there was also some good news for krystal. husband had found another job at the maintenance department of a local nuclear plant. she was able to join his health insurance plan and take the kids off medicaid. and her t-shirt business had grown so much she was able to open a little store in a town nearby. more importantly, she qualified for a government mortgage modification plan that drastically lowered her monthly payment. but for krystal, that wasn't enough. >> i just wanted everything to be like it was. i wanted to come back to the restaurant and have life. >> reporter: krystal hoped to cash in on millen's small economic recovery. she even called prison officials to find out how much business she could expect from them, but she'd have to sell her t-shirt business to get the money to make repairs and buy new equipment. reopening the restaurant was a huge gamble. when you open this door again, was there a sense of failure is not an option? >> it was not. i realize that this is it. this is my last chance right here. >> reporter

still he put the krystals' name on the label.ame wouldn't be on that record. >> right, i did. >> reporter: but that didn't bother you. >> no because, see, people don't know that we did that all the time. who knows whether it's going to be a hit. let me take that money and run. >> reporter: when it went to number one, how did you feel? >> that bothered me. >> reporter: specter promised darlene she would get her turn. he changed her name from wright to love. and they went back into the studio. >> going to the sessions and doing "he's sure the boy i love." i'm writing that is going to come out under my name. i'm riding down the street in my car and the latest record by the krystals. i said when did the krystals come in town. >> reporter: darlene stormed into specter's office and confronted him. >> why do you keep doing this to me? you say you like me. you like my voice. what are you doing? "well, i just figured the song would have a better chance if i used the name the krystals." i said, "when do i get my chance to make my name?" >>

there was also some good news for krystal. at the maintenance department of a local nuclear plant. she was able to join his health insurance plan and take the kids off medicaid. and her t-shirt business had grown so much she was able to open a little store in a town nearby. more importantly, she qualified for a government mortgage modification plan that drastically lowered her monthly payment. but for krystal, that wasn't enough. >> i just wanted everything to be like it was. i wanted to come back to the restaurant and have life. >> reporter: krystal hoped to cash in on millen's small economic recovery. she even called prison officials to find out how much business she could expect from them, but she'd have to sell her t-shirt business to get the money to make repairs and buy new equipment. reopening the restaurant was a huge gamble. when you open this door again, was there a sense of failure is not an option? >> it was not. i realize that this is it. this is my last chance right here. >> reporter: did krystal make the right d

ari melber, ari berman, and krystal ball. that was wonderful from bud dy roemer right there, krystal. >> yeah, it was. and he's obviously got a big hill to climb in terms of the republican nomination. maybe he'll run as an independent or go about this another way, but i'm awfully glad he's out there raising the issue. and it seems like he's getting more buzz and there's more talk about his candidacy. and just having him out there advocating makes a difference. >> and if you look -- if he lays out his qualifications, fairly simply, governor of a state, served in the federal office as a congressperson, ran a financial institution, which was a small bank, which is the opposite of these too big to fail banks. this is going to be an ari-off, we'll see which ari is going to take this. >> i think we know who's going to take this question. >> in other words, what is the barrier to buddy roemer, ari, what is the barrier to buddy roemer being able to get this message more broadly communicated, ari. >> all right. ari berman, i guess i'l

also joining me is democratic strategist krystal ball. gene, let me turn to you first. is the party going to be able to purge donald trump from its ranks? >> well, let's step back for a second. we're talking about donald trump here, okay? we're talking about a reality tv star, a reputed billionaire. a real estate developer. a clown. i mean, he is a clown in terms of politics. and republican primary voters, or at least those polled, judged him a clown earlier in the cycle. so i think the republican party, or what's left of the serious part of it may have already purged itself of donald trump. i don't think he brings with him legions of voters, perhaps he brings with him some ratings. but that's about it. so i'm not sure that this is going to cost romney the nomination. >> well, you know, notwithstanding the fact that he's a village idiot, krystal, now he's turned into the town crier. do you think mitt romney did the right thing by rejecting the debate? >> first, i want to push back on eugene a little bit. to call him a clown is frankly a bit unfair to clowns. i wanted to

and this is the fundamental problem. >> let's get krystal in.'s got a question. >> hi, nick. have you thought about a thousand cars? no, just kidding. >> no. no. >> well, you mentioned in your lead up that you felt the middle class, which i agree with, has been systemically undermined. i agree with that, so i was wondering if you could talk about the policies that have been detrimental. and with a forward policy, what you think we could do to start to reverse this increasing trend of income inequality? >> that's a very long discussion, but there's simply no doubt that middle class americans have been trapped with stagnant wages and escalating prices for 30 years. part of the problem, of course, is income inequality. when people like me have a situation in which price is no object, we push prices for everyone else up and force people down the scale in the middle class to borrow, to keep up. so this is a, you know, certainly a significant part of the problem. >> toure -- >> but fundamentally, we have the situation where we have pushed income to th

but krystal, ask your question. >> yeah.ting your voice out there, which i think is really powerful. and i wanted to ask you about something that is quite timely. congress established the consumer financial protection bureau and elizabeth warren spent a lot of time setting it up. and now republicans have blocked the president's nominee, richard cordray, to that agency, and there's some talk of potentially the president forcing a recess appointment in january. i just wanted to hear your perspective on how critical the work of that agency is. is that an important part of the picture when you're talking about things like simplifying credit card applications, mortgage applications, providing financial education, et cetera. >> i think it's important, but i think that, honestly, the threats to the system are much broader and in some ways, they're much more hidden. i think that right now that the consumer protection agency is, of course it's important. it's important that banks not be able to mistreat customers, but there's a much,

