only bill clinton knows. i'm going to stop with that me because i always -- you're a dog with two penises. animal genitalia is my specialty. [laughter] welcome, mark. [applause] >> thank you all. we're both really happy to be your at the miami book fair. i've been you -- here a few times. the c-span2 cameras are here and i knew that john was by going to end with a story but i've spent most of my morning and tuesday what brian lamb's reaction going to be how we are helping to program the channel. i'm going to talk for a little bit because the likely time for q&a, and this was we concern we want everyone to start the question. nothing is off limits. you can ask about the book or journalism or anything you want. you can ask about the details of the obligation of the presence health care law or what we learn and reporting about the details of the clinton'clinton' s marriage, whichever interests you more. alternate ask is you do all your questions in the form of true or false. [laughter] if you could could defined

you worked with bill clinton and hillary clinton for a long time. when he says "i don't know whether she's going to run for the democratic nomination, do you believe that. >> bill clinton is both a pretty good policy wonk and pretty good politician. the truth is both -- >> and a good spokesman. >> and a good spokesman. both the politics and policy argue for just letting that go for a while. setting that aside. this is not a time for political ambition. let's just try to get our problems solved. >> do you buy it? >> i'm a little skeptical. look at it this way. let's say you're not hillary clinton, you're a democrat who wants to be taken seriously in the next presidential race. you need to get started early. because hillary clinton has as much name recognition as you could possibly get. she has much of a head start as you could possibly have. so if you're someone else who wants to run an insurgent campaign, you need that extra time. it makes a lot of time for hillary clinton and for bill clinton, as her close surrogate to say, slow down there, other g

bill clinton made in 2008. speaking in new hampshire in 2008 when the clinton team was still smarting from the obama victory out in iowa, a frustrated -- i think this is fair to say -- a frustrated bill clinton questioned the authenticity of obama's anti-war stance. some said questioning his campaign. let's listen. >> since you raise the issue, let's go over this again. that is the central argument for his campaign. it doesn't matter that i started running for president less than a year after i got to the senate from the illinois state senate, i am a great speaker, charismatic figure, i'm the only one that had the judgment to oppose this war from the beginning. always, always, always. give me a break. this whole thing is the biggest fairy tale i've ever seen. >> well, the use of the words fairy tale, this whole thing was criticized by some african-american thought leaders. am i a thought leader? i know you are, gene. attempted to triflize the win by comparing his expected success to jesse jackson's earlier and

hillary clinton. hillary he says and he has a prescription how she can fix her image if she wants to and help the democrats hold onto the white house in 2016. >>> also how did an epa employee so-called convince the agency the reason he wasn't showing up for work two and a half years was because he was away on a cia mission? this is unbelievable. and how did he wind up living in the guest room of another epa official. this does not build confidence in government. >>> finally, the "duck dynasty" star who got a bit too graphic about why he's against homosexuality. well, this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ mom ] with my little girl, every food is finger food. so i can't afford to have germy surfaces. but a fresh sheet of bounty duratowel leaves this surface cleaner than a germy dishcloth. it's durable. and it's 3 times cleaner. so ditch your dishcloth and switch to bounty duratowel. [knock] no one was at home, but on the kitchen table sat three insurance policies. the first had lots of coverage.

, secretary clinton comes out on top. in most cases by a landslide. she beats former florida governor jeb bush by 21. former arkansas governor mike huckabee by 15 points. 18 points is the clinton advantage over texas senator and tea party favorite ted cruz and she's up 17 over the texas governor, rick perry. another 2012 gop contender, former pennsylvania senator rick santorum behind clinton by 19 points. two senate newcomers, rand paul and marco rubio run behind clinton by 13 points and 19 points respectively. house budget committee chairman paul ryan, remember mitt romney's vice presidential candidate in 2012, he comes closer. our new poll shows clinton with an eight point edge over the wisconsin congressman. so who's the one exception? new jersey governor chris christie, of course. christie edges clinton actually 48% to 46% among registered voters. that's a statistical dead heat but nonetheless, early bragging rights as christie begins a busy 2014 schedule crisscrossing the country. what makes him so much stronger agai

hillary clinton understood that. i think he's far better at that today than hillary clinton is. and i think that's one problem she's going have if she runs. which i think she'll do. but now she saw herself not as a barometer of the public but a washington policy maker. and they tried to get the health care go through. you remember it didn't work. then after that, and she was in charge of that. then after that hillary clinton backed off because there was a failure of the health care bill. but i think there was different than the eleanor roosevelt role. hillary admired roosevelt greatly. because eleanor did take policy positions too. it's the the role she played as policy adviser. >> you talked about going -- [inaudible] she flew down second world war to visit the troops there. imagine doing that today. >> right. as the war went on. eleanor broadened her missions to include visiting troops around the world. there was a famous visit she made try to keep it secret for security reasons. and then the rumors were spreading there was a famous adviser going show up, i believe it was sydn

