i'm erin burnett, outfront tonight,a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we've been saying this all week. and compromise really isn't that hard. here's the decent proposal we've been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those makes less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you can pay for it by charging more to mortgage lenders and more to millionaires for medicare. it actually comes out even. and there's a lot of different pieces to this puzzle that will work. we are getting closer to a deal. the dems dropping the millionaire surtax, republicans also seem to be moving. here is tea party senator paul out front. >> they want to separate it, separate it out and we'll make it a separate vote. we won't make it contingent on it. >> that was a headline. so do we have a deal? something to celebrate in washington? senator kent conrad and chairman of the senate budget committee and a member of the gang of six budget cutters, senator conrad, great to have you with us tonight. the i don't know, i sort of feel positive. little butterflies in my stomach that you all might be moving towards a deal. are you? >> i think we are. and hallelujah if we are able to do it and do it in a way that's timely. we all know it is critically important for the economy to extend the payroll tax cut. it is critically important for the economy to extend unemployment benefits. the challenge, of course, is paying for it all. and i do think we're moving closer. >> and how then will it be paid for? obviously with democrats and the president dropping this millionaire surtax as a way to pay for it, that's a major concession. and i know republicans have put a few ways out there, some of which democrats appear to agree with like the mortgage lenders being charged more, perhaps even means testing medicare. do you think that we'll see some of those things in this and it will be fully paid for or not? >> i do. i think another idea that some have floated late this afternoon was to use some of the savings on war funding as the offset, congressional budget office has said they would score those savings because we will be spending less than is there, than is in their projections on work costs going forward because, of course, troops are coming home. so that might be part of a package as well. the thing that is a little disconcerting is that republicans in the senate don't want to vote on the plan from republicans in the house. and apparently one reason they don't want to is because they don't have many votes in their own caucus for that plan and perhaps part of the reason is it cuts 3 million people from unemployment assistance. so that would be a tough message to send especially at christmastime, 3 million americans who don't have jobs would lose their unemployment benefits. >> let me ask you something about the war funding. it seems to me, and maybe i'm being too cynical. so tell me if i am. that people are using the we have more money in the budget than we need for war funding to pay for a lot of different things. we're kind of double, triple, quadruple counting that money. >> well, that certainly could happen, erin. you're wise to be skeptical. look, in all the groups i've been part of, the fiscal commission, the group of six, we did not use war funding as an offset for anything. but the fact is there's about $700 billion there that is in the so-called baseline used by the congressional budget office to estimate what costs will be to the government that we now know will not be expended or at least it's highly unlikely that money will be expended. so there's at least some share of that is available for offset. >> all right. so let me ask you this. the senate republicans communicate -- senate republican communication sent an e-mail to our team and they quote you in it. they're talking about this, more and more d me s for the pipeline, talking about the keystone pipeline, part of it has already gone through your state. they say, and quoting you, senator kent conrad, quote, i personally think the pipeline is absolutely in the national interest. will you vote for that pipeline or do republicans need to pull it out of any final deal in order to get the payroll tax done? >> look, i don't think the keystone pipeline should stand in the way of doing things that are critically important for the economy of the united states. and i personally believe the keystone pipeline is in the national interest if, if, it is able to be rerouted through nebraska so it does not threaten the aquifer. that is the critical issue. i have been assured by colleagues they have no intention of preventing the state of nebraska from rerouting that pipeline to protect those very sensitive sources of water and so if that's done i don't see a reason for the keystone pipeline to stand in the way of critically important measures for this economy. >> one final question before we go, and we're going to talk about this later on the show, some in the senate are trying to roll back those automatic cuts. the super committee failed in making cuts there were automatic cuts. they want to roll some back. in your role as budget chairman and europe not running for re-election, you're in a real power position here to push through some sort of a grand bargain