but first to you, brianna.er: yeah, this really struck me. and keeping in mind he is the ranking republican on this. so you're certainly expecting to get a partisan flavor from his comments. but it struck me as certainly more partisan than we've heard from him before. i actually remember during one of the first hearings having to do with congress in an rangel, jo bonner was pretty forgiving and kind of lamented that this is someone who is very respected. but it struck me he referred to rangel who was at one time one of his most highly regarded colleagues, yet he has little respect for the institution he claims to love or his district. who we i should say just recently overwhelming reelected rangel. >> and we were talking about it just a moment ago, one of the lines from jo bonner was, look, the people of the 15th congressional district of new york should have had an opportunity to snow the decision of this committee before they went to the polls. but you're making the point the folks in this district are well a

let's get to brianna keilar on capitol hill.ould, bring us the latest information on news that broke just moments ago. the subcommittee of the ethics committee back with its ruling on the allegations against charles rangel. >> reporter: and they found hi in essence guilty of 11 of 12 allegations. there were 13 counts initially, tony, of alleged violations of house rules. they rule e rolled one of those the other one. in tend, there's only 12, and they actually only found him guilty for lack of a better term of 11 of these things. let's remind people of what we're talking about here. so a dozen alleged violations are now violations having to do with really four different incidents. one, and rangel admitted to this, not paying taxes on income from a rental property that he owns in the dominican republic. keeping in mind that at the time this happened, he was the chairman of the very powerful house, ways, and means committee. this is the tax writing committee and he didn't pay taxes on that rental. and this is interesting because

it's carried on for a long time as we saw in brianna's piece. >> yes. >> how and when might this, what0,000 go to each of the 80,000 black farmers who were part of this suit? when would that be delivered and how? >> well, the vote that took place was a very, very historic vote. fredricka, as you know, that was the tenth time we tried to get that bill done and i'm so happy that we were 'to get done with the leadership of harry reid and the senators to work together to see that this bill happened for tens of thousands of black farmers. we have one more hurd toll work with after the thanksgiving recess in congress. so i'm looking forward to working with leaders there, and then it should take maybe about, up to six months to a year to go through the process, nearly 80,000 black farmers will have to go through the process. it's not a blanket settlement the way people portrayed it. each farm worry have to have a case heard by an individual arbitrator, but, again, yesterday was very, very historic in nature and i just want to thank the leaders of both parties for working together, leader reid

as you can see brianna jumps right in.ll give it to you, all of the dirty details on "good morning america" this sunday morning. i was very impressed with brianna's performance by the way. >> how did you decide what types of jobs you wanted to switch places to? >> we got essays from all over the country. and they were sort of widdeled down into a short set of options presented to all the anchors and everybody made their choice. >> so when do we see you? >> by the way i was in your area. calistoga to be specific. it was fantastic. >> you got a great assignment. all right. thanks. we'll look for that later. the news today at 7:00. thank you. >> take care. >> you too. we're gonna check now on sports as we've been talking about, this afternoon the raiders are taking on the first place kansas city chiefs. it's going to be the first home game shown on local tv since last season's opener. last night stanford had a huge pac 10 matchup down on the farm. here's shu. >> a little college football. hosting 15th ranked arizona. the top

cnn congressional correspondent brianna keilar on capitol hill.ow significant of a shift is this for lawmakers, brianna. >> reporter: good morning. this is a significant shift, especially for mitch mcconnell. take a look at the hill rag headlines this morning. mcconnell u-turn says one of them. here's another one that says mcconnell flips, backs earmark ban. this is significant because, obvious, him throwing his weight behind this is an indication of where it goes. this is a vote about 5:00 p.m. eastern time and this is within just the republican conference in the senate. and it's sort of something that's garnered momentum, especially among the more conservative senators in the republican party, in the senate. this was something that a lot of them took away from the election from the midterm election from voters who were saying, you know what? we want to rein in spending and so earmarks which, of course, are coloek we'lly known as pork and known on the hill as congressionally directed spending, they're the target here and we're going to be seeing

