>> doug e. fresh. >> no one's fresher than you. >> stand by. >>> the senate clears the way for payments to minority farmers who say they were denied equal access to loans and subsidies, but why has it taken so long? >>> and a new jersey man is beaten by police after his wife is stopped for a traffic violation. police brutality or justified use of force? >>> and 9/11 first responders agree to a settlement with new york city over the health effects of toxic dust at ground zero. we have the details. e bladder, i don't always let the worry my pipes might leak compromise what i like to do. i take care with vesicare, because i have better places to visit than just the bathroom. ( announcer ) once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle, and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks, day and night. if you have certain stomach or glaucoma problems, or trouble emptying your bladder, do not take vesicare. vesicare may cause allergic reactions that may be s

doug e. fresh is? >> your pal who did the dougie after the soultrain awards. >> guess where he's going to be today? >> in "the situation room." >> that is correct! doug e. fresh will be in "the situation room" with me, the so soul train will come to "the situation room" on this day. i want everyone to start getting excited and to think of the possibilities. >> because when we think "soul train," we think -- >> wolf blitzer, right. >> wolf blitzer. >> obviously, and doug e. fresh. >> and doug e. fresh. we'll all be watching, i can promise you that, wolf. thank you. how do i go on from there? >>> another cnn equals politics update in 30 minutes. you can also get the political news online. go to cnnpolitics.com or go to twitter@politicalticker. >>> final check here of the billboard as it is all closing down for the day. the dow up 24 points, just about, 11,202. not too bad. pretty big day yesterday. gm finally going public. quick reminder, you can always get the latest numbers at cnnmoney.com. >

he was a special guest of doug e. fresh on the soul train musical awards. i'm going to show you that and i'm going to show you a little conversation that wolf blitzer had with doug e. fresh had in "the situation room." take a look from yesterday's show on "the situation room." it also takes you back to the soul train music awards. >> can we get a little dougy music right now? i want to see a little "soul train" dancers. ♪ let's bring fred in. you don't see that every day in "the situation room," that kind of live reporting going on. you believe what you see, though. >> real reporter involvement. you have taken that to the next level, too. >> it was a lot of fun. i got to tell you when i was in atlanta a couple weeks ago, i went to the "soul train" awards and it went on and on. a week from sunday, on a sunday night on b.e.t., people will watch it and see the whole nine yards. they're going to enjoy it. you know what i loved the most, fred? >> what's that? >> it's great music and entertainers going back to the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, all the way back. there

doug e. fresh, doing a little dougie. i didn't realize there was a dance called the dougie. >> you got to learn how to do the dougie. >> i don't know. you are in new york. doug e. is in new york, too. >> i understand you presented an award for eminem. >> i send an award. >> accepted. sorry. >> my other best friend, eminem, we are very, very close. i didn't realize you were so tight. >> going to have more. tony harris, who was there, talk to him about it in the next hour. stick around. you will enjoy. >>> the tea party favorite michele bachmann will not be part of the gop leadership of the house after all. what does it say about how much real party the tea party will have? we will talk about that in the strategy session that is coming up. >>> let's get right to our strategy session, joining us, the democratic strategist and cnn contributor, hillary rosen and cnn political contributor, republican strategist, alex castellano a big deal or a little deal that michele bachmann, a tea party favorite

here is doug jones who just e-mailed me. i don't understand the controversy about being patted down. i am headed for the airport. i'm not flying anywhere. i'm just hungry for human contact. doug, thanks for sharing. >>> we are still waiting on word of a royal wedding date. i will get the latest on kate and william's plan. >>> why the pope says, condoms might be okay if you are a male prostitute. >>> this is one season you need to spend to save. you need more explanation? wait for it. i'm back in three. >>> we've just received the verdict in the chandra levy case. it is guilty at this point. she disabeappeared in 2002. it looks like the jury has reached the verdict in the trial of ingmar guandika. that verdict is guilty. quick break here. we will be right back. o: ah, th as we all know, geico has been saving people money on rv, camper and trailer insurance... ...as well as motorcycle insurance... gecko: oh...sorry, technical difficulties. boss: uh...what about this? gecko: what's this one do? gecko: um...maybe that one. ♪ d

