well, this week cain sat down with barbara walters as one of her ten most fascinating people of 2011, by the way, very impressive that walters always lands all ten of the year's most fascinating people. >> what kind of cabinet position would you like if it were possible. >> we're speaking totally, totally hype tet cal, right? >> jon: no, herman cain, this is your job interview for a cabinet position. >> what kind of cabinet position might you like if it were possible? >> we are speaking totally, totally hypothetical, right? >> yes. okay. >> totally, totally hypothetical. >> yes. >> department of defense. >> what? [cheering and applause] >> jon: that was so ballsy, that was so ballsy it made barbara walters do a reporter's equivalent of a spit take. the lady has been on tv since tv started. [laughter] and she has never reacted viscerally like that to a statement like this. she's faced down crazy bullshit from dictators, from president, from moguls and movie stars. sherry shepherd told her she wasn't sure if the world was round and didn't get a what. last week syrian dictator assad, who

>> walter. >> walter? >> you can't escape, walter. >> why when you go away?> so i have clean fingers, clean know nails. >> for whom? >> the wife. we go to beach and hang out. >> he says he likes to do it when he is going out of town. >> vacation. but his wife lives with him at home. you've got to think this thing through, walter. >> every time i travel, i get them. >> if he is not a real man, who is? >> he feels secure enough to get a manicure and pedicure. how about a brazilian? >> no. >> oh, god. >> he stops at that. everybody has their comfort zone. >> i don't like the idea of a man saying to me, i'll be back, i need to get a pedicure. i lose that loving feeling. >> what if his toe nails are like howard hughes. >> there is a difference between trimming them. no one likes skanky feet. >> i shouldn't say this. >> then don't. >> no. i'm sorry. my husband is one of the most gorgeous human beings god ever put on the planet. just is. he's hot, hot, hot, and still is at 81. he'll be the first one to tell you his feet have been through the mill. i'm not talking ab

december 23rd. >> another barbara walters, exclusive, you go, ms. walters. to keep the government running through next september. democrats and republicans pout side much of their partisan bickering to reach the funding agreement. without it government agencies would have had to shut down friday night. there is also progress on the payroll tax cut extension, a major issue as always remains on exactly how to pay for it. also, congress has broken its deadlock on defense spending. it passed $662 billion spending bill. the hold-up over how to handle captured terrorist suspects. the bill is less than the pentagon is funding this year which reflects the end of the war in iraq. >>> two former penn state officials get their day in court later today. the former business administrator and athletic director, are accused of failing to notify authorities about a report of child sex abuse and lying to the grand jury about it. they say the complaint they received wasn't that specific. the man who made the complaint is likely to be questioned at today's preliminary hearing.

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for barb ra walters to say you don't have talent, barbara walters saying that is hypocritical, don'tu get in trouble. the other thing that rush said -- >> bob: stop with rush! >> andrea: scaring the hell out of mothers raising daughters watching the show. i have only watched a handful of times. i accidentally -- i'm a grown woman and i can make my own decisions. but really, barbara? >> dana: do you think inside the interview -- >> andrea: her butt is fascinating. her butt is fascinating. so is kardashian. she on there because of her derriere. >> bob: buderriere >> dana: barbara walters is sitting down in 2011 going this is the list of most fascinating -- >> greg: fascinating is a stupid word. people find it fascinating. no you find a planet fascinating you weirdo. >> bob: i tried to get a truce with donald trump. i won't dump on him. he is your buddy and he called you. he still hasn't called me. don't worry about it, donald. i'm sitting on the edge of my seat waiting. why? why, why, why? >> eric: trump is not fascinating? not interesting? >> greg: i got to run. i got to run to the te

