first place on "dancing with the stars" and now another sarah palin book is hitting store shelves today. does all this lay the groundwork for a palin 2012 run? joining me today howard dean, p, litico patrick gavin, republican strategist. good tuesday morning, i'm chris jansing. this is "jansing & company." south korea's president is warning they will unleash enormous retaliation should north korea attack again. at least two south korean soldiers have been killed after a massive military barrage between the two countries and there's no guarantee north korea is done. the north fired dozens of shells after warning the south to hold military drills in the area. south korea responded by scrambling several f-16 fighters into the air and returning fire. the squirmish comes ahid high tension over north korea's new

enrichment plan. jim miklaszewski joins me now. the president back from that part of the world and, obviously, concerns about uranium enrichment. what does this all mean? >> the incident is over, according to the u.s. military. the shooting stopped some time ago, at least for the time being. the white house issued a statement condemning the act. calling on north cretkorea to e its belligerence. they call this alarming. to put it into context some u.s. military and pentagon officials i talked to believe this has everything to do with the transition planning thaterates understand way to transition power from kim jong-il to his son. now, what they're trying to do, according to u.s. pentagon and military officials, at least deal from a position from strength.

that they're standing up to south korea, which some say, according to north koreans, particularly, has been somewhat uncooperative with the north koreans as of late. the north koreans have been intransigent on their positions. right now u.s. military officials hope that the worst of this is over and the last thing anyone wants to do is exacerbate it or escalate it with some sort of knee-jerk military reaction to this incident today. >> obviously, there are lot of americans who have loved ones there who are serving in the u.s. armed forces. how many troops are we talking about in that region, mik? >> about 29,000. mostly army and usair forces you would well imagine. and according to military officials, they are not repositioning, not reinforcing, not plussing up any of those troops right now because they don't want to send the wrong message to north korea that might be misinterpreted.

>> jim miklaszewski, thank you, mik. >> okay. new development that may further fuel the outrage of americans about invasive scanners. two companies that got nearly $90 million in government contracts to provide those full-body scanners doubled the amount of money they spent on lobbying in the past five years. "usa today" reporting that the companies hired high-profile government officials to help push for those body scanners, which have been the focus of intense privacy and radiation concerns. now, after more than a week of controversy, senior government officials now say the tsa will reduce the number of passengers who are randomly selected for a pat down. >> privacy and that they should do more profiling. >> i'm all for security, but at some point, enough's enough. >> i'm joined now by carrie

lamack co-founder of families of september 11th. her mother was killed on 9/11 when flight. what do you think when you hear about all this uproar over airline screening? >> it reminds me a few weeks after september 11th when i read an article about the pan am 103 families the people who lost loved ones when their plane exploded over lockerbie scotland and they felt they haven't done enough to prevent another aviation attack and i hope we're trying to do enough to prevent future attacks. people against these screenings and pat downs have to realize this threat is quite real and instead of getting mad at the tsa officials that are trying to keep them safe and secure i wish they would work with their fellow passengers and get angry at the terrorists who are the ones making us do this. >> i think that people are all angry at the terrorists and i guess the legitimate question

is, can there be legitimate questions raised about these machines? are they the most effective way. for example, some people have suggested these are the wrong kinds of machines since they essentially show people naked when there's other available that show more of a stick figure or almost a cartoon character but still show if there is something that is going through them that might be dangerous. are you convinced that everything that's been done is the best use of money? >> well, absolutely. i think that kind of debate about which machines isn't the appropriate one to have. you have people saying tomorrow they want to opt out of security pat downs and security screening. that's not the right approach. what they should be saying, if we don't like the way you're making us go through security, let's come up with a better approach. let's not just complain and be part of the problem, let's be part of the solution because i really did not think that nearly nine years after my mom's murder i have to come back out there and remind people that the threat is real and that everyone

