rudy giuliani. rudy, how are you? >> how are you piers? >> i'm good. >> you've all ended up in new hampshire at the same time. the theory that mitt romney finally now, that he's running for presidency, two of his big rivals pitch into town as well. was that coincidence? >> it was, absolutely. i was going to give a speech tonight, the republican fund-raiser in dover with the chairman of the republican party and didn't know that romney was going to announce today. so that part was just pure coincidence. >> i mean, mitt romney said today that he pledged to bring this country back. he says he's the best candidate to turn around the unstable u.s. economy. you know him best. is he the best candidate for this job, do you think? >> well, we're going to have to see. my objective is to see that a republican president is elected in 2012 because i do not think we can sustain another four years of obama's handling of our economy. i think that the numbers yesterday are just another indication of the fact that he has been a failure in guiding our economy

his fingerprints on her bra. >> there is lots of dna and there are fingerprints from rudy. there is none from amanda knox. >> reporter: guede admitted himself he was in the cottage, but did not participate in the crime. this week, he took the stand, and toddress claims by follow inmate that he told them knox and sollecito were not in the house that night. he said that is not true. >> i was hoping rudy would own up to his responsibility and essentially tell the court that amanda had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: ultimately, the truth may simply come down to science. >> i think the story of how this crime was committed doesn't fit the evidence collected. >> please, please, you guys. >> reporter: knox's family has defended her and visited her in prison since day one. this isn't going to be over any time soon. how do you continue on through -- >> you have to. you stay focused on amanda. and making sure that that light is there for her. and you just work through it ch. you just have to. you're not going to leave an innocent daughter in a foreign prison. >> reporter: for kn

people will say, rudy, you ran in 2008. it didn't work out so well. it is interesting, bill crystal points out, that giuliani ran for mayor of new york city back in 1989. he loss the and ran again in 1993 and won. so it is interesting to see that parallel there. giuliani did not make 2008 very competitive in states like new hampshire and iowa. he banked his campaign on succeeding in florida. that did not work out. so, we will have to see what happens. if the mayor jumps in, it will make the race more interesting. >>> why don't we talk about rudy giuliani's old job. i wonder if the former mayor watches 30 rock. what do you think? >> this is the big apple edition of the political ticker. it sounds like an episode of 30 rock is what i was thinking. things aren't going well. so he die sides to run fdecides mayor of new york. the list goes on and on. >> i can see it. >> i can see it too. now, there is speculation about all of this because of all of the difficulties facing anthony weiner right now. he was reportedly widely reported as being very interested

rudy giuliani emerged again. they've both been in the frame before. >> here's the thing, a candidate is never as popular as he is or she is the moment before they announce. the moment they announce, they all start going down -- >> -- republican candidate right now? >> i'd say right now it would be either pawlenty or romney. that's what i'm thinking. look, something major could change. here's what i think. the election is going to be on barack obama. who else is -- who the republicans put up there is almost irrelevant. unless they put a crazy up there. and then people will vote for obama anyway. but this is -- every presidential election is a referendum on the administration currently in power. there are no exceptions to that. and so right now people will be judging barack obama. i still think in the end he wins. i still think in the end -- >> i would just throw one spanner in the works. it appears at the moment he's likely to win.

poll mitt romney is number two trailing another very big government republican rudy giuliani ali ron paul pulls it over for trailing sarah palin he's the only candidate of those who has declared his run for the presidency yet so in other words the c.m. polling has the number one goal and candidate it was declared as ron paul will enjoy the moment while it lasts then get back to kicking these anti-constitutional so-called republicans out of the running but let me ask you american conservative viewers do you really want mitt romney as your president let's take each one of the conservative elements piece by piece. is mitt romney best for social conservatives if abortion is morally wrong and he responsible for discouraging it one of the great things about our nation sally is that region title to have strong personal beliefs and we encourage other people to do the same but as a nation we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country ok so in massachusetts but the way

