cheryl forberg is an author and nutritionist with the nbc show "biggest loser." cheryl perfo please welcome. she's an average golfer, shot a 100 par at the ranch. she was on the golf's channel's big break ireland. and final michael hool i han is with the bare foot wine. he's also an author and public speaker and he's here to taste some of these gourmet tamales soopz. darlene, so which one are they going to start off with first? >> they're going to start off by eating the vegetarian tamales first. bring those out forecast you can. >> tell us the history about the tamale. it's pretty fascinating. we've gone through this in the past. >> the as texts, incas, and the mayans have been eating tamales. they've been around for thousands and thousands of years. we don't know the exact origin but we know the mayan, when the pre-spannic cultures, when they went off to war, the women would go with them and cook and take care of things on there. the women decided, i think we're going to stay home, okay, so they got the little massa and put it in a cornhusk or banana leaf, said

claudio loser, economista es que el desempleo que esta en poco menos de 9%, 8% y algo, podria llegar 8% hacia fin de ano, que es 1 numero todavia alto para beneficio del senor obama. sin embargo hay 1 tendencia importante a la reduccion del desempleo. pero aun queda mucho para recobrar los 8 millones de trabajos perdidos en la crisis. standup: fernando pizarro, fairfax, virginia y mientras la nacion continua tratando de recuperar de la recesion y mas de 13 millones de personas siguen desempleado s y asistiendo a centros de beneficios como este en virginia, sera el reporte de empleos de fines de enero el que determine si el pais continua por la senda de la recuperacion o no. desde si usted tiene viejas deudas por multas vehiculares en el distrito de columbia, le faltan pocos dias para pagarlas y evadir costos adicionales... el programa del departamento de vehiculos motorizados que da amnistia o perdon para quienes tienen multas anteriores al 2010, termina manana... despues de esto, todas las penalidades volveran a entrar en efecto... hasta el momento se han recolectado tres y medio mi

when you go to washington and pick winners and losers. remember japan was the model we should follow in the late 'cents and '80s because they picked winners and losers. guess what? they have had two decades of stagnation. government picking winners and loserings, you will eat the insects off of the ground like they do in north korea. >> since china is subsidiizing the solar industry we should do the same. >> that argument makes my head spin. broadissue of good profits versus bad profits. you mentioned apple and steve mentioned the fanthries in chin a. they have deplorable conditions. you have workers standing for you know, 14 hours a day so that their feet spell to the size of elephants and they sleep in overcrowded dorms. those cities are hurting. we have lovely ipads. but they are cleaning it with poisonous chemicals before they come to us. are you saying they are obscene, victoria? >> i am not saying obscene. they have issues to deal with. but where do you draw the line between and bad profits. goldman sachings profits look better than

but if you don't, you're probably a loser. i'm not a loser.o, you know, if people don't have the guts or courage to put it out there, then so be it. that's on them. i will always chase the super bowl. i believe we'll win the super bowl. and i will believe it for the next 15 years. if you get all the articles out that you want, that's fine and dandy. for me, i'll find a way to make this team better. we will. there's no question about it. >> i'm not a loser. >>> denver, the broncos came tied with the raiders. looking to clinch the afc west. broncos down seven. tim tebow, cuts to the left side. chiefs recover on the 15 yard line. tebow's eighth fumble of the season. fourth quarter, time running down. broncos down, 7-3. tebow under pressure. lobs it downfield. it's picked off by brandon carr. that wraps up the game. tebow, 6 for 22, for 60 yards. denver has dropped its last three games. but they can get into the playoffs if they get some help from the chargers, who were playing the raiders. raiders have a shot to win the afc west out and get to th

