>> deirdre imus, the toe conder of imus cattle ran. , wife of radio host don imus. >> could you sound less enthusiastic? >> you didn't need to read all that. >> how are you? >> and i just told your husband these guys are hitting on you. >> i touched her shoulder. >> imus is going to excoriate you. >> he told me i'm the same height. >> i saw that. what was that? >> the governor tweeted her an inappropriate picture. >> he did a weiner. he did an anthony weiner. >> you are all bad. >> this is good. >> don and i were e-mailing this week. he hates gingrich. i'm like what's up? why? >> because he wants lower taxes, he balanced the budget once before and welfare reform. >> he's unethical. come on. >> unethical about what? >> fat newt. >> now you are stealing your husband's line? >> i have to steal some. trying to be funny. no, serious le. >> your husband. he's the only guy that can -- is he the same guy he was ten years ago? or is he a better person today? >> my husband or newt. >> yeah, your husband. >> i don't know, better every day. better every day. >> how many years have you been marrie

>>imus: what if you are in a high crime area? >>guest: we did not put our machines in high crime area. our concern is we want do make sure that the advertisements are in the transaction processing time, 10 to 15 seconds or less, it depends on how long your bank takes to respond. >>neil: we talk about manhattan. and i am usually behind the person who is pressing this, and usually my wife, taking a while, and i am saying, this person is going to watch a commercial, better, i'm going to strangle them. >>guest: as i said as of right now the commercials take for longer than to process a transaction and right now customer dozen not have the option to avoid the mel or . >>neil: but what if your studies found if they could wait or they would catch it >>guest: people would rather watch the commercial and avoid the fee especially when there is no additional transaction time. what we are looking at is an obligation where people can actually pay a fee versus avoid the transaction and part of the fee and organizes will see if you can donate.

and don imus' long-term producer, bernard mcguirk is here. what is up with imus and newt gingrich?it's just don. a lot of people are not happy with the prospect of newt gingrich becoming the nominee. because people want to win in 2012. we want to see the current administration, over and done -- >> sean: you agree with him? >> i totally agree with him. >> you're romney? >> absolutely. >> romney, it's all about winning. as a fundraiser, i can tell you right now romney's camp is tight. they have a tight campaign and money that has been with them for a long time. newt doesn't have the financial backing. he hasn't been high on the polls enough to get where romney will be. >> i am for excitement. let's let them bang heads. exchange ideas. see who comes out of the process. i don't want to shut the door on anybody yet. >> sean: i don't believe you can tell me any of them can't beat obama. i don't buy the narrative. it's just spun. certain people decide this is my candidate, now we destroy the other candidate. gingrich would slaughter obama in a debate. i think he would look silly and obama

cooper arrested mr imus in the world yes. there was a decision. that. should be understood by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming to the magistrate and for. you know with me. that we were drawers with violations of several indian or was generally related to the language which mr anderson had been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive negligence offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically no chance of bail not even the company's lawyer could see them as they were confined under house arrest he wasn't doing any sign of a problem there was representative of the u.s. government to lend any assistance possible are you surprised that the chairman of union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve a problem i'm missing a little at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages and they launched a bitter attack on union carbide this government going after a minute. of the tragedy. and knows its duty towards thousands of i

chris christie in 2009 that showcased his girth, which promised christie to famously respond to don imus- >> man up and say i'm fat. >> reporter: in our latest poll, 79% of iowans say newt's marital past is not a major factor. rick per rip's ad on faith has registered hundreds of thousands of dislikes on youtube. >> something wrong in this country when gaves can serve openly in the military, but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas or pray in school. >> repeporter: and the big-bone chris christie was elected governor, while jon corzine wasch thing to a congressional investigation today. maybe subliminal is not sublime.

historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period and build a new country that imus will be upon us. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the get off his army he still keeps the good office army cap in his office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader's son safe will islam. we are against i need to take her history repeats itself we will wage a war but we will let the rule of law decide his fate. didn't ghazi zintan misrata these libyan c.d.'s one after another rose against gadhafi as regime . the militias now represent and the real axis of power in the country as their various and their legacy and agendas as the stripes on the only base new tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it has a hole which has been there but has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been the stabilized we see this all of the tensions there in the fabric of libyan society coming to the fore another militia commander in charge of tripoli reb

but the greek prime minister look us but imus has expressed his support for a brussels centric e.u. but patrick young of investment firm dva advisors says the struggling members of shouldn't trust the e.u. leaders as they are simply creating an illusion of action. everything greek has been devalued for the course of the last year or months well democracy as we all know is an instant greek world and that too has been quite clearly devalued over the course of this agreement i mean we are seeing here a curious kind of i mean france and germany are basically saying we know best we know how the euro zone should be run and this is what should happen not to might be a reasonable idea if their own behavior had actually been exemplary but for those who look back say a decade we used to have a thing called the stability and growth pact and the stability and growth pact said any person who has a budget deficit of more than three percent of g.d.p. will be strictly strictly told off for what they've done in the eurozone what do we find nearly a decade later well we've got you know this physicist

always fall back to it so my favorite there is all of a bland showed a little child who was head of the imus economic wing and was the founding editor of the american economic reviews macroeconomics journal and beck and of all things in two thousand and he came out and said the state of macro was good talking about macro economic theory one year after the process began so these are the kind of thought that were going on even right up to the crisis there's so much more we want to get to on this and we're going to talk to ed right after the break we have to get to a word of the day that i know you wouldn't want are going to looking at it that we'll have more with steve cannane just a minute. all right it's time now for word of the day where i break down a financial term or concept for our very smart of your but perhaps not the financial expert in the audience so we're stopper us because we wouldn't want to miss his opportunity to give us the word of the day and it is your word of the day or you're going to look for report of the day thank you it's mine to stop for a lot closer all right feel l

to me it's about education and i think fox news would like to get rid of every book except the imus ranch the bible. >> he's obviously a pinhead but not because he doesn't like fox news. it's because he simply will not tell the truth. here's some advice to your far left loans. the reason you have zero credibility is because of dopey stuff like that. you would be far better to say that fox news does very well. we don't agree with, it but facts are facts. then you might get some respect. that's it for us tonight. please check out the fox news remember site. different from billoreilly.com. also, we would like you to spout off about the factor from anywhere in the world. o'reilly@foxnews.com. and if you wish to opine, word of the day, no oscitation when writing to the factor. i have never heard of that word before. but it is a real word. and get the word book. we have all those words in there. please remember the spin, stops right here, because we are definitely looking out for you. >> top of the morning to you. it's tuesday, december 6th. i'm gretchen carlson. thank you so much for sending y

>>imus: you have 800 volunteers? >>guest: maybe we will pick up more if i start politicking.t has been great the message of an outsider running with saw business expense, i have my mba and a background in macroeconomics is catching on and fundraisers have been going well. everything is coming together. >>neil: if you know basic math and you run for congress that will do you well. the unique situation of the secret service, do any of you ever say, i don't want you to give away secrets, but there are secret service agents who are republicans who protect the president and some are democrats does that come into your thinking, i am going to three my life in front of a bull health to protect this guy and i don't agree with this guy. >>guest: no, it doesn't, no agents i know, it is such a pressure cooker, and it is such a difficult job, and that is why the expense of the presidential protection division is only five years, it does not income encompass your whole career. it would be inappropriate to take the job. this is in time. >>neil: what is inappropriate? >>guest: if you take th

>>imus: -- >>neil: who do you think has the edge? >>governor huckabee: i think it can change. everyone thinks it down to two but it isn't. at this point four years ago there were four or five and no one was john mccain or huckabee and we ended up being number one and number two. >>neil: before iowa they could not pronounce your name? >>governor huckabee: they still can't. >>neil: well county thank you, governor. who do you have tomorrow? >>governor huckabee: bono. he is amazing. i want people to see and hear what bono, a rock store, an irish man says about america. i wish every american thought about what this irish rock star says about america. >>neil: santa is weeks appear but we have an early christmas gift for you because we are hopping on san to's sleigh and heading to iowa where is substantially colder than the north pole. on tuesday we will broadcast like from sioux city with ron paul and rick perry, and it leads up to the big presidential debate starting at 9:00 p.m. and bret baier is hosting and i will join megyn, and right before the big debate we will be doing jell-

