also, would you ask your boss wife out on a date? especially if your boss is the president of the united states? we ll explain this and you ve been chiming in on it this morning as well. let s start with the senate. open for business today. they ll be in session. first on that agenda is extending the payroll tax holiday. this is a compromised keel that appears to have been reached. it s just an extension that goes for two months. it means we have to come back and do this all over again in 6 house today. athena, the white house at least happy to know that the taxes for a lot of folks in this country will not go up january 1? well, yes, they say they are. they say this deal meets the test that the president set out. he s been saying for days and weeks, really, that the important thing is that taxes for 160 million americans don t go up on january 1st and even though they ll have to return to this whole issue in another two months, for now this is a significant step and it s
hello, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the republican candidates for president have just finished debating in iowa. this is important, because it s the last day before the iowa caucuses, just 19 days away. and while newt gingrich remains the national front-runner, he has been losing steam. take a look at the latest poll. this is a gallup poll that shows in the beginning of december, just ten days ago, 37% of republican voters say they will pick newt. 22% picked mitt romney. but here s how it looks now. newt s number has dropped to 29%. romney, as no doubt he s incredibly frustrated by, remains the same. but it doesn t go down, remains around the same, 24%. as we ve seen in this race, anything can happen in the next few weeks. the swings have been dramatic and certainly didn t require 19 days. so how did the candidates do at the debate tonight? game changers? joining us now, john avalon, contributor. david frum, former speechwriter for george w. bush, and ron chr
against the school. i want to help children to have the courage to tell adults if they re sexually abused. also battle for the heart and soul of the gop. newt gingrich calls for a positive campaign. is that really any way to win an election? i ll ask two men who are no strangers to the rough and tumble of the trail howard dean and tom ridge. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a dramatic day in a pennsylvania courtroom. jerry sandusky, the former penn state football coach who is charged with child sexual abuse was expected to come face-to-face with his accusers. then at the last minute sandusky dramatically waived his right to a hearing leaving the packed courtroom in shock. he s under house arrest tonight and not due back in court until his trial begins sometime next year about. joining me now is jerry sandusky s defense counsel carl rominger. almost unprecedented certainly in pennsylvania. the big question everyone is asking, why did you waive jerry sandusky
from sex symbol to oscar winner. her workout empire. work out? i try. it s what i called a british workout where can you do it carrying on eating and drinking. and what she says about her life now. i ve never been happier. and that s not the truth. i m not being coy. this is piers morgan tonight. if i could talk to just one hollywood star, that star would very probably be jane fonda. the stories this woman can tell, in fact does tell from her beginnings in one of the first families in movies to her ground breaking roles of politics and multi-million dollar businesses, even her life with the man who created cnn. but she s not resting on her laurels. her latest book is primetime and she s here with me now. thank you very much. glad to you with you. when you look at the extraordinary life that you led when do you think your primetime was? i think it started at about 62 when i became single for the third time. and it s continued. i can honestly say that i ve n
justice served? i ll ask a man who knows the legal system inside out. another best-selling author, john grich grisham. we have the crime of the century every six months. so for people like me who enjoy taking the stories and writing about them, the material send lsz. plus, she was born to make it in hollywood. why aren t you as a productive two superstars just lying on some sun lounger in a bikini spending daddy s money being a brat? that s a really good question. i often ask myself that. she is sharing the screen with the muppets. this is piers morgan tonight. . she sold 100 million books and scared the living day lights out of people. patricia joins me now. this is going to terrify me. i know it is. i think it will. i won t tell you why. you ll start looking around your kitchen in various places and thinking, i don t feel so good about certain things. you wait, you ll see. where do you get this desire to scare people? you know, i don t know. but when i was