at those airports are doing their best to keep passengers safe and secure. that's their jobs. instead of telling them you don't grope me or accusing them of looking at naked figures as if it's pornography, these people are really trying to keep the country safe. i'd rather have a debate about how we do that than whether or not we need to do that. because, unfortunately, we do need to do that. >> do you feel safe now when you fly? >> i sort of put it in god's hands. i hope i am. i think every airport screener when i go through screening and say, thank you for doing your job. thank you for keeping me and my family safe. i'm going to get on a plane tomorrow to fly home to see my baby nephews who are almost 6 and 3 and this thanksgiving we have to explain to them why grandma judy isn't with them. for those people who are complaining about getting a pat down or going through the security measure, think about the other side. i will gladly go through security tomorrow morning when i fly home to see my nephews because i want to be safe and secure and make sure they don't have any more losses in their

family. >> we wish you safe travels and happy thanksgiving to you and yours. >> thank you. a major setback to those secret talks between the taliban and afghan leaders to end the war. the "new york times" is reporting u.s. and afghan leaders now say the man they thought was the senior commander representing the taliban was a fake. the imposture claimed he was monsor. he took large sums of money and gault the star treatment, including being flown on nato aircraft but the scam was uncovered when they show eed photographs to people who knew the real one. the pentagon is questioning whether the story is true. >> i don't know the veracity of it. obviously, the reporters respect the reporter for "the new york times" but i saw president karzai in a press conference today made it clear that he never met with this individual. >> but if indeed that story is true, it does appear that months of negotiations may have been for not. a nasty storm is expected to

dump heavy snow across washington state today, blowing snow, slick roads made for treacherous commute last night with some drivers stuck in traffic for as long as five hours. at least three deaths have already been blamed on that storm. the national weather service has posted a winter weather advisory for parts of the state. and in the midwest in the meantime, powerful storms in wisconsin and illinois spawned as many as seven tornadoes. take a look at this funnel cloud captured on home video in illinois. five kids and a bus driver were injured when the storm turned their school bus over and pushed it off the road. nbc meteorologist bill karins has your forecast and, of course, a lot of people getting ready to travel tomorrow. >> don't you feel guilty, it's 60 degrees and nice here in new york city. so cruel what's happening across the country. big difference from the east coast to the west coast. if you're waking up with us on the west coast, you have nasty weather if not heading your way heading your way. that drive from sacramento up through lake tahoe and

interstate 80 near blizzard conditions and anyone up interstate 80 almost impossible to drive right now. night as well wait a couple hours. let me show you the view from salt lake city. this is a huge storm not just isolated in california. the view from salt lake city shows the gusty winds and we'll see blizzard conditions this afternoon and this evening, even not just in the mountains, but in salt lake city itself. yesterday it snowed two inches in seattle of all places, one of their heaviest november snows ever and this is the kind of snow and cold that we're dealing with. blizzard conditions in utah and the mountain areas will see one to two feet. how does this affect tomorrow's travel? thankfully that storms moves out to the central plains. just a little snow and difficult weather to dakotas to minsota and the heavy rain tomorrow in the ohio valley, illinois area. worse today than tomorrow, actually. tomorrow in l.a. high temperature 53 degrees. that will be a shock for people

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well, in case you haven't heard sarah palin's new book is out today and she's headed out on a bock tour that looks like a campaign-like series of stops.

iowa, south korea, arizona, i think she's going to ohio. officially it's a book tour, not a campaign swing but between her own reality show, her daughter is a shaying her way into the finals on "dancing with the stars." is she running? let's bring in patrick gavin, dan gerstein and princella smithe. >> abigail adams, abraham lincoln, does she feel like she has something to prove? >> a little bit. she has such a platform that no one else in politics has right now. to a certain degree, she has to be careful not to overcompensate because her appeal is to the middle class, average american who feels like washington is out of touch, has failed them. i think there's just a lot of anger. not just about ideology or big government, failures of the elite to, you know, take care of the middle class. to create economic prosperity and to run a government that is