>>imus: congratulations on that. good to have you. i like you jut for the sake of the report to sing it but in all fairness, mark, what do you think of this and what is happening with these, i am not calling it necessity fair out connections but for the white house, not connections you brag about now. >>guest: well, just to extend it from what you were saying earlier, i think this corzine is the perfect embodiment of the government, here he is hauled over the cools -- coals by his former senators, a senator called up for the first time in a century called up before the committee. a couple of years ago he would have been calling the guy from b.p. or solyndra or whatever over the coals but this time it is him. and when you lock at why mf global tanked it embodies the big picture, this is a two century old institution that started off trading sugar. and everything -- it is a product that runs through your fingers with you can hold it and know something was this. when he was plaining things and testifying today, 99 percent of the audience

i heard from bryant he's up at lake observatory imus up to 68 miles an hour. there is still a pretty good breeze there. breezy and windy at times. lots of 60s or low 70s. windy up in the higher elevations. there are no advisories which is surprising. weak system just clipping us. you can see it going through the sierra. so that cold air is up there. it's waiting for all the wind to die down. the low that was responsibility for our big wind machine has moved off in the four corn earns. but still breezy to blustery. for us the biggest strongest gust will be in the higher elevations. 63 in san francisco. 64 in napa. concord is 48. palo alto i've seen 58-43. north 25 fairfield. north ten sfo. i've seen anywhere from richardson bay to oakland harbor. another little system driving straight down. you can see it coming straight down by oregon. that will keep the wind going. nothing like we had yesterday. still a breezy blustery day. 60s and 70s on temperatures. any wind means temperatures can be warmer than that. this time of year it's tough to get in the mid 70s. sun

>>imus: you know, you have said in the past and i hope i have it right you never forget a slight and when you were in the darkest days and you thought you would lose everything, you never forgot coming out of bankrupt. >>guest: i never went bankrupt. >>neil: on the brink. >>guest: i never went bankrupt. >>neil: on the brink. >>guest: i never went bankrupt. but i never went bankrupt. >>neil: okay i opened up a wound. >>guest: it's just so incorrectly reported. >>neil: what happened in the early no -- 1990's? >>guest: i was in trouble like everybody else and i worked out my difficulties and i had some great banks are with me to this day and they love freeway and today we have a company and i write in the book, over $7 billion net worth and we have a tremendous company with very low debt and tremendous cash and we have almost $300 million in cash and i built that from the ground up and i'm very proud of it. i made a great come back. >>neil: what i was getting to you said then you didn't, you do not forget a slight of people who have either dissed you or been dismissive and i wonder whet

>>imus: what about gary johnson, he is enjoy running as a libertarian, not as a republican for the presidencyu still, in your mind, you are a registered independent now, what is your timeframe? you said you would make a statement? are you, have you ruled it out, running? >>guest: i am watching what is happening with the republican party. we will see who runs. we will see who gets the nomination. we are going to see how that person does. and it will be very interesting to see, but, if they pick the wrong person and if the economy continues to be bad and do badly can i believe it will, then i will make a decision and it might be a surprising decision to a lot of people. >>dagen: if they pick romney will you be happy with that? >>guest: i don't want to say that yet. we have become very friendly and i like him but we are really, watching, to see what happens. we are watching to see who is picked and when you look at what is happening, words like yo-yo each week someone else is rising to the top, so we probably have a long way to go but it would seem to be newt and mitt. >>dagen: thank you sore --

>>imus: you need a huge one of these, pal, that is very, very nice. >>guest: merry christmas.coming up. actually, not a very lot more, but put this in perspective before you get back to shopping, i hope i have given you some ideas. ♪ [ woman ] ♪ what i want this season ♪ if you'd like to try and guess ♪ ♪ it is something very special . ♪ 'cause all i want this season ♪ ♪ is something from your heart ♪ la da da, la da da [ male announcer ] thinking of others this holiday season, travelers. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love ience. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ >> neil: all right, now i just told the good folks here that the louder they yell, the more food they get. [ cheering ] then you have some show-off kids. you have some show-off kids who decide that lo

take a listen to what he told don imus earlier today. >> you know who i'm very disappointed in?achmann. she came up to see my four times. she'd call me and ask me for advice. she said i should be her vice presidential candidate, and after all of that she announced she won't do the debate. it's unbelievable. >> it's called loyalty? poor donald. his feelings are really hurt, aren't they, anna? >> you know, i think the only feelings he has are for himself, so i guess it's possible for them to be hurt. obviously, flattery is the only thing that will get you anywhere. he and newt gingrich have that in common. i would love to see a debate just between newt gingrich and donald trump, although i don't know how you fit both their egos and all that hair on the same stage. i would love to see this debate go forward with rick santorum, newt gingrich and donald trump. that's great television, you have to admit. it's not a dignified march to the presidency, but none of this has been that. >> absolutely true. david, we saw rick perry's holiday mash note to school prayer and homophobia. he's in

