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outskirts of most major cities in the country well earlier i spoke to senior fellow at the campaign for america's future richard asco for his insight as to why there are so many homeless camps. sure i mean i think it's a combination of factors but one of them is that the number of people living in poverty keeps going up keeps going up i think we're seeing a decline in the social services that are available to them and if you look at the geography of poverty if you could look at the new data that's coming out with a you know with a computer eye from above you'll see that the neighborhoods poverty are spreading the areas in pockets of we're moving across the country and getting broader border you're also seeing of course bank foreclosures and that type of activities so taken all together almost this is becoming a greater greater problem sued in security not knowing where the next meal is coming from it's become. your problem so i think it's a combination of factors we're not investing in fighting poverty we're not stimulating the economy the more the economy stagnates for the ninety percent or nine

list dave johnson joins me now he's a regular contributor to alter net and a fellow with the campaign for america's future dave welcome our tom thanks for having me on thanks for joining us you did a great job of assembling the list of seven people can see it over i believe alter net right now and let me just let me just go through the the list and each one you can give us a very very quick explanation the first one fraud closure robo signing problem that's when they're going to come up with they don't really have to documents from homes and neither or some are just so you have. and that's that's because there was so much trading of these loans that they didn't even bother transferring the documentation of who owned loan who signed it or anything and then when the part motors start to happen same thing they don't have the documentation and they come up with the other projects and signatures or don't have the signatures at all incredible pushing subprime loans who is number two on your lists now that was a big one early on in the. housing bubble they were going out and actually just selling like cra

homelessness joining me from our studio in los angeles to discuss is richard as senior fellow at the campaign for america's future richard thanks so much for joining us tonight and let me first start because you're in los angeles i want to get your thoughts on what you thought about this eviction last night i was disappointed because the other day i was commending the city for not really a victim now using any violence which they didn't use last night but fourteen hundred police officers all the middle of the night that sounds like it costs a lot of money a lot of overtime to. oh sure it does absolutely and the money that would be well spent as you were saying in a lot of other ways and you know what we're learning is that there is this is coordinated not i don't think any necessarily in the nine hundred eighty four big brother kind of way but the mayors are talking to one another they're getting better at what they see is their assignment which is too big vic these demonstrators instead of addressing the issues that they're bringing to the public's eye or for that matter letting them exercise their rights

if so what if think he has to attempt to answer that is richer esko senior scholar at the campaign for america's future richard welcome back good to have you here in the studio. first of all news signed this pledge long and ron paul and mitt romney refused to sign it this pledge that he'll be faithful. is this the same one that used to include language the said that african-americans were better off under slavery yes it is actually and you know it's interesting because. a wedding fall is also a prop play which right you pledge to be faithful you pledge should be true if you're going to break one play when it has to do with infidelity why should we believe you wouldn't break another pledge i mean how much meaning because now for the third time changed religion so you went from right lutheran i think to bab so the baptists to when he was representing southern georgia to actually was my congressman and now he's catholic and to be fair the wedding pledges to god in this would be to who grover norquist so he's appealing to a higher authority so maybe he'd keep this pledge i don't know he cheated on h

tax increase here to talk about all of these issues is richard asco senior scholar with the campaign for america's future richard welcome back. good to be here thank you we've been flirting with this idea all year but has been or officially lost control of the republicans in the house of representatives his caucus now. well you know i think it's always been the game of good cop bad cop but you never know when the bad cop goes really bad and becomes the bad lieutenant so i think what we're seeing now is basically this old cop movie turning into something out of quentin tarantino there's there's blood all over the place and and we don't really know where this thing is headed except that boehner loses any semblance of appearing like a statesman the republicans look like they've been outgunned as far as electoral positioning is concerned and one hundred sixty million americans are likely to lose a tax cut so it's it's insane out there right now if we look back to the ninety's when for example newt shut down the government. pretty much everybody knew that he had been dissed on air force one on that fli

tonight vince collin a senior online editor of the daily caller roger hickey co-director the campaign for america's future and brian darling for human events dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation let's get let's get started well don't you guys are glad to have you here with us the senate republicans yesterday filibustered a payroll tax cut extension for one hundred. million americans a thousand bucks apiece on average and at first they filibustered this because there was certain acts of three point eight percent on income over one million dollars on the million and first so that was you know that they didn't go for that now they're talking about slapping the keep the keystone x.l. pipeline in there which obama has already said he doesn't want anything to do with he will vote he will veto so it sounds like what they're saying is we'll give the middle class their tax cuts but only if they're willing to choke on the pollution from our refineries why do republicans insist on combining tax cuts for the middle class with poison pill well obama not liking the x.l. pipeline

