oakley hunter's people figured they had snookered mrs. harris because they were promising to do only what they would have done anyway. but a president have been set. the government could impose quotas on fannie mae. now it was ronald reagan's turn. it was morning in america. peter wallison was a young whippersnapper in the treasury. surely president reagan would finish the job of getting the government completely out of the mortgage business. there was even the perfect pretext. fannie mae was losing money at the time, about $1 million a day, because of a double-digit interest rates imposed by the fed to fight inflation. so the white house might have used that crisis as a pretext to put fannie mae to sleep. but it wasn't seen as the right time. the economy was wobbly. nobody wanted to upset the housing market. so instead of putting fannie to sleep, the reagan administration, and congress, gave it a tax break and helped it survive. by the mid 1980s fannie mae was making boatloads of money i can, and it was so profitable it was almost embarrassing.

mr. harris, because it's agendized, we have to listen to public comment. so, that doesn't make any sense to me, but that's what was said by my staff. >>> i have it in an e-mail. the matter will not be heard today is what your staff told me. >> we're not taking action, but we're obligated to hold a public hearing because it was noticed. >>> i have many people who were lined up to come in and present written testimony. i had written testimony to prepare -- to present. and i called them and told them not to come because we had been told by supervisor olague whose matter it is and by your staff that the public hearing -- >> we are not acting on it today. if you could continue your public comment. >>> that's the point. that at such time that it is considered at a future, i just want that confirmation from you that public comment will be allowed when you have it continued. >> yes, we will have public comment when it's continued probably to december 3rd, but that's going to be the motion after public comment is over. >>> thank you very much. >>> hi, my name is sa

well hunter's people figured they had snookered mrs. harris. they were prompting to do only if whey that would have done anyway. but a precedent had been set. the government could impose quota on fannie mae. now it was ronald reagan's turn. it was morning in america, peter was a young guy in the treasury. surely president reagan would finish the job of getting the government completely out of this mortgage business. there was even the perfect pretect. fannie mae was losing money about that time. about a million dollars a day because of the double digit interest rates by the fed to fight inflation. the white house might have used that crisis as a pretext to put fannie mae to sleep. it wasn't seen as the right time. the economy was wobbling, nobody wanted to upset the housing market. instead of putting fan my to sleep, the reagan administration and congress gave it a tax break and helped it survive. by the mid 1980s fannie mae was making boat loads of money again. it was profitable it was almost embarrassing. by now the ceo was a savvy fellow nam

mr. harris to behold the power of the priesthood.wo months later, all of those non-mormon officials fled utah convinced their lives were in danger. mormonism was a little too warm for their religious studies -- relish young wrote another church leader. what are we to make of this tendency to brace and bully his opponents or even fellow church members? i didn't have time to tell you about young's earlier years in the church. he was a leader, most obviously, he was a fervent design l of smith, but he got along well with the other apostles. following joseph's murder, he said there was too much factionalism within the church, and that that threatened the existence and young concluded to keep a tighter reign on church members. he did so in part because he very much, on a human level, fears becoming another mormon martyr. he emerged a changed manage, more fearful, harder edged, even a bit coarser and a different leader, sensitive to criticism, intolerance in a sense, and much more demanding of his followers. i think the response to the tra

mr. harris to be told the power of the priesthood. two months later, all of the non-mormon officials fled utah, convinced that their lives were in danger. mormonism was a little too warm for their relished young wrote another church leader. now what are we to make of this tendency to break and boley his opponents or even fellow church members? i didn't have time to tell you about young's earlier years in the church. prior to 1844 he was a very winsome leader. most obviously he was a fervent disciple of its buddy got along very well with the other apostles as well. following joseph's murder, young concluded that joseph had permitted too much dissent and factionalism within the church and such things threatened the churches very existence, and so young concluded that he should keep a much tighter rein on church members. he did so in part because he very much, on a very human level, feared becoming another mormon martyr. brigham young emerged from the crucible of enough new, a changed man, more fearful, harder edged, even a bit coarser a

