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>> hello everyone, it is 1:00 on the east coast. lets get straight to the news. your paycheck and benefits may be cut and your taxes may go up all because congress cant agree on another very important issue, that is payroll tax cuts. congress is in a political standoff right now. the senate passed a two-month extension a moment ago. house republicans rejected that in a procedural vote and are pushing a one year extension. keep in mind payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefi...

years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing "a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinos at the mcso," the maricopa county sheriffs office" that reaches the highest level of the agency. sheriff arpaios own actions have helped nurture a culture of bias." found latino drivers are four to nimz more likely than non-latino drivers and more documenting detention officers at the sheriffs jail using offensive slurs and profa...

hello, everyone. im erin burnett. outfront tonight, the republican candidates for president have just finished debating in iowa. this is important, because its the last day before the iowa caucuses, just 19 days away. and while newt gingrich remains the national front-runner, he has been losing steam. take a look at the latest poll. this is a gallup poll that shows in the beginning of december, just ten days ago, 37% of republican voters say they will pick newt. 22% picked mitt romney....

this is t.j. back in atlanta. you hearing me okay? arwa damon is not hearing me right now. arwa damon one of a number of cnn correspondents who spent a lot of time in iraq over the last several years reporting there literally from the very beginning of that war and throughout. well try to get her back in a moment. a historic day we saw even though a few thousand american service members in iraq. they will make their way out, many of them this weekend and, again, formally, it is over. l...

im erin burnett. "outfront," breaking news, federal failure. gridlock reigns in washington once again. now the payroll tax cut proposal passes the republican house. so why do we say failure? well, the republican bill, included a controversial oil pipeline that the president has said he would veto. so, pass, smash. were at square one. congress again playing chicken with the clock. there are just 18 days left until the tax cut expires. if it does, the average american will pay about a th...

also, a man who knows all about the rise and fall of a front-runner, rudy giuliani. his advice to romney and gingrich. and one of president obamas staunchest supporters, movie mogul harvey weinstein, on why he thinks its plain sailing for the democrats. >> i think the republicans every time they talk, it just doesnt seem to go too well for them. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. just three weeks to go until the iowa caucuses, the nations first contest of the 2012 presi...

presidentialness of romney, you would have the perfect candidate. >> if only it worked that way, huh? much more on the iowa stakes and the states in play. first the news you need to know. well shift to new hampshire. newt gingrich just wrapped up a debate with jon huntsman. it seem the real sparring was between speaker gingrich and mitt romney. romney threw the first punch saying gingrich should return the nearly $2 million in fees paid to him by freddie mac. >> one of the things that ...

the big contract for a drug thats not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up, were going to talk with a member of the companys board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the "los angeles times" but since then, have learned a lot more. investigative correspondent drew griffin is keeping them honest. >> reporter: its just another good business deal for billionaire investor and big-time democrat...

lets talk about what he gets bailed out. we do know that just about half an hour ago his wife left his home which is located about 20 minutes from now. not sure if thats any sort of indication in terms of whether or not he might be released soon. currently being held on $250,000 bail. if hes able to post bail, don, hell be unvery tight restrictions. hell essentially be under house arrest. hell have to wear an electronic monitoring device while hes under house arrest. in addition to tha...

threatening to dredge it up. gingrich reporters say getting information from the house ethics investigation would be at the least unethical. pelosi says shes only talking about information already on the record. they asked the candidate about it yesterday. >> we turned over a million pages of material. we had a huge report. the total 83 charges were repudiated as false. the one mistake we made was a letter written by a lawyer that i didnt read carefully. >> mr. gingrich isnt telling th...