still, schuler says it's a secret ballot, and he hopes the party will take a more moderate turn. shannon: we'll watch and see. molly, thank you very much. new developments with the complaints over those body scanners at the airport just like this one. they're being used in the airporting all a-- airports all across the country, and now a prominent muslim group is speaking out. >>> some of your tax money could soon go to educating illegals instead of u.s. citizens, and it's all been approved by a very powerful court. >>> plus, he risked everything to insure that a fellow soldier did not die in enemy hands. now he is about to receive the nation's highest military honor. we are going to take you live to the white house where this remarkable young man will become the first living medal of honor recipient since the vietnam war. >> i really feel that this is about the truest statement that i could make about it as far as i only did the next thing that needed to be done, and i was only able to do it because the men around me had the rest of it taken care of. it's hard to take credit for

moderate democrat heath schuler challenged her, getting a few dozen votes.ere no challenges to ohio republican john boehner, as was widely expected he was unanimously elected to be the next speaker of the house. his election came ironically enough on his 61st birthday. he is now promising a wiser, more focused leadership. >>> senator lisa murkowski declared victory and says she will return to capitol hill for another six years. the alaska republican incumbent celebrated last night in anchorage. she becomes the first senator to win a write-in campaign in more than 50 years. despite republican pressure her tea party-backed challenger joe miller has not yet conceded. >>> is sarah palin weighing a run for the white house in 2012? she now says she is huddling with her family and thinking it all over. one thing the former alaska governor says she does know is who would win. she made a prediction in an interview with our barbara walters. >> and i'm looking at the lay of the land now and trying to figure that out, if it's a good thing for the country, for the discou

north carolina congressman heath schuler says nancy pelosi would be unacceptable as minority leader ingress, but schuler says he also knows he doesn't have the support to unseat her. >>> michael steele's days may be numbered as rnc chairman if south carolina's jim demint has his way. he says new leadership is needed to capitalize on the success of the tea party candidates. >>> a world war ii veteran never thought he'd again get a chance to see the d.c. memorial in honor of the greatest generation. that's until 80-year-old chris mauer learned about honor flight. it's a program that provides veterans with a free round-trip ticket to washington. >> welcome on board honor flight one. it is an honor, privilege and pleasure to have you on board with us today. >> we're going to see the world war ii memorial, korean and vietnam and whatever they have up there. >> all right, all right, all right! all right. how about that? it's unreal how beautiful that is. i'm telling you what, that stands out from everything. >> how about it? >> good to see you. >> i'm fine, great. this is something fabulous.

senator chuck schuler says the u.s.epared to ban alcoholic drinks that have caffeine. they say it's geared to young people and encourage them to spend more time drinking. >>> a pugh hispanic poll asked who was the most important hispanic leader today? one was no one, and among the names mentioned is sonia sotomayor, and lewis gutierrez and the los angeles mayor and jorge ramos. that's a pretty good collection, but so many people didn't know what to say. >> fastest grows segment of the population. clearly a vacuum of leadership. something to watch in politics. when we come back senator claire mccakacclass kel changing her o leadership on an important issue. d they work closely with business leaders to develop curriculum to meet the needs of top businesses. which means when our graduates walk in the room, they're not only prepared... they're prepared to lead. devry university's keller graduate school of management. learn how to grow the business of you at keller.edu. >>> in what you might call a little bit of capitol hill

. ♪ north carolina congressman heath schuler. 150-43. >> does the victory mean democrats won't compromise they want to stick to their progressive agenda sometimes called what, pat? >> liberalism. >> pat buchanan? >> john, the reason she's the minority leader is because hoyer didn't challenge her, he decided not to. secondly she has will be an extremely effective leader for the democratic party, got through everything obama wanted and then some, and the democrats defied the country which has voted to go in another direction, but it tells us i think pretty much what you said, john, nancy pelosi and the democrat party saw john boehner got to be speaker of the house by leading the party of no to obama spending programs, now they are going to be the part of no, nancy pelosi leading against budget cuts, it's an effective strategy. >> it was a foregone conclusion she would win the post because the democratic caucus is smaller and it's more liberal, the challenge came from the conservative blue dog. the numbers were not there for credible alternative. she's there because she's a fighter and becau

