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>> well, maybe that's a more fiscally conservative argument, but the message in "the new york daily news", nework headlines called attention to the sandy funding. we're talking politics here, congressman. in "the new york daily news," headline, "stabbed in the back, new york pols blast sandy betrayer boehner." and "the new york times" had -- >> you know what -- >> look at this, "stalling of storm aid makes northeast republicans furious." you weren't one of them? >> no. well, let me put it this way. i was unhappy that boehner didn't respond to the governor. he should have said, you know what? we're going to deal with this step by step, and in the first week of the new congress, we'll get it done. but we're not going to pass the $60 billion bill. that would have been a responsible way i think to communicate that. >> remember gerry ford losing a close election to jimmy carter after the headline ran, ford to new york, drop dead. >> part of this is pure politeness, but politeness relates to political power and tribal allegiance. john boehner didn't feel on the night of the big fiscal cliff vote eit

>> we're preparing-- >> we're replacing i'm sure-- >> it's not going to be front page news in the new york daily news. >> john, the point is we both have enough weapons to deter each other. frankly, i think we're too tough on the russians. we have a lot of things to work with them on iran. we have to get all of our stuff out of afghanistan coming through there. >> putin pretends to be concerned we're going to attack him which is obviously ridiculous. he pretends to be concerned about american parents adopting russian kids. >> who else is powerful in the world? >> china. >> he's going to lose siberia to china one of these days because the population is declining by a million people a year. that's what putin ought to be worried about. >> they've sung that song before. another century? >> they're going to lose 25 million more people >>> yes or no answer. bipartisan bill on immigration will be passed by labor day. yes or no? >> no. >> yes. >> no. >> yes. >> why do you say that? >> i'm an optimist. that's why. >> is that the only reason? >> yes. >> the answer is yes. bye-bye.

we got national coverage in the associated press, the boston globe, huffington press and the new york daily news n.2013 we'll of course be continuing our outreach activities and ongoing media outreach. some of the milestones that are upcoming that we'll have an opportunity to highlight include the construction of the third traffic bridge. the completion of the buttress work will be a significant milestone. and then the ongoing construction activity including especially as excavation moves east. it's going to head towards some of the more residential areas surrounding our construction site. so we actually have a meeting scheduled for tonight with residents of 301 mission, the millennium building to talk about the completion of the buttress work and what to expect as excavation moves their way. >> i do have some questions. >> go ahead. >> i'm curious, what is the average attendance at these monthly meetings at tjpa? >> usually 25-30 people. >> that is actually a really great turnout. i know you visit hoas and neighborhood a[sthao-egsz/] request attendance and you see you did that throughout last y

new york daily news today released a copy of the whistleblower lawsuit filed against armstrong by former team maid floyd landis. it accuses armstrong of defrauding the federal government of millions of dollars while ride on the u.s. postal service team. now, the justice department hasn't decided whether to join that suit or not. the deadline for that decision is this week. justice department officials have asked for an extension. at the live desk, erica gonzalez, news. the closure of 15 schools is announced this fall, but 15 too many for parents and children affected. henderson says it will save $20 million to put back into other programs. protesters say the closures d disproportionately affect minority students. >> we're following the latest developments out of algeria tonight. some americans did escape that hostage situation at a bp natural gas facility there others are still being held or are uncan'ted for. bp says hostages are on a chartered flight to london. algeria's government refused foreign aid and today sent its own troops in to rescue the hostages resulting in a lot of gun fire and a number of reported deaths. nearly 2,000 people showed up tonight for the reopening of a movie theatre that played host to a tragic story. survivors and victims' families were among those at the theatre in aurora colorado where 12 people were killed and dozens more injured in july. the theatre has been completely renovat renovated. some victims' families boyc

. >>> the "new york daily news" -- >> with most things you say. >> that's good. >>> the "new york dailynd kept in a holding room for four hours. he allegedly beat up a 9-year-old boy last month and took $5 from him. the mother of the child who was arrested is now threatened to sue the nypd if $250 million. >>> and the san jose mercury news is telling about fans who were ripped off. they paid nearly $6,000 to go to the super bowl. they got a piece of paper that said, go, ravens, lol. when they heard about it, they got tickets. >>> it's just about the parties. it's the ads that keep us glued to the couch. super bowl's greatest commercialings looks back at the most memorable spots an lets you vote on your favorites. bob horowitz is the executive producer. >> i was going to say commercials are what it's all about come sunday. >> absolutely. so what's the criteria for what you consider the best commercial? >> we've been doing it for 12 years on cbs. we put them all together, posted them on cbsnews.com and we'll let the viewers decide. >> i remember this. that mean joe greene commercial. >> m

