of the most important financial minds, to tell us whether the oour zone is about to come apart. why in the world can t north korean nurses and doctors come back from the middle east? it s a fascinating tale. finally, back home, the former governor of michigan, jennifer granholm, tells us what her experience of cutting taxes and reducing spending taught her. all this coming up. but first, here s my take. last week the international atomic energy agency issued its most serious warning about iran s nuclear program. it argued that iran seems to have experimented with various technologies that suggested it was trying to build not just a nuclear program but a nuclear weapons program. this finding, to be clear, is at odds with the views of the former head of the iaea, mohamed elbaradei, as well as the report issued a few years ago by the united states national intelligence council. it s difficult, to be sure, what to make of these intelligence judgments because they are judgm
character assassination. is the press helping to put sharon bialek on trial? should a rupert murdoch production have outed a second victim against her will? there have been a deluge of women with similar complaints. we ll turn to the sickening child abuse tragedy at penn state that forced out legendary coach joe paterno. i m out of it maybe now. a phone call put me ahead of it. but we ll go from there, okay? good luck, everybody. why did many journalists put this 84-year-old man on a ped school? do the media pedestal? do the media apply different standards to college football? we ll ask our guests, including jack mccollum. he i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. for all the media coverage of the accusations swirling around herman cain, it was not clear just precisely what he was alleged to have done. that is until sharon bialex stepped forward this week. she went before the cameras to accuse the presidential candidate not just of harassment but of p
don t believe anything that the media reports. right. and use it as a badge of honor, which in their initial response yesterday, the cain campaign was trying to issue the rallying cry of going look at what the establishment media is doing to our man, herman cain. right, we ve seen that before with arnold schwarzenegger s run for governor. we saw it happen well, there s echos of the clarence thomas hearings, thomas hill hearings here too where the right still feels resentful for what they feel was an ambush or as clarence thomas called it a high-tech lynching. so even though the question of guilt is still hanging out there, politically it s worked in favor of thomas, you could say, and that could happen with cain. after the break we ve got to talk about rick perry and his lively trip to new hampshire. dan balz was an eyewitness. we ll ask you about that after the break. trivia time and in honor of halloween we ask our first ever photo challenge question. what are these people
haul. more than 700,000 are without electricity there. utility crews are out right now assessing the damage. connecticut light and power says all of the cities and towns its services were impacted by the storm and us it could be a week before all power is restored. cnn crews working every angle of this major storm. susan is in new york, chad meyers in pennsylvania and jacqui jeras is in the severe weather center. let s go first to new york city. the metro area there. fun for some, a nightmare for others. that freak winter storm gave one family a jack-o-lantern snowman in new jersey. a couple of miles from the hudson river and downtown manhattan. let s go to manhattan where we find our susan candiotti. the snowfall has caused a lot of headaches there, although the sun is finally shining behind you? it s beautiful here, but i think everyone would agree when you re flying during the winter, there can always be problems. there were problems and it isn t even winter yet. most of
to me. what happens when you mix ideology with deception? and undercover activist james o keefe has a new media target. we discovered something else interesting about huffington post reporter sam stine. he accuses the reporter of getting his sources drunk. is this the new face of conservative journalism? plus, as facebook reveals more and more about us, is privacy passe? why is blogger jeff jarvis revealing so much about his personal life? we ll ask him. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. every week it seems there s another one, and there are at least a dozen more to go televised drama featuring mit and rick and herman and newt and michele and the rest of the gang. but these primetime programs, are they really about chris wallace and anderson cooper and wolf blitzer and brian williams and charlie rose? it s time now to meet the 2012 republican presidential contenders. here s the format for our debate tonight. let s get to it and meet the c