chris irons was only nineteen years old when he witnessed how prisoners were tortured with music he finally left the army and started to criticize their methods publicly now age twenty three years on employed and homeless. well chris i've been really interested in coming to talk to you because some of my music even might have been used and there is this you ever see music being you sick wind tunnel oh yeah yeah there's it was in the gold building. i mean music would just blast out of that room like i mean it's like they had a whole concert it was like a i mean it was it was like a dance club style. music system that they had set up just brocken in this room for with all this kind of like american you know rock music you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in a stress positions i've seen interrogations go on. for you know ten twelve hours i came i had i worked twelve hour shifts and several times i came in right at the beginning of my shift and moved to detainee into an interrogation booth and then didn't ever for the rest of that day move that person on and sometim

chris. >>> egyptians are heading to the polls today, determined to break the military's iron grip by choosing parliament to take over. but the transition is too slow for many egyptians who have increasingly taken to the streets to confront the ruling military. recent demonstrations, including tuesday's rare display of anger among thousands of egyptian women. abdul raheem fakara is al jazeera's washington chief and joins us now. do we see any sign that these protests, and these images are powerful. these are elections that are ongoing, or on the military regime? talking about giving up power sooner than june when it was planned. is there a disconnect there? are they paying attention? or are they not? >> i think they are paying attention. obviously they take the big turn-out at the election as a strong sign from egyptians that they've had enough of this situation. that they want some stability. that they want the economy, the wheels of the economy to start spinning again. but i think that the events that we have seen over the last few weeks have also sent the message, that the transition that t

. >> well the dodd frank bill, ironically enough written by the two guys who stood in the gates against reform of fannie and freddie for years and years chrisodd and barney frank. look, they have a nice title for this consumer protection bill. first of all, it's costly. already they have already promulgated 26 of the 140 rules that have to be promulgated under this 120 page bill. already those 26 rules are estimated to cost $1.26 billion. >> bill: why do they cost so much money? >> because they add new rules and regulations regarding banks. >> bill: so then the banks pass those fees to the consumers. >> or do things like it is going to cost more for your services from the bank and you are going to have fewer services. bank of america announced it will let go 30,000 people in order to reduce its costs. >> bill: doesn't somebody have to watch the banks? >> sure they do. look, you know, it wasn't the banks that did this. it was fannie and freddie selling them paper of mortgages that shouldn't have been issued. and barney frank opposed that bill. finally voted for it in october of 2008. you know, six years, seven years after he had started oppo

>> i don't think so, chris, because if you look at what senator brown said after that in the same quote. he said he supports going to conference and ironing out the differences. it is not we who are being rigid, they are saying we are willing to sit down and compromise and continue the discussion so we can dot get this down for the working people of the country. harry reid is being obstructive saying it's his way or the highway. he's fiing fine, it's christmastime. new year is approaching. i think all of us can demonstrate to the people who put us here that washington can actually deliver results, recognizing that people are tired of hearing what can't be done in washington and we believe that things can be and we can provide this kind of certainty for the working people. >> let me ask you one other quick question, which is, there are a lot of headlines today that suggest john boehner does not have control of the republican conference, that he either agreed or seemed to indicate he might agree to a of two-month extension but went to the conference and there simply weren't the votes there. is this a conference in chaos either in part or in

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iron mountain. an underground mine that became a government security center and protects some of the most iconic photographs early this thursday morning, december 8th, 2011. >> good thursday morning, everyone. i'm jeff glor. chrisragge is off this morning and miss erica hill is in washington, d.c. this morning. erica, good morning. >> jeff, good morning to you. here from washington a closer look at the races that are shaping up for 2012, also the increasingly important impact of so-called super pacs and what we're talking about there is a lot of big money so that's ahead, jeff. >> erica, we'll see you very soon. this morning jerry sandusky is waking up in jail. he was arrested wednesday after two more men came forward with graphic accounts saying he abused them when they were boys. anna warner has more. >> reporter: sandusky spent his first night in jail here at the centre county correctional center bail set at $250,000 after the pennsylvania attorney general filed 12 new charges against him. jerry sandusky's trip to jail began shortly after 1:00 wednesday afternoon when pennsylvania state police showed up at his home put him in handcuffs and escorted sandusky wearing his penn state windbreaker to a waiting car