i'm focused on representing florida in the united states senator. it's 100% of my focus and make sure florida's voice is heard on all these issues that confront our country, including foreign policy that you just asked me about. i hope it's reflective of that. >> gretchen: so one of the reasons that your name keeps coming up is because you're from florida, which is such an important state in the presidential election, and also you represent the latinos and possibly huge chunk of the latino vote, which we know is ever growing in our nation. i want to bring to you this next topic, which is should conservatives stop talking about immigration right now? i want you to listen to linda chavez, once a nominee for a post in the administration. she had this to say on "fox & friends." >> all of the public opinion polls that have been taken in the last year which people are asked one of the most important voting issues for you, illegal immigration ranks at the very bottom. two to 4% of american voters think that it's the single most important issue. the other t

they hope if they can pass the house that will press the senate to do similar in the united states senate, jon. jon: mike emanuel, our chief congressional correspondent on the hill right now. thanks, mike. jenna: we'll continue to monitor all the information out of d.c. in the meantime new reports this hour more alleged victims are coming forward in the shocking sex abuse scandal in penn state. multiple victims at the hands of former coach jerry sandusky are reportedly lawyering up and so is the university by the way, anticipating years of legal battles. many are expecting those alleged victims to file civil lawsuits against penn state. some have even been calling for the end of penn state's football program but folks in charge say there is no way that will happen. a host of different reports. we're trying to sort through those for you. meanwhile after a stinging child section abuse scandal broke at penn state we have another possible scandal with new information at syracuse university. police are now investigating assistant basketball coach bernie fine. there are allegations he molested

states senate. i think there is a wave election coming in 2012. i think that the american people are looking for men and women who are going to congress and the next president of the united states, that gets things done. and they're interested in the economic side, how are you going to get this economy going? how are you going to put a sign up in the middle of america that says, "america, open for business again"? that's the reason that the 20% flat tax -- as a matter of fact, i got it right here, it will fit on that card. 20% with mortgage deduction and charitable deductions, with local tax, get rid of the dividends and the capital gains tax, take 20% and mail it in. my instinct is, even tim geithner can get his taxes in on time with this. >> all right n. your book, also, you write in terms of the economy, there have been three big chances the republican in party history, one is president reagan's election, the second is contract with america and the third is election 20,000 when -- election 2000 w

that's unprecedented access to the people in near the united states. what do you think we are likely to do to try to prevent this? >> the problem is what can the u.s. do? we are trying to get past our deficit. megyn: can we funnel them money through the feds? >> they would back stop the u.s. and european banks and buy up bonds from these european countries by buying their bonds. it puts a band aid back on this wound for a year or so. megyn: does that fool the taxpayers? >> that's our money. imagine the uproars when people realize our taxpayer money is going pay off european countries that spent too much money. megyn: people heard the banks were about to fail. they were doing questionable things with the mortgage-backed securities. then they said too big to fail, we had to fail them out. we did. is it not the same thing. the european countries overspent. >> it's the same thing. imagine the uproar we are going to have now. we are not just bailing out american workers at american banks. we are bailing out countries that have nothing to do with us. the ger

. >> greta: straight ahead, more with senator mccain and a new threat he says the united states is facing from china. is facing from china. that's coming up. >> greta: a warning ton about a dangerous problem with china. here's more with senator john mccain. i read that you are, i don't know if the word is upset but you're concerned about the fact that the united states defense equipment is being made in china and it's sort of scrap metal and it is counterfeit and false serial numbers. what's the story on that? >> it's mainly computers and chips. there's a place in china where it really is an industry where they just tear down these computers and they take the chips and they wash them in the river and they put phony dates on them if necessary, and through different shell companies, they get to our defense department who purchases them and then they're put into our missiles and airplanes and other pieces of the inventory, parts of the inventory. of course, they're going to fail earlier if they don't -- even if they're no good to start with, they'll fail earlier. they're unreliable. and it's

now that violence is happening inside the united states in south texas. in fact senator john cornyn of texas says that the gangs are using his state as a safe haven from their own internal violence. in hidalgo county, by the way a sheriff's deputy was stopped three times after pulling over a car containing a person kidnapped by the cartel. a bulletproof vest saved that deputy's life. partly lucky he survived this over the past two weeks, three accused leaders of the gulf cartel have been arrested in texas. texas attorney general greg abbott says the arrests show that the obama administration is not doing enough to secure the border. attorney general abbott, react to what senator cornyn is saying though. that texas is a safe haven now for the bad guys in mexico? they're coming into texas to be safer? >> jenna, you're exactly right. and senator cornyn is exactly right. we've seen multiple occasions where leaders of the gulf cartel as well as some of the other cartels are actually moving into locations in texas. could be in brownsvillle. could be in corpus c

