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attempt that and unfortunately, so many times you guys enable that. >> wow. finger pointing the media and harris, i thought that was some serious irony. bill, a lot of our viewers may not know but he's made a career out of dividing communities so to finger point that the media is now dividing communities when that's how he is basically became the mayor of new york is pretty rich. >> we were watching that news conference. it went on for the better part of an hour. he and the commissioner and so it was at the end that you saw him taking questions and talking back and forth with the media members who were there. i thought it was really interesting how much contention there was in the room from his perspective. yet he walked into the hospital where the two officers -- where all the officers had gathered to memorialize basically the two officers who died on saturday and you saw people turning. you saw police officers turning their backs. instead of going to the room

where there are media and other officers and getting a togetherness feeling, he chose to divide. i thought that was interesting. >> is that what they call in psychology 101, i didn't do we will, i got a c plus but is that what they call projection? it sounds like he's projecting because he's a pretty big divider. >> yeah. i think that this comes out of some kind of strategic play book that the mayor is reading from that says the best defense is a good offense and that most people aren't listening to the content of what you're saying. they just are absorbing that you feel offended and that you're back on the offense and for sadly a large percentage of people, that's enough to sense like wait a second. the mayor is now agreeing. what? if you listen to what he said, it makes no logical sense what he's saying in the wake of him being criticized for dividing people, for not standing up for the police officers who constitute his police force,

throwing them under the bus. what's his response to this? you folks incite conflict in others. it's just passing the buck and he's fighting for his political life. >> you live in new york city. you've seen how the mayor has approached this. he ran on an anti-cop platform so he's had a strained relationship with police for a very long time but i've never seen it this bad in the city. if the new york city cops, which a lot of them are saying, look. why would we even bother to go patrol? if i'm a police officer and i'm looking at the risks involved, your life, besides the economic things, who does that hurt in these communities in new york? probably not you or me. >> right. that's why people are calling for him to resign. it's unrealistic. he's not going to do it. i think people feel like what we have to protect are the people in the communities and they're going to suffer if police don't feel like they have an ally and they're constantly on defense. you have a mayor and then people, police force that are out there to protect us turning our backs on the mayor.

he came out defensive. he looks more unlikable to me. this guy needed to come out and say, do you know what? i was wrong. i played a role in this. i'm going to turn this around. this is no time for division. you don't then go -- >> i'm sorry. i am sorry to the police force. >> exactly. i have their back. >> they're not respecting you. he's blind to reality. he's totally deflecting blame and unwilling to take personal responsibility for what he's done. sorry we've reported the truth about the violence and chanting about dead cops. sorry that we have broken your narrative about peaceful protests and shone a light on the anti-cop sentiment and the violence that you have stoked. >> and the protests have not been peaceful here in new york, doctor. cop that was assaulted. >> there were many. >> even the mayor didn't stick up for the police then.

he said that it was an alleged assault of a cop which really ticked off a lot of police and residents. >> and this is not an accident. in other words, the idea that he somehow stumbled into dividing the city is no more credible than the idea that eric holder stumbled into the idea of dividing the nation or that barack obama stumbled into criticizing a cambridge police officer who was just doing his job. these folks are intent on dividing people on various lines, including socio economic and racial bases and thereby profiting from that. divide and conquer, accumulate power by dividing the nation. >> i'm glad you brought up president obama. hang on one second. governor pataki is asking, where is president obama on all of this? >> the president had no qualms going on tv and making a statement right after ferguson. where has he been on this? he put out a paper statement. he should be on the air supporting our police, telling the people of america how

important their role is, how dangerous their role is, how proud he is of what they do to protect every american and un hold the rule of law. the president should be on air supporting our police. >> what do you think about that? the president has weighed in on a lot of local issues, cambridge issue, the gay nba player, a lot of issue that people have said he doesn't need to comment on that. why doesn't he step up to a mike and make a statement? >> he would have to back the mayor who is toxic and he's not going to do it at this point. i think the fact that the mayor blamed the media yesterday, that shows weakness. he is against the ropes. his knees are shaking and he doesn't know where to go because that is a last ditch effort. you see it time and again. this is from the alec baldwin play book. when i'm a jerk and angry, i'll blame the media. >> maybe he's angry because the media in new york has been

