also on hand today was celebrity superfan jake byrd. there's jake.ake is on hand for all the big celebrity court appearances. he was at paris hilton's hearing on monday, and he was around to support lindsay today and to help liven up michael lohan's impromptu press conference. >> you can't tell me what i feel when i see her get taken into a jail. >> that's right. that's right. you can't stop a father. >> let him finish, because i'm finished. i have to address shawn and the people that have to get out of her life. >> listen. >> listen, listen for one second. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. she's not mel gibson! >> you cannot stop -- you cannot stop a father from loving his children. >> jimmy: no, you can't. that was jake right there, affirming the fact that lindsay is not mel gibson. you know, whenever a famous person shows up on the wrong side of the law, jake byrd is there to support them. he was there for paris, michael jackson, there for guillermo when he finally gets picked up. but today he was there for lindsay lohan. here's jake byrd at the lohan hearing.

celebrity avenger jake byrd with paris hilton. and music from phoenix.ith cleto and the cletones. ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" >> dicky: and now, walking this way, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, everyone. thanks, fellas. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for having me over. thank you for coming. oh, we've got germans from france here tonight, we've got french people from turkey. we're all mixed up. and it is a special night here at abc. it's the much anticipated return of "dancing with the stars." the 11th season of "dancing with the stars." and i think that's it. i think this is the final. i think after 11, we're out of stars. there aren't any left. this year, it's audrina partridge from "the hills." david hasselhoff. michael bolton, florence henderson, brandy, rick fox, kurt warner, jennifer grey, kyle massey, margaret cho and "the situation" from "the jersey shore" who will hopefully during the course of the show make bristol palin pregnant. how great would that be? little the situation palin. i forgot one celebr

>> the secrecy still amazing, jake.to ask you to stay with me for a second, though, because late this afternoon, there was a draft report that was issued, and it was pretty skailting, about the obama administration and the gulf oil spill and the commission was appointed by the president. it finds that for the first ten days, the administration acted from, quote, a sense of over-optimism that may have delayed the amount of help. and another criticism? the administration said on "good morning america" last summer that 75% of the oil was, quote, gone. the study says, no, it wasn't. so, jake, how is the white house reacting to this tonight? >> reporter: well, on that latter point about the claim that 75% of the oil was gone, they concede that carol browner, the white house climate change czar who said that, she was mistaken and a different statement put out that same day was correct. as for the other issue that you talked about, about whether or not they were overly optimistic, the administration says they were operating on

so jake tapper starts us off. jake. >> reporter: good evening, diane. president obama is said to be in a fighting mood. as he of the vote. but today's trip did not display the kind of democratic unity he might have hoped for the week before the election. with much focus on democratic gubernatorial candidate frank caprio, whom the president did not endorse because he's fond of the independent candidate. >> he can take the endorsement and shove it. >> reporter: rancor was rampant. in alaska, incumbent senator lisa murkowski, running as a write-in candidate, took on republican nominee and tea party favorite joe miller. >> what would your instructors, what would your classmates at west point say about how well you have lived up to your code of honor? joe is not fit to lead. i have been leading -- [ boos ] i have been leading this state -- [ boos ] >> reporter: operatives from both parties hope the discord doesn't dampen multimillion dollar get out the vote efforts. targeted -- such as christine o'donnell on the christian broadcasting network. >> god is the

for "nightline," this is jake tapper in washington. >> and those are the daisies. jake tapper for that. when we come back, virginia thomas calls anita hill. but first, here's jimmy kimmel with what's coming up next on "jimmy kimmel live." >> jimmy: thanks, terry. tonight, heidi klum, music from mumford & sons, surprise dancing with the stars eliminee florence henderson, and a crazed chimp smashing windows in kansas city. henderson, and a crazed chimp smashing windows in kansas city. "jimmy kimmel live" is next. meg whitman's hometown newspaper said it best: "meg whitman has demonstrated a loose relationship with the truth" "a poor understanding of government" "pat solutions for problems whose depth and complexity clearly elude her" "she utterly lacks the qualifications to be governor" jerry brown "offers california exactly what it needs" "good ideas, strong principles, a reputation for telling the truth" and the ability to "get things done in sacramento" meg whitman's hometown newspaper and newspapers across the state have endorsed jerry brown for governor.

