carson runs. i think -- i agree with matt. an anti-establishment candidate, however, i think you're way overreading the results of that election. when you look at the issues that won around the country and that map was very conservative, it was an older, more affluent whiter crowd and it wasn't the emerging majority, young people minorities, single women and i think you see a country that is waiting for something different. they want a government that works for them. they don't want a rigged system that works for the corporations or the very wealthy and they want to be part of a recovery that they hear a lot about, but they don't feel they're part of. >> i don't think it's overread at all. i'm in four or five states a week. i've been for the last year and a half, and i predicted a long time ago what the results for the election would be because i'm hearing what the people are saying. >> i should say we have this facebook senti-meter. dr. carson doing well in iowa up there with rubio and christie. on positive interactions in io

his name was johnny carson. it was the same johnny carson. >> you ended up meeting because he was a magician? >> yeah. >> you did some magic? >> that's right. i met carson as a magician backstage, church basement and i took my two little magician friends with me and there he was. and gave us a filthy look every magician would give you when he is concealing a dove in his coat, setting up the egg. i said, it's all right, mr. carson, we are magicians. "okay, fellows." he was so nice to us. >> you stayed in touch with carsson. he was a significant help to your career. >> that's one of the things that struck me about your life was the amazing amount of incredible people that you managed to somehow connect with early, and a lot of it was because you were incredibly persistent. you do things most of us wouldn't have the guts to do. >> i was known for going into judy garland's dressing room at the palace and saying hello after a show. at one point, she said is this an interview or something? i was still in college. but

carson or a governor outside of washington, d.c. the thing about the republican party, everybody says they're going to nominate the most conservative party. they haven't since goldwater in 1964. they nominate the person most electable and satisfies conservatives. >> i think -- i hope dr. carson runs i think -- i agree with matt. >>> anti-establishment candidate. you're way overreads the results of that electric. the issues that won and that map was very conservative it was an older, more affluent whiter crowd wasn't the emerging majority. young people minorities single women and i think you see a country that is waiting for something different. they want a government that works for them. they don't want a rigged system that works for the corporations or the very wealthy and they want to be part of a recovery that they hear a lot about but they don't feel they're part of. >> i'm in four or five states a week. i've been for the last year and a half and i predicted a long time ago what the results for the election would be because i'm

carson, a foreign-policy question, a bit of history. what is your understanding that the basis president bush 43 used to go into iraq with military force? was it a good idea in retrospect? >> my thinking is that he thought that there were weapons of mass destruction, and that saddam hussein was one of the people behind 9/11 and behind a lot of the mischief going on in the world. and therefore, he felt he was justified in doing that. there are a lot of people who fall on different sides of that argument. i personally felt there were probably better ways to handle it. >> he said one reason president bush went in was because he thought saddam hussein was involved with 9/11? >> he thought that was a potential, and that he was involved with a lot of of the mischief going on in that part of the world and that he had weapons of mass destruction. >> but you think in retrospect it was a mistake for president bush to do that? >> i do not think it was a mistake to get rid of saddam hussein, but i think there are probably more effective ways of doi

, that had a -- fort carson, that had a cruelty. in one particular case at fort carson in the brigade headquarters near where you'd sign out to see a doctor, someone hung up a sheet that said i'm going to go see a psychologist because i'm a coward, i'm soft, c, all of the above. and this wasn't there for a few hours, this was there for days. someone wrote a suicide note on their wall. thankfully, they got to help before it was too late, but the army court-martialed him for defacing army property. this was the stigma that mark was finding. and meanwhile, the numbers are ticking up higher and higher and higher. so he's confronted now at fort carson with a base with the highest suicide rate of any base in the military. and he's a person who understands more than any officer in the military what it is to lose someone to a wound that you can't see. what it is to lose someone who you love when you didn't know that they needed help until it was too late to give it to them. and he knows that for many of these young soldiers at the base and

i'm sorry the voice of rachel carson is still today. she would have been proud of this bill and this moment. >> there were all of these things that were beginning to affect human health. we had cities in america increasingly having to call smog alerts. we had rivers catching on fire. in the santa barbara oil spill, it became clear that even the very richest cities were going to be exposed to massive environmental threats. >> the drilling continues and so do the leaks. and the question here is not whether it will happen again but when and how bad will it be. >> issue after issue kept piling up. >> there is a building sense that we are stakeholders in the environment, that it is something that we humans can rule in. this is a real shift in our thinking. >> people were really worried. and the political establishment started to respond. >> without the environmental movement coming out of the '60s, we would not have a clean air act, clean water act. i mean, there was a wave of legislation that emerged in the immediate aftermath. >> we have n

