>> the panel is going to get together and we are going to start a chain of restaurants colorado called munchies. >> all right. that's it for "special report" tonight. i'm john roberts. good night from washington. >> this has been a disaster for the administration. the president was really nailed on this one. >> it's a mess it is a total catastrophe. >> if you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your health plan, period. >> the president so deliberately mislead, he has a huge credibility problem. >> our focus is jobs. we can can walk and chew gum at the same time. not a game, crime. it's murder. >> macho game. i want to see the president of the united states say something. i get more grief than the taliban gets. i get more grief than al qaeda gets. >> i did not use crack

cocaine nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. >> yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. am i an addict? no. they don't begin to even think about these things until there is a crisis that they themselves created because of their own behavior. >> right here at 116th street. >> wild pack of motorcyclists who are the young family. police say the bikers pulled the driver from the suv and brutally beat him. >> political scandals, courtroom dramas and wild crimes caught on camera. no, it's not a prime time tv lineup. it's the very real news of 2013. tonight, we're going to look back at the most intriguing and captivating events of the last year. first, most would agree, it is the biggest story of 2013 and it's not even over yet. the obamacare rollout disaster. >> you probably heard that healthcare.gov hasn't worked as smoothly as it was supposed to work. >> one of the greatest web

site disasters in history. >> do you have any idea what your insurance will jump up to at that point. >> i'm locked out of the ken site. go to a site that doesn't meet safety standards. >> that's on me. if you like your healthcare plan, you will be able it to keep, keep, keep your healthcare plan, period. >> they sent me a cancellation notice. i'm going to have to get new insurance. >> our group health plan has been cancelled. >> this is obviously an unmitigated disaster that will get worse. >> and our panel joins us the weekly standard steve hayes, the hill's elise hill beck and byron york. welcome to you all. steve, first to you, could the rollout have been any worse? >> it's hard to imagine how it could have been any worse. from the very beginning, you had the problems with the actual front end of the web site. you have been seeing stories over the past several weeks about the extensive problems with the back end data from the web site. it's hard to imagine that, you know, just from a technical standpoint things could have been worse. then you layer on top of that the fact that the president very clearly has

had to go back on his -- the main promise i would say in selling obamacare, if you like your plan you can keep it not only has he had to break that promise. we understand very clearly that he was always intending to break that promise. it's in some ways at the center of obamacare how obamacare works. is that people were, -- of course, people were going to be kicked off their plan. this has been a disaster for the administration bad for the country. >> elise, steve brings up. strawman horrible people made this promise and didn't keep it we are not the only ones. even nbc news on october 29th, the obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance. why in the world did they say that? >> many of these problems were made when he was still trying to pass the law. the point he was trying to make very imprecisely is that this law isn't going to necessarily disrupt the insurance plans for measures. it will for some but won't for others because many

people obtain their insurance through their employers. now, it's possible that employers will cancel their healthcare coverage and shift people into the exchanges. but the president was really nailed on this one. because i think his words were imprecise. >> 6 million people at least got cancellation notices. how could they not have known that one? >> they absolutely knew it was coming. but i do think that the administration gets past most of the problems with the web site. we know people have lost their health insurance and others have signed up for health insurance under obamacare, some for the first time. and the question as the new year arrives is going to be have more people lost their coverage than have gained coverage through obamacare? i mean that defeats the entire purpose of the affordable care act, a very very hard point to defend against if you are a democrat. >> well, they put on a happy face about it. do you think that all in all with even sort of the bumps in the road that although they could see the problems with the health side satisfied on the right track

or is that a happy face? >> democrats decided to argue that the only problems with obamacare were the web site problems. they conceded that the web site was a mess. but that once that gets fixed, obamacare is fine. what republicans have said is that there are structural aspects of obamacare that are going to mean continued, higher premiums, higher deductibles, narrower doctor choice, narrower prescription drug choices, all of this stuff for patients as we go forward. i think what you are going to see in 2014 is which side has the stronger argument. >> steve, this healthcare was passed in 2010. did they get started right away on othe web sight or did they drag their feet? i mean, what in the world, how did they get to this mess? >> well, i mean, you go and go back and review the testimony, they claim that they were starting on the web site, that they were working on these problems from the very beginning, but it also intensified, that work intensified over the past several months. clearly they didn't do enough. clearly they didn't have enough back stops. clearly they didn't do the

kind of testing that they had said under oath. i mean, in front of congress that they were doing. they didn't do the things that they said they were doing. that's a problem it was a problem. it will continue to be a problem. i think there are many other problems that they are going to be facing as you look into the immediate future. you have a situation where if you go back to the beginning of 2013, you have -- okay, this was theoretical issue. americans understood this was coming but they didn't understand what it was going to mean to them. in the latter stages of 2013, americans saw that, in fact, this effect l. effect many people who didn't think they were going to be affected. people who got cancellation notices. people who saw premium hikes. people looking at higher deducted tillables. what's going to happen in the new year is you will have a whole new set of people who get additional cancellation notices and have people whose employer provided coverage will be changing in potentially very significant ways. you have people show up at a doctor and there may be doctors who don't note patient who don't know if the patient has coverage. people who think they have

coverage but they don't have coverage. and what we have seen as s. a gradual shift from the theoretical to the very real the problem at the beginning of the new year have going to be so significant aand so real for every day americans, including people who haven't been paying very close attention until this point. they will have to pay attention now heading into the new year. >> elise, how much of this -- i mean, when it was past it was a little bit of follow the leader. the democrats were told to vote for this and nobody red the particular bill. you are on the hill every single day. how members house and senate now that they figured in it the impact. >> they are very angry. particularly the white house. they feel the administration has not done a good job either rolling out the law or promoting it to the public. pennsylvania avenue all time low new year. the democrats are highly frustrated because they know this is going to be an issue in the midterm elections. republicans are going to take this to the bank as much as they canned democrats are scared. >> you have to remember, when president obama

promised that if you like your coverage you can keep it, democrats did too. there are a lot of them on record, on video making that same promise. >> which brings us to the next segment because we have seen obamacare taking a toll on americans of americans, patients, doctors, business owners, and now heading into 2014 an election year. let's look at the political fallout. it's his signature legislation. >> right now, the young voters are more disillusioned than they were in 2008 before the historic republican wave in 2010. >> there are a lot of democrats who are just as frustrated as republicans. >> in 2014, they have to quarantine this guy in the white house because he will be hemlocked to democrats running for the senate. >> the ultimate remedy, i think, greta, is elections. >> both the dnc and the rnc announcing they will be running on obamacare. >> we do want to save country from obamacare. >> looking bad for the democrats. if this works, they will all be awarded electorally if it

does not work they will be punished you brought up the issue. how bad will the democrats take a beating in 2014. >> some running for the hills are the democrats like mark prior and mary landrieu and kay hagan in arkansas, louisiana and north carolina who voted for this and are having to explain that to voters. they could be in big trouble. i think the bigger problem is for president obama. because if you look at the obama coalition, the group whose rock solid support he depended on to get elected, young people, minorities, women, people $25,000 a year in income. his approval ratings have plumentded in that group among hispanics, for example, he was 75 in gallup, 75% approval rating in december of 2000 12, he is 52 today. that is a huge drop. he has had similarly significant drops in all of the parts of the obama coalition that it was his strongest support. >> i suppose his legacy and

obviously healthcare is one of his signature policies. but i remember in july2009 he ss going to do with immigration reform. i suppose now he doesn't have a lot of friends capitol hill democratic party now that he has saddled them with this debacle. >> that's right. many components of his coalition looking for him to get done on issues like immigration and gay rights important to young people. and now healthcare is what we are all talking about. we know young people are major constituency for this law because the administration is relying on them to enroll in new insurance exchanges in order to keep prices low for next year. in order for these risk pools to be balanced they are counting on millions of young people to trust the administration, trust that this new coverage is affordable and will work for them. and we're going to have to see at the end of march whether they can actually pull this one out. it's going to be difficult for them. >> steve, looks like the president is bad right now. democrats aren't happy with him on capitol hill. saying that he was the one who pushed obamacare on him and made all the promises as

