g.o.p. presidential candidate herman cain now according to this liberal parasite while cain was head of those association national restaurant association in the one nine hundred ninety s. at least two female employees complained to colleagues in senior associates and officials about inappropriate behavior by the slimy site goes on to smear mr cain by saying that two settlements are reached with those women but they can't talk about those settlements for legal reasons so politico is writing a story about the first black conservative g.o.p. presidential candidate it all comes from unnamed sources come law that's of the left leaning media d.c. in new york love to do always smear a conservative any chance you get there is my question for politico where is the hard hitting investigation of john edwards the man finished third in the presidential race in two thousand and eight while having an affair with a campaign worker and fathering a child and this happened at the same time that his wife was dying of cancer it took the national enquirer to break that story and tabloid what he did is far more egr

g.o.p. presidential field there's a debate later this month to be moderated by donald trump. romney say he was going to be preparing. >> he danced around that and didn't say yes or no. it will be interesting to find out what happened. and newt gingrich weighed in and would like to participate. let's listen to what mitt romney had to say about it. >> i think we've got now some 14 or 15 debate invitations and i'm not sure which ones we're going to sign up for, two in december and haven't put together the january calendar yet, but people will have plenty of opportunities to see us and my guess they'll be screaming at their tv and please, return to the regularly scheduled programming. >> you can see there, he sort of hedged around what he would be doing on december 27th when that debate was scheduled. and it will be a white. newt gingrich promoting his own leadership qualities at an event in staten island and speaking to tea party supporters down there and it will be interesting to see as the day develops how else he'll be weighing in as the race continues. patly ann. >> patti an

g.o.p. presidential race. and it seems that scenes like this are becoming more common these days a new report shows that over forty percent of america's youth has been handcuffed before the age of twenty three so is this a sign that our country is screwed. it is thursday december twenty ninth four pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well more signs today that the u.s. and iran are inching closer to war this after an iranian warplane spots a u.s. aircraft carrier crossing the strait of hormuz now this strait is critical because it's the only sea passage to the open ocean for exploiting oil over fifteen million barrels of oil passes through here every day that's about a third of the world's oil shipments by sea the aircraft carrier ron says this spot is part of the fifth fleet which is based in bahrain not too far away only rondout flexing its muscles and threatening to cut off oil supply from the waterway this is a response to the west imposing sanctions on the country and the u.s. is us

g.o.p. presidential contender meanwhile. there's a war going to war the bourbon a nuclear weapon in the room you know it isn't worthwhile. candidates like ron paul and jon huntsman are being overlooked in the republican three ring circus so will voters ever stop focusing on the sideshow pay attention to some of the more serious issues. point frankly is they don't want to know that these people are here because there are faceless the nameless the no evil hear no evil or in this case see no poverty here no problem with this as more and more american families are left to sink or swim in a failing us economy one year later r.v. r.t. revisits a tent city on the outskirts of new york. good afternoon it is wednesday december seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our. i want to start out with a look at what has become a rapidly changing landscape that of the g.o.p. presidential candidate field now we all know over the weekend herman cain quote suspended his campaign so he that we want to talk about who

g.o.p. presidential candidate mitt romney and the former massachusetts governor is polling pretty steadily in republican primaries across the country although there definitely is a little bit of a sense of voters what anybody but him what he is doing quite well in the fund raising department so you know the establishment thinking and in fact he is raising far more than any other. g.o.p. presidential hopeful remember earlier this year how romney got a million dollar donation to an organization that just suddenly ceased to exist the next day but it's not the only notable donation that the romney camp has gotten back in july the washington post reported that a good chunk of his funds came from his buddies on wall street like goldman sachs morgan stanley and bank of america seventy five percent of his donations up until july of this year came from people who gave the max amount possible twenty five hundred dollars and his coffers were also stuffed with money thanks in large part to lobbyists in fact sixty one registered lobbyists and five packs contributed almost one hundred forty thousand dollar