that would require a majority vote and not be subject to filibuster. will you do that? >> i'm trying my level best. in fact, i'm leaving here to go to a dinner with like-minded colleagues to discuss what a package might look like. so i have not given up on what i think is one of the key priorities for this country which is to face up to our debt threat. we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. revenue is the lowest it's been in 60 years as a share of our national income. spending is the high eest it's been in 60 years as a share of our national income. clearly we need to act. >> all right. thank you so much, senator conrad. we appreciate it. >> you bet. >> let's bring in david gergen, senior political analyst. david, do you feel butterflies in your stomach? are we getting close or not yet? >> it seems we're getting close, and it's very encouraging news for an awful lot of people. it will help the economy to extend the payroll tax cut. what has surprised me, erin, is that the democrats have seemed to have blinked here. i think this is going to be read as something the president insisted on early on, something the democrats insisted on, and now they seem to be dropping it. the question to me is, what are they getting in return from the republicans for doing that? it's not clear what they're getting. but, overall, good news for the country if they get this done and don't go through a government shutdown this weekend. >> and what about what we were talking about at the end of the interview with senator conrad, this issue about the super failure of the super committee and now we have this $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts that some are going to try to roll back some of those. he says, look, he's not up for re-election, he could push for a real sort of a grand bar fwan. do you think it might happen, or is that just way, way, way too hindsight? >> i don't think it's time to get butterflies, erin. it's way too early. the chances are extraordinarily unlikely we'll get a grand bargain while this congress is in session. we're going to be darned lucky to get one in the next congress. so it could happen but let me go back to a couple of things. this whole effort to trim back the cuts that are planned, the president has promised he would veto that. they have to come up with some substitute that is reasonable and i was surprised that it's even being a part of this discussion is to use the unplanned funding for the war as an offset. you know and i know that's a gimmick. senator conrad knows that's a gimmick. that's why they didn't put it in the gang of six. it's a mickey mouse deal. and i just hope they don't use that to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. >> i really hope not, too, because that would just be frustrating. well, thanks very much, david gergen. david will be here with us as we count down to the wire on that deal. next, ron paul's surprise, three weeks until iowa and he is surging. guess who he is tied with. there could be an upset. also, up in arms. iran responds to what you heard dick cheney say on this show about america's top secret drum. and, abducted by a cyber predator. the familiy of a missing teenag girl speaks to us. i habe a cohd. yeah, i toog nyguil bud i'm stild stubbed up. 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>> his great strength is money and organization. mopey matters down the stretch especially if we've a long dr n drawnout primary flight. the flip side to that is that he seems like he's mr. 1% and that creates its own vulnerability. >> and rich let me ask you about that, the dnc, there was great irony. the dnc hired an airplane today. yeah the d th c using donations to the dnc to fly over new york city with a message that says, if you can see it there, are you the 10k bet for mitt romney. 10k bet romney is out of touch. i need glasses. sory. they hired a private plane to fly that over new york city. you get the point. is this going to hurt him, rich? >> no. you go where the money is. it's like robbing banks. you rob banks because that's where they keep the money. you go to new york and you go to hollywood because that's where the money is and it just makes sense. you're not going to raise enough to fund the presidential campaign, you know, going to target. you have to go where people can write big checks and the president does that. we whine about it and romney does it and they whine about it and that's part of the game. it's only newsworthy for the second that it's going on and then everybody goes on to whatever is going to happen next. >> tim hunt, looking at the numbers we do look at and they tell an interesting tale. mitt romney has raised more money from wall street than president obama, $3.8 million to president obama's $1.8 million. but last time around in 2008, this is stunning, president obama raised $15 million from wall street. i mean, wall street gives money to everybody. >> yeah, they give money to everybody. i think the point of the fundrai fund-raiser today and some of the talk around the fund-raiser today it's really terrible timing for mitt romney. he couldn't have picked the worst day to go, right on the heels of the iowa debate where he made the $10,000 bet. it continues this caricature of mitt romney