following the mayor on his escapade. he has a sleeping issue, billed taxpayers for his fleet of mercedes when he vacationed in italy. >> specific to this event in the news conference today, there were a couple of issues that he didn't want to talk about. one was injecting even more divisive language via race in his bi racial son. he's had to counsel his half black son on in terms of danger with police and fear and so on and so forth. if i'm in the audience of the press corps, i have my hand up. would you like to apologize for that? is there anything you want to take back? another thing he probably didn't want to talk about, why did it take you 2 1/2 days to meet with the families, with the families of the fallen cops? why did it take you all that time to meet the family of officer ramos when his family came out on sunday evening and called for peace and calm? if that family could do it, why

did it take you so long to meet with them? >> he's from the anti-cop wing of the democratic party. at his core, he does represent a radical part of the left, the same left where president obama comes from. this is a mayor who gifted care packages, honeymooned in cuba and i find it ironic, they cherry picked the constitution, peacefully assemble? we'll let due that. freedom of the press? we don't like that. >> the way he acted reflects who he is. the reason he's not apologizing, he believes what he said. >> exactly. >> he wants to be divisive. that's the nature of the politics of the left. that's where barack obama is not out there front and center right now. he doesn't want to talk about unity. he would be inclined to tell the same line. he knows that's not helpful, that's not going to look good as a presidential legacy. he's supposed to be the leader of everyone. he should back up law enforcement and unite the

country but that's not where he comes from. he comes from divisive politics. >> right. >> he showed himself, certain body parts. >> and listen. here's the thing. i wonder when the american people will believe that the president says who he really is. he doesn't confabulate. he does not see this as an issue he wishes to speak to. >> he'd be speaking. >> he wants people to continue to think, now wait a second. the president has not come out. therefore, police are probably out to get us. it's divisive. >> when the president stepped up in the ferguson issue at first, he wagged his fingers at the police in ferguson and he put them on the same moral equivalency of the protestors and i thought that was very telling about how he feels towards police. >> i think that he wants us -- this is my perspective. other psychiatrists may disagree. my perspective is he wants us to doubt all our constitutions. this is just an extension of the

apology tour. it's the extension of you didn't build that business and the local cops you thought you could rely on, you can't. when you have nothing to believe in anymore, where do you go? you go home to a central powerful authority and you say, i don't know who i am anymore. can you tell me, president? or commander? >> i would ask the president then on the heels of that, who does he anticipate is going to protect us? because police officers are being asked to do more and more now. now they've got to find terrorism. we want them to -- >> why do you think he wants us protect snd >> you don't think he wants us protected? >> i do not. we'll get mail and i'll get heat. no. i don't think he does. >> wow. well, we'll see what 2015 brings. a lot of people saying this is going to be the narrative and it's dangerous for the progressive to take on. it could have been a simple power outage or it could have been payback. the speculation around a massive internet blackout in north korea just days after the u.s. vowed to respond to the sony hacking.

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experts say the shutdown could have been caused by anything from hacking to a simple power failure. but the timing has many people wondering if the u.s. was behind it. speculation that government officials won't confirm or deny. >> we aren't going to discuss, you know, publicly operational details about the possible response options or comments on those reports in any way except to say as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen. >> or yes, i guess you could say, right? let's talk about the ramifications of putting too much information out there if we did do this. there is a certain, i would say, psychological advantage with your enemy in cyber war or any kind of war, even though the president isn't calling it that. >> i think there's an advantage. so the president, if he played a role in this, this was a good thing to do. i do think there needs to be a public response as well because

