scott paul. they have the numbers. professor, good to have you with us tonight. scott, thank you so much. >> good evening, ed. >> i want to start with you, professor. how have the deregulatory policies the republicans put if place killed manufacturing in his country? it is all about deregulation, is it not? >> a big part of it is deregulation, ed. they deregulated wall street which means essentially every major american company is designed now for only one purpose, that is to increase the value of the shares on wall street. not to create employment, not to help communities, not to deal with any other stakeholder at all except wall street and financial markets. that's it. and until we get a set of regulations, a set of understandings that this economy is about jobs and wages, it's not just about profits. it's not just about wall street. then we are not going to be able to turn the economy around. ed, one more thing. you know, these republicans, what they again and again say is that corporations and the rich need more tax cuts, corporations need more deregulation b

in michigan, it's republican assemb assemblyman paul scott who's seen as an ally of republican governor rick snyder. the yes or no vote on republican paul scott's michigan recalls, therefore, seen as a bit of a proxy for whether michigan is feeling buyers remorse from the republican agenda they got. results are still coming in on the michigan race. also facing recall, republican state senator, russell pierce of arizona. the man who wrote arizona's paper's please law, a very powerful republican controlling the state senate there. his challenger, interestingly, is also a republican. but russell pierce's challenger is a republican who denounced who pierce and jan brewer have done to the state's image with their anti-immigrant legislation and announced it as something akin to alabama 1964. polls only closed in arizona moments ago. we're awaiting on preliminary results in the russell pierce recall. that watched closely around the nation. in iowa, today, a special election could make the whole state go red there. republicans in iowa control the governor's office and the state house and they'r

. >> caller: and, basically, i'm here from the home of joe mccarthy, scott walker, paul ryan and also bass teague days -- bastille days. i just read your book at that time. i asked people why are we celebrating bastille days? so we had a lot of fun with that. but i want to know one of my main questions, because i do watch all this back and forth and all this stuff. so many times that if we would just follow our constitution, we wouldn't be in this mess. and one of these main things is article i, section 11 of the constitution. you know, basically, all the powers are vested in congress. they are not vested in the bureaucrats. they are not vest candidated. and what are we going to do, to me, to bring back that and make people understand? to get our power back for we, the people -- >> guest: i'm so glad you ask. um, no, this is, this is a very important point. democrat policies are so unpopular that democrats have had to stop promoting them themselves. releasing violent and, you know, child molesting, murdering criminals, for example. so instead they just nominate judges and then assure

in michigan, republican paul scott seen as ally of rick schneider. the yes or know on his michigan recall has been seen as bit of proxy whether michigan is feeling buyer's remorse for the republican agenda they had since the 2010 elections, right now, that recall race is an even split. and facing recall, republican state senator, russell pierce in arizona, president of the arizona state senate, the man who sponsored arizona's papers please, anti-immigrant law. russell pearce is currently losing to his challenge. 100% of precincts reporting, jerry lewis to challenger russell pearce seen as having an eight point lead. jerry lewis, you should know is also a republican but he is a republican who has denounced what russell pearce and governor jan brewer did to arizona's image with the papers please legislation and denounced it something to akin to alabama 1964. at this point, this race is not being called by the associated press but it 100% situation with jerry lewis defeating the state senate president. in kentucky, steven beshear was challenged by david

in michigan, republican paul scott seen as ally of rick schneider. the yes or know on his michigan recall has been seen as bit of proxy whether michigan is feeling buyer's remorse for the republican agenda they had since the 2010 elections, right now, that recall race is an even split. and facing recall, republican state senator, russell pierce in arizona, president of the arizona state senate, the man who sponsored arizona's papers please, anti-immigrant law. russell pearce is currently losing to his challenge. 100% of precincts reporting, jerry lewis to challenger russell pearce seen as having an eight point lead. jerry lewis, you should know is also a republican but he is a republican who has denounced what russell pearce and governor jan brewer did to arizona's image with the papers please legislation and denounced it something to akin to alabama 1964. at this point, this race is not being called by the associated press but it 100% situation with jerry lewis defeating the state senate president. in kentucky, steven brashear was challenged by davi