mostly e-mails. a few chance. but the great benefit of the collaboration having done another book, when we talk things out it took only a few minutes to try to resolve things the important issue was in addition to the pin geniality and terminology the work product benefited from it which is why you want to collaborate. >> guest: we started out from different places. so when i would say things a little realized die was hearing something different than what i intended to say. it became clear what we meant. >> guest: we are coming into the final part of our show. abel asked you questions about substance. there is a chapter in your book where you talk about populism. he say -- use the word weight. this system is rigged. one of their "your writing about, the law that changed our bankings structure, and graeme beach bliley, you say it repeals the class stiegel act. simply meant to benefit the elite. did benefit some of the elite. was there an intention to that? was it meant to benefit the elite? that sounds like not to

doug says i suspect that any new roles will target the small farmer who will be east tore harass than the large are corporate farms who can poison millions of people. >> eric one our facebook fans says no people are mart enough to make their own choices. we do not need the government hand picking what we eat. we are not five any more. we will post more answers on our website. >> kim dacey with a look at the commute. an accident in reisterstown southbound route 40 at has a spill involved. be aware of that. traffic lights out in lutherville and accident on the top of the beltway at loch raven boulevard. the report of an accident eastern avenue and southhaven and southbound j.f.x. at saint paul street. harford county accident near route 543 at 646. we will give you look at 29 and 32. police are searching for an accident in the area of 29. 29 is fine north and southbound. live view of the west side of the beltway this is from 40 west between 40 and edmondson the crash moved to the shoulder. might be causing a bit of a slowdown. that is the latest on "traffic pulse 11". >> it is a look at

tea party patriots even sent an e-mail to activists asking them to try and convince incoming members to attend their orientation over the others. we're joined this morning by brian darling the representative of senate relations and democratic strategy doug shone. let me start with you, is it starting into the rift and starting this morning? >> oh, yeah, it's just started and we're going to see a lot more fights in the upcoming months and these guys haven't been sworn in and they're already fighting and we're going to see the values on the tea party earmark issue and how he likes the earmarks and the tea party moving wants to cut spending radically and back in the day with no child left behind and no prescription drug benefit to bailout wall street and they want to see the guys show that they're listening to the american people. >> the democrats are sit being back and warming their hands a little bit and enjoying this watching the republicans fight against the tea party members. >> i thought that brian said it well and frankly, this is the best hope for president obama and the democra

e sunday sales will be allowed to start november 21st. it is 5:16 and we're in the ddle of happ hour, and doug joins us now. any news on the weather? >> yes, can i have some water? >> there you go. >> beautiful day. >> it was lovely, nice breeze. >> it's going to stay that way. over the next couple days. not just stay that way. it's like a carbon copy each and every day. we've seen 63 and sunshine tomorrow. we'll see 61 but also some sunshine. let's take a look out there and show you whatwe're dealing with. the sun has made its way down. still a little bit of light left. we'll have another 15 minutes or so of light befor it gets reilly dark outside. that's what you expect this time of year. nice warm afternoons, temperatures falling down in cool overnight crisp morningings. winds out of the north-northwest at 10 miles per hour. 61 in manassas, down toward quantico, 59 degrees. laplatcoming in around 61 degrees. over toward salisbury on the eastern shore, 54 degrees the current temperature there. here's what's happening across the eastern

fs are out the win doug i think there's an incomplete now. for cheating, you get a do-over, a pass here. what is this all about and can it be good? >> i think it's a cop-out. i really think it's a cop-out. i don't know. maybe i'm old-fashioned but to be hel accountable to me is the most -- is lke discipline and it seems that we chip away at this and all of our public education. we wt to it give second chances now if you're failing grades. well, what about the kids who are making as? what does it tell them? it's unfair to them if a child who can't -- and many times not getting an "f" is because of the child's problem of not studying, not going to bed on time, and the parents not getting behind the children to make sure that they learn. so i have a problem with it. >> well, as i understand part of the rationale is th want to separate the cheating incidence from the academic. they say that's disciplinary. i don't know who thought this up. pardon me if you're looking at me wonderinghy i don't know. really, part of academics, part of learning, par

get a document and say there is no way this can work because doug has missed this completely and then i would go back and talk about it and realize that he had some critiques of mine, and eventually we found a way to work it out and i think it is a much better product. >> host: or e-mails or chats on the phone? >> guest: mostly email and a few chats, but the great benefit of the collaboration, having done another look where the collaboration was not as seamless, to put it politely, when we talk things out it took only a few minutes to try to resolve things. but the important issue is in addition to the timely alagiah i think the work product benefit from that which is why you want to collaborate. >> host: >> guest: we started out in different places on this, and so when i would say things i would realize doug was hearing something different than i intended to say and i'm sure you the same experience. as we try to articulate to each other it became a little clear what we both men. >> host: we are coming into the final part of the shows are going to ask a couple questions about substanc