how do -- >> losing carson was a devastating blow. but we're confident drew is going to be able to get it done for us, he won a lot of games, and he's got confidence in himself. >> when you have a team that's playing this well, do you let your hopes get up at all, especially a guy like you? you know, five years ago, less than a minute away from winning a super bowl before the steelers went and snatched it from you guys, i know you guys have been trying to get there ever since. >> there's a lot of excitement in town, we see a lot of drivers taking my son to school, flash flying, but we're making sure we're doing everything we can to sustain that. we're playing at a high level and hopefully our fans will stay behind us. >> there's been some controversy about your role in the team, are they using you right. we have heard from your dad, your old quarterback kurt warner, what do you think? >> it's interesting you ask me that question, because i hear a lot of talk, from other people not from me. if i have issues or complaints i will voice m

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>> officer deed, this is officer carson's section. i have a 115 for you for the fight you had on the yard the other day. charged with battery on an inmate with serious injuries. it's a d.a. referral offense. and if you're found guilty of that, it carries a maximum forfeiture of 360 days. okay, being that you're in lockup, you have the right to have an investigative employee. okay, if you have anybody you want to investigate it -- >> anybody on the yard, they seen what happened. i don't know their names. that's what i'm saying. if you could find out for me, i don't know their last name. they will tell you it was self-defense. >> what i'm going to do, i'm going to get the log, see who was out there that day, ask them the questions you want me to ask them. was it self-defense, did he swing on you first, is that what you want me to ask them? >> that it was self-defense, he swung on me first. >> he swung on me first. >> the whole yard seen it. >> i will give you a copy of the report once it's typed. >> all right. >> all right? >> all right

leadership, johns hopkins became the top rated neurosurgery center in the nation. >> reporter: carson has made some controversial remarks but not backed down from his policies. he once called obama care the worst thing that has happened to the country since slavery. >> and no group be theyçó gays,e theyq m -- >> reporter: carson is trying to defining himself as a candidate. >> my legacy is a system where we have health savings accounts. everybody in america has a health savings account, it can be populated with $2,000 every year. if you don't use it, it just continues to accumulate, and a third of it has to be designated for catastrophic or bridge insurance and you give people the ability to shift funds. >> he says in the movie that doctors are among the most educated people and they're trained to make their decisions based on evidence, not ideology. >>> the dow and the s&p 500 hit new record closes yet again today, the dow gained 40, the s&p was up 6 and the nasdaq >>> still ahead here just how far should taxpayers go to a group of birds that just don't want to move. >>> first to t

as are willie and carson. they're about to get their testicular exams live on the air, part of our campaign to raise awareness for men's health. >> early detection, 95% cure rate. >> and we're tremendously proud of them and the awareness. it's really touched home. a lot of the tweets and facebook posts you've sent to us from home touch on this as well. >>> let's get a check of the top stories. natalie is over at the news desk. >> good morning to you once again. republicans in congress are pushing back hard against president obama's immigration reform detailed in a speech thursday night. nbc national correspondent peter alexander is at the white house. peter, good morning. >> natalie, good morning to you. those republican critics accuse president obama acting more like he's king than president. in effect these sweeping new changes will give legal status to the 5 million of roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living here. the president will head to las vegas today to promote this program. the programs lik

so, can gop leaders keep up appearances or will ben carson's gaffe have coat tails? lynn winstead, jonathan capehart, an msnbc contributor, and hogan gidly is a republican strategist. i hesitate to say my pal because i still want you to get some work. >> thank you very much. >> let's talk about ben carson, first off. i'm going to start with you, liz, because dr. carson is one of those republicans who -- he fills a need in a lot of ways for republicans. as an african-american he shows diversity, is a very impressive man. you know, his background as a neurosurgeon. a lot of us grew up reading his book and knowing who he was before knowing how conservative he is. but when he speaks, he speaks to a kind of conservative that's really, really way far to the right. is that something he could maybe fix or walk back on? and if he did, do you think he could be viable in 2016? >> i just don't know. i feel like you can also read a lot of things he's said before that have liberal leanings. affirmative action, he was a recipient of it and lauded it saying, i want to call it someth