>>imus: what bothers me and they say neil the numbers are small, but we got stimulus checks to prison at my boys tore not getting in on that gravy train but so many examples, prescription drugs being written by long dead doctors going to paints long dead, millions of dollars and so much, the bigger the numbers get even accepting the 10 percent wait, fraud, and abuse the numbers are starteling when it is $1 trillion. >>guest: yes, look the at debt now $15 trillion, so this does add up. and we have outgoing director of the centers for medicaid and medicare cases saying 20 percent to 30 percent waste and fraud and abuse in medicaid and medicare, so that is hundreds of billions. we cannot ignore this it is at our own peril the when the super committee says they request not come up with ideas, well, guess what, here are examples. here is an example. go after this fraud. allow the agencies, give them the teeth, right now they are tooth less when it comes to going after, so we want the agencies to have more teeth. >>neil: they don't have that now or they are not using teeth. but, good stuff,

a shot of our buddy, imus. just kidding!p guy around here in terms of understanding this thing. is he going to be a factor, as we go further in this process? is trump going to come in here, possibly as a third party guy. say if romney wins the nomination, a moderate republican, a mainstream republican, rather than newt, is there an opening for trump to go third party? seriously? >> i don't think there is in terms of actually happening, because of getting on the ballot, i don't think he'd be the americans elect nominee, and i think getting on the ballot is something that is pretty burdensome. i think he could do it if he wanted to, but i don't think he wants to go through that. i think trump would want to run if he thought he could win. he's pretty good at gaming the system to be part of the debate, where he's a formal candidate or not. i do think that his issue of china isn't being talked about very much by the candidates, and that is still a huge sleeper issue for the republican candidate in this race. >> and what's his arg

he ran to don imus to save face. >> are you going to do a debate with gingrich and rick santorum? >> i have to look into it. they want me to drop my status as a potential person to run as an independent. >> of course, it wouldn't be a donald trump interview without taking shots at the candidates who rejected him. it's your turn, michele bachmann. >> you know who i'm very disappointed, michele bachmann. she'd come up to see me four times. four times. she'd call me, ask me for advice. she said i should be her vice presidential -- you know, if she wins, she'd like to think about me for the vice presidency. >> that would work. >> all of these things -- and most importantly, i did like a two-hour phone call for her with her people. >> wow. >> and it caused me certain -- people said, you endorsing her? the answer was no. after all of that, she just announced she's not going to do the debate. it's actually called loyalty. >> loyalty. they can't get along. trump did enough damage to the republican kbts this week. the candidates are taking serious aim at each other. an attack ad by mitt ro

so they are basically saying don't compromise and president of imus tried to, not even in the broom. it's a very difficult situation going forward. i think the pendulum might swing the other way. we are likely to see 2012 look somewhere between 2008 and 2010. that is because people see the stubbornness and the extremeness with which the tea party and the republican party are governing and how essentially in 201013 party candidates pick enough republican candidates. but not every republican candidate is a tea party. look at florida. they're all trying to out tea party each other. the same is true with the gop nomination for presidency. in 2012, will likely see the pendulum come back the other way, but the focus has to be on the independents because they are the ones on the decision. >> host: one more call from wayne, michigan. i went on the democratic line. >> caller: yes, my question is a heavier toll election and i am wondering what point in the year to most people tend to register to vote? which you expect most people to her to be registered or would they be richard saenz in the su

>>imus: tomorrow, that is the nba, and today is nfl, and broncos and bill and tebow, and you have taken, calling him "garbage," and you apologiesed but you said that the quarterback, he is a quarterback because of popularity but he is not talented enough to be a started quaterback. are you standing by that? >>guest: yes, absolutely, without question but let me say he is my brother in christ, he is a wonderful kid, and he is an outstanding football player, and i should never have said that and i apologiesed the next day because she a good young man and his parents should be the mvp for the kid he is i was talking about his ability to throw the football not about his athleticism but throwing the football this year, he has completed 48 percent of the passes and i do not believe he is a good thrower. >>dave: is he a product of the religious right? >>guest: i don't think there is any question. there are a lot of people, and some of the things, actions going on of a few professional athletes and how that taints the many and how we glorify and sensationalize those things this guy does everythi