washington to stop tiptoeing around cuts and entitlement spending. what s the truth that nobody is talking about? here s the truth that nobody is talking about. you re going to have to raise the retirement age for social security. oh, i just said it, and i m still standing here. i did not vaporize into the carpeting, and i said it. christie insists he is not running for president in 2012. senator scott brown says he was sexually abused several times as a child by a camp counselor. the massachusetts republican tells 60 minutes he was also physically abused by stepfathers. he says his mother and wife don t even know about some of the abuse. he says, quote, that s what happens when you re a victim. you re embarrassed and you re hurt. ted kennedy junior won t follow in his father s footsteps, at least for now. he says the connecticut post he s ruling out a senate run. he says he wants to focus on his family.
he s a familiar face here in washington and a possible republican presidential contender. but right now mississippi governor haley barbour is caught up in a controversy in his home state over a license plate. we want to bring in cnn s mary snow. candy, the controversy involves an effort to honor a confederate general who is a ku klux klan leader. governor haley barbour spoke publicly about a call to denounce the effort, and his answer has only sparked more anger. i ve spoken here many times and over the years on the national stage, haley barbour has had a lot to say as a potential contender for the 2012 presidential nomination. but in his home state his kmebt comments were brief when asked to remove a license plate
spending are siding with president obama, instead of house speaker john boehner. they are voting to kill a controversial program to build an engine for a fighter jet. it s an unusual vote in more than one way. cnn s lisa sylvester has popped up again with more on this story. what s this one about? well, candy, give credit to the new congressional freshmen class. they took on the seniors in the house, including speaker boehner and they came out on top slashing millions and halting this defense program. we re broke. we re borrowing 41 cents for every dollar we spend. we re serious about cutting spending here in washington. we re broke! reporter: for house speaker john boehner the country is living high on the hog, and now it s time to cut the proverbial credit card. but there are limits to his calls for fiscal restraint. boehner voted to keep funding a pricey military jet engine that, including the defense secretary
agency. he wanted to get his wife out and bring them to germmy. and he wanted citizenship. and he want ad mercedes benz. and he got all those things. reporter: he told the agency before the war that saddam hussein had a secret biological weapons program. the germans had reservations about his credibility. they never granted the cia direct access to curveball. i asked the chief of the station here in washington. he said, no, we re not going to give you access to it. don t ask. it will cause too much trouble. reporter: but the analysis of curveball oos information made its way through u.s. intelligence. there were tense internal debates over his credibility. enough analysts thought it plausible that it made it way to colin powell s speech at the un and became a key component of the bush administration s case for a war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. and the key players in the drama still feel the sting to all dh. former secretary of state kocoll
the math. what does he get out of it? well, now pacquiao established a relationship with harry reid. and manny pacquiao is now a lifelong buddy of the senate leader of the united states. reporter: like the maestro here is in the boxing ring, he maneuvered harry reid see something more than a public thank you. i forgot to mention that. he is going to the white house. arranged by u.s. senator reid. now that s a knockout punch. okay, it certainly is. as pacquiao left washington, d.c., so many people were trying to get pictures, there was a four-car accident. his english improved if he liked the questions. he seemed to have trouble finding the words to say to harry reid.