his new book is called "the stranger: barack obama in the white house." i am pleased to have chuck todd on the program. stranger?" why that title to describe barack obama in the white house? >> i would like to think it encapsulates the challenge she had with washington. that is what this book is about. it is about attempts to change and fails to change washington. his battles with the pentagon, the media, congressional democrats, congressional republicans. gotany ways, i think what him elected is that he was a stranger to it all. some of the struggles that he had managing washington is because he is a stranger to it all. the point. if he had more experience, he would not have made the mistakes? >> it depends on your definition of experience. i thought the argument was -- i'm going to be nuanced about it. where he lacked the experience was being a politician. that is to me the experience. it is not executive leadership, experience on the issues. experience -- i had a senator described it to me, a senator who was a big supporter of him in 2008 and regrets it

white house correspondents, because that's what you get to panel. you moderate a we have margaret talev, who covers the white house for has coveredd politics, covered the obama california,rked in florida, and also did a stint in congress. and jon karl with the abc news, the chief white house correspondent since 2012. he has covered congress, state department and politics. and peter baker, the new york times, who has covered three houses. the obama white house, bush white house, and clinton white house. moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. is atephen collinson, who white house correspondent emeritus. cnn.cently left us for but he covered the white house for afp for a number of years number of stints overseas, asia and europe. delighted to have all of you. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondence. and selfishly, i've decided to start the panel off by one of i am most that interested in as a white house correspondent. of thelarly given all access, limitations that our previous panel talked about. to know how these guys and like wherees do you get that information from and how does

he was previously the net work's chief white house correspondent and host of msnbc the daily rundown. his new book is called the stranger. barack obama in the white house. i'm pleased to have chuck todd back on this program. welcome. >> always great to be here, charlie. >> rose: tell me why the stranger? why that, the title that you thought most appropriate to describe barack obama in the white house? >> i think that that is-- it sort of is-- i what like to think it encapsulates the challenge he had with washington am and that's really what this book is about. it's about his attempt to change or fail to change washington. his battles with washington institutions whether it's the pentagon, us and the media, congressional democrats, congressional republicans. and in many ways, i think some of what got him elected is that he was a stranger to it all. some of the struggles that he had managing washington is because he's a stranger to it all. so that was sort of the point. >> so if he had had more experience he wouldn't have had the mistakes. >> experience is funny. experience, depends on your definition of experience. i always thought th

pelosi and harry reid, they are both very capable that we have albany will to rely on in the obama white house and helping the president with the agenda. i don't know what the question should be for congress, which is -- who are the best leaders to run the democratic caucuses in both of those houses? these are very accomplished and talented politicians who also lead their caucus very effectively. >> is your hunch that isabella thinks harry reid is an inspiration for the future? >> my hunch is that she probably is not aware of harry reid and he's probably not aware of her. but we are talking about within the congress. i think in terms of what the white house has taken away, the lessons we've taken away from the election, we've done a lot of thinking about it before the election and after the election. we think the message is not that people one action. they want washington to be solving problems. we think that for the president, that means he should be out addressing whatever problems he can as aggressively as he can particularly those that are focused on the future. if you look at the last thr

white house correspondents. that's what you get to do when you moderate a panel. and so we have margaret, who covers the white house for bloomberg and has covered politics, covered the obama campaign, worked in california, florida, and also did some, a stint in congress. john carl with abc news, who is the chief white house correspondent since december of 2012, and has covered congress, foreign policies, state department, and politics. and peter baker of the "new york times," who has covered three white houses -- the obama white house, bush white house, app clinton white house and was moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. and steven collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn but covered the white house for asp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas in asia and europe. so i'm delighted to have all of you here. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondents. selfishly, i decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent, particularly given all of the access limitations that o

white house correspondent since 2012. he has covered congress, state department and politics. and peter baker, the new york times, who has covered three white houses. the obama white house, bush white house, and clinton white house. and he was moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. and stephen collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn. but he covered the white house for afp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas, asia and europe. and so i'm delighted to have all of you. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondence. and selfishly, i've decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent. particularly given all of the access, limitations that our previous panel talked about. i'd like to know how these guys get their stories and like where do you get that information from and how does it all come together. so i've asked them to each talk about some of the -- the one big standout story they've done on the beat and just give us a little window into how they came ab

obama care. he visited the white house nearly two dozen times. met with president obama in the oval office and he met with him in 2006 and was considering running. he was paid nearly $400,000 by the human health and services administration and millions more by other parts of the administration in health care consulting fees. millions, i say. so is the media calling out the president for misstating the facts on gruber and is the media interested in the misrepresentations that gruber has now admitted were made to the american people in the passage of this law? joe trippi is a former democratic campaign manager and fox news contributor. joe, according to the statistics we've seen, fox news channel has covered or referenced gruber over 770 times on the air. msnbc, 79 times. cnn, 27 times. and over the past ten nights abc world news tonight and nbc nightly news have not mentioned him at all. >> i don't know how -- the ones that haven't mentioned him at all, that's just crazy given what -- he really did say these things. whether he was integral to obama

. >> he attended five of the twelve meetings at the obama white house in 2009 including the meeting with president. >> when the bill was being written the administration paid gruber almost $400,000 for technical advice on drafting the law. >> jon: the white house cafeteria has a sandwich now called the gruberger. the president of the united states has a necklace it's a broken medallion. another half of that medallion resides on the person of one john gruber. this is the president and john gruber talking about obama care over lunch. [laughing] >> jon: so, i don't want to tell you how that ends. so the democratic leadership told us, the democratic leadership told us that the individual mandate in the affordable care act was not a tax even though they knew it was a tax. that's pretty slimy. i guess all they can do now is go before the american people and say, alright. we mislead you. it was for the greater good. it's like your parents say the dog didn't die he went up state to live on a farm. you didn't say goodbye because apparently he had a meeting there at 3:00 in the middle of the night

president obama and people thought that's -- >> that's a negative storyline for her and the obama white house. it is notable when the nbc poll went into the kentucky race after labor day before seeing that showing mcconnell with the 8 point lead. the week before the election we showed mcconnell with a 9 point lead. the margin of victory was pretty much similar to there. the biggest problem that we often saw from democrats was, yes, president obama was a problem but all the distancing from the president created a negative feedback. all of the sudden you end up have a divided house and a divided house doesn't easily stand. >> let's look at the other states where big gop wins were colorado, iowa, and north carolina. these are big as we look at not just what happened yesterday but forecast where we're going in 262016. >> i think it's one of the biggest messages for the whole evening. republicans being able to win in iowa and colorado they hadn't had success in an entire decade. democrats may say it looks like we'll be able to hold on with the incumbent election with john hickenloop hickenlooper.

white house on immigration reform, demographics have changed and the latino vote is going to be crucial. if they get stamped as the do-nothing congress for the next two years and block everything obama is putting out there, they're going to be in a tough spot to assure they have a chance in the white house race in 2016. >> thank you very much for your analysis. >> we shift our focus to ukraine, where a day after pro-russian rebels held a controversial election, president poroshenko has deployed additional troops. >> he held emerged to talks with his defense chiefs to discuss the emergency crisis in the rebel from hold of donetsk. >> it has undercut the already tenuous truce between the government and pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. next two days after the disputed election, separatists declared the formation of their new people's republic of donetsk. a rebel leader was sworn in as the president. the ukrainian government in kiev has rejected the vote as illegal and illegitimate. he said he is the boss here and he is pledging to do good things for the people. ask together with you, i'm going to rebuild the people's republic of no net -- of donetsk. we will get the factorie

