we're not modifying it. >> schieffer: correct me if i'm wrong.id you not refer to it at 909. >> just the poverty piece. just the poverty piece but not the entire plan. the entire plan is 999. >> schieffer: isn't it going to cause poor people and middle income people to pay more taxes than they used to pay because you have a sales tax? i mean people go to the wall mart or the target to buy school clothes for the kids, a 9% sales tax. >> here's where we have some more educating to do. the cost of goods will actually go down because the way 9-9-9 work is that he we take out the invisible embedded taxes. so essentially what will happen is the embedded taxes, which have been estimated by many economists on everything that we buy in this country, to be anywhere from 30 to 40% of the cost of the product. a loaf of bread. 30 to 40% embedded taxes. we take that out in that first 9 by the way it works. then they will essentially be buying that 9%. we have more educating of the public. this is why maybe some people don't like it yet. but this... we would ra

captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: morning again. welcome to face the nation. in the studio with us today herman cain annuity gingrich. i want to ask both of you. you both spoke to the big conservative values conference last week. but the preacher who introduceded rick perry kind of stole all the headlines because he told reporters that more monism is a cult and that mitt romney is not a christian. mr. gingrich, should that be part of the discussion? >> no. i think that none of us should sit in judgment on somebody else's religion. i thought it was very unwise and very inappropriate. >> schieffer: do you think that mitt romney is a christian? >> i think he's a mormon and they define themselves as a branch of christianity. >> schieffer: your thoughts? >> we're not running for theologian in chief. we're running for president of united states of america. while i believe that the american people want to know what are your values, what are your principles because your values and your principles may impact how you make decisions but not ge

captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. we welcome to the broadcast this morning senator john mccain. he's just back from libya. we'll get to questions about that and republican politics in a minute. senator, welcome to the broadcast. >> thank you. >> schieffer: the first thing i want to ask you about this morning. at the recent republican debate, the audience booed when a gay soldier asked a question and the candidates on stage said nothing. last night, the president jumped all over that at a gay rights dinner. i know you opposed ending "don't ask, don't tell," but i want to play a bit of what the president said and get your reaction. >> we don't believe in that. we don't believe in standing silent when that happens. we don't believe in them being silent. you want to be commander in chief? you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the united states, even when it's not political convenient. >> schieffer: what about that senator mccain? does the president have a point? >> i think he has a po

>> schieffer: all right. let me move on. you have subpoenaed hundreds, some say thousands of pages of documents relating to this from the justice department. the justice department says frankly they want to cooperate but they say you're just show boating when you launch a subpoena like that. >> well, bob, you know, when you get a black cow at midnight eating a licorice and they tell you they gave you a thousand pages i have countless pages that look like this. many of them when we actually get to some of the details there's clearly details that have been redacted that we should have. our subpoenas have been very narrow. in some cases it's because a whistle blower gives us a document. and sharyl has been very involved in these activities in her own way too. we have a document. it causes us to narrowly ask for a document. to get the same document but ensure it's authentic. often we get it redacted when the original one we look at under net should give it to us. we have tried to be narrow. in some cases like ema

captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. we begin this morning with republican presidential candidate michele bachmann. she's in des moines. ms. bachmann, you and the other republican candidates had withering criticism when the president announced he was bringing the troops home from iraq. but secretary of state clinton says this morning republicans should have made those complaints to former president bush when he struck that deal during his administration to bring them home at the end of this year. what's your response to that? >> well, president obama has been in office now for two-and-a-half years, three-and-a-half years. he's had plenty of time to be able to deal with this situation. of course events change on the ground. this decision seems to me that it was more politically based than military based. if you look at every time we have deposed a dictator, the united states has always left troops behind to be able to enforce the fragile peace. in this case, once we're finished in iraq, we'll have more troops in ho

. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's on assignment, i'm bob schieffer. well, our military and intelligence forces have been tracking him for years and today they found him and killed him. anwar al-awlaki who apparently inspired the fort hood major who killed 13 service members and whose ties to al qaeda may go back as far as the 9/11 hijackers was tracked down leaving a funeral in yemen and killed by a rocket fired from a u.s. drone aircraft. we have reports tonight from david martin and bob orr. first to david at the pentagon. david? >> reporter: bob, the hunt for al-awlaki was code named "objective troy" and has been in high gear for months. a c.i.a. drone finally got him, but that was just the tip of a much larger operation. missiles fired by the drone took out al-awlaki's vehicle, making the american-born cleric the first u.s. citizen to be targeted and killed as a terrorist. a senior defense official said "a very bad man just had a very bad day." the president seemed to have no qualms about al-awlaki's american roots. >> al-awlaki was the leader of

but first, here's bob schieffer in new york with more of the day's news. >> schieffer: thank you very much, scott. a stunning verdict in perugia, italy, today. after four years in prison, 24- year-old american student amanda knox was found not guilty of killing her college roommate by an appeals court jury. tonight she is a free woman. "48 hours" correspondent peter van sant is in perugia. >> reporter: after nearly four years of imprisonment, american amanda knox tonight won her freedom and vindication in perugia, italy, when two judges and a jury ruled she did not murder her british roommate, meredith kercher. amanda's sister, deanna, smoke amanda's sister, deanna, spoke for the family. >> we're thankful that amanda's nightmare is over. we are thankful to the courts for having the courage to look for the truth and the overturn this conviction. >> reporter: an extraordinary scene outside the courthouse. there's been whistling, great disappointment among people out here that amanda knox has been found not guilty in the murder of meredith kercher. this is one of amanda's attorneys. >> s

bob schieffer and jan crawford bring us the latest. a cutting end technology that could mean a whole new source for humid an body parts. in london, mark phillips has details. and running to remember, at the marine corps march thon, elaine quijano shows us a widow and her daughter following their hero with every step. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. we begin tonight with the october snowstorm that socked most of the northeast this weekend. surprisingly heavy snow buried communities from maryland, clear up to maine. more than 3 million people are still without power tonight. and at least five are dead. jim axelrod has more on the prehalloween trick that was one for the record books. >> reporter: if they hadn't seen it. >> never saw this before in my life. >> reporter: they might not have believed it. but up and down did east coast, there was simply too much snow to ignore. >> i can't stand it. i hate it. hate it, hate it, hate it. i can't even express how much i ha

to bob schieffer! >> thank you david corn and thank you alex wagner.a nice weekend fellas. >>> up next, you know it's bad for michele bachmann when even tea party leaders aren't taking your presidential campaign to heart or even seriously anymore. she's in the sideshow. i think she's never getting out of the sideshow now. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] this is lara. her morning begins with arthritis pain. that's a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lara who chose 2 aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. [ female announcer ] get money saving coupons at aleve.com. [ mom ] my husband -- he thinks it's a 3-sheeter. i say 1-sheeter. [ female announcer ] in this lab demo, 1 sheet of bounty leaves this surface as clean as 2 sheets of the bargain brand. super absorbe

> reporter: on "face the nation" sunday before the sexual harassment controversy broke, cbs' bob schieffer gave the candidate the opportunity to set the record straight on his stance on abortion, which opponents have questioned. >> i am prolife from conception, period. and if people look at the many speeches i have given over the years, that has and will still be my position. >> reporter: well, talk about those exceptions. >> prolife from conception, periled. i was that -- that piece that was pulled out was taken totally out of context when they were talking about -- >> in other words, you would not even believe in abortion if rape, increest or the health of the mother? >> that is my position. >> reporter: schieffer also took cain to task for a controversial internet campaign ad that featured cain's chief of staff smoking. cain may have more to say about the sexual harassment allegations a bit later today. he has a full day of campaigning ahead, including an appearance, terrell, at the national press club here in washington. >> susan mcginnis in washington this morning, thank you. >>> nato

is always on cbssf.com. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com. >> schieffer: tonightg victory in the war on terror. the united states kills anwar al-awlaki linked to a series of terror plots against americans. david martin on how they got

. >> pelley: we'll ask bob schieffer if cain's unconventional campaign is ready for prime time. and a cbs news tradition returns. "on the road" with steve hartmann. tonight, this statue was a gift from france, but where did this one come from? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. what's knocking on the door of tens of millions of people in the northeast this halloween weekend is no treat. strong wind, freezing rain and snow. snow in amounts new york city hasn't seen this early in more than 100 years. it's part of a storm that's been pushing up for from the deep south and, ready or not, it could dump as much as a foot of snow in parts of new york state and southern new england starting tonight. jim axelrod is in midtown manhattan. jim? >> reporter: scott, has as 25 million americans could be affected. the winds could gust up to 50 miles an hour and heavy snow expected to knock down trees and power lines from maryland to maine. the snowplow moving through the sunny streets of washington, d.c. may have looked a littl

>> schieffer: i think it has to be taken very seriously at this point, scott, and here's why. think about this: mitt romney has been plodding along at about 25% in the polls and it's like he's been running most of his life. rick perry, the governor of texas, gets into the race; he zooms immediately to the top in the polls, has a couple of stumbles and goes back down. but then you take herman cain who has no real campaign staff, has not raised very much money, some people weren't even sure he was serious about this. he's gotten in, he makes a couple of stumbles, and he keeps going up. somehow or other, herman cain is connecting with a big segment of republican voters right now and that's why he can no longer be ignored. >> pelley: but there's a long way to go. i wonder, you mentioned the campaign financing and lack of organization. does he have the legs for this race? >> well, we will find out, but so far so good for him. i mean, it's almost like one of those movies, scott, where the candidate has no campaign staff, where he has no money and then he just starts talking about th

want to move on to mr cain you were a guest on the sunday morning talk show face the nation of bob schieffer the other morning and the topic of discussion was this controversial ad that you put out that included your campaign manager mark block smoking a cigarette and so here mr schieffer decided to question you and what message you think that sense it's take a listen. i don't know if since this signal that it's cool to slow no it does not mark block smokes best. as we were trying to say it's cool to smoke and you have a lot of people in this country to smoke but. so you said your piece you don't think it's cool to smoke that's not what you're trying to say in the ad do you think it's cool to smoke mrs bachmann i can tell you alone that a woman outside of rally told me that smoking can kill you so i'm going to go with no i believe that that's perhaps a scientific fact that a lot of you know science would back up that claim that smoking can be incredibly detrimental to your health and also can increase your chances of lung cancer or stroke but i do i trust the good american people to give me

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bob schieffer gave mr. cain yesterday the opportunity to set the record straight. >> pro life from conception, period. i was that -- that piece that was pulled out was taken totally out of context when we were talking about -- >> so, in other words, you would not even believe in abortion if rape, incest, or the health of the mother was involved? >> correct. that is my position. >> that is your position? >> that is my position. >> reporter: a few missteps aside, the des moines register poll shows him edging out mitt romney for first place in iowa. >> my message is connected and people are connecting with me and the specific solutions i'm putting on the table. >> reporter: another reason may be cain's unconventional style. he is not your typical politician because he isn't a politician. he admits when he doesn't know something. states like alabama that aren't part of the early calendar he visits and runs quirky, sometimes controversial, campaign ads. president obama's re-election team doesn't appear to be tak

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good morning, bob. >> schieffer: good morning, charles.runner herman cain annuity gingrich who is also moving up in the republican presidential contest. all ahead on "face the nation." >> osgood: thank you, bob schieffer. we'll be watching. next week here on sunday morning... ♪ ... rocking with cold play. ♪ sunday morning's moment of nature is sponsored by... >> osgood: we leave you this sunday morning in a gathering of elk in pennsylvania. (bugling). >> osgood: i'm charles osgood. please join us again next sunday morning. until then, i'll see you on the radio. i have copd. if you have it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms... ...by keeping my airways open... ...a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free. spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems,

two great talkers join bob schieffer in washington starting here in less than five minutes here on cbs . >>> and final check of the weather forecast this morning. it looks like it's going to be nice and a little cloudy. >> more cloud cover today, and tomorrow a very slight chance of showers in the morning hours. nothing like we saw last week. it will be cooler tomorrow and lots of sunshine warming to high 80s. >> clouds around blue angel time or clear? >> cloudy this morning, a little break and low clouds again. >> thanks for joining us this morning. ,,,,,,

