it's george mason basketball visiting south florida tonight. second half action tied at 22. johnny williams goes old school. watch this nice little post up move, hook shot making it. takes the lead 24-22. a few plays later south florida with the ball. anthony collins, knocks down the three-pointer. 14 points for brock. bulls on top by one. later in the half, up by six now. collins throws up the alley-oop to rudd. patriots come back but south florida, they hold on and win it, 61-50. that's your sports for tonight. looking forward to the big time game tomorrow. redskins and cowboys. should be a good one. >> do we like these conditions tomorrow for the game? >> the redskins are at home so i like that. >> it's an advantage. >> crazy cold weather right? >> cowboys play inside all the time in their own stadium. >> all right. lots to talk about tomorrow. >> yes. >> thanks. that's our news for tonight.

george mason university professor john turner is the author. we are here on location and george mason university. professor turner, who was brigham young? >> he was the second president of the church of jesus christ latter-day saints the successor to joseph smith across the country over the mountains to their new home in the west. >> how did he become no to become more well known today than joseph smith? >> keen lived a lot longer. that helped. he led the church for over 30 years. joseph smith was in the church for about 13 years until he was murdered in 1844 and brigham young takes over. he settles and colonizes what is today utah and actually a larger portion of the american west. and he becomes a major long-term opponent to the u.s. government. and that gets him a lot of notoriety in the 19th century as well. >> so, where did brigham young come from and began his life? >> he grew up in basically a state western new york. he came from a very poor family. he didn't have any formal education. and was impoverished, really hard childhood. his fam

this interview recorded on the campus of george mason university in virginia. lasts about half an hour. .. there are there are. .. >> it went through a number of changes. it went from a centralized state of economy to a mixed economy that evolves from central state economy aspects and some market aspects, but not in the manner that actually allowed the market to be efficient at all. >> when did this change occur from centralized next? >> most of these countries, the late developed countries, they underwent a period where they had to actually involve the masses in order to gain support. and legitimacy. when this process, for a variety of reasons began to create problems for the regimes in power, and when external support and pressure for some of these regimes and for some of the directions that were unable at the time moving towards a market economy around the 1980s took place, you saw a lot of these third world regimes, or the global south, begin to move from a central economy to more market oriented economy and the international financial institutions like the

i'm bill miller and developed to festival and writing programs here at george mason. [applause] >> thank you. i was going to say that you've arrived at fault for the book whether you intended to or not. if your array was accidental because you were interested in neil gaiman, this is -- we started the festival wednesday. we are having a great time. we don't end until sunday. there's programs in the floppy. with a few big ones up if you're interested in other events. in this german sunday. [applause] following me to the podium will be the mayor of fairfax city, race silverthorne houle introduced a nice case. we are going to keep things to a minimum and shift to formality staff. he's going to read, take questions from cars that some of you filled out an answer those and then read again. then we would do the presentation and then he will be done. bookstore will be open in the lobby if you haven't had a chance to buy one of the present looks. so here's the mayor. [applause] >> at evening, ladies and gentlemen and distinguished guests. it's been 15 years since the possibili

george mason can win it. they have the ball. edwards drives, to sherrod wright. he lets it fly with one second to go. that is good at the buzzer. wright had a game high 22. mason defeats richmond. gw a winner over v m i, 76-67. in the second game of this tournament, virginia andtony bennett, winner of 6 in a row. second half, odu goes on a run. the monarchs build a 7-point lead. the deficit is 4. joe harris misses. the putback and the foul. the cavaliers down by 1. final seconds of this game. old dominion is up by 2 now. they miss the free throw. virginia has a chance to tie it but watch. this the ball off the hands of joe harris. old dominion shocks virginia 63- 61. uva is now 0-3 this season again the caa. >>> after suffering their worst loss of the season last night in detroit, wizards head coach randy wittman called the performance embarrassing. bradley beal was back and nenj started his first game of the season. wizards would score just 13 points in the first quarter. down 17, crawford behind the back, dishes to vesely for the dunk. nenj steals here, resulti

. >> now joining us here at george mason university is professor philip auerswald his most recent book is this, "the coming prosperity how entrepreneurs or transforming the global economy." sure is the cover of the book. professor auerswald, what role does your play in economic development? >> well, that's a great question the and media i will talk about what role does fear play in our conversation about development and our conversation about our present, so when we talk about our reality and share our ideas in the marketplace we are competing with other ideas. there are three things about marketplaces for ideas. short-term sells better than long-term, fear sells better than hoped, negative sells better than positive and exaggerated but in moderate so we see a disproportionate number of short term narrative's of negative exaggerated stories and essentially commesso short-term negative. that's what's represented the marketplace ideas and there's actually good reasons for that. we are creatures that grew up in environments where we were always subject to threat so we are looking at thing

