erin burnett makes the leap from cnbc to cnn. what's her take on coverage of the ailing economy and how will her new show compete in an opinionated landscape? >>> and news outlets can't get enough of the trial of michael jackson's doctor and others can't care less. we'll have a diagnosis. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> maybe the governor of new jersey will jump in and completely shake up the presidential race, or maybe the chris christie flirtation will turn out to be just another brief comment across the media galaxy. move over, romney and perry and bachmann and cain and santorum, journalists have a new heartthrob. >> is this the man who can defeat the incumbent president? he could have ended all the talk about running, but he didn't. >> people who are down the middle, just everybody around here is talking about chris christie jumping in the race. >> no means no. or does it? another full-throated denial from governor chris christie, but does anyone believe him? >> i talked to a close englewood visor to the

a lot of yankee fans holing their breath with the $82 million burnett pitching.connects for a two-run home run. that caps off a four-run inning for the rangers. texas wins game three by the score of 4-3. game four in tampa bay today at 2:07. they could close out the series, texas. in the national league, the phillies and cardinals tied at a game apiece heading back to st. louis. the late game, milwaukee can close out the d back's in arizona. >>> the colts and bucks were playing espn's monday night games. for the past 20 years, you might have noticed something was missing at the top of the show. ♪ are you ready for some football ♪ >> last night that theme song, of course, written and sung by hank williams junior that has appeared before the broadcast for the last 20 years was pulled from the air by espn. why? because hank williams junior made these remarks earlier in the day about president obama. >> you remember the golf game they had, ladies and gentlemen? remember the golf game? that was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. >> you mean when john boehner

corporate darlings well you know but it's specifically certain personalities to i think the erin burnett is a great example here of somebody who used to work for c.m.c. who just announced her engagement of course to a banking executive and then you have this example that bothers me even more of andrew ross sorkin where he basically said that the only reason he went down there is because one of the c.e.o.'s from a top bank on wall street asked him to go down there and check it out because he was worried about it then he doesn't disclose who the source is which you would think that would be kind of a big deal if wall street bankers are actually showing concern about it you know i just this is a lead as i'm at it's worst if you ask me. absolutely i agree with you and sorkin a someone who writes a column for the new york times should have not only the obligation but the responsibility to care about these protests and do real coverage of these protests for the fact that he claims that some you know c.e.o. or executive with the bank contacted him and said that he was worried for his life is ri

and we have a couple of clips we're going to play but i want to start with reflecting on this erin burnett clip that we just you know at first we heard so much critique that hippies why are they wearing suits they'll be taken more seriously now they're not being taken seriously because they're wearing designer yoga pants i mean how do you win with that. you don't win with that and honestly if i were erin burnett i would be so humiliated by that report because she completely misses the point and she totally focuses on something that's so irrelevant you know later on in that seriously segment she went on to ask one of the protesters whether or not he knew that the majority of the money that we lent in the bailout was actually paid back in the government made money off of that well the protesters said that he didn't know that but he would like to do more research into it and that was like her a ha moment like all these protesters don't even know what they're doing let's be a little that let's knock them let's make fun of them why do you do some real journalism and talk to as many people as yo

of bank executives now are we andrew but even worse may be example number two that would be erin burnett a former c.s.u. star who just launched a grand new show on c.n.n. she have this to say about the protesters during her segment called seriously. this by what you heard here's what i saw it's not just a bunch of dancing hippies protesting there are all kinds of people there babies teachers cheerleaders uncle sam and. that seriously it's a mixed bag but they were happy to take some time from their books banjos bongos sports drinks catered lunch yet it was catered lunch designer yoga clothing that's a little lemon logo computers. and phones to help us get to the bottom of it. goes in lululemon pants so it's not a crime now well joining me to discuss this from our studio in los angeles is an experience co-host of the young turks and i want to thank you for joining us tonight and we have a couple of clips we're going to play but i want to start with reflecting on this erin burnett clip that we just you know at first we heard so much critique that hippies why are they wearing suits they'll

he told erin burnett tonight his fund-raising's picks up in the past week. said his campaign will report having several hundred thousand dollars in cash on hand and no debt at the end of the current third quarter. we'll watch for those numbers. what he does with that money is a critical test because it takes organization to win over the long run and for all of his appeal, mr. cain is lacking here and significantly so. top aides in iowa and new hampshire quit this year, and there's significant turnover in cain's small headquarters operation as well. check out this daunting david versus goliath challenge. according to reports filed in july, cain had 26 paid staffers on hand, total, one or two in the key primary states. romney had twice as many, 57 staffers and i know romney staff has expanded more over the past couple of months. red flag, some aides who work for mr. cain question whether his goal is popularity or the presidency. he gets big fees on the speaking circuit, of late raises i brous putting book signings ahead of campaigning in key early states. you

bobbie burnett. honestly. truly. >> reporter: 29 years ago, bobbie burnett made a stained glass angel for jennifer's mom susy to help her battle cancer. >> i thought that was all i was ever going to make. but now, after 40,000 more, i don't feel that it was my choice. the angels selected that for me to be doing. >> reporter: today the basement of bobbie's annapolis, maryland home is an angel factory. >> you can cut those and she's going to do the bodies. >> reporter: four days a week, 90 volunteers cut, solder and assemble what bobbie calls the caring collection. >> not everyone who has cancer goes into remission, but everyone has hope and concern or care. they need love and they need friendship. >> reporter: her angels watch over cancer patients around the world. >> to england and to ireland and to spain. >> reporter: the nearly $1 million raised is helping johns hopkins cancer center, buying this machine for patients undergoing radiation and lab equipment for scientists looking for course. >> it's more than

burnett. in the first, he loaded up the bases. and with two outs, this was the play of the game and it was in the first inning. kelly lines as shot to straight somewhere. the former tiger curtis granderson gets a late jump but makes an incredible catch. remember the bases were loaded. let's jump ahead to the sixth. one into left sflr. a long run for began der so that. he lays out to make the catch. full extension. stayed down for a moment, but popped back up and ran to the dougout. burnett gave up only one run. in the aitd, the yankees blow the game wide open scoring six runs. new york wins 10-1 forcing a game five tomorrow night in new york where the yankees will send their rookie sensation nova to the mound.yi rangers eliminated the rays thanks to a three home run day by one man, adrian beltre. during one of his home run trots, look at the cameraman trying to keep up with beltre rounding third. oh, no. you hate to see that. had him for a while. goes down. showers the field with camera parts. rangers win 4-3, beating the rays for

i'm erin burnett. "outfront," taxes, presidential candidate rick perry on the heels of last night's presidential debate, proposing a flat tax. >> scrapping the 3 million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. >> a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by ste forbes during his two presidential runs, but he actually exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we challenge on this show for a better america. let's see whether the flat tax is bold and smart or bold and bad. jim bianco is president of bianco researchers. you took the time to run the numbers and make sense of it. bottom line, instead of the politics of it, if you exempt people earning under a certain amount, what's the magic rate for everyone else to raise the same amount of revenue under a flat tax as we do right now? >> if you exempt eve

i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, a flat tax from presidential candidate, rick perry. >> it is time to pass a tax that is flat and fair and frees our employers and people to invested and grow and prosper. >> he calls it flat. bottom line is it isn't really. the right word is sort of lumpy. here's why. a true flat tax means all americans start paying a flat tax of 20%. that's perry's rate on their income with no deductions. that's not how this works. you keep your current rate or pick his new 20% rate. by allowing people to remain in their current tax bracket, americans will continue to pay different rates. there are six federal income tax rates right now. perry's new plan because we don't have a 20 will make it seven. that's lumpy. a poor flat tax doesn't allow for deductions. capital dividends, state and local taxes. we're joking a little. we all want bold ideas and politically you can't wake up and throw out and old system and go to a truly flat tax if you wanted one overnight. to tell you the trut

two billion pound loss on a sixty billion pound investment in these banks up and let's roll erin burnett and that clip what she's down on wall street on the occupy wall street and she talks to a protester there she says a bald faced lie she says that the taxpayers made money on the bailouts play a clip and said you know that taxpayers actually made money on the wall street bailout. it is they may not g.m. but they did on the on the wall street bailout does that make you feel any differently in wal-mart of course you know. if i were right in my that was a lot that's not true as you just pointed out these are bread a catastrophe you know banking apologists always say that the bailouts made money because they selectively look at one or two that did all the ai gee however look at fannie mae and freddie mac. we have lost money time after time after time look at the fed's balance sheet there's trillions and trillions of dollars of bad debts on those books that we're not allowed to look at too much detail so what the heck is on there and how much has yet to be revealed for use generally accepte