jake locker with his legs. then the field goal, as time expired by eric foulk to beat him. >> you've got one time-out left or do you iranly to get more yards? >> last week, that's what washington did and got six yards more towards the goal line and made an easier field goal. >> let's see if they want to center it up. taylor goes out to the left side and gets out of bounds at the 12. eight seconds left. talk about cutting it close. >> i would get my pitching wedge out of the bag and go for it now. >> stay tuned for the ford wrap-up after the game. will wlhitaker get a chance now or wait one more play? >> they're going to get the ball to the middle of the field. i get to the middle of the field for my kicker. >> and that's exactly what luck does. he goes down to the 13. jim harr bra is saying why isn't the clock running? nobody did anything. >> i know we're at home and you guys like us here, but let's let it run down. >> that play apparently took one second and now they ticked another one off. down to six. the re

jake tapper has been per suing answers, and he's at it again in colorado tonight. jake? >> reporter: good evening from denver, diane. and that's right. in the last month and a half, there's been more spending by third party groups here in colorado than any any other state in the nation, most of it benefits republicans. but it's gotten so bad that even the republican senate candidate here called for disclosure. president obama stepped up the pressure today on third party independent groups running campaign ads to reveal their donors. >> they don't have the courage to stand up and disclose their identities. they could be insurance companies or wall street banks or even foreign owned corporations. we will never know. >> reporter: an avalanche of these ads has hit the rocky mountain state. >> deeply in debt to washington. >> reporter: in a senate debate in denver today hosted by abc news, republican candidate ken buck broke from his party and demanded transparency. >> i think it's important people know who is paying for the ads, and what they're relationship is with differen

>> okay, jake. there's some personnel news at the white house today. you first reported a couple of weeks ago that national security adviser jim jones would be resigning and today he made it official. >> reporter: that's right. as expected, his deputy, thomas donilon was named to the position. george? >> okay, jake, thank you. >>> in other political news, another twist in the tight race for california governor. for days, republican meg whitman has been on the hot seat. now it's jerry brown's turn, thanks to an aide using a word that shouldn't have been used. david wright has the story. >> hey, scott. give me a call. jerry brown. love to talk to you. >> reporter: the latest bomb shell in the california governor's race came from a voice mail message that kept recording after democrat jerry brown taught he hung up. he was seeking a union endorsement but got word the union was about to back his opponent. >> do we want to put an ad out. >> reporter: at that point, a second voice with a harsh word about republican meg whitman. >> she's a whore. >> these are

>> okay, jake, thanks to you. >>> and also in politics, a new twist in the high-profile race for nework governor. republican carl paladino, a tea party favorite who made waves after threatening a reporter last week is now taking on the gay community. here's linsey davis. ♪ >> reporter: this was not a gay pride parade, otherwise carl paladino wouldn't be here. >> the men wear little speedos and they grind at each other. would you take your children there? >> reporter: new york's republican candidate for governor didn't show up at the columbus day parade to apologize. what would you say to the gay population directly today? >> i'm 100% in favor of all gay rights except for one. >> reporter: and that is? >> gay marriage. >> reporter: and why? >> i'm a catholic. >> reporter: but his remarks last night at a new york synagogue seemed to go much >> my children and your children, i don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful >> reporter: these comments are seen as especially insensitive in new york. over the weekend eight men were arr

jake tapper spent the day assessing it all and with us tonight. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, that's right. president obama went on the jon stewart show last night. stewart frequently assails and critiques the right with wit. and he is often seems supportive of president obama. but last night, president obama seemed to come face to face with stewart's own personal enthusiasm gap. there were laughs, but ultimately, some seemed to be at the president's expense. >> so, you wouldn't say you would run this time as a pragmatist? you would not -- it wouldn't be "yes we can, given certain conditions." >> no, i think what i would say is "yes we can but -- [ laughter ] but it's not going to happen overnight." >> reporter: whether defending economic adviser larry summer -- >> in fairness, larry summers did a heck of a job trying to figure out how to -- >> you don't want to use that phrase, dude. >> reporter: or his agenda in general. >> we have done things that some folks don't even know about. >> what have you done that we don't know about? [ laug

