no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. apparently, because trfs a huge national election on tuesday, that doesn't mean we can't have a friday night news dump tonight. and, yes, we do a thing at the end of the show that we jokingly call the friday night news dump here. but that's not what i mean. tonight, there was an actual friday night news dump from washington that we didn't expect. and that is very, very big news. tonight, the white house put out their official announcement on a friday naming president obama's advice to succeed eric holder as attorney general of the united states. he was a historic choice for ag. he is our nation's first-ever

african american attorney general. the nominee who president obama has chosen to succeed him will also be a history-making choice if she is confirmed for the job. but the fact that we did have a big, national election this week in which the republicans took control of the senate, that does raise the question as to whether the president's new nominee for the attorney general will be confirmed for the job. there's some interesting wrinkles there. we'll have a report on that late-breaking news. it's also going to be the subject tonight on the interview. we've got an incredible corruption story coming up out of the deep south. it involves a really, really good local journalist and the better part of a billion dollars in a corruption case in a very poor state. that amazing story is coming up later on in the show tonight and

more. we start tonight in colorado. the top of the ticket, headline results in california elections were, of course, that mark udol lost his seat to a republican congressman named corey gardener. democrats had control in both chambers of the colorado legislature heading into this election. and, as of right now, they still don't know who's going to be controlling the senate after this election. in colorado, there's something like 800 votes in the senate race there. so whoever wins in adams county, colorado, that will determine which party controls the colorado senate. whoever wins the senate race in adams county, colorado, they will control the senate. in the colorado house, they only decided late this afternoon who would be in control. late this afternoon. and the results came in from the last outstanding house races in

colorado, that the republican party there finally conceded that they will not be able to take over the house from the democrats there, even though they really wanted to. democrats will keep control of the house. but i should tell you, among the newly-elected republicans who will be keeping the democrats company in much larger numbers than they dd before in colorado is this guy. gordon has been a long-time internet preacher. but now he's a republican state lawmaker in colorado. he's become famous for his eloquent exorcisms of the demons that he says lurk inside president obama. >> there is a spirit of hiding and a spirit of secret see, and it's law making and it's

lawnessness. we are exposing that. it has it's root in a evil spirit of violation of tyranny, ultimately. here is what jesus warned in luke, chapter 12. there's nothing covered up will not be revealed, and hidden, and that will not be known, what you said in the dark, mr. obama, what you whispered in secret rooms, we will declare that. let's play. father in heaven, we pray about the demon of tyranny who is using the white house occupant, that domonic spirit --

>> >> newly elected gordon klingenschlit performing exorcisms of demons inhabiting president obama. even though his name is republican state representative elect, he prefers that you call him dr. chaps. we learned today that dr. chaps will not be up for any political chairmanships in the house, because the republican party did not get control of the chamber, and he did get elected but they did not get control. the house is not up for grabs, although the senate still is. and, actually, a lot of states are still unsettled in terms of individual races and late legislature of alaska. the republican governor is behind by a few thousand votes so far in alaska against the ticket that is running against

him. which is an independent and a democrat running against him. nbc has not called a whipper in the governor's race. same deal, actually, in the alaska senate race where it's the incumbent democratic senator who is blind a few thousand votes. he is not conceding, and he is waiting for the last few thousand votes that have not been counted for. a huge storm, stronger than superstorm sandy and about the size of alaska itself is due to hit the alou shaw islands in alaska. this is as big a storm they think it might be, it could have really wide-ranging implications in a state where they're still counting among other things. the virginia senate race, that race was finally settled today when ed gillespie announced he would not be asking for a recount.

he conceded the race today to incumbent, mark warner. all in all in terms of the senate that leaves alaska and the louisiana race. we knew on election night would be going to a run-off because neither candidate got 50% of the vote. the mayor will be defending in a louisiana run-off on december 6th. mary landrieu is projecting all kinds oaf confident about that run-off. she has won state-wide runoffs for that senate seat twice before, but the odds are considered to be pretty strongly stacked against her this year. she is the last remaining democrat in a state-wide office in louisiana. they preserved almost $2 million in tv air time for that run-off election. but, now, they have released those reservations and mary landriue is going to be on her own to try to save her seat.