. >> my name is rudy corpus. give a big shout out. i think one good solution is to focus more on elementary school kids. educate them in a way they can comprehend. if they can recite a whole e-40. you know a first grader came to school with a gun. focus on the elementary school kids. that's a solution. thank you. and rudy corp >> i have 15 job openings for kids in foster homes. we currently serve 120 kids. we have the seneca center where we are building a family resource center so the parents who go to san francisco unified school district can come get food, clothing and all of those. please, i have information on the back. take some, hand it out. call me. >> okay. now we're going to have to break for lunch. we do have lunch that we provided right outside. we have delicious sandwiches. this is an opportunity for us to talk. once again. please fill out your form. if you have ideas. these will be incorporated by larry roberts. we are going to come back. we have youth performances. be back here. we are going to celebrate john osaki. >> t

rudy guede is a key player. guede is the third person who was found guilty of murdering meredith kercher, who was found dead with her throat slit. fast forward to today, knox insists she is innocent. dan, guede was called as a witness to testify about a statement he had made that knox and her ex-boyfriend were not involved but his testimony turns out, didn't exactly go as the defense was expecting. what happened? >> reporter: that's right. they were hoping, i think, that rudy guede, who is one of the co-accused, what sort of crack under cross examination by knox's defense lawyers. in fact, the very opposite thing happened. for the first time, he directly said he thought amanda knox and her co-accused were guilty of meredith kercher's murder which is something he implied in previous testimony but nothing he explicitly said. in previous hearings, we had been told he had sort of confessed to fellow prison inmates that in fact knox wasn't there on the night of the murder. well, today he flatly denied that, saying he

rudy giuliani is squandered that. he showed himself to be arrogant and insensitive and incompetent. >> could huntsman become the favorite of republican party? >> he could be the favorite of the establishment of the east coast, but he is too much in the middle. they call him rino, republican in name only. >> correction of the year was a poll in iowa where apparently he got 1% of the vote, and the correction was, i'm sorry, we are not -- it was not 1%, it was one of vote, one guy. he does not have a grass-roots constituency, let's put it that way. >> you sort of wonder if it huntsman is that it is to do a john anderson run, because i don't know how he possibly thinks he can get the nomination. >> the obama people are most apprehensive about jon huntsman -- >> of course, they should be. >> one of the three most successful governors and the country. >> he would be, but he is -- he isney's strategy -- running a general election campaign, the economy, and against obama -- >> you have to go against -- michele bachmann it cou

. >> welcome to cam field cafe, otherwise known as rudi's. >> reporter: now they are getting a punk rockusion. >> the front door on telegraph avenue. on the left side of the famous fox theater. >> reporter: the tour guide for rudi's cafe is famous himself. he has a side job playing basin a band called green day. >> this is a bit of homage to everybody. >> reporter: he is showing off the decor of the restaurant which shares a corner with fox. >> my favorite joker of all times. we had two great parties, we all take our collection of odds and ends and toys and strange stuff and put them together. >> reporter: the collections end up in everything from the barbie doll wall tribute to homemade tables filled with funky curiosity. >> japan makes toys, we are all a bunch of kids that never grew up. >> reporter: even a private dining car for special events. >> the idea was to create a place we could all hang out, get coffee late night or meet for breakfast, bring families, have a good time. >> reporter: but this isn't the story of the celebrity co-owner, more the tale of several long time friends

rudy giuliani by coincidence shows up in new hampshire. what's happening?ustrating to mitt romney and his team. here he is, as you well know, as the front-runner in the republican sxak ahead in the polls and way ahead in the money. a much stronger sxorgs has the name recognition and state like new hampshire next door to massachusetts, lawn everyone his campaign in. yet, here he is. it was sarah palin and -- giuliani getting the publicity on this day. i think it -- beyond the fact he has all these advantages, he -- still remains to a lot of people in the press in particular as predictable, dull. as scripted. and he has to overcome that. he has to become the candidate who surprises you occasionally with something he has as opposed to that's what you would expect him to say. sarah palin, of course, is the other end of the spectrum. totally unpredictable. he has this -- he is the steak but she has the sizzle. that makes a big difference in what the press covers and i -- as i say, it must be frustrating for him. he is trying to get the message out and on message

