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leader. hello. i'm jim sciutto in today for wolf blitzer who is on assignment. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 7:00 p.m. in berlin and 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. thank you for joining us. we'd love to be a fly on the wall in the old family dining room in the white house right now. that's where president obama is meeting with more than a dozen congressional leader. they are having lunch to discuss what happens now. republicans had a sweeping victory and full control of congress. leaders from both parties are on the guest list and both sides say they need to find common ground. >> my attitude has been and will continue to be that good ideas don't necessarily come from just one party and i'm looking forward to seeing the leaders, both democratic and republican caucuses this afternoon to have a chance to share with them both what i think we need to be doing to build on the economic

momentum that we already have and make it even stronger but i'm also going to be interested in listening to them in terms of area where is we think it's possible to work together. >> still, republican leaders say the president's threat to issue an executive threat on immigration would undermine these efforts to cooperate. >> i believe that the president continues to act on his own, is he going to poison the well. he's going to take the risk of burning himself if he continues to go down this path. they don't want the president acting on a unilateral basis. >> david gergen is with me as well as dana bash. dana, what is the mood in that room after only what can be described as a debilitating

defeat? and there's not a lot of coverage. >> i have not been in one of these lunch chons but i'm waiting for the invitation. we're waiting for this is a group of 16 people. it's not just the top leaders which generally is what you see at the white house. that means that the president will be more cautious. but the tone is going to be probably nice at some points but when they start talking about the tough stuff that you just pointed out, like obamacare, not so much. there are important things that they can do and will do. they are planning on working together on ebola and things

that you covered like industries that need to get done. >> so you think they will say we need to repeal obamacare and president obama taking an executive path? you think they may soften those positions? >> well, when it comes to immigration, the president is doing this even though david axelrod said that they should get congress to vote. when it comes to obamacare, they are going to take a vote because it's not going to get done. >> david gergen, you've been in negotiations like this before. there was a school of thought here in washington and dana referenced this, that there is potential common ground here. people talk about corporate tax reform, perhaps international

trade treaties and progress on immigration. i feel like every few years we talk about that potential but the two sides retreat to their corners and start slugging each other again. do you see real potential for making real progress on some of those issues? >> i do. one area is -- and we've heard this from mitch mcconnell, that is that republicans do not plan to shut down the government, nor let us go into default when we go over the top in terms of our credit here next year. that's very important. we've had three straight years of going to the cliff, that is shaking confidence in the economy and it's hurt the united states overseas. that in itself is a game. beyond that, jim, i think it's very likely that we'll get trade action and that opens the way for the president to do something really important in the pacific which is where he wants to concentrate his long-term focus and that is to make this pivot more easily. having said all of that, tonight's meeting will be civil

and cordial and will cause the other side to boil. the fact that the president has now said he's going forward on the immigration bill i think is absolutely right. he said he's going to do it and it will make it much harder to get agreement on other things beyond trade and beyond the budget. >> well, that's a pessimistic -- it takes away the hope that the president is going to stick with that direction and, as john boehner said, get to the well. >> it gets to the issue of trust and the really big trust deficit that exists. >> right. >> because the president has been there for six years and john boehner has been the republican leader and not the speaker before the minority leader and these players know each other and don't trust each other. that's the bottom line.

that's the problem. to be able to get over that with two years remaining and big things in front of them, it's going to be very difficult which is why, when you have republicans threatening to repeal obamacare even though they know it's not going to happen and you have the president saying that he's going to move unilaterally on immigration, that is why it doesn't -- out of the gate it adds to the trust deficit. it doesn't create an environment where they are starting to at least move towards one another so they can get these big things done. one thing i want to mention on immigration, it's such a white hot issue, you can't under estimate the pressure that john boehner is under pressure and throwing it on fuel. he wants to get immigration done because he really does. personally and for the future of the republican party, he knows his caucus. he's dealt with them. that's why they haven't done immigration reform for four years. the minute he signs that