so, yeah, still to be called in alaska and louisiana. there's also about a half dozen house races outstanding as well, but regardless of what happens in the races, the picture of who is in control is settled in washington. we had the great bipartisan awkwardness of the herb crusted sea bass was the main course from both parties today. the press isn't allowed to stick around and actually watch them put their napkins on their lap and actually eat the sea bass, but you do get the sense from watching the first part, you do get the sense that this is the kind of lunch where people spend a lot of time not talking, right? awkwardly looking down and pokes at their sea bass. it's like the worst kind of dinner party where they don't

let you sit with the person you came with, even though that's obviously the person that you like the best that's why you came with them. you notice sometimes they forcibly break you up so you can't sit next to your spouse or your partner? in this case, they did it for the lunch today, they did republican, democrat, republican, democrat. anybody watching any good tv lately? how is your family? so john boehner sat next to president obama. neither speaker boehner nor president obama seemed all that happy about it. still, this is a ornate display of unhappy or goodwill. this is a day to say nice things, and they did. >> i want to thank the leadership for the house and the senate for being here for this lunch in the post election. as i said the other night, i

congratulated both mitch mcconnell as well as speaker boehner for running a very strong campaign. as i also said the day after the election, what we have seen now for a number of cycles, the american people just want to see work done here in washington. they're frustrated by the gridlock and they would like to see more cooperation, and i think all of us have the responsibility, me in particular, to try and make that happen. >> me in particular. conciliatory words today from president obama. let's work together. let's get things done. i, in particular, are looking forward to cooperating with the new republican leadership in republican congress. very conciliatory words. and then they eat their fish. and these things are awkward at the best of times. i cannot imagine how awkward it must be for speaker boehner to have to sit there, accepting the congratulations from the president, hearing the president say how much he's looking

forward to working together and how much they can get done together and how much he wants to cooperate with them. there you are, and everybody is making nice, and then the press leaves and the door closes, and then it's time to really talk, to really talk about maybe what you've been saying since the election. >> he is going to poison the well. when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself, and he's going to burn himself if he continues to go down this past. >> speaker boehner talking yesterday about president obama with a complicated metaphor involving poison, matches, burning and somewhat incongressly, a well. if you like the drowning metaphors more than the fire metaphors, that is a

post-election inspection. >> the president is just throwing a barrel of gasoline on a fire if he signs the executive order. he didn't deliver it when he had an opportunity. then he went forward and threatened executive amnesty, which is, in our mind, a nuclear threat. >> nuclear, kerosene, barrel fire, poise poison, burning matches n. a well. in a well. >> since the republicans did so well, the press has been tatata about how the republicans visceral hatred for president obama just can't be their reason for living anymore. now that they are taking control in washington, surely, they'll be looking for ways to work constructively to find areas of mutual agreement. substantive policy matters that matter to the american people. this is what the beltway is saying. they're going to be working on governing. now that the republicans can have control, they can't just be interested in going after president obama anymore.

the beltway keeps telling themselves this fairytale about republicans and how republicans must feel now, but listen to them actually talk to each other. go to republicanville and listen to what they are saying. that's not how it sounds when you are there. >> there's going to be a fire storm on capitol hill. there's going to be calls for impeachment. i don't know if they will do it, but they may do it. >> some of the other things that people are suggesting which is possible impeachment of the president for which people would consider lawless action if he goes too far. how big would the action have to be? how big would it have to be to make it an impeachable offense? it would so offend the republicans they would take the impa impairless step of impeaching him?

