america right now. >> fighting back. bill cosby's lawyers take aim at the comedian's latest accuser. >> two, one. and lift off. >> a needed success for nasa. what this morning's launch could mean for the future of space travel. >> good day, i'm luke russert for andrea mitchell on a day of big economic news. they posted a strong november in number. 321,000 total jobs gained. the most in more than two years. we are on pace with the strongest year of job growth in more than a decade. take a look at this. a record breaking day at the dow where it's nearing 18,000.

big money. the financial experts are worried about washington and the destruction a shut down can bring to the economy. president obama and congressional leaders want to keep the government running, putting the pressure on speaker boehner to get a long-term spending bill through the house. chuck todd is political director and moderator of "meet the press." chuck, from my vantage point, aside from poison pills and both sides said they don't want to do, it seems to be that this funding bill will go forward and they should be okay. a government shut down after the gop. >> on capitol hill, it looks like john boehner has more control of this conference than ever before. he has got as much if not more influence even with the conservative wing. whatever some predicted post immigration fallout in the decision that the president

made, it's just not there. it doesn't seem to be -- it doesn't seem to be the stomach for it. democrats are willing to help him on this one because this is the best option. >> they would have 11 of the 12 funded through september of next year and having their imprint on an entire fiscal year and something much more difficult to get if there is a continued resolution. it's wonky, but very important. >> today's impressive jobs report adds more pressure to not be disruptive. the status quo as far as the american economy is saying it's working. don't mess with it. >> another big story, the new secretary of defense, what president obama said about the challenges that carter will face. >> we have to keep degrading and destroying isil in iraq and syria. we have to build counter terrorism partnerships and new

platforms. we have to continue the fight against ebola in west africa and strengthen alliances including nato and the posture in the asia-pacific. >> that's quite a laundry list of things that one has to do when they get a job. it's especially difficult. we are talking about this idea that we will drawdown. >> then we are not really drawing down. >> you heard right there what his responsibilities would be is he the right man for the job or the last man left? >> i think what's unfair to him is the perception that he is the last man standing. he was the first choice. he was always the first choice. >> why is that? >> a lot of people believe he understands how to run the pentagon in a way that -- think gates, think rumsfeld. people have their opinions on rumsfeld, but he understands the

mechanics in a way, gates and rumsfeld are the only two that have their hands -- they served in a different way so that that's what made him what the white house claims they want is a more hands on secretary. what will be an interesting relationship is carter is not a shrinking violet. i'm told they hope he is a bull in a china shop. there is no limits and there is going to be no pressure like that. let's see how it works. we have three secretaries who all in one way or another have complained about dealing with the security. gates, panetta and hagel. will carter be joining them? that will be something to watch. >> he seems well versed in the financials of the pentagon which is underreported. >> he has to be able to shuffle money. that's the important part. being the job in many ways was

the coo before. he was the chief operating officer understanding how the money is spent and weapons systems are built and deployed. that's why he is going to be able to maneuver quite well. whether he is a public face i think is an open question, but i don't think that's necessarily what the president wanted. >> obviously these last two weeks, the conversation about race in america has been at the forefront. i think president obama being the first african-american president has been an important voice on these issues. how does this play into his legacy these last two years here where you have michael brown. you have eric garner and even on that side, a lot of conservatives who are in the middle saying you know what u the choke hold in the 90s and no indictment by a grand jury. the president is wading into difficult waters that he doesn't

like to be in, but he needs to be in. >> the garner episode is sending the message that more even on the right are accepting the idea that they now understand why african-americans have a distrust of law enforcement and their importance of african-american men. i was talking to somebody close to the president who said the legacy he is concerned about is this idea among young african-american men will return. the cynicism. one of the best outcomes of his election that he wanted was this idea that it's a message that the sky is the limit for you too. there is not a ceiling for african-american men that doesn't exist for white men. he has a concern about ferguson and staten island. that's what he wants to deal

with. >> chuck todd, it will be an interesting show this week. >> we will do a bunch on immigration. >> indeed. we appreciate that. we will have more on the fallout from the eric garner grand jury decision as protests continue in new york and places around the country. 200 people were arrested as protesters marched over the brooklyn bridge and demonstrated in other parts of the city. in phoenix, it is parking public outrage after a police officer killed an unarmed black man suspected of selling drugs. 50 we start with msnbc in new york's union scare where more protests are expected. are you there? what's going on there today? >> we are about an hour out from the protests and already we are seeing police officers starting

to gather. they have been told they are not expecting the crowds that we saw yesterday. they are getting ready for the chance that they will have to walk. the event planned is supposed to be a walk out and leave their offices and students are supposed to leave their classrooms and head out into the streets to protest. this is a nationwide movement that they have been trying to galvanize through social media and many of the organizers who are there on the ground in ferguson, missouri for the michael brown non-indictment. they are trying to get people out into the streets and not only here, but across the country as well. >> how is the traffic right now? >> things are moving slowly, but i think they are getting ready for the potential that traffic could be stalled later and last night we saw lower manhattan at a stand still and there is a potential for that as well today. >> live in union square.

let me turnmsnbc's tre main lee. there were some in kchicago and washington, d.c. this is a national issue. we have a new case in phoenix, arizona. one out west that seems to be gaining traction. what do we know about that and what the response will be. >> what you are seeing is this kind of thing is catching fire across the country. people are starting to connect the dots not only to what they say are daily indignities, but ones that are fatal. as you see in phoenix, there was a man pulled over and approached by police and the officer said he reaches for his waist band presuming there was a weapon. a chase ensued similar to the michael brown situation. as they are wrestling, he feels something in his waist band that feels it could be a gun. it ends up being a bottle of pain relievers.

they don't have to stretch much to rely on the michael brown case. these are happening every day across america. social media where people are paying attention to the high profile cases and using these to connect the broader sense that there is not just a divide, but a clear inequity. not just a daily indignity, but the fatal shootings that have people so riled up. they are showing their force in recent days. >> i don't know if you heard chuck todd ahead of one i spoke to to you, but one of the big worries was a sense of helplessness and cynicism where he wanted shatter with his presidency saying there was no ceiling on what is possible. that could come back in light of what we have seen here with ferguson and eric garner. is there a chance this obama

legacy could be muddled because of the sense of helplessness? >> certainly. president obama with his my brother's keeper initiative aimed at young men and boys of color at risk, the hope was that he could boot the young men and their potential and their prospects in what they believe they could achieve. in light of not just the case, but when president obama said that if he had a son, he could have been trayvon. all that means little when you are in the ground and you talk to folks who are seeing the bodies fall and seeing the police response to the bodies falling and the protest with more force. especially in the case of ferguson. while there so many people that applaud president obama and attorney general eric holder, as these pinnacles of black male success and black power, every day the feeling on the ground is so different from the experiences they have now. there is a case that things can unravel in terms of his legacy.

>> well said. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> the murder of an american teacher in abu dhabi has thousands of westerners on edge. a new report on the bridge gate scandal seems to clear chris christie, but could it spell trouble for the gop presidential nominee still? this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. but there's a better choice. drink more brita water. clean, refreshing, brita. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently.

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without rage spreading to washington and capitol hill in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict the police officer eric garner in the choke hold case. will congress hold hearings. karen bass is a member of the

house judiciary. thank you very much for being on the show. >> thanks for having me on. >> i top the play a clip by john boehner they found in the wake of this eric garner case. >> sure. >> my colleague, kevin rogers, suggested that we may need these hearings. i'm not going to rule it in or out, but i think the american people deserve more answers about what really happened here and where it was our system of justice that was handled properly. >> these are not the types of issues that the house gop leadership is so outspoken about. do you think there is a possibility of real hearings into what happened here and ferguson? >> it would be an excellent idea and i'm glad he said that. you are looking at what happened in ferguson. i met with a couple of attorneys and activists yesterday from ferguson who were talking about

things going on there. what happened in new york. in the speaker's home state in ohio, the 12-year-old child that was killed with a two-second ek exchange with a police officer had been fireed from another department. given all of these incidences that have taken place, it would be excellent for hearings in the house. >> i was speaking to two of your colleagues in the speaker's lobby and they said something to me that is very telling. they said that this is a generational thing to some degree. if you talk to a lot of black millennials, they say the civil rights fight was you guys. thank you for that. we need to do more. we can't have these militant police that judge us because of how we look and talk and how we are walking. more needs to be done. do you see that as whether it's one generation that was more on the civil rights and more focused on how their munt is police and how they live every day? >> the issue around police and

