from washington, the mclaughlin group. beer over three decades, the sharpest minds, the hardest talk. it's the 33rd annual mclaughlin group year end awards, 2013, part two. here is the master of -- 2014, part two. here is the master of ceremonies, john mclaughlin. >> destined for political star-- stardom in 2015 h. >> elizabeth warren. eleanor has a leader, and hillary has a problem. >> eleanor in >> in is mercy, the newly confirmed surgeon general, founder of doctors for

america who is a brilliant leader and entrepreneur in global health shoes. is we're going tilery from him. >> is elizabeth warren your lead senator >> i think she's bringing an important message to the country, but hillary is bringing it too. >> suzanne that martinez from the republican government of mexico. >> did you hear her answer? >> i did. >> a perfect political answer. >> jeb bush. i am still a great believer in what his political future is. let's see what we've got. >> tap it. >> yeah. >> johnny carson style. great america. passed away. >> destined for political stardom in 2015 n. british prime minister david cameron. this year, he barely held the united kingdom

together and had trouble keeping his governing coalition intact. next year, cameron will redefine his country's relationship with the european union that will counter the growing threat from the uk independence party while keeping britain in the eu. a tight rope act that cameron will pull off. you care to comment? >> yeah, i don't think he's going to pull it off. >> you don't? >> no. >> does anyone think he's going to pull it off? >> i don't think so. i think he has a very slight chance. >> i'm a fan of david cameron, but he's not a magician. >> that means a no? >> no. >> the answer is no. >> destined for political oblivion? >> nicholas -- venezuela. i think they're going to default on its debt. almost have to. >> red state democrats. they all got wiped out in november. >> tom? >> i like pat, the third biggest party in the uk. o coalition partner in the british government, but he's going to struggle in next

year's election. nick clege. >> correct. >> i think nan see polo see has seen her best -- nancy pelosi is going to decline steadily over the next four years. >> destined for political oblivion. harry reed now after a yore on the back bench. under the majority. takes all rules he created for the senate. and we'll decide it's time to hang up his glovers and not run for he reelection. >> okay, best political theater of 2014. pat? >> joan knee saying there's a little girl she used to castrate hogs and so they'll send her to congress, and nay did. she's a united states senator. >> bridgegate. still swirling around governor christy, and governor christy is always entertaining. shut up and sit down. when he wasn't agree with you. >> bob? >> morton? >> and nancy p oh, -- pelosi. >> best tical theater,

kentucky democratic senate candidate allison grimes refuses to say whether she or whether or not she had voted for president obama during her run to unseat mitch mcconnell. she was trying to position herself as independent from obama. cornered, she invoked the sanctity of the privacy of voting. great political theater. okay, worst political theater. >> i think it's president -- john, getting on the motor scooter with a crash helmet going to visit his mistress and being photographed on it. he is now as ed the last show at about 10% approval. >> president obama wearing his tan summer suit is to haven until -- stopping in the briefing room and admit leg had no strategy for isis. >> too many people who were using the ferguson situation which in any level was a strait write -- tragedy, for their own narrow

gain. >> well, i still think it's the waive the whole senate democrat reports on cea and what they did for the interrogation of captured person naries. so i think that is still going to be in my judgment a real issue going forward and something that is totally out of the interest of the interest united states. >> the president obama's primetime announcement of a yon lateral immigration amnesty required for 7 million illegal aliens. the speech was so blatantly political that no major television network carried the address. neither cbs, abc, or nbc. president obama was deprived of a huge primetime at yens. okay, most underreported story of 2014. pat? >> john, we have all seen the beheadings on television, but what is underreported is hundreds of thousands, if not millions of christians and syria and iraq and across the middle east are facing persecution, martyrdom and something approaching

genocide. >> the republican-lead house committee that declared the administration did not commit any mall seasons in the way it handled the attacks in bengazze. under reported, it was on page 4814. >> many thousands kimed in the central african republican. no one has really heard about it or cares except the french to their credit ( >> mark? >> i think the u.s. energy boom has been underreported. we have had a huge break- through in the technology of fracking. it has changed the whole world and the economy the whole world. it's changed our dependence on foreign oil and our alliances in terms of their value to us. it's weakened the soviet union, russia to an extraordinary degree. i don't think we have an idea of just how critical that is. >> something i said last week >> that's right. >> feel free to use it. >> i would have given you credit. i just didn't