>> attention sunday morning. the beltway press has decided that these elections this woke mean everybody's going to be singing kumbaya. the republicans must feel super-constructive now. they must be ready to put this stop obama agenda behind them. you should have taken it as a hint when the morning after the election was done in front of a giant red screen that said stop obama. that's what they mean when republicans talk to each other, which is what fox news is for, what they're talking about this week is not constructive policymaking. it's when do we impeach the president? when do we get to start? that is where republicans are right now. you can see it on the fox news channel. you can also see it in the polling. stan greensburg's firm released a new poll on the subject today. among all voters, if you ask everybody, you ask this question, from what you heard about president obama do you

think the new congress should begin an impeachment investigation of obama or is there no reason to begin impeaching him? you ask everybody altogether, and everybody says that's crazy, there is no reason to begin impeaching president obama. no, that's nuts. that's what happens when you ask everybody altogether. look what happens when you ask just republicans. republicans, yes, yes, the new congress should start to impeach president obama. and, if you ask just tea party republicans, just the subset of the republican party which is super-served by their representatives in congress, if you ask just tea partiers, wow, they are ready to start impeaching president obama by a 2-1 margin. a lot of things are still unsettled from the election this week. the republican party seeing the destruction of president obama as their reason for living, that is not unsettled. that is settled -- that is clear as a well in a well with some

poison on fire. joining us now is stan greensburg, the pollster that conducted that poll, and mr. greensburg, thank you for being here. nice to see you. >> i am delighted to be here to talk about this very important data. >> can i ask you, when you look at the data now on impeachment, does it look the same to you as it did the last time republicans impeached a democratic president? >> my vantage point as a spouse of the member of congress, my spouse is a congresswoman, and my partner was bob barr, and upon leaving the conference, he then proceeded to introduce the first impeachment resolution, and so i have seen these moments in the past when they get together, and say, yes, we are going to be working together. that's not their agenda, and it's central to who they are. >> in terms of the way that

republicans talk to one another about this, i feel like in watching conservative media and fox news, i see them telling each other, this would be an unpopular thing to do. this is something we know would not pay dividends for us, but yet there's a drive for it. can you tell what makes the difference as to why they do it? >> when they proceeded down the path in the house under newt gingrich in '98 when they had very disappointing results in the election, such that newt gingrich had to resign as speaker, but nonetheless, they proceeded to go forward with the impeachment, leading to the trial despite the fact that the voters rejected it very concretely. they already paid a political price for it and yet they proceeded to go forward. you know, it was at that point they began to realize the politics within the republican party that began under newt

gingrich, and i think we reached a whole new level, and it was grounded in gop conservative heartland and evangelical tea party, the most rural parts of the country, in those places, they are talking to each other like fox news in which impeachment seems like a reasonable thing. why wouldn't you be thinking about impeachment given what you are saying he is doing and threatening the constitution? so we put this question in this survey, this election night survey that we conducted. i was actually surprised that a majority of the republicans would say, yes, it's time to begin this process and much more for the tea party. that's the echo chamber they are in. fox news, it's a big part of the country, where they have almost total control in these 20 states, and there, they don't

pay a price there for this. >> political strategist, polling adviser, thank you for helping us understand this. that point about what happened after clinton did well in the election and they came back in the lame duck and pursued impeachment anyway, and the next thing that is going to happen in the republican party that is important to republicans is the 2016 presidential primary, where they have to convince, the candidates have to convince the primary voters to vote for them, and that's something for which impeachment is a very appealing case. just my guess. lots more ahead tonight. stay with us. 24/7 it's just i'm a little reluctant to try new things. what's wrong with trying new things? feel that in your muscles? yeah... i do... try a new way to bank, where no branches equals great rates. it's not about how many miles you can get out of the c-max hybrid.

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two really big things happened today in washington. one is that the supreme court is going to think again to kill obamacare. the supreme court said they'll take up a new challenge to the affordable care act. the case is basically over a drafting error, it's almost a typo as to how the law was written. now that the court has decided to take this case, if they decide in fair of the plaintiffs, that could, in a stroke, take away health care coverage for over 5 million people in 36 states. the court agreed today to hear the case, and the cororal argum will happen and then the court will rule by june. that's one big thing that landed on the political radar today. the one big thing is the news

that the white house had all but confirmed the identity of their nominee to replace eric holder as attorney general. today, rumors swirled all day that the president's nominee would be this woman. her name is loretta lynch. see over sees federal prosecutors in brooklyn, staten island and long island. it was interesting. the white house, all day, wouldn't make a final decision, let alone an announcement after he returned from his trip from say sau next week, and then late tonight that changed, after 6:00 p.m. tonight on a friday night, the white house announced, yes, in fact, all that reporting was correct. loretta lynch is the president's nominee for attorney general, and president obama will make the official announcement in person at the white house tomorrow.

