dana gould is on the way. if you're convinced that your 4-year-old is just one spray-tan or teased blonde wig away from becoming a future miss america, our next guest is the man to see. he's the pageant director and host of "little miss perfect," tuesday nights at 10:00 on we tv. please say hello to michael galanes. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i don't want to make you sick. how are you? thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me, jimmy. you and katy perry are my two celebrity watchers that acknowledge the show. >> jimmy: honored to be in that group. >> many rhinestones for you. >> jimmy: that's a good thing? >> amazing thing. we equate them to olympic gold medals. >> jimmy: it looks like your heart is coming out of your jacket right now. >> story behind my rose. i teach modeling classes in florida, and my class before i left, this is one of their swim suit sarongs. it's all this huge routine. so, i told them all that i would make a rose and wear it to all my little miss perfects at home, thank you

dana, ed, appreciate the reporting. thanks on the breaking news. >>> also tonight, new developments in president obama's bid to end don't ask, don't tell. testifying before the senate armed services committee, defense secretary robert gates says congress should consider repealing the 16-year-old policy that lets gay and lesbians serve in the military, only if their don't disclose their sexual orientation. and admiral mike mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff made it clear that he personally believes the law is dishonest. listen. >> speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. no matter how i look at this issue, i cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. >> the service members' legal defense network says more than 13,000 people have been discharged because of don't ask, don't tell. t

we'll talk to annette insdorf of columbia university, stephanie zacharek of salon.com, dana stevens a film critic for slate.com and tony scott, film critic of the "new york times" and co-host of the television program "at the movies." >> i think it's between sandra bullock, a hollywood insider who never received the kind of acclaim being showered on her with "the blind side." between the two of them. i think meryl streep is always such a camilleian. by the way, the past couple years, the oscar has gone to attractive women in deglamorized roles like halle barre for "monsters ball" and kate winslet in "the reader." so the fact that meryl streep is made to look much dowdier than she is hashgs that may help her win. >> rose: >> with catherine bigelow, she takes a lot of care with looking at what's in that frame. you always know where one character is in relation to another. whatever there's something happening, whatever there' movement. she's very attune to that. that's one thing that i kind of never hear mentioned is... it's not just wow, a really good movie made by a woman it's the fact

we'll talk to annette insdorf of columbia university, stephanie zacharek of salon.com, dana stevens a film critic for slate.com and tony scott, film critic of the "new york times" and co-host of the television program "at the movies." >> i think it's between sandra bullock, a hollywood insider who never received the kind of acclaim being showered on her with "the blind side." between the two of them. i think meryl streep is always such a camilleian. by the way, the past couple years, the oscar has gone to attractive women in deglamorized roles like halle barre for "monsters ball" and kate winslet in "the reader." so the fact that meryl streep is made to look much dowdier than she is hashgs that may help her win. >> rose: >> with catherine bigelow, she takes a lot of care with looking at what's in that frame. you always know where one character is in relation to another. whatever there's something happening, whatever there's movement. she's very attune to that. that's one thing that i kind of never hear mentioned is... it's not just wow, a really good movie made by a woman it's the fac

dana bash is live to set up what we may see. good morning, dana. >> good morning, kiran. well, it is political theater. you can't find anybody here, democrat or republican who will tell you otherwise with a straight face but it is important theater because of how important health care politics is this election year. that is why both the teams of republicans and democrats who are going to head to that summit today have been huddling and trying to device their strategies because they want to get across their political talking points. never mind any compro he's. >> reporter: we asked both the senate's top republican and democrat where they may agree on health care. but their answers were mostly how they disagree. >> you will not see from us a 2,700-page comprehensive rewrite of one-sixth of our economy. we don't think that ought to be done. and we've said it repeatedly. >> we need major health care reform. that's what the people of america want. they want health care reform. not some band-aid. >> reporter: not exactly the makings of compromise. but peel back the rhetoric and