and he also authored "rendezvous with destiny: ronald reagan and the campaign that changed america." for the 1980 campaign really the behind the scenes story of that run for the white house. you will note there is a consistency in craig's books. rendezvous in this are both very well researched, although this one was over about 15 months. and this one is only about 31 days. you're getting very more detailed. we are pleased to have with us today, we'll do some questions out there and then open it up to the audience for anything out there as well. there were a lot of things different in 1941 pick your a lot of things still the same. the redskins were being referred to as the dead skins, among others for those of you in the group are football fans will appreciate that when of course. they were doing some of the arguments that even we're doing still today. was capitalism dead? marxism in several of those things. craig, you talk about leading up to the seventh, and what about the culture of that period of time did you find more interesting? or surprising. >> america was very inward looking cou

the advertising campaign he plans for iowa. >> "is the america we love a thing of the past?" is the ad that newt gingrich will air today. >> we'll be watching. >>> saturday night's rep debate from iowa will air right here on abc news. diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos moderate. >>> voters in russia have delivered strongman vladimir putin a setback there. the united russia party will hold a slim majority. the vote went to the communist party, who looks to get to% of the seats. put season still looking to win back the president's seat. >>> the powerful santa ana winds picked up steam today. utility crews scrambled over the week end to restore power. winds as high as 150 miles an hour toppled trees, overturned trucks, and damaged cars and homes. rough weather in california. >> those folks need break out there. we hope they get it in the next couple of days. >>> flood advisories in nearly a dozen states. heavy rain in little rock, shreveport, memphis, louisville, cincinnati. that will spread to the northeast. thunderstormses from houston to new orleans and montgomery. a foot

campaign. so why don't we pay attention to unemployment in america? unemployment doesn't raise a lot of campaign funds for the congressman who might be addressing it. tavis: you've not said much that i disagree with but i'm curious to ask you what role the supreme court has played in further crutchting congress because that citizens united case, as far as i'm concerned, i'm curious to hear your take on this, but that citizens yeened case is going to make this problem even worse because now money flows in unlimited, from across the country. corporations are treated as people. what do you make of how that decision, and you clerked for antonin scalia and he's on the wrong side, as far as i'm concerned, of that vote, but how do you think they affect it? >> i think that -- no doubt it makes it worse. i think the particulars, whether citizens united should have been aloud to spend its money, this particulars were fine. of course they should have. but the decision makes it sound like congress has no power to address the kind of corruption i'm talking about. you're right. what it means is an explosion in independ

country the aircraft used for spying was recovered on the ground large and damaged american radio host an independent blogger stephen lund says it's part of america's long running campaign against everyone. these drones patrol you were supporters reconnaissance spying we've been doing it in america for some time if you do we need to in many other countries you've been spying on iran for a long time person some eight hundred seventy s. america estero brother you know on a war with. basically wanting to change the regime to make it subservient to you which interest in revenues that he is that is the khorasan notion that it believes it is the right to lose all sovereignty to run its will be able to conduct its over thirty years it doesn't have to give sort of washington in washington disagrees with do you realize the conflict and or from china to stop shall return simply leaves that the incident as a clear breach international. there's an r.q. one seventy advanced stealth reconnaissance drone which what i'm hearing is they lost it over afghanistan last week others are saying must be busily looking at this drone and what a great way of. creating technology transfer this is

and so at the beginning of december in houston i called for the yellow ribbon campaign and for america to wrap herself in yellow ribbons, both in respect of our returning soldiers, to acknowledge a job well done and to welcome them home to an unsilent america. i would like to thank speaker boehner, leader pelosi, whip hoyer and majority leader cantor for joining and indicating that they would support the wearing of yellow ribbons by our members today and tomorrow, both in celebration and recognition of the heroism of our troops and, yes, acknowledgment of our fallen heroes. this war was almost nine years, one of the longest wars that america's ever fought. it was, of course, a war that used $800 billion, moneys that i hope we will invest in our returning troops and their families and all americans as we go forward. the loss of life was very painful. the idea of the burden on families. so i believe these yellow ribbons, although meager, will symbolize this congress being unified as americans, saying thank you to our troops. and frankly we have many other challenges that we should be add