mason having an okay season, 7-4 and tonight on the road against south florida, the second half and to collins. hits his head on that knee and down for a while. had to be stabilized before being taken off of the court and he scored 10 consecutive points and could get no closer than two and james johnson and virginia tech losing the three of the four games and out west, taking on byu and he hits the three, a career high 29 points in the first half a lone. up 17. the next possession off of themis and with that effort and that putback. the second half, how about mor. the rebound to davies and inside with a career high 42 on the day and virginia tech falls to byu, 97-71 and hokies open up acc play next saturday hosting maryland. >>> and off the wall is coming up next. there is one thing to talk about this week. >> and that is about it sunday night. who is going to win? >> and i am going to make a official prediction. >> wisdom martin phone call coming up. >> locked and loaded after the break. >> no doubt. >> set your house on. >> whatever. share everything. share brotherly love. share o

and we are on location at george mason university. every fall. every fall for the book festival called fall for the book, and one of the authors u.s. be at the book festival is brooke stoddard. here is his book, "world in the balance: the perilous months of june-october 1940". brooke stoddard, world war ii started about six months prior to your book. what was happening in europe in june 1940? >> the war had started in september 1939, peter, and germany had overrun poland. hitler's idea at this point was to invade france and knock britain out of the war thereby. with the intent later on to invade the soviet union. he hated communism. this is one thing that was really part of his agenda. he was actually going to invade france in the wintertime, ma in november-december. he had to put that off because -- spent of 1939? >> of 1939. because of the invasion plans fell into the hands of the french and the british, soy put off the invasion until may, and he came up with a new plan. the old plant actually had been similar to world war i. it was going to co

george mason university professor john turner is the author. we are here on location at george mason university. professor turner, who was brigham young? >> most simply he was the second president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, the successor to joseph smith. is also the first governor of the utah territory, and the man who led the mormons across the country over the mountains to their new home in the west. >> how did he become more well-known today and joseph smith is? >> he lived a lot longer, that helped. he led the church for over 30 years. joseph smith let the church for about 14 years, until he was murdered in 1844. brigham young takes over. he settles and colonizes what's today utah, naturally a larger portion of the american west. and he becomes a major in long-term opponent of the u.s. government. and that gets him all a lot of notoriety in the 19 century as well. >> so, where did brigham young come from? where did he began? >> he grew up in basically upstate new york, western new york. he came from a very poor fami

they have talent on another level that has not been tested since december 2 against george mason. linn will dominate in the acc. hornets take advantage. del state up early. a lovely drive for two. the game tied. howard, a good idea. there is the mismatch of which i spoke. terps with a six-point lead. here is the play of the game. howard finds wells. yes! the 12,000 gasping as he took flight. charles mitchell had 19 points and 14 rebounds. he has not had more than six points in the last three games. everyone involved. in nice pass. the terps tied their third longest winning streak. 39-50 is the final. north carolina at home. the first half. jone

george mason with the ball. they can win it. ed wads' drive. he let the long 3 fly with a second to go. and it falls at the buzzer. that's the game winner. mason rallies to defeat richmond, 67-64 >>> game 2 of the governor's holiday classic. they were off to a good start today. donte hill with the kill. odu led until the 9 minute of the first half. that's when uva would go on a run. taylor burnett lets it fly from beyond the arc. that gave the cavaliers their first lead. the piewtback falls and the foul. >>> syracuse's coach jim boeheim coming off victory 900. orange coming off a win. this is how you do it. white to anthony lee, two of his career high 21 points part of a 10-1 owl run. 'cuse down one. trish misses the 3. rebounds to carter, the shot no good. temple gets the rebound. they also get fouls. temple upsets previously unbeaten and third ranked syracuse 83-79. >>> whether make shanahan knew it or not, what he said following the redskins' loss to the panthers in november motivated the players. kins had just lost their third straight, wer

george mason at richmond, corey edwards dsdz to go for a drive. kicks it out with a buzzer-beater three. mason wins 67-64. here is the collective sigh around the washington region and maybe on our news desk. barring any setback robert griffin will play on the sunday. that is what the coach told the media and as you can see on the screen he looks like he is good to go, fully participated. at this point, the skins als control their own destiny. they want rg3 back in true form taking snaps. but will it be the same? >> if you're asking me if he is 100% i don't think anyone is 100% especially after that a.c.l. injury. i like what i see. as i said before if there is no setback he should be ready to go. i can't make that decision yet because you don't know if there is going to be any repercussion. >> the window zards are track to win 10 games this season. washington was without two players but john wall will return to practice after the first of the year. they need him back. wizards and pistons in detroit. they did not even play the video of the game in