mr. chairman, would you like to take public comment? you do have public comment on this matter. all right. keith bollenger followed by mary liz harris, and tony ann. >> good afternoon, mr. bollenger. >>> good afternoon, my name is keith. i'm a native san franciscan. i'm here in capacity as john doe citizen. i'd like to say i'm usually a fierce critic of muni, but along with the njuda express and this proposed expansion of the 76, more power to you. i really like the fact this may be improving that. let me relate there is a hostile on the marin head lands. i happen to be a lifetime member. golden gate transit doesn't go out there during the week. i'm of modest means. i do not own a motor vehicle. so i've got no means of getting out there. i asked the people who workout there, how do you do? we take a bus to the end of the tunnel and hitch hike. no thank you. so, it blows me away the golden gate transit neglects this transit area within their own territory, their own county. i find it super ironic that muni and the sfmta isn't remedying their lack of foresight. so, i wholly support any efforts to expand service. thank you for your tim

not to me, as harry reid and mr. biden say. there are three things that people campaign that obama made more confusing. all the people behind him and no press questions, covered as if it were a press conference. one is all the bush tax cut laps that predate bush that they let lapse every two or four years. if that happens on january 5, it did raise taxes $500 billion a year. i guess this is the $5 trillion tax cut that obama used to attack romney for supporting. obama just sit there and does not agree to anything. or we can do all we did two years ago. again i get too worked up because the play this game of chess with the exact same people around the table with the chess board exactly the same as two years earlier. oh no. we're all going to die. we have been through this. if you do not really want to spend the rest of your administration with an economy as lousy as the one you brought us to now with no sign of making it better. this does not make the economy better. does the tax increase go up? what about the sequester? how is

>> harris: we just want to remind everybody the cia is leading the drone operation, i think you are probably alluding to that mr want to say sorry for the loss of your wife. thank you for giving us some context tonight. >> it's always a flesh. thank you, harris. >> harris: sure. more on our top story. the stunning resignation of cia director david petraeus. the four star general stepping down after admitting to extra marital affair. next a closer look at the career of one of the nation's one time top commanders in iraq and afghanistan. a brilliant career. suddenly shadowed now by scandal. yochoose, based on this chart ? don't rush into it, i'm not looking for the fastest answer. obviously verizon. okay, i have a different chart. going that way, does that make a difference ? look at verizon. it's so much more than the other ones. so what if we just changed the format altogether ? isn't that the exact same thing ? it's pretty clear. still sticking with verizon. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other networks combined. i've been a superintendent for 30 some years at many different park service units across t

kay, now mrs. harris. when i was in school, they did something, and it dawned op me they don't do it anymore. when i was in elementary school, they had the library patrol. i had a button, and i was on patrol. talk about other programs. >> one of the programs i love is drop everything and read where for one period every day or several days a week, the whom school just reads. everybody just -- the teachers including is a great one. the schools in washington, very successful about turning around inner city kids, and the kids in that school have to carry a book at all times. it's neat. funny you mention that. i did a reading at my home town, and my 2nd grade teacher was there. she's like 92 years old. i was signing books, and she said, james, your handwriting is still atrocious. [laughter] >> that's great. talk a little bit about where you see our culture going. you're doing -- >> oh, my god. >> i don't mean in general, but in terms of reading. are we creating a culture of readers, notary -- non-readers, where

mr. day is harry reid. he talked about cornerstones or having cornerstones and being able to work something out. [video clip] >> i feel very good about what we were able to talk about in there. we have the cornerstones of being able to work something out. we will both have to give up some of the things that we know are a problem. we arrive at it. we all know something needs to be done. we are all going to do it now. we feel very comfortable with each other. this is not something we will wait until the last day of december to get it done. we have a plan and we will move forward on it. we will work during the thanksgiving recess. we will meet when we come back the first week. i think it is a constructive meeting. i feel good about what we were able to talk about. host: your confidence in congressional leadership. the numbers will be on the screen if you want to call in. you can tweet us. this from "the new york times." it says -- ohio, this is the independent line with poland. -- owen. caller: there is only o