the psychological toxicity of not doing anything publicly when a rogue regime causes a movie theater or series of theaters or movie production house to not release something, suppresses free speech to that extent, it can't just be that you make their internet go dead for several hours. it has to be that you reinforce americans' belief in themselves by a public response. that's where george bush had things right. >> so the president has said something is coming. he won't say what, although he's called this an act of cyber vandalism, what happened with sony pictures and senior officials with the administration have said nothing has happened yet. so that would indicate maybe we didn't do this or not but what do you think the appropriate response? what do you think is on the table that you see? >> it's very tough because even with your internet goes out, it only impacts basically foreigners and the elite in north korea. there are only 1,000 i.p. addresses in the whole country. north korea is already cut off

from the rest of the world, cut off from the global economy and frankly, the best thing that we can do as a nation, the best offense is a good defense. make sure the companies in the country aren't vulnerable to more attacks. >> do you want the government involved in that? >> i think it's partially national security, they're responsible for protecting infrastructure and power plants in this country. if it was just sony and some nasty emails getting leaked, no. but once there was a terror threat associated with the hack, it became an issue. >> why didn't the president reach out to sony? they've got such a cozy relationship. i would say the obama administration and democrats in general with hollywood, right? afghanistan, by the way, has more networks than north korea. they have 370 with which to get online. yesterday we were talking about this with mike baker who has been on "outnumbered" before. he's a former c.i.a. covert op and he echoed wind of what you're saying. let's watch. >> the internet going dark in

north korea has to be a great inconvenience for the four people in north korea who actually have internet access. i don't think it was that. i do think it's just as likely that north koreans have done this themselves as a preventative measure following the white house statement about the response. right now it's all just speculation. >> all right. so yesterday was an interesting day. not a good day for little kim as i call him, kim jong il, the leader of north korea. we saw something happen in the united nations that was unprecedented. a group, including china, getting together and deciding whether or not they were going to try kim jong yun on human rights violations. i don't know how much that would matter to that country but try ag leader would make a difference in some people's lives. >> yeah. it's tough, though. again, north korea has isolated itself from the rest of the world so how do you punish a

country economically or symbolic notion? he could care less about that. i don't personally think it was the united states that did it. i do think our biggest leverage is china. there are reports that china does control the internet for north korea. >> do you think they would work with us on this? >> i think it's very tough. if they want us to keep buying their stuff, maybe. we have this mute yally beneficial relationship with china. i don't know how poised we are to negotiate with the chinese but -- >> just real quickly, we unleash a computer worm on iran that took out nuclear centrifuges and then it got on the internet and now it's everywhere. >> i hope we did do it. i do. not that it caused any major damage but i think it sends a subtle message of don't play with us. don't play with us. this may not be hardball but if we have to play hard ball, we'll play hardball. >> it's like a clap device. it signifies somebody has control and it's not the country. >> it does feel like we're

calling it vandalism. shutting off their internet seems to me like we just kicked over a trash can. you want to get us? here's a little vandalism. i wouldn't take credit for something so small like shutting off the internet. like the united states is more powerful than that. >> i would rather seize all their assets. if we can shut off their internet, seize all their assets in various banks. >> that will come if we have to. >> that's one of the options i've read they're looking at. you get together with countries where they're flowing currency and you block some assets. we're watching it. when it makes news, we'll report on it. there's a new report on the i.r.s. targeting scandal. we haven't talked about this in awhile. g.o.p. probe found a culture of bias there. emails. what it could mean for the agency that claims to be a neutral tax collector. and officials in five southern states reportedly coordinating to hold their own primaries on the very same day. what it could mean for

republican white house hopefuls and whether a dixie strategy could backfire on the g.o.p.