in michigan, republican paul scott, chair of the state's house education committee was recalled after he voted to cut education funding. scott also reported stripping collective bargaining for schoolteachers. that went down. in iowa, democrats retained control of the state senate. this was a big fight when former television anchor liz mathis beat her republican opponent by a 56-44 margin. and in maine, the middle class defeated a republican effort to restrict voters' rights. same-day registration. they beat it back in maine. and over in new jersey, the coattails of the big guy, well, it didn't help any of the republicans he endorsed last night. they all lost. in mitch mcconnell's state of kentucky, democrats won big. democratic governor steve beshear trounced his republican opponent to win re-election. john kasich is crying in his beer after americans killed the bill. arizona, michigan, iowa, maine, new jersey, and ohio all have radical right-wing republican governors who have absolutely attacked workers to balance their budgets. middle class voters who were asleep at the switch maybe

our correspondent, paul wood, and his cameraman, fred scott, smuggled themselves into syria from lebanon. they spent the last week undercover in hom, the first journalists to have spent time with the army inside the country. earlier i spoke to paul about his experience, which began across the border in lebanon. >> there is a pretty efficient route now for smuggling weapons in and casualties out. it's not easy. the syrian army has tried to seal the border, planting land mines, sending out a lot of patrol, so i think pretty much every day you're seeing covert traffic across the border. he went in with a group of activists who were the end of the logistics supply chain for the free syria army. they were taking in a couple of each, and one sign of how this conflict is deepening and spreading is the fact that a black market now costs them $1,200. such is the demand in syria. we went past one group of activists all the way into the city of homs, the center of opposition to the syrian regime and where there are increasing numbers. we saw this ourselves, the syrian army defectors moving into are

scott mcgrew sat down with the producer. >> the director, paul senne, in london said i think i kept a tape of just the jobs interview. he went in his garage and looked around and called me up, i found this tape, what do you think i should do with it. i asked how many others did you keep? because of course we thought they were all lost. >> and how much is left? >> found it in the garage. you can watch scott mcgrew's entire interview on "press here" this sunday morning at 9 lo:00. they will show it in palo alto, berkeley and san francisco on november 16th and 17th. >>> new yorkers are enjoying a one-man play that made a swing through the bay area. the agony and ecstacy of steve jobs has been called blistering. scott mcgrew takes a look at the broadway opening. >> and this offbrand machine called the slurpie. >> reporter: mike is the man behind the play "agony and the ecstacy." he knows he looks very little like steve jobs. >> it's a monologue about two different stories that fit together. one is the story about all of our technology, where it comes from and how it works its way into our

you think paul will be open until tomorrow. coming up a recall of governor scott walker of wisconsin they put his war on unions on oil what does our nation need to do beyond that to make our economy work for the middle class once again. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to get through get through to people who made who can you trust no one who is you are you with a global missionary zeal where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called fascism when nobody dares to ask we do you are t. question more. for. for. just a few hours from now to the one am tuesday morning and governor scott walker recall campaign officially begins that's right tomorrow teams of canvassers will hit the streets across wisconsin in a bid to collect five hundred forty thousand signatures to trigger a recall election against scott walker organizers have sixty days to get enough signatures according to early polling voters are split right down the middle on whether or not they support iraq or recall but no

you have romney and perry and then ron paul kind has half as much funding and nobody else has scott and its lead to turnaround you look at the national apparatus of the polls and the smallest. you look at who has done this before, who's got the mechanism in place to get vantage. i don't think that this is going to go real long to be perfectly honest. >> the buyers are more in 2008 we saw mike huckabee stick around a number of primaries even though the map seems certain from the beginning it couldn't make it to be the nominee and someone will stay in this and live off the land and keep firing shots at the presumptive nominee so it will take awhile to plan not in fact and. >> a question from the audience with a variety of initiatives be a factor in the 2012 election cycle is it possible to change the outcome even of some congressional or presidential election. >> you're fascinating this year. one of the first things the state legislatures to when they switch control is the tinker with the election rules. this happened when democrats took charge in 2006. we saw the window for the ascent he

that is just ahead of ron paul with 10%. the rest of the field is in single digits, bret and we are now less than seven weeks from the first test in the lead-off ku cuss state of iowa. >> bret: the next debate is december 15. carl, thank you. our debate, i should say. >>> in international news, pakistani intelligence officials say suspected u.s. drones killed eight alleged militants today. that is in addition to 16 insurgents reportedly taken out by missile strikes wednesday. turkey's prime minister says the world must hear the screams of syrian protesters. syrian allies russia and china are expressing syria's concern over the continued crackdown on dissent. activists say five civilians and four former soldiers were killed across the country today. the u.n.'s atomic organization new resolution on iran does not allow probe for alleged work on nuclear weapons. that is said to be a concession to iranian ally, russia and china. iran nuclear program is running in to more problems. senior correspondent amy kellogg tells us what th