jake tapper, our white house correspondent, was in the room. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. it was at 8:00 a.m. this morning when white house officials decided to require the inspection of all packages coming into this country from yemen. just one decision of many made throughout a frenetic night and day. a press conference called at the last minute. with a message to the american people that his team is on the case. >> the american people should know that the counter-terrorism professionals are taking this threat very seriously and are taking all necessary and prudent steps to ensure our security. >> reporter: the president was in the white house residence last night at 10:35 when his top counter-terrorism adviser john brennan e-mailed him to tell him about credible intelligence of a plot to send bombs from yemen to chicago. >> anybody who is associated with al qaeda is a subject of concern. >> reporter: keeping in e-mail communication with the president throughout the night, brennan sounded the alarm. at 11:00 last night, he held a confere

in this election and guess what the war in afghanistan is not one of them going to get better and jake delivered his take on the shocking disconnect between the american people and the wars of the united states wages abroad next parents listen up because those dare drug education programs well they're turning children against their families in fact there have been numerous examples of kids narking on their own parents which then result in jail time so that tell you this program is doing bad or good we're going to reason magazines radley balko on to discuss the complex issue then is the term breaking news overrated you know many news stations are using the words to invoke a sense of urgency even when they don't know all the facts or if the story's even real we've got twenty four hour networks like c.n.n. and fox using breaking news graphics several times a day leading us to ask what's the point of it all and our bloggers out to get the politicians tea party candidate joe miller thinks they are after he got one quote irrational blogger arrested at a town hall meeting so does this imply t

gilberto hi jake thank you so much for joining us now i mean the program thank you now i want to start off by looking at this decision with barbara i mean america essentially decided to greenlight the u.s. practice of keeping info and bother with secret not so much coverage of this issue here in the u.s. so for those of our viewers who may not be familiar with the case why should we care. well yeah i think the american people should care for a number of reasons number one is most of them as we saw in iraq most of the people that are captured. get sent to these secret prisons and they get what they once they found out they weren't really a part of the insurgency but. they were innocent bystanders which is what most prisoners are during wartime environment they're released back to the population and when they go back to the population they end up becoming combatants but in joining the insurgency because they've been a part of injustices so americans need to be concerned because in war often times the people they get captured are not the bad guys the second reason that americans should ca

here's my friend jake, standing by a wall. this was rosy play ground. they turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. i believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. and here's the murals inside the mother's building. the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we wouldn't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. they employed many people. this is excellent to show the work. the visual arts project. it was especially important in san francisco because of dieggo rivera and radicalizing it. this is the coit towers. this was done under cw a. 1934. the wpa wasn't in existence. this is the very first of the relieve projects. har

jake tapper is at the white house. what happens next for the military, those who enlisted and for the white house? >> reporter: well, the president has to decide and the justice department, whether or not they should appeal this injunction against a policy that the administration says it's opposes. it has been on a public policy defending this policy of don't ask, don't tell, for 20 months. even though they don't sport it. they want congress to be the ones to overturn it. they have to decide whether or not they're going to challenge this stay on equal protection and free speech grounds. >> still a sweeping ruling tonight. thank you, jake. >>> another story out of the white house. the gulf of mexico is open for deep-water drilling today. today the obama administration lifted the ban on drilling imposed after the bp blowout almost six months. the mother toirm was supposed to stay in place until the end of november. the white house says tougher new rules to avoid another disaster are in place. >>> and now, countdown to el

