steve mcmahon, my friend, is it better for a candidate who has a religious difference, say he's frominority religion like mormonism, to have that dustup early, like now, way before a general election, if you're going to be the nominee, get it over, fight it out with crazy ministers that shouldn't be talking, and assume that by the time it gets the next november, the voters have sort of hashed out in their head and decided it wasn't important. would you rather have that or hit and flash next october? >> in a political campaign, what you want to do is you want to get all of the bad news out early, if there's going to be bad news that comes out anyway. and you want to try to get it baked into the campaign well before the decision point. and i think for mitt romney's perspective right now, and even from governor perry, if he's able to get through this, having the sort of crazy preacher and the mormonism discussed openly and sort of baked into the value of the stock, if you will, is something that will benefit them later, assuming that one of the -- when one of them is in the general elec

steve mcmahon, my friend, is it better for a candidate who has a religious difference, say he's frominority religion like a hit and flash next october? >> in a political campaign, what you want to do is you want to get all of the bad news out early, if there's going to be bad news that comes out anyway. and you want to try to get it baked into the campaign well before the decision point. and i think for mitt romney's perspective right now, and even from governor perry, if he's able to get through this, having the sort of crazy preacher and the mormonism discussed openly and sort of baked into the value of the stock, if you will, is something that will benefit them later, assuming that one of the -- when one of them is in the general election. >> todd, you agree with that? better to get the crap over with now? this attack on his religion, there's no way to defend or attack, it just is. it's like the voters have got to make up his or her mind about it and say, does it matter or doesn't it matter? >> i certainly agree, with one caveat, which is this. when you're talking to voters in a p

steve mcmahon, a democratic strategist.snbc political analyst michael steele, former chairman of the republican party. all right, steve mcmahon. you're the democratic strategist. if president obama were your client how would you have told him to answer the are you better off now than you were four years ago question? >> four years ago -- >> you would have told him to say yes? >> i think he just gave the republicans an ad. when you say the american public is not better off today than they were four years ago you're going to see that again and again and again. just like -- >> you think he should have made the case of saying as bad as it was four years ago -- >> oh, my god, yeah. >> he did earlier in the interview. >> if you look at the polls people remember what it was like four years ago when he came into office. what he needs to do is remind them of the circumstances then. they're far worse than what we're seeing today and the progress that's being made. acknowledge the progress is too slow. i think he probably wasn't think

maybe general mcmahon, i'll start with you. where am i wrong about this? >> senator connie thank you for the question. it is pat foale of information, background information relevant here to understand it as you are alluding to. first of all, looking at the way ahead, the system is more vulnerable next year, now that was last year. so we've got to be very careful to use senator dr. seuss words insofar as how we take it an inch at time between now and when they ran off season begins on the first of march 2012. we made a conscious decision at the end of july and i made the rounds on the hills here and touched base with many -- even many of your colleagues on this very critical tradition point, which was we decided we needed to evacuate the 16.3 million-acre feet of water that has been the system designed since the system was built because to do more, to evacuate more water would take away the time that we needed to get the water out of the flood plane, out of farms, out of homes, out of businesses for people to get back in to and begin to repair the reconsti

. >> that means that jim mcmahon was there, sweetness is gone, walter peyton. >> mike ditka.'ve met this guy. president obama 26 years later tried to get votes in chicago. >> i like that. good night. [ female announcer ] what's so great about jcp cash? no exclusions! with jcp cash, get 10, 15 or 20 dollars off on the spot storewide! unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save. get up to $20 off with no exclusions! we make style affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. ok, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. oh, fun, yeah. 1...2...3... jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. ha! she's so pretty. yeah. or, we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. now at the lowest price ever. at&t. now at the lowest price ever. wow, this is an honor. i am friends with number four on maxim's list of the sexiest women in comedy.

is he so smooth that i'm hoping jay makes him his ed mcmahon on june 21st, 2013 because i think he isgoing to have some free time. i would put obama there in the ed mcmahon place. >> january 21st not june. >> i'm sure many in the audience do not want to give the president six more months. >> may, june, sometimes i mix vows up. the. >> bill: the president met with hollywood moguls. nothing secret in hollywood after it occurred. mccarthy was there and pinheads weren't there this was serious people. behind the scenes people. they were formulating communication strategy, which makes sense, right? i don't see anything wrong with that if you have got allies in powerful positions, you go to them for advice, right? >> guys don't get into hollywood because they are self-contained. in lieu of being talented enough to have an oscar on your shelf the next best thing is a picture of you with close proximity to the ultimate power which is the president of the united states in any given moment. i guarantee you i have been in enough of those offices for abulbasher of in those meetings when you look a