mr. posey, will designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 600 florida avenue in cocoa, florida, as the harry t. and harriette moore post office. the bill is co-sponsored by the entire florida state delegation, and was favorably reported by the committee on oversight and government reform on june 27. mr. speaker, it is all together fitting and proper that we name this post office in cocoa, florida, for harriette and harry moore, leaders of the civil rights movement in florida. harry moore established the first branch of the naacp in brow ward county, florida, and considered the first martyr of the 1950's era civil rights movement. sadly on christmas night in 1951, the moores were killed by a bomb planted beneath their home. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to join me in strong support of this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes mr. clay from missouri. mr. clay: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, i, too, want to join with my colleague from arizona i

but some people were in line with 100 bucks worth of groceries, got them free from harris. mr.e learning that you've been picked up by a professional football team would be a realization of a life long dream. but for hall of famer curtis martin, that wasn't exactly the case. >> my family and i were sitting around and we're watching the draft and the phone rings and it's bill parcells. i answer the phone. i say, hello. and he says, curtis, we want to know if you're interested in being a new england patriot. i said, well, yes. yes, sir. we hang up the phone. as soon as we hang up the phone, i turn around and everyone and say oh, my gosh. i do not want to play football. i knew that the only way i was going to be successful at this game called football was if i played for a purpose that was bigger than the game itself because i knew that the love for the game just wasn't in my heart. >> brian: how does a man who never liked football, hates to run, go down as one of the greatest football players of his generation? let's ask him. curtis martin right here. welcome to the show. >> than

mr. smith goes to washington and expresses his intention to late dore something." (laughter) now, harryg this because he claims republicans are abusing the filibuster. >> i have faced 386 filibusters. >> stephen: 386 filibusters during harry reid's six years as majority leader. and given how little congress works, some of that has to be mitch mcconnell stopping by harry reid's family dinner to block passage of the mashed potato. (laughter) but i say so what? that's just politics. and mitch mcconnell is warning it could get worse. >> if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate then the fighting, the bitterness, and the gridlock will only get worse. in the name of efficiency they would prevent the very possibility of compromise and threaten to make the disputes of the past few years look like mere pillow fights. >> stephen: he's right. to me they already look like pillow fights. i'm pretty sure joe lieberman's jowls are memory foam. (laughter) so you've been warned, harry reid! take away mitch mcconnell's filibuster

both boehner and snart majority leader harry reid sounded conciliatory notes yesterday. >> mr. president, this is your moment. we're ready to be led. not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. >> it's better to dance than to fight. it's better to work together. >> boehner even opened the door to raising new revenues, code for taxes, though not through tax rates. he does put on some conditions. >> in order to garner republican support for new revenues, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of our debt. >> so that is a shift in a negotiating position. now boehner suggested temporarily extending the current tax rates, pushing serious negotiations on a broader tax deal into 2013. while the president has hinted in the past that he's willing to include the issues of social security and medicare in the fiscal negotiations, what's not clear is whether the rest of his party is going to be willing to go along on that score. >> i want to work together but i want everyone to also understand, you can't push us

harry truman. >> hello, how are you, mr. president? >> i'm all right.the way this thing came out. >> well, we'll just stay at it. i just wanted to bring you up to date on it. we got a letter from him on friday night, which was rather conciliatory on these withdrawals. then on saturday morning, 12 hours after the other letter was received, we got this entirely different letter about the missile bases in turkey. >> that's the way they do things. >> then we rejected that. then they came back with an -- and accepted the earlier proposals. so i think we're going to have a lot of difficulties, but at least we are making some progress about getting these missiles out of there. in addition, i think khrushchev has had some difficulties in maintaining his position. my judgment is that it's going to make things tougher in berlin because the fact he's had something of a setback in cuba is going to make him -- >> that's right. >> -- rougher in berlin. but at least it's a little better than it was a couple of days ago. >> you're on the right track. >> take care. i'll