another contender, former rick santorum is behind clinton by 19 points. two newcomers run behind clinton by 13 points and 19 points respectivelily. paul ryan, well, he comes closer. the new poll shows clinton with an eight-point edge. who is the one exception? new jersey governor chris christie, over, he edges 48 to 46%. that's a statistical dead heat, but nonetheless early bragging rights for christie, as he begins a very busy schedule crossing the country. what makes him stronger than the other republicans? don't underestimate name recognition. he's been in the headlines a lot because of the big reelection win. bigging deeper, he -- and by nine points among suburban voter, running much closer to clinton than any of the other republican, so a great present, and they should get clippen some holiday cheer, but a very cautionary note. in this point, mean polling conducted in late 2005, hillary clinton was the runaway leader among democrats, and rudi giuliani, the big early front-runner. barack obama at that point didn't even come up in the polls. so have fu

president clinton lead here. that leadership, i think, lead to ending the war in bosnia, i think is an extraordinary legacy . >> just before we go to leon. i wanted to ask you to comment on the role of intelligence through that process. >> this is the best example in my eight years of clinton administration. four years of the carter administration of the intention committee working with the policy makers. it was really seamless. and john you understand, i think. you know, it works best when the policy makers ask the right questions. and the intelligence communities is close enough that the policy they know what policy makers need. it's more a daily video conference at the working level. and whether the whole range from understanding extraordinary complex dynamic of bosnia. the religious, historical, dynamic to monitoring the flow of arms and people. to the economic embargo, which leon was like a puppet master. a brilliant exercise of using sageses to squeeze at the microlevel. it was all about maps. and meteorolo

clinton couldn't resist mandela. mandela asked, clinton was going to do. it sure enough, three months, four months later, clinton was there standing next to president mandela overseeing the talks. >> tremendously persuasive man. >> yeah. i think they were two bird of the same feather. you know, there was -- i don't know who said it, said that the difference between obama and clinton, that clinton is the dog. 99 people in the room, one doesn't like you, the dog is going to go, "why don't you like me?" forget the 99 who love you. whereas the cat goes, "i'm good. you laike me, you don't. i'm all right." >> let's talk about the relationship between president obama and nelson mandela. we've seen that pretty iconic photo. then-senator obama meeting nelson mandela when he came to washington. and you see them there. mandela frail. president obama leaning down to greet him. as a sitting president, he wrote the forward to nelson mandela's book. he considered it a great honor to be asked to write the forward to the book. you mentioned the joshua generation. president

clinton running for president? >> i don't know. and i think and she believes that the country should spend at least another year working very hard on the problems we have. we w haveery serious challenges in america. and we have responsibilities around the world. i think it's a big mistake, you know, this constanten four-year campaign is not good for america. we nee to deal with the business we have before us. >> wolf, i did ask him ask the former president what he thought of vice president biden as a possible president in 20716. he says he likes him a lot. >> i guess we shouldn't be surprised about that. we'll see if he likes him a lot if in fact, bide is challenging hillary clinton for that democratic nomination or if he decides if she runs, he's not going to run or what's going on. lots of unanswered questions out there. juan carlos lopez, as usual, thanks very much. >> my pleasure, wolf. >> and you can see juan carlos' full interview with the former president, bill clinton on our sister network cnn espanol coming up 6:30 p.m. ea

he released this photo of his family with the clintons in 1999, but the clintons's loyalties were split in the election. the wife of deblazio's competitor was theed a aide to mrs. clinton. sonia sotomayor will be the first to drop the ball in times square on new year's eve. she will join both clintons, lady gaga as button pusher who is started the iconic ball drop on new year's eve. speaking of dropping something, brace yourself for sticker shock. 10,000 is how much it will cost you and a guest to dine in a new york city steak house on new year's eve. the owner said the economy is improving so he is offering a five-course menu that includes caviar, a salad, steak, and lobster tail with truffle. you get a bottle of wine and chocolate cake for dessert. how about two pieces for $10,000? how pundits and the public changed the course of the 2012 election. we are taking a dive into the moments the media described as game changers. they seemed big at the time, but did any of them really matter? you are watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. and now my journey across the country has brough