so now there is the washington politics of it all, especially since we did have a giant national election in which republicans won over control of the senate. so now, there's the washington politics of it all. especially since we did have the giant election which the body confirms. loretta lynch has been confirmed by the senate twice already. she was confirmed in 2000 and again in 2010. that's a really serious factor. that's in her favor in terms of being confirmed as attorney general. and then there's this other thing. one of the prosecutions that she has led as a u.s. attorney for a large portion of u.s. attorney, is a 21-count felony indictment against a conservative a congressman named michael grimm. he really does have 20 felony charges pending against him, and

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whole bunch of fronts. i'm confident we can get that done. thank you. >> president obama today addressing reporters during that bipartisan meeting. you saw the president there starting to ignore and then just batting away these questions about whether he had made this decision on who he wanted to be the next attorney general of the united states. just a few hours later, the white house did make it official. announcing that the president intends to nominate the u.s. attorney from the eastern district of new york. her name is loretta lynch. the president will announce tomorrow that she is his choice to become the new attorney general of the united states. succeeding eric holder. again, that announcement due tomorrow at the white house. the white house put on statement tonight that it will happen tomorrow at about 11:00 a.m. join using us is a long-time

colleague, friend and assistant to loretta lynch. thank you very much for joining us. did you know it was coming? >> i was hoping it was coming, and now it has come, which is great. >> it's rare to get taken from a federal prosecutor attorney general, and that has not happened in decades. >> the second time in history. >> the last time was 1718. almost two decades. in terms of loretta lynch's biography, we know about her educational background and her legal career. how would you describe her to a country that is now going to try and figure out what she will be like as an attorney general? >> she has the whole package of skills you would want. she is smart and has great judgment and is fair, and she is very sophisticated, and very level headed. she has been a great leader of one of the largest u.s. attorney

offices twice now, and so to me she has got what we want. >> in terms of what the attorney general does, obviously, part of it is overseeing the department of justice, and part of it is setting political priorities in the areas and carrying out some of the president's policies in that area. obviously this is about prosecuting cases, and you have a ton of power and it's a big jurisdiction. >> her priorities mirror those of the justice department in general. health care fraud, corruption, organized crime, cyber crime. these are some of the areas where i think the eastern district has been most active under her tenure in the last few years, and i think that's consistent with the department of justice as a whole.

>> the other thing that happens with attorneys general, and the subtitle should be lightning rod, and they tend to be a focus of a lot of partisan criticism. >> especially with a republican congress. >> how does she deal with criticism and political attacks? what is her temperament like? >> i think she is probably one of the most even tempered people, not just lawyers, that i have ever worked with. i have known her for almost 25 years. i don't think i have ever seen her lose her temper. once when i think she was frustrated on a particular issue, she shook her fist and pounded a little bit. >> at that volume? >> basically. that's as bad as it gets with her, and that's is in terms of her outward appearance and in terms of dealing with the public and the like, and also the way she carries herself with her

colleagues and subordinates in the office. even under pressure and high profile situations, and to me that's also qualities you want in an attorney general. >> long time friend and colleague of loretta lynch, which we now know is the u.s. nominee for the attorney general. and i have no idea what the confirmation process will be like or what the political response will be, but the pride you can feel over the choice in new york is almost palpable? >> absolutely. we'll be right back. a party? hi.

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all right. not many journalists win genius awards. the genius award is called the mcarthur fellowship. most people call it the genius award.