as somebody who is out of touch with middle america and the middle class so bad timing for him certainly. >> let's go on to ron paul rising in the polls. here's what he said to reporters about his raise. >> and one thing is characteristic about our campaign is when people join our campaign they rarely leave. they're real solid, determined supporters. they understand what the message is about and agree with that. so i think it's a very dwad sign and i think in political terms it means that we're probably peaking at the right time. >> the paulites are certainly loyal even when he's not running in the middle of president obama's term the paulites are out fighting. rich, does he have a shot? >> oh, yeah. i think it's possible trending toward probable in iowa. the thing we've always said about ron paul is his support is very deep. it's as wide as a quarter. now it's clearly getting wider and wider, and i think what he's doing at least in iowa is tapping into the anti-government, anti-incumbent sentiment that we saw in 2010. we see in the 0 occupy wall street. we see everywhere. and he's beginning to crystallize that vote. how long it will go, we'll see. i think he has a real shot. >> i'll tell you, i think ron paul is the real wild card in iowa. i was 0 out there this weekend and picked up "the ron paul family cookbook" which is part of his charm offensive now. ron paul supporters are not just devoted, they are growing. his message has largely been vindicated in the last four years since he first ran and his support isn't going anywhere. no one should count ron paul out of this. >> thanks so much to all three. appreciate it. >> anytime. well, apparently iran watches "outfront." a member of iran's parliament has responded to our interview with former vice president dick cheney about the top-secret stealth u.s. drone that went down in iran. now iran has said it's been able to control the rq-170 sentinel. there are only about a dozen of those in the entire american fleet. it's part of the cia's reconnaissance mission. today a member of the national security and foreign policy commission in eiran told the iranian student news agency, quote, the islamic republic of iran which possesses the capability to bring down the super advanced spy drone can give a crushing response and cut off the hands of anyone who wants to violate its air, navy, and land borders. he was explicitly responding to something former vice president dick cheney said on this show two days ago when he gave his advice to president obama on how he should have handled the drone situation. >> the right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. you can do that from the air. you can do that with a quick air strike and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone. >> it is believed that iran will or already has shared this technology from the american drone with china. that's former secretary of defense william cohen said on this show. well, ahead the mandatory defense cuts. the five republican senators really have a way of avoiding them. plus, showing love for the camel. they deserve an image makeover. 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"outfront" has learned he wants to ask the state legislature to give all residents, legal or illegal, the right to vote in municipal elections. the mayor has argued illegal immigrants pay taxes through rent and send their children to city schools, so they should be allowed to vote. number three, opec agreed today to maintain its current level of oil production, 30 million barrels a day. at this hour oil prices are down $5 following that announcement. that puts it below $100 a barrel. an oil analyst told us if oil praises stay about where they are, gas prices it at the pump could drop between 10 cents and 25 cents a gallon. now opec didn't say how much oil each of the kcountries would produce. number four, the highly anticipated samsung galaxy nexus goes on sale tomorrow. here it is. that little bloop noise. the phone runs on the gaggle android operating system which google calls ice cream sandwich. i'm an iphone guy but i will admit i do like this phone 0. take a look. this is the google phone. big screen. very easy to hang on to. and it's easy to operate. very much like an iphone. you just scroll through. it's all touch screen. on the back there's a textured surface which i kind of like, but i will admit i dropped this phone twice. it could be operator error or maybe not. >> i was wondering why it wasn't working right. just kidding. here is what the google chairman eric schmidt said about the phone. >> what's neat about it is the phone is really connected to a million computers on the wireless broad band network so it can do translation, answer all sorts of questions that you care about. it really is sort of your alter ego. >> and it can do it in a way that the iphone or the blackberry operating system can't? >> it's more secure. it's faster. it's more scaleable. today the iphone has more applications, but we're quickly surpassing them. >> and i still have my beloved. we still have more of our interview with eric schmidt tomorrow. the first time cameras in the google offices. 