benjiman carson. it seems to me for many people involved in this, it didn't matter where evidence took them, they had made up their minds and they have a narrative for a political agenda they're following. now the evidence has come in, they're still justifying it. what is the reaction? >> seems like people on both sides have made up their minds about things and facts mean little in those situations we have to stop and ask ourselves is there something we can learn from this? no one is perfect. the police are not perfect. they tried to do a very good job. i can't imagine what it would like if they weren't here but they're in a difficult situation because you know, you look at the football games and other kinds of things occur when students go wild or sometimes, they're not students and they turn over cars and burns things up. police don't know what to do in those cases either. we need to train them more. i think the people, this is the key the people have to ask themselves what are they getting out of b

carson, good to see you. i want to tell the viewers that there's a developing situation right now in ferguson. st. louis police reporting shots fired at the apartment complex where michael brown was killed. we're live on the scene next. test >>> breaking tonight, st. louis police reporting shots fired at the apartment complex where michael brown was killed. we have no report of injuries at this hour. we'll continue to monitor it. elsewhere in ferguson, protesters are gathering but things are absolutely calmer at this hour than they were just 24 hours ago. mike tobin reports live for us from ferguson, missouri, tonight. mike? >> you're on. >> reporter: now? all right, megyn, i can show you what's different tonight that we haven't seen in past nights, and that is this cadre of national guardsmen we have. you have the city and county police coming through them right now, but it's important to look at the national guardsmen because that's a new development. they're here to stand sentry and provide security of the

chris christie, jeb bush, rand paul, ben carson take a look. a been carson documentary. i want to make it clear we did not add the soundtrack to this. ♪ >> [laughter] ok. >> putting aside the obvious jokes, which of these potential presidential candidates has taken advantage of this midterm moment? >> two people. it is early, but the momentum matters. chris christie is already meeting with his donors and figuring out how to take a victory lap. chris christie can be surprisingly strong. if jeb bush hesitates, chris christie could be the god who raises tens of millions. rand paul has continued with the social media want to be the main candidate in the face of hillary clinton. a lot of republicans want somebody who will take her on. he has been aggressive. >> paul, christy is doing a lot of behind the scenes work. he has capitalized in a low-key way. rand paul is a mixture. both of us agree he is not going to be the nominee. his combination of talk about expanding the republican coalition, reaching out to groups that have not been appealed to, he is planned with this anti

what do we make of ben carson? he is incredible popular. >> he is going to be a real factor in iowa. that part of the field will be crowded. >> they are both the tea-vangelicals. ted cruz and ben carson is cool. they have two different temperaments. >> ted cruz has won election in texas. >> carson has not. >> he has no political background at all. i was watching. >> that could be an asset. >> i was watching him on maryland pbs last night. he taped it about a year ago. his lecture on the brain, fascinating stuff. a live audience. >> the rest of us are watching football. andrea is watching a pbs special. >> i saw he was on the tube. >> she wasn't watching the iron bowl. that is not what was happening. you were terrific. speep thanksgiving weekend. >> i should do the nerd thing. >> before we go. quick note, this week if it's tuesday, it will be the ten-year anniversary, ready for that -- ten-year anniversary of brian williams anchoring "nbc nightly news." many congratulations to him. a decade, brother! nice work. hope

what do we make of ben carson? he is incredible popular. >> he is going to be a real s k factor in iowa. that part of the field will be crowded. >> they are both the tea-vangelicals. ted cruz and ben carson is cool. they have two different temperament temperaments. >> ted cruz has won election in texas. >> carson has not. >> he has no political background at all. i was watching. >> that could be an asset. >> i was watching him on maryland pbs last night. he taped it about a year ago. his lecture on the brain, fascinating stuff. a live audience. >> the rest of us are watching football. andrea is watching a pbs special. >> i saw he was on the tube. >> she wasn't watching the iron bowl. that is not what was happening. you were terrific. >> i should do the nerd thing. >> before we go. quick note, this week if it's tuesday, it will be the ten-year anniversary, ready for that -- ten-year anniversary of brian williams ang s anchoring "nbc n news." a decade, nice work. hope to match you. >> if it's thursday, allison willia

ben carson has had a >>> dr. ben carson has had a very good platform as a fox news contributor, even when taking questions like this. >> wouldn't putting ben carson in the oval office be akin to putting a politician in an operating room and having him perform one of your brain surgeries? >> i don't think so. i think what is required for leadership is wisdom. >> and fox news ended carson's contract on friday, just as he was about to air a paid hour-long bio, the likely salvo in a likely presidential campaign. this was a smart move by fox because a man more or less running for president shouldn't be on fox's payroll. and mike huckabee is also weighing a white house run as well. >>> james comey says one of his aides impersonated an ap reporter. it was a fake ap story sent to a teenager as a way of tracking him down. the ap calls this unacceptable. i think it's outrageous. the problem is it creates distrust and possible risks for actual reporters doing the actual job. >>> here are a few of your top tweets. the media

