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all of that? >> well, house democrats are upset about the optic of that, but they're also upset that she has, so far, not acknowledged any responsibility for these losses. she's basically blamed it on the frustration of the american people and said, you know, we passed good legislation. look, liberals, the progressive caucus in the house of representatives is happy with nancy pelosi. why? because after 80 years of trying, they finally got health care reform passed, and that will lock in an increasing government role in health care which is what they've wanted. and that will be very difficult -- although not impossible -- to get rid of. so from their point of view they took a lot of losses, but it was moderate democrats who mostly lost. the liberals in this safe seats like nancy pelosi had no trouble with re-election. gregg: john fund, people should read your column in "the wall street journal." good to see you, thanks. martha: coming up, migration like you have never seen it before.
thinks the candidates should be this ones in the limelight, which is seen as a bit of a slap at michael steele who has garnered a lot of attention in his leadership role at the r.n.c., that is the news, crossing the wires, wanted to bring it to you, as soon as we got it and we'll see where that goes. gregg: very interesting. former president george w. bush entering the no-spin zone. >> decision points, the name of your book. >> i think it is, yes! >> off camera -- giving me jabs -- >> i'll tattoo it here." decision points." >> everybody knows the name of the book. all right. when i write my books, one thing i wants people usually to take away from the book. what is that? >> well, my book must be a little more complex than your books... much more complex. gregg: ouch. the former president is macking the talk show rounds, as he promotes his new book." decision points."
interesting things you were able to see. >> reporter: definitely the fact that you can leave through the old manuscripts, they are fax sim facsimiles, and they are more than 500 years old and illuminated manuscripts and light of other different things, they have a piece of the koran, early, early copy of the koran, and a lot of old prints and ancient coins, some 2,000 years old and others, more modern, actually, saw as well, 1921, u.s. silver dollar, gregg? gregg: amazing stuff, greg burke, streaming live, thanks. martha: i love that kind of stuff. coming up in wisconsin, the new arizona, a wisconsin lawmaker is ready for the battle, he says he's ready to promise to crack down on illegal immigration in his state. will we see the same reaction from the administration in washington, this time towards wisconsin. bill: and former president george w. bush entering the
economic power usas, but not everybody is going away happy. the global leaders posed for their traditional class photo, there they are smiling at the g20 summit in south korea, of course, held this year. president obama's hope of securing a free trade deal to boost u.s. exports was a major issue for him, and that did not happen. that's how we start a brand new hour of "america's newsroom" on a friday morning. we are delighted to have you with us. greg i'm greg jarrett in for bill hemmer. the president talking about how to keep the global economy on track during his visit to south korea. take a listen. >> countries with large deficits must work to reduce them as we are doing in the united states where we're on track to cut our deficit in half by 2013 and where i'm prepared to make tough decisions to achieve that goal. likewise, countries with large surpluses must shift away from unhealthy dependence on exports and take steps to boost domestic demand. martha: well, that got a lot of
attention, and now the president is preparing for his second economic summit hosted by another big ally of the united states. mike emanuel is live at the white house. what was it, mike, that broke down in these free trade talks with south korea? >> reporter: well, martha, the president was making the case it's important to find a good free trade teal with south korea -- deal with south korea, not just any deal. here's more from the president. >> i'm the one who's going to have to go to congress and sell it. and from my perspective, again, i'm not interested in a announcement but then an agreement that doesn't produce for us. we've had a lot of those in the past. a lot of announcements, but at the same time we see american manufacturing deteriorate, and as a consequence, a lot of concern back home. >> reporter: clearly, a dispreponderate for this president -- disappointment for this president, this white house. if it sounds familiar, it is
season but, then again, we've heard that before. haven't we, folks? meanwhile, this is a very serious story. there are reports of new trouble for amazon.com. the online retailer is now accused of selling books and videos showing inappropriate pictures of young girls age 11-7. some of these pictures are in the nude, and the report comes one day after we did the story about amazon pulling a book titled "the pedophile's guide to love and pleasure," from its web site. i'm joined by art and joey jackson, a former prosecutor. welcome, you guys. good to have you here. >> how are you? this. martha: you know, this raises a lot of legal issues. i mean, as parents you sort of look at this initially and say, what company in their right mind would sell pictureses like this? arthur? >> well, obviously, it's very disturbing, and you used the word as parents which we all are. you know, this is an issue that comes up in front of the united
critics of washington use to indicate that congress is broken. look at everything this congress was able to accomplish over the last two years, but not one of them was a budget. so i think it's going to be interesting to see what the white house can do to work together with the republican congress to come up with a budget for the future. gregg: jim demint wants a ban on earmarks. he's got some voices behind him even though mitch mcconnell's against it. anything happening on an earmark ban? >> this is where the rubber meets the road. the president has said repeatedly that he's in favor of an earmark ban, but this is what helps get lawmakers reelected. earmarks are how you bring the money home to your district or state, so it's very difficult for a lawmaker to actually go the distance and agree to a ban when they could be hurting themselves politically. gregg: yeah. unemployment benefits, dream act, you have got a lot of stuff on the lame duck agenda, so it's far from lame although who knows, it may turn out to be that way. >> no rest for the wicked. gregg: good to see you, thanks.
martha: that will be long remembered. in the meantime, the undecided alaska senate race may come down to good penmanship, and how many of us have that anymore in the days of e-mail? election officials are pouring over more than 90,000 ballots cast for the write-in candidate. more than 40% of the total vote came in these write-in ballots, and so they've got a lot to go over. republican joe miller is challenging some of those, as you would expect. dan springer is live in juneau, alaska. we're hearing allegations of voter fraud and intimidation in this race. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, martha. it was getting to be like groundhog day, the miller people challenging all of the votes that were misspelled by one letter or even some looking just like lisa murkowski but they couldn't read it quite right. midday there was a news conference called by a miller adviser, he started talking about voter fraud and intimidation, but when we pressed him for evidence, he
something president bush tried to do before leaving office, now president obama trying to get it done, spent a lot of face-to-face time with president li of south korea, but in the end it's not done, at least not yet, martha. martha: what are some of the big sticking points here, mike? >> reporter: well, the president says he was worried about, for example, opening up south korean markets for american beef, american ranchers and farmers want to be able to sell american beef to a new market. the president is hoping to double american exports over the next five year, and so one way of doing that is, obviously, with some free trade deals. but there is some opposition in this country. some of the labor unions saying the president needs to look out for the working men and women of america. even if he does strike a deal at some point, he's still going to have to sell it back here at home with some of his traditional constituencies. martha: all right, interesting. thank you, mike. >> reporter: thank you, martha. gregg: as mike mentioned, the summit wrapping up today with world leaders still arguing over
martha: why is that idea -- does that idea fall on deaf ears with the administration and most democrats, maria? >> well, i think a couple of reasons, first of all, because i know the republicans like to argue that the tax cuts for the top income earners will affect small businesses and that is not true. 99% of small businesses do not fall into the top -- >> that is not true, actually, in fact half of the -- wait, hold on, i'll call you on that, half of the people who make over $250,000 a year in this country are running a small business. half of them, this notion that it will not make a difference, and if you talk with small business owners across the country, which i do any ever i get the chance to, they'll tell you, i'm not hiring, i'm worried about health care and this -- why not pull the brakes off of them and help them out. >> i talk to a lot of small businesses, too, and so have democrats and the president and in fact they've all said they make less than $250,000, and their priority is to make sure