>> still ahead more goldberg.hen dennis miller ranting about pot shops and montel williams coming right up. >> bill: continuing now with the special edition of the factor and the always% perspicacious bernie >> continuing now with bernie goldberg. >> last week i was out swimming in the ocean and i heard this thunder clap. i thought it was the weather but it was the factor. people were texts me. i watch your show where are you you idiot. i am under water but i will be back at 11. laura ingram, roll the tape. >> bill o'reilly told me he had a secret weapon. i didn't know it was a pretty girl he would bring here. >> that is condescending. >> i am sorry i said you were attractive. >> i didn't make a joke out of due respect for you. >> what did you think? >> if the implicit question is did charlie wrangle cross the line i want to be clear on this. a big fat emphatic no. when does we become such sissies that something like this becomes a big deal? it is clearly a generational thing. let me asay something else here. laur

straight ahead more goldberg and straight ahead more goldberg and then dennis miller ranting oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. great! did i mention no hands in the bundler? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >> bill: continuing now with the special edition of the factor and the always% perspicacious bernie goldberg. last week i was out and swimming in the ocean and i heard this thunder clap but it was the factor. people are texting me. have you got it watch your own show, you idiot. where are you? >> i'm under water. i will watch the 11:00. here is rangle and laura ingraham. roll the tape. >> let me say this that bill o'reilly told me he had a secret weapon. i didn't know it was just a pretty girl that he would bring here. >> laura: that's very condescending, sir. >> i'm sorry i said you were attractive. i withdraw that completely. >> laura: i was going to make a joke about the condo and the dom

goldberg joins us from north carolina. with brian williams and the death penalty question. >> okay. >> your state executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent? >> no, sir, i've never struggled with that at all. >> bill: okay. so a lot of conservative pundits on talk radio today talking about it. that shows williams' left wing bias and you say? >> well, i say that was an interesting way to ask a question. i want to repeat it so we can set up what's to come. let's imagine: do you struggle to sleep at night with the idea that one of those might have been innocent? brian williams would say, i'm sure, that that was a fair question, asked professionally and all that. so let's turn the tables and see how fair it was. let's say a conservative journalist was questioning a panel of liberal democrats running for president of the united states and the conservative journalist said, all of you at one time or

. >> bill: bernie goldberg. >> he is not different. he is not better. he made a great first impression. you can only make a first impression once and his act is getting a little old. >> bill: dennis miller? >> welcome to the montel california. >> please join me, your humble correspondent in a special presentation you don't want to miss. >> my liberal friends rarely make me angry these days but they do amuse me with their crazy liberal ideas. >> bill: duo of news analysis goldberg and miller right now. captions by closed captioning services >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching the special edition of the factor. we begin tonight with bernie. tonight it is embarrassing for many in the liberal media to seat man who heavily supported barack obama having such a hard time in the white house. the latest economic chaos is being pramed a -- framed a number of ways being honest. bernard goldberg.com. i hear you are angry about the recor

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scott goldberg, abc news, washington. >>> it's 4:45 now.ing up, warning for parents after a man tries to grab a girl on peninsula. >> also, pg&e makes a plea for more pressure in its pipelines but the substandard safety testing driggers doubt among -- triggers doubt among state regulators. >> new study that could give millions of americans with diabetes a major new reason to get it under control. >> getting a good night's sleep? you're not? check this out. [ female announcer ] from the very first moment we arrive... we're on the move. ♪ and we don't want anything, ever, to slow us down. so it's surprising that most women aren't getting enough calcium. but thankfully, with over 25 great flavors, like strawberry cheesecake and blackberry harvest, only yoplait original gives you 50% of the daily value of calcium and vitamin d in every cup. yoplait. it is so good. prove it. enough's enough. d-con baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding, guaranteed. d-con. get out. can help your kids' scho get extra stuff. ♪ like musical instrents.