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i.r.s. targeting scandal. a just released g.o.p. report finding a culture of bias at the tax agency against conservative groups. republican led house committee's probe also uncovering emails from before the 2012 election showing commissioner miller who considered going public about the targeting but changed his mind n. a message to his chief of staff, the report says he wrote i'm beginning to wonder whether i should do the hearing and affirmatively use it to put a stake in politics and c 4. c 4 a reference to the allegations about politics playing a role in denying tax exempt status to certain groups. miller testified several times before he was forced to resign. throughout he maintained the targeting was never motivated by politics. >> i did not mislead the committee. i stand by my answer then and stand by my answer now. harassment that was part of that

discussion implies political motivation. there is a discussion going on, there's no political motivation. >> the report is damning but will it be damaging to the democrats and to the white house in i went through it. eight officials could have stopped the scrutiny. didn't do it. >> why they haven't made the i.r.s. a bigger player, they should have said we want to strip the i.r.s. and made the democrats defense the i.r.s. they never did that. >> why not? >> i don't know. i think it would be a smart strategy. could you imagine president obama having to defend the i.r.s.? no, no, no. you can't strip the i.r.s. of their enforcement. we put the democrats on offense on that one or in defense, i should say. they never did it. this report is one in a series of many. we've seen these reports before from the house of

representatives. we've seen them use buzz words like tea party and conservative and lois lerner herself has a history of targeting republicans when she was back working for the election board in illinois so this is no surprise. i mean, the media doesn't care about it and they don't cover the story but this is, i think, aside from benghazi, the biggest scandal of this administration. >> it is amazing the republicans don't seize on this. this is not a new -- >> no one likes the i.r.s. and >> it's been proven they delay these investigations. they were worried about this. democrats are telling you, they are worried about this issue. they couldn't have it on the front page before the 2012 election and republicans are ignoring it. it makes no political sense. >> it makes psychological sense in this way. that republicans tend to be strong and to feel comfortable portraying themselves as such. capable, autonomous, invested in

liberty. when you say but we've been demonized, we've been -- things have been withheld from us and we've been stigmatized and we didn't get what we should have gotten, that's more of the mentality of someone saying we're being oppressed. it's not second nature. >> but the politicians aren't being oppressed. here is the difference. >> the people are. >> so you're defending the american people. >> i know. >> i don't think republicans do such a great job. if they did such a great job of standing for liberty, they would be winning more elections. they would have won in 2012, 2008. i think that's questionable. >> it may not be popular but it will win the day because it's the truth but i think it's the same reason, why aren't men mounting a bigger campaign to raise funds for prostate cancer research? men cannot say i'm the one who needs this. i need this. please. that's one of the problems here is that the republicans made. >> something i said and i wasn't going to talk about this but you said it, really rang bells in my

head. you said the truth. you mentioned the truth. >> good. >> do people really want the truth? i'm thinking that people don't really want the truth. maybe they don't want the truth about the largest agency, the one that has the most power in our every day lives. >> it can be incredibly insidious, too. >> they can be revengeful. >> they peer in your garage to see what kind of car you're driving. >> we don't want to be we have to fight wars. we don't want to believe that you have to build a business in order to operate and profit from it. >> this is your money. >> we have so much power in our lives. it could be so wrong and so bad. real quickly, if you're going to hit the i.r.s. with whatever you're going to do with the g.o.p., now is an interesting time to do that. they just absorbed that $346 million budget cut and john is saying, the i.r.s. commissioner, we're cutting into muscle. we're not going to take phone calls and gifts, refunds get delivered quickly. they're hurting because of budget cuts and getting more of

them in the first part of next year. >> the treshy inspector general found those lois lerner ee -- emails. >> i get your point, dr. keith. republicans don't come from the victim mentality but just raw, smart, political strategy, pass a bill when you control the senate. you got the house. defunding the i.r.s., stripping them of enforcement provisions and getting the democrats to have to on the floor of the senate defend the i.r.s. >> i agree. >> are you ready for a southern super tuesday? it could happen. officials in five states, tennessee, georgia, mississippi, alabama and arkansas are reportedly coordinating to hold primaries on march 1, 2016. it would mean voters in the deep south casting ballots all at once and on the heels of new hampshire and iowa. possibly a crucial early test for republican white house hopefuls. one political reporter writing,

