the president arrives in beijing as two americans are home from neighboring north korea. obama warns kim jung union don't expect the release of the prisoners. >> then the united states is going to be open to try and arrive at a solution until that time. there is going to be a core problem. >> tough talk on iran. vice president biden reassures an organization about the nuclear talks with iran. >> we will not let iran acquire a nuclear weapon. period. period. period. >> the last patrol, award winning documentary filmmaker takes a group of veterans on a journey of discovery here at home. >> none of us were going back to

war again. or so i thought. the idea was to take a series of trips throughout the course of a year, walk them through every season starting in washington, d.c. and heading north. >> good day. i'm andre mitchell in washington. the battle against isis continues to rage in syria and iraq and the town of kobani, syria has been the symbol of that fight. richard engle is the first american broadcast network correspondent to go inside and he spent several days embedded with fighters for a rare firsthand view of the battle ground frontlines. richard joins me by phone and he is near the iraq border. tell me what you saw. what you experienced. >> we manage to get into kobani

which was not an easy thing. the city is surrounded on almost all sides. about half of kobani is held by isis. the other half are held by the defenders of the city who are mostly kurdish nationalists. they are a secular group of kurds being assisted by the united states. we found a city that is devastated. the downtown area main street, the main bazaar is flattened. the morale among the fighters is high. there a lot of men and women fighting and that is part of the ecos that they have women on the frontlines. most of the frontline positions were held by women. it was a difficult place to operate. there a lot of snipers. they burro holes in the walls so

the snipers will move from building to building through the sections of walls. there not a lot ofood and medical care, but it is holding on. the city has been under attack by isis ferociously for the past two months or so. yet they are still managing to defend the quad rands of the city they first are in control of. >> we are looking at pictures of you now in kobani with the women fighters escorting you. extraordinary scenes. i recall that isis video done on roof top. they control parts of the city? >> isis controls about half of the city. in that propaganda video, the hostage who they turned into a spokesman under duress said isis controls about 90% of the city and said there were no foreign

reporters there and at the time he was at least right about the foreign reporters not being there. it's more like 50%. it's a stalemate. it's very difficult for either side to advance. a lot of snipers and the areas are short. in some cases we were 20 yards away. you will be in a building and there will be a street and the building across the street, there will be hostile forces. it is now a symbol of the battle within syria. a symbol for isis. isis is determined to take kobani. in part because the fighters there and the women are putting up such a challenge. it's a propaganda victory saying this was the toughest town in syria and the secular fighters,

pro american fighters were taking a stand and isis was able to bring it down. if anything, i would say that the kurdish defenders have the upper hand. they still only have about half the city. >> richard engle, this is extraordinary and we look forward to all of your report reporting. extraordinary mission with the kurdish fighters inside kobani. as jeb bush decides whether to run for president. the chances of another bush running for the oval office. >> if it runs, he will make up his own mind. he knows he can do the job. he knows he is going to make up his mind based on what he thinks is right for his family. i have no idea. >> do you know politics? >> yes, i do. >> do you think he can get through?

>> absolutely. people will say this guy can be a great president. >> can you imagine an election between a bush and a clinton? >> bill clinton and i were together saying what about another bush-clinton race. i said the first one didn't turn out too well. >> joining me now from the big interview. savannah, there were so many relationships here. your take away as to george w. bush and whether jeb bush is leaning towards it or whether the former president thinks his brother is leaning towards running. >> you heard what he said. reading the tea leaves. it feels like his brother hopes he makes a run for it and thinks he would be a great president and he better put his hat in the ring. he didn't really tiptoe around that. i asked if he was persuading his brother to run. he said yeah, in the sense i told him i hope he does run.

i asked him if he was conservative enough to get through the primary and former president bush said yeah. he is not afraid of the competition. >> another conversation which s really intriguing especially given the timing was george w. bush who of course suffed the terrible losses in 2006, on what president obama is going through now and his relationship with congress. let's watch. >> well, i'm sure he was disa pointed. it will be interesting to see if he reaches out to john boehner. both i talked to and both want to work with the president to get things done. >> what do you think the republicans should do with the newfound power? >> propose reasonable agenda items on a variety of fronts that the american people want to happen. it will be fascinating to watch the level of cooperation develop and i hope it does. the other thing is people get

