politico suggests that the goal is to avoid that which george w. bush did. really not so much. if the website is fixed by tonight, could the obama administration win some points for getting it right as they said they would? >> i think that's a tough statement just because it's a website and this is the hallmark piece of president obama's domestic policy agenda. you know, i think as he tries to move forward it's going to come down to whether or not he's able to get as many people as he once confirmed by the end of march. but, you know, this doesn't pass a monday sense test that a website doesn't work for such a huge piece of his policy agenda. >> even if the website fixes are in place, andy, by midnight, how much will this haunt democrats facing reelection in 2014? is this a negative no matter what? or all smooth by air it's forgotten by november? >> that's a good point, alex. we in the media tend to focus on the crisis at hand and tend to say this is the worst thing that ever happened. >> really? we do that. >> guilty as charged here. you remember last month when we were all ta

president george w. bush talked about being a uniter and not a divider and president barack obama would be post partisan and reach across. and all three have -- breaking the fever and all three have either succumbed to the fever or been trapped by the fever or -- >> fed the fever. >> fed the fever, exactly. and become very polarizing figures in washington. gwen: time for one more thought. >> the real reason is there are so few districts now, redistricting that was done by computer, not done by political parties across the country, that is the way to break the fever to change the makeup of congress. you're seeing it in california and iowa now. if other states across the country start changing how they redistrict, i think that could break the fever. but don't look for it next year. gwen: that's the final thought but one more for you. do you see the fever breaking? in 2014? >> not in 2014. no. gwen: well, that's optimistic. a way to end it. thank you for your questions and answers and thank you for your que

. >> my favorite topic, george w. bush. president bush became a painter after he left the white house. he is actually, very, very good. and, you know, at the white house there's always an ornament every year. you can get the official one from the ar kind chives but at bush center.org you can buy this one. president bush painted a cardinal. this bird that mrs. bush chose for the ornament for the year. you can go on bush center.org and have a great ornament but one painted by president bush. >> look at that. >> yesterday was thanksgiving a lot of people had a chance to be with family and friends. i want to know you a list of stores here that had the kourcoe to let their employees off for thanksgiving unlike walmarts and mcdonald's. home depot, nordstrom, costco t.j. maxx. congratulations. >> you can order online, though. >> people wanted to work. >> why are you interrupting my one more thing? >> a lot of people like working. >> you can't debate on one more thing. it breaks all the five rules. >> brian. >> it's hard to be a ch

w. the administration claims that it did not know or has simply refused to reveal a significant number of details about the disasters rollout that are now only now being discovere by congressional inquiry. elements of the national liberal media have begun to awaken to their responsibilities as what starts over a powerful central government. fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel with our report. >> the white house and health and human services officials said a six month morning healthcare.gov was in trouble and still could not fix it. >> the administration was on track, on track for disaster, but stubbornly they stayed the course reporting the crimes that all was well and on track right up until the launch on october 1. >> last spring administration officials were warned by outside consulting firm mckinsey and company there were serious concerns about the development of the healthcare.gov website, such as there being a single decisionmaker with power and involving requi

that is when he went into new --pshire to try and build challenge george w. bush from center. then john mccain realizable party he was in. [laughter] -- he moved even further to opposing all environmental priorities. so, let me say that what i concluded from all of this is this was an extremely polarized issue before barack obama moved to the white house. democratsissue where and republicans had parted company's active the elite level and bed the left -- and then the level of average voters. the data international opinion surveys from pew. stood inwhere things 1987 in terms of a split between parties and where they stood in 2012. you can see environment as one of the issues where polarization had the, much more extreme -- become much more extreme , by the timeine this campaign was launched in the first two years of obama's presidency, it was virtually impossible for elected office holders in the republican party to consider joining the bipartisan coalition that would've been necessary to pass the legislation. question, whyg did the people who were supporting it think it would

