the new majority leader. >> the deal apparently he has reached with the chinese on his current trip. >> and new clues into the death of comedian robin williams. could he also have been suffering from a form of dementia. >> for many people who suffer both from depression and dementia, depression will make the memory symptoms worse. not many good things can come out of someone passing. one good thing that can come out of it is to raise awarenessative disease. >> stand by for some extra terrestrial news. how do you land a spacecraft on a comet? very carefully. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president obama has landed in myanmar, also known as burma, for his second leg of his trip

after landing an environment deal with china. wide ranging deal that china has ever agreed to cut greenhouse gases and transition to nonfossil fuels, result of secret negotiations that have been under way for nine months. anne thompson joins me now from new york. i know this is going to take place over a long time. there are a lot of obstacles ahead but this still marks a very big change from the stalemate between the u.s. and china when the president first went to copenhagen when he first took office blocking any -- >> huge transition into the low carbon economy, andrea. you consider that the u.s. and china are responsible for one-third of all the carbon emissions in the world, the fact that you have the two largest economies and the two largest emiters saying we're going to do

something about this sends a powerful signal to the business world and the rest of the world. first of all, the united states would reduce its carbon emissions from 2025 from anywhere to 26 to 28%. china, on the other hand, has said it will cap or reach a peak of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and that it will increase its nonfossil fuel based energy, renewable energy and nuclear. it will grow to 20% by the year 2030. those are two very, very big developments in the battle against climate change. >> and one of the things that was so clear, no pun intended, is that in beijing, you had clear skies. you could see the sky for this big summit. they had actually told people to stay home. they had shut down their gas plants and they did that also during the big beijing olympics. beijing is a place that's

choking, literally choking on its pollution, normally. >> absolutely. one reason, andrea, is because of how much coal china uses. china burns 4 billion tons of coal a year. here in the u.s., we burn less than a billion tons. that just gives you an idea. the only way they could clear the skies was to cut industrial production to ban people from driving. and they really took drastic steps. but on an average day, the smog in beijing is just not healthy for anyone. and so this agreement will go -- will take steps to reducing that pollution. because when you go to cleaner fuels you don't have the kind of pollution that you do when you burn coal to create energy. >> anne thompson, setting the stage and joining me right now is wyoming senator john barasso and member of the environment committee and a medical doctor, to boot. well, senator, first of all,

we've already heard from mitch mcconnell. grave concerns that this is presidential overreach. it's a negotiation that took place for nine months. he could not have predicted that republicans would take over. what is going to be the policy of the republican majority about this climate negotiation? >> andrea, we're very concerned about the economy and jobs in the united states. to me, this is an agreement that's terrible for the united states and terrific for the chinese government. and for the politicians there, because it allows china to continue to raise their emissions over the next 16 years. remember, emissions in the united states have actually been going down over the last decade. this is going to end up raising costs of energy for american families, people that are hurt the most are people of low income, living on a fixed income. so i think it's irresponsible to impose expensive new regulations on energy in the united states, which makes us as a country less competitive economically.

>> and there's also been criticism from the incoming chairman, jim inhoff. i want to share with our audience something else that he said back in 2012, the incoming chairman of the environment committee. he said my point is god's still up there. the arrogance of people to think that we human beings would be able to change what -- excuse me -- would be able to change what he is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous. so, apologies for that. we're going to leave it up there so people can read what chairman inhofe said. you're a man of science, a medical doctor. this is what the incoming chairman of the environmental committee. why should, frankly, people trust republicans to be running policy on science when this is what the incoming chairman had to say about climate change. >> number one, all of us want to make energy as clean as we can, as fast as we can. we want to do it in ways, andrea, that don't raise the energy costs for american

families and impact the ability for their jobs, for their income and to provide for their families. those are the issues that we need to be focusing on. and i think that when we hurt ourselves competitively, globally, that hurts our economy. it hurts our families at home. i would invite the president to actually come back to the united states and visit with the families who are impacted by his policies. i just met with a number of students from wyoming. they're concerned about these policies and the impact on the jobs of their parents, who work in the energy industry in wyoming, still one of the most beautiful places in the world, in which to live and work. >> hasn't the progress that the u.s. has made on domestic production and on natural gas changed the equation here in the united states and made clean -- cleaner energy even some from fossil fuels, some from natural gas more of a possibility? >> well, we have seen emissions in the united states going down. that's been over the last