functional. and she taps into that. >> let me ask you that, i don't want to misinterpret what you're saying. but does she have to keep it at that level or do you buy the argument that a lot of people are making. she has to go pretty quickly if she's going to run and she has to get some sort of platform in there. she has to start talking about politics. >> chris, i think it's amazing that she threw out the bait and you guys, the media, just bit it. >> it's all about us. >> i'm serious. if you look at the line of politics and hollywood, that line has become closer and closer and closer and used to be parallel and now just clash and it's basically neck and neck. what she has done is she has become the most famous former vice presidential candidate that we've ever seen. she's played on her star power. sure, she's got a reality show, she has a book tour, her daughter is dancing all over television and she's using it as a platform and, seriously, she

wanted to see how this played out to see if she could run for president. you have to look at the way even president obama played politics in hollywood. it usually reflects the culture. that's what she's playing into. she's just done -- >> what she has said repeatedly, patrick, the phrase media which is now being used a lot, particularly by conservatives. in fact, she said, i think it was just yesterday when she was asked if she would do an interview again with katie cour couric. she said, i swear, i wouldn't waste my time on her. can she set up a run for president without talking to the main stream media? >> i think she can for a little bit, at the end of the day, even some of her supporters will expect her to talk to the media. that's where the big divide happens. she would not say she's anti-media but anti-certain types of journalists that are bias. she will go to a lot of outlets

that are more friendly to her. what is interesting from this book tour, for the most part she is pretty guarded and only gives interviews to the people that she chooses or with a contract with fox. with some of these book tours the opportunity for local press or national press to see her to perhaps get that one question before she gets back or wraps one question along the line and maybe get her out of her comfort zone. >> maybe you're speaking from experience from her last book tour. this is from the last sarah palin book tour. take a look. >> sarah, can i get a hug? sarah, give me a hug. >> i never got that hug. i tried out the theory since we in the media are so lame, that perhaps with my charm and a cuddly winter coat i could convince her to give a reporter a hug. i was not successful, can you imagine. >> we're going to talk a lot more about sarah palin and a lot of other things today. thanks to all of you. listen to this next story.

the invitations to the wedding of the century can now be printed. prince william and kate midd middleton have decided on a spring wedding, friday, april 29th westminster abbey. neal is a royal watcher, how excited are we, neal? >> we have a date, you can buy a hat. brilliant. it's a great celebration for us today because, as you rightly see, this is when really all the hard work starts to really kick in. the queen's in residence behind me here at buckingham palace you can tell because where the flag is. she goes away tomorrow with prince philip. i think, obviously, she's relieved to get this in the bag. when they come back from that, that's when all the action will take place. great news, finally. >> it will be, i assume, even though they keep talking about the fact that the economy is down and they don't want it be like charles and diana. let's face it, it's going to be a royal wedding. i want to know, how much is it

going to cost and who is going to get invited? >> well, i mean, how could we report so far that bisically they're saying that the whole cost will be kept within the royal family. i don't actually see the queen up to her arm in flour making the cake. i don't think she's that poor, but you never know. but i think what is going to be interesting -- maybe they are going to be bridesmaids, you never know. i think they'll get money from somewhere. david cameron will have a meeting with the queen and he'll have to let more money into the silver purse. because they can't fund it all themselves. i think the cost for the celebration a worldwide stage, we just want the bride to look fantastic and everybody is now looking towards what is the dress going to be like. >> well, mike betting money is on her. i think she'll probably look

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this is a rough one. police in georgia call it a cold and calculated murder. 36-year-old russell sniderman, a father of two, gunned down last thursday after dropping his 2-year-old son at preschool. police in the atlanta suburb of do dunwoody said a man walked up and shot sniderman point blank right near the school. >> my niece and nephew will never know their father. my sister-in-law had an entire lifetime of dreams ripped from her. our whole family lost its brightest light and we don't

know why. >> i'm joined now by dunwoody police sergeant and via skype former police profiler clint van zant. the question posed so heartbreakingly, we don't know why. do you have any clues what happened here. i know there is a reward out. any credible leads at this point. >> right now we're still interviewing all witnesses. you know, for someone to commit this brazen crime in the middle of the day early morning when parents are still dropping off children, we need to find this individual. we have been speaking with several witnesses that heard it and actually saw the individual suspect leaving the scene. so, we are currently looking into all of those leads at this time. and right now we are trying to get this out with his picture. the suspect vehicle, which is described as a silver dodge van leaving the area going down mt.

vernon parkway. and we're just trying to follow all leads right now so we can get this dangerous individual off the streets. >> i'm looking at this police sketch and it shows the suspect with a beard but i read that there were some witnesses who think it might be fake. >> there is some speculation that is out there now that the beard was possibly fake. we have not ruled that out at this time, but we are looking into all areas of concern or anyone that has addressed that to us. >> sergeant, thank you very much. i want to bring in clint now and eyewitnesses tell police, clint, that no words were exchanged between sneiderman and the suspect. was this targeted or was this random? what do the clues tell you? >> this must have been targeted. it appeared the shooter knew right where to find the victim and, number three, the get away, chris, as we know, a late model minivan.

the license plates were removed and covered. so, that suggested this guy was cold, calculating. he planned on doing this. i thought the same thing about this beard, chris. i think whoever looks add th s picture on your show needs to imagine this guy without a beard. because if he took the time to take his license plate off and he could have taken the time to disguise himself. >> we also have another unsolved murder mystery that we have been following from florida. a mother, three young kids killed over the weekend and the police there in tallahassee now say that the 27-year-old brandy peters was in court four days before this happened seeking child support from the father of her twin daughters and the father of her son was also behind on child support. so, obviously, police are looking at them as potential suspects. what are we likely dealing with here? >> well, many times, chris, when we see incidents of domestic violence and i'm taking a quantum leap to suggest that one of the two biological fathers of

this woman's three children, i believe, would be a very good suspect. we know statistically when something like this happens it normally happens right at the time some type of order is placed against the individual or immediately thereafter. so, you and i work in the case, chris, we would take a hard look at the biological father of the little boy and especially the biological father of the two little girls who four days ago had this order placed against him. he has a significant criminal record. he just got out of jail recently. boy, you know, he would be on the top of my list, chris. >> but to kill three little kids and two of them are yours. it boggles the mind, clint. >> it really does. what we're looking at, chris, is someone who is a set sosiopath that it means more to him to win than in essence he is told he has to pay and someone like that could be very easily looking at the mother of the children, as well as the children as somebody

who was just giving him grief. it boggles all of our minds. but, chris, unfortunately, 2% to 4% of our population sociopaths and psychopaths are capable of committing acts like this. >> clint van zant, thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. results on whether a jawbone found in aruba belongs to missing teenager natalee holloway. holloway disappeared five years ago while on a high school graduation trip. are america's greatest economic heroes about to kick the economy into high gear? [piano keys banging] [scraping] [horns honking] with deposits in your engine, it can feel like something's holding your car back. let me guess, 16. [laughg] yeeah. that's why there's castrol gtx... with our most powerful deposit fighting ingredient ever. castrol gtx exceeds the toughest new industry standard. don't let deposits hold your car back.

