want 50 billion in s

. >> brenda is now in a new apartment. she's getting job training, counseling and a disability check. she knows to finally find help for her problems when so many others are still looking. >> russia's president says he'll sign a bill banning u.s. citizens from don'ting children from his country. rights groups say, though,

brenda, not only going to go higher, we're looking at hundreds of thousands of jobs eliminated because of higher taxes. you can't, you can't simply look at small business owners small business comprise of two-thirds of all jobs created in the country in the last ten years, if you're going to raise that personal income tax, that's going to hit the small business owners they won't have enough to go out and hire and we all have to be epared because the lor picture is going to get fragile real quick. >> julian, you agree? >> no, and a certain point on the show and elsewhere we have to stop utterin opinions and using facts. the most definitive study done about this, the nonpartisan agency that republicans and democrats agree to be the ultimateuthoty is the congressional budget office. they looked at this question and they found that raising the top, the rates on the top 2% will have virtually no

schwartz cough is survived by his wife brenda and his three children. >>> former president george h.w. bush remains in the hospital in houston recovering from a terrible case of bronchitis which has triggered a series of complications. while mr. bush's condition is serious, in an e-mail yesterday, a spokesman said the former president hasn't lost his sense of humor. he said to please put the harp back in the closet. the family spokesperson joked i'm thinking heaven haven't seen a barrage of prayers like this since "it's a wonderful life." >>> this is parts of the northeast and midwest be still digging out from the last two winter storms which has left as much as 65% of country covered in snow as of thursday morning. the national weather service said snowfall totals in upstate new york and parts of vermont range from 11 to 15 inches but after a year of almost no snow

thank you so much for joining us today, brenda. what is the first thing we now need to do in the wake of this? >> well, i think i was just listening to you talk about tougher gun controls. and i think that i would focus on tougher social health controls. i think it is not just guns, not just mental health, it is the social integration of our entire communities. and families being able to have access to appropriate healthcare which includes mental health as a normal part of that and not something that separate. >> how do you think treating the mentally ill can prevent tragedies like this? we don't want to say oh, he has you a t you autism or something else. >> i think we have destigmatized mental health and that's why it is so hard to get the families care when they need it. if mental health were more of a routine part of healthcare in terms of treatment and management and if families had access to managing stress and their everyday issues that come up that can predict or lead to certain mental health conditions, then we would be ab

check this out, brenda. oh, my goodness.

i am your host, brenda wade. i it is holiday season. but it is a sad time for all of us. the friday newtown, connecticut shooting raises so many questions, so many feelings. how could this happen? how do we celebrate the holidays in the face of grief and loss? here to help us understand and heal, we welcome back our dear friend reverend perry lane with the interfaith circle. >> thank you for having me here. it is a pleasure. >> we need you. now, how do we wrap our heads and hearts around what happened in connecticut? >> it is difficult to do that because there is such pain. i think we have to feel the pain. sometimes we need to it is with the hurt or it is with the anger or it is with the disease and then let it move us into positive action. >> yes. >> so, i think people should not race to move from it, but to it is with it and ask, what would god have me do? >> yes. and you know, i can't agree with you more. from my other hat as a psychologist, one of the most important things for us to do is integrate feeling. we live in the don't feel culture. let's rush on, drink, eat

. >> brenda: jonas, what do you think. >> bad for the stock. and samsung, i feel like i put good money out after bad. >> and up to the hand. >> and the todd bull or bear. >> a bear, gaining market share. >> brenda: and you google best business anchor gues what you get? neil cavuto and he'sp next. . >> no guts no glory, are we surprised, no deal? so far, not a december to remember, and not with the cast of characters this december, a far cry from these cast of characters, 40 years ago, this december. the month and year man walalked his last steps on the moon. it's weird. four decades ago it seemed like nothing we couldn't do and today looking at the fiscal charade in washington, nothing we can do. >> welcome, i'm neil cavuto and 40 years after man left the lunar surface, politicians barely scratching the surface. >> 20 years after the astronauts made the impossible, possible. finger pointing spend thrifts who make the possible, impossible. how did we go from reaching for the srs to reaching t the other guy's throats. the astronauts who went to t

my name is brenda washington and i'm a tenant organizer at the jefferson hotel in the tenderloin and i want to thank supervisors kim and campos for this legislation and i also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who worked from the sro collaborative, who supported this legislation stand to up and be recognized. everybody raise your hand. we want to thank you guys. [ applause ] >> thank you, miss washington. i did call up emrano perez, if she is still here. please come up. >> supervisors kim, farrell, campos, i wish to testify anonymously. i have a few random thoughts on bed bugs, the spread of bed bugs. first of all, i don't think we have a clue as to how pervasive bed bugs are in san francisco. a thoughtfully constructed survey needs to be devised and implemented. supervisor kim i would suggest that there isn't an apartment building in the tenderloin free of bed bugs. the tenderloin is densely populated. a low-income area, old and neglected buildings, an area in other words vulnerable to their spread. no. 2, interest there is no consistently effective treatment that i am

>>heather: thank yous brenda, we appreciated it. >> you can catch brenda at 10:00 a.m.bulls and bears and here every weekend, as well. >>gregg: i am your biggest fan. >>guest: really? do you want an autograph? >>gregg: could i, please. speaking of the effects of hurricane sandy or super storm sandy, depending on what cuomo says, the statue of liberty will remain closed indefinitely, with crews having to work to repair the heavy damage from the super storm and lady liberty recently undergoing the $30 million refur beneficiarying just rebeing office the storm. word of continued closing is a major blow to businesses linked to the tourist attraction and they have already laid off 100 employees for the statue cruises. >> and talks over a fiscal cliff could be at an standstill. our political insiders are here to tell us about that. >>heather: battling obesity and what 10 college is doing to ensure the health of their students. [ male announcer ] more than a security system, adt can help you turn on a few lights. access cameras from anywhere to help you keep an eye on things.