and tonight, right here, barbara walters with syria's president assad.ere's barbara's report. >> reporter: i want to make this clear. you say that the country, in general, is stable, but there are areas of this country, an hour, an hour and a half away, in which there is still fighting. in which there is still protest. >> not true. >> reporter: do you see that as something important, people fighting for their freedom? >> not everybody in the street was fighting for freedom. you have different components, you have extremists, religious extremists, you have outlaws and people who have been convicted in the courts and they have been escaping for years now. drug smugglers. and you have like-minded people of al qaeda and those. so, it's different components. >> reporter: the protests really began with -- after the detention and torture of children who were writing graffiti, calling for your downfall. i've seen awful pictures of what happened. why was this such a brutal crackdown? >> what happened? >> reporter: well, i'll give you some examples that i saw. a 1

as a small-scale investment advisory business led by a gentleman, walter noel, who had a pretty good reputation on wall street. not just in us money circles, but in foreign money circles, as well. he attracted a partner who also had a... a good track record, jeffrey tucker. they joined forces and got fairfield greenwich up and going. >> smith: walter noel's assistant remembers how, at first, they struggled until they found madoff. >> jeffrey just told walter, "i've got this guy who's got really impressive returns." you know, "come meet him. let's look into it. maybe there's a product we can develop." once they created fairfield sentry to invest exclusively with madoff, that's when things really started to accelerate. >> smith: and what attracted them was not just madoff's steady returns, but an unusual fee arrangement. >> madoff didn't charge them any fees. he said, "i'm making all my money on trading through my market-making operation and commissions, and so i won't take any fees and you can keep it all." >> smith: for a feeder fund like fairfield sentry, those client fees added up

two-year-old daughter of an iraq war vet allegedly hit with a massive overdose of chemotherapy at walterarmy hospital. >> i have leukemia. >> you have leukemia? >> yeah. >> other than a tube in her chest, three-year-old shows little sign of all that she's been through. >> who do we go visit on your make a wish? >> tinker bell. >> a year ago, doctors diagnosed her with leukemia and recommend add three week course of the potent chemotherapy drug. in one short 15 minute dose, medical workers at walter reid allegedly pumped kendall with more medicine than she was supposed to get over the entire three weeks. >> i was telling her one thing and my heart was saying something else. and i was praying to god that he let me have more time with her. >> it can severely damage your heart muscles even years later. and children particularly vulnerable. >> lobster red color. it looked like she was burning from the inside out. >> over the next few weeks, kendall was back in the hospital repeatedly. >> she had no white blood cells. >> pain so severe, doctors prescribed morphine. >> she wouldn't let me touch

we go inside the baseball and family life of the show walters. a special interest with orioles manager buck showalter and his wife angela when eyewitness news continues. >>> and when can we put our umbrellas away? my windshield wiper stopped working. bernadette woods will have the answer with her updated forecast. stay with us. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> an american soldier survives a tour of duty in afghanistan only to be shot and paralyzed at his welcome home party in california. tonight the accused gunman is behind bars. and the 22-year-old soldier is on life support. >> i put it on his dog tags, because he bought this for me. it's a mother holding her baby. >> reporter: susan sullivan wears her son's military tags. 22-year-old christopher sullivan, a veteran of the war in afghanistan, is paralyzed from the neck down after being shot at a party this weekend. his mother can't even hold him now for fear of causing greater injury. >> we are planning on doing so many things. and now we're not ever going to do them. >> i close my eyes and i can't get t

and walter, you are the -- we can say it now, you're the walter ego is what you are. >> jason and this of a -- i guess it's kind of a realization part for each of them. in the way, why do they connect so well? because on the inside, jason is a bit of a muppet and on the inside, walter is a bit of a man. and i was that man. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: congratulations. you are kind of -- you are a man and a mup met. you are like a -- you're a humpet. [ applause ] very good to have you here. thank you so much for coming by. the movie is called "the muppets," it's in theaters now. jim parsons, everybody. we'll be right back with taylor kitsch. two medium cappuccinos! let's show 'em what a breakfast with wholegrain fiber can do. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte. medium macchiato, light hot chocolate hold the whip, and two espressos, make one a double. she's full and focused! [ barista ] i have two cappuccinos, one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, a medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate, hold the whip and two espressos, one with a double shot. hehe, that's not the coffee talk

