and jeans made out of sweatpants. so grab yourself some new prilosec otc wildberry. [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. nobody can get 100% of what they want and this is not simply a contest in terms of parties in terms of who looks good who doesn t. there are real world consequences to what we do here. after that the president moved to hawaii and that s where he is today. the congress is back home for the holidays and you have the fiscal cliff, that s still looming and as they call for armed guards in all of the nation s schools we ll talk to kasim reed, mayor of atlanta and one of the people around the country who say we need fewer gun, not more. as millions travel home for the holidays, stay tuned for that. good day. i m richard lui at the top of the hour and just two days to go before the fiscal deadline and congress has gone home for the holidays. in the next few days i ve asked leaders o
that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. after three winning sessions in a row, wall street went back to its bearish ways today, dow blue chips p up about 46 points now, actually pretty good since where it started pretty much in the 100 level, stocks are negative even though one of the big three credit agencies affirmed the u.s. government s aaa rating today, calling its credit worthiness exceptional. that s a sharp contrast to this month s downgrade by standard & poor s. we told you this this was going to happen yesterday. it did. protesters make san francisco s rush hour commute a mess. bay area rapid transit shut all four downtown b.a.r.t. stations last night to protesters angry over shootings involving b.a.r.t. police officers. b.a.r.t. blocked cell service at some stations last week so protesters couldn t coordinate on social media. well, phone service stayed on last night. news corps exec james murdoch may have t
now, actually pretty good since where it started pretty much in the 100 level, stocks are negative even though one of the big three credit agencies affirmed the u.s. government s aaa rating today, calling its credit worthiness exceptional. that s a sharp contrast to this month s downgrade by standard & poor s. we told you this this was going to happen yesterday. it did. protesters make san francisco s rush hour commute a mess. bay area rapid transit shut all four downtown b.a.r.t. stations last night to protesters angry over shootings involving b.a.r.t. police officers. b.a.r.t. blocked cell service at some stations last week so protesters couldn t coordinate on social media. well, phone service stayed on last night. news corps exec james murdoch may have to answer new questions in parliament on that phone hacking scandal. a british lawmaker says murdoch may have misled his committee about settlements paying to hacking victims. they want him clarify his statements. murdoc
americans to see. jennifer, do you think there s a risk here for rick perry and other conservatives who put religion front and center, i mean, in some cases let s just get it out there on the table, there have been others, for instance, you know, david vitters of the world, john ensign, marc sanford, who embraced family values and it turns around to kick them in the butt. there are democrats guilty of both crimes as well. i think that you do set yourself up if you hold yourself up as a pious person, you set yourself up for a fall but it is interesting because i think certainly in 2004, as recently as 2008, i don t think any conservative presidential candidate, not that rick perry is one yet, would have been attacked for doing what he did, that the linkage between
i montessa brewer back in the saddle covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news. the judge in the roger clemens perjury trial has just declared a mistrial. nbc s pete williams is in washington, d.c. what s the judge saying about this trial, pete? reporter: well, the judge has said he ll decide at a hearing on september 2nd, almost two months from now, where we go from here. this trial had just started yesterday with opening statements from both sides and the prosecutors had begun calling witnesses, but the judge had told the prosecutors in advance that certain evidence was off-limits and one of the things that was off-limits was related to testimony by a friend and former teammate of roger clemens named andy pettitte who had played with him on two major league teams. andy pettitte has said that roger clemens told him he used human growth hormone. clemens says that pettitte is mistaken. what s at issue here is a legal document, sort of sworn statement