as quote steady to increasing unquote. construction of homes was also reported up in most regions. also, manufacturing was quote unquote mixed but on balance somewhat improved. also, consumer spending up slightly. also car sales generally favorable levels. besides the federal reserve, the department of labor announced a drop in the unemployment rate. it fell to 7.8% in september, from 8.1% in august. this is the lowest since february 2009, nearly four years ago. this positive announcement has its skeptics, however, including former ge, ceo jack welch. he led ge 20 years to 2001 and made it the largest national corporation in the world, 410,000 employees. on october 5, the day the labor report was released mr. welch challenged the accuracy of the report and its timing. >> it is just ironic these assumptions all came this way the month before the election. these numbers don't smell right when you think about where the economy is right now. every economist this morning predicted roughly 90 to 120,000 and 8.2 unemployment. >>

gets nominated to go to washington as at quote, unquote, boys' nation candidate for u.s. senate. goes to washington, he's already six feet tall. she strides to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president kennedy. kennedy finishes his speech and bill goes forward and gets i his picture taken with dead i did. -- kennedy. he's proud. he's dedicated to the idea that he's going bring complete honor the family. by the age of 17 he's planning to be elected of attorney general of arkansas and governor of are and president of the united states. which is something that someone knows him knows about. he talks about about it all the time. he goes to georgetown. he become the arkansas candidate for the fellowship and goes to oxford. she is an incredible success everywhere. he cannot have a sustained ongoing relationship with a woman. he is attracted to the kind of women his mother directs him who are the beauty qiens who are the one who are flirtation. who are attractive. and that's really where his eyes have been. until he comes back to yale law school. there he me

unquote. his answer is, basically, yes. quote: we can't be great as long as we remain a vetocracy rather than a democracy. our deformed political system with a congress that's become a forum for legalized bribery is now truly holding us back. unquote. a vetocracy allows what some would regard special interests to prevent the passage of legislation both supported by majorities of the electorate and, in fact, perhaps conducive to some coherent notion of the national interest. i began my prior book, "our undemocratic constitution: where the constitution goes wrong and how we the people can correct it," by detailing my reasons for refusing to sign a scroll at the national constitution center in philadelphia that invites visitor to emulate those delegates who did sign the constitution instead of the three brave holdouts who did not. and i might interpolate that when cynthia and i visited the national constitution center just this past may, she took a picture of me with the three holdouts -- [laught

that is your proudest achievement in the first four years, unquote. matt lauer, co-host of the today show is not registered with any political party. we could find no political donations. in an interview with the speaker of the house john boehner, mr. lauer asked this question, quote: what is the evidence that you can present that the tax cuts of the bush era have actually accomplished their goals? while a legitimate question some believe mr. lauer tilts left. george stephanopoulos co-host of good morning america is a registered democrat and worked as president clinton's senior advisor. although mr. stephanopoulos remains a traditional democrat he often does not promote party politics on his program. so there it is the roster of national news people delivering campaign information. talking points believes there is not one, not one republic among that group. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction. with us, the co-host of the five bob beckel. that doesn't surprise you, does it? >> i have been hearing this for 30 years. awful can i say

reports and denying it so ok we will bring politics into this some calling this you know a quote unquote october surprise saying it could give the president like you said it could be a popular thing give the president a boost but i'm wondering i mean is there any indication that mitt romney would refuse talks or would even do things differently if he's elected well it's a good question because i think you're wrong in leaders in their public statements have even said that they don't really see much of a difference between obama and romney i mean we see in the last four years the obama administration has largely continued or expanded bush's a push is covert policies against the islamic republic of iran so there isn't really you know an idea of what a romney presidency would do a negotiation zz i think it would be a bad idea for me to pull out of talks if they were agreed upon because it would make it seem like romney really isn't interested in talks and it would put the onus on the ited states to kind of come to the table and that's not a position that the u.s. wants to be in instead i thi