have time. >> you most was the importance of manufacturing to the u.s. economy. it accounts for one-third of our gross domestic product. the manufacturing sector is a driver for other parts of the economy. this year, a shop upturn in manufacturing index helped generate the dramatic upturn in jobs at the years' end. where is the reporting on it. that is what i would like to know. would you like to know? >> manufacturing is contracted dramatically over the last 40 years. i don't want to get into it. let's move on. okay, the most overreported story, pat. >> the postferguson protest of people lying down in the streets going into apple store in new york, blocking bridges, all the lest of it. the cameras are what is bringing the crowds. >> the missing malaysian jet. a tragedy for sure, but cnn was so obsessive covering it that the network became the but of jokes. >> well, tom? >> the ice bucket challenge. noble cause, but

became so divorced from charity and became a popular selfie thing which is boring in the end. >> what is this? >> the ice bucket challenge. good cause, but it became a populace. people wanted to show up with it. >> but what i think climate change is one of the most overreported stories that we have had. i don't really think it's that predictable an issue anyhow, and there are so many changes that are going on now the terms of what produces higher temperature, so i think that's an overreported story. >> good for you. >> the most overreported story? the republican party's democratic -- demographic demise. a coalition of single women, hispanics, and african americans were supposed to prevent a republican from becoming president ever again. but this fall, the gender gap disappeared. republicans drew as much as 37% of hispanic support in some

cases and men, a democratic constituency overwhelmingly voted republy can. your time has come, pat. you van for president too early. okay, biggest government waste. >> the $25 billion we spent building the iraqi army which ran away as soon as isis attacked. >> the taxpayer-funded suit to sue president obama for making changes in obama care. >> the fact that weapon have fantastic special forces who in limited numbers could provide a key fight against isis, and we're not using them. >> did you hear pat's prediction? >> i did. >> what did you any of it? >> i love all of pat's predictionings. >> you didn't listen to pat's predictions. >> what prediction are you talking about? >> a statement, whatever it is. >> you think the iraqi army. >> we have talked about the iraqi army many times on the show. well, they're reconstituting the iraqi army but it's improving now. it's not all lost. >> you hear that. he's qualifying. >> well, i think ethanol sub cities o one -- are one of the biggest wastes that

we have in our whole agenda of activity. >> you've never run in iowa. >> oh a statement of mine. the biggest mistake is a loophole in the income tax credit, a so-called refundable credit that allows you to get money even if you do not pay income taxes. it allows illegal aliens to receive it. people in the country illegally receive, get this, $4.2 billion a year in the payments. the biggest government waste. okay, best government dollars spent spent action pat? >> oary yan. the new american spaceship which at the end a spectacular orbit of the earth, and it went through the van allen belt, and it was a total success. we're back, john. >> i never thought you would predict that? >> i didn't predict it. i said it. i thought it was the best dollar spent. >> since when do you support that? >> i office always for the space program.

for heavens' sakes. >> i agree with pat on oary yan, but i must say the earned income tax credit is one of the best programs that was started for president reagan, republicans, democrats alike supported it. it's not a waste of money. best government money spent is the money to fight ebola in west africa and enhanced in the lame duck session voted on by republicans and democrats. >> john? >> the direct attack in additions dropped on top of isis. saved many lives -- lives? >> mark. >> i was going to say the money we spent on the ebola vaccine as well. i think it's a fantastically important thing. >> i'll move on. >> i have a fall-back position just in case. >> save yourc until after the show. >> no, this is really important. >> okay, let's go. >> the partial funding of israeli's iran dome which helped that country save itself, but taught us what you can do in terms of being able to intercept missiles flying in from a loss till country. >> true. >> best government dollars

spent, the 10 balance that the federal government spends annually to protect cyber attacks. last year, there were 228,700 cyber incidents involving government computer systems. $10 billion in prevention is worth a trillion dollars in fuel >> okay, boldest political tactic. >> putin loses you drain and goes and seizes crimea and also isis, i hate to say it, seized from the iraqi army astonishing success. >> president obama's executive order on immigration which will allow up to 5 million people work permits. these are 5 million people who live and work among us and have been here for some time, and the political group repercussions are not good for republicans. >> tom? >> hillary clinton claiming that the reset with russia under her watches after a success. >> the worst political tactics have been the way we have been relating to the oh is yet union, now

russia. there are all kinds of things we should do. this guy who is running russia can create havoc for the united states because he has no fear of what the united states will do. >> here is the boldest political tactic. president obama's unilateral executive action such as the recent immigration amnesty and broad eps regulations concerning carbon emissions that pro-- the university objects to as quote an attempt to seize lawmaking power that belongs to congress, unquote. mr. obama is testing the presidency constitutional limits, a bold experiment in -- experiment in seeing how far america will go in giving pow tore one ruler. you got that, pat? >> i got that. >> okay, worst political scandal. >> worst scandal is clearly bill cosby. it's not political, but it's terrible and it's tragic. >> i hope you listen to his wife's defense of him. >> worst scandal.

i have to give that to the scandal at the va which cost his john. but the new head of the va bob mcdonnell, former ceo of procter & gamble is doing a great job cleaning up that agency. >> you couldn't read your notes? >> i looked down to read it because there is another bob mcdonnell who is the governor of virginia, and i thought oh my goodness, i have it confused. evidencely, there's not -- that's not his name. >> bob mcí donald. >> senate democrats selling the cia down the river because the political winds changed. >> and those democrats, huh? >> the ira -- the irs harassment of a lot of political groups in this country i think is a scandal. >> have they ever harassed you? >> not yet. >> it all depends on how it comes out of the show. the worst political scandal was the veteran's administration scandal, waitlist at the va hospital while veterans died waiting for medical care. we'll be right back with morable and

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you that includes russia and china. okay, sorry to see you go. >> you see czar, the funniest man of the 1950s. >> robin williams, the funniest man of the 2000s. >> congressman mike -- house intelligence, honorable man? >> mike nicols, the funniest man of all the people mentioned. >> and leaves office. he's not -- >> yeah, these are all growing

up positions. so sorry to see you go. the decorated vietnam combat veteran whether or not had the ill foreign to hit up the veteran's administration when this jeer's scandal about the waiting list at va hospitals broke. he was an honorable man atop of the bureaucracy of my miscreants. >> the redskins quarterpack.? the city is having a hard time for that one. >> the nurse who food up to governor christie and the governor of rhode island and went out and rode her bike and said she wasn't showing symptoms and she wasn't going to cafe to their ridiculous quarantine. >> all right, tom? >> former seek let service director pearson who was brought in to shake up the agency but had to leave when an intruder managed to get inside the white house. >> the owner of the -- the new owner of the new republic magazine, chris hughs. >> he's changed the magazine.

in the streets -- streets of ferguson. >> speaker boehner on why he can't bring a vote of immigration. his members say oh, it's just too hard. don't make me do it. >> >> i'm probably not a good

indicater. >> and approximate better than the real thing. >> and our president obama is -- are wholly responsible. >> and i still love what this guy. and when he falsified his assessment of obama care and i quote. i just wanted to make myself sound smarter. live that. if somebody is trying to validate a major piece of legislation. >> you complicated a legislation so he was the only one who could explain it. >> now that they find out what he's done, it's undermined. >> how do you recall the amount of money? >> he made hundreds of thousands of dollars. $6 million. on the healthcare. >> that's right. >> no one knew what was going on. >> and does this go back to obama. >> and this was bipartisan. >> best spin of the year, and

president obama at his beijing. china has agreed to cut his carbon admission. the spin worked. the press gave him approving headlines.

okay, new year's resolution. take a vacation which i didn't do this year and finish my nixon book. >> where are you going to go? >> i'm just going to go to the eastern shore? >> the 24 he publy cans considering running for the president respectfully, even though i think most of them probably belong on the clown car, takes a lot of college to enter the happen rena of politics. you have to stand up and have the courage to fail in front of a lot of people. i'll treat them respectfully. >> and continue -- build my

riding portfolio. >> and very edifying. >> i'm going to take up long distance running again this year. my back is finally realed and i'm going to run three to five miles every day. >> central park? >> my new year's resolution is to keep the mclaughlin group a spin-free zone where the latest party issued talking points and line of the day banished. this that place, you'll find honest analysis, divergent views and independent thinking. happy new year, bye bye.

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