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still he put the krystals' name on the label.ame wouldn't be on that record. >> right, i did. >> reporter: but that didn't bother you. >> no because, see, people don't know that we did that all the time. who knows whether it's going to be a hit. let me take that money and run. >> reporter: when it went to number one, how did you feel? >> that bothered me. >> reporter: specter promised darlene she would get her turn. he changed her name from wright to love. and they went back into the studio. >> going to the sessions and doing "he's sure the boy i love." i'm writing that is going to come out under my name. i'm riding down the street in my car and the latest record by the krystals. i said when did the krystals come in town. >> reporter: darlene stormed into specter's office and confronted him. >> why do you keep doing this to me? you say you like me. you like my voice. what are you doing? "well, i just figured the song would have a better chance if i used the name the krystals." i said, "when do i get my chance to make my name?" >>

. >> i think we're the only factory in the state that are still doing the hand made krystal. >> reporter according to the craftsman wally. >> this is the best glass in the world. we don't let any perfections go by it. if there's anything in the glass we throw it away. (glass breaking) >> reporter: indeed roughly one out of every five pieces of steuben glass is destroyed. many of the finest pieces to survive inspection were on display a few years back at the museum of the city of new york. it was called glass and glamor marking a century of steuben glass. the life span though that was almost cut short in the 1920s. according to the curator donald aldridge. >> in the early years of the depression the company was doing badly like a lot of companies were. from 1903 up until the early 1930s they were using colored glass, frosted glass in a very decorative style. >> cowan: a style that looks more and more dated when compared to the art deco and other modern designs that were sweeping through europe. with bankruptcy looming, steuben desperately searched for a brand new look. and found it. right

then we have a truly stunning set of champagne flutes with krystal in the stem. i love them. that would be great if someone wanted to propose. i wish i had somebody to suggest that to. it's something you could have for your whole life after that. >> yeah. >> wow that's pretty. >> in addition to dressing your table and house, this outfit is curtesy of white house black market where you will find no shortage of sparkle this holiday seasoned and on my blog next week we're featuring what to wear to holiday parties all week long. you can also follow me on my facebook page and on twitter. >> very good. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we need to go shopping. >> i'm just going to call rebecca. people can write in and i will solve their problems too. >> thank you. you can see this segment again and all of rebecca's great ,,,,, >>> weather going up into the mid 50s. 62 with rain tuesday into wednesday and temperatures drop by the end of the week. >> all right. so if they go on your site. >> yeah. >> what can they do? >> this is great. we have a fantastic give away all the way through de

. >> but krystal, is this really about romney's mormonism? is it really that christian conservatives regard mormonism as a cult and look at what happened with his iowa political director yesterday where he described mormonism as a cult and was forced to resign. isn't that really the problem here? >> well, i think that is a piece of the problem. and frankly, i think romney could overcome being a mormon if he was a different candidate. the fact of the matter is he is a guy who doesn't relate well to people. he seems sort of odd and other. so when you add to that the fact that he has a religion that is not in line with what the primary voter's religion is, it adds to the picture of someone that they can't relate to. but i think jonathan is right. the bigger problem is the fact that they don't see him as one of their own in terms being conservative. and that is the big issue. he gets something like 57% of iowa caucusgoers see gingrich is conservative and only about 29% see romney as conservative. that's the big issue. >> and they're right about t

bill krystal of the weekly standard, former democratic senator evan buyh, ed rollins, campaign manager ronald reagan, mike huckabee and earlier this year, michelle bachmann and fox news political analyst juan williams. bill, i can say with some relief, all 13 2011 debates are now finally over. we have basically two weeks of retail campaigning to go before the iowa caucuses, how do you handicap the race at this point? >> i wrote an editorial a couple of weeks ago entitled "we do not know." i will repeat it here on the air, i do not know what will happen in iowa. i don't know what will happen in race. one thing i think i know is it won't close early and all the talk that whoever wins iowa will win everything. but i think it's honestly wide open. newt gingrich got pummelled this week with millions of dollars of tv ads in iowa and some bad -- free media, too. he made some mistakes. will he survive that? can he stablize? my instinct is that he's been through the worst of it and that gingrich remains stronger than people in washington thinks he does but i can't prove that. >> let me pick up