. >> steve moore the retired fbi agent -- yeah. wrong guy. wrong name right guy. >> right guy. >> for give me. you live near the connecticut border? >> right. >> has it affected you? >> absolutely. after the shock sort of war off couldn't believe it. kind of all feel i hate to say it a little immune in some of the neighborhoods. it could never happen anywhere. certainly not here. we started a neighborhood watch. we got together and talked about it. i got to my neighbors better. >> this really creeped you out? >> i have got a young child at home. a teenager. i do the adt, i lock my garage and my windows. that one did. unless i get a gun i am defenseless. something like having neighbors lights that are on i do get a lot of my lights changed the outside lights. i now leave lights on at night on the inside even though i was trying to save energy. i don't do that any more. i keep it on. >> it scared us. >> former nypd detective not fbi agent. guns this may be a big boom for guns. not easy to get guns. >> no. connecticut, new york, suburbs are easy

martha: thank you for clarifying that because i know a lot of people get confused, steve moore, michaelich guy was that! >> good to be with you. >> we are getting details on a memo from president obama's reelection team, showing the president is about to go on the offensive on the road to 2012. ed henry, live at the white house with more on that. ed, what does the memo say exactly? >> good morning, gregg. it's all about the theme that we've been hearing from campaign officials respect leading up to this, about what they want 2012 to be, and they want it to be a choice, they want it to be a broader choice than just about jobs, because obviously the unemployment situation with the president is pretty stark right now, and so this memo lays out, it basically goes after governor rick perry of texas, for example, for calling social security a ponzi scheme, it goes after former governor mitt romney as well on social security, saying he's previously come out for privatizing social security, and then this memo makes this broader indictment of the republican field, it says, quote, the campaign to

steve moore joins us. senior economics writer for "wall street journal" steve, thanks very much.tney, analyst on the street, i think in december of 2010, we could see next few years hundreds of municipalities going belly-up. are we beginning to see perhaps her prediction come true? >> it is quite possible. you look what happened in harrisburg. this is something we're seeing a lot of cities in california teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. couple years ago we saw the city of vallejo, outside of san francisco, declare bankruptcy. what shaping here you have shrinkage of their tax base. property values are falling. because of the housing crisis. you have fewer people working. that is less money coming in. at the same time they pay very high unionized salaries. they have to pay for all of these social welfare programs that are putting a real squeeze on these budgets. so i think you might see more municipalities, you know, do what businesses do when they can't pay their bills which is essentially to declare bankruptcy. one reason, by the way, that they are leading in that direction a

right, steve moore sitting next to me.a look at what's going on with the dow, one of the questions coming up today is whether or not we're actually going to slip into a bear market, which means that would be 20 percent off the highs of the market. we started the s&p 500 today in bear market territory, we've come off that, so this is what we need to talk about today, about what this means and what this is saying about the global economy. steve moore of the "wall street journal" is with us. steve, is it really telling us anything, or at this point -- or are the markets kind of moving by themselves, if you will? >> they always move by themselves, but look, i think officially this is a bear market. i mean, you saw what happened yesterday with the 200-point plus decline, the dow is down today. it's been lousy, september was one of the worst septembers we've had. jenna: historically it's always a bad month. >> but even for september it was a bad month. so look, investors are very jittery right now and most -- not most, but a lot

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in one thousand nine hundred three christened steve moore boldly decided to leave california to move to colorado we both got laid off from our work because we both volunteered to be laid off because we wanted to get out of california move to colorado where it was beautiful and clean air and clean water they found themselves in garfield county looking for a new home there's chris. one thousand nine hundred ninety five they bought their dream house a fixer upper in a rural neighborhood outside rifle well. place and we've plenty says they did. it was shortly after chris and steve moved in the drilling rigs began to appear on some of their neighbors land and in the surrounding hills. or even trying. crisper get in the shower. her skin turned bright red i think. it hurt her skin it was it was burning fire she was well steve began to develop symptoms as well i feel dizzy. i get well the nose is chris's health began to deteriorate rapidly she began losing her sight had severe headaches and had pain in her hands and feet there were two surgeries to remove a particular tarry tumor and she dev

. >> one of those supporting them, steve moore, at the side of amanda knox's mother as the family walked is a former fbi agent. he's devoted himself to this case. live now. can you give us, steve, a sense of the state of mind of the family? you were there, right by their side, when they walked into court this morning. steve? >> robin, they're being brave. being strong. there's really nothing else they can do. they are -- they are hopeful. but they've had to rug pulled out from under them once before. there's a -- it's a cautious hope. >> you were in the courtroom when amanda made the statement. the judge told her she could sit. she was quite nervous. seemed to get stronger as she continued to read the all-important statement. how did that play in the courtroom hearing her today? >> i think it played extremely well. it was a different amanda than we have seen. not the timid amanda. it was amanda saying that she was not guilty. it was not her saying anything else but, i am not guilty. it was a strong statement. the family was emotional. the jurors were emotional. i thought the judge was fi

