we are pleased to have jeanne cummings with us this afternoon. the floor is yours. [applause] >> mike petrie and i were joking that charlie and mike and i got to know each other when i was at the wall street journal and mccain feingold was before the hole and now we get to start all over again. it is amazing what a circle is. when you talk about disclosure in terms of its importance, the story i did about sarah palin's out fit was just that. late october i was there on october 20th flipping through these reports and i was looking at obama's spending and mccain's spending and that is not fair. mccain is broken. i should go over the report and see what they are doing at joint spending and when i opened up that report are said to the person next to me oh my gosh, i found sarah's wardrobe. there was at macy's and the rest of it. it was a matter of disclosure and the reason i got that story i was the last standing money politick reporter who was still up at 11:00 at night reading the report. disclosure is terribly important for everyone involved. i am going to moderate t

jeanne talked about the bloomberg poll. according to a cbs-"new york times" paul, only 12% of american people approve of how congress is doing its job, at six in 10 don't think their own member should be reelected. how about them apples, jonathan? >> it will be a tough year for any member of congress. pat leahy, who came in in the 1974 elections, says he has never seen anything like this in his career in congress in terms of a public anger. typically, is the in-a party that pays the price. but what is the in-party next year? president obama and the democrats, or the gop-led house? >> jonathan is right that both sides have to be concerned right now. they both had a hand in what is going on at year. there is one issue, jobs. it is the one issue on which they are not getting anything at seriously down, and we have one emotion and is anchored. charlie coats has said that he thinks this could possibly be the first time we see a true anti-incumbent election, where it does not tilt one way or the other. is across the board and it

jeanne yurman, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: here's what we're watching for next week. our friday market monitor guest is mark leibovit chief market strategist at vrtrader.com. on the economic calendar, auto and chain store sales and the all important jobs report for september. monday, we head to a japan for an update on that nation's rebuilding efforts. six months after its devastating earthquake and nuclear crisis. >> susie: full tilt poker is going all in. it's made a deal to sell the gambling site to a french millionaire known for turning around troubled businesses. bernard tapie has agreed to buy the company, despite its legal problems in the u.s. a federal prosecutor in new york has alleged that full tilt is a giant ponzi scheme owing an estimated $300 million to online players. >> tom: in a new annual review required by the financial reform law, the securities and exchange commission finds some of the nation's biggest credit rating agencies have come up short. the regulator says problems include their ratings methodologies, issues with timely and accurate disclos

here's cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: talk about arresting images.hter gave way to wide eyes and gaping mouths. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: now, wait. it gets better. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: the video was shot at last week's west indian day parade, known as new york's most raucous parade. ♪ nine people got shot at this year's parade. but the only shooting where these officers were posted was the shooting of the video, now gone viral. stop and frisky read "the new york post" headline. forget force, the village voice called it "excessive use of dance." no, actually, only a couple of officers did much dirty dancing on duty. >> i think it's reprehensible. >> they're supposed to keep the order. >> they're too busy humping girls. >> on the other hand -- >> they are human. if i was at a parade and i was having fun and i had a cop who was having fun with me, i would be happy about it. >> but they're having fun like they're at a bar. >> reporter: think of it as community outreach. >> yeah, he's having too much fun working. if i do that at work, i think i'

thanks for joining me tonight, jeanne. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me about this job.executioner. we keep it secret. we don't want people to know who it is. it's a combination of shame and the safety of the person, but we do after the execution, we send that person home from their government job to just deal with this. who are we doing that to? what are we doing to those people? >> well, i think that it's a very difficult job. and you know, i describe this job as starting far before that night. i ask people to imagine waking up in the morning and going to work 30 or 60 days prior to an execution, and that is about when you know there's going to be an execution. and you go to work planning to kill a human being. and you go to work to practice that and to plan for that. so it has an impact far before that night. and certainly it has an impact after the execution. >> and do we have any programs that deal with what the executioners go through? this is not easy for them. even if they think it's easy for them, they are suppressing all sorts of feelings and have to manage all

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do it and hopefully eventually when there's nothing else left to do congress will come along our jeanne i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight we'll see if this idea you know has an attraction congress obviously isn't a cutting mood unfortunately i think that often they're just not putting their sights on the areas that actually you know deserve to be clients that maybe homeland security is one of those but they have to deal with the whole hear us thanks for that they left the americans thank so much thank you. i thought a company i believe the occupy wall street protesters i don't think a lot of people his comments and i told him ward and george soros has a three step plan to stop the threat of a great depression at work. passed out. into it only one of the train mechanisms do not work to bring justice and accountability . i have every right to know what my government is doing and want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american it's.

