yep. see why speed matters, at aflac.com. hello, hello. welcome to another scintillating edition and 10:00 on the west. here's what you should know at this very moment. all that jeb bush buzz. he is still not running for president necessarily, but talking about it more seriously anyway. he tweeted and facebooked this morning. i am excited to announce i will actively explore the possibility of running for president in the united states and then sent a link to a further announcement that in january he plans to, "establish a leadership pact to help facilitate conversations with citizens across america." he has been dropping hints like this one for months like this one in south carolina just yesterday. >> i tell you from personal experience, if your parents worked in politics, well, you know the rest.

don't be afraid to shake things up. and don't be afraid of change. especially in your own life. >> bush versus clinton, again. it could happen. hey, remember that one time when we started a whole new country to get away from dynastic leadership? me neither. adam smith, political editor at "tampa bay times" a veteran on this particular beat. i'm so glad i had the time to join today, i appreciate it. you've been following jeb for years and through his time in florida politics. what are the main strengths and weaknesses he brings with him from that career in florida? >> well, the main strengths, obviously, florida, florida, florida. the biggest battleground state in the country, state you can't lose. represents the most diverse state, as well. he has strength across the board. >> yeah, florida and he is a very, very popular governor. well remembered, especially for his leadership during hurricanes. so, he's a very bright guy. he's not a guy that is going to get up and say something idiotic

in a debate. that's for sure. >> he showed some real crossover appeal. gestures of bipartisanship. particularly on the immigration issue. he controversially came out and said that was a moment of love. the dnc responded writing in part "jeb bush has embraced the failed economic agenda that benefits only a select few at the expense ovthe middle class. that is not going to change no matter how many different ways he says he could run." is that a fair characteristic. >> one of the weirder dynamics for floridians jeb bush being described as a moderate, bipartisan consensus builder. he was a very, very conservative and activist governor with the exception of education standards and immigration, which is very personal to him. you know, he was, he was not a bipartisan governor at all. >> including on economic policy. >> including on economic policy. now, he didn't have to be because republicans controlled the legislator.

>> all of this comes on the heels of he did that commen commencement speech and a critical primary state, we should add. and also of the release of these 250,000 e-mails we have been following this story. he'll release this huge data dump from his time as governor in florida. is that a savvy, forward looking move? >> yeah, i think it's a savvy, forward looking move. probably puts some of the other folks, chris christie on the defensive a little bit but it really is symbolic. florida is blessed with good public records laws and i'm sure somebody had already requested all those e-mails and was going to get them anyway. so, him releasing them is really, in a way, not that significant because they're already public record. >> adam smith, it's a real pleasure to have you on. thank you for that. >> thanks. let's check in peshwar, pakistan. more than 130 children were slaughtered in their school by the taliban. that is one of the big international stories we're

following today. pakistani officials so far say that nine taliban fighters attacked the public military school around 10:00 in the morn. among the dead, a child set on fire and a 2-year-old. one military source says attackers set a teacher on fire and then made students watch him burn to death. we are hearing global reaction right now. condemning these attacks, including from secretary of state john kerry. >> this act of terror angers and shakes all people of conscious and we condemn it in the strongest terms possible. >> malala you ufzi shot by the taliban in 2011 spoke out "i along with millions of uthders around the world mourn these children, my brothers and sisters. but we will never be defeated." on the ground in peshawar, thank you for taking the time. what is the latest on the scene there?

>> ronan, the latest is that the attack is essentially over. the assailants or they blew themselves up. what we know is the firefight lasted into the evening and started a little bit before school was about to get off. and overall the school numbers, there was almost 1 ,100 kids at the school and 960 are evacuated, but over 130 were killed. according to military sources, the taliban, came in and scaled the walls and they started picking up these kids one by one and going from room to room, classroom to classroom and in the end, they had huddled them up together in an auditorium and some sort of function at the school where most of them were together. that's where most of the

casualties were induced and eventually the situation now on the ground is that the booby traps left for people even after the assailiants were killed are being dismantled and we can hear explosions just a few minutes before i got off with you, got on with you. explosions and these bombs are still being dismantled. >> and pakistan's politicians have often hesitated to back full-body campaigns against the dal bee taliban. the politics around opposing the taliban are very complicated there. do you think this will unite them? >> absolutely. and in the sense that first of all the political residence has gone from across the board, governments before, this one dragging their feet about how to engage the taliban and the pakistani military for years has been criticized about taking sides and not really going to these guys. and then just this summer when there finally was some, well,