g.o.p. presidential candidates participated in a so-called thanksgiving family forum in iowa at this event was sponsored by the family leader and national organization for marriage to conservative christian organizations and the focus here was you guessed it social policy and values now in what some describe as a soul baring event the candidates told personal stories of difficult moments in their lives their regrets and their dedication to god that sounds nice sounds very personal but then when you really look at some of their responses the picture becomes a little more scary the candidates advocated for judeo christian values pervading our laws for the federal government to take power out of the hands of the state and legislating moral issues think gay marriage and abortion and for congress to take away the judiciary's power to review moral laws so all in all makes you wonder as william saletan at slate did if these candidates who so often decry the influence of islam or the fake creeping sharia law if they actually would mind a theocracy as long as it was christian joining me to discuss this

g.o.p. presidential hopeful ron paul so with one week until the iowa caucus why is the grand thinker of the party under siege. it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone commerce education and the what's the third one they would say how do you know who is the best fit for the job of commander in chief tonight while trying to determine to voters are capable of making an informed decision.

g.o.p. presidential contender meanwhile there's a war going to war to prevent a nuclear weapon in the wrong you know it isn't worth while. candidates like ron paul and jon huntsman are being overlooked in the republican three ring circus so in the contest between sirius and sideshow what will win out. they say ignorance is bliss but these days with all the depressing news stories coming out around the world it seems people are taking that mantra to a new extreme tuning out of current events and into current pop culture trends so despite all this new technology looks like people might not be getting any smarter . boyfriend really is they don't want to know that these people here. are very socialist. and see no evil hear no evil or in this case see no poverty here no problems this as more and more american families are left to sink or swim in a failing us economy one year later our t.v. is it's a tent city on the outskirts of new york. it is wednesday december seventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching r t. one start by taking a look at the economy as we are in the h

g.o.p. presidential contender meanwhile there's a war going to war there were the nuclear weapon in the room you know it isn't worthwhile candidates like ron paul and jon huntsman are being overlooked in the republican precincts circus so in the contest between sirius and sideshow what will win out. they say ignorance is bliss but these days with all the depressing news stories coming out around the world it seems people are taking that mantra to a new extreme tuning out of current events and into current pop culture trends so despite this new technology looks like people might not be getting any smarter. a good evening to you it is wednesday december seventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our team. i want to start with a look at what's become a rapidly changing landscape that of the g.o.p. presidential candidate field now we all know that over the weekend herman cain quote suspended his campaign so he's out so we want to talk about who is still in where they stand and what this all means for the future of our country so much to the dismay of quite a few people

g.o.p. presidential contender meanwhile says we're going to war to prevent a nuclear weapon in the room you know it isn't worthwhile candidates like ron paul and jon huntsman are being overlooked in the republican three ring circus so in the contest between sirius and sideshow what will win out. quite frankly is they don't want to know that these people are here because they're ugly they're faceless their neighbors say no evil hear no evil or in this case see no poverty here no problems this is more and more american families are left to sink or swim in a failing us economy one year later our team revisit a tent city on the outskirts of new york. it is wednesday december seventh seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching our take. well i want to start with a look at what has become a rapidly changing landscape that of the g.o.p. presidential candidate field now we know over the weekend herman cain quote suspended his campaign so he is out but i want to talk about who is still in where they stand and what this all means for the future of our country so much to the d

g.o.p. presidential nomination. gingrich, romney, and none of the above. cynthia bowers is covering a deadly blizzard in the plains and a high school football coach finds the team's toughest opponent is poverty. seth doane on what he did to defeat it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their

g.o.p. presidential candidate. it paid off when the staunchest critic of gay marriage won the endorsement of the president and ceo of the family leader. >> i saw him as a champion for the family in the u.s. house. i saw him as a champion for family in u.s. senate. it saw him as the champion for the family on the campaign trail. >> the windfall may not include foot soldiers as the family leaders board opted to remain neutral. still, the former pennsylvania senator told fox news this is our moment. >> we are within a dozen points of first place. those folks in first place are not going up. we are. >> one man stood apart. >> texas congressman ron paul leads in iowa according to the real clear politics average of major polls. paul's tv ad equates mitt romney and newt gingrich with each other and with president obama. >> story of smooth-talking politicians. insider deals. games, he said, she said. >> a wide open race. anything can happen. ron paul is leading there now but it's wide open. >> newt gingrich was are caravan

