audition tour for the potential running mate. and pawlenty is campaigning in michigan. that is romney s native state so he is carrying the romney ball, again, trying to curry favor and show he can do the job. there are two others who are getting a heck of a lot of scrutiny, paul ryan, the house budget committee chairman garnering the most buzz the last 72 hours with many conservatives arguing he could energize the ticket and provide the kind of charisma that many critics say romney lacks. but there is the question of whether the ryan budget and how he deals with medicare could be a problem the finally, there is marco rubio. while pawlenty will campaign in colorado, rather, vacationing in colorado next week, rubio is on a family vacation this week laying low as all this speculation hurts fevered pitch. by this time next week it is entirely likely we will know who the running mate is. shepard: thank you, carl
after a shocking tape has come to light. also, the markets getting a bit of a black friday bounce. pakistan puts the u.s. on notice after a deadly nato strike. and a wet, dare i say possibly snowy, day for the southeast. i m going to play reporter roulette here on this monday. ed lavandera, in syracuse where syracuse university fired assistant basketball coach bernie fine, fine is accused of sexually abusing kids. ed, also news fine s termination just hours after the world heard this tape recording of his wife. tell me about it. reporter: well, this was a recording between one of bernie fine s principal accusers, a man by the name of bobby davis. in that phone recording he was talking with bernie fine s wife, and it was a dramatic phone call. these are phone calls that lasted quite some time. we can listen to a little bit of it, and it really seems to bolster what bobby davis has been saying here over the last few weeks accusing bernie fine of molesting him hundreds o