>> democrats don't like wall street bail outs. republicans don't like wall street bail outs. the american people are disgusted by wall street bail outs. and yet here we are, five years after dodd-frank with congress on the verge of ramming through a provision that would do nothing for the middle class, do nothing for community banks, do nothing but raise the risk that taxpayers will have to bail out the biggest banks once again. you know, there's a lot of talk lately about how dodd-frank isn't perfect.

there's a lot of talk coming from citigroup about how dodd-frank isn't perfect. so let me say this to anyone who is listening at citi. i agree with you. dodd-frank isn't perfect. it should have broken you into pieces. >> welcome to "morning joe." all morning we'll take a look at the year that was. >> we'll be starting with somebody who not only made headlines this year but likely to continue making waves in 2015 and beyond. >> i do have to call her madam president. >> oh, stop. don't go david muir on me. >> you told me i had to call her madam president. >> it's feeling i have. nothing she would talk about today quite frankly. we'll talk about your book. how are you >> i'm doing great. >> so reading this i learned so much about you as a person and what formed you. but this interesting strain that

starts a little bit as your adult life is just beginning, this obsession, this mad obsession with bankruptcy. you were -- you never let go. you were like a jack russell holding on to -- your obsession with bankruptcy where did it come from. >> like a lot of families we grownup on the ragged edge of the middle class. had some good years but also had some really, really tough years. those are things that change a child. and so all the way through my life i worried about money. identify worried about what happens to good people who work hard, who play by the rules and then just get smacked by serious financial reversal. >> joe, you know, there's a part of her childhood that reminds me a lot of mary jo because her mother drove a station wagon.

and it would stop and she would get out a metal rod and start it again and just keep going and then one day that car was gone. >> yeah. yeah. so, i was 12. my daddy was selling carpet. and my three brothers were all gone. i was the baby. my mother used to call me the surprise. >> we all three had something in common at this table then. >> we're all accidents. >> we're all accidents. so surprise. >> i was a surprise. my three brothers by this point are off in the military. my daddy had a heart attack. and long period of time no work, the bills pile up. my mom had this bronze station wagon. and big old thing. and she always picked me up from school every day.

one day she picks me up in this little old beat up studebaker. i got in the car and i said where's the station wagon. and my mother held on to the steering wheel, it's gone. and, you know, i'm a 12-year-old kid, gone. gone where? and she said it's gone. and finally she explained they couldn't pay for it and now it was gone. and i remember from that was not just losing something, it was my mother's face. and her, her knuckles on the steering wheel. her life as she had known it was just turning upside down. she was 50 years old. she never worked outside the home. and now all the pieces were breaking apart. >> she actually had to go back network and you remember her getting ready and i think that

was the day you grew up. >> yeah. that's how i think of it. so, we lost the car. the bills were piled up. and one day i go upstairs and i hear my mother in her bedroom and i walked in and her best black dress was laid out on the bed and i thought at first who died? you know, she wore that dress for 15 years. for funerals and weddings, i guess. i was puzzled. when you look at your mother, you know when you've asked enough questions. she's crying and rubbing her eyes until they are fierce red and finally she reaches down to pull this dress on and she starts pulling it across her shoulders and down over her hips and it's too tight. and so she is still crying and she starts working that side zipper up and holds her breath and finally gets to it the top. pulls on her high heels, turns

around and looks at me and she says how i do look? i was 12, almost as tall as she was and iing looked her back straight in the eye, i said you look great really. and she walked out the door, applied for a minimum wage job at sears, and got it, it was enough to save our home and we made it on through. >> how does that experience, the fact that you were raised on the ragged edge of the middle class as you say, how did that impact you in 2008, 2009 when you saw the economy collapse and you were asked to come in and help millions of people that were suffering a similar fate. >> joe, you put it exactly the right way and i tell the story all the way through the book how we get there and how i start

working as a young teacher and doing research about families who go broke and starting to understand good people who have just been hit hard by medical problems, by job losses, by family break ups. and then starting to watch how the banking industry, the big banks started figuring out their whole profit model was how to trick families, how to trap families, and then they started taking all those mortgages that tricked people, putting them into packages and selling them out like boxes of grenades with the pins already pulled out. they then blew up the entire american economy. and that's when i come back in the story in the book about being asked to come in during the bail out of the big financial institutions. and i want nearly killed me because what happened all throughout that bail out it was always about how to save the