executive order going alone, it will reinforce the idea of the caucus that they can't trust the president and everything we've heard and that's the problem. >> beyond trust, we've got to talk about shared interests here. do -- we heard this after 2012, republicans need latinos and immigration reform, let me just -- before you answer that question, i want to show you pictures coming out of this meeting. >> i think all of us have the responsibility, me in particular, to try to make that happen and so this gives us a good opportunity to explore where we can make progress on behalf of the people who sent us. the good news is, today we saw another good set of jobs numbers. we have now had 56 consecutive numbers of jobs growth. more than 10.6 million jobs have been created and unemployment is at 5.8%. so business is out there

investing, hiring, economic indicators are going in the right direction. as i travel to asia for the g-20 summit, we've created more jobs here in the united states than any other advanced country combined and they notice that we're doing something right here but what we also know is that the american people are still anxious about their futures. and that means that what we can do together to ensure that young people can afford college, what we can do to rebuild our infrastructure so we can rebuild going forward and what we can do to make sure we have a tax system that is fair and simple and unleashes the dynamism of the economy, keep the progress that we've been making in reducing the deficit while still making the investments we need to grow, those are all going to be areas where i'm very

interested in hearing and sharing ideas. the one thing i've committed to both speaker boehner and leader mcconnell is that i am not going to judge ideas based on whether they are democratic or republican. i'm going to be judging them based on whether or not they work. and i'm confident that they want to produce results as well on behalf of the american people. i appreciate their graciousness in coming here and i'm very much looking forward to giving them some updates on progress we need to make on issues like ebola and isil. there's going to be some specific work that has to get done during the next several weeks before the new congress commences and my hope is that even as we enter into a new congress, the previous congress has the opportunity still to make progress on a whole bunch of fronts and i'm confident we can get that done.

so thank you. you're going to be the first to find out, megan, along with everybody else. thank you, everybody. thank you. >> that's president obama speaking a few moments ago from a meeting with 16 congressional leaders, both democrats and republicans. the president speaking about the shared goals and interest that they have, potential for a deal and saying that he won't base ideas based on whether they are democrat or republican. we have michelle kosinski at the white house. i saw stiff backs. it didn't look like the warmest environment. from your perspective, michelle, do you see the potential there and when speaking to white house officials that the president is ready to deal? >> and so it begins. okay. this is the big test to see if all of this talk about cooperation and finding that common ground will actually lead to anything. and you know, both sides have a political incentive. you could say republicans now have all of this incentive

looking ahead to 2016 to find ways to make the government work better, to reach across the aisle and to get their agendas satisfied by having that compromise element as well. the way it's being framed by the white house is, let's start small. the agenda for this meeting is about ebola. it's about an update on isis. it's about finding common ground and then the president says he wants to listen to other people's ideas, what they want to accomplish. on those areas of common ground, again it's starting with things like early childhood education, hardly huge controversial issues. those -- there are places in that and expanding exports on ebola where, yeah, there is going to be agreement. so that's what is being emphasized now. the thing is, jim, what's looming overall of this is that president's impending executive action on immigration. that's been laid down as a gauntlet. even today we heard from the

president that the president is going to do this before the end of the year but republicans carry a trump card. what they can do is bring this up for a vote. they can prevent the president from taking this to republicans executive action if they bring it up for a vote. so that's the stalemate. we've heard this tough rhetoric over the last two days. it's really tainted the spirit of cooperation that everybody is trying to project at the same time. we'll see. the president wants republicans to act on it. they want him to act on executive action. neither sides wants us to blow up in everybody's face but that question mark is there of how is this going to go. you know, is there going to be some common ground forged before that executive action happens? >> also couldn't help hearing the president also taking some credit, perhaps, for the good economic numbers out today, another strong data job growth issues with the republican reaction to that is. michelle kosinski at the white house and dana bash next to me