hillary clinton opinedded in the context of talks with the taliban. within the state department, there's a culture which treats engaugement as cost free. we will be no worse off if we try diplomacy and fail, former undersecretary of state commented, and bush secretary of state promoted a similar argument. we have enough confidence in our aided and abetted as dip mats to go eye-to-eye with people. even though we disagree in the strongest way possible and come away without losing anything. the notion it never hurts to talk never has been challenge. to encourage strategies, advocates of the diplomacy cite high cost of military action and dislocate and high cost of sanctions. certainly, they are right with regard to the cost of other strategies, but just because strategy a and strategy b have costs, does not make strategy c cost free or panacea. the cost of engauging rogue regimes can be high. that is not an argument against diplomacy, but ignoring costs and the strategy increases the price and diminish the success of diplomacy. a few observations. first

hillary clinton. hillary he says and he has a prescription how she can fix her image if she wants to and help the democrats hold onto the white house in 2016. >>> also how did an epa employee so-called convince the agency the reason he wasn't showing up for work two and a half years was because he was away on a cia mission? this is unbelievable. and how did he wind up living in the guest room of another epa official. this does not build confidence in government. >>> finally, the "duck dynasty" star who got a bit too graphic about why he's against homosexuality. well, this is "hardball," the place for politics. clients are always learning more to make their money do more. (ann) to help me plan my next move, i take scottrade's free, in-branch seminars... plus, their live webinars. i use daily market commentary to improve my strategy. and my local scottrade office guides my learning every step of the way. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) ran

, especially hillary clinton, in bad things. maybe even criminal bad things. >> now on tape, phone calls from prison. >> we're on a recorded phone. >> did he say anything damaging about his friends, the clintons? >> in one tape, the issue is protecting the first lady. hubbell's wife says he can't sue his old law firm over a billing dispute because that might expose hillary, his former law partner. >> makes it look like you really don't give a [ bleep ] and that it's wrong that you're opening hillary up to all of this. >> i would not do that. i won't raise those allegations that might open it up to hillary, and you know that. >> congressional investigators, specifically the chair of the house government reform and oversight committee, dan burton, had acquired 54 tapes of web hubbell's phone calls from prison and from the very carefully edited portions of those conversations, it really did seem like something fishy was going on. that hubbell was maybe secretly trying to protect hillary clinton from getting in trouble for some thin

>> meanwhile, former president bill clinton clarifying that promise that he made about president obama should keep their health plans. bill clinton said it was not designed to distance himself from the health care law in effort to help his wife hillary's 2016 presidential ambitions. >> i said nothing about this, not one word, until the president himself spoke. i don't think you can find anybody in america whose worked harder for his election or supported his bill or went out of the way to explain it to the american people than i did. >> intrigue, still. bill clinton says he does not know whether his wife will run for president and adds he will support joe biden as the 2016 presidential naumle knee if biden were to get the nomination. >>> the university of notre dame has filed another lawsuit. they're opposing a mandate in obama care. the affordable care act does make an exception for religious institutions. so this new lawsuit seeks an expanded exception. they want it for schools and universities as well. >>> we have a developing story out of beijing today, vice president joe biden mee

, especially hillary clinton, in bad things. maybe even criminal bad things. >> now on tape, phone calls from prison. >> we're on a recorded phone. >> did he say anything damaging about his friends, the clintons? >> in one tape, the issue is protecting the first lady. hubbell's wife says he can't sue his old law firm over a billing dispute because that might expose hillary, his former law partner. >> makes it look like you really don't give a [ bleep ] and that it's wrong that you're opening hillary up to all of this. >> i would not do that. it might open it up to hillary and you know that. >> congressional investigators, specifically the chair of the house government reform and oversight committee, dan burton, had acquired 54 tapes of web hubbell's phone calls from prison and from the very carefully edited portions of those conversations, it really did seem like something fishy was going on. that hubbell was maybe secretly trying to protect hillary clinton from getting in trouble for some thing. some bad seeming maybe even crim

the new york times is trying to help hillary clinton. it is no wonder if they're doing as bad as they are. lori: interesting take. thank you so much. be sure to get your orders in for the new book. debuting january 7th and is now available online for pre orders. take a minute to check us out on twitter. follow us or go to our facebook page with links to everything. and next this hour it was a record year on wall street. a new report by the "wall street journal" says the return of jobs is next. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all it's lots of things. all wang up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. ♪ lori: new polls on the economy, and it is good news showing that for the first time in years the majority of americans feel that it was a good year. up from 42% to felt that