goldberg.com. mr. goldberg. you can figure this one out, bernie. >> i will give you two possibilities again with the usual proviso that these are just theories. one is she gave him a valentine story hoping to win over the regime and get a real interview for tomorrow's today show. if that's the case, fine. >> bill: don't you lead with your strength? >> yeah, we may not have it thep yet. she may have shown that to show the propaganda ministry or whatever they call it over there to say look we did a nice story. can we get an interview? >> bill: i get it. >> the second possibility is that it is just crummy journalism. that's possible too. i know you like history, bill. t me but the this into some kind of historical context. hitler was often portrayed as playing with his dog and frolicking with school children and looking out from his balcony at the beautiful bavarian mountains under a beautiful blue sky. and they did this to make him look like mr. nice guy. but it was the german prop began that ind

scott goldberg has this remarkable story of survival. >> when a car veers off a winding road and tumbled 200 feet into a ravine, you would be forgiven for so many things would not end well. >> if anybody can find my dad it is us. we know he's alive. >> if they were determined to find their father david and they did. six days after his car fell into the pits in southern california. his kids formed their own search party. >> we stopped at every ravine and looked over every hill. then my brother got out of the car and we kept screaming. the next thing we heard my dad's a help and there he was. >> police hoisted him out of the ravine by helicopter. the likely loss control while driving home last friday and was blinded by oncoming red lights. he landed next to another driver, apparently an earlier victim of the same twisting road who;s story ended differently. >> there was a vehicle down there from a previous incident. unfortunately that they and did not survive. >> david's doctors say that he is stable. >> it's unusual to come out as stable as he is. he did not sustain any life- threatening

and bernie goldberg on the web site attack watch.com being run by the obama campaign. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> hi, i'm be ol rye. will thanks for watching us tonight. raising revenue by punishing achievement. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. more of same from president obama today demanding tax increase on wealthy and corporations in order to cut the enormous federal debt. >> explained by somebody who is making auto million dollars a year in the financial markets should be paying 15% on their taxes when a teacher making auto thousand dollars a year is paying more than that. paying a higher rate. they ought to have to answer for that. >> bill: well, mr. president, do i have have an answer, of course i do. number one, you are talking about long-term capital gains tax currently at 15%. but you and your pal warren buffet never say that you equate the 15% cap gains tax with the federal income tax. that is not fair. that's because capital gains tax is levi

that was whoopi goldberg wondering where her mask is. >> i call it the whoopi goldberg mask from cameroon, north africa. >> i think they finally celebrated when they found out sister act 3 was not coming out. >> people say did you get this on ebay. when i started there was no ebay. >> do you think ebay has hurt new that respect? >> probably to some degree because people have been selling cheap artifacts on ebay for quite some time and ruining the reputation of good stuff. you need to experience these pieces firsthand, touch, feel, smell, even the smell can tell you the age of a piece. >> that's one reason why robert has never set up a website for his store because he does want to encourage people to come inside and experience everything that he has here, but you can find him on facebook. search for the dreaming room gallery. you'll get information on this weekend's sale and the auction that will be taking place afterwards. here in san francisco, bob redel, nbc bay area news. >> always good stuff. welcome to redel's world. the time now is 11:20. a young man convicted of bringing pipe bombs

i'm scott goldberg. that is coming up. >> cramped room no, place to cook and a long walk to school.ey have a swimming pool. but some students forced to live in a hotel say they've had enough. clcl lose those lines, for up to a year! juvÉderm® xc, is the gel filler your doctor uses to instantly smooth out lines right here. temporary side effects include redness, pain, firmness, swelling, bumps, or risk of infection. ask your doctor about juvÉderm® xc. >>> all right. check out live doppler7 h.d. quiet this morning. let's move on and talk about what is going to happen around the rest of the state. as we head in the afternoon hours. we see hot in the central valley with temperatures near 100 in sacramento, chico and fresno. 106 in palm springs. the warm spot. morning clouds give way to afternoon sunshine. san diego, 71. l.a., 78. 68 and clouds in big sir. eureka sunny and 63. don't forget tahoe, sunshine and 80. >> it's 5:46. even though the military "don't ask, don't tell" policy is now history, the legal battle over it continues. the justice department lawyers filed a motion to vacate