mcmahon has changed kathy's life. has a checklist of things she wants to do, things she once feared. >> number one is ride a ferris wheeler. second one is climb ladders. >> in fremont, david louie, abc7 news. >>> the state will be experimenting by closing the delta cross channel dates for up to ten days in hopes of helping the salmon population. the delta cross channel gates are a controlled die version channel on the sacramento river about 30 miles south of sacramento. it diverts water from the river into a branch of the river. the website reports that closing the gates could help chinook salmon migrate upstream to respond. it could also reduce fish straying into other river systems. it's a big victory for groups of that been work to go restore the central value chinook salmon pop layings and it could happen as early as tuesday. lisa is here now talking about rain. i can't believe it. its only october. >> i know. the first system you may not see any if you live in the east bay or south bay. but the second system comi

miss it they do admire him quite a bit one of the greatest military hero is but he is a complicated mcmahon and one interviewers said that heroes and villains which are the villains? all of them. not to johnny appleseed you is the exception. is jackson is the perfectof example of somebody who was the st. in of a job i thinkten he has had a bad reputation as the indian killer the person whor removed fed cherokees he believed it was the only way to prevent the extermination in the east and he did believe that but also true he wanted the land for white settlement he can be brutal and the bully and violent but to the people who knew him he was slightly he was very protective and also in nikola said andrew had more of who will mended his natured and and the man he had never met.hi very kind sympathetic he did not hate in the hands. to raise as his son but would not let in the nation stand in the way of flight submit and westernnsio expansion. that is a great paradox nobody could be climate -- kinder if you stood in his way you were in trouble. and maybe the most popular military leader and with

people see that, they're very, very troubled and, frankly, they have every right to be. >> steve mcmahonfascinating conversation. great stuff, guys. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. >>> even though it was in the wall straet journal, officially governor rick perry unveils his tax plan in 30 minutes. but first he has some choice words for mitt romney. >>> time for the your business small business advice. here are tips to optimize your small business video content. choose the right place to host your content. third party sites like youtube will help maximize total view. keep it less than three minutes and attach a text transcript to your video. it lets search engines get a better read of your content. what's better than gold ? free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride. that's a plus. rewards with no blackout dates so you can redeem anytime. and it's easy to redeem your points online. already a gold member ? just select gold plus rewards in your profile and start rewarding yourself now. just go to her

and linda mcmahon is my guest.. you had a meeting with joe lieberman. he's an independent in connecticut. he's not running for reelection. how important would it be for you to get senator lieberman's endorsement? >> i'd be honored to have it. we met several months ago, not just recently. because i talked to him about foreign policy in israel. it was interesting to sit and spend an hour chatting with him, kind of an informational meeting. >> gretchen: obviously it was him getting out of the way for you to say, hey, now i can have another shot at trying to run for senate. what else was in your mind about why you wanted to give it another go? >> because we're not any better off. the same things that propelled me into the race before, our debt, deficit. the fact that my grandchildren, who i have four, when i first started and now i have six, i want them to have the opportunity to live the american dream that their grandfather and i had. we're handing them an economy and lifestyle they're going to be paying for our debt

>>jacqueline: 85 of th1985 comef with mike ditka, jim mcmahon. the chicago bears. team from 1985.ry time but for people with difficult times right now without a job. to quit honoring sports teams and get the economy going. >>catherine: people love that team. >>gary: when a president honors a great team. >> and jim mcmahon, refrigerator, the first music video. >> a great anchor into action or we do not write this. sometimes there will say ask frank. >> yes. >> it looked like a good game. >> and franklin answer a good game. and the anchor, and back and forth. and it is staged. however, for better, for worse, this is pure. catherine heenan and i. when we return, all our audience has comments and questions about tiger woods. the yankee of elimination and an inquiry about weather or not i color my hair. alicea? let me see what it says? yes! i am ready to go. [laughter] >> we're back [people chatting] everyone, it's $37 a piece. paying with your smart phone instead of cash. that's a step forward. with chase person-to-person quickpay, you can send money directly to your friend's checking

coach mike ditka, quarter back jim mcmahon and many others. house back then. their visit was canceled after the "challenger" disaster. ten years into the afghan war a look at what the u.s. is fighting for when we come back. [ male announcer ] if you're only brushing, add listerine® total care for more complete oral care. ♪ it works in six different ways to restore enamel... strengthen teeth... freshen breath... help prevent cavities... and kill bad breath germs for a whole mouth clean. so go beyond the brush with listerine® total care, the most complete mouthwash. now get all the benefits... without the alcohol. new listerine® total care zero. how about the beat of a healthy heart? campbell's healthy request soup is delicious, and earned this heart, for being heart healthy. ♪ feel the beat? it's amazing what soup can do. confidence, with depend in color. now available in gray. looks and fits like underwear. same great protection. depend. good morning. great day. week we've been reporting from afghanistan leading up to today, the 10th anniversa

