bill: funding government at the current levels but all of this other crazy -- >> out. >> bill: john murthapay for this, foundation for him? >> not just that mitch mcconnell and john thune, both of him who are now against earmarks to their credit, both of them have earmarks in this bill. and they have to be stripped out. >> bill: they want to show the people -- -- all this kind of stuff. i'm saying no more. i don't care where you are. >> we are done. they are like addicts though, bill. i'm senator x and i'm a spender. okay? they have to admit their problem. >> bill: mcconnell and thune, it shows people that you are just not idealogue at trying to bash the democrats. >> i had senator thune on my show today. i said senator, what gives? he said he is going to support an amendment to strip out even his earmarks. i think that's progress. i think they are getting it. >> bill: laura ingraham, everybody. mcdonald's under attack. is their food legally bad? megyn kelly will analyzed. sarah palin on -- tv show and book. do they hurt her in the political arena? the governor upcoming. pkó@v@ zx7? >> b

senator ted kennedy and senator john murtha. he says the amnibus spending bill might just as well be called an opl a news spending bill. lawmakers say how can they make a considered judgment when the bill is dropped on senators just before christmas with the idea of pushing it through in only three days. many republicans and democrats argue the senate should do what the house did, pass what is called a continuing resolution that just continues spending at current levels until february when lawmakers would have the time to examine spending calmly and carefully. megyn: let me ask you a question. it's easy to blame this on the democrats, they are in control in the senate, this came out of the senate appropriations committee. the republicans who are now so shocked to receive this bill with all the earmarks in it have been working behind closed doors for months with the democrats on this very bill. and some of the republicans who are most outraged now, including mitch mcconnell, and john cronyn are so outraged. 650,000 for advanced g

it was people in a rice feel that we didn't know what they were the ad on the bike put john murtha's and his saw at and we had an hour and in that short period that we were there that everything in black pajamas was in a me so we opened fire on them. we were able to go and physically look at them and they had no weapons and they looked to be. teenage children are very are. the cell you have that doubt in your my one while reality hit you you know. what did i kill that i kill innocent kids i was a call that base of course and that's never answered how. it looked. that experience of being fired if i had to stop. the rise on irving so i. asked to be transferred to the army all cotton because they never stock they shoot rockets and machine guns. i don't think i really thought about what your job was. but. at some point. you come upon a situation where you see people you have to show. and you have a machine we call it because it looks like a constant strain. seeing people move. and seeing. women and children go into a house and being told that this is an enemy location. you. have to aim.

, spending $10 million of your tax dollars to honor the memory of their controversial colleague john murtha. >> who was the king of earmarks according to many people and a big defender of the earmarks process so it's ironic a memorial foundation in his name is getting funded through earmarks. >> reporter: members of congress committed to the ear said marks before the election, but in case you're wondering there's nothing to stop them from stripping the earmarks out of of the spend bill, nothing except themselves. katie glerg sharyl attkisson reporting from capitol hill. thank you, sharyl. generationing of infants have slept in drop-side cribs but today the government said they can no longer be sold. they're simply too dangerous. the side rail moves up and down, making it easier to lift a baby out of the crib but in some cases, the rail can detach and a baby's head can get stuck between it and the mattress. drop-side cribs are blamed in 32 deaths since 2000. nine million have been recalled in the past five years, but starting next june, only cribs with fixed rails can be sold. the federal go

spending $10 million of your tax dollars to honor the memory of their controversial colleague, john murthaking of earmarks korstd to many people and certainly a big defender of the earmark process. it is kind of ironic a memorial foundation in his name is funded through earmarks. >> reporter: members of congress committed to the earmarks before the election. but in case you're wondering, there's nothing to stop them from stripping the earmarks out of the spending bills, nothing except themselves. sharyl attkisson, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> later on "the early show" a live report from north carolina on the deadly cold weather gripping the southeast and when it will warm up. important safety news about drop-side cribs that every parent should know. and actor paul rudd from "how do you know" stops by the studio. all that and more coming up on "the early show." that's the cbs news for this thursday. i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody. i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody. we'll see you tomorrow! -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

others were set aside for non-profits connected to lawmakers who recently died, ted kennedy and john murtha. many of the $8 million in earmarks requested over the years by members of both parties and dumbed on the senate in the omnibus bill. some republicans said they will vote against the bill even though it has money they once requested. >> i intend to vote against the earmarks because i think the american people sent message on november 2, saying they want a new way to operate in washington. >> reporter: some defended the earmarks, such as for swine or animal waste management as part of a search for alternative to not foul the air for whole communities. david price, one democrats who requested the money says it is a legitimate need. >> the research on twine i defend any day of the week. >> reporter: those who wants viruses affecting the wine grapes defends that. >> i won't stop fighting for the need of the economy in my district. >> all i want them to do is be authorized. i can't judge all of them as to whether they're worthwhile or not. it's the process that is broken. >> a process to a