has always been harold schieffer. you can always count on him to be in the fray when the fight's going, when the going gets tough. harold schieffer is always there and you can be proud of him. [cheers and applause] honor to be here with my two colleagues who are leading the fight, senator menendez and senator stabenow. also here with one who shazz dedicated her life and now secretary to labor. you couldn't have a finer secretary of labor than hilda right over here. [cheers and applause] i guess this is about the part in the program where i can honestly say everything's been said but not everybody said it. [laughter] you know i shouldn't even be here. i was not scheduled to be here, so why am i here? well, as chairman of the education committee i've been working for a year to get our education bill up, to get marked up so we can do away with no child left behind. we can get more hope for our teachers and our schools around the cub. so we finally got it up h morning. and senator paul from kentucky, using an arcane rule

to bob schieffer! thank you, david corn and alex wagner. >>> up next, you know it's bad for michele bachmann when even tea party leaders aren't taking your presidential campaign to heart or even seriously anymore. she's in the sideshow. i think she's never getting out of the sideshow now. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. if shopping for insurance were like shopping for diapers, you might think all these cost about the same... protect about the same... but what if you have an accident? allstate accident forgiveness starts the day you sign up. these guys might make you wait a couple of years. we can't wait a couple years. [ babbles ] no you cannot. thanks. don't mention it. [ dennis ] shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll also get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. >>> back to "hardball." now for the sideshow. first up, spark and fizzle. why has that been the pattern on polling numbers for many candi

. >> that interview with bob schieffer was taped before this issue came to light. it's clear the white house thinks he will be the nominee. senior adviser to the white house, david plouffe, taking aim from mr. romney's changes on issue over the years. >> mitt romney continues to have 75%, 08% of his party looking somewhere else. so, it will be interesting to see if he can turn that around. >> will he be a diminished candidate if he's the nominee? >> well, here's -- we'll see what happens in their primary. i'd make two points about him. one is, he has no core. issue after issue after issue he's moved all over the place. working a few steps down from the president, i can till one thing, what you need in that office is quick. you need to have a true compss and willing to make tough calls. you get the sense with romney, if he thought it was good to say the sky was blue and grass is green to win an electric, he'd do it. >> remarks similar to those made earlier this month by david axelrod. an ambassador campaign strategist. comment didn't end with rival campaigns as chri

stood proudly to defend sergeant thomas received something of a hero's welcome in zuccotti park schieffer yes it was a real you know we can gestures of appreciation towards the marine that completed combat in baghdad but just began his battle against police brutality here at home sergeant thomas is public blasting of the n.y.p.d. has more formally inspired the birth of a new hold on to my memory because i knew as matter is of all military branches since joining the anti-war protests and with roughly forty thousand soldiers coming back from iraq by the years and this international grassroots movement may grow even my idea point i am artsy we are. trying to get a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital the british parliament has struck down a motion calling for a national referendum on leaving the european union the photo was initiated by a politician signed by a hundred thousand people and backed by a minority of m.p.'s tired of what they see as the meddling by the easier and sovereign british affairs as i misgivings culminated in eighty one m.p.'s from prime minister david camer

but today on "face the nation," republican congressman darryl issa told bob schieffer there is reason to ask whether there is a third missing weapon. >> when agents who were at brian terry's funeral made statements to his mother indicating there were three weapons, then you look and say, "was there a third weapon at the scene? were there additional people who escaped with weapons?" >> reporter: also in secret recordings obtained by cbs news, the lead atf case agent speaks to a gun dealer who cooperated with atf in selling weapons to suspects. they refer to a third weapon, supposedly recovered at the terry murder scene, an sks rifle. >> reporter: on the broader question of who knew what when in fast and furious, issa says he would like to re-question attorney general eric holder. >> are you saying the attorney general knew a whole lot more about this than he testified to when he came before the congress? >> he clearly knew more than he said when he said he only first heard of this program a few weeks before. >> reporter: we filed freedom of information requests twice, but the fbi has r

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