pat? >> bashir asawed, the president of syria will not last the year. >> sarah palin, who apparently is shopping around a new reality show but they are not lining up to take it. >> rich? >> nancy pelosi. when democrats fail to take back the house she will no longer be the leader of that caucus. >> senator harry reid, the democrats are going to lose control of the senate and he will no longer be majority leader. >> wikileaks found you are julian assange. in his heyday the five major newspapers in the world collaborated with assange. now they blame all of them for publishing leaked documents that endangers people's lives. pat, best political theater of 2011. >> david cameron walks out of the eu summit, goes home to a churchilian reception. great job. >> wait a minute. is that abuse of him or praise? >> praise. >> are you being sarcastic? >> praise. >> he rejected the euro zone? >> they said up yours. take your treaty and you know what you can do with it. >> he wants to protect great britain?

bold exist political tactic, pat? >> newt gingrich saying that actually the palestinian people don't exist. they are an invented people. they are all arabs. >> horrible, huh? >> no, i mean, he spun this thing. i got to give him credit. >> he was talking as an historian and his view happened to match those of the evangelical christians he is courting in iowa. there is always method to his madness. >> i wouldn't go that far. >> well, i would say stripping the collective bargaining rights in wisconsin and ohio. bold political tactics back firing to a certain exbe tent. >> eleanor stole mine. scott walker is the bold exist. plowing through after dems fled the state. >> what do you think? >> newt gingrich taking on these televised debates as a way to completely revive his political career and reputation. who would have thunk? >> the bold exist political tactics, president obama's decision to go negative in the current campaign 2012. there were high hopes he would be a unifying president. class warfare. if he loses in 2012

and i am clearly not past only-- pat's only fan. so is yahweh h god. >> i spent the better part of a week in prayer and just saying god, show me something. and i will share with you some things i will share with you. i think he showed me about, the next president but i'm not supposed to talk about that so i will leave new the dark. >> probably just as well. >> probably just as well. but i think i know who it's going to be. >> stephen: it's probably just as well he doesn't tell us who the next president is going to be. clearly whoever god picked it's going to be ridiculous. i'm guessing the next president is either a powder puff girl% dispenser or jon luntzman. but folks-- (applause) >> jon: . >> stephen: just as well. but that wasn't god's only message to pat. >> the lord said a time of maximum stress and peril this country will begin disintegrating so i'm saying, god, let me give you some, some suggestions and you tell me if any of them are right. >> stephen: oh, it's like 20 questions but with the ten plagues. all right, let's pla

i don't think random pat-downs is making us any safer. if you have gone through the body screener, you've been a good citizen and taken the shoes off and emptied your pockets, shouldn't you get a reward by not getting patted down if you have taken all those things off your body before you go through it? i just don't think we're safer with random pat-downs. i am going to see if we change the rules. i walked into the state of the union address. i met many democratic congressmen, they were saying we need to change the tsa policy. they are rude to us also. i think frequent travelers, business people calling our office by the thousands saying we've had the same experience. will you do something to rein in the tsa. >> sean: we've seen the pictures children getting patted down and women and old people in wheelchairs and nuns getting patted down. some of it very invasive. is your big contention the randomness of it. there ought to be some just cause or some real reason. in other words, look it could have been a liberal conspiracy machine here, se

>> try harder, pat!>> the president did not cause the economic and fiscal crisis that continue in america tonight. but he was elected on a promise to fix them. and he cannot claim that the last three years have made things anything but worse. the percentage of americans with a job is at the lowest in decades. one in five men of prime orking age and nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today. the president's grand experiment in trickle down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. no feature of the obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divides us, to create favor with some americans by castigating others. >> question, handling of the response. >> excellent. doesn't have a lot of stage presence but there's a lot of substance there, more memorable lines than the president had in 70 minutes. and he got to what are generally the big issues facing this country. i agree with pat, the state of the union was a centrist speech, catalog of that won't go

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and we popped the first of three questions to pats' fans.