decade. the president now has more stringent policies, which i think are going to make energy more expensive for families across the country. it will make us less competitive. and with this agreement, china is still saying their emissions are going to continue to go up for the next 16 years and then peak at those much higher levels. so i think that the president has gotten very little and has given away much in the agreement. >> is there anything that the republican majority will do to try to prevent this from taking place? >> we'll continue to work with the regulations that the epa has come out with, in trying to cut back what they've done there. we want to do that legislatively. the president tried his drastic policies with the so-called cap and trade. i called it cap and tax. he couldn't get it passed, andrea, when he had 60 democrats in the united states senate. could not get it passed. those were a lot of democrats that voted against his policy.

i can assure you in a republican majority, we're not going to be putting additional policies in place to make energy more expensive. we want to make energy more affordable for the american public and we want to keep these good jobs in our country. >> and is there a possibility that some democrats are looking at now of a keystone pipeline decision in the lame duck session, is that something you would support? is there bipartisan support for that now that the red state democrats have lost, this could be a decision that would help mary landrieu. >> number one, i think the keystone pipeline should have been approved years ago. it was a good idea when it was proposed. it's still a good idea. if it comes to the senate floor i will vote for it. i find it very interesting that harry reid continued to block a vote on the keystone xl pipeline until now, mary landrieu is in the process -- throwing a hail mary pass trying to save her.

so the cost is trying to preserve one democratic senate seat after they have lost and we have now won the senate seat in alaska at 53 republican members in the senate come january. >> senator barrasso, thank you for being with us today. >> thanks, andrea. thank you. today was like the first day of school for all the new republican faces lining up with incoming majority leader mitch mcconnell for that class photo. even as nbc news now reports, as senator barrasso just said, alaskan senator dan sullivan is the apparent winner, bringing the number of republicans to a gain of eight. and apparently still under way is that race in louisiana.

luke russert is live from the senate. to you first. >> sure. >> chris cillizza, new cops in town, and i think the president is going to see every decision that he proposes is going to find opposition. >> i was struck -- a post election poll came up this morning and asked republicans would you like your leaders to compromise with president obama, to get things done or would you like him to -- them to stand up to president obama even if you don't get things done? 66 -- look it. it's on the screen. >> we were ready for you. >> the producers are really killing it. 66% of people said stand up to president obama. >> they didn't get the message? >> almost six in ten say they want their leadership to be more conservative rather than more moderate. so there's literally no political incentive for the

likes of mitch mcconnell. john boehner was the speaker. he has a bigger majority but there's almost no incentive for them to look for common ground with this president. the climate deal is the first thing we've seen come out since republicans are about to take over. you had mcconnell come out against it, inhofe come out against it and senator barrasso on your air said, i think, it's a terrific deal for china, terrible deal for the united states zbl states. >> i thought, susan paige, the message was we're sick of gridlob. a lot of them stayed home. how does this key up 2016, the lame duck session and the final two years of the presidency? >> there is a reason for republicans to want to get some things done. >> yes. >> to demonstrate that if you elect a republican president in 2016 it won't just be more of this kind of grinding gridlock that americans are so sick of. on something like even just

passing a budget, funding the government till the end of the year. funding for the government expires in december. mitch mcconnell said in his post-election news conference, there will not be a government shutdown. one thing you might see happen is a deal even in the lame duck that extends that funding till the end of the fiscal year next september. a deal on immigration, no way. >> you've been up there, luke, talking to the house members and senators as they come back. they must be feeling their oats. >> reporter: i'm sorry. come again, andrea. they must be feeling what? >> i said the republicans must be feeling their oats, picking up another apparent vote in alaska. >> oh, yes. >> and they are in the lead, at least, in louisiana. >> reporter: absolutely. it's the first time that every incumbent senator won since 2004, the first time they've beat two democratic senators and won election in decades. they are obviously riding high. as far as what we're going to see, andrea, in this lame duck session, look for reid and