senator yesterday, this demand for action. >> i'm calling on the president of the united states to cancel those bonuses and explain to the american people the taxpayers who bailed out freddie and fannie why he continues to reward failure. >> reporter: democratic member of congress equally upset, harry reid, senate majority leader when asked about this reporters, a gag reflex in front of you all would be improper but that's how i feel about it, bill. bill: what does the white house say about this, steve? >> jay carney, white house press secretary was asked about it. he said they are independent corporations even though they are over seen by a government agency. even so carney said the outcry over these bonuses comes as no surprise. >> the economy is tough. people are hurting. and we understand there is a lot of frustration out there because of that and important that leaders, regulators, folks in the private sector as well as the public sector be responsive to people's legitimate frustrations. >> reporter: carney says that the president believes there should be accountability and responsib

he's the attorney general of the united states. this was a big operation and he should have known what was going on. senator cornyn asked if he apologized to the border agent who was killed. he said he has had no contact with the family. regardless of when it started the fact of the matter is, whoever created it, it was ill performed in its execution and the attorney general still won't take responsibility for this. he needs to say this was a lousy program executed under my watch. we shouldn't have don't. i apologize to congress for giving incorrect dates and sending a letter that was incorrect. he put this in written to senator grassley and it was completely inaccurate. how many inaccuracies do we have here until you finally say enough? that's the question the congressmen opposing the attorney general, that the question they are asking themselves. how much rope do you give before you say enough. >> there are three points. first of it's unreasonable to expect he co-would know the details of thousands of investigation. secondly with

united states to legalize diaper buying? >> i mean low income families. how are they going to buy their diapers for their kids? >> let the states decide get it out. okay. now we have another serious situation. a new jersey hospital where a bunch of nurses are suing the hospital because they are forcing them, allegedly hoover to assist in abortions and the nurses say we don't believe in that it goes against our fundamental system do they have a case. >> they absolutely have a case. this is a issue that everybody can agree on because they have not only federal rights but state rights to con she enshusly object to assisting in abortions. >> bill: up to a few months ago, carlson, the hospital wasn't forcing them to do this and now the nurses say i think it is in september that they are forcing these nurses to train. no nurse, correct me if i am wrong, has been forced yet. >> yes, they have. we spoke to one of the nurses together today. >> bill: forced in the operating room. >> they were forced to assist in the abortion procedure

congress already prohibited transfer of guantanamo bay detainees to the united states. the president lost that battle about a year ago. bill: all right. so there is a veto threat from the white house now. maybe everything going on the senate floor could be all for naught anyway, could it? >> that's right. senators like rand paul and i on the right are also concerned because we think your rights as a united states citizen are invie late. if you are picked up pursuant to civilian authority and you appear before a civilian court. no american citizen picked up inside the united states should being dragged before a military detention authority. bill: mark kirk, thank you for your time. i want to ask you about some breaking news because i know you're very much attuned to what is happening in iran today. apparently a number of people stormed the british embassy. has at been resolved and what is your effort in this? >> students have taken over the british embassy. seized classified documents. about 50 personnel are there. it is shades of the 1979 iran hostage crisis that lasted

they don't have enough votes in the senate of the united states to do anything about it. and the democrats don't want them to do anything about it. they want to be able to use everything they can for the election next november of 2012. that's what they're aiming for, therefore, nothing ultimately gets done. rick: is this a winning issue for the democrats or for the republicans michael? >> i certainly hope not. i think the republicans really need to stand up and start talking about what is really going on, like the president of the united states talking about extending the payroll tax cut. what he doesn't tell anybody is the fact that by extending the payroll tax cut, you are actually taking money out of the social security system, you're making it even more efficient, less money going in, than having to rob peter, the general fund, to shore up social security because the money isn't going in there, and that's why john boehner wants to have this debate with the united states of america, instead, the president is using politics which he uses on a regular basis, there in new