unquote. his answer is, basically, yes. quote: we can't be great as long as we remain a vetocracy rather than a democracy. our deformed political system with a congress that's become a forum for legalized bribery is now truly holding us back. unquote. a vetocracy allows what some would regard special interests to prevent the passage of legislation both supported by majorities of the electorate and, in fact, perhaps conducive to some coherent notion of the national interest. i began my prior book, "our undemocratic constitution: where the constitution goes wrong and how we the people can correct it," by detailing my reasons for refusing to sign a scroll at the national constitution center in philadelphia that invites visitor to emulate those delegates who did sign the constitution instead of the three brave holdouts who did not. and i might interpolate that when cynthia and i visited the national constitution center just this past may, she took a picture of me with the three holdouts -- [laught

the show many times price propaganda if you create the price the public will buy into that as quote unquote reality in train is an extremely easy market to manipulate it's routinely manipulated was always back to john mccain and his operatives manipulating the john mccain contractor and that reigns in the manipulating the mitt romney contract to try to influence those outcomes so a couple of things first of all markets are not predictive that's false that's a that's a false and that's brokers tell customers to get them to give them their money that they can they they know which way the market's going and if they if they did they wouldn't be asking you for your money they wouldn't be talking to you maybe on an island somewhere sipping champagne markets will give you an indication of what people are really in to estimate the future might be today that this is the market price today is what people are estimating the future to be however that does not there's a fifty fifty chance that they may or may not be right it does not predict outcomes that's a completely false statement number one number

his speech does get racialized as black, but he mastered quote-unquote white ways of speaking.has mastered both varieties and can switch between the two, which allows him to be successful. >> we talk about the diversity of voters on the democratic side. somebody like buster rhymes who you cite or somebody from the harvard square area, both of them see in him this guy can speak to me. speak to that a little bit, and how barack obama being on the national stage and speaking black english, sprinkling that into his vocabulary has changed the way we look at black language and race in america. >> excellent. these are two questions. one, most people think of barack obama being able it to speak black or use black language as only helpful for the black demographic or the black voting electorate. >> it's helpful for the white electorate in ways we don't expect. when white americans -- in our book we talked to americans and surveyed americans. when they hear barack obama talking black in that first clip with the black preacher style, that links barack obama to martin luther king and other

unquote. in the words of the guardian u.k., esi edugyan really can write which helps to explain why this book has one and numerous awards in addition to the scotia bank's price canada's most prestigious award in english "half-blood blues" won the 2012 at the wilson fiction prize and was shortlisted for both 2011 and 2012 orange prize for fiction among many others. it was selected by "the new york times" book review and the editor's choicby the globe as the best book of the year and for comparable honors by amazon, quill and wire, the "san francisco chronicle" to name just a few. "half-blood blues" is esi edugyan's second novel. the second life of samuel times was named one of 2004's books to remember the new york public library. he was nominated for the hurston wright legacy award and part of cannot's canada's new fiction program. of -- parents or as they say in nigeria the naming and parents, in calgary and making her home in victoria, esi edugyan has held residencies in spain, in iceland and

she called clint eastwood's republican convention performance odd ball, unquote. she also wrote a very pro-pbs piece, but failed to cite govement sdi tot th fr rmf oa tocdreilliam dean singleton, last april introduced president obama at the annual a.p. lunch onby saying, quote, the president inherited the head winds of the worst economic recession since the great depression. he pushedhrough congress ggecicovpl hrydnd a glowing introduction. now the a.p. is one of the largest news wire services in the world. and it's biased against mitt romney. i think that's true, beyond a reasonable dot. local newspapers arhe cap.ph a clry d. 'sug ata for president obama. and perhaps theest example of what the national media has become in america. the obama campaign believes governor romney made a big mistake by ying he would stop thrndas money tobs a. be madoff, dennis kozlowski, criminals, gluttons of greed. and the evil genius who towered over them. one man h the guts o speak his name. b, owacur om ttney ows it's not wall street you have to worry about. it's sesame street. >>

she called clint eastwood's republican convention performance odd ball, unquote. she also wrote a very pro-pbs piece, but failed to cite government subsidies to that network. the former chairman of the board of the associated press, william dean singleton, last april introduced president obama at the annual a.p. lunch onby saying, quote, the president inherited the head winds of the worst economic recession since the great depression. he pushed through congress the biggest economic recovery plan in history, and on and on and on. a glowing introduction. now the a.p. is one of the largest news wire services in the world. and it's biased against mitt romney. i think that's true, beyond a reasonable doubt. local newspapers all over the usa carry a.p. photos and articles every day. that's a huge advantage for president obama. and perhaps the best example of what the national media has become in america. the obama campaign believes governor romney made a big mistake by saying he would stop federal money to pbs and npr. this morning, this ad was released. >> bernie madof

>> melissa, there's a very clear solution for all of the quote, unquote, shareholders out there, in amamericaters. which is, you know, if the united states of america were a publicly-traded company, the board of directors would fire this president because, for his record, for what was promised othe y, on the interview into the office. melissa: yeah. >> and for the dismal performance since. so i 19 days we have a mechanism that can fix this. i guaranty you, melissa --. messa: meantime companies are already preparing, putting together war rooms based on the fiscal cliff? >> sure. melissa: they're roar dealing with costs. and if s&p and moody's downgrade the country before these idiots get together and doomething about it we could see the same kind of damage we saw with the debt ceiling, whichven the government blamed forlower gdp growth. a lot of people say that's why the economy, one of the reasons why we haven't recovered quicker as we normally do t of a deep recession like this is because of the debt ceiling crisis and now the fiscal cliff crisis. >>gain it goes back, melissa, to leadership.

time the mazzola case was decided, the charter provided for removal for quote official misconduct, unquotethat's all. and in response to a void for vagueness challenge to that language the maz ol-a court decided, no, it's not unconstitutionally vague because we have all these cases and this developed body of law about what it is, what official misconduct is. and that's when they went on to say it's misconduct that occurs in office number one and relates to your duties. the part we object to is the subsequent language -- >> supervisor elsbernd: 1995 language. >> yes. >> supervisor wiener: was not the 1995 language directly a result of the%f7r mazzola -- or than a couple of words verbatim, didn't we include thatÑll langu? >> some, not all. >> supervisor elsbernd: one of the things that i've struggled=f with as i've read through the briefs, your comments, and you was understandably the sheriff very limited view of the role of the3qqt sheriff. can you articulate again for me your view of the role of thekós" sheriff. >> well, i think that a distinction has to be made between>wy the role and th

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and then talks about four dead americans as, quote-unquote, not optimal. what is going on? i think the president is so used to having a media that gives him an adoring media th not only can he not handle himself whenhings get tough, but now he's getting a little bilazy and sloppy when things are going well -- lou: well, jontewart did erythi but give him a hug, are you kidding? >> exactly. and the remark is indefensible, and is now the mother of one of the young men is very upset. this thing has legs, and they can't blame it on republicans. the president needs to be accountable for what comes out of his mouth. >>nd i think this is actually going to helps win, and mitt romney's going to do very well on foreign policy on monday. and no matter what candy owley did, i think that it'actually going to help us on monday when he does debate obama. >> yes? [laughter] i mean, listen, you're really upset about the stewart thing? he asked him the question, is it optimal -- lou: wait a minute,,i just asked you a question. >> he's asked, is this optimal? he says, well, no, it's not optima

unquote. and that's because two tractor- trailers are involved and they have to drain the fuel out of both of them. so it's going to take a while. let's take a live look outside. first of all, on our mdot camera inner loop of the beltway you can just see the flashing lights here, i think they were trying to see if they can get a closeup shot of it. all you can do is see the flashing lights which is just telling you that they're there on the scene and no one is getting by on the inner loop before route 355. let's see if we can take a look at the delay from our chart camera and this is the spur as i said, even as you come down on 270 trying to get to the inner loop of the beltway, this is what you're dealing with. no one is moving. and you're at home right now watching that means you need to choose your alternate routes. not a good idea. if you head east on the beltway from bethesda into silver spring. the outer loop is not affected by this. the cameras by georgia avenue and as you can see the l

yes, indeed, and this won't surprise a lot of people. 40 years into the sexual revolution-- quote, unquotehere's porn everywhere, there's sexual information everywhere, but 30% of women self-report as a problem for them that they have low sexual desire and another 30%, some of the same women, some different, that it's a problem that they don't reach orgasm when they want to. >> stephen: what's the down side of not giving your vagina the attention it deserves? >> i will tell you. i am here to tell you that. >> stephen: is there a down side? for me-- the one thing i have to say that the vagina has is mystery. >> it does have mystery. >> stephen: okay, it's mystery. do we want to really dispel the mystery. it's like a dan brown novel. you know? ( laughter ) in that-- in that-- in that the pope is the bad guy in both stories. ( laughter ). ( applause ) ( cheers ) and i don't-- i don't know how tom hanks fits in, but we'll figure it out. >> well, this-- pardon me-- mystery and romance are good things but not knowing basics about our anatomy and sexual response because of outdated ideas are not

acknowledging the quote/unquote off night and he is in the fight. not the same tone if you will as ann romney but commenting on the debate and what we are all watching loi out. >> right. i shouldn't have said she's not giving interviews but not as many as ann and ann romney and certainly not taking -- i don't think she's taking the fight to romney whereas, you know, ann romney is taking the fight to obama but they obviously feel like that's very effective and they said repeatedly that she helps the candidate. ann romney helps him and when she is with him. maybe that's the calculus. >> right. i want to play sound of bill clinton last night going in on mitt romney. let me get your response to it. let's play it. >> the problem with this deal is the deal was made by severe conservative mitt. that was how he described himself for two whole years. until three or four days before the debate they said, hey man, this ship is sinking faster than the "titanic." just show up with a sunny face and say, i didn't say all that stuff i said the last two years. you w

we will judge egypt, not by their creation, unquote.morocco, algeria, jordan have not experienced the arab spring, the recent developments have shown some changes. the political institution in some of the countries are in the process of transition with more participation. it's best if ambitious public spending plan. we have same legal system and procedures are being performed to the aspiration of the people and their yearning for a good government and transparency. now, let me turn to the american policies during the arab spring. two initiatives, these initiatives i don't think were a coincidence, but anyway they came up at the same time in 2011 and the other 12011. august 10, 2011, president obama ordered a division board. the president made the prevention of atrocities the key focus of his administration's foreign policy. this initiative aimed at civilians and holding perpetrators of atrocities accountable. the focus of this initiative is the area and libya. the other initiative come in the second initiative is the open government or

it lifted the ban, the quote-unquote ban, on federal funding.so today as of the time i put this talk together about a month ago, there are 178 embryonic stem cell lines available for federal funding, but there are 760 lines available globally. so he increased it from about 21 lines to 178 lines. most notably, they must be derived, these embryonic stem cells must be derived from left over invitro fertilization embryos, and permission is required from parents. that has the effect of really limiting the number of embryonic stem cells that you can get, okay? so the idea that he blew the doors open on embryonic stem cell research is a fiction. he did not. george bush nudged the door open to embryonic stem cell research, and barack obama nudged it slightly further. he did not blow the door off this research. it -- and here's an ethical issue, and i think this is a worthwhile issue that no one really knows about, but it's a worthwhile issue to discuss. his policy does little to nothing to address the hundreds of thousands of embryos that are sitting in

he noticed the, quote, explosive route, unquote, that opposing defenses were dropping a corner and providing a little help over the top, taking the routes away. do you see that and as a coach or maybe you talked to roman, does it become a game of chess? are you forced to counter that to get him involved in the offense? >> well, there is no doubt about it that teams are taking some measures to control vernon davis, to limit the damage he can do. that is their prerogative. he is always going to be involved because he may not catch a pass in a game like he did this past week. he had one of his best games blocked so well in the past. he was blocking a 350-pound man. and that really helped our offense move the football on the ground because with vernon blocking the defensive end it allowed us to block the remaining interior linemen and get up on the backers. vernon is a great player. other teams see that. you cannot hide that. they are going to locate him, find him. so i can talk to greg about it. it is hard to hide number 85. he does draw a crowd. >> reporter: he does. based on my advice, you kn