thanks for joining us. i'll be back here again. see you tomorrow night. set your dvr. a.c. 360 with jim sciutto starts now. good evening. i'm jim sciutto in for anderson. we begin with breaking news. the storm system that has already claimed dozens of lives have threatened to put a big s.w.a. swath in the country by new year's. 18 million are in a difficult situation. 16 counties are facing severe flooding. that has broken one 25-year-old record. governor jay nixon said this earlier today. >> you are talking about almost 10 more vertical feet of moving water. the power we're talking about as well as the volume is extremely significant. we have a lot more water coming.

we try to stay out in front of it as best we can. today is tuesday. we're looking at thursday night for friday morning for that crest. >> ten vertical feet of moving water. the governor has activated the national guard. activations have been underway all day long. the floods have already claimed at least 13 lives in missouri alone. we'll have much more ahead on the deadly flooding in missouri and across the midwest. first, the feud that's heating up between donald trump an the publisher of "the new hampshire union leader." at this time last night at a rally, mr. trump was slamming joe mcquaid and his newspaper. in typical trump fashion, he didn't mince words. >> so this guy, his name is joe mcquaid -- he is a lowlife. i'm telling you. i watched this guy. honestly, he is a loser. you have a very dishonest newspaper and a failing

newspaper. it is going down the tubers. >> mr. trump served up those gems hours after mr. mcquaid wrote this in an editorial. he reminds us have o the grown-up bully bif in back to the future movie series. on february 9th, we trust new hampshire republicans will send bif trump somewhere, anywhere but on the road to the most important elective office in the united states at a most crucial time for this nation. mr. trump has been hurling new attacks. his newspaper has endorsed chris christie. mr. trump has had a lot to say about that as well. tonight, we are going to give mr. mcquaid the floor. he joins me now. thanks for taking the time. >> hey, jim, how are you? >> donald trump certainly had a lot to say about you last night at his rally. let's go through the list briefly. he called you a lowlife, a sleeze bag, useless. what's your response to

everything he said about you? >> well, it is not at all surprising. i'm surprised that it comes this late. i thought that after we endorsed another candidate, we would join the long list of losers in the trump lexicon. i think we got under his skin with the editorial yesterday, which ran on the front page, which is where we go when we want to make a point. >> it is an important endorsement leading up to the new ham shire primary. back in august u say that trump actually sent you a letter asking for your endorsement the day after he didn't participate in the new hampshire voter's first forum. i want to read part of that what letter says. i have it mere. >> i got great credit for not coming. people called it insight and vision. i hope this, along with many of my other correct decisions, will lead you, a man i have great

respect for and the union leader, to endorse me at the appropriate time. clearly, he had much kinder words for you a few months ago. trump now tweeting about this letter after we asked him campaign for comment. about it, this is what he said, quote, in this tweet. shows how dumb joe mckuwait of the dying "union leader" is to put out the letter i wrote saying why i didn't do his failed debate. your response to that? >> i hadn't caught up with his latest twitter feed. it shows how dumb i am. he said in his crazy stuff last night and yesterday afternoon to this tv station that the reason we lashed out at him editorially, was because he wouldn't do our forum. yet, the day after the forum in which he says it was a lousy forum and he was brilliant for

not doing it. he was still asking for my endorsement and calling me a man for whom he has great respect. we have many other quotes in which the newspaper, "the union leader," is terrific and i'm terrific. i'm mildly surprised at the number of balled-face lies he committed yesterday with trying to flame us with his trump tower of inferno. >> as we know, we have just quoted them here. trump used very tough words, familiar words to describe you. i want to get to how you described him in your editorial. crude, a blow hard with no clear political philosophy and no deeper understanding of the important and serious role of president of the united states than one of the goons he lets rough up protesters in his crowd. do you see an argument there

that he is responding to you with similar language you used to describe him? >> oh, absolutely. the only clear difference is that i was telling the truth about trump. trump has been lying about the union leader and yours truly and the reason that i said he was a crude blow hart and then cited several examples of it, car lee fee fiorina, a face you don't warnt in the white house and john mccain, not a true war hero. somebody has to call a spade a spade. this guy is not going to be an emperor and he ain't got no clothes whatsoever. i was happy to do that in simple, direct english. >> let's talk about the numbers as we approach the new hampshire primary. it has certainly surprised a lot