north carolina congressman heath schuler a member of the blue dog coalition said yesterday if pelosi does not abandon her bid for minority leader he will challenge her for the post. >> i'm hoping that nancy pelosi will step aside and will allow the leaders that are available who are ready to go, but because of her being at the very top right now, no one's willing to throw their hat in the ring and if it comes down to this coming week and she doesn't step aside, then i will challenge her. >> he will be a guest on "morning joe" later this morning. >>> congressman jim clyburn is expected to serve in the newly created post of assisted leader next year. the third-ranking house leadership position is defending pelosi's decision to remain at the helm. >> how did we get the majority? we spent 12 years in the wilderness? four years ago we came into the majority. who was leading the team then? nancy pelosi. steny hoyer was in second place, i was in third place. this is a team that brought us out of the wilderness and since it's sunday morning let me use a biblical, into the land of milk and ho

she beat back a challenge from heath schuler from north carolina, 152-43. some who lost their seats in the november election blame her. >> i know it was the only issue. it was the only ad my opponent ran. >> the truth is that nancy pelosi's season has passed. >> couric: pelosi will be handed the speaker's gavel in january to john boehner. house republicans chose him their leader today, his 61st birthday. and in that alaska senate race, incumbent republican lisa murkowski is ready to declare victory tonight over tea party republican joe miller. she'll be the first senate candidate in more than 50 years to win with a write-in campaign. and update on a story we brought you last night. senate opponents have blocked the paycheck fairness act. that bill would have made it easier for women to sue employers who pay them less than men for similar work. and still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," no one expected william and kate to elope, but can britain really afford a royal wedding? up next, a painful lesson for aging baby boomers about spotting the early warni

but conservative blue dog democrat heath schuler of north carolina is running against her anyway, insisting it's time for a change. >> look, i can add and subtract pretty well and realize that it's not a battle that can be won unless, you know, the caucus realizes that we do have to go in a different direction. >> reporter: pelosi will win because she's convinced enough democrats that she's the right one to lead the party back to power. after all, she says, she's already done it back in 2006. katie? >> couric: nancy cordes on capitol hill tonight. thank you, nancy, meanwhile, a big issue for the new congress is what to do about the foreclosure crisis. in the first ten months of this year, more than 900,000 homes were repossessed, about as many as all of 2009. and even one lost home can have a dramatic impact on a neighborhood as kelly cobiella reports. >> reporter: like most two-year-olds, isaac dieudonne was full of life. last october, as his family was moving into their newly renovated home in miramar, florida, isaac wandered off and fell into a neighbor's dirty, algae-filled swimming poo

her victory came after fighting off a challenge from moderate democrat heath schuler. >> truly makings. to ensure that the moderates are heard within the caucus and that we have a seat at the table. to get that many votes, i mean, that's a lot better than we expected. >> reporter: after being elected speaker, boehner told fellow republicans that the gop will be wiser and more focused on the priorities of the people and the democrats. >>> the makers of those controversial alcoholic energy drinks that we've been hearing about for so long now have two weeks to respond to a banning order from the fda. >> as we first reported yesterday morning, the most well-known of those drinks, four loko, has already announced changes to its beverages. t.j. winick joins us with the latest details. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. the head of the fda told me this is about protecting the public and that drinks which combine caffeine and alcohol simply are not safe. they are two ingredients that have been adding up to trouble. >> so we just started feeling -- just really bad. >> reporter: the fda

>> sean: all right schuler, altmire.ur democrats. >> alarming if we would see them take know toys what happened. as a republican it is reassuring. >> sean: 6% of independents support nancy pelosi. she's a rigid ideologue like the president. harry reid not backing off earmarks. mcconnell took a courageous political decision said i support the moratorium on earmarks. >> polls show only 23% of voters approved of the job she did while she was in her position. sean, at the end of the day, what did she do before in vote? what did she do after? before she was talking about, while i'm pinning this on the republican's fight against me and the money they threw on combating me and high unemployment this is you have to run in the face of that. now she has been elected, now she's saying it is because of the wall street reform. now it is because of health care. now she is going back to the same thing. >> sean: we've got this lame-duck session. bush tax cuts are gonna expire january 1. do they stay with this class warfare battle they'v

