give us that website again, congresswoman mccarthy. >> it's stophr822.com. >> congresswoman mccarthy,hank you for joining me and thank you for keeping up the fight. >> thanks for having me. i'm not giving up. >>> ahead, just when you thought republicans and their race couldn't get any worse, rick perry goes birther. >>> and willard's doing everything he can to escape the good thing he did -- the one good thing he did in his political career. we got you again tonight. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? yeah, maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number? [ humming ] and my job is easy. hide big things. you're good... [ crash ] [ laughing ] [ screaming ] [ tires screech ] and if you named your own price on car insurance, you could be paying for this yourself. so get allstate, you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. [ dennis ] shop less, get more, make one call to an allstate agent. and here's what we did today: suppo

that's the reason that congresswoman wasserman schultz and harry reid.hy he have a credibility problem with the american public. >> i think everybody has a credibility problem with the american people. probably the news media. 25 million americans are either unemployed or underemployed and washington keeps debating different proposals that have zero chance of passing. gloria, after this, will they sit down and say what can we pass? >> yes. precisely because of the reason you just gave. they see the pulse too. they see a 14% approval rating for congress. i think you'll see a bunch of smaller measures, trade agreements, tax credits for hiring veterans. maybe some kind much a highway bill, increased access to capital for small business. so you're going to see components of this. what you're not going to see are the tax increases you were talking about or the extension of the payroll tax cut holiday, which a lot of people want to extend. >> this will debated congresswoman and madam chairwoman. you have dual titles. it's supposed to be largely about the econo

our headliner, congresswoman michele bachmann. with her presidential campaign at a cross roads, we asked, how she plans to get back in the game. >>> and then -- the flat tax sensation. rick perry hopes it will break his losing streak. >> the flat tax will unleash growth. >> herrian cain is driving his veshs to the top of the poll. >> 9-9-9 >> it's a republican crowd pleaser. >> but does the math add up? our power house roundtable. >>> and then, one of to world's richest men on the global obligation to the poor. >> every dollar makes a huge difference. >> microsoft founder bill gates on getting government to give in a gloomy economy and revealing comments about his love/hate relationship with the late steve jobs. >>> good morning. welcome to the program. lots to get to today, but first some news since your morning papers. more than 2 million people in the northeast are without power this morning, after freak snowstorm slammed into the east coast. the record breaking nor'easter brought winds of over 60 miles per hour. the largest oc

dominique from the office of congresswoman barbara lee. thank you for coming. office of congresswoman barbara lee. office of congressman mike honda. thank you for coming. the juvenile probation department. thank you for coming here this evening. thank you for coming. ok. we are now going to begin tonight's program. first we'll hear from one of the nation's leading legal scholars on the long-term economic impact of immigrant rights policy and reform. we will hear from a panel. after the panel discussion, we will have time to hear from the local elected officials. then we will open the meeting for public comments. if you would like to speak during the public comment section, please fill out a yellow card and return that to a member of our staff. i would like to introduce adrian, who has done amazing work for this commission. she's the executive director of the office of immigrant affairs would you introduce the speakers and panelists. thank you very much. >> thank you, chair mccarthy. it's truly a pleasure to introduce tonight's keynote speaker. the professor is

congresswoman karen bass on the myth of obama's shrinking base, and she dishes on the l.a.inner date. >>> a birthday shoutout to lady liberty, but not from them. >> i will build a double-walled fence. >> blame all the illeap -- >> that's not what she had in mind. "politics nation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, do republicans think americans are dummies? just check out the latest fund-raising e-mail from the republican national committee, sent out by congressman paul ryan. it reads, quote -- the safety net for the poor is coming apart at the seams, and no one in washington seems to care are you kidding me? suddenly paul ryan cares about our safety net? ryan cares about the poor, the same one-way ryan that pitched a budget that would essentially end medicare, the same paul ryan who leads the "cut cut cut" chant. >> of course we have to cut spending. >> significant cuts of spending and changes to the way we spend the american people's money. >> significant cuts in washington spending. >> we need real spending cuts. >> cut

congresswoman lee is also taking part in the challenge. lee received food stamps as a young mother years ago. religious groups nationwide are issuing the challenge to raise an which areness about the growing number of families relying on the program and to prevent federal cuts. critics say spending on food assistance has skyrocketed partly because of fraud. the department of agriculture estimates fraud accounts for no more than one cent of referee food stamp dollar. >> spear's challenge -- rated a lot of talk on our facebook page. let's hope she brings this to washington. >> can she also live with no money for anything else? you can join the conversation go to facebook.com/abc7news. >>> the surfer who survived a shark attack over the weekend is recovering. 27-year-old eric tarantino lived to tell his tale but keeping quiet while he heals. >> reporter: we understand the doctor is with eric now. he is doing an evaluation. after that, he will know whether or not he will be released today or what time. there's a very good chance it will be tod

wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords gets a warm reception wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords gets a warm reception as she returns to washington. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with waiting for word. as the government releases its september jobs report today, the president is looking for dramatic ways to show he's in touch with americans who are taking to the street in protests across the country, aiming their frustration at the nation's banks. nbc's steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: president obama says he saw the wall street protests. >> i think it expresses the frustrations that the american people feel. >> reporter: the demonstrations spread. this was houston and washington. >> where are the jobs? >> reporter: to protest the role of big banks in government if recession. in the white house there was sympathy, even support for the demonstrators. >> giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works. >> reporter: the president urged focus that frustration on republi

>> i'll direct that to congresswoman bachmann.ain's 9-9-9 plan which calls for 9% sales tax, 9% income tack and 9% corporate tax. you said it would destroy the economy. why? >> i'm a former tax litigation attorney. also my husband and i are job creators. one thing i know about congress, being a member of congress for five years, is that any time you give the congress a brand new tax, it doesn't go away. when we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7%. by 1980, the top rate was 70%. if we give congress a 9% sales tax, how long will it take a liberal president and a liberal congress to run that up to maybe 90%? who knows? what i do know is that we also have to be concerned about the hidden tax of the value-added tax. because at every step and stage of production, you'd be taxing that item 9% on the profit. that's the worry. in my plan, again, that's a tax plan, it's not a jobs plan. my plan for economic recovery is real jobs right now. i have a tax plan. i have a jobs plan. i have an energy plan and a plan to really turn thi

the congresswoman says the ntsb said the pipe had safety concerns in 1998, but nothing was done. >>>4:37. time to check in on the weather forecast, mike says cooler. >> mike? >> cooler weather will move inland. you can see strong winds out there waiting for you, blowing the clouds in and that cooler weather. northwest wind at half moon bay at three one of lighter winds besides the calm at santa rosa, 12 oakland, concord, 22 fairfield. that wind is blowing quick through the delta communities. even the clouds have made it into the central valley. upper 50s to low 60s except for mountain view 63°. by the afternoon, sunshine, clouds back to the coast by 1:00, stubborn around the san mateo county coast, 3 half moon bay, 66 -- 63 half moon bay, everybody else in the low to mid 70s. monterey bay more sun than yesterday. 64, 72 santa cruz. inland mid to upper 70s with sun. pretty breezy today, calmer weather pattern starts to develop tomorrow. then once we get to the weekend temperatures about to 10° warmer than -- about 6 to 10° warmer than today. >>> not bad now. debris in lanes chp not fo

congresswoman lee is also taking part in the challenge. lee received food stamps as a young mother years ago. religious groups nationwide are issuing the challenge to raise an which areness about the growing number of families relying on the program and to prevent federal cuts. critics say spending on food assistance has skyrocketed partly because of fraud. the department of agriculture estimates fraud accounts for no more than one cent of referee food stamp dollar. >> spear's challenge -- rated a lot of talk on our facebook page. let's hope she brings this to washington. >> can she also live with no money for anything else? you can join the conversation go to facebook.com/abc7news. >>> the surfer who survived a shark attack over the weekend is recovering. 27-year-old eric tarantino lived to tell his tale but keeping quiet while he heals. >> reporter: we understand the doctor is with eric now. he is doing an evaluation. after that, he will know whether or not he will be released today or what time. there's a very good chance it will be tod

congresswoman, thank you so much for being here.t to start out with some of the things that are in the news beginning with the pastor who was introducing and supporting governor perry in texas who said that governor romney, who is a mormon, is not a christian. i want to know if you agree with that statement. >> you know, this is so inconsequential as far as this campaign is concerned. we have religious tolerance in this country and we understand that people have different views on their faith and i have a very sincerely held believe on faith and i think we just leave it at that. >> the thing is, it is not so inconsequential, is it? in a primary on the republican side where conservative christians have quite a lot of say so, particularly when you of move south into south carolina and places like that. so it is not inconsequential for someone to call a major candidate in the republican party and the primary season not a christian. >> well, again, i have a very strong sincerely held faith. i talked about it as the values voters and the

i congresswoman wrote this down, who is the granddaughter of the immigrant herself. her grandfather emigrated with plans of becoming a cowboy to the united states. it did not quite work out that way. president obama said the time for a comprehensive immigration reform is here. he said this on june 25 with hopes we would have a compehensive immigration reform introduced by the end of this year or the beginning of next. i'm sure none of us thought that health care reform with kuwaitae quite so long. our time has been pushed back a little bit. the immigration subcommittee has been working 12 hour per day. all the pieces are together. we have been working on how to build consensus around those pieces and how to best put together the most viable will. the senate and house have come froconferred. the senate will go first. it's imperative that the senate be able to move forward and get those 60 votes in order for us to know that at the end of the effort, there will be a bill going to the president. we are waiting on san francisccr schumer. he is a smart person. they are try