dana bash, thank you so much. president obama will bring all the sides together to debate the topics with hopes of pushing through some form of health care reform, and we'll bring it live to you at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxd >>> all right, rob, where is that winter storm going to hit the biggest? >> if you live in the interiors of the northeast -- let's get to it. winter storm warnings are posted through the delmar up through jersey and including almost all of new york state. this will be a long on going event. 6 to 12 inches likely up through new york. and then up through bingington could see 12 to 24 nfinches of snow. and this is on top of what we have already seen. look at these numbers. and so killington got 2 feet. and then you go into altamont, new york, west of albany, they got over 2 feet of snow. now we are seeing wet snow. in some cases, rain developed with the system on top of the 2 feet of snow that has already fallen. the weight of the snow may very well bring in the roof col

dana lash from st. louis from the nationwide tea party coalition. you've had time to think about it. what did surprise you today? it must have been something. >> i don't know, thanks for having me back. there was one continuing that surprised me. that was when the president said they considered every cost-effective measure. to scratch my head. i was thinking really, you thought about purchasing insurance across state lines and tort reform? we waste billions a year practicing defensive medicine, doctors ordering tests they don't need for cover their backsides that surprised me. i was impressed with the way that the gop held the line. and i really, really liked what paul ryan said. i think his statement on the different of philosophy hit at the core of all of this. we don't think democrats are evil creatures or anything that hate america or something like that we all know we have the same goals, but we have different means to achieve those ends. i think paul ryan hit on how the democrats don't understand that the ramifications of the means they use co

i'm going to read from this article that dana milbank writing -- sacking emanuel is the last thing the president should do. the first year feld apart in large part because he didn't follow the chief of staff's advice on crucial matters. arguably emant is the only person keeping obama from becoming jimmy carter. all right. give us your assessment. >> well, wolf, if your chief of staff and people call for your head, that goes with the job description. we've seen this with lots of chiefs of staff. what's interesting about this, for about a year, the obama team, the white house staff and national security team enjoyed very close relationships. there were very few leaks and tensions. when they hit the wall over the health care at the end of the year and then lost massachusetts, the rumbling started outside the white house, and a lot of that criticism is being directed at rahm emanuel, because he is the chief of staff, he is in charge of the white house, and dana milbank in this very controversial piece in "the washington post" seemed to be channeling the response, if you would, the backlash

dana bash joins us now. how likely is it really that democrats are going to use this tactic, reconciliation to push through health care reform? >> it seems very likely. it's a very cumbersome and complicated tactic, but the reality is that as soon as democrats lost their massachusetts senate seat and lost their 60-vote super majority, they knew this was most likely the likely scenario for salvaging their health care scenarios. and the leader was really the strongest he's ever been today in suggesting that he would use the parliamentary short cut to pass the democrats' version of health care. you walk through the halls like i did today, you hear republicans saying wait a minute, why are we planning to go to a sick-hour live summit at the white house to talk about health care when democrats are already planning on going without us. listen to mitch mcconnell and harry reid after that. >> we're happy to go down there. i'm always pleased to see him. i'm sure we'll have a six hours, but it seems like he's already

. >>> our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, live from capitol hill. hi, dana. good to see you. >> reporter: you, too. >> we understand you're learning a little bit more about what kind of digs the incoming senator will enjoy, and then we'll talk about his record, whether he's conservative, liberal or somewhere in the middle. >> reporter: absolutely. >> what about his digs? >> reporter: let's start with that, we had the cameraman, chris turner, turn around to where scott brown will ultimately have his offices. it's down the hall. here's why this is important. this is the former office spales space of ted kennedy. he isn't just taking his old seat, he's literally moving into his offices. not today. today he'll have some temporary offices and for the next couple of days. but this is really pretty remarkable, because this office suite which i think you're seeing down the hall here in the russell senate office building, this is prime real estate. this is where ted kennedy obviously had immense seniority, he had his offices for some time. you see that all of these of

