. >> had big fight between the paque man and marquez and unusual fan with a ringside seat. ♪ ghirardelliquares chocolate... ♪a little rendezvous savor our luscious filling combined with our slow melting chocolate. ♪that little reward for all the things you do.♪ only from ghirardelli. pacquiao ( pak'-ee-ow ) andn manuel marquez. the two rivs faced off last night at the m-g-m grand in las vegas. ad each b . >>> in boxing, two rivals faced off at mgm grand in las vegas. each boxer scored knockdowns but the match ended in six rounds dramatically in marquez knocked the paqueman out. >>> and mitt romney had a ringside seat for it all. romney and his wife were guest office the chairman of the state commission. romney's presence largely went unnoticed by boxing fans in attendance. >> and our own sportscaster was shaken up by the fight last night. >> good morning. i am still shake from the fight last night. knocked out in the 6th round by marquez in the fourth meeting between the two welter weights. the 2012 heisman trophy announcement came out yesterday. quarterback johnny manziel of texas a&m t

but even though they won't be ringside, the youngsters are still anxious about saturday night. >> departureed for 7:00 p.m. sharp. but just before takeoff, the pilot turns the plane around. >> we came back because the pressurization controller wasn't working quite right, so we're going to have somebody look at it. >> when the problem with the pressure gauge is confirmed, it's revealed the tires could have burst at altitude, meaning the decision to ground the jet is met with little resistance. in the airport lounge, the first priority is to amass essential supplies. before the group moves on to discussing their next move. they can catch a late commercial flight or delay the trip a day. nacho is typically resolute in his opinion. >> we're ready to go, right, and the airplane suddenly stopped. i guest tested it, sent us to a different airline. it's good it happened here and not there. so we're ready to go. >> 90 minutes later, the party is seated on flight 5910 to los angeles. and it takes off without issue. when they touch down at lax four hours later, the late change in plans hasn't crossed

but mitt romney and his wife sat ringside at the fight.ou can see them at the moment that marquez knocked pacquiao out. sweet sassy molasses that should be their christmas card this year. >>> here's something for viewers of cnn headline news. headline news is like cnn used to be. a bunch of short news stories strung together. they run through at a quick pace which makes for a great moment like this one. robin meade had a back and forth talking about the rumor that the new orleans hornets may change their name to the pelicans. it's time for the cnn headline news segue of the day. >> what is wrong with the hornets? >> it's from charlotte. the charlotte hornets. so they are like -- >> okay, then. >> the pelicans -- pelican, watch out here comes a pelican. >> i'm going to eat your shrimp. all of it. a mom and her child are hit by a car. >> seamless from basketball to kind of sexual to horrible in five seconds flat. >>> one more thing back to the holidays for a moment. i'm worried about how some of my friends are handling this santa thing. loui

mitt romney and his wife were ringside and they wished him luck. >>> more than 300 soldiers are backanistan, just in time for the holidays. this was the scene of ft. s t stewart in savannah, georgia. >>> they're members of the greatest generation and they're dying at a staggering rate, nearly a thousand a day, and with them their first-hand accounts of world war ii are being lost to history. in the first of two parts we meet one of those vets, mortgage witzmann. this is his account of pearl harbor and the surrender to japan. >> 1941 a date that will live in infamy. >> i actually enlisted in january of 1943. i would have brn drafted anyway, but i was anxious to get after the people who started that whole war after pearl harbor. so i found mooits on board a troop ship in december of 1943 on its way to south hampton, england. my name is mort waitzman. i was actually designed to a communications intercept place where we intercepted german radio to help break down the german enigma code. >> inengland, general dwight d. eisenhower and his commanders chart the -- >> as d-day approached, our

but mitt romney and his wife sat ringside at the fight.u look closely, you actually see mitt and ann romney at the moment marquez knocked pacquiao out. look at that. sweet sassy molassy. that really should be their christmas card this year. here's something for viewers of cnn headline news. headline news is something that cnn used to be, they run through all the big stories of the day at a quick pace, which makes for an occasionally great moment like this. anchor robin meade talking about the rumor that the new orleans hornets may change their name to the new orleans pelicans and then this happened. it's time now for the cnn headline news segue of the day. >> what's wrong with the hornets? >> because it's from charlotte. the charlotte hornets. >> okay. >> so they're like what -- okay. >> okay. >> the pelicans. they're not the most -- ah, pelican! >> i'm going to eat your shrimp. >> exactly. >>> a mom and her child are hit by a car. [ applause ] >> jimmy: went from basketball to kind of sexual to horrible in five seconds flat. and one more

there's governor romney, laughing it up ringside.actually visited the dressing room of manny pacquiao before the fight. according to pacquiao's publicist governor romney said, quote, hi, manny. i ran for president. i lost. it was tense for a moment. but then i guess he laughed and the dressing room exploded into laughter. >> still worked out well for manny. >> it's funny you say that. manny was knocked out in the sixth round. i think we have the reaction from mitt romney as pacquiao lay face down. >> that's the same face he saw when fox called ohio. >> ow! >> actually interesting. i didn't know he is a congressman in the philippines, a boxer and a congressman and apparently wants to run for president. >> exactly. >> a lot to talk about. >> trading some political -- yeah. >> he was face down on the c canvas, too, saturday night. met with manny pacquiao. we've seen mitt romney, riding a roller coaster at disneyland, pumping gas at costco. life after the election. >> everywhere he goes, they'll snap a picture. >> that's the beauty of th

