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the rules of flying, the government tries to clear up confusion of what you need to know to get on a men this holiday season. new plan of attack a new report today on how al qaeda plotted its last terror attempt on the chief. so, what's next? cutting back. more moms say they are not spending as much this holiday season. looking for a little human interaction. do you want to feel contact in certain special places? >> why not go through security

at an airport? >> the gang at "saturday night live" position fun at all those tsa searches. good morning, everyone, i'm alex witt, welcome to msnbc sunday. we have two big headlines this morning from the white house, reaction to a story that north korea maybe ramping up its nuclear capability and new insight into the agee grayment on afghanistan hammered out at a nato summit in portugal. secretary of state hillary clinton discussed the strategy this morning on "meet the press." >> the transition to afghan security league begins next year in 2011. it is conditions based. so where it can happen, at what pace it can happen, how many troops can be substituted for that is what geral petraeus and the military leaders are going to be working to on to recommend to the president and the leaders of other countries. >> nbc's mike viqueira is live at the white house. good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> get to north korea in a moment, but first is the

administration, how to is framing its plan in afghanistan. how is it going? >> it is interesting. that was that long and some say tortuous process, even by the president's own admission, quite contentious, developing that afghanistan policy at this time last year, culminating at that speech at west point on december 1, 2009, yes laid out the new policy, upping the number of troops by 30,000, a surge, some people call it but saying that july of next year, 2011 is a date by which american forces would begin to be withdrawn from afghanistan. they are still sticking with that day. you heard the secretary of state say that there, but it is conditions based and now a new date has emerged from those nato meetings and another white house process here and that is the end of 2014, when the president says that the afghan people, military and police forces, are going to take the lead in their own security what that means in terms of u.s. combat operations remains kind of ambiguous. here is little bit more of what the secretary of state had to say about it this morning on

"meet the press." >> both the united states and nato isep partners have said that, of course, we would be willing to continue to help train and equip the afghan military. the security lead, the fight if you will, does transition to the afghans. support for that fight will continue to be provided by not just the united states but others. >> permanent basis? >> there has been no decision whatsoever about any of that. >> as far as an end to a combat mission at the end of 2014, the president says that is a goal but there are no guarantees at this point, alex. >> okay, mike, moving to north korea, what you what about this report in the "new york times" that north korea secretly built another facility aimed at enriching uranium what is the white house saying there? >> caught everybody by surprise here. the individual in question, he is a professor at stanford university, knows what he is talking about ran the los alamos nuclear facility here in this

country, recently in north korea, saw this uranium enrichment facility much further along than many people anticipated, including that professor himself, of course, north korea, an opec nation, nobody really know what is is going on there the talks have broken down, the five had-party talks bus is sended, on again, off again, people accused north korea, the last several years of really sort of yanking the chain of the person powers together with china and japan and the nations in the region, south korea, on again, off again, starting their plutonium-based enrichment program. this is different, uranium based, a lot of people concern, reaction from the white house today, senior administration official says north korea's claim to have a uranium enrichment program is yet another provocative act of defiance and if true, contrad t contradicts its own pledges and commitments. they have sent experts to the region, try to get a closeup view, ascertain the situation. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullin as well as as -- others, a great

deal of concern in washington. >> thank you. the terrorist group behind the plot to bring down two u.s. cargo planes with mail bombs says the operation was inexpensive and easy to execute n just-released issue of the english-language magazine, the group says the cost of carrying out that plot was $4200. the mail bombs are made of ink cartridges packed with explosives, sent from yemen and addressed to chicago-area synagogues. both explosive packages were intercepted in dubai and england last month. al qaeda says it doesn't need to strike big to bring down america. >> they have gotten sophisticated it used to be they wanted to do the big bomb like they did on 9/11. now they are really playing to our psychology by talk about the cost exchange ratio, how much it costs them to do it versus how much it costs us to respond. >> al qaeda says the cargo plane plot was designed to cause

