bob simon, "60 minutes."ute. >> barry landau: no, no, no, no, no. >> simon: just answer some questions. it's... you're being accused of a lot of things and we want to hear your side of it. they say... the prosecution says you're a con man, a thief. what do you say to that? don't you have anything to say at this point in your own defense? landau may have been the maestro of his craft, but there have been others thieves. this summer, prosecutors put leslie waffen behind bars. he was in charge of the archives' audio and film records department. he stole thousands of original recordings and sold them on ebay, gems like this eyewitness account of the hindenburg disaster. >> it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. the smoke and the flames. oh, the humanity! >> simon: another employee stole most of the presidential pardons from the philadelphia archives, as well as hundreds of photos taken by astronauts in space and on the moon. do you look on ebay for suspicious documents? >> brachfeld: that would be one of th

bob simon, i was too disappointed to be disappointed. >> simon: people in south africa said that youryeah. ah, well, the... well, that was... obviously, it... they picked up on my stuff, yeah, yeah. >> simon: they "picked up" on your stuff. come on, it's a lot more than that. >> rodriguez: geez, listen to this guy. ( laughs ) go ahead, i'm listening. >> simon: i mean, that's a remarkable thing to say, that your music was the soundtrack of their youth. >> rodriguez: oh, i... it's... it's quite an honor that they picked my stuff up, yeah. i owe south africa, for sure. >> simon: and what about all those years of backbreaking labor? was that hard on you? >> rodriguez: did... well, physically, it's hard, but it's... there's no shame in hard work. >> simon: you say there's... you say there's no shame in hard work. >> rodriguez: yes, sir. >> simon: i think you also said there's no shame in being poor. >> rodriguez: that's right. and poor doesn't mean dirty and poor doesn't mean stupid and poor does not mean mean. >> simon: poverty and dignity. that was the end of his story... except it wasn'

michelle. >> hey there simon. the video tells the whole story, let's show people exactly what happened today. angela merkel arrived, 50,000 protesters in the street, let lead to rioting, video that we have become, unfortunately, all too familiar with moltov cocktails, tear gas being thrown, to highlight the intercontinental tensions, look at your screen. some protesters actually showed up in nazi uniforms with the swastika flags to protest the german chancellor's visit, angry because of austerity measures, angry at germany because germany provides the vast majority of the bailout money they get but comes with conditions that require very, very tough situations for the greek people. angela merkel stood side by side with the greek prime minister today saying that she understands that the greek people are suffering. she is trying to tell them that the reforms will be worth it but she also says there will be no more money. sue, there's going to have to be some more money, the greeks are running short. the program is r

back to simon and more of "the halftime report."yler matheson hearing the extremities expectations are low that the fed will add stimulus to the economy when it releases its decision at 2:15 eastern but there are ways to trade treasuries ahead of the announcement. here dennis gartman editor of "the gartman letter" joins us on the fast line. dennis welcome to the program. what is the trade? >> simon i'm short a small amount and i mean a small amount of the ten-year, i'm short the long end of the curve for the simple reason i don't think the fed is going to do much. i don't think they can do much nor should they do much ahead of the election. what's more important to me is the fact over the course of the last year the adjusted monetary base which is the asset base, has been declining. it appears to me that the fed is allowing old securities to mature and roll off. it is replacing them a bit but not at the same pace that they are maturing. i hear a great number of people telling me that the fed continues to ease. i look at real data, t

it's a big day, guys. >> it is, simon. what we're looking for is something between this, the ipad available now, and this, the iphone 4. i know i'm old school. i haven't paid to upgrade to the 5. we're looking for something in the middle, maybe closer to this. the rumor is a 7.8-inch screen. here's what we care about. the market is falling again today. yesterday apple dragged everybody kicking and screaming up, finishing up 4%. is what we're going to hear in there going to be enough to help apple, to help the whole market? >> i think there are a couple of keys to that, and we'll see if they are enough. one is pricing. will apple price this aggressively enough that it will pull people into the market? but the other thipg on the other side, will they leave enough room for them to actually make a good profit on this thing? you don't want to see them price it so cheaply that they look desperate. and then the other thing is, when you look at the applications and the services that they pair with it, apple's strength is its ecosy