harry reid, the democratic leader, said to the president, mr. president, could you please leave the room? i have covered presidents for four years. i know of no other time where the president was asked the meeting in his own house that he had called. i asked the president about this. i said how did it feel to be voted off the island in your own house. because that is what happened. he said that he was not going to stand on protocol, that the problem needed to be solved. but in the next day, he called democratic leaders to the white house from 6:00 o'clock on a sunday night. and harry reid is there, the house leader, the relations between and among the democrats are so not solved, that harry reid, is a chief of staff, makes a presentation on the deal if reid is trying to work out with the republicans. in the course of doing that, david corn says to the president of the united states, in the oval office is in his house, i am disappointed in this white house and you for not having a fallback plan. literally, again. somebody reading of the president

harris poll. if alabama loses, oregon has a shot to go past notre dame and kansas state. >> brent: wow. mr. herbstriet is out on that duck limb! >> kirk: we will see. >> brent: i'm saying kansas state is staying number two after this performance. >> kirk: staying at two? and oregon to one, they will stay at two. >> brent: ha ha! i had your crimson tide coming back! good one, though. let's check in with heather. >> heather: bill, congratulations. 9-0 and undefeated. first time you or anybody on your team has beaten oklahoma state. what does it mean for the program to get over that hump? >> i've been here for a long time so we have won a game or two against oklahoma state. >> heather: in your second stint, nobody on this team has done it. >> i don't know. i don't pay attention to that. we just work today and try to get better today. >> heather: what can you tell us about collin klein and why he didn't return to the game? >> obviously, there is an injury and have to see how that goes. >> heather: can you tell us more about the extent of the injury? >> no. i don't speak about injuries. >> heath

harry did in the lbj library. the other one sitting next to him is surely a chance to work for mrs. johnson for many years into recently prevailed with the united states post office in getting a postage stamp in honors of ladybird johnson. [applause] a friend of mine and harry's ensure lease was a speechwriter like kerrey for lyndon johnson, and i think he put it very aptly when he said, allowing for shades of subtlety there were many lbj is as there were people who knew him, and as often as not people they saw or contradictory. and i think that says so much about lbj. he treated everybody differently because i think as hubert humphrey called him, the world's best psychologist, he understood how to get people who mattered to say yes, and that meant treating people in very different place. so that is why i think that one of the reasons that people saw him so differently from person to person. >> thank you. mike, would you please talk a little bit about what you discovered about ladybird personality through your many interviews with her and the interviews that you read that she had giv

and so yesterday house speaker boehner and senate majority leader harry reid road tested some ideas for r reconciliati reconciliation. >> mrident, this is your moment. we're ready to be led, not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. >> it's better to dance than to fight. it's better to work together. >> that all sounds pretty promising, but listen a little closer to speaker boehner's call for compromise and then you begin to hear a familiar tune. >> we aren't seeking to impose our will on the president. we're asking him to make good on his balanced approach. the president has called for a balanced approach to the deficit, a combination of spending cuts, increased ed revenues, but a balanced approach isn't balanced if it means higher taxes on small businesses that are the key to getting our economy moving again and keeping it moving. >> yes, you heard it. it's that same small business melody that we've heard from mitt romney for six years. now, thankfully silenced along with the strains of kid rock's "born free," except, of course, now the lead singer is not romney, it's john boehner. if the speaker didn't get the