g.o.p. presidential field saying that they made millions as unregistered lobbyists or they kill coyotes when jogging or they said "the lion king" will turn your kids gay. (laughter) and on abc's this week this week journalistic elder statesman with a four-year-old hair cut george will had the balls to trip whole field. >> between now and 2016 those parties have to do some serious thoughts as to whether they can develop some fiter to prevent this process-- particularly with mad proliferation of debates-- from being hijacked by charlatans, entrepreneurs and entrepreneur flurl charlatans. >> stephen: and don't get him started on the charla-preneurial entrepre-narlatanss! (laughter) well, the media snob cans shut their traps because the next republican debate is going to be super serious. >> there is a debate that will happen actually on the 27th of december hosted by none other than donald trump who will be the moderator. >> stephen: boom! serious enough for you now? does jim lehrer have his own brand of bottled water? does jim lehrer poop in a golden toy sflet no. (laughter) jim lehrer is not

g.o.p. presidential hopeful ron paul so with one week until the iowa caucus why is the grand thinker of the party under siege. and speaking of the media with ratings the quieting in the mainstream media is the mainstream media even relevant from blogs to social media sites will explore the high tech side of journalism and the decline of cable news is that. if someone loses he has no reason.

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g.o.p. presidential nomination is up in the air. we will take you to the hawkeye state for a preview of this unpredictable political showdown. >> your plan essentially is one more big government, bureaucratic, -- >> greg: not so fast, mr. speaker. new report says newt gingrich supported romney care before he opposed it. but there is more to this story than meets the eye. we will break it down for you. [shouting] >> oh my [bleep] >> mall brawl alert. massive fight breaks out at the mall of america in minnesota. you won't believe the cause of the chaos. [bleep] >> greg: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> greg: hi, i'm greg gutfeld in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. with the iowa caucuses just one week away, the candidates have flooding the air wafsz with last minute ads which could make a difference in a tight race. mitt romney out touting himself as a conservative businessman. >> i'm going to do something to government. ism going

g.o.p. presidential debates here snippets from the most recent. well i've already told for him over flood i'm very concerned about not appearing to be using the we had a big back and forth about whether newt was involved in untoward activity. no you may have thought you were watching for laughs or to size up the race depending of course on your political persuasion little did you know you were doing due diligence because get ready folks a chicago derivatives exchange aims to be the first regulated us market to let you bet and cash in on the next president and would you be able to make money on the payroll tax and gridlock in washington right now we will fill you with let's get to today's capital account. today we saw the federal reserve they released rules relating to a number of dogs frank requirements as well as dalzell three which includes higher capital requirements for institutions deemed systemically important now yesterday there were rumblings that the fed was on board with these requirements and that is reportedly what sent financial stock

g.o.p. presidential nomination. the republican party of virginia has announced newt gingrich and rick perry will not appear on the state's primary ballot. both candidates failed to submit the 10,000 signatures needed to qualify. perry has not addressed the decision but the gingrich campaign says he will pursue an aggressive write-in strategy to be added to virginia's ballot. >>> well, on this christmas eve, people around the world are celebrating the holiday in different ways. millions are attending midnight masses, others are making a political statement. drew levinson reports for wjz with more. >> reporter: pope benedict celebrated the traditional christmas eve mass. it allows the 84-year-old pontiff to get more rest before his important christmas day speech. before mass, the vatican unveiled its much-anticipated annual nativity scene. in china, hundreds of catholics attended services. only 25 million are christians. in this season of peace, activists in south korea floated giant balloons carrying boxes of socks o

g.o.p. presidential nomination. gingrich, romney, and none of the above. cynthia bowers is covering a deadly blizzard in the plains and a high school football coach finds the team's toughest opponent is poverty. seth doane on what he did to defeat it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their unemployment. the house today said the clock ticking toward that new year's day punch in the pocketbook when it turned down a bill that has been passed by the senate. that bill would have extended the 2% cut in the social security payroll tax and kept job benefits flowing. what happens now? congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill, nancy? >> reporter: scott, we are now official in a total stalemate and tonight most lawmakers are heading home for the holidays. >> reporter: the motion is adopted. >> reporter: house republicans