can deal with painfully bad leaks of truly bad policies, it's somebody who used to work in the obama white house>> got it. james? >> on a more positive note, stewart, this is a hit for the people of buffalo amid the tragedy of the storm. we see really the best of america happening up there right now. neighbors helping each other, reaching out to strangers, feeding people, whole neighborhoods working to get a pregnant woman to the hospital to have her baby. it's an inspiration and our thoughts are with them. >> well said. it's nice to have a positive item on the program as opposed to dan and mary. that was a very positive thing. well done. i agree with you, actually. all right. and remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us at jer@foxnews.com. >>> all right. that's it for this week's show. i'm stewart varner. paul will be back next week. catch me each day on the fox business network. that's at 11:30 eastern on the network. paul will be back next week. and we hope you can join us then. >>> republicans expressing outrage over the president's executive action on immigratio

can deal with painfully bad leaks of truly bad policies it's somebody who used to work in the obama white house> on a month positive note, a hit for the people of buffalo amid the tragedy of the storm. we see really the best of america happening up there right now. neighbors helping each other, reaching out to strangers, feeding people, whole neighborhoods working to get a president reagan nant woman pregnant woman to the hospital. >> well said, it's nice to have a positive item on the program as opposed -- >> that was a very positive thing, well done, young man. i agree with you, actually. >> all right and remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us at jer of fox news.com. you can catch me weekdays on varney and company sharp at 11:00 eastern on the fox business network, varney and company. paul is back next week and we do hope you can join us then. >>> we're standing by for a decision in missouri on whether there will be an indictment in the michael brown shooting case. it's a story that has riveted the country. authorities and civil rights activists both calling for

obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? some people seem to have forgotten this already, but we just had an election gwen: the white house sets the stage for two years of confrontation that could yet define the obama legacy. we examine that standoff tonight, with contributing correspondent john harwood chief washington correspondent for cnbc. fawn johnson, correspondent for "national journal." jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for abc news. and john dickerson of "slate" magazine and political director for cbs news. >> award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. live from our nations capitol, this is "washington week with gwen ifill." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by >> how much money do you have in your pocket right now? >> $40. >> $21. >> could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? if you start putting that money towards your retirement and let it grow over time for 20, 30 years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. >> the fute of surgery is within sight. our research is studying how real-time multimodality i

white house. that was the obama white house. we had to run against all that stuff.w, i'd stick around if i were him. >> they are both done. that's not going to be it. i have a very pressing question. who specifically asked you to be the head of the dm? >> that's a very personal question -- >> no, no, no, because you're making it up. >> i'm not making it up. somebody asked me -- >> you know, i think it's a great idea -- >> can i? >> fine, i'll leave, that's fine. >> please sign up bob. >> that's what you want me to do, i'll leave. >> i'll pay his salary. >> it would be good+f to have chuck who never met a camry he didn't love. and hoyer would be the person to take over the house for the democrats is a good television guy. >> moderate. >> okay. one more thing is up next. ♪ >>> it's time for one more thing, dana. >> since greg isn't here i felt like i should do the weird animal video because everybody needs one of those, especially in a week like this week. look at this otter orphaned. this is him first learning how to swip. he got rehabilitated and we can bask and lo

we know that the obama white house does not pay women the same as men.'m not saying it does not happen, i do think that women hit a glass ceiling they go out and start businesses, so guess what women create,ed own more businesses in fortune 500. you will have -- >> that transcends whole gender thing. you are a small the business owner it is about providing opportunity to benefit men and women. >> we don't need workers, men women paid equally? >> absolutely it is paided on the job, we do not have any women operating a press right now, but when i was working we did she was fabulous, and got paid based on merit not a government intervention to how we should pay people. i think women deserve to be based on merit not a government regulation. neil: how did this get mixed up in the debate. >> if you look at actual metrics, obamacare, that .epublicans rail against, but more woman are affected by min minimum wage. neil: a small component. now then, are you saying that republicans would look people in the eye say, i think you are worth less than a man. >> i don't