. >> so yesterday in the new york daily news reported that the voice te'o heard on the phone for monthslly a man. no confirmation from te'o. but we have a voice mail from his girlfriend. you be the judge. >> i just want to let you know i got here and i'm getting ready for my first session and just wanted to call you to keep you posted. i miss you. i love you. bye. >> i think most of us are buying it. close call. te'o will face more tough questions when he speaks with steams at the nfl combine february 20th. >>> kevin garnett, carmelo anthony reuniting since their dust up a couple weeks ago. anthony, no problem at all. strong to the hoop. he scored 28 on the night. fourth quarter, celtics down by two. j.r. smith knocks down the three. knicks win 89-86. the knicks are now second in the east. celtics now two games bel below .500. >>> more from the nba. a story very important to us here at "way too early." the new orleans hornets will change their name to the new orleans pelicans next season. the reaction on twitter has been a mix of outrage and confusion. former new orleans hornet, chris p

new york daily news n.2013 we'll of course be continuing our outreach activities and ongoing media outreach. some of the milestones that are upcoming that we'll have an opportunity to highlight include the construction of the third traffic bridge. the completion of the buttress work will be a significant milestone. and then the ongoing construction activity including especially as excavation moves east. it's going to head towards some of the more residential areas surrounding our construction site. so we actually have a meeting scheduled for tonight with residents of 301 mission, the millennium building to talk about the completion of the buttress work and what to expect as excavation moves their way. >> i do have some questions. >> go ahead. >> i'm curious, what is the average attendance at these monthly meetings at tjpa? >> usually 25-30 people. >> that is actually a really great turnout. i know you visit hoas and neighborhood a[sthao-egsz/] request attendance and you see you did that throughout last year? >> yes, absolutely. >> i'm also curious, on average how many people use the 24-hour construction line? >> how many calls do we get? >> yes. >> usually when we get calls to the line it's a complaint. >> right. >> and happily they have been quite low over the past year. maybe averaging 1-2 a month. you know, sometimes when we move into different phases of construction, the complaints will increase as we make that shift. so we're certainly going to be prepared as excavation moves east and gets closer to millennium in particular. it's just been a handful each month. >> the last data question, how many of people do you have on your look ahead email newsletter ? >> about 1400. >> okay. that is great. i just wanted to get a good sense because you are clearly doing good outreach and i wanted to make sure there was good penetration in the neighborhood for that. thank you. >> thank you and now sarah will report on funding. >> so in 2012 we received a little over $77 million in grant allocations from ac transit, mtc, and, as well as fta. as the executive director mentioned we finalized the purchase and sale agreement for the tower site, which generates money for construction, of course. the details are included in the draft rtp and the transit center district plan was enacted, which is going to be a source of melaruse funding and developer fees for the project. we also had our real estate consultant and the concord group conduct a study to demonstrate the benefits to adjacent propertis from the project. and the study found that the project will add about $3. 7 billion in value to the real estate development within a three quarter mile radius around the transit center. this slideshows just the detail of the new source funding plan that is currently in the draft rtp and that would be approved later on this year in 2013. and in 2013, we currently have pending grant applications totaling $60 million. the security ibonds are state security funds that ac transit is allocating to us that we're using for security aspects of the design. later in the agenda we'll be asking you to approve an ipr or another allocation of mtc bridge tolls for the structural steel package and we have passed the first-round and in the second round of the one bay area grant program for $10 million application for a pedestrian and bike aspects of the design of the transit center. >> great. now so next -- this time next year january, 2014, the bse package, all but the reeses will be complete, the tetchry bridge will be done. the construction trustle will be done and below grade structure package zones 1 and 3 will be done and concourse slab in zone 1 will be complete. to the right you can see a picture of what things will lo

new yorker" magazine. he wrote last week's cover story. and mort zuckerman editor in chief of "us news & world report." and the owner of the "new york daily news." and i am pleased to have all of them on this program. so my question is to each of you, what happened? >> well the yair lapid victory, or near victory, or coming in second i think is a reaction-- he's a centrist. he's not center-left. he sits on kind of the right side of the center. he's a tv figure-- no offense. he entered politics last year. he resigned from channel 2 last year. his father was a journalist and politician as well. and i think tel aviv and like-minded coastal sees. >> rose: there was a big turnout? >> woke up because they feared a real right-wing-- not just the hard right of the likud but also the this other party and somes religious parties were going to form an even more right-wing coalition and people who feared the increasing isolation of israel, political isolation, and economic isolation, who fear things like boycotts -- >> rose: and who fear the end of the possibility of a two. state solution. >> as a result, a distancing from europe and the united state