mcconnell to hammer out an agreement to fund the government in the middle of december and fund a defense bill. probably not want to have a rock around the clock nomination battle around christmas and new year's. we look for them to make a deal, less controversial nominees. moving into the new year, what susan and chris said is accurate. the pchimpetus to get something done will be there. but aside from tax reform -- that's a very complicated thing to do. this whole idea we've heard about, republicans are going to have to govern. they're going to have to govern. they are going to be so emboldened now the largest majority in the house since the 1920s, 54 more likely republican senators. they're going to say our way is the good way. keep this momentum going into 2016, showdown city here in washington, d.c., andrea. and one last point i'll make from conversations i've had,

issue of the debt limit. that is the one thing that could stop this high gop tide that we see right now. maybe that's the issue that obama and the democrats sort of play up by saying, okay, they can't get their hard right in a row. a lot of hard right guys i've spoken to said we don't want that again despite what mitch mcconnell is saying. >> i want to ask you about lynch also. highly qualified nominee for attorney general. is this going to be pushed in the lame duck or as mitch mcconnell said, this is for the next session? >> for folks i've spoken to, more likely than not, it's going into the next session mainly because reid and mcconnell want to fund the government, get the nominees through and defense through. there's not enough time. i spoke with a prominent republican aide this morning. they do not believe it's the best optics of their party to be obstructing the first african-american female nominee for attorney general. she's already passed through the senate twice as a u.s. attorney.

she should be okay. it all comes down to how her answers go regarding the immigration -- possible immigration, executive action the president might move forward. that might cause a full-scale freakout, quote, unquote, on the gop side. she should be okay, andrea, next year, even with the gop majority. >> even with bright bart reporti reporting erroneously -- >> wrong loretta lynch. >> wrong loretta lynch. but they didn't take it down forever. >> mitch mcconnell and john boehner are institutionalists. that's how you wind up getting to the position that they're in. they're not the ted cruz type, right? they have spent their life climbing this ladder. they, i think, in their heart of hearts, you saw mcconnell when he cut ties with joe biden. they sort of want to get things done. john boehner, i think, would have liked to have strike a grand bargain with barack obama. he said this.

>> with joe biden. >> right, right. he said on immigration he's introducing, the problem is the tension that exists between the base of the party and heavily courted by the ted cruise's of the worthe world. how do mitch mcconnell and john boehner navigate that? >> rand paul and others who are running. >> in the senate and running for president. >> maybe what you do first have a vote on repealing obama care, knowing it will fire up your troops and go nowhere. then maybe you try to do a deal to fix things that are broken about obamacare that ordinarily we would have fixed in subsequent legislation if the whole thing wasn't so inflamed. it's impossible to define a course. one reason mitch mcconnell looks so pleased in that post election, this is what he wants to do. >> he has spent his whole life building for this. >> he was getting -- >> that's what mitch mcconnell looks like when he's giddy. >> good point. you don't see that all this

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welcome back. president obama has threatened executive action on immigration. decision is looming over this lame duck congress. joining me now, jeff denim. you're from a part of california that has a large hispanic population. you have supported immigration reform. what should the president and this new congress do on immigration in the lame duck? >> it's something we need to be working together on. we need to secure our border, 50,000 unaccompanied minors have come across our border this year. people coming across our border is escalating. that's the first thing we ought to do. that shows good faith on addressing the entire top to bottom reform on immigration. i also have a building list act.

our kids that have come across the border to no fault of their own, brought across as children and graduate from our high schools, if they're the best and the brightest and the military wants to bring them in, we ought to allow them to do that. >> this would be similar to what the president did with the dreamers already. this is what mr. obama said to bob schieffer on "face the nation" most recently on immigrati immigration. >> for a year i stood back and let him work on this. he decided not to call the senate bill and he couldn't produce his own bill. and i told him at the time, john, if you don't do it, i've got legal authority to make improvements on the system. i would prefer and still prefer to see it done through congress. >> now, isn't he correct that john boehner didn't bring it to the floor, there was a senate bill? could have been amended if he brought it to the floor. so does the president have an

argument here, that he gave more than a year to congress to act on it, they didn't. why shouldn't he take some action himself? >> this is a president that controlled both houses of government. they had the senate, congress, they had the presidency. and they certainly could have made it a priority at the beginning of his term. certainly he has the authority. he has the authority to secure our border today, to enhance border security, to allow border patrol to patrol areas of texas so they're not patroling today. there are things he can do today. but just doing an executive order, i think, is one of the issues that creates mistrust in government. we've got to have a congress that works between the two houses and puts bills on the president's desk. i'm looking forward to seeing not only border security but the enlist act and then ultimately we've got to get a pathway to citizenship. >> you saw the new pew poll, 66% of republicans saying that they want confrontation with the white house rather than accommodation.