tired of a president after a while. i'm a pro. >> he was saying six years into anyone's presidency there is voter fatigue with the president and his party. >> we talked to him about his new book. a book about his father. the loving relationship, father and son. politically they were on opposite sides of big foreign policy decisions. me about that and what was most surprising to you? >> he talks about his father, but as i said to him, it's not a freudian analysis and he is not putting himself on the couch. it's an admiring portrait of his father. he doesn't talk about disagreements they had on policy. the way he portrays it, they were not talking a lot of policy. it was a matter of a father's unconditional love and support. he talked about both of them having a hard time when the other was criticized and how

difficult that was. what you see is a son's very od miring portrait of his father. >> i wanted to play a little bit of the fact that he revealed to you that president bush 41 thought about not running for reelection in 92 in the race against bill clinton. let's watch. >> in the shocking conversation. maybe he and i were fishing out there and he said i'm thinking about not running. i said why? my comment was dad, you have a lot left to do. >> the fact that he was not reelected, i may not have run yourself. >> i wouldn't have for sure. it would have been hard to spend time answering questions about it. >> you never asked your father whether you should run for president. >> i didn't. >> why didn't you? >> his answer would have been if you run, i'm for you.

>> there has been so much written and speculated about their relationship because a lot of bush 41 advisers and others were against the iraq war in 03 and all that tension between the elder bush supposedly, jim baker and those folks. this is a very different kind of narrative. this is about the father-son relationship. >> if there is truth to the tales and it has been said for years and years and there is no question that key bush 41 advisers department agree with the iraq war, but whether or not that really developed between father and son, you are not going to hear about it in this book. you just see a loving portrait of his father. very admiring. i asked is there part of you who wanted to write the book because you don't think his presidency gets the respect it deserves?

he said absolutely. he thinks history will look at the bush presidency as an effective one-term presidency as he said it. >> it's a great interview and great to have you back. one week back. you are going strong. congratulations on everything that is happening in your life and the baby. >> it's good to talk to you. >> and tomorrow, jenna bush haeger interviews both her father and grandfather about the new book. right now, a massive storm is moving across the northern united states dropping more than a foot of snow in some areas. temperatures expecteto fall from north dakota to florida n. forest lake, minnesota where the arctic air brought a lot of snow. look at that. the poor folks in minnesota. flights have been canceled. what are you expecting there? >> we are expecting at least a

food of snow. in the city it stop and they have freezing rain at the airport. they canceled over 140 flights. that's about 12% of the schedule. snowpacked and covered and again this is minneapolis. it's november. the average high is the mid 40s. we have a wind chill in the mid-teens. temperatures will fall below zero likely by friday and saturday morning. that will be the first subzero readings in minneapolis in november in 17 years. the old air will be heading south and east. dallas, oklahoma city, mid 70s. tomorrow in the mid 40s. down to dallas where we expect the first frost and freeze. it will be a modified form on the east coast, but a big snowstorm up here and for some of us it will be a doozie. andrea? >> sorry about that. thank you for the warnings.

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president obama arrived in china. he was there for an annual summit on asian cooperation. he avoided any substantive conversation during a brief unavoidable encounter with vladimir putin of russia. kristen welker is traveling with the president. kristen? >> this is president obama's 6th trip to asia. his second this year alone.

one of his key foreign policy goals has been strengthening ties with the region, but many feel as though asia has been an afterthought with him more focused on isis and ebola. this will be a key test of his foreign policy. there was a grand spectacle to open the summit with leaders from the pacific rim wearing matching outfits. president obama's focus, the economy, trade, and restarting his pivot to asia. he announced a deal to extend visas making travel easier. it will create 440,000 new jobs and generate $80 billion by 2021. he has to walk a fine line with the leader and they are meeting for the first time on chinese soil. he needs china for issues like pressuring iran to give up the nuclear program and fighting the spread of ebola. critics want the president tough with china for the dismal record on human rights and strong in

his support of pro democracy protesters and good news as president obama left for this trip. north korea freed the two remaining american detainees, matthew miller and kenneth bay. earlier president obama praised the release, but said a lot more needs to happen before relations can be eased between the united states and north korea. that will be a big topic of conversation over the next two days. from here president obama heads to myanmar and rounds out his trip at the g20 summit in brisbane, australia. andrea. >> thank you to kristen welker. for more on the release of prisoners, i am joined by the staff member for asian affairs and author of the impossible state, north korea past and future. great to see you. let's talk first of all about how they were released. they were released to the head of national intelligence.