g.o.p. presidential candidate newt gingrich will be in arlington, virginia. the former house speaker will attend a fund-raiser and initiative in rosslyn. presidential candidates have until september 22nd to collect the signatures of 10,000 resident in order to appear on the 2012 ballot. >>> newt gingrich is accusing mitt romney of running a nasty smear campaign. he suggested romney is behind negative attacks funded by special political action committees. romney denies wrongdoing and he said the commercials are out of his control. >>> the d.c. council has approved an ethics bill which allows members to remove legislators for criminal wrongdoing and misconduct. an ethics board and code of conduct overseeing the actions of council members would be established. >> legislators would be allowed to keep their outside jobs but the amount they can keep in their constituency fund has been cut in half to $40,000. congressman wells says the bill falls far short. >> i can't believe that now we said that we can use our constituent services fund for sports tickets again. >>

g.o.p. presidential candidate herman cain suspends his campaign for the 2012 nomination. at a rally in atlanta, surrounded by family and supporters, cain, blaming the nonstop attention on accusations of sexual misconduct becoming too much to bear for him and his family. >> with a lot of prayer and soul-searching...i am suspending my presidential campaign. >> cain also citing difficulty in raising enough money to remain competitive. his decision is the latest twist in a republican primary contest that has seen a roller coaster of front-runners. facing bankruptcy, the u.s. postal service planning some unprecedented service cuts -- almost half of the nearly 500 mail-processing centers across the country will close. what used to take a day and a half for delivery will now take two to three. that means your birthday cards, check payments, dvd deliveries, and magazine subscriptions will all take longer to arrive. and for the first time in 40 years, there will be no next-day delivery. the agency is facing a 20% drop in mail volume and is $5.1 billion in debt this year. pop icon

g.o.p. presidential hopefuls are hoping to attract some of those party detectors.eek ago, a new poll shows it is now a three-way race but as duarte reports, that's not stopping other presidential candidates from making a final push there. >> i'm almost considering myself a resident here. >> rick santorum was the only presidential candidate campaigning in iowa spending part of the day pheasant hunting but the real spot for the top hunt will intensify today. >> i'm going to do something the government -- i'm going to make it simpler and smarter. >> mitt romney released an advertisement as he tried to sway undecided voters. with only weeks to go, the latest polls show a three-way race between romney, gingrich and paul. rick perry is trying to improve his position. he'll launch a bus tour today and release a fresh ad in iowa. >> if washington is the problem, why trust a congressman to fix it? >> paul, at the top of many polls in iowa won't be campaigning there today. his next event is scheduled for tomorrow. >> gingrich and michele bachmann will make numerous stops tod

well as the two thousand and twelve presidential race heats up there remains a mystery which g.o.p. candidate president obama will face in the november ballot but one political group has already decided on their candidate the boston tea party picked up two women to leave their take it for the white house but can a third party really attract voters in a country divided mainly on democrat and republican lines the answer that i spoke to darrell perry chair of the boston tea party here's what he had to say. but we have a platform that a lot of americans agree with you support reducing the size scope and power of government at all levels on all issues and most people if you talk to them they will actually agree with that platform but they vote for the two established parties because they buy into the wasted vote theory and we're trying to break that cycle and i mean how are you going to be able to break away from that you encourage people to vote. and vote for the third party but just continue to show that the republicans and the democrats are basically the same party everything that geo

g.o.p. presidential candidate says some of virginia's election laws are unconstitutional. he says including getting 10,000 signatures from people who are intending to vote on primary day. well, there are only five days until the iowa caucuses. it will be the first real contest in 2012 for the republican presidential race. as danielle nottingham reports, with no real front-runner, the candidates are under pressure to pressure voters to choose them. >> reporter: mitt romney returned to iowa tuesday evening with one mission. convince undecided voters to support his campaign. >> if you want a president who believes america can do better and americans deserve better, then i hope i can count on your support. >> reporter: politics has been the special of the day at the machine shed restaurant in urbandale, iowa for weeks. there is now less than a week to go before the caucuses and republican presidential candidates are canvassing the state to sway undecided voters like janet kelly. >> i'm 61. i've heard it all before. they all say the same thing. >> reporter: with no clear front-