of pundits that his support is maintained, keeps growing. you said that you trust that new hampshire voters will not vote for him. the polls still show him polling the highest. what do you think will change between now and february 9th? >> on february 9th, the voters of new hampshire are going to show that the polls are incorrect. the news media, the networks, yours included, have elevated these national polls to way more important than they should have been and should be. the fact of the national networks deciding to limit the stage of republicans to now six is going to be the next one. even 8 or 10 back last summer is why we had our voters first forum. credible candidates don't get a chance to be heard in the states which are going to do the voting, because the national

networks won't let them on prime time. so, of course, you are going to get certain bubbles for certain candidates. the national poll is going to show trump ahead, because he has got the name recognition. he is a tv brand. he is, in part, a creature of the national television networks. >> joe mcquaid, i want to thank you for taking the time tonight and giving us your side of this argument that seems to still have a life of its own. we appreciate it. >> well, your very welcome, jim. mr. trump is also ramping up his attacks on hillary and bill clinton. he claims mrs. clinton has made her husband's past infidelities fair game for criticism after accusing trump of being sexist. a short time ago, he was asked if that means his own personal indiscretions are fair game. >> here is his answer. >> yes, they would be and

frankly, hillary brought up the whole thing with sexist. all i did was reverse it on her. she has a major problem. it happens to be right in her house. if she twoonts do that, we are going to go right after the ex-president and see how it comes out. >> after last night's rally, mr. trump tweeted this, remember, mr. bill clinton was brought in to help hillary against obama in 2008, he was terrible, failed badly and was called a racist. he said this morning, he, himself wasn't calling him a racist in that tweet but took another swipe at his treatment of women. >> he was called it by the obama campaign. he was called it loud and clear. that's what they said. i don't believe he is a racist if you want to know the truth. they called him a racist. it was a miserable campaign. there was certainly a lot of abuse of women. you look at whether it is monica lewinsky or paula jones or many

of them. that certainly will be fair game, certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game. >> i just want to be clear here, it was donald trump tweeting that he did not call president clinton, himself, a racist. he didn't make that accusation himself. he is saying that others did at that time. certainly, a lot to discuss. joining me now, cnn political commentator jeffrey lord and sarah setmire. she is the former communication for dana roarbacker. we have kelly conway, president and ceo of the polling company that runs one of ted cruz's superpacs. jeff, i would like to speak with you. trump continuing to make the argument that bill clinton's infidelity is fair game. bringing up paula jones and monica lewinsky. after all, bill clinton is not running for president. hillary clinton is running for president. >> the problem here for hillary clinton is that juanita brodrick is out there, she famously

accused president clinton when he was attorney general of arkansas, of raping her. she has accused hillary clinton of threatening her to be quiet. that's about hillary clinton, not bill. she is saying, flatly, she is an enabler and she was a bully and that she threatened her. kathleen bully has said, hillary clinton is the war on women. sure, it is absolutely relevant. if they are going to go down this path, you have a whole bunch of women saying hillary clinton played aid role and not a good one. >> to be clear, i want to be sure of what you are accusing hillary clinton with. you are accusing her of helping to cover up a sexual assault. >> i am not accusing her. juanita brodrick is accusing her of this, in print and on the radio. absolutely. i have the transcripts. >> we are aware of that story. trump has made his share of

questionable comments about women through the years. is he treading on thin ice here by calling bill clinton the sexist perhaps opening himself up to criticism of his own comments. >> he has already been criticized for those comments. he was criticized in august. it was mentioned in a live first debate in clin on th debate on august 6th. let's back up and say why mr. clinton said. hillary clinton called him a sexist. it seems like he is attacked after he has been attacked. if mrs. clinton is gog run a gender-based campaign subtly saying to all the republican candidates, i dare you to speak to me a certain way or use a word about me. we need to elect the first female president. if she is going to play the gender card, it may be played against her. that's what this is about.