economic harm, not casualties. in germany, authorities searching for twoment issed suicide bombers. "the wall street journal" reports the suspected islamic extremists are believed to be planning aen attack on a prominent location in the german capital the coming weeks. a german paper reports that al qaeda was planning a possible attack next year on the parliament building in berlin. the head of germany's federal criminal police office calls that report highly speculative. german chancellor angela merkel is urging calm after the country increased security because of the heightened terrorist threat. here at home, the holiday travel season is getting into full swing with thanksgiving day on thursday. for air travelers this year could be even more stressful with the enhanced patdowns, full body scanners and now a planned protest. my colleague, nbc's michelle franzen, has all those details. good morning, michelle. >> reporter: good morning, alex. angry air travellers are still venting with many of them callsing these new tsa security measures too intrusive and

people fed up are turning to the internet calling on fellow travellers to boycott the full-body scanning machines on wednesday, the day before thanksgiving. they want people to opt for the enhanced patdown which is would overwhelm tsa workers and possibly lead to massive delays. >> a sillily, ridiculous waste of time. >> if it keeps us safe, i am not too worried about it. >> reporter: the tsa continues to defend the new measures pointing to recent polls that show about 80% of the traveling public supports the increased security. >> we will be thorough in our screening to make sure everybody gets on every flight and has a high level of confidence and assurance that everybody else around them has been thoroughly screened. >> a new poll conducted by the consumer travel alliance finds more than half of americans, 56% say they are more confused than ever about tsa's new rules.

41% say they are just as confused as before and only about 3% say they are less confused. alex? >> so michelle, how is the tsa responding? you hear about this planned boycott wednesday of the full body scanners. what are they doing? >> key spite all the talk of boycotts, tsa officials are predicting a smooth holiday travel season but could still be ripples for them. interesting no-to-note, one website claims to post the view of some disgruntled tsa screeners. the posts are anonymous and many say they, too, don't like the new body scanners and enhanced patdowns. >> okay, michelle franzen, thank you very much. see you next hour again. so does the uproar over the new tsa searchers mean we are becoming a nation of whiners? syndicated radio talk show host and msnbc contributor michael smerconish thinks so we will talk to him at the bottom of the hour. hunt for a man accused of shooting a park ranger in utah continues this morning. the man, believed to be wounded, was running into a canyon west

of moab where officers continue their search. brody young was shot throw times friday night while on routine patrol. he is in critical but stable condition. so ever feel like you've been hit by a truck? well, especially when you wake up, right? what a couple in moorehead, kentucky, felt when an out-of-control pickup came barrelling into their bedroom. they were asleep when the crash happened. luckily, they weren't hurt. the driver, not so lucky. he is hospitalized. police aren't saying if he will be charged. a winter storm out west came just in time for holiday skiers and more snow is on the way there drivers were forced to break out tire chain as two feet of snow fell in the sierra nevada. a winter storm warning in effect for tahoe this area until this afternoon. let's go to the weather channel's alex wallace with more. >> this system is walloping us in the west no doubt about it the full spectrum, rain, snow, wind, you name it we are dealing with t see down to southern california, we have got rain to

deal with, as you get into the higher terrain looking at some of that snow spreading all the way up into parts of utah as well. we will be piling it on. this is a ski lovers a delay the to see some of these totals that we will find, at least the next 24 to 48 hours, mammoth lakes, 10 to 15 inches, lake tahoe, one to two feet of that snow coming down, adding fresh powder there zooming ahead now to the holiday. thanksgiving eve for us, see things much quieter on the west coast, a few lingering snow showers, work through the rockies, not expecting it to pile up. what we will find with this system here moving through the east, a little bit of rain to deal with with we will be dealing with that across the ohio river valley, into the lower mississippi river, dry in the northeast, not a bad looking thanksgiving eve for traveling here, come thanksgiving day that begins to change as the shower actually presses its way on in here. behind all of this, we have got dry skies, very, very cold conditions that will be impacting us, even the day after thanksgiving for all the shoppers heading out to the

malls. alex? >> i'm getting texts from my friends in mammoth lakes that is write love to ski and my friend has five feet on her deck. >> wow. >> yeah. good luck with that, elows. no fun. okay. thank you so much, alex wallace. will the engage of prince william and kate middleton has dominated english papers and one of the headlines centers around a poll of the english public which says an overwhelming majority believe william would make a better king than his father, prince charles. joining us from london to discuss that and other rumors swirling around william's engagement is royal watcher neil shaw. good morning. >> good morning, alex, how are you? >> well, thanks, how are you? >> i want to get to this big headline right away you the poll says 55% of the english pub want william to be king only 15% believe charles will make a better king. what do you make of this? >> first, i know prince william himself has no plans to supersede his father, neither has the queen. you know this is a legal right so what ever they may write in the press, it can't possibly