all five said that they had had conversations with rudy in prison. in those conversations he said, amanda knox was not involved in the homicide at all. now, a lot of the testify was shaky. one came from the murtder of a 2-year-old boy and others had lengthy records and they're trying to trade for light sentences so who knows how that will play out. the one thing you have to remember is, he always said he was in the bathroom when the murder took place. he didn't see who committed the murder. that was his original story. >> we'll have to wait and see. thank you. much. promise flightsredit cs for 25,000 miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for 25,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow. [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's okay. i've played a pilot before. didn't taste so vegetably? well, v8 v-fusion juice gi

today, amanda knox' defense team took another crack at this guy rudy guede.ers is there and i spoke with him earlier. dan, how was amanda knox' defense different in this appeal than the first trial. >> this appeal differs in two crucial ways. firstly, they were able to question new witnesses, requested by the defense that they were unable to question the first time around. now, these are people, prisoners, that rudy guede has supposedly confessed to inside prison, saying that he thought amanda knox and her then-boyfriend rafael sollecito were innocent. since he's coming in and given evidence, he's flatly denied talk about the case at all in prison. the second important strand that's different than the original case is they will re-examine some of the dna evidence. they'll go over the methodology scrutinizing that and call into doubt some key planks of the original trial that relied on the dna evidence. >> i guess the knife which the prosecution says was the murder weapon that she was stabbed in the neck with, it did have a piece of skin that was believed to h

now the name rudy gives way to the name ricardo.a busboy at a bar and restaurant here in l.a. he is the greatest pop-a-shot player i have ever seen. last year, he battled some of the best, lebron james, he beat him. charles barkley, he beat him. kobe bryant, he beat him. he conquered them all, and tonight, he faces one of the toughest and cuddliest players in all of basketball. we go now to the great marv albert for player introductions. marv? >> thanks, j.k. hello america, i'm marv albert and it's time once again for the "jimmy kimmel live" pop-a-shot challenge. [ cheers and applause ] and here are tonight's competitors. he is 6'9", 289 pounds, a one-time nba champion from the boston celtics, hang onto everything. here he is, glen "big baby" davis. and now, at 5'7", 148 pounds, a full-time busboy at local watering hole, barney's beanery, here is ricardo the busboy. >> jimmy: hello ricardo, it is very good to see you. last year as we saw, ricardo demolished the competition. so, this year to give the nba players a fighting chance, ri

but even as romney was taking some sharp swipes at president obama, sarah palin and rudy giuliani appeared in the same state and took some swipes at romney. our chief political correspondent candy crowley was there. >> appreciate your help. >> he is the heaviest hitter in the republican field right now, and mitt romney came to play. >> now in the third year of his fourth year term or his four-year term, we have more than slogans and promises to judge him by. barack obama has failed america. you know, if you want to create jobs, it helps to have actually had a job. and i have. >> he excoriated all things obama, foreign and domestic, including the president's health care plan, not unlike the one romney signed as governor of massachusetts, an uncomfortable similarity he tossed off in a single line. >> not perfect, but it was a state solution to our state's problem. >> reporter: from hey bales to hot dogs, the trappings were pure americana. on the banner beneath his name, the words believe in america. >> president obama's european answers are not the solution to america's challenges. >> his ec

rudy refused to engage in 2008. he never had a town meeting.ple talked about john mccain getting rid of his staff in 2008. john mccain won new hampshire in 2000 when he had 114 town meetings where he stood there and answered every question available to him. that's the kind of commitment that's required that newt, obviously, was not able-- wasn't willing toake and rudy just showed himself incapable of at all in 2008. >> brown: all right, last couple of minutes and we will end on a political story of another nature, anthony weiner. you took the high road, i notice in your column today. you brought in novelists to talk about writings of politicians who do good or behave, i guess. do you draw any lessons from one of this? >>. >> brown: the brooksian high road. >> my problem with weiner is the emotionally stunted things he did, the late night on twitter, but it was just him before all this. some people come to washington because they care about governance, they want popass legislation. he came to washington to get on tv and he was not a force in the