that is significant. john kerry was right next door in beijing. instead of sending a diplomat they sent the top spy. what's your interpretation of that? >> i think the main reason they choice him is because he is an intelligence official. they are trying to separate the humanitarian nature of this prisoner release from the ongoing denuclear negotiation talks that have been stalled for quite sometime now. if they sent a carrier, there probably would have been a lot more suggestions about a policy deal. i think they wanted to maintain two lanes here and that's why they sent clapper who is a an official which is what they wanted. >> really an interesting and unprecedented role. you have a regime that is so secretive that american intelligence has barely penetrated it. what is he doing and why is he

missing for five weeks. the top spy gets into the north. he did not meet and did carry a letter from the president. much to the point, the letter said this is general clapper. he is my envoy and this is just for the release of our american citizens. we had an indication of the possibility of the two hostages and we pursued it. i am thankful to others for the efforts he made. we entered into the holidays and it's a good news story. we continue to have a broad er

value. >> did you get an indication of kim jung un and strategies for dealing with the negotiations. >> no. >> what do we know about why kim jung un is in charge. why did they release these two now? what is your analysis? >> i think the timing had to do with two things. one was to release asia and ensure that almost every question the president got on his trip would be about north korea. the second has to do with what's going on in new york at the un. they are deliberating on a resolution that might possibly refer north korea to the international criminal court for human rights abuses. this is something they have never seen before. i think it worries them a great deal. i think this effort with the release of the americans, the outreach to south korea to reunite families, the outreach

to japan to resolve abductee cases, these are humanitarian efforts and they are meant to get the criticism that will come from the un when they vote on the resolution. >> thanks for the analysis and a word about terry chung and the family of kenneth bay. they have been absolutely heroic and relentless for two years to get him back. of course happy for the release of matthew todd miller. kenneth bay after two years in prison, this is a great outcome for the family. meanwhile, in london, prince charles joined thousands to remember the soldiers killed in world war i. in a dramatic representation of how many were killed in the horrible war more than 888,000 plastic poppies were planted in the mote outside the tower of

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california congress men chairs the caucus and was at that meeting on friday. he joins me here now. great to see you. >> good to be with you. >> what are do you take from what the president said? it will be everything that you want, but at the same time it's not going to be what the republicans want. they say he should wait for them to act. what do you see happening this this president? >> the president will act by executive action. use the authority that presidents have used in the past to make existing laws work better. >> what are do you think he will do? >> i think he will build on the deferred action for the young folks who today are no the in fear of deportation. they are subject to deportation, but that is deferred so he can ice the immigration authorities captured two suspects from central america who are wanted

for murder in central america. we went after those two guys. that's what he wants to do. get the bad guys out before you go after kids who are going to college. he will build on that. how much just depends on what they found they could do under the law. you can't change the law. you can work within the law. >> what do you say to the mitch mcconnells and speaker boehner who is say the way it's supposed to work that said congress acts and then the president and not the reverse. >> totally agree. they haven't acted for six years. andrea, two years ago when we started up the working group in the house, we started negotiating a bill and the republicans said to us, i was on the democratic side, if the president issues an immigration bill because two years ago after the election, he said i am ready to put forth the bill so that

everyone know what is to do. he poisons the water. he urged him not to introduce a bill because they are having serious immigration. they keep attacking him for 23409 doing anything, but tell him not to do anything. the senate passed a bill and the house republicans have blocked that senate bill for a year and a half. tomorrow the republicans could take care of the need for any executive action by doing what they say they should do. congestionally act to pass reform. it's easy. >> there was reporting out on the meeting on friday that at one point, joe biden said to the republicans okay, when would you get to this? the president shot him a dirty look and cut him off. the other interpretation is he was showing that the republicans were going to delay again. what really happened? >> i will give you my interpretation.