harry fear. now despite israeli and u.s. claims that the. obstacles to peace the palestinian leader insist he's a mr bray's new life into negotiations but israel insists direct talks not the u.n. were the only way for palestine to seek statehood. we called to mahmoud abbas for years to come and return to the table of negotiations and he israel i want to to remind you that israel did everything israel could to proceed to give a chance to this to this process we stopped buildings stopped building in some area for turn months what no government before this government and the end of the of this. of this step of israel nothing happened palestinians didn't get back to the negotiations they did back very symbolically and it was done in two weeks and it again failed so i think that israel done everything he could to bring back this process but again we have to provide security to israel. while we also spoke to ramsey baroud editor of palestine chronicle dot com who believes israel was using peace talks to stall palestine pass to statehood. when netanyahu comes and says the only way of peace is direct negoti

mr. reid would like to make it more difficult for the any mort party to filibuster. the white house applauding harryocrats were the minority party. mr. reid was a vocal supporter calling it a last check against abuse of power. joining me to explain. president obama said at the time -- in 2005 we had a president bush in the white house. the republicans controlled the senate and the house. the only way of stopping certain legislation at the time was in some cases to filibuster. the legislation or in many cases president bush's judicial nominees. and there was discussion -- there was discussion among republicans about getting rid of the filibuster it was never meant for this purpose. let's blow it up. let many get rid of it. and at the time this is what then senator obama said. everyone in this chamber the senate knows if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, then the fighting, birthsmen and gridlock will only get worse. i know republicans are getting lot of pressure to do this. we need to rise above the ends justify the means to all the people, not just those wearing our particular party label.

democratic leader harry reid says enough is enough. >> we have this crazy idea, mr. president, that if we're going to have a filibuster, you have to stand and say something, not hide in your office someplace or go to a wedding that you're having in your state. >> holman: one of reid's key allies in the fight is democrat tom harkin of iowa, who has been pushing for filibuster reform for almost two decades. >> when i first broached the subject of changing the filibuster rule back in 1995, i warned at that time of an escalating arms race. i said that, if you look in the past, i said if we don't stop this, it's going to get to the point where the senate won't be able to function. i said that in 1995 when i first tried to get this change done. sadly enough, my predictions have come true. it's got to the point where we have to have a super-majority for everything. >> holman: with capitol hill on edge over the fiscal cliff negotiations, republican leader mcconnell has questioned the timing on reid's part. >> if i were the leader of the majority right now, i'd feel really go

that's right, harris, since yesterday when he had 20,000 people or more in a major rally in ohio, mr. romney is using president obama's own rhetoric about voting against him. the president suggested that his supporters should vote for revenge mitt romney in colcalifornia spring and dubuque threw that back at the president. >> today president obama it was yesterday, you probably heard about he asked supporters to vote for revenge. i ask the american people to vote for love of country. >> mr. romny -- mr. romney said that over and over and over again in an attempt to cast mr. obama and his presidency as one of division and suggest he will unite the country and reach across the aisle in a bipartisan way. the romney complaint is that president obama made promiseless of hope and change and couldn't deliver. he couldn't because of grid lock that he caused. he simply doesn't have an administration to get things done. >> analyst said it is it like a courtroom where attorneys make the closing arguments. it is getting last, but we are hearing new lineups. >> that's right. and when you have the

harry reid. essentially saying the exact same thing that speaker boehner did except mr. reid chiding republicans, if you will, saying we're still waiting on a serious offer from the republicans. just a few moments ago, as you did hear live on cnbc, it was speaker boehner saying democrats have yet to get serious. you can continue to watch the comments from senator durbin, senators schumer and murray are also there as well, likely to speak. you can continue to see that as you see at the bottom of your screen on cnbc.com. >>> let's head down to capitol hill and our own eamon javers. i know you keep saying this is a negotiating tactic being used by both sides. it seems as though the markets and the investing public are the ones being held hostage. >> reporter: absolutely. they must feel that way up there on wall street. i can tell you in washington terms, this is a little bit of educated speculation trying to figure out what actually happened here today. it seems like what happened is that tim geithner came up here with some kind of offer, presumably some proffer from the ad