and also why would msn b.c. continue to hire no talent people in their company when their ratings are terrible, they don't tell the truth, how long do you think that will keep a before comcast get smart? >> guest: i don't think they're going to smarten up. it is a fact to be commented on that in every other industry other than the information industry someone comes along and put out a great product and everyone else imitates it like steve jobs's iphone. you have the imitator i phones for the apple computer or oh so many things. you put out a good product and other people imitate it. fox news again is totally crushing the ratings. i never worked for fox news or any rupert murdoch enterprise. they crushed the league. they put on brilliant lively tv shows that are far more intellectual than anything on msn b.c. or cnn even though there uglier on msn b.c. to make it look like they're smart and no one thinks to imitate them. liberal journals can't get away from the idea that they are the state run me and they will te

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and in the msn was returned last night by the man who says he found the tiny monkey in the park. some are saying there might be monkey business involved. >> is the top of the monkey cage. >> we were emotionally ill- equipped to deal with this. sort of like my worst nightmare. >> the nightmare is over. and in the is back after 48 hour ordeal and in good health. >> that's mean, you shouldn't do that. >> i don't know why he would do that. >> apparently someone cut the couple of holes in the back of the squirrel monkey enclosure and 17 year old banana stand, one of the oldest in the group, was taken. >> unfortunately the exotic pet trade is ill functions and in this country or california is illegal to print it out to pet. >> police say that all they know someone called them with the animal last night. >> the guy is looking at stern grove is assumed that he spots the squirrel monkey so he bends down and coaxes it over and the monkey comes. he takes it, if his backpack, puts them at the and the backpack and then called police. >> it was dangerous. but despite that can infect your ones

. >>> and msn has been found. he is the squirrel monkey that he was stolen from the zoo friday morning. vandals cut through the back perimeter gate and made two holes surrounding the mesh like even closer. and in assam, the 17 -year-old monkey was missing. tonight's on the monkey in the bushes in nearby stern grove. police say he is in good health. >>> a lot of people in oakland are hoping the new year will be less violent. the five -year-old boy was shot and killed last night at his family about taco truck in east oakland when shots were fired. elizabeth wenger on parents who are pleading for the violence to stop. >> another tragedy in oakland, another innocent child killed. family and friends of the young shooting victims gathered at 50 fifth and international where it happened. they lit candles, prayed and shed tears over all life cut short. >> he played with my baby, i've known him since he was little. i've known his family, they are good people. >> five -year-old gabrielle mann martinez junior was standing ne

msn money said fees can quickly eat into your balance and a report on fox business channel called it is best of the worst when it comes to debit cards. she said she hoped to avoid a monthly fee but said the issuers required it and critics say it's better than other cards. most suggest you try to get a card from a bank or credit union if you can. abc 2news. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> all right let's take a look and plenty of rain still coming down. no question its been a long lived rain event and heavy stuff on the radar. hartford in particular but also cecil and back down toward cecilton. belaire real heavy band. so central hartford just north of falston, a lot of wet weather and more heavy band that will come up. the radar into motion and you see that band sneak out of the south and southwest here and eventually over spread howard and then eventually working in to the baltimore area. here is another wave of rain on the way for us. keep the windows closed over night. winds have been out of the east at 17

msn and msnbc sprang from microsoft. rupert murdoch, for all the criticism he gets, is invested in the media and innovation. mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily pu

on msn -- nsnbc, man, locked up wabash extended stay. msnbc, locked up wabash, extended stay.the belly of the beast. >> we hear a lot of inmates describe prison as the belly of the beast. >> this place sucks, man. >> it's usually not used to describe prison kitchens. but that might be the most appropriate use of the phrase there is. >> our crews are always looking for ways to get these kind of iconic prison or jail shots, and the kitchen is a great place to get them, because i don't think anything really says incarceration more than seeing some bland food scooped on to an institutional tray by a 6'4" inmate covered in tattoos and the funny thing about the food is, inmates always complain about it but inevitably, they are always looking for ways to get more of it. >> this is so we don't starve later on. but if you want to see a real sack, look over there. show them what you got. >> but if you're going to do it, if you're going to take a chance at getting caught, do it in a big way. >> go big or go home. and since we can't go home -- >> this is how we do it here. >> most inmate