. >> toby, you say how many more losers does the government have to pick before they get out of private >> of course, it's not ener 1, we're at number three here, a long list of trying to pick winners and losers and the government couldn't do that well because frankly, nobody has been in the the businesses. what they're good at doing, how about military r and d. and businesses supporting the infrastructure. they've proven they can't do it and six more to blow up in the next year. >> david, outside of that. outside of like nasa and defense, where does the government belong? >> well, that, that's the point, i'm glad gary made it. you know, government, we've got to debunk the myth. the government has been a partner in advancing american interest and did it on the tax dollars after world war ii. >> why? >> they weren't picking winners. >> we're talking about private business. >> if i might fainish, that was to create the market for the automobile industry and we started more clear energy, which led to jobs and we've always vested. the government always tried to support in corporate and comm

let's move on to the loser here.eil, you have a buy rating on electronic arts, which is down about 10% year to date. why has it underperformed some of its other competitors so badly? >> i think the big issue with electronic arts has been concerns about their "star wars" game. frankly, a lot of investors felt that that "star wars" just didn't have the force that it needed to have. but we've seen the opposite, actually. the company's said that there's been 1 million registered users as of december 23rd. that means 1 million games sold. that also does not include people who bought the game and didn't open it until christmas. that data point didn't include that. >> certainly looks as if you're seeing this pullback in their stock as a buying opportunity. we were looking at zynga yesterday and what's happening with that stock. how much do you feel going forward that zynga is treading on e.a.'s turf? >> i think it's marginally treading on e.a.'s turf. e.a. did some out with a game called "similar social." e.a.'s seen that g

ron paul would be my loser.n santorum was going after romney the way he did, trying to catch him in the ah-ha moment about the felony voting. that seemed like an act of desperation. >> juan: wait a minute. it worked. >> eric: you think it worked. i don't think it worked. >> greg: it flustered romney. >> juan: in is a set-up. saying i'm waiting for eric to throw that right hand because i'm going to clobber him. he stepped into it. he has to know his own record. he has to know what he voted for massachusetts to allow them to have a record. >> eric: i was governor but 80% of the state governor were democrats. it would be difficult for me to change that. by the way, that is the one thing -- >> juan: no. he signed it. he bought into it. >> eric: very difficult for him to fight that one. >> andrea: game, set, match, santorum on that one. >> juan: i think. he set him up. >> greg: did you have best or worst or are you looking forward to something else? >> dana: i do think there was a really good moment. it made me like

>> reporter: losers in the 95 sports hub trivia contest saw their tvs off the roof. but the winner got a pair of tickets to sunday's game. at gillette, this little guy was awe struck by the spectacle of the empty stadium. and we popped the first of three questions to pats' fans.

i think the big loser was ron paul. think he lost percentage points of his saturday vote tonight with that about bin laden that was just incredible. and it remains to be see whether rick santorum will pick up any of that or if it goes to romney. >> krystal ball, eugene robinson, laura flanders, and richard wolffe, thanks so much for joining us tonight. >>> next in psychotalk, rick perry goes from terminator to urinate urinator. >>> and the deadline for collecting recall signatures is approaching in wisconsin. are governor walker's days numbered? state democratic chair mike tate and state senator lina taylor will tell us what's up next. i'll be in wisconsin tomorrow. >>> and in "psychotalk" tonight, governor rick perry defends urinators. he responds to a video reportedly showing four u.s. marines urinating on the bodies of taliban fighters. the u.s. military condemned the action, but rick perry brushed it off, essentially saying, boys will be boys. >> obviously, 18-year-old, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too

and the dax down half a percentage point three percent respectively with banks among the biggest losers of the day and in russia also the r t s m i six the client around half a percent at the close and that's because of a banking and energy stocks among the main losers always pushing in the seas down the last one point eight percent this is because a company announced it's planning to invest one billion dollars in oil rich tribes tito fields in siberia ak from the chemical company was bucking the trend up one point nine percent that's now listen to alexander but you've got more money from from investment banks could you. please stop. yes please close. these. huge volumes are pretty low and today people have no conviction for the direction of the market. apologies the troika dialog of course going to be full from work a dialogue that ok business r.t. will be back tomorrow morning at eight twenty am moscow time do join us if you get . top stories from oxy international fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya as gadhafi loyalists retake one of the former strongholds of bani walid supporte

overwhelmingly from the losers the people who make losing bets the people who make losing option bets the people make losing bets on all kinds of investments that money gets recycled into the economy and gets used by those who are able to make better bets who make better use of that capital if in fact you had an economic model that would give some predictability to outcomes then you would eliminate the entire c. speculative capital that forms the basis of what we call free market capitalism so it's very premise is faulty to the core it shows a complete lack of understanding of markets and finance it shows a slavish devotion to academic theories that have long been discredited and it shows a major media who is incapable of challenging the charlatans what i'm saying is that he's failing to account for crying and crying doesn't fit into any financial model that we are presently using if i steal your rabbit that's not in any sort of model that is going to explain how to operate the global economy well that's not necessarily true because piracy is a concept is understood was the driving fo