new york daily news cover has it all wrong. a very, very wrong. time for some fairness. neil: well, out of the woods. moody's, the big credit rating agency saying right now, it is not encouraged by the direction all of this is putting washington end. for that matter, the fiscal outlook has really not measurabby changed. that could be a preview to of possible ratings downgrade. keep in mind the movie's never changed their aaa rating. maintained it. speaking of, the rival ratings agency, at it as it on a double a-plus which is a notch below aaa. so far the overall fiscal environment has not altered one way or the other. that could signal that s&p has been inclined to change things. imagine that. all this fuss and excitement over getting a deal done. still downgraded. well, meantime unions and not giving a buzzer and fight in michigan. we are hearing their is a push to recall those for governor rick snyder over his signing of the right to work. get them out of there. risk -- wisconsin went to five ringing a bell. our union battle segmenn. public policies. go ahead. make this date. how likely do you think that is. >> i don't think is likely. it already tried twice and fail to get the signatures to get it on the ballot. if they learned anything, anything in all from wisconsin, they know this is going to fail. it tried recalls. they tried to go after the lawmakers in indiana in the past tried to work in that state. guess what, republicans, both houses, increased margins. if they want to try it, let them flush down the toilet been given members more reasoned dissent and a choice to forget about it neil: it's a lot harder michigan . any eligible voter can get the signatures on. a lot stickier and tougher to do so in michigan. let's say they try. you think their failure >> well, if history is a lesson, it looks like they're probably going to fail. wasting resources and what they're going to do, part of what health the backbone for the lawmakers in michigan is seeing what happened in wisconsin and what happened in the ana where those lawmakers that shows freedom ahead of the special-interest were not chastise and be to my gaining strength. other states and lawmakers may actually take note and save they can do it in michigan, what can we do here. neil: is the difference between them and wisconsin and the world now. a lot of unions, whenever the growing weakness, they did put barack obama over the finish line. given the president, they did really deliver for the president. so you would have a president, a democratic party being emboldened to help them. the union's help them. that's a different factor. >> not really. i mean, let's look at wisconsin, michigan. the second most important thing on the ballot. the legislature and effective veto over legislation, government union contracts. that went down by almost 15 points, yet michigan still reelected barack obama, santa democratic senator to washington d.c. wisconsin, barely a year after the voters resoundingly rejected governor scott workers recall by ten points, wisconsin voters also reelected obama, also said a democratic senator to the white house. a disconnect between voters voting democrat and rubber stamping union issues. so they can really hang their hat on that. maybe something else. neil: thank you very much. we'll see how well pans out, but i would think it would be a suicide mission. i've seen them before. well, they guy behind his kate upton had, remember this one, might have to cut back and settle for someone not so pretty this year. a big mama of all tax hikes. and it's not just hitting the rich. it's hitting everyone in the mother. kate or her. ♪ >> protect terminal class and everybody's trying to get into the middle class. protect as many american families and small businesses as possible. >> particular class families tomorrow. >> our goal here is to prevent taxes from going up on anybody. >> we are there for the middle class. neil: you heard it once, a brazilian times. the old deal, this will cliff thing was about protecting the middle-class. the middle class in the middle finger in the end because is not just the very rich getting hit by tax ax. the majority of americans are coughing up more. people making 50,705,000 camping at least another 822 bucks a year. that's the bad newsit could be bad news for the economy. the payroll tax cut that just went by my. by definition that affects 80 plus percent of american households. there will be paying on average 800-$1,000 more. would that have an impact on your establishments? >> hopefully it won't have an impact on us. good to be your. but sometimes we trade down from restaurants that have higher prices. you trade down the fast food. think it's bad for the economy because people have less money, they spend less and have less money to businesses and to perform, they don't hire. the economy gets bad, and then everybody suffers. this is -- this tax hike, it's really people making under under and $13,000 will see a flat 2 percent increase in taxes because of the payroll tax. if you make of hundred thousand they're going to be paying two and a dozen more in taxes than you did last year. this payroll tax that they you been getting used to, it's going bye-bye. you're going to pay more. i think people see that in a paycheck

new record high. while most of the ads were sold back in may of 2012, some can still be purchased, of course, for a higher price tag. this new story coming from "the new york dailyts head coach rex ryan apparently spotted on vacation with what appears to be a tattoo of his wife wearing the jersey of ryan's quarterback mark sanchez while tebowing, if you are familiar with that. no official word if that is permanent. one report states the coach has had it for quite some time. >>> moving now to the hardwood where the warriors find themselves 12 games over .500 and off to their best start since the early '90s. one of the reasons is the calming influence of marc jackson who has his team believing in one common goal. >> for me guys will run through a wall when they realize you care about them. that's whether they make a shot or miss a shot. whether they're bawling or on the bench. i care about each one of these guys. when they believe that, you can tell them anything, and they'll do whatever you ask. >> all right. as we leave you, back to that super bowl commercial story, i've already proposed a $4 million promo for us. nbc bay area. it involves lamborghinis, unicorns

. >> betsy andreu provided the voicemail to the new york daily new news as evidence of the threats and intimidation she says they suffered. then there's greg lamand, the only american to win the most grueling race before armstrong went on his string of seven straight wins. the relationship between the two men was anything but close, especially after lamande questioned armstrong's association with a controversial italian doctor named mikali ferrari. he says armstrong was clearly upset at l machlt a. who does greg think he is, talking about ferrari? i'm going to take him down. and he did. armstrong had great influence with the bike sponsored trekk which dropped its support of lamond's brand, damaging his bike business. he also intimidated his critics and rivals during competition. in the 2004 tour de france, armstrong comfortably held the race's overall lead but surprised everyone when he chased down filipo cimioni. why? only to punish him and prove a point. he had crossed armstrong in the past by testifying against dr. ferrari about doping. armstrong publicly called simioni a liar and t

source is telling the new york daily news that lance armstrong described himself as another cyclist that chose to use ban substances to compete in the grueling sport. >>> facebook newgetting mixed reviews. many facebook fans say they like the idea of a way to search their friends data bases. it will help them connect with people on things they didn't know they had in common. they are also say it would help them find restaurants, music and hobbies that their friends like. tech analysts say that could help with advertising in the long run but they also see negatives as well. >> how they presented it was horrid. at the end of the day it was presented as another search feature. kind of a linked in light. >>> facebook also getting blame that the announcement came out now. for some users the graph search feature won't be available for years. >>> happening now school bus drivers in new york city are on strike leaving thousands of kids without a ride to school. now i want to show you new video of the drivers picketing this morning. they walked off the job just about three hours ago. the union is upset that the city put the bus contracts up for bid with no job guarantees fo

what is weird is both like boehner an cantor are called fiscal stiffs on the cover of the "new york daily news" for having serious issues with a rescue bill for sandy victims because it wasn't going to just sandy victims. but democrats happy to sign a $60 billion blank check are saints, saying they are happy to tap it to repair smithsonian museum roof and plant trees in ohio. untold millions for items with nothing to do with sandy. not exactly dancing. it's a wonder boehner didn't curse more. more of a wonder why the media didn't wish he did. that is not fair and not right. it's wrong. would it kill us to get the other side of the story? would we ever try?