obama and former secretary of state, hillary clinton, and there are the bushes, quite a plane load from air force one coming from washington. a light rain became a heavier and steadier rain today, and we are getting winds of around 20 miles per hour adding to how unpleasant it was. president carter, there, we spent time with him yesterday th. they are a group called the elders, world leaders who have been giving advice and council to nelson mandela and this country. this will be a very good time to tell our audience i will be joined by a veteran journalist and correspondent and a resident over here for much of the past 20 years. sharlane, as we see the scenes go past, you can help me on what we are watching. the arrivals very solemn. >> you talked about the rain, and we're sitting in it, but, you know, i have gotten so many text messages from south africans, thank god for the rain because the rain is a messing out in south africa, and they are seeing it as a blessing as much as they are able to say good-bye to nelson mandela. >> yeah, nobody is bothered by the rain. perhaps the american

hillary clinton. maybe john kerry and bill richardson can be 3 and 4 in the sent subsequent -- >> does that give her heat from benghazi, richard? the other people still feel good about benghazi and what happened that night. seem to be some lingering sense that there were major screwups over at the he state department. forget the cia but at the state department with security. a lot of red flags and people didn't do what they should have. does this "new york times" thing give her a blanket cover? >> look, it helps. there is nobody, i suspect not a single voter in the democratic primary process who aattaches significance to benghazi and thinks that hillary was under oath before rand paul and people who really wanted to stick it to her and we all know what came of that we all know bob gates the secretary of state the relief was cartoonish. i don't think benghazi, the "new york times" story helps but that's all. >> democrats going to hit her in the primaries over benghazi. >> if she even in a challenger fr

president obama and secretary clinton are the two you know thh most. they're the onesm in the news tt most. i would imagine that democrats find it hard to believe that george w. bush is second on the list.t it but it's people in the news and in your consciousness.t so, no, i wasn't that surprised he would be on that list. p >> but remember as president bush said history will tell. time will tell. he is still reading books about the first thpresident. >> i'm shocked that bill o'reilly was not at the top of the list.m it just astounds me. but this is one of the sloppiese polls i've seen in a long time. ron paul, the 8th most admired man in america. i have no idea how that is possible. this margin of error was plus or minus four. so statistically speaking ron paul was more admired than the pope. i just don't get that. >> i'mnt going to say how amazei am that you did your kiss up to o'reilly. one of the things that's clear r about these polls is the presidents always win these polls, and dana is right.it it's a reflection of what people know, the first thi

the new york times is trying to help hillary clinton. it is no wonder if they're doing as bad as they are. lori: interesting take. thank you so much. be sure to get your orders in for the new book. debuting january 7th and is now availablenline for pre orders. take a minute to check us out on twitter. follow us or go to our facebook page with links to everything. and next this hour it was a record year on wall street. a new report by the "wall street journal" says the return of jobs is next. friday night, buddy. you are gonna need a wingman. and with my cash back, you are money. forget him. my airline miles will take your game worldwide. what i'm really looking for is -- i got two words for you -- re-wards. ♪ there's got to be better cards than this. [ male announcer ] there's a better way with creditcards.com. compare hundreds of cards from all the major banks toind the one that's right for you. it's simple. search, compare, and apply at creditcards.com. first round's on me. [run your ente business with all-new intuitit.kbooks. search

clinton 45. paul, 44. look at this one, clinton, 40, christie 45. look at this one. cruz 41, clinton, 48. and there's clinton, bush, 47 to 40 for bush. no surprise there. all within the 40s. >> and it all goes to, look, these polls are just measuring the sentiment. >> that tells you something. >> the bit of good news you can see is that her numbers are better than barack obama's in iowa right now. he's the last poll that i saw there, he's in the low 40s. >> who's that? >> the president. so if you're a democrat that's really what you're being pegged at. hillary clinton has a name, she has 47%. that's not that hard to get in a state like iowa. the question is, once this race gets engaged, she's the best known person in this field, does iowa look like it does today? >> i remember when i was working as a speechwriter, and teddy kennedy was unbeatable. the minute he announced he disappeared. hillary announces. they'll hit her with the benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. whatever it means, it means something to them. that ramming of her day after day after day. >> they're going

