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 alex

witt." president obama has authorized an additional 1,500 groups. this comes as the president plans to ask congress for an additional nearly $6 billion for the open-ended mission. jim miklaszewski joins me with the details. >> reporter: three years after the american combat role in iraq ended, more forces are headed back to iraq on a ever expanding mission. the president obama administration said it was doubling the troops in iraq, and their mission is to train, advise and assist the iraqi military in its fight against isis. they have founded isis forces with limited success. they have been unable to halt

the advance. the iraqis could lose the battle. the new teams of u.s. military advisers will fan out over the northwest and southern iraq and into hot combat zones under isis control, anbar and the north baghdad provence. those advisers will be protected by u.s. military teams, but they are not offensive combat forces. >> they are going to be training troops and they are going to be able to defend themselves, but that doesn't mean they are being introduced in a combat role in iraq. >> anybody who thinks that being an adviser keeps you away from combat is just kidding himself. i was an advise twice in vietnam, and that guaranteed i would be in combat. >> white house officials deny the deployment increase as a sign of so-called mission creep

but admit the fight against isis will take more troops and money. big expectations going forward after the meeting at the white house between president obama and congressional leaders. isis, ebola, and immigration. >> what we have seen now for a number of cycles is the american people just want to see work done here in washington. i think they are frustrated by the gridlock. 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. joining me now, lynn sweet. what happened in the meeting yesterday? >> well, they didn't resolve

anything on the immigration front, alex. they are still headed on a collision course. the leaders did tell president obama that the congress will probably approve the more than $6 billion he wants for the additional fighters in iraq, and mainly they left a lot of the questions that they came in with still open when they left, even though they did have a six pack of white house beer with them, and that is it's not -- the president just doesn't bind the idea that the mid-term elections necessarily trump his election, in other words, his authority, meaning he is just not going to wait. a big question out there, where and how will he use his executive authority going forward. >> well, fithe president said i want to get things done, and mitch mcconnell struck a similar attitude. >> sometimes spring and summer, are going to have another moment

there, and -- >> let me make it clear. there will be no government shutdowns or default on the national debt. >> we heard these kinds of things before. what makes it different this time, phillip? >> what makes it different, the republicans control both branches of congress. it will be between capitol hill and the white house. the republicans feel like they have a strong mandate after this week's elections to actually move forward on the agenda the house had been pushing for the last four years, and it's going to be interesting to see how the white house responds to that? >> do you have a sense of what is going to get done? >> i think over the very short term, not a whole lot is going to get done. looks as they they will try to move things in the lame duck congress and the republicans may not want to deal with once it takes affect in 2015, but in the next two years, i think that's a huge question mark. there's a lot of sense of what

congress is going to be able to pass that meets the requirements of the republican ma skwrojorii the house and senate. i think president obama has repeatedly demonstrated that he has a mandate, and i don't know that he is going to want to relinquish very easily. >> lynn, as you mentioned, the president is vowing to still act on one topic by the end of the year. this was in the first news conference following the republican's land slide victory. >> before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that i can take that i believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system. at the same time, i will be reaching out to both, mitch mcconnell and john boehner and other republican as well as democratic leaders to find out how they want to proceed and if they want to get a bill done, whether it's in the lame duck or

next year, i am eager to see what they have to offer. what i am not going to do is just wait. >> it's lawful. the president can use executive action to do it, and if he does, what will the affect be on his relesionship with republicans as they head into a new congress? >> it will be terrible. at that same press conference, where you showed a snippet of mcconnell talking, he said specifically on immigration if president obama moves it would be like waving a red flag in front of a bull. now you have newly empowered bulls, and the thing i am sure is going to happen is president obama finally will issue this order because otherwise he already has angered a lot of the democratic activist because he has delayed, delayed, and delayed the executive order to curb deportation. it's a big issue. i think it's a collision course.

