it was called the friends of angelo program now, the report today names a string of lawmakers and regulators from both parties, democrats and republicans, who benefited from this vip treatment. senate budget committee chairman, for instance, democrat kent conrad. former democratic senator chris dodd. republican house armed services committee chairman buck mckeon. all three deny any wrongdoing. the former ceo of fannie mae, officials at freddie mac and a secretary of housing and urban development were also in this friends of angelo program. so were congressional staffers from both parties that played a role in legislation that affected countrywide. these vips got favorable mortgage rates and points. one was a chairman of the house oversight committee, the very same committee investigating countrywide. he also denies any wrongdoing. according to the house report, documents and testimony obtained by the committee show the vip loan program was a tool used by country wide to build
good evening, i m area rin burnett. outfront is the boogie man. when they aren t blasting each other who has lost more jobs or fired more people, mitt romney and barack obama slam china. day one. president romney stands up to china. demands a level playing field for our businesses and workers. just today, to kick off his bus tour, the president played the china card too. just this morning, my administration took a new action to hold china accountable for unfair trade practices that harm american automakers. and let me tell you something. americans aren t afraid to compete. we believe in competition. the president is referring to chinese tariffs on american-made cars and raised costs between 10% and 22%. what is amazing when you look at the numbers the claim doesn t really add up. look at gm sales in china. in the month of may, they were up 21% from last year. so far this year gm sold a record 1.2 million cars in china, more than the united states. the real untold st
tonight, the woman who showed everyone what happens when harry met solly. i ll have what she s having. two of the people who knew her best tell her tstories. remembering nora effron. plus, sex, cash and politics. she was at the center of the scandal that ended a political career and destroyed a marnl. marriage. do you really think men cheat for bad sex? do they? . rielle hunter answers the most important question of all. is she sorry? and the mayor of new york. this is piers morgan tonight. tonight, rielle hunter tells all. but we begin with the big story. nora effron classic movies, audiences still laugh and also cry along with them. she was a playwrig right and be selling author and blogger. her best legacy may be her family and long-time friends who are all paying tribute to her today. welcome to you both. i ve been struck, i have to say, about the incredible outpouring of the emotions, tributes, of grief from so many people, from such a broad spectrum. no
story. just hours from whether to cite attorney general eric holder for contempt of congress, a heavily researched story suggests that the scandal at the center of tomorrow s vote may not have been a scandal at all, or at least not the scandal we ve been led to believe it is. here s what they thought we knew about the atf operation known as fast and furious. so-called straw buyers from mexican drug cartels were allowed to buy guns in the southwest. then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye of tracing them through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune s magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i
reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. it s advancing 10,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad.