everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet

this is a very clear, unkwif cal gauntlet. it's the victory after the victory. there was an electoral mandate that the president won and was won by the democrats in the senate. it was largely unchanged from the summer of 2011. i see this as the president taking a ka calculated gamble unless you break the back of that republican party that took a hard line about revenue going forward, you're going to be in this endless morass in washington. what they're saying is we're going to fight for this, and if that means on january 1 all bets are off, then on january 1 all bets are off. it's like the government shut down between clinton and the '90s and the republicans then. i'm not as convinced by the administration they're not saying this may be very painful and politically disruptive, and the markets may scream. until we change this dynamicdyn we're not changing anything and we'll fight for it. >> is that the political capital argument without the president coming out? as joe biden said, i have a

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one of the very few companies able to run that gauntlet according to some excellent research put out by the good people at bespoke investment group, which actually tallies up all these surprises and looks for the biggest ones. you would think that gnc checked off all the boxes necessary to go higher, earnings beat, revenue beat, guidance beat. but in fact the stock got slammed after these numbers came out. before the quarter gnc was trading at $38.67. the day it reported it dropped about a point. since then the stock has fallen as low as $34.57 today down four bucks or more than 10% since the upside surprise. 10%. a little bit more than the s&p has fallen since the peak. what did go wrong if anything? why has gnc been crushed despite posting some terrific numbers? you have to understand that going into earnings the stock had run up 34% for the year which meant the expectations were high and gnc was in a prime position to get clubbed if there was anything wrong with the quarter. now, on wall street when a company reports perfect results that are absolutely flawless we say there's no h

. >> and he threw down the gauntlet saying everyone agrees with keeping the middle class tax cuts. so he said congress should act on that now. >> i've got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. i'm ready to do it. i'm ready to do it. >> that report. so what impact will the election results have on talks over the fiscal cliff? >> well certainly after you have tuesday's election president obama comes in with the upper hand he won a nationwide victory and republicans suffered a loss. the pressure now is on republicans to come to the table and say how much ground are we willing to give here? and do we think that back in 2004 when president bush won his reelection he had a smaller electoral college victory and he considered that a mandate. the president here might be able to say that but dows the president compromising on some of the things that he has said he is going to stick with the tax cuts and repealing the bush tax cuts? what do you see the president's role to be? >> the president's role here is sticking by the campaign trail thopets have tax cuts making less than $250,000 an

everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet 30 years ago. you said you would always be there for me. meaning, the there in force, together with the understanding. thank you very much. >> let me begin this the scutcheon. you work every day with gang members. you were once a gang member yourself. why do you think you are effective working with young people and what does this mean to you and how we know that this is working. first of all, i want to thank god for his grace. i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved in juvenile delinquency. the majority of the kids i work with our gang members. i was formally -- formerly a gang member who grew up in san francisco. we all have stories of guys involved with the gang. everyone has a different story of why they joined. my thing is, i believe it works for me to be involved with kids who were in gangs -- i worked with all of the shot colors and i had a goal while i was there. it took me 10 years before i started to transform my life. in the meantime i have the goal t

everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet 30 years ago. you said you would always be there for me. meaning, the there in force, together with the understanding. thank you very much.

everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet 30 years ago. you said you would always be there for me. meaning, the there in force, together with the understanding. thank you very much. >> let me begin this the scutcheon. you work every day with gang members. you were once a gang member yourself. why do you think you are effective working with young people and what does this mean to you and how we know that this is working. first of all, i want to thank god for his grace. i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved

from generals under fire to a looming fiscal cliff, we examine the gauntlet's being thrown down tonight on "washington week." >> i think we're all aware that we have some

the gauntlet's being thrown down tonight on "washington week." >> i think we're all aware

. >>> laying down the gauntlet. if president obama wants to nominate susan rice as the next secretary of state, several key senators say they will block her. that's the takeaway from a highly anticipated meeting between rice and senate republicans, john mccain and lindsey graham. they're concerned miss rice misled the country concerning attacks on benghazi that left four people dead. the white house says ms. rice was not responsible for the news points she used on the sunday talk shows following that attack. >>> the disastrous apple maps is now out of a job. richard williamson was fired today. the map app has been blasted for being unreliable and lacking public transit directions. it replaced the original google maps in the newest versions of apple's operating system. just last month, the head of apple's mobile software development group was asked to resign after refusing to sign a letter apologizing for the app's flaws. >>> the amgen bike race is upside down. it will start in southern california and end in the bay

