erin, first to you. from the economic experts you're talking to, i take it this was the right move, but it was an act of desperation. >> i think that's the right way to characterize it. the markets rejoiced. that's a big jump and puts the market solidly above 12,000. that's good news. i will say this, wolf. in talking to some investors, i talked to some people at pimco, the largest bond investor in america, they said the issue here is it's down the line when you start to wonder what happens. what the fed is doing is providing money for european banks who aren't able to get dollars other places. what the fed does is essentially print more dollars. a dollar's a dollar. whether in japan, kazakhstan or mexico. so, we are inflating the value of the u.s. currency to deal with the european crisis. for now, a good thing, but that could carry a heavy price down the road. >> richard, you're in london. what's been the reaction there? do they believe this will revolve the crisis? >> this is got nothing to do with re

live in london, erin mclaughlin. what are people protesting there, erin? >> reporter: to let you know where i am, outside st. thomas' hospital in london where some of the 400,000 public sector workers on strike have turned up to picket today. at the center of all this are the public sector pensions. put simply, government workers want public sector -- i'm sorry. government officials want public sector workers to contribute more to their pension and work for longer. with me is chris remington a union leader. chris har chris, what has brought you out here today? pensions decimated under these proposals. we will see how working life extended, benefits reduced. we will see -- two major -- the pension, does not go back into this, but into the treasury. we've been maligned by these proposals. >> reporter: how has this affected the strike today? >> every hospital entrance restricteded. we have got all in-patient sections reduced. anything non-emergency has been reduced even though we work very hard to make sure emergency and emergency coverage is available for pa

"erin burnett outfront" starts next. >>> i'm erin burnett "outfront" tonight. >> that's right. and given enough time he can transcend them. >> all right. cain as a lawyer issued a statement, this appears to be an accusation of private alleged is consensual conduct between adults. mr. cain alerted his wife and discussed it with her. he has no obligation to discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media." paul, true? be on the ballot in nevada on february 4th. he's in over ten states he filed. the herman cain train is full speed ahead. he's got precinct captains in iowa ready to nominate him. the herman cain train is moving full steam ahead. i think that's not only healthy he is a rocket scientist. he worked for the navy. graduated from moore house college. pro-life man and all of that. this really boils down to if you have two african-american men in the general election with opposing political views, the race card goes away. there can be no question of race. they're both black men. and it will change that base. many people who voted for mr. obama in the last electio

i'm erin burnett. "outfront," we begin with breaking news. herman cain losing key support in new hampshire one day after a georgia woman claims she had a 13-year affair with the candidate. one new hampshire state representative, william panic, confirming to "outfront" that he was withdrawing his support for cain and switching to newt gingrich. adding the alleged affair was quote, the final straw. and within the last hour, the presidential candidate sending a message to his supporters. and i read it in part, quote, this woman's story is completely false. i am asking for your friendship. i am also asking for your prayers and support. this is a trying time for my family, my campaign, and for me. i'm looking at the letter here which concludes with, the ability to buy herman cain t-shirts and donate money. money is what this is going to come down to. cain's plea for support comes after telling staffers this morning that he is, quote, reassessing his campaign. a top campaign aide told cnn today, a decision will likely be made within a couple of day

i'm erin burnett. "outfront," we begin with breaking news. herman cain losing key support in new hampshire one day after a georgia woman claims she had a 13-year affair with the candidate. one new hampshire state representative, william panic, conif i recalling to "outfront" that he is withdrawing his support for cain and switching to newt gingrich. adding the alleged affair was the final straw. and within the last hour, the presidential candidate sending a message to his supporters. and i read it in part, quote, this woman's story is completely false. i am asking for your friendship. i am also asking for your prayers and support. this is a trying time for my family, my campaign, and for me. i'm looking at the letter here which concludes with, the ability to buy herman cain t-shirts and donate money. money is what this is going to come down to. cain's plea for support comes after telling staffers this morning that he is recessing his campaign. a top campaign aide told cnn today, a decision will likely be made within a couple of days. as of ye