there was political will and military will and these guys, the army went in to north aziristan and they went in guns blazing with a large and over 80,000 troops involved in that and they were based out of peshawar and the taliban hitting an army school back and is a sign of their retaliation hitting the heart of the city where the army is based out of and heading back. >> it is a true tragedy of global proportions. thank you so much for that update from peshawar, pakistan. now u back to some unfolding drama here in the united states. a massive manhunt intensifying right now for a gunman in pennsylvania. officials are saying he's armed and dangerous after a shooting spree that killed six people. right now officials are looking across suburban philadelphia for 35-year-old bradley william stone. he's a former marine reservist

and iraq war veteran, we've learned. one of his murder victims, his ex-wife, nicole hill. rehema ellis is following this. thank you so much. officials just held a press conference. you were there, what did we learn? >> well, we've learned, ronon, they are now asking for the public's help. it has been a harrowing 24 hours and they released this picture of bradley stone. this is him, a picture of him on his cell phone from november of this year. they digicaltally changed the photograph to him being clean shaven. according to witnesses, that's what he looks like now. their plan to put this up on billboards and spread it out to as many places as possible because they say they intend to find this man. >> rehema, what else do we know about the suspect at this point? >> well, what we do know is that in addition to murdering his ex-wife according to police, he also has a current wife and an

infant child. he has two daughters, an 8 and a 5-year-old and those two daughters police say were handed over to a neighbor yesterday during this murder spree. but police now say all the children are safe. as far as the victims and autopsies are about to begin on those six victims. and one who was a victim. 17-year-old nephew who was shot in the head and he's in a hospital in philadelphia. they say he is in serious, but stable condition. >> rehema, thank you so much for that update. we're also following the latest from sydney after yesterday's hostage crisis. reaction still coming in there. thousands of people laying flowers near that cafe where a gunman held 17 people hostage. killing two of them. stories of heroism are emerging in both cases. one case is shielding her pregnant friend from a bullet, that first individual died and the other died trying to fight the gunman. take a listen.

>> grabbed the gun and tragically it went off killing him. the response of the police and eventual freedom for most of the hostages. >> we're also learning more about the gunman right now, man haron monis, also killed in the fight. for more from the marketplace in sydney, sarah james is back with us. thank you so much. the gunman had a litny of problems. we talked about some of them yesterday. he sent hate mail to family of australian troops and charged as an accessory in the murder of his ex-wife. the question so many have, why was he free in the streets? >> this is a question being asked from everyone from people who come here and lay flowers at this temporary shrine all the way up to the prime minister. in fact, people are saying, why is it and the answer is, we really don't know.

the bail laws. one thing that is fascinating is that they're going to be charged at the end of this month, january 28th. but those came too late. the fact of the matter was he was to go to court in february. do they need to be tightened? i think everybody agrees this never should have happened and the premier the state leader here said we're going to take a much closer look at that. he shouldn't have been on the street. >> sara james, thank you for your reporting and update on this. up next, we have much more on that horrific attack in pakistan and on recent revelations about the u.s. and pakistan's relationship that could play into what comes next. stay tuned for that. later on in the show, it just keeps coming, the latest revelations in the sony hack. one of hollywood's heavyweights is saying the press is to blame for covering those hacks contents. we want your take. this is a pretty complicated question. do you think the media should be reporting stories based on information from that hack?

racist jokes, gender pay gaps. it's all been all over the press and does it serve the public interest and is it accepted morally given this is a publicly traded company. if you think this is unacceptable to air and if it's getting criminals to hackers and you think the media shouldn't report on any of the contents of this, go with rfdno. we'll follow the results throughout the show. we'll be right back.

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it is an unimaginable tragedy. at least 140 pakistnis, most of them school children murdered today. and the taliban attack on a military-run school in peshawr.

that region situated along the border has been a hide out for the taliban and other militants. american officials have long pressured pakistan to do more to and that is complicated by pakistani politics, including widespread antiu.s. sentiment and ties to extremist groups. all a reminder as the u.s. ends combat operations in afghanistan and turns attention to iraq and isis, the terror threat of the border region is still very much alive. the dean of the john hopkins school of events at international studies and former senior adviser for pakistan and full disclosure, a team i also sat on. thank you for taking the time. first, i want to ask you about today's attack. how do you see it potentially changing the u.s. relationship with pakistan, in particular, long-standing u.s. effort to get pakistan to more effectively address those terror threats? >> i think the attack came largely because pakistan was responding to u.s. prodding the new army chief in pakistan made

