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CNNW Starting Point January 8, 2013

Crimson tide, yes, well talk about it steam rolled to victory. Rolls past notre dame. And second straight bcs title. And an eyebrow race raising comment, yes, were talking to you brent mussberger. Chuck hagel named defense secretary nominee. His confirmation will be anything but easy. And we have a date. The u. S. Could default on the debt ceiling earlier than expected. What it means for you. And an exclusive exchange when piers morgan sits down with a man who wants him deported. 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms. More from that, coming up. Members of the championship crimson tide football team, mike xwnch olic, and mike greenberg. Mike buttry. Talk about addiction with Patrick Kennedy and Christopher Kennedy lawford and the former university of texas track coach, bev kearney will join to us talk about her lawsuit against the school. Tuesday, january 8th. Starting point begins right now. Welcome back, everybody. Starting point, a crimson tidal wave fair to call it. Alabama crushed alabama, 4214 was the score at the end of it all. Won the bcs National Championship. The game was pretty much over, kind of not long after it started. Alabama scored the first three times, and led 280 by halftime. The tide has won two Straight National titles, three of the last four titles. Carlos diaz in miami for thus morning. Good morning, carlos. Thats right, soledad. Coming into the National Championship game, a battle between two storied programs. Notre dame taking on alabama. A battle in the trenches. A great defense versus great offense. And the offense won. Alabama cut right through notre dames defense to score 35 unanswered points this thing over at halftime. The jokes were flying. Basically saying that notre d e dames marching band crossed mid field more than notre dames actual football team. Alabama has won three of the last four National Championships. In fact, they won two in a row. This is truly a dynasty. Nick saban has put together. A. J. Mccarron, the new colden boy. Quarterback of america if you will. Thrown for 500 yards in the last two National Championship games without throwing one single interception. As flawless last night as he was last night against lsu. Guess what . A new celebrity, a. J. Mccarrons girlfriend. Thats right, kathryn webb, the current ms. Alabama usa, shown over and over again last night on espn and went from 2,300 twitter followers to over 100,000 followers over the span of the game. She has more twitter followers than a. J. Mccarron himself. He says i guess shes more famous than i am. I guess east okhes okay with t. He has a couple National Championships and a very attractive girlfriend, just ask brent mussberger. A little weird, he was raving on and on over this 23yearold woman. She is hot, i will give her that. This young lady is the former ms. Alabama. Her name is kathryn webb, and as carlos was telling us, she gained 90,000 twitter followers last night. This is what brent mursberger had to say. I tell you, you quarterbacks get all of the goodlooking women what a beautiful woman. Wow, a. J. Doing some things right. If you why a youngster in alabama, get the football out in the backyard and start throwing it around with pops. Brent, youre 73 years old. Shes 23 years old. Come on, man. But shes hot. Ill give it to her. There was a lot of action in the game. It was just filler, thank you, john, pointing that out. Felt like the 1970s. Like when they would do closeups of the cheerleaders half the game. It didnt bother me, but it felt like the 70s. We will talk, not to the cheerleaders, not to the girlfriend, well talk to some of the players of alabama. That ahead this morning. Chuck hagel also saying its time to set the record straight. President obamas controversial pick of the secretary of defense, firing back at those firing back at the president s pick. Senator hagel says what our troops deserve as the president introduced his pick to the nation yesterday. Chuck hagels leadership of our military would be historic. The first person of enlisted rank to serve as secretary of defense. One of the few secretaries who has been wounded in war. And the first vietnam veteran to lead the department. Lets get to brow anna keeler this morning. Senator haggel gave his first interview to a newspaper in nebraska and said he has been unable to respond. What is he saying in the first interview . He said exactly what you said. This was an exclusive with the Lincoln Journal star and says critics have distorted his record and now he has a chance to answer some criticisms and. He says when he does he are show an accurate assessment of his record. Unequivocal total support of his record. A lot have criticized his record. Point to certain things like he called apac the main pro Israel Lobbying Group the jewish lobby. Hes gotten a lot of questions about that. Also questions about what kin of sanctions against iran he has supported. He has been skeptical of unilateral sanctions and this is something the white house very much acknowledges, but they point to the fact that he supported sanzes against iran backed by a coalition. The u. S. And other countries. President obama sort of in a veiled way referred to this yesterday and his commence in the east room and he said that haggle realizes that america is strongest when it stands with its allies. I will tell you, soledad, the white house feels that although this will no doubt be a tough confirmation process, that hagel will get some really tough questions from republicans and democrats who at this point, many of them holding back on endorsely hagel, the white house and president obama feel when hagel has a chance to answer those questions, he will give good answers, convincing answers, that will get him the support he needs in the process. To that end, it was at least twice yesterday that he was urging congress to move forward quickly with this nomination as well as others on his National Security team, these are really imperative roles that need to be filled. He is in the unenviable position of being on both sides. Thank you, appreciate it. Well talk to senator hagels former chief of staff, mike buttry. And a story that combines our love of football and politics, kind of sort of. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton returned to work yesterday. As she was ready to leave her home and head into the office, you remember she suffered from the flu that led tie fall which led to a concussion and led to a blood clot. And her colleagues gave her a football helmet and Football Jersey with the number 112. The number of countries that she visited as the head of the state department. Shes expected, of course to step down from her role at the end of mott. Notre dame could have used her on the line. As alabama running all over her. I was rooting for notre dame, so lay off the notre dame jokes this morning. Other news this morning . I have other news. Two americans among seven People Killed in a helicoptp kopcouldn in center peru. Three bodies recovered away from the site, and four still trapped in the wreck. Alleged gunman in the Aurora Movie Theater massacre is due back in court this morning. A preliminary hearing to determine if james holmes will stand trial. One officer described holmes as very, very relaxed after the shootings. Casey wian joins us from centennial, colorado. Good morning. Reporter good morning, john. It was a dramatic day of testimony yesterday. Prosecutors were warning victims family members who were in the courtroom, there would be a lot of graphic testimony and they should be prepared for that. They certainly delivered. Several Police Officers took the stand, testified about their First Encounter with james holmes. One officer, the one you mentioned who said his demeanor was very relaxed. Not normal. He said when he First Encounters james holmes, he thought he was another Police Officer because of the way he was dressed. Wearing a helmet, gas mask, body armor on, as he got closer, he realized, in fact, it was the suspect. Other officers describing horrific bloody scene inside that theater as they tried to rescue victims and get them out of the threater. One officer saying he walked in, had trouble keeping his footing on the floor because there was so much blood. After several trips to the hospital with victims in his patrol car, that he could actually hear blood sloshing around in the back seat of his car. In in addition to the graphic testimony that we heard, all eyes were on james holmes to get a look at what he looked like. Is he now has a very long beard, does not have the dyed red hair any longer. He sat and listened to the testimony with an emotionless, expressionless look on his face. And at least one relative of one of the victims of james holmes shooting spree allegedly says he believes that holmes is faking his demeanor. Lets listen to what that man had to say. I never stopped watching him in the courtroom. As soon as he saw Different Things happened and he smiled a couple times and very quickly, because he caught himself, hes really pretending to be crazy. That guy is evil, but there is no way that guy is crazy. Reporter also going to his argument about whether he formed the intent to commit the crimes, prosecutors played video of holmes walking into the theater, using his cell phone, and he purchase thad ticket 12 days before the shooting spree began. John. Thank you very much, casey wian live in colorado with details from the shooting. Today mark fwtwo years sinc tucson shooting massacre and a new gun control initiative, americans for responsible solutions. Org will encourage elected officials to fight gun violence while protecting the rights of responsible gun owners. Bells will ring across tucson at the exact moment that jarred lautner opened fire outside a supermarket, killing six people and severely wounded giffords. New this morning, a second inquest into Amy Winehouses death confirmed she died of accidental alcohol poisoning. She died in 2011 at the age of 27. Going up . Well, maybe not. An escalator at a new jersey commuter train station abruptly reversed direction, sending people into panic. Commuters riding the escalator at the jersey city station, when suddenly they werent at all. It sent a stampede of people down the moving staircase, people clear didnt know what to do, five people suffered cuts, scrapes and bruises in the confusion. Thats weird. I wonder what happened. Some kind of malfunction. People try to fight their way up, just go down and take a better escalator. One person trips, you get a clog of people. Ahead this morning on starting point, many say notre dame didnt stand a chance against alabama. I was not one of those many. The host of mike mike in the morning join us. They disagree with that. And a monster of the deep filmed alive and in its natural habitat. New images of a giant squid, the thing is massive. Christine, whats in Business News . Nothing that cool. Its its disgusting and ugly, the u. S. Will hit debt crisis sooner than thought. 