breaking news, political headlines, jeanne moos, straight ahead. wolf blitzer is off today.uation room." >>> we're learning disturbing details about an alleged terror plot that would have picked up where the 9/11 attacks left off, with airborne strikes against the capitol and the pentagon. carried out with model airplanes, filled with explosives. a young massachusetts man is now charged in the case. cnn's brian todd is working the story. what are you picking up for us. >> this afternoon a six-count indictment handed down against rezwan ferdaus, he's an american citizen, grew up, went to high school and college in the boston area, federal official says he built up a hatred toward the united states, a strong desire to kill americans, and despite being offered a way out of this plot by undercover agent his never wavered. >> reporter: the younger brother of an alleged jihadist won't speak to reporters but on this upper middle class street about 30 minutes from boston, neighbors of rezwan ferdaus give a portrait of a young man who live with his parents, sometimes behaved strangel

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> very funny stuff. thanks very much for watching.ort is next. in north america, "john king usa" starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone. tonight, president obama turns testy when asked if he should be doing more to help african-americans hurt by the bad economy.

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks, jeanne. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room."

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jeanne cummings? >> no, i don't. and certainly the large package that the house speaker is talking about, the broad tax overhaul, no one expects the congress to come to agreement on that sort of thing because it is so complicated and we have every special interest in town has some piece of that because the tax code is so darn complicated. at most people thought the super committee might be able to sort of lay down a path to get to the broader reform. but certainly not before the campaign. >> what's fascinating here and i want to refer to one poll, who do you blame most? 45% say republicans in congress and 20% say president obama. four months ago when the debt ceiling debate was just beginning, the president made the decision to go big even though politically people knew that was probably not going to happen, this $4 trillion deal. now it looks like boehner is taking the same political stance going, forget the small stuff, i'm going to go big. we're not doing short term. i'm going to go big as a way to ignore short-te

. ♪ jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> jeanne, thank you. >>> i'm wolf blitzer, tomorrow this programminge, republican presidential candidate mitt romney and jon huntsman, they'll both be here live in "the situation room," one at the 5:00 p.m. eastern hour, one in the 6:00 p.m. eastern hour, tomorrow, two republican presidential candidates. that's it for me. thanks for watching. >>> for our international viewers, "world report" is next. >>> for those viewers in north america, "john king, usa" starts right now. >> good evening, everyone, tonight rare good news for president obama in the polls as he warms to a jobs fight with republicans, the new numbers show big support nationwide when the president says this -- >> if you want construction workers back on the work site, pass this bill. if you want teachers back in the classroom, pass this jobs bill. >> but there's bad news for the president, too, and lots of it. for starters, democrats lose a new york congressional seat, the party has held it for 90 years. and the republican winner predicts it's just a down payment. >> i am telling you, i

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> all right, jeanne, thanks very much. this note, i'll be back in one hour. i'll be moderating the first ever cnn tea party republican debate coming up 8:00 p.m. eastern for our viewers here in the united states and around the wor world. for our international viewers, world report is coming up next. for all our viewers in the united states, john king is coming up. we've got a big debate in one hour. >> as you noted, the first cnn tea party republican presidential debate. my friend, wolf blitzer, is going to head inside. a quick handshake, good luck, as you would say, be strong. it's a very important night, a consequential night for the country. let's show you that live picture inside the haul. eight republicans for president engaging in this debate. in recent days, a crackling debate about the 2012 presidential campaign. not only, and you'll hear it all night long, taking aim at president obama and his agenda, but we have playing out a fierce and an increasingly intense battle for the leadership, the heart and soul, the po

. >> this is jeanne from buffalo, new york and i'm here to tell you that it does get better. >> in maysted this message for online teens. >> hold your head up. that's all you have to do. love yourself. >> but just weeks ago, he posted this online plea for hope "i always say how bullied i am but no one listens. what do i have to do so people will listen to me"? >> they have to somehow get the power away from the bully. i don't know how you do that. that's the biggest question in my mind. because if the bully does not have power, he's nobody. >> for a young kid of 14 1/2, he had a big message, a huge message that shouldn't even have to be a message. it should just be common decency to not make people feel worthless and useless on this planet that they don't deserve to be with other people. >> tracy will bury her son in a t-shirt with a message. acceptance and defiance. it read simply "born this way." >>> it's not often that we see a man with a long rap sheet like this. paul castillo made a brief court appearance in san jose today. he's accused of shooting a man at a gas station last frid

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn -- ♪ beat it >> reporter: -- new york. >> leave it to jeanne.hat's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> for our international viewers, "world report" is next. in north america, "john king, usa" starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone. tonight, new details of president obama's new jobs plan. top republicans call it stimulus deja vu, while many democrats complain it's not bold enough to make a big impact. >>> plus, rick per riff's national debate debut. what did his campaign for texas governor tell us about taking and throwing a political punch? >> and i think it's pretty rich that an individual who voted 95% of the time for every budget that came before you, you've raised the debt limit nine times in washington, d.c., and to stand here in front of the people in the state of texas and say, trust me, i'm going to balance the budget, that's a little tough to understand. >>> up first, though, breaking news tonight in libya. there are missing missiles, thousands of them, and mounting concerns her

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. ♪ it's up to you new york new york ♪ >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ new york >>> thanks, jeanne.olf blitzer in "the situation room." that's it for me. for our international viewers, "world report" is next. >>> in north america, "john king, usa" starts right now. >> thanks for joining us, i'm candy crowley, john ging king i tonight. >>> despite an intense manhunt and even the bombing of suspected hideouts by nato forces, moammar gadhafi keeps surfacing and taunting the world. earlier today nato bombed a barracks in bani walid, where some reports say gadhafi may be hiding. if he is, they didn't get him. a few hours later gadhafi or presumably his voice turn up on a sympathetic tv network al rai. >> translator: give way or give up ourselves to them. we're not stupid. you know, we're not a coward. the libyan people are -- >> few hours ago, the voice was back. this time gadhafi called on his followers to start an insurgency like the one that nearly destroyed iraq after the fall of saddam hussein. >> translator: we will fight against you wherever you are. we will sacrifice our lives so

breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer.tuation room." >>> a major political upset in new york could be an ominous sign for president obama and the democrats. a republican has won the house seat in the democratic district that was represented by congressman anthony weiner who resigned in a scandal over lewd photos. mary snow joining us with more on what's going on. what is the latest? >> reporter: democrats certainly had the advantage here but republicans made the obama administration the main theme of this race. from capital hill to queens today democrats are trying to make sense of what this upset means. he's the ninth district surprise and forced democrats around the country to sit up and take notice. >> we have been told this is a referendum and we're ready to say, mr. president, we are on the wrong track. >> reporter: bob turner, a former cable tv executive, becomes the first republican congressman in new york's 9th district since the 1920s. anthony weiner held that seat for seven terms before a personal scandal forced

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changing course russian premier league's big spenders on jeanne call on the roberto carlos to help new manager take the team from stands in you heights. final fling russia prepares for its last game against australia at the twenty eleven or rugby world cup in new zealand. but start with football where it's a russian clubs were in action on the match day two of the europa league group stage campaign the country's former back to back champions ovine couldn't hold onto their lead against the greek out that balk who salvaged the draw towards the end of the match they cause i'm side are still on top of their group a with four points in group commits each suffered their first defeats with manager josie kotsay roll with the charge of the railway men on the first of july look i had plenty of opportunities but it was the belgian side on tour that spoke capitalized on their chances the muscovites are now second in their group with their thursday parlance now at the summit with six points. so the russian game now where a mega rich anji have sacked their manager ga ga ga ga released from its posit

new york. >> only jeanne moos can do those kind of pieces. that's it for me.l viewers, world report is next. in north america, "john king usa" starts right now. >>> thank you for joining us. i'm candy crowley. john king is off. today, investors around the world gave a resounding no confidence vote to the g

breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos all straight ahead. we want to welcome our viewers around the world to this special edition of "the situation room." we're live in tampa, florida. in just under two hours, i'll be moderating the cnn tea party republican presidential debate. we'll be covering all the issues important to voters, including one that especially resonates here in florida with its large and very influential senior population. we're talking about social security. a subject of controversy, especially after some controversial remarks by the republican front runner. the texas governor, rick perry. cnn's jim acosta is watching all this unfold. social security. it will be a key issue tonight. it is a key issue in florida specifically. >> that's right. the social security administration says, wolf, that the program is solvent for 25 years. this issue more than any other will have the republicans wrestling each other tonight. >> reporter: if rick perry have their way in the tea party debarkt he will be saddled with the issue that was o

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my final point, and this is a message to journalists, to jeanne and her colleagues in any who may be in the room are watching. we heard a lot about money coming into the system, about a doubling an increasing. the journalists and political scientists follow this issue can do us all a favor, they can start ask the question, where is this money going? fortunately, fred, it's not going directly to the politicians. it is going to a cottage industry that has grown up around the system which frankly stands in a way of reform. these are good people. they raise money. they place ads and buy time. they do all sorts of things, but i suspect by the time we get to the 2012 election and the billion or more dollars, i think the american people be fed up with the amount of money that basically buying ads, and boring them. so do the journalists and political scientist, start asking the question now, where's the money going? help identify this cottage industry which frankly is one of the impediments to reform. on that point on behalf of ced i would like to thank all of you for joining us, and we are

here's cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: it's enough to make a hydrangea wilt.. there madonna is at the venice film festival when a fan among the press people gives her a flower. >> you are my princess. thank you so much. i love you. >> but after madonna tells him thank you, some say she rolls her eyes and out comes the truth, barely picked up on an open mike. i absolutely loathe hydrangeas. he obviously doesn't know that. >> reporter: hydrangeas of the world unite. geez, madonna, what did hydrangeas ever do to you. the "b" word flew at madonna. the one that rhymes with witch. we went to flowers of the world in manhattan to see why anyone would hate them. >> a lot of people think it's their grandmother's flower. >> on top of that, hydrangea grow in people's yards. >> it makes it more lowly. >> i see it in other people's yards. couldn't be that great of a flower. >> reporter: but these are from the netherlands and cost $20 or 30 bucks a stem. >> could madonna's loathing turn hydrangea into the new broccoli. >> i do not like broccoli and my mother made me eat it a

you know what she is porous news live in our jeanne thanks for joining us the headlines . richard branson to be open decided a repeat of the twentieth and final meanwhile samantha saucer and serena williams will do battle for the ladies' title at train heat flushing meadows. in our mall school strong premier league leaders and safety rivals call on you away from home and second seeded zeitz in pittsburgh also lose on saturday. and the last two by pamela brown and dignitaries play their respects to be looking at sea ice hockey players were killed in a plane crash this week. let's begin with the latest from flushing meadows was there in a williams knocked out carolyn was knocking the u.s. open semifinal the american through to the championship decided now with these winning six two six four over the top seed meanwhile samantha styles are advanced to her second career grand slam final in the earlier clash the australian beating surprise package care been in the rain delayed match style so stop it strongly taking the press by six games to be unseated germany pulled back to the

there futility of all the efforts that have taken place for so many years between us in the ass to jeanne's i mean half is and then. so altogether i don't think that this is a question that can be already decided what is exactly the type of face really why it's really you know it's kind of interesting that it's maybe said it's very interesting is the people on the ground seem to understand become trees in the world and leaders in the world that are on the right side of history if i go to john in washington what do you think about that because you know we have on one hand you know actually turkey is a very interesting example i know it's been said in the past it's a very good example of islamic democracy a country that has its own ambitions and will no longer be just a surrogate of the west it's been very clear and of course to the recent spat with israel me where i'm getting at is that turkey is really standing up in the region is listening and. very much welcoming cherokees new stance or greater stance. absolutely and turkey is not just kind of responding to what's going on in the middle e

commanders of those mysteriously murdered do you think that the nato allies really know who they are jeanne with here is are these people that you can be trusted because there's a lot of doubts about their backgrounds as we heard a lot of them used to work for gadhafi himself and there is the element the islamic element in its connections to terror networks. peter the nato knows some of the members of this new transitional council because it put them in in place their french intelligence played a leading role in cobbling together the transition council and putting people with whom we had or britain semi six or the us cia had a long relationship many of them libyan exile some of the members of his government so knows them it does not as you brought up know these murky nationalists and islam as who until recently were regarded as quote terrorism quote remember george bush awarded khadafi as again i quote our valuable ally in the war against terrorism well he was speaking of about the militants in benghazi who can control a cultivator for a long time by the british so they just don't know they

. >> schieffer: finally today when lamar alexander the jeanne yell senator from tennessee announced lastd give up his position in the republican senate leadership at the end of the year, it was a rare event. people here seldom give up power. his reason was also a little out of the ordinary. he said it would liberate him to work on issues he cared the most about. you can't really blame him. the gridlock runs so deep, even those involved can't stand it anymore. alexander is a dyed in the wool republican but he still practices a skill that's become almost as rare as giving up power. time and again, he's worked on finding compromised with democrats to break legislative log jams. he told ruth markus of the "washington post," if you can get 100% republican solutions, i'd do it. but you need 60 votes to pass anything in the senate so you have to find coalitions. it is not exactly a reassuring comment on government when someone feels they have to leave a leadership position and relinquish power to get anything done. but such is the sad state of government these days. i wish liberated senator ale