our next photo was sent in by lori mcmahon from rockaway, new jersey. ugh. i wish it was wednesday.e. this is at a doughnut shop. if you have issues with your hair, you might now have issues with your weight. >> hysterical. >> this one was sent in from diana goodwin from kentucky. this photo, just the way i like them. i think it was supposed to be "menu." >> try our deep fried men. >> i would have taken them grilled or roasted. fried sounds good, too. our next one was sent in from michelle flanagan from georgia. who's hungry? >> roadkill cafe, baby. >> there's a raccoon in there! >> mcdonald's or roadkill cafe. we have a photo from linda kelly from glenview, illinois. is there at least a life guard on duty? the beach is open. it might kill you. but the beach is open for swimming if you'd like to take that chance. >> it's so beautiful, lake michigan. it's worth it. >> finally from washington, is this a subliminal message? >> please see our other location. incontinence! >> that is not nice. all right. thank you, sara. >>> still ahead, a monster mash. a who knew quiz about halloween mo

. >> reporter: defense lawyer ed mcmahon is not on this case but handled similar ones. >> the idea of giving one last speech or one last moment in the sun before he goes off to prison for the rest of his life probably sounds appealing to him. >> reporter: accused of trying to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear and blast a hole in the side ftd plane. authorities say he chose a window seen near the fuel tank and waited for the plane to be in its descent to cause maximum damage. >> it doesn't take a lot. >> reporter: among those likely to testify, dutch passenger jasper sheringa. >> without hesitation, jumped over the seats and jumped to the suspect, because i was thinking, like, he's trying to blow up the plane. >> reporter: also on the christmas day time, patricia keaton bringing home their two now adopted children. >> we heard screams, smelled the smoke and we knew our situation was dire. >> reporter: authorities were stunned how easy it was for abdulmutallab to pass seemingly undetected through multiple airports, including ghana, nigeria and amsterdam where he boarded the u.

mcmahon had a fractured knee. >>> to the ice. open the season saturday night with 8 new players. many of them to san jose -- come to san jose with families but brent burns' family is quite large. >> jumbo was the noisiest loudest player i have ever been around. this guy is a close second. >> reporter: those who know him say brent burns wears his emotions on his sleeve. his passion for the game is tatooed on his body when he was just 11 years old. >> my dad was going to get one and asked me if i wanted to get one so i designed the community flag with the hockey stick and even if i didn't make the nhl it would be a huge part of my life. i was young. it was awesome. all the kids at school laughing at me and it was good. it was a great thing for me. >> reporter: burns prefers the ink on his contract over his body. he was traded for setoguchi from the wild in the off season and signed a five-year, $28 million contract to help improve todd mclellan 's defense. >> you know, you're nervous going to a new place you have been one place for

this is mcmahons deep. -- mcmanis deep. cundiff will do a retee. he has made it a habit of driving it over through and beyond the end line of the end zone. dan: on question of the kickoff, does the fan going to catch that? i know we moved it up five yards, but wow. greg: this will not be returned either. seventh touchback, courtesy of billy cundiff today. dan: you see, they're at tennessee next week, and then back home for jacksonville and cleveland, and then go to tampa bay before they get their bye on november 20th. so this is, you know, this is a football team that somehow has got to, if they want to be a division winner, you've got learn how to win on the road. greg: and that is complete and out of bounds to derrick mason. a couple of tired defensive guys there in demeco ryan and brian cushing. dan: there's a lot to like about this team. connor barwin has played a heck of a game. and they've competed. they've played hard. they played nose-to-nose physical football with one of the most physical teams in the nfl in the ravens. greg: schaub on sec

steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist and john feehery is a republican strategist.to john. we'll give you a chance to explain it. on saturday of a faith and freedom banquet in iowa, perry made light of his debate performances. let's listen to the man. >> we are not called to be perfect. if any of you have watched my debate performances over the last three or four times, you know i am far from perfect. >> you know, he's trying to make light of that. on tuesday, perry said maybe doing the debates was a mistake. let's listen, he keeps moving in this direction. >> these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. it's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and concepts with a one-minute response. if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the -- ever doing one of the campaigns when all they're interested in stirring it up between the candidates. >> yesterday perry's campaign manager said they were trying a new strategy, "we immediate to be spending time, particularly as the last entrant, with voters, doing town

