the army temporarily closed the fort meier child care center in october. several employees were fired. tonight, army secretary, john mchue said findings are troubling and unacceptable. in response he directed an army wide review of all child care centers. their policies and pre seed joc. >> five days of psychological torture, richard engel described the kidnapping he, producer and photographer endured in syria. forces ambushed the group last thursday across the border with turkey. the crew escaped in a fire fight between captors and syrian rebels. >> they kept us blindfolded, bound, threats of being killed. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. the kidnappers saw this checkpoint. started -- a gunfight with it. two of the -- two of the kidnappers were killed. we climbed out of the vehicle. and, the rebels took us. >>> engel believes kidnappers were loyal to syrian president, bashar al-assad. >>> late senator daniel inouye, is receiving an honor, his body will lie in state inside the capitol rotunda, something often reserved for presidents

mother meier. the new ceo of yahoo to announce she was just going to take a two week maternity leave. 37 years old looks like it's what yahoo needed. number 6 . a intense drought in the midwest that burned the corn and soy sending prices sky high. who can forget sandy? neighborhoods along the northeast september away, millions without power and damages as high as $50 billion raising lots of questions about united states structure and whether we should be spending money to fix it. number 5, is china slow something we know they will be the biggest economy in the world by 2020. >> china. >> chain a. >> chain a. >> reporter: they are getting more than a few mentions during the campaigns. probably because it's pretty clear they are both a com petter and a partner. >> number 4. europe. the european union was fractured by to much debt and the aust, rity plans to fix it. that is far from over. number 3. the housing market. finally bottom out. the combination of low home prices and continued record low mort

. >> host: golda meier. >> guest: one of the hardest heros toage. jewish hero, foreign minister, prime minister of israel, amazingly strong stateswoman. i wanted a stateswoman in there but i didn't want -- it's interesting she has a story and a history that is based so much on what we other would call chuptza. i didn't want to say -- she raised so much money in america, and came here and found millions of dollars to support and help israel grow. i didn't want tote be about fundraising. so i found this one story i loved that golda meir used to invite other statesmen to her house and bring them to her kitchen, and at first -- i said i don't want to say she is in her kitchen doing things. but the reason she brought them there is they would see the world on her terms. she would bring them to her place. and i loved that strength. i wanted my daughter to have that strength. and when i wrote "heros for my daughter" the editor said to me, brad, i have one problem with the book. and she goes, you use one word in this book over and over and over again. i said

joining us now is ron meier, spokesperson for american majority action and jared bernstein a senior fellown msnbc contributor. welcome to you both. jared, this plan b, it's not only an affront to what the president has been trying to do in terms of a balanced approach. it's also a colossal waste of time, isn't it? >> absolutely. i mean, i have been writing about this in terms of theatrics at a time when really nobody ought to be going to the theater. the fiscal cliff is way too close for this type of game playing and i just noted today that the gdp report for the third quarter got a little bit of a bump. it was marked up to 3.1%. we're actually making some progress on this economic recovery, but if we go over and stay over the cliff because of all this screwing around, forget about it. you're going to have that recovery go south very quickly. john boehner on monday looked like a guy who is willing to make a balanced compromise or at least consider one in the interest of the country. john boehner on wednesday looks like a guy who is looking out for his own skin over the benefit of the ameri

american majority action and we're delighted to say that the group alexander spokesman joins us now, ron meierhanks for having me on. >> great to have you ron. you've endorsed three different candidates, i believe, for speaker, jim jordan, jeb hensarling, and tom price. mr. price says in a statement he's not running, but can you tell our audience why are you so sick and tired of speaker boehner? >> well, there's really two big reasons and they happened in the last two weeks that really have been the nail in the coffin. one is the tax hikes. he's proposed basically to raise taxes on charities and job creators and he thinks that that's where his starting point is with president obama. >> hold on a second. let's be factual. i think what he said was that he was open to $800 billion in revenues but he did not specify the deductions. >> the only way you could get $800 billion in deductions is to go after the charitable deduction and the mortgage deduction. you're going to go after charities. salvation army said yesterday that they have had the biggest crowds coming in that they've ever seen. we're g

that's the latest acquisition for ceo marisa meier.s it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." >>> remember the twilight zone on television with rod surgicli. according to the public policy poll out today, 25% of republicans, that's a quarter of all republicans you know, say they would support their state seceding from the union because of president obama's re-election. another 19% said they weren't sure whether their state should secede or not. that means leave america, become something else. it isn't just people tell anonymous pollster. in many states people were signing in open public marketplaces out in the street petitions to leave the country. in seven states the petitions have received enough support to force the white house to respond actually. take a look at this map and where the petitions have received -- well, that's a big shock. tennessee, north carolina, i love north carolina, georgia, florida, alabama, louisiana, and texas. the secession movement has the most signatures in texas, of course, with

that is according to the principal, dan meier. the letter that was sent by the principal to the parents reto m. the suspects involved have been identified and questioned. we'd like to get more information and make that picture clearer here for parents and students. still waiting for more information from the school system and fairfax county police. >> all right. thank you very much. >>> new this morning an update on the investigation in a possible campaign finance violations by vincent gray's 2010 campaign staff. the fbi is now looking into allegations that gray's staff encouraged some supporters to donate. city law requires the disclosure of all campaign donations to the office of campaign finance. in the past the mayor has admitted his campaign had issues but denied any wrongdoing. >>> also new this morning, a fight over a delegate seat is over. yesterday a judge said neither tiffany nor greg hall should serve. that means the governor is free to pick the vacant spot. austin previously held the seat. but she was officially ousted