the president of the united states has been running against congress and saying it's a do nothing congress despite there's 15 bills waiting in the senate to get passed. how can you be doing nothing while still passing 15? what i thought was interesting is when speaker boehner talked about his relationship with president obama. >> remember it wasn't that long ago when they went out golfing. they had a foursome and by all reports, the speaker right there in the short pants, it was a great event. it wasn't exactly the beer summit but it was still an outing with the two of them. since then, however, yesterday on one of the chat shows this week, the speaker said that their relationship has become frosty. and also the speaker himself was quite specific with the president saying, you know, this class warfare stuff you're pulling, that's got to stop. listen to this. >> come on, the top 1% pay 38% of the income taxes in america. how much more do you want them to pay? i'll tell you, let's take all the money that the rich have, all of it, it won't even put a debt in our current budget deficit much ye

do you, senator, feel the attorney general of the united states in his testimony yesterday before you was truthful and honest? >> well, i'm still trying to sort that out. again, he's not a stupid man. he's an intelligent man and i think he should know better. but he displayed a singular lack of curiousity about what is happening within his own department and his held no one accountable. i think there is still a lot more questions that need to be answered before we're through with this and the attorney general i did not think acquitted himself well. >> gretchen: can i ask you one question about the super committee? >> sure. >> gretchen: a lot of americans are waiting with baited breath to see whether or not there will be any kind of an agreement on this $1.2 trillion by november 23. it's less than two weeks away. what are you hearing and are you optimistic? >> well, of course, typically what happens around here is we approach a deadline and looks like things are all jammed up and then all of a sudden, something breaks and there is a negotiated outcome. i hope that's what happens here.

states military. also concerned, the top republican on the senate armed services committee. take a listen to senator john mccain. >> military chiefs have said these cuts would be totally devastating. we live in a dangerous world as we should know, so the president again has disregarded the strong recommendations and warnings of the secretary of defense and the leaders of the military. >> reporter: so you can bet after the thanksgiving break senator mccain, congressman mckeon and many others concerned about national security will get to work on trying to find a way around these automatic cuts which, again, don't kick in until january 2013. so there is time, but, of course, as we've seen here on capitol hill, it is difficult finding ways to cut. jon? jon: i guess congress could find some other way places, but if president is saying he isn't going to give congress an easy way out, that has to put the defense secretary in a tough position. >> reporter: it did. and leon panetta putting out a statement sayi

states, if additional stresses on the european currency will affect us at home. jon: senator john barrasso from wyoming, good to have you in. >> thank you for having me, appreciate it. jenna: her murder trial capitated -- captivated the entire country and the new book portraying the psychological outlook of casey anthony. dr. keith ablow joins us to talk about the book, "inside the mind of casey anthony". >> and stores see record numbers of one of the busiest shopping days of the year. what it means for our economy and your wallet, next. jen let's start off by taking a look at the markets today. it it's easier to look at the market whs they look like now, the dow up 300 points, due to record sales for the crucial black friday shopping day. so you all did your duty! now comes the word eurozone leaders may be close to a rescue deal for the embattled europe as leaders are about to meet with the president rand going to make an announcement later today about what progress they have as far as what to do about this debt crisis there. charles spain a fox business network

counterfeit computer chips from china could be causing our united states weapons to fail. what do you know about this, senator? >> well, senator and i and members of the staff did a long investigation. there are literally thousands and thousands of these chips and other parts that are coming into the united states from china. they are obsolete. they're taken out of old computers and they've gone through three or four different companies and end up in american defense weaponry and including antimissile capabilities and aircraft and obviously they're going to fail. obviously then the whole system can break down. obviously the cost of replacement are very high. it's really scandalous and of course, it all begans -- 70% of it begins guess where? china. >> brian: yeah, you get what you pay for. >> steve: we thank you for joining us. we know you got a busy day. have a great one. >> thanks for having me on. >> brian: straight ahead, michael jackson's dr. conrad murray is going to prison. yet this attorney says if he had a second chance, he wouldn't do anything differently. huh? t

send a subpoena to the president of the united states? and under the law, he will be required to reply to that subpoena. if he doesn't want to show the documents, he's got to show them to a federal judge who will look at them in private and decide whether or not the congress can get them. >> here's what the white house is saying. eric schultz says this. this administration has cooperated extensively with the committee's investigation by committing 85,000 pages of documents. we'd like to see as much passion for house republicans in creating jobs as we see in this investigation. >> that part of an answer will not wash with the federal judge. the subpoena invokes profound powers to get documents from somebody else. >> what we're looking for here, judge, is somebody, maybe a conflict of interest? >> yeah, they're looking for a decision to give money to solyndra that was political. they're also looking for -- this came out late last night, the contemplation of bailing out solyndra even after they lost the $500 million. that would be incendiary