brenda frese turning to the wonder twins. two combined for 40 points, 20 boards. >>> i love seeing her ton sideline. >> oh, brenda gets after them. doing a great job there at

kimberly who runs the vote tear programming and zoey and brenda from green acres. where is brenda? she's not here and carolyn from the port who we have worked incredibly close with. [applause] just to conclude there has been a lot of talk about team lately. chris bochy said it yesterday and the mayor said it yesterday and this morning. this is a team and great things happen when we work together and looking around the room there are so critical members of the team and putting our parks and rec and open space, the quality of life for san franciscans ahead of self and that includes the port. it includes department of public works. it includes public utilities commission and the local unions and the park alliance and friends at bicycle coalition and the rand off institute and center for environmental yesterday. there are so many incredible partners contributing to making this city better and it's a special day so go team. [applause] >> just wanted to mention a few other partner who is are key to what the port tried to accomplish here along the waterfront, both here in bay view and thr

brenda frese turning to the wonder twins. the two combined for 40 points, 20 boards. >>> i love seeing her ton sideline. >> oh, brenda gets after them. doing a great job there at college park. >> absolutely. >>> we'll be back in a minute. ♪ ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc works with you to understand yours and help plan for your retirement. visit a branch or call now for your personal retirement review. >>> we want to remind new upcoming weekend is just humongous football-wise. on saturday army-navy. sunday, redskins, rains. we're going to beat them up. then complete game wrap-up, "game on" live from fed ex. hey, man, you have to be confident. >> i can see you both in front of your big screens loving life. >> lots of wings. >> wings. in the people, businesses, and organizations that call greater washington home. whether it's funding an organization that provides new citizens with job training, working with an anacostia school that promotes academic excellence, or supporting an organization that serves 5,000

brenda lee sang that first. >> 1958, sounds like an adult.s 13 when she sang that. >> is that true? >> hormonal thing going on. she sounded older. i know everything. >> of course you do. back across to cath. >> this guy from where you were born, oklahoma. >> all right. >> hoda! ♪ where the win comes whipping down the plain ♪ finish the lyrics to this classic christmas song please. ♪ then one foggy christmas eve, santa came to say ♪ ♪ rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight ♪ >> you know what we don't care what key he sings it in. okay. >> that is a classic. >> what trivia fact i have about that song. >> what do you have about that song? >> i don't know anything about that song. i mean it is what it is. >> that's it? >> "rudolph the red-nosed reindeer." >> kath, back to you. >> lovely lady from south carolina what is the top selling holiday album of all time? kenny g's miracles the how day album, josh groban "noelkn noelr >> the correct answer is kenny g's. i was thinking it was celine or mariah. >> no offense to ken

and brenda tells what her child experienced. we're gritful that your daughter survived and only imagine how your heart goes out to the other parents? how are you doing. >> i'm not doing well today. yesterday i was running on adrenalin, i was happy my daughter was alive. i was very sad for the rest of the families and today, it really hit me bad, really bad. >> i'm sure it's something that every parent, i'm a parent as well, thinks could never happen at their school. >> absolutely. >> jamie: do you know anything about this suspect? >> i'd never heard of him. i have older children, 22 and 17 and they never heard of him either. so i-- and i didn't know his mother eith either. >> how is your child doing today, your daughter. >> she's been doing well and her cousin is here and they're playing christmas music and she's upbeat and trying to keep things normal. >> jamie: we're going to talk to a psychologist, you don't have to have had a child at that school to talk about something like that. what did you say to her in the last 24 hours

brenda, thank you. so 26 people dead. 20 of them young children, tragedy that will ripple for weeks and months to come. when we come back, the president speaks to the nation about the tragedy. >>> newtown, connecticut police department received a call for help at the sandy hook elementary school here in newtown. there were fatalities. there were 18 children pronounced dead at the school. there were two that were transported to area hospitals and pronounced dead at area hospitals and six adults pronounced dead at the scene, at the school. governor's reported the shooter is deceased. >> we were just in the middle of gym when we heard some gunshots. and then the power went out and the gym teachers directed us to stay against the wall and everybody started to kind of panic. >> we heard a lot more gunshots and the ambulance came. but then the police addressed to us run out of the building and go to thement for. the fire department. >> it doesn't seem real. it doesn't seem possible. you read it in the paper o

brenda buttner, anchor of "bulls and bears."as reading this article where shoppers in beijing have seen the prices of vegetables double in one week alone. inflation is a problem over there. what is causing it? >> basically it's not a bad problem, it's growth. china has numbers we can only dream of, growth of about 8%, we're below 2%. their factory output was up 10%. retail sales, 15%. so it is basically growth driven not supply side driven which is the kind of inflation you want to see. it's only 2%, that is well below the target of 4% is. it came down from 6.7%. >> gregg: so it's an issue not really a problem and outweighed by the huge growth. how does the inflation american consumers if at all? >> we buy a lot from china. it may be that some of the input may be more expensive. we may have to pay more, but it's more that china is becoming really a hub of capitalism despite the fact it's run by a communist government. >> gregg: let's put graphics on the screen. china has now purchase sur passed as the leading trading partner in