secretary clinton, herself, in a town hall meeting in new hampshire, this fall, said, all sexual assault victims have a right to be heard and she was asked by someone not meaning donald trump. would those sexual assault victims include juanita brodrick and kathleen willie. i think her husband's casual relationship with an intern is less relevant to most of the electorate than hillary clinton's casual relationship with the truth. her lack of trust worthiness is dogging her in some polls. >> i want to ask you, the tweet that bill clinton was called a racist when asked about that this morning, if trump, himself, was calling clinton a racist. he said he didn't believe that he was but he was called a racist by others. this related to his comments before the south carolina primary. if he is going to put something

like that out there, does he need to own it and not tiptoe around it? that applies to the racist comments and other accusations here of abuse as opposed to just sexist comments. abuse by the former president. >> listen. does trump need to own the implication of his tweet? trump doesn't own up to anything. he says what he wants to say, because he has absolutely nothing to lose. that's what makes him such a rogue candidate. in politics, most candidates are very cautious. they have a limit to how far they will go, because there is usually a consequence for it. for donald trump, let's defy the laws of political gravity. hillary clinton has everything to lose. she has everything on the line here. she has waited her whole life for this one moment. it was right there in her nanha in 2008. is slipped through. she knows her candidacy is flawed. that's why she is reeling out

bill xliclinton. he is powerful. for donald trump to do this, it is par for the course. so, did you beat your wife? so, the famous actixiom. trump is a master at this, master manipulator of the message. he has taken over the entire new cycle again with this. he knows exactly what he is doing. hillary clinton is not controlling the message, donald trump is. that's exactly what he twoonts d wants to do. >> let's get what donald trump is accusing hillary clinton of on playing the feminist card, playing the sexist card. responding to a comment is not the same as running a gender-based campaign? let's be fair here. donald trump says a lot of things that might open him up to playing, whether it is the ethnicity card or the race card or the muslim card.

so to respond to an attack or make a comment doesn't mean that the campaign is defined by that particular cause. is it? is that a fair accusation to level at the clinton campaign? >> in her case, she has. on numerous occasions, she says, don't you think it is time for a woman president? >> in 1966, john f. kennedy was running for president. he said, i am not the catholic candidate for president but the democratic party's candidate that happens to be a catholic. if hillary clinton is nominated, she will be the democratic party's candidate that happens also to be a woman. she is not running as the woman's candidate except that she is. she is not going to be that. she is playing that card. this has opened a whole set of cards for her. >> every opportunity she has, she reminds us that she is a woman. she talks about the first woman this and this and that.

and the ridiculousness she sets out there to pander to latinos and the grandmother thing. she does it. donald trump doesn't play the money card. we know hillary clinton is being so disingenuous on that. >> trump has done something else smart here. i don't know if it has been missed. he is pivoting to a general election. the fact that he is taking hillary clinton on, which animate the base and, two, suggests to me he thinks he is going to win the republican nomination. he is showing and now all these polls are showing that the clinton/trump race is a little bit tighter than some people may have hoped or thought. he is also paying hillary back for suggesting in the democratic debate that he is in the ice sis recruiting videos. a comment many democrats immediately asked secretary clinton to recant. >> we have to leave it there, i appreciate it. great to have you on. >> thank you. happy new year.

>> happy new year to all of you. just ahead, an international manhunt ends in mexico. the man, actually a teen. 18-year-old ethan couch, the so-called affluenza teen had die dyed his hair and beard and left town with his mother. about the going away party they threw before they skipped town.

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the jig is up for teenage fugitive ethan couch and his mother. here is what the texas teen looked like when they found m. his darkened hair and with a beard apparently to help disguise himself. in 2013, when he killed four

people while driving drunk, he was blonde and clean-shaven, 16 years old. he got off with a light sentence, no prison, rehab and probation, after his lawyers argued his client was too rich and too spoiled to know right from wrong. it sparked a lot of outrage. after this video recently surfaced apparently showing couch at a beer pong party. he vanished. his probation officer couldn't reach him. an arrest warrant was issued two weeks ago for allegedly violating his probation. his mother, tonya couch, also facing charges now. the prosecutors office said today they will be deported to the u.s. it is not clear exactly when that will happen. they said today they have evidence that mother and son carefully planned their disappearance. joining me now, sheriff d. ander sof of tarrant county texas and cnn legal analyst, mark terigo. sheriff, if i can begin with you, what information are you able to give us on where ethan

couch and his mother are being held and when you expect them to be brought back here to the u.s. to face charges? >> they are still in the custody of the mexican authorities in mexico. we expect within the next 24-48 hours for them to be brought back to the united states. we won't publicize or talk about when that occurs for security reasons. i expect to have them back in tarrant county locked up in a facility. >> looking at this, it looks like something that they both skillfully planned. even had a going-away party before they left which would have seemed to have given opportunity for people to warn authorities they were going. is that what you believe now? they took meticulous plans to leave the country possible for good? >> i do believe that. i certainly think they planned to run and run a long way and for a long time. i said that when he first disappeared. he had a big head start and they certainly had enough money and ability to go a long way and