well. >> it looks bleak right now. if obamacare, for whatever reason, if a lot of people are wrong and turns out to be a successful program come april or may, i know you grin, but does that change everything? or is that just impossible? >> it's hard for me to even imagine that there is a scenario which that can happen and not just because that's my view. i have asked people. i have asked people sympathetic to the law. talk to somebody in the insurance agency not a obama computer supporter and's it to succeed. what happens to make this thing turn around. and it was long pause and the guy looks back to me and says: i don't know. i don't know how it gets better. and i think that's basically the sense among democrats, among people who are supporting the bill. i think even among the administration, if you look at some of the moves that the administration has made, it suggests that they don't know, really, how to fix this, what comes next. they are sort of buying time at every step. but they don't have a big fix. and i think that, going back to your original question,

heading into november of 2014, i mean, you played the clip of everybody predicting disaster and talking about how problematic this is for the president. i think it's entirely possible that people are actually underestimating just how bad this is likely to be for the president there is a limit, i have to say, on how many seats republicans can pick up on the house because many of the would be competitive seats were picked up in 2010. certainly, we are talking about races now that could be competitive on the senate side that nobody was talking about six months ago. >> is this so potent, byron, that we really should look beyond 2014 and look at the impact on 2016? is this such a serious political issue for the president that he has impact on 2016? >> yes. parts of this are scheduled to rollout in the years to come. i mean, there is going to be more of it. and so certainly, there would never be a republican candidate who was for anything other than repeal, so it would be pretty stark contrast between the two parties on that. >> with senator ted cruz and

the repealers, what is their impact on the party? >> well, they scaled back their calls for immediate repeals since the government shutdown which is a boone to republicans in the short-term. taking this strident position that some would argue led to the government shutdown. i think this whole thing is putting democrats on the spot as we enter next year. many of them are concerned that this is going to lead to tough races, even toucher races for those vulnerable red state dems, we have to see what happens. >> you have to remember democrats are really putting so much of their hope on the subsidies that began to flow on january 1st, and they designed it so that subsidies would go to people far love income levels above poverty programs. 40% of poverty individual up to mid $40,000 in income, family of four close to 80,000ness income. they are hoping that subsidies would go to such a large group of people that it would create some sort of loyalty and positive feeling towards this that the problems that we have had

would begin to recede in the rear view mirror. the question is, there is a lot of people who don't have subsidies, a large portion, what with will happen to them, what kind of political force would they be? >> obamacare was just one of the controversies of 2013 playing -- plaguing the obama administration, the nasa targeting scandal. the irs targeting scandal. president obama called those scandals phony. >> this is a fox news alert. president obama now admitting the irs targeted conservative groups. >> first tonight the stunning news that the obama administration is spying on you you. the doj secretly grabbing the records of at least 20 reporters. the obama administration is threatening benghazi whistleblowers. >> this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, phony scandals, phony scandals. >> there is not a firestone scandal and the president knows it? >> you can't suggest this is phony. >> phony scandals is another vehicle to continue the same

modus operandi. >> i'm here to say this needs to stop. >> elise, in light of what's happened in october, with the launch of obamacare and healthcare.gov, those so-called phony scandals that the calls phony. are those so far in the rear view mirror that they have no impact? are they coming back? >> in many ways they are in the rear view mirror focus on on the affordable care act. people are concerned the rollout is going so poorly and could last several years before we see whether ultimately this is success or not and how many it helps and hurts. many of these scandals did capture the imagination of at least part of the american public. and president obama's poll numbers took a beating as a result. and certainly as we entered october, which saw them drop even further because of the botched rollout of obamacare, he was not in a strong position, i think that's what many of these scandals. >> i don't think a lot of people thought they were phony, there was real life good experience. we have dead americans, and we have irs targeting.