new york daily news is reporting that a spokesman confirms she's wearing special glasses because of the result of the concussion. the glasses contained an etched lens, which might be designd to help bring double vision into focus. >>> a news alert involving burt reynolds suffering from the flu. he was hospitalized for treatment. he's being treatd in the a florida facility for severe flu symptoms and dehydration. he's reportedly getting about ther and could be released as early as tonight. he is 76 years ole. >>> the man who played the voice of charlie brown is talking about the stocking charges against him. peter robins was arrested as he returned to california from mexico earlier this week. he's accused of threatening his ex-girlfriend and her plastic surgeon. police say he followed the surgeon and made repeated phone calls to her and the ex- girlfriend and reportedly threatened to kill the woman. >> i apologized to the doctor. i tried to prove a point and did it badly. i a pol guys to shawna kerr for making her -- i don't know. maybe can you get her explaining. >> robins confessed he lied to those women claiming he has pancreatic cancer but he does not. >> kids, at let's, people of all ages drink it. we're talking about

new yorker" magazine. he wrote last week's cover story. and mort zuckerman, editor in chief of "us news & world report." and the owner of the "new york daily news." and i am pleased to have all of them on this program. so my question is to each of you, what happened? >> well, the yair lapid victory, or near victory, or coming in second i think is a reaction-- he's a centrist. he's not center-left. he sits on kind of the right side of the center. he's a tv figure-- no offense. he entered politics last year. he resigned from channel 2 last year. his father was a journalist and politician as well. and i think tel aviv and like-minded coastal sees. >> rose: there was a big turnout? >> woke up because they feared a real right-wing-- not just the hard right of the likud but also the this other party, and somes religious parties were going to form an even more right-wing coalition, and people who feared the increasing isolation of israel, political isolation, and economic isolation, who fear things like boycotts -- >> rose: and who fear the end of the possibility of a two. state solution. >> as a result, a distancing from europe and the united st

according to "the new york daily news," if the con virmz is confirmed by lawmakers, he'll be the first graduate of new york public schools to be the top officer. secretary of state geithner is also expected at the announcement. at the live desk, news4. >>> president obama still has cabinet holes to fill, as well. labor secretary hilda solis submitted her resignation yesterday. she says she decided not to return after talking with her family and close friends. president obama calls her a tireless champion for working families. >>> gun rights advocates will make their vases heard this morning in a -- voices heard this morning in a meeting with joe biden's gun-control task force. the nra, other gun-control groups, and sportsmen head to the white house today. walmart, the largest gun retailer, will be there. yesterday the task force met with victims' groups and gun control supporters who they they were encouraged by the conversation. the task force expected to make recommendations in about a month. >>> new this morning, two families are out of their homes because of fire. first in prince g

quote the new york rescue squad pulled two miracles from the rubble of haiti read the new york daily news. skala forney governor arnold schwarzenegger remarked quote many of us were able to watch the california rescuers live on television performing all of these miracles. the first u.s. team to reach haiti was dispatched to u.n. headquarters in after 10 hours of spying pulled out a hustonian otte guard with minor injuries. ban ki-moon called a small miracle. the supermarket where we have bought or 10-dollar boxes of cereal and the collapse of the hotel which had 200 people inside mostly foreigners when it fell. general keane who is the head of the u.s. military response would both quote the hotel montana at one time had 16 alone because of the number of people trapped there. the places were ordinary haitians lived and worked, schools, stores homes and offices with easily ghastly numbers inside god more attention. two days after the quake cnn's ivan watson watch the team of haitian rescue runs try to free an 11-year-old girl whose legs were penned under the concrete. it could reach her but

new york daily news alleged he did not seem sorry when he admitted to winfrey that he used performance enhancing drugs. in a text message the disgraced cyclist telling the associated press, quote, i left it all on the table with her. when it airs the people can decide, end quote. that interview is set to air tomorrow and friday night on oprah's own network and her web site as well. meanwhile world anti-doping agency officials have said nothing short of a full confession under oath would cause them to even reconsider armstrong's lifetime ban from competitive racing. officials at the live strong cancer charity that lance armstrong founded and later stepped away from the scandal completely truthful and forth coming in the oprah winfrey interview again thursday night. the captain of a cruise ship leaving the sinking vessel behind. that's what he told nbc news will recall the costa concordia steered to close to the italian coast. tipped on its side. more than 4200 people on board at the time. prosecutors say the captain was one of the first off the vessel. he has claimed he tripped and fell into a life boat. he faces charges of manslaughter, causing the wreck and abandoning ship. that cruise liner still on its side in the water as crews work to clean it up. back here in the u.s. maybe one driver's g.p.s. was not working because police say she missed a turn, ended up in a swimming pool. happened earlier today. police say a woman drove her 2000 chevy blazer into a fence and into a pool. the thing floated and the man actually grabbed the chevy's roof rack and dragged it to the side. that rescuer broke the back window and rescued the driver inside. in the end, no one was hurt. >> some states could soon force the unemployed to take drug tests before they can get jobless benefits. ahead, both parties weighing in on the controversial proposals and