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it's still not sure how successful it has been. what they did was the spacecraft dropped this box, this probe, this lander, from miles up away from the comet. it took seven hours to get down away from the comet. when it got there, it landed essentially. it's not clear if the harpoons on it were able to fire to keep it anchored into the comet. so far, it is a success and they are very excited. it was difficult. the whole thing is covered in boulders and crags and ice and they weren't sure how it was going to go. the fact that they made it down and were able to send some data back is quite a big achievement. so far, though, they do believe they're going to get a little bit of information from there. what they're trying to do with this whole mission is answer mankind's biggest questions. how did we come to be? you know this planet is made up mostly of water. they wanted to figure out if comets that are as old as the earth were the initial things to bring it to us.

a lot of big, momentous questions out there. they're hoping this could be the first step into getting more insight into how it all started. andrea? >> it does bring back memories of that incredible moon landing. but this, as you point out, could just have been a touchdown. they're not sure whether the harpoons actually anchored it on the comet. yet if they're getting data back, are they going to get pictures back as well? >> they should be getting pictures back in the next hour or two. certainly before nightly news tonight. what they had to do was they have these harpoons on the lander. gravity around the comet is really low. they have to anchor it down. and the harpoons, it's unclear if they were able to fire or if they're going to be able to fire. if they don't fire, also not clear how long it can ride the comet. hoping to ride it for a year. even riding it for a few minutes will be deemed a success by these guys. >> katy, you may not be an astro physicist, but you did a great impression of one. well done.

thank you so much. thanks for explaining it all to us. up next, the bush dynasty with presidential historian doris kearnes-goodwin. >> the recent mid term elections served up ground breaking wins, the first black female of the gop to be elected to congress, michlt a love. tim scott ba became the first black senator elected in south carolina. elise stefanik became the youngest woman ever elected to congress. shelly moore. after a big day for republicans, gop will have its largest house majority since world war ii.

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>> 43 over and over again says he was given unconditional love by 41 and just as his father was given unconditional love by his father, prescott bush and this whole question of dynasty has two sides to it. one is probably it isn't fair for people not to be judged on their merit. if you have the blood lines of a clinton or bush right now, you have enormous advantages, access to media, supporters, people waiting for you. and george washington, when he stepped down after two terms, said the reason he was stepping down was because he wanted people to be judged on their merit. he didn't just want to be there until he ended, like a king. on the other hand there's a subtle argument in this book that there is a benefit for a family having gone through public life for so many generations. they've absorbed and know what ta's like to be hurt, to be fired on in unfairways. they said even, in fact, when neil bush was involved in the

savings and loan crisis, his father, george bush sr., was thinking of not running in 1992, because he hurt his family so much by the involvement. they know what they're getting into. there's a certain advantage in that. that seems to be an underlining theme of this book, extraordinarily affect at, appealing book about his father, a decent, civil man. >> it is the first revelation. i know that you and other historians have spent time with bush 41. this is the first time i've seen it in writing, that he thought about not running. and i thought in covering the '92 campaign, he was very ambivalent. i remember june of '92, he was asked why do you want a second term? he said barbara and i were talking about that this morning. it's because my mother said you finish what you start. this was hardly a call to arms running against, at that point, ross perot was leading, and bill clinton, the democrat. so, he never really had the passion for it, it seemed, in the campaign. and that is very revealing.