erin burnett "outfront" is coming up at the top of the hour. she is here to give us her take of the start of the holiday season. with all these bargains, everybody gets in early, and pull back. the markets sure liked it today. >> the market sure did. nearly 300 points higher and that was the reason. there's been so much doom and gloom. and a lot of the punditry is saying we'll have a double dip recession. even though a lot of the business executives around the country did not see it coming, it still surprised the markets when we saw this. when you give the numbers for what we saw over the week, the $52 billion, it is 16% higher than a year ago. a big jump. the big question to your point will be whether a lot of that was just people who said, hey, look. things are cheap. things are on sale. i get it. i'll front load my spending. the overall might not be as strong. it was nearly four 00 on average spent this weekend which is a big total. it could show more strength than people think and on the same day we found out that debt in america, the avera

after all, he said, it has to go well for his 4-year-old daughter erin. >> i want to see her get married. i want to see her have kids. i want to be there for all that. that's the reason why i'm going to do this. not for me, for her. i have to be there for her. >> i just took a look at chris' facebook page. he posted a video there. his surgery went successful so far. he sounds as every bit as optimistic as you saw in that piece. l if you want to donate to help chris go to www.wbaltv.com and click on "hot topics ." >> a tentative deal reached by the nba. that when we come back. first a look at events going on around town this weekend. >> now to the announcement that made a lot of basketball fans happy. players will be back on the court by christmas day. more from mark potter. >> once again it appears to be game on. the wee morning hours brought news of a tentative deal pending ratification by nba players and owners. >> we are optimistic that 6 that will all come to pass and that the nba season will begin on december 25th, christmas day. a triple header. >> if the agreement is approved, the

the majority of folks we met told us they ate thanksgiving din erin took a nap and came out in the cold to stand in line. for more traditional and less stressful shopping experience stick with smaller local stores and if you didn't get he to them today, tomorrow will be another -- get to them today, tomorrow will be another opportunity called small business saturday. don't expect to find shoppers lined up trampling over each other to get into the stores on the avenue in hampden. >> we walk up here all the time to shop local as often as we can. >> reporter: don't get them wrong. business owners don't mind the holiday rush but for charlotte who lives here black friday shopping felt like she was spending time among friends. >> it was relaxed up here. people going around and no one pushing anyone out of the way and people say good morning. >> reporter: the home furnishings gift store used to be be red tree and here they say when you shop small you are helping the local community and you are also helping yourself by insuring you won't get your loved ones the same gift someone else gets them.

he and my wife erin are watching right now. i love you guys. but i wanted to say that she gave birth out here in los angeles and i was in georgia shooting the show and i was covered in blood and mud and i went to check on my dogs in my trailer and my phone was inging. i grabbed the phone. she said, my water broke. what does that mean? i don't know. i ran to andrew lincoln, he didn't know, either. he called his wife and he said, get on a plane right now! i'll take over. just go. so, i high tailed it to the airport. called my brother tom, i need a flight to l.a. he got me a ticket because he's a great brother. there was one seat left, the middle seat in the back of the plane and there was this enormous guy that i was going to be sitting next to. i was like, all right, that's cool. i'll ride in the bathroom to see my son born. you know, doesn't matter. we'll cuddle. it will be good. as he saw me walking down the aisle, i saw that he was eyeballing me, man. and he looked at me, he said, shane? is that shane from "the walking dead?" i go, hey, man.

. >> medic and staff sergeant aaron gibson erin gibson is a 4'11 mom from ohio nicknamed mini mic. shs been twice to iraq, once to egypt and now twice to afghanistan. her parents take care of her ten-year-old son elijah. does he understand why mommy's away? >> well, this is number five for me so i think he has come to understanding of why i'm doing what i'm doing. we meet people on some of their worst days and our job when that happens is to try to keep their worst day from being their last day. >> rose: jake tapper joins me now from washington. welcome. >> thanks, charlie. >> re: tell me about how this project came around for you. what was it about the story that made you want to tell it. >> rose: i've been standing here on the north lawn of the white house since january, 2009, talking about afghanistan and the war in afghanistan and i was really curious as to what it actually looked like. i had an occasion to go there for a few hours with president obama about a year ago but we were in bagram and a hangar and we were there just if ar few hours in and out. i didn't get a sense of

erin? >> thank you. and now to libya where the international chief prosecutor announced libya could prosecute saif gadhafi. that is, of course, moammar qaddafi's son. they reversed course to try him. why did the icc back down on this demand? >> erin, icc chief prosecutor campo says they are not in competition with libyan authorities. their goals, he says, is to see saif gadhafi face justice. it would be good for the libyans who have the rights to take over the case. but first, they have to prove they have a genuine case against him and that their proceedings would meet icc standards, then the court would grant them the right to hold this trial on libyan soil. erin? >>> she was the best liar i've ever seen. >> was it imperfect justice? or was there reasonable doubt? that's what we're left with after casey anthony was found not guilty. of the 2008 murder of her 2 year-old daughter, caylee. former assistant attorney jeff ashton was part of a team that prosecuted anthony this summer. revealing new details ab

. >> medic and staff sergeant aaron gibson erin gibson is a 4'11 mom from ohio nicknamed mini mic. shs been twice to iraq, once to egypt and now twice to afghanistan. her parents take care of her ten-year-old son elijah. does he understand why mommy's away? >> well, this is number five for me so i think he has come to understanding of why i'm doing what i'm doing. we meet people on some of their worst days and our job when that happens is to try to keep their worst day from being their last day. >> rose: jake tapper joins me now from washington. welcome. >> thanks, charlie. >> re: tell me about how this project came around for you. what was it about the story that made you want to tell it. >> rose: i've been standing here on the north lawn of the white house since january, 2009, talking about afghanistan and the war in afghanistan and i was really curious as to what it actually looked like. i had an occasion to go there for a few hours with president obama about a year ago but we were in bagram and a hangar and we were there just if ar few hos in and out i di't g a sensof thear, i

erin? >> thank you. and now to libya where the international chief prosecutor announced libya could prosecute saif gadhafi. that is, of course, moammar qaddafi's son. they reversed course to try him. why did the icc back down on this demand? >> erin, icc chief prosecutor campo says they are not in competition with libyan authorities. their goals, he says, is to see saif gadhafi face justice. it would be good for the libyans who have the rights to take over the case. but first, they have to prove they have a genuine case against him and that their proceedings would meet icc standards, then the court would grant them the right to hold this trial on libyan soil. erin? >>> she was the best liar i've ever seen. >> was it imperfect justice? or was there reasonable doubt? that's what we're left with after casey anthony was found not guilty. of the 2008 murder of her 2 #-year-old daughter, caylee. former assistant attorney jeff ashton was part of a team that prosecuted anthony this summer. revealing new details

thank you very much for having me, erin. >> all right. her son derrick in jail in cairo tonight. >>> the global arms trade has been shrouded in secrecy, there are a lot of back room deals, and that's not the movies. that is real life. and some of it now coming to light. andrew feinstein just wrote a book called "the shadow world: inside the global arms trade." what really goes on. you may not be surprised, there's a lot of hypocrisy and there's americans in there. i spoke to him earlier and asked him how big of a player america is in the global arms trade. >> the u.s. spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on wes and trades almost as much as the rest of the world combined on weaponry. this is the big player. >> and now i would imagine one of the places you're seeing a whole lot of build-up, aided, abetted by the united states would be the middle east. >> absolutely. the u.s. is about to sell $60 billion worth of weapons to saudi arabia. the saudis having been involved in the biggest ever arms deal where 48 billion british

my apologies for erin mcpike for losing her shot. we hope she has a great thanksgiving, too. >>> folks, last night we saw another case of romney fudging the truth, and it wasn't in his ad. take a look. >> i'm mitt romney. yes, wolf, that's also my first name. >> what? mitt isn't your first name. it's willard, willard mitt romney. that's been your name your whole life. but willard, i'm a little hurt. if you forgot your real name, you must not be watching "politicsnation" because i remind you. >> willard mitt romney has done it again. >> willard mitt romney says -- >> maybe you can break that down from willard east. >> willard, willard, willard, you never cease to amaze me. >> governor romney, your name is willard. if not, i'd like to see your long form birth certificate, please. >>> ahead, you won't believe what conservatives are saying now about the occupy wall street movement. and we are moments away from crowing the "politicsnation" turkey of the year. it was a tough call this year. the top turkey revealed next. this new at&t 4g lt