new york "daily news," here's part of it. >> i also hope that one day you can have meaning to your life and you have some type of tragedy. pathetic, betsy, i thought you were a better person than that. >> reporter: lance armstrong's fiercest critics say he would do anything to protect himself. in the end it wasn't all about the bike, like his book proclaimed, it might just be all about the glory. >> ed lavandera reporting for us. and you heard ed reporting about emma o'reilly, the personal assistant to lance armstrong who lance said you know enough to bring me down. last night oprah said was her story true, lance, and he said, yes, she was one of the people i ran over and bullied. but then remarkably when it was about suing her, his response was, you know, to be honest, i don't -- i just screwed so many people. it almost seem like he didn't even remember suing his personal assistant. while this may have been all about the glory, pretty soon the lawsuits that he was launching may be coming right back at him. i alluded to it earlier, libel and more, whistle-blowing, federal, ten of millions of dollars just the beginning. i'm going to have more on the legal hurdles ahead for lance armstrong in a moment. woman: we're helping joplin, missouri, come back from a devastating tornado. man: and now we're helping the east coast recover from hurricane sandy. we're a leading global insurance company, based right here in america. we've repaid every dollar america lent us. everything, plus a profit of more than $22 billion. for the american people. thank you, america. helping people recover and rebuild -- that's what we do. now let's bring on tomorrow. ♪ [ male announcer ] don't just reject convention. drown it out. introducing the all-new013 lexus ls f sport. an entirely new pursuit. >>> we are just starting to learn how many hostages have been taken in algeria. this is no small operation. algerian state media is saying that more than 600 hostages have been released from a remote gas plant near the border with libya, including 100 of the 132 foreign workers among them. i mean, imagine, 600 plus have been released, but we don't know how many are still captive. that's a lot of hostages. cnn's not able to independently confirm this algerian report at this time, but we do know this, right now the u.s. is in the process of evacuating between 10 and 20 people who were caught up in this hostage-taking crisis. u.s. officials are saying that president obama is receiving regular updates on this crisis from his national security team and that his first priority is the safety and security of these hostages. the defense secretary, leon panetta, is saying, quote, terrorists who murder or kidnap americans will be hunted down. one esc

new york daily news owner and publisher says that there really think he is the best and for the job, they must be dreaming. voted for the president in 08. buyer's remorse. you know strike me as someone that would never have buyer's remorse about anything, but on this particular point you do. >> well, i had enough exposure to the obama administration during the first term, both directly and interactions answer his policies, which i disagree with. i just became disillusioned with him and therefore could not support him going into the second term, particularly because i thought his policies dealing with the economy were very shortsighted, and effective, and, shall we say, wrongly focused. cheryl: but he had been criticized in the first term for picking the wrong advisers, if you will, leading on someone who came from the university of chicago. now he has a second chance in the second turn to bring newdo you think of the cabinet he is forming. >> well, i think some of them are pretty good, to be honest and announced -- also bought austin goals be was pretty good. i still think the policies that he ultimately decided upon were driven more by politics and ideology than by their pragmatic effect on the economy. that has been the problem that i have witnessed directly, firsthand, as i was the decision making process. that cannot to me, was what was the core of the problem. this is not exactly an easy problem to solve, but it is not an insoluble problem either. you know, there are a lot of practical businessmen and economists who have very different views. he followed the fuse that he decided to follow and in my judgment there were the wrong views and did not work. cheryl: what do you think that he could do in his second term to be a true leader and not a politician? and when i say leader ibm manages and manage a business of the united states. what do you can keep could do differently? >

