health insurance wrote a great book last year, and he -- when he was the vice president of sigma, he talked about the millions of dollars they spent hoping to discredit me, to attack me, to -- if necessary, figuratively, not literally, i hope, push me off a cliff, so they, so, you know, i learned the lesson there. not a good idea to give advance notice of what i'm working on. >> booktv interviewed him. use the search function on the upper left hand corner. this e-mail, as an iranian-american, i'm concerned you may be planning a trip to iran. the pro-government press has written more than once you've been invited to come do iran and you've accepted. they would consider that a coo if it happens. >> guest: i have been invited for many years. i think one of my films, it might have been "bowling for columnbine" won an award in iran a number of years ago, and the prize was a beautiful persian rug they sent me. i'm not going to iran to the film festival. i don't know if it's really -- you know, the thing is with iran, i've been active in the last year or two, they've had a couple of filmmak

from the oklahoma city thunder to the sigma nu. >> the sigma nu have to make him on honorary member forevin. >> kevin. >>> i want to share an incredible story with you all, it involves three horses and this -- the beginning of this footage is pretty graphic. ♪ rescuers from the great foundation found 60 horses on the property and found 23 dead horses and several burial pits. the foundation found three of the worst horses and requested to take them. they found one named bay in a pen covered in feces. and two horses seemed like they were taking care of him. they took bay away for rehabilitation and the two horses chased after the trailer. the rescuers knew they wanted to be together. ♪ >> why were all these horses in this condition surround by all these caldly go ahead dan talk wh the founder of the grace foundation. beth dicaprio. >> tell us about the original condition you found the horses in? >> we were contacted by animal control. we were two minutes into the property when we saw the first dead horse and emaciated condition of more than 50 horses on the property. >> did the owner -- w

. >>> the phi beta sigma fraternity is suspending one of its houses for hazing.d and charged with severely injuring a pledge. cnn student news anchor carl azuz takes us in-depth about hazing. >> officials found about this in a round-about way. francis marion university where this allegedly happened is a small university. we are looking at around 4,000 undergrads. it is also a highly respected university. what authorities say happened is at an off-campus event for the phi beta sigma fraternity, a student was paddled so skweerse that it caused temporary damage to his kidneys. he was taken to the hospital and treated and hospital officials talked to the sheriff's department and that's how word got out about this. >> that's terrible. there's been so much attention on hazing. you would think that there is not much of this going on. but how widespread is this in a college environment still? >> there is a reason i'll get to in a minute why you wouldn't think it is that widespread but in truth it is all over the map both in geography and scope. at cornell university earl

the united nations ( applause ) there are a number of other areaize would also, frankly, apply six sigma to the pentagon to rebuild the navy. we need a capital investment program and this administration is shrinking the navy to a point that it will be incapable of doing its job worldwide. there are a number of places i would be thinking outside the box. >> pelley: mr. cain, you often said you'd listen to your generals for advice before making your distinction as commander in chief. how will you know when you should overrule your generals? >> the approach to making a critical decision, first, make sure that you surround yourself with the right people. and i feel that i'll be able to make that assessment when we put together the cabinet and all the people from the military, et cetera. you will know you're making the right decision when you consider all the facts and ask them for alternatives. it is up to th commander in chif to make nathat judgment call based upon all the facts and because i'll have a multiple group of people offering different recommendations, this gives me the best oppor

price matters and without the price of sigma you don't know that consumer pull there for every investments risky and depends on a government program and you just don't get where you need to go. >> we have time for a couple of more questions. >> thank you so much for about the center negative as a lot of stores on the issues of climate change and i do agree we need to move away from fossil fuel but i want you to elaborate on what your theory is when you raise the price of fossil fuel doesn't that raise the price of everything else? want people get used to live like you say on your first chapter that people get used to whatever happens blacks just like the elevator is broke and. >> that is a good question. imagine that i invented the world's first self on and i came to just cut to say i have the fun you can carry in your pocket a phone? it in my pocket? i could call people 24/7? 365? i have a phone you can carry in your pocket. she would say i will take 10. this thing called the cellphone the cost $1,000 each she would say no problem. of phone that i can carry in my pocket would change my l