so what is the political impact to the president. >> white house to call them phony scandals. the idea was the white house was trying to persuade reporters to stop paying attention to this. this isn't real news. we have important business to do. in effect, the effect was it made people pay more attention and you had people who objected to them being called phony and then there with was a lot of back and forth about why it was phony. i think this is a piece of the president's problems with obamacare. what we have seen over the course of 2013 is the gradual erosion of his credibility. the president has very little credibility. this is reflected in polling across the year and if you look particularly over the past months, the president's polling numbers on honest and trustworthiness are way down from where they were a year ago. remember, he came n january of 2013 with a ton of political capitol. he had just won re-election. it was all of his promise, republicans were on the defensive.

consolidated and push harder. think back to his second inaugural. think back to the arguments he made in his state of the union address. this was not a president who was at all intending to move to the center or scale back his ambition. this was a president who was going to take his progressive vision for america forward. the irony in all of this is president obama came n 2008 and he said he wanted to fundal mentally transform the country and wanted to be transformative president. what he wanted to do is to make liberalism popular in the united states in the same way that ronald reagan made conservatism popular sailable. he is going to end up being transformative president but perhaps in exact opposite way of what he he intended. renewed dr. in relimiting government precisely because we have seen the scandals that you are talking about and this policy failure on obamacare in a way that very few people imagined. >> what's going to be the sort of projection to going. >> i think some of these scandals have lost some steam.

the irs has lost some steam. don't see it really taking off in the next year. as far as the surveillance scandal is concerned, i mean, i think a lot of people were shocked by some of the revelations that we had of just what the nasa was doing. maybe members of the intelligence committee weren't shocked and maybe the public. were if there were other such revelations that could be renewed. >> thank you for joining us. up next, donald trump from big business to small business. go straight to the ceo to get the bottom line on jobs. health insurance, and more. you are going to hear from the top business owners next. plus, knockout game attack, road rage attack, all caught on camera. a look at the year's most talked about crimes coming up. ♪ [ male announr ] this is the story of the lile room over the pizza place at 315 cnut street. the modest first floor bedroom in talln, tonia and the dusty basement at 1406 35th street.

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customize it and keep it very affordable. and we can include everybody in it so it's a really good plan. now with the healthcare reform, they are affidavitting additional costs on to it like we have to cover free checkups. checkups have to be free for physicals things like that. have to cover people that are up to age 26, even though they are just dependents that have grown up. those aren't free. those cost things. capitalism with the healthcare act, lots of new mandates put on. going to determine what we can do. our freedom to customize our healthcare plan the best for our team members has been compromised. >> we give our people $2,500 a year cash that they can use for their healthcare. and if they don't spend it, they get to keep it, so they have an incentive to keep costs down. we don't know if that's going to survive by the time it gets to the regulatory mall in washington. we have always tried to give people not only a generous

plan but incentive to shop smartly. we don't know if we can do that anymore. >> michelle, how big is your business and what is it? >> in the business of inspiring consumers every single day to find that thing you desire. the thing you want to offer great experiences. we have about 1100 employees around the world. and about 1,000 of those are here in the united states. >> do they have health insurance? >> yes, they do. >> what -- is obamacare presenting any sort of challenges for your business? >> well, i mean certainly there is a lot to understand. for us it hasn't had a major impact on our plan costs for 2014. we offer plans for all of our employees that work more than 230 hours. some we have had to evolve. we are watching closely going to be impacted for 2014. >> some have lost their individual insurance policies. what do you think? i think it is a a mess. never anything i have seen like this. a total catastrophe. look, it was the big lie and

now he said we will delay the lie for one year. that doesn't do anybody any good. >> we employ 250,000 people around the world and about 70 million customers a week come in our stores and we were the first company in america to provide equity in the form of stock option os and comprehensive health insurance to every single employee including part timers. greta, this is very person to me. i grew up in brooklyn, new york, in a family that lost its health insurance why lived in federally subsidized housing. and i saw first hand the fracturing of the american dream when my family lost health insurance, that's the first thing i wanted to do when we first started building starbucks. >> coming up, rush limbaugh, former vice president dick cheney and governor chris christie all going "on the record" and that's not all. the best of some of our biggest interviews next. it's the little things in life that make me smile. spending the day with my niece. i don't use super poligrip for hold