i'm excited to see millennials involved. past social movements tend to be kicked off by young people. what is different is the issue of technology and the fact that everybody has a cell phone camera. that's what's different. 20 years ago when rodney king happened, i hate to say this, but we were happy that finally it was on videotape. these incidences had been going on for a long time. you can't deny it especially when you see the videotape murder of gardner in new york. >> how important is it that this seemed to spark an outcry in the white community. if you look at the marches, there is a lot of whites there. how important is that? >> it's critical and it's not just white young people. it's a rainbow. even ferguson was a rainbow and i'm glad that is picked up now.

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welcome back. a suspect is in custody, but many questions remain about the murder of an american teacher in abu dhabi. a boy was stabbed to death in an upscale shopping mall. it has thousands of americans living in the middle east on edge. we have the latest from abu dhabi now. what do we know about the investigation? this is a very upscale mall that is viewed as the pinnacle of influence within the mideast? what are we hearing from americans living in abu dhabi? >> you are absolutely right. this is a place where 40,000 u.s. citizens live. this particular place, this mall

is a place where there lots and lots of westerners. it is not the kind of place they would expect something like this. i guess the police investigation tells you something about why. they have very quickly arrested a suspect, even though people are incredibly shocked by what happened. i told the people there is confidence gained in terms of police have been able to act so swiftly. the fundamental issue about this is that this is potentially if the police investigation is right and this woman was targeting her because she was american and this is potentially another example of a boen wolf attack and something being trained from elsewhere. increasing the westerners and

americans, innocent people are going to be targeted in that way both in this region and in europe and even there have been threats to do the same in the united states by isis. and by other extremist groups. >> we saw that hatchet attack and what do we know about the family of miss ryan? was she a complete innocent bystander targeted for being a westerner? >> that's what the police say. in fact, she is a teacher. she was a teacher and a mother of twin boys. her ex-husband said your beauty and pure heart will live with us all forever. everyone who knows her and loves her said she was a good person and she was the simple innocent victim of a terrible attack. >> tragic. thanks for being on the show.

>> now to the scandal with bill cosby. he is responding to a civil lawsuit filed this past tuesday. that past suit accused him of abusing her. we get more on that from craig melvin. >> two days after she accused bill coz dee, the comedian's response came in the form of legal documents, calling the suit against him meritless and unsupported. he cites extortion attempts to seek to dismiss it by failing to support her claims. the motion also states cosby's name was illegally included as a defendant in violation of court rules. >> he is saying even if what you say is true, you can't sue me. >> it is the first time since

the most recent wave of sexual assault allegations that we heard a significant response from cosby's team. >> he is using a smart strategy. he is making the straatements h wants to make through his lawyer. >> his lawsuit was followed by three women who claimed cosby sexually abused them. it was standard operating procedure. >> mr. cosby's representatives have often attacked many of the alleged victim who is have come forward. >> and use the comedian's wealth and power to deter women from making claims. >> scared to death. my family is scared to death he will end their careers and lives. >> experts think mr. cosby may have the advantage. >> there is a serious statute of limitations issue.

>> huff must argue although it happened more than 40 years ago, her psychological injuries were only happening in the last three years. his attorney said nearly ten years ago she tried to tell her story to a tabloid. >> she spoke of her injuries ten years ago? >> he has never been charged even though more than 20 women have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct. >> that was craig melvin reporting. this will court to go march 12th if this is not settled beforehand. now on the lighter side. this weekend new york city high society, the folks that cristoforocrisystal will be a buzz with royal fever. they will attend several events including a visit to the 9/11 memori memorial. prince william will go to the world bank and for those who are