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welcome back. i'm jim sciutto in washington. this just in to cnn, the u.s. supreme court has just announced that it will review another couldn't ver controversial obamacare. the justices say they will decide whether the irs can impose regulations extending tax credit subsidies to coverage purchased through the health exchanges established under obamacare. oral arguments will be held next year with a ruling in june. we'll have more on this later in the hour but we wanted to give you that update now. and changing gears now here in washington, president obama gets closer to naming his choice for attorney general. an announcement is expected in the coming days and officials briefed on the matter say the likely pick is a low-key but accomplished u.s. attorney from

new york. evan perez is joining us with details. when you look at the candidate here, loretta lynch, she's the second best-known federal attorney in new york. tell us more about her and how the president came to this decision. >> well, jim, loretta lynch is a long-time prosecutor in the justice department. she's well-liked and very popular inside the department. outside in new york and nationally she's not well known often overshadowed by the prosecutor in manhattan. she served in the clinton administration in the late '90s and has been a u.s. attorney in brooklyn since 2010. she's not going to be controversial for the republican congress that will take over in january. we expect that's one of the reasons why she probably rose to the top of the president's list. she is well-known for a couple of things. she's done a bunch of financial

cases against hsbc, citi group in the last couple of years and oversaw a major prosecution of a terrorist a few years ago in new york and more recently she indicted republican congressman michael grimm who is from staten island. that case is still pending. i don't expect that will be a big part of the discussion. >> evan perez, thank you very much with that update on a possible new attorney general choice. also in political news, a full three days after the vote, we finally have a winner in the virginia senate race. ed gillespie conceded that race and called mark warner to congratulation him. it is one in the win column, a rarity in this election, for democrats. there is a senate race still undecided in louisiana. a recount expected there. the u.s. reaches out to iran

in the battle against the terror group. president obama reached out to the leader and said it's about cooperation. sus sus susan rice spoke out. >> i'm not going to comment on any private communications between the president and any world leader. but i will say this. first of all, as i've said repeatedly in public, we are in no way engaged in any military coordination with iran on countering isil. the fact of the matter is, isil poses a threat, not only to the people of iraq and syria but to the broader region and to the united states and to europe and we're dealing with that threat. but we are not doing so in coordination with the government of iran. >> i want to bring in global affairs correspondent elise labott.

elise, you were able to confirm the existence of this letter. it's not the first time the president has written the supreme leader of iran. with nuclear talks coming up, the battle against isis, how significant is it for him to reach out to the supreme leader? >> well, i think it's significant at a significant time. the november 24th deadline is coming up and the president is saying to the supreme leader, listen, there's a lot of shared interests in the region particularly with the threat against isis coming up and we need to get this nuclear issue resolved first. that's going to open the door to a greater communication. and listen, the u.s. and iran have shared interests in terms of combatting isis, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so to say. they don't have shared objectives. obviously iran is very close to the new shia government of prime minister abadi as it was to prime minister al maliki. a lot of concerns that iran has

a great hand in iraq and that's been part of the problem, that the shia majority has really heard the situation. >> with isis you have a common enemy between the u.s. and iran but you look across the border in syria which is in effect the same war, you have a different situation. iran is a principle backer of bashar al assad which the u.s. has sworn to remove from power and at the same time you have a lot of sunni partners that are comfortable with sunni iran. how does the u.s. diplomatic team, secretary of state john kerry battle with all of those competing interests? >> it's difficult. they have to make sure that isis doesn't completely take over but not share objectives. the u.s. says for years it has wanted them out and these gulf partners are very upset, i'm being told, that the u.s. did not talk to their partners

about -- in this coalition about this letter. it's not the first time, if you remember, a few years back the u.s. had secret talks with iran about the issue and diplomats said this just reinforces their perception and fear that the u.s. is going to side with iran, doesn't want to get rid of bashar al assad. so in one sense it's good for the u.s. and iran to be talking. they don't want to be working at cross purposes in the region. but what the diplomats and u.s. allies are saying, listen, if we're your partners, too, we want to be on the same page as to what the goals are and what you're talking to iran about. >> the deadline, november 24th, better or lesser than 50% chance of the u.s. and iran reaching a nuclear deal? >> well, i think they have reached agreement on a lot of sources. there's narrowing gaps on a lot of things. still some of the major areas in terms of how much iran would be able to enrich uranium, the pace

of sanctions relieved, those things are sticking points and might hold up a final deal but negotiators say they have made a lot of progress on the issues. i think they want to keep going. >> we'll be following that, i'll be following it and we'll tell you about it. thank you, elise labott. still ahead, a former navy s.e.a.l. says he's the one who pulled the trigger on osama bin laden. why are his fellow navy s.e.a.l.s not backing him up. and restrictions over a holy site. the details ahead. get this stra. [ female voice ] yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort. exactly, because it's milk without the lactose. and it tastes? it's real milk! come on, would i lie about this? [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100% real milk. no discomfort. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex.