erin burnett out front starts erin burnett out front starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks, john. we're on the frontline with bernie madoff tonight. his family talking to the press in a full-court press. why? his former attorney comes out front. >>> it's just a few days until halloween. we were up to some mischief today and we can't resist sharing it with you. >>> and the bottom line on the tea party. how much sway do they really holdover the gop? answers, let's go outfront. >>> i'm erin burnett. out front on a friday night. the most shaky republican race since 1964. six different candidates have led in the national polls so far this year. it's amazing to think about it. but there is a big reason for it. the tea party. a cnn poll shows that the republican party is literally split down the middle. half of them support the tea party or are active members. well, 49, 51, some call that iman date. i call that a split. the tea party is really the tea parties. christina boterri from the national tea party federation told us there are at least 5,000 tea party groups. the

erin burnett's standing by to join us with the latest. and violence in syria. to tell you what the arab spring protest rs are demanding now. ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service, and want to lay off over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post-office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. what's vanishing deductible all about ? guys, it's demonstration time. let's blow carl's mind. okay, let's say i'm your insurance deductible. every year you don't have an accident, $100 vanishes. the next year, a

here is panetta talking with erin burnett. >> this individual was clearly a terrorist.nd, yes, he was a citizen. but if you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist. and that means that we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the united states and kill americans. there's no question. that the authority and the ability to go after a terrorist is there. >> you can see the rest of erin burnett's exclusive interview with tonight with her new show "out front" premieres at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> doctors from the er will testify about how they tried to save jack-o-lantern's life. -- michael jackson's life. but before the trial resumes, you'll hear what a paramedic said about jackson's last moments, next. >>> checking stories across cross country, a boy is in stable condition after a car wreck in philadelphia. here is the twist. he was driving. it's not clear he travelled before crashing. >>> a massachusetts church at the center of a controversy is sold, but parishioners want the vatican to block the deal. the congregation refused to go, and has been holdin

presidents from harry truman to tom burnett.5 recording of "autumn leaves" remains the top piano hit of all time according to "billboard." roger williams was 67 years old. also today, word that hall of fame national football league owner al davis has died at his home in oakland, california. davis was a rebel with a cause, and that cause was his beloved oakland raiders. he was instrumental in founding the nfl as we know it today. john blackstone has this profile. >> reporter: with his combative style, al davis shaped the nfl and made his team the, the oakland raiders, the bad boys of football, always following the motto, "just win, baby." >> i want to win. obviously in life, i like certain things. i like beautiful women more than unbeautiful women. >> reporter: davis spent his life in football, first coaching college teams. in 1963, he was named head coach of the raiders, then part of the upstart afl, the nfl's fledgling competitor. in 1966, davis was named commissioner of the afl, and worked hard to lure top players away from th

burnett. the red sox lost as you know and moved beyond any shot. and yankees fans such as myself are on easy about a five-game series with detroit. that's the honest -- >> you should be uneasy. you should. because verlander hasn't had his shot at it yet. then you've got to go to burnett. >> right. >> you surprised he made it to the rotation? >> yeah, and i don't understand why pitching, throwing 25 balls like happened the other night totally puts pitchers in on the bench for several days. i don't quite understand the process by which both verlander and sabathia missed two games. >> any other surprises this weekend? >> the phillies last night. >> yes. >> looked like they were going to run away with the series and the cardinals came back late last night. >> the cardinals beat the phillies? >> yeah, they came back. >> we'll show highlights in sports. >> i didn't see any sports this weekend, so when we show the highlights, i'll be excited -- >> liverpool won. >> i know about alabama. you go down t

that's the question erin burnett asked the cia director leon panetta. >> this individual was clearly a terrorist. and, yes, he was a citizen, but if you're a trift, you're a terrorist. and that means that we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the united states and kill americans. there is no question that the authority and the ability to go after a terrorist is there. >> and be sure to tune in on monday night. 7:00 eastern time for the premier of erin burnett, out front. >>> it's 6 minutes past the hour now. for more information on just who anwar al awla can i was was in recent months he had been called the new bin laden and the bin laden of the internet. the u.s. says he was a master at online recruiting and finding and motivating new radicals to kill americans around the world. he was linked to a number of terrorist attacks. he was a spiritual adviser to three of the 9/11 hijackers and communicated freely with the accused of the deadly killing at ft. hood. >>> we turn now to the amanda knox trial. the american exchange student could be spending her fina

i'm erin burnett. "out front," taxes, presidential candidate rick perry on the heels of last night's approximately debate proposing a flat tax. >> scrapping the three million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. >> a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by steve forbes during his two presidential runs and exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we challenge on this show for a better america. let's see whether the flat tax is bold and smart or bold and bad. jim, you took the time to run the numbers and make sense of it. bottom line, instead of the politics of it. if you exempt people earning under a certain amount, what's the magic rate for everyone else to raise the same amount of revenue under a flat tax as we do right now? >> you exempt everybody under $36,000, you will exclude 38 or 39% of

burnett. if you live near a house of worship do go light a candle sometime today. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> i don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. they're not better off than they were before lehman's collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession we're going through. i think that what we've seen is that we've been able to make steady progress to stabilize the economy, but the unemployment rate is still way too high and that's why it's so critical for us to make sure we are taking every action we can take to put people back to work. >> are you the underdog now? >> absolutely. because, you know, given the economy, there is no doubt that whatever happens on your watch -- >> you reached that point quickly. >> i don't mind. i'm used to being an underdog. >> good morning. it is tuesday, october 4th. welcome to "morning joe." look at that pretty shot. the sun has yet to come up but we're up. with us onset msnbc contributor mike barnacle.

we're excited to welcome erin burnett to cnn next week.how "out front," debuts monday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. on "reliable sources," howard kurtz asked her about her new gig and from reporting exclusively on business to a new show. >> by doing a new general show here on cnn, are you giving up your business brand? you worked at goldman sachs. it's taken you a lot of years to gain that credibility. is that a difficult transition for you? >> well, i think the first answer to that is it's still important for me, in the sense that the election, the economy is the most important issue in the election. and i believe in general that money and where money is going and who is getting money is central to every story. >> you're not walking away from that? >> no. and i think that's an important angle we can bring to all stories. but a lot of the things that i love in terms of the foreign reporting and some of the issues that i really care about that have a financial aspect, but also a much broader aspect, which i did at cnbc, but wasn't really the core o

john burnett not be a callous hash about the nation for example if i get married to a chair and i meet girls or older white women with lots of money i want my wife wants a divorce they almost say go ahead so i don't care there are many women who will back me. up when i can't make money through farming in. spite of the farming is one dollar a day all year construction three dollars a day fishing i don't even in a single day sometimes. think i'm answerable to many in the community nation by out of i am always paying for this and that because to worry about money i have to provide for my family except support my brother through school. number and well this family temple six months ago cost me about one and a half elves and dollars for this and the three shrines and sized. about this is my father's home and. some my. stays here with my brother in law and his family i'm not now. how much do they cost you will be going to buy me this house cost of blood four and a half thousand dollars. but really why do. i split the cost with my brother and some some people from holland help to. enable my s

i'm erin burnett. out front a major terror plot on u.s. soil foiled. a senior administration official tells me this was international murder for hire. here's what we've been told. two men charged in an alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the united states. one is a naturalized u.s. citizen in custody and identified as 56-year-old mondaysor ar bab si ar. he appeared in a courthouse this afternoon. he did not enter a plea. according to the complaint that we read, he planned for someone to kill the saudi arabian ambassador at one of his favorite restaurants in washington, d.c. he told an informant that mass casualties didn't matter, saying, "if the hundred go with him, expletive, them." the plot itself is a work of intrigue. it began this spring when he met in mexico with a d.e.a. informant posing as a member of a violent drug cartel. over the next few months, he got the informant to agree to assassinate the ambassador for a fee o$1.5 million. he also wanted an attack on the -- with help from mexican government, he was arrested at