if it's the economy, that's not for rudy guiliani, terrorism and foreign policy might be. >> the oneayed in that poll. >> he has a lot of name recognition. >> these early polls, name recognition is very important. >> that's right. again, the question is who emerges as an alternative to romney. people think romney won't win or don't like him it for whatever reason. the most important thing right now is romney is pulling ahead of the pack, and he seems more likely as a nominee today than six months ago. >> are you absolutely, positively kwingsed that jeb bush, the former governor of florida, who is popular in florida, will not run this time? >> yes, i am. >> i've talked to him several times. i've talked to his friends. >> a lot of republicans are dreaming, you know, even though a third bush in the white house might not necessarily sound all that -- >> as the bush years fade, he looks better. i think he'll run in 2016. but his closest friends tell me he won't do it now. >> in our cnn poll what republicans want is more than anything is somebody seven out of ten wants somebody who can bea

not just rudy giuliani but i think you're getting to kind of a point of no return.me candidates believe that campaigns will responsible yan tusly emerge the minute that they put their hat in the ring, but lots of good people are getting grabbed by campaigns very early. you've got a lot of retail politickingen a lot of retail fund raising to do, and so i think whether it's giuliani, sarah palin, governor perry, you know, people need to figure it out pretty soon. >> john, you got all your questions ready to go? two hours of questions, seven candidates. you get some help from wmur, the new hampshire union leader. i assume you're going to be working hard thinking of the best questions. >> be working hard throughout the weekend. we're going to have the help of the greatest asset in any election campaign and that's the voters. we're going to involve voters here at our site in the college and three different remote locations around the state. i'll be working hard trying to figure out what is first and foremost on the minds of republicans and voters in new hampshire and peo

reischauer, to rudy's right, is president of the urban institute. he was a member of the medicare payment advisory commission from 2000-2009 and was it's vice chair. and he is also one of two public trustees of the social security and medicare trust fund. he's also worked at brookings and was with alice rivlin when she set up cbo in 1975 and also served as the assistance director and dep si director. he was cbo third director from 1989 to 1995 during which time i had the great pleasure to work for him. you maybe expecting me to tell you that doug holtz-eakin who is to bob's right was the fourth director of cbo. this is not true. he was the sixth director. having served from 2003-2005. he came to cbo immediately from the without council of economic advisors. before of which he had a distinguished academic career. during 2007 and eighth, he was director of domestic and economic policy for the john mccain presidential campaign. currently he's the president of the american action forum. even though we're in the house budget committee hearing room, where

let's see how john huntsman, former governor of utah, rudy, if he runs, how they do i think moderates-estimate species earthquake not endangered. >> not going to go to iowa and try to win. >> paul makes a good point, you have huntsman and romney and if giuliani runs, splits up a lot of the moderate vote that gives perry, decides to run and tim pawlenty, why sonny purdue going to paul len city huge for pawlenty. >> what about anthony weiner, congressman from new york, last a few more days, a few more weeks what do you think? >> had prominent democrats, former party chairman tim kaine running for senate in virginia, allison schwartz, very progressive democratic congresswoman from virginia. the news today, if accurate, from the "new york times," if this young woman, 21-year-old, who got that underwear picture did not ask for it, did not s solaicit it, terribly damaging. when they all come back, i'm hearing more and more from democrats, they say it privately so i can't name them, more and more he needs to go. >> pelosi wants him out, which is not a good sign. i think it's going to be a to

mario alessi or rudy guede? another critical question that could help determine the fate of amanda knox. the biggest question of all, though, is is the dna. >> i'm assuming that these people are professionals and that they're going to do a good job of relooking at this, and we know that amanda's innocent and so we can only hope and assume that it is going to be a good report. >> reporter: amanda was convicted partly on the evidence of her dna on the murder weapon, a knife. but now that dna is being reexamined amid reports there wasn't enough of it to be accurate. independent experts examining the critical dna evidence and will report to the court in three days. it will take another four weeks before that will be officially made public. that's the key moment in the amanda knox appeal that could decide if she walks free or serves another 23 years in prison. willie? >> martin fletcher in perugia, italy, thank you. >>> princess catherine wows at a military ceremony as her brother-in-law prince harry opens up about p