a decision that he was going to take the taliban in the northwest of that country on and push them out and i think this retaliation is because he's had certain degree of success there. so, i think in some ways i think this attack will come convince the attack that the pakistnis are doing what they need to do. but it also may make the pakistnis much more reliant on u.s. assistance as they have to deal with the terror that we saw today. >> well, let's talk about that question of u.s. assistant. we passed billions of dollars of new aid and expanded a huge diplomatic push, that you were a part of. pakistani officials went back home and pandered to u.s. interests. was the whole policy a failure or a success in retrospect? >> it was not a failure. i mean, it kept pakistan in the fight, at least at the critical period. the united states needed to temper the violence in afghanistan. had pakistan been completely uncooperative, president obama would never have been able to end the hostilities and have an

exit path. we were successful enough, but afterwards, we saw a new military, military leader in pakistan who was willing to take the fight to the taliban. now, the question is, is he willing or capable of staying the course after what happened today? >> when we talk about those aid dollars, i want to give the audience a sense of the portion we're talking about. billions in recent years including what was called the funding named in part after senator kerry at the time. $7.5 billion authorized in 2009 to cover five years. and as i mentioned, there have been charges that at the same time there was something of a double game going on, pakistani politicians going back home and then speaking out against the united states, some of them allegedly tied to extremist groups on the ground. so, when you say the policy wasn't a failure, what specifically have u.s. taxpayers gotten in return for all of that expenditure? >> well, one of the things they

got is actually they got a route that would allow american military to supply afghanistan using pakistani territory. got at least pakistan's modest support of the fight against the taliban. it got aerial access to use drones and other things and to hit targets within pakistan. we didn't get the full cooperation that we wanted from pakistnis, but we got a fair amount and, also, the money that the senate appropriated, the $7.5 billion provided much greater room for the civilian government in pakistan to be able to support the collaboration with the united states. ultimately, as you said, pakistan has a public that isho we need to get pakistnis on the side of our campaign in afghanistan, despite that hostility. we got a fair amount of that as a result of that indwengagement >> drone strikes.

the irony being that and provided some more access, as you said, for such strikes. but, of course those are the very strikes that inflamed that kind of u.s. sentiment. >> exactly. >> big picture on this, as the u.s. expends more and more resources in iraq and the fight against isis, does this other epicenter of terror this border region risk being forgotten? >> yes, it does. i mean, if you remember when we came out of iraq we thought that it was good enough. it was stable enough and we could wash our hands of it and then we encountered isis two years down the road. there is a danger that in afghanistan we may take a look at the elections and take a look at what pakistan is doing and say, we can move away from this. today was a warning sign. that the taliban is alive. it's active, it's capable of inflicting great deal of instability on pakistan and on afghanistan and we better be wary of thinking that things are

good enough for us to leave afghanistan. this is a very unstable region and it remains a question as to whether pakistani military will be able to continue the fight against the taliban after what happened today. >> a very ominous message there as this administration attempts to extricate from this region. thank you so much. >> good to be with you. coming up a little later in the show. stick around because you will remember this one and so many of you were, indeed, moved by this one and responded in force. remember jada? there she is. the teenage girl from houston who was allegedly drugged and raped at a party and then saw photos of herself lying unconscious being passed around on social media. we have something new on that story. months later houston police finally acting on it. jada will join us to tell us the latest. her first interview since our call to action on her and her story went viral. stick around. [ narrator ] mama sherman and the legion of super fans. wow! [ narrator ] on a mission

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welcome back, everybody. one story spiking on social media, that horrific attack in pakistan. check this out, this visual shows the spike in conversation online after that attack. killing so many children. this chart gathers pakistan, peshawar attack and taliban. altogether comes to a million tweets today so far. been tweeted close to 450,000 times so far with people using it for a good cause. to call for blood donations. pakistan's army chief tweeted this. blood needed #peshawarattack. all are requested to donate blood. we've been impressed by the show of decency across the board and a lot of compassion showing up online in the past 24 hours. first up created yesterday after the tragic hostage situation in sydney, the #yllridewithyou

still all over social media. india with pakistan. traditionally at odds with each other, the response shows an unusual sense of connection and brotherhood through disaster. i commend to you to read some of those tweets. here are a few examples. this isn't as much in india with pakistan sentiment as it is a human with human sentiment and. a shortage of blood in pak, can we organize it in india and fly it in? if india gives permission, i will bear the cost of the flight with india with pakistan. it's a moving series of tweets there and a nice show of somethi something. just ahead, a story that has more rancor to it. aaron sorkin writing about the newsroom to fighting it. the press is responsible for aiding and abetting illegal hackers. >> is there anything in these e-mails at all that's in the public interest that points to