in assessing the impact of the cuts we relied on the study from george mason university taking a broad look at where the cuts would come. drill down into specifics we call head start program. we called health care centers and laboratories and anybody who would rely on federal money this might be cut and what we were told universally is that nobody really had an idea of which programs would be cut and which programs would be spared. they are all waiting for the word from congress. like the rest of us. 7 news. >> and we wait. warning tonight from pg&e. utility is sending out tweet right now warning people that a man with hispanic accent is calling senior citizens and ease telling them the service will be cut off unless they provide credit card or gift card information pg&e tells us it's a scam. utility will never ask for that kind of personal information over the phone and they want anyone who has been targeted to contact police medley to rundown who this person is. >> some call long overdue system for alerting the california public about missing seniors is set to take effect january 1st

george mason is beaten by south florida. >>> this one would never really be close. the ciewrgz took a -- cougars took a 17-point lead into the break, went on to beat virginia tech. the hokies open up acc play next saturday hosting maryland. >>> navy marched into at&t park for the fight hunger bowl against arizona state. the mid shipmen came in winners of seven out of their last eight games but their winning ways would end here. second quarter the 52-yard touchdown. arizona state led 34-7 at the break. they would pile it on in the second half. the sun devils go on to beat navy 62-28. >>> now to the pin stripe bowl at yankee stadium. syracuse and west virginia got into a pregame scrub. as for the actual game, west virginia got on the board in the 32-yard touchdown on a screen, but again that wouldn't be enough. syracuse goes on to win 38-14. >>> and of course all sports are being trumped in the d.c. region by the skins-cowboys match-up tonight. washington needs a win to clench first place in the nfc east and the playoff spot and they are going to need help. this will

george mason at south florida. that second half, the baseline jumper. usf with the 12-point lead, mason-dixon close, but they still lose. a.u. played sixth ranked kansas today, losing 89-57. hard to talk basketball when everybody wants to talk about the redskins. >> i think some fans are coming down. >> the tickets are still pricey. >> $1200. >> if they included a big thick >> virginia woman says instead of finding a new high pad in frof a box of packaging, she got a bunch of notepads. she said she got the runaround from walmart until she called the media for help. the family got an upgraded ipad for their troubles. they're encouraging other people to double check before they leave the store. >> ipad, notepad not the same thing. >> not quite. >> at least she got it taken care of.

george mason, over at umbc. >>> all right. see you at 11:00. >> all right. be here. thank you, stan. be right back. >>> don't miss the cbs primetime lineup tonight at 10:00. it's the gramy nominations concert, with some of the biggest names in music. that will be followed, of course, by eyewitness news at 11:00. >>> and that's it for us right now. we'll be back at 11:00. i'm vic carter. >> so it's not the grammy itself. it's the grammy nominations. >> yes. >>> i'm denacy coke. thank fist are watching wjz eyewitness news. thanks for w >> pelley: tonight, raising the stakes. the administration says it's absolutely ready to go over the fiscal cliff unless republicans agree to tax increases. reports from major garrett and chip reid. elaine quijano on a new study that could lead to a major change in treatment for breast cancer. >> recurrence is something you live with for your entire life. >> pelley: a household name in computers is wanted in a murder investigation. bob orr reports he was tracked down by the technology he lived by. and we note two milestones: an eyewitnes

. ♪ ♪ when shadows fill our day >> dozens of students and staffers at george mason university gathered today for a vigil to remember the victims of the connecticut shooting. a flower represented each of the victims as their names were called out. speakers urged the crowd to make the most of the lives they have. >> we have the opportunity to empower others, students, our peers to spread this light. please join me in choosing life so that we all may live and our children may live and that we may continue to add light into this world. >> the people participated in a procession alto the george mason statue for a moment of silence. you can get up to the minimum updates on the shooting investigation any time on nbcwashington.com. also, coming up at 6:30, the debate over gun control and the virginia governor considers plan to arm teachers. >>> 1 days now until the fiscal cliff deadline and there is at least one thing president obama and house speaker john boehner agree on and that's a tax hike on the rich. there's month celebration yet. lot of work still to be done. steve handelsman on capito

george mason travels to richmond to take on the spiders in the governor's holiday hoops classic. the patriots didn't go down there today to suffer another loss:check it out. paul hewitt and patriots at the richmond coliseum hoping to snap the spider's five-game win streak. richmond led most of the way. only up one. corey edwards misses a floater. under 30 seconds left, can't make that left. he throws up a shot as he's falling. it dounss bounces in. 5.8 seconds left off the inbounds. edwards gives it up to wright who is feeling it. boom! nails it. 22 points for wright including that buzzer beater. what a thriller. 67-64. they knock off the spiders. >> george washington hosting vmi and the environmental with big ears santa has eyes and ears everywhere we're told. gw beating the press. the hoop for the dunk. 8-6, colonial lead. still first half. armwood down low for a powerful two of his 18 points. rally in the second. the drive. vmi led by as many as three. but here comes gw strong down low to dwayne smith. gw 5-6 on the year with a 67-67 win over vmi. >>> the redskins have arrived