i'm sure erin burnett agrees. coming up at the top of the hour. with a preview, not of her thanksgiving menu. an important story, an american student jailed in egypt. >> i like annie's mac and cheese. it's american thing. an all-american thing. >> amen. >> talking about cairo, you've been talking to ben wedeman, we'll go live to tahrir square. things in cairo falling apart. now three american college students arrest in cairo. police there say that they were throwing molotov cocktails in tahrir square. joy sweeney, the mother of derek sweeney, is going to be with us. her son is in jail this evening in cairo and she's going to find out whether he's been charged. we're also going to talk to the prosecutor in the casey anthony case and ask him, john, why do you think you lost that case. we've got that coming up. plus, a preview behind the scenes of my secret week with marilyn, the movie coming out with michelle williams, skinny dipping part of the interview. back to you. >> i can't watch that. >> i'm not saying who is skinny dipping. i'm just saying.

erin? >> all right. thank you very much. and silvio still making a lot of money no matter what role he has. >>> as we told you earlier, the failure of the super committee to reach a deal to cut $1.2 trillion from america's debt is going to have a tremendous effect on our nation's military. the defense department is going to bear about half of the cuts. they already agreed to cuts of $450 billion. when you add in the automatic cuts as a result of the super committee's failure, the total will be $1 trillion in cuts for defense over the next ten years. that means men and women in armed services, that means the joint strike fighter. does it move the needle or not? some think it would and a lot. it's something leon panetta described as a doomsday scenario. our next president will be the one tasked to deal with the economic shortfalls, cutting the deficit and dealing with our military. joining us to talk about all of these challenges, starting with the super committee, general wesley clark. the formernato supreme allied commander.

erin burnt at the top of the hour. >> i was wandering through the debate. everyone taking their seats. we're going to be doing counting down to the debate. talking about big foreign policies but also defense cuts and two schools of thoughts, right? one is this is no problem. h.w. bush, reagan, they cut defense and another school of thought that comes to a very different conclusion. we also have john huntsman's daughters all three going to join us on the show. >> getting more attention than their dad which i guess is not so good if your dad's on the ballot. >> that's right. we're going to give them a chance to talk about who their dad really is. and also general wesley clark going to talk about iran and other threats that will get a lot of talk in that room back there. >> a lot of talk. the economic questions are also national security questions. iran, china challenge. interesting night. >> china has all of it in one big ball. >> one big ball. work on that for the next generation. next, shortly after cairo's demonstrators hanged him in ep gee, goes on televi

erin burnett is here at constitution hall. national security defense and yesterday because of the failure of the super committee, we know there's supposed to be $600 billion over the next ten years starting in 2013 defense cuts. so you've been looking at this part of the story. what do you see? >> you've got to add that to the cuts thaf agreed to. you get around a trillion dollars. what panetta calls a howling out of the force. i've talked to a lot of defense analysts today. we could see cuts of 100, 150,000. a new ground combat vehicle, so there would be real cuts, but there's also a lot of waste. when you look around the world, $1.5 trillion on defense, more than half of that on this country. we spend ten times more than china. six times more than russia. we spend a lot, so we can afford to make the cuts. >> i think yesterday, our pentagon spore respondent's piece, he said we spend more on defense in the united states than the next 16, 17 countries combined. >> it's amazing. when you look at it that way, we can make cuts. bu

he got a call in to cnn erin burnett last night. >> we put things on the table that were very difficult for us. i had thousands of people demonstrate against me for the things we put on there. but we also put 1.2 trillion of additional revenue. they said, no, that's too much. then it turned out that a trillion was too much. 900 was too much, 600 was too much. 250 was too much. we wound up not being able to get this because they wanted to know that the tax cut for the wealthiest people in the country was going to be made permanent, protected. and we just couldn't do that in good conscience. >> an angry john kerry there. we'll have senator jeff sessions from the republican side of the hour respond to that later in the show. we'll be right back. mary? what are you doing here? it's megan. i'm getting new insurance. marjorie, you've had a policy with us for three years. it's been five years. five years. well, progressive gives megan discounts that you guys didn't. paperless, safe driver, and i get great service. meredith, what's shakin', bacon? they'll figure it out. getting you the discount