states senate for republicans and democrats to vote to put their friends and neighbors to work. to put people to work in good-paying jobs building infrastructure. i hope they all put, put me and put what i've said, tomorrow is an opportunity for them to disclaim and disavow what i've said. pass the american jobs act. put americans to work, and, you know, then we'll be able to really help people. jenna: some republicans as well some democrats hey listen we like to do that but we don't like the way bill is funded and raising taxing on those making more than a million dollars. i like to get your thoughts on what congressional budget office, say a nonpartisan group. when you look at $50 billion bill, only $4 about is spent in the first year. so how shovel-ready is this bill really. >> jenna, within two years of the time we got the $48 billion in economic recovery, we created 65,000 jobs with 15,000 projects. we did it in two years. $48 billion. it can be done. we proved in the last two years, we can do it. that's the reason this bill, $50 billion, will put thousands of people to wor

why the president of the united states refuses to do this is astonishing to me. i mean, you know, if he wanted to run for senate again and just be one of 100, i'm sure he could have gotten re-elected over and over again in illinois. when you're president, it's not good enough to say i'll get it done after the election. >> he, by the way, is in a kitchen in camden, new jersey, in those images where he was giving some comments regarding a drug program mandated by the courts of new jersey and somebody asked him a question about the super committee and away he went. >> just to qualify, you know, governor chris christie, the average person might go another republican governor mad at the president. he likes the president. president tour, they toured around the flood areas and he said i like him personally but where his -- he's critical is not even his decisions, his lack of decisions. he has to stand up and say this is my thing. the oval office needs an occupant. >> that's what he's saying, we've discussed on this show ad nauseum, that's the president's campaign strate

so you get in there day one and day two as president of the united states, you can start tearing this apart and then the senate and congress really, the whole congress, has got to come in and compromise. and i think that's a perfect position to put a senate in that you may not have a republican majority if you're a new republican president. hopefully, the supreme court strikes this unconstitutional -- bill: we'll see on that, that's right. all these theories are very interesting to see the future of this program. >> exactly. bill: and you saw how compromise worked so well with that supercommittee. thank you, jordan, good to have you in. >> thanks, bill. bill: to our viewers,@bill hemmer, fire away. bya. we can find ousts in a -- ourselves in a scenario where you saw the deconstruction of the law, but it holds up. and you and i are going to be sitting here that day. martha: i know. either way, it is going to be monumental. we'll be sitting here right in "america's newsroom." in the meantime, a man unleashing his fury at a car dealership. check this out. we're going to tell you what got

senator barrasso on what we should do. >> i'm calling on the president of the united states to cancel those bonuses and explain to the american people the taxpayers who bailed out freddie and fannie, why he continues to reward failure. >> eric: the bottom line is, we're not done bailing them out. we're literally quarter to quarter, 4, 5, $10 billion continues to go in there. it's crazy. theory being if you don't pay these guys 2 or $3 million, then they'll walk or so what? really? >> brian: here is what's wrong with that theory. if your treasury secretary, do you do it for the money? if you're secretary of state, do you do it fort money? no, you go in there and fix fannie and freddie and make your career after that. >> eric: it's a broken institution. >> brian: but that could be a position if they do something to help correct it or do some positive policy movements, you don't need a zillion dollars. >> eric: it's bad policy. last week obama signs the executive order pen and if you consolidate your student loans with your home loan under fannie or freddie and you default, it gets dumpe

in the senate when the president of the united states submitted his budget this year, it failed 97-0. meanwhile, if this thing does fail tonight, here's what's going to happen, they have to find $1.2 trillion worth of cuts. otherwise the trigger option goes into effect. keep in mind, the trigger option does not go into effect until the january after the presidential election. >> they're still obsessed with the bush tax cuts and democrats want them out. >> all taxes are goingp for everyone january 1st if the super committee doesn't come up with a decision. here the defense cuts $492 billion. $123 billion in entitlements there. would be no plan to extend tax cuts in jobless aid. everybody's taxes goes up january 1st. if automatic cuts are altered there's the fear of another credit downgrade. brian, you alluded to the fact there wouldn't be a credit downgrade because of the automatic triggers. not so. john mccain and lindsay graham wants to try to avert those cuts which would be a good thing but there wouldn't be any cuts. >> perhaps they've decided to make the announcement that this th