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panicked reblers at a festival tried to escape at a narrow bridge and that forced hundreds to jump off the side. so far no one seems to know what touched off this tragedy. a new survey finds children whose parents break up face double the risk of a stroke. if fbi in the three-year trading investigation. agents stormed offices in connecticut, new york and massachusetts. sources told "wall street journal" more raids likely next week. good news on the economic recovery this morning. third quarter growth was better than we were expecting. a revised gdp report shows the economy grew by 2.5%, up 0.5% from the initial estimate. meantime, still hard times in the housing sector. new data released this hour shows previously owned homes

slid in october falling by over 2% in front of september sales. well, the economy grew at a 2.5% clip as we said over the summer and there are some positive signs we may be in for a strong shopping season. richard lui has some, let's call them unconventional signs of how the economy is doing. >> some unconventional signs for you and some conventional ones, too, that might make us more positive during the season. retailers are holding their breath, because, as you know, the two-month period of shopping can be some 20% of the entire year sales. here's the good news for you. we got this yesterday. mastercard saying in the first two weeks of november, we are spending. clothing up 10% over last year during the same period. luxury items up 7%, jewelry up 8%. all three of those were down as much as 9% the year before. that's good news. also good we're spending more going out to eat, evidently, after three years consecutive years of declines. downscale, midscale and upscale

restaurant categories are all showing growth. after seeing in the worst case double-digit declines last year says "u is,sa today." ifi if you want to gauge on how well the economy is doing, look at your underwear. if we see victoria secret's miraculous bras fly off the shelf that is good news because these are not cheap. what it means is that shoppers will buy other things for themselves, as well. strong sales of lingerie also mean that women are willing to indulge, he says. unlike the past two years when it was back to basics and simple buying. guys, you're not left out of this. your underwear also an indicator as chairman alan greenspan indicated before. when they dip a little, it could be where the economy is going. so, chris, for all those guys who are coming back on the basic

things like the underwear, it could also mean that they're buying less. >> okay. well, that's something i didn't know before the day started. thank you so much, richard. what a segue, joining me now, the former chairman of the democratic national committee, former presidential candidate howard dean. good to see you. >> thanks having me on. >> some early signs that economy is moving in the right direction and certainly the gdp numbers were good. do you think that the democrats and president obama can sort of start to formulate a believable message that things going in the right direction because so far clearly the american people haven't been buying it. >> probably not just yet, but another couple quarters like this and i think that will definitely help an enormous amount. but don't forget the critical part is the unemployment rate. always the last thing that gets better so the economy has been getting better for quite some time. we had positive job growth for eight months. we just got to get the

unemployment rate down. >> is it about how they formulate the message. i know you heard it, a lot of democrats who said that part of the problem with this past election was the message and some ways that the republicans formulated things, phrases like obama care, big government, big deficit seem to resonate. did they need to get on sort of the same page and get one central message? >> that's been a chronic problem with the democratic party for a long, long time. yes, they do. they need to keep it simple. the one advantage we have right now is we have one person who can deliver that message. what the president says makes all the difference in the world. but he needs to stay on message a couple of simple phrases repeated again and again and again. the best person that i ever saw on message was president reagan. he stayed on the same message for eight years and it worked and that's what we have to do. >> yeah, the president, president obama does seem to be getting serious about ending the military ban on don't ask, don't

tell. robert gibbs mentioned it as a priority yesterday in a briefing. do you think he can accomplish that? if so, how? >> he can accomplish it in one of two ways. first of all, the military is supportive ovof that. the troops are supportive of that. no reason for the congress to do except for the republicans who say no to everything. the president has an ace in the hole. he can withdrawal his appeal. the government has, as far as i can tell, the only appeal rights in this case. federal judge some months ago said this was unconstitutional. withdraw the appeal to the ninth circuit and i think that's the problem. the president wants to get this through congress, if he can't get it through congress, he should do it in the judicial process. this is a critical issue. people under 35, the president's base, they elected the president, believe that gay rights is a civil rights issue of their time. you have to do this in order to get the young people back to the polls. >> some critics within the democratic party, as you well

know, say that he and congressional democrats have been acting defeated. they still do control the house and the senate. do you think there are opportunities. don't ask, don't tell and also some other things that maybe you're not capitalizing on and thinking of things like the dreementict and start -- >> the dream act, you should absolutely bring up the dream act and if the republicans want a filibuster in the senate, let them filibuster it. as you know, we probably saved the senate partly because the tea party nominated some people in key states who are not acceptable and partly because the hispanic turnout in california, nevada, colorado saved democratic candidates. the dream act and to see the republicans voting down the dream act, again, that's something that brings hispanics away from republicans and towards democrats. so, we ought to have that vote. wonderful thing for the country to pass the dream act, anyway. here you have the young kids doing really well in school who maybe were brought in by their parents at 2 years old.