the truth is president clinton moved right. it was a conservative play. >> that was not something that -- >> it was don't ask/don't tell. >> he was always-he compared in 1974 for congress. he didn't move, but he moved his party. this is what the republicans need. you all don't need a second reagan, but a second clinton. someone to bring into the mainstream. >> we'll hold off. the generic balance -- the democrat party is losing to a party you're calling -- what does it make the democrat at that point? part of it is because obama care is such a disaster. we all know that. the american people now know it. >> only thing worse than obama is obama care. >> and the only thing worse is republicans. >> have you looked at that recently? >> the generic ballot test, where they're basically equally matched. what you guys have done is closed the gap. you know, following up on what paul said, i've been doing campaigns for a long time. i've seen you strike fear in some republicans in 2010. but let's take a look at what's happening right now. y

reagan and clinton both recovered. george w. bush did not. the next year will decide which side president obama ends up on. but the stench of tanking party brand approval set the stage for republican party chairman to call for an internal attitude audit for the party that produced an election autopsy and a prescription for rebranding. so how did the party's performance this year measure up to the reports prescriptions? the report warped republicans to reach out to minorities, push for immigration reform, be inclusive on social issue, help lower income folks and improve its messaging. but the gop was cast as out of touch. several state legislatures announced new restrictions on an bopg. and house republicans split food stamps which benefit the poor from agricultural sub city sgis. and then there was the government shutdown which turned in to an unmitigated political disaster for the gop, producing ma massive pessimism. is can republicans net their six seats and win control of the senate? does the president recover? 35 seats in the senate side

the democratic party is brainwashing us presently saying hillary clinton, hillary clinton, hillary clinton. another person who i feel she is entitled to be our president. host: who would you like to see run? caller: i do not know. i did not vote for either one of the candidates in the previous election. host: did you not vote? caller: i voted for the support systems, senators and policies and things like that. none of them said anything that i liked. host: tell us a bit about yourself. what should we know about you? caller: i am and black american. i am not african-american. i was born here. i have never been to africa. i am a black american. i am a marine corps veteran. worked all my life in ohio. public servant. i do not know what else you on the to say. host: tell us about yourself politically. who have you voted for in the past? caller: i voted for reagan, clinton. i voted all over. i vote for who i feel will best represent the united states of america. ok/ ? i called independent because i feel i am independent. i do not listen to the rhetoric that a lot of people have to say about thi

. >> reporter: but when bill clinton was elected the relationship grew personal. mandela made numerous trips to the u.s. including soon after his election as president of south africa. and president clinton traveled to south africa and visited the jail cell mandela called home. >> he is a ferociously loyal friend. >> reporter: mandela stuck by his american counterpart. >> we have often said that our morality does not allow us to desert our friends. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think he found an individual in bill clinton. >> reporter: they remained close after clinton left office. >> there were many opportunities that bill clinton took to visit south africa to meet with mandela, to work together on anti-aids movements and many other things. >> reporter: mandela's relationship with president george w. bush was not as friendly. after the attacks on september 11th -- >> i know you have a strong leader, and the people of the united states of america can face disaster. >> reporter: he supported george bush's actions in afghanistan but was a critic of the actions in ira

clinton, ms. gore, barack obama, elizabeth warren or other high priests priests. thank you all, that is all in for this evening. >> i am so tempted to start talking about jesus christ the original community organizer. >> that's a lot there. >> but that's going to make for a very long night. >> we should have that conversation sometime. anyway, thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. once upon a time, a member of congress shocks a watermelon. he shot a poor defenseless watermelon with a pistol. he thought that shooting a watermelon in his backyard might help him prove his theory that president bill clinton was secretly a murder. >> we at my house with a homicide detective tried to re-create a head and fired a .38 four-inch barrel into that to see if the sound could be heard from 100 yards away, even though there's a effort mover making all kinds of racket and you could hear the bullet clearly. >> you could hear the bullet clearly when he shot the watermelon. or maybe it was a pump kin, perhaps a honey dew. he shot it and that proved to him at least that a f

the republicans have a big primary in front of them and number of candidates, hillary clinton won't have much of a primary in front of her and that makes a big difference. >> i agree. >> she is still the winner on the -- on the gallop pole and she is at 15%. so that is -- >> did you see that oprah winfrey edged out michelle obama. >> i saw that. she is not happy about that. >> she's burning in the white house. she's very upset. >> the president will be sleeping on the couch. with all of the that love and affection, you have edged me out. >> and one more thing to talk about that you might watch this other station, and you might have seen the "today" show did a ranking of prit cal -- political events of 2013. take a look at this sound of matt lauer. >> number ten, the event that everybody said should make the list is wendy davis defending abortion rights. >> people felt if we had more leaders like wendy davis willing to stand up for what is right, we would get somewhere. >> and number five, the government shutdown. >> i called it the gop shutdown. it is false to say it was a failure of gov