a man by the name of rudy guerde, got on the stand, and testified that amanda knox and her ex-boyfriend. he was placed at the scene of the crime when it happened. amanda knox was totally pale as described by various reports and visibly upset. when he left the room, she got on the stan and she said, she was pained and anguished and it was just not true. she said he knows we were not there. and we had nothing to do with it. this is an appeal trial. it continues to take all sorts of twists here. but we're going to continue to follow it. and what the defense is hoping is that when there's this reexamination of some of the forensic evidence, that they say was mishandled, it could work in their favor. >> we'll continue to follow that. hey, zain, yesterday you showed me something about protesters in chile dancing. now you've got something about a chinese cheerleader? >> this is my favorite video, ali, got to show it to you. it is making the rounds on the internet. it has gone totally viral. check out this guy, all right? this is chinese guy. doing a cheerleading diva dance routine. and it is a

there is still other potential candidates, including sara palin and rudy giuliani. >> still early. >> plenty of time. >> thank you. >>> muni workers hoping to get a better deal got a rude awakening. an arbitrator told them the contract management offered last week is good enough. elizabeth cook has details. >> reporter: this is the same contract they agreed to but the bus drivers and train operators voted down. it went to arbitration and he says the contract stands. this is what the workers were up set about, the use of part time drivers and train operators, no more raises and tougher disciplinary procedures. they may strike over the new contract but the sense i get tonight is that they are not going strike for now but that doesn't mean some won't stage sickouts or slow down. >> we want respect for the work we do in the city and we want to basically be in a position to do our jobs without people looking over hour shoulders. >> reporter: the agreement will save more than $41 million over three years. even with the contract the average driver will still make $109,000 a year and that inc

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former new york governor rudy giuliani -- mayor rather. holds events in the state as well.lines, new jersey governor chris christie, he has been courted by conservatives, but he's under fire for using a state helicopter to attend his son's baseball game. a lot of political news to talk about. who better to bring you to the conversation than our own chief political correspondent candy crowley? she joins us from stratham, hne hampshire, where mitt romney is going to make his big announcement. why this particular place and why now? >> reporter: it's picturesque. it's a beautiful farm, suburban portsmouth. message-wise, this is the second big announcement mitt romney has made here. he did his exploratory committee announcement here as well. what does this say? it says new hampshire is very important to mitt romney. he used to be governor right next door. this is where, as we move closer to the primary season, beginning with january caucuses in iowa, this is where mitt romney has to win. you talk to his campaign folks, and you say, well, we have to win in a lot of places, but, b

i mean, we've seen gingrich, pawlenty, huntsman, lots of people chucking their hat in the ring, rudy giuliani flirting with the idea, donald trump still may not be out of it, for example. who of all these names do you see as a serious contender at this stage? >> well, they're all serious contenders. i think it's too hard to predict who's going to become our nominee. who will be the two finalists. i think usually you have two people who end up battling it down the stretch. i don't know who it will be. i believe i'm going to be one of those two and that i'll finally get the nomination, but i can't tell you who the other person will be. >> rick santorum threw his hat in the ring today and sound vrd ed very pumped up, like he'd been kind of wound up, like one of those toys you get. >> you don't want to get into this without energy or passion. i didn't hear his announcement speech, but, you know, he's a capable guy, senator from pennsylvania, once upon a time. and if he's getting in, it means he wants to win. and so he'll do what he's got to do to -- >> the interesting thing about him, i