>> when we were rolling out to baghdad, one of those dana carvey bob hope movies. you young people that don't understand that. there was a series of movies the doctor told me your blonde friend is alive and it was very reassuring because at the time he told me that to my knowledge it was just the six of us or five of us all live in the whole convoy. i didn't know that anyone had made it. >> do you feel it is time for the military to reestablish women being combat veterans. >> yes. i am a combat veteran. they need to reexamine the training. the lines for combat have changed. whether you are a clerk of supply work medic, you are in combat. you are in harm's way. what is the purpose of keeping women out? it doesn't make any sense anymore. as we progress and things change we need to adapt and overcome. we cannot keep the same rules. we have to move forward with it. that is one of the things that is great about this country. one of the reasons the constitution and the bill of rights is so unique is it is supposed to adapt as our society adapts and it has. that is why we

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. >> dana, you were at the news conference he had after he was sworn in, and he made this statement. listen to this. >> in some states the money that was actually released hasn't even been used yet. >> you want to create one new job? >> that's correct. we lost another 185 jobs, give or take, last month? >> he's referring to the $180 billion stimulus package that the administration pushed through, saying it didn't create one new job. that's creating a stir already. >> vice president joe biden, that's been going around. they sent a slew of figures saying in scott brown's office in massachusetts, they spent $1 billion in funds that went to nine jobs. the bottom line is that is something that democrats are saying, huh-uh, that's not exactly right. what's very interesting about this press conference is that's the only detailed response we got from scott brown who is very careful to give general answers about the kind of senator he is going to be and the kind of votes he's going to cast. we'll just have to wait and see, wolf. >> probably smart for him to be very, very careful, on this the

., dana holding, and arvin meritor saw the bulk of the selling in the group falling between 3% and 10%. by this time next week, 3/4ths of the earnings season will be over. disney and coke are due on tuesday. pepsi comes out thursday. and that's tonight's "market focus". >> tom: volatility is back on the menu for investors this week with the major indices at new lows for the year. tonight's "market monitor" guest is john hughes, president of quantum capital management of new jersey. john welcome back to n.b.r. >> good to be here. >> the jobs picture improving just slightly in the last month. is this a signal to get back in the market? >> it's a positive signal if you believe that this is a cyclical recovery. we believe that it is a structural problem that's going to take some time to work its way through. >> what's the structural problem? >> well, the australian economists said a long time ago that prices send signals. we believe that 25 years of ever-increasing debt at ever-decreasing costs, lower and lower interest rates, has sent signals that have led to malinvestment, the types of e

so now, christine, if you would, we had in the front row, barry and dana. >> my name is barry ziegus with consumer federation of america. thank you both for your thoughtful and coagent comments. i'm impressed. i'm going to take us down quite a far ways from the last comment. the idea that's sort of coming up quickly with a bullet if you will in this arena is let's restore glass stiegel, and the role its played and the role its restoration might or might not have played. >> i looked hat this pretty closely and there are people who have this, what i come it see as sort of a nostalgic view of banking and i'm afraid i have to come out with a conclusion that it does not make a lot of sense to reensate glass stiegel and that's for thrones. glass stiegel allowed thanks to get involved with securities underwriting, and there were 25 banks that were put into receivership in 2008, and none of them were significant players in the securities underwriting. and then you look at some -- a bank like citigroup, and it was involved in securities underwriting, but if the securities underwriting was a p

tomorrow, dana delany, music from daniel merriweather and scotty lago. scotty lago is the american snowboarders who for whatever mysterious reason had to leave vancouver when pictures of a woman french kissing his bronze medal were online. he's going to have to miss the closing ceremonies, but he'll be here with us, which i think is even better then the olympics. right? all right, our first guest's incendiary temper has been known to terrify aspiring chefs and curdle bechamel sauces in kitchens around the world. he's an award-winning chef andleand le restaurateur. watch him scare failing restaurants back to life on "kitchen nightmares" thursday and friday nights at nine on fox. please welcome chef gordon ramsay. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thanks for coming. great to see you. these are truffles that you brought me. >> yes. >> jimmy: these came out of you? incredible. i wish i could smell them. wow, they -- yeah, they -- even penetrated my nose. they smell great. >> little present. that last bowl of pasta last time i was here was a disaster. >> how