. >> from the first days of his presidency, george w bush faced a list of challenges, none bigger than this -- >> there is one report a plane has hit the world trade center. >> mr. president, you were in a classroom of second graders, reading a school children's book, when your chief of staff whispered in your ear. what did he say? >> he said, a second airplane has hit the world trade center. america is under attack.' >> what were your thoughts? >> well, i was -- i -- i knew i needed to be clear-headed, and i was anxious to get out of the classroom to get the facts. >> when did you say to yourself, 'this means war?' >> when i learned that the crash was not an accident, but looked like a planned attack, i knew we were --i knew we were entering into a whole new era in american history, that we were at war. >> of all of my presidential interviews, the most unforgettable would have to be with the universally popular ronald reagan. a former actor, he was president of the screen actors guild long before he was president of the united states. >> you, of course, are being called all the time "

. ♪ lou: our first guest tonight says obamacare is in many ways beck said george h. w. bush, but the problem, as usual, democrats who went overboard on the size and scope of obamacare. joining us is tom sculley, former administrator for the centers of medicare and medicaid services during the last wish of restoration. president and ceo of american hospitals representing the nation's 1700 privately owned and managed hospitals and health systems and the general partner. a private equity health care firm. good to have you with us. but let's start with these problems. you are in it hellos to years to figure out what is going on. you have a plan. at this administration seems to be at loggerheads with one another. they cannot quite decide how to respond to what is a failed website and a model that is an economic model that is being challenged to rigorously..3 are they correct to be that concerned? >> it is hard to take a bigger beating of their taking right now. look, then mail a lot of mistakes. the current administrator is an old friend of mine. you know, they obviously the

this is the result of the records active president george h. w. bush. 1992. that was a direct result of oliver stone's movie jfk. i wanted to give credit to a journalist. an excellent website. and he has focused on cia documents and came up with one that was really interesting just one month ahead of the assassination. the cia reacting to his visit to mexico city. kozlov is maturing. he is maturing. well, he matured right into a presidential assassin. he had practiced trying to assassinate general edwin locker in april of 1963 if only the police force and the fbi if the time had spent more resources to try to trace that assassination attempt. he was only slightly injured with a bullet that was fired through his house. it almost certainly was all. he told his wife what he had done in great detail. >> how big was the secret service? >> how many assassins? >> you know, there are amazed that the only people in the files of the secret service for people who wrote and threaten the president directly. as a policeman or investigators the people you don't write. so. >

bush,ow, in george w. when you saw that he was having a meeting with certain kinds of advisers, like economic advisers and then the next day he was doing national security and foreign policy, you knew that was going to be a time that his advisers would recommend that he wholly press covers because he had it all in his head. i think questioning by reporters is very important, and we cannot have too much of it. >> that is a fair question. w.bush 292 george interviews. the second of the last one that we did, and i asked president bush a similar question, so let's watch. [video clip] >> media, another institution here, a lot of cable talk shows, i a lot of radio programs, talking about you. do you watch the programs? >> no. >> has immediate cheated you fairly -- has been media treated you fairly? >> my individual relationships with people in the media has been very good, and that is all i can expect. of course, i read what is written, and a lot of times i did not like what is written. then i realize they may n

it happened in the early george w. bush administration. but as we know, it didn't really get that serious in the long run. it was walked back. how do they walk back the tensions in this episode? >> reporter: i think that's really the challenge right now. i will tell you that military officials at the pentagon, even on this holiday weekend, are very aggressively saying let's not have things get out of control. we want everybody to know, very routine u.s. reconnaissance flights, unarmed, nothing unusual, status quo. we're not trying to poke china in the eye. that's the message from the pentagon. but biden's message, make no mistake, will be to the chinese okay, what are you really up to here, what are you trying to achieve, let's not have this get out of control, let's not have a confrontation over the east china sea. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you. >>> in other world news, the u.s. military doesn't always admit when it carries out drone attacks, especially when civilians become part of the collateral damage, but this time, it's

george w. bush, we didn't disagree with him on politics. everybody that disagrees in the classroom when they go back to the faculty lounge everybody agrees with them virtually universally. and then once it became left its self-perpetuating because you have to work with the professors who are there and i can get into you if you are at ucla and you would like to write your thesis on how gun control is ineffective you will have more trouble than if you write your thesis on how gun control is effective and the only solution to solving the problem of gun violence in america so that is the answer to the question. number two why do they have this authority and the answer is simple. they are spending thousands of dollars on their kids going to school. my parents spent a lot of money for me to go to ucla. so that authority is now transferred over to this new group of people of the older generation and we are going to speak to you from a position you go to college to learn. as a student you know the best way to get an eight is to go in and basically