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many of you have likely heard that it was team s.e.a.l. 6 that carried out the raid that killed al qaeda leader osama bin laden. now, one of those normally anonymous s.e.a.l.s is taking personal credit for firing the fatal shot. his name is robert o'neill. now he's a motivational speaker and in an interview with "the washington post," he said he fired the bullet that killed bin laden but others say that o'n l o'neill's account is flawed and he could damage future missions. i want to bring in delta force commander and cnn analyst lieutenant jim reesa. thank you for joining us. jim, as delta force commander, you've been on many difficult and dangerous raids as well. if someone under your command did the same thing, went public with the details, took credit for something after a raid like this, how would you treat him?

>> jim, it's difficult. we have had people in delta write books. in fact, in 1993, the founder of the delta force, the guy who started the tier 1 units wrote the book "the delta force". i think what everyone has to realize is there is a standard. you can write a book but you have to follow the standards of the department of defense and have it reviewed. the department of defense, pentagon, special operations command can take a long time. i know a former delta guy who wrote a book and it took 18 months to review. one of the things that happens with these guys is they get push ds up against editors and publishers and some of them decide they are not going to go that route. >> but do you find this is violating loyalties somehow? not just team loyalty but also security threat because you're revealing methods which could

give -- which could help the enemies in future missions to know how these teams operate? >> yes. if someone puts out a tactic technique, a procedure, a method, how we do something, how we infill, it's going to give away to the enemy and those other guys out there now could hurt them, yes, absolutely, we need to prosecute to the full extent of the law. but i think, though, that the u.s. people need to know about these men. what they are going through, what they are feelings are. it's a great story and i think the u.s. people have to do it. i think what the pentagon has to come to some type of middle ground with the information age today, twitter, facebook, all of these things, some of the rules they have are a bit archaic and we have to come to a middle ground to find out how to get the story out and at the same way protect the classifications. >> true. i've ran into that many times when i've reported on classified missions, et cetera. there's also a fairness issue

here because in washington it seems like there's a former administration official writing about if not classified military operations but private conversations with the president. you've had several former obama administration officials, including leon panetta. is there a fairness issue here that they can write books but the delta team cannot do the same thing? >> jim, there's not. the bottom line is, guys have to realize there's a double standard. and we know that going in. we need to think about our oath of office and realize we're in a military that works for a civilian leadership and that's the deal. you know, one guy who goes out there and tries to fight the department of defense, the pentagon, white house, they are not going to win. >> it's interesting, it's blowing up on twitter.

i asked twitter followers whether they thought this was fair. i had chris, for instance, write back, the navy s.e.a.l. is giving up information that shouldn't be told just as with former administration officials that no one should be able to write these books. we know there's a lot of money in it. thanks very much, jim reese. the former regime of kim jong-il, a former bodyguard is describing it all and he's describing in frightening detail what he saw. and after religious clashes, will calm be restored to jerusalem? we're going to ask our next guest. down.

