were you able to hear mr. bell a second ago?hink about his explanation? >> well, first, let me say i didn't make this poster in response to his coloring book. i made this when september 11th first took place. i gave it away to kids in schools because i go in actually trying to help children. it was so popular, people started requesting it. it became a regular thing that people ordered. in response to him, i never shy away from controversy. i don't think this guy is being 100% honest in his presentation. you know, parental guidance. that is what "pg" means. a coloring book should never have "pg" on it. this guy is dealing with this issue. what he is doing is making something that is very controversial so the press will cover it. there is a certain faction of people that will buy it. that is what i think it is. i don't have a problem with putting that out there. however, you know, we know that 8-year-olds don't know what a muslim is. we know most don't know what a christian is. if it is your first time introduced to islam and you

mr. bell, i appreciate you being here and respect you for being here.erstand your position, though. you're a former firefighter. isn't it about people being protected, workers having the opportunity to speak their piece in the workplace as opposed to the budget when with the top 2% in the country is getting all the tax breaks? why do you have this position? >> the reason i have this position is that we've been trying to recover from a recession in our city. we started off in 2007 at 169 million. right now we're probably looking at at the end of the year maybe 152. so obviously there's a large gap there and we have to be able to lean ourselves down until the economy turns around. otherwise -- >> so it's about the money. >> it's actually about the money. nobody is coming to work for free so we need to be able to do whatever is necessary so that our city survives. i'm not against collective bargaining. what i am, though, is pro reform. if we don't have appropriate reforms in place, then our city won't survive. >> but reforms are about cuts. let's face it.

mr. clean magic eraser kitchen scrubber. its clean is out of this world. >> stephen: bell come to "the report," everybody. my guest tonight is academy award-winning documentarian who has written a memoir, "here comes trouble," which is what he'll be thinking as soon as i stand up. please welcome michael moore. [cheering and applause] michael, good to have you back. i'm going to tell you, good to see you again. how you been? >> i've been doing good. what happened to your portrait back there? >> we're unveiling a new portrait soon. no, no, no, no puppets back there. [laughter] now, michael, i'm excited because you've got a new memoir, the stories from my life, "here comes trouble." well, explain to me about this. parents can read this story, stories from your childhood, and use it as a cautionary tale. to make sure our children don't turn into you. [laughter] 2348 because, michael, you've got to know at this point, it is over. liberalism has lost, and you stand as a walking,, breathing cautionary tale, a decaying don quixote standing at his windmill. with every turn of the spar, you are driven down into the

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bell. in the previous cnn poll conducted earlier in september, mr. huntsman did get the required 2%. and in the new fox news poll released just last night, he spiked and saved his average. he was up to 4% in the fox poll which means it is possible to come up with two polls that put huntsman above the 2% cutoff. that is not exactly crack open the champagne news for the jon huntsman for president campaign. but it's not turn out the lights news for that campaign either. next up, in the 2008 presidential election, the first nominating contest was held in iowa on january 3rd right after the new year, which means we spent a full 11 months voting in order to pick a new president in '08. as weird as that was, that is the new normal. true or false, the astonishingly early start to the primary calendar in 2008 is about to happen again for 2012? is that true or is that false? true. looks like it at least. florida poised to move its presidential primary to the last day of january. the speaker of the florida statehouse saying he expects january 31st to be the date. if that happens, south carolina

mr. obama plans trips to ohio and north carolina in the next two days to continue his salespitch on the jobs women and. >>> concerns over unemployment and u.s. debt crisis led stocks down at the opening bell this morning. here's a live look at the big board on wall street. you can see it the dow is currently down 122 points at 10,869. the nasdaq 15. s&p is down 12. one of the reasons, greece is getting ready for more measures leading to protests over the weekend. but despite the measures, there's growing fear the country is still headed for default. a default by greece could spread across the global banking system, and economists worry europe's debt crisis could send the already weak u.s. economy into another recession. >>> back at home, bank of america released new information this morning about its layoff plan. the bank says it plans to cut 30,000 jobs in the next few years to save $5 billion in expenses. the los angeles times reported the bank was planning 40,000 layoffs. most job cuts would come from the consumer banking operations. many of their branches had loan centers are here in california. >>> a los angeles based electric car company is helping to create dozens of jobs in benici

mr. wen said we are confident prices will be firmly under control this year. obviously, nina, they're not at the moment. >> not indeed. >>> now, it's not every day that the closing bell rings from san francisco. the tech company sales force.com rang the bell remotely from a cloud community industry event in california. back on wall street, u.s. markets ended a grim month on a higher note. the gains were moderate ones at best. all under a half a percent as you can see there. it left investors cautious. the consulting firm says that the number of planned job cuts fell 23% in august and separately payroll processor adp said private payroll sectors rose by 91,000 for the month of august. that was still lower than had been expected. >>> of course, we've got the very big jobs numbers out this friday. concerns about the state of the global economy has led brazil's central bank to make a move that surprised many analysts. joining us here in studio now ho discuss what they did and why slg cnn's es spanol's correspondent. >> as you just said, they lowered rates to 12%. 12.5%. something i would like to tell you they're doing this in the context of 7% or around 7% inflation in t

bell dings ] [ sighs ] how mad is she? she kicked me out. but took the best stuff. i'll get the wrench. ♪ [ male announcer ] kohler's tresham collection. life. with a twist. ♪ . >> the president: mrnnell, help us rebuild this bridge. help us rebuild america. >> now is not the time for the president to go into campaign mode. >> chris: president obama and speaker are of the house boehner at odds over how to get americans working again. president obama offered his plan to cut the deficit. you take that together with his new jobs plan, ab and the conventional wisdom in washington is the president has given up on compromising with republicans it is all about the 2012 election. is that what is going on? i think he made it clear in introducing the jobs plan in his address to the congress of the joint session. he has chosen confrontation overcome mize. he doesn't want to have negotiations -- he doesn't want negotiations any more with congressional leaders of the republican party. he has proposal -- he has proposed plans he knows is not going to pass he has asked the super committee to become a committee a job they are not tasked to succeed with this the short time they are given and the

mr. thurlbeck had authorized that stakeout of the factory? >> i can't remember that, sorry. i'm sorry, but i can't remember. it was a story, it, i'm not even sure it rings a bell now. >> the story about the steakout at the factory was never published t it was published in first editions on sunday morning, which was following the saturday night was the story that was pulled and replaced by a different story. therefore, somebody flagged up the first story as being legally dangerous and said that it ought to have been pulled. >> i don't know. . . -- additions and three stories reported in that story and she had been offered a job and told to come in for an interview at the factory, and hey po baby and it didn't say what the words were it was an intimate voicemail but they could not understand. all these references were excised from subsequent editions of the stories and furthermore, the separate journalists to whom the same story was described, robert callaway in england and sarah arnold in scotland deny they had anything to do story or their buy lines were ascribed to it. i'm sure you'll agree with me mr. crone, that's pretty much prima facie evidence that some