tell us more, brianna. >> reporter: that's right, tony. bringing in his former campaign manager, david plouffe, to work alongside his senior adviser david axelrod. before axelrod leaves the white house to go work on obama's re-election. this is coming to us from our chief white house correspondent ed henry who is telling us axelrod could be leaving sooner than expected, as soon after the state of the union in january and this could be part of a spate of turnovers in the white house. maybe this is just one of them. also on the ticker, let's head to texas. the fate of former house majority leader tom delay now in the hands of a jury. closing arguments held monday in his trial. he's charged with illegally funneling corporate donations to help elect republicans in the tx legislature. he was indicted in 2005, he resigned in 2006. he's actually pleaded not guilty to both money laundering and conspiracy and said this trial is going to exonerate him. we'll certainly see there, tony. >>> and to chicago now. the mayoral race there. the first african

let's go live to brianna keilar.e us the latest of what has been a difficult and shameful day for charlie rangel. >> reporter: this is serious. a censure is one step below expulsion. this is the recommendation of the ethics committee. still, there will be a vote scheduled by the full house. the full house will have to decide. i think the thought is that they will probably move on this recommendation. if they agree, this process is in essence public humiliation. charlie rangel would have to go on the floor of the house. he would receive a verbal rebuke from the speaker of the house herself. this coming today just a few days after an ethics subcommittee found that rangel was guilty on 11 of 12 counts of violating house rules for four different things. a couple of them, failing to pay taxes on income from a rental villa that he owns in the dominican republic even though at the time he was the chairman of the powerful tax-writing committee and soliciting donations for a college center bearing his name, doing that with co

brianna keilar joins us once again from capitol hill. few minutes. we will bring her back. meanwhile, congress convenes for a lame duck session but there's nothing lame about what that may mean for your bottom line. lawmakers may extend the bush tax cuts for some or extend them for everyone or they may just let them expire. so, what does it all mean for you and your bottom line? that's why we bring in carol costello. she's been working on that all morning. hey, carol. >> reporter: it's an interesting question, carol. those tax cuts, should they expire for everyone, just for the rich? is that fair? actually, it all depends on your perspective. it's how you look at things. we prepared some numbers for you to show you exactly how the bush tax cuts, if they're allowed to expire would affect your bottom line. this as assumes you're married with two kids and make $70,000. right now you pay 2,300 in taxes, and if they expire, you will pay 2600 more per year. that's 7 bucks a day. but another way, that's roughly three gallons of gas. if you are

brianna keilar on capitol hill.support barack obama back in 2008. the 73-year-old former general says that president obama deserves credit for stabilizing the economy and for his handling of the wars in iraq and afghanist afghanistan. but he also says had believes the president overreached and lost focus in his first term in office and that the next year will be critical. >> you endorsed the president, mr. obama for president two years in. any second thoughts? >> none whatsoever. when i endorsed then senator obama in 2008, i thought he was the right choice for the country. the country was in deep economic despair. i think the country needed a significant and transformational change. and i thought president obama would provide that for us. the american people are losing some focus on president obama, what he's trying to do. and when you look at the election results as he said, i mean, he got shellacked. i think it was a body blow that he has to reflect on and figure out how to come back. >> powell says the president'

brianna carter is there with us. >> two people face charges in connection with the stabbing that happened near this school, and they continue to investigate the stabbing that happened on saturday. meanwhile, there was a step up police presence here this morning. >> a large police presence this morning after the stabbing death friday of a 15-year-old student. authorities say he was walking home from school when he was attacked by a group of teenagers. officials believe the incident was gang-related. moments later, a 19-year-old man was stabbed in the grant park shopping center. police believe the two cases are related. >> we believe there is a gang affiliation, to what extent, we are not sure. we did made two arrests. the stabbing the night after, we have several people of interest. hopefully, we will be able to make an arrest soon. >> two other teenagers were arrested and charged with murder and gang participation in connection with hernandez's death. the two were both ordered held without bond. >> it was a little bit scary. what is going on at our high school? normally, my daughter would