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as the secretary of defense nominee. it confirmed what we can expect to see. jim miklaszewski from the pentagon of course. we heard from our own chuck todd and moderator of "meet the press." it's somebody who knows how the pent gon works ala gates and rumsfeld who knows the inner workings and mechanizations. is that accurate and will he be respected in that building overall? >> actually, he knew more about the pentagon than either gates or panetta as well. as deputy defense secretary. this guy was in charge of just about everybody, including the massive multibillion budgets. and it's one of the issues that the obama administration and the pentagon are going to have to struggle with over the next

couple of years as those budgets are shrinking. it will be ashton carter's responsibility to figure out how to keep from hollowing out the military forces. i think the big change will be in the atmospherics. the white house will have far more confidence in ashton carter in the next two years than they would have in chuck hagel. >> he was the guy the white house wanted to have all along. i want to switch to luke summers. the pentagon acknowledged that the special operations forces failed in the attempt to rescue him. where is he specifically? how is that playing within the building? >> they thought in that raid over the last weekend that they knew he was there. in a cave of far north eastern

yemen when they managed to rescue eight hostages safely, but luke summers and a french hostage had been moved away from that area just apparently a few days before. unfortunately the people we are talking to said the u.s. military intelligence community doesn't have a good idea where he is as of today. it doesn't appear there any further rescue operations in the works. we wouldn't know about it. in the video that was released this week by al qaeda in yemen, they said there would be down to two days and if the u.s. had not responded to unspecified demands, they would in fact kill luke summers.

the only hope is that al qaeda in general since the beginning of the iraq war has not been in the practice that isis has in executing any people on camera. killing any people on camera. the major threat is that it's a hollow one. there is deep concern for the well being of luke summers. >> jim miklaszewski from the pentagon, thank you so much. hillary clinton is not ready to make a public announcement, but she did take a question last night in massachusetts on what's important for a president. >> you need people starting in your family, but going to your friends beyond a larger circle who will be there for you and continue to treat you like a human being. you can easily lose touch with

what's real. what's authentic. who you were before you raised your hand and were sworn into office. >> joining me now for the daily fix, "the washington post" and the political writer. a thinly vailed shot with president obama. you forget about who you were before we raised a hand. i want to start with you. do you think it's a cliche question? she seems to be ready to take on the challenges of the campaign. >> yeah. what she said about being president and the difficulties of being president, the challenges and the lack of time and the lack of i'm to think through problems and plan and be considerate and deliberate sounded like she is genuinely thinking not only how hard it is to run, but how hard it is to be

president. she expressed some misgivings there. we all believe that her drive to run will be there, but she is considering what being president really means. >> someone who is considering about what her being president really means is warren buffett who dropped $25,000 into the ready for hillary account. not directly working for her, but ready for her. what do you read into that? she seems to be ready. >> and people are ready for her. he is not a donor who will give insdram nately to democrats. he feels in particular that that's who he wants to support. he is a hart donation to get. there is a possibility that this underscores the image that some have that she is sort of on the

side of the fat cats and the rich in wall street. we heard that from the right and the left as she prepares to run and she is too cozy with these rich people. if you were to ask anybody on the democratic side if they would rather have warren buffett's support or not. >> you want him in your corner. the job numbers are positive and that continues on paper. it's not being melt in a lot of areas, but on paper, the economy is improving greatly. does that allow the clintons a point and we don't want to be so tied, we heard them talk about

the before. the fact of what you said a moment ago that economic progress is not maybe available on paper, but it's not being felt in a lot of places in the country. she was striking a working class america court. that's what she would be expected to continue. there a lot of primary voters who are not feeling that progress. that said, a generally good economic trend and numbers are something that all democrats are eager to be able to run on and they can give a not to obama. >> it might be one worthwhile connection. we still have fun talking about it. new hampshire and jeb bush.

what do we read into that. >> the reason they are doing that is if you don't hire the staff now, somebody else is going to. it's impossible with the political world. it begins, like it or not. it's 2016, baby. >> we could have the final four. that's a lot of money. a lot to cover. that's correct. how do they fall than when? thank you so much. and then there is this from the front lawn of the white house. that's president barack obama busting a move next to santa claus. i would argue santa has impeccable dancing skills at the annual lighting of the national christmas tree in washington.