john thune, the esteemed senator from the northern plains wants the president of the united states to step in because it's time. >> my question is where is the president in all this? i mean, why can't the president, these people work for him. he set -- his pay czar set the executive pay at freddie mac and fannie mae, he should come in and suspend these bonuses right now but there are -- there is legislation working its way through congress. >> ok. so they could probably suspend it but isn't that going against a deal that's been done? probably undo that. probably not. >> this is one of the few things on capitol hill where there's bipartisan anger about it, democrats and republicans are both very upset about this. what do you feel about it? we asked for e-mails and tweets. debbie in mississippi says is there no sanity left in washington? here's a novel idea. if any of these executives had any morals at all, they would decline the bonuses. instead, they're laughing all the way to the bank. >> let's go tweet now. bonuses should not be paid. they are for performing, not for breathing. and

european facing a crisis experts have warn could pull the united states and other nations back into a very deep recession. italy's senate has approved huge cuts aimed at/ing that country's massive deficit and both countries also forming new governments to help restore investors' trust and now the dow is up 240 points, actually, 254, and it is already raised the losses for the entire week. and now gerri from the finance is here. do investors see a possible end for europe's troubles? it is good one day and bad the next. >>gerri: well, we are back over 12,000 and investors are buying stocks hands over 50 but not everyone is sanguine but these difficulties in europe are impacting the u.s. economy. that will continue to play out. but berlusconi is out. we have new leadership. and italy paying much lower interest open the bonds floating into the marketplace. so, good news. >>trace: but the trouble in europe is hitting home with mf global run by corzine that is now bankrupt and now most employees have been fired. >>gerri: they have 1,066 employees they let get. some heard about it by televis

former massachusetts governor mitt romney getting the backing of senator kelly iwa of new hampshire. she made her announcement earlier today while romney campaigns in her state. >> there's one person in this field prepared to lead the united states of america and that's mitt romney. >> i appreciate that. she has a lot of friends in this state and her commitment to hold down spending is stark contrast to that which you are seeing in washington today. >> president turning now to iow. just mentioned the caucus there on january 3rd. a major majority rather of gop candidates in the hawkeye state this weekend. six of them gathering for a forum to talk about their policies and their personal views. in a few moments -- and a few moments got quite personal. [applause] >> six republican presidential candidates sitting around a thanksgiving-themed table at a packed church in des moines, at times getting personal. rick santorum had tears talking about how he dealt with his daughter's severe disability. >> i decided the best thing i could do was to treat her differently and love her like i did be

states. survivors say it looks like something out of the wizard of oz. update from the fox. three girls stuck inside elevator shaft seconds before a car comes crashing down on them. the frantic call to 911 is next. >> hello? >> we're stuck under an elevator. >> i'm sorry? oh my god. [ male annouer ] juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for unsurpassed fru and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion. could've had a v8. ford fusion has now been named the most dependable midsize car by jd power and associates. we go to kimberly. any thoughts on this news? i have no idea what's goin on. we are out. what was that? they told me it's the most dependable midsize sedan and they ran back into their little box. >> shepard: at least six people reported dead violent storms and tornadoes tore through the southeast overnight. it's the second time this year that deadly storms have hit that region. one man says he just -- he had just sat down to dinner with his family wh

. >> shepard: time is running out for the so-called congressional super committee to cut the united states deficit by more than a trillion dollars. as we head into a critical week. one key democratic lawmaker is predicting a massive failure. the new york senator charles schumer today saying and i quote i don't think the super committee is going to succeed. if he is right, and these folks can't bang out a deal by the time thanksgiving rolls around, there will be enormous consequences. $1.2 trillion worth of automatic spending cuts to be exact. set to kick in 2013 through a process called sequestration. a lot riding on the deal for the nation's military and medicare. both sides weighing on a potential backup plan. >> congress cannot bind of actions of future congresses so the sequestration is not engraved on golden tablets. i think we would have sufficient support to prevent those kinds of cuts being enacted because of the impact it would have on national security. >> i don't want to take the pressure off to reach a deal by talking about avoiding or eliminating the effects of sequestration t