new york daily news as evidence of the threats and intimidation she says they suffered. then there's greg lamand, the only american to win the most grueling race before armstrong went on his string of seven straight wins. the relationship between the two men was anything but close, especially after lamande questioned armstrong's association with a controversial italian doctor named mikali ferrari. frankie said armstrong was clearly upset at la monday's comments and he said i recall lance saying words to the affect of who does he think he is talking about ferrari. i'm going to take him down. and he did. armstrong had great influence with the bike sponsored trekk which dropped its support of lamond's brand, damaging his bike business. armstrong also intimidated his critics in competition. in the 2004 tour du france he held the france's overall lead but surprised everyone when he chased down filipo cimioni. why? only to punish him and prove a point. he had crossed armstrong in the past by testifying against dr. ferrari about doping. armstrong publicly called simioni a liar and told him privately he could, quote, destroy him. after catching him, this gesture of armstrong during the race was widely seen to be directed toward simioni, a warning to stay silent. former teammate tyler hamilton followed a code of silence and lied about doping until this "60 minutes" interview >> you saw lance armstrong inject epo? >> yeah, like we all did. like i did many, many times. >> after that interview aired, hamilton began to cooperate with the federal investigation into armstrong. he was physically acosted by armstrong inside a restaurant according to an affidavit and armstrong told hamilton he would make his life a living hell. >> why would they say these things? >> armstrong was asked in an interview about espn about his former friends and teammates who testified about doping. he had only this to say. >> i surrounded myself with, at times, questionable people and i've not, in the past, been great with -- when riders leave teams or relationships end, perhaps i haven't handled that properly and i admit that freely and personally people hate that. i would hate it, too. but why people would lie and tell stories -- some of them, obviously, were paid. some of them had other motives. that's clear. >> so he's lying there. he heard a bit from tyler hamilton, he and daniel coyle have co-written "the secret race: inside the tour de france race." "doping cover-ups and winning at all costs. i spoke with daniel coyle along with espn analyst. what i don't understand is why armstrong is doing this now. just a few months ago, he had a chance to avoid lifetime banishment. u.s. ada invited him to come clean to be part of the solution. he turned them down flat. what happened between then and now? what changed? >> this is a perfect way into the way lance's brain works, he's very good at looking at complex situations and looking at them in a binary way. it's not about being consistent with him. it's about winning and that brain is really built for that. this point you figure the best path forward was to go to oprah. that's what he's doing. the problem that he faces is that you can win the tour de france but it's hard to win a confession. that has to do with genuine feeling. it has to do with contrition. >> juliette, you were saying the most important thing to remember is that armstrong is an athlete, that he's not in this to say sorry, clean up cycling or help charity. he wants to compete in competitions and he can't do that now. >> exactly. i think the difference between several months ago and now is that he has had several months of no competition and for a guy like lance armstrong, that must be torture. he has been an athlete since he has just been a little kid, like a teenager. he was a professional triathlete and barely finished high school because of his triathlon career and he has had time to think about how he is lonely, how he doesn't have the adulation of fans at the finish line and nobody to beat right now and it's driving him nuts. >> legally, roger, there's a whole bunch of reasons why he should not have done this, right? >> yeah. you know, i hear what the other guests are saying, but as a lawyer, it goes against everything i know. i'm not the only one who knows the liability he's facing. he has wonderful lawyers who have given him advice over the years. he is looking at, in excess, if everything goes wrong, judgments in excess of perhaps $100 million. i am actually waiting to see how much he really confesses and what he confesses to. >> legally, who does he owe money to if he's -- depending on who decides to sue him or currently who is suing him? >> there's a whistleblowers lawsuit going on right now that floyd landis has brought and that the justice department may join. that has to do with all of the money he got from the u.s. postal service and the question is, did he get it under false pretenses? under his contract, he said that he would do nothing that would bring him embarrassment, and not use drugs. so if he gets up and admits that he breached that contract under the whistleblower statute, he not only has to pay back all the money he has, he has taken, but could get hit with trouble damages, which means three times the amount of money he's taking. >> it is pretty -- go ahead. >> this is what makes lance lance. he likes risk. this is why he has succeeded in this corrupt world of cycling for so long. it's why, as we describe in our book, there was smuggling bags of blood in underdog kennels in to the tour. giving transfusions on the bus during the tour. he doesn't shy away from risk. that's what this is. he has made the calculation. he has a net worth over $100 million. he probably won't lose all of it. >> you think he will have to pay back some of these lawsuits? >> he will pay back some. he will settle. the government settles these sort of cases. let's say he loses 50 million bucks, he still has a fair amount. he's not going to starve. he will have his narrative back, have his life as a competitive athlete back. the question is he going to apologize to this people he hurt along the way? we talk about this as if he's the only part of the story. in fact, he's not. the story is much bigger than just him. >> he has great pr. but, as you and i talked about before, juliette, he was a jerk to an awful lot of people. i mean, he sought to destroy people who would testify against him, who had spoken the truth. >> i think jerk is an understatement. i think a lot of those people are devastated right now. and i don't really know what to think when he's calling some of these people up to apologize. i actually spoke to a few people he has reached out to and they're like dumbfounded. they don't know whether to believe him or not. >> did you see him threaten people, reporters who reported things that he felt were inappropriate? >> well, i mean, he has threatened lawsuits many, many times against reporters, including one that he actually won, a libel lawsuit against the sunday times of london when a writer, david walsh, one of his earliest naysayers, shall we say, published some information in the paper that said he had doped. he won that lawsuit. of course, the sunday times of london is asking for that money back right now. he was a master at intimidating people. he had this great story going on, a fairytale story from the very first time he won the tour de france and people were enamored with it, including many of the journalists covering it. if anybody wrote anything that was negative, he sometimes would call you on the phone in the morning, yelling at you or criticizing you, or he would actually blackball you and not give you any interviews if you wrote anything negative. and for a journalist who had made their money or made their living covering cycling or covering lance armstrong, to not get access to lance, that meant they were dead in the water. he had a lot of power. >> can he portray himself as just one of many people on his team who dope? because a written article in the times, i think it was, that seemed to indicate that's the way he was going to spin this. he wasn't at the epicenter of this. >> he can try to do that. i think it's going to be difficult for him because of the thousand pages. >> right. >> of the evidence that paint a very different picture. >> right. >> because of the book "the secret race" that paints a very different picture. this is about power not drugs. he had a lot of political sporting power and he used it ruthlessly. >> lance armstrong called the shots on that team. he was the star of the team. everybody was there to make sure he won, right? >> he was the tony soprano. >> yeah. >> literally extensions of his body. their power was his power. that's how he used it. when you crossed him, he cut you dead. you were gone. >> it will be interesting, julia, to see how he plays this. they taped 2 1/2 hours. oprah is going to air this over two nights. she said she was prepared -- she had done a lot of reading and watched a lot of interviews and she was prepared to get specific and found she didn't have to do that if he denied one thing. she would say what about on page such and such on this book. she said she didn't have to do that. whether that means he got specific -- i'm not sure how to read that. what do you think? >> i think oprah is great. she's a great business woman and a great interviewer. i'm sure she prepared a lot for this interview. i guarantee you that lance armstrong prepared more. he had about a dozen people telling him what to do, what to say, how to act. i'm sure he went over and over in a mirror to get the right facial expressions, to find the right emotions. this is his chance on turning his life around. >> it's going to be fascinating to watch. juliette mcker, daniel coyle and roger cossack, thank you. >> thank you. let us know what you think about this. follow me on twitter a ath @andersoncooper. >>> flat out crazy claims being made about the newtown shootings, that the massacre may have been staged is now accusing me of targeting him and trying to do him harm and his family harm. we're keeping them honest, ahead. 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while the mainstream media is saying he is the president of their dreams, new york daily news owner andthat there really think he is the best and for the job, they must be dreaming. voted for the president in 08. buyer's remorse. you know strike me as someone that would never have buyer's remorse about anything, but on this particular point you do. >> well, i had enough exposure to the obama administration during the first term, both directly and interactions answer his policies, which i disagree with. i just became disillusioned with him and therefore could not support him going into the second term, particularly because i thought his policies dealing with the economy were very shortsighted, and effective, and, shall we say, wrongly focused. cheryl: but he had been criticized in the first term for picking the wrong advisers, if you will, leading on someone who came from the university of chicago. now he has a second chance in the second turn to bring new blood in. what do you think of the cabinet he is forming. >> well, i think some of them are pretty good, to be honest and announced -