nobody really knows who does the nominating or the deciding. the mcarthur foundation just calls you up and says you have been picked. when you get picked, if you get a genius award, you get an award of several hundred thousand dollars paid out not at once, it's over time. the idea is to give you time and freedom to do whatever it is that you have proved to be so extraordinary at doing that you are recognized for this award. the genius award has recently been given to chemist and cartoonist and community organizers. not many journalists win genius awards. but this one did. his name is jerry mitchell. jerry mitchel was thought of as he started to be thought of as maybe a genius, when he started tracking down really cold cases. he helped to track down a case

in jackson, mississippi, decades after a killing took place. in mississippi decades after the klan thought they got away with it. 40 years after that bombing, jerry mitchell's reporting helped send another klansman to prison for that crime, even though the klansman had moved away from alabama and seem to be forgotten as a suspect. in 2006, jerry mitchell was named a finalist for covering those cases in the civil rights era. at the time, his newspaper had been going through layoffs and that genius award bought time, freedom and attention and recognition. and what that translated to in his career in journalism is that it basically earned him the right to work on big, long term stuff, stuff that needed lots of

lead time and tons of sources and the stuff that you can't do with two phone calls and a rough draft. but now look at what that work has turned up. jerry mitchell spent the last year taking a really deep dive into a very unforgiving subject. mississippi prisons. mississippi prisons are terrible places. he spent the last year plus investigating what goes on behind prison walls investigating the beatings and stabbings and gangster guards, and families being made to pay protection money to keep their loved ones safe, and money and drugs and smuggling, all that dark stuff. 2 one thing jerry mitchell noticed, it was also sort of weird. there seemed to be something strange about what was going on. and it seemed to have to do with the guy at the very top of the system. the guy that had been at the top

of the system longer than anybody in history. something was just off. here is what is off. back in 2012, a judge ruled in a federal lawsuit that one specific mississippi prison was posed a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions. 2012. the very next year, that same prison got a perfect score, a perfect, 100% rating from the american corrections association. you know what? it turns out the head of the american corrections association, which gave this cesspool of mississippi prison a a perfect 100% score, the head of the american corrections association, it was also the head of the mississippi prison system. the commissioner said at the time this. the commissioner pushed back. he said they had gotten perfect scores before. we're always perfect. but, still, that was the kind of thing that was weird, right? the commissioner getting an

award from himself for this very, very troubled prison. and jerry mitchell kept digging. and i'm not sure even he had an inkling of how huge this story was about to get. >> first, the state's prison boss facing bribery and money laundering charges. >> we are live at the federal courthouse with the case. >> reporter: this was a huge investigation. everybody from the fbi, the irs and the state auditors office, that's just to name a few. all are accusing the former head of the state prison system and lawmaker of a huge bribery conspiracy. the commissioner is quiet on bribery and conspiracy charges. >> at this point we just got the indictment, and it's an

extensive document and we have no comment and the commissioner is not going to make a comment. >> federal prosecutors concealed an indictment months in the making. dozens of federal felony charges. federal prosecutors say he has been collecting bribes and kickbacks from a local businessman, and the scale of this thing is actually epic. all told the companies involved in the scheme has taken in close to a billion, with a "b," dollars, a billion in mississippi, and that comes up to $200 for each person in mississippi. the commissioner got his share of several thousand dollars at a time. the commissioner told the businessman guy after one contract, i got us $12,000 a month and they decided evenly after accounting for the taxes the businessman would owe on his part of it, so that part would

be legal, because he paid the taxes on his half. the commissioner shook that businessman down for a condo on the coast, and then the commissioner shook him down again for a larger and more expensive condo a couple towns over, and mostly as you read through the 49 felony counts, you get the sense the commissioner seems to like cash, and he was a wash in bills. look at this. we mapped this out as best we could. on july 30th, 2009, the commissioner deposited $9,000 cash at the regents branch bank at 2:16 a.m., and 15 minutes later he deposited $9,000 cash at another bank, and then he deposited $9,000 cash at the mississippi public employees credit union in jackson. honey, i'll be back in an hour.

i have to stash $36,000 in cash at four different banks. the commissioner resigned on wednesday as his job as the prison state commissioner and the trade group that gave himself the perfect score. he faces 368 years in prison. i believe that would be federal prison, and not mississippi cesspool prison. there was a fool review announced of contracts in the state, that now a billion american dollars are involved in the kickbacks. the 49-count indictment includes not only the commissioner, but this businessman who is a former judge and a former legislature who is charged with paying him all the bribes and kickbacks in order to get the business from the prison system. but this huge, huge, federal corruption case is almost an x marks the spot where a local