131 days since america lost its top credit rating. the super committee did not do its part. tonight we can report that there are a dproeg number of senators who want to put some of those automatic cuts on hold. marco rubio of florida, jon kyl of arizona, and kelly ayotte of new hampshire. the grum of five planning to put legislation on the table that will stop half of the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts coming our way thanks to the super committee's failure. why? well, they say the defense cuts of $600 billion are too much. now a lot of defense experts agree with that verdict, although reagan, for example, cut far more from defense on a percentage basis. but if congress stops the $600 billion in defense cuts, they have to get that money from somewhere else. we know the super committee couldn't do that and this group of five hasn't figured out the cuts either. john avlon is here. so the president has said he will veto anybody who tries to roll back the automatic cuts. they're going to try. >> they're going to try to weasel out of this deal and it has deficit hawks fired up and they should be. this is the whole deal. of course the cuts were painful. that was the point. and the fact that jon kyl, who was on the super committee is now leading this charge to weasel out of the implications, that makes it all the more disgusting. because if you really care about deficits and debt, you don't just defensemen dwog them during campaign time. you deal with them. and they had a chance to come up with an alternative plan and failed. republicans have to deal with defense cuts and democrats have to deal with domestic discretionary cuts and if the they weasel out of their side, we're deep are in the hole. >> let's assume, and, by the way, we asked them all to come on tonight and one of them, i'm not going to point fingers, said we don't yet know where else the money will come from but we're working on it. here is my question. if they're working on it, it's not coming from defense. it's going to come from areas democrats want which means you're not going to get a deal because you didn't get it in the super committee and god knows the pressure was on them then. >> they had the opportunity and they failed. failure has consequences. look, they could go big and reason together and come up with a new grand bargain and avoid the sequestration that way. now there are certain hail mary pass to that but every time we've had the outline of a grand bargain, it's fallen apart. >> here is kent conrad earlier. he came out front. we asked him. he's not running for re-election, as you pointed out, he can put something forward that could get a simple majority, no filibuster. here is what he said. >> i'm trying my level best n. fact, i'm leaving here to go to din wer like-minded colleagues to discuss what a package might look like. i have not given up on what i think is one of the key priorities for this country which is to face up to our debt threat. we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. revenue is the lowest it's been in 60 years as a share of our national income. spending is the highest it's been in 60 years as a share of our national income. clearly we need to act. >> keep hope alive. remember, we had a gang of 150 congressmen who were urging the super committee to go big, not just $1.2 trillion but $4 trillion. there is a path he laid out. because he's chairman of the budget committee, he could put forward a gang of six budget some time early next year and it wouldn't be subject to filibuster rules. it would be majority. that's one way to go big. deal with the deficit and debt in a meaningful way, but this search to weasel out of the defense cuts just takes us down a slippery slope of higher debt, higher deficits and faith in congress is reaching even lower. you would think the 9% approval rating would wake them up. >> i think you exaggerate. i think it's 8%. not to split hairs. >> it ain't to good. >> thank you very much, john avlon. we're going to be watching very closely especially if something like this gets put out on the table while everyone is busy looking at new hampshire and iowa. we'll be looking. in oregon tonight a mother's plea for their missing daughter. kirsten is 15. she was with her mother at home on the night of december 3rd. but in the morning she was gone. her mother believes she is the victim of a cyber predator whom she says used the internet to lure her daughter away. kiersten's parents believe she is in danger and join us from portland, oregon, tonight. thanks so much to both of you for being with us. michelle, can you tell us what happened? >> we didn't have any kind of argument or fight. we had a really good day. we went christmas shopping, grocery shopping. we came home. we had dinner. she said, go ahead and go to bed and i'll put the groceries away. i said, sounds good. i went to bed. and in the morning, she was gone. >> and d.j., you have looked at her phone records and it appeared from what you found, right, that she had been communicating with, in touch with, an older man, right, that you did not know? >> that's correct. >> and can you tell us anymore? had she ever talked about him? did anyone else know about this? how much have you been able to find out about him? >> well, she had -- i had heard her mention this guy and she had told me that he was a kid that went to