that's a very pro growth and very popular in terms of appealing to the american people. >> peter: steve moored yet about steve jobs, like he blew off a meeting with president obama because he wasn't happy with who else was invited. the author of his exciting and interesting new biography is here next. and ruth madoff and her son swear they knew nothing about bernie's ponzi scheme. can that actually be true? wait until you hear what donald trump had to say about their claims, coming up. congratulations. congratulations. congralations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire binesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations. ... and buildings as valuable to the bottom line... whoa ! ... as the people inside them. congratulations. because when you add verizon to your company, you don't just add, you multiply. ♪ discover something new... verizon. this is what we can gather from an ordinary crash test dummy. two million data points. this is what we can gather from a lexus crash test genius. [ engine revving ] when you pursue ind

that was work that steve moore and others have produced. getting better all the time, is that the right title? that has a lot of research that addressed the fact that you can't create policy that's going to cover real life and more like a motion picture by taking a single snapshot in time that simply assumes that this underlying premise, that we're locked into that snapshot. >> could you try to wrap up, rich? so we can open up for conversation. we don't have a huge amount of time left. >> let's just go to questions now. >> okay, thanks. i'd like to give each panelist a chance to ask a fellow panelist a question. >> bill, thanks for being here. you know, you did say you favor tax reform, right? i think -- i don't want to put words in your mouth, and i just wonder what, what you would do to fix the tax system. >> ah. well, i think the right place to start is cleaning up the income tax that's -- i remember i wrote a piece, i think for you, a symposium you'd developed for "the wall street journal" in 1993, i think. use some of the revenue to cl

now we hand it off to steve moore, senior economics writer for the "wall street journal." steve? >> i'm sorry that mark black -- will you tell mark, thank him for making smoking sexy again. ok, i just have four or five quick points. my opinions today are my own, not the editorial board. if you want to know our position on the 9-9-9 plan, we wrote an editorial called two weeks ago called "cain's tax mutiny." four or five quick points. one is, there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing more regressive than our current income tax system. we have 14 million unemployed people. we have 20 million that can't find a full-time job. the economic policies of the last four years have been a catastrophe and i would make the case that the income tax system we have right now is an albatross around the neck of the economy and those that suffer the most from the current tax system are those without jobs and that's a point, rich, that i wish herman cain and neut newt gingrich and rick perry would make all the time. nothing could be worse and more harmful than what we have right now. second of all

was moore's car steve martin does a lot of foreigners right and you're right it's troops and guns it's true that we were using so the fact that they. would bring the slings. with no concern and so forth uses a quality really. serious ethical and moral issue. and i think it's one of the most immoral and on ethical institutions in the country. they want more investment they want more money thrown down the black hole nuclear weapons development they want to expand the nuclear weapon labs they want to continue the program and even advocates of this since the very beginning of this program and so it's up to us it's up to us those of us who have a conscience and who are watched dogs to stand up and say no because if we don't do it no one will. the syrians are meeting next thursday and san francisco yeah we're going there on my that. we really care and we're going to put our next clock and just tell people that we need to be to me to modernize and we need to start building nearby things. the students have a right to demand that they receive that course and that we don't warm don't. really nee

steve jobs gets big media attention. giving details of his political beliefs and his dislike of the press. >> and right? >> i'm not in the 1%, no, but i am-- >> .2%? >> no. >> and michael mooreides with occupying protesters, but is he too rich to be supporting the movement? all next on news watch. eck? no, i wouldn't use that single miles credit card. hey, aren't you... shhh. i'm researchg a role. today's special... the capital one venture card. you earn double miles on every purchase. impressive. chalk is a lost medium. if you're not earning double miles... you're settling for half. was that really necessary? [ male announcer ] get the venture card at capitalone.com and earn double miles on every purchase every day. what's in your wallet? cover for me. i have an audition. this is not how witness protection works! when we set you up with that little hardware store we didn't intend for your face to be everywhere. but fedex office makes it so easy. not only do they ship stuff, they print flyers, brochures -- everything i need to get my ne out there. that's the problem. now we need to give you a third identity. you're paul matheson. and you're gonna run your business into the g

steve jobs gets big media attention. giving details of his political beliefs and his dislike of the press. >> and right? >> i'm not in the 1%, no, but i am-- >> .2%? >> no. >> and michael mooreides with occupying protesters, but is he too rich to be wow! it's even bigger than i thought. welcome to progressive. do you guys insure airstreams? yep. everything from travel trailers to mega motor homes. and when your rv is covered, so is your pet. perfect. who wants a picture with flo? i do! i do! do you mind? got to make sure this is -- oh. uh... okay. everybody say "awkward." protecting your family fun. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >> he was very put lent and-- pet lent and whether it was to a waitress or to a guy that stayed up all night, he could just really just go at them and say, you're doing this all wrong. >> it's horrible and you'd say why did you do that? why weren't you nicer? i'd say i really want to be with people who demand perfection and this is who i am. >> biographer of apple founder steve jobs, walter isaacson on 60 minutes describing the former ceo as a real human being and a perfectionist, titled steve jobs, the book which hits the shelves thi

