craig melvin is in for thomas roberts. on the agenda, new bombshell grand jury documents in the jonbenet ramsey murder case, 17 years after the girl s death. they are raising new questions about this very cold case, and the young beauty queen s parents. we are live in boulder with the latest on that. also, republican leader in north carolina is out of a job this morning after some comments that he made on camera about that state s voter i.d. law, saying he doesn t care if it hurts what he calls lazy blacks. do those comments reveal the real motive behind those laws? and also this morning, should jay z drop his multimillion dollar holiday deal with barney s? the rapper mogul under fire after two people said they were targeted while shopping.
purchasing pricey items, legally purchasing them, barney says it has hired a civil rights expert to lead a review of this situation and quality practices as for jay-z deal worth millions with part of the proceeds go to charity. what does your gut tell you, should jay-z and partnership with barney s not commented so far on it. what do you say? go to facebook.com/newsnation. take a look at what the newsnation is saiding about yesterday, attorney for governor, doug gans ler attending a party where many were drinking. do you think he had a moral obligation to stop the teens from drinking? 80% say yes. 16% said no. that does it for this edition of news nation, have a great weekend. we ll tweet about it later.
neal womin, they provided great leadership and source of information and support as we worked through all of this. there are very good people there. tim geithner i think did a good job in many, many ways. i know he s received a lot of criticism but again without their help and support as we did out of the white house, this would have been very difficult to do. so i endorse what barney s just said. think it is more testing how people do in the jobs they have, whether or not where they ve come from necessarily. but again i d emphasize the important point of reaching out just beyond that sector when you are talking about leadership in our financial services area. congressman frank, i want to sort of ask you in the broader picture here. there is some concern i think in american society, after the financial melt dourn that was of historic proportions just a few years ago, that the little guy is still being ignored and i point you to an article on the front page of the new york times yes
finally from us this half hour, characters from our parent company disney like you have never seen them before. they are front and center for a holiday tradition at one of new york s most fashionable stores. and our own paw paula faris gives us a look. reporter: call it minnie s madison avenue makeover going from this to this. glammed up supermodel styles for the holidays. disney s most famous faces, mickey, goofy, snow white like you ve never seen them before. the mind-blowing makeover just for the holidays in the windows at new york s famed barney s, the store known for its annual edgy and outside-the-box displays. this year the windows show a brief film, minnie imagining herself at the fashion shows in paris, and with a little pixie
kneel could potentially impact your business? exactly, this is still this business is about a year old this month, actually, and right now a lot of money is just going into the business, and so we re fortunate enough to have a lot of tax write offs at this point. as the company grows we ll be having to worry about this a lot more. probably the biggest impact we are having now is that banks are not lending money. even though we launched at barney s, sachs, all the big stores, barney has sold out four times since we launched, banks need to see two years of records before they even kirt. even though we ve met with 10 to 12 banks they are just not lending money right now. jenna: that is interesting. we talked about the credit crisis so much throughout the years and we continue to hear it for consumer level and small businesses that loans are tough to get. what is the effect of that, if