just ahead, his explanation of what happened in an interview with barbara walters. >>> bitten by his own bug. the security flaw in facebook that has hit the company's founder. >>> sear kwan president assad is denying having ordered a bloody -- syrian president assad is denying having ordered a bloody crackdown. he calls the up u.n.'s report of 4,000 killed not incredible. -- >> reporter: for the lead are of a country in so much turmoil syria's president assad appears calm, soft spoken and confident. confident he's doing the right thing for syria, the u.n. says more than 4,000 have died in the past nine months in an interview with barbara walters he distanced himself from the bloodshed. >> do you think that your forces cracked down too hard? >> they are not my forces. they are military forces belong to the government. i don't own them, i'm president. >> reporter: assad did admit mistakes have been made but doesn't feel guilty because he says he's doing his best to protect his people. few have been allowed in. amateur video, cell phone clips on line most sent out by the opposition whic

. [ laughter ] you know, on -- you know, on barbara walters -- [ cheers and applause ] on barbara waltersating people of 2 2011" special last week, she told the kardashian sisters, "you don't sing, you don't dance, you don't act, forgive me, but you don't have any talent." hey, barbara, you're the one that found them fascinating. why'd you put them on the show? [ cheers and applause ] folks, we'll be right back with "headlines," and the beautiful sandra bullock. say hello to rickey minor and "the tonight show" band! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ online, now i'm picking it up right here. blueshirt: looks like santa's got some competition this year, huh? mom: yes he does. mom: ho-ho-ho. ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. vo: shop bestbuy.com and get free shipping on everything. or pick it up at any store the same day. and right now get $150 off select samsung laptops. at best buy. ♪ ♪ [ jennifer ] no matter where you're from... ♪ ♪ ...elegance... ♪ ♪ ...is hard work. ♪ ♪ it's taking style... ♪ whatever you want me to ♪ ...performance... ♪ i'm gonna see you through ♪ ...and originality and making them look e

is this a barbara walters special or a launch party for a new vodka?far none of the "real housewives" have made the list. have you been watching "the real housewives" of atlanta? over the weekend, you know the ladies celebrated thanksgiving with us, just as the pilgrims did, by hiring a male stripper. [ laughter ] it was for a housewife named candy's 35th birthday. they hired a stripper named r ridiculous. [ laughter ] guillermo, i think, is thinking about that as the name for his baby. ridiculous got the job because he has a very unusual talent. >> oh, my goodness. oh. >> ridiculous has the amazing ability to pleasure himself on demand. >> really didn't expect a stripper that was going to suck his own [ bleep ]. it was nasty. i mean, that's -- that's -- that's [ bleep ] up. >> jimmy: and again, this was the thanksgiving episode. [ laughter ] you know, that's a great clip, i couldn't help but think we could make it better. we took the audio from that clip and combined it with video from "the flintstones" and now i think it's something the whole family

. >> who are the most fascinating people of 2011, well, barbara walters think the kardashians are in the group. i respectfully disagree. ms. walters will be here. >> stop giving me a hard time, billy. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. voters who don't know anything. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. right now more than 200 million eligible voters in the u.s.a. i don't want to be supercilious. i estimate that at least half of those folks no idea, none about what's going on in washington. and their vote counts as much as your vote and my vote and we take the time to study the officials. presidential candidates know they can get some votes with rhetoric alone. here is the president on 60 minutes last night. >> what did you accomplish? >> not only saving this country from a great depression. not only saving the auto industry, but putting in place a system in which we're going to start lowering health care cos

barbara walters has the list. we will check it twice. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. >> bill: factor follow up segment tonight. each we're we invite barbara walters on t factor talk about abc special to talk about the 10 most fascinating people that airs on december 14th. trump is one of those people so the whole list is up in flames. here now miss walters. >> first of all i want to say 18th year we go on at 9:30. 90 minutes long so we have even more time. >> bill: to spend with the kardashians, great. >> okay. you want to discuss it? >> i do. first i want to get to somebody who is on the list. pippa middleton, is that a hockey player? who is pippa middleton? >> you are so out of it. amazing to me. >> bill: who is that? >> do you remember last year kate middleton married prince william. >> is pippa the cocker spaniel? >> bill: she is the one, take a look at the dress. she is the bridesmaid who became famous and now she is the new it girl. >> fascinating. extremely interesting, charming and glamorous. >> bill: that sounds like m

in a sunsetwork exclusive, barbara walters travels to the middle east to meet a leader accused of killing thousands of his own people with the future of the entire region in the balance, bashar al assad faces american cameras for the first time since the crackdown began. >>> in the streets. after months of media blackout, our team is allowed out in public, among the people, for a rare look at the culture of courage and fear, under a watchful eye. >>> and defiance and denial. tonight, an extraordinary moment of accountability, hard questions. a special edition of "nightline: syria, a dictator speaks," begins right now. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," december 7th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. and tonight, we bring you a special edition of "nightline." in a major network exclusive, abc's barbara wealters is just back from another arab country seemingly on the brink of overtloug another dictator. syria. barbara is the first allowed access to the country since a nine-month-old

in her exclusive holiday interview, abc's barbara walters asks president obama questions sent in by the youngest americans. plus, the first lady shows us how she decks those white house halls. >>> and "the nutcracker" unplugged. this year, it's not just about sugar plum fairies. we show you how some people are rethinking the classic "nutcracker" ballet. from celebrity impersonators, to a burlesque slutcracker to a version that's gone to the dogs. >>> plus, ho ho -- huh? all they went for christmas is matching machine guns. see how some families pack serious heat in the their holiday photo, complete with santa. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, bill weir and tonight, juju chang in new york city, this is "nightline," december 23rd, 2011. >> good evening, i'm juju chang. for all of us, the holidays are a time to reflect. even more so, if you're the commander in chief. this year, president obama scored some victories, including the elimination of osama bin laden. but many feel he's failed to fix the economy. nearly three out of every fo

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walter will introduce them. don't they look good? they have sneakers on here. we had about 3,000 items in the collection from apple. it's one of the largest collections of its kind in the world dealing with app 8, but after steve died when we looked through the collection to see what was the best of the best, we discovered something very amazing. a videotape regis mckenna made in 1980 of a 25-year-old steve jobs making a presentation at stanford on the roots of apple and his vision for the company. we digitized that and it's at computerhistory.org. it's never been seen before, and we'll play you two minutes of it tonight, and i hope you will be as amazed as we were when you see it. >> we had these things when we started out. we couldn't buy a computer on the market, so we liberating parts from atari, and worked on the design for six months deciding we would build our own computers, so we built them, and was up until 4 in the morning for many moons, and we got it working, and immediately everybody wanted one. it took 40 hours to build one of these things, and we

all right let's move on to another thing this is actually i like barbara walters for saying this so take a look at this. often described as famous for being famous you don't really act you don't sing you don't dance you don't have any to give me any talent but we're still entertaining people. to be. so happy that people can say or do you say things like that the you don't do anything you don't have any talent why are you famous it was more of a question than anything she asked assad if you just said it was like a mild mannered accidental dictator and she does care about there are just one and you're idiots you guys don't what is right is right action we're disproportionate thing where more and significant a person is like the harsher she is on them she's probably what's wrong with all of journalism in america to be completely honest i don't know i think i've actually been right like yeah yeah yeah. yeah i don't know she's the card actions are sort of entertaining they're like modern day gladiators when you think about it like their lives have no purpose other than to like satisfy the sto