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brianna, bring us up to date. >> that is certainly the question that residents have today after the nine arrests yesterday. it is certainly a hot topic for county residents. for residents of prince george's county, the corruption scandal is the talk of the town. >> i cannot get a handle on it. >> federal investigators arrested nine people, including three police officers. they were charged in connection with a tobacco and alcohol smuggling ring. >> these two cases have one important feature in common. the alleged police officers violated the trust of people in prince george's county, and sold their authority to commit various violations. >> jack johnson and his wife were charged with evidence tampering. some residents are concerned about how the allegations will affect the image of the county. >> this is going to have to be improved. >> i think it will work out well for someone to take over soon and we can put this behind us. >> a county elect officials said he is focused on this issue as he moves to county forward. >> we want to make sure we have people in there who's representation is

brianna keilar on capitol hill for us.d to see you. >>> a search resumed in ohio for three people. we have live pick you are of the search in mt. vernon. 32-year-old tina herrmanne. her 10 yoerld kody and her friend stephanie sprang haven't been seen since sunday but her 13-year-old daughter sarah maynard was bound and gagged in a home. >> reporter: residents in mt. vernon ohio are wondering how such a crime could happen in their neighborhood. >> they found my girl tied in a basement. what would do that to a kid? she's only 13. it's really sad. really particular people. >> reporter: sarah maynard was discovered in a s.w.a.t. team raid on the home of matthew hoff fan. >> she was being held against her will. she's in good condition and was taken to the hospital for evaluation. >> reporter: she had been missing since thursday along with her mother, brother, and family friend. blood has been found in their home in a nearby town. >> we have no one that we're aware of who is deceased so it continues as a missing person's investi

cnn's brianna keilar has been following this case all the way through. she joins us now from alcohcapi hill. >> reporter: this was a house proceeding, ali, but this was comparable to a verdict and did not turn out well for charles rangel, former chairman of the house ways and means committee, the tax writing committee. he was found in essence guilty on an 11 of 12 counts, violations of house rules. and that did include, as you mentioned, failing to pay taxes on rental income from this villa that he owns in the dominican republic. that happening while he was the chairman of that tax writing committee. also failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets, which every member of congress has to do. misusing that rent-controlled apartment, and also using, yes, that congressional letterhead as well as his ranking privileges and staff time to solicit those donations. what happens now? this committee, in essence again, this was like a verdict. they're going to move on to the sentencing phase, they call it a sanctions hearing. they're going to deci

brianna keilar on capitol hill. what's going on with this? >> reporter: kyra, you know during the election season, you heard republican leaders here in congress saying to tea party folks, we hear you and one of the ways sources tell us they're talking about trying to make sure that voters know that they have been heard is making sure that some of these new, incoming fresh men who aligned with the tea party they will have a voice and one of those ways is by actually putting one of them at the leadership table. this is kind of a big deal allowing them to sit there with the establishment republicans and have input. so who are we talking about? sources say that christie noem of south dakota is interested in the position and republican leaders are interested in having her. the caveat is to be endorsed and elected by the freshman class. this creates potentially an area where republicans check the box and say, hey, we have someone from the tea party at the table and michelle bachmann throwing her hat into the ring to be conference chairman. and at t

correspondent brianna keilar is on capitol hill. what do we expect to happen? >> reporter: there's going to be a public hearing and charles rangel boycotted the trial. not expecting him to boycott the sentencing phase and spoke with his publicist who said rangel is expected to take the 30 minutes allotted to make his statement. what does that mean? we know it is going to be dramatic, no doubt. in the end when the ethics committee goes behind closed doors and deliberates on what will happen to rangel there are a number of different levels s rebukes. the worse is expulsion, being kicked out of the house of representatives and seen as unlikely. there's also censure, a high level of rebuke. hiring rangel to the go to the well of the house and get a verbal rebuke. so it's a little bit of public humiliation and then a reprim d reprimand, a lesser level of disapproval and a number of other things including fine or maybe some loss of privileges and, kyra, to emphasize, this kind of thing doesn't happen very often. this whole ethics trial, the last time we saw this in 2

brianna, thank you. also want to remind you of our breaking story. we should be hearing at some point within this show getting a news conference from the sheriff and police up in mount vernon, ohio. they have been searching -- we've been all over this. this is the story of those three missing people. it was sunday they found the 13-year-old girl, she was bound and gagged in this basement. they ultimately arrested and now charged this guy marks enthusiast hoffman with her kidnapping. the bigamistry is what happened to these three other people, a child and two other adults. we should be hearing within the show possibly where this investigation has taken a turn. it may not be good news. in fact that's what we're hearing from one of the people's missing son, the bodies have been found. say here we could be hearing any moment. we'll be right back. mmmm. you don't love me anymore do you billy? what? i didn't buy this cereal to sweet talk your taste buds it's for my heart health. so i can't have any? if you can deprive me of what can help lower my cholester