wrongdoing at the company? that helps anyone in any way? there isn't. there's just gossip there. >> so, is there a public good to reporting on the dealings of a publicly traded company? it wouldn't be the first time. i'll talk to one hollywood heavyweight who is speaking out about this right after the break. sheila! you see this ball control? you see this right? it's 80% confidence and 64% knee brace. that's more... shh... i know that's more than 100%. but that's what winners give. now bicycle kick your old 401(k) into an ira. i know, i know. listen, just get td ameritrade's rollover consultants on the horn. they'll guide you through the whole process. it's simple. even she could do it. whatever, janet. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ]

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we're back with the big political news of the day, that is not really news because jeb bush has still not announced a presidential run or even an exploratory committee, but he is saying that he is exploring the possibility. joining us now cakasy hunt. you are just off the plane from south carolina, where you were covering his commencement speech at the university of south carolina. he gave you a shout out and said we'll see you at the next one. question to you, he is starting

a leadership pack in january. what does that mean in practical terms, kasie? does that freeze big donors from contributing to other candidates? >> some is about playing catchp to other people who are in the potential field who are holding office and has these packs and this gives him the ability to have a place for donors to send their money and for him to be able to start helping people that he wants to help. now, you know, i'm not sure at this phase that it freezes people completely, but comes pretty darn close. whether or not that happens depends on whether how the bush family operates behind the scenes and whether they're asking people to withhold their contributions from others while they wait for bush to make a decision. i think, ronan, for people who were surprised by today's announcement, if you've been listening closely to what jeb bush has bipartisan seen saying over the course of the last month or two, you wouldn't be surprised. he gave an interview and speech a couple mumtonths ago and then

a foreign policy speech, he basically laid out a foreign policy platform, as well. which really puts him way further down the line than the other potential candidates we're looking at. >> kasie hunt, always a pleasure to get your updates. another big political story we're watching today, al franken announcing his endorsement of hillary clinton. you can hear more from him on that subject at 3:00 p.m. on today's episode of "the cycle." don't miss if. over to hollywood for our next story. the hack heard around the world. one of the individuals in that massive hack of sony orchestrated by a group calling themselves the guardians of peace is taking aim at the press. >> hackers who have threatened violence because the studio just wants to exercise the first amendment right that everybody else does. studio just wants to release a movie have stolen this material and now the press is selling it

out of the back of a truck. >> now, sony has also been leveled with a class action suit filed by its former employees. "l.a. times" found that sony failed to secure its data bases despite weaknesses that it has known about for years. keeping an eye on that. joining me now, galvanpelon a hollywood power broker himself. he worked with sony on four movies and other tv move. thank you so much, gavin. do we have gavin there? we do not have gavin at the moment. there he is. sorry. i think gavin is getting miked. >> i'm here. >> terrific. thanks for taking the time. i want to run through some of the arguments on the ethics of conveying to the public the contents of this leak. it is a difficult question. but isn't there an argument that the press covering this hack is an important part of ensuring accountability for these hackers? >> i don't understand. why would it be ensuring accountability for the hackers?

>> by shedding the spotlight on the actual criminal act itself and delving into how did they hack? how did they go about breaching the technological barriers. >> that's what they should be focusing on. they are not focusing on that. they are focusing on the released e-mails that are private conversations and focusing on whether or not the new bond film script is any good and focusing on internal documents that talk about the marketing strategy. basically, what the press is doing is helping to affect whatever plan the perpetrators had which has been stated to be underminding the viability of sony pictures. this is a really serious thing. people can go ahead and say just people in the entertainment industry and a lot of big stars making a lot of money. but not many industries where a united states, the united states leads the world, like the entertainment industry. we are the undisputed number one when it comes to film to

entertainment. film entertainment in the united states produces $104 billion in wages for american workers. most of whom are middle class. okay. so, if we go and try to, if chaos is created and that's what happens within the studio. when people's health records are released or they're talking about whether the chairman of the studio can hang in there because her e-mail correspondence between her and her friends and her and her child put on websites causes chaos within the company, as well as, by the way, just putting films that they produced out on the internet undermines the economic -- >> the ability to highlight the workers, too. people's social security numbers who have been outed by this and real moral stakes here. on the other hand, strikes me as a matter of degrees and depends on the specific content. aaron sorkin comparing those to the jennifer lawrence nude photos, which we didn't air. isn't it fair to argue that professional e-mails sent within a publicly traded company are just fundamentally different in