moore. >> thank you, gentleman. >>> respiratory arrest with an underlying pancreatic tumor, that's the official cause of steve jobs' death. that's his death is officially listed by the santa clara county health department. jobs was laid to rest last friday at a cemetery in palo alto. employees at apple today were notified that the company will host a celebration of steve jobs' life on wednesday, october 19th, at the outdoor amphitheater on apple's infinite loop campus. >>> well, new tonight at 6:00, a european vacation is now being pinned as the source of that outbreak of mumps on the uc berkeley campus. officials say a cal student caught the virus while on a trip in europe and brought it back and affected others in school. up to 44 people have now been diagnosed. cal officials say this is likely the university's largest outbreak ever. officials say college students living in tight quarters like dorms are especially susceptible. cal is ordering students and faculty to get vaccinated for measles, mumps, and rubella, that's the mmr vaccine, no matter how many shots they've had in the past. >>> an internal investigat

. >> host: uniontown pennsylvania, steve, you're on the air with michael moore on booktv. >> caller:c-span for all you do and keep doing. keep it up. michael, nice to meet you. >> guest: nice to meet you. >> caller: you are an important force today on this american scene and i'm glad to see you mention chris hedges in your influential books. he is an influence on me, too. i really like reading them. i think c-span should take note of that, including on "in depth" in the future. >> guest: i would watch that. >> caller: i would, too. 2006 midterm elections basically were seen as a referendum on the iraq war, i thought. and i think a lot of people were led to think that. the democrats promised to draw down the war. and when they swarmed into congress, they actually increase funding of the war. and in light of that, what you did against ralph nader, with all due respect, in '04, coming out and campaigning against him, asking him not to run in giving reasons for him not be voted for. do you have any regrets about that now? thank you very much. >> guest: oh, no, none. i supported ralph nad

. >> steve: there's a story out this morning on national review on-line that says steven moore, the "probably a nonstarter. he is suggesting get rid of that and swap it out for a 9% payroll tax. all right. so if he did a 180 on that and turned into a payroll tax, what do you think? >> i think herman cain has bigger problems. he is sort of a gas machine. i think his statements on electrifying the fence, live ammunition on top -- won't have a muslim in my administration, he is plain spoken and people like that, but you can't have plain spoken turned into bigotry. >> steve: i'll give you the final word, kelly. >> i don't know. i think really cain has the likeability, romney has the wonkiness. who knows? people like me love gaffes. maybe that's why i'm routing for cain on a ticket. >> notwithstanding the gaffes, the polarization is optimistic, forward looking and he's leading the polls. that counts for a lot. >> steve: well, you better leave and go do a poll and we'll -- >> that's where i'm going! >> steve: great conversation. thank you very much. next up on the rundown, should you borrow

steve back to the desk. >>> thanks, making headlines in sports east coast rivalry on the gridiron. >> new york jets hosting the dolphins monday night football, first quarter miami 3-0 lead, that is matt moorebrandon marshall but it will end up in the hands of reeves. university of pittsburgh. >> yeah,. >>> 100-yards for the touchdown s jets go on to beat the dolphins 24-6, that run so long it is our only highlight. >> question all red skins fans are asking who is going to get the starting quarterback next week. coach mike shanahan says he will make his decision by tomorrow. rex grossman we all know had his worst game of the season as a red skin on sunday completing only 9 passes, including 4 to the other team benched in favour of beck, he lead the team to its only touchdown of the day at least one key player thinks it is grossman who should still be the starter sunday. >> he deserves another shot, i mean some of the best, four weeks ago i feel like for the florida game yesterday it worked you know, got us back in but that is the luxury you have when you have two good quarterbacks, come in there and do his thing when we need them but you can't give up on a guy because you have a bad outing.

moore and ashton kutcher in happier times. >> and one of the popular sellers is here, it's the tribute pumpkin to steve jobs. >> that's amazingw do you get good at it. >> practice, practice. >> how do you get good at sword swallowing. >> dave: clayton, my darth vader pumpkin died, collapsed upon itself. >> alisyn: what happened. >> dave: my son was horrified at the scene. >> clayton: i've got to see this, i want to see this collapse. >> dave: didn't go well. >> clayton: how many times have you heard the phrase, go with your gut. forget that because a former fbi profiler says the gut instinct isn't wrong, it could be dangerous. fascinating. >> alisyn: country sweetheart taylor swift showing her mean side. a risque photo of her has her threatening to sue. say it oint so. ♪ fore! nolt no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to... get in the way. not anymore. ink, the small business card from chase introduces jot an on-the-go expense app made exclusively for ink customers. custom categorize your expenses anywhere. save time and get back to what you love. the latest innovation. only for ink customers. lea