new york daily news." here's part of it. >> i hope somebody breaks a baseball bat over your head. but i also hope that one day you will have adversity in your life and you have some type of tragedy. it's pathetic, betsey. i thought you were a better person than that." >> lance armstrong's fiercest critics say he would do anything to protect himself. in the end, it wasn't all about the bike, like his book proclaimed. it might just be all about the glory. >> buzz bissinger is the author of "friday night lights" and a contributor for "newsweek" and the daily beast. and last august, he wrote the cover story for "newsweek" entitled, "i still believe in lance armstrong." now he says reading that makes him cringe and he is "outfront" tonight. thank you for having the courage. so you were saying, look, i'm embarrassed, but you know what, so many people. so many people believed him, because they wanted to believe in the inspired story. i wanted to read a quote from that article. you wrote, "i was diluted to believe lance armstrong when he denied doping." that's what you're saying now. but what was it, when you wrote that article, so late, so many people were saying, maybe it's not true, why did you still believe him? >> i really thought he was a hero. to me, the premise i took was this. people were saying he was blood doping, he'd been blood doping throughout all the tour de frances that he won all seven of them. i'm sure that was true, but that sport was so rife with doping, so rife with cheating, so rife with the use of performance enhancers, i said, all right, if that's all they have, then he basically is equaling the playing field. he overcame cancer, which is an incredible story. he starts this foundation, livestrong, which is really, really doing great work on behalf of millions of cancer survivors. so, i -- you know, look, at the end of the day, it was my fault, but i do cringe when i see that cover. it's embarrassing, and i said, i believe in him, he's a hero, and just leave him alone. because it did seem like a witch hunt for ten years, by travis tiger and the u.s. anti-doping agency, but i was wrong. >> i wanted to just play a clip, when you defended him, you call him a hero, which you did back in august, but here's what you said at the time. i'm sure a very different tone from now, when you know things are different. but here is you then. >> i think there's been a witch hunt against him for 13 years. he's not contesting the charges. he's going to be stripped of his seven medals and i think, frankly, it's a shame, and i think it's a travesty, because to me, the man is a hero and will always be a hear rro for a sorts of things that he's done. >> you have now, subsequently, at this moment written something where you say, don't believe a word he says, because not a word he says can be believed. >> at the time, what i said, i really did believe. i thought it was a witch hunt. some of these charges were 10, 12 years old. the u.s. ada had to find a loophole to get people to testify. they're giving immunity to other cyclists who have, you know, cheated. but when the allegations, specific allegations came out in october, the results of the investigation, it was far more than just doping. it was coercion of teammates, it was masterminding what the u.s. ada said was the most sophisticated system they had ever seen erected for avoiding testing and changing the results of testing. >> right. >> he's filing suit against the london times for defamation when we now know they didn't defame anybody. >> he got hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> he got $500,000. i think it was a quip or he's calling a former employee a prostitute. he's consistently going after people in a very tough, litigious way, when it now seems that, in fact, they were correct. people said, well, all right, fine, why don't you write the story, a column in october sort of reputing him, and frankly, i wanted it to go away. i wasn't proud. but then when i heard he was going to be on oprah, it's the typical confessional, i think there is some real contrition on his part, but then i said, you know, enough. i've had enough. this is now sort of standard operating procedure in america. you know, you go to the confessional and go to oprah -- >> and then everything's okay. you're just fine. >> i hope everything's okay. >> he has apologized to you or reached out to you in the past couple of days. >> he has. >> what did he say? >> you know, he genuinely said, and i don't like telling tales out of school, but he said he was sorry. and he said it in a way that i thought was legitimate. i know lance. lance is tough around the edges. he's a great athlete. he's a maniacal competitor, which is, look, athletes will do anything to win. anything to win. we have this idea about athletes, that they're role models, that they're saints. it's ridiculous. he would do anything to win and i think at the beginning, he said, i'm just leveling the playing field, but then i think it took off. i think the apology is real. and i respect him for that. but if he thinks i'm going to sit there and i'm going to be one with tears coming down my face watching him on oprah, he's mistaken. he's hurt, really hurt, hurt, legally and emotionally, too many people. millions of people, tens of millions of people. >> yes. >> including myself. but i should have known better. >> all right. well, buzz, thank you very much. >> well, thank you. >>> still to come, republicans meeting behind closed doors tonight, trying to come up with a strategy to save the gop. and they think domino's pizza could be the answer. i don't know, do you think that makes them geniuses or really is a signal of their doom? 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new york daily news" as evidence of the threats and intimidation she says they suffered. and then there's greg lemond, the only american to win the world's most grueling race before armstrong went on his string of seven straight wins. the relationship between the two men was anything but close, especially after lemond questioned armstrong's association with a controversial italian doctor named michaeli ferrari. frankie andreu said armstrong was clearly upset at lemond's comments and in an affidavit andreu said, "i recall lance saying words to the effect of who does greg think he is talking about ferrari? i'm going to take him down." and he did. armstrong had great influence with the bike sponsor trek, which dropped its support of the lemond brand, damaging lemond's bike business. armstrong also intimidated his critics and rivals during competition. in the 2004 tour de france armstrong comfortably held the race's overall lead but surprised everyone when he chased down felipo simioni. why? turned out it was only to punish simioni to prove a point. simioni had crossed armstrong in the past by testifying against dr. ferrari about doping. armstrong publicly called simioni a liar and told him privately he could "destroy him." after catching him this gesture from armstrong during the race was widely seen to be directed toward simioni. a warning to stay silent. former teammate tyler hamilton followed a code of silence and lied about doping until this "60 minutes" interview in 2011. >> you saw lance armstrong inject bpo? >> yeah. like we all did. like i did many, many times. >> after that interview aired hamilton began to cooperate with a federal investigation into armstrong. he was physically accosted by armstrong inside a restaurant according to an affidavit and armstrong told hamilton he'd make his life a living hell. >> why would they say these things -- >> in an interview with espn armstrong was asked about his former friends, teammates, and associates who testified about his doping. he had only this to say. >> i've surrounded myself with at times questionable people and i've not in the past been great with -- when riders leave teams or relationships end. perhaps i haven't handled that properly, and i admit that freely, and personally people hate that. i would hate it, too. but you know, why people would lie and tell stories -- some of them obviously were paid. some of them had other motives. that's clear. >> so he's lying there. you heard a bit from tyler hamilton there. he and daniel coyle have co-written "the secret race: inside the hidden world of the tour de france, doping, cover-ups, and winning at all costs." i spoke with daniel coyle along with espn analyst roger cossack and "new york times" sportswriter juliet mckerr. >> daniel, what i don't understand really is why armstrong is doing this now. because just a few months ago he had a chance to avoid lifetime banishment. the u.s.a.d.a. had invited him to come clean to be part of the solution. he turned them down flat. so what happened between then and now? what changed? >> this is a perfect lens into the way lance's brain works. he's really good at figuring out complex situations, looking at them in a very binary way and figuring out a path forward. it's not about being consistent with him. it's about winning. and that brain is really built for that. so at this point he figured the best path forward was to go to oprah. and that's what he's doing. but the problem that he faces is that you can win the tour de france but it's hard to win a confession. that has to do with genuine feeling. it has to do with contrition. >> but juliet, i mean, you were saying that the most important thing to remember is that armstrong

