49.99, great christmas gift. perfect for guy, men s health is added to some of the exercises in there. it s great. brian: the texans on sunday, you won two back to back overtime games. they just had their heart broken in the last seconds. what do you think? i know they re a tough team and matt shaub will have them ready to play. we re excited for another home game. brian: we guarantee a victory. gretchen: thank you for joining us today. thanks for eric for filling in. we ll see you all tomorrow. take care. first, republicans wanted nancy pelosi fired and now some members of her own party getting in on the same action. several democrats, turning on their speaker, saying she should not be their leader in the next congress, so the battle begins thoon front. where does this go, huh? good morning, i m ibm hemmer, welcome to america s newsroom . martha: welcome back, bill hemmer, very nice to see you this morning. i m martha mccall.
heath schuller, making a name for himself these days, taking on nancy pelosi. bill: he s a moderate democrat, one of the blue dog, explaining his decision to run for minority leader this way: we had hope that she would step down, and would allow steny hoyer, james clyburn, to be able to hold the top two seats but that did not happen. steve centanni is in washington, what s motivating heath shuler? reporter: the big election lerks returns, he feels there needs to be changes on capitol hill, shuler saying he s making good on his promise to challenge nancy pelosi, said he had a good relationship with her all along and said wee be direct with her and she needs someone to tell her she shouldn t run and just what she thinks she wants to hear. 54 percent of the democrats in this country feel we should move in a moderate deks so i m representing direction so i m represent thank portion of the party and the entire party to move our country forward and move our party forward,
is extremely disappointing economically and is probably politically disastrous. dig within those overall numbers for a moment and you ll see we did in fact create 64,000 private sector jobs last month, but that number was completely swamped by the 159,000 public jobs that were lost, census workers being laid off, and workers losing their jobs at the state and city level. completely swamped any private job creation. 9.6% is the unemployment rate, but we are overall we overall lost 90 odd thousand jobs. bill: stu, why are american companies not hiring, what are they afraid of, what s the hesitation, why is it not happen something. fear of the tpufplt they don t know what regulatory framework is going to come down the pike with either with health care reform, epa. tax aeurbgs and we do not know what tax rates any of us are going to be paying come january 1st and it s getting real close. bill: see you at 9:20. it s our lead story. there s a lot more to talk about on that. m
it s the world famous news quiz with killer competitors steve doocy and martha mccall many. here now some memorable moments from the last few battles. vice president joe biden let it rip while introducing the president at the health care bill signing ceremony. the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [beep]. excellent for the kids. good for the kids ask now 2004, dick cheney told vermont senator patrick leahy to go blank himself after the senator gave him a hard time about what? a, the iraq war, b halliburton, c guantanamo bay or d, the failure to capture or kill bin laden. answer is b, halliburton. you know that? you know that? no. excellent. sometimes you guess, miss martha. never! after an angry outburst on the house floor last week, congressman anthony weiner defended himself by attacking
nerve and knowledge. it s the world famous news quiz with killer competitors steve doocy and martha mccall many. here now some memorable moments from the last few battles. vice president joe biden let it rip while introducing the president at the health care bill signing ceremony. the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [beep]. excellent for the kids. good for the kids ask now 2004, dick cheney told vermont senator patrick leahy to go blank himself after the senator gave him a hard time about what? a, the iraq war, b halliburton, c guantanamo bay or d, the failure to capture or kill bin laden. answer is b, halliburton. you know that? you know that? no. excellent. sometimes you guess, miss martha. never! after an angry outburst on the house floor last week, congressman anthony weiner