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house? "outfront" tonight, maegan carberry, former communications director of rock the vote. alice stewart is a republican strategist. and michelle goldberg is a senior writer for "newsweek" and the daily beast. lets start with you. whats your sense of how much of this is coincidence with president obama being president and how much of it hes able to take credit for? >> im sure he can take credit for a lot of it. but whats really important is that voters dont hang on every single numbe...

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Could not cussive hits over and over again do add up, do cause some sort of trauma over the years. i think thats one of the issues that football at all levels, not just the nfl. high school football, pop warner football. theyll have to deal with this. >> there have been cases of early onset dementia and other syndromes and i know it is hard to know what is the cause, what is the effect. how is the league dealing with this? there are new lawsuits and new helmet rules. >> new helmet rules. theyve ...

Jamie: what is your vice? could be food, alcohol. i hope it is not drugs. but there may be a reason why bad habits are so hard to break. everybodys got one. one doctor actually revealing some new and interesting research on addiction, suggesting that it is driven by one simple brain function and it might help in the cure. dr. nora volkow explaining those findings on "60 minutes". >> there are certain areas of the brain that are directly implicated in our capacity to exert free will. the frontal ...

california teacher charged with lewd acts against children, goes to court a half hour from now. mark berendt bound and gagged some of the children and took photos. some show cockroaches on the kids faces and mouths, really awful. others showing girls with plastic spoons held to their mouths. police believed they were filled with semen. for the first time a catholic church goes on trial in a priest sex abuse case. jury selection is happening in philadelphia. the monsignor supervised p...

visited the white house website. they shared how losing the tax cut would have impacted their daily lives. >> so congress did the right thing here. they listened to the voices of the american people. each side made a few compromises. we passed some important reforms to help turn unemployment insurance into reemployment insurance, so that more people get training and the skills they need to get back in a job. >> the president has promised to sign the bill into law when it hits his desk ...

disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying theres a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because thats what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due...

That much of your mental function. some people among these thousands were losing a lot and others were probably not losing much at all. it has to do with our worries about the on set of dementia and science is starting to realize that dementia is say process that takes place over many decades and doesnt begin when somebody is in their 60s, 70s and 80s. >> studies are important because as we all live longer, there is going to be a great deal of attention paid to the way doctors treat cognitive is...

Function. some people among these thousands were losing a lot and others were probably not losing much at all. it has to do with our worries about the on set of dementia and science is starting to realize that dementia is say process that takes place over many decades and doesnt begin when somebody is in their 60s, 70s and 80s. >> studies are important because as we all live longer, there is going to be a great deal of attention paid to the way doctors treat cognitive issues like this. >> yes, b...

>>dave: a wonderful christmas story to tell you about from the state of arizona. a young 21-year-old university of arizona college student whoth some thought would be taken off life support, there were no signs of life, there was no sign of brain function, and, yes, you are looking at this young man who emerged from a coma in late october and could be home for christmas. rick: he was in a car crash in october, they had to fly him to phoenix and they thought they would have to pull the plug. and ...