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At the end of the day, irish eyes were not smiling. Bcs championship game, 4214. From the very first drive, tide dominance left the irish to nurse their wounds. Team captain manti teo said the team did the best it could. We were battling, and i think they just did what alabama does. Like i said, we had opportunities to make plays, we just didnt capitalize on those. Much of the credit goes to nick saban, celebrating his fourth bcs title. He gives credit to the players, the university, and the fans. Very politic of him. Its not about me, its about seeing all of those people being happy and proud of what this team was able to accomplish. That makes me happy, and, you know, whether i look it or not, im happy as hell. Lets talk about the game with mike and mike, mike golic and mike greenberg. Nice to talk to you, guys. Hes so funny, im happy as hell. As he sits there, not looking particularly happy at all. People have said dynasty. Is that a fair word to use . I think it is, soledad. In the world in which we live today in college football, where it is as competitive as it has ever been no, team ever won backtoback championships in this era. At this stage, 3 out of 4 does qualify as a dynasty. He doesnt want to talk about it, hell leave it to others, i guess thats us. One of only four coaches who have won four National Championships. He deserves that title to be above him. Hell never admit it, but he deserves it. Built a fantastic program. He has it humming right now. What happened to your team, notre dame . I was rooting for them. Physically, they got beat. I appreciate that. But it was about lining up and establishing dominance on the line of scrimmage. I thought it would be certainly closer than it would be there, but they dominated, especially offense against notre dames defense. Great all year. Never seen them physically dominated like that. Took control of the game when that happened and opened up the passing game and they just rolled from there. This was a physical beatdown by alabama. What everybody was looking forward to. The best offensive line in the country and a great running game against arguably the best front seven defensively. This was the matchup everybody was looking for. And unfortunately for notre dame and my alma mater, no matchup. Physically beaten at the line of scrimmage by alabama. It opened up so many more things for a. J. Mccarron to throw for four touchdowns. Thats how they continued to roll and dominate. Oh. I was rooting for notre dame. I really thought after ten minutes, you knew where it was going. Thats will cain joining us. I had ignowill ignore you the r of the morning. At halftime you knew it was over. Still kind of painful. We may not see a championship game like this again. Maybe with the sort of playoff situation, we will get two better teams. Texas longhorns since usc, probably the last really good game. Its been a while since we had a really good National Championship. They learned a lot. I guess next year well see how much they learned and if they apply it. Next, did you see this guy who has been trying to get piers morgan deported. Kind of scary. On with piers morgan. Totally interesting. Listen. 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms. Will it really . 1776 will commence again . I dont think he means the musical. Anyway what did you think of that . Well play more of that and talk about what piers morgan said, back in a moment. Welcome back. Im Christine Romans minding your business. Stock futures flat. Earnings season kicks off today when alcoa reports after the closing bell and unemployment in the euro area hit a record 11. 8 . Red alert. The United States could default on its debt in five weeks in congress doesnt raise the debt kree ceiling. Half a month earlier than expected. America could be in default as early as february 15th and almost certainly before march 1st. Despite extraordinary measures taken by the Treasury Department to delay that from happening. On that day, the luu. S. Will ha 9 billion coming in to the treasurys coffers. 52 billion going out. Committed spending, including Social Security checks, paying f active duty military. Thats what they are fighting in washington. How to cut that spending. That math does not add up. It cannot work. So it wasnt exactly point counter point. Because piers morgan didnt say much when he sat down with alex jones, the guy who created this petition to have piers deported because is he an outspoken advocate of guns and gun control. Jones went completely into rant mode last night. Here is what he said. Im here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms, doesnt imagine how many lemon us get on the street, begging to have their guns taken. We will not relinquish them. Do you understand . Okay. So that guy has biz his own count, 50something guns. Just put that in your back pocket for a moment. Here is what piers said when he got a chance to respond. Is he really one of the reasons why im so concerned about the lack of gun control in america. A man that owns 50 weapons. He has sort of a pathological view about it seems unhinged to me. The irony of guns rights guys saying im rude to them, wont be lost on me. I try to stay calm and there is no other way of dealing with him. Hes a ranting guy who doesnt want anybody to grab his gun. The gun control debate, we go every single time should we talk about ar15 weapons being more easy to get than a package of sudafed. To taking everyones gun as way. Why is that . Why dont we go to the middle. I will say the a american, sort of recognizes there is a big middle there. Every time we invoke the middle, i gqueasy. We might want an intellectual debate. Alex jones is a 9 11 truther, the guy that Charlie Sheen went out and said he drank tigers blood and so forth. Thats how he got famous. And a wonderful triumph on a Television Show last night to alex jones. I would suggest to piers, have a oneonone debate. Not about meeting in the middle, but a valid intellectual points laid out for audience to choose from. Im going to say there is a middle, and the middle doesnt necessarily have t

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