. >> hall had a ringside view of saturday night's main side event.alled him the realthough yaretaliat retaliater, not the instigator. >> you're hall's new best friend? >> well, yeah. >> it brought him closer to hall, and now he was ready to make a bold move. in the prison library, jimmy had figured out a strategy to draw hall out on trisha reitler. >> i knew he was reading his hometown newspaper, and that was important to me to try cracking into his psyche. >> jimmy decided to ask something that was already public knowledge, the jesse roach case. jimmy fibbed that he knew all about that case. >> all the newspaper stories say you've killed multiple women. >> that was a big risk, though. >> i said, larry, i don't care what you're in here for, but be honest with me, that's all. tell me what happened. i'm still going to be your friend no matter what. i've had girls do me wrong in my life. i understand how girls can get under your skin and how they can be bothersome to you. >> jimmy said he pressed hall about jesse roach. at last hall began to open up, re

in ringside, when you're shooting boxing, after the boxer comes out, from in between rounds, he's very0 seconds when he gets hit, there's spray of water off the head. that's what we did in the studio. >> a photograph is still two dimensional and you're bringing this cinematic three dimensionality to it. >> you said it better than i could say it, actually. a photograph by the very nature like a piece of paper is flat, still and silent. and i wanted to try to bring the sense of power and violence and speed and energy and dynamic life in to these images. i used all sort of photographic techniques. i through water at them and ink and salt and powder. i used a blur and motion. i used all sorts of things to say this is boxing. >> so you shoot sergio martinez and we see him jumping rope. >> yeah. >> and it seems like there's about 40 images compacted in one. >> i timed the jump rope, .3 seconds to go around. essentially there's 60 strobes going off and it sounds like this. 60 strobes going off and then one central strobe and able to depict the jumping of the rope in a still picture and you ca

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after being bloodied in the political ring just last month mitt romney showed up ringside at what turnednother knockout fight. the pacquiao-marquez saturday night brawl at the mgm grand. romney did not miss an opportunity to throw a few jabs at himself. according to pacquiao's publicist, romney introduced himself to boxer before the fight saying, hello, manny. i ran for president. i lost. frank -- >> get psyched, everyone. he showed him tattoos he has. >> you do have to think, this is his re-entry, sort of, on to the american stage. michael steele, it sounds line you're going to give the dude a pass. >> i give the brother a pass. you get your clock cleaned the way he did, and then to watch manny get his cleaned. this is a long evening all around. >> this is a dude who was funded disproportionately by the casinos and casino magnets, and he was there at the invitation of the casino magnate. >> he is on the board of the marriott. maybe will he go on the board of the mgm grand which held the fight. watching another knockout might have made him feel not so bad about his own. >> i guess so. wh

>>> the romneys ringside in sin city. it's time for the poli-side bar.d ann romney were in vegas for the battle. romney met up with paqual in his dressing room saying hi, manny, ran for president and lost. he himself lost that night after getting knocked out cold in the sixth round. >>> it is official. former florida governor clarly crist is now a democrat. he was a republican as governor and then ran for senate as an independent, announced his not so surprising news on twitter friday night. he tweeted "proud and honored to join the democratic party in the home of president barack obama. crist will join chris matthews tonight on "hardball" to talk more about that. booker will decide soon whether to run or not for governor of new jersey next year. >> i am absolutely considering running for governor as well as giving other options and consideration. i'm going to be focus odd that for the next week to ten days or so. >> so if booker does get in the ring, he will be pitted against friend and popular current governor chris christy, who with an approval rating

and in two of the prized ringside seats were mr. and mrs.clearly taking in the full spectacle at the mgm grand. pacquiao, whose career has been marked by an astonishing 54 wins and just 5 defeats had become accustomed to winning, just like mitt romney. in fact, it's reported that mr. romney visited pacquiao in his dressing room before the fight saying, hello, manny. i ran for president. i lost. sadly, the prefight meeting did not prove inspirational and manny pacquiao was knocked out in the sixth round. after the fight and despite countless blows to the head, the boxer was remarkably articulate about what had gone wrong. i started to get overconfident, he said. and i got hit by a solid punch. i did not expect that punch. clearly, neither did mitt romney as this photograph shows at the

on saturday night mitt romney and his wife, ann, had ringside seats at a fight in las vegas.acquiao versus juan ma kez. romney's attempt at small talk however might have you thinking back to those awkward moments he had in the campaign. according to pacquiao's publicist romney said hello, manny. i ran for president. i lost. and so did manny, knocked out in the sixth round. >>> now to those republicans needing a reminder that the election is over. that president obama won. enter florida congressman alan west who lost his bid for re-election. what does he think about republicans negotiating for president obama on the fiscal cliff? like a lot of other things for alan west, it all comes down to socialism. here is what he told radio host mark levin. >> i think this whole thing about having negotiations with president obama is silly. president obama is marxist, socialist, rigid ideologue, and for whatever reason he believes he has some self-conceived mandate to go out and further destroy and ruin our economy. >> so if you have any lingering nostalgia for the clown show, that should

you have a ringside seat, a fresh round at 5:00.are the oddsmakers saying on the hill. >> i think there's a slightly better odds than there were this morning, which is to say none to nil. >> right. >> reporter: i will say this, i don't think all is lost. i don't think anybody is going to throw in the towel on this thing. there may be some wiggle room but there's also the possibility that we do go over the cliff on january 1st. here is the threshold question, i'm going to break this down as easily and simply as i can. >> you are aware i am dumb, so thank you. >> would john boehner, a republican speaker of the house, would any speaker of the house, put something on the floor that goes against dearly held party doctrine? in other words raising taxes, and not get a majority of the majority and rely on the opposition party to do it? it almost never happens and i cannot envision it happening on this time. however, are there enough republicans to go along, a majority of the republican conference in the house that's roughly 235 at this poin

but look who was spotted ringside at the fight. yes, that is mit and ann romney. in his dressing room. this is what he reportedly said. he said hello, manny. i ran for president. i lost. how is that for a pep talk? you know, he is a politician. he served as a congressman in his native philippines. i mean i can't believe that pep talk before the fight. >> we don't have a picture of romney when that happened, when -- >> the knockout? >> no. we don't have that picture. >> if you look at mitt romney and then ann romney, he is -- he reacts. she's calm, cool and collected. i don't know if i could sat in the front row. >> it was an incredible fight. >> you are surprised? you were visiting him not too long ago. >> i'm not shocked. over the last year or two, it's been fairly obvious that he lost a step. i talked to his trainer a couple weeks ago and he admits he is not the fighter was a few years ago. what is fascinating now is that manny told me two weeks ago he only had one or two fights left in him. so now the question is will he fight again? >> and didn't he predict a

. >> the unlikely fan at last night's big boxing match in vegas who even sat ringside. >>> fog and rain. this morning things are a little slick out. there but will it clear ou if the politicians in washington negotiate a bad deal on the budget and deficit, what do you think will happen to medicare and medicaid benefits? and to our coverage? cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from medicare and medicaid will short change the people who need it the most. so if you don't want seniors to come up empty. call sen. warner and tell him don't make a bad deal that cuts our care. . >>> today an annual tradition honoring those who served. more than 400,000 wreaths are on their way to locations nationwide as part of the wreaths across america campaign. 100,000 are headed to arlington national cemetery. it started 20 years ago when a wreath company in maine had around 5,000 extra wreaths it couldn't sell. the owner decided to ship them to arlington and it's grown into a nationwide event. >> it's such a gorgeous sight. one of the first places i took my family members when they came to visit becaus

last night, in vegas, romney and his wife, ann, were ringside, they had some good seats, to see boxer manny pacquiao square off. before the match, romney met pam y pacquiao in his dressing room. at which time he said, according to the "associated press," hello, manny, i ran for president, i lost. so did pacquiao, it turns out things did not go well for manny last night. he took a hard right in the sixth that knocked him out flat. he lay on the mat for about two minutes, wife stormed the ring, she was crying, the handlers had to get him to his feet, it was quite the scene. >>> the usda planning to pack a little more into the average school lunch in this country. agricultural secretary tom vilsack says more grains and meat will go back on school menus nationwide after several lawmakers complained kids were not getting enough to eat. the changes this an update to a set of nutritional rules aimed at preventing childhood obesity. newark mayor corey booker's decision to limit himself to a food stamp budget clearly has not sapped his energy for heroism. witnesses say the 43-year-old democrat

other headlines making news mitt romney got out of the house, he and ann were supported in las vegas ringsidemannypac pachio. he had a weird interaction. >> romney had an interaction with another human? >> bill: another lose her. huffington post reports he introduced himself in the locker room saying, hello, manny. i ran for president. i lost. >> bill: thafrmingdz for stopping by. >> sad sad. >> >>. >> some of my best friends are professional boxers. >> joe manchion is not happy with the new buck wild reality show that takes place, manchion said he is repulsed by the let program in the state that the live by the mano that whatever happens happens. >> i almost got that tatoo in college. >> he says he is disgusted mtv is trying to profit off of coaxing the cast into shameful behavior. >> bill: i can't wait to see this program. i have seen a couple of the pilots, promos. >> peter: it looks so good so full of redneckery. i don't think they needed coaching into doing shameful things. >> in sports, quite the day in n.f.l. action yesterday, key gains, play-off hunting washington redskins beating rav