after all, without you, could eat at rudy's or by all of those cold one sat zingers? [cheering] [applause] >> that's the crew who right there. [laughter] [applause] all right. what would it be -- what would life be like here in toledo if you didn't make these cars? now two years ago became pretty close to finding out. we were still near the bottom of a vicious recession -- the worst that we have seen in our lifetimes -- and ultimately, that recession cost 8 million jobs. and at this industry particularly hard. so in the year before i took office, this industry lost more than 400,000 jobs. in the span of a few months, one in five american autoworkers got a pink slip. and to great american companies, chrysler and gm, stood on the brink of liquidation. now, we had a few options. we could have followed the status quo and kept the auto makers on life-support by just giving them tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money but never really dealing with the structural issues at these plants but that would have just kicked the problem down the road. or we could have done w

one new place that started up is rudy's can't fail cafe.l is filled with barbie dolls, homemade tables cluttered with funky curiosity. one local owner is known around the world, he's from the punk bad green day. >> it's an idea to get coffee late at night or get breakfast sxr a great time. >> he's looking forward to playing a huge part of oakland's revival. >> i want to check that place out now. a big happy birthday to will adams, director tonight. happy birthday, will. thanks for watching. a special edition of "nbc bay area news." >> we'll see you back here at 11:00. >> good night.

meanwhile, sarah palin and rudy giuliani also made stops in the granite state today. neither have announced whether they will run. joining me now from washington, hunt, executive editor of bloomberg news and john harris, editor-in-chief of politico. i am pleased to have both of them here. how is mitt romney in 2012 differt from tt romney in 2008? >> he's goods that have been on the shelf a pretty long time. that can be an asset in republican politics, but so-called pry mow general tour theory in which republicans have looked to their nominee to somebody who's seen as it's his turn. often somebody who's run before and is seen as now ready. i think mitt romney might benefit from that phenomenon. certainly hopes to benefit from the that phenomenon. but i can't think-- maybe al has some other examples-- of somebody coming in to this stage of the nomination process seeming so tired and eliciting so little enthusiasm among the very sort of core partisan voters who he needs to excite win a nomination. so there's a real disconnect. it is his turn and yet a lot of people still

rudy giuliani was the prohibitive front-runner. it all changed.te and shift their choice back and forth during the process. the polls are interesting to the media, but they're poor predictors. >> one thing on everyone's mind is the economy. the debt ceiling is something that washington just can't come together on. they can't make a skigs on it. a similar situation in your home state in minot, minnesota, where they can't come to a decision about the budget and are faying a government shutdown. how do you believe that the gop and the democrats are ever going to come together if we can't make these minute decisions along the way. >> they're not minute decisions. this is a country drowning in debt, we're suffocating in our own deficit spending. i like the fact that there's a line drawn in the sand. americans are fed up with the out of control spending. $40,000 a second being spent that we don't have. $144 million or so an hour that we don't have. this is going to take our country down from within. so we need people to stand strong and say enough, we'v

we are at rudy's hot dog place.stitution here in toledo and the president was here and made a surprise visit and had a lunch here with a couple of chili dogs, and right now donna is making a tuna on rye here, and you see him come and go, and you have your own opinions here, and give us a sense of what people in toledo are thinking about the economy and politics and what is number one on their mind? >> umnumber one would be the jo, the way that the state of the economy is. i would say that number two would be the war and just bring our troops home. that is all i'm asking. you know, that is not our fight. we went over there, and i don't know, i have very mixed opinions about it. and -- i really i just -- i don't agree with a lot of things. but i really -- i just want -- i want the troops to come home, and i want the jobs and the economy to get better. pick up. >> all right. thank you, dawn. kathy here is a long-time employee. >> yes. >> and she hears it all and says it all, but she promises not to use the foul languag

there is a guy called rudyguede, who is -- and mario nelessi will say that rudy guede said that amanda knox is innocent. amanned i don't knox herself says she's totally shocked by this. this is a stage that is very important testimony. it's very critical. it's in the appeal stages and amanda knox and her family continue today, as they have every day, to protest their innocence. >> we'll follow it. zain, thanks. >>> the casey anthony murder trial is back in session, after an abrupt delay on saturday. we'll go live to orlando after the break. >>> and selling violent video games to children. free speech or government interference? a ruling could come down as early as today. a live report from the supreme court in two minutes. (screams) when an investment lacks discipline, it's never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance.