this is a vanity. it has the countertop and the basin. it has the areas for storage. this is something that people would like. another popular trend -- i do not know if the camera can catch it, but below here, so people would roll up their towels. >> this also allows you to have one more step toward aging in place and accessibility. if you ever need to roll a wheelchair in, you have an opportunity here. >> absolutely. >> this does not have an overflow. is that required? >> overflows are not technically required. >> what i mean is one of the little holes like this where the city will run out so it will not spill out onto the floor. >> they are practical and important to have, but they are not a code requirement. if you have children or something, you might want to have an overflow. if you are comfortable having one without, then you would have that choice. >> i was particularly intrigued by this sink. i know the manufacturers were up this year. this is made out of some extremely heavy duty class. here is bob, who is the rep from oceana who manufactures this thing. this

"vanity fair" features his photos. a new book jonathan becker 30 years ativanity fair.aphs tell the story about your curiosity of the human face and its environment. >> thank you. yes. and the privilege of working ativanity fair all these years which is -- >> when you were taking these photos, what were you looking for? take us into the mind's eye of the photographer. >> i think as a key, it's not to know exactly what you're looking for because you never know what you're going to find. if you think you know what you're looking for, then you won't find it. >> but graydon carter tells you a natty dresser and the finest portrait journalist of our time. >> thank you. >> so what makes a picture, back to charlie's point, jonathan and becker and "vanity fair" worthy for you? >> it's hard to say. it's an induive -- i know -- >> you seem to catch moments. there's a great shot of matt damon and ben affleck back in the day when they were just starting out and we were getting to know them. you seem to catch moments with people. >> yeah, look at these two. >> back in boston probably

we have todd purdum, national editor of "vanity fair." of democracy for america, howard dean, maggie haberman, senior political reporter for politico and former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. now president and ceo of the financial services round table. thank you all for joining us. todd, we're talking about congress. this is a big moment for congress, obviously. but give us the perspective from the president's point of view. how important a moment right now is this going to be a test for president obama. >> i think it's a very big moment and sets the term for a second term. he thinks i has the public behind him and campaigned on these issues and won. the problem is, individual members of the house who outpolled him in their districts don't share that view so i think the stakes are very high for him and he has got to deliver something too and he knows it and that's why he's back here and maybe something will happen in the next 24 hours. >> you've seen the polls, governor pawlenty, by a large margin people right now are blaming republican

. >> that is one of the ironies of history they say vanity of vanity. >> what is this?is is the os weahs wear ree high priest he said better one man should die better than one man suffer. >> his bones ended up in this box? >> yes. >> pontius pilot and ciaphus inscriptions are authentic but name alone doesn't prove a thing. >> we have two os wear res the first one says judah son of jesus. the other one says jesus son of joseph. >> nothing relating, though, to the jesus of nazareth in the new testament. >> no way whatsoever. these are very common names which you find recurring again and again. >> not long ago one was found inscribed jameson of joseph the brother of jesus. with those three new testament names on it some at first thought it had to be authentic. >> i think there is no doubt. >> he was part of the forensic team called in to aut then tate it. closer examination show the inscription was forged. >> you think the inscription is a fake? >> we found out the inscription was freshly cut. cause add police investigation. >> other inscriptions were found in a cave outsi

she tried not to fret that vanity diminished him. what would have been the thrill and mystery thrilled her nippled body leaving a mockary of a voice. she carried him back to her cavern, still, there lives together was wanting and not only because in their condition they had trouble conceiving children. they became astranged though she longed to give him everything and he was eager to take it all. each sought the other through a different mirror. >> called : what happened happened. and finally. [laughter] a story called terminals. in the last moment of his life, time slowed and slowed to a halt. no longer pressed as he has been in youth he strolled the youth on foot and thought over every thought. love and war and stars he grabbed the meaning of it all as a whole. he yearned to share what he knew. though that lived on and might have learned moved to a future where his still voice would not be heard. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm going to read a scene from draining the sea coming out in march. it takes place in guatemala during t

. >> what made you go on this vanity kick? >> it wasn't a vanity kick.was a health kick, i'll tell you, the truth was. it was christmas, i was 48 a couple of christmases ago and i had 11 sausages and i sat there feeling ill. the number of times i said, jane, i'm having a heart attack, i'm having a heart attack. and i thought, you know what, life is good and i don't want to blow it. i don't want to go, hold on, just, what? so -- >> by the way, it wasn't just me because this dashing feature in men's health magazine, the feature we never thought we'd see of you of this immaculate kick boxing gervais. it says he went from bearly employed chubby loser to bad ass comedic orator. he went from losing the gut to gaining respect. >> i'm glad i lived this long to get to comedic orator. otherwise it would be the death of a fat, chubby loser who never cleans his teeth and stinks. ricky gervais died today by sausages, death by sausages. >> one of my favorite bits is when you get together with the doors. you perform "reading rainbow" and apparently it gets completely o

(laughter) vanity cards? is that how this was going? were the two sides just spray painting a side and hoping it wanders past the other side's office or other equally absurd examples? so tell us about this paper with numbers on them. >> $4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next ten years. it includes $1.6 trillion in higher taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year. there's also $400 billion in cuts to entitlement programs. there's apls also some fresh new spending. $50 billion next year in stimulus spending, all for infrastructure. >> jon: ooh, green lettering. ooh! (laughter) johnny like you. all right, so we got a little tax cut hike here, a little entitlement trim there. basically telling the government it needs a mix of diet and exercise if i want f it wants to reduce its chances of succumbing to heart disease or swollen prostate -- christ, i just turned 50. (laughter) no, i'm sorry. basically this plan is around somewhat what obama said he was going to do about the budget while he was on the campaign trail. so i gu

were the guest editor of "vanity fair." >> yeah.. >> jimmy: this is the whole cast of "this is 40." i've got to tell you something. i loved this movie so much. >> oh, thank you very much. >> jimmy: not only is it a funny, funny movie, but it gives a lot of like dramatic issues as well. >> yes. >> jimmy: in a humorous way. if you ever want to get in a fight with somebody but you wish that a comedy writer wrote your dialogue so that you can really tell someone off, this is the movie you have to see. >> yeah, yeah. do you -- do you fight a lot? like do you fight? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> what do you fight about? >> jimmy: what are you talking about. do i fight? you mean, no. >> with your wife, do you fight? >> jimmy: oh, no. i thought you meant me, in general. no, i don't fight with my wife or anyone. i would lose. >> really? >> jimmy: yeah. did you see me gag on water? >> i know, yeah. >> jimmy: it was like five, ten minutes ago? [ laughter ] i don't fight, but i -- i see exactly -- i know where this is going. i knew like things were

but for one woman, that desire went far beyond a vanity dream.e was born with a form of dwarfism that made every day tasks a challenge. so, she chose to endure a series of extremely painful, risky and controversial surgeries, defying the odds and growing over a foot taller. abc's juju chang brings us the tory. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: it's as if every birthday wish tiffanie ever made came true. >> thank you. >> reporter: but as a woman who once stood only 3'6", her childhood dreams play out in simple every day little victories. >> okay. ready? >> totally. >> driving. and we're off. marrying my dream guy. having a home. having just a normal life. you know, doing things that a lot of people take for granted. turning on a light switch, wishing my hands, cooking. that's what i wanted. and i feel like that was worth the risk. you know? all our nothing. >> reporter: it's all possible because tiffanie endured an excruciating and controversial series of limb-lentening surgeries that literally break the bones and force them to regrow longer. a

it's the great vanity of bureaucrat that somehow their jobs are off the import. after the second world war, we eliminated 100 to 2000 bureaucrats, millions of workers in the same keynesian economist gary thayer declared this would cause a new great depression not do the work, that it would do the worst dislocation in the economy had entered phase. instead, the growth rate doubled. 7 million new jobs were created in him we entered the night 50s, which returned. expand it. it is a mini u.s. economy. this is after a reduction government spending, equivalent to eliminating the entire government today. the same thing happened in new zealand. when i grow you crisis and drastically retrench government interference in regulation, the economy takes off. everybody is stunned. particularly demand side economists are stunned because they can't understand creativity that comes as a surprise to us and is the heart of capitalist economics. >> george gilder, one of the solutions often disguised as a balanced budget amendment, something you discuss in "wealth and poverty." >> i t

it is a spectacular vanity project in a country where most people live on barely $1 a day. equatorial, guinea is a dictatorship. his family has been accused of rampant corruption. has hadident's son assets worth 1 million euros seized by the french government. oil and gas are the keys to understanding the regime. editorial beginning -- equity torial guinea life expectancy barely topped 50. public dissent is a dangerous. anger is close to the surface. >> the people are suffering. all the oil money is taken by the president's family. no one can say anything. if you do the secret police would come to arrest you. >> the president gave me a rare interview. he is 70 but in no mood for retirement. >> i have been in power for so long because of the will of the people. it is the people who decide. thanks to the work i have done it they have always shown their appreciation and voted for me. >> what do you say to the people in your own country that say that you and your family had stolen the resources and the assets that are rightfully belong to all of the people of this country and n

in general, to the lenders, what type of vanity do you traditionally see approach you for loans, an llc, corp., and who is liable, for whose borrowing the money? >> as a micro lender, we expect the principles, the corporate form, to provide guarantees. >> personal guarantees. >> the same. 20% ownership in the company. [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> i heard something about sba guaranteed loans. maybe i missed something. does that have to do with the sba guaranteeing the entity? >> the question on the sba guaranteeing a entity as the order of the business, whether it is a corporation or partnership, for any small business lending, you should expect to be

disagree are somehow labeled as insensitive because we disagree is really as i said a part of the vanity of stock and trade of a long bankrupt public servant who has long ago failed to offer constructive solution for the problems that afflict this city. i have had it. >> reporter: the two continued to exchange word. the council did approve a measure that will set aside a special fund for those hit hard by the flooding over the summer in bloomingdale. the downside is everyone's water bill could go up about $0.30 a month. >> matt, thank you. >>> now to the so-called fiscal cliff. late tonight detectives rejected john boehner's plan b. the senator majority leader says boehner's proposal will not pass the senate. >> our plan b would protect american taxpayers who make $1 million or less and have all of their current rates extended. >> take that football and it's a charlie brown episode. they jerk the ball away. >> boehner's proposal would delay discussions on spending cuts until next year. the president's latest proposal would raise taxes on more than $400,000. that's up from $250,000. comin

it is a spectacular vanity project in a country where most people live on barely $1 a day. equatorial, guinea is a dictatorship. his family has been accused of rampant corruption. has hadident's son assets worth 1 million euros seized by the french government. oil and gas are the keys to understanding the regime. editorial beginning -- equity torial guinea life expectancy barely topped 50. public dissent is a dangerous. anger is close to the surface. >> the people are suffering. all the oil money is taken by the president's family. no one can say anything. if you do the secret police would come to arrest you. >> the president gave me a rare interview. he is 70 but in no mood for retirement. >> i have been in power for so long because of the will of the people. it is the people who decide. thanks to the work i have done it they have always shown their appreciation and voted for me. >> what do you say to the people in your own country that say that you and your family had stolen the resources and the assets that are rightfully belong to all of the people of this country and n

in general, to the lenders, what type of vanity do you traditionally see approach you for loans, an llc, corp., and who is liable, for whose borrowing the money? >> as a micro lender, we expect the principles, the corporate form, to provide guarantees. >> personal guarantees. >> the same. 20% ownership in the company. [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> i heard something about sba guaranteed loans. maybe i missed something.

dee dee myers of "vanity fair." "time" magazine's executive editor michae michael duffy, and also "time" columnist joe klein. and we'll hear from major garrett and nancy cordes. >> you going to get a deal today, sir? >> hope so. >> o'donnell: it's all ahead because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. substituting for bob schieffer, cohost of "cbs this morning," norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good morning, again. tom coburn and dick durbin are here, and we'll turn to both of you in just a moment. but we want to start with some new information from chief white house correspondent major garrett and congressional correspondent nancy cordes who are here. i know you have both been speaking with your sources this morning, and, nancy, what's the latest? >> reporter: nora, democrats will at this point are very pessimistic that leader reed and leader mcconnell will be able to strike that deal that they were so hopeful about 24 hours ago. the

. >>> and "vanity fair" photographer jonathan becker looks back on 30 years of the magazine's photos,nd also some tips for buying a new tv. that and more coming up a little later on "cbs this morning." that will do it for the "morning news" this friday. friday. happy friday. appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown in new york. take care, everybody. have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> hi, everyone and good morning. friday is finally here! it's december 14. she's smiling. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. time now is just about 4:30. lawrence, did you hear how frank said "friday "? >> friday!! exciting folks! you know, we have some cold weather out there now. some frost advisories up plus the possibility of some rain. we will talk about that and your weekend forecast coming up. >> that's right. and it is the friday morning commute. so far things are "friday light," we can't say it enough. so far, so good across the golden gate bridge. headlights making their way into san francisco. we just checke

but when pressed about the date -- >> we always have a constitutional of vanity. we have a prestigious competition accord which showed a great ability to interpret any aspect that is necessary. >> in other words, should he want to, the president could very likely obtain an extension from the constitutional court which is stacked by loyalists. all of this if, a big if, he is good enough to remain in office for however long. al jazeera, caracas. been a shootout between police and the gunman in western mexico left 13 dead. a badly wounded in fighting in the state of -- police believe the gunman is connected to major drug cartels. the most powerful pro-gun lobby group in the united states launched a media offensive. the national rifle association has been defending its response to the school shooting that left 26 people dead, including 20 children. john tarrick has more. >> on friday, the national rifle association was blunt about how to stop a mass shootings and you press the issue -- schools. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun

double vanities, soaking tub, showers, toilets, bedets, a lot more things going on. >> has this economicline at the moment -- has that affected people's desire for complexity in stuff? have you seen a short-term move toward simplicity? >> yes and no. people still love their bathrooms. people think of them as an important room, as an investment for their home. yes, there is the gamut. some people are really just for function and utilitarian. some of them are large and lavish and everything in between. >> we are going to start looking at a couple of little vignettes of bathrooms. we can talk about fixtures and use that as a springboard for questions for our audience and discussions from some of the manufacturers we have here. let's start by looking at one right back here. this is a really interesting one because this has some of the characteristics of a traditional san francisco building. it has this starting with the board, i think it is called, and it has both old-fashioned kind of pictures and real modern stuff. what do you see here? >> looking around, it has gone a soaking tub. >> it h

i want to also point out that after the collapse of iceland up to iceland went michael lewis of vanity fair he wrote a piece and it got a lot of attention that the icelandic people some of them believe in something called little people they do believe in elves but they also believe in a people which many westerners refer to as little people but are actually called folk which means hidden people their hidden people much like our hidden economy our shadow banking system where all our wealth is allegedly stored and this is a recent story from iceland for example max icelandic town hopes angry elves have been soothed by songs it is hoped that elves and hidden people around the northwestern icelandic town of boken bark will start to calm down again following their recent dangerous pranks and humans subsequent effort to appease them so apparently some rocks fell onto a village and it was because of construction but the local thought it was because they didn't ask permission from the the hidden people to build their love they're the only ones of far paul krugman people of iceland that live in

well first there is an actual political threshold to get passed in order to get jackson vanity repealed again romney ran you know as a cold warrior anti russian that russia was going to be the big enemy of the united states in the years to come certainly that sentiment was shared within the congress or that position would have had that least been buttressed you know post facto in the congress and so. people who would have to go home and explain their pro russian vote as it might be called by their opponents in their districts to their constituents could say hey all we did was update it we still have imposed restrictions on them but they're not communists anymore now there's some corruption there and we've given the president the tools to deal with that so i that there may very well be a considerable portion of this that's for domestic political consumption but also the internationally yes or internationally i'm sorry looking at looking at israel for example in the human rights violations that go on there the united states as was pointed out before with guantanamo with all kinds of extra

got the the contracts that were the ones the six billion dollars about actually took over the ages vanity talking about the kids who agree with me on the streets of basra the day of their national election and their parents who would wave to me. yet in fact i introduced i just interviewed somebody who just came back from iraq and said it's been testing for going well i think it's wonderful that we are going to be helping iraq why don't we help americans well it's always a good thing we should we should allow american say it's not a good thing i want to let's take things off let's stop taxing these people let's start stop over regulating what people people who work at wal-mart they're updating of taxes their company their taxes being paid on arts. essentially buckets for taxes they're running they're running the tax shelters in the caymans there's a corporate taxes thirty five percent have a nobody they already pays it right we are if you want to run might we see the countries we are the second lowest in the world in the in actually developed countries in at in actual next collections per

yes "seinfield" has been named funniest sitcom of all time according to a" 60 minute" van vanity fair poll. there are the honeymooners, friends, cheers and oddly morning joe. discuss. >> lightning roooouuuunnnnnddd. lightning round. >> that will never go away. andy, is "seinfield" deserving of the top spot? >> yes. it is the one program on tv that i will -- if i am flipping through and i will see seinfield and stop every time. >> i agree with you, but it is like -- so you have seen the episode 35 times, the same one, but you find out that everiy ter national truth in the world has been covered by "seinfield." every one. and sometimes it is not funny, but it happens to be true and you have to go, oh god we are going to die. that's how i feel. oh we are all going to die. i go to bed 1k3 it is like, i have a great idea -- it has been done. is there a show you shot should have made the list. something with fuzzy animals and furred? >> until a big "friends girl" because i was in love with ross, the nerdy paleontologist. i was going there, yes. "seinfield" i did like, but jerry always looke

to publish a book -- a long are -- longer book about his illness but we corrected the article for vanity fair. >> you're going to be at the miami book fair next week, november 17th, 18th, along with carol blue, and martin amos. >> that's going to be a really interesting panel to be on. martin and christopher knew each other for a very long time. carol and martin are very close mitchell relationship with christopher really dates back to "god is not great" and as my career blossomed and his career as a writer blossomed. i have a little less institutional memory as far as he hitchens project but i'll contribute where i can. >> booktv will be covering the panel supply will be talking with carol belue, christopher himens' widow, and we'll be taking tweets and face book comments for carol blue. go to face book.com/booktv, and like booktv, and you can join in the conversation or tweet in a question for her@twitter.com/book tv. any nominees for 12? >> i think it's an incredible list of books so i'm very excited to see what rises to the top. i think it's going to be tough to be objective. if you

that we're somehow labels as insensitive because we disagree is really, as i said, a part of the vanity and stock and trade of a long bankrupt public servant who has long, long ago failed to offer constructive solutions for the problems that inflict this city and i have had it. >> reporter: the meeting continues and the council members continued exchange words offmic. a number of big votes again one having to do with the cameras and speed actions and there is another on finance reform. council member chay wants to limit money orders and that could fail tonight because of the issues today. back to you. >> and thank you very much. >>> we know the identity of a man who was shot and killed. he was shot on fort lincoln drive yesterday morning and as always, police are offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of rice's killer. >>> your commute through parts of the district are getting faster. d.c. mayor vince gray is raising the speed limits on several major commuter routes and this is a look at some of the streets. new york avenue, bladensburg road and this is only

and he edited this month's issue of "vanity fair" magazine, the comedy issue. a goldie hawn style bikini with paint all over your body? >> do you wish it was megan in the bikini like that? >> jimmy: no, you look quite good yourself in that bikini. it came out all right. was that his idea? >> that was -- well, kind of. his idea and my idea. you look really good. >> jimmy: well, let's not change the subject. you do, though. well, you're clearly on drugs. when you're not in these movies, you've been doing some family films recently. i want to just hold up a couple. now, this is a character from the movie "rio." you voiced linda in "rio." very cute. and now we have your character from "paranorman," which is sandra babcock. quite a range going on there. [ laughter ] >> sometimes they make you look better and cute. and then sometimes they -- [ laughter ] what did they do to me? and they gave me the fupa. >> jimmy: the what? i don't know if i want to know what that is. >> you don't know what the fupa is? >> jimmy: does anyone know? what is a fupa? i don't want to poin

>> in the beginning, it was up to me to show all of the naysayers that no, this is not about vanity,lling albums or money. for me, this is about helping these kids that need the help. >> and perhaps as a father? you have a very special -- i just saw your face light up. you are a proud dad, i know you are. >> definitely. from the second i saw my kids it was there's nothing i will not do to make sure that you are okay. literally. legal, illegal. whatever, as long as you are all right. i'm all for it. >> did becoming a dad make you work that much harder at giving them a better life, perhaps giving them a father figure? >> i can say yeah, i want to see my kids faces as i see these kids faces. it height ens your hustle. >> you why did you want to be a part of the show? >> the negative is he celebrated more than the positive now days. the people that are truly doing positive things for the right reasons, it needs to be celebrated and recognized and this show is celebrating them. how can i not be a part of this. >> we cannot wait to see you perform. what are you singing? >> it's a song i wr

many of my books have been accepted by vanity fair and vanity fair has one of the most rigorous fact checking department in the magazine business and all of these books that have been accepted, not a single factual error has been found. >> host: you interviewed jeremiah right for "the amateur". >> guest: it was on the record, it was also taped recorded. we sat down for three hours not even across the table. we were sitting the way you and i are sitting with a tape recorder on a table on the side. it was an amazing experience because i expected him to the bombastic the way he was on those videos, kind of raising his voice and denouncing america, white people, jews, israel. none of that happened during our interview. he was very polite, courteous, low-key, speaking in a modulated voice, quite intelligent to me. i don't agree with a lot of the things that he has been videotaped saying but i must say during those three hours i believed the stories, he told me very interesting stories. >> host: where is he now lives far as his relationship with president obama? >> guest: he clearly feels