biggest financial institutions not about how to save american families. >> i have members of my family who have declared bankruptcy and it sounds so shameful and what you discovered when you sat in court and watched the people coming in a instead of listening to the judge, you looked at the people who came in the room and doing this as part of your study for a book you were working on -- >> ah-ha. >> and what you saw were regular americans, some of them with the most heartbreaking reasons that they would put on their questionnaires as to why they declared bankruptcy including one that just said stupid, stupid, stupid. >> yeah. this was one of the hardest parts about doing this work. is to see people -- i so much wanted to believe when i went into this work that these were people who had gone the mall and charged up a bunch or had made bad choices. >> i felt that way. i learn sod much of life and reading this, a little bit about

what bankruptcy really means. >> and the research we did. hard research. talking to thousands of families about this over time getting lots and lots of hard information about what happened. but to see within that how much people blamed themselves. are we going to be a country that's going to build real opportunities, opportunities for our kids, opportunities not just for those who already made it big, for those who made to it the fancy places, but opportunities for everybody else. that happens or doesn't happen depending on the decisions we make as a country and we can even decide hey let the rich and powerful run washington. or we can decide, no, our voice will be heard and we're going run this country to make sure that everybody gets a fighting chance. >> still ahead much more "morning joe" the best of 2014 including our conversation with hollywood producer jerry

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"pirates of the caribbean" jerry bruckheimer brought us some of the biggest block busters of all time. >> and now his new book "when lightning strikes." ♪ we should have known it was you. >> i feel the need for speed. >> now that's how you're supposed to drive. >> are you sure you're ready for

this? >> i'll do my best. >> your best? losers always whine about their best. >> when you marooned me on that god forsaken spift land you forgot one very important thing, mate. i'm captain jack sparrow. >> that will do it. i know. wow. i just got say wow because those movies took me through like e r every phase of my life. it's remarkable. it defined an era, in fact defined a few for me because we're getting old. just few. just a few of jerry bruckheimer's big block busters. he's with us now to talk about the brand new book, about his

legendary career. disney had this idea, a great idea, you got to get this book. jerry bruckheimer "when lightning strikes." you go back to the '0es. "top gun." i saw "armageddon." no movie captured the middle of the '90s more than that. johnny depp has a good reason for calling you one of the greatest producers that hollywood has ever known. >> he's a great individual, terrific actor and a good friend. >> what a revelation he was in "pirates of caribbean." for all of us adults that were on the ride, i hate that, you have a vision, johnny depp comes out as keith richards, you know, sort of and it was remarkable.

>> that was the idea. the idea was to put somebody in that movie that was so dimbt that the audience would say i got to go see this. i've never seen john any depp do a really commercial movie especially about a theme park ride. putting him in that movie. >> up having the confidence of putting him in the movie and letting him go somewhere most people wouldn't let him go. >> it wasn't feeng. he created that character. it was a much different -- it was burt lancaster, tough old pirate and johnnie keith richards. is he drunk, is he gay >> we mentioned "top gun." if i can lift this book. it's a great book for your coffee table but a good work out in lifting it up.

that's when goose and maverick were introduced to our lives. >> i talked about "armageddon." >> tom says where ever he goes in the jungles of brazil they call him maverick. of all the movies he's done, people you would think never able to see television or be in a movie theater, remember him as maverick. >> one of the great things in the book is iconic photos from your film and there's great tos of you as a younger man holding cameras. talk about how you got interested in doing this and your love of the business before you were in the business. >> well, you know, i grew up in troirkts lower middle class family, never thought i would get california. dreamt about the movies. >> son of german immigrants. >> right. >> i love that shot. that's like an iconic, one of the most iconic shots. >> i had an uncle who was a big

photographer and he would give me his hand downs. from the time i was 6 years old i had a camera hanging around my neck. i love capturing moments. >> you started as an ad man in new york. you grew up in detroit going an adman in new york. how did you make the jump >> i won a bunch of awards in detroit. got to new york. worked for pepsi. won more awards. director dick richards took me to california and had a movie that we shot for a million bucks. that was any entremendo into ma movies. >> i can make a movie and do this for the rest of my life >> by the time i did "flashdance." we made a hit. >> i just talked about another movie that defines early '80s

with "flashdance." go ahead. >> it was images. >> i'm getting a work out holding up this book. there's jennifer beal where the water splashes down on her, the iconic moment. my roommate don simpson who became the president of paramount and brought me on to do this movie we became partners. my career took off after this movie came out. >> the movie that took off that surprised you, lawyers always talk about the cases they should have won and they lost and the case they lost that they won. what is the case -- what was the movie that you just thought might not break through but became huge? >> every sing one of them. >> you always -- >> always scared to death. "flashdance" we thought came out in april, nobody would see it, cost $4 million.