you got clinton, clinton. maybe another clinton. maybe it's time to nominate somebody who is not a bush or a clinton. when we are asked, he was asked are you going to challenge the throne? he played a little coy. i tell you. i have lived in iowa all my life. i have not been to all 99 count. you don't say you will go to all 99 counties unless you are running for something. >> i was expecting him to say, well, you know, lots of thing in the future, i'm not thinking about that. i was struck by the blunt nessness of his answer. what was the reception when he sort of worked a couple rooms in iowa, what was the reception? did they like who they received? did they like what they were hearing? >> democrats in iowa like brian sweitzer. think they that he is entertaining. they like listens to him. but people here are very reserved about saying that they would support anyone for president beside hillary clinton. they are definitely waiting to hear what she will do. brian skwooits sweitzer may not wait to hear what she is going to do. most of t

they've been covering the clinton foundation. it's like it's a charity, but it's depicted like a black star or something. >> you know, kiki, it used to be, the foundation does so much amazing work. for a time we were actually getting stories about that. now, of course, it's all gloom and doom. the other thing that really bothers me about this, i would say the two things are, number one, i think it's disrespectful to president obama. number two, it feels like a narrative is being built of inevidentability about clinton. then if she does run, she will have to defend herself against. it's mostly been built up by the media. >> there were two moments in the past month that really struck me. they go right to the heart of what eric has written about. the first of which, i was fortunate enough to sit next to a very senior african-american political leader recently who was completely offended by "the new york times" story you raised about her relationship with the african-american community. couldn't believe they'd written it. wondered wh

bush, his wife, laura, and former secretary of state hillary clinton. former presidents jimmy carter and bill clinton will also be attending the memorial but they are traveling separately. the only living president not going to the mandela funeral is george h.w. bush. he's 89 and is no longer able to travel long distances. >>> in south africa people are still gathering outside of nelson mandela's house in johannesburg. this is video shot earlier this morning. tomorrow, a public memorial service will be held in a soccer stadium that seats 95,000 people. then nelson mandela's body will lie in state in a government building in pretoria from wednesday through friday and then on sunday, nelson mandela will be buried in the remote village that he grew up in. >>> 7:16. today, south africa's

reagan and clinton recovered and did not. the next year will determine when side president obama ends up o. the sting of the 2012 defeats and the stench of tanking party brand approval set the stage for the chairman to call for a sort of internal attitude audit for the party that produced an election autopsy and a prescription for rebranding. how did the issue measure up to the reports prescriptions. the report and immigration. her role in ending racism passed the gop as out of touch. an extreme example, but an immigration bill backed by senators stalled in the house. several legislatures on the issues this year. in washington house republicans split food stamps that benefit from subsidies that led to a law of farmers and farm bill. then there was the government shut down that turned into unmitigated rattling the pessimism in confidence. the republican party had a negative rating of over 50%. that's where it ends to you. if republicans somehow win in montana, south dakota and virginia. they need to win three out of these four

former secretary of state hillary clinton is leading by a wide margin, 68%. while republicans are a little more closely-bunched, new jersey governor chris christie is leading the gop pack at 16%. juan williams is a fox political analyst. mary catherine ham, editor-at-large for hotair.com and a fox news crittore as well. i couldn't wait to talk to you guys as about this. even when i report on 2016 i assume that people will write me saying, it's a little early. nobody has. it really isn't. so if we're thinking about it, they must really be thinking about it. juan, do you think these numbers are accurate at this point and will they hold? >> i don't know if they will hold, jamie. i think critical point here a lot is determined in the midterms coming up next year in those 2014 elections on the democratic side. i think whether or not obamacare continues to be a dominant issue. how do people relate it. hillary had her own problems with trying to put in place a health care system and it failed. so, you know, and she has been an advocate for obamacare. how will democr

clinton, ms. gore, barack obama, elizabeth warren or other high priests. thank you all, that is all in for this evening. >> i am so tempted to start talking about jesus christ the original community organizer. >> that's a lot there. >> but that's going to make for a very long night. >> we should have that conversation sometime. anyway, thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. once upon a time, a member of congress shocks a watermelon. he shot a poor defenseless watermelon with a pistol. he thought that shooting a watermelon in his backyard might help him prove his theory that president bill clinton was secretly a murder. >> we at my house with a homicide detective tried to re-create a head and fired a .38 four-inch barrel into that to see if the sound could be heard from 100 yards away, even though there's a effort mover making all kinds of racket and you could hear the bullet clearly. >> you could hear the bullet clearly when he shot the watermelon. or maybe it was a pumpkin, perhaps a honey dew. he shot it and that proved to him at least that a fo