. >> reporter: pat nunez still trying to comprehend what he saw today. >> it was probably one of the worst things i've ever seen. >> reporter: pat and his wife were 234 their home when they -- in their home when they heard screams for help. >> he was getting bit by a dog. >> >> he learned another boy -- >> he learned another boy down the road was getting mauled. >> i had to help him. >> reporter: pat stopped what he doing and ran down the street. what he found he will nefer forget. >> it was bank a tug of -- he are never forget. >> it was pa basically a tug-of- war -- it was basically a tug- of-war between his grandma and the dog. it ended up -- i ended up sticking the broom handle in his mouth and then he came back at grandma's hit. >> reporter: he was able to get the dog off. >> the child's arm badly injured. >> bleeding pretty bad. >> reporter: he was alive, thanks to pat. deputy the eventually got -- deputies eventually got to the home and say they were forced to shoot the pit bull. the family of that little boy didn't want to speak today. >> i consider my neighbor a hero. he wen

pat warren has the latest on this hot button issue, pat. >> reporter: we're at the foot of the state house right now packed with advocates for traditional marriage in opposition of governor o'malley's same-sex marriage: >> they're not cowards. they're going to stand up for what they believe in. >> on sunday, governor o'malley addressed the conference following his wife's appearance last thursday. the first lady called lawmakers cowards for not passing same- sex marriage last year and went on to further criticize. >> i hear a lot of that from legislators, well i'm for it but i may not get reelected which i think is sort of, lame. >> reporter: some lawmakers took offense. >> there's outrage. there's been delegates who have contacted me. and specifically told me that they are going to work with us on the bill now. >> reporter: governor o'malley sunday tried to quiet the storm. >> sometimes in our empathy that we feel for those who are treated unfairly, we respond to the sort of hurt of injustice, the inequality of our laws, with words of hurt rather than words of healing. >>> the maryla

i'm going to give you a television eternity, pat. take three minutes and explain your thesis or theses -- you actually have more than one -- and what would you do about that? >> guest: well, one of them is i don't think the united states is going to be the last and lone superpower by 2020. i think china's rising so fast, it's going to be a military virtual equal of the united states and an economic equal, so we're going to a bipolar world. secondly, i think the american state, the nation-state, the government is in deep trouble, ralph, and cannot balance its budgets or secure its borders or win its wars or stop the hemorrhaging of its manufacturing base overseas. we lost six million manufacturing jobs in the first decade of the 21st century, some 55,000 factories shut down. the united states is declining as a great superpower and a great nation. but i think the most important thing i see is that america is disintegrating. i think it was lee hamilton who said that the seven terrorist call forces are becoming dominant in american socie

." >>> hello, i'm pat lawson muse. we are going to show you some of the more interesting local stories making news this week. among them, a major mystery is solved. how a social mix up helped police. >>> puppipalooza hits a college campus. part of a popular study break for stressed out students. >>> first of all, the end of an era. darcy spencer has more on what the end of the war meant for some service members who got a chance to come home. >> reporter: the last convoy of u.s. troops left iraq at daybreak crossing into kuwait marking the end of the nearly nine-year war. >> it's nice to leave. >> reporter: this says it all. last vehicle out of iraq, written in chalk. there were 500 soldiers involved in the last convoy. >> looking forward to getting home. everybody is going to look back and say we were the last ones there. >> reporter: soldiers have to wait five days in kuwait. they passed the time playing cards and games. >> i can't wait to go home. >> reporter: the war has been costly. it claimed the lives of 4,500 am

but they wanted to do a pat-down exam.d, well, i just as soon walk back through the screener they had let me do that before. they said no, you get a pat-down or you don't fly. i said, well i would rather talk to the manager. but nobody seemed to be willing to let me go back through the screener. this is a conversation we have been having at the tsa, you know, i fought hard in the spring to have little kids go back through the screener, but i thought we were going to apply it to adults as they had let me in previous airports. in order to travel, we need to have some dignity. we can have security and dignity. but tsa needs to do a better job. >> you know, it's funny, when i heard that, the word detention was used. did you feel detained at any point? >> well, yeah, i was detained in a clear cubicle where they detain you. i was very aggressively told not to leave the cubicle. so in my mind, i felt like i was being detained because distep out of the cubicle one time to talk to the tsa and i was very forcefully told i needed to