what happened, we went to topping night, friday night kids were line up to see the movie. couldn't believe it. they left theater, go the record stores buy the dvd, that was it. then they go back in the theater again. it was like magic. >> we're talking about "frozen" off camera shocked how big that became like that. "flashdance" was like that. >> they were getting leg warmers and cutting off their sweat shirts. >> you were responsible for that? >> no. >> we've been fortunate with these great directors that made these great hits for us. >> a movie that you thought was going take off that afterwards you're like i don't get it. >> not one of them. i swear to you, i think they are all going die. we had movies that we preview that are fantastic and you saw well it will be a huge hit and sometimes it's not. like "glory road" wasn't.

you don't know. we had movies that didn't preview well that became huge hits. >> we got to go. what's your proudest work. forget the money, forget everything. there's very poignant stories about norah ephron in her final weeks watching her bhoefs her family. what's a movie you would want to watch. >> you know what? the book is the celebration of a career. and about all of them. you live through them like going summer camp. you live with these people. wet them and you disappear. you come back next summer there's new kids there. that's what movie make cigarette. >> incredible pictures. incredible career. incredible book. >> the book is called "when lightning strikes." great to have you here. congratulations. get this book. you may need buy a bigger coffee table but it's worth it. >> amazing pictures.

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it's not often that society experiences a transcendent moment like it did on july 11th, 2013. >> that was the day that sci-fi released "sharknado." the fictional tale of a monstrous storm that devastates l.a. with shark infested floodwaters. this year sci-fi took it one further. two "sharknado"s, two in a row like haley's comet coming twice. >> this one was in new york city and the star joins us to talk about the tv movie. >> i know you're scared. i'm scared too. there are sharks. they are scary. no one wants to get eaten. but i've been eaten and i'm here to tell you it takes a lot more than that to bring a good man down. a lot more than that to bring a new yorker down.

>> oh, yeah. that was a clip from "sharknado ii" the second one. we're us now the co-star of the sci-fi hit, so great to have you on the show. i'm transfixed. >> it's global. >> it's global. you're in on the joke i can tell. >> we're all in on the joke. seriously the. you have to suspend disbelief. >> you have to suspend a lot of disbelief. i was watching the clips here, i was having a hard time keeping a straight face. my producer is saying come on now. come on now. explain to it me, thomas. >> sharks come out of the ocean that get stucked up in tornadoes and try to kill people like ian

finn shepherd but ian finn shepherd saves the world. >> exactly. combination of two of my favorite genres, science fiction and adventure. >> and sharks. >> the apex predator. this movie has been nothing but fun. there was some ptrepidation doig the first one. working with a low doing a science fiction film you're not certain who your battling. are you fighting a sea monster or gumby. it came out close to "avatar" stuff. so when i did the second one i was much more free in my actions to have fun. >> confidence. >> is a lot more confidence in the production. >> mika, i think the way that you know they are in on the joke is the title of the movie,

"sharknado ii", the redundancy gives you a clue maybe they are making fun of themselves. you obviously, most famous for beverly hills 90210. but these two movies kind of eclipse the 09210 bed agree. how do you feel being associated with two iconic franchises. >> i feel very lucky. what was interesting, it took a couple of years for that show to resonate, for to it achieve the success, the global critical mass. but this movie, even move it aired last july 14th, there was such anticipation globally because of social media that it exploded right out of the box. so now all that excitement initially from the sci-fi fans it spilled over to mainstream entertainment. now with "sharknado ii" there's a global anticipation. >> the first one --