. >>> meanwhile, president obama is preparing for the 2012 election by opening more campaign offices in virginia. yesterday two more organizing for america offices opened. one is in fairfax, the other in newport news. congressman gerry connolly was at the fairfax opening and said a struggling economy is improving, which is good news for the president. >> i actually think we're going to be in a much better climate next year. and i believe the president is going to be vindicated in terms of making tough decisions. that have had payoff for a very difficult economy that he and we inherited. >> organizing for america hosts voter registration drives and phone banks to try to drum up democratic support for the upcoming election. >>> when we talk about the weather, chuck, you're telling us in the next couple days, the best time to put up the lights, maybe go get the christmas tree. >> this is it. >> the rain is coming. >> that's right. it will be raining all week. go after work on a tuesday. >> not only that but if it's getting dark by 4:45? really. >> these are early sunsets. our earliest stretch of sunsets. >> early bird gets the work. >> anot

trail that the newly designed campaign -- c-span website for campaign 2012. >> this is a time for america to get serious about our challenges. the big one that i started with is our budget and our spending. if investment is not landing in your marketplace, then it is landing somewhere else. capital is a coward, you have to argue. it is not landing in your marketplace, it is landing somewhere else. >> it is very interesting concept, the idea of having a consumption based tax as opposed to an income based tax. to go through that debate right now and have a two-year debate on the care tax, we need to do something now. >> read the latest from political reporters and candidates, all at c- span.org/campaign2012. >> in a few moments, a hearing on terrorist threats to u.s. including comments from rick perry. rick santorum and michele bachman. >> a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow. the house judiciary committee will hear from eric holder about operation "fast and furious." its past weapons to smuggler said they could be traced to mexican drug cartels. that is a 9:30 a.m. eastern. t

families across america have been the backbone of a long campaign. her husband has been away for much of the last few years and today, it is coming -- he is coming home. >> he is my best friend and he just was not there. he could get in touch with us, but what we needed him, it was not easy for us to get ahold of him and that was probably the hardest part of the whole year. >> few question the value of the mission that was america's war of choice. today is about something far more personal. reunion. within a few weeks, all the troops will have left iraq and most will be home for christmas. for every one of the 300 or so men and women that returned today, there are many more that never came back. the memorial here is a pretty somber reminder of the sacrifice over the last eight years. 4500 u.s. troops and tens of thousands of iraqis have lost their lives in a conflict that still isn't over. for many of those that have made it home, their battle in their struggle in many ways is still going on. >> and the pain in his other leg is so bad that it also has to be indicated. he is raisi

for $145,000 going a long way. distribute ygss funded by customers to the annual serving up hope campaign at luckies. and according to feeding america, today's contribution is enough to provide a million meals for people in need. >> and state water resources department will bring a first official snow of the season on tuesday. and this puts snow pack so far at just 24% of normal. and this is the second driest december in california since 1921. we'll check with spencer on that number. one manager is keeping his fingers crossed for more. >> and is some great years and this is indication that's we'll rock and roll into the season. >> ask so mountain snow pack that melts in provides a third of the water for california households and farms. the survey will be taken tuesday as mentioned. >> and spencer is in tonight we're like a dry sponge. >> we are f we're going to rock and roll our way into this. ask and is is some of what we've been reporting. snow pack right now is only at about 15%. and last year it was over 200%. and there is the third driest december, as you know. we didn't receive any measurable rainfall. and this year, there is

supreme leader provided help to the nine eleven hijackers for their tongues in america ten years ago but critics say it's part of a build up campaign against iraq. more news for you in half an hour after we had to north next to explore more of russia. in russia's european northwest lies one of the country's oldest inhabited areas. with records dating back to the mid nineteenth century this is a place with a rich history a powerful medieval republic it was famed for the quality of its first of its scholarship before it was a next to the greater russian state in the fifteenth century. the region is around six hundred kilometers from moscow and an overnight train journey will drop you right in the center of its capital. i've arrived in the famous old city of great but i'm not actually going to stay here because i've heard that this region supposed to be one of the most beautiful in russia so that's. so this is telling me exactly the right way to go my problem is how do i get from a . to b. and with lakes and dense forests making up sixty percent of the region that's not always an easy task. one thing about traveling through the novgor