john madden murtha was the man in charge of all time pork projects. remember the airport for one that he had in his district? in his memory, they have a foundation set aside, $10 million for public service. a $10 million grant for public service in john murtha's name. >> in some ways, i would imagine that would create a couple of jobs. going back to the jobs. government funded jobs program. >> it comes back to and john mccain, you're about to hear from him. brian touched on it. they would stop spending the money. salmon research, 1924 pages long. appropriations bills for a grand total for $1 trillion. are we tone deaf? what is going on here? earmarks totalling near $8.3 billion. here's a small sample. $277,000 for potato pest management in wisconsin. $246,000 for bovine tuberculosis in michigan and minnesota. $522,000 for kranberry and blueberry disease and breeding in new jersey. $500,000 for oyster safety in florida. $349,000 for swine waste management in north carolina. $413,000 for peanut research in alabama. $300,000 for the polynesian voyaging s

your memory, the bill allotted about $10 million for a foundation honoring the late congressman john murtha. $8 million for a ted kennedy institution. 36 million more for the corrupt public broadcasting corporation bringing that outlet up to 500 million bucks a year of your money. there is no way we are going to stand for that kind of waste. total pork about 9 billion in the bill. so reid is humiliated, not that he cares, he doesn't. but the country is obviously wising up fast. the u.s.a. now owes about $14 trillion and the head of the fed ben bernanke says we better start paying that debt down or there is going to be a fiscal disaster here as there is in california right now, in greece, and in ireland. that brings us to people who feel the government owes them stuff, riots throughout europe this week have demonstrated there are plenty of folks who want other people to pay for their lives. if they don't get that, they will turn violent and disruptive. just look at these pictures. these riots came about because governments are cutting back on giving people stuff in europe. and this could hap

john murtha center. swine waste management studies in north carolina. you've got grape germs or virus studies going on in california and down the list. it is all porked up. all earmarked up again this is why the tea party and the country just has had enough. they are back at it again. there they go again. i can wait to get them out of town and get the republicans in control so we can actually now do what everybody has been talking about. >> greta: you are talking about a 1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. let me back up a little bit on that bill. i've been critical of the house and the senate, both sides of the aisle for waiting until the last minute to decide this. they knew the deadline was the end of the year. i realize democrats control agenda so they may get all the blame because they set the agenda. 1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill to finance the federal government beginning six weeks ago beginning october 1st, for a year. they are six weeks behind on that. what have they been doing? trying to shove it down everybody's throat. >> in minnesota i

successfully convince 99 other senators that having something dedicated to the forever memory of john murthaor a public service center is an important use of taxpayer money, that's one thing. that is not how it is done. it is slipped in. put in some big package. so you have to vote for the earmarks in order to vote for making sure the soldiers are gonna get their next month's pay. >> greta: can we admit that business about transparency is a big fat lie? when you dump a 1900 page bill, and say now vote for it. can we quit lying to the american people about transparency? >> there was no transparency here. it was interesting the senate was going to be forced into reading the bill it was going to take 50 hours reading through the night. >> greta: we would have had a better shot they would have read it, although the chamber was empty probably. >> one of the things i would love to see the congress do is what florida does. every expenditure is posted on the internet. anyone can see it. >> greta: how soon before the vote? if you put it the last minute, if you have to vote five minutes later it is no

. >> john murtha, one of the most influential members of congress has died. >> i'm getting choked upans. >> oh, man. >> you're really touched by his passing. >> i am serious. and don't call me shirley. >> the poulters had just adopted little maya esther in port-au-prince. when the earthquake struck. we set out in search of the little girl. maya esther has survived. >> you found her? >> we found esther. >> oh, thank you! thank you so much! >> when he was 3, he had surgery to remove the leg that wasn't growing properly. do you think there's anything that you can't do? >> i can't skip very well. but i can skip a different way. >> the palins took me out on the ice of lake lucille. where's russia? >> i tell you -- >> where is russia? >> it's not that far away. >> we go in search of the manatee. i can't see her until she's directly underneath me. oh, my gosh. she's so beautiful. >> he's one of baseball's biggest celebrities. >> alex rodriguez. >> i can't concentrate. you're too handsome. this is crazy. so, how did i do? do i have a future? >> uh, no. >> i love a good poker game. but i'm ab