on sunday mayor booker threw down a gauntlet with one of his twitter followers about a discussion overnd school responsibility. one follower wrote, why is there a family today that is, quote, too poor to afford breakfast? are they not already receiving food stamps? mayor booker replied, let's you and i try to live on food stamps in new jersey, obviously a high cost of living, and feed a family for a week or a month. you game? the man accepted the mayor's challenge and the connecticut university of bridgeport offered to referee. the rules avoidclude avoiding accepting food from food or family. >> i like this. >> $1.66 a meal. i don't know if i can live off that. >> actually, i want to see how this happens. we should have him on the show. that's actually -- i like that. >>, yeah i like the challenge. now, while we're on the subject of food, you guys mentioned tin the business segment twinkies isn't going down without a fight. they're doing a mediation with the bakers union. i thought if that doesn't work out for you, joe, since we both love the twinkies, we have an embalmed twinkie. you

that i bring the right things all of these issues are making us tense and then when you face the gauntlet. of people who are here in new york really yelling at you sometimes to move along and then all of that machinery and these very odd weird things you have to do put your arms in the air and you know like that and take off your shoes and put them in one place as opposed to another this is a massively intrusive and for many people especially difficult because there are all old people for example who have trouble with is there are people with one or two toddlers that they're trying to manipulate and all their toys and bottles and all the rest of it so this is a high price to pay just in ordinary terms never mind anything deep about the psyche it multiplies out that is every think of how many people this affects per hour within the united states that's a lot of human happiness hours that have been sacrificed for what i think is basically an illusion and something that could be done much better even if your believe that the whole thing is effective so for example you could help people that

from generals under fire to a looming fiscal cliff, we examine the gauntlet's being thrown down tonight on "washington week."

. >> reporter: and he threw down the gauntlet, saying everyone agrees on keeping the middle class tax cuts for those who make under $200,000 a year. so, he say, congress should act on that now. >> and i've got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. i'm ready to do it. i'm ready to do it. >> reporter: and diane, president obama heads to asia next week. before he leaves, he is calling for a meeting of the top house and senate democrat and republican leaders to at least begin to try to find a compromise if one is possible. diane? >> but give us a reality check, jake. how quickly could this happen? >> reporter: i don't think quickly at all. congress tends to act not until the very last second. and if it stays true to its form, that's what will happen here, as well. diane? >> thank you so much, jake. >>> and be sure to watch george stephanopoulos and his team of experts and analysts as they gather on this sunday on the roundtable on "this week." >>> now, we have news tonight from the battered storm zone, 11 days after the superstorm, two days after the nor'easter. starting today in new

from generals under fire to a looming fiscal cliff, we examine the gauntlet's being thrown down tonight on "washington week." >> i think we're all aware that we have some urgent business to do. gwen: at the white house today, talk of compromise. >> it's going to be incumbent on my colleagues to show the american people that we're serious about cutting spending and solving our fiscal dilemma. >> we have the cornerstones of being able to work something out. gwen: but the post-election sparks are flying everywhere else. distinguished generals under fire, accused of inappropriate behavior. >> it was a very sad situation to have a distinguished career like that end in this manner. gwen: lawmakers pledging to get to the bottom of the benghazi attacks draw lines in the sand. >> we will do whatever is necessary to block the nomination that's within our power as far as susan rice is concerned. gwen: and the president pushes back. >> for them to go after the u.n. ambassador and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous. gwen: and mitt romney stirs intraparty recrimination with this post-election a

>> reporter: ran a gauntlet of reporters. >> why not? >> reporter: he said nothing about his pharmacy that made drugs for debilitating back pain. the conditions were deplorable. dirty floors, clean rooms with mold or bacterial growth. the steroids produced here infected eddie lovelace with meningitis and killed him. >> we're heartbroken. we're devastated. and i've just come here begging you to do something about this matter. >> reporter: a question members of congress put to that owner. >> what explanation can you give the families who have lost their loved ones -- >> on advice of council -- >> reporter: five times, he took the fifth. >> i respectfully decline. i respectfully decline. i respectfully decline to answer on the basis of my constitutional rights and privileges. >> reporter: refusing to answer any questions. >> is your position that the fda could not have prevented this tragedy because you did not have jurisdiction? is that what you're telling me today? >> we have unclear, fragmented legal regulatory framework. >> reporter: so