intelligence community is facing in the united states pilot error is being blamed as the main cause of jeanne's the aircraft in northwestern russia on a typical three four came down the killing nearly all on board the interstate aviation committee concluded that the crew failed to go around and attempt a second landing and had to send it to. the teams it also points out of the navigation is partially wrong one died and the captain and that became pilot had been removed from training the air profiteering to its final descent the crew were also given incorrect medical costs from a cloud of fog and visibility on the report says the pilots ignored on board data designed to assist i think my fifty two people on board the usef fly from moscow to petros of all its forty seven. that's a quick look now at some other world news this hour and twenty four a child reportedly killed by pro regime snipers from the roof tops in the yemeni capital sanaa hundreds more were treated to. the attack comes a day after twenty six protesters were shot dead in the clashes between president loyalists and opposition supre

go to jeanne did not were not affected as much although it did contribute to. to a certain extent and some instability within the country but the primary victims primary group that was attracted were of average people although clearly what they are trying to do is to separate the business community from very jean that's what one of the main contentions i think of sanctions and the people behind the sanctions is basically to divide. business community and the middle class from the region prefer sometimes very against this is another quick question i want to get in talking about the regime itself the red cross officials have visited one of one of the country's main prisons in syria following those widespread claims that dozens of demonstrators including women and children were tortured to death very strong accusations that the red cross said its visit was an important step forward is it seven point. i think a great deal is going to depend on the access the syrian government is going to provide to international red cross but clearly this is an important step we ha

kremlin comeback our jeanne gauges global reaction to the news that vladimir putin is running for the russian presidency again next year with dmitri medvedev now planning to replace him as head of government. we have the announcement now of the analysis joining me and the now wait for the latest global encrusted reaction for president. european leaders preparing a rescue plan as they battle to stave off a double dip recession and the prospect of greek default while the i.m.f. warns it may not be able to help the bigger economy to. clamp down on freedom of expression in the u.k. is a historic precedent is set marching in parts of london. and in business russian markets bounce back after shock loss of the only trading at digesting the news that anything could it could be stepping down at a time athens joining called on after the poland. one pm in moscow as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story global media has been responding to the news i'm glad i'm here putin will campaign to return to his old job as president next year he's been backed by russia's current president dmi

jeanne from new jersey. jeanne from new jersey. caller: there was a 20% bump in the funding.eople work refusing the funds. bankers and the ceo s got a lot of money. never got down to the people that were struggling. host: you would not be in favor of another stimulus -- caller: obama said he was going to watch what happened to it. this program is tutoring children in new jersey. the children were never tutored. i just saw such waste. unless he wants to what will happen to this money, it will go into the wrong hands and nothing will change. every day people are out of work and nothing is happening. host: that was jeanne in new jersey. the president will address a joint session of congress next week. he asked to address congress on wednesday night. they slugs it out on wednesday over the calendar and the president's desire to give a speech. here is a letter that was sent back and forth from president obama to speaker boehner. host: that is part of the president's letter to speaker boehner. this is the letter in response from speaker boehner. host: that is all but of the backgro

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jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> and it's the top of the hour.st up, the world will be watching as michael jackson's death trial begins in los angeles and all eyes are on dr. conrad murray. he's charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop superstar's death. the entire jackson family will have front row seats as opening statements begin this week. cnn's don lemon is there. don, let's talk about who the players are in the case this morning. >> reporter: before we talk about the players, it's starting already. when you and i talked, it wasn't this busy. this is the first sign of it, no punt intended, fair trial for dr. murray. folks on the other side of the block, you can see them over my shoulder. one person had on a t-shirt that said dr. death. and so it goes just one group that came all the way from houston, they say, to support dr. murray. now to the players that you asked me about. the players, of course, michael jackson, even though he's no longer with us, he's going to loom large in the courtroom and dr. murray, he is michael jackson's d

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jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> let's start the hour with your money, or lack of it.hour ago, the opening bell rang, stocks have been in the deep red ever since. now christine romans, where do we stand? >> well, we stand 240 points lower than the close on friday. so below 11,000. you know that the major stock averages, kyra, are negative for the year. that's because there are concerns now about just how weak the u.s. economy is. could that jobs report on friday, which showed no net job creation? would it be a signal the confidence is so weak, and then overseas in europe, big concerns about that big economy and just how hard it will be to shake off its own debt crisis there, so two big huge developed markets that have question marks, and that is why you're seeing stocks down. the engine for the growth of the world has been emerges markets, and by all accounts they are growing more slowly than in recent months and quarters. so some of the engine of global growth might be slowing down a bit, too. that's all leading to the path of least resistance is to sell stocks if you