>> absolutely. phillup, john boehner said it will poison the well if the president acts in this matter, but if boehner tries to appeal aca, isn't that the same thing? >> it's an area of contention that neither -- >> well, poisoning the well? >> yeah, sure. i think the obamacare well has been poisoned since 2011, right? i think that the president will probably take action on immigration, but it will be more modest than what he anticipated doing six months ago. i think he was asked to postpone it by the senate democrats that were embattled over the course of the campaign cycle, and it's going to be interesting. he doesn't want the republicans to come up with a plan, and this is about politics, and it's the latino base over the next few decades, and i think the democrats see an advantage here and don't trust the republicans

to do the sorts of things that they would want to see happen, but the president, by the same token, can't do something at this point because it makes him look like he will not work with congress. it's a tough spot. >> what about the deploying of 1,500 troops back to iraq, and they say it's not a mission creep from the white house, and don't you think it's the last thick he should be doing at this point in his tenure? >> especially this is the man whose political career elevated because he opposed the war in iraq. it's irony beyond belief. it's going to see as mission creep, especially if anything happens to the troops there. i expect an authorization vote to roll out, and this is where you can have a scramble in divisions, between the libertarian's hands, and a lot of the progressive wing that

doesn't want any kind of escalation. >> okay, good to see you both. thank you. >> thank you. how do you interpret the election results? you can respond on twitter. i will read some of the tweets throughout the day on the show. president obama will announce the tphaupllation of loretta lynch of the next attorney general succeeding eric holder. she is the u.s. attorney in brooklyn, new york. she is viewed as a washington outsider who has over seen bank fraud and other corruption cases. she will be the first african-american woman to hold that job if she is confirmed. and then 43 missing college students has taken a bleak turn. the mexican government said the students were murdered and their charred remains were dumped in a river. a gang admitted to setting fire to the bodies. the students were headed to the protest about the lack of

funding for their school when they vanished. and then 15-year-old fryburg died friday night. he was the cousin of the shooter that killed himself in the cafeteria two weeks ago. police have not released a motive for the attack. let's go from there to the weather, and an arctic outbreak threatening much of the country. below average temperatures are setting in from the rockies all the way to the east coast, and some places are starting to see snow. mike seidel is joining me from minneapolis. how cold is it going to get? >> reporter: it's going to get pretty bad here. not bad this weekend. 38 right now in the twin cities, and the wind is gusting at times up to 30 miles per hour. the real shot of arctic air will come down literally from the north pole as you get into sunday night, monday and tuesday across the northern rockies, and the plains and here in the

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a federal appeals court struck down challenges to same-sex marriage bands in four states, michigans, ohio, tennessee and kentucky. joining me now is the democratic congressman from kentucky, a member of the congress committee and the budget committee. can i say, you are a rock star. you cruised to victory. last time the numbers were 61 to 31 in your favor. >> it was 63, 35. it was a very nice win and i am very gratified by that, and i thank my constituents. we have a great relationship. >> i am glad we can have you back as the current representative from kentucky. here we go. what has been all the reaction you are hearing from your constituents on the same-sex marriage ruling? >> i think those opposed to the ruling, that's not a sentiment that is widely shared in

kentucky, but those who have talked to me are very much upset by it. i think everybody is kind of relieved it's going to the supreme court, because ultimately we expected that's where it would be finally resolved. >> you think the sixth circuit court ruling was the best thing? because there are some who would disagree? >> no, i don't think it was the best thing. they are the only ones that ruled in that direction, and i think it would have been much better if we just had not kept the lives of so many gay and lesbian people on edge in the four states. so i wish they had just gone along with the rest of the circuits. it seemed to me the logic of the majority of two was so tortured, and it was bizarre. i think they probably wanted to get it to the supreme court rather than actually try to overturn it, because they know as well as everybody else in the country that this game is already over. >> what is interesting about the

supreme court, if it goes there, as you know, there's a potential the supreme court, and i guess logic is a 5-4 ruling, and kennedy might be the pivotal one there, and you think that way it would be a blanket ruling that would go in effect across the united states instead of having it go piecemeal state by state, which causes so much difficulty. >> i can't imagine we are going to say we are going to leave gay marriage legal in 30 something states and we are going to keep it illegal in four. that just defies logic, and it would lead to turmoil. again, it would be a horrible thing for the citizens of kentucky and indiana -- sorry, kentucky, ohio, michigan, and whatever the fourth state was? >> and tennessee, that was the other one. let's take a listen what the president had to say in a news conference. here he is. >> the one thing i committed to

