i don't have an allergic reaction to the flat tax especially into proposed by the god father ofhe flat tax with certain adjustments for lower income. we have a page tax code that is corrupted and perverted. >> by president obama you mean. >> no, no, no. >> yes, yes, it is more complex now. >> how do you assure me that the same corruption will not take place. if we go through a flat tax. >> we went through the ridiculous process to raise the tax rates. the tax code is bigger than than before. >> of course, it is it rich. there are many more pages as a result of this. wouldn't flat tax be better? >> yes, it would. rick, i am surprised of the cynicism. i thought you were forward optmistic guy. why not try for a tax code at is moral and efficient and transparent and bring citizens together inste of pitting them against each other come is the case now it is so out of control that is it the countrys at risk. >> victoria, the tax corrode had special breaks for the big goys and were placed closely to the president. provisions that apply to just one company? >> yeah, it is it full of weird loop

it is the hit of the year on the first day ofhe year.gan and south carolina in the out back bowl. 15 seconds left. dillon thompson and bruce ellington and good night, game over and drive home safely. a 32-yard touchdown as the gamecocks of south carolina stunned michigan in the final moments 33-28. nfl news and the 49ers may have a new kicker in the playoffs. today they signed a 10-year veteran who has bounced around some. this after david akers missed two more field goals. he hit on 69 percent. he had notable misses like last year in the afc championship game. he was cut by the redskins this midseason. he may have open competition for the kicking job and practice this week. from the nba the warriors will welcome blake griffin and the clippers. this is how he welcomed blake. the clips had won 17 games in a row. the nuggets ending that. mcgee with a wingspan of a tara -- teradactyl. 92-78 nuggets the final. the clippers 17-game win streak comes to an end and they xome to -- they come to oakland against the warriors. abc7 sports brought br

th fact ofhe matter i for some of these people take with it a grain of salt, i feel like crocodile tears. they were the same people hurling insulting and horrible indictments of susan wright within she was first quoted as secretary of state. now at the same time that they were hurling these attacks towards them we would love kerry, guess what, white male. which one do you want. >> answer that. the attacks are coming from democrats particularly democrat women i your party, they're not coming -- >> who? >> let me finish. you said that president's first term was anomaly, i don't know what you mean by that because he was the first black president elected of the united states of america, a keen awareness and sensitivity the fact that diversity, his diversity and diversity of the american people got him elected the first term and second term. wait a minute -- wait a minute, i just want to put a little bow around this. to say to bonnie's point it looks to everybody particularly women who were outraged in the democrat party that the president saying, hey, women, i know i gave you julia, i made a

but of ofhe kinds of rats usually develop tumors 90 percent of the time. >> they said we gave them geneticallyods but they forgot to say with normal food there were also developed a tumor. it is irresponsible. but it focuses on the wrong solutions. john: leading some countries to reject it hurting the pork people. "newsweek" warned us the end of casa social unrest could explode in china. if we want to keep eating pasta we have to take aggressive action. it seems like a joke. >> you can also not believe the story which is ridiculous. >> they do have a grain of truth that fundamentally wheat is the most heat intolerance species. that is true. their word as temperatures rise we cannot produce wheat. we have seen that over the last 30 years it is not proven. temperatures have risen because we are good at that. farmers are smart. better varieties, more irrigation with pesticides and fertilizer. we will save 40% increase of four major grains. pasta is safe. john: we will not die from global warming but "newsweek" died maybe that is okay with their bad reporting. bjorn lomborg. what if the dister bon

ashe etor ofhe bues aires herald, during the dirty war of the '70s and '80s, he risked his life to report the kidnappings, torture, and murder of thousands of argentines by the military government. award winning journalist robert cox. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. robert cox, you were the editor of the buenos aireherald. you are considered to be, really, the person who saved so many lives in argentina during the dirty war. thank you so much for joining us on our program. >> thank you for inviting me here. >> hinojosa: when you hear that, though, when people say, "you know what? you and your work as a journalist saved not one or two or dozens-- maybe hundreds of lives during the dirty war," how does that sit with you? >> difficult to deal with, but at the same time a satisfying thing, because that's what realized that our journalism was doing. it was saving lives. that's why it was so important to us. and to go back now, as i have been able to go back, and to live in argentina or living there for several months a year, and to find people who stop me in the the street and thank me

all ofhe five most actively traded exchange traded proctse were lower. the emerging markets fund led the losers, down 0.7%."mt'etars k s t'ftoocght's niarket focus."t' >> susie: it ended up being a merry christmas after all for the nation's retailers. a number of chains reported today better than expected december sales. according to research firm "retail metrics", excluding drug stores, sales rose 4.8%. that's much higher than the 3.4% peexed. costco was a big gainer, withpe sales surging 9%. nordstrom did nearly as well, followed by discounter t.j.x. sales at the gap were also better than expected: up 5%. but there was an even bigger surprise from gap today. it's buying luxury chain "intermix" for $130 million dollars. now intermix and its 38 stores, will become part of gap's portfolio of brands, which include banana republic and old navy. does this latest acquisition make sense for gap? erika miller reports. >> reporter: at first it may seem strange that gap bought a chain selling designer clothing for women. until you realize that one of major reason

ofhe is the vice president's government policy, and he has been in public policy of his life. he is a democrat. it is a bipartisan marriage. he has been in washington most of his career. it was a struggle for all of us. >> where was your office? >> we were very close to the white house. i could see the helipad from my office. i could see the washington monument. it was a lovely office. very special. it reminded you, i asked them to move my desk so i could see the washington monument. it is a nice reminder of the importance of my job. >> how long? >> five years. >> when you were there, who did you work for? >> the public. it is an independent agency. it is important for people to understand. most of these financial regulators are independent agencies. that meant i was ahead of the agency. it was our statutory mandate, to protect depositors. i tried to stay focused on that. >> the the pepper have rigid did the president have anything to say -- did the president have anything to say? >> no. even though you do not work for the president, he appoints you. once you are there, you ar

one ofhe biggest upsetin the world, and at the beginning this stuffy establishment said this cannot workyou need editors. the user o visits with te pds is a visitor to a public restaurant. >> something that is underappreciated. it's clean because reputation makes it. the premise is that you need to at page editors. encyclopedia britannica pays 100 people to check the accuracy of articles. >> a huge community of people who are very enthusiastic, very eager to get things right. john: you pay those people. >> it's a volunteer community, a charitable projects. we are organized as a charity, so we exist from donations from the general public. all of the work that uc, the writing is done by the volunteer community. john: how can you know who is good and who is stupid? >> you know, if nothing is one thing and always try to remind people is that we don't consider it would appeal to be some kind of wide open former you can come and say and do anything. people will very quickly challenging. we havesome of the best and most interesting discussions you can find anywhere. let's actually find what's t

the ship's propulsion system was upgraded and that there is no reason to believe it was the cause ofhe crash. >> we are cooperating fully with the u.s. coast guard and new york city police department and who were on board right now pulling data. >> reporter: the coast guard said the five-person crew have been tested for drugs and alcohol and that so far, they came back negative. rick leventhal, fox news. >>> more on the ferry crash at 5:30. meanwhile, seven people were hurt and three seriously when a crane collapsed in queens. it happened this afternoon in the east river. the cause of the collapse is under investigation. >>> another big story we're following tonight. vice president joe biden met with victims of gun violence and safety groups at the white house today. the first of the series of meetings this week as biden prepares to draft proposals. president obama wants congress to re-enstate a ban on military- style assault weapons, and close loopholes for buyers to skirt -- that skirt the background checks. >> he wants to hear through the effort that he assigned to the vice presiden

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incredibly bold and audacious attacks, most notably in damascus in the summer when the huge bmb tookutalf ofhe ministers. and you know -- >> including assad's brorbl. >> exactly. but you look at aleppo, for example, all the money, resources, manpower, the bloodshed that has gone into this operation which makes very little sense from a strategic point of view. and every day they take three more streets. and then the next day they lose the three strits. and the effect of the rebel attack on aleppo has been devastating, for every one in the country. for rebels and for regime supporters. and fo the hundreds of thousands of people who aren't necessarily interested inic thatting sides at this stage. but who know longer have access to bread, to running water to electricity. and at this stage, it's hard to see where aleppo is going. i mean the rebels have managed to gain a lot of ground but they don't. they haven't been able to take the whole city and they're not always able to hold on to the bits that they do have. >> and how many people from the syrian army are going over to the rebels which was a f

diane thompson, beginning with u, reminds rst ofhe sorts of abuses that gave rise to this settlement. >> fundamentally what we're talking about are wrongful foreclosures, foreclosures of homes that should never have been foreclosed on. people lost their homes because of the banks' misdeeds, because the banks of violating the law. the banking agencies found that there were repeated and pervasive violations of the law. everything from putting people into default who had not been to wrongfully foreclosing upon people in the military to failing to process people for loan modification correctly and in time. the result was that homeowners were out on the street. >> warner: guy cecala, when this settlement process began back in 2011 even the banks admitted. >> definitely. there were 14 banks originally part of the banking regulator settlement. all of them basically admitted that they did things like robo-signing and other abuses of the foreclosure process. >> warner: robo-signing that not people but machines signed these papers saying they hadactuly reviewed the mortgage. >> exactly. signing

that counting the number of times people search for "flu" on the internet is an effective ndicatr ofhe read of iectin? find a graph of how much your state has been googling the flu. plus, we want you to tell us what you think of our science coverage in a new poll. find both at "lunch in the lab." jeff brown talks to "washington post" film critic ann hornaday about the surprises and shutouts in this year's oscar nominations. and we profile an entrepreneur who built a web site for citizens to report and get responses to problems in their community. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the lifting of travel restrictions for cubans some 50 years after fidel castro put them in place. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our

empty if we don't go off the cliff they can refill them quickly so i think what happened durngthe en ofhe ar was they just ran things very, very close to the vest and now i think we'll see in the first part of this year that they'll have to rebuild it and that will add to growth. >> brown: robin farzad, this was referred to as a pause in the economy. what do you see? >> the federal reserve has its foot on the gas, the pedal to the metal targeting unemployment with inflation so benign. after all, unemployment is still perilously close to 8%. it's been above 7.5% for the longest stretch in the post-world war ii period and the federal reserve realize there is' so much slack in the system it's going to keep going out there, keep rates at painfully low levels to support homeowners, people who want to take out mortgages, obviously corporations that can borrow at record low levels are loving this and and, oh, by the way, the stock market is at near record levels. i don't think many people on the street would appreciate that, but when and if they do remember their 401(k) log ins and go in there,

ofhe obama plan. lawmakers involved actj won't be easy to pass. >> the morn people don't stand up to the lies that are being said that we can't do anything about gun violence, who loses? >> columbine, virginia tech, aurora, tucson, oak creek. the common thread in these shootings is each gunman used a semiautomatic assault weapon or large capacity ammunition magazine. >> will it be hard? for sure. we owe it to our constituents and our country to try. >> feinstein's bill doesn't just ban assault weapons. it bans magazines that hold more than ten rounds, something the vice president focused on in a google chat. >> i am much less concerned, quite frankly, about what you would call an assault weapon than i am about magazines and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine. >> i want to bring in "usa today's" washington bureau chief susan paige and the huffington post washington bureau chief ryan grim. >> the national mood has changed if you look at the polls. 53% of people have a favorable view of

and you hopehat that -- this kind ofhing doesn ppen again. you know what? it does happen again. >> woodruff: and gabrielle giffords made her own one-word appeal. >> when it can happen to children in a classroom, it's time to say -- >> enough. >> woodruff: kelly and giffords also announced in "u.s.a. today" that they're launching a political action committee-- americans for responsible solutions. they said they will raise the funds necessary to balance the influence of the gun lobby and will line up squarely behind leaders who will stand up for what rig. to date, the pair complained, congress has done nothing at all despite the string of mass killings. but since newtown, president obama has commissioned vice president biden and an administration task force to find a way forward. biden is meeting this week with various groups, including a representative of the national rifle association. presidential spokesman jay carney. >> the n.r.a. has certainly been one of the many groups invited. i would leave it to those groups themselves to decide whether to say wheth

close out 2012 with two takes on history, first, a look at the emancipation proclamation on the eve ofhe 150th aiversary of president lincoln's action to end slavery and the civil war. >> woodruff: plus michael beschloss and richard norton smith talk about potential historical turning points of the past year. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the old year ticked down today, and with it went any hope of meeting the midnight "fiscal cliff" deadline. house republicans opted not to hold any votes on the issue tonight. so-- officially, at least-- more than $600 million in tax hikes andpending cuts begin taking fect tomorw. in the

karachi, in the mountains in the north, in several cities across the country and it's seen as a sign ofheling authority of the state and some of these places and also in the rise in the strength and the boldness of some of these extremist groups who feel that they can operate with immunity in these cities without any danger of being caught. notably in quetta even though there have been dozens of attacks on the same minority over the last year, there have been few to none arrests by the police and no convictions in the court to take any of those responsible for the attacks to task. >> suarez: today there was an attack on a sunni mosque. te us about that >> there was an attack in the northwest of the country in the swat valley, that's an area which had been controlled by the taliban just three years ago in the pakistani army came in, launched a sweeping operation to push them out but in recent months we've seen the taliban creeping back in a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago, rather we had an attack on the pakistani school girl malala yousafzai who was shot by the taliban and toda

. >> what a sad thing nell son mandela is hot doi wel one ofhe greatt men we have seen in the past century, 9 94 years old is not able to oversee improvement of his government, .. the turn -- >> rose: no political talent in south africa. > very little talent, you see the talent going away, the best who just left the party, by far, you and industry met him on many occasions and he is gone, he bolted, rama know/foe stow one of the wealthiest businessmen, number 2, he is pretty incapable, it is really a turn toward the lowest the denominator of politics, and it is a hell of a lot of populism, south africa is not performing so you look at the brics and brazil is doing well, although the growth is well but russia, india, china, south africa, actually provide most of the significant political risk plus the middle east, that we look at in 2013, it is not the u.s. and europe and japan and that really is a page being turned from the financial crisis in the past four years. >> rose: so of all of these predictions which one are you least sure about? >> i am probably least sure abouthe china versus in

. >> suarez: daniel coyle, are there a lot ofhing lance mstrong knows but hasn't said at could still get a lot of other people into trouble? sponsors, business partners, people who were involved in one way or another with his years on the postal team? >> nobody knows more than lance. he was the kingpin. he was the tony soprano of this world for a long time. so he does stand to contribute a lot to the investigation if he will. that's the question. how much. how much will he hedge? how much he will admit? how much will he share freely? the biggest signal he's sending now that he's taking his story not to the authorities, not to the governing body but to oprah. >> suarez: but by taking it to oprah it is, obviously, extrajudicial in the most extreme way. but does it pique the interest of agencies, other bodies, that can now have an opening to ask him once again about things he's talked about for years but denied? >> i think that's true. but in the larger sense, this is part of a pattern that we saw in the book that we wrote about lance armstrong and about this secret race. he gets into a

when i was in makeup, we were talking about a call for makeup artists to do makeovers for some ofhe soldiers going to balls this weekend. that's just an everyday talent, something everyone has to give. a makeup artist might not think, i have a specific skill to give away. but it's a different way to serve. there are so many ways we can do something to help someone else. >> the thing about points of light is they are often bipartisan, nonpartisan, it is in part the moment when our identity as americans or identity as fellow humans becomes more important than our political identity. that feels like part of what's important here. an inauguration can be a very political event and this is a way of saying, no, the bush family which is deeply involved with points of light and the obama family which is calling for this in this moment, both with the same mission. >> absolutely. no matter how different we are, service is something that we all believe in. i think that americans are really at their best, we are at our best when we're doing for someone else. we tend to wait, i think the challenge is we o

. >> let me ask you on the oprah side ofhings, we played a clip of marion jones, she did the interviewh oprah in 2008, after she got out of federal prison for lying about steroid use. and oprah at the time was really criticized for going too easy on her, not taking the hard enough line on drug use and sport. if you, christine brennan, if you could write a question or two for oprah to ask lance armstrong, what would they be? >> very specific questions, brooke. what did you do, when did you do it? it would require a probably five-part series or miniseries to get to all the answers. we're talking years and years. >> give me one good one. >> but, yeah, i would ask specifically when did you start? why did you start? and also i think a big one we have all wondered about is did your use of steroids, performance enhancing drugs, did that actually cause his cancer? which is something we have always wondered about. >> what about finally -- let me ask you something here that the head of usada, travis tiger, he talked to 60 minutes and armstrong had been involved in intimidation tactics against hi

. >> and there's the added pressure ofhe japanese automakers having the advantage of the weakened yen. >> toyota back on top. >> the government is going to have to speak out on this, our government. >> a lot of the lobbying groups of the automakers, we had former missouri governor roy blunt on fast last night and he's the head of one of these lobbying groups saying, president obama, you've got to do something. they cannot keep weakening the currency. it's basically providing a subsidy for the japanese agencies. >> europe will do something. they're protectionists. >> all that said, highest pre-tax income for the company in ten years. more suvs, the big fat margin products selling here in the states. >> carl, you're right. don't want to lose sight of the fact they're hiring in the u.s. business is strong in the u.s. they're cutting back for europe rather dramatically. there will come a moment where there will be a positive leverage in europe. >> dow jones pointed out -- no, up 46,000 hourly employees of profit sharing. 8 grand each. >> nice stimulus. >> always worth pointing out this wa

small amount of time, we'll end up with a situation 100 languages into another 100 languages for all ofhe content if the world. the question is how does this affect things in the middle east? it affects everything beuse a lot of conflicts in the world an especially wars have been created because of a lack of understanding. one of the comments would be, was that there is a large body of arabic language work that has never been translated into anything. almost none of that is online. all of a sudden if we can put all of that stuff online, sort of the notion of having a little bit of respect for each other is going to go a long way. >> another question coming up related. i'm from africa, what is google's contribution to enabling success to the internet by wi-fi? >> what we did, the african situation as usual is worse than fire else. as a society, as a global society, we got to sort of look at ourselves and think how have we allowed these terrible, terrible things to occur over several decade. what is the story of the internet in africa? >> it is the most expensive in africa which is the poor

. >>> one o othe most photographed women in the wors spending her birthday today decedly out ofhe publicmorning, michel. >> reporter: hi, natalie. the palace will only say tt e royacouple will spend this birthday before kate becomes a moer privatel possibly at their remote cottage in wales. this yeawill bng her the giftf her first child and n one, but two palati homes, one ofhich actually is a palace. prate tim f h day.l steal some that might be her most precious gift right now, as the birth of their royal heir approaches. the wor watching, their lives about to change. as thrifty and normal akate's image has been, she's aut to make major p pncs ve, literally. in just a fewmonths, she and wiiaare expected to move into a 20-roo apartment here at kensington pace. for kate, that mns a major redecoration project,includ of course, a nursery. but another enormou psents expected toome from the queen, another dreamhome. this bedroom country eate giving will andelus one, one more escape fromn ever brighter spotlight. it has been intense. top fashioeditor lisa armstrongritefor "vogue" which tracks

president clinton is remembered for a number ofhings, but one of the things is if he -- he challenged the conventional thinkingn his ownarty to al with welfare reform. it wouldn't have hpened if he hadn't done it. it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't done it. because a republican couldn't have made the argument. a president's job, according to george readie, the press secretary to lyndon johnson is three things -- one is to see an urgent need, one is to develop a strategy to meet an urgent need and e third is to persuade at least half the people that he is right. president nixon in the early 1960's went to china. that seems like ancient history but that wastraight against the core of the republican party at that time. that was something that was inconceivable for a republican president to do, given the history of mainland china and taiwan, as they were both -- as they were both called. so there have been many times in our history when presidents have had to do the hard work. esident george h.w. bush made a budget agreent for which he -- may have caused him to lose the election in 19

they were also discussing the facts -- t ofhe space acts -- the space acts. -- with spacex.ome may be inappropriate for a sale. others may be greater utilization in more creative ways. >> thank you. you talked about the possibility for-profit companies. we all know there are great minds out there thinking about farming in space and mining in space. are there really companies that can join in with nasa to help nasa become a viable program? >> absolutely. you do have working relations. we would like relations at work toward the future. we announced to a company that is looking to go to the moon. the expertise in that area would be invaluable. they are prepared to pay nasa for utilization of their facilities. there are lots of opportunities out there that can be expanded even more into the future. you mentioned the automobile industry. they are in the process of building in autonomous vehicles. no one has done as much work on an autonomous vehicles than nasa. these are partnerships that could be expanding. >> i yield any time i have left. >> the chairman recognizes the gentlema

the united states, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states and ofhe state wherein they reside. no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. section 2 representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding indians not taxed. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly. mr. connolly: section 3, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress or ector of president and vice president or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state who having previously taken an oath as a member of congress or as an officer of the united states. but when the right to vote at eelection for choice of electors of president and vice president of the un

a lot ofhe discussion will continue to take place in washington over thnext several days about what euture is going to be. and you hear lots of press reports about what will happen from now to 2014 which is when nato has said that all of the combat missions in afghanistan will end and part of the discussion that will take place in washington which we can address in questions and answers is what will remain there as we continue to have a very important part of the u.s. strategy. but what we've learned is that this was an opportunity for many terrorists organizations to be able to leverage the weakness of the state of afghanistan to operate there, both their legal activities you see on the left- hand side of the slide as well as their illegal activities there on the right in which they extort money. one of the most noteworthy networks that we've written about is the hi canny network and our study of the network we sent people over to afghanistan that went with many of the counterterrorism forces that were going after them, documented what they were doing in terms of undermining the stat