the screener is part of a random pat-down process where people are getting randomly pat-down but the they think the screener is going off because it defected something. i didn't realize that until today. the screener goes off one time and they let me go through it an hour later and the screener doesn't go off. that's because i must have been part of a random pat-down but wasn't told that initially. >> we checked, you had mentioned that earlier and we went to the tsa and asked them -- are there now random alerts that simply go off without any evidence that there's a problem and they issued a statement saying, no. we said, can the -- tsa trigger the machine to indicate there's an alarm? no. and then the other question was -- do the machines have alarms that randomly go off to indicate that there is an object on a person when there is no object on a person, the tsa insists the answer is "no," who says there's a random alert? >> two people from the tsa, two separate people and i don't want to name their names at this point. but two separate people told me that there are random bells and

pat warren are live at the state house. good afternoon, pat. >> reporter: good afternoon, don. good afternoon, everybody. the o'malley administration is trying to hold the line on budget growth for the next fiscal year but some maryland families are going to take an unexpected hit in the area of income taxes. >> a family of four can earn $150,000 and this will pay $191 more or see $191 less coming back in their state refund check as a practical matter. i don't like asking for this, i don't like doing this. there are many unpleasant aspects of this responsibility. but to get us through this recession in advance of other states and we'll protect the priorities of the people of our state and the futures of our children. there are difficult things we need to ask of one another in these difficult times and this is one of them. >> reporter: the state expects to gain $182 million by capping those exemptions. it is also going to require local governments to pay $240 million in teacher pensions. reporting live from annapolis, i'm pat warren, now back to you on tv hill. >> thank you very

pat? back to you. >> all right. thank you, steve. >>> mitt romney picked up an important endorsement today from virginia governor bob mcdonald. julie carey joins us with a look at what convinced mcdonald to make a move now. >> all along governor mcdonald said he believes a governor or former governor should be the party nominee but with both rick perry and jon huntsman leaving the race this week mcdonald was free to make his choice, mitt romney. romney was in need of a little help. governor bob mcdonald's endorsement gives former massachusetts governor mitt romney's campaign a boost when it's most needed. it's been a rough week for romney. pressure to release his taxes took a toll. then came a rough debate performance. mcdonald decided today was the day to step off the sidelines and make an endorsement. he explained the timing on cnbc. >> that's why it's time now for me to get involved. it's a southern primary. i'm a southern governor. i thought i could help the governor by coming out toda

pat buchanan? >> john, as a result of newt's response, which was very tough and angry that a personal scandal of his dating back 12 years would be brought up option the first question in the dough bait, the way he knocked it out of the park and his pressed indignation brought him a second surge in south carolina and brought him up to tie in mitt romney in the polls in south carolina. i think it will get him a surge that will take him into florida. but i'm afraid of this, in the longer run newt has been very weak with women. and in the longer run like mark sanford, former governor of south carolina wife said i couldn't vote for newt gingrich. women will look at this and say, how did they treat his first wife and second wife? how does he behave in his personal life? and i think in the long run, it's going to be an almost prohibative factor for the nomination of newt gingrich for the republican party. >> newt is weak with women? you mean in that voting consequences? >> he is extremely weak with women.

pat continues the live coverage at the wilson building. pat? >> reporter: doreen, an em bar r raszing day for our government. a councilmember indicted on felony charges. there's calls for his resignation, talk of jail time, weeks of whispers and rumors. today, they became a reality. at the wilson building today, the main topic of debate, the plight of harry thomas jr., charged today with felony theft of federal funds. from mayor vincent gray, this statement, given today's filing by the u.s. attorney's office, i urge councilmember thomas to resign and focus time and efforts on defending himself in court. that resignation would likely be tendered to council chairman kwame brown. do you think he should resign? >> i have not yet received his resignation. i expect to receive it. >> reporter: should he leave office? it could have dire consequences for his staff. this is what it was like in his office today. what is your reaction to this? >> i don't really have a reaction. >> don't have one. >> it's a regular day. >> reporter: if he leaves office, wha