it could in theory boost a conservative alternative to a republican who has emerged as the establishment favorite. but one risk is that the deep red complexion of the southern states' primary electorates would empower a candidate who can't win in a general election battle grund like ohio and colorado. all right. this is the south saying, we want our turn. we're afraid that an establishment candidate could gain steam. south wants to be the stop gap. what do you think? >> we're talking about jeb bush when we say establishment candidate. the south wants to put someone off like a ted cruz. i love this terminology that these conservative candidates can't win after two losses with john mccain and mitt romney. but i think it's a go ahead idea. it could put some momentum behind a solid conservative. it has the potential to do that and i believe a solid conservative who can appeal to

people has a shot. we've failed in the past. let's try something different. >> let's get a good southern girl on the couch, please. there are benefits to a conservative candidate being elevated. it helps breathe life into campaigns that might be tough when establishment candidates have the money but doesn't it promote the infighting in the republican party a little longer? >> i call this the no more mitt romney tuesday. this is again, southern people feel like they are not represented by the candidates that the republican party have been putting up and nominating to run for the presidency. i'm more -- more than this, i'm interested in where florida and texas fall. we have rick perry and ted cruz in texas so those two will have a little more influence maybe but i mean, the conservatives in the south are very different. >> could i ask you a question about the south, though?

when we've reported the story, we've said nine states from the carolinas to texas, do you consider florida part of that? >> i always separate florida and texas from the south. >> you do? because texas is included in this. >> southern florida is extremely different. you have very conservative cuban -- people of cuban descent in southern florida. you have conservatives, people who are jewish. florida is a little different. >> this isn't the first time a party used the south as sort of that barrier. in 1988 when democrats had more of a presence in the south, they use sort of the super tuesday strategy to try to stop a too liberal of a candidate like a mike dukakis so both parties used the south before to temperate the party. >> i like that for some reason. someone watching stories evolved, this one seemed tailor

made. i'm not going to bet anything on it but tailor made for someone like ben carson who is outside the establishment who is conservative and who, if he blows away all of those primaries, it's going to be tough to stop a guy like that. if he wins iowa and does well in new hampshire and then sweeps these -- >> he's rough on the second amendment. may need to talk to him about that. get him on the couch. he used to work here. >> secretary of state there, i believe his name is delbert, had said that the south has to be included in -- majorly included in the conversation. he said it's important that the next president of the united states, so he's looking to 2016, he or she, democrat or republican, come to our state and speak to citizens about our issues. my gut feeling is this will happen and you'll see candidates spend a lot of time in the south in the next six months. he's saying it's not just going to be republicans. the democrats are going to have to do this, too, even though they don't have a seat except for bill nelson in florida. >> i think that's a good point

and it speaks to the fight within the republican party right now. conservatives are frustrated. they want their say. the only down side is the democrats lick their lips when they see something like this and think more republicans fighting. this is going to prolong that primary season. >> we have elizabeth warren and hillary clinton going at it. >> we'll see. the supreme court announcing a date for arguments in a case that could unravel obamacare. the key role that jonathan gruber will play in the court battle. rolling stone is taking a new step to find out how the article on race at the university of virginia was ultimately discredited. who they've enlisted to conduct an independent review. pretty wild.

>> this is a fox news alert. several theaters reportedly now saying they will screen "the

interview" on christmas day. remember that is the movie pulled by sony via the hacking that's happened with that entertainment company and also threats against people going to the theaters. at least one theater in atlanta has confirmed to the fox affiliate, waga, it plans to show the controversial film on thursday. christmas day. says not yet clear how the theater was able to reportedly strike a deal with sony pictures in order to do that. less than a week ago, top five theater chains decided to stop the film after receiving threats from hackers saying they would do something worse than 9/11. no comment from sony pictures but this is via our reporting from the fox affiliate in atlanta. we'll let you know more. >> we're going to shift over to rolling stone trying to piece together what went wrong with the story about an alleged gang rape at the university of virginia. they're asking them to report the claims of a student named

