if they were both on the particular, it would be spectacular. they could focus on the economy. and the former scout s love for his hog. this is piers morgan tonight. when arianna huffington talks, people tend to listen. she s number 31 of forbes s list. she is the author of third world america, how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream. and arianna joins me now. knowing you, i would imagine you re a bit fed one only being 31 on this list. i think it is a great list. and i m very happy with my placement, piers. but quietly you re thinking, hang original i should be at least in the 20s here, aren t you? no, no. would you ever be thinking that if you were in any number on that list? would it matter? yes. well i would be a bit concerned if i ll on the most 100 most powerful women list. but on any list, i think it doesn t mat here you are. you can be bill gates. if you re second to warren buffett, you re really annoyed, ar
and he did it in perry s home state. thank you. thank you. during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to his own business resume and then took a shot at people he called career politicians. i m a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics. dealing with real problems in the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply don t know how to get us out. get ready for even more romney versus perry. late this afternoon we learned romney has changed his mind, and now has decided to attend a candidate forum on monday in south carolina. rick perry, of course, has already announced he ll be there. and here to talk over the latest developments, cnn political contributor and republican consultant alex castellanos who advised the romney campaign in 2007 and 2008. democratic pollster cornell belcher who worked for the obama campaign in 2008 and david frum, a former speechwriter for pres
reason why. you re looking where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they don t have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and waters. look at that truck trying to get through the water. that water has to go somewhere and it doesn t care who or what is in the way. from virginia to vermont, rivers and streams were overflowing, some now well above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the flooding, damage from hurricane irene could hit $7 billion, making it one of the ten most expense si disasters in american history. as many
whether it was tea party or anybody else they would be blamed. how did the administration not know this was coming? they got blind sided? they go on the attack. isn t it obvious to any one watching this we have a huge debt problem? one of the biggest stories is they got downgraded geithner and obama say what, everything is fine. they won t admit they have a spending issue. if i were americans sitting down there, we got downgraded we are going to go in the right path now. the government continues to refuse to say they spend too much. that is what concerns me. let me give you a good example of this. every year i have been in congress i read bills who want a 5 percent across the board spending cut.
staring a porpoise right in the face. oh, just got me again. a once top-secret military program that s enlisting animals to protect the country. but first, inside a polygamous sect. we re dealing with the exploitation of children of young girls for sexual purposes. reporter: gary tuchman takes you where most people never go exposing polygamy s dirty secrets. reporter: the scenery is spectacular and the polygamist families who live here along the uft-arizona border have been able to live their lives with little interference from the outside world for generations. stepping into their world is both jarring and surreal. how many brothers and sisters do you have? i have 18. reporter: albert, how many brothers and sisters do you have? 22. i am the oldest of 32. reporter: these are not members of the salt lake city-based mormon church known as the church of ladder day saints. they belong instead to a splinter group who believe in polygamy and call themselves th