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we are back. an interim report by lawmakers obtained by nbc news shows no conclusive evidence. the investigations could bridge gate be a political positive for governor christie in a primary? the host of up, weekend mornings here on msnbc. and chris christie here with bridge gate was able to take on the liberal media that was out to get him. basically washing himself of that photo op with president obama after sandy to some degree. could this help him at the end of the day with the conservative fans in iowa and new hampshire

some. >> any time you are a republican you are running against the media. i think the story on this right now is it's to be continued. let's be clear what we have right here. we have a report from the legislative committee looking into the bridge lane closures. they can't find anything christie knew ahead of time and he that knew during it. the question is really more of willful ignorance. it had been happening there and once it game clear, there were fingers and signs pointing at his administration. he said i don't see anything here. there indications that you could have figured this out sooner. the u.s. attorney who has prosecution powers and will get to the bottom of this has access to this that people didn't have access on. you hear about this. none of them talked to this committee. all of them talking to the u.s. attorney.

we will wait to see what the u.s. attorney said. maybe that will clear us clear information on this. >> wait until uncle sam reports. you are a guru with your apps. louisiana not a lot there. mary landrieu left on the side of the road by the committees there. >> saturday night's run off. this was the one from election night. you can see it's the jungle primary in indiana. this happened on election night. getting just 42%. you add up the top two and you get 55%. that's the battle she has been being looking at in this run off. you can see the average of the polls that have been taken in the run off, no surprise. they go right with the numbers and the republican opponent at about 56. she at about 39. we can see the polls are wrong

and if you want to know the story, her luck seems to be running out. in 2002, she won the run off. we can't break it down that well. 2008 she won the primary. it's that 52% of the vote. that's how she won her third term in the senate. we have exit polling and in 2008, landrieu getting 52% of the vote overall to all of the black vote. 96-2 over the republicans. among white voters in louisiana, she got 33%. a third of the white vote. when you are a democrat in the south, you are doing well to get a third of the white vote. if you can, you have a chance of winning. she got a third of the white vote. since barack obama has been president, politics in the south and in louisiana have been much more polarized along racial and partisan lines. think of that 33% and the jungle primary in november.

33% down to 18%. it's basically can uh in half. the number of white voters in the south willing to vote democratic is falling like this in louisiana and so many other southern states. the reason mary landrieu is in trouble and democrats in most of the south right now is unwinnable at the state wigwide level. >> the best thing is to not do so much damage if they want to run for governor. >> the longer term considerations. >> he is quite popular. it is new orleans. the rest of the state is new orleans. join him tomorrow morning on msnbc. we have lift off. is this the first step to a manned mission to mars? a live report is next. nasa is back, baby. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you're underwater?

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>> what a picture painted right there. that was a picture perfect flash in just over an hour ago. nasa makes history today. and lift off at dawn. the dawn of o ri on and a new era of space exploration. lifted at sunrise on a test mission to circle the globe. nasa hopes that day the space capsule will carry future meigs

to mars. nasa and joins me now from cape canaveral, florida. top, big win for the u.s. space program. naz had has not had a great last few years. >> the veteran astronaut said he has never seen a brand new mission. every detail and nasa is back. they never went anything. they proved it in big fashion today. looking off at 7:05, accelerating 17,000 miles per hour. they began the decoupling process and they sped up to

3,600 miles per hour out from the earth. they did a big loop around the earth and two loops. coming back and right on the money. accelerating up to 20,000 miles per hour and down to 20 miles per hour as they hit the ocean and literally right on the dot. who else can do that with precision? nasa did it with the pictures and they were absolutely unparalleled as you saw from the unmanned uav to the vehicles here on the cape to -- we had camera angles from every vandage point. they will use that data for the next unmanned mission in several years. luke? >> let's hope they can get

somebody to mars. i visited houston in the late 90s and they were wearing buttons that said mars or bust. thank you so much, tom costello. take care. that does it for this edition of andr"andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and facebook and twitter and follow me at luke russert. a shout out today. debra's last day as an intern. she has a masters degree. you should hire her. what's coming up, buddy? >> andrea, you have done something with your hair. great coverage there. the spending on nasa. we have a big hour up ahead. i sis down with janice dickinson about the cosby accusations in the midst of the wave of new accusers and a new rebuttal.

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map. >> the dow just passed 18,000. look at this. it is coming up on this. hold for it. it is 1:00 on the east coast and 10:00 on the west. here's what you need to know right now as well. one protest expected to take off this hour in new york city. take a look at this live picture. demonstrators gathering there this hour days after a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the earth of eric garner. >> justice! when do we want it? >> this protest across the city last night. more than 200 arrested and mostly peaceful demonstrations. shut down a major thoroughfare and it's not just new york city. there were