new york daily news." that is from "the daily news." florida up next, warren on the democrats' line. caller: yes, i am very -- host: i'm going to ask you to stop listening to the television and talk. caller: i am very disturbed with the way tim geithner -- they are making it seem like he was in control of everything and brought us further under. i think he did a great job at straightening out wall street and saving the -- i am sorry. you make me nervous. saving the auto industry and so on. it was not really timothy geithner that did all of this. it was a team of people who did this. are acting as if tim geithner had the final say on all of this. they keep bringing up the $50,000 he owed in taxes is are redundant and old. was talk about some of the things he did right. it is so negative it. that is what is bringing this country down more than anything is the constant negative attitude. host: charleston, west virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. how are you? mr. geiger's legacy is that he was part of a team who came into office when this country was heading toward a fiscal

news, though from washington, d.c. kind of over shadowed by of the news yesterday, the news breaking yesterday that beyonce wasn't really performing. she did not perform live. she was lip sinking. the new york dailyews front page banner headline today, the whole front page is, "star-spangled scam." we have been talking about this. i must admit that i am more upset about this than other members of our team here but they are often wrong about everything. so, i don't mind that bill. >> i hear what you are saying, and i hear. >> this bothers me. >> i would say if she had really screwed this out. there is a possibility she could have. she is a high-flying singer you know. it's not just james taylor is a folksy kind of guy it didn't require the type of technical singing ability that it requires for beyonce to sing "the national anthem" not a knock on james taylor. it was two different performers. >> bill: bs. >> it's not. randy, his performance was by no means perfect. i get that >> bill: it was beautiful. >> acoustic guitar. >> that's his style. if she had warbled, it would have been bad and we would have said something else about why should wouldn't have recorded on tape. >> guess what? she is asked

actress lindsay lohan is due in court node new york in connection with a nightclub brawl in november. her mother, dina, opened up to "the new york daily newspousal abuse she's endured are partly to blame for why her daughter is quote, so messed up, end quote. >>> apparently, he worries like any other dad or grandfather-to-be. prince charles expressed concerns about the safety of prince harry, serving in afghanistan. >> if you're a parent, the person you love is away in these incredible le dangerous and challenging things, you, i know you worry all the time. certainly every night, when i go to bed, i worry. >> oh. >> and charles also shared his thoughts on climate charngs saying he doesn't want his future grandchild to ask him one day why he failed to do something about it. hear, hear, prince charles. i want to say come on in here again. if the staredown, the pre-dawn staredown between the cheerleaders says anything about what we're going to see tonight, they showed up, they're like, yeah, what's up, yeah, i'm ready, i'm ready. who's ready? who's going to get it done everybody? i tell you what, it's a-brewing down here. >> all day long. >>

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