back by popular demand, let's go to sherrod small for our pre game report. what's coming up on tonight's show? >> do knot try to adjust your television. this is "red eye." coming up on tonight's show, north korea dictator kim jong-il finally gets to meet qaddafi. and a bad case of the front-runner blues. ron paul makes newt gingrich his back up dancer with a third to the front of the pact. and if that is not shocking enough, a criminologist from nc charlotte says if you are 23 years old and haven't been arrested at least once, you are unamerican. and speaking of unamerican the l.a. school board tries to make students eat healthy lunches. students respond by tossing lunches in the garbage and screaming "whatever!." in an unrelated story, tonight's whatever, it was voted the most annoying word used in conversation. whatever, andy. seriously, whatever. >> thanks. i will see you at the half. let's welcome our guest. i am here with leeann the guest of "poker after dark." her new album comes out next year. the demonic comedian pete dominic. you can hear him weekda

thanks, champagne. >>> for that we go to sherrod small. do it, sherrod. >> great job so far. are you nailing it. are you knocking it out of the box. >> appreciate. it. >> i don't remember the regular dude. >> i don't think anybody does. >> jedediah. >> you are into women not getting groabs to keep us say? >> i have gotten further with some of those tsa agents than i have with my boyfriend and that is a problem. >> well then your boyfriend is moving slow. >> i am a lady, what can i say? >> kudos to you. >> kurt loder, put him on. how are the occupy people more annoying than those kids who hang outside the mtv window in time square? >> i forget. how are they not? they claim to have an agenda where kids outside the mtv building don't claim anything of the sort. >> you don't think trying to get close to justin timberlake by anything necessary is an agenda? >> it is a dream, not an agenda. >> a dream, i give you that. how is it going? >> good. >> you believe the new york city subways are soft targets? why is that? >> well, they are an easy target because you can get on and you go

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>> you know it. >> sherrod, you said republicans need to grow their own obama. is this why you -- why he has a forged birth certificate? was he grown in a lab? >> it looks like it. he was the perfect black dude to be the first black president. he might not have been the best, but he was the best dude to be it then. that's what we got. and hall of fame for president. >> bill, you are still upset about that. >> absolutely. >> angry white bill .org. >> don't get bill started on integration. we don't have a couple hours. mtv trash talk coming from women. jedediah, you heard women saying horrible things about other women. >> i have a lot of male friends for a reason. i went to an all girls catholic school from k-12 and i have seen in ugliness. i have a lot of male friends and i haven't seen that. and a lot of cool things i won't share on air. >> when reality shows are all women, is it because they are. >> well, i don't know. if they have a husband, and she has a husband. be proud. >> they are not there to show them up. >> we can't put it on the women. the men are pro

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joining us here in washington, is democratic senator sherrod brown of the great state of ohio. senator brown, thank you for being here tonight. >> you bet, rachel. thank you. >> today's speech had a pretty overtly populist message from president obama. do you feel like that is the right note to be sounding in today's politics? and in today's economy? >> yeah, it's the right note for a couple reasons. first of all, this view from many in the mainstream media that populism is about a bunch of people with pitchforks storming the castle has it wrong. populism is fighting for workers, fair trade, fighting for jobs, taking on special interests. when wall street does what it does. when insurance companies or drug companies do what they do. and that's exactly why -- that's why his tone was exactly right. to me, it's more interesting, not so much this is the beginning of his campaign. my interest is the impact it has on the congress to finally move away from special interests and do what we ought to do on infrastructure, on jobs, generally on the payroll tax, on protecting medicare. all

. >>> if convicted on all the charges, sherrod could face a maximum of 12 years in prison. >>> outside an occupy camp site a woman is stabbed over a cap. attacked another protester at the inner harbor. the women got into an argument over the care of a cat. she is expected to recover. >> come on, guys. >>> and in washington dc occupy protesters clashed with police. police arrested 31 over a makeshift shelter. say they were building a structure for shelter during winter weather. police say they didn't have a permit. >>> slows rush hour traffic. a team flying over i-95 in rose detail. a truck dropped a huge piece of -- >>> dangerous dogs on the loose. tonight a bloody attack forces police to crack down on leash laws. live at patterson park, explains why the community is afraid, andrea. >> dogs here are often off leash but that is against the law and now police are enforcing it after one dog nearly died. >> misha the poodle may have a permanent limp after two dogs attacked him. >> he was pinned to the sidewalk and these two pit bulls are ripping out his flesh. >> when misha was on the tabl