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here's more from abc's scott goldberg. >> reporter: gone but determined not to be forgotten. the system that was tropical storm lee, is soaking its way north. from southern louisiana. >> a lot is going to go. >> like what? >> all the tools in the box down there. we didn't think it would get that high. >> reporter: into georgia and beyond, lee has dumped up to ten inches in some places. and brought winds that turned into dozens of tornadoes. >> you grabbed him and held him close. >> yeah. >> reporter: officials confirmed three tornados in atlanta. and across the state, georgia's emergency management agency said winds damaged 100 homes. richard darby and hi wife hid in their closet. >> one piece. >> one piece. we can fix all this stuff later. as long as we got our lives, that's all that matters. >> reporter: georgia power reported more than 5,000 customers without electricity. what's left of lee is moving into the northeast, the part of the country still coming out from under hurricane irene. >> we have a serious three-day window to watch with this rainfall. >> reporter: in com

joining us from north carolina to analyze, bernie goldberg.irst of all, what happened to cbs news, your old employer? that used to be the gold standard. >> the key words are used to be. bill, i promise you i'll talk about the polls,ut give me 15 seconds. i a bought your book this morning, "killing lincoln ." i bought it this morning. i spent all day reading it, fascinating. the most fascinating statistic, or piece of information was on page 273. it was just -- i didn't know this. that right after lincoln was assassinated in ford theater, you, you were 13 years old at the time, you went up to mrs. lincoln and said, yeah, yeah, yeah. besides that, what did you think of the show? i thought it was -- >> bill: i thought i was going to get a straight compliment out of you. i don't believe you bought it, number one. number two, come on. >> i thought it was a little cheeky, but it explains who you became today. on the poll, look, cbs news, don't forget, since walter cronkite went through dan rather and then sheafer, then katie couric. the challenge is

architect david child, and david lieberstein designer of the site's original plan and paul goldbergerom the new yorker magazine. we conclude this evening with michael larod, the designer of the 9/11 memorial. the rebuilding of ground zero when we continue. >> founding for -- funding for charlie rose funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: addional funding provided by these funders: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: the attacks on the >> rose: the attacks on theworln september 11, 2001, forever changed the manhattan skyline. almost immediately after theer iconic twin towers fell thatth tuesday morning, the debate ove+ how to rebuild began. for 5 time, creative, economic and political conflict stalled significant progress at theil site. the rebuilding effort continues but many feel that a corner has been turned. the national september 11 memorial opened to the public on sunday, and the site's central building at 1 world trade center continues to rise to its dominant place in the cityjo skyline

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scott goldberg is live in washington. good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning. he is going to tliv the speech he first wanted to give last night but rescheduled after it conflicted with the republican debate in simi valley. >> there are eight republicans on the stage but most attention is focusing on two, governor rick perry and mitt romney know the one question on voters' minds, who knows best how to create jobs. >> michael dukakis created jobs three tames faster. >> george bush created jobs fashion terrify than you did. >> i think are raining on the parade. as governor of utah we are number one job creator. >> now the attention turns back to the plate they are trying to reach, washington, where president obama presents his ideas to a joint session to congress. >> white house promises it will be a detailed proposal to create jobs. likely a package of tax cuts and spending on roads and bridges. stakes are high for a president whose popularity is sliding. >> president obama has to understand he is still our president. if congress is going to not work with him he

scott goldberg, abc news, washington. >>> 6:46.s is i'll see you in court day for heads of other can and google. >> we have more on that and word of a new owner for great america in santa clara. good morning. >> good morning. this is the term awkward. two exec of google and oracle will square off in court today over the android software for smart phone. larry page and larry ellison will appear before magistrate in san jose. they have been going back and forth over patent. the fight could post the biggest threat to google android that runs on 150 million devices. if they settle that would avoid a risk of having a jury decide. could it be game changer for the 49st or for better parking? great america and baseball team are locked in dispute over stadium next door to amusement park. now they are selling great america. $70 million in cash is what it is going for. it's called jna venture and saying it will use proceed to pay down the debt. no word if the new owners are the 49ers fans. >>> investors not fan of stocks at friday prices. we