both speaker boehner and mcconnell is that i am not going to judge ideas based on whether they are democratic or republican, i will judge them based on whether or not they work. and i am confident that they want to produce results as well on behalf of the american people. >> do you think the gop thinks along those lines as well? >> i think the gop thinks along ideological lines, and i am not sure if it's republican or democratic, and it's conservative. they have an ideology that says they want government out of the society as much as possible, and that's what drives them. the president has to deal with the immigration issue, people in both parties and many across the country support immigration reform, and the business community and faith-based

community and law enforcement does, but their ideology says differently. it's going to be an interesting battle once again along all those fronts, but particularly in regard with immigration. >> did anything give you hope that two parties can compromise now and get something done on other issues of the next couple years? >> no. it really didn't. i was really disturbed at speaker boehner's remarks the other day, because i thought he was very condescending, and i get a long well with the speaker, and i thought his tone was wrong and add adversarial. i worked all to put together a bipartisan bill, and boehner was sure that he would find a way to

get whatever we did to the floor, and he has never done that. it's hard to take him at his word that he is serious about getting immigration reform done. >> anything about the mid-term election results that tell you it might be time for the party to change leadership at the dnc and in congress? >> well, you know, i think -- i am not sure the problem is with our leadership. we had a very difficult environment. what the ultimate factor was, even though those of us that work in the system every day understand the republican's basic strategy was, don't let anything happen and the public will blame the democrats, which is exactly what happened. i think that was our biggest problem. but ultimately it was getting our vote out. i am not sure that was a function of our leadership. we will have to do a lot of soul searching and review of analysis of that.

157,000 votes this year, and i got exactly the same percentage, so essentially 49,000 of my voters stayed home, and i think that was repeated across the country. >> absolutely. i think you hit the nail on the head there. good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you. the supreme court hearing another case with the affordable care act. it smells like this... ( sound effects ) febreze air effects works instantly to eliminate odors you've gone noseblind to. it smells so much better! so you and your guests can breathe happy. synchrony financial partners with over two hundred thousand businesses, from fashion retailers to healthcare providers, from jewelers to sporting good stores, to help their customers get what they want and need. banking. loyalty. analytics.

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that she does not lose it again. those are your fast five headlines. >> more american troops are headed to iraq, up to 1,500 additional troops going to the region and that was on top of the 1,600 that was previously allowed. kristin welker, what will the troops be doing? >> here is what we know so far, and good morning to you. president obama asked the pentagon for additional american troops to be deployed to iraq for the fight against isis. the administration says the troops will not inbound combat roles and will instead serve as advisers and trainers, but there's skepticism about that this morning. president obama is about to head to asia. a renewed push to focus on trade and the economy in that region. but it's the middle east that continued to get the

administration. from 1,400 to 3,000, and pentagon say the forces will train. >> secretary hagel made the recommendation to the president based on the request of the government of iraq. >> the announcement comes three months after the u.s. launched an air campaign against militants in iraq and syria. the iraqis could lose their battle. the new teams will be dispatched over the north, west, and southern iraq, and into two hot combat zones, anbar and the north baghdad province. pentagon officials insists they are not going into combat. >> they are going to be trained troops, and they are going to be able to defend themselves, but that doesn't mean they are being introduced in a combat role in iraq. >> many are skeptical about an

ever expanding mission in the same region. >> this is headed towards further increasers, and more advisers and more troops on the ground, because that's the only way you will be able to defeat isis and keep them away for an extended period. >> reporter: on a separate note, alex, later today the president will announce his pick for a new attorney general, and if confirmed, loretta lynch will become the first african-american female ag, and she currently serves as the u.s. attorney in brooklyn. all of this is the back drop as president obama heads to asia, and it comes in the wake of the election in which the democrats lost to the republicans in the senate. joining me now, amy, and i want to play you a clip of what