some ways. while there are some vulnerable individuals that they target, there are elements of them that are newsworthy. >> i haven't seen one of those e-mails that is newsworthy. something that is interesting to the public and something in the public interest. if you can show criminality that has taken place and that was released, i can understand what you're talking about. these are just basically silly conversations where bad jokes are made and being publicized. whether they think a movie is good or not good, why would that be in the public interest? that's part of marketing a product. people don't seem to understand something. just because something can be stolen digitally does not make it a product like an automobile. if you go ahead and take the elements of a movie, the marketing plan, the script, the budget, deals. >> it's theft. >> anything like that. it's the same as taking a motor out of a car and then throwing it out. you've ruined the economic viability of a physical object. that's what's going on here. this is really dangerous. people have to focus -- >> the hackers promised this

christmas day surprise. they're saying that this may be pegged the release of this film "the interview" which touches on an assassination plot. is there a threat to first amendment rights where we see studios avoiding certain types of content because of the threat of these kind of hacks. >> they're businesses and nobody waunlts wants to go ahead and go forward to cause them to make less money because that's their responsibility as the people who run that particular business. we will a company go and produce a movie that will reflect badly on some other group of people knowing they could possibly get hacked and their personal information is going to be released. i don't know. i could see that happening and that's really bad. one great thing about the movie business is not everybody is a kids' movie based on a toy. sometimes there are movies that bring up social issues that are really important. or political issues that are important. i could see major studios who have to spend millions and hundreds of millions of dollars

on their product shying away from that and saying, oh, let's go produce another sequel or something unoriginal and stay away from something that will get us in trouble. this is why it is a serious event and why we have to take it seriously and why the news media is not aiding and abetting the perpetrators of this terrible crime. >> one thing we all agree on here. this is a hack with high stakes. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. up next, keep it right here. another big story. the afghan army fighting an uphill battle against the taliban that is even harder now that american troops are pulling out of that country. we are on the ground taking an inside look at life in that army right after this break.

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a taliban massacre. the government believes it's retaliation for pakistani air strikes on taliban strongholds. those strikes killing hundreds of fighters in recent months

pushing them further into the mountains between afghanistan and pakistan. defending the taliban is just one challenge the afghan army is facing on the other side of that border as the u.s. military tensions there wind down. our partners embedded with the troops and got the story. >> we have been at war for over 35 years, which has left many orphans. i and many others are ready to sacrifice for the orphans and for afghanistan. >> run!

>> i've been with the afghan national army front lines for the last five years. a sense of honorship in this war. it's an afghan problem fought by afghans. lost that american support. they have lost aerial support of what they call the golden days when in the face of problem they would call and there would be jets hitting the enemy's targets. "the number of taliban attacks were much lower when the american forces were here. ♪ . >> this war should have been afghans and a lot of the american army expenditures are being saved and, instead, spent

on equipping and supporting afghan national forces. since nato has left, taliban has massively increased using land mines and remotely controlled explosive devices.

>> the only way to end the war is to have a strong army. god willing, taliban and the terrorists will fail in our country. >> thank you to our partners for that. just ahead, thousands of you stood up for her in our call to action months ago. this is a big story we're going to update you on. jada who spoke out against her alleged sex assault and cyberbullying may now have a shot at justice. a big development in her case, next. she's with us to discuss it.

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welcome back, everybody. bill cosby's daughter, evan, just spoken out in defense of

her father for the first time. he told "access hollywood" he is the father you thought you knew. "the cosby show" was my today's reality show. thank you. that's all i want to say. she joins cosby's wife, camille, her statement, we all followed the story in the article in "rolling stone" concerning the allegations of rape. the story was heartbreaking but proves to be untrue. many in the media are quick to link that story to stories about my husband. until that story unwound. bill cosby has denied all allegations of him and he has not been charged in any crime. but the media is sometimes guilty of failing to check and in doing so profoundly lets down victims like that young woman in the "rolling stone's" story. her story has not been proved or disproved definitively. these accusers have a voice in the modern media landscape with

the caveats and caution as a development. a major development of one woman finding a voice erhin her story of sexual assault. a story we first brought you back in july. houston police are confirming two people, one seen here and the other, a minor, have been arrested in the alleged rape of a teen whose emotional story sparked a social media firestorm. authorities tell us, the adult has been charged on two counts of child sex assault but has yet to make his first court appearance or issue a plea. photos of like this one of 16-year-old jada after she was drugged and sexual talked were posted online. they went viral with many ridiculing jada. jada came on this program, and we launched the #iamjada in an effort to reclaim her name. 12,000 of you reclaimed that with your own i am jada pictures and a call to action we return to today.

