and whitman described thursday, november 1st. bill 1956 as another day of great crisis. sherman adams called this quote back the worst week that eisenhower experienced in all the years i worked with him in the white house. that morning the president was besieged with rumors that the soviets were planning to deploy aircraft on the syrian basin. ike asked the chairman of the joint chiefs whether the russians might have slipped some atom bombs to the egyptians. eisenhower canceled all campaign events except the one scheduled for philadelphia that night, november 1st. and whitman recalled the typewriters had to go to the train to complete this speech in time. in philadelphia, in convention hall, ike looked out at 18,000 full expecting a rousing campaign speech. instead he launched into what a columnist called a high level speech by a man who spoke not as a republican partisan but as president of all the country. eisenhower stated that the nation had pursued a path of honor by standing against the use of force in both hungary and egypt. united states, he said, cannot and will

meg whitman said they are bringing it back. whitman says they may release another tablet in the future. let's check your money on a friday. stocks up because of progress made toward stabilizing the european economy and a strong rise in tech stocks. blue coat systems, the security system company bought out for $1.3 billion. shares of blue coat up, 44%. it's the time of year when tech companies hold christmas parties, most of them. one company is saying no to the party scene because they would rather help others. it didn't have to be this way. tamara richards could have been dressed up and sipping champagne. instead, her company canceled their christmas party and worked on a farm. >> i think it's important to do what we are doing right now. it's good for the community. better than spending money on us. we already have jobs. >> reporter: 1500 employees came here to full circle farms building, digging, painting muirals and planting the future. >> today, we laying the foundation. we are going up ten stories. >> reporter: all to help

there's talk about meg whitman running hp. can we expect magic out of hp? >> meg whitman is a friend of mine, and for understands technology, and consumer oriented in ebay. so i think her decision not to get out of the peripheral computer business was a good one. hp is a $150 billion company that no one respects. it's truly a sleeping giant. if it woke up with meg's leadership, i think it can. it could rock. >> susie: we'll chat with you next year, guy and see how all of your predictions turn out. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> susie: and especially for the new year for you. >> thank you. >> susie: we've been speaking with guy kawasaki, author of enchantment. here's what we're watching for tomorrow. a light day on the economic calendar. we'll see the weekly chain store sales numbers, and earnings from fertilizer maker mosaic. also tomorrow, the federal reserve wants to boost communication in the new year. we'll look at what it's saying and forecasting for 2012. president obama may be on vacation, but that didn't stop him from filling two vacancies on the

. >> hewlett-packard ceo meg whitman checked one more thing off the to do list, deciding hp will qeep it's web-os operating system but making it open source sous. hp killed the software this year, now, developers can improve on the software for free. >> the thing we recognize is that it's a remarkable technology, and deciding it shouldn't be wasted wex looked and said maybe there is a market opportunity here, for this. >> web-os developed by palm, the company hp bought laughte laughter -- last year. and when the tablet flopped the touch pad tablet, he yanked it off the market. whitman later took over and today, says don't count hp out of the hardware business just yet z a check of the closing bell stocks ending the week on an up note, nice gains after european leader as agreed to boost a rescue fund. a better than expected report on american consumer confidence helps in pushing stocks higher. your bloomberg silicon valley index is up, and take a look at shares of pandora. not too hot after spotify offered plans to competing web based radio product and will allow them to check an artis

so he ran against charles whitman -- 1918. charles whitman, the d.a. of manhattan had come up and becomes governor of new york state. he runs twice and gets elected. he starts to look at the white house in 1920. we like to look back and say what if. maybe it would not have been harding. maybe it would have been charles whitman. smith unseats this governor largely because there is a flu epidemic. he campaigns around upstate new york. he turns out the new york city vote. he wins by a very slight margin. he get in there. in 1920, the legislature crosses its arms and says we will not do any of these things. >> the republican legislature? >> the republican assembly and senate. smith starts the campaign by saying, we will have a reconstruction commission capitalizing on the transition from a wartime economy to the private sector economy. he starts saying he is going to strengthen -- we are going to bond so we can have capital improvement spread out for many years instead of the infrastructure starts to crumble. he has a lot of these great ideas. the legislat