i approached the fcc director under george w. bush with this exact same issue after this meeting had occurred, and she said "i expect the food industry to police itself," which is exactly what they have been doing all this time. it is hands off. the food industry -- hands off. you may remember last year, they tried to rebrand hfcs as corn sugar and the fda told him no. -- then no. they have done it anyway. you know what? they will get away with it. why? because the fda does not have an enforcement arm. the enforcement arm is the department of justice. they got better things to do. they are dealing with the drones and other things. how about on a community level? santa clara and san francisco in 2010 instituted the toy ban? why should you call worse a ce a child into buying a happy meal for the toy. if you want the toy, by the toy. makes perfect sense. well, since then three states have banned toy bans. let me get rid of that. i don't know why it does that. let's go back. ok. and finally, the campaign to retire -- ronald, which is

w. bush the double agents were then allegedly set free and allowed to reinfiltrate the ranks of terrorists let's now bring in former pentagon security analyst michael maloof live from washington d.c. mr miller welcome to wait to talk to you again as always how's your you're going in and out all the time can you hear me now i can hear you know ok from time voiced before i was going in and i'll try to do my best now how sensitive revelations will they be damaging to national security they're not here you. are right unfortunately our guest is not able to hear us are right now mr miller thank you very much will try to bring you later and coming up but harrowing details of the latest allegations of rebel atrocities in syria and plenty more after a very short break. early in the in the iraq and afghanistan war it was much easier to use a weapon and you always work with a ground crew. following a convoy came under attack i would work directly with the ground controller he would tell us where he

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remember when george w. bush flew into iraq and they took a picture of him with a turkey? it always comes back to haunt you. coming up, small businesses paying the price fort latest obamacare problem. but don't call it a glitch. our next guest says the president's signature achievement is about to ruin democracy as we know. >>> this waitress reports a mom for boozing and breast-feeding. instead of a pat on the back, she got a pink slip. is that fair? we got more on that. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. take a quick look at headlines. a real life grinch hit a mall in winston-salem, north carolina. stole a kettle from a salvation army bell ringer as he was helping a grandmother and grandchildren inside. there is no video and investigators have no leads. >>> what's in a name? well, when you have the same name as a wanted man, a lot happens to you. 18-year-old jawan johnson was pulled over, police arrested him saying there was a federal warrant out for him. turns out his name is off by one letter of the he was held in jail for four days before being released. >>> kelly? >> thank you

bush tweeted why would our president close our embassy to the vatican? >> under president george w. bush the state department appears to have take tennessee first steps to acquire the property on which the new embassy is to be housed. the move is scheduled a year from now. >> thank you james. >> up next, the holiday tradition wildly popular with some and wildly unpopular with others. first, here's what fox affiliates are covering. in no, the macy's parade. the the tight leash on the giant balloons were on in gusty winds. in miami with a vacationing doctor who saved a child from drowning at a hotel pool. this is a live look at st. louis. the big story there, thousands of shoppers foregoing turkey seconds for first crack at the black friday bargains. that's tonight's live look from outside the belt way on special report. we'll be right back. [silence] for those dealing with the struggles of caring for a loved one, we hear you. visit aarp.org/caregiving for advice and support. >>> people who are not eating or watching tv right now may be getting an early start on holiday shopping. bria

phillip merrill has had a long relationship with george h.w. bush, george w. bush and vice president dick chainny. merrill currently serves as the president of the xm bank, an appointment he received from george w. bush. >> guest: i was contributing editor to the washington taupe yang magazine -- washingtonian magazine for over 30 years, and i did notice my name off the masthead. i was never called. i never got a letter. so i called jack, and i asked why. and he said it was because of the bush book and because of the intimate details of their private lives. i said that's what a biography is. you never had any problem with jackie o., you featured it in the magazine. you never had any problem with nancy reagan, with frank sinatra, the british royal family. why this one? click. and so i do think it was because of the connection with the bushs. phil merrill subsequently took his own life, and his daughter is now running the magazine. but it is true, you do pay a price. you cannot expect to write a book like "the family" and then be invited to a white house state d