the only contested race is that of heath schuler, the blue dog democrat from north carolina is goingosi. he has no real shot, contessa. he'll be the first to admit it. an interesting new cnn poll showed us 47% of democrats would prefer that nancy pelosi would leave as house minority leader. though she has the support of caucus as a whole -- >> wait. they're asking democratic voters other people who say they're democrats, the people who really matter in this case are not regular voters. it's the members of the house of representatives. >> that is correct. and nancy pelosi, because of the fact that she is of the california delegation as well as that she has very good relations with the liberals and progre progressives as well as the congressional black caucus and the fact that she's a female and has garnered a lot of female support within the democratic caucus. what you'll see is an attempt to slow her down, perhaps talk about the future. remember, contessa, this is a leadership team that lost over 60 seats. there's a lot of rank and file members that say something has to change. >> i

from heath schuler. >> it wasn't about our -- winning or losing this race, it was about truly making a difference within our caucus, to ensure that the moderates are heard within the caucus. and that we have a seat at the table. and i think that's what most of america would ask, that our caucus move in that direction. >> on the republican side, members elected john boehner as house speaker and eric kantor as majority leader when the next congress gets sworn in in january. the white house had hoped to host a bipartisan meeting, but had to postpone it until november 30th. republicans said they had a scheduling conflict. joining me now are congressman rob andrews and congressman allen grayson. gentlemen, thank you so much for being on tonight. >> good evening. >> i want to ask you about this leadership vote, there was an earlier vote to postpone the leadership vote. that came out with 68 people voting to postpone. it might symbolize there's a bit more dissatisfaction with the leadership team than was reflected in the final vote. what do you think about that? >> i think what the american

. >>> charles schuler said the federal government is moving to ban caffinated drinks such as this, four loko, this week. and the alcohol control board is urging people to be careful when taking or selling them. and that is the appeal to underage drinkers. some have ended up in the hospital. >>> police pulled over a man suspected of drunken driving and what happened next was a grand slam. >>> and we're always on wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> caught on tape, a scary reminder not to drink and drive. this is dash cam video from a laguna beach, california, police cruiser. the driver suspected of dui puts his black prius in reverse and then after he realizes he hit the police cruiser, he jumped back in the car and drove it forward and ruptured the gas station's water line. the driver was arrested and he and his passenger were not injured. >> oh, my goodness. >>> well here is something you don't see every day. a coyote dashing through the streets of chicago. the animal's adventure was caught on camera yesterday morning. but city officials say this coyote is doing its job. i

and pete schuler, a democrat from north carolina is going to be at the state of the union on sunday, make it clear that if nobody challenges her, he's probably going to step up and do it. he may not win, but he's going to do it. >> among drathemocrats when you together and talk about this, 9.5% unemployment, the democrats were going to take a drumming. but 60 seats that's quite a bit. remember early on, it was the president in some of the ads early on and the republicans mostly dumped that. >> and it was reid and pelosi and obama and morphed bill clinton into candidates in 1994. this is the worst loss that we have seen since 1938. so it's been a while. >> i missed that one. >> yeah, me too. i'm old, but i'm not that old. the other thing i think about this, really is that nancy pelosi believes that this is a highly volatile electorate. she thinks this pendulum ain't done swinging so she could find herself as speak never two years. >> she will be the speaker next week t lame duck congress comes back, all those democrats voted out of office will be here. look at the potential agenda her

north carolina congressman schuler will announce this weekend his challenges to pelosi for the top democratice house. the only person so far to throw his hat into the ring. >>> over seas now. there is word that the world most famous political prisoner is on the verge of being released. no bell peace price winner taking open the military dictate orship of before this. >> as word of the release spread they gather outside her home in anticipation. all holding her picture. opposition leader told us it's a moment they have been waiting for for years. >> it lacked to be very exciting moment for your country. >> we are very much excited. everybody is excited. about. >>reporter: she is the struggle. their own nelson mandela held under house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years she is refused to back down. fighting for democracy the deeply oppressive country. offered her own freedom in exchange for never return she said no. even when her husband was dying of cancer abrought. never see him again. >> he represent freedom for all the people in burma and she pimps for hope for the people in burma. >>reporte

nancy pelosi faces heath schuler from north carolina whose race is really just symbolic, if anything. there's not a real chance of him being able to win. if anything, he'll try to garner protest votes. that being said, the big story on capitol hill so far, you have 68 democrats that are said to agree to nancy pelosi. they say, let's slow down, figure out where we're going, what our message is going to go moving forward. we're not all in this together to reelect you right away. she will be the democratic minority leader going forward. how quickly it will come, probably you'll hear by the end of the day. >> that's big news. thank you, luke, for the latest on what's happening with the leadership battle. there are conflicting reports today following news that president obama's bipartisan meeting to talk about tax cuts and other issues has been postponed. why was the president unable to meet with the new or soon-to-be house majority? well, that depends on who you talk to. officially the white house says mitch mcconnell and john boehner had a scheduling conflict, but other voices on the hil

