and a reminder tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. is our debate. i ll be back tomorrow at the same time, but for now, jim costa is next. nice to see you in person. this doesn t happen very often, but nice to see you. i m jim aacosta. let s get you up to speed on this november 21st. after months of talks the congressional supercommittee is expected to announce today it simply cannot agree on a debt reduction package. everybody is pointing fingers on what caused the mess. we ll explain that on capitol hill in about ten minutes. speaking of the supercommittee, already markets are reacting badly to fears that the debt committee won t reach a deal. u.s. stocks opened sharply lower today. right now the dow is down over 300 points. this follows last week s losses on wall street, the worse in two months. former fbi director, louis freeh, will lead the internal investigation into the penn state scandal. jerry sandusky is charged with molesting eight boys, some on campus. freeh pledged a
afghanistan. so to honor him, she joins the marines to finish his mission. let me get you caught up on the headlines, what you might have missed while you were sleeping. first of all, president obama came home, he s back at the white house now after wrapping up a nine-day trip that took him to hawaii, australia, and indonesia. the trip was meant to promote american business and manufacturing in the region. also on capitol hill today, live picture you are seeing. work will be going on. members of the deficit supercommittee promising to keep working to get a deal done. now one member of the so-called supercommittee is openly admitting that a compromise is unlikely. a live report just a couple of minutes away. [ crowd noise ] what you re seeing here, police firing teargas into crowds of protesters in cairo s tahrir square trying to break up demonstrations. the second straight day of protests aimed at the military government that took over for former egyptian president muba
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street if al jazeera came out with a statement i think for the supercommittee members, i would like them to turn to the camera and apologize to the american people for having run this deficit con job hostage-taking all summer. are we supposed to say, that s fine. no big deal. we understand you re going to roll back the defense cuts before this next opportunity comes around. i mean, i think it s an insult and i think people are furious. and the last thing i would say is i would ask any of them, are they willing to give up their seat at the table and allow some occupy wall street person to actually sit there and speak for themselves? i will tell you, they will say no. next question. i will speak for xavier, john kerry, jon kyl. melissa, what would you ask them? i m interested in talking to ron paul about occupy wall street, particularly about state action, you know, local government action over and against the right to assembly. i always find paul fascinating in the way he thin
to bring in more revenue. democrats are not satisfied with that because it would include keeping bush era tax rates in place and democrats would like to see more. it is a federal holiday but some of those supercommittee members are working today trying to negotiate as you mentioned clock ticking 12 days to go. lots of predictions they won t be able to get it done but on a person to person level talking to members and staff they say they are working at it. it s a huge problem and there are enormous consequences if they fail. some sweeping automatic budget cuts wilewill take effect later on. a lot of work ahead of them. a couple of 2012 candidates still doing damage control. we have rick perry on letterman trying to make a joke out of his brain freeze at the debate. take a listen to this. you try concentrating with mitt romney smiling at you. that s one handsome dude. number two yeah. i wanted to help take the heat off my buddy herman cain.