happen. what's interesting as well is that obviously on the week of his engagement, he is incredibly popular, you know? consequently this beautiful bride-to-be, this handsome prince, who would you prefer, these two or these two? i mean, come on, a little bit unfair. camilla is trying her best here. >> i agree. the kind of all the buzz is with william and kate, certainly. how much of that do you think is a lingering distaste for camilla parker-bowles, based on the diana situation? do you think that is something prince charles will ever be able to shake or the british public gotten over that? >> a great question, alex. i think that is more to do with the media, not to do with the royal family. the british public, you will get a percentage that don't like her, obviously, on the other side of the coin, prince william and prince harry are very close to her, they've very good bond. i think you will see as the wedding develops just what a close bond william has with camilla. i think she is going to be

heavily involved there. consequently, i think possibility media that would say we still dislike this woman, but get a chance to meet her, she is very bless isn't and very sweet. >> so we have heard. neil, what about this? this headline i find annoying, a prominent bishop has like.ed prince william and kate middleton to shallow celebrities and predicts their marriage will last just seven years. what is going on there? >> so long, alex. come on, you know, another person sticking his head, if you feel like, above the pulpit, forgive the pun and trying to get some pr for himself. you know, he -- obviously, direct boss, if you like, the person he answers to is the queen. love to be at that meeting, wouldn't you? i kind of think that for him, it is going to be very tricky now and obviously, it seems a little bit distasteful, particularly somebody from the church, but we had this problem a couple months back, his holiness, the pope visited the united kingdom, backlash again, when he turned up, this was a wonderful occasion. i think he is like nasty

planning the stuff when he should just be enjoying that bloom of the first week of engageme engagement. >> the idea that prince william and kate middleton would move into kensington palace, the home of princess diana, any truth to that? >> tell you first on the show, a shred of this finally alex, one story that maybe true here, a shred of truth. because it is raf station in north wales that is where they will be living when they are married, he is stationed there for a good two and a half years yet no wail be living in kensington palace. what will happen, she will have rooms there already has some private room there is when they stay in london, as simple as that. you have your pick of all palaces, you know, take your pick, where would you like to stay? kate already swings virtually daily at buckingham palace, she has the run of some of these prestigious palaces. >> fun talking with you neil shaw, come do it again, thank you. >> a pleasure, thank you. growing divide.

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msnbc is the place for politics and voters along the coast have often been considered liberal while the midrest tends to lean conservative a new analysis in today's "washington post" suggests that political divide is growing even deeper. republican strategist and contributor to hill is cheryl

jack kobeis and edward wycoff williams, contributor to the grio. the post looked midterm elections and found a sharp slip between the republican midwest and coastal democrats. what's your take on that? >> you know, i think when the chins are down and the economy in such bad shape, unemployment is so high, people really can't afford the luxury of letting the left coast be the political leaders. i guess folks want to get back to basics and want their politician and elected leaders to pay attention to the things that matter them, which is jobs, which is the economy. we saw that with the tea party movement, voters electing republican governors all through the midwest and the rust belt. i think it has to do with middle america getting real and make sure the rest of the country and their leaders get real as well

and i thank you is a trend that will continue a while. >> edward, which party do you think this report should concern more, republicans or democrats? >> i think it should concern both. i disagree with sherry, i think she is reiterating republican talking point buys saying this mild america is trying to correct what's going on on the coast. i think the truth of the matter is the coast and medical america elected barack obama in 2008 and i think what is going on here now is that the republicans have been very effective, i would say, at manipulating the political discourse so that end, they have done a very good job of trying to convince voters, particularly their base voters and motivating their base voters to get out to vote against what they call obamacare or an oba obamanation. the truth of the matter is that obama is extremely popular and far more popular than republicans are, even though they have now taken the house.