this election is a bidding war for who can promise more bet -- who can promise more benefits, that is not a battle i will join. this will be a campaign about the soul of americaout american greatness. i am confident that americans will not settle for an excuse like this. it could be worse. i am confident that americans will refuse to be brought on by cheap promises that turns into never-ending that for our -- never-ending debt for our children and grandchildren. this is a time when we look beyond who we are today and asked who will become tomorrow. -- who will we become tomorrow. not far from here, an idea called america was born. it came when a peaceful people realize they cannot continue on -- realized they could not continue on the same path. those farmers and merchants, aristocrats, blacksmiths, they put aside their fears to take up arms against the greatest power in the world. there was not a single rational reason to believe they could succeed. but they believe in god and they believe in themselves. they believed that the guiding force in their lives should not be feared but rather a strong belief that life without freedom is a slow death. and a convict

to buy off whatever they need to buy off or to feather their re-election campaigns so this is really the death knell for america in a lot of ways because you're taking that last bastion of hope that there are such a thing as a political democratic process and you're throwing it to the wolves on wall street and saying let's securitize it let's find let's financial lies and let's turn it into the same corrupt cesspool that we now have on wall street and then the chicago mercantile exchange so there's i'm afraid that's going to be spectacular it's going to go out of blaze of glory but this is definitely got to be the end i would think again was speaking of money and corruption and you brought in congress you brought in wall street so naturally let's bring that that i want to go to dimitri i think it's a lot of jump in here and we know that from a two thousand and three federal reserve transcript that the f.o.c. was considering using the derivatives market specifically put options on u.s. treasuries to influence long term expectation expectations of the treasury yield curve since the fed is expressed interest alrea

for america. maybe his re-election campaign. asked what the biggest threat to the future, 64% said big government. 26% said big business. big labor, coming in at 8%. is this a problem for the president? eric? >> eric: i think so. the number you put up there 64%. at the highest, since gallup has been in business. so it's on an increasing scale. big government is continuously a big problem. people see it as a problem going forward. i can only point out, now bob, i know you will jump down my throat any second here. but the tea party has been calling for the smaller government. saying that will save us from ourselves. the other one is big business. how important is that? is it going to be a problem going forward? it comes in at 26%. it's been flat since history of gallup. people aren't saying it's big business or big labor. foreseeable problem is big government. obama is the big government. he is the guy. >> bob: i'm not going to jump down your throat. your numbers, that you recite here are accurate. what i would say is since gallup

campaign he plans for iowa. >> and newt gingrich releasing his first video today. titled -- is the america we love a thing of the past? newt says no. it will be ard statewide. that is where the campaign money goes to. >> we'll be watching. saturday night's republican debate from iowa will air right here on abc news. diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos moderate. >>> voters in russia have delivered strongman vladimir putin a setback there. the united russia party will hold on to just a slim majority in the parliament. the vote went to the communist party, who looks to get 20% of the seats. putin is still looking to win back the president's seat. >>> californians who just got their power back are bracing to lose it again. the powerful santa ana winds pick up steam today. utility crews scrambled over the week end to restore power. winds as high as 150 miles an hour toppled trees, overturned trucks, and damaged cars and homes. rough weather in california. >> those folks need break out there. we hope they get it in the next couple of days. >>> time now for the weather across the nation. flood

. >> shaquille o'neal is one of the many well-known cars who appear in the campaign for boys and girls club of americaey're directed by ron howard, and denzel washington, start here, in a tough neighborhood in newark, new jersey, the boys and girl's club was a safe haven more shaquille, he could play free from dangers and temptationses of the streets. >> and my mother and father worked and didn't want me on the street. you go there and stay there until we come back. i started playing ball and break dancing and started rapping and doing everything. >> everything that would pave the way to a great future. upon achieving his dream of becoming a nba superstar, shaq continues to share his time and money to help the boys and girl's club. >> i've donated, i think, 5 million dollars to the boys and girls club and i help this with their technology centers, because, you know, not a lot of african-american people have access to the internet. so, i bought them all computers and stuff. >> kelly: shaq knows how important it is for minority communities to be able to cross the digital divide. access to the internet c