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i mean, they have a lot of say both msn and indian beauty pageants -- national beauty pageants. but that is kind of a stupid cause if you look at it these days. those are two good candidates for stupid causes. you know, the reason why wrote this book other than the fact that it was dirty but was i was more interested that wears the tent and not set then, thank you for your question. >> i read in an article that there's a possibility to make a trillion dollars coin. paper money is limited to how you can do that in coins or not. do you know anything about that? >> i know not if single thing about that. the >> i think a ceo law professor who is writing about it. >> i'm sure it will happen right away. and mackey said it would never happen and i read something about it. booker right into the treasury. >> i think one of the more sensible remarks i've heard about the workings of washington d.c. was on the cabinet positions have to be confirmed, yet the chief of staff who directs assess event and his staff. would you like to comment on that? remix some people are very important members

but if millions people stop going to the bing and msn and go to the other places you watch them improvetheir quality of product. the other ones. because i won't use we them. >>shepard: they already have it. what they have not done as far as we know is come -- combine it in one place. >>randy: just what i need, have my wife or someone go on to my google account, and see, randy, gee, we notice that you spent three hours on the victoria secret website, well ... how interesting. no, no, no, no, this is not capital embut an -- capitalism but invasion of privacy activity worst. mind your own darned business not at the expense of capitalism but at expense of leave me alone. >>shepard: maybe i want that enter interactive experience if i am searching for a jaguar car, maybe i want that sort of expense but if i don't, shouldn't i be able to say, i don't want that, i want to on the out, i will take my chances. >>jonathan: it is the way of the world and that is what will happen. i am not sure we can fight it. >>arthur: you know you threw it out but that is the key, an antitrust issue, it is a monop

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watch msn nbc starting at 9:00 a.m., in switzerland many villagers have been cut off as forecasters predict9 feet of snow this weekend. now back to deadly dreams. >>> unfortunately, the best witness in the case is dead. eva is gone. she was the best witness in this case. >> d.a. chris frisco had a problem, stephen reitz, under investigation for killing his girlfriend eva weinfurtner. but judging from the violent crime scene and witnessing eva's autopsy, frisco was convinced this had to be calculated, conscious. >> when people are sleep walking, it's not easy to form all of these various steps in your mind. it's not as if he had thrashed about in the room and knocked over the furniture and woke up. everything he did was directed specifically at eva to ultimately murder her. >> ultimately d.a. frisco wouldn't get a chance to make that case to a jury. he was transferred to another office and handed the case to d.a. dinko bozanich. who, remember, specialized in cases involving mental defenses. >> how many times do you hear about anybody really committing is a crime while they're sleep walking,

it talks about a call seeking at msn.i am not a shrink and i don't entertain kind to psychology here, but they do show this to and they show it as sort of mixed all the sudden motivations together and begin to get a sense of james earl ray. these very mysterious. he's a lost soul and i think like so many assassins threaten american has tree, it isn't this magical explanation. he did it because he screwed up. he did it because his boss. he did it because he is taking literally some of the chatter he's hearing out in the airwaves from people like wallace. i think i should telemark at 13. after that, within the lure of the ray family, he was supposedly the ambitious plan. the one who is going to do big things. he was a hustler, businessman. i don't know about his family. it was late darrell, my other brother darryl. not exactly a family you associate with them titian. but he was the one who is going to do the big things. those are some of the ways that come to think about why he did it. but it is fundamentally unanswerable q