g.o.p. presidential candidates, a two hour live special. >> judge jeanine on after that to talk with the governor about the big debate. >> see you tomorrow. >> brenda: a recovery in the making or another head faking? the best week for stocks in three years. the best jobless rate in two and a half years. consumers buying, auto sales rising, and home sales growing. manufacturing surging, all signs we're moving forward, so, why is someone here saying, not so fast. hi, everyone, i'm brenda buttner, this is bulls and bears, let's get right to it. the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, tobin smith. jonas max ferris, along with jim la camp senior vice-president at macro portfolio advise,and john thomas financial's chief economist mike norman, welcome to everybody. jim, all of those arrows, the up arrows not impressing you yet? >> no, not at all. i mean, look, we've got 64% participation rate in the labor force, way too small and lowest number since 1984. we have 315,000 people that dropped out of the labor force, that's not acceptable. we're already in the fourth year of this recovery. keep in min

g.o.p. presidential candidate was featured just last week for his truly original albeit wrong stance on child labor when he was speaking to you when he was speaking about income inequality at harvard's kennedy school new told us what he thought of child labor laws. it is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods in trapping children in first one child laws which are truly stupid ok you say to somebody you shouldn't go to work before you're what fourteen sixteen years of age five you're totally poor. that's right he declared those laws designated to protect children from essentially slave labor as being stupid what's worse newt then offered up his own suggestion for kids who are in need of a job. most of these schools want to get rid of the unionized janitors have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school the kids would actually do work they would have cash they'd have pride in the schools they begin the process arise. yes the legitimately offered custodial work for children as a way to fix the income inequality problem in this country and that's when we thought

g.o.p. presidential candidate say for ron paul trying to one up each other over how quickly they would bomb and run covert missions in iran but the president himself came out last week and said that every option is on the table and now the u.s. is covert with iran is out in the open it's time for those who don't want another u.s. led military conflict to stand up be voices of reason against a political class who seems hell bent on another conflict in the middle east and finally want to respond to a kind of you or progressive x. tweeted to us it is truly a glimmer of hope that we have real news from at the alona show and r t we're fortunate that our cable company airs r t here in l.a. so thank you so much for watching as an l.a. native really happy you can watch and enjoy the show all the way over there in california at my ranting today and i will be back with more as usual later in the week. now if you've been watching m s n b c c.n.n. or fox news in the past week you've probably seen this very scary ad. they're stealing american jobs internet criminal illegal foreign websites the traffic i

g.o.p. presidential candidates before a group of jewish republicans. we will listen to some of what they said. they took out time for criticizing each other to take collective aim at president obama and his policies toward israel and iran. carl cameron has that story. the president met with canadian prime minister harper this afternoon at the white house. one of the topics, the controversial keystone xl pipeline project. this evening, wendell goler looks at what is holding things up and how that is going over. the president continues to push for the payroll tax cut extension. mike emanuel tells us what they are doing to get it through before the current one expires. in the grapevine, why a school principal would let students shiver in the cold. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back to "the five." next story is getting a lot of heat today. look at the house. it burned to ground as firefighters stood by and watch. it has happened before in the city of south fulton, tenn

g.o.p. presidential candidate category now a lot of the candidates out there been working very hard to come out with the most insane immigration plan possible rick santorum might have just taken the cake and yes i believe that this makes this the third time this week the rick santorum has won our told time award so i guess i just makes him a really really big tool but seriously the guy just keeps spewing crazy during a campaign stop in spencer iowa yesterday the rental of a new set of there was asked again about his stance on immigrants who have families here in the united states so not only did he reiterate his usual point that those people are breaking the law but he went on to explain you can't be here for twenty years and commit only one illegal act because everything you're doing while you're here is against the law families should be broken up when the law is broken which includes illegal immigration that's right rick says that it's ok to tear families apart leave children essentially orphaned because they're breaking the law or this is the first time that he sounded like he has no ha

g.o.p. presidential contest; what's left for iraqis; intelligence failures in north korea; and the redemption of an african warlord. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: wall street had its best day in months, after encouraging news at home and abroad. the dow jones industrial average surged ahead 337 points to close at 12,103. the nasdaq rose 80 points to close at 2603. the gains came as germany reported increased business and consumer confidence, investors became more confident that spain can repay its debts, and the u.s. government said housing starts rose in november. a snowstorm howled across the great plains for a second day, killing at least six people. high winds and driving snow had closed major highways in five states by late monday, from eastern new mexico to kansas. whiteout conditions stopped many travelers in their paths, and hotels and motels along many routes were booked solid. two feet of snow fell in some places. >> it went from rain to sleet to snow. by the time we hit kansas, it was really crazy. i slid off in the median, was there