now, she does battle with the tyrant known as simon cowell.and thursday nights on fox. please welcome demi lovato. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] how are you doing? >> i'm fantastic. >> jimmy: i have to say i think you're doing a great job on the x-factor", you really are. didn't know what to expect. >> i think you're doing a great job on "the jimmy kimmel show." >> jimmy: i appreciate that. when you're young and sometimes they pull some kid in, a pop star, they just say nice things over and over again and you don't. not only do you not -- [ laughter ] well, no, i think you're judging thej honestly, nothing worse than when everybody says something nice about everyone whether they're good or not, that's a boring show if that happens and you seem to be driving simon crazy. >> it's pretty amazing that i get the privilege to get paid to mess with my boss all day. >> jimmy: you really do. he is your boss. did you sit down with an interview with him? >> i didn't. i never really met him, he called up one day and i was like i don't know about this. i'm too

thanks, simon.espite pulling back about 3.5% in the last week, the stock is up about 57% year-to-date. and i always like to go back to those march '09 lows because it's fascinating to see. through that lens, u.a. has run up 650% in 3 1/2 years. before we get into nuances, the expectations are for 52 cents a share on about 576 million in revenue. i do have to say analysts are conflicted on where to go from here. trading off earnings is a little dicey, but in two years, you'll say and he quoted him, why didn't i buy this at 56? then there's morning star and he totally disagrees in a note earlier this week he said, quote, while we reiterate we're fans of under armour products, the valuation is at all-time highs and trailing forward earnings and it's tough to say what investors' mood will be following the announcement, we are not afraid of continuing to say the stock is overvalued. a few other stocks came up in my conversations you might want to discuss, dks is one. they have a line of camo gear. poser

. >> simon stands a hell of a chance. >> simon said britney was a mean judge. simon said that. listen, how many times you got to know it ain't what simon says. simon's just saying whatever he got to say to throw people off because he the mean judge. you know simon the mean judge. britney ain't mean. she's just tough. >> i made my decision. >> reporter: for the freshmen judges deciding who stays and who goes is much tougher than they would have guessed. >> we're just watching people just one by one walk away. >> that's probably the hardest and the good facts are things that the first four are going to stay and we're going to do a really good job. >> it's not an easy job having to tell somebody that they don't have what it takes to go to the next round and i also want to make sure i'm right. i couldn't want to pick somebody that lets me down or let somebody go that was really talented. >> sometimes i have to make some really, really tough decisions. >> reporter: in hollywood adam housely, fox news. >> thanks for staying up late with us. here's brian now with the news edge at 11:0

cristina y simÓn, se emplean a fondo.abrazaderas en cada lado bastan. cristina sigue en la delantera, simon tiene que darse prisa. el quinto, y Último paso según las instrucciones, doblar la lona sobre el esqueleto. ♪ pero antes de que comience la tarea de la envoltura los dos reciben un consejo del experto. >> yo personalmente me subirÍa a una barra transversal ya que no tiene lugar, no tiene que sujetar nada, sino distribuir los resiÓn hacia abajo, a dos les sobre un tube, deberÍan colocarlo de la manera para poder sentarse encima. >> a los dos les queda todavÍa 30 minutos para que se cumplan las tres horas, cristina tiene que ahorrar en cinta adhesiva, simÓn por el contrario le queda bastante mÁs, una gran ventaja. >> todavÍa nos quedan cinco minutos. >> lo armÉ. todo. >> ¿tÚ me dices que tu bote es apto para navegar? >> sÍ, armado, si va a flotar no lo sÉ. >> dÉjame felicitarte y te tu bote Ía que coloque en posiciÓn de inicio. >> cristina tambiÉn ha terminado. >> tiene un problema, no es simÉtrico, no vas a poder te

simon? >>> sue, let's stick with the u.s. economy. so-called fiscal cliff is still two months off but the threat of tax hikes and spending cuts is already reverberating through the economy. a new report by the national association of manufacturers says that if congress doesn't reach a deal to avoid the cliff, then about 6 million jobs will be destroyed through 2014. it expects the unemployment rate to soar if that happens to almost 12%. the nation's ceos also of course on the fiscal war path yesterday. we spoke to one of those 80 who are calling for congress to take action. today jpmorgan's chief jamie dimon continues the drumbeat in asia. >> the underlying strength of the economy is actually pretty good. corporations, no market size companies, consumers are in better shape. housing is turning. it isn't as strong as anyone would want. what's really, really important is good policy. we need good policy in the united states. think of a fiscal deal, simpson-bowles type deal. i think that would