>> i don't think this was necessarily republican or democrat thing, not something that emanated from the republican party, i don't have any republican talking points in front of me, don't use them, don't get them. this is something that came from the grassroots, from the american people. they were telling us, they were telling republicans and democrats and all politician what is they wanted. so, i think that was rather unique in this case. i don't think the republican party establishment really had that kind of influence in terms of getting the voters to understand what they wanted. i think this was a case where it was definitely the other way around. >> how about the people to whom the republicans are appealing when you look at it in perspective, the republicans swept into power in 1994 the party was made up of a broader coalition inside and outside metropolitan areas. today, the house gop represents older, less educated, less diverse district ares, politically speaking, do republicans need to broaden their appeal? >> this is a case where there is a message that the folks you just described, that

demographic, maybe unemployment and the economy was hitting them a little bit harder so they were going to have a bit more influence, they stepped up to the plate and going to influence every be this time around. i think one reason the republican party did so well in this last election cycle, obvious obviously, is because these issues this were important to america tend to be more republican issues what we didn't see, what you saw a little bit more in '94 and other elections, was a focus on the so-called social issues which might peel off some other folks. so when you have got the tea party movement, people who don't consider them was to to be tea partiers agree with the same issues of lower taxes, less spending, smaller government, you get a a lot of right -- slightly maybe more moderate democrats and independents and libertarians so it is a new kind of coalition and again that came from the bottom up, not from the republican party. >> edward, i only have a second for this answer, the obama coalition remains intacts among minorities and educated voters but the white working class pull

aid way from that how much of a concern is that for the administration? >> not a concern at all, the interesting thing here and this is really important, i know we only have a second, but the growing voter base or the growing voter coalition are actually those people. they are minorities. they are younger voters and to that end, if obama has managed to maintain that, he will continue to be successful if november 2012. >> okay, the two of you, thank you so much, we will see you again in the next hour. >> thank you. meantime, our friends at "saturday night live" kicked off the show last night by highlighting our own rachel maddow. take a look at abby elliott's impression of rachel. how did she do? >> john boehner we start with you. your party claim it is wants to lower the deficit but won't extending the bush tax cuts to the top earns add $700 billion to the deficit? nancy pelosi, a woman who always looks like she is watching someone not use a coaster. joining us now, the democrat who had the toughest week, charlie

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underwear, who would have thought that so striking the right balance is what this is about and i am absolutely confident that our security experts are going to keep trying to get it better and less intrusive and more precise but at the same time, we want people to travel safely. >> let's bring in michael smerconish, msnbc contributor and author of the book "flying blind, how political correctness continues to compromise airline safety post 9/11." good morning, good to see you. >> you have a new column in the philadelph"philadelphia inquiri reads "scanner whiners need perspective" that title seems self-evident what do you mean? >> first of all, when my wife and i fly, she is a white-knuckled flier, i saw wood once that plane takes off.in other words, she is scared to death of the flying process. i hate the check-in. what i have not heard in this conversation, any alternatives that have been advance and i have interviewed all the people leading the charge for this protest next wednesday, which i

personally find to be appalling. what do they want to do, shut down the airline industry on one of the busiest travel days of the year? nobody likes it i have not heard of a better way for us to go. they are still out there trying to kill us and to use airplanes to do it. to me it seems like this is the best the tsa can do at the time. >> you know what i agree with you. in the interviewed james basketbabab about. this morning if not this, what are is the solution to the problem? he said i am not a security expert, that is the problem there. your column, you writer, the fact is these enhanced security mesh slurs a small price to pay for securing that system. it's true that travelers have a right to privacy but that right shouldn't outweigh the my right to fly with my family knowing we're secure because each of our fellow passengers has been properly screened. but michael, some passengers are equating these searches to asauls. how do you respond to that? >> i'm concerned that some of the film footage and some of these one-off examples and i'm not defending the tsa as a

blanket proposal i'm sure in certain circumstances, they have been invasive, my fear, alex there is great confusion a poll that you cited about 20 minutes ago suggests that 56% of the people now reacting to this say, geez, i don't know what to make of it i'm confused because they think that everybody is undergoing this very invasive type of a patdown that is not the case. if you go through the full body scan, properly emptied your pockets, you ought to be able to keep moving. if you find that objectionable, you can have that patdown. you can be in the presence of someone who is traveling with you. it just seems to me that when you really pursue it they have done whatever they can to ensure your privacy while also recognizing that we live in very dangerous times. >> but talk about going from, you know, leave leaping from the frying pan into the fire, it comes to tro controversy with we need to examine other security tools as well as profiling. i have been to on that case