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>> i think that bernie goldberg was 100% right.s a bunch of questions that i thought -- that there was a left wing bias, it's the only -- a liberal bias, that's the only way you can describe it, that they came -- and the interesting thing is i think if you were to say to brian williams, isn't that a loaded question or you presented the alternative that bernie goldberg did there? would you ask a liberal politician about sleeping at night when you favor abortion? or, you know, choice? he wouldn't even understand it. it is so built into the drinking water, if you will, in some of these liberal outlets that they don't even understand it happens and if you watch that debate, it's just a different set of questions than they would have asked democratic candidates and not just because of the fact that these are conservatives and it's conservative issues but i just think that there is a bias against conservatives in the mainstream media. i absolutely agree with bernie goldberg on that. >> only thing that's on my mind right now is find out w

we begin this morning with scott goldberg on the hundreds of thousands of people being affected thisorning. >> reporter: gone but determined no to the be forgotten , the system that was tropical storm lee is soaking north from southern louisiana, in to georgia and beyond. lee dumped 10 inches in some places and brought along winds that turned in to dozens of tornados. really throughout our childhood. even like through college and we were just too scared to open a bakery together officials confirmed three in atlanta, and across the state, georgia's emergency management agency said winds damaged 100 homes, richard and his wife hid in their closet. georgia power reported more than 5000 customers without electricity. what is left is moving in to the northeast, the part of the country coming out from under hurricane irene. >> we had a really serious be 3- day window to watch with the rainfall. >> reporter: people simply can't handle another drop. >> we need more water. we really, i don't know, what we are going to do. >> reporter: ght have a silver lining, pruprom the remnants of lee coul

abc scott goldberg is in washington with the latest.irst time in 18 years in the united states military, it's okay to ask. it's okay to tell. for sergeant, it's okay to re-enlist. >> just because i've been burnt by this policy, doesn't mean that it's been taken out of who i am. i'm still a patriot. still a soldier at heart. >> he was discharged in 2006 for being gay. while "don't ask, don't tell" was in place, more than 13,000 service members lost their jobs because they violated the ban on gays and lesbians in uniform. >> we are not a nation that says don't ask, don't tell. we are a nation that says out of many, we are one. >> president obama repealed it last december but is deliberately slow roll out meant the policy couldn't be lifted officially until nine months later. >> we're in the middle of war. the whole "don't ask, don't tell" policy is the least, the lowest priority in my mind right now. >> today, the magazine out serve is publishing a photo essay. more than 100 active duty gay and lesbian troops, member of the military two s

jeffrey goldberg is a national correspondentic for the atlantic.just thinking back, was this day back in 1993, when i stood on the south lawn, and yasser arafat shook hands, nudged along by bill clinton, shook hands with yitzhak rabin and look where we are today. going backwards. >> yeah, it's -- it seems like a long, long way away. remember that feeling? it was incredible. and now we're moving back to the old middle east. sort of the very old middle east. almost a kind of pre-'67 feeling of israel being totally isolated from its neighbors. but something unique and new here is that you have turkey in the mix. turkey has always been an ally of israel, a non-arab but muslim ally of israel. and now it is making noises toward israel that are incredibly hostile. and so, of course, this becomes a huge challenge not only for israel, but for the united states, because israel and turkey are two very key allies of the united states in the middle east. >> jeff, yesterday we had ambassador michael arenn on the show and i asked him about the increasing isolatio

scott goldberg has more. >> former massachusetts governor mitt romney!> almost like prize fighters entering the ring, 8 republicans took the stage in front of a thousand tea party supporters and the candidate took the most punches, rick perry. >> the term ponzi scheme is what scared seniors. i think social security is an essential program. >> people did it in the private sector it would be called criminal. that is in your book. >> the main opponent the former massachusetts governor that suggested the texas governor doesn't deserve credit for creating jobs. >> you got stopped in poker. >> perry also took a hit from iowa straw poll winner on michele bachmann, requiring young girls to get a vaccination against cervical cancer. >> to have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have an injection through an executive order is just flat out wrong. >> former utah governor jon huntsman tried to get in the game and jabbed mom any. >> but the reference to the song all apologize didn't hit it smart. >> there are many more rounds to come. next debate is nine