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barbara walters, to a miracle, caught in that jail and it her interview. i could talk to you for 12 hours about an issue, how got caught her -- her into the jail. she went in and did the interview. it was on the air. the next day i was on the ankle bracelet. he took one look and said he is going to die and i don't want to be his executioner. cops't mind doing what he want me to do. he let me out the next day. the next day i was on the ankle bracelet. if that is in god, tell me what. of course i wanted to die. i did not care. >> in retrospect, what would you say to me? >> there is no retrospect. tavis: how would you describe this part of your life, your time in jail, on the ankle bracelet, the criminal trial, how has this impacted your life? how have you navigate your way through it? >> i do not believe i have navigated myself through anything. if stress was going to kill me, i would have never gotten out of the womb. i am 78 years old. i am not supposed to eat red meat. i drink a quarter of in a clear day. god has been watching over me since i was conceive

walter patillo of san francisco was working under a bus when it rolled off risers and killed him. it is still unclear what caused the accident. cal osha is investigating. >>> investigators are looking for the cause of a fire that did damage at an apartment building. it broke out around 10:30 last night in an apartment building. investigators belief the fire started in a kitchen. firefighters were able to keep the flames from spreading from the second floor unit. no one was injured. the resident was not home at the time and is now displaced because fire officials say the apartment is no longer liveable. >>> the latest occupy protest in oakland is now out of the water. at lake merit a half-dozen protesters had set up a small vessel on the lake and equalled it aqua-pie. late last night officers in a boat towed them ashore and cited them for violating the ordinance that prohibits boats on lake merit without a permit. time could be running out for protesters of the occupy berkeley encampment. they are threatening arrests and citations at the park after an increase in violent crimes dis

abc's barbara walters asked the president in an exclusive interview at the white house. >> reporter: we have never seen -- that i can remember -- a more divisive situation with you and the republicans in congress. is that a failure of your leadership? or is that all them? >> you know, you never want to say it's all them. but i do think that right now, at least, in the republican party, there are a couple of notions. number one, is that compromise is a dirty word. number two, anything that obama's for, we're against. so, if i propose a health care bill that is full of republican ideas, in fact, is very similar to the law that was passed by the current republican front-runner, or one of the top front-runners -- >> reporter: you've just done him in, i think. >> well, the other guy was supportive of many of the ideas, as well. suddenly, they become against it. >> you can see barbara's full interview with the president on a "20/20" holiday special, next friday, december 23rd. >>> moving on, now, to new era for iraq this morning. in just a few days, the last u.s. combat troops will finally

now he's heading to harold hunter's cab for a ride back to walter reed. >> he was a patient there. he was absolutely telling me he was a patient there. reporter: hunter says he remembers them well. >> they were smoking cigarettes, so the woman being pregnant and smoking cigarettes, i didn't think that that would have been the norm, but they were not irration, erratic or -- irration, erratic or anything. >> police say andrews is out of jail. officials at bethesda would not say whether roberts is a patient or employee, only that he is a member of the military stationed at walter reed. >>> a gunman is in critical condition after police shot him this evening. police were called to clay terrace where they spotted the man firing into the air and into apartments. we're told he refused their orders to drop the gun. that's when four officers opened fire. witnesses and neighbors say they heard at least 30 gunshots. >>> police still on the lookout for the people responsible for a deadly shooting in reston. a man was found shot on cameron crescent drive around 4:00 this afternoon. he later die

a barbaraup next, walters most fascinating people special.broke the rules and why she did it. >> first another traffic on traffic and weather >> welcome back. the lesson that traffic and every 10 minutes. >> we are enjoying the weather. >> a lot of folks are. especially considering tuesday were down in the teens. an hour week in the 40's. the high-pressure is moving out of town. a cold front will move down. we were talking about this all week long. temperatures will be warm today. this'll be dropping throughout day tomorrow. it is a narrow band of rain. lunchtime.ser to i am expecting some areas of rain. not all that much. locally, a quarter of an inch out west. now we are in the 40's, the 50's. it is 64 the high. it will get a little dusty later on today. temperatures will be dropping throughout the day. be in the middle and upper-40's. there is still the chance of a wintry mix. it is mainly south of the metro area. it is still low. it is not saying much. how is the commute? >>> a green light for everyone traveling the beltway. along 50 betw