white house press secretary said about the challenge. >> again, this will work its way through the legal process. we continue to have high confidence in the legal argument, both from a legal perspective, and also from a common sense perspective. >> what is the legal argument against obamacare, and should the obama administration be concerned? >> the legal argument is that the affordable care act provides for tax subsidies to lower and moderate income individuals who buy their health insurance on a marketplace known as an exchange. in the affordable care act, congress envisions states would create the exchanges but left the possibility open that the federal government would do that if the states declined to do so. most states said they are not going to create the exchanges. 14 have created the exchanges and 36 have not. so the federal government

stepped in and set up the market places where you can go and shop online for health insurance. there's another provision in the affordable care act that says you can get tax subsidies if you buy your health insurance on an exchange established by a state, with a capital "s." so the argument and legal challenge is you can only get the tax subsidies if you buy your health insurance on an exchange established by a state, not if you buy your health insurance on an exchange that has been established by the federal government. and these tax subsidies are a crucial part of the affordable care act, because it makes it so people can afford it, and so if they can't get the subsidies, it's going to make it hard for them to afford the health insurance, and not only that, for many people it will take them to the point at which they don't have to buy health

insurance, the individual mandate, which is what we had the legal fight a couple years ago, it says you only have to buy it if the costs are going to be less than 8% of your household income, and a lot of people without the subsidies would fall below that. >> is there concern that if the court says one portion of this law is unconstitutional, that would indicate the entire law is vulnerable on a constitutional basis? >> this is not a constitutional question. it's purely a question of how you interpret statutes. >> do you look at what this particular part of the law says, established by the state, or do you look at what congress would have intended to do if it thought about it, the idea that congress thought the states would create the exchanges and it didn't make clear that it would also apply to exchanges established by the federal

government, so it boils down to look at a strict interpretation, what congress said, or do you try to figure out what people think congress would have meant? >> so obamacare, the aca, and the survived prior challenges, what is your sense in this case? >> we don't know how this is going to play out, because obviously, this is why we will have the briefing and the oral argument. i will say that the obama administration has cause to be concerned. this is an appeal of the ruling by the u.s. court of appeals fourth circuit which is in richmond, virginia, that upheld the irs rule that said no matter what kind of exchange you buy your health insurance on you get the tax subsidies. if you take your case to the supreme court, you need four justices to agree to review your case, and i think it's a pretty good bet what we think of the four more liberal justices didn't vote to grant review to tell the fourth circuit it was doing a good job, and there are

four justices, and they are very skeptical about the affordable care act. so it's going to be in all likelihood, a nail-biter again, and it could come down to roberts who cast the deciding vote the last time we had the affordable care act in the supreme court, or justice anthony kennedy, but it's going to be close. >> that means we will have you back talk bg about it as it gets closer. thank you very much. a kidnapper takes a sleeping young girl from the bedroom of her home, and what happened after that is nothing short of a miracle. ♪ [ male announcer ] united is rolling out global, satellite-fed wi-fi to connect you even 35,000 feet over the ocean. ♪ that's...wifi friendly. ♪

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expressions, sometimes i don't know what they are saying. >> and in all, experts say autism reflects more than 1.5 children in adults in the country. a 5-year-old girl in utah is back with her family after she was kidnapped. a man found the girl sleeping and carried her outside, and the stepfather who was awakened by the noise, saw the suspect and come out to confront him, and he managed to rescue the girl and the kidnapper got away. he was later found in the basement of another house. >> i don't think they have any idea who he was. >> the suspect is in jail facing charges that include kidnapping and burglary. the case is disturbingly similar to the kidnapping of elizabeth smart back in 2002, and he was

held captive for nine months before she was rescued. the philadelphia woman grabbed off a street is home this morning. new information is emerging about a stranger that helped police rescue her. many are calling him a hero. >> even before this dramatic surveillance video of the kidnapping that was seen around the country, and before philadelphia police began investigating, a passerby saw the crime unfold. >> she is fighting, and she is screaming? >> yes, she is screaming, help me, help me. >> he said he had no idea of what was happening. at first he thought it was a domestic dispute. >> as i was coming closer, it was looking weirder. >> but he quickly realized this was something else. he called 911. >> this didn't look like a domestic. he says it all happened very fast, and the woman who we now know, she was pushed into a car and taken away. >> when you got here, you saw

her cell phone. >> cell phone, glasses, and scattered glass. >> he called 911 again. >> if you did not make the phone call, if you would have waited, all we have is a cell phone in the middle of a street and then a missing person report. >> that phone call led police to the surveillance camera at the crime scene. police arrested the 37-year-old barns on kidnapping charges, and she is now in a virginia jail, and gaither was freed. police say they got lots of tips. but the detective that helped solve the case, knows who he think should get it. >> mr. fletcher is the hero. if there is any money to be given, i think he deserves it. >> so far the police have not determined who will get the reward. >> fletcher says in many ways if he inspires other people to act, that's a reward. >> that's a great story there. it sure looks like the