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let's get you on the right path. call unitedhealthcare today. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer who is on assignment today. in jerusalem, normally the day of prayer is on friday. nic robertson is telling us there's a number of factors fueling the tensions. >> reporter: jim, tensions and security has been high throughout the day here. as night fell in one neighborhood in east jerusalem, firecrackers were thrown at security forces here. they responded with tear gas. the air in some of those neighborhoods hanging heavy with the smell of tear gas for quite a while. earlier in the day in the

refugee camp, palestinian medical sources say clashes there resulted in 30 palestinians being injured by what they say were rubber bullets fired by israeli security forces. what we know about that neighborhood, that's the neighborhood where the man who drove the van into israeli border guards at the tram stop in jerusalem on wednesday. that's where he came from. we've also learned that one other person died as a result of that injuries in that attack. a 17-year-old religious student died from injuries sustained in that attack on wednesday. there have been other outbreaks of violence and clashes in the west bank today. these all off the back or part of the tensions because of this push by right-wing jews to get access to the temple mount, the noble sanctuary to perform prayers there. the rabbi, who was injured in a shooting, he was pushing the agenda of prayers there.

he was injured in a shooting almost two weeks ago now. his family now reporting that he is communicating with them. jim? >> our nic would be bert son in jerusalem, we want to talk more about the violence there. and in the west bank, we have mark regev joining us now. you heard nic reference the holy site. it's the one muslims know as the noble sanctuary. jews know it as the temple mount. jews can visit the site. they can't pray there. there's pressure from the far right to change that. in light of the intense tensions under way right now in jerusalem, why the need at this point to push for that access now in the midst of this? because one could infer from that that parties there are trying to, by doing that, stoke the violence. >> well, the position of the government is clear. prime minister benjamin

netanyahu has been equivocal. we will not change the status quo. it will be maintained. that allows muslim prayer on the compound there and allows nonmuslims, jews and christians to visit the site, because it's also holy, for people of other faiths. that sort of framework has been the basis for live and let live for years now and we think it should be maintained. this is a very special city for millions of people across the planet and we want it to be peaceful and calm and we want everyone to be able to practice their faith freely and safely. >> well, as this violence has continued there, there have been weeks, as we now, of unrest. in jerusalem, four people dead from attacks on pedestrians in jerusalem in the past three weeks. the prime minister instructing the demolishing of homes of terrorists. why is that practice being brought back by the government?

>> we're considering it again as an important vehicle in deterring terrorist attacks. you have a problem now with what would you call lone wolf terrorism where a specific individual motivated by an islamic extremist world outlook gets into a vehicle -- we've seen it in canada and now jerusalem -- and they turn the motor vehicle into a weapon of death. they put their foot on the accelerator and drive into a crowd of people trying to kill people. and one of the ways to deter that person is to make sure that they will understand and pay a price for that act because obviously they don't care about their own lives. but if we can create a deterrent, hopefully we'll save lives. this is only one tool in a whole toolbox. we're trying to calm things down. the terrorists want violence. i think most people in jerusalem and the government of jerusalem want peace and quiet and we're trying to restore peace and calm

to all of the citizens of jerusalem as quickly as possible. today was more quiet than yesterday was and i'm hopeful that tomorrow will be even quieter and i'm hopeful that we can get to a peaceful routine. >> did it work in the past in destroying the homes of the families of terrorists to prevent future terror attacks? >> i was in a security discussion with the prime minister and the heads of the different security teams -- i think it was on thursday night. and it is a determent and i'm explain why. unfortunately, these sort of suicide bombers, suicide drivers, these terrorists, amongst certain elements in the islamist radical community, when they become suicide bombers, they are put up on a pedestal and become heroes in that culture and their family receives money and presents. by the tactic of housing demolitions, you balance out the

field. in other words, by becoming a suicide warrior for the extremist cause, they are getting a lot of tangible benefits from their own radical community. and once again, the housing demolition sort of balances out the playing field and creates a deterrent where normal deterrence does not apply because these people are not afraid to die for their extreme cause. the real threat to peace and security in jerusalem is the same threat in iran or syria or iraq. it's the islamic extremists who don't care about human life and we've got to make sure that we contain the threat that they pose. >> mark regev joining us from u.s. now, thanks very much for joining us. we'll have more right after this break.

we're going to return now to a story we reported a short time ago as it broke and that is big news today from the u.s. supreme court. the justices announcing they will review another controversial part of obamacare. it involves tax credit subsidies for policies bought through obamacare health exchanges.