megyn: $10 million for a john murtha memorial?> again, you can pick out some of the pork, but the overwhelming percentage of this stuff would have been good for the economy and pumped even more money back into it. i'm not anti-earmark. megyn: so you say it was worth it. >> yes. megyn: sorry for your loss. >> i don't think i lost anything. given when you weigh that against -- sorry, my loss. when you weigh that against the tax victory and what i think is a second stimulus bill, i believe democrats come out ahead. megyn: you're still in your happy place. >> i'm in my happy place, megyn. thank you for caring. [laughter] megyn: alan colmes, everybody. well, she was a beautiful young athlete and scholar, and she was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend at one of the country's best universities. but now there is a new twist in the case. we are live on the case of the murder of yeardley love in three minutes. >>> plus, a huge controversy after u.s. food and drug administration, the fda, pulls its support for the wildly-popular cancer drug

not stop john mccain from tweeting out egregious earmarks which includes a special earmark for john murtha the king of pork. >>> and now over to john king who hosts "john king usa" beginning at the top of the hour, and candy crowley who is host of "state of the union" sunday morning at 9:00, and cnn political analyst gloria borger. and we will discuss what is going on at the hill or what is not going on at the hill. >> you got it. >> we have tea party folks looking at the spending bill say we don't like it and it is full of pork and then established republicans who want the proekt js done and get them done and squeezed in before the new congress. is that going to be a split? are we seeing a standoff here in the republican party? >> no, you will see this play out in coming up and go back down again over the course of next year and the year after. the problem is whether it will have resonance in the way it did in the past election year. i'm not sure it will. i mean n the end, you know, politics is the art of the do-able, and if there is one thing that republicans took away from this pass ele

the one of them is $10 million for congressman john murtha's foundation.was a congressman for many years and passed away in february and someone wanted $10 million for his foundation. is that a good or bad thing? i cannot judge that. but you would have to look into this bill to find it. host: i to -- i was just about to ask you about that your market -- that earmark. it is sponsored by folks in the house. how did it end up in a senate omnibus bill? guest: this conversation started nine months ago. both the house and senate were processing bills through the records of legislation throughout the summer. they just never got around to passing any of them. when you look at the bill in this kind of remarkable. none of this stuff is actually in the bill. there is a piece of legislation that lays out funding, just large numbers, and it says, by the way, you will spend all of the money that is detailed in the attachments. the attachments are basically excel spreadsheets full of your remarks that came from everywhere. they came from earlier this year the republican'

earmarks, are doing if in their death, 8 million for the ted kennedy institute. 10 million for john murtha >> yeah. i think this one is one of the more noxious ones. there was a noxious weed management one as well. $8 million to help construct this thing in boston. and i guess it's perfectly appropriate, you know, that one of the porkiest senators would be rewarded with one of the porkiest earmarks. >> steve: a senator who hates earmarks is john mccain and he'll be joining us in a couple of minutes. stand by for that. michelle, what do you make about this, the department of justice is suing on behalf of a muslim woman worker who wants three weeks unpaid leave for a trip to mecca, which begs the question, why is the united states department of justice involved in this? >> well, i've long said of this justice department that it is more appropriately titled the department of social justice because the attorney general, eric holder, is essentially a social justice activist who has the power to selectively enforce the law. this woman may or may not have a case. i'll leave that for the courts to

one of them is a former member who passed away, john murtha, and others. and they also investigated maxine waters who now is being investigated and there's going to be a trial before the ethics committee and the house of representatives. they also represented wrangell, former chair of the represented wrangell, former chair of the ways and means committee in the house of representatives. and they said that publicly, the hole three was if you send these things publicly you and there is or you will put pressure on the ethics committee to do something. there's great conflict between the two, and lots of members who mumble and say we should get rid of the house of public integrity. is causing too much trouble. but i think it's going to be very hard to get rid of, and i think the republicans are fully in support of it, for example. if you look at the disclosure of, further disclosure of activities by members of congress, they have to certify and sign a document that they have not given gifts or traveled that would violate senate and house rules. where did this c

one of them is a former member who passed away, john murtha, and others. and they also investigated maxine waters who now is being investigated and there's going to be a trial before the ethics committee and the house of representatives. they also represented wrangell, former chair of the represented wrangell, former chair of the ways and means committee in the house of representatives. and they said that publicly, the hole three was if you send these things publicly you and there is or you will put pressure on the ethics committee to do something. there's great conflict between the two, and lots of members who mumble and say we should get rid of the house of public integrity. is causing too much trouble. but i think it's going to be very hard to get rid of, and i think the republicans are fully in support of it, for example. if you look at the disclosure of, further disclosure of activities by members of congress, they have to certify and sign a document that they have not given gifts or traveled that would violate senate and house rules. where did this c