they know i haven't found out anything, dana. they know i haven't because they know that they would be the first ones to know. i wouldn't call them or nothing else. they would be notified probably by the news media or somebody you know reporting a homicide so they already know that i haven't found out about anything. so they don't have to ask me a dumb question like that. >> because you're saying that if you found out you would do what you think you need to do and they'd find out about that. >> yeah. >> we learn tonight hours on hours of stepmother misty croslin on video and audio. what did she say to her mother and father and others that came to visit her behind bars? let's take a look at where this bunch is shacked up. they're in a couple of different locations, a couple of different jails. and we're also learning about jailhouse amenities. recreation time outside of jail, we are learning about libraries, tv, recreation yard, ged classes, programs. we learn about a menu tonight, chicken, rice with gravy, peas, bread, pudding, a

critics say it is a blatant example of broken government, and our senior correspondent dana bash spoke exclusively to one senator who is using that power to his advantage. >> reporter: a refueling tanker is long overdue for retirement. this senator wants the replacement made in his home state, alabama, but richard shelby says that the air force competition is a sham. so, in protest, he did something drastic. he blocked most of president obama's nominees to an array of federal agencies that had nothing to do with his issue. near blanket hold and near 50 nominees. >> 40-something, that is right. >> reporter: that is extreme. >> i did it to get the attention of the administration. >> reporter: did he ever. he made headlines and became a symbol of gridlock, but on the first tv interview on the subject, he makes no apologies. what it makes you sound that you would put money and jobs back in your home state of alabama. >> well, ultimately, i am a senator from alabama, but i wanted fairness. if there is fairness, the jobs will go there. >> reporter: shelby lifted the hold on all but four nomi

joining us dana perino. the president doesn't actually pass the bill he has congress do the bill, right? >> right. i think of this exercise every year as increasingly an exercise in futility. >> greta: why? >> it tells us what the president's priorities are for the year maybe how they've changed direction on a couple of things where. then he turn it over to congress at congress figures what they want to spend the money on. for the last couple of years they haven't even passed a budget. i think this is a little instructive might be more hype than reality. >> greta: explain to the viewers they haven't passed the budget in the past couple of years? >> they are not able to get things done on a day-to-day pass so they continue pass continuing resolutions getting things done. we have two wars we need to fund. we have a lot of entitlement spending, some social security and medicaid. we have just the everyday running of the government. it is extremely expensive. we have to protect ourselves from terrorists. we have

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dana perino joining me. what is weird, if you are going to go the american trial route you might as well play the game and say someone's innocent until proven guilty. that's just me i guess. >> it's not just you. i think it's everyone across the board. you think in your earliest civics class what you learn. when they announced the plan to have him tried in new york they said fall file you're is not -- failure is not an option but the foundation of a fair trial is failure is on option. i believe at the end of the day khalid sheik mohammed will get a trial but it will be at guantanamo bay. >> it leeks like you're going to be right because we discovered in new york they don't want it. no other town outside this crazy mayor we had on -- was it newburgh, new york? he wanted it there. >> right. >> neil: he was a lovely man but i'm thinking you're nuts if you are think your voters will be keen on this but they discovered, no, not in our yard. at what point and how did they say all right, it's back to gitmo? >> you