as we see from "usa today" there is a note that she is being challenged by he's schuler -- heath schuler from north carolina. we will talk about that, the more moderate and conservative members of the democratic caucus. we will hear more about that. but you can see from politico "dems in chaos over pelosi power." he puts the democratic old guard will try to hold the line between the rank and file rebellion intent of winning concessions, no matter how small. let's go on to los angeles, california, where james, a republican calls in. caller: you look fabulous, by the way. host: what you think, james? do leadership elections matter? caller: absolutely. leadership, it boils down to character and ethics. when you talk about leadership roles, it could be military, law enforcement, politics, parenting, if you don't have ethics and character within yourself to lead, how are you supposed to lead? you are in a leadership role. you are setting the precedent for your constituents and the nation. thank you. host: let's go to flint, michigan. chris, democrats' line. good morning. caller: it definitely

nancy pelosi defeated blue dog heath schuler. she talked to reporters after the vote. >> i'm proud to announce that we have just come from our democratic caucus, our organizational caucus and have elected the leadership of the 112th congress. i want to recognize nancy pelosi, steny hoyer,. most importantly this extraordinary caucus of ours has come together on behalf of the american people whose members, several of whom, we met with yesterday, who won't be returning to this caucus, were so uplifting in their encouragement, in our pursuit on behalf of the economy and fighting on behalf of the american people that it is what brings us together and unifies us behind our great leader, nancy pelosi. nancy? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i wish all of america could have seen our -- today. and yesterday, as you mentioned, mr. chairman, to hear the commitment that they have fighting for the middle class, the saving social security, honoring our me and women in uniform and building a future worthy of their sacrifice for our great c

there is a democrat, keith schuler will run against her as part of her re-election campaign and a numberf democrats said they would not support her if they lost the majority or, regardless, they thought she was too liberal and now, those chickens are coming home to roost and do so in the minority. and the vote will be wednesday and nancy pelosi is expected to be reelected as the leader of the democratic party, it is a very fractured, rather blue democratic party that comes back to a cloudy washington, and it seems fitting for them, while the energy and excitement on the republican side will be opportunities of the new madge nor jort for them, it -- majority, for them it is the opposite for the democrats. martha: the man who is putting the republican plan into action, greg walden, the chairman of the g.o.p. transition team and he says this year's republican freshman class has a chance to make changes in washington and that is what they were elected to do. here he is during the weekend's republican response to president obama's weekly address. >> the in coming republican freshman class is

as a consequence of that, however, schuler recognizes that nancy pelosi is an effective vote counters have it pretty much locked down, so it's a symbolic counter to her leadership, and it comes as a second letter has circulated asking nancy pelosi, asking, first, for signatures as a petition exercise and asking for her not to do this because in their view it's toxic for the future of the democratic party. the concern among these socially and fiscally-moderate democrats is that her liberalism shrinks the party and makes it too far left to be able to get it done, sets them up for more problems down the road. nancy pelosi, however, has made it clear to insiders that she's excited and enthusiastic, and she's energy eyed to -- energized to start working at as the minority leader. a lot of people think she should step aside, no sign she's going to do that at all. jenna: so, carl, going back to that point about some democrats being concerned about the future and what her re-election could mean for them down the road, what specific issues could this present a problem with her leadership and,

nancy pelosi notwithstanding all the criticism goes for and faced a challenge from heath schuler, congressman carolina. former nfl football quarterback. he thought pelosi was a problem and promised to run against her. he knows full well he doesn't have the votes to actually beat her but a symbolic representation of a lot of angst in the democratic caucus. moderates are concerned about nancy pelosi as their leader. rest of the team will likely stay in place based on the way the votes seem to be shaping up but there is lot of conversation among democrats about that and heartburn too. steny hoyer will be the number two in the democratic leadership. he will be the whip, top vote counter. james clyburn who was the whip, number three in previous incarnation of democratic leadership has been added to the leadership team as the assistant to the leader. that will set up a battle between hoyer and clyburn and to many minds it is not the kind of internal dissent that should be happening in the democratic leadership. they need new people, not more of the same. jon: lots of political intrigue. keep coughi