campaigning for their dad. their dad is running for president of the united states of america.is seriously. >> bill: stop it right now. >> i thought they were adorable. i thought it was impressive they sang that without their lips moving. >> bill: like will any wily have vanilly. dumb and not uncalled for. it was in context. i know you are trying to help your father but you did him more harm than good now he he is down to 1%. gutfeld has a thing for these peta people. and they are trying to ruin every holiday if you eat turkey or whatever you eat they don't want you to. here is the spot. go. >> dear god, thank you for the turkey we are about to eat and for the turkey farms where they pack them into dark tiny little sheds for their whole lives. thank you for when they burn their feathers off while they are still alive and for when the turkey gets killed by people who think it's fun to stomp on their little turkey heads and thank you for the chemicals, dirt and poop that's in the turkey we are about to eat. thank you for rainbows, amen. >> bill: wasn't that nice. >> if that was m

for the truth. the media won't tell you what one of the foremost lie detector experts in america said about herman cain. >> reporter: and the campaign announced a new online support group called women for cain. the national chairperson, his wife gloria. cain has cancelled a high profile sunday night dinner party with media stars. tonight he faces his wife for the first time since this latest scandal became public. brian? >> andrea mitchell in our washington newsroom. thanks. >>> we're fortunate to have the moderator of "meet the press," david gregory here with us in our new york studios. david, it seems to me when you break down the videotape through this week on up to this afternoon, if you were looking for clues that this might ultimately be his decision tomorrow, you'd find them. >> cain has been telegraphing this all week long. in andrea's reporting it's right there. his own wife didn't know about ms. white, that there was any kind of relationship or he was trying to help her financially. i talked to somebody close to herman cain tonight who says he's got work to do at home. he has got a lot of discussion to have with his wife j

for the united states of america. >> a romney surrogate hit the campaign trail taking a shot at newt gingrich. >> this is a guy who is a father and a husband and who loves his wife and kids. when you look at the candidates, you say is this the kind of person who is going to make me proud in the oval office and never worry will embarrass america? will never worry he'll do something that will make me ashamed. he just won't. maybe we should expect that from our leaders. but we have learned we don't always get it. >> a brief q&a session afterward. >> i have to tell you, i find it hard to believe that somebody would look at me and go yeah, that's the guy i want standing behind me nodding my head for the next eight years. that would be like secretariat at the gate at the belmont. it would be hard. i don't think governor romney will ask me. others would be better suited for the job than i am. and i also made it clear to him that i love the job i'm in. >> more from him later in the show. newt gingrich is working to defend himself against those attacks. refusing to fire back though. . he did not bite when asked about romney's

for america's tomorrow. because the day before yesterday, herman cain suspended his campaign. that is a shame. folks, this comes after scurrilous allegations of a 13-year long affair with an atlanta businesswoman named ginger white. last month when cain was accused of sexual harassment, she surged in the polls and raked in the cash but his campaign simply could not survive allegations of a consensual relationship. of course ever the statesman, cain left us with a reminder of his trademark el consequence. >> let me leave with you this. and i believe these words came from the pokemon movie. life can be a challenge. life can seem impossible. it's never easy when there's so much on the line. >> stephen: yes. stirring words. it reminded me of when ronald reagan challenged america to be great again by saying scooby dooby do, where are you? we've got some work to do now. but perhaps the most overlooked tragedy of cain quitting is how it will affect his book, this is herman kane. as i'm sure you remember, cain's autobiography ends with this stirring prediction, well, i'm just about at the elevator up

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for the announcement of the drive sober or get pulled over campaign. new data shows drunk driving deaths decline. they account for 1/3 of the fatalities on america'sroads. the drunk driving crackdown is sported by a new $7 million advertising campaign. >> check out this. authorities reopened a southern california freeway tunnel. eight hours after a crash involving more than a dozen tractor trailers. three people got hurt last night when the big rigs piled up in the southbound lanes of the interstate 5 truck tunnel. this is north of los angeles. the roads in the area were slick from heavy rain, but no word if that was the reason for the crash. >>> here's what i know for certain. no slick roads in the d.c. area today. we're going to show you a little bit east of l.a. in the mountains of flagstaff what happened there. this was a big storm. 13 inches fell at the airport in flagstaff. and some areas had as much as forest lake had 26 inches of snow. so right now some of the best skiing is in the mountains of, well, northern section of arizona and also northern sections of new mexico. let's look at the satellite picture for us. we have a few clouds off t