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in moscow, dana lewis, fox news. >>> the toyota recall sent transportation secretary ray lahood over to testify on capitol hill last week. now, that he promised to make sure that toyotas are safe, will the uproar end? we will talk to a congressman who was in the hearings, next. >> shannon: if there was any agreement reached during last week's healthcare summit you wouldn't know it. democrats and republicans drawing battle lines over the trillion dollars overhaul and they dished it out on "fox news sunday." i sat down with fox news anchor chris wallace for a preview. >> coming up a big week with the healthcare summit in washington. some key capitol hill players in to talk about it today and a little bit of disagreement about whether or not democrats push ahead without a bipartisan maneuver. >>> i don't think there is any disagreement that they will try. you got the sense it from bobby menendez. he said we want to see if the republicans are going to agree but they are not. i think they are going to try to pass it through the house on the straight majority house and then through the rec

please welcome dana lash. [applause] >> hello cpac. i was talking to up some of my fellow panelists and i ask them how they are approaching this topic? how will they talk about saving liberty 1 pager at a time. i was nervous because i thought i should come here and have some kind of happy go lucky speech prepared about how we can all get along and the compassion that. and then i thought about it. i said i would not do that because we are in the middle of the war. we are in the middle of a war and we are fighting for the hearts and minds and souls of the american people. one of the things that i wanted to hit on today was the dirty tactics. that is one of the things i love about conservatives is that we are so polite we care so much about what other people think. we don't want to hurt their feelings. we don't want to put them out i love that about all of us. i really do. we are in a war. it is okay to throw manners out the window in cases like this. talking about saving liberty one patriot at a time, in order to do that, you actually ha

let's go to our senior congressional analyst, dana bash. you are outside the old ted kennedy office where scott brown will have his new office. we are waiting for him to be sworn in. >> reporter: that's right. let's start with what's going on. i just moments ago walked with scott brown down inside this building as he made his way over the capitol. and he went inside to the cloakroom and we are awaiting for him to come out on to the senate floor to be formally sworn in. big picture here. to officially give the republicans the 41st vote and deprive democrats of that critical supermajority. now on that issue before scott brown even made it into the building here myself and several other reporters caught up with him as he drove up and he got around to the back of his truck and pulled out his certification papers to make sure that hay brought those in because that's what officially will allow him to be a united states senator today and as we were talking with him, we asked him about why can hay actually decide to come now. until yesterday, we we

dana is calling from kansas. you say your son's school recently, you say, did begin to relax academic standards. what brought that on? >> caller: i have no idea. i just understood that they changed the grading system. when i asked why, i was told because the students in other towns that had a lower grading system were the ones who were getting the scholarships. that's just what i was told, but they have definitely -- are dumbing down our grading system. >> well, that actually -- you beat me to the punch. i was going to ask how you feel about that, but when you say "dumbing down" it's clear how you feel. you think it's troubling? >> caller: oh, i definitely think it's troubling. >> does it have to be if you're including more kids does t it have to be troubling? >> caller: well, i think so. i think that those children that work so much harder for them grades and are taking homework home every night and trying to only get better in their grades, they're fighting a losing battle when the kids 20 miles away don't have

host: looking at dana milbank's colorado, he talks about one of the comments made by senator mark udall. host: let us go to retired military member, john -- kentucky? caller: raccoon, ky. good morning. we are a nation under god -- sell most of us have that feeling -- so most of us have that feeling it is wrong. i am not going to sit there cast the first and did you do what you want to do. that is no problem. to me, all you are going to do is break stuff up. i spent three tours in vietnam. i look at our senators up there, they are the ones that going to debate this and stuff and the handful that served in the military -- first, most of them have no clue, they have to get information from somewhere else. they use our tax money so they can fly around and justifies their job. but all is going to do to break stuff down. the young lieutenant -- he knew before he went to the united states army that that was the law. he knew that. now all of a sudden he wants to be righteous night -- righteous. my point is, i'm a teacher now and i have been retired for over 20 years and i tried to tell the stud