. >>> george mason university today a vigil to remember the victims of that connecticut shooting. ♪ >> dozens of students and staff took time to grieve the tragedy. a flower representing each of the victims as their names were called. >> given the amaze acts of heroism around us, both seen and unseen, that allowed us to live, that have given us life in this moment, what will we do now with this opportunity? >> mourners participated in a procession alto the george mason statue where they held a moment of silence. >>> the national rifle association just a short time ago put out a statement on the shooting in connecticut as that tragedy renews cries for more gun control. the nra says, quote, it is made up of 4 million moms and dads, sons and daughters and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in newtown. the nra went on to say it would wait for a full investigation before commenting. meantime, in our area -- >> a new proposal to ban the sale of assault weapons. will gun restrictions prevent mass shooting tragedies? this is chris gordo

two nba students at george mason university came up with a solution. they've create the a website where fans can find local establishments that cater to specific ports teams. it won them a $20,000 prize. >> it's about connecting sports fans around their favorite sports teams. we're bridging that gap between online connections and off line connections at local sports bars. >> i think actually where we got the idea is we're both new york giants fans. it came from difficulty trying to find a sports bar in the d.c. area. >> good luck, buddy. >> the site works in several cities across the country. now they're working on an app for their website. >>> a great game by backup kirk cousins won't keep rg3 off the field as soon as he's ready to go. coach shanahan says he'll go with his starter as soon as doctors say that he's 100%. but shanahan says they're going to make sure that the ligament in his knee and his leg are fine and that there is no chance of reinjuring it before theput him back in. griffin will continue to be evaluated this week ahead of sunday's ga

i live with two elderly ladies on george mason drive in arlington, virginia. i had nothing. whenever anybody complains when they're young and they complain about trying to find a job, i go, try living with two old ladies on george mason drive in arlington, virginia. try it. then they invited their older sister to live with them. so there were three. anyway, apparently ronald reagan twice a year goes to people's houses to have dinner. chose to go to my boss' house. so i ago, what do you need quick so of course i'm mowing the lawn and washing the windows. i'm hoping that over time undoing all of this stuff sooner or later he was a greg, you can stick around and meet the president. and sooner or later like days and days of preparation, that's what happened and he asked me. the high point, a couple of high point to meeting ronald reagan. one of them was when the dog sniffing bob's came in and urinated on my boss' briefcase. [laughter] to this day he thinks it's me. [laughter] and it might have been. [laughter] the great thing about dogs, they don't live long enough to tell stori

i want to say happy new year to all my family and friends back home especially george mason university and redskins. my husband and fannie harty. i miss, love you and i will see you soon >> we are getting new indications tonight of how the holiday shopping season went. sales of items like home goods, electronics and clothing ticked up less than 1% over last year, especially flat given the rate of inflation. many shoppers made their holiday purchases at nearby malls but the recession brought construction of new malls to a near halt. and it's forcing many existing malls to reinvent themselves. >> the camino nuevo charter academy in los angeles used to be a drab minimall. now this elementary school is a colourful anchor to a new street. a shuttered superkmart in a north atlanta suburbs has been born again as his hand, a megachurch with seats for 1500 worshippers. and in seattle these unused mall parking fields, transformed from dirt into thornton place, a residential community with a park, movie theatre and a bus station nearby. >> bert gregory's firm designed thornton place to be more gr

as far as young people that are coming out of some george mason university which is a hotbed of austrian economics and public choice economics. i'm not sure there is anyone really of that stature who is writing columns for the new york times and so forth. thomas told rights, would he is in his 80's. so it's hard to say. my book is one of the more popular textbooks now. so i teach and so forth. i have been on the tv shows. maybe i'm playing a little bit of greuel. friedman always said that he stood on the shoulders of giants . isaac newton. and i feel the same way. i've benefited so much for all of these great economists who've come before me. >> you said you teach. where are you currently teaching? >> mercy college, teaching a program at sing sing penitentiary believe there not. i was teaching at columbia university. .. the best and brightest, what i'll tell you what, a maximum-security prison to all male. twenty-five students. they have an incredible thirst for knowledge. unbelievable how these men who have been in prison, committed serious crimes in their youth now, are trying to turn

