covering the week, dan balz of "the washington post," jeanne cummings of bloomberg news, janet hook of "the wall street journal," and joan biskupic of "u.s.a. today." >> award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capitol. this is "washington week" with gwen ifill, produced in association with national journal. corporate funding for washington week is provided by -- >> we know why we're here, to give our war fighters every advantage. >> to deliver technologies that anticipate the future today. >> help protect america everywhere, from the battle space to cyberspace. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to give our best for america's best. >> that's why we're here. >> additional funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential financial, norfolk southern, the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. all is now clear. two longed-for can

jeanne moos takes a lookkat the moment sophia got to meet nicki minaj. .phha grace brownlee hit youuube...llt's hii it now she was a hit doing her version of the nicki minaj song, uper bass.beating like a drum and it's coming your way. boom ba boom boom boom ba booom boom boom blah blah ok so maybe nicki minaj had a few more pelvic thrusts. but sophia grace's version has gotten around 9 million views on you tube and landed the littleegirl from essex, england on the ellen show....is that your favorite singer? we love nicki minaj much that's funny, because - thing about her..."i have to meet her. she is a superstar." a superstarrwith a sidekick, her cousin rosie.rosie makes me feel confident...awwwww ....aaas<

healey vice president at the cato institute and columnist for the washington examiner jeanne thanks so much for being here and i make sure you know so what do you say department home security you just you want to get rid of it you want to abolish it. absolutely it's one of the worst domestic legacies of nine eleven it's a giant bureaucracy of fear that it's mostly been devoted to harassing in a sin airline travelers groping pre-schoolers i think we can definitely do without it but how would you sell that to the american people because at the end of the day unfortunately i think what we've seen time and time again is that people are willing to be harassed they're willing to give up a lot of civil liberties if they think that something is keeping them safe and especially when you have stories like yesterday another terror plot that was foiled by the f.b.i. despite the fact that maybe the f.b.i. had a little bit of a hand in creating it themselves well yes like most of the terror plots since nine eleven the majority of my think this is actually the they never got operational and a lot

. >> i'm curious, jeanne, where this sounds like a lot of campaigns where we've seen where there's always someone who excites the crowd and for a moment they seem exciting to the base but what happens then? do they have the infrastructure? >> absolutely. and there's very little evidence that herman cain has built any kind of operation in iowa, which is expensive, because it takes a lot of people to make iowa work for you. you have -- and there's no evidence that he has enough money to buy ads to play in new hampshire or most importantly florida, now that it may move up. gwen: and the straw poll? >> the florida move-up is so important in terms of the finance for candidates because to win in florida, candidates spend as much as $20 million. you say move up, they moved the date to? >> they moved the date to january 31st. so, but it can cost $20 million to just work florida, so estimates at the beginning of campaign season where that you needed $50 million to get through the first set of primaries, well, that's true, and now you have to raise that $50 million a lot faster. you have to have 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

moos, cnn, new york. >> we're all happy that jeanne is staying. to go. i remember once at a newspaper i worked at, i won't say which one, one of the subeditors used to sit there saying if you'd love me you'd let me go. guess what, they didn't. that's it for this edition of "world business today." thanks for joining us. i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. >> i'm nina dos santos in london. you're watching cnn, the world's news leader. from the two of us be it's good-bye for now. the good news is, you don't have to pay your deductible. with vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance, you got $100 off for every year of safe driving, so now your deductible is zero. the other good news ? i held on to your coffee. wow. ♪ nationwide is on your side ( laughing ) it's actually a pretty good day when you consider. that's great. >>> right now,

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> leave it to jeanne moos, thank you very much. >>> that's it for me. evening, everyone. exclusive new polls from the early nomination battleground states shows mitt romney as the clear frontrunner in the republican presidential race. in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, romney leads with herman cain as his closest challeng challenger. the numbers don't lie and they tell you that romney has a chance to lock up the nomination in the next 100 days. all four of those stes

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thing to do in 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 any traction 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 glad and maybe homeland security is one of those but they have to deal with the whole here aspect first they will have to sell to the american thanks so much thank you. now thirty concert i believe the occupy wall street protesters are calling the wrong people his comments and i still find war and george soros has a three step plan to stop the second great depression at work. internet only or military mechanisms if you don't work to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government is doing you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism.

covering the week, dan balz of "the washington post," jeanne cummings of bloomberg news, janet hook of "the wall street journal," and joan biskupic of "u.s.a. today." >> award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capitol. this is "washington week" with gwen ifill, produced in association with national journal. corporate funding for washington week is provided by -- >> we know why we're here, to give our war fighters every advantage, to deliver technologies that anticipate the future today. >> protect america everywhere from the battle space to cyberspace. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to give our best for america's best. >> that's why we're here. >> additional funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential, norfolk southern, the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers likes you, thank you. >> once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. all is now clear. two longed-for candidates have opted