thinking type person likes any hoyer as your minority leader for the party rather than -- or keep schuler? guest: i just think in washington you deal with political reality. the boats are done. it is already lined up. it is going to most likely be pelosi, hoyer, clyburn. in the end, here is the core question. does nancy pelosi -- nancy pelosi, hoyer, jim clyburn, the rest of the caucus, did the recognize the need to have a robust big tent on the democratic side that includes a lot of moderates or blue dogs or do they want to be a much more smaller, liberal caucus that for decades is in the mind -- minority except when republicans mess up so badly that democrats actually get back house. if you look back to the 20 centric, what you can see clearly is there was natch -- never naturally occurring liberal majority. when democrats held power, unbroken for 75 years, it was because they built a big tent coalition, southern conservative, often racist democrats, and more northern liberal democrats. that coalition may not have been perfect but in the and it gave democrat and long string of unbroken

thinking type person likes any hoyer as your minority leader for the party rather than -- or keep schuler? guest: i just think in washington you deal with political reality. the boats are done. it is already lined up. it is going to most likely be pelosi, hoyer, clyburn. in the end, here is the core question. does nancy pelosi -- nancy pelosi, hoyer, jim clyburn, the rest of the caucus, did the recognize the need to have a robust big tent on the democratic side that includes a lot of moderates or blue dogs or do they want to be a much more smaller, liberal caucus that for decades is in the mind -- minority except when republicans mess up so badly that democrats actually get back house. if you look back to the 20 centric, what you can see clearly is there was natch -- never naturally occurring liberal majority. when democrats held power, unbroken for 75 years, it was because they built a big tent coalition, southern conservative, often racist democrats, and more northern liberal democrats. that coalition may not have been perfect but in the and it gave democrat and long string of unbroken

north carolina, he's schuler, larry kissell and mike mcintyre also hung on in a kind of surprising way of course, the flip side to that argument is that bob etheridge who no one thought was going to fall about two weeks ago, did laos last night in north carolina. other places -- lose last night in north carolina. if you look at the beginning of the cycle, there was a lot of reservations about jerry brown and meg whitman and her pocketbook. the big win for them, it was a healthy target race for them, and it was very important for them going into california, going into redistricting -- excuse me. the other one i would point out is -- excuse me -- >> one thing, by the way, while jeremy's flipping through, jerry brown had probably the best victory speech of the night. at one point he said, i'm really into this politics thing. i thought, hey, so are are we. [laughter] >> jerry brown proved that ads still worked, and in two of them, actually, he used meg whitman's own words against her. in one he tied her probably as well as anyone to another politician by actually paying clips of arnold and

." >> i wanted to ask to senator schuler and durban. there has been speculation about a possible leadership fight. do you support senator harry reid for majority leader again? >> absolutely. >> sorry, who said that? >> we both did. >> next is corey from dow jones. >> you talk about compromise, senator reid. on the issue of the renewal of bush era tax cuts, are open to compromise, possibly extending all of them for everybody including the wealthy for a short period of time? how do you see that debate going for? >> my conversation with the caucus this morning, wondering what are focused on as a laser is we are going to cut taxes for the middle class. now, i would hope that the republicans will not block that. we are going to work with them. we are not ostriches with heads and our stand in some place. we are willing to pull our head out and look around if they have better ideas. but i think the legislation introduced by my counterpart, mitch mcconnell, where you extend everything indefinitely, that is a road to a $4 trillion addition to th

former speaker and apparently they will have someone, maybe the gentleman from north carolina, he schulerbe the sacrificial lamb, knowing that there is no way that he will win, if but for his own purposes let alone his colleagues say that he was a difference and did not just want to ratify the leadership. you will find others who are simply all the school that if you lose, like george steinbrenner would have it, if the yankees did not win the world series, maybe we need a new manager. there is no question that there is always that. and yet politically these days, democrats were well aware of the fact that nancy pelosi had brought something to the table for them. and that is the ability raise money outside of washington, outside special interests. i think that he decided this a good deal and his work. if the campaign committees and the leadership that it tends to them, which has made an incredible difference in the last five or 10 years, i served as chairman from 1990-1994. by the time we entered into the more recent decade, just about to leave, the entities had sharpened themselves tremen