i was reminded of how really great pat buchanon is. what a great thinker to. because you are a friday what he has to say? >> what was great about his thought? >> oh my gosh, is he talking about. he is not talking about the spreer or the of inferiority. talking about the lack of assimilation. founded on principles in which people of all colors. >> bill: don't some people assimilate and some people don't? >> no, no, no. the differences that our system has weakened. we used to have a great immigration system where people went through a process. they learned our constitution. they learned our language and then they became citizens. they became americans adopting the principles of freedom. now we don't do that now we are in tribes. we are separated. we are set against each other. >> bill: let me give cathy the last word on it go. >> we are in tribes now? we are fighting each other? >> yes, i think so. >> this system is not broken. it is a -- has always been like this. >> it has not, cathy. you must be really young. >> bill: go ahead. >> why, thank you. every group

pat buchanan. >> no, he can't, john, but he's got some advantages you didn't mention.ne is the perception that he's inevitable. secondly, his advantage is the entire conservative side of the argument has been fragmented in iowa between five or six people, between four or five people up in new hampshire. that vote has been splintered and divided and enabled mitt to break out. now he's in south carolina. he's ahead in some polls, all the polls in south carolina. some of them are close but he can afford even to lose south carolina beck's got this momentum, organization, money, he's headed for florida where he's way ahead, and no one heals the ability to go the distance. one final point. all the people who might beat him have been wounded or cut or bleeding or damaged in one way or another. >> the bigger polls have a wider margin for romney being ahead of the next in line. >> yeah, but you've got gingrich and perry attacking romney. they've backed off a little because the party elders and the talk show showmen in the party have basically leaned on them not to wound romney

pat sajak and vanna white were apparently half-hammered for some of those shows. sajak spilled the margaritas in an interview this week saying he and vanna used to go to a restaurant in burbank between tapings. there are a lot of nbc staffers who are good customers there to this day. pat and vanna came back after getting lubricated across the street. >> they served great margaritas. we would go across and have two or three or six then come and do the last shows and have trouble recognizing the alphabet. >> sajak says he had a great time. by the way, it sounds like it. he says he has no idea if those shows were any good, looking back on it all. he quickly adds, however, those days are over. he can't do that any more. >>> about three years ago, two brothers in law from new jersey were fishing off the coast of nantucket in massachusetts. they were in a good sized, well-equipped, fully sea-worthy vessel, two outboard motors and a squall line arrived. the waves were over their heads. they were forced to abandon ship and abandoned all hope of ever seeing their vessel th

pat collins is in laurel with more. hey, pat. >> reporter: hi. how are you? it's playoff time. the redskins are out. the ravens are in. and we found that some skin fans are crossing over to that purple li line. i'm a ravens fan. did you used to be a redskins fan? >> once upon a time. >> are you a ravens fan? >> absolutely. >> you used to be a redskins fan? >> once upon a time. >> reporter: welcome to the city of laurel. you might think of it as middle town. it's 20.8 miles from downtown washington. it's 20.6 miles from downtown baltimore. at the michael's in laurel, ravens posters. go ravens plates. ravens candles. ravens flowers. little ravens footballs. they even have go ravens wreaths. nothing redskins. hey, are you a redskin fan? >> sometimes. >> are you a ravens fan? >> sometimes. >> hum. how do you choose? >> well, the winners i always stick with. >> reporter: a number of redskins fans here are crossing the purple ravens line. and they're doing it with gusto. are you a front-runner? >> yeah. >> reporter: are you a front-runner? >> you better believe it. all the way. >> re

pat colins is responsible for this. i don't know if it's pasadena or san diego or somewhere, way back in the '80s, pat collins walked up to somebody and asked them, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? and that's what started the whole madness with this media day silliness. on the field are the guys who are not such big stars in the nfl. and i got a chance to talk to one of them today. a guy who played at howard university, now a linebacker for the patriots, tracy white is his name. you might be surprised at what tracy had to say when i asked him, who's going to win this game. check him out. what do you think the score's going to be? >> i don't even know. it depends who wants it the m t most. that's all i can say. >> are you prepared to tell me who's going to win? >> whoever makes the least mistakes has a good chance of winning. >> i nobel chknonobeknow belich discipline. tracy white can say well i think we might prevail today? what is this where a football player can't say, yeah, i think we'll probably w

