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us in on arguments in two supreme court cases, one centered on freedom of speech, the other workplace privacy. >> woodruff: tom bearden reports on american catholics reacting to the sex abuse scandals plaguing the vatican. >> reporter: here in denver some catholics feel betrayed and have left the church entirely while others believe the pope is being unfairly targeted. >> brown: we look at the merits and the fallout from fraud charges filed against goldman sachs. >> woodruff: margaret ...

-- and admissions in connection with the synthetic collateralized debt obligation structured by goldman and marketed to goldman investors. very complicated. im going to give you straight down the middle as best i can. i know very smart people who are lining up on one side that said the s.e.c. fraud action is weak, and i know equalitily smart people who are lining up who say, this is a very serious matter, that in fact will be followed by numerous other s.e.c. fraud charges against othe...

>> woodruff: tom bearden reports on american catholics reacting to the sex abuse scandals plaguing the vatican. >> reporter: here in denver some catholics feel betrayed and have left the church entirely while others believe the pope is being unfairly targeted. >> brown: we look at the merits and the fallout from fraud charges filed against goldman sachs. >> woodruff: margaret warner talks to andrew kohut about his latest poll showing mounting distrust in the government. >> brown: and w...

. the united states and the case arising out of detroit were declared the warrant was lawyer talks on constitutional the sixth circuit side or there was no standing [inaudible] views as a way of avoiding the citing of questions and the supreme court questions and the supreme court in the united states did not at this point after a lot of your speculation and a lot of discussion, we do not know whether the presidents power in commander of chief under article article 2 justifies warrantl...

>> if i could find out exactly where that is. >> ill get back to you. ok, right in the middle. theres ears with those two officers that are named there. what thats referring to is summarizing on the previous page the prior referrals with the corporate fraud investigation office led to eight separate investigations, two cases each year, with the loan officers list the as persons related to the case. thats page six. youll see it the fourth paragraph. >> none interviewed one of the people...

>> he comes in crash as our party. start your own party. f>> the economy is looking better. the jobless rate is much too high the stock market has really happened resell sales are up, housing is a problem but people are buying cars again and the banks, the banks are raking it in. had we take the big boys from taking as down the road to perdition again? the democrats say to regulate and that is president obamas next big fight. can he win this one? >> he will win this one and win big. he...

to be dealt with after november. one of the reasons for the commission was the idea that congress is just politically incapable of doing either of these things -- restructuring to raise taxes. the commission is going to very likely recommend either or both. i cannot imagine we will hear any kind of commitment on any of >> the commission report is after the election. that is no accident. i thought he was enthusiastic about getting some big issues taken care of. members do not want to go...

you can get free coffee and free tax bites at cinnabon -- >> what are we doing here? >> i was going to ask. its because chairman baucus is trying to get everybody those goodies. my favorite, mr. chairman, was apparently mor tins is giving some kind of discount on some of their restaurants to the cpas. it downed on me maybe the cpas are the one group that gets so much income out of the tax code that they can afford mor tins. >> that maybe. but the service has delayed the date on which t...

testimony about the irss use of lien as to what i learned about the use of liens conversation i had last fall. in that call we discussed irs decision to file liens against taxpayers subject to the tax shelter disclosure penalty even though the irs had agreed not to pursue collection against such taxpayers until congress had a chance to change the law. in general, im disappointed and the lack of judgment and discretion and exercise by irs employees, agents, lawyers, collections and appe...

what we are waiting for, right, steve liesman, what are you hearing? >> yeah. well, we had three pieces of data today. the empire state, had the jobless claims number and the philly fed, and one more, the philly fed was good and the empire state was good and the hb was good, and the jobs are the outlier, maria, and i guess that we have the hold on, because what the government has told us is that the last two weeks of the jobless claims have been essentially outliars because of the holi...