. >> if we were serious, we would apply strong sigma, we would save $500 billion a year by having an efficient effective federal government. >> reporter: but these debates can be a mine field like on issues like immigration. just ask rick perry. he was a front-runner but two months ago he lectures people who opposed his policies of giving tuition discounts to illegal immigrants. >> but if you say has we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they have been brought there, by no fault of their own, i don't think you have a heart. >> reporter: now, of course, after that, perry support really plummeted. while gingrich may have taken perry's place as the front-runner in the polls, the question how long is that going to last? >> we will watch that with a microscope. and newt gingrich wasn't the only one there. some of the assessments this morning show they felt a strong performance by people who were polling much lower. as for mitt romney, how is he doing? any real breakout moments for him as the front-runner? >> reporter: i thought he had another

he would say put six sigma to work, you would save billions. >> that's a bold plan.you say flat tax, what does that mean for a middle-income family? does that benefit them in any way? >> flat tax is supposed to be simper, but you think about newt gingrich's plan, for example, and they say if you could pick one or the other, you might do your taxes twice to figure out the least expensive for you. newt gingrich says 15%, rick perry says 20% and herman cain says 9%. a flat tax hurts the middle income spectrum more than anything else because if you take a flat tax, a 20% flat tax, 4% tax hurts you more than a $20,000 tax of somebody making $100,000 a year. right now there are a lot of exemptions and tax credits for people who are at the lower end of the income spectrum. if they lost those, a flat tax would hurt them more. >> all right. christine, thank you. i want to go to wolf blitzer who has some new information coming out of the herman cain campaign. wolf, what do we know here? >> what we know is that the republican presidential candidates, suzanne, had a conference c

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reform the federal reserve and limit power and switch to something called the lean six sigma to manage. what's that? a cult business management technique useed by many fortune 500 companies. it would mean in the government cutting the fat, firing underfiring employee, seeking to strict budget terms. carol, basically doing business a lot differently than the government currently does and he says you could save tens of billions of dollars by doing that. hundreds of billions oerch are the long-term by doing that, running the government like you run a company. some of the key points of newt gingrich's economic plan. >> and we'll gelt to the rest of candidates later? >> oh, yeah. one by one. >> thanks, christine. >>> talk about one of the other candidates. oops, he did it again. rick perry messes up simple campaign facts in new hampshire. the republican presidential candidate gets the country's voting age and election date wrong. >> those of you that will be 21 by november the 12th, i ask for your support and your vote. those had you who won't be, just work hard, because you're going to enh

. >> and what you represent and what mike represents, what sigma represents, is a disciplined approach>> this is the biggest idea for rethinking how you run government since the civil service ideas of the 1880s, so this is the biggest idea in 130 years. >> if you have not joined our ranks, please do so tonight at our booth. we ask just two things of you. vote on january the 3rd, and support one of the candidates you heard about tonight. may god bless america. ♪ [applause] ♪ >> every four years, americans choose their president, and every four years since 1972, the iowa caucuses have started the process. for 40 years, iowans have listened to the candidates, measured their qualification, and made their decisions. candidates that proved themselves moved on, and every four years, iowans get the question, why is iowa first? ♪ let's talk about why iowa's a great place to start the political process. in iowa, retail politics is the name of the game. candidates can't hide behind ads and rallies. iowans take the process very seriously. we know that meeting the candidates firsthand, having the c

but when you get beyond that, the way the system is set up is a lot of sigma jort of the republican primariesuring the national committee women coming to my office coming to the national party saying can you tell them not to do that? well no, that's an individual state decision whether to have an open or closed primary. a lot of republican primaries are open which is a big opportunity for someone like huntsman. >> we'll have huntsman on the show tomorrow. he was also asked about his standing in the polls because he's dead-last or down -- not even on some of them and here's what he said. >> we're still in the preseason. we're in the primary phase. and that means there's a lot in the way of theatrics and show z business that are merged into politi politics. we have a significant deficit in the area of trust. i think that will drive people while at the ballot box to really consider the trust element of politics. there's no trust left between the people of this country and our institutions of power. whether that's congress, whether that's the executive branch, whether it's wall street. >> jon mea