>> it's all organic. it's so beautiful. >> there's a story there in terms of social media. the first one when it came out at one points there was 5,000 tweets a minute. that's incredible. let's throw another clip up. >> raining sharks. awesome. >> that's good advice. that's good. >> let it go. >> best advice i ever got it. >> watch it two or three times. you will end up laughing. some funny stuff. every time you see it you'll be laughing more and more. >> during the sound bite he says don't think too hard. >> okay. >> what's amazing you managed to

get a sequel. >> a sequel done in 18 days. >> a lot of big budget hollywood movies in production for two, three years. >> is this an annual tradition. the academy awards, baseball all-star game, world series, super bowl and the "sharknado" summer, the third one, the fourth one. >> it's television media. so television production compared to film production, you know, they don't spend on luxuries. we shot this in 18 days. so the turn around can be pretty quick. this could very well become a summer event. >> who are the other stars in this? >> tara reed. harry weir. mark mcgrath. a ton of cameos. i worked with john hirsch. he played my taxi driver. >> i saw it in the clip. >> favorite movies when i was a kid i watched "taxi" all time.

what do you at a yellow light. slow down. what do you do? so we're running with taxi and jim is on the brakes don't you know what to do at yellow light. yeah slow down. i don't know if it made knit to never north. there's little homages. >> you're doing the chippendale thing? >> yeah. i'm a father, husband i do everything i can to provide for my family. >> chippendale. >> yeah. >> it's been that kind of day. >> is that a movie. >> no it's a dance troupe. >> i thought there might be a chippendale movie. that would have been funny. the cuffs, the bow tie. we know each other from miss usa. >> coming up, dr. oz has a prescription for living the good life. >> he joins us next when

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♪ obesity rates have more than doubled in adults and children since the 1970s creating a new sense of urgency for americans from all walks of life to get healthy fast. >> that's one of the topics that dr. oz is covering in his new magazin magazine, "the good life." >> four hours of makeup. >> i don't recognize myself. >> one fat suit later my transformation is complete. in my head i know i'm wearing a fat suit. my heart is saying you're not worthy. i'm used to walking in life with my head held high. even though i'm the same person in this costume, i feel low.

my self esteem dropped. i feel like i'm a different person. >> that's how mika feels sitting next to me. >> you look better. you look very good. but you know you need lose about five more pounds. right? >> you're right about this. you wrote about this. >> here with us now the host of dr. oz who has a throat say about the fight against obesity as a rapid weight loss diet. we'll be careful with those. we'll get those in a moment. >> eating with your mouth full is bad for you. >> dr. oz says i that have wrong idea about cashews. >> the big theme for everyone to recognize is that your body actually wants you to at the time right fats. if your fat is panic it holds i want to be self. >> what if you're so hyper healthy that you don't eat.

>> you lose weight. >> why does everybody need fat. >> sfat a protective mechanism. it's good at protecting toxins. in the old days we had to store fat where there were famines. you better store up in the summer time. good thing. these days we go hunting we slide the milk carton out of the way. fats are good for you if they aring the right fats like cashews. it's a fallacy that it causes you to gain weight. >> skim milk versus whole milk. whole fat milk helps you lose weight. if you take fat out of milk, there's sugar left. so i love -- i spend a lot of

time. we call at any time good life for a reason. for me the good life was not about fast cars and lots of cash it was primarily about the deep near sight that your slif defined by the people in it. if you're happy people will be happy. to tell people not eat food, that's a celebration. i want to you enjoy life. you can do it and be healthy. >> because there is obviously an obesity crisis and we're trying to tackle how we do this. a lot of people had to turn to surgery which in many cases been the option for them their last best option. what about preventing it. how, i think what are the misconceptions. >> i dressed up like a 400 pound person because i wanted to highlight what it's like to be that heavy in america. the bigger you are in america the more invisible you are. i walked a mall in new jersey i had children avert their eye

from me. people were ashamed of me. i felt that shame as well. i actually told all the viewers on my show this week i don't want them getting weighed by their doctors any more. you go to a doctor's office or you don't to. yeah you're 106 pounds. then you're mortified. i want to get women comfortable. i know you're overweight. i don't have to measure that. the way to lose weight, first off, it's the most under performed operation in america. it does work. chris christie doing the right thing having the surgery. which was him at the super bowl he's lost a ton of weight, good for him and good for his body and family. in terms of prevention we have the wrong ideas. this two weeking weight loss program. collecting the best ideas. our fifth year some pretty good