. >> president bush, george w. bush was speaking and billy graham prayed. it was the most moving thing that i have experienced. i love that he kept his life clean despite all of tthat goes along with being famous. he never had a scandal of any type. he was faithful to his family. there is no mismanagement with money. at least nothing i knew about. >> he went out of his way -- he wouldn't get in an elevator with a woman alone. >> that's right. >> he didn't want the to be put in that position. that's unique. >> that's called the modesto manifesto. they got together and decided how to keep their lives clean. that was one of the provisions that he would not be with a woman alone. >> in my situation, circumstance. >> no one would be alone with he anyway. i didn't have to worry. tell us about that. >> just like dr. dobson mentioned, they were serious. they were young guys. he and his team were a group of young guys traveling the country. all of them were married. they knew what typically brought evangelists down in the past -- money issues, sex scandals. they wan

and then george w. bush. >> host: in the family, you write for those who study the fault line, the campaign of 1980 is instructive. because to dynastic sons chose to challenge their party's front runners and those two presumptive heirs base their candidacies solely on their sense of entitlement. >> guest: i am fascinated, not just by the study of power, but i am fascinated by the class system in this country. it isn't quite what it is in the united kingdom. it is more unspoken here. we don't night people. we don't place the earls here, the barringer, the dukes. no, but we do. and that kind of upper class, middle class, lower class permeates our society and it fascinates me. it's a form of self entitlement and it's a form of discrimination. and i like to see -- not that i like what i'm fascinated to see how it plays out. >> host: in the family you write that the legacy of prescott alcoholism became his destructive to the dynasty as denying its existence was to his immediate failure. prescott bush alcohol

poll numbersent's are at the lowest point yet, but still above george w. bush at this point in his presidency. how does he turn it around? there are success stories. wants toadministration tout. for example, a group called families usa which claims to be a nonprofit nonpartisan organization has given money to promote obamacare. it is encouraging users to facebook and tweet stories from those who have happily enrolled. and they will stop using the rk,izon subsidiary terrema and will instead be using hewlett-packard. abc 7 news. >> an earthquake near a nuclear plant in iran. is there a five miles from where it ron has its nuclear reactor. iran has provided the united nations nuclear agency permission to inspect the plant next month. the yuan has accepted the offer which comes after a landmark deal to between iran and six world powers including the u.s. >> north korea may be trying to nuclearan aging reactor. the international atomic energy agency has seen indicators including steam and water. north korea said it would not give up its nuclear ambitions until

w. >>> hi, this is lieutenant commander renee whistle and i'm from tallahassee, florida, and want to wish a happy thanksgiving to my family and friends out in tallahassee, florida. love you guys, miss you! and ah, so you can see like right here i can just... you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer rvice, check on a claim...you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that's so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you're on the jumbotron! whoa. ah...yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app. hmm. ♪ mm-hmm. [ engine revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] oh what fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-benz on your wish list at the winter event going on now -- but hurry, the offer ends soon. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease the 2014 glk350 for $419 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >>> if the weather's not putting a damper on your holiday travel pl

w. >> guest: i think that was the actress, i think that was shirley mcclain writing that about me. >> host: do you remember this? >> guest: i remember very well. she wanted to meet people within the movement. there was a gathering at my place and she was there and i saw her many times after that she was wonderful. she likes so many of the people from the entertainment world, they wanted to get to know people within the civil rights movement. it wasn't just shirley mcclain, but it was individuals who became very supportive mike harry belafonte and tony bennett and at the end of the march from selma to montgomery, they wanted to identify the march on washington. they wanted to say we stand with you. i remember bobby dylan coming to the delta, the mississippi out on the field singing and playing his music. joan and others, peter paul and mary. they all were there. those were the days of hope and optimism that people were prepared to put their bodies on the line, to use -- their ability and