chris christie, jeb bush, rand paul ben carson take a look. a been carson documentary. i want to make it clear we did not add the soundtrack to this. ♪ >> [laughter] ok. >> putting aside the obvious jokes, which of these potential presidential candidates has taken advantage of this midterm moment? >> two people. it is early, but the momentum matters. chris christie is already meeting with his donors and figuring out how to take a victory lap. chris christie can be surprisingly strong. if jeb bush hesitates chris christie could be the god who raises tens of millions. rand paul has continued with the social media want to be the main candidate in the face of hillary clinton. a lot of republicans want somebody who will take her on. he has been aggressive. >> paul christy is doing a lot of behind the scenes work. he has capitalized in a low-key way. rand paul is a mixture. both of us agree he is not going to be the nominee. his combination of talk about expanding the republican coalition, reaching out to groups that have not been appealed to, he is planned with this anti-h

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ben carson. it's great to have you here, dr. carson. there's so much to get into right now, but can we begin with ferguson, missouri, and how it's been handled and what's likely to happen in the next couple of days? >> i'm grateful that michael brown's father called for calm. it locked like a sincere appeal and other responsible individuals, as well. i believe that there are a number of outside agitators who are coming in and i believe, however, that most of the people are going to be smart enough to understand that they should not respond with violence which will simply induce violence on behalf of the police. this is a kind of thing that is causing militarization of police forces, not only in ferguson, but throughout the nation. what happens when that happens? these clashes become violent, frequently deaths occur. and most often those deaths are -- the deaths of the people are those protesting and they need to stop and think it through. will you let outside agitators manipulate you for more people to be injured and killed or think it

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ben carson has had a very good platform as a fox news contributor. >> wouldn't putting ben carson in the oval office be akin to putting a politician in an operating room and having him perform one of your brain surgeries? >> i don't think so. i think what is required for leadership is wisdom. >> and fox news ended carson's contract on friday just as he was about to air a paid hour-long bio. this was a smart move by fox. a guy more or less running for president shouldn't be on a network payroll. which means they face that decision about mike huckabee. >>> fbi chief has admitted one of his agents impersonated an associate press reporter. this was back in 2007 when they forged a fake ap story as a way of tracking him down. the ap calls this unacceptable and i have to agree. the problem is that it creates distrust and possible risks for actual reporters doing the actual job. >>> here are a few of your top tweets. george mitchel, a form of confirmation bias. most reporters loathe the outcome. did they miss it? no, they tried to influence against it and denied it when it became inevitable.

arizona now 8-1 with, you know, carson palmer situation there and then new england. two really tough games back to back. tampa bay, minnesota, and then at chicago and week 17, where do they find up? here. packers, philadelphia. new gland comes in. final game against detroit right here which could be for a lot of marbles. first down for carey. >> cris: wouldn't mind being here for that one. that detroit team is tough. boy, they have a good front line. i know, you have to get your parka out. it's a -- you know, that is an exciting team. and you just wonder now if offensively they start to get it going with calvin johnson and golden tate and the way they can, you know, run the football. reggie's back and healthy a little bit again. that team, you said it before. quietly has taken the lead and really has sort of been quietly. >> al: remember the last time detroit beat green bay here? 1991. throws and a jump ball and just a moment it looked like house had come down with it and the ball throwed free incomplete. >> cris: tough to make this play over jeffery. went up, got th

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fourth quarter, third and seven, carson palmer drops back. as he steps up to avoid pressure, he goes down awkwardly. you can see, buckles. as he plants. goes down without contact. watch the scary stumble there. adam schefter and media reports have it that the cardinals fear he suffered a torn acl in his left knee. gone in need plays like this. stant on the brown. and the man can bookie. later, austin davis of the rams throwing to kenny brett. can't handle. patrick peterson, the other way. 30 yards to the house. cardinals win, they're 8-1. >>> all right, bears and packers. someone tweeted, carrie underwood waited all weekend for this sunday night game? aaron rodgers with a franchise record six touchdown passes in the first half alone. packers win it, 55-14. the bears have lost 5 of their last 6. >>> the week doesn't end until we say so. espn's "monday night football" first place eagles host cam newton and the carolina panthers. all starts with "monday night countdown" 6:00 eastern right here on espn. kickoff scheduled around 8:15. we'll see yo