and howard fineman is an msn b c correspondent. newt gingrich is going after mitt romney personally, going after his character, making who this guy is the central issue of his campaign. newt knows this better than anyone. newt will respond. what a night. >> it is. and it strikes me as a little bit of a trap because this is what newt gingrich does. he enjoys the verbal combat. what i am surprised by this romney pivot, the romney pivot is full on, make gingrich completely unacceptable. whatever it takes. what they are not showing anything yet and maybe this is coming. maybe this is coming in a couple of days. how to fix the mitt problem. there is a mitt problem there or he wouldn't be losing to conservatives by a near 2-1 margin in south carolina. he wouldn't be seeing his leads collapse at a moment's notice. because his leads have collapsed. the robo polls are probably overinflating the newt surge but the campaign pollsters all have this race is neck and neck. >> why don't the republican smart guys around mitt romney remember what j

one reason i am excited about our sharpton getting a show on msn b.c. is i know al sharpton has a feeling for the people. i am hoping he will raise up the issues, talk to some of the people who have issues or problems and deserve to be heard. we all need to be clear about the way we deserve to be heard and we will create our own strategies. again, probably not the place to be as vulnerable -- this hurts me. it hurts me to see people of african descent at the periphery of our economy understanding the many ways we have been central. understanding in so many ways to work that we have to do and understanding no one is going to do it for us. there are a series of demographics that are frightening. we are not the biggest minority any more and we are now the fastest-growing. the latino population -- we are not mad at them but they are where they are and who they are and how they are and we need to figure out how to work with them. we also need to figure out how to get our fair share of this economy that we have created a foundation for. that is what part of t

real estate, realtor.com, zillo daurjs trulia and msn real estate.d ask your broker if every one of them are posted on the sites. not everyone are. we have a great exam ples of good and bad. there's a picture of wife lighting is best. on the left you have an expensive room with light. every piece of furniture is black or gray. the wood is dark. it sucks up that light. that room does not sell. on the rightside you have very inexpensive white slip covers but you have one little window but it's flooded with sunshine and buyers always buy the sunny home. you can't afford to have the photo on the left. >> one thing you talk about is clutter. we'll see how that plays. >> it's amazing to me how the roomsly see online. take a look at this room right here. this is a bedroom that's loaded with clutter right there on the left. it's not even so bad shlg but look at that little rug in the corner. that grabs your attention. it's a room that can hold five. on the right it's almost equally bad. no furniture. it makes it look small, miniature. make use think you're c

if they are in asia, but the whole tradition of a set of conversational partners like michael and msn, isaiah and so many others they to be human is to engage in loving kindness, the fatherless, motherless, poor, weak, that is a profound contribution. and there is no that black people in this particular democratic experiment and empire because it simultaneously both, isn't it for indigenous brothers and sisters 1492 and not. it one is going on every sense. let us never lose sight of the indigenous brothers and sisters. but you have an intake imperialist. but the question of principle. how can we don't get behind politician? i get behind principles. i evaluate politicians in light of the principles. the black and i need to look for it because and. i'm very, very excited when i see black and brown and yellow folk breaking white supremacist terriers, based on principle because i hate is a panacea, just like any hate mail supremacy. i hate anti-semitism. i hate antimissile on. i hate, but at the same time, even when they break those barriers, i want to know what they are doing, what their

fox, cnn, msn b.c., no one asks the hard questions of mitt romney's performance. this man has bankrupted companies, he has put workers out of jobs, he is very negative. he has never add a -- never had anything positive in his career. this man needs to be exposed and i want to know when the news media is going to expose him to the voters of the united states. he is very weak when he is asked a question and he is very nervous and scared. he borders on being a coward. he could not stand up to these foreign presidents. host: i think we've got your point. guest: i cannot answer that question. the media does not come to me and asked for tips. but if they do, i will pass that along. host: william is next. a republican from kentucky. you are on the air. caller:caller: thank you. this is my first time getting through. i have a question for the lady there. when mr. be -- mr. gingrich, if he were to be elected, would we expect more of the policies that have been articulated by obama, like tarp, and can we expect a little more and digging into fannie mae and freddie mac for a