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that's a gorgeous look at the empire state building here in midtown, manhattan. what a pretty day outside. i hope we all get out there and enjoy it at some point. meantime the stock market has closed are for the third day in a row. despite warm reaction 0 to october's report. the economy added 214,000 new jobs last month slightly below estimat estimates. the unemployment rate continued to decline down a tenth of a percent down to 5.8%. and joining me is jared bernstein, vice president biden and on budget and policy priorities. jerrod, good to he see you this morning. give me your read on the jobs report. well, i think you kind of nailed it in the introduction before, the tease when you said the economy is improving. the statistics you just showed certainly underscore that.

the stock market on a bit of a tear. and yet lots of people aren't feeling it as much as they'd like to. and i think the connective tissue there really comes down to the paycheck. yesterday, as you mentioned, ninth month in a row where we've added over 200,000 jobs. that's actually a good record. the unemployment rate falling, by the way, are for the right reasons, because people are getting jobs not because they're leaving the labor market. and hourly earnings have been rising on a year over year basis of 2% now for about four or five years running. that's just about the rate of inflation and that implies stagnant buying power when it comes to hourly wages. and i think that largely explains the disconnect you described. >> now you've just given it toe into in detail but speaker boehner is echoing your sentiments in a general sense. he put out a statement. while it's welcome news that more people found work last month, wages remain stubbornly flat while costs continue to rise squeezing middle class families and putting the american dream further out of

reach. what changes could narrow that gap between wages and costs? >> that's exactly what i was thinking when you were reading that quote, the dog chasing the boston. now that you caught it, what are you going to do with it? they have it to work with the president. i think one area where we really ought it to see some traction is in investment and infrastructure. our national infrastructure i think gets a grade of something like a "d" from the american society of engineers, bridges, roads, water systems, our stock of public schools. they need a lot of work. borrowing costs are cheap. it's a very good time to do that and would help pull some folks who need jobs back into the market, increase opportunities, their hours of work. but that's going to mean spending and fiscal policy is. they're going to have to work

together if they want to get there. >> we talk about it, people talk about it all the time on our sister network, cnbc, no help at all for the democrats on tues y tuesday. did it not translate to votes that the wallet really isn't feeling it? >> you know, i think there are two factors in play. one is that. one pollster told me if you go outside of the beltway and you talk about the economic reko recovery, people don't even know what you're talking about. but, secondly, it does seem like there weren't that many candidates actually talking about it. it almost seemed like they were running away from the economy a little bit. no small part because of the disconnect problem, the rae covery not reaching people. but one might have argued that there could have been more in thames of the messaging on theish be you. >> well, there's an article in "the new republic" and it argues one reason the democrats are losing on the economy they focus too much of their campaigning on the minimum wage and not the middle class overall.

however noble it may be to help the are poorest workers. is it a political mistake to make that the centerpiece of your economic platform? >> yeah, that's a really important point. i really do think that if you ask kind of a generic democrat in washington what's your economic policy, well, it's raise the minimum wage, and that's a fine policy and, in fact, it's really caught fire in a lot of red states. but it's a relatively minor intervention and i think that piece has a point. if you're going to reach the middle class, you need to think about lowering the trade deficit, about the infrastructure story. you need to think about achieving really not just low unemployment but full employment in the job market and staying there. >> okay. jared bernstein, as always, good to have you speak with us and iron these thing out for us. that is this hour of "weekends with alex witt. "be sure to join me at noon eastern time. straight ahead we have "up with steve cokornacki." and then at 10:00 it's melissa harris-perry.

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