those people, of course, a huge credit to the united states and they ought to be able to stay and flourish as they already have. so it's a good policy and also great politics and i'd certainly bring up the dream act in this environment. >> governor dean, always good to see you. thank you so much and have a great thanksgiving. >> thanks for having me on. let's bring in our company patrick gavin, dan gerstein and princella smithe. >> can the democrats accomplish as much as howard dean suggests they will. >> i don't know. certainly an uphill battle and there is this argument by republicans and that's felt by american people that you lost the election, perhaps just hold off until january and let people express their view and they seem to be in the house of representatives for republican leadership. but that being said, this is sort of a final opportunity for them to get through a lot of things. to pursue tax cuts and to take a closer look at don't ask, don't tell and these are things that are very, very important to barack obama's base and the

democratic base, generally. so it could be a missed opportunity if they didn't. but make no mistake about it, it's not going it be, republicans are not going to get walked over on this. they'll make the argument that we won the election and the american people won our vision and not yours. stop this and wait until we take over in january. >> is that the message that you think the democrats should take from this princella? >> i think the republicans are listening to the american people and they should because 2012 would look as ugly for them as 2010 did for the democrats. >> we heard that phrase a lot, but when i look at the polls. i mean, the american people are split on a lot of key issues. it's not like they said we're voting for the republicans because of this issue. it was all about the economy. >> that's exactly my point. so, republicans know that they have to listen to what the american people want. so, look, the american people want the extension of the bush tax cuts and they know the start treaty is something that harry

reid is trying to shove through because he didn't do his job when congress was in session and the majority of the american people do not favor trying to repeal that law. so, again, the republicans, what they're trying to do, is listen to what the american people are saying. they're not screaming for partisanship, they're screaming for leadership. >> the latest poll i saw showed that the majority of the american people had no problem with the military and 70% of military and their families are okay with that. >> what this has turned into is activism and this is where mr. dean, unfortunately, he's incorrect. he is trying to turn this into how many more people can we get into the polls so that president obama looks like he favors gays. >> democran, are the democrats to get something done here? >> they have to get something done here. the biggest problem, lack of leadership. whatever the ideological extremes say. they're frustrated because they don't see leadership from washington or the president. i think the president could help

himself substantially if he led on don't ask, don't tell. he has to make the case to the american people who already support it and say this is the right thing to do for our military and have the votes. he should go out and make the case for it. demand the congress and not up or down. the other thing he needs to do, strike a deal on the tax cuts. that will look like dysfunctional washington and politics, as usual. he has to leave and find a solution to that that will play to the middle class. >> dan, princella, patrick, great conversation. i don't know if any of you are pet owners, but here's something dog owners will tell you for a long time. canines are smarter thanicates. an oxford university researcher says cat's brains are smaller because they're less social. mammals that live in groups tend have to relloatively bigger brains. i let you debate it among yourselves. i'm just the messenger. this is not my study, cat lovers out there.