. >>> george mason down to richmond taking on the spiders in the governor's holiday hoops classic. richmond led most of the way. under 2:00 to go we pick it up. only up one, it's cory edwards with the floater. missed it and the put-back. patriots take their first lead of the game here 63-62. under 30 left. derrick williams can't make the three but cedric lindsay throws up a shot as he's falling down. it falls in and ties it at 64. 5.8 off the inbounds. edwards has got it, he's going to try to make something happen. he sees wright spotting up. three-pointer at the buzzer. he nails it! 22 points for wright. none bigger than that one. what a thriller. 67-64 the final. >>> game two of the governor's holiday hoops classic, old kmin 81 taking on uva. odu trailing most of this one, only down three. batten for three. he's feeling it. 23 points for that sophomore. ties it at 24. under 10 to play, monarchs up three. jones penetrates, breaks outside the arc. he lets it go and that should tie it up but the refs say it was only a two. so it was worth two points. dante hill at the line for old d

. >>> george mason visiting tampa taking on south florida. wright gets 20 points. second half, they rally. south florida puddle off this one 61-57. >>> the washington wizards trying to end 2012 on a high note. they beat the orlando magic yesterday. they look to hand chicago their third straight loss tonight. maybe they would have more luck than this kid. come on, mom, pay attention. i thought that was cute. bradley deal fights serks rafin. nate robinson drivers through the lane. he had 70. that's as close as the wizards would get. the bulls hold on the lead and snap a two-game skid, 87-77. it at least the kid got some ice cream. >>> navy and san francisco at the kraft fight hunger bowl. keenan reynolds eludes defenders. arizona state too much for navy. the pass to ross, beautiful, 52 yards in stride. asu clobbers the midshipmen 62- 28. >>> west virginia and syracuse playing a different weather. snowy, yankie stadium for the pin stripe bowl. gino smith to stedman bailey what eludes defenders. 32 yards for the score. nice run by bailey. but the weather made passing d

mason critiquing it. >> i think george mason seems like a pretty stubborn guy. the other thing was that you know, i think that he made it clear, he did not undermine the process. if you go back and look at the last days, george mason did not throw a monkey wrench into the works. what he did was he made it clear. he made it absolutely clear, he had his list of objections. he thought you needed a bill of rights. he was not a politician. he had -- he was not into making a lot of friends and allies. he was going to argue his point and then he was going to return. i happen to think that was pretty effective. he wasn't against it. remember he was very helpful in developing the constitution, with a strong national government. but, he wanted to build this wall that would make it clear that did not exist in sort of contradiction or in opposition to these individual rights. again, he wasn't cynical. he wasn't an obstructionist, but he was i think rightly adamant that it exists. >> here is one way of putting that a maybe we will start to move forward in time with your perm

mason critiquing it. >> i think george mason seems like a pretty stubborn guy. the other thing was that you know, i think that he made it clear, he did not undermine the process. if you go back and look at the last days, george mason did not throw a monkey wrench into the works. what he did was he made it clear. he made it absolutely clear, he had his list of objections. he thought you needed a bill of rights. he was not a politician. he had -- he was not into making a lot of friends and allies. he was going to argue his point and then he was going to return. i happen to think that was pretty effective. he wasn't against it. remember he was very helpful in developing the constitution, with a strong national government. but, he wanted to build this wall that would make it clear that did not exist in sort of contradiction or in opposition to these individual rights. again, he wasn't cynical. he wasn't an obstructionist, but he was i think rightly adamant that it exists. >> here is one way of putting that a maybe we will start to move forward in time with your perm

george mason university professor john turner is the author of. we are here on location at george mason university. professor, who was byrd and young? >> must simply he was the second president of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, successor to justice met. also the first governor of the utah territory and the man who led the mormons across the country of the mountains to their new home in the west. >> out did he become more well known today than joseph smith? >> a little longer. he led the church for over 30 years. he settles and colonizes what yesterday utah and a larger portion of the american west. he becomes a major and long-term opponent of the u.s. government which gets him a lot of notoriety in the 19th century as well. >> where did brigham young come from? >> he grew up in basically of state new york, west and new york. he came from very poor family. he did not have any formal education. his family moved around a lot. once he was out on his own he moved around a lot. he was a craftsman, a furniture maker and painter. never r

the federal cuts in defense spending could cost california 135,000 jobs according to george mason university. and for defense contractors in the state alone, fewer government dollars could mean a $10 billion drop in the next decade. for struggling college students, brace yourselves for less. if we go over the "fiscal cliff," a uc spokesman says we could lose $335 million in research funds. other consequences for californians, 143,000 unemployed could lose assistance in trying to find a job. nearly 300,000 disadvantaged students would get fewer benefits at school. 8,000 patients wouldn't get hiv testing and 2,000 women could miss out on breast and cervical cancer screening. now, we would have all those spending cuts but remember, we would also have an increase in taxes which some economists predict could throw us back into recession and with no deal who is to of blame? 53% of americans place that blame on republicans. in the newsroom, grace lee, cbs 5. >>> the comments made by the president made investors hopeful that a quick deal could be made to avoid the "fiscal cliff." that gave wall stre