ones. my staff will disappear on me. we have 2 million downloads. why does it work? simple straightforward stuff. take some foods we know inflame the body. wheat, sugar and artificial bodies irritate you. it holds on the it. you eat real food like carrots, apple, cashew food that comes out of the ground, your body knows what to do with these. it will naturally help you lose weight. you lead the good wife. >> snickers bar good or bad? >> snickers bar no worse than white bread. >> that's a killer because i learned, i learn said to way from the really bad stuff but bread, man, i still go after the bread. that's good to know. >> interesting about the weight in not talking about weight because i tweeted my weight when i gained 20 pounds because i wrote a book. we do judge people and their weight too much and we taught be

more open about it because people who are obese and morbidly obese, the averting of the eyes is part of the shame because we don't talk about it. somebody who is morbidly obese don't you want to talk to fwhem their health and make them feel accepted and understood. >> this is a lightning round. >> i address this in a fat court. i went to a food court and talked to people there about their weight. the last person who said i don't like my doctor because they judge me. i don't go to the doctor. use your waist size instead of your weight. your waste should be less than half your height. how tall are you >> six times 12 inch, 72 inches plus four. 76 inches. 38 inches. if your waist size is more than that 38 inches don't do a texas dunk. men after 40 never buy a new belt. they walk around like this. >> so i'm good.

38. there you go. >> i need to lose 10 pounds. >> on my show this afternoon i'm talking about an herbal combination of a flour and a fruit that has just in recent trial came out in the journal for obesity. this supplement helped people lose eight pounds in eight weeks. that's independent of all the other things they were doing. we tried it on members of the audience that got similar results. there are fast tricks like that that can nudge you in the right direction. but the long term sustained reduction of weight. >> for people who saw dressed up as a 400 pound individual, a person who gets to that stage does not only have bad eating habits but what advice do you have to people of rewiring, hard wiring, psychologically about what's the trigger. >> i asked people who are that heavy why they gained the weight and those who lost it how they did it. it comes to self-esteem.

they feel a deep emptiness in their soul. they look for things that's controlling and that's a fork at the end of their hands. when we use food as a weapon or addictive tool, people who are heavy know that. how do you make i want easier for them to get back on the. you do that with simple steps. >> we got to go. we need to get you back. this is amazing. i keep seeing things i want to talk to you about. dr. oz's tips on best way to sharpen your memory. one and my god, seriously a generation of people get lost in this. one, listen. avoid the internet rabbit hole. two, schedule down time. these are incredible. three, try single tasking. and number fourth let top technology help. >> multitask sag myth. >> you can't do it. quickly we got to go how is your health? >> my health is very well.

i like taking care of me. four kids helps. >> coming up one of the greatest performers of his generation. >> donny osmond joins us right here on "morning joe." we'll be right back.

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. ♪ so glad we got the real thing baby ♪ ♪ so glad we got the real thing ♪ cultural icon and superstar donnies on mand has traveled around the world but the lessons he learned at home made his greatest impact. >> we spoke to donny and his wife. >> they are so nice. >> yeah. take a look at this. >> with us now talking about their samsung phones. >> wow. >> a commercial right here. >> converts. you guys are like really into this samsung thing. >> we look at each other, see our phones, we just connected. >> you know what they call that? >> puppy love. >> i won't put it down. >> i went to the samsung -- >> no looking back.

once you get samsung no looking back. >> how are you guys? >> award-winning singer, donny osmond. my first single.no. >> one bad apple. >> do you know that was written for the jackson five? we got it. here's an interesting story. people working on my 60th album right now. i love it. i'm picking songs that really influenced me over the years. one of the songs was michael jackson's "ben." that was written for me. >> "ben" was written for you? >> so i was on the road touring and they had to finish the movie so they just said let's get michael to sing it. >> beautiful song. >> every song on this album has a story like that too. >> you guys really lined up, late '60s, early '70s. how unbelievably huge you guys

were. >> how old were you? >> i was an embryo. >> how mind altering? >> i was 5. >> oh, my god. >> then 12, 13 when "one bad apple" hit. 13, 14 when "puppy love" and all that stuff hit. >> how did you survive this? how did you get through it when let's just face it michael had a much rougher run of it. child stars time and time again. britney, lindsey. >> i can point to a lot of things. my parents. it gets down to that. but, you know, it's -- i married up. >> that helps too. >> that's the way to go. >> as a matter of fact, it's our 36th anniversary. >> no way. >> where is she? >> get over here. come over here. it's your anniversary. come on. >> i got to tell you something. >> come here.