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i'm a big sherrod brown fan. sherrod brown looks like the perfect labor democratic senator in ohio.hing right in tezmr of labor issues, tax issues, middle class issues, how can he lose? he's such the perfect democrat for that state? >> i -- >> christina, please. >> roll call has this rated that it is a seat that is probably going to remain in democratic hands. for all the reasons that you outline, he's got a pretty strong organization. the republican likely nominee is josh mandel, he's pretty strong but brown is one of those interesting candidates who won in 2006, he ousted mike dewine and really representative, you know, of a vulnerable democrat right after the republicans did so well in ohio in 2010 and actually he's doing okay. polls better than barack obama in his home state and has been able to sort of keep his focus there and a lot of people like him. he might be okay and that's going against the national mood in some sense. >> let me give you another winner for the democrats, i believe in, a close race. i think tim kaine is going to knock off george allen. i any george allen

we had sherrod brown on.o, sat there with a straight face and said he wasn't going to tell a 62-year-old woman in youngstown, ohio that medicare needed to be touched. >> that was this morning. >> that just wasn't fair. after the segment he said, tell that to a 62-year-old woman in greece. we are -- we have republicans and democrats alike in washington, d.c. that seem to be living in the 1990s that don't understand the growing disparity, don't understand the growing debt, that don't understand that our tack -- the taxes we collect are 13% of gdp while our spending is 26% of gdp. i don't know how we face these challenges. >> we have had three or four bites at the apple to try to face up to it -- bowles/simpson and negotiations over the debt ceiling and the negotiations between the president and the speak herb. and the such committee. and we didn't do it. now it appears we won't until after the election. and that sets a bad example. it alienates voters. it also keeps the united states from playing a constructive

. >> kelly: 1220, the republicans will take the senate, and pickups, ohio sherrod brown will lose. >>f they're going to take the senate. how many are they going to take. >> mid 50's. >> paul: that might be seven or eight seats, nat. >> going to be a big year, no matter what happens in the presidential. >> no kidding, all right, matt? >> he think this campaign will be decided by the economy or obama care, i think that the october surprise will be a war in the persian gulf most likely a strike by the iran we will note know in the u.s. ahead of time. >> they will not tell barack obama ahead of time. >> i don't think so, they do not trust this administration. >> that would happe

and green bay, right tackle bryan bulaga has a knee injury and his backup, derrick sherrod is lost forson so issues on the offensive line for the packers. chicago, scary moment when johnny knox was bent backwards. he'll have surgery tomorrow to stabilize a vertebrae. the long term prognosis is good. johnny carter injured a leg. he's out with a quadriceps injury. and eagles quarterback michael vick missed three games earlier this year with broken ribs. he's played the last two. the thinking is the ribs have healed. in reality the eagles have decided in the three games he missed to not give him a pain killing injection. they're concerned he wouldn't be effective with the injection. he wants the injection, he's played, they have won and they're still alive in the nfc playoff chase. >> great information. turning point with dan patrick takes you inside the week's positivetle pivotal plays leading the lions to a big comeback win. we'll come back to san diego in a bit. the chargers beat the ravens tonight, 34-14. al and chris are back to wrap things up right after this. dig in, baby. it's the

ohio, shar sherrod brown, is actually running ahead of barack obama right now. gwen: it's interesting the he people who decided to retire and leave congress are more likely to be liberals who are discouraged or conservatives discouraged. you think about lynn woolsey in california, barney frank in massachusetts, staunch liberals throwing up their hands and decided to quit. is there any significance to that? >> i think there may be some to that. i also think to a certain extent their veteran lawmakers. if you look at members like barney frank, who had their marquee legislative achievement in the dodd-frank overhaul regulatory, they reached sort of the end of their legislative career and they know that. i'm not sure barney frank would have any problems getting re-elected. gwen: he ran a tighter-than-expected race last time. >> if he won in 2010, hard to see how 2012 would be a harder year for democrats than 2010 was. >> and redistricting was so important for frank. they loss a seat in massachusetts and had to reconfigure the seats. gwen: are there other place where