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apparently brianna keilar is on the phone with news that they might start seeing the cash. >> reporter from democratic and republicans in the congress, that these black farmers will finally be on their way to receiving their settlement money that they have been waiting just years for. this was a settlement with the u.s. government because the u.s. department of agriculture discriminated against them, not giving them farm loans and not processing applications in some cases especially compared to white applicants. it's been hung up in a partisan move in the senate. there have been several attempts to move it through. there was a hangup on how to pay the money, billions of dollars to black farmers and billions in a native american settlement. here's what cleared the path. last night, oklahoma senator tom coburn who put a hold on the bill over oks to how it was paid for lifted that hold, and now these democrat and republican sources are telling us while they're working out last-minute details, they are telling us this will be fast tracked and passed today. this settlement got a lot of atte

came to talk about the wonderful possibilities about adopting children in foster care. 12-year-old briannaas here with her mom carol pratt who adopted two children from foster care. they came to share their success story i know what other families. >> my husband and i adopted two lile girl two 1/2 years from foster care. >> reporter: for a wednesday child, he was here with his family. >> my parents -- >> reporter: are you at home now for good? and happy? >> yes. >> reporter: finding home for children. and children for families who want them. is the reason for the expo. >> we are committed to helping children thrive and helping children in foster care find permanent supportive loving families. >> hoping to strt a family? quite some time. probably about four years. >> reporter: grehen hannah said she hopes one day she and her husband will be among those coming back with children to share the adoption experience. a story with a happy ending. barbara harrison, news4, for wednesday's child. >> i would love to see that. if you have room in your home and your heart and you want to adopt, please c

our congressional correspondent, brianna keilar, is covering the story for us.his has been a long time in coming, and a lot of our viewers aren't familiar with it. tell us what's going on. >> reporter: this is a long time coming and we've been covering this story, wolf, here at cnn for quite a while. this is about a pattern of discrimination. it went on for years and it really didn't happen all that long ago. black farmers who were denied equal access to government loans, subsidies as well as other usda programs. and today, the biggest obstacle to getting them the most that a court said they deserved, was cleared. for years now, john boyd has divided his time between growing soybeans and pressuring congress, fighting for tens of thousands of black farmers like himself, discriminated against by the department of agriculture in the 1980s and '90s. >> it takes almost 380-some odd days to process a black loan application. it takes less than 30 days to process a white loan application. they went through hell. they went through living hell. we lost land, we lost our l

. >> reporter: 12-year-old brianna pratt was here. mrs. pratt adopted two children from foster care. >> seeing she and her brother. >> reporter: the press came to share their success story along with other families who have adopted. >> my husband and i adopted two little girls from foster care. >> reporter: dupree mackey was here with his family. are you at home now for good and happy? >> yes. >> reporter: finding homes for children and children for families who want them is the reason for the expo. >> at the freddie mac foundation we are committed to helping children thrive and children find permanent, supportive, loving families. >> reporter: there were those here who said they've been through many disappointments in their efforts to start a family. >> hoping to start a family, probably four years. >> reporter: gretchen hopes one day she and her husband will be among those coming back with children to share an adoption experience. a story with a happy ending. barbara harrison, news 4, for "wednesday's child." >> if you have room in your

brianna keilar live in washington this morning.nd i guess the slurpees will be put on ice for a little bit. >> yeah, this is so sad. if not just for the fact that the slurpees we were going to have to mark the occasion are going to have to wait here. this is a meeting to discuss policy, areas for agreement for republicans and democrats in congress. this is due to scheduling conflicts, they've rescheduled it for november 30th. and congressional republicans say they are too busy right now setting up the new congress, finishing up business with the old one. but check this out, an anonymous -- some anonymous democratic officials saying this is a sign of things. that they can't even work it out to get together when they were supposed to. >> so both house republicans and democrats are holding their leadership elections today. is there drama on both sides of the aisle? >> it is. and for democrats it centers around pelosi. she's running to be minority leader. and she's likely to prevail, but not without some opposition. some liberal member