george mason on the road at richmond. great ballgame here. big old derrick williams got a lot of junk in his trunk. 270 pounds he can still get up and flush. spiders up by 12. serious rally by the patriots. there goes my hero at the buzzer. >> patriots win. down in richmond, barnett, his only triple of the game, it's a good one from downtown. the monarchs hanging in. painter following that loose rock, picks it up and scores. old dominion 63-61. >>> some redskins football now. the doctors cleared rg3 to play. in 14 hours we will see him fly up in philly. probably a good thing they held him out last week, gave him an extra week to get ready. now he faces that eagles defense that's been swiss cheese this season. but it's a tough division game and they like nothing better than to derail rg3 and the redskins. >> techniques, they're known for, aren't showing up as much. they still run them, but they changed that a little bit. but aside from that, they're still playing hard. they're still playing physical and we've got to go out and make sure we're

. >> a masters student at george mason university, jessica hopes to land a full time job teaching foreign language to el men faem students once she is finished as a student. >> i love elementary school student. they emote when they get something and get excited. >> not at all surprised hearing the touching statement of 6-year-old victim's family who shared we take great comfort in knowing that he was not alone when he died but wrapped in the arms of his amazing aid, ann marie murphy, murphy among the adults who died. >> i imagine my actions the same as all the teachers. >> reporter: you would put yourself in front of the kids? >> yeah, it's my job. they're my kids. >> reporter: as a substitute teacher she has not been trained in whether or how to handle confronting an armed assailant at school other than of course taking actions to protect the students. she says, some self-defense training wouldn't be a bad idea. live in the newsroom, jim rosen rosenrosen rosenfield. >>> potentially dangerous situation was averted, a stew accident made threats to possibly shoot and kill others at the scho

. >> we are talking with philip auerswald professor at george mason university. the most recent weak "the coming prosperity: how entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy" you served as an adviser to the clinton global initiative. what are you advising them on? >> thank you asking me that question. i was there at last three days. and i've been working with them for the last three years, the reason i'm thanking you is that i really appreciated that affiliation. they have a wonderful platform there, and the advicers on the program what sort of things to future, what sort of people bring new idea, and challenge that audience to think about very different ways to engage the world. it's particularly relevant because in every participant's bag, as they register for the clinton global initiative they received a copy of "time" magazine which president clinton had authored an essay titled "the case for optimism" and at the clinton global initiative this year chelsea clinton lead a session entitled "case for optimism." she was interviewed by charlie rose. that was

i lived with two elderly ladies on george mason drive in arlington, va.. i had nothing. when somebody complains about tried to find a job by 65 living with two old ladies on george mason drive in arlington, virginia and they invited their older sister to live with them. their work three. anyway. ronald reagan a year ago to -- go to my boss's house, what do you need? i am mulling the lawn and washing the windows and hoping over time i am doing all of this stuff that sooner or later he will say stick around and meet the president and sooner or later after days and days of preparation that is what happened. the high point, there are a couple high points. one of them was when the bomb sniffer dogs urinated on my boss's briefcase. to this day he thinks it was me. it might have been. the great thing about dogs, they don't live long enough to tell stories. the unicorn 03 year. the dinner i often tell people i shared an intimate dinner with ronald reagan. that is what i tell people and it is true. it is true. after the dinner was over i actually took his dinner and went into the

this is co-sponsored by george mason university and the bipartisan policy center. it is our pleasure to put this on and to recognize with all the frenzy about the fiscal cliff that we have a history. some of the history is successful in resolving deep seated hard choices. that is will we will look back and talk about today and see whether we can learn any lessons from the experience. we will go over the detailed program in a few minutes. i want to introduce our keynote speaker tom davis. he has covered many basis. he was the county executive of fairfax county. he was the representative to congress and became a chair and it did many important hearings and remains very active as a speaker and a policy observer. he is also on our faculty where he teaches a course on southern politics that fills up five a minute after students get to register. a very popular lecture. tom will kick it off and i will come back and talk about the detailed program and we will give started. >> thank you very much. i left congress undefeated and unindicted. i just want to welcome you on beha

the study by george mason university found cuts will result in two million jobs lost and a $215 billion drop in the nation's gross domestic product. for california, it means defense spending will be cut by half a billion dollars, 12,000 children would lose their access to head head start programs and fewer women would receive screening. 7,000 victims of domestic violence would lose services. 8,000 fewer californians tested for hiv. 296,000 students could see their benefits cut and employment assistance to 143,000 job seekers also cut. uc health systems could face 21 million in cuss cuts. after today's meeting, nancy pelosi said she was encouraged a little it was constructive. and candor is constructive. and... i think it moved us. >> republicans blame the president for the collapse of a bigger deal which would have cut spending and reduced debt. >> it's the president's response dwroiblt layout a plan and to bring people together. >> larry reid agreed to spend the weekend working on a plan. >> i'm looking at impact of the spending cuts that -- from that study. when you start to get into

