happy, happy, happy friday! my favorite day. i know. besides saturday and sunday. it s october 28th. welcome to american morning. christine has the morning off. that game you know, i was so sad, because the yankees were out so early, but, boy, these guy, the rangers and cardinals have really kept this going. good. good baseball. up first, bernie madoff victims are saying don t buy this scam. saying they re having trouble finding sympathy after madoff s wife madoff said he s happier in prison and his wife told 60 minutes the couple tried to kill themselves. the story from our susan candiotti. i think anything that comes out of their mouths is self-serving and are lying. reporter: richard and cynthia friedman lost their life saving to bernie madoff, so did eileen kent s parents. when they heard ruth madoff talk about a failed suicide attempt in a new 60 minutes interview. i don t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves, because it was it
providing enough documentation and accuses the republicans. this is one of increasing testy showdowns who say the republicans are conducting tough oversight investigations and the white house seeing witch hunts, not legitimate inquiries. jess, any sign the white house will give? you were here when they first got the request and they said no, we ve given you enough. any threat a subpoena will say, here, more dock plns? reporter: no signs it will. the white house has maintains they through their agencies turns over more than 70,000 pages of documents and that the white house itself has turned over 900 pages and as you have said, they have made it clear there s an important precedent to be protects, the president s advice from his advisers in the white house has to be protected. early on the white house said that the republicans were exaggerating this, this one lone gun bad, a pretty good program. now the chief of staff is having an independent review inside the white house.
Over there in europe. that would have had cratering effect on a fragile economic recovery in the united states. looking down the line, i think that the market responded well is that there was evidence of political leadership. hand the problem to keep it from spreading here to the united states. that means capital locked up in the united states, for the big corporation now may have a reason to say you know what? it won t get worse. we have reason to have optimism. this is critical going to holiday season. for the investor class, banks and corporation, good news for america. bret: there is still tough austerity measures ahead for the european countries. some of them are still december pilot this deal on the precipice of not a great despite this deal on the precipice not a great economy. we don t know if the bank in europe will get the default
Dissatisfied with the direction of the country. people say we like the extension of the payroll tax cut, the poll you refer to. but they are not happy with what the obama policies have done to the economy. it s a leadership quotient. this is where the president loses even if he can blame the republicans in the house for not moving his agenda forward. they are going to blame him in the sense he is the coach of the team. you can t get him to act, we ll hire somebody else who will. that s what you have to worry about. bret: next up, the latest 2012 campaign news an polls. stay with us. in blind taste tests, even ragu uss chose prego. prego?! but i ve been buying ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i ve made? [ 80s dance music plays ] [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego.
Asked why the economy is not doing better under the president marx jr.ty of 52% said he has good ideas but too few have passed. only 37% said he has bad ideas, too many passed. house republicans pushed back by noting they d pass at least 15 measures they believe will create jobs. only to see them stall under the democratic led senate. mr. president, help us with the united states senate to pass the bipartisan common sense measures. reporter: it was 7 weeks ago tonight the president gave his jobs speech to joint session of congress. since then, he has done very little direct outreach to republican leaders. the last time the president spoke to the speaker? i have to find it for you. they spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago but there has not been much effort to negotiate a jobs deal with the republicans. maybe because congress is a better target than partner. the new fox poll shows