right here with me today are jada. it's so good to see you. how are you doing, first of all? >> i'm fine. how are you? >> i'm doing really well. i'm so glad you're taking your time to share your story. what's your reaction to these arrests? >> it's wonderful. i'm just grateful and thankful for everyone who followed and supported me. >> what do you want to see happen to these young men? >> i would like to see justice. just in full effect and that's it. >> why did it take five months to make these arrests? >> you know, we all asked that same question because there was so much evidence, mountains of evidence, to show jada is not the only girl they had did this to. but i believe they wanted to do a thorough investigation. we later learned had it been

passed from one investigator to a whole other set of investigators. so it did take a period of time even with these young men's confessions and being bragadocious in social media. >> jada, when you spoke to us after the incident, you said you didn't get much support from your community. now you've seen tens of thousands of people weigh in online supporting you. how has your life changed since this story broke? >> my life has changed a lot. it's not the same anymore, but it's not the worst. >> such as the teenagers, the adults, they're very supportive. people outside of my community are very supportive. >> what advice, jada, would you

give to other young women, young people in general, who may be experiencing this same kind of shaming and bullying online? >> my advice to you guys are just to pray and speak out and just tell nothing but the truth. >> are you glad you came forward so publicly? that was a brave and difficult thing you did. >> yes, i am glad because i -- i needed my story to be heard. >> these young men were arrested, we know, in connection with the alleged assault. are you hoping for any repercussions for those who bullied jada online and posted those photos? >> i believe we're attempts to work with state legislators here in texas to make cyber bullying a crime. there are so many victims of sexual assault but they don't want to be bullied by social media so they keep their stories to themselves. we don't want to allow social

media, which has been a gift and a curse in many cases, to stop victims of being a victim of sexual assault or crime. we're hoping to get a law passed here in texas and make cyber bullying a crime. >> jada, we see so many stories of sexual assault, particularly of young women, particularly of students, not far from your own age. you're now getting close to college age yourself. what have you learned from all of the ugliness but also all of the support, everything you've seen as this story unfolded? >> i learned some people have hearts. some people just go with what they hear. >> jada, you are an incredibly brave young womenwoman. you have inspired so many other people who i know are faced with the same difficult choice as to whether to come forward. what do you hope to do with your life going forward? is this a kind of issue you want to keep working on? is this something you hope to leave behind? >> i would like to keep working

on this with others, like other people who are going through this, but i would like to go to college and then become a pharmacist. >> i love hearing that. love hearing about your future which is, indeed, very bright. >> when you talk about specific reforms you want to see, what would that look like? do you want federal legislation? you mentioned potential state legislation. >> i believe we need both a federal law and state law passed, but first a federal law that makes cyber bullying a crime. some of the things happening through social media to people is really unspeakable. there's such vitriol and venom being to people. we have to pursue that legally and stop people from doing that. if we do that we can clean up the filth and the bullying that is out there on social media. >> jada, do you have a last word to those behind ugly bullying of

your own case? >> i don't have anything to say to the ones who bullied me but to the ones who supported me i want to say thank you. >> thank you so much for that positive message. thank you for all you're doing right now. really appreciate you coming on. we'll continue to follow the story. jade dashgs i hope you'll keep us updated. >> of course. thank you. >> thank you, everybody, at home for joining us. we want to update on hashtag battle. we asked whether you think the media should be reporting stories from that sony hack or whether it's unethical to do so. interesting response. 50% saying, yes, the contents of the hack should be reported. 42% saying, no. that wraps up today's "r.f. daily," appreciate your time. happy hanukkah, everybody. go ahead and celebrate. it's time for "the reid report" with my colleague joy reid. if i can impart one lesson to a

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welcome to "the reid report." i'm joy reid coming to you from washington, d.c. today where we start appropriately enough with politics. specifically jeb bush, raising his hand ever so slightly for 2016. the former florida governor and the son and brother of two president bushs announced on facebook he'll actively explore running for president himself. that statement follows a quip jeb made monday during a commencement speech at the university of south carolina. >> people often model their lives on their parents. their parents went to college. so do they. if your parents worked in politics, well, you know the rest. >> msnbc political correspondent casey hunt has the latest from our d.c. news room. casey, this is not an or