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new jersey just passed the strictest anti-bullying law in the country. it will require public school employees to go through training to spot bullying and for schools to set up safety teams to review incidents. this follows the death of the rutgers freshman tyler clemente after classmates broadcast a romantic encounter between him and another man. also details emerging about a teenager in massachusetts who hanged herself after tormented by bullies at school. jeff rossen is here with more on this. this is another heartbreaking story. >> we have been covering this for a year now. from the moment this happened phoebe's family has been hurting but especially heart right now. tomorrow would have been phoebe prince's 16th birthday and now

for the first time her father is opening up about the bullying, the pain and the forgiveness. >> reporter: phoebe prince at 12 years old, her whole life ahead of her. in this home video given to nbc news, the portrait of a happy, playful girl. just last year at thanksgiving relatives say phoebe seemed okay, smiling and enjoying some family time and over christmas she opened presents with her dad. it would be her last thanksgiving. her last christmas. just months later, phoebe hanged herself at home. she was allegedly the victim of vicious bullying at school. prosecutors say the so-called mean girls of south hadley high would scream at her and threaten her daily. phoebe couldn't take it any more. monday night, phoebe's father jeremy prince broke his silence on irish television. you keep waking up thinking it is a dream, but he's not angry at phoebe's alleged bullies. there's no healing in anger, he

says. no healing in revenge. the only real healing in the long term is from finding the ability to forgive. phoebe grew up in ireland and moved to massachusetts last year when her parents split up in a new school, in a new country, prosecutors say the bullies had no mercy. >> what would they call her? >> reporter: in phoebe's final hours prosecutors say the bullies were especially cruel, confronting her in the library yelling, close your legs and as phoebe walked home that day, one last devastating jab. >> you have a car with a couple kids in it and chucks a drink out the window and why don't you go kill yourself and she did. >> reporter: the alleged bullies, four girls and two boys are now charged with felonies. is there anything you want to say to phoebe's family? they all claimed not guilty claiming she was suicidal.

she once swallowed an entire bottle of seroquel and was on prozac. her father called it a cry for help. phoebe's birthday is thanksgiving on thursday, the first year her family will suffer rather than celebrate. in that irish documentary phoebe's faurlth said in many ways the bullies have been punished charged with crimes and pulled out of school and if they would just apologize, he could actually forgive them. their trials are set for early next year. the prosecutors are moving forward with these felony cases. >> i assume this could be groundbreaking because so much conversation of what could happen with kids in a situation like this. jeff, thank you. imagine having to postpone your chemotherapy treatment because of a drug shortage. it's happening right now. and the list of gifts you want to avoid for your kids. well, richard lui has that. >> chris, all i can do is shake

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here's the nightmare shopping scenario for parents who left the toys until the last minute and you end up with the leftovers. richard lui is here to take us shopping and this is a cautionary tale for parent everywhere. >> a shopping mall of shame. you don't want to be at the end of the bucket on these. you might get stuck with some very awful gifts. it lists gifts from the past couple years that are absolutely awful. first of all, oreo barbie. the name, obviously is in poor taste and a an attempt to cross oreo cookies with a barbie doll. this comes with a white or black barbie but -- that was pulled.

all right, you've got to wonder about the message behind this next toy. a breastfeeding doll. comes complete with a vest that the child can put on to simulate an adult woman. it makes a sucking sound. we have to move on to this next one. in the shopping mall of shame, airport security playset. this so kids can have fun play acting what so many are objecting to today, chris. metal detector and pat down procedures. and if you have a daughter, here's one you should avoid, number four. i know you're probably saying, oh, my gosh. my cleaning trolley. it has a vacuum cleaner and the only problem it says girls only on the packaging. chris -- >> i say give that to a boy and send him over to my house. >> why not, right? everyone has equal opportunities.

those aren't the crudest. i have some other ones that i'm talking about that are very shocking. homeless girl doll, terrorist figurine and the one i couldn't believe, a book called "my beautiful mommy" which could have been called, it was created by a plastic surgeon. these are all out there. you want to see the list, msnbc.com. >> i'm a monopoly fan myself. >> let's keep it simple. all right, we've shown scenes like this before. is the u.s. next? a conversation on civics and good citizenship with richard dreyfus, next.rtery, another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a heart attack that's caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix, taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone,

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