shook hands with bill clinton. today he has two speakers among these very special dignitaries, president obama and raul castro. that will be closely watched checking in with people who flew over in air force one and members of the international security team have no assurances of seating arrangements or any ways of keeping them apart. you don't know whether or not according to protocol or however they are going to arrange this whether or not castro would be seated near barack obama. >> we were saying they will go through extraordinary lengths to keep everybody separate. you hear the applause for some of the dignitaries for entered. those of you waiting for the arrival of president obama he is still at the hotel. they have to hold some of them back so they are staggered as they enter. of course, his security is larger than most. >> it is very interesting when i was traveling with president clinton when he came to visit nelson mandela -- >> hang on one moment. we need to tell our viewers that you are watching our liv

is it a continuation of the clinton era, the bill clinton era? is it a continuation of the barack obama era? and to what degree would her set of issues, her set of policy positions reflect kind of the economic reality of america in this decade where, again, there are issues like income inequality that i think people are talking about in a completely different way than they were in 2008, and certainly a different way than they were in the 1990s. >> yeah. and that's i think the most important part of this for people around the country. you can look at other candidacies in rfk or mcgovern where whatever happened to their political future, their role as a would-be potential aspire rant or challenger would pro tech their policies as they were being imp 789ed in the time. karen tumulty and jimy williams, thank you for talking to us. >>> coming up, it's the hustle and cash flow that drives d.c. we have lawrence lessic here at the set to discuss. [ female announcer ] from your first breath, to your first roll, pampers swaddlers was there. and now swaddle

clinton 45. paul, 44. look at this one, clinton, 40rks christie 45. look at this one. cruz 41, clinton, 48. and there's clinton, bush, 47 to 40 for bush. no surprise there. all within the 40s. >> and it all goes to, look, these polls are just measuring the sentiment. >> that sells you somethitells . the bit of good news you can see is that her numbers are better than barack obama's in iowa right now. he's the last poll that i saw there, he's in the low 40s. >> who's that? >> the president. so if you're a democrat that's really what you're being pegged at. hillary clinton has a name, she has 47%. that's not that hard to get in a state like iowa. the question is, once this race gets engaged, she's the best known person in this field, does iowa look like it does today? >> i remember when i was working as a speechwriter, and teddy kennedy was unbeatable. the minute he announced he disappeared. hillary announces. they'll hit her with the benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. whatever it means, it means something to them. that ramming of her day after day after day. >> they're going

this is among poll folks who self-identified as democrats. 68% say clinton. the next in line is a full, you know, 50 plus points behind, 56, i think. i was not a matt major. 12% vice president biden. we have elizabeth warner and cuomo on the list as well. do you think anyone dethrones her. she was coroner nateed already in 2007 and that didn't go so well. i think that has to be upper most on her mind as she looks at whether to go in or not. that said, i think the likelihood is that she will go in and i think the likelihood is that she will get the nomination. however, not without a large -- a lot of vocal opposition from the left. there is a big segment of the left that thinks she is too pro-business and will want to go towards elizabeth warren. there is a big part of the left who think she is not pro-environmentalist enough. she gave remarks this fall about appraising the energy boom and united states roundly attacked as being somebody who cares about fossil fuels too much by the anti-fracking crowd. so we are going to hear interest. they you will hear about

hillary clinton may face the most as the democratic front-runner now. she in 2008 ran to the right of mr. obama. a president who is now seep as not liberal enough by the party base. brett? >> carl, thank you. >>> a relationship that's seep it all is entering a new phase. fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz howard curts on president obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton. >> they begin as bitter rivals for the presidency. >> shame on you, barack obama. >> you're likable enough. >> thank you so much. >> by the time hillary clinton stepped down as secretary of state, the president was arranging a mutual love fest on "60 minutes." >> how would you characterize your relationship right now? >> i consider hillary a strong friend. >> very warm, close. >> but that very warm relationship has entered a new and trickier phase. he needs her to provide cover on issues such as the obama care mess, even if that means occasional potshots from her husband, who insisted this week he is clueless about her intentions. >> is she running or do you