hide. i didn't think we would find them close by. i didn't think we would find them in this country. sure enough, they did. they went to mexico. they were going to be in it for the long-haul. i wasn't surprised where we found them. that was one of the two places that we were prone to look, mexico and the caribbean were the two things we heard where they might end up. so it was planned, no doubt. they planned it out and left to give them the maximum lead time before we started looking for them. >> i have to ask you, you have seen a lot of cases before. have you ever seen one like this, the disguises going to mexico and holding a party before? it just seems unbelievable that they would imagine they could get away, free and clean? >> well, for all i know, mom wants to take him on a vacation to mexico over christmas break. they didn't adequately tell the

probation authorities. who knows if they are going away forever? literally, we were told he was facing ten years. today, that has been scaled back that he is facing 120 days. i don't know that anybody decides they are just going to flee, because they are facing 120 days for failure to check in with their probation officer. i know it makes a great story and a great tabloid picture for the youth trying to flee and everything else. at the same time, i expect that we are going to hear some information that counterbalances the story that's being put out there right now. >> sheriff, i want to ask you, if you buy that, do you think this was just a lark? they were going for a vacation based on the preparation you saw and the laws that they appear to have broken here? >> i don't think you go on a vacation and disappear and not tell anybody and cut your hair and dye your hair and hide out in a shabby apartment in a

resort town and not be heard from from anyone, any family members or anything. i think it was clear that they snuck across the border. there was no knowledge by anybody where they had gone. i don't believe at all for a second that they were not trying to escape. she was -- his mother was not going to let him do any jail time. it didn't matter if it was 120 days or one day. they fought so hard to keep him out of trouble when he killed four innocent people drinking three times the legal limit of alcohol. there is no doubt in my mind when the video came out that showed him at that party and he was facing possible revocation of his probation, they made a conscious decision to run. they did so. >> let me ask you. once eric couch and his mother are reported back on u.s. soil, what scenarios do you see playing out in this case? can they use, we were just going on vacation defense to avoid time? >> well, i think that's exactly what the mother is going to say. i think the mother is going to argue and i think it is going to

come out that she is now estranged from the father and she is going to say the father was just setting her up and was making it look like she was fleeing or something else. the story seems too ludicrous to me. i don't disagree with the sheriff. obviously, he caught a break. this young man caught a break when he was put on juvenile probation and not held in custody for a long period of time. obviously, people are anti this kid. a lot of people think the mother should do some real time. i get that. i think there may be another side to this story, before we jump on the bandwagon and do our public lynching. we might want to hold back and wait and hear what they have to say. d. anderson and mark kerigos,

thank you for joining us deadly flooding in missouri, rivers there near or over record levels.

more on tonight's breaking news. record rain bringing deadly flooding. so far, at least 13 lives lost. in union, missouri, water covering cars, homes, restaurant, the mississippi, missouri and merrimac are near or at record levels.

one intrepid photographer managed to catch this house floating away in bourbon, missouri. tom is from this area. how much worse is this expected to get in missouri? we were talking earlier. there is still more rain coming. >> there is rain coming in some areas to the south. i think we are going to be in for a good break when it comes to the missouri valley. dry conditions through the weekend. the problem is, because the mississippi river is so high, when you get above 30 feet, it impedes the other rivers that flow into the mississippi river to do their job. so what we're seeing is after days and days of rain, spent a week there, just came down, 5, 6, 7, 8 1/2 inches. record rainfall. now, we are seeing the effects of that. the last time the mississippi river flooded, major flood, was in 1993. the benchmark here. that was in the spring when they had major snow melt and major rains. everything in green is under a

warning, parts of south central illinois and down to the ozarks. we are looking at the arkansas river being flooded. let's break down st. louis and give you an idea. the mississippi river meets, well, the missouri river right in st. louis. in between the mississippi and the missouri is west all ton. this is where we first had problems. it is a flood-prone air kra. one of the levees, the north county levee was not breached but we had overtopping. it is the number one cause for levees to give way and break. that is a concern. along the missouri river that flows into the mississippi, we have problems from st. charles out towards areas of jefferson city and herman. the problems are going to be from st. louis and mainly southward. 1993, these are the records. we are going to come close.