>> "puppy love." >> 36 years. >> okay, so she's not -- >> this is debby. >> hi, debby. >> just a minute here, because i want to say something. she's not just my wife, she's my business partner. we just came out with a company called donny osmond home. launched it this year. had no idea what would happen. it went from 0 to 60 overnight. home furnishings. she's amazing. >> so now we're working together. >> what's your name? >> debby. >> debby. what do you think the secret is to a long marriage? >> i don't know, honey, what do you think? >> she's always right. >> did you see that? >> that was wonderful. >> there's no secret. i think you just work at it and you have fun and enjoy the journey. >> whatever it is, you two should sell it. >> i think they are. >> here's something that will freak you out. >> we just found out we're having our seventh grandchild. >> oh, my god, there's no way you're a grandmother.

what is it about donny that keeps you in love with him? >> ooh. >> be careful. >> i could kick you off there. >> he's just a really sincere great, down to earth kind of person. >> 36 years. >> 36 years. >> what present did he give you today? >> today? >> being on this show. >> we're working today. >> no, actually, we're in town, we're in town to do some for donny osmond at home. it's a work in progress. we just found out home depot now is going to be carrying some of our products in the store. wayfair.com is carrying it. we've got manufacturing partners calling us, saying we want to be a part of this. >> combined, how would you describe what you two are embracing with donny osmond home? >> i think it's a style of comfort and casualness and, you know, something you can bring your family into it and just

relax. it's not traditional or stuffy. >> you two are relaxed right now. this is not a traditional interview. >> has this ever happened on on your show? >> no, this is a first. one time, thomas roberts -- >> tell the story. >> after 36 years? >> no, i think -- >> wait. >> i'll let you go back and sit. i'm sorry. >> debby, congratulations. >> i liked it when he sang to you, that was nice. >> that was amazing. >> i'm loving this week. this is my week off and i can celebrate my anniversary. we're in vegas right now. next week, marie and i are celebrating our 1,000th show. we were supposed to be there for six weeks back in '08 just as the recession was hit, the crash of '08, and we survived that and we're there. i know, it sounds like -- i'm just so excited about this. we just got the award for best show of las vegas. third year in a row. >> oh, my gosh. >> that's saying a lot because

that's the entertainment capital of the world. >> how do you guys -- you're like the benjamin buttons, the aging in reverse. what do you eat? >> must be that mormon lifestyle. >> seriously, both you guys and your sister. >> we work hard. >> you work out, you eat well, you sleep. >> all the time, all the time. >> give us some secrets. >> he just did. >> there's no short cuts. >> maria is so nice though. do you do "i'm a little bit country, i'm a little bit rock and roll"? >> you got to do that. >> do people go crazy? >> depends on the generations that come. a couple weeks ago, i had back in the meet and greet -- because we have a meet and greet after the show, we sign autographs, pictures. there was a great-grandmother, the grandma, the mom and the little girl. she was 5 years old. great grandma knew me from the

andy williams show. says, how does the little 5-year-old know me? she says, i want to hear donnies an monday anaconda song. she starts singing "anaconda puppy love." >> that's awesome. >> thank you so much for coming on the show. you can visit donnyosmond.com for more on the home furnishing line. >> and i got your tweet, by the way. >> my tweet? >> somebody tweeted out this morning. i love twitter. i wish i had twitter back in the puppy love days. follow me, @donnyosmond. >> we had a great time. you can stay tuned now for all your live breaking news right here on msnbc. the holiday season is here, which means it's time for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta...

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another apparent hack attack on sony. this time, it disrupts the games people play. the details on whether it's any link to the release of "the interview." >> this is an important year. we've been in continuous war now for almost 13 years. over 13 years. and -- and next week, we will be ending our combat mission in afghanistan. >> the longest war. president obama with newer marks leaving afghanistan. but is it really over? and america reaches farther into the unknown. we'll take a look at that. a good friday morning to