clinton about their special bond. >> you met with nelson mandela more than any president. and i wonder what was your relationship in those days? >> well, we became good friends. on that end, ironically in 1992 i met him at the democratic convention in new york when i was being nominated for president. we had business to do. they were one of the countries that voluntarily gave up their nuclear arsenal. and in the process of that we became good personal friends. we used to do business together on the phone where their time difference was so great i would take the call at night. and it wasn't too late mandela would make me go get chelsea every time he called and he would talk to her and ask her if she was doing her homework. he was an enormous help to me during every difficult time i had as president. and he did it all, interestingly enough while he never stopped being president of south africa. so if his country had a position that disagreed with ours, we would have our argument and he would be very firm. but when we weren't working, he was my friend. >> i wonder why you cli

he took president clinton there in march of 1998 on a tour. i remember that well. i was the white house correspondent for cnn at the time, and it was -- it was a moment that i'll never forget. but i'm going to show our viewers, the picture of the two of you, you and nelson mandela. you worked together. how many years were you in robben island prison together with him? >> well, nelson mandela spent a total of 27 years, that's well known through the world. i got a discount. i was in prison for 15 years, spending 13 of those on robben isla island. but it's not about the time that we spent there, but the time we spent there discussion, strategizing, looking at how the future ahead of us. you're talking about a small cell. the cells are small, but it contained a formidable, a very large, larger than life figure, but someone who was very humble, who loved life. those principles were well through the years. today we see nelson mandela, the principles of dialogue, and on robben island, side by side with other leaders. of course, nelson mandela is gone, but let me tell you,

clinton, secretary clinton's chances for 2016. she'll be in a tricky position, i mean, she was part of the obama administration. she can't really walk away from it. on the other hand, she's not going to want, i think, to inherit all the baggage that might be there by 2016. >> there is something about whether or not calling it obama care is a problem, susan. today, house minority whip steny hoyer told reporters, quote, i wish i hadn't called it obama care before because that has politicized it and has been used by republicans as a pejorative term. by calling it obama care, it's a pejorative term. that's interesting coming from a house democratic leader. >> yeah, well, the source is surprising but the fact is true. the gulf organization tested that in their poll and found the affordable care act gets higher ratings than obama care. you can describe exactly the same policy but labeling it with obama does inject very partisan politics into it. so it -- but i think the white house decided, whatever jay carney said today, the white hous

a friend of bill clinton, a friend of hillary clinton, a friend of former presidents. a man who spoke with tremendous heart and passion to the united states congress was friends to numerous presidents is going to be remembered as a man who really changed the world. a man who undoubtedly never gave up the struggle for freedom, the struggle for civil rights, keeping his eye on the big picture. never putting himself before anything else. it was the struggle. it was a story of success. nelson mandela, a revolutionary throughout his life, a man who never gave up. spent 27 years behind bars, came back. february 2nd, 1990, amidst the escalating pressure, lifted the ban on the anc and released mandela from president -- from prison. and mandela was awarded the nobel peace prize in december of 1993 and following in 1994, april of that year in the south africa first truly democratic election where all races were allowed to participate, nelson mandela was overwhelmingly elected to the presidency of south africa. he leaves us this day at the age of 95. reverend al sharpton picks up

. >>> plus, clinton honors mandela. the former president shares very personal stories about his friend and his hero. he says the south african leader's advice helped him get through one of his darkest hours. stand by for my one-on-one interview. >>> plus, breaking news. a snow and ice emergency. a deadly winter storm is causing havoc on the roads and in the skies across america. we're tracking the danger as the deep freeze moves east and a new storm develops out west. >>> and a big jump in jobs. does president obama deserve credit for improving the u.s. economy after a surprisingly strong employment report? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> a ten-day mourning period is under way for one of the most influential leaders of our time. we're learning more about the final tributes to nelson mandela. stand by for that, and for my special conversation with the former president, bill clinton. he reveals a time when he and the south african president didn't see eye-to-eye but first, the breaking news we're fol

white house christmas card and the list of people to whom this evil dastardly clinton christmas card was september. there's got to be a scandal there somewhere. dan burton also demanded to know whether taxpayer dollars were being extended to respond to fan mail that was september to the clinton family cat, who was named socks. congressman dan burton was involved in a lot of really embarrassing stuff involving witch hunting the clintons in his time in office. he also had his share of his own embarrassments, he got caught out in an fbi investigation of pakistan's military secretly funneling money to members of the u.s. congress. he got up on the house floor and invade against president clinton for his sexual immorality. >> no one, regardless of what party they serve, no one in which branch of government they serve should be allowed to get a away with these alleged sexual improprieties. >> that was congressman dan burton speaking on the house floor, not long before he himself admitted that he too had had a long extramarital affair which included him fathering a child who he had kept sec