which has a ceo shake up ultimately hiring meg whitman. >> probably more drama for one company that we normally get out of the entire valley. >> reporter: los gatos netflix saw thousands of subscribers after trying to change their pricing. >> they miscalculated how the public's response will be. you don't double cross your customers. >> reporter: analysts put yahoo in the losers category with the loss of its ceo. looking ahead, analysts say keep an eye on apple and hp as both the new ceos plan to put their stamp on the companies. >>> a pair of economic reports sent stocks up today. the nasdaq gained 23. the four week average for unemployment claims fell to a 3- 1/2 week low. home sales are at its highest level in a year and a half. >>> it was a big year for kindell. the i pad is still expected to outsell all the other tablets. >>> new at 6:00, an effort to double the size of the state legislature for a 50/50 split between men and women are getting underway. initiative organizers can start collecting signaturetures to get it on the ballot. each senate and assembly district would elect a

>> brown: that's the goal back at whitman high school, where this teacher engaged students any way he could, from a news scavenger hunt. to a cross word puzzle with key concepts. >> editorial. >> documentation. balance sneech. >> brown: his students learned lessons learned even through rap. >> good for quick information but it doesn't have any citation so therefore it's not reliable and its sources are not viable. >> brown: the news literacy project's miller said a lot is riding on this effort. >> if young people don't value quality journalism, don't look for it, don't actually demand it, then it may cease to exist. if they can't distinguish between the value of work that is gathered with these kinds of standards and in an effort to present it dispassionately and fairly and with different points of view, then why would they ever seek out quality journalism? >> brown: the further the effort, the news literacy project in the american library association are launching workshops around the country to make high school students better media watchdogs. with a specific focus on the 2012 polit

fans know jason whitman as a pro bowl tight end.the road to the nfl was a bumpy one. now he's made it his mission to help kids who suffer domestic abuse. he found glory on the gridiron. but for dallas cowboys tight end jason whitney, the sunday night lights are a small way from the tennessee town where he escaped what he called a sometimes dirveth life. >> it wasn't a situation where a kid needed to be in that environment. thank goodness my mom realized that and said, we're getting out of this situation. >> whitman's grant grandparents took him in. and his father, who happened to be the high school football coach -- >> this is where it all started. sglended up showing whitman just as many things off the football field as on. >> i taught him things like you're supposed to stand up when women come into the house. >> reporter: he also taught a young boy with a dream of the nfl that everything is possible. >> even though you have adversity that goes on, there's people that believe in you and don't allow you to think anything other than

. >>> a candlelight vij it in dupont circle tonight as mayor gray, the whitman walker clinic and hundreds of others marked world aids day. it was one of many events held across the city and the country. hiv is a major concern here in the district. a 2010 annual report found that the infection rate is above epidemic levels in washington. >>> the parents of a 13-year-old are suing a prestigious boarding school after the school denied admission to the student because he's hiv positive. the child, who is not being identified, is an honor school from pennsylvania. he applied to the hershey milton school. the school said it rejected the boy because of health and safety of other students. the boy said he feels like he's being denied the opportunity to learn. >> to go through this, being denied, just because they have hiv. >> they didn't look at whether my client prevented any threat. they just said 13-year-old boy with hiv, oh, no, that's too dangerous. >> the aids law project is representing the boy in a lawsuit. it calls for the hershey school to admit him and pay unspecified monetary damages.

congressman whitman is a member of the house armed services committee with oversight over the air force. the photo surfaces at a time when the air force already suffered a recent black eye over the sloppy handling of remains of u.s. military war dead at dover. >> i think what happened at dover is also unacceptable and we need to get to the bottom of why it happened, how it happened, how we prevent it from ever happening again. this doesn't bode well for the overall culture within the air force on the heels of what we have found out so far about dover. >> reporter: we showed theet for toe people on the streets of downtown washington and while everyone we stopped appreciates the service of the airmen, the decision to pose like this gets no support. >> i always think of the families of those who have lost people. that is the first thing i think about. how would you feel if you had a brother or they were playing with your brother that way. >> you got americans watching all over for a person that is laying in the casket and this is not the right time for this -- to see this here. >> >> repor