let's go. >>> i'm erin burnett. presidential candidate michele bachma bachmann. the congresswoman from minnesota is running for president. i want to start with the latest headlines we have. congresswoman, thank you for the time for being with us. >> erin, it's wonderful to be with you. thank you. >> let me start with vice president biden this morning on abc. he was talking about the terror plot, he said it was an outrageous act and the iranians will have to be held accountable. if you were president, would military action be on the table? >> if i was president, i wouldn't have taken my eye off the number one issue in the middle east, which is iran obtaining nuclear weapons. the problem with the obama administration is they have put significant daylight between israel and the united states from day one of the obama presidency. the president unfortunately sent signals of weakness and focused on israel building apartments on their own land as opposed to iran obtaining a nuclear weapon. that's been the problem. when you have a nation that's a hostile nation, seeing t

. >>> this is really a big week here at cnn, we're excited to welcome erin burnett to the fold.ts monday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. howa howard kurts asked her about the new gig and moving exclusively about reporting on business to anchoring a new show. >> by doing a more general show here at cnn, are you giving up your business brand? you were so closely identified with being a market reporter, you worked at goldman sachs. is that a difficult transition for you? >> well, the first answer to that it's still important for me in the sense that the election is -- the economy is the most important issue in the election and i believe in general that money and where money is going and who is getting money is central to every story. >> you're not walking away from that? >> no i think that's a important angle we can give to a lot of stories. but a lot of the things i love in the foreign reporting and that has a financials a peblg a i did at cnbc, is at the score and i think it's a perfect fit. >> erin burnett "out front" debuts here on cnn. she has an exclusive with leon panetta. >>> the leg

let's go "out front." >>> i'm erin burnett "out front" tonight, americans looking for jobs. ahead of the employment number tomorrow, protests and paralysis in washington. and the president takes a stand on a tax for people who own over a million dollar. a 5.6% surcharge and would bring in enough to pay for his nearly $450 billion jobs plan. house speaker john boehner doesn't like it. >> nothing has disappointed me more than what's happened over the last five weeks. to watch the president of the united states give up on governing, give up on leading and spend full time campaigning. >> the president dares the republicans to say no. >> if congress does something, then i can't run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. >> democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? >> i think he does have it right. lining

joining him is larry page from google, producer and host ryan seacrest and cnn's own erin burnett.rday i talked with lee gallagher the assistant managing editor of f"fortune" magazine ad silicon techies are high on the list. >> always a lot of tech people on this list. that tends to be where a lot of young people go these days. one of my favorite things is the people you might not expect, it really is rounded in a lot of different industries. people from finance as you saw number three from greg jensen from bridgewater, we have people from the pharmaceutical industry, clothing and apparel and retail industries, from the entertainment industry, music, so it really is pretty well rounded. i would say tech is probably the sector that's the best represented. although very high on the list people from other industries. >> it's not the wave of the future because it is the future is now. it used to be that it seemed silicon valley was the wave of the future. it is here and now. talk about the first woman on the list coming in at number 20. marissa mayor. >> meyer. >> she was one of the fi

i just talk to my colleague, erin burnett. >> there is a lot of skepticism about your candidacy and youat yourself. the "washington post," the headline, herman cain. the republican flavor of the month. who will be next? "time" magazine. herman cain, flash in the pan or serious candidate. are you for real? >> i am for real. this is herman cain. they will know that i am in this to win it. i am not in this to try to raise my profile or get a tv show. i wasn't at that point in my life. >> and again, just a quick reminder. erib's show out front is on at 7:00 eastern. stay tuned for the herman cain interview. as promised, i want to go back to deb who is live in connecticut where she has just broken the news here. that this jury has now returned with a verdict in the case of this second defendant in this home invague. joshua komisarjevsky. how far away are we from getting that verdict read? >> reporter: right now, the judge is talking to the jury. usually everything over a couple of rules. and kind of takes a poll of the jurors. he also thanked them for their service, of course. they've been o

. >> i have been on your australia show, too, erin burnett, outback. your goal now. >> to spend whatever time i had to make my family and my wife sacrifice to allow me to do this dream, but the nice thing is with the book and people who have seen the movie so far people have been inspired to chase their

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