welcome back. thanks. only yesterday you were gracing me with your presence. you re here. you have this great new book. every day is a friday. how to be happier seven days a week. i m thinking to myself, you are the two happiest people i ve met anyway. how could you get any happier? i think we all can, we ve learned what to ignore, certain battles not to fight. we can all be improving and growing and being happier. why fridays? when i came to new york in particular, i was horrified that on fridays my staff all came in dressed like, you know, people on the street. because it was apparently dress-down friday. and i was like, what does that mean? and it means you dress badly and wear jeans and old t-shirts an things. i associate friday with this unkempt sort of misery. why have you selected friday as a day of great joy and happiness? for the most people, the study shows people are happier on fridays. why? people are looking forward to the weekends, relax, done
with pepper spray. the people did not want to shut down the museum. we did not want to inconvenience tourist but engage in a dialogue using our free speech rights. we never got past the metal detectors. security came rushing out. bum rushed us like a line of football players. corralled and pepper sprayed the first round of us. three people were detained. so the occupy movement first took root in lower manhattan three weeks ago. susan candiotti spoke to people who came from near and far to see it for themselves. reporter: eating a bowl of cereal after sleeping under the stars, this retiree and her teenager grandson took a bus from detroit to camp out with occupy wall street. tell me what this is like. you have this tarp. this is home. for a week, choosing to sleep on the ground under a blue tarp, mainly with young people in a public park. why was it important for you to come here and bring your grandson? i felt the need to show support to the movement. the poli
for being a mormon. shortly after producing perry to the crowd of social conservatives texas pastor said they shouldn t select mitt romney because he s mormon, a religion the pastor described as a cult. later cnn political correspondent jim acosta asked the pastor how he responds to voters who insist that romney s religion shouldn t be an issue. here is what he said. the southern baptist convention, which is the largest protestant denomination in the world has officially labeled mormonism as a cult. i think mitt romney is a good moral man. but i think those are us who are born again followers of christ should always prefer a competent christian to a competent non-christian like mitt romney. political activist bill bennett responded to the pastor s comments today. take a listen. i would say to the pastor, you stepped on and obscured the words of perry and santorum and cain and bachmann and everyone else who has spoken here. you did rick perry no good, sir, in what you ha
republicans to say no. if congress does something, then i can t run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it s not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? i think he does have it right. lining up for the republicans, either you are for the middle class or against the middle class. either you re defending millionaires or on the side of the working people. i think that will be something for republicans to have to wrestle with. i m not sure i want to be on the side of defending wall street and millionaires in this kind of electoral environment. it was interesting, a cnn reporter ran into susan collins, a moderate republican in the halls today and said she didn t like this either which was interesting
up of mostly 20-somethings, they re angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congress s lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in seattle today for the first time in four years. she went to italy for college studies but ended up in prison for murder. reminding me to speak in english because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. knox was serving a 26-year sentence for killing her roommate and appeals court overturned that murder conviction on monday. u.s. ambassador susan rice is calling it an outrage, she walke