. >>> george mason visiting richmond. and cory edwards gives it up. a three-pointer at the buzzer. nails it! 22 points including that buzzer beater pwhap a thriller. 67-64 the final score. and that's your sports minute. hope your sunday is a good one. >>> the horrific shootings in connecticut sparked a nationwide movement to help others. >> a card to dunkin' donuts, and i thought who couldn't use a cup of coffee better than a truck driver? >> and ann curry suggested 26 acts of kindness to honor those killed in the shootings. some included delivering trees or something as small as paying for somebody behind you at the coffee shop. >>> it was already exciting enough for some colorado troops -- here we go. for some colorado troops, but their homecoming was made sweeter because of random acts from strangers. >> reporter: among the crowds during this busy holiday season, and among the hustle and bustle, there was a different crowd. a special group of people. >> great, thanks. >> a group of people like jerry, they just want to take a little time out to say thanks to those that sacrifice

still problems with a mortar -- r main break on columbia four-mile run and at george mason drive. this is the beltway west at avenue, a new on the shoulder. now. to now >> patchy, dense fog, but the is not so bad. down to about 0.3 miles at dulles. 3 miles in martinsburg. warm temperatures to start us out. upperl warm up into the today withon clearing skies and preconditions. thanks so much. at 8:27 withck another news update. [ female announcer ] here's to a whole woworld of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyoneound. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. get breyer's ice cream for $2.48 and dessert will surely shine. make it a grand finale with starbucks just $6.99. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life. ♪ you are the one i want ♪ you are the one i want ♪ woo, woo, woo honey ♪ >>> the best-selling duet in pop music history. high above times square. a great crowd down below. and olivia newton-john and john travolta, ba

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mason critiquing it. >> i think george mason seems like a pretty stubborn guy. the other thing was that you know, i think that he made it clear, he did not undermine the process. if you go back and look at the last days, george mason did not throw a monkey wrench into the works. what he did was he made it clear. he made it absolutely clear, he had his list of objections. he thought you needed a bill of rights. he was not a politician. he had -- he was not into making a lot of friends and allies. he was going to argue his point and then he was going to return. i happen to think that was pretty effective. he wasn't against it. remember he was very helpful in developing the constitution, with a strong national government. but, he wanted to build this wall that would make it clear that did not exist in sort of contradiction or in opposition to these individual rights. again, he wasn't cynical. he wasn't an obstructionist, but he was i think rightly adamant that it exists. >> here is one way of putting that a maybe we will start to move forward in time with your perm

skype philip auerswald, what you teach at george mason? >> well, i teach economics and social entrepreneurship so i teach on the policy. i teach just sort of regular entrepreneur should and i believe in this as a transfer of force in society. but as social entrepreneurship course is thinking about how to address public challenges in the entrepreneurial matter, particularly envision the new ventures and right to have ways to make the most of that. and so, there are a lot of folks in this book who you might say folks that are familiar might steer social one to the doors and i think of them as entrepreneurs but that is very focused and it's a great teaching and i love this environment. i have colleagues as a great man on economics and a lot of other colleagues and disciplines and they really deserve a shot. she is one of a global leader in documenting and researching but also working practically on the human trafficking. president laws of the clinton global the initiative announcing a major new direction on this topic and there are many peopl

. >> more detailed look comes from the economiststein fuller at george mason university. he finds that a $45.1 million reduction of purchase of military equipment at research and development alone would reduce gdp by $86.5 billion and result in loss of 1 1,600,000 00 across all sector of the economy impacting every state and representing decline of personal income. but those numbers represent a small fraction of proposed defense cuts. d.o.d. would absorb $55 billion in cuts every year through 2021. long-held doctrine of maintaining force capable of fighting two wars would be strained. with the obama administration, shift to asia, as a new focus on the u.s. operations. >> it would require us temporarily to throw out the strategy we have so carefully put in place in the past year as something to avoid. >> the d.o.d. promises that the salary of the department 3 million civilian and military employees would be exempt from cuts. staffing them would not be. bret? >> bret: doug, thank you. one of the suggestions discussed for increasing revenue involves limits on tax deductions

mason university. she is the author of -- it is amazing how recent all these books are -- anyway, her recent book entitled "human trafficking:a global perspective ago it was published in 2010. she is also co editor of the three other works, one entitled "human security, transnational crime, and human trafficking," another is entitled "human traffic and transnational crime ,." she is a scholar. these will be our two distinguished respondents. jenny, would you like to go first? [applause] >> will stay here. -- i will stay here. thank you, david, for inviting me here. remarks were so sensible and thoughtful. it is hard to disagree with them. i will not even try to do that. i think i very much agree with his suggestion that as compared to the alternative of the restrictive approach in which we try to define slavery in the most narrow of ways or the rhetorical inflation where paying taxes is a form of slavery, these are unattractive alternatives, and instead, taking a more nuanced approach where we consider