(cheering) >> simon! simon! give me five. >> we've decided in the design of the competition to have what we call a knock-out stage, where we're asking the teams to get to at least 67 miles per gallon equivalent. so, we're, we're narrowing the field. >> we haven't had enough time to test our cars. we're going to be testing against their standards now. this is where we are; this is where we're going. and we're gonna ace it. (cheering) >> you feeling good? >> i'm feeling exhausted, but yeah, i'm super excited. >> we're testing the range and the fuel economy of the vehicle. >> we have to do a hundred miles and get the 67 miles per gallon ratio in order for us to move to the next stage, so keep your fingers crossed. >> it's pretty cool to see them rolling around the track after you've spent hours putting on engines and all of that stuff, to actually see them go around as fast as they're going. >> 2:15. all right, so he's right on that one. (thunderclap) >> it looks like a huge storm is rolling in, and i think even th

simon, you're not married to tammy fay baker, what do you think? >> well, it's tough to recover to that one. earnings have been so disappointing as we've talked about through the show. i think for us, the most concerning thing is the reports. particularly in ibm -- >> the linearity? >> did you like that? >> yeah. >> it's like good english grammar school education. what can i tell you? particularly in technology. what i'm saying is the concern is, yes, the expectations are disappointing, but in terms of september sales being a lot softer than july, it's where the momentum is going. that's something to be a little bit concerned about. zbl zbl >> stephanie, how do you feel about the linearity. >> well, i won't go there, but only 25% of the company so far have reported. let's put this into a little bit of context here. and expectations certainly have come down pretty low. i would just say that there are pockets of strength, financials, and margins. even ibm, even schlumberger, even ge had actually okay margins. so i think that might be good enough to s

simon? >> thank you very much for that. >>> we have some breaking news. new jersey transit is to resume some of its service this afternoon. the new jersey transit resume some of its service this afternoon. the latest as far ars the subway is concerned in new york is that some of that will start but not until tomorrow. >>> up next on the program -- more stock action. stocks that could do well and the stocks that could do poorly in the wake of this storm. see who is likely to benefit and who is likely to be hurt when we come right back with some astounding images. those little things still get you. for you, life's about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy e

simon? >>> we have two big stories in housing right now. the first is the big jump that we've reported today in housing starts. the second is breaking right now with diana olick in washington. >> simon, bank of america reporting it has completed or approved more than $4.75 billion in more principal reductions. 30,000 homeowners getting their loans slashed by an average $145,000 each. bank says it will meet its total obligations under the settlement in the first of the three-year agreement. now that break news just adds to the positive numbers in housing out today. construction and permits for new homes. one analyst called the numbers blowout and the jumps are big. but remember the actual number of housing starts is still below any number we've seen since 1982. we are about half-way back to a normal new home market. total september housing starts jumped nearly 35% from a year ago. single family starts up 43% from a year ago. multi-family up 19%. it is the permits that are really stunning. tot

simon, let me start with you. you had nothing to gain by doing this. the u.s. knocked out of the competition. so why did you do it? >> well, the previous week, i had won my first world championship title, so i had nothing to gain from this, but my coach was adamant that i do this for him. >> and why was that? you had mentioned in early reports you felt you were singled out because of your heritage, because you were korean, you were both korean, you and your coach? >> yes, that played a big role. our cultural background. but our coach say su believed that the canadians fixed a race, which eliminated us and he was very disappointed and bitter about that. >> we mentioned earlier, your coach denies telling you to tamper with the skates. do you have any proof? are there any witnesses to back up your claim? did anyone hear your coach ask you to do this? >> when he initially asked me, he asked me in english and i was with my teammate jeff simon at the time. >> and jeff heard him say this? >> yes. >> let me ask you this. your coach -- you say your coach pressured you.