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it's time to dump this week's news all over one of our faithful viewers. producer nick tutz is here to make the introduction. hello, nick. snazzy. >> i do what i can. >> you didn't wear that all day. >> no, i did not. i changed because i'm on camera. >> we have laura. she's an opera singer, a fan of the alp horn. and she's ready for the show. >> laura anne, nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. >> what's an alp horn? >> it's a special instrument that comes from switzerland. you've probably seen it a few times. it's wooden and very long. >> it looks like a cross between a shofar thing and a pipe? >> exactly. >> how do you watch us from switzerland? >> i only listen to the pod cast.

i listen obsessively every single day. >> wow. thank you for doing that. and welcome. i'm now going to ask you three questions. and you know the deal. if you get two or more of them correct, you will win -- nick, what is the prize? >> we have a minidrink mixer. >> that's right. you can use it for all sorts of swiss things. if that's appropriate. all right, we also now need to bring in the disembodied vote of steve bennan. >> good evening, laura anne. >> hi, steve. >> the way this works is i will ask you question, steve will tell you whether or not you got them right. if you get two of them right, we'll give you that cheap thing that nick just showed you. ready for your first question? >> yes. >> this is exciting. on monday's show, which was the day before the election, we talked about the likelihood of

president obama having a republican controlled house and senate and therefore the likelihood he might start breaking out his until now extremely dusty rarely used veto pen. how many times has president obama vetoed legislation since he has been president? is it 11 times, four times, two times, or never? >> two times? >> did laura anne get that right? >> let's check the segment from monday's show. >> heading into the elections, president obama so far in this presidency has only vetoed two pieces of legislation. it's only happened twice so far in this entire presidency. >> the correct answer is c, two times. >> here's question two. on wednesday, we learned that

chevron, the giant oil corporation didn't have that great of an election, at least at the local level. chevron spent millions of dollars to try to elect their own chosen candidates in the town of richmond, california, where chevron has a really big refinery. but the chevron candidates all lost. we also learned that i am very immature because i loved the name of the new mayor of richmond, california. the one who chevron bet against. what is the name of the new mayor elect. it's multiple choice. is the new mayor's name mayor butt, mayor doody, mayor snott or mayor fart? >> the correct answer is a. >> mayor butt. >> and you might need to grow up. >> steve, do i have to grow up and is she correct?

>> let's check the segment from wednesday. >> if part of your mind is permanently 8 years old like mine is, the fact that his name is tom butt is a constant course of delight. >> yes, the mayor butt was elected this week. the answer is a, and laura anne gets another one right. >> the best was when you called it an asset. >> i wrote it into the script. i was like oh, i can't use, oh, i'll say it anyway. >> genius. >> one last question. yesterday's show, we learned that yet another state legislature flipped from democratic control to republican control, but this one happened a day after the election. when the results came in on election night, the particular state senate was tied half republican, half democrat. but when on wednesday, one democratic state senator switched parties, thus giving the republicans of the senate in his state. in which state did this party-switching state senator give the republicans control of his state senate for the first

time since the great depression? was it a, kentucky, b, tennessee, c, indiana or d, west virginia. >> d. >> steve? >> let's check the segment from last night's show. >> a state senator in west virginia, a democrat, left the democratic party and flipped his registration to republican. >> the correct answer is d, just like laura anne said. >> nick, did laura anne win a prize? >> she did, congratulations. >> you're the first person who has gotten them all right. i think you might be our first extra credit winner. second? first? well, anyway, you got all three. you only needed two. if we do have a piece of tom butt campaign swag around the office somewhere, we'll mail you that as extra credit along with your tiny shaker. thank you for playing. >> super. >> that was awesome. >> thank you so much, guys. >> happy alphorn. if you think you have what ift

takes what it does to win the friday night news dump. before you can do that, you do tonight have to go meet your new cell mates. but i have heard they are extra nice tonight. collision course, the senate and the gop still headed for a big fight over immigration reform after a long meeting. back to iraq. more u.s. troops in the fight against isis. how much combat might they see? >> a kidnapper stopped in his tracks. a man snatches a 5-year-old from her bedroom and tries to escape. and then see what forced starbucks to change plans. hey, good morning, everyone. welcome to "weekends with