jackie. the questions about the accuracy began last month and rolling stone apologized for its sdrep sis. columbia is already looking over files, including interviews and emails. in a statement rolling stone publisher said we've asked the columbia journalism school to conduct an independent review of the editorial process that led to the publication of this story. as soon as they are finished, we'll publish their report. i'm scratching my head here a little bit, why a magazine went to a journalism school and when i think of columbia university, i don't necessarily think impartial and objective. that's my alma mater but let's be honest here. >> it is a little bizarre that a magazine that has journalists with degrees, wouldn't they know this stuff by now? do they really need to go back to school? i guess they do. i guess they feel that they do. this to me is just p.r. column bu -- columbia is

liberal. the reporter and the editor should have been fired, period, end of story. i think they're just trying to save their jobs. >> what are we going to get out of this? we already know they messed up. they didn't do proper investigative reporting. they didn't ask the right questions. they didn't interview people. we already know that. >> tan think of is that they have reputable journalli journalists that they have in their ranks. the inner circle is probably hurting over this because its major leadership, raem, i'm looking at the webpage right now. untold story of the world's most infamous sex tape. that's their audience. i'm not sure why they need to dial up the big j in journalism. really? stick about d' angelo. that was last week's story. >> i want to read the story about tommy lee. >> there's a market for that. that's what they do. but if they want to elevate themselves in terms of journalism, i don't know that having a school absolve you --

>> they're trying to buy time until this dies down. rather than having to address it in any real way -- >> why not just be quiet then? >> get it off the front page >> theme are clamoring them to say more. you can put it on a t-shirt went went wrong. lazy journalist, lazy, lousy, magazine. >> let's say they have to save face. how is it for you you to go to school with students learning how to do the job to tell you how to do the job? >> i don't think it's a recess project for the kids. and from a p.r. standpoint, i think most people hear this and say, wow. these people are going to get naked in front of an academic institution. they don't know whether the academic institution is or is not biased in one way or another toward or against the magazine. but this notion, hey, we may have done lots of wrong things and we're willing to publish the

report. on the face of it, a lot of people in the united states are going to say, wow. that's pretty amazing. >> smart people say, but you really need to go back to school? what does that say about you? >> we screwed up. >> wasn't this the same magazine that put one of the suspected boston bombing terrorists on the cover and made him look like a rock star? >> why not handle it internally then? fire the proper people. you can prove to the public that you're apologetic and that you did wrong by saying, we made a mistake. these people are going to be held accountable not by going to students and saying, fix our problem. >> i don't think they are and if you read some headlines from other leftist publications, they believe that we should keep the headlines, that rolling stone should keep the headline there. even though it's all fiction, we should have this conversation about rape. >> wow. >> we'll see how that goes. we're looking ahead to christmas eve but it look like it will be a washout for a large portion of the country. it's severe weather impacting

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>> more outnumbered in a moment bit first to jon scott with what's coming up in the second hour of "happening now." >> in 11 minutes we'll talk about this. the dow, 18,000 and going. stocks soaring again today, an all-time high for the dow as the g.d.p. numbers are revised upwards. gas prices fall and consumers seem to be in the mood to shop. and tracking several big storms as they move in. rain on both coasts, snow in the midwest. worst set for christmas eve. plus we'll take a look at the playing field for the 2016 race for the white house.

who has had a good 2014? who has momentum into 2015? bob from the hill breaks it all done for us. that's next hour on "happening now." >> all right. we'll be watching. thank you. >> well, i may be outnumbered, happily so, but now it's my turn with this story. amid all the shopping and holiday cheer this time of year, there can be a lot of stress. the american psychological association actually reporting that almost seven out of 10 people say they're stressed out around the holidays. many of them say they feel they don't have enough time or money to shop for presents or they just generally feel pressure over giving and getting gifts. meanwhile, a separate survey shows women are more stressed around the holidays than men. more stressed and luckily we have a sample right here. >> it's very true >> are you stressed out? >> women do things for other women so women send christmas cards and let's say a woman didn't send a christmas card. do you think the husband who gets the christmas card is going to go, you know, i didn't get a christmas card from shelly this