w. first. the race is on to fix the obamacare website before the deadline >> we hope you are having a hap hap hap happy thanksgiving day. the obamacare technology team is scrambling to build a new part of the website. a work around the clock sort of deal that would allow people to buy insurance without relying on the site. the easy app would apply to those that are eligible for financial help from the government and let them enroll for coverage without first calculating their exact subsidy. using estimates only, call centers and insurance companies, and brokers, would help people enroll in plans. that is facing concerns for a great number of insurers. >> happy thanksgiving, to you. what is the main insurance obamacare concern? >> they are concerned the estimates might not be accurate enough and they will have to build for subscribers that didn't cover at the end of the year. it is a big fix to be working on this late in the government. it is raising questions why the government has a lou

. >> losing the 2004 race to >> losing the 2004 race to george w. bush makes him a more george w. bush makes him a more private person. private person. but he can show his passion for but he can show his passion for foreign affairs, his fluency in foreign affairs, his fluency in french, i think kerry has french, i think kerry has changed. changed. one diplomat said, every one diplomat said, every secretary of state has an secretary of state has an enormous ego. enormous ego. >> you don't get there without >> you don't get there without it. it. >> that's part of the package >> that's part of the package when you're dealing with this when you're dealing with this level of a leader. level of a leader. time will tell about kerry's time will tell about kerry's performance. performance. >> it's a great read. >> it's a great read. david, great to have you with david, great to have you with us. us. happy holidays. happy holidays. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> let's check in with >> let's check in with hermella. hermella. >> antonio, the day after thanks >> antonio, th

it happened when george w. bush rolled out the prescription medicaid part d. wait requires is an administrator focused on getting it fixed. i just want to go back to one point that you made. this whole rollout has been lies and that's not true. 50 million people have a chance to get healthcare that haven't been able to get it before. heather: how many people have lost it and how many people have had their premiums rise. >> you are right. people have seen their healthcare canceled. that has nothing to do with the rollout. >> my colleague is flat wrong. we were told average families would be pay legs for coverage. thage family is paying $2,500 more. it's the impact of small to medium to large size companies that cannot afford the mandates in this law. adding dloik cart doesn't count giving people coverage. what we have got is 50,000 people that enrolled in healthcare.gov today. we need to be upward of 100 million if we are going to solve the problems we are told this process would solve. there is nothing about this process that is more efficient or offering cove

george w. bush was 51%, carried 255 congressional districts. john kerry carried 180. george bush was way ahead. barack obama, 2012, 52%, carried 209 congressional districts, mitt romney carried 226. one of the reasons you have republican majority in the house of representatives is demography. away that americans have spread themselves about the country and the resulting political, resulting political gridlock. so a certain amount of political conflict is built into our system, built into it by current and recent surges of migration and by james madison and 39 other men, no women, who signed the constitution in 1787 who set up separate branches of government and said the president runs the government, the congress funds it. i have fought that implies a certain amount of duty of consultation between people in the different branches of government. there has been less of that recently than there has been in other historic times but conflict is fair and it is in our system. with two parties competing pretty closely, we can look forward to more of the same. with that, i hav

george h. w. bush, the last president not to have a graduate degree. ronald reagan is the last president not to have a degree from harvard or yale or both. perhaps we are moving in a more elitist direction intellectually at the same time there is a coarsening of the culture. >> one quick point, getting back to adam's question a little bit. i don't know it is in terms of the technology, maybe you will come up with something shorter than twitter and you only get four characters or something. >> all abbreviations. >> like in the matrix and we will just see the code and make sense of it that way. i think we were on the verge of a profound societal transformation because of technology and it is noncandidate straight into our heads. the rise of big data which people get paranoid about and only some of them are unjustified to be paranoid about it is getting to the point where large numbers of the american people can be manipulated without trying to manipulate them. it is different from presidential rhetoric of the past when you would hear a president say my f