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jeanne moos has more on the herman cain ad. meineke's personal pricing on brakes.y best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. >>> herman cain's smoking campaign commercial is a comedian's dream. jeanne moos hands out the award for best parody. >> reporter: suddenly everybody is pretending to smoke. it's all because this man, herman cain's chief of staff -- >> we can take this country back. >> reporter: one little drag in a campaign ad. >> that's weird, right? >> i'm not the only one that smokes in america, for god's sake. >> reporter: now everyone is inhailing his smoke will one parody even paraphrases charlie sheen. ♪ i'm on a drug and it's called herman cain ♪ >> herman cain has tiger blood. >> reporter: that's from a left leaning political group in south carolina asking herman cain, what are you smoking? not since the famous witch ad -- >> i'm not a witch. >> reporter: have you seen a political spot so par i had. so we thought we would hand out the awards to some of the our favorites. we award one

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> leave it to jeanne. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer. join us weekdays in the situation room from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. eastern. every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> top of the hour, thanks for joining us. the last week of october feels a lot like the depths of winter for millions of people tonight. you're lucky if you're at home and be out in it. snow is falling from the mid-atlantic states through the northeast. and the winter, well, the winter-like blast, i should say, is causing all kinds of problems. snarling air travel and knocking out power to thousands of people. we're on top of all this for you. cnn reporters and anchors out in forceful our weather anchor chad smirs in pennsylvania. and standing by in the severe weather center. we want to start with our meteorologist out in the field. i spoke to you a little while ago. is it still snowing? >> reporter: it's still snowing and it is noticeably colder than a couple ho

. >> jeanne, you spent so much time in iowa over the years, we all have spent so much time there, iseone like herman cain with the poll-driven momentum, assuming he can get pat past will poll interviews, for the first time being questioned, but can goe to iowa with as little money as he have and compete against other evangelical voters? >> i think when you talk about a state like iowa, it is possible. we have seen surprise victories out of there. huckabee wasn't particularly well financed. he did have a better ground game. years ago, show mig age, back in late 80s, pat robertson rob in iowa. it can be quirky. it is a small state. i think that might be an opportunity. but andrea, he's got a million dollars in the bank. that's it. and so, even if he can take a little state like iowa and grab a platform, he can't get past it unless he can develop some real resources and a real fund-raising network. that's what romney has been planning on all along. it is where perry is well positioned to compete after iowa as well. if they can just do well, if perry can do well if iowa, take romney on i

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. >>> jeanne moos is on the trail of pranksters who are using presidential candidate rick perry words if you thought that he rambled before the debate, you haven't seen nothing yet. >> and i suspended off this bridge. >> reporter: no, rick perry is not the victim of a neurological seizure, he's part of bad lip reading. and it turned into this. >> ice cream. that is cheap. that's a fact. >> reporter: and this. >> with the support of my family. >> reporter: became this. next thing you know he's saying all sorts of nonsensical things. >> eggs, doritos, cheesecake. >> reporter: he was known for taking music videos and, for instance, black-eyed peas hit and the rick perry video is exposing bad lip reading to a whole new announcement. >> i declare to you today as presidential nominee of the united states. hot yellow kool-aid and save a prets zel for the. >> reporter: one twitter said, this is the most sns that he's ever made. for instance, i love you. olive juice. i love you. olive juice. i love you. olive juice. the creators of bad lip reading are still being mysterious. one said i'm inter

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moos. >> jeanne moos. >> cnn. >> cnn. >> new york. >>> it's the top of the hour.e begin a look at tonight's presidential debate. all the candidates are focusing on just one topic, the economy. and most americans are feeling its sting, maybe no one more so than president obama. he could lose his job over it, and today he hits the road to sell his jobs plan. they may be facing a dead end where it counts most, capitol hill. paul steinhauser pre viewing the debate, christine rowans on fixing the debt and fixing it fast. it's been less than three weeks since the last gop debate and tonight it's jobs and the economy. >> yeah, and so much has changed since that last debate in orlando, florida, but you're right, tonight's debate in new hampshire, dartmouth college in new hampshire and it's going to focus entirely on the economy. it continues to be the top issue with the voters, and the debate is going to happen most likely just a few hours after that big debate on the jobs bill in the senate. i think you'll hear a lot about that tonight, kyra. >> who do you think has most

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> he's a very lucky young guy. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer. join us weekdays in "the situation room" from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. eastern. every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. and at this time every weekend on cnn international. on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, everyone. you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm hala gorani in tonight for don lemon. occupy wall street is now global. demonstrations erupted in cities around the world today in a display of worldwide frustration we haven't seen since this protest began about a month ago. this peaceful demonstration in buenos aires was fairly typical. this was the scene in london. thousands of people converged in front of st. paul's cathedral to hear wikileaks founder julian assange. he made an appearance today. several people were arrested in london. the most notable unrest was in rome. look at these images. police blame anarchists for taking advantage of the large gathering

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> jeanne, thanks very much for that report. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." the news continues next on cnn. >>> good evening everyone. we begin tonight with breaking news on the economy and for this day anyway, it is encouraging. wall street had a big rally day. the optimism inspired by a deal european leaders struck in hopes of bringing their continent's debt crisis under control. the dow rose nearly 340 points and notably climbed back above the 12,000 mark closing at 12,208. the s&p, nasdaq also closed up. get this. all three of those indicators now back into positive territory for the year. the s&p on track to post its biggest monthly gain since 1974. this cautionary note. the european debt deal still has to be implemented, a fact not lost on president obama even as he celebrated it. >> so the key now is to make sure there's strong followup, strong execution of the plans that have been put forward. >> as president and candidate for re-election in tough times mr. obama was crystal clea