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very attractive to simon.action, they looked at as as if we're selling the company. in a transaction they own something like 30% of the combined company. we're not cashing people out. we're not looking to are a short term pop. we're merging and more levered company with less levered company with a strong management team. >> if you are going after p&g the whole company you might want to -- >> team up with -- >> you got 1% or something? i mean -- >> we're not going after p&g. >> while he's here, he should ask. >> you're trying to get rid of the ceo. >> p&g is one of the great companies of all-time, been in growth for 75 years it's stumbled over the last several years under the current ceo's leadership, and we've kind of laid out what our concerns are and i think our concerns are not our concerns. they're the concerns of all the shareholders. >> do you think your concerns are being heeded? >> absolutely. we were received at a very seriously by the board, we had a great meeting with the lead director and ken chern

simon?by the german taxpayers, we should make that clear, carolyn, we are seeing the pictures there as police continue to move protesters back. can you give us an idea how far away angela merkel is from where you are at the moment and the types of red lines of security forces and the no-go areas in order to keep merkel and samara safe. >> reporter: well, merkel and some of us are a half month away from here. it is walking distance but they are in safety here. and i do want to point out that the police, yes, they have put in this red zone, this no-go zone, but again the two major unions, the public and private sector unions already had rallies approved before this red zone was actually implemented. so they were able to come into the square, into this red zone and protest. and it will probably follow other protesters. so it is very hard to control who is actually being let into this red zone. simon? >> carolyn, thank you very much. stay safe. carolyn roth there live from athens. >>> i want to

debt and deficit simon mccaleb edge of ideas capital is here to talk about it and speaking of deficits according to the financial times japan's finance ministry will hold crisis talks with bond dealers tomorrow as politicians there are at odds over a bill that's needed to allow billions more in borrowing to finance the country's deficit sound familiar japan is often brought up when talking about a country the u.s. is ability to run deficits will discuss the lessons for the u.s. and new g.d.p. numbers from the u.k. if you put stock in them they show the countries rebounding from recession growing by one percent is this growth a reflection of better days to come or is it just the result of one awful lympics summer spending we'll talk let's get to today's capital account. we all know the drill the us has been running trillion dollar budget deficits amounting to more than sixteen trillion dollars in national debt with no plan that the markets have deemed credible to significantly rein in spending let alone balance the budget now c.e.o.'s are trying to act like they want to do something abo

simon, why? >> well, obviously got a tremendous amount of respect for you, but you know, when you're talking about -- you talked about valuations. normally when you talk about the beginning of a secular bull market, it's low valuations in low singles. still pretty high up in the 14s. if we were to take your buy and hold over the last ten years, most retail investors are still even up a little bit. and listening to your comment there saying from intermediate to longer term, that's another five years. it would seem you need to be tactical rather than take a very diverse wide approach in here. because i mean our position is we're still sort of muddling through a secular bear market. what would be your reaction to that a posed to the beginning of a secular bull market? based on valuation? >> so if we're in a secular bear, i guess we've got to go back under 666 on the s&p, which would be a long way down. i think that established the bottom for us back in 2009. i do think that we're in a longer term bu

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[laughter] and i think he sides more with simon.[laughter] actually, i do too in a number of ways that probably will surprise him and dennis and others. and the first thing on which i agree with you, simon, is that i also do not know what the next systemic crisis will be, and i am as frightened as you of it. so when i think about what the next systemic crisis might be, i think the best place to start is to think about what's caused the last ones. and i'm not going to fight over whether we've had panics in 1907 or 1933. we heard that from the first panel. i'll just go back over the last 20 years for the systemic crises, um, we've had most recently. the first one in 1994, scheherazade, you mentioned mexico. and that was a solvency crisis because we feared that a country would go bust, ie its credit was no good, and that would ripple with dangerous effect through the banking system. that got handled aside from now how, and we puttered on until 1998 when russia and indonesia posed solvency risk in the financial system, and we managed th