also, bush 43 talked about his brother, jeb, yesterday at that session. let's see a little bit of that. >> one time, by the way, i heard him say he didn't like the idea of a political class, the idea of bush, clinton, bush, obama troubles him. i said how does this sound? bush, clinton, bush, obama, clinton. the point is, you don't get to pick the environment in which you run. >> so that gets to your point about this built-in advantage that these families have as they decide, as jeb decides whether he wants to run. >> and i think the key thing will be for jeb, too, how much does he want it. he has seen what his family has gone through. he has seen the joy that his grandfather and father felt, indeed at 90. bush sr. said he wished his own grandchildren could have that joy of life that he has had all

the time. he knows the glory, has seen the tough side of it. unless it's in your bones to run for president this day, it's really hard. john quincy adams, son of john adams, really wanted to go into art and literature but felt obliged by his family destiny to go into politics. it never really suited him. each person has to decide it in their own right. is this right for me? the country has to decide, yes, there is this dynasty factor but are hillary clinton and jeb bush the two people you most want on merit to be chosen as president right now? >> and did john quincy adams ever write about his father? >> no. that was one of the thing that is made president bush think about writing his father. it was brought up to him that he could have, he was a good writer, loved art and literature. and he didn't. so this was another way for a son to write about the father. >> bush 41 and 43, their differences over iraq, which are clearly not addressed in this book but all the things that

we've lived through of how they approach foreign policy in very, very different ways. doris kearnes-goodwin, always great to see you. thank you for joining us today. >> you, too, andrea. >> thanks twonchts u.s. senators, one from each party, are hopeful that an american, alan gross, whose case we've been covering for all these years, imprisoned in cuba, will be set free soon. jeff flake of arizona, democrat tom uda of mexico met with him in prison for two hours during a trip to ub cuba. he was detained december 2009. >> this is going to end one way or another. and, you know, we've gone on five years and i think any benefit that the cuban government may have seen has to have evaporated. >> the important thing you need to know about our visit with him is he really wants to go home. >> and he has not been well. gross was working to set up internet networks for the island's jewish community on

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prescribed medications to none by working with the horse -- >> that's remarkable. >> -- was huge and -- but how the horse helped me was instead of the doctors pushing and probing and asking me how my friends looked laying there on the ground or how i felt when the child was injured and stuff like that, the horse just mirrored everything going on inside me. you had to learn how to calm yourself to work with the horse. i lost a lot of trust in my leadership and my commands and stuff like that because of the situations that we were put into. and so i had to learn all this type of stuff over again. when you're working with a doctor, they're pushing and probing and trying to pry the information out of you to the point that the veteran, like myself, we just lock up and get really irate towards the doctor.

so they never really find anything out. to when i started working with the doctor -- or the horse, the doctor, instead of probing me, would start out the conversation with, hey, i know you met with your horse. how did that go? and i would tell him. i woke up in nightmares or night sweats and i didn't want to leave my house to when i got the phone call in the morning from debbie asking if i was coming out to work with the horses, therapy, you know, it helped me get out of bed or it helped me get in my vehicle and drive, stuff that i didn't want to do prior to that. and then when i got out there with the horse, i realized that i was a lot more calmer. and i didn't -- instead of fuming about the nightmare or whatever incident that i was dealing with, everything was okay when i was around the horse, you know. i wasn't watching my three, my nine and my six. none of that mattered. it got me into -- back to how i

should have felt back in civilian life. so basically instead of being always on watch and irritable and stuff like that and not wanting to be around people, it didn't bother me being into this arena and worrying if the building was cleared or any of that type of stuff. the horse made everything all right. and then it didn't faze me with all the strangers in the area because -- >> this is just remarkable. whose idea was it, robin, as you looked into this subject, to have horses help with this therapy? >> well, my co-director, peter rosenbaum, and i wanted to make a film that was not only about the dire circumstances of post traumatic stress and the visible and invisible wounds of war but we wanted to make a film that offered hope to veterans. i happened to come across a

story about aaron and about this work that they were doing up at rainier therapeutic riding and other facilities with horses. and we went up and researched and it was remarkable. >> it is remarkable. thank you for your service. i am so personally moved by what you're experiencing. we will follow up. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> congratulations, robin. >> thank you. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow, jon stewart and his direct orrial debut. ronan farrow daily is next. and two pills. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns. that's two more pills. the evening's event brings laughter, joy, and more pain. what's that, like six pills today? yeah. .i could take two aleve for all day relief. really? for my arthritis pain, i now choose aleve. 2 pills. all day strong. all day long.

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