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here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: that's no motion detecting anti-burglary device.ers in the house >> reporter: the website gawker christened it the awesome halloween light show you're glad isn't on your block. >> in a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams. >> reporter: or in your nightmares. the house plays one number taken from the tim burton film, the nightmare before christmas. >> this is halloween, halloween. >> reporter: here's the house version. ♪ this is halloween halloween halloween♪ >> reporter: the family that lives in the halloween house in riverside, california. kevin, he prefers we not use his last name, isn't doing any tv interviews at the moment but we did have a nice, long phone conversation with him. at his day job, he installs fiber-optics for verizon and takes a week off to put up 5,000 or so l.e.d. lights on his own house ♪ >> reporter: and he uses his spare time over months to program them. he started the tradition back in 2008 with "thriller". ♪ >> reporter: he does something different every year. ♪ he did the monster mash >> reporter:

jeanne moos is next. >>> chris christie say he's not running for president.s down the drama. >> reporter: we in the press tend to fall hardest for the guy hard to get. >> is he in or is christie out? >> and is he in or is he out? >> yes or no? >> the answer's no. >> reporter: say it ain't so. ♪ no, no, no no >> it's a no until it's a yes. ♪ no, no, no >> what i said i'd recan my no and i did but the no never changed. so new jersey, whether you like it or not, you're stuck with me. >> reporter: governor christie giggled his way -- >> ha, ha. >> reporter: -- through a couple of the questions. >> it's a shock to people in new jersey, right? >> reporter: his decision not run for president shocked nobody but it disappointed many. we are gathered here to mourn all of the unborn, undelivered weight jokes that will now not be told. late-night xhed yens will have to be content. >> traveling down the new jersey turnpike i saw him on the truck scales. he was -- >> reporter: with the routines they've already managed to squeeze in during the courtship of christie. >> yes,

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documented what happened right in the thick of the action is pictures online at facebook dot com our jeanne moos we have put it of the angry response in here of our you tube channel as well. violence toward syria is a slow move towards reform has taken another step closer this weekend president assad has started the process of drafting a new constitution within the next four months as one of the kid demands of anti-rejection protests that have been reaching this march and playing more than three thousand lives the u.n. warns the country might be headed for a food war and so there war assad still seemingly enjoys big support with tens of thousands rally in support of the government in the syrian capital those are his tests are so you spoke to people from both camps and filed this report. but voices of support was continuing dissent some and deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by the newfound zeal to take a stand for here the fact that the syrian capital our lives have gathered at show their support for the government that is going is a far cry from the imag

see that ally relate ally relationship stay there and so the regime and the postman particularly jeanne is just mubarak without its head. right but there's a there's a problem here where you have yes the military on one hand but how about this big constituency of eighty five million people who are incompatible revolutionary mode they have no means of moving forward in seeing this next chapter of the of are not able to go on and do the nation building as we'd all we talked about back in february and at the beginning of their movement that they will have to spend the next few years obviously the next few months with you know in long term at least another decade in the nation building mode and they haven't been able to do that and in the meantime. groups such as muslim brotherhood they have the the they've won over the people because they've been around for years they've done things for the people they put up soup kitchens and schools and libraries and they have pander to their constituency which is usually the lower socio and i cannot make groups and you know that's why revolution starts

our guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our jeanne correspondent christine for south. and mcmorris santoro reporter and blogger for talking points and thanks for join me guys all right so we said we wouldn't do too much debate stuff very happy hour because we already did a bunch of debates earlier on in the show but michele bachmann you know what we call earlier this year and she was the gift that keeps on giving so we have to play a little clip of what she thinks about herman cain's nine nine nine plan. when you take the nine nine nine plan and you turn it upside down i think the devil's in the details. i know i just love ellen so i mean if you're not so you know you're so right she's the gift that keeps on giving but michele bachmann is also somebody who realize who realizes that she's not really making her face known anymore the interviews have stopped she's not out there as much so she has to come up with these clever little phrases to make sure that she gets on the show and as many others as possible i think you i think it was a cute gesture it's a little strange

the most important state of all in terms of global capitalism don't seem to be there at the moment jeanne what do you think about that that everything everything is being done backwards i mean everyone talks about austerity but we really need a fiscal injection here huge fiscal injection when you think about that. well that's exactly right i mean you know you're sort of scratching your head going what on earth are these people thinking when they're pushing for stare to you know it's you know there's like no story you could tell i'm staying this as an economist there's no economic story that i could think of i mean if they had one i'd be happy to look at it and try and figure out if it made sense or not but i don't even see one so it's not even like a debatable point they're saying oh we have a patient here but i mean it's sorry but it's not a debatable point leg if it's not if you paid a point in why isn't it happening i mean i think we all agree you know you have to look at this well i think it's really not it's happening anyhow because of the people of money and power are doing just fin