is now sort of spending will come to an end there will be a day of reckoning we're talking to simon in a hail of education be laughing there's nothing funny about it's actually very serious but i don't know if we didn't laugh maybe we cry so let's bring back in simon mchale a bit come in edging member of ideas as capital before the break he was laying out how he kind of sees this playing out and why he doesn't think it sustainable and before we move on to solutions or how people should adjust their concepts i do want to touch on a couple of scenarios just because they're in the news so we have c.e.o.'s of eighty companies in the us advocating for some kind of simpson bowles plan a road map to balancing the budget reining in budget deficits are you saying you just don't see this happening because you don't think it's politically feasible that's kind of what i deduced before the break. absolutely right i mean what everybody's focus is on what simpson bowl you know proposes to do it but i don't think that everybody focuses on what the implications would be and you know what they say be ca

alisyn: simon, what happened to if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period.like your insurance carrier, you can keep your coverage, period? >> i think what the president was referring to is that under the aca, his health care reform, that there was nothing he was going to do or that they were doing that would prevent, that would push people out of their own health care plans. there's nothing the government was doing and, in fact, the fact that the private market is innovating in this way -- and whether it works or not, we'll find out -- is a sign this was not a government takeover of the health care system as you've heard many people say over the last couple months. i think what we need in this health care, and i think the president has begun this, we need more innovation, more efforts to give people more choice. we've got to control costs, get more people on health insurance, and i just want to comment on something steve said. he said something that is just completely false. he argued that there are many businesses that are moving people to put them into the

good morning. >> indeed, simon. thanks so much.to employees saying if obama wins, they could all lose their jobs. the e-mail said that "if any new taxes are levied on me or my company as our current president plans, i will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company." he said he may even consider shutting down the company entirely meaning all 7,000 workers would lose their jobs. if obama wins, he says, "you can find me in the caribbean sitting on a beach with no employees to worry about." now what makes this e-mail even more explosive, simon, is its author, david siegel, the man who built the largest home in america. he and his wife, jackie, built versailles, that 90,000 square foot palace near orlando. the first story was told in the book "the high beta rich." siegel buckled under $1 billion in debt during the crisis, we to lay off 5,000 workers, versailles wanted a technical foreclosure proceedings. the house was put up for sale. siegel says he's back now, he's paid off his lenders and paid off versailles. the company i

y que venezuela pudiera convertirse en una tiranÍa como dijo simÓn bolÍvar y que chÁvez pueda ser un aÑos, en la realidad, que la contusiÓn no lo permitÍa. no sÉ donde saca eso, como impresiÓn que estÁ mal informado, que el presidente puede convertirse en un dictador. tiene que preguntarle a los 8 millones de venezolanos que votaron por Él. >>> yo lo escuchÉ, por favor deberÍa preguntarle al pueblo de venezuela. >>> porque pareciera que su pregunta tiene mucho sesgo. no importa estamos acostumbrados a eso y mucha gente latina que vive en estados unidos. desafortunadamente los compraron de aquÍ y de aqui. y los hacen decir esas cosas. venezuela es un paÍs libre. >>> la segunda pregunta quÉ haÁa hugo chÁvez en los prÓximos 6 aÑos que no haya hecho ya venezuela es uno de los paÍses mÁs peligrosos del mundo. 19 mil muertos el aÑo pasado. venezuela estÁ en el lugar mas corruptos del mundo. y tuvieron ina inflaciÓn mÁs altas de todo el continente. ¿que harÁ distinto otra vez?. >>> ¿quÉ organismos hacen eso? yo lo escuchÉ. no soy periodista, pero lo escuchÉ. debe ser lo mÍnimo que debe habh

our current -- megyn: last word, simon.got to go in 30 seconds. >> so if you finish that video, what she says is that then guys with big guns and military strikes came in and left, a military strike against our embassy. there was never confusion, there was never confusion about the military nature of the strike. what there was confusion of in benghazi was the role of the video. megyn: okay. thank you both. >> sure. [laughter] megyn: coming up, obama campaign co-chair eva longoria taking serious fire for a very ugly tweet about mitt romney. ♪ peg mg my twitter feed is lighting up over that last segment. follow me on twitter @megyn kelly, and we're less than three weeks until election day, and actress eva longoria touching off a major controversy with a recent post on twitter, the online site where you can communicate with folks in 140 characters or less. she, apparently, retweeted a message from one of her followers, someone sent it to her, and then she sent it around to everybody. it says women and minorities who plan to vo