our brianna keilar is live in washington this morning.r in particular who may be in for leadership. >> that's right. and she is a freshman. this is christy nome of south dakota we're talking about. and one of the big issues here for republicans is when you have all of these new freshman members and many of them are lined with the tea party, how do you make sure you keep them happy, you make sure they feel, unlike the voters who put them in their positions, how do you make them feel they have a seat at the table? well, it seems to actually give them one. what republican leaders are looking at is creating this new leadership position and sources are telling us that christy nome of south dakota who you just saw a picture of her. seen as a charismatic, promising candidate, that she's interested in this position. and so at this point, though, even though sources tell us she has the backing of some republican leaders, republican establishment, folks who have been there for a while, it would have to be the freshman class of republicans who would

we'll get a breakdown what's going on on capitol hill from brianna keilar very shortly. we have other stories we want to tell you about, as well. the 33 chilean miners who inspired the world are getting a hero he hero's welcome right here in the united states, special guests of cnn. we'll catch up with them in l.a. plus how you can tweet your way to a $20,000 scholarship. can you sell yourself in 140 characters or less? and a mess that only a wizard can clean up, harry potter hijacked. part of the much anticipated movie has been leaked. but the big story today, less than 18 months after washington steered a sputtering general motors in to bankruptcy, it has given the keys back to private investors and earned about $12 billion in the process. here's a moment your grandkids read about. a bit of a departure from the normal way the new york stock exchange opens. that is general motors' triumphant return, the revving of an engine. a ward of a state no more. the retooled automaker priced hundreds of might have i don't knows of shares at 33 bucks a pace and drooling investors d

brianna keilar is up on capitol hill, and you saw what was going on, so explain what goes on now?year ethics investigation of charles rangel. what does this mean to be sentenced to a sense censure? it is 9- to-1 and it means he has to go through the well of the house of representatives and he will receive a verbal rebuke, and nancy pelosi, the long time friend with rangel will have to read the censure, and that is going to be a footnote in the long career. he is 80 years old, and he has just been elekted to the 21st term of congress and now here he is going to be facing the music at some point very soon for a number of ethics violations for one of the things that he was in trouble for and not paying rental, or not paying income for rental property that he received from a house that he owns in the, or a villa in the dominican republic, and that is happening of course while he was the powerful chairman of the house ways and means committee, the tax writing committee, and this is a tough day, of course, for charlie rangel, and this is a sentence censure that is handed down by the hou

brianna keilar is on capitol hill. what is going on up there?> reporter: it's about to get started again and this was really interesting because once he walked out, the committee, the subcommittee, drew, they took time behind closed doors to discuss his motion and said, yeah, we're going to keep going. but they sort of smacked at the law firm, zuckerman, spader, for essentially leaving him in the lurch. he said that he's spent $2 million and then talking with lawyers it was apparent to him that it could cost as much as a million more. he couldn't guarantee that he could pay it. they withdrew. and this went down somewhat recently after it became clear that he was going to have this hearing. but you also have the committee saying, okay, sure, but on multiple occasions we've also given congressman rangel advice on what he could do to pay for his legal fees, what's okay, what's not okay, and we've given him a lot of time to look at the evidence. so this pretty secretive committee took this rare move of hitting back at some of his claims that he need

brianna decided on that segment she was older than she was.she was 4 when she was actually 3. >> all right. >> wishful thinking on her part. she wanted to be a big girl. and she's now 12. >> wow. >> and so actually that was the second time i had seen them. i had seen them on programming a ar earlier. i thought they were so adorable. oh, surely somebody will ab them up and who would leave them in the system? and then a year later, barbara was doing a follow-up story and there they were. and i just decided at that point those have to be my kids. what is the likelihood of seeg them twice? >> sure. >>nd lo and behold they are my kids. it was indeed meant to be. and i have to say that barbara's interaction with them has continued today. freddie mac foundation has blessed us tremendously. francois had an opportunity to go to harvard on a leadership program. freddie mac stepped up and footed a lot of it. it's been an incredible, amazing experience. >> our viewers should know you are a father to five chirp, two of whom are adopted. >> yesterday was na