outfront tonight, the market slid nearly 200 points today. the reason, fear and uncertainty. fear of europe and fear of the super committee. we are counting down to a huge moment for america on a day our commander in chief was warned china s military is building up with one main goal, taking on america. i ll get to that in a moment. first, the super committee is exactly one week away from its deadline to cut a minimum of $1.2 trillion from america s deficit. today was a day called critical by some lawmakers. the meetings have ended. there is no word on a possible deal. now, nearly 80% of americans don t expect the super committee to do its job. but no deal isn t just a chance to roll our eyes and say, hey, we knew it all along. no deal is bad for america. no deal means rising interest rates down the road and a halt in job creation now. we need a deal, and a deal is not hard to strike. we ve shown one way repeatedly on this show. that s to roll back the bush tax cuts for eve
and is now going through. he s the boy known simply as victim he was the first to come forward, this boy was, three years ago. that s why he s called victim number one, though he was not the first victim. he brought down the penn state president, senior vice president for business and the school s athletic director. he s a brave kid, his mother says, but tonight he is afraid, afraid that people might find out who is he, afraid he might run into jerry sandusky who is out on bail. afraid that sandusky might ultimately go free. she s also describing to us the pressures she faced from people who tried to get her not to go to police. pressure from community members, from people she trusted to put kids first and not defend jerry sandusky. you re going to hear more of her story in a moment from her own mouth. also tonight, john walsh joins us from america s most wanted. first, the shifting account from this man, mike mcquery, a graduate assistant back in 2002. he walked in on jerry
say he has done a poor job of responding to the claims. almost 50% of republicans who say done a good job making the case. the chargers aren t to be taken seriously. it has accrued and it s evident andm plified by the oops on libya in front of the milwaukee editorial board. bret: charles, what about the questions about the gingrich group and the consulting done for freddie mac and how it plays for the big picture for gingrich? bret: now that he has run to front of the pack he gets the scrutiny. it s not the media ganging up on him. it happens when anybody becomes the front runner. it s best. if there are issues that most of us never heard of, if a republican you want to come out now and see how they handle it if he wins
stunning visuals, intelligent performance. this is visibly smart. gingrich group was a consulting firm that had a lot of people doing things. we opted for strategic advice. $1.6 million. i don t know. we ll check. that sounds like more than being historian. i was speaker of the house and strategic advisor. i am standing up for little guy in the united states. i believe that fannie and freddie need to be shut down. i wasn t shilling for them. i was fighting for them. former house speaker newt gingrich under some scrutiny for exactly what he did as head of the gingrich group making more than $1.5 million over eight years for embattled mortgage giant freddie mac. originally he said he was a historian.
adversaries make some mistake, that becomes the central part of the news. and they re not out there with a lot of credibility to beat up on romney. i think overall it s a downer for republicans. republicans keep switching around from candidates, those who aren t for romney because they re desperate to find somebody who might be able to stand up to him. but in the meantime, romney just goes right through without being subject to much attack. there is a growing belief that romney gets to distance himself from all the gaffe-prone other candidates. now we see that newt gingrich is reemerging as this alternative, what is old is newt again, followed immediately by details of his consulting, though, and admitting to consulting for freddie mac. he talked about it, though, this morning. listen. first of all, it wasn t paid to me. gingrich group was a consulting firm that had lots of people doing things. we offered strategic advice. is the $1.6 million figure