the president laid out an agenda with the budget and economy and isil. we said we could discuss any of those things. some are more immediate and others not. these are things to talk about. what do we want to talk about? right away the republicans went to executive action. something he had not brought up. the discussion got intense on executive action. at one point republicans said let us take care of this. at that point the vice president said when would you do it? given for six years they have done going, the economy and jobs and ebola and all the rest. the president because they got that conversation is trying to get us to move along. >> he did cutoff the vice president. >> it was a conversation where the president was saying i think we can spend all day on executive action. i have been saying i'm going to do this and you give me these

ultimatums. at one point the president said i hope we will be able to move forward. if we don't agree, that doesn't mean we won't agree on anything. i believe the president was trying to set the table to say let's get things done. >> was it a mistake to listen to red state democrats. don't do anything on immigration until after the mid-terms. they lot of anyway. some would argue in colorado and in florida you had elections that might have inspired more hispanics to turn out to vote for carly crist and save mark udall. >> taking executive action is never easy. you never want to do it as president. congress always takes offense to that. what the president was doing was making sure whatever he did would not only stand muster, but would be sustained. >> did he wait too long? >> i would like to have seen him act sooner, but the fact is he

will act. that is what is important. he will act. we have to make the system work better. >> thank you so much. great to see you here. >> today the parents of michael brown and their supporters are heading to geneva switzerland to speak at a un conference on human rights. he was an unarmed teenager shot and killed by a police officer in ferguson, missouri. setting off weeks of protest. the speech comes as they are waiting to see whether the grand jury will indict the police officer who shot and killed brown in august. that decision could come in the next few days.

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determininged incumbent senator is taking matters into her own hands ahead of the run off. starting with this tough new attack ad against the opponent, bill cassidy. >> on may 31st, bill cassidy gave a speech that was nearly incoherent. >> she may get -- senator landrieu may get -- >> voeing to cut social security benefits to pay for a tax break for millionaires like himself. we would lose mare i landrieu's clout? >> or will it be a senate -- that that that. >> for this? >> thank you, whoa! >> joining me for the daily fix, chris alyssa and managing editor of post politics.com. mary landrieu is taking it to to the mat, but is this the video equivalent of photo shopping? >> look. almost every campaign ad is taken out of context.

these are 30 seconds worth of nine minutes of speech. i found the speech to the republican leadership council earlier this summer in new orleans. the full speech, he comes across as a little bit goofy, but he is a lot more coherent. they took the parts of the speech that make him look worse and built him into an ad. nothing all that new. speaks to where mary landrieu is. she finished the jungle primary on november 4th, one point ahead of cassidy. a tea party candidate got 14% of the votes. running ads like this is an acknowledge of of that reality. >> the fact that the democrats had written her off? >> yeah. they always reserve the possibility to go back in, but it's not a good sign when they pull out the advertising. we saw that with allison grimes

and they went in a little bit, but i think there is a concern probably on the part of the national party and the democratic senatorial campaign committee to go mother into debt. they do that to spend yourself to the edge. to go further into debt for a race that not only doesn't decide the majority. they will be in the majority no matter what, but given what the polling would suggest is hard for them to win. >> let's talk about this repair mission that joe biden was on with leaders of the american jewish community. given what happened between barack obama and prime minister netanyahu and jeff goldberg's interview where a top official was described as referring to netanyahu as chicken blank. we know the recent history. joe biden goes to the podium before the jewish federation here in washington. this is what he had to say,

speaking about the prime minister. >> you better damn well report that we are still buddies. you got it, right? i signed a picture for bb a long time ago. i have a bad habit of -- no one doubts i mean what i say. sometimes i say all that i mean though. i signed a picture a long time ago for bb. he has been a friend for over 30 years. i said bb i don't agree with a damn thing you say, but i love you. >> he was speaking to ron dermer in the audience. ron dermer, prime minister netanyahu's ambassador and long time chief of staff. that was classic joe bide in. all over the place and making it clear he has a relationship with netanyahu even though obama doesn't. the u.s. position is we will not give away the story to iran in talks going on as we speak. john kerry is meeting with the

iranians. >> look. what you see there is -- joe biden in his most joe biden form in probably a positive way, i think this is someone who has been a long time doing this. number two, is a friendly likeable guy who has built lots of relationships. the problem for joe biden as it relates to moving up the chain of command is that sort of stuff which i think does president obama a service, particularly in regards to a situation like this. all of the relationships that joe biden has, it doesn't work as well when you move up a level and run for president. his hail fellow well met shtick is not always as well received if you think of him in a presidential light. >> i would argue this is a key constituency and joe biden knows how to work and massage these

supporters likeo one else. >> the one thing i would say is you may not be wrong. i think you look at the broad expanse of the race and it's very, very hard to imagine anyone beating out hillary clinton, even joseph robin biden. >> you even know his little name. you know it all. thank you very much. it was 25 years ago, a quarter of a century ago that one of the world's great dividing lines came down. the berlin wall stood for three decades as a symbol of communist oppression. angela merkel marked the fall of the wall on sunday and placed aure flower and a remnant of the wall in memory of 138 people who died trying to cross to freedom. tom brocaw was the only network anchorman live from berlin on nightly news when the wall came down. >> a historic moment tonight.