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 the united states from a point of weakness, that can lead to

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. that's the quote. 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 the united states from a point of weakness

congresswoman pelosi quoted abraham lincoln earlier. i think what he also said 150 years at the dedication of the national cemetery at gettysburg applies as much today as it did then. lincoln said that the world will little note nor long remember what we said here, but it can never forget what they did. over 2900 people were killed 10 years ago in the attacks on the world trade center. for the 16 of those who perished or our brother and sister firefighters -- 416 of those who perished work our brother and sister firefighters. 25,000 other lives worse. because of them. none of us will ever forget where we were on the morning of september 11, 2001. at police headquarters in san francisco, we watched in horror as the images were replayed on every channel. we learned one of the airplane is believed to be hijacked was heading to san this is good. later, we learned flight 93 went down in pennsylvania. in the days that followed, we heard stories of incredible heroism in which the passengers engaged and saved the lives of others. as we came to

her husband, navy captain ma >>> wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords returns to washington todayher husband navy captain mark kelly is retiring. he was commander of the final mission of space shuttle endeavour in may. she will be on hand today for the ceremony. her last appearance on capitol hill was back in august when she returned briefly for a crucial vote. >>> today san francisco's ninth circuit court of appeals will hear oral arguments in the case of a man accused of shooting giffords. jared loughner's attorneys are contesting a ruling that would sent him back to a missouri prison facility for more psychological treatment. the 23-year-old has pleaded not guilty to the january rampage, which killed six and injured 13 others. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin says she is getting calls from republican presidential candidates now that she has decided not to run for the white house. she announced her decision yesterday during an interview with conservative radio host mark levin. she cited family considerations and said she can still effectively promote her agenda without tha

. >> the congresswoman -- >> that's exactly right.s that jobs and people actually paying taxes reduce the deficit. if we can get the economy moving, if we can focus on putting people back to work and stimulating the economy, then we're going to -- we're going to grow our way out of this deficit problem. and i have to tell you that any deal that cuts medicare and social security benefits, not cuts the programs or makes them more efficient but cuts those benefits should be, to most -- and is to most americans completely unacceptable. we don't need to do that. >> let me just quickly show a graph that compares the two. democrats propose their proposal, the super committee this week. it was republicans balked, republicans leaked their version. we have a graph showing -- comparing them. total deficit reduction, both coming a little over $2 trillion but medicare cuts to beneficiary cuts in the democratic version. there's a little bit of stimulus and a lot in spending cuts. the ratio of cuts to tax increases is 6-1. so, it's marched oon furth

. >>> a new stage in the coverry of congresswoman gabrielle giffords -- in the recovery of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. the special treatment starting today. >>> a sneak peek at the biography of steve jobs out today and the one thing he wanted to conquer after his cancer diagnosis. >> some concerns about bpa. how it could affect kids' behavior before they're even born. >>> it was a fantastic weekend. now we have changes in the works. low clouds gathering along the coastline. what does that mean for us? we'll talk about that coming up. >>> steve jobs, that's the title of the biography of the late apple cofound their goes on sale today. the author is former cnn chairman walter isaacson. his book is based on 40 inches views with jobs over two years. on "60 minutes," he said after jobs got sick he wanted to focus on apple products iphone and ipad. >> he would have loved to have conquered television, make an easy-to-use television set so he had those things -- but he started focusing on his family again, as well. and it was a painful brutal struggle. and he would talk often to me about t

and congresswoman michelle bachman having trouble in new hampshire. we'll see why her campaign staff is a little short these days. the whiskey tax conundrum. should jack daniels have to pay another ten bucks a barrel? >> whereinto itsed to more money. >> we think this is a job killer. >> tonight bottled up outrage in lynchburg, tennessee. days after dozens of wild animals rampaged through ohio, new clues about conditions at their farm. tonight what inspectors reported low found when they went for a visit. nine years, nearly 4500 american lives and more than $800 billion. the war in iraq will be over. the final troops home by the end of the year. president obama making that promise hours ago. >> the last american soldier will cross the border out of