. >> garrett: scott, thank you very much. one more piece of housekeeping. let's introduce the candidates. forker utah governor, jon huntsman. from minnesota, congresswoman michele bachmann. representing the 14th district of texas, congressman ron paul ( cheers and applause ) frommality lanta, georgia, business man herman cain. former massachusetts governor, mitt romney ( applause ) former house speaker newt gingrich ( applause ) current texas governor rick perry ( applause ) and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum ( applause ) mr. cain, i'd like to begin this evening with you, sir. >> yes. >> garrett: this week a u.n. nuclear watchdog agency provided additional credible evidence that iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. if you were president right now what would you do specifically that this administration is not doing to prevent iran from obtang a nuclear weapon? >> the first thing that i would do is to insist the opposition movement in iran that's trying to overthrough the regime. our enemies are not the people of iran. it's the regime, and a regime c

is destroying our state. >> it's a scam , because thexd voters, the voters chose walker. >> brown: paul solman talks to the author of a new book casting the father of evolution as a leading thinker in a very different field. within a hundred years from now if people poll professional economists, people like me, and ask who's the founder of your dis-- discipline, most people are going to say charles darwin. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and margaret warner examines the warming of relations between the u.s. and myanmar, as president obama announced he'll send secretary of state hillary clinton there next month. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the

in a hour and half 92nd annual cat paul, the turkey bowl -- catapult turkey bowl. in the championship game against gillman past friday night. loyola looking to avenge losing last thanksgiving join scott and tom and jamie this morning at 10from united stadium from the towson university for the 92nd catapult learning turkey bowl. >>> and mayor stephanie rawlings-blake will be part of the 30th annual bea gaddy thanks for giving dinner. she will be there at 11 helping and volunteering with many of you taking part in thefestivities helping people. have a great thanksgiving for themselves and ♪ gonna marry the night >>> there's lady gaga. a sneak peek at her new song, "marry the night." you're listening to it right now. you get a shot at her. there she is. in tonight's special, "a gaga thanksgiving." coming up for you guys here on "gma." we'll have that in a couple moments. yeah. looking forward to it. good morning, everybody. george and robin off for the holidays. i'm lara spencer, here with mr. josh elliott. better known today as dad of sarina, in the house. >> we re

newt gingrich passing ron paul and rick perry. it comes after nearly all the senior staff walked off the job. martha: the president of rasmussen reports joins us now. scott, welcome. this has been an interesting one to what. what do you make of the fabl that herman cain is holding up so wells? >> it says republican primary voters are giving herman cain the benefit of the doubt. they don't trust the media. they don't like the political process. they're suspicious. most republican voters might be another republican campaign pushing this. so they're saying okay, for right now we're willing to support herman cain unless something comes out to change our mind. martha: look at some of the other numbers that came in. it is very interesting because what we're seeing newt gingrich, let's look at this one first. michele bachmann and huntsman. 2%. these kind of numbers raise a lot of questions, scott. some people think it is time to throw in the towel for people in this range at this point . what do you think? >> well, they are, huntsman bac

megyn: scott, thank you. >> thank you, megyn. megyn: another poll getting attention today, a bloomberg survey showing a four-way tie for first place in iowa between herman cain, newt gingrich, mitt romney and ron paul all within the statistical margin of error. it is raising questions about whether congressman paul could see a new campaign surge in the coming weeks. and we are joined by the texas congressman and the 2012 presidential candidate ron paul. congressman thank you so much for being here. that has to come as good news for you. many people have considered you an also ran in this race: >> we are very pleased. of course not totally surprised because our internal polls have been pretty favorable. also i have been talking about significant change in the economy and the foreign policy, and the good reception i'm getting on the campaign trail, especially with young people, i'm very pleased with the recognition that we actually a are polling so well. megyn: wrist the recognition, in particular by the mainstream media. we saw a