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little more knowledge will have a move middle more ability to do something about it to pick up the gauntlet if you and say we've got to we've now got to watch but it seems that the path of least resistance or some type of better future would be to let it just crash and let let the chips fall where they may in the economy in the u.k. one in ten companies one hundred sixty thousand companies or zombie economy there are no pendants that paying all the interest on the capital that's it they can't they can't retire the debt they're just paying interest on the debt and that's a growing problem design the apocalypse is upon us speaking of the zombie apocalypse gillian tett of course assistant editor at the f t always a fantastic read in the f.t. sheep this past week public the. piece claiming that if he were alive today karl marx would be a banker because the workers take home everything and the capital people who create the capital the savers and the insurance industry are getting financially raped so it's a workers' paradise in a marxist point of view your thoughts well it's a. you know the what

. >> i think this is just a gauntlet that susan rice is forced to go through as she works towards--demonstrateswould be a fine and outstanding secretary of state. >> eliot: it seems to me the legitimate questions that might be asked, who prepared the talking point? who changed the talking point as we understand it, perhaps to take out what the c.i.a. believed and what other intelligence sources believed indicating this was not just a spontaneous up rising or protest. those are legitimate questions, but they have nothing to do with susan rice and the disconnect just continues to mystify me that the media and the public seem to think that susan rice is a focal point almost venom more the republicans senate. >> she equates the appearance of a sunday show after the tragedy where four people were killed as a political appearance as opposed a senior leader of the administration trying to explain exactly what happened, and reflecting on the tragedy. i think it's a curious attack on susan rice today. but at the end of the day i think there will be answers to these questions. i certainly don't think tha

melissa: up next, president obama throws down the gauntlet on the fiscal cliff today, promising to vetodals not raising taxes on the wealthy. so there. is it all talk and no walk? we're going to find out. >>> plus, full steam ahead for health care reform. some states have a critical decision to make. we're going to explain. "piles of money", lots of taxes, coming up. ♪ can ♪ . melissa: so president obama and house speaker boehner both saying that all our lawmakers need to put their differences aside and work across the aisle to prevent us from falling off the fiscal cliff. i don't know. sounds like a lot of talk to me. remains to be seen whether both sides can really work together and if the partisan bickering will go on and lead us straight over the edge here for more on this one, there you go, that's how much time we have, dennis kelleher, ceo of financial watchdog organization, better markets. what's going happen? >> happy friday, melissa. melissa: yes. >> you know what i think will happen have appearance of lot of partisan bickering just under the surface of a lot of conciliatory ta

because what the president did was throw down the gauntlet ii st., i am ferrule.s been lukewarm understandably because we do have larger fish to fry, like the peace with egypt and israel and we don't wwnt egypt to become syria or chaotic. still, what he did was amazing. >> she was brilliant. he negotiated this deal between israel and tomas. within 24 hours a declared himself anew that he had the united states under a barrel. >> and the imf. >> and the imf and everyone else because no one wants war in the middle east command he needs a billion and a half dollars a month. lou: the imf reminding today that the good behavior will determine the course of $5 million tranche as they like to refer to this. let's turn to the united nations tomorrow, palestinian to limited palestinian. i love the expression. the united nations general assembly. is this the end of the palestinian-israeli conflict? a two-stage solution upon us? help us out here. >> the end of the palestinian-israeli conflict. we will never live that long. i think that this is just yet another little roadblock

do you think he will throw down the gauntlet and say if i want to nominate her, i will? think president is eager to move beyond benghazi as quickly as he can. there are reasons that he won't be able to. important reasons he won't be able to. the last thing he wants high profile confirmation hearing as the person seen, i think correctly, as the administration's spin on what happened with benghazi. went to defend her in an insulting way, sent her out because she didn't know anything. there to recite the talking points. you do that if you don't want her to screw up. if hillary clinton were to go out or petraeus goes out, they have institutional knowledge about what happened. they know what they were doing during the attack. they know what the stories were and the discussion of the immediate aftermath of the attack. susan rice by the president's own admission did not know those things and she can be counted on to recite talking points. it's an insulting way to use the united nations ambassador. it's odder that the president would cite that as the reason, or the defense of he

romney survived the primary gauntlet and let republican super pacs hammer the president on the hair. the campaign spend a lot of time defining romney before romney was able to define obama. he was criticized for taking a week off in july. and for bungling that foreign trip to england, israel and poland. he announced paul ryan as his running mate but that didn't produce the bump he needed. as the focus of the race turned to medicare and the ryan budget. the republican convention was disrupted by weather and a guy talking to an empty chair. and then mid september, the leaked video of mitt romney's 47% remark surfaced. the first presidential debate, romney bested obama in front of 66 million people and began to benefit from momentum. and then hurricane sandy hit. on tuesday romney will try to unseat an incumbent president, he's trying to knock a party out of power after just one term. while the president is targeting each part of his coalition with a handful of small arguments, romney is counting on winning the large one. >> he made a lot of promises, but those promises he couldn't keep

president obama has thrown down the gauntlet on taxes and while the gop is stomping its feet at making the wealthy to pay a bit more, he's making his pitch to the people. at a toy factory today, he warned them to play nice. >> joe biden was in costco. he wanted to buy some of this stuff. but i told him he had too much work to dochl i wasn. i told him he wasn't going to build roller coasters all day long. of course, santa delivers everywhere. i've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for washington. so you should keep your eye on who gets come kinects this year. there are going to be some members of congress who get them and some who don't. >> what sort of plan do you give the republican who won't agree with anything? this one, of course. the president is asking for a $1.6 trillion tax increase, $50 billion in economic stimulus, and the power to raise the debt limit without congressional approval. meanwhile, he will work the fine savings in entitlements. not to the man sitting on the naughty list. senator mcconnell said that he burst into laughter at the proposal. you know what is

school students playing music, chamber music and that tent back there and for voters passing the gauntlet of electioneers out here and we're told they have had few problems, they didn't have the necessary i.d. and there is no big problems and that is a presidential contest that is a race, driving people to the polls and we know this is going to be an election that will be a nail biter, but of the -- and i would say we spoke to a lot of voters and they want to give obama a second term and shot at it and that is an unscientific toll. one more thing, the poll close at 7:00 and that is in virginia. >> our election coverage continues in maryland. three questions on the ballot drawing attention. question four, maryland's version of the dream act. question 6, civil marriage protection act. and question seven, the gambling expansion referendum. lauren demarco is live at a polling station in maryland. how is the turnout there? >> reporter: you know what, shawn? 2800 people are expected at this precinct and those who are eligible to vote here in laurel maryland, there are 3.7 registered voters, 11

and as soon as they hit that yard and they were -- they had to walk down that gauntlet of really bad ass-looking guys, you know, all tatted up, scars all over their face, you know? the looks on their faces completely changed. >> who's on my yard? >> what you looking at? >> hey [ bleep ]. >> you guys don't want to make the same mistakes we're making, or you'll be here for life. just like me! >> welcome to corcoran. >> here kitty kitty. >> what's up? >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> look at his hair. [ bleep ]. look at that. >> i don't know any of them. we don't know them. we don't know them. >> i don't want to know. is that a girl? >> if you have a broken leg, you will get aspirin. if you have the flu, you will get aspirin. turn back and face forward. >> the students aren't on the yard very long when they learn how unpredictable life here can be. >> down! >> get down! get down! stay down! >> alarms signaling a major disturbance are common at corcoran. inmates who don't hit the ground risk get taken down by staff. >> see that? >> you had everybody hitting the ground. you had the correctiona

spoker boehner has been getting a lot of attention these past few hours, throwing down the gauntlet,r compromise is probably not in the offing for house republicans. >> i look at this, there was obviously intense partisanship, gridlock in the last two years of the congress. but moving forward, this election is now past us. i think the american people and i certainly think that the people in the state of wisconsin are looking for us to work together. we have very clear challenges facing us with the elements of the fiscal cliff. they want to see us responsibly work to settle those issues. the president outlined a very balanced approach moving forward. i think that's exactly what we need to do. we do need to tackle our deficit but in a way that doesn't short change our future. >> senator-elect -- >> i just have to say one quick thing. as a lesbian, you are a role model to young gay kids all across the country and it is so unbelievably exciting and moving to see you go to the senate. >> thank you. >> representative tammy baldwin now senator-elect from the state of wisconsin. thank you fo

it is lived in rows of beds at the gauntlet and a chilly attic. no sooner had the comprehended the news had they rushed off to find their roommate, littlefield who shared an apartment on main street more discussion and debate among the friends would follow. another name for the kings rifle corps would be received and approved. he was rejected on account of a bum shoulder. but i was cast. cs cox and bolte offer themselves to become british soldiers and the officer candidates and the king's royal rifle corps. dudish about from england. other men would follow in 18 americans joined the 60th rifles and some 17 months later the army itself finally would enter the fray. these five young men went first and in the war the timing tralee is everything. before going to sleep that night, and this is when i talked with him years later, charles mclean house was his habit wrote in his diary. 65 years, as i said, 65 years later where he lived alone in their retirement village she showed me the intrigue of it is deemed to have surprised him. fear wasn't a viable f