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saturday. this is the same fleet of planes that secretary kerry flies and recently broke down in vienna, forcing the secretary to come back commercially. tomorrow is veteran's day and as we honor those who served, sebastian younger takes us on a journey here at home. >> none of us were going back to war again. or so i thought. we would bring my dog, daisy and a cameraman to record our experiences. while we were moving through america, we would have a 300 mile conversation about war. about what it does to you and how it changes you and about why you miss it. why it's so hard to come back from war and reenter society.

>> joining me now is the director of the last patrol that airs on hbo tonight. congratulations on this project. you have been in conflict zones and lot of your partner and your colleague, tim hetherington and your fellow in arms. the great photographer. now you chose to do this trip along the amtrak rails. me what inspired you to do this. >> i wanted to reacquaint myself with the country and a couple of combat vets wanted to do the same thing. not only would they stay -- almost exclusively on the railroad lines. we are vague rants off and on for a year. we were cleeping under bridges and cooking over fires in the woods and bathing in rivers. i thought not only would railroad lines really give us an inside look at the heart of american communities, they go right through everything. it would allow us space to have a long conversation about war.

i took a wonderful spanish journalist who was with tim when he died in the back of a rebel pickup truck. we had a long complicated interesting and very difficult trip up the east coast. the endless wars so it seems as we are expanding engagement in iraq and syria. about the way we view the veterans as they return and our commitment to them. >> the veterans, obviously half of us were vets and half were journalists. they were received incredibly well by absolutely everybody. there is ambivalence about the wars, but not about the veterans. that was really, really nice. i guess what we learned about the country, i started asking this question, what's the best thing about this country? in poor communities, we passed

through really, really rough ghettos like in baltimore and chester, pennsylvania. the best thing about this country is freedom. we are a free country. freedom of press. in the wealthier communities and we pass through plenty of those, they were more likely to say this is a land of opportunity. until we reverse those answers and until rich people remember it's actually we are very luck tow have political freedom and poorer people see some opportunity this this country for them too. until we reverse the answers, we will be in a lot of trouble. >> how do you feel about as we wind down in afghanistan and what was and wasn't sacrificed and what was not accomplished. as we expand now against isis. >> an amazing number of them were leaving afghanistan. they missed the war in the

strange way. one of the points of my trip with these guys is to figure out why we kind of miss it. what is it exactly that we are missing. we are missing the incredible experience of bonding that happens. it's a very, very powerful experience. it's more comfortable and physically safer, but an alienated place to live and very fragmented socially. that's very, very hard for vets to come back to. >> a very important lesson for all of us. the last patrol we look forward to seeing it tonight on hbo. thank you so much and good to see you again. >> you too. thank you. >> for much of the country, the question is now how cold will it be for the next 24 hours. answers ahead right here on "andrea mitchell reports."

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>> the big chill is here. how long will the polar plunge last. the weather channel reynolds wolf. looks like the snow is already there. where is it going next? >> i don't know if you spend any time in rapid city, but every street corner you have the statue of a president. president carter is right here. talking about the high temperatures we will have today. normally we would be into the 50s. what we can expect over the next couple of hours, they go from the teens and down towards zero. winds are 20 to 30 and in terms of snowfall, people are making their way up and down the street here. we will have the snow taper off and the cold air is going to be locked in place. andrea, it's a lot of people.

we are talking millions of americans that will be affected from this from here to montana to minnesota. it will stretch through the ohio valley to the northeast. you asked how long it will stick around. i would say in this area towards the weekend it's going to be a ramp, but some places well into the following week we will deal with the cold air. not as cold as what we will have in terms of single digits or subzero, but a very, very cold winter blast. that will be the road conditions. you see people making their way down the roads and roads have been pretreated and on parts of i-90 and parts of the bridges. and certainly parts of the nation. >> from the weather channel,

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