. >> present obama is saying no to both dana -- boehner and mcconnell about scrapping the bill and starting from scratch. >> they are going to bring their ideas to the table. and there are some in their party that would do away with this. i wrote a few things down. [laughter] i wrote eggs, milk, and bread. i crossed out bread. i can make pancakes. and then i wrote hope and change just in case i forgot that. [laughter] again, there are different ways of treatment. they're some of what to do away -- there are some that want to do away with attached referral, and there are some that do not. there are those that want to -- that believe that there should be a broader restructuring of the medicare advantage program that provides incentives for insurers, and obviously there is a disagreement about that. we don't think that republicans are not going to bring ideas. the president wants to scrap a year-long process to get us to this point. >> to fight -- despite the scale back -- >> your characterization the scale back. we want to do this in a way that is not to simply more cost- effective but actual

from here as i mentioned, dana would go from, from -- freezing the design on the substance, and without the substance, you ask me, you have the votes for this and that, without the substance, it is -- we can't go to the next step and the next step would require to see what the senate will do. and we have voted on the bill that we like and we'll see if they can accommodate the changes that the president has put forth and then we could go to the next step. and we'll keep you posted along the way. >> and what about the job bill, do you -- how do you plan to proceed with the jobs bill? and how do you see the agenda developing given the difficulties you're having? >> yes, as you know, we passed our jobs bill before christmas that we thought was urgent at the time and it is urgent now. i think what you will, i know what you will see is -- is a -- a segmentation, there will be this jobs bill that we start w as i mentioned, that i mentioned with investments and infrastructure and energy and transportation and that, with the -- with the tax credits for hiring. and for small business, as well as

. >> present obama is saying no to both dana -- boehner and mcconnell about scrapping the bill and starting from scratch. >> they are going to bring their ideas to the table. and there are some in their party that would do away with this. i wrote a few things down. [laughter] i wrote eggs, milk, and bread. i crossed out bread. i can make pancakes. and then i wrote hope and change just in case i forgot that. [laughter] again, there are different ways of treatment. they're some of what to do away -- there are some that want to do away with attached referral, and there are some that do not. there are those that want to -- that believe that there should be a broader restructuring of the medicare advantage program that provides incentives for insurers, and obviously there is a disagreement about that. we don't think that republicans are not going to bring ideas. the president wants to scrap a year-long process to get us to this point. >> to fight -- despite the scale back -- >> your characterization the scale back. we want to do this in a way that is not to simply more cost- effective but actual

it is an editorial written by dana millbank and the headline is "the mccain he used to be" talking about mccain's fight against campaign finance, also saying that senator mccain said before that if the generals in the field come out and say that we need to change the don't ask -don't tell policy that he would take a second look. he has now said he doesn't think the policy should be changed. he also -- on the debt issue, says that -- he calls this another traditional mccain issue. he had been a co-sponsor of a mccain debt commission, but after the vote he came up and aligned himself with the proposal. on a full line of issues he said mccain hasñr switched to the opposition. your paper has endorsed mccain in the past. he came to new hampshire when he wanted to revive his presidential campaign in 2008. do you see a different mccain in the last year? guest: i don't know that there is a different mccain. you know, mccain has always been someone who goes with his gut on issues. i think that's one of the reaso&k toward the end of the presidential campaign in 2008 he started a -- he started to

but to give you an idea, if dana just pans off to the left, you see all that rock off to the side. what they started with here was really only a 2 1/2 in inch base of snow. so, not a lot to work with. mother nature not exactly cooperating, but all of the hard work and effort seems to be paying off here. let the games begin. okay, maybe not just yet. this is not the usual scenery you'd expect right before the winter olympics. while the rare sunny day her and mild winter weather is a blessing for the everyday athlete enjoying vancouver's great outdoors, for the olympic athletes and organizers, the warm-up is the one hitch in the otherwise very well-executed plans for these games. >> in the mountains behind me there's only about three feet of snow. last year at this time there was ten feet of snow. normally, we get periods of warm and colder weather alternating, but this year, since january 1st, it's been all heat. >> reporter: cypress mountain, the venue for snowboarding and freestyle skiing, remains the only problem area. >> we're dealing with a fairly freaky situation, but we're de