marc thiessen is a former speech writer for president george w. bush. it's usually no accident when they release news like this late in the day on the day before thanksgiving when people are paying attention to other things. you just go through the laundry list, marc. >> yeah. >> it's like, oh, my. the last one about delaying the ability of small businesses to get on health care.gov for a year may have a real impact. and the inability of the website to work as it was meant to work on november 30 is going to have a real effect, too. >> yeah. i think they will be talking about obama care around the thanksgiving dinner table. it won't be quite the conversation the president was hoping for. the fact that they haven't relaunched it and they are already making excuses is a troubling sign. think about what they are saying. the day after tomorrow is black friday. if an online retailer -- imagine an online retailer saying don't go to our website on black friday. there is plenty of time until christmas. of course not. for these 5.5 million americans losing health

i am no george w. bush. the butchering of spanish does not offend me very much. thank you for being here. neil was telling me this is the third event that the institute of institute oft the politics today. it seems you guys are busy. i want to thank you. i want to thank you for inviting me to new hampshire. new hampshire has a very special place in my heart. i am a mccainiac. winning here was one of the highlights of the campaign. i happen to love your national committee man, who has the coolest socks of any committee man. you have the baddest state slogan in the entire nation. i felt would have a conversation today about whether -- about where the republican party is. i'm not here to give you a history lesson and give you specifics. this is the birthplace of politics. you know that. i want to talk big picture and my impressions. the party is in flux. we are reeling from two consecutive losses. we have lost to quest for the white house. the gop has become the party of the gap. we have a gap with women voters. the gap with latino voters. a gap with asian voters pr

marc thiessen is a former speech writer for president george w. bush. it's usually no accident when they release news like this late in the day on the day before thanksgiving when people are paying attention to other things. you just go through the laundry list, marc. >> yeah. >> it's like, oh, my. the last one about delaying the ability of small businesses to get on health care.gov for a year may have a real impact. and the inability of the website to work as it was meant to work on november 30 is going to have a real effect, too. >> yeah. i think they will be talking about obama care around the thanksgiving dinner table. it won't be quite the conversation the president was hoping for. the fact that they haven't relaunched it and they are already making excuses is a troubling sign. think about what they are saying. the day after tomorrow is black friday. if an online retailer -- imagine an online retailer saying don't go to our website on black friday. there is plenty of time until christmas. of course not. for these 5.5 million americans losing health

george w. bush came in, colin powell wanted to continue and wanted to pick up where clinton left off. he was publicly humiliated for making that statement. bolton went about leaking information that the north koreans might have a secret program to enrich uranium. then there was a confrontation in 2002. the whole deal fell apart. the north koreans started up the reactor again. there were other agreements that were reached with the north koreans. in 2005, there was an agreement that was reached. the north koreans broke it. the nature of that agreement was that they would stop the plutonium reactor. in return, they would get various concessions. yes, the regimes are different, but north korea is a bizarre dictatorship that relies entirely on support from one country, china. the food aid that it has been able to cage out of the united states over the years. the deal that we are discussing now with iran is quite different. the nature of the sanctions is quite different. i do not see that they are co

w bush pardoned ninety nine by gary six during our pets. there are few reasons for this one is as a political liability. now at the present weren't hurting someone he'll commit a crime that after there were leaves the white house would have to take that responsibility. and this is what happened to former arkansas governor mike huckabee win after key release convicted rapist wayne did minded man proceeded to murder and three other women. now another reason and the get go what the department of justice has the authority to grant you could see petitions. some say it's a conflict of interest to how the doj review petitions of the same people be prosecuted. according to department of justice brennan obama has received more than ten thousand clemency petitions. a large majority of them are people asking for proving to be from friends and for the obama administration is looking for other ways to laugh in the us and her three favorite incarceration rates which in the heights in the world. a good portion of these prisoners are behind bars for non vi

. >> on the united states at the time was george w. bush. >> i'm sorry, bill, but that was not caused by -- >> -- jimmy carter. >> we're going adrift. let's get back to ashton. that's the most important thing. this country would be much stronger if the country was like me and painted houses and drove a cab and did whatever i had it do to get through boston university and started in scranton, pennsylvania. scranton, pennsylvania. all right. and worked my way up. all right. if everybody would do that, we wouldn't need all of these welfare programs. we wouldn't need all of this stuff. right? >> there is two different things we are talking about. >> no, no. talk about what my question is. >> i worked at wendy's when i was in high school. >> good. >> i worked my way up. i temped when i graduated from college because there weren't a lot of jobs. i was always working. i agree that's a really important thing. i don't think it has anything to do with the government though when we are talking about middle class -- >> -- encourage. >> parents cod