. >> joining us now are walt whitman high school. this outfit?d coins depthly that we were dressed the same. >> tell us about your mission. we were inspired by martinson's effort and his evident to building schools in afghanistan and showing how girls in afghanistan were treated. we created the afghanistan school project. permanently, my own grandparents in andrea had that project. >> what have you learned through the process and how will you move on to move people. i think that getting your points across and straight and to the point has opinion very, very helpful. you have to go directly to the source and that's when i cop tacked my family friends who is a former ambassador of azerbaijan. we contacted the embassy there and that's how we were able to get this started. that will hopeful hi start in the spring. >> you ladies have been working overtime. what's the goal to see your mission go all the way through? >> definitely, we need support. we need to make this issue more public. we need people to understand what actually is going on in afghanis

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we're going on to the walt whitman roadside rest area and bitch. what do you do?hitman rest area isn't the right place to bitch. go to the vince lombardi rest area. anyway, the republicans did find a way. i mean, do the keystone pipeline and they're going to do the payroll tax cut. you can't say they've always been recalcitrant. they say okay. you want us to do something that politically we don't want to do because we don't think it works economically? all right. we'll swallow that, mr. president. but you need to do the keystone pipeline which you don't want to do philosophically because we believe it'll create jobs. that's the boulevard. so you can't say in every instance republicans are recalcitrant. i've been very critical of congress and i've said, they are not talking to each other. they're talking at each other. it's harry reid and mitch mcconnell and the speaker and nancy pelosi sound biting at each other and all of the rest of the people underneath them. >> republicans and democrats and congress -- >> everybody is -- >> have let the congress down. >> sure.

which had a shake up and ended up hiring meg whitman. >>> los gatos netflix saw thousands of subscribersve. >> they just miss calculated what the customers response will be. you don't double cross your customers. >> reporter: analysts also put yahoo in the losers category with the loss of its ceo. and cisco for its decision to drop its flip camera. keep an eye on apple as they both look to put their stamp on 2012. >>> people living near san francisco's recently renovated laguna handa say has become a noisy neighbor . that noise from the air- conditioning unit has ruined the peacefulness of their neighborhood. >> when the heat is going it's really annoying. it's like a giant leaf blower or something over there. >> reporter: noise from the petter zoo is also distracting. the hospital sent out a statement saying it sympathizes with the neighbors and taking steps. >>> what the a's are doing by gutting their team threatening the integrity of the game say supporters. die-hard fans have some choice words for the team as well. >> billy ball, ricky henderson. >> reporter: tina ricardo has display

which had a shake up and ended up hiring meg whitman. >>> los gatos netflix saw thousands of subscriberseave. >> they just miss calculated what the customers response will be. you don't double cross your customers. >> reporter: analysts also put yahoo in the losers category with the loss of its ceo. and cisco for its decision to drop its flip camera. keep an eye on apple as they both look to put their stamp on 2012. >>> people living near san francisco's recently renovated laguna handa say has become a noisy neighbor . that noise from the air- conditioning unit has ruined the peacefulness of their neighborhood. >> when the heat is going it's really annoying. it's like a giant leaf blower or something over there. >> reporter: noise from the petter zoo is also distracting. the hospital sent out a statement saying it sympathizes with the neighbors and taking steps. >>> what the a's are doing by gutting their team threatening the integrity of the game say supporters. die-hard fans have some choice words for the team as well. >> billy ball, ricky henderson. >> reporter: tina ricardo has displ

when meg whitman build up ebay, they billete build it up. my motive was to help small businesses save and have a lot of fun doing it. made some money along the way and that was great. >> john: i would argue even if it was that is okay, too, because businesses can't use force. thank you david park, brad anderson, tom sten berg, these three alone helped create more than 200,000 jobs. coming up, more c.e. o.s and job creators. we will talk about where the best workers are and regulation. i said is a sample of the rules that today's c.e.o.s have to obey. my next guests say because of those rules today they could not build the companies they once built. once built. be right back. the other office devices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you that no one notices you?" and i'm like, "doesn't it bother you you're not reliable?" and they say, "shut up!" and i'm like, "you shut up." in business, it's all about reliability. 'cause these guys aren't just hitting "print." they're hitting "dream." so that's what i do.

when meg whitman build up ebay, they billete build it up. my motive was to help small businesses save and have a lot of fun doing it. made some money along the way and that was great. >> john: i would argue even if it was that is okay, too, because businesses can't use force. thank you david park, brad anderson, tom sten berg, these three alone helped create more than 200,000 jobs. coming up, more c.e. o.s and job creators. we will talk about where the best workers are and regulation. i said is a sample of the rules that today's c.e.o.s have to obey. my next guests say because of those rules today they could not build the companies they once built. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done

. >> congressman whitman is the member of the house armed services committee with oversight over the air force. the photo surfaces at a time when the air force suffered a black eye over the sloppy handling of war dead at dover. >> i think what happened at dover is also unacceptable and we need to get to the bottom of why it happened, how it happened, how we prevent it from happening again. this obviously doesn't bode well for the overall culture within the air force on the heels of what we found out so far about dover. >> we showed the photo to people on the streets and while everyone we stopped appreciates the service of the airmen, the decision to pose like this gets no support. >> i think of the families of those who have lost people. i mean, that's the first thing i think about. how would you feel if they were playing with your brother that way? >> you have americans watching all over. for a person that is laying in the casket and this is not right time for this, to see this here. >> certainly controversial. let's bring in david. he is the air force times reporter who broke the s

. >> reporter: virginia congressman rob whitman is demanding to know what the air force knew about the ling of the remains and plan -- handling of the remains and plans to press the issue in his role of the air force house subcommittee. >> in asking questions on how this happened, were the controls put in place and how are they going to react to this and make restitution with the families? >> reporter: the commanding colonel at the dover air force base morgue and two civilian officials were disciplined but not fired. more questions and consequences, though, could lie ahead. tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >> new procedures have been put in place at the air force base. this case comes after the scandal over mismarked graves and missing bodies at arlington national cemetery which is now resulted in a criminal investigation. >>> republican lawmakers told attorney general eric holder he could lose his job if he doesn't give congress all the information it wants about operation fast and furious. holder told the house judiciary committee the operation which left hundreds of weapons -- let them f

former new jersey christine todd whitman is spearheading the american elect effort. first of all you're a republican. >> right. jon: but you think politics ought to be more bipartisan? zoo absolutely. i'm an american before i'm a republican. i'm a good republican. been a republican all my life. we're not trying to be a third party. we're trying to open up the primary process so everybody has a vice and get a bipartisan ticket. that's the key here. whoever the presidential nominee is they have to pick a member of the other party or registered independent as their vice president and that's the way we feel to break open this hyper partisanship we've been talking about all morning in washington, all the various hearings. listening to talking about eric holder and how the republicans and democrats are talking by each other yet we have serious issue with ounce if on the border. we've got to start solving problems. and so americans elect is an effort to open the primary process to everybody. any registered voter can be a delegate. you can nominate anyone who meets the const

newt gingrich in real life apologized to iowa voters saying that walt whitman had kept him in the studioneeds to get away from the cameras and talk to real people a bit more and maybe ali g was a sign he couldn't distinguish reality from tv. >> you'll be able to find the complete alii g interview on our website. richard wolffe, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> anytime, lawrence. >>> coming up, what the nypd needs to do to prove that it respects the constitutional rights of new yorkers. that's in the rewrite. and what is arlen specter doing in his retirement years? the former senator is doing standup comedy. that's coming up. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock

newt gingrich in real life apologized to iowa voters saying that walt whitman had kept him in the studioet away from the cameras and talk to real people a bit more and maybe ali g was a sign he couldn't distinguish reality from tv. >> you'll be able to find the complete alii g interview on our website. richard wolffe, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> anytime, lawrence. >>> coming up, what the nypd needs to do to prove that it respects the constitutional rights of new yorkers. that's in the rewrite. and what is arlen specter doing in his retirement years? the former senator is doing standup comedy. that's coming up. >>> new york city's police commissioner has reminded his officers that they have to respect the constitution. but he's going to have to do more than that to build respect in new york for the nypd. that's next in the rewrite. what is this shorty? uh, tissues sir, i'm sick. you don't cough, you don't show defeat. give me your war face! raaah! [ male announcer ] halls. a pep talk in every drop. then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum. it's a smaller

when i was a boy -- it's sort of like that old walt whitman poem about everything a boy saw he becamea love affair with the universe. with a blade of grass, with a rising sun, went surfing, i used to surf all the time when i was a kid. and my life was a joy. it was a joyful experience. it was full of sort of affirmation and encouragement, and i loved being alive. and i was consciously in love with being alive. and then these deaths took place. you know, these deaths occurred. and when i lost gordon, i went very quiet for a long time. that's my granddad. and i didn't really speak to anybody for a couple of months. >> he'd been the father figure. >> he was my father, yeah, basically. and when i finally sat one night -- this is in ft. lauderdale where we had moved. and i got this overwhelming sense that i was just going to be alone for the rest of my life. which made me kind of sad. and when i was 18, i packed it all up and went to juilliard to find my fortune, whatever. but it was that year, two years later, actually, when karen was killed, that, you know, sent me into kind of a tailspi

when meg whitman build up ebay, they billete build it up. my motive was to help small businesses save and have a lot of fun doing it. made some money along the way and that was great. >> john: i would argue even if it was that is okay, too, because businesses can't use force. thank you david park, brad anderson, tom sten berg, these three alone helped create more than 200,000 jobs. coming up, more c.e. o.s and job creators. we will talk about where the best workers are and regulation. i said is a sample of the rules that today's c.e.o.s have to obey. my next guests say because of those rules today they could not build the companies they once built. be right back. ♪ [ man #1 ] i was fascinated by balsa wood airplanes since i was a kid. [ man #2 ] i always wondered how did an airplane get in the air. at ge aviation, we build jet engines. we lift people up off the ground to thousand feet. thesengines are built by hand with very precise assembly techniques. [ man #3 ] it's gonna fly people around the world. safely and better than it's ever done

and in studio, bernard whitman, a democratic strategist. jonathan, let me start with you. mr.ma was very quick when he was running for president to point the finger at george bush talk being $4 trillion added over an eight-year span. in three years, obama added more than that number on to the debt. go ahead. >> yeah. it's kind of reminiscent of when the president, when avenues senator from illinois, he had voted against extending the debt ceiling. multiple votes in congress when he was a senator and then he came back to congress when he was president and asked them to extend the debt ceiling. i don't think the president wants a fight over this. i mean, i think that since the stimulus passed in 2009, there has really been an absence of coherent economics and jobs policy coming out of the white house. what we've seen, especially recently, is we're not even seeing the economists dishing out the economic policy. it's coming from the political guys in the west wing and from his campaign operatives in chicago. last week we heard from david axelrod who is the chief campaign strategis

>> add to your list, republican christine todd whitman, who ran new jersey as governor and dennis blair intelligence adviser to the president. gncç=ñ[ó democrats, republicans, and independents are gathering together and doing what americans always do when they see a problem. we think americans elect can be a solution. it's the first time ever that there'll be an open competition, where every american voter can participate in what is essentially a national primary, to put real leadership on the ballot in 2012. this hasn't happened before, and what i think you're seeing is that people are willing right now to reach across the aisle, go above themselves to pick a president, above their own party needs, so they can start to see some of the solutions that we've all been talking about placed forward and actually go into legislation next year. >> just about 30 seconds left. i want to push you on how you guys are going to build public awareness of this. because maybe you're just not ready to talk about it yet, but it seems to me it's a very tall order to get from where we are now around januar