. >> happy new year, sherrod. >> a special thanks to jed ediah bila. that does it for me. i'm tv's andy levy. i will see uh new year's eve. >> chris: wall street rebounded from wednesday's disappointing numbers. the dow gained 136 today. the s&p 500 picked up 13. nasdaq finished ahead 24. president obama received some unpleasant jobs news while vacationing today in hawaii. correspondent doug luzader looks at some of the president's economic challenges in the coming year. >> the lines are getting longer again. we just learned today that new jobless claims actually went up last week. set-back of what some economists say has been a promising trend. >> the economy is gradually improving, but that improvement will take place in fits and starts. >> as the recovery goes through the fits and starts, mixed signals are everywhere. consumer confidence improved and look at home mortgage interest rates. up slightly today but in an average of 3.95% on a 30-year loan. still historic bargain. >> the problem is very few people have the means or the confidence to buy a house. on the other h

it.and you know this, there's history of this -- i'm going to block on the namm, but you, oh, shirley sherrod smith: at the department -f agriculture. >> williams: she, she hhd in the ourse of making a statement about,,really what was soot of a, an epiphany, that she initially says, you know, he wasn't going to be3 helpful to white farmers down in flor. n georgia i believe, where he, while she was working for agriculture. then she realizes, no ne is heeping this poor white farmer. and do you know what? we're all in the same situation and she goes on to have this moment of, sort of, revelation. well, someone takes the out of context aad then of course the white house, fearing that someone is going to attack them, about life. had this feeling they fire her before they even understand the entirety of this speech and the powerful redemptive spirit in which she's making this, you know, this admission. i mean it's just crazy, but to me, the larger oint s that in this atmosphere it gets hard, not only to talk and say what's on your mind, oh even to say he facts, which is muslims did attack us, and y

in a way as deposits to lower interest rates for worker own companies and over on the other side sherrod brown has been talking with legislation to help to develop worker co-ops so there's kind of kind of an interesting thing i don't think it has been shaken out yet and of course when we get to the larger level when some of these banks and the wall street banks are i'm sure there's going to be a big fight when the next big crisis comes there's going to be demands that take them over and that's going to be a big fight politically but at the local level in some areas there's a lot of kind of coherence that you don't find the same kind of ideology in most local. particularly when there's a great deal of economic pain and people are looking for answers and that's what's very interesting about this period is there any any conversation about this on capitol hill there are there's some conversation there's a co-op bill is being and she was introduced this week to foster co-ops this is the year of the co-ops the united nations there is this work that i think the aesop form. of the one of the mos

. >> thanks, sherrod. got to run. >> thanks, leeann. thanks, pete.,t is gavin, greg, not bad for a first time guest. and senate are on a collision course over the payroll tax cut extension. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> bret: i'm bret baier. house is digging in for a long night as it debates the merit and pitfall of the senate version of the payroll tax cut extense and attempt to come up with the own way forward. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the latest. mike? >> good evening. they are expected to have three votes. the first is expected to kill the package that passed on saturday. house spea speaker john boehnery they need to sit down and work it out. >> there is a disagreement between the two chambers. and we sit down and rethe differences. that is what i believe the house will do. >> message from harry reid that thought vote in the senate including the 39 republicans meant the issue would be finished until february responded, senator mcconnell and "i" negotiated compromise in speaker bo

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. >> thanks, sherrod. got to run. >> thanks, leeann. thanksank you. >> but you'll be here. >> we'll see you tomorrow. >> the final we've been year is the homestretch for candidates before the iowa caucuses. this is "special report." >> good evening. i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. while many americans are resting from a big christmas weekend, the republicans who want to be measuring the drapes in the white house next christmas are gearing up for the big electoral test of the season. chief political correspondent karl cameron is live in des moines, iowa. good evening, carl. >> the iowa caucuses are a week from tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. local time january 3rd. iowans will arrive, they'll hear speeches from each campaign. only five minutes per campaign. that takes about an hour. then they will have the opportunity to cast write-in ballots for their choices. if all goes according to plan they could have as many to 120,000 to 140,000 turn out, a record, yet a small fraction of the population in iowa, and that explains the organizational hun

that was already sherrod twitter and on facebook.xt thing in the conversation. some original or fresh take on that. or it means -- you know, it means a scoop. original reporting. to me, as a reporter, that's what is so liberating and fun about this. that -- is that we're not going to be. what's particularly the scourge of young reporters' lives now, being the 20th perfect to aggregate some great story that somebody will broke is not something we'll be doing a lot of. >> it sounds like you'll be making it up a little as you go along. an interesting challenge. >> you think? >> ben smith, thank you very much for joining us. ben smith will continue to write a weekly column for "politico." >>> coming up, looking back at the most provocative interviews in 2011. fish. fantastic. ♪ this holiday, chevy's giving more. now qualified buyers can get 0% apr for 72 months on a 2011 chevy silverado. or 0% apr financing for 60 months plus no monthly payments until spring. ♪ yeah, i toog nyguil bud i'm stild stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, ny