. >> losing the 2004 race to george w. bush makes him a more private person. but he can show his passion for foreign affairs, his fluency in french, i think kerry has changed. one diplomat said, every secretary of state has an enormous ego. >> you don't get there without it. >> that's part of the package when you're dealing with this level of a leader. time will tell about kerry's performance. >> it's a great read. david, great to have you with us. happy holidays. >> thank you very much. >> let's check in with hermella. >> antonio, the day after thanks thanksgiving, thousands of people are going to protest low wages. black friday protest to be the biggest yet. last year the median wage in the united states was about $27,000 the lowest since 1998. though it's not the only one walmart is the biggest target of these protests. activists say most of them will be taking place across walmarts across the country. >>> lynn tweeted, i hope it works. these people deserve to get better pay and benefits. they are not endentured stlaifs. david said, find a better job. even

ago george w. bush won 44% of the vote. any republican who could win 44% of the hispanic vote today would we in, so this is not impossible to do. it just requires a candidate. chris christie just did it. won the hispanic vote in new jersey, a blue state. he put time in it. the last part of the campaign town. a heavily hispanic he worked on getting hispanic leaders. he was at every hispanic bakery in the state. he made it a priority from day one. understand he can increase, he can get crossover voters. to prove that, and he did. mitt romney did not. don't blame hispanics. question would be tonight you talked a lot about what the republican party means and white men are not what they used to be in terms of voting. you just talked on chris christie and what he did to whoal to the hispanic vote. do you think would be the candidate to bring the republican party back to the white house? >> i am biased. he's my friend. i know him. i love him. he speaks beautiful spanish. i think the best candidate with the most complete package is

w. bush pardoned ninety nine by their sixth year in office there are a few reasons for this one is as a political liability if the president were to pardon someone who committed a crime after their release the white house would have to take that responsibility and this is what happened to former arkansas governor mike huckabee when after he release convicted rapist wayne dumond the man proceeded to murder and rape other women now another reason is because only the department of justice has the authority to review clemency petition some say it's a conflict of interest to have the d.o.j. review petitions of the same people they prosecuted and according to the department of justice president obama has received more than ten thousand clemency petition a large majority of them are people asking for early release from prison but the obama administration is looking for other ways to lessen the u.s. incarcerated incarceration rate which is the highest in the world a good portion of these prisone

w. thanks for being with us. have a great weekend. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. tonight on this eve of thanksgiving we have for you a very, very special show. >>> welcome to a very, very special, all in thanksgiving dinner special. show. thank you. >>> yes, welcome to a very, very special all in thanksgiving dinner special show. thank you. if you're hearing my voice right now, you are either home getting ready for thanksgiving or at a loved one's house having just traveled or you are sitting in an airport somewhere preferably at the airport bar. tomorrow is thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. thanksgiving where just about any family event in america in 2013 has the kind of added freight that comes from the fact that we are as polarized as a nation as we've been in a long time. not just our political leaders but actual people too. yet no matter how much our social circle or our lives are embedded in a red or blue america, we all have loved ones

george w. bush with all his working out always seemed fit. the only food that gave him trouble, the pretzel that he choked on. >> when you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow. >> the menu on the white house has always been a bit fickle. george h.w. bush hated broccoli. ronald reagan loved his jelly beans. jimmy carter was a peanut farmer. >> we try to keep them on the straight and narrow in terms of a healthy diet, but he is the president and he chooses to eat what he chooses to eat. >> so as president obama gets deeper into his second term with sagging approval ratings, maybe he should consider the clinton vegan path. it may not help with actual human voters, but other constituencies, they'll love it. >> you have my blessing. >> john berman, cnn, new york. >> that is one high-powered diet. remember, you can follow us and what's going on in "the situation room" on twitter. just tweet me and tweet the show @cnnsitroom. we'd love to wish you a very happy thanksgiving and to all of our jewish viewers, a happy hanukkah. it's the first tim