. >> jake west is a sophomore at pioneer high school. he and his friend joe busado are on their way to football practice at a time they would normally be in class. high school athletics the only thing not impacted by the furlough program. but both jake and joe say they are not convinced it is a good idea. >> in the long run, it is going to be sort of bad because we will have to make up the work and it is going to be more time added to the next school year. >> i was in class. and we had to go through like some unit like really quick. so we didn't really learn all of the stuff very quickly. and we can't retain the information. kind of less time on the subject. >> there is a down side to this, too? >> yes. >> reporter: the superintendent of the district says the furloughs will save about $5 million. and the furlough plan was approved by all employee work groups. but as the pioneer mustangs prepare for their practice, parents of some of the students say it should have never come to this. >> i want to see them get the best out of their educat

>> all right, thank you, jake. >>> and late tonight, something sure to increase the outrage at the big banks. bank of america says it will delay foreclosures in 23 states. the concern? a bank of official may have signed foreclosure documents without even reading them. two other major banks have started investigating the very same thing, whether decisions about people's lives were treated as unnecessary paperwork. >>> and, we have a horrifying piece of history that came to light today. a revelation the white house calls shocking and tragic. during the 1940s, the u.s. government paid american scientists to infect prisoners and patients in guatemala with syphilis. as ron claiborne tells us, one college professor uncovered the tragic human trials. >> reporter: it was 1946 when the american researchers performed an appalling experiment. in an effort to see if penicillin could prevent or treat syphilis, government scientists went to guatemala, where they deliberately infected nearly 700 men and women. prisoners, soldiers and mental patients, with the potentially fatal sexually-transmitted di

since candidates have said diametrically opposite things, jake tapper is here with the "world news" fact check. >> reporter: on univision radio this week, president obama told the largely hispanic audience of listeners this -- >> i'm going to keep my promise on immigration reform. >> reporter: activists say the president's only explicit immigration promise was made when he was running for president. >> we will have, in the first year, an immigration bill that i strongly support and that i'm promoting. >> reporter: did the president keep that promise? no. there has not been an immigration bill that he strongly supported and promoted. on the airwaves, republicans are attacking democrats records on immigration reform. >> we might as well put out a welcome sign for illegal aliens. >> reporter: sometimes with crude caricatures. such as this one, from republican senator david vitter of louisiana about his opponent. >> melancon voted to make it easier for illegals to get taxpayer-funded benefits. >> reporter: or this from nevada republican sharron angle about hers. >> he votes to give special t

so, jake tapper caught up with some of the democratic superstars on the trail to ask how they see the feature tonight. >> reporter: the president in los angeles today stumped for a senator in this deep blue state who six years ago won with almost 60% of the vote. but today, barbara boxer is locked in a dead heat. >> yes we can. >> reporter: tonight, in nevada, the president will try to raise money and excitement for embattled senate majority leader harry reid. but one thing the president is not raising is expectations. >> this is going to be a difficult election. >> reporter: the returns are not even in yet, and democrats are looking for explanations as to why things have gone so wrong. were they hindered from explaining their accomplishments? >> we were in such emergency mode that it was very difficult for us to spend a lot of time doing victory laps and advertising, exactly, what we were doing. >> reporter: some democrats say it's not that they didn't have the time to tout their accomplishments, it's that they didn't have the guts. >> i think we've been too scared about talking abou

we asked jake tapper to check the facts. >> reporter: with tens of millions of dollars in attack adsitting the airwaves, the u.s. chamber of commerce is the second biggest player in the mid-term elections. out spending even democrats. president obama says he wants to know where the money is coming from. >> one of the largest groups paying for these ads regularly takes in money from foreign sources. >> reporter: the supreme court loosened campaign contribution rules for corporations last year, and now the president is suggesting the chamber might be letting foreign money influence american elections. >> are you going to let special interests from wall street and washington and maybe places beyond our shores come to this state and tell us who our senator should be? >> reporter: does the chamber of commerce take money from foreign companies? yes. some of the chamber's money comes from foreign companies and foreign-based chamber affiliates. but is there any proof that foreign money is funding political ads or activities? no. >> you just don't know. it's speculation and nothing more. >> r