police chief william mcmahon. >> getting people to slow down, particularly in school zones is importanters caught going 12 miles over the speed limit will be issued a warning. after a 30 day warming period, drivers caught going over the speed limit again will be issued a $40 fine. >> i mean, i have seen many of parents and even nonparents speeding by the school. so, it is great. >> reporter: the county has two mobile cameras that will bounce between locations after a list of roads scheduled to be enforced will be posted on- line. eventually, the chief hopes to add additional cameras to monitor traffic. >> we didn't just jump into this, we took a last year to monitor the speed in the county. >> reporter: all of the money raised from speeding citations will go to public safety projects throughout howard county. jessica kartalija, eyewitness news. >>> information posted on-line will not give an exact time and location for the speed cameras. >>> officials at a virginia nuclear power plant is saying that reactors that were shutdown after the earthquake in august are ready to restart. the pla

finally, i want to thank very sincerely both general walsh and general mcmahon for their service andce of their entire team. they did wage truly heroic efforts to defend these cities and towns and we will never forget those efforts. at the same time, i think we would be derelict in our duty not to recognize that just following the existing manual operating instructions will not cut it in the extraordinary weather conditions we confront. i think the committee. >> thank you so much, senator conrad. senator robert, we welcome you. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you for the effort to hold this hearing. 79% of kansas is experiencing drought conditions. i do not know what we did to mother nature, but she has not acted in a very welcome way. starting in may and last into september, kansans living along the missouri river were encased in protecting their homes. one serious rain falling from catastrophe. as was explained to me, gavins point acts as a spigot and it was wide open. the corps had no management control once it was released. many kansans disappearance major property damage. th

that bears team was so full of character, jim mcmahon, the fridge. chemistry? >> he was quirky and hard to understand. he could be moody and joyful. he was a guy like you would walk in and whopped in the head by a pair of sweaty socks. it would be walter payton. he would be laughing his head off. the guy with the socks in his head doesn't think it's funny. he was different. >> did you find in your talking to people around the league, is he definitively the greatest running back who ever played? >> him and jim brown are the two guys. >> the most important thing to point out here is that jeff and i both learned in the course of the break that we can site in full the super bowl shuffle 26 years later. they call me sweetness and i like to dance. >> running the ball is like romance. >> bring chicago a super bowl champ. >> we're not doing this because we're greedy. >> bears are doing it to feed the needy. we just came here to do the super bowl shuffle. >> okay. [ applause ] >> the book is "sweetness." you got to put o.j. simpson on that list too. >> emmitt

linda mcmahon and chris sheas. >>> let's go to the "washington post" that says will ferrell was honoredt night with mark twain's prize for humor. jack black askand conan o'brien presented the award. >>> "the birmingham news." yeah, baby, willie, this is going to be big. let the hype begin. the birmingham news headlines screams. number one lsu, and number two alabama face off in two weeks. the first time the s.e.c. has had two top-ranked teams meet during the regular season. but willie, you and i said this at the beginning of the year, circle the calendar, that's the battle for number one. >> and they both lived up to it and have two weeks to prepare. >> what's the spread? >> i haven't looked. >> i would guess since alabama's home, maybe they're one or two-point favorites. but both teams are remarkable. i would have said a week ago, willie, alabama was going to win it by a touchdown. they had a really rough first half. alabama for the first time all year looked human and scared me. lsu, by the way, just chewed up and spit out -- >> lsu's making that two-quarterback thing work. now you ha

major general michael walsh from mississippi valley, brigadier general john mcmahon from the northwestdivision and colonel christopher larsen with of the north atlantic division. i also welcome all of the local witnesses who made a trip to d.c. who will bring a very important perspective to us and of course i welcome our senate colleague whose unprecedented how many colleagues are here today. and it's -- that's been to move us forward as we look at how to write a new water resources development act. as you know because of the earmarks controversy we have to change the way we do this bill. i want to give good news to those who are here. senator inhofe and i working with our staff are figuring out how to move forward, and we will work with all of you, senator, so that you feel comfortable we can meet the needs of your state and still managed to avoid the pitfalls of the dreaded word earmark just for the record speaking from myself, my own view is i believe we know what is best for our state and i am a person who believes we should continue doing those legislative priorities that have bee

jim mcmahon -- where is jim? [applause] we will not let him have the mic.ice things about you. jim played quarterback with no fear and lived with a very few rules. there rock-and-roll quarterback who was on the cover of a "rolling stone" who had kids wearing shades and headbands to school. he gave me one. willie golf may have been the fastest man in the fuss about -- in football. there was some and we all revered which was walter payton. [applause] 12 years after we lost him to cancer, chicago still loves sweetnees. -- sweetness. after he high stepped and left his way past jim brown's record, he held the record for 18 years. he was one of the best blocking backs ever. sometimes hitting them so hard he would knock them out of the game. we are grateful that his wife connie is here with us. [applause] we also tragically lost dave do worsen this year -- dave this year, lessons with his struggle and the kind of injuries those hits could have caused, and we are former -- and we are grateful that his former wife felicia is with us as well. . this team had nine pro