year? >> i think that's true >> his wife will say, you know, shelly didn't send the christmas card this year. it's just women performing for other women. there's a big back and forth with gwyneth paltrow and martha stewart on this topic. >> i wouldn't have been aware of that. you've helped me out z. free advice. >> i disagree with that on the point that i think some of us just feel the pressure to make other people feel good this season. i tremendously feel that pressure because i feel with my faith that through whom much is given, much is expected. if it's just in the form of a card or small gift, there's a lot of pressure i put on myself because i'm so blessed and i don't know that i'm like gwyneth paltrow or martha stewart in that sense and i don't know anybody like them but i think the pressure is really kind of on myself. >> do you think it's a female thing, though? >> that might be true. >> i don't see men running around. >> my husband is not worried about it. true. >> it's self imposed.

if you let the men do some of the chores -- >> stop. >> they true -- screw it up. >> i think i execute flawlessly. >> you can't let them address an informal. they'll put an address on the envelope like eight years old >> they're divorced already. >> tony and i were doing our christmas cards a couple of weeks ago and i said we have to get to the post office real quick to get holiday stamps. he said why can't we put the regular stamps on there? i'm like, you don't get the season. >> that's perfect. women, i think that i know, they focus on details. you know, my mother has to have, you know, the tissue paper has to be white and the stamp has to be -- i'm not like this. i'm sorry, mom. i apologize. i do just throw any tissue paper together, i wrap terribly, i can't make the bed with the bottom sheet properly. i think details are exhausting. they're tiring. >> they are. >> here's a report from the front lines of psychiatry. i think that christmas and other

such holidays ask people to show that everything is good. right? show how together you are. demonstrate with the ribbon and the tissue paper that your family is great and your marriage is on steroids and the truth is, we're all suffering. nothing is perfect. >> i'm in trouble. >> it's a bit of a calamity. >> everyone is in trouble. >> how do i become a recovering perfectionist in this part of my life? >> you go up to someone and you say, are things okay? just like that like i will. that's why i don't get invited places. >> the only stress i have is when i wrap my mom's gift. >> have you ever had a rear seat kicker? how about a drunk passenger? personal space invader? they'll invade your space with bad breath. what do you find the most annoying kind of airline passenger? we'll look at all of this. expedia was looking at the yearly rankings as people head off to the holiday destinations.

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>> i think frank sinatra would like that version. if you are planning to fly this holiday season, listen up. expedia etiquette is out. topping the list of rear seat- kicker and ina attentive parents and smelly passengers and chatty cathys and drinkers. and the most annoying passenger. and difficult people? >> the first one and i didn't deal with it well. across country fight. when they opened fire. verbal four. >> i never told anybody this, but my mother was extraordinarily cruel to me. six hours with this guy. and i am a psychiatrist and bomb, he was in and i couldn't disengage. i hope he feels better.

perhaps he benefitted. you be polite and ask people to stop what they are doing. and sitting with the stress and trying to white knuckle it not a good idea. >> duhit up the drink cart. >> i didn't hit up the drink cart. when someone tells me they are in trouble. >> i don't know what to do. i pour myself in it. >> everybody i sit next to smells like cheeto's and feet and a big cold sore on their face. >> and a drunk talker and i had a trip to florida and i heard all about his divorce and then he threw up. >> i don't like to meet people on the plane and talk, and talk. and see you never. what was the point of that besides interrupting my sleep.

shut up. and what was it. >> did you have one? >> just bad breath. >> a las tois. >> and that is more on over time. "happening now" starts right now. fox news alert and good news for your bottom line. dow jones soaring above 18000 for the first time ever. >> nice, it is a rally powered by american growth and the strongest we have seen in a decade a live report from the the new york stock exchange is coming up. we are covering all of the news, it's "happening now". >> at long last the supreme court sets the date to hear a challenge to obama care. i few words in that could make it illegal and unworkable. what will the justices decide? >> plus, three terrifying