people who have become dependent upon the government cheese are going to end up being the biggest losers and it's not going to be by choice it's going to be by force which is an unfortunate result and i want to talk about some political solutions when we get back we're going to go to break real quickly but we will be back with more with karl denninger. the family and still ahead drivers start your engines because bidding is now open for obama is old chrysler on e bay the price may have had to break so we'll give you our three cents on that the first your closing market numbers. you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old and just you know look true. i have a confession i am a total get of friends that i love driving hip hop music and. he was kind of the guest today. i'm very proud of the role without you she has played. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else hears you some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't know i'm charged welcomes a big issue. what drives the world the

who is the loser in this? the school wins because it gets to flex its socially conservative muscles in front of the concerned pta members. instead of getting the pictures shown it is shown to the entire country. her sexy ego was never sexier. the only loser in this story is me. not one journalist asked if she was single. the wn question they shouldn't -- should have asked and they didn't. >> and here we are at 3:00 in the morning -- >> the only real loser is the viewers on this one. >> and he is taking off. >> it is a good point. >> do you have a comment on the show? e-mail us. and to leave a voicemail on greg's direct line call 212-462-5050. >> tonight's half time report is sponsored by ice swimming. the act of swimming across the ice. usually without wet suits or other thermal protection. thanks, ice swimming. >>> welcome back. let's find out if we have gotten anything wrong. for that we go to mike baker. >> thank you, andy. we have gotten a ton of viewer e-mail here. mostly it is about you. it is all wantin

i think the big loser was ron paul.nk he lost percentage points of his saturday vote tonight with that about bin laden that was just incredible. and it remains to be see whether rick santorum will pick up any of that or if it goes to romney. >> krystal ball, eugene robinson, laura flanders, and richard wolffe, thanks so much for joining us tonight. >>> next in psychotalk, rick perry goes from terminator to urina urinator. >>> and the deadline for collecting recall signatures is approaching in wisconsin. are governor walker's days numbered? state democratic chair mike tate and state senator lina taylor will tell us what's up next. i'll be in wisconsin tomorrow. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is mary... who has a million things to pick up each month on top of her prescriptions. so she was thrilled that her walgreens pharmacist recommended a 3-month supply and would always be there to answer questions about her health. now mary gets 3 refills in one and for 3 months, she's done. more or less. ask you

it is okay to pick winners and losers. >> thank you very much for being here. mitt romney is going to be joe amica's guest tomorrow, so lock in for that one. newt gingrich says he's confident he'll stay in the race after new hampshire. he's in the race at third or fourth place at this point. he's getting a $500 million boost from someone who is planning to spend that money to stop romney in california. steve dupree from rnc. gentlemen, it's great to have you with me this morning. brad, the movie we've been talking about coming out to the words we just heard, that's from the governor's superpack. is he handed the obama team, the reelection narrative, on a silver platter? because it's one thing for president obama to come out sluging like this, but it is another thing for people in the republican primary to go after each other like this? >> what i think it shows is there are bipartisan kind of anger, this type of -- as that very superpack said. predatory paper shuffling. as congressman grim just said, look, i couldn't do any better than he did. he said exactly wh

doesn't he just make you feel like the biggest loser in the world?i mean, yeah. >> at 15. >> that's ambitious. seven different continents, highest peaks. it's dangerous too. >> honestly, what were dug at the age of 15? >> probably sleeping late and doing homework on the bus. >> loser. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> after the cold snap we saw at the beginning of the week, it looks like things are improving it into the weekend. we will have a mix of clouds and sunshine through the day. nothing showing up on hd doppler. warm air is pushing our way and that will help the temperatures be unseasonable mild. highs into the upper 50's. we will detail the weekend forecast coming up. >> 29 degrees on tv hill. the change the obama administration is pushing for when it comes to illegal immigrants. >> a bolton hill president robs and kidnapped at gunpoint -- residents. >> cheers and jeers on the campaign trail. the lates