here to explain the significance of all of this, cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeffrey toobin, this sounds like inside baseball here. but how significant could this be for the survival of obamacare? >> this is the farthest thing from inside baseball because this is very simple that this is a law -- this is a case that could cost millions of people their health insurance. let me try to explain it simply. the obamacare law, the affordable care act said, states could set up these exchanges where people could buy health insurance and if you couldn't afford the health insurance, there would be subsidies for you. 16 states set up the exchanges. 34 states, mostly red states, republican states, said we don't want to set up these exchanges so the federal government set up an exchange where people could buy health insurance subsidies. what this case is about is

whether the people in those 34 states can get subsidies for their health insurance and already something like 4 million people have already gotten subsidies for their health insurance. so the question is, will those 4 million people or so keep their health insurance if the obama administration loses this case? >> so this would affect the 34 states that did not pursue this on their own, correct? it applies only to those states, not the 16 that are pursing it themselves? >> that's right. that's what the case is about. and it's about the subsidies to the people who can't afford to pay the full amount. >> it's remarkable when there's been talk of an activist supreme court here. is this the supreme court jumping into the realm of the legislative body again, getting in the way of this? is that your view? >> well, that's certainly the view of democrats and critics of this court because this whole --

the whole affordable care act was based on the premise that anybody could get a subsidy. that was the whole argue in the in favor of it. but there is one line, essentially what supporters of the law say is a typographical error and opponents of the law have used this one line to say, no, no, no, you can only get subsidies from a state exchange, not from a federal exchange. that's what the whole case is about. it's about one line in the law and the health insurance of millions of people depends on how the supreme court interprets this one line. it's not about the constitution. it's simply about what the law says. >> you're a lawyer, you've done cases like this before. do you see enough in that line for the supreme court to do that way on this decision and strike it down? >> they could. they absolutely could. this has become a big cause among the conservative legal world, this case. the d.c. circuit originally

voted to strike down this part of the law. then that decision was vacated, was overruled. the d.c. circuit was planning to hear it on its own but now everything is on hold because the fourth circuit, which upheld obamacare, that appeal is the one that the supreme court took and everything else is going to be on hold while the supreme court decides -- decides what the meaning of the law is. >> you >> you call this a tough week for obamacare. the supreme court with this decision. >> really bad. >> really bad. you call it a disaster i think. in another story, haunting members from the bodyguard of kim jong-il and the punishment given anyone slightly annoyed the former dictator. the terrifying details right after this. turn the trips you have to take,

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kim's father also ruled north korea with an iron fist and now a man who served as his bodyguard for a full ten years describes that harrowing experience. >> this is boot camp for north korea's ultimate delete. mind over matter basic qualifications to protect those at the top. this man says he went through very similar training. >> why is this important? >> handgun doesn't win a war. it's being used to develop loyalty. they're trying to make them think that by training like this, they can beat the u.s. military. lee says his training was ideological. brainwashing him to believe kim

jong-il was a god. when he's happy, he'll give gold bars to people. when he's not, it doesn't matter how loyal you are. he would kill you in an instance. times his advisers would run away when they saw him coming and hide in the grass. to survive, they would flatter him. lee says kim jong-il was cruel. he fears his son, kim jong-un may be even more brutal. kim jong-un killed his uncle. as power was handed down it became cruelty. the loyalty is fake. it's based on fear.

after he was caught trying to escape north korea in 1994, lee was sent to a political camp. he says he survived five years of starvation and torture to tell the world what his former boss was really like. a man who experienced the two extremes of north korean life and survived to tell the tale. paula hancockhancocks, cnn. >> that's all for me today. for our international viewers, christiane amanpour is up next after a quick break. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right at the top of the hour. please! no. run of the mill, everyday headache. please? no. please. please. please. nope not bad enough for a lot of medicine, pleeaassee! but still bad enough that you want it gone fast. please! please go talk to your father. introducing excedrin mild headache. 35% less medicine plus a booster to end everyday headaches fast. please! oh, what a headache! actually...my headache's gone. this new excedrin really does work fast. the national headache foundation gives it a seal of approval for everyday headaches.

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