she is also an energizer bunny. watch her come up here. [applause] they are pour into sleep with their bunny's tonight. -- they are going to sleep with their bunny's tonight. it is time to turn it over to carlos, and he will finish the program we have for you today. and this is probably the first time you're going to hear this. we have a raffle on friday afternoon that you have to be present to win. it will get all kinds of tickets. the prizes are listed in your program, and they are not out. you might want to start thinking about that and see what you can do to get those tickets for the final raffled, because you have to be there to be able to win it, and remember that marriott cheese will be there. -- mariachies will be there. hope to see you there. here is carlos, president of the latino association. >> i am going to do my welcoming remarks to our morning, so i will keep this brief, because i think it is exciting to good of all here, but tomorrow you were in for a very dynamic show. in this conference is -- belongs to all of us, and it

i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunnyhe book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my

can see it from the lack of fight and compared especially to michelle who went at it like the energizer bunny and couldn't be stopped and you see huntsman who is in a realm all by himself talking about transactional matters and what. >> paul: hey, i like the flat tax that he passed in utah and think his tax reform plan is pretty darn good. >> there is he' a big prom every time a politician says, i'm not going to pander, you go, oh. >> michele bachmann had a pretty good debate. the second debate in a row i think she punched above her weight. and newt gingrich's weakest moment. debate was responding to michele bachmann's charges over freddie mac. and so, i think she exposed some vulnerabilities there in the frontrunners. you're right, by and large the frontrunners pretty much laid off one another and let the second tier candidates go after them. >> and i want today deal with those questions separately michele bachmann did attack, but did she make the case for herself? >> she needs strategically not to knock din grinch down and move on past iowa, she has to do well in iowa. >> i don't think so,

you know jump off, i was samurai's garden, i said it was an energizer bunny. danville shoes samurai's garden the end of last year. they had the danville theatre which is a nice theatre and they were doing roamioand juliette and there was me in the middle of a balcony. it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming

can see it from the lack of fight and compared especially to michelle who went at it like the energizer bunny and couldn't be stopped and you see huntsman who is in a realm all by himself talking about transactional matters and what. >> paul: hey, i like the flat tax that he passed in utah and think his tax reform plan is pretty darn good. >> there is he' a big prom every time a politician says, i'm not going to pander, you go, oh. >> michele bachmann had a pretty good debate. the second debate in a row i think she punched above her weight. and newt gingrich's weakest moment. debate was responding to michele bachmann's charges over freddie mac. and so, i think she exposed some vulnerabilities there in the frontrunners. you're right, by and large the frontrunners pretty much laid off one another and let the second tier candidates go after them. >> and i want today deal with those questions separately michele bachmann did attack, but did she make the case for herself? >> she needs strategically not to knock din grinch down and move on past iowa, she has to do well in iowa. >> i don't think so,

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. >> jingle bells ♪ >> he is like the energizer bunny.ow a salvation army bell ringer is trying to ring his way to a world record. >>> and just for dennis, we found some snow. here's your snow report for today. we actually have a few new inches of snow there! how about that! boreal looking good. of course, going to be mostly sunny there this weekend as high pressure takes over. no reports of new snow in heavenly, although i suspect they got an incher so. squaw valley looking good one- foot base. mostly sunny skies. we'll have more on your weather coming up. stories: san jose police are investigating a fatal shootg by officers. they say they t a man after he displayed threat >>> san jose police are investigating a fatal shooting by officers. they say that they shot a man after he displaced threatening behavior toward the officers last night. >>> probation, home confinement or jail time? those are the choices for the judge sentencing barry bonds today. the punishment is for a conviction on one charge of obstruction of justice. >>> and today

he is like the candidate that is never the candidate that is the energizer bunny of the party. >> he party affiliation so we would have a reason to talk about him, but that would be cynical of me. he could afford the slinky suit. >> there's the buyer. genius! now, i really would love to know what everyone thinks about the outfit, because while it is entertaining -- >> i have seen it at the nba game, and i can't do that. >> please, keep doing that. >> that is it. that is all you are going to get out of me. >> the moment you have missed has not been on television yet, but this is posted from the "20/20" special when president obama fesses up his worst character trait. >> what is the character trait that you most deplore in yourself and the trait you most deplore in others. >> laziness. >> you are lazy? >> it is interesting. there is a deep down underneath all of the work i do, and i think that there's a laziness in me. i mean, it is probably from, you know, growing up in hawaii and it is sunny outside, and sitting on the beach. >> sounds good to me. >> ah. >> do you believe that? that

you have these two sort of energizer bunny candidates who can battle it out.e ron paul phenomenon gets out of control that's problematic for romney. and then you have to worry in a general election what are the possible implications of a ron paul third party candidacy which he has not ruled out. >> that rules a wrinkle to all of this. you both mentioned organization. reed, the headline in politico read newt gingrich races for iowa organization. and he admits it. listen to this. >> he's been running for president for six years. he's running with millions of dollars and $20 million in a superpac alone. of course, he has a huge organizational benefit. yet i tie him in every poll. >> what do you think here, reed? could this be gingrich's doom? >> it absolutely is going to play a major role here. first of all newt gingrich's poll numbers have been slipping for the better part of two weeks now. internal polls slippage started a lot earlier than in national polls. now we're seeing mitt romney tied again in these national polls even though gingrich led last week in. t

she is like the energizer bunny. bill: all on the eastern side of the state. normally conservative votes come from the western side of the state. they think with the changing dem -- demographics in iowa they're getting more conservative especially when it comes to fiscal issues. watch that two weeks from today as they caucus. mitt romney entering "the no-spin zone" going toe-to-toe with bill o'reilly. pressing on his conservative cree kengsals and why he would do a better job on the economy. >> put together the most anti-investment, anti-growth, anti-type of series of policies since jimmy carter. i consider him a big government liberal democrat. that is how i describe him. i look at his policies you conclude he thinks europe got it right and we got it wrong. i think europe got it wrong. i think europe is not working in europe. i'll battle --. bill: he kept talking. he also warned that we would go the way of greece with a second term from president obama. we'll ask bill o'reilly. he will join us a bit later. martha: he will be here in "america's newsroom"? bill

. >> well, our resident energizer bunny, he'll get out running. >> i'm on my way. >> bye-bye.n weeknights at 6 p.m. on msnbc. >>> thousands are marching in protest days after a controversial election in russia. several people were reportedly arrested in st. petersburg. the largest rally is in moscow. nbc stephanie gosk is in the russian capital with the very latest. >> reporter: good morning. the snow didn't stop people today. the cold didn't stop people. they came out in the thousands. this is the largest political demonstration that moscow -- in fact, that russia has seen since vladimir putin came to power 12 years ago. most of the people out here today are average middle class russians. they are employed, they are educated, but they believe last weekend's parliamentary election was rigged. they also accuse vladimir putin's government of widespread corruption. now, the government did approve this demonstration but for this location only. not at a square closer to the kremlin where opposition organizers had originally wanted to hold the demonstration. there are security force