eight, nine years, common sense to empower those protect our airlines and our borders to take into consideration the commonalities of those who seek to kill us. and alex, when i say that you know it brings up that dreaded p-word. i'm not afraid of and i get cast as a zen know phobe and worse. until we reach such a point that the blue-haired old ladies seeking to any to miami are the ones threatening us, i don't know it is fair to put everybody through that same level of security screening. i think that some ought to be screened more than others. i think everybody needs to be screened but some more than others. >> you know they are going to come back to you and say women have been suicide bombers what is next? make use of young people, children, kids in their teens we know have been able -- capable of certainly launching certain kinds of attacks, whether you try to bring down a plane. a lot of people can say it is nebulous as to who is a terrorist and who is not. >> the definition, unfortunately, keeps expanding that is why this process needs to have flexibility. the clip you rolled from

secretary clinton and comments made by the president and secretary napolitano suggest they regard this as an evolving process. we need to evolve along with those techniques of al qaeda. this is a direct response to the underwear bomber. so you know, again, i come back to if not this, what should we be doing? apparently this would have caught him, you know, we need to keep up with the times i. >> michael smerconish, good to talk to you, thanks so much. >> you, too. an alarming report out of north korea in today's "new york times," a u.s. scientist claims the country has secretly built a nuclear complex capable of enriching uranium. the story is now the subject of serious concerns in the nation's capital. nbc's ali arouzi is joining us from london. a good day to you. talk about what they are getting to with u.s. officials, they are taking this very seriously as a violation of international law. can we expect any kind of diplomatic response out of london and the rest of europe after this news? >> well, i mean, everybody's definitely going to have their guard up about this and whatever

the reason these new centrifuges provide a fresh set of worries for the obama administration and as minute stations across europe who have shunned negotiations with the north following their nuclear missile test last year, in the wake of the international find a north korean torpedo sank a warship killing 46 sailors. so i mean, they are going to have to re-evaluate whether the negotiations with them are going to work, before they haven't worked, north koreans have gotten what they wanted with to out of the west through negotiations, out of threats, a very fine line they have to tread. obviously, the north koreans after something with this latest announcement. >> i'm sure you've heard, ali that north korea is claiming you the complex is for energy use. do international authorities have any real reason to believe that's true? >> well, not really. their track record hasn't been good up until now. before, they have said it is for energy use and gone on to build

six plutonium bombs, they don't have a good track record with this now entered into uranium enrichment, can be done much more easily, much more covertly than building a plutonium bomb, all the signs are very worrying out of north korea. >> all right, ali arouzi, live from london. could go from there to the economy now, we will see a shorter trading week on wall street but packed with lots of economic reports. the government will come out with an updated reading on gross domestic product last quarter and expected to show the u.s. economy grew more than previously thought. also get new data on the sale of new and used homes, expected to be higher for october and personal income is expected to be up last month with consumer sentiment on the rise. so children find a little less under the christmas tree this year, won't be santa who is cutting back, probably dear old mom, according to a new citigroup survey. joining us to talk about that is lisa caputo, founder and chair of citigroup's women and

company. good morning to you. good morning. >> or is it a good morning? your survey had interesting things to say about moms and shopping for the kids. >> i as a mom, happening with me, we are cutting back. what we are seeing in the survey conducted by peter hart and associates is that women, mothers in particular, are making a fundamental shift. and it is a permanent shift. they are tightening their spending and they are really concerned about savings and their debt. and what's happening is they are saying to themselves, i need to live within my means and additionally, they are also saying, hey, wait a minute, i'm gonna put off those big purchases, like the television set or big new piece of furniture. i'm also only going to buy the essentials, the things that i really need, not the nice-to-haves. and i think this is really important because mothers, women in the household, they are the cfos in the household these days. >> they are the heavies. why is that? because i remember my dad being the one with the iron fist that way. >> same.