next come on the far end, jason fichtner, senior research fellow at the mercator center at george mason university and former chief economist of deputy commissioner during president bush's term of the social security administration. and he wrote a superb chapter on how social security should be reformed to encourage growth. finally, as president bush, our editorial friend, brendan miniter who edited this book. i want the opportunity to thank contributors to the book who are here today. additional contributors who aren't on the panel. raise your hand -- she read about immigration. richard palm of smu and michael cox of smu are both here. and as you can see, smu is very important. in fact, maria and meaty who is here today also a chapter for the book and it's very important to the bush center. this is the bush institute's first book, the first of many as you will soon see. it is unusual that is published by by a major trade publisher, crown. as a result with a broad circulation. many of you here are supporters of the bush center and the thank all of you for making this book possible and i

and michael krause, professor of george mason university says product liability law, the rule of thumb is the product has to be unreasonably dangerous to sue a manufacturer for liability. he says the dangers are well known. so calling them unreasonable may not be deemed reasonable in a court of law. back to you. >> thank you very much, mary. video game makers getting hit today. let's go to jackie with the market flash. >> good afternoon, tyler. that's right. take a look at video game makers. electronic arts, avtivision, the city commerce division is studying video games and their impact on children and in wake of president obama's speech about gun control, the thought we might see more scrutiny in games. seeing the declines for take two, worse 4.2 percent and the rest following suit. sue, back to you. >> thank you. >>> another probe into a giant hedge fund. this one with their top portfolio manager. >>> then general managers buys back 200 million shares from the filibusters. >> it means a nice pop in gms. perhaps the best they have seen in a long time. how long? we will show you the la

to work around it, you can make a right on south four mile run and a left on george mason drive and reconnect to columbia pike. let's head back to the ramp, the inner loop of the beltway from gw parkway. an accident along the right shoulder. looks like that accident is cleared. that's good news. >>> 6:43 now. you can put a little more pedal to the metal in d.c. starting today. four roads in the district have higher speed limits. newark avenue from the maryland line to bladens bur road goes to 45 miles per hour. north capitol from michigan goes to 40 miles per hour. you can also go 40 now on canal road from the chain bridge to fox hall. vdot has studied the roads and determined the speed limit could go up without impacting safety. >>> breaking news now. angie goff is at the live desk. >> good morning, aaron. toyota is paying a big fine for failing to report a defect in a timely manner. we're hearing from government officials announcing toyota will pay $17.35 million in civil penalties. this is after they failed to report in a timely manner five days a floor pedal defect found earlier this year

george mason lost in overtime to northern iowa, 82-77. >>> and now to the gridiron and the epic battle between army and navy. got to love this one every year. fourth quarter, reynolds on a keeper, breaks tackle and scores from 8 yards out. there he is. to put the mids in front 17-13. late in the game, army driving at the navy 14-yard line. steelman and the fullback. navy recovers to ice the game. navy defeats arm 17-13. midst record, 11th consecutive win in the series. >>> texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel became the first freshman to win the prestigious heisman trophy award. he joins john david crowe in 1957 as the only aggie to win the heisman. >> i believe the 12th man is one of the greatest traditions in all of college football. 40,000 students standing not as fans, but as members of our team. to the 12th man in texas a&m, kerrville, texas and aggies everywhere, this heisman trophy is for you! [ cheers & applause ] >>> and just a huge game for the skins today. don't have to tell you that. they face the ravens in the battle of the belt ways this afternoon. what is the recipe to b

george mason plays south florida tonight, american at 6th-ranked kansas. >>> meanwhile, losing to three of the last four games and out west facing byu15 secs into the game and hits the 3-point, later in the first half, left all alone and guess what? hits another 3-pointer and had 29 points in the first half and eddie with the offensive board and the putback and with that team high of 17 points. and with that rebound to davies and the foul, the career high, 42 points, virginia tech falls to byu, 97-71 and the hokies open up acc play next saturday, hosting maryland. >>> tonight, the wizards can win back-to-back games the first time since last april. early on, things didn't look good against the magic. nelson made four first-quarter 3-pointers and with that 25-8 lead. in the second quarter, rallying back from a 17-point deficit and off the rebound. the perfect alley-oop for the dunk and had 11. the wizards led by 3 at the half. in the second half, this time gives it to a cutting nene down the lane. two of his 23 points and the wizards in front by 8. late in the third quarter, crawford from