scott goldberg has the latest. >> reporter: president obama has an ambitious plan to cut the deficit by $3 trillion. it includes cuts to medicare and medicaid and substantial savings from ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the headline grabber, the provision most people will talk about and the republicans dismissed is half the savings come from tax hikes and most of the tax hikes are aimed at people making more than $1 million a year. people like warren buffett. >> i think people at the high end, people like myself should pay more in taxes. >> the famous investment banker became part of the debate when he said congress should stop coddling billionaires. now they want the super committee looking at the deficit reduction measures to pass a buffett rule. >> warren buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. an outrage he asked to us fix. >> it would raise taxes millionaires pay on investment income taxed at a lower rate than middle class paycheck. buffett's idea sets the stage for another epic stalemate with congress. >> he is feeling guilty. i think he should send in a chec

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goldberger is part of tonight's nova documentary called "engineering ground zero." check local listings for air times. plus, on this week's political checklist, david chalian and gwen assess the stakes for president obama's jobs speech tomorrow. that's on our politics page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll look at president obama's jobs creation plan, which he will announce to a joint session of congress. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

at td ameritrade in new york, branch manager jeff goldberg says if investors had a third eye, it would be fixed on europe. >> they do get it. i mean, they know where greece is, they know where western europe is, and many of them have been there. so they also relate to what's happening in europe to what's happening here. >> reporter: one more thing about september that's worth noting: no one really know why it's usually the cruelest month for the stock market. of course, this year could be different. suzanne pratt, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: goldman sachs is getting out of the mortgage servicing business. regulators in new york have signed off on the sale of goldman's servicing unit to florida-based ocwen loan servicing, but there are conditions attached to that sale. as darren gersh reports, the standards regulators are putting in place could pave the way for a national agreement overhauling mortgage servicers. >> reporter: even now, four years into the housing crisis, there are few rules actually in place that require the companies processing mortgage payments and pu

scott goldberg, abc news washington. >>> protesters try to take over wall street.ess report is coming up. >> vallejo neighbors mourn the loss of a loving couple next. obstacles faced by firefighters getting a man and his wife out of their burning home. >>> dominique strauss-kahn talks publicly for the first time about the sexual encounter that ended his career leading the international monetary fund. >> night of glitz and glamour at the emmys. we'll tell you which stars are probably still celebrating this morning. cu >>> welcome back. look at live doppler7 h.d. it's quiet across the state. move on to the forecast for state. we're in the mid-90s in central valley. 104 in palm springs. along the coast. we have nice weather from 83 at big sur. clouds will hang around eureka and 63. eric has more news. >> thank you. >>> 5:48. fire investigators in vallejo are still trying to figure out the cause of a house fire the killed two people. fire crews got to the home on laderra street yesterday to find smoke pours out the front windows. firefighters had to break through a sec

but strategist andrew goldberg says that's actually a good thing. >> as you have analysts ratcheting down expectations, and many of them are across the board, it makes it easier for earnings data to beat on the upside, and that could be a short-term catalyst. but make no mistake, in the long term markets are looking for clarity out of europe. >> reporter: in particular, investors want reassurance that germany and france are committed to backstopping greece. the other thing they want to see is proof the u.s. economy is not tipping back into recession. >> what we are watching for over the next couple of months, couple of quarters is the extent to which the data bears that. the data is not going to be great. it's not an economy that's going to grow gangbusters, but we don't see the economy as falling off a cliff. >> reporter: and neither do business leaders at two bellwether firms. the head of general electric, jeffrey immelt, and u.p.s. chief scott davis have both said a double dip is unlikely. but just in case, some strategists recommend investors position their portfolios defensively

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