same with me. i think a couple of things are at play there. more and more women are entering the workforce so you have a lot of working mothers, right? so they are coming into their own economic power. second, women are the care givers in the household. they are the one as well doing the juggle, so they are controlling the household purchases. women control 80% of all consumer spending. and then third, there's a real recognition out there, particularly among moms that there are some socioeconomic dynamics happening. the average age of widowhood is 56. so one out of four women will be on her own at some point in her life, either because she is singled, she is widowed or divorce and a wakeup call, particularly to moms, to say, hey, i need to kind of take the reins here and have the financial security and independence and know what's happening and they back real partner in the household innocence and a lot of respects are now managing the household innocence. >> do you find the guys in the household, husbands, significant others do they share the same spending outlook? >> yes.

we are seeing really across the board, americans overall are tightening their belts. there is this new normal going on that i believe will be a permanent reset of how americans overall are spending and saving, but with mothers in particular, we believe the shift is quite permanent and it is interesting because at the holiday time, mothers in particular are saying, let's make the -- let's make the homemade gifts. for example in our household, wither doing that for my kids' teachers, making homemade gifts. also, they are capping the number of gifts they give this year at the holidays, the list is smaller. i know myself, as a mom, my christmas cards are going to be half the number that they were last year. the interesting thing about this, alex though, is that mothers are optimistic about the future. and they are optimistic because they are making the changes in their spend egg and saving patterns to have the resources they will need later on. >> hoping it is going to pay off. >> yep.

>> giving them the confidence to say if i make these changes, i'm going to feel very optimistic about the future 'cause i'm going to have receipt sources to do what i need to do. >> well, mom and citigroup founder and chair of women and company, thanks very much. >> great to be with you. sarah palin gears up for the relows of her new book will readers get something new this time around? ease of her new boo readers get something new this time around? i'd like one of those desserts and some coffee.

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sued ant site was forced to take the pages down yesterday, at least for the time being. libby casey is from alaska public radio. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> let's talk go about "going rogue." that sold 2 million copies. do you think leaders get something new or about reinforcing her image? >> the first book, going rogue, sarah palin's opportunity to craft her own narrative, give her biography, many politicians, presidential candidate does. after the mccain campaign crafted theible imagine for her it was her chance in her own words to show america who she thought she was. this book is more of a philosophical take on life, cement the image, talking about god, country, very patriotic agenda but it is more her political philosophy, her moral philosophy quoting author she is loves, take on pop culture, next step book. >> the pop culture i want to talk about, she mentions people, ronald reagan, her husband,

todd, but there is a weird one, simon cowell. she says cowell is almost alone in his willingness to tell hard truths and she writes, cowell cab little harsh at times but he upholds the highest standards and something in us recognize and responds to that. really? simon cowell? i mean, really? >> sarah palin is the star of a reality tv show on tlc getting high viewership for a program of its ilk and so she really is walking that line of political punditry but also pop culture. everything sarah palin tweets, people talk about and she is not just tweeting about politics shark he is tweeting about her daughter's appearance on "dancing with the stars." palin branded herself as this pop culture icon in a sense. look at the past week, we are talking about her here now. she is on sunday night on the tlc sew. bristol is on monday night on "dancing with the stars." the palin family is saturating the air waves now. >> something she can relit to simon cowell and the job he has

done. let's go with what palin has posted, next about the book on the facebook page but what is more telling about this is the comments that she is receiving. here is some, we put them on the screen. so, is this part of a 2012 plan, you think this book? >> remember, sarah palin's team scrubs the facebook of comments that go against what they really like to hear and so we are going to hear those positive accolades on her facebook page and she is controlling the message there. that is the thing that sarah palin has brought to the table, really trying to control her message through her twitter feed, through facebook, but you know, she is sort of toying with us, certainly her right, because the media is so interested in whether sarah palin want it is run for president or not. the way to keep you interested, the way to keep me interested is by talking about the possibility of doing so. if she flat out says i'm not running for president, a lot of people are going to click out in

the washington circle, doesn't necessarily mean people in iowa are going to click out of what she is involved in but she is able to keep people's interests by talking about how she could run. >> after bowing out as governor last year what do people in alaska think of her? >> i think there is a lot more fascination with people in the lower 48 when it comes to sarah palin. i think in alaska, you know there still is some dismay and some -- questioning about why she quit the job what really that was about? and we just saw it play out in alaska, the race for senate, where lisa murkowski was able to retain had her seat and beat joe miller, tea party-endorsed candidate, guy sarah palin wanted to see win. sarah palin threw quite a bit of capital into him the last weeks of the campaign t did not pay off. for alaskans, the takeaway, people may be interested in what she is doing, care about what she says no one is taking her marching orders. alaskans are thinking for themselves who they want to see in office and her endorsement only went so far.

lisa murkowski, the other woman from a alaska, the one who went rogue, so to speak, to run for office she lost the primary doing this write-in bid is now the person who has beat sarah palin there is a story in politico today talking about how, you know it took someone from alaska, another woman from alaska to actually beat her on her home turf in a sense of the political alliances and who alaskans ultimately support. >> interesting points from you libby casey. thank you so much. >> thanks. the tsa's new screens rules created quite a stir, while it is no laughing matter, our friends at "saturday night live" couldn't help but find the humor in it. >> spending time with a tsa agent couldn't be easier. simply book a flight departing from any american airport. when selected for a full body scanner, say no. you will be pulled aside by a tsa agent and that's when the fun begins. and you never know who your agent will be. >> it could be me. >> or me.

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are you finding yourself struggling with what to give as gifts for the holidays? with black friday less than a week away it san annual battle many of to us go through, we are here to help you out. "popular mechanics" magazine put out a holiday gift guide that should satisfy everyone on your list. joining us, seth, the editor of "popular mechanics" magazine. let's get to this toaster it is beautiful. >> you have a toaster, never know went bread is just done perfect. >> true. >> this one you can see through. why didn't we invent this first. i want to know. >> is about 250 bucks though? >> 250 bucks, williams sonoma, you see your bread brown while it is browning, a toaster of the future if your old one isn't good enough. >> very cool. >> okay a camera's always good gift. what is unique about the one you have got here? >> this is from fuji film, a 3-d

camera, you have your 3-d tv. we say make your own, shoots 3-d video and photos and the screen shows 3-d without glasses. >> could i tell it was there was dimension there. pretty interesting. what about this? this is a fan with no blades. >> this is from dyson. it is their air multiplier fan, suck us in the air through the bottom, shoot it is out through the apertures new york blades, you can put your hand through it while it is on, not going to hurt yourself. >> but it is a lot of money. >> this is a full-room tower version, $450. >> okay. well, you know it is what it is. it is a fan, the summertime, i will tell you, you will pay any price. >> are you a fan? >> i'm a fan of a fan. okay, another camera. what is this one all about? waterproof? >> the kodak play sport, a beach-proof camera, take water, sand, drops. you kind of just take it around with you you not worry about it. >> i guess it, won't $150, not so bad. >> exactly. >> video games, always very popular this year. what is the one you have brought? >> this is the microsoft kinect.

seen ads for it the wii without a controller, you hit the air, flail around like an idiot. a lot of fun. >> how much is this? >> 150 but you need an xbox. >> you got to add that up. another couple hundred bucks, 199 i think those are running? what about -- books are traditional gift, now the kindles, wifi makes books look obsolete. >> this is the amazon kindle, the wifi edition, the cheapest yet, just $150. kindle books are cheaper than hard covers, might pay for itself after a while. >> that is good to know. >> what about a cheap way to play netflix? >> streaming netflix is the greatest thing ever so many ways you can do it one of the easiest, cheapest, simplest ways to do is it is the roku digital video player, just 60 bucks. >> what makes it so unique? cheapness? that is pretty good. >> cheapness and simplicity. some are pretty complicated, some very expensive this one you

plug into your tv and almost instantly works. >> that is great. bells and whistles this is pretty, nice and bright for the holidays, a popcornmaker. >> kiss part in easy pop popcornmaker, if you take off the top it doubles as, like, a couch-friendly serving bowl. >> oh that is cool. look at that just go like that. >> just like that he yeah, perfect. thank you. they are always good ideas. we appreciate that. which one is your favorite here? >> i love the toaster. >> that is really cool. thank you so much. we will see you again. >> thanks again. lindsay lohan's latest stint in rehab hasn't just cost the her freedom, lie low was dropped from "infern know" where she was cast and the porn star linda lovelace. they had planned to wait until january to start filming when lohan was planned to end her stay in rehab, but insurance has caused the director to replace her. es pecially in my finances. that's why i have slate with blueprint.nces. i can make a plan to pay off everyday things

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