>> thanks, jake. good to see you at the white house tonight. >>> and a tense time for the u.s. military today, as a conflict heated up between the u.s. and pakistan. pakistan shut down the most important supply route for the forces fighting in afghanistan, retaliating for a helicopter strike gone wrong. martha raddatz has been following the developments all day. martha, how did it get to this point? >> reporter: well, diane, this began early this morning when a u.s. apache helicopter briefly crossed into pakistan, where it was fired upon. assuming they were taking enemy fire, the apache crew fired back. but what the helicopter apparently hit was an outpost manned by pakistani soldiers and three of them were killed. >> could this get worse for american troops? what could happen? >> reporter: well, it could because they closed down this path. we were there along the khyber pass last year. they bring tons of food and military supplies to u.s. troops every day. the u.s. is now in urgent talks with the pakistanis to get it opened back up. the pakistanis have made all kinds of threat

apparently, taylor swift and jake gyllenhall.other older man, she was reportedly linked with john may mayer, not reportedly linked with jake gyllenhall. she is 20. he is 29. john mayer the 33-year-old. spotted in new york. went to "saturday night live" together. they were backstage. they were seen together in brooklyn having breakfast. they were in park slope walking around. could be the new "it" couple. >> he'll break her heart. she will write a song about it. >> we'll all buy the song. >> exactly. oh, find love, taylor. >>> good and bad news for t.i., l.a. county district attorney dropped the drug case against the rapper but he still has to go to jail stemming from another case where he was accused of, felony, felony drug possession, felony weapon charges as well. so he will report to jail begin another sentence on november 1st. t.i. cannot stay out of trouble. back to the slammer for the rapper. >> he can't have whatever he likes right now. >> clank, clank. r he likes right now. >> clank, clank. whatever he likes right now. >>

jake tapper is at the white house for us this morning with all of the details. jake? >> reporter: that's right, robin. the new abc news/"washington post" poll shows a modest bump in the americans who think that the economy is improving. that number is still the minority. but the white house is using it as evidence that things are improving for democrats in the midterm elections, with a lot of work that remains to be done. it is a mere four weeks and counting until democrats and republicans officially battle over control for congress. and matters look somewhat less horrendous for democrats. in a new abc news/"washington post" poll, the republicans continue to hold a sizable lead in the generic ballot among likely voters. 49% to 43%. but that's an improvement. last month, republicans held a record-breaking 53% to 40%. now, we're talking about a blowout, compared to a tsunami. today's numbers are still bad for democrats, with republicans holding a bigger lead than at this point in 1994, when they last seized control of congress. including a current 20-point republican ad

first, we want to go to jake at the white house. good morning, jake. >> reporter: that's right. president obama is on the stump, making the case that big money, special interests are pulling out all the stops to defeat democrats. so far, not all of the insinuations have been proven. the air waves are clogged with negative ads from independent third-party groups. because of the supreme court decision, can take unlimited corporate donations and never have to disclose who is behind the attacks. >> two groups, funded and advised by karl rove, have outspent the democratic party 2-1, in an attempt to be elected. >> reporter: now, president obama, wielding a study from the liberal group, think progress, suggests the chamber of commerce, which takes money from foreign companies, may be funneling the attack ads with foreign money. >> are you going to let special interests from wall street, and washington, and maces beyond our shores, come to this state and tell us who our senator should be? >> reporter: and the democratic national committee is taking the charge one step further. >> karl

do the troops the men and women who actually risk their lives feel about it afghanistan war veteran jake tiller barito will join me to discuss the issue and let's take a moment to talk about afghanistan's neighbor pakistan the past week has seen what seems like the souring of the relationship as pakistan closed a key supply route for nato troops after a helicopter trike helicopter strike so how do we fight this war if pakistan isn't going to be with us pakistani american writer osman i've known will share his thoughts on the region next we'll hear from voices on the ground the times correspondent jerome starkey is currently stationed in kabul and will fill us in on the war from the trenches and then we'll talk about the afghan civilians their changing opinions of u.s. troops during these nine years of war one filmmaker spent fifteen months in the country right after the invasion so he'll join me to explain how civilians thought of soldiers when they first storm did but that's of the end of tonight's show now let's get on to the top of the story. today marks the ninth anniversary of the u