but senator john kerry did call in to "out front" with erin burnett last night. listen. >> what didn't happen is the job didn't get done for the united states of america because what was the deficit reduction committee became a tax cutting committee. and we got totally hung up by people who were insisting that not only could they not raise any additional revenue from the wealthiest people in the world, but they wanted to give them an additional tax cut. i mean this is insanity. and what we couldn't get passed them was their resistance to doing anything. we had $1.3 trillion in cuts on the table. we put serious things on the table that we were very, very, you know, very difficult for us. i had thousands of people that are demonstrating against me for the things we put on there. but we also put $1.3 trillion of additional revenue. they should know that is too much. and then it turned out that a trillion was too much, 900 was too much, 600 was too much. 250 was too much. i mean we wound up not being automobile to get thable to get because they wanted to know that th

he'll be up with some ads in new hampshire tom orrow. >> erin, one of the things that was stunning to me, the thanksgiving forum, rick santorum actually said suffering, i mean like it was just all right to suffer. look at this. >> suffering, if you're a christian, suffering is part of life, and it's not a bad thing. it is an essential thing in life, and that, we -- we suff -- there are all different ways to suffer. one way to suffer is through lack of shelter and food and another way to suffer is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer, and it's not just tangible. >> i mean, suffering is a part of life, but do we need a presidential candidate to act like that's expected? yeah, i'm a christian, rick. i understand the crucifixion. i also kept reading we got to the resurrection, rick. you don't just stop at the suffering. you talk about how you suffer through until you can resurrect. what are they talking about? get a bath, get a job. suffering's part of life. it's all right. have they lost it? >> as far as rick santorum is concerned, let's just remember

i said, it's a boy, erin. it's a boy. you did good. ten little fingers. ten little toes. >> reporter: as the paramedics scooped up the newborn, a line of thoroughbreds walked past. >> as she came out, everybody started applauding. >> reporter: erin anderson would call this a photo finish. >> there was no driving myself to the hospital. it was time to go. >> reporter: though she would have preferred to deliver her six-pound baby boy in somewhat more luxurious circumstances, she was happy to have friends nearby. >> right thereto in the midst of it, val and melissa and kelley. right there when he was being born. they didn't leave me high and dry. >> reporter: there is a chance that some day in this yet unnamed baby's life he will leave a door open. someone will ask, were you born in a barn? joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >> next news tonight at 11:00. football night in america tonight. the philadelphia eagles visit the new york giants. happy thanksgiving. see you next saturday. ers or em. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in

. >> that's erin burnett laying out the case for this long-term austerity vision. and then, you know, there's a case embedded in what erin burnett was saying in how -- i think there was a case that made to the run up of the debt ceiling deal. the long term cbo physical projections in the out years are producing in this moment uncertainty, anxiety, paralysis among the job creators that is at the cause of the stalled recovery. do you think that's a strong argument? >> well, the argument that i find more compelling relates actually to an argument that representative cohen raised earlier on. when he was raised about defense expenditures, he mentioned these guys are evasively spread. and that creates a dynamic in which we tend to spend more and more. that's an upward ratchet. they make themselves a strong political coalition. i would argue if you look at medical providers, you see a more persuasive political -- you see where we will cut x amount of spending, and that's interpreted as you are attacking people that want medical care, rather than let's saying let's raise m

erin said, i imagine it'd be a thing i don't even know ever happened. it would be that opportunity that never manifested, and i'll never know it was even possible. so a decision is made in a back room or high level office by someone you'll never see about whether or not you get a home or home loan or a job or admission into a school or perhaps never allowed to know a home in a certain area or job is available. this is how modern institutional racism functions, and it weighs on and shapes a black person differently than the more avert racism of the past did. people who told me the most racist thing that happened to me is unknowable gave me the answer quickly. it's in the minds that secret incidences happen behind their back. they walk around constantly and consciously aware of race racism as a ghost in a machine following them. there's a sense of ghost darting around you screwing with you out of sight, but never out of mind. the poet and yale professor dr. elizabeth alexander who wrote a poem at obama's inauguration said the most racist thing for me is t