he came to visit and read nick adams stories. now is now is now. inspired, he signed on for a job. long after school chris was still there, immersed in the culture. not only hiking, fishing and camping but hunting elk. hard to believe. one of the last times i was with chris we took a long run through the trails of walnut creek. he was reading a book of how to keep running as we enter our later years. giving me pep talks in how to drag myself out of bed in cold, dark mornings for that run. i was inspired. through mom he learned the value of visiting a foreign country. the importance of talking to people in their own language. when he was a comfortable piedmont high schooler playing tennis and drinking beer -- sorry -- [ laughter] >> mom signed him up for the american field service. she thought he might be sent to brazil to work in sugar cane fields or build la betweens, a character building experience, but chris, leading the charmed life, spent the summer polishing spainer and paella. he spoke italian and air back and encouraged me to study germany, learn italian to communicate in t

adam sandler apparently falling on hard times. he makes nearly $20 million a movie, which in itself is just unbelievable. but his last film, that's my boy, grossed under $40 million domestically. nick been in ten movies the past few year, none made a mark. he brings in only 6 bucks for every studio dollar that they pay him. let's skip ahead to number two. katherine heigl brings in over 3 bucks. and eddie murphy, just $2 plu2 for every $1 paid. most have been less than memorable. do the titles meet dave, 1,000 words, or imagine that ring a bell? probably not. one man who is not struggling to bring in cash is jay-z. forbes estimates his net worth at 500 million bucks, but money does not always buy recognition. that rapper found out the hard way during a recent subway ride filmed for his documentary where i'm from. you never know who you'll be sitting next to on a new york city subway. >> are you famous? >> yes. not very famous because you don't know me. but i'll get there some day. my name is jay. what's your name? >> ellen. what do you do? >> i make music. >> did you just do a performance? >> on my way to a performance in brooklyn at the new arena. >> fabulous. >> i performed eight

entitlement, and republicans are ad adamant about not increae tax hikes, and after this tonight, it looks like you are narrowly holding hands off a cliff? >> let me tell you, me and nick mill veiny of south carolina got 22 members of congress, we got a letter together to agree on sensible cuts in defense area that would not undermine our nation's security that is democrats and republicans coming together for things that make sense, and they are cuts, right? neil: do you think there will be more of an appetite or less come wednesday. >> i don't know. neil: and for republicans, to entertain more beyond what they offered, i don't see it. >> you mentioneed mentioned 200. it is funny how a lot of people after they went home and heard from their communities, came back and switched their vote to yes, maybe that will happen neil. neil: it is going to take a tanking market to do it though, isn't it? >> it will take angry constituents to do it. they take the positiin they want us to come up with sane, sense incompromises, i am proud to be a liberal and a liftist, i am not going to like everything in the deal, people on the right are not going to like it. but we have to come up

nick parker, thank you. >>> and you're in "the situation room." happening now, newtown gunman adamza's computer smashed and severely damaging the hard drive. how authorities may be trying to salvage what could be critical information. >>> also, vice president joe biden kicks off the effort to crack down on gun violence. i'm quoting him now, we will take action." >> as many as 100 million u.s. taxpayers could be facing serious delays if the country goes over the fiscal cliff. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> wakes and funerals, we can't even figure out which ones to go to. there are so many that we have to divide and conquer. >> chilling words to describe the grief that's become familiar in newtown, connecticut. three 6-year-olds, two teachers, and the principal all laid to rest. >>> and we've learned that the mother of the gunman, nancy lanza, has been buried at an undisclosed location in new hampshire. tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. eastern, church bells will toll across the region markin

adams? would you have the declaration of independence if jefferson was a cynic rather than someone -- [inaudible] would you have a constitution of medicine didn't care? all the nickof that stuff, you know? i have come to the point and i tell my law clerks, that i have been in the city doing these jobs now for half of my natural life. the only reasons to do them are the ideal things. it's always the things you believe in, the constitution of this country. i know that's not what to say in washington d.c. and you're supposed to say there's some angle, some methodology, this originalism, textualism. there are all these useless peripheral debates other than just doing our job as we can in trying to live up to our respective oaths, to make it all work. this is what we are talking about. in your book, that is what you are saying. you are saying we have the text but you also also have overhear this unwritten part. with all these things are happening over here to make it all work. no, that's not me. >> you mentioned both the declaration and the bill of rights. set the stage about why the constitution, a thing really worthy of our celebration, acknowledging who was part of

adams? would you have the declaration of independence if jefferson was a cynic rather than someone -- [inaudible] would you have a constitution of medicine didn't care? all the nick of that stuff, you know? i have come to the point and i tell my law clerks, that i have been in the city doing these jobs now for half of my natural life. the only reasons to do them are the ideal things. it's always the things you believe in, the constitution of this country. i know that's not what to say in washington d.c. and you're supposed to say there's some angle, some methodology, this originalism, textualism. there are all these useless peripheral debates other than just doing our job as we can in trying to live up to our respective oaths, to make it all work. this is what we are talking about. in your book, that is what you are saying. you are saying we have the text but you also also have overhear this unwritten part. with all these things are happening over here to make it all work. no, that's not me. >> you mentioned both the declaration and the bill of rights. set the stage about why the constitution, a thing really worthy of our celebration, acknowledging who was part o

adams? would you have the declaration of independence if jefferson was a cynic rather than someone -- [inaudible] would you have a constitution of medicine didn't care? all the nick of that stuff, you know? i have come to the point and i tell my law clerks, that i have been in the city doing these jobs now for half of my natural life. the only reasons to do them are the ideal things. it's always the things you believe in, the constitution of this country. i know that's not what to say in washington d.c. and you're supposed to say there's some angle, some methodology, this originalism, textualism. there are all these useless peripheral debates other than just doing our job as we can in trying to live up to our respective oaths, to make it all work. this is what we are talking about. in your book, that is what you are saying. you are saying we have the text but you also also have overhear this unwritten part. with all these things are happening over here to make it all work. no, that's not me. >> you mentioned both the declaration and the bill of rights. set the stage about why the constitution, a thing really worthy of our celebration, acknowledging who was part o