doesn't he just make you feel like the biggest loser in the world?> i mean, yeah. >> at 15. >> that's ambitious. seven different continents, highest peaks. it's dangerous too. >> honestly, what were dug at the age of 15? >> probably sleeping late and doing homework on the bus. >> loser. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 is our time right now. we have 40 degrees outside on this friday morning. i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. welcome in this friday, january 6th, 2012. >>> in just a few hours, harry thomas jr. is expected to plead guilty to two federal crimes. >> he regned after federal prosecutors charged him with misuse of $300,000 of government money and fraudulent tax returns. melissa mollet is live outside this morning. >> reporter: a few people have come in and out overnight. we know his child, his wife are inside the home, but no sign of thomas himself. after he reached a deal, it took him just a few hours to step down from the city council. he will plead guilty

let's examine what happened with bain capital could you find some winners and losers. is an attack on fe enterprise. nothing of this sort. free enterprise is also a hot dog stand, the person who runs a beauty s shop. he did something different. he is in venturcapital, and yoyou have to examine the record of a venture capitalist like mitt romney. some p people were helped, some people were hurt. >> here is what enter sullivan says "with romney, you have an example of someone who made a quarter of a million dollars by firing the middle class not to increase growth or efficiency t to enrich bain." >> i think that romney pasta busine career is analogous to john kerry's let -- romney's business career is analogous to john kerry's military career. he has made imay be not f fair game but game. the kind of thing that bain capital bid, as colbysaid, had winners and losers -- >> that is what ist is. >> it is what is, but thiss a person who is part of a company, ces in, sometimes a dismembers theselaces, moveses them even off the coast. he will be faced with that. and they pay an

come meet him and other biggest loser faves. and the championsh is working i, amazing. i tell you, i'm about to kill myself over here. i have to race to the top and i can't spend a better way to spend your weekend than coming here with the whole family and getting ready for the new year. back over to you, because i've got to win this. you're in trouble, emily! >> all right, donnella. you did a great job talking about things to do here. there are free medical tests available, lots of good information. you have a question about a medicine you're taking or hole checked out, you can take care of a lot of issues for free. get here as early as possible. the lines get longer throughout the day. right now is the time to head out. we'll be here 9:00 to 5:00. take metro so you don't have to hassle with trying to park a car. i'll be back in a few minutes, i think we'll be talking to some of those biggest losers you heard mentioned. >> looking forward to it. we see i already put the nbc peacock to work out there. >> reporter: that's right. we have all sorts of interesting people yo

. >> the mayor of new orleans and the mayor of san francisco have a bet, and the loser has to send the other a basket of goods from the city. >> i guess from mayor landrieu of new orleans, going to be sending mayor ed lee some eats from new orleans. wonder if he is going to get any gumbo. the fans are happy tonight, and thousands of them are making their way home from candlestick tonight in a good mood. >> alan: and before the niners sent the saints marching home. the who-dat nation never gave up until the very last moment. >> who dat! >> i know the city is crazy right now in new orleans. >> alan: it was jam-packed in the black magic voodoo lounge on almost bard street, which is home away from home for all things saints. fans say despite the loss they're excited to be here cheering union their saints. right now in the bay area, the chp is at the scene of a fatal accident in los gatos. we were over the scene just after the accident happened. just before 4:00. all northbound lanes of highway 85 near winchester boulevard have been closed for over two hours. two cars were involved in the c

how do the wizards avoid loser talk and loser thought and they make a big decision considering a pitching prospect of the future. sports coming up next. >>> work is going to improve customer reliability. >>> and now, 9sports with dave owen. the best sports in town. >> caps at home tonight. that's good news. how good is that news? very. there's 15 teams in the eastern conference. no one is better at home than big red. when a season in which we have seen a coaching change and expectations lowered. at least the capitals can hang their lid on that. they will prove it to the islanders. it's night and day when you talk about the caps at home and on the road. mike says no problem. we're going to fix that. >> i think we have done a great job of maximizing the points at home. because we haven't gotten them on the road. we have to make them up somewhere. just finish off a great week. a great home stand and worry about playing on the road. >> baseball news, and it's good. the nats reached a contract deal today. made a great comeback last year winning 8 games. he was the team's best pitcher. there ar

. >> and the losers? >> well, the losers, i think, almost all of us. i think almost all americans lose from the shift toward a society in which rewards are so narrowly concentrated on a small segment of the population. i was talking yesterday evening with a friend of mine who spends much of his time in mexico who was describing a society in which a small group of wealthy people are protected by guns mostly from the rest of the population and dart from one protected location to another protected location, completely separate from the rest of society. we're not there yet, but we've moved a long way down a road in which there's just a sharp social, economic, cultural separation from the vast bulk of americans and a small astonishing successful financial elite. and don't think that's -- i think most americans would consider that not to be an improvement. they would consider themselves to be losers from that. >> and there's no sign that the sort of massive constraying of the gains of the economy at the very top is slowing down. in fact, this downturn has be

a big night, who were the winners and losers, ben?as the winner f getting the crowd fired up, he wins and romney is sort

do not hang out with losers. get to be a leader." no, we will go with the strength of "we." tavis: when you suggest that people can live themselves out of poverty if they have the right tools, i get what you mean. but unpack that for me. and what kinds of tools are missing from the toolbox of poor people? >> to come out of property and you also need help. need to believe you can come out of poverty. the tool that i think is important that i am trying to work on right now -- i do not know if i will be successful. it seems like many people do not want me to be successful with this endeavor. but the main thing i want to change in the united states of america that truly affects the scores.r ficao [applause] the way they used to be calculated what a lot different time than we are in now -- was a lot of time than we are in now. what i'm trying to get people to do is to pay in cash or on that. i do not know if you know it, but if you pay in cash or on a debit card, it does not report to a credit bureau, and therefore, you do not have a score. uri non-entity. you do not exist in the

and when you look at what happened with bain capital, you find winners and losers. romney says it is an attack on free enterprise. it is nothing of the sword. free enterprise is also got a guy with the hot dog stand outside, the person who runs a beauty shop. he did something different. he is in venture-capital, and you need to examine the record of a venture-capital is like mitt romney, how well or how badly they did. some people were helped, some people were hurt as a result. >> here is what andrew sullivan says -- "we have a singular example of someone who made a quarter of a billion dollars by firing the white, middle class and working class in ways that do not seem designed to promote growth and efficiency but merely to enrich bain." >> i think that romney's business career is analogous to john kerry's military career. he has made it maybe not fair game, but game. the kind of thing that bain capital did, as colby said, had winners and losers -- >> but that is what it is. >> eat is what it is, but many people don't realize that he did not build the company, etc.

jp morgan led the losers today. let's take a look at tonight's "market focus." the results from j.p. morgan, along with waiting for the government debt downgrades in europe, set the tone today. it was a bit negative. the dow industrials was able to climb off its worst level of the day about an hour after the opening bell. the dow finished with a loss of 49 points. for the week, the dow was down two sessions but had a net gain this week of 0.5%. the nasdaq was up each session this week except for today, for a net gain of 1.4%. and the s&p 500 also saw four sessions of gains. yesterday, it was at a five- month high. this week, it gained 0.9%. earnings season just got started this week, and next week's calendar is jammed with lots of bank earnings. the financial sector led the market lower today, falling 0.8%. industrials and info tech each fell 0.7%. all 10 major stock sectors were down. within the financial sector, bank morgan stanley was the biggest loser, falling more than 3%. morgan stanley is among those banks reporting earning next week. some questions about

i thought romney was the loser. release your taxes and get fumbling about it. >> i think that romney won, he lost too because how pathetic does he look that he cannot answer questions from santorum on the odd ball question of felons voting. >> i thought it was a great moment and for a minute there you had rick santorum taking a progressive position on the issue. as far as romney goes, i thought the tax release issue, releasing his income taxes was a telling moment. it was clear that he was uncomfortable answering it and we have the quote that was. you know if it's the tradition i'm not opposed to doing that but i'm will tell, but i'm thinking i'll get asked to do that around the april time period and i'll keep that open. >> he cleaned that up today in south carolina. it's amazing he skated so long before being directly confront odd this. he called on ted kennedy to release his and then refused to release them himself. he is going to be the nominee of his party and he will not be able to dodge this. >> the republican