congresswoman wasserman schultz, thank you so much for being here.start out with a big piece of business on capitol hill, and that is coming up with some kind of jobs bill that might move the meter on the 9.1% unemployment rate. on your side, you have a bill that essentially the president's bill that congressman larson has put out there with only a handful of democratic co-sponsors. why is that? >> well, the co-sponsorship is really not reflective of the widespread support that exists in the democratic caucus and in the country for the american jobs act. polling shows overwhelming support for congress to pass the entire bill. it's absolutely critical. we've got economists like mark zandi who say that the american jobs act would add 2 percentage points to the gdp, drop the unemployment rate by about 1%. i mean those are real shot in the arm to the economy that would create jobs now and it's got widespread support, not just among democrats but by americans. sadly, republicans, because they're only interested in one job, barack obama's, don't seem to be

congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. to be here. >> listen, you've introduced a bill that strips power from the super committee. what is your biggest worry when it comes to this committee? who do you think it could eventually hurt the most? >> well, i think it's a bad deal. this committee, this super secret committee, does not have any transparent si. it takes away the power of the people who have been elected in their districts to go to washington and represent them. this super committee has the power to cut $1.5 trillion or, if they don't, an automatic trigger will kick in that will cut $1.2 trillion. we're not able to amend this bill. we don't have any real say on this bill. and, to tell you the truth, the republicans are not negotiating in good faith. they will not touch the oil and gas industry for cuts. they will not touch the financial services super committees -- super industries for cuts. they simply want to cut poor people, that support for subsidies for low-income people and frail seniors, they want to cut tha

congresswoman speier, can you so much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> what do you think is behind the repeated federal anti-abortion bills over and over and over again in the house you that referred to in that speech? is that a top priority for the republican majority now? >> think is a top priority for the republican majority in that they have done it already seven times this year on the house floor. it is a way of spiring up the base and i think a way of generating campaign contributions. call me cynical, but this particular bill on the house floor today it was over the top, across the line. and says to pregnant women in this country miscarrying, 31 -- 30 million miscarriages a year, anywhere from 6 to 9 million women who need a procedure because they are miscarrying and women that show up at an emergency room are not getting elective abortions. they are coming to the emergency room because they are hemorrhaging, because they have an infection. and in those situations, we are talk anything where from 600,000 to 900,00

congresswoman gabby giffords marks a milestone at the white house. her special tribute to her husband and how she outdid the vice president. >>> good evening. for the past decade, americans have watched as 4.5 million american jobs have gone overseas to china. well, tonight, a major sign that hemorrhage may be ending. those jobs are starting to come home. abc news has obtained a powerful new report from the highly respected boston consulting group, which says 3 million jobs are now on their way back to america. how soon? what kind? and where? abc's david muir has been pouring over this data that's too good to be true. >> reporter: very bold report, diane, as you point out. good evening. the answer to how soon we'll see these jobs? some of them, we're seeing already. and so tonight here, we ask, what's behind this? turns out, made in america suddenly makes a lot more business sense when it comes to a company's bottom line. jobs coming back from china? the kind of headline once unheard of. this isn't something down the road, you're seeing businesses co

thank you, congresswoman. >> thank you. >> all right. our monday megapanel, speaking of all stripes, we have a stripy one today. imogen lloyd webber, fresh back from europe, she's catching up on recent events, the majorities reports sam seder. >> i went away for five days and came bok together and there's been a revolution. >> it's the internet. things happen faster now. >> you're turning into europeans, suddenly. >> there's an interesting thing around this. and i wrote this for the petition -- the people that signed the petition today. when the tea party emerged, i was a tea partier. and i was, like, the government is screwing this whole thing up and we have to reject the ability to buy the government. when barack obama ran for president, i was a barack obama supporter. i was like, this guy's going to get some things done. and i figured, between barack obama's brilliance and inspiration and the tea party's rage and rebelliousness, that they would get together and reject the bought government. it didn't happen. that's the reason why i ha

michaud: i'd like to yield to the congresswoman from ohio, ms. sutton, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. sutton: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a letter from the energy brotherhood of electrical workers in opposition to the free trade agreement. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. michaud: madam speaker, i'd like to yield to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. critz, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. critz: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a letter from the international long shore and warehouse union in opposition to the korea free trade agreement. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from maine has 30 seconds remaining. mr. michaud: i yield back 0 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: i yield myself the remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gent