stay tuned for "carson daly." we'll see you tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> i think i did something wrong. >> no, no, no, no -- it's really good, yeah. um, what's it supposed to be? >> a chair. >> oh yeah, you definitely did something wrong. >> well, first, i was putting it together while i was watching the show, so i was distracted. good show by the way. >> oh, love venn diagrams. >> secondly, i can't figure out the instructions. >> well, where did you get it from? >> micekia. >> ugh, stupid sweedish mice. >> can you help fix this thing. >> all right, step one. locate your allen wrench. where's the old allen wrench. oh, that makes me think of allen. >> oh, right, i forgot about allen. >> things haven't been the same around here since he got sucked up into that vacuum cleaner. >> you know what, how about a moment of silence for allen. >> dammit! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> carson: hey, what's up everybody? i'm carson daly, and you are watching "last call" tonight coming to you from amp radio, here in l

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> carson: good evening, i'm carson daly and you are watching "last call" from amp radio in beautiful los angeles, california. here's what we got for you, tonight. we got music from the front bottoms. we're going to shine a light o "starry eyes" actress alex esso and right now english actress gugu mbatha-raw turned heads earlier this year with a breakout preformance in the period piece, "belle." now you can catch her starring as a modern day music superstar in the film "beyond the lights" from bugatta supper club, here's more. ♪ >> my first time on stage ever was i

carson, where are you? >> over here! >> oh, could this be a marketing ploy. >> this morning, we are hearing from the young man himself. >> this is the photo that became an overnight sensation, catapulting a teen boy from texas known only as alex from target to instant fame. the #alexfromtarget has landed the teen on "ellen." >> how many did you have before? >> 144. >> you now have how many? 5,000. >> late tuesday, a british firm admitted to a marketing employ to start the phenomenon. the ceo of the company is claiming to have engineered a social media experience saying, we want to see how powerful the fan girl demographic was. perhaps even more surprising, target itself said it had nothing to do with the stunt. from the first moment we started to see this circulate, we shared the target team was as surprised as anybody. >> it was an explosion from sunday until tuesday, but this is something that i think you will see more and more of. it's such a big debate between marketers and users about how important and powerful soci

that was something johnny carson did very well. host the oscars. >> i love carson. i got to be on the show. i take that as a grand koppelman. -- complement. iment. >> a certain sense of being able to make it look easy that he had which you have. >> thanks. i feel it is its own unique skill and have gotten to do it a fair amount. i also don't really feel i have a great amount to prove in that world. like i want it to go well for the show. i am not trying to land a development deal by killing it at the oscars, you know what i mean? i am not saying i'm not looking for work but i am just saying i don't have an internal agenda for that. i want that night to go incredibly well for the people that are winning, the people that don't win, the people watching at home. i wonder to seem like we are honoring movies. it can sit back and enjoy all and not be nervous that something will go wrong. >> they want to see you have a good time. really look like you are loving it. but all theme, presenters and the people coming up to accept their award. you don't want people coming up and

carson, where have you been? >> there is a singing show on our network every monday and tuesday called "the voice." it's in live shows. >> i don't want to say you have been gone a long time. we have a picture of the last time you were in the orthopedic room. can we put this up? that's ridiculous. >> look at that hair. >> yeah, it's good to be back, guys. it's so cool this screen in time's square, it's enormous. time's square known for the bright lights and billboards. the biggest billboard, literally it's an entire city block long. it's crazy it's the whole facade of the marriott marquee. they unveiled it on tuesday. that's where we did the new year's show. maybe we can utilize the screen there. it's 110-feet long. it's larger than a football field. it's 8 stories high. 72 volts make up the screen. obviously, a half million people visit time's square every day. it's great visibility. advertising is $2.5 million gets a four-week run there. >> carson, if one bulb goes out, do they all go out? >> i don't know about

stay tuned for carson daly. we'll see you tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> carson: hey gang, it's your pal carson daly here, you're watching "last call" coming to you from 971 amp radio here in los angeles which also houses it's own sister station, the world famous kroq. i've worked at both, they're two great radio stations and we're glad to be here this week. speaking of which tonight, king tuff is going to make its tv debut from the el rey. we're going to spotlight the web series "high maintenance." if that wasn't enough, we also have both the lead actress and creative executive producer of the new comedy series, "benched." so, from the three clubs, please welcome eliza coupe and michaela watkins to "last call." ♪ >> i'm sweating right now, and i keep going