school with her that was 16. and i later found out that was a lie and he was actually from california and he was somewhere around 22, age 22. >> and you think this is possibly that she went -- and, again, my question to you is do you have any feeling if she's with him, she would have gone by her own choice or perhaps have been abducted? >> i think that she may have gone with him willingly under false pretense. i feel that she's been lured away from her home by this man. she left in her pajamas. she didn't take anything with her. this was obviously not planned. and i just think she has fallen victim to an older man who knows what to say and what she wants to hear and she's very vulnerable and naive and i feel like she's in danger out there. >> d.j., you have been frustrated with the police reaction so far? >> i think the police are doing what they can. it's just a frustrating situation all around. it's not frustrated with who is doing what and who is not doing what. it's a frustrating situation as a parent. i'm just frustrated with the whole situation really. >> it has to be just so difficult now to have a daughter that age. you say your relationship with her was good, but they do have so many opportunities now with the internet, with cell phones, with smart phones. you can't monitor everybody they're talking to or what they're doing. >> right, it's pretty impossible to stop the internet. there's always a way that they can get on there whether it's through a phone or a library or a friend or home. it's pretty unstoppable. >> all right, well, thanks very much to both of you for coming on the show and hopefully somewhere kyrsten may be watching and will contact you and this will have a good and quick ending. thanks to both. >> thanks for having us. and now let's check in with anderson cooper. he has a look at what's coming up on "ac 360." a beating and a death weeks apart, and this man, robert champion, might still be alive if florida a&m had done more to curb a history of hazing in its band program, hazing that weeks before robert died sent a freshman clarinet player to the hospital with blood clots and a broken leg. we went on campus looking for answers. also, breaking news out of washington. a deal in the works to get a payroll tax cut done. the price democrats would back away from their line in the sand position to hike taxes on millionaires. a live report from d.c. ahead. and crime and punishment, a new twist in a bizarre case of a serial killer's rampage discovered by accident. those stories and tonight's ridiculous at the top of the hour. >> looking forward to all of that. and up next, this. married to a child molester. one woman tells her story of her husband's secret life and when she found out. plus, shocking connection. the link between your cell phone, whether it's this one or this one or an iphone and crimes against humanity. change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? 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erin? >> ian, thank you. and now to spain where there was a new court hearing for a young woman alleging the saudi prince, one of the richest men in the world, raped her on a yacht docked off a spanish island in 2008. the prince's attorney says he wasn't in the country at the time. someone else tried to impersonate him. where does this leave the investigation? >> reporter: erin, a lawyer for the fashion model says she maintained her accusation on wednesday under tough questioning from a prosecutor who wanted to clear up some things from her earlier testimony. the woman, who is a dual spanish and german citizen still alleges he raped her on that yacht. the prince was not in court but his aides issued a new statement reiterating his innocence and blasting her claims as inconsistent and unsubstantiated. the prince has not been formally charged, but the court would like him to answer some questions, too. erin? >> all right, thank you. and now to belgium where investigators have found another victim of the man who launched a grenade and gun rampage that left five people dead and 130 people injured yesterday. nic robertson is in liege. nic, do we know his motive? >> reporter: investigate horse say they don't know why this man turned killer. he was a hardened criminal, had done time in jail for drugs and gun crimes. he was under suspicion of sexual harassment, almost rape. we are told he began his killing spree by shooting a cleaner in the head in the shed where he grew his cannibus, large amounts of cannibus. he shot himself in the head. there was no suicide message the police were able to find so far. the only thing they can say is they think he must have just gone insane. erin? shocked and dismayed. that's how dottie sandusky says she feels after learning her husband jerry was charged with sexually abusing boys. she vows to prove he's innocent. but after 45 years of marriage, raising six adopted children together, is dottie sandusky capable of making an objective decision about her husband's guilt or innocence? darlene is someone who would know. she was married to a pedestrian fail more than a decade and she had no idea. she is out front with us tonight. thank you for coming out and talking about this issue so awkward and horrible for people to talk about but everybody