i think romney will continue to roll and i agree with what pat satisfied. by th>>> issue two, obama repor card. >> i promise to do everything i can, every day, every minute, every second to make sure this is a country where hard work and responsibility mean something, and everybody can get ahead. not just those at the very top, not just those who know how to work the system, but everybody. >> trust me. with the economy. that was the message president obama brought to ohio this week. but what do the experts have to say about that? 36 selected economists from the nation's esteemed banks, financial firms, independent consultants, and academic institutions have rated the president's performance on the economy. here's the breakout. one, half of the group rated him fair, 18 out of 36. two, a third of the group rated him poor, 13 of 36. three, 15% of the group rated him good, 5 out of 36. four, not a single one of the 36 economists gave mr. obama a rating of excellent. which republican candidate would do the best job on the economy? 24 of the 36 economists, a two-

senator rand paul blocked from boarding a flight after refusing a pat-down. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett and tonight, breaking news. >> mitt what's the gross revenue of bain when you were dealing with it? to what's the gross revenue? >> fairly substantial, but i think it's irrelevant than the fact that you were working for freddie mac? >> did they ever do work with the government like medicare? >> we didn't work with the government. i didn't have an office on k street. i didn't work in washington. >> he likes to surf off that audience approval. without that tonight, he did seem relatively subdued so it had an impact. >> a lot of really interesting moments. like romney said what do i do with the taliban? beat them. and then of course there's silence. you don't have that applause. these guys are learning to use the audience as a weapon on their behalf. i think he is right. i personally think, get rid of it entirely. it is totally downer productive and it is -- >> i would say i totally agree with that. then you have that dead moment of silence and you're waiti

pat and i have talked about this. we have to determine which positions are eligible and which aren't. you know, a lot of the classified and confidential work can't be outsourced so to speak to telework. so we are looking at that. we will continue to look at it. and we will try to support as much expansion of it as is possible. but i don't want to overpromise because there are inherent challenges. we also have a policy that provides for alternative work schedules. we support job sharing when it has been worked out with the

he was request they wanted to do a pat-down.fered to go through the scan guenin stead of a pat-down. tsa refused. when there is an irregularity, passengers have to go to a screening area and complete the security process. he was not detained. he did leave willingly. he caught a flight to washington, no problems. he released this a short time ago, caulking about this very incide incident. i got on the plane early, i offered to show my leg repeatedly, but they didn't care about my leg too much. i said, can i go back through the scanner? and they said no. i was going to talk on my phone and they said if you talk on your phone, you'll get the full body treatment. i said, i don't want the full body pat-down, but i do need to call somebody to let them know i'm not coming to washington. they finally did let me go back through the machine since i had to wait for my flight for an hour and a half. i did go back to the machine and there was no issue. >>> coming up next, a stunning case of a father who claims it was just a joke when he forc

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pat? >> reporter: jim, let me start with housekeeping. you know the resignation letter handed down last night biharry thomas jr.? that wasn't voluntary. the prosecutor made him do it. harry thomas jr., they say he treated d.c. taxpayers like they were his own private piggy bank. some things harry thomas jr. bought with your money. a victory motorcycle, $23,745. an audi suv, $58,575. airline tickets, $19,000. there were clothes and restaurants. well, you get the idea. >> time and time again, mr. thomas used for his personal gain taxpayer funds that were intended to benefit his city's most important resource, its children. >> reporter: there was no holding back today. in strong words, members of the justice community denounced harry thomas jr. as a common crook who stole from the children of our city and betrayed the trust of the people who live here. >> the victim is the whole of the district of columbia, including its youth. the offender, who is a different opportunist, one who is elected stole tens of thousands of dollars at a time. >> r

pat sajak was asked if he ever hosted his show, "wheel of fortune," a little drunk. pat said yes.it turns out that back in the day when the show was in its early wheels pat and van in a white would have a couple of marg ga receipt tas. it was highly questionable when he made these incredible revelations. >> vanna and i would go across and have two or three or six and have the last shows. they're good tapes to get ahold of. >> yeah, i'm sure they're really good tapes to get ahold of. he says he has no idea if the shows were any good. as far as he knows, there were. there was that one time i remember he told a contestant they smelled funny. no, no, that never happened. two or three or six margaritas on a break. back in the day, you remember, kyra, when you used to go shopping with the money that you won on that show in the very early days. if they were taping more than a show in the day. it took a long time to reset that stuff. what are you going to do, have a drink? >> a.j., that is playing with fire, indeed. we just learned that country singer glen campbell is going to be performi