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2013 was a big year and many of the people who made a big impact went "on the record." from national leaders to world leaders, we talked with them all. here is a look at just the few. >> to what extent do all these scandals, whether's irs, benghazi, or even the seizure of media records impede or distract. >> well, it may be somewhat of a distraction. most of our members don't city on the committees that are involved in the investigations. they are working on things that would actually help produce jobs. the president's policies are getting in the way of our economy performing the way we would want it to perform. our focus is jobs getting these policies straight so that we can get americans back to work we can walk and chew gum at the same time. >> the republican leadership isn't conservative. they are not particularly crazy about conservatives. i mean, i -- i'm fairly prominent in the media, conservative. i get more grief than

taliban gets and al qaeda gets. all conservatives do. because wheat do constitute a threat to the way washington views the country. >> why can't they talk to each other and get something done? >> because they don't talk to each other on a regular basis. they don't develop relationships. across party libraries. they don't begin to think about these things that is a crisis that they themselves created because of their own behavior. it's a lack of leadership often both parties. we saw this thing coming for months. everybody place brinksmanship and doesn't talk to each other it's an awful thing. can i tell you from people i speak to out in the country they are tired of it they are really tired of it, they are tired of both parties. nobody is going to come out of this unscathe in washington nor should they. >> whatever is embodied in that fundamental change in

our healthcare system the government getting more deeply involved than it ever has been before in our healthcare system that's really scary what we don't know yet about how the system is going to work or don't work is frightening. as i look at it, i think there is a real danger here especially after the president so deliberately mislead. he knew what was going on. he knew people were going to have their policies cancelled. he went ahead and right out time after time after time. so i think he has got a huge credibility problem. what kind of damage is being done to our healthcare system. >> no one wants iran to have nuclear weapon. but as we all sort of say that, they are marching forward in time. what's going to happen there? >> well, as you know, our policy is prevention, not

containment. we have through the hard work we have undertaken with the international community imposed toughest set of sanctions, international and bilateral on any country. we know it's having an effect. we have a great deal of evidence about the economic impact that the sanctions are having on the iranian economy and therefore on the political and clerical leadership. now, part of what we have to continue to do is keep them isolated. keep all the countries, including russia and china on board as we have been up to now. so, we have said from the very beginning, we're open to diplomacy. we are doing so in the so-called p 5 plus 1 format. but this is an unacceptable path that they must stop or action will have to be taken. at this point we are continuing to keep the pressure on them in the pressure track. and making it clear that, you know, there is not going to be any alternative but to

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photograph paragraph terrifying crimes caught on camera from knockout game attacks across the country to a road wage attack on a new york highway. we saw it all in 2013. dramatic year in the nation's courtroom. >> this is the area right here to my right which is where the decedent's body was found and where george zimmerman said that his -- he was lying and where he hit his head was pounded against the cement was about here. >> we the jury find george

zimmerman not guilty how is your brother tonight. >> his entire life has changed. his life changed the moment those two words were uttered, not guilty and it changed for him. it changed for all of us. we were waiting for that exoneration for a really long time. riched out with his left hand and punched me in the face. i wasn't knocked off the bike. its was biking as the group of teenagers continued laughing and i made my way home after that. >> did the person who hurt you say anything. >> he did say pow as he punched me. >> naked back there. >> naked? >> with a leisure and collar on them and he was abusing them. i never thought in a million years that i got these girls in my backyard.

>> lep me, i'm amanda beary, i is been kidnapped and i have been missing for 10 years. i'm here, i'm free now. >> i asked this girl how did you get in the house? >> she says i don't have time to explain how i got in this house. let me out. >> trying to open the door doesn't work, so i kicked the bottom of the door. she climbs underneath the door, she grabbed her baby she goes to my house. grabs the cell phone to call the 911. >> this is where israel keys brought the courier couple, brought them from about a mile away from their home to this area to where there was a home. it's now been demolished and this is where he killed, in the basement and strangled mrs. courier. >> he brought some trash bags with him. he put their bodies, each separately trash bag from the bottom up and went from the top down. he poured drano on the bodies to speed

decomposition and then he dragged them over into the corner of the basement where he put more debris on top of them. >> the only person i ever shot was bill courier. everybody else was strangled. >> we are at 178th street in upper manhattan, you may recognize sort of the area around here if you have seen the video and no doubt you have seen the video of the suv and the bikers. this is the final incident caught on tape. this is where the suv driver came up, he was swarmed by the motorcyclist, he was stopped by traffic. that's why they were able to swarm him. they got off the bike and went over there banging on the suvs. banging on it. they dragged him out of the suv. his wife and child still inside. no doubt incredibly terrorized. but they bang and drag him out. they stop and then we know that he was beaten on the street.

♪ i can't breathe ♪ until you're resting here with me. >> were you praying when you were shooting him? >> i don't remember. >> were you crying when you were stabbing him? >> i don't remember. >> how about when you cut his throat were you crying then? >> i don't know. >> there was no premeditation on my part. can i see how things look that way but i didn't expect premeditation. i could see maybe the felony murder because of how the law was written. the whole time i was fairly confident i wouldn't get premeditation because because there was no premeditation. >> straight ahead, oh, brother, what were they thinking? toronto mayor rob ford, anthony weiner and, yes, president obama all saying things you had to hear to believe. and even then they were

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harmful. so get ready to countdown this year's top seven, what were they thinking? starting with number 7. >> former nba star dennis rodman talking about his bizarre attempt at diplomacy. rodman claiming he know what is it will take to bring north korean leader kim jong un and president obama together. >> he loves basketball. obama loves basketball. let's start there. >> that's right. the basketball player and the dictator apparently got friendly during rodman's visit to north korea. but really? a game of horse is the key to world peace? so far no summit has been set. and coming in at number 6 in what were they thinking countdown, former congressman anthony weiner, now in 2011, weiner resigning from congress after admitting to sending explicit tweets to women. >> last fright day night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as

part of a joke to a woman in seattle, in addition, over the past you years, i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter facebook twitter and email. i have exchanged emails and photos explicit nature to six women over the last three years. >> did weiner crawl under a rock and try to rehabilitate himself? no, he decided to run for office again. and he decided to continue sexting. and, he gets caught again, and goes in front of the cameras again announcing he was not giving up. >> i have said other photos and texts were likely to come out, today they have, i'm surprised more things didn't come out sooner. i want to bring my vision to the people of the city of new york. i hope they are willing to still continue to give me a second chance. >> but wiener thought wrong. new yorkers were not willing to give him a second chance.

he lost in the mayoral race big time. at number five, what was she thinking? miley cyrus ♪ yes you are ♪ get classy ♪ lord have mercy ♪ talking about these blurred lines. >> lots of people calling cyrus vma performance appalling and inappropriate. if she were looking for the spotlighted, well, she certainly found it maybe cyrus knew exactly what she was thinking? and, coming in at number 4, vice president joe biden, is he known for blurting things out before thinking them through here is this year's example. >> if you want to protect yourself get a double-barreled shotgun, have the shells of a 12-gauge shotgun. you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. buy a shotgun. buy a shotgun. >> vice president biden was trying to push for an assault weapons ban but what was he thinking with that choice of words?

we bet he wants a do-over. and, at number 3, a celebrity also known for speaking his mind often in outbursts alec baldwin. what was he thinking when he screamed a local tv reporter. >> you are the one that almost hit my wife with a microphone in the face. >> i did not almost hit your wife. >> yeah. >> i honestly did not. >> do you want to apologize to her on camera. >> i asked you a question do you want to apologize. get the [bleep] out of here. >> i did nothing wrong. >> and it is a familiar scene. bald kin also yelling at a photographer. >> you wake my kids with a camera, you know what's going to happen don't you, come on [bleep] >> stop, we had to stop the tape right there. that is because what baldwin said next was really bad. so bad that he got fired from his tv hosting job for it. and, number two, on our what were they thinking list? you knew he would make the list. toronto mayor rob ford. >> i do not use crack cocaine nor am i an addict

of crack cocaine. >> really? what was the toronto mayor thinking with that big denial? it gets worse. what was he thinking when he finally admitted it? >> yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. but no do i? am i an addict? no. have i tried it, probably in one of my drunken stoopers, probably approximately about a year ago. >> well, he still don't know what mayor ford was thinking but we sure know what he was smoking. and now, number one, topping our list of what were they thinking, president obama. if you like your doctor. you will be able to keep your doctor, period. [ applause ] if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. , period. >> yikes.

the entire nation wondering what president obama was thinking when he said that. and it took a while but finally even the president realized he should have thought harder before making those ridiculous statements. i am sorry that they, you know, are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. >> and that is our what were they thinking list for 2013. and stay tuned, we're sure many more people will speak before they think in 2014. coming up, guess who is calling calling? our favorite washington hoiltd and sports stars all helping to us celebrated our big move to 7:00 p.m. eastern. you will hear from those celebrities again next. welcome back. how is everything? there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order.

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2013 was a big year for us here "on the record." we made our big move to 7:00 p.m. to celebrated and frankly we

are still celebrating but we got surprise phone calls from all kind of a list celebrities. here are some of our favorite highlights. >> greta, hi, this is i hope still your favorite quarterback. >> oh, no, who is this? >> even though is he retired. >> who is is this? >> this is bret, how are you doing. >> you know, bret, i knew it was your voice. so wonderful to hear from you. you know you are still my favorite. well, thank you, and obviously i'm calling to congratulate you on your new time and you are our favorite. >> nice to hear from you, mr. bush. >> how great, very very. congratulate you too. one minute, here he is. >> greta, we miss you. >> i miss you, mr. president. >> always nice to talk to you, sir. love you and wish you well. >> mr. vice president, how

nice to hear from you. >> well, i couldn't pass up the opportunity to call in. are you watching every night at 7 p.m. eastern? >> well, i have the last couple of nights. >> you have managed to convince mrs. cheney to watch? >> yes, yeah. she was with me last night. so we think you are off to a great start. >> hi, greta. oh celine dion the greatest voice, the greatest entertainer and i might add one of the world's nicest people. first of all, if i macon graduate late you and wish you good luck on your new hour on the new hour of your new show coming up. it's been so long since we have seen each other. the last time was more than five years. >> oh yeah it was in vegas. the most spectacular concert i have ever been to in my entire life. >> hi, greta, mike tyson about the show and nobody deserves it more than you. >> hey, greta, it's your

friend chris jenner. oh, chris jenner. wow, that's fun. did i hear you are going to have a it new time slot where it's a little bit earlier; is that right? >> yep. it's right now in fact, it's 7 p.m. eastern. so when you come to town we can go out to dinner afterwards. >> oh my god every single time i come to town you say you can't have dinner because you have to work. i'm so sick of that excuse because that's the same one i give when i'm here. >> yet, i'm so proud to be part of this, wish you good luck in this great new time slot. >> you know, larry, i learned all my interviewing techniques, i can never do it as well as you can. cnn. and i appreciate all you have done for me. >> well, greta, now i have tips for you now that you are on earlier. okay, first, much more people up at 7:00 than at 10:00. >> everybody who helped us

celebrate and thank you for joining us for this special edition of "on the record." see you tomorrow night right here at 7 p.m. eastern. make sure you go to gretawire.com. good night and happy new year. very special o'reilly>> factor tonight. >> youei this date goes on forever. >> how does kelsey grammar handle liberal hollywood? >> republican and conservative guy? >> i have lively speculation about certain conversations hand? >> i have lively speculation over certain conversations. >> the democrats have gone further left and the democrats have gone to where the democrats have gone to where the democrats