wants to hear your point of view. if jerry sandusky did do these things, is it possible his wife of 45 years didn't know? >> it's absolutely possible she did not know. right now i think the statements we're hearing released rea her husband's attorney are statements of support and i believe that's because the defense needs those statements of support from his family right now. >> anything i guess to support his character. the accusations, though, of course have been numerous now. 12 boys or more. extremely scri lly descriptive, them. when you first learned, what's your sense how long it could take if indeed this happened in the case for her to come out of denial? >> you know, in our particular case we were recently divorced, had been married 10 and a half years. it was all very recent working through that issue and when the fbi informed me what was going on, i was in denial. and this is a guy that i was already upset with because i wasn't sure why we had got ann divorce but, boy, we'd gotten one. so i was in denial. and for so many reasons that had nothing to do with that person but the fact that if this is true, you know, what does this mean for my children who were then 8 and 10. if this is true, people are going to wonder what's wrong with me. if this is true, how did i not know? and so there were so many, if this is true, i can't go there. >> and let me ask you how it did happen. i know, by the way, you have never in any way accused your ex-husband of abusing your own children. but how did he pull it off in the ten years you were married in a way that you didn't have any ten years that you were married in a way that you didn't have any idea? >> you know, i think these guys -- i say guys because a majority of the perpetrators we're talking about are male, but, you know, he created with us, in our particular situation, he created this bubble, this facade. so any of the activities that we knew of and there are some we'll never know about, but those activities were had outside of the home, outside of our community. and he, like what we're seeing with jerry sandusky and the second mile and mentor and that type of thing, you know, my ex-husband was part of an organization called north american man-boy love association. and, again, here you have this organization where mentoring group, support each other. we mentor young boys. there is really nothing wrong here. we're there for these boys. and so a lot of it was under that facade. these are good looking, charming, volunteers in the community, giving back in the community, that's who they are. >> one thing that amazed me reading your story and you've written a book about this but the institutionalization of this sort of activity in our society. found out that your husband had pedophilia news letters and things like that. >> correct. there's an organization. there's a website. people think it's a joke. it's not. the fbi spent time, money and a lot of money to do an undercover operation for 18 months of this organization. it exists. and it's probably not the only one that's out there. >> it's really just amazing. thank you so much for sharing your story, darlene. >> thank you for having me. coming up, is your cell phone paying for a war and rape? 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that disgusted me when i thought we need peoplement we need awareness. we need people to be educated. and that's what our campaign is about. >> i want to just play a sound bite of a woman of something she said, momma hillary. obviously hillary clinton. here she is. >> translator: i think this is no secret to you that our wealth is being used and that's why we're being raped. so, please, can you deliver on your promises to bring peace in this region? >> it's pretty amazing when you see the face like that. >> and the hope. still. that they have. and these women have lost their husbands. the patriarch of the family. most of the time the children have been abducted and they're drugged and recruited as an army member at age 8. and they're left with nothing. >> and you're talking about these big electronics companies, apple, companies like that getting young people to, you know, vote with your money. vote with what you buy. get the companies to change. but you're also doing something in washington, too, right? >> yeah. i went there following my trip to congo. we made a little documentary. i wrote an op-ed stating these facts. just can hillary clinton, wouldn't that be ideal, can you maybe convene the parties? get those people in a room somehow or raise enough pressure for them to see. we mean business. >> right. that's what's happening in congo now, elections that don't appear to be fair, don't appear to be going the way the people want and when they don't, you see more rape, you see more murder. you see more violence. >> personally, that's why i will never give up this fight. it is our responsibility. i'm ready to do a march. martin luther king style with the women. let's go. get on the streets. go to the big man and say this has to stop. >> all right. robin wright, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> appreciate you taking the time. >> all right. pretty amazing and a story we've been covering for a lon

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