talk more about it in our crime and consequences segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressure s gone down just a little bit. that s john boehner s way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. if it does, the house will come back to vote on that. stay tuned. ballistics and fingerprint analysis now links oscar ortega hernandez to the rifle used to fire bullets at the white house last month according to new court filings. the 21-year-old from idaho is being charged with attempting to assassinate the president. ortega is in washington today for a hearing on whether he should undergo more missile testing to determine if he is competent to s
young boys he allegedly targeted over a span of more than 15 years. let s go straight to nancy grace who s been all over this case to try to get a better understanding of all of this. nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam.
will approve another group of f-16 for iraq because our air force was destroyed completely during the wars that iraq entered into and this is not all. we also need technical equipments related to the security field. these are issues that are being discussed by the concerned people in both countries, between the ministries of defense and interior with our counterparts in the united states and we received promises and facilitations and we agreed on how to make this relationship continuous in the security field because both of us need each other and need cooperation, especially in chasing al qaeda which we started and was not defeated in any way except in iraq and we hope to cooperate with all those who feel the dangers of this organization to cooperate with us as well. our goal is a sovereign iraq that can protect its borders, protect its airspace, protect its people. and our security cooperation with other countries i think is a model for our security cooperation with iraq.
euro. they will have no budget deficits, have automatic sanctions, they will have stricter rules, tighter regulation. the whole thing will be much, much better run. they re going to get on and do that. the only problem is the united kingdom said no and could become troublesome in the future. i promised i wasn t going to be boring and bore on about it, but the one thing they did also do was increase their firepower. the so-called big ba zuk ka to stop the contagion. hundreds of millions of dollars pledged,s the dow p up over 180, 190 points, they might just have done the trick. for today. for today. stop the contagion. you mentioned we re not looking at the minutia. the british angle is a huge one because i mean, is it an ominous sign that britain opted out of this agreement? reporter: britain opted out for its own domestic political reasons, its own self-interest. it wanted an opt-out clause on a particular tax. it didn t get it so it said it wouldn t agree to the treat
but one eu member, the uk, is refusing to give up any of its budget powers. we ll get details from our own richard quest just moments from now. and still no agreement in washington on the future of payroll tax cuts. both parties say they want to prevent what amounts to a tabs hike on 160 million americans come january 1st. but they differ on how to pay for it. democrats want a surtax on millionaires. republicans want spending cuts. well, now republicans in the house want to tie a tax cut extension to approval of a controversial oil pipeline. if nothing passes, anybody who draws a paycheck will pay 6.2% into social security in 2012. all this year we pay 4. 2%. that tax cut extension it on the lips of of the gop candidates campaigning in iowa today. front-runner newt gingrich is not there. he s signing copies of his book in washington, d.c. and just four weeks until the iowa caucuses we re seeing more attack ads. now rick perry is being attacked for his attack ad. i m not