5 1/2 feet in st. louis. second highest records. the merrimac record is passing all record and goes back to '82. once that moves into the mississippi, jim, we are talking all-time historic lifevels on t mississippi southward. getting down to cape girardeau on the boot hill. over 443 weather warnings for flooding on rivers occurring right now. >> a lot of populated areas along those rivers. thanks very much. as you just heard, union mississippi is particularly hard hit with businesses under water, much of the town flooded. we go to the mayor, mike livenhood. we have been showing video of your town. the water from this afternoon looking really incredibly high. what's the situation there right now. are people able to get out of their homes to safety? >> people have been evacuated.

we did crest here. we are on this river that feeds into the merrimac. we have hit a crest, which is a good thing. it is starting to drop on us. we made it to 34.31, which is roughly not quite a foot over our previous record. it was a record flood here in our community, as you've seen on your videos. you see it impacted about 25 homes in the area. the people did get out. some stayed to the last minute and were evacuated. not too many. most people, we gave them enough time and told them we felt it would rise above what they had projected and it did. >> glad to hear the waters have crested. do people around there -- this is always a key question here. do they have flood insurance? i am curious what the cleanup process is going to be like. a lot of those homes severely damaged. they look like a loss. >> yes. the majority of the homes i would say probably don't have

flood insurance. i don't understand all the actual rules and how flood insurance operates. the flood plain. your option is to buy flood insurance. i am sure there are sthaefrl do not have home insurance. hopefully, they will be able to help them some too. >> major mike liven goodgood, wl keep following the story. we appreciate you coming on tonight. the president and his family are on vacation in hawaii. the secret service, however, is not. we'll tell you what happened when this man and this drone got too close to the presidential motorcade. i absolutely love my new but the rent is outrageous. good thing geico offers affordable renters insurance. with great coverage it protects my personal belongings should they get damaged, stolen or destroyed. [doorbell] uh, excuse me. delivery. hey. lo mein, szechwan chicken,

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welcome back. a lot more happening tonight. randi kaye has a 360 bulletin. >> police in belgium have arrested two people suspected of plotting new year's eve celebrations. they are a member of a biker gang. it appears to be inspired but not directed by isis. >> police officer, jason van dyke plead ed not guilty to counts of murder in the shooting of laquan mcdonald. the killing caught on a police

dashboard camera sparked protests and kaulcalls for the r to re-sign. sg. >> officials in sonoma, county, are wondering why a female elephant seal left the ocean and tried to cross the state highway. they got her back into the water, not easily. they say she was about 900 pounds. she is determined and keeps trying to get back across that road. i know there is a joke in here somewhere but i am a bit worried about that seal. >> i am not going to take a stab. president obama got a unwelcome visitor yesterday as he finishes up his family vacation in hawaii. it was a drone. it got a little too close to the president's motorcade. the man said he had no idea the president was in the area and no charges were filed. from drones in hawaii to gyroc gyrocopteres, it has been an eventful year. this is where tom foreman picks

up the year in politics. the least effective way to get yourself heard in washi washington, you might just be shot down. flying a gyrocopter, most effective way to get heard, "black lives matter." they confronted politicians on both sides of the aisle scoring headlines every time. worst job of convincing voters they are listening to anyone, the u.s. congress. >> i think congress is darth vader. i don't think there is anything congress can do to make itself more likeable, whether it is democratic or republican congress. it is j ust one of those words that americans seem to think is fingernails on a chalk board. >> the speak of the u.s. house even stepped down.

♪ zipity-do, dah >> john boehner was so happy about leaving that job. he was literally singing as he walked up to the podium. >> at the white house, president obama worked hard on a nuclear arms agreement with iran and a new trade deal in the pacific. the supreme court rejected yet another challenge to his health care reform plan and diplomatic relations with cuba were renewed. >> it has been a brilliant year for barack obama. >> on the other hand, roughly half of all americans disapprove of the job he is doing. >> i think obama is probably looking at the calendar saying, oh, i want to get out of here. bad, bad year for obama. >> there is much more on the year in politics, top stories, sports, pop culture and more.

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it's hard to remember a time before the iphone, the ipad. they have all had such an impact. the man that sold us these devices was to put it mildly, extremely complex. oscar winning director, alex gibney gives us a look at the legendary salesman and executive. he sat down with me to give me his own view of steve jobs. thanks, alex, so much for joining us. you do such a deep dive on such a complicated character. i on der when you come out of a project like this, do you end up loving him or hating him? >> neither.

i think i understand him better. i never met him. so it is a peculiar kind of exercise. it came out admiring many things about him and being furious about him. it is very much a mixed feeling. i felt oddly closer to him. this dark side that comes across very much in the film not only in his personal relationships with the mother of his daughter but also in his professional relationships, literally driving some people to tears as they recount this. is that an essential part of the attracts to him as a character, as the subject of the documentary. >> i was attracted to him, because he is important. he means something to us. every time we take out an iphone or an ipad, we think of steve jobs. this goes back to the beginning of the personal computer. that's what attracted me to him. i was always interested in how people wept when he died. when you learn more about him, you wonder why.

you want to understand him. for somebody who had so much power and apple was the most valuable, maybe still is, company in world history. what did he do with that power? >> what was it from his childhood not to get freudian here. his life experience. you learn so much about him. what did he bring from his childhood that created the man as you came to know him? >> it is an important fact that he was adopted. i this i that affected him deeply. a number of people who talked to me about steve and steve that talks about it in the film, respect on both his sense of anger over being left, your parents leave you and yet his adoptive parents were extremely doubting. he was both angry and entitled, which can be a tough combination. >> you said he could sell ice to the eskimos. we know his salesmanship is

legendary. you implied he was more sales than substance? >> i think that is true. i think sfeteve knew he had to surround himself with inventors and with designers who were of extraordinary quality. he knew them when he saw him. his job really was to sell the products. but i would go beyond selling. with steve, at a certain point, he became the writer, director, pro producer and director in the drama that was to sell people with these products and to make us more comfortable with them. to erase the distance between man and machine. >> you talk about this reality distortion field that he presented, which in a way he needed as opposed to believe that those dreams were achievable. >> well, reality distortion can be a good thing sometimes, because if everybody was consumed with what was possible in the moment, we would never

get anywhere. some people have to dream and to believe the impossible is possible. steve jobs is a great example of that. on the other hand, reality distortion, particularly when it is applied to your own behavior, can be deeply problematic. when you think you are a good guy and you are acting in a very cruel, arbitrary and brutal fashion. >> did he think he was a good guy? >> i think he did. >> you talk about this alone together where we are on our devices. we might be in a group but we are not interacting at least face to face with each other. is part of your message here to us. my iphone is in my pocket now. is part of the message to us, to the world, to put it down for a time, for a bit? >> he connected us all through these products. they are extensions of ourselves. we connect ourselves that way. at the same time, steve jobs had a lot of trouble communicating with people unless it was in a transactual way. these devices betray that.

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> our 360 holiday tradition continues. a room full of state lawmakers crushed the dream of a group of fourth graders. a civics lesson they won't forget. >> time for the rid yridiculous ness. you might think the state representatives quickly passed

the bill sending the nine and ten-year-olds back to their school with a sense of accomplishment and a great impression of how our government works. well, you would be wrong. here is just some of the debate that preceded the vote. remember, the kids were there watching and listening to it all. >> we already have a state bird. now, do we need a state raptor? isn't that a bird? isn't that an animal? >> so are we going to have flightless birds, waterfowl, pet birds, garden birds, wild birds? how many of these bills do we need to have? >> only one other state has a state raptor. why do we need a state raptor? >> if we keep bringing more of these bills and bills and bills forward, that really, i feel we shouldn't have in front of us, we'll be picking a state hotdog next. >> must we designate one state raptor. does a raptor that is found

everywhere in the country symbolize new hampshire? >> they could have justed pooped on the bill in front of the kids. it was the most accurate education a group of fourth graders could receive on how our government works. a totally innocuous idea and spend 18 minutes talking about what a waste of time it is while simultaneously nit-picking its details. the only thing that could make it worse is if someone injected abortion in the debate. >> it is known for extremely sharp talons of which it grasps its prey. it uses its razor sharp beak to rip its victims to shreds and tear it apart limb by limb. the shake about making this a state bird, it would serve as a much better mascot for planned parenthood. >> that was state representative

warren grown. the bill was defeated and i'm guessing so were the fourth graders as they returned home to wonder, what just happened and what planned parenthood is and what it has to do with the red tailed hawk. that is how a bill does not become a bill in real life and on the ridiculist inspiring. the premier of the cnn special, "all the best, all the worst" starts right now. faster than a girocopter, more powerful than pizza wrap and hitting harder than holly holmes, this year, countless victims in politics, sports, pop culture, music, movies and we will take them on with our league of super heroes. actress, melissa joan hart from cnn's quest, mean business and richard quest, model and reality tv star, carmen