andrea mccarren is live at the white house tonight where there are a lot of eyes tracking a lot of races. andrea. >> absolutely there are, derek. in fact, president obama will be watching election returns from the white house residents. we are getting early word on three senate races. no real surprises here, but all being won by republicans. mitch mcconnell declared the victor in kentucky. in south carolina, tim scott, lindsey graham, also projected winners. all three republicans. and like much of the country, the president will be keeping a close eye on some of those states on the east coast. new hampshire, north carolina, to see potentially which way the senate will go tonight. president obama voted early on october 20 in his home state of illinois. and today, the white house fielded direct questions on whether this election is a referendum on his six years in office. >> the vast majority of voters across the country are making decisions in a selection based on the candidates themselves and not on, you know, on president obama. >> the white house defended his low public profile this midterm election, saying he helped candidate s raise money, and appe

the obama administration is promising to name a replacement quickly as hagle will remain at the pentagon until his successor is named. craig boswell with more from the white house. >> reporter: president obama and defense secretary chuck hagle stood together at the white house to announce hagle is stepping down. >> its been the greatest privilege of my life, the greatest privilege of my life to lead and most important to serve. >> hagle has been the head man at the pentagon for nearly two years and was brought into see the drawdown of u.s. fors in afghanistan and help fight for the budget during tight fiscal times. >> chuck hagle has been no ordinary secretary of defense. the first enlisted combat veteran to serve in that position. he understands our men and women like few others. >> but now with the war against isis at the forefront the white house is looking for someone to lead the armed forces through that fight. both sides insist this was a mutual decision and secretary hagel and president obama have been talking about it for weeks but there was tension between the two. >> sources say the white house hasn't been happy hagle wasn't a more vocal supporter of

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. >>> a shocking discovery that could tie president obama's white house directly to the irs targetingury department's inspector general finding thousands of documents that may show the irs was sharing private taxpayer information with the white house. the legal group that sued to get those documents telling the washington examiner "this disclosure coming only after we sued the inspector general's office over its refusal to acknowledge whether such investigations took place. and after the court ordered them to reveal whether or not documents existed. signals that the white house may have made significant efforts to obtain taxpayers' personal information. michelle fields is a correspondent for pg tv and a fox news contributor. michelle, i wonder what you think this shows us as this story has gone on and on for many months, why would the white house be getting some of this private taxpayer information? >> well, it's not confirmed yet. there's believed to be up to 2,500 documents that will show this, but if it is confirmed, they're going to have a lot of questions to answer for, but it al

ideas don't necessarily come from just one party. >> reporter: 16 house and senate leaders will have lunch with president obama at the white house. most lawmakers have been talking about compromise that in january republicans will control both houses of congress and will be looking to pass legislation the president and democrats have opposed. >> we'll act on the keystone pipeline, restore the 40-hour workweek gutted by obama care. >> reporter: president obama set his sights on immigration reform. he plans to take executive action if lawmakers don't. >> he's going to give congress at least a little time to do something before he acts. that's going to be the big question between now and the end of the year as to whether they can come together. >> reporter: during the post election session that begins next week, congress must also address a $1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running past december 11. craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. >> republicans are promising to take aim at the president's signature health care law getting it repealed is unlikely but lawmakers believe they do have a chance of changing

we'll show you where and why and how some of that history adds up to more bad news for the obama white housenext. lou: a few comments now on what will undoubtedly be a fascinating if not historical night. already we know that it will go down as the mmst expensive midterm election in the nation's history. nearly $3.7 billion spent. can you imagine 3.7 billion? the president isn't on the ballot as he constantly reminded us, but he just may set a record for losing the most house seats of any two-term presidenn in history. democrat hear truman suffered the worst losses. eightyythree houseeseats were lost during the midterms. without a doubt, it's not a good night to be the leader of the democratic party. there's no argument about that already. i thiik it's fair to say a great night for our because when all is said and done a lot of constraints have been shattered that needed to be and much earlier. iowans can send their first ever woman to congress if it elects joni ernst for the senate or democrat apple to the house. west virginia electing its first female shelly moore and south carolina electi

-- new challenges include using -- including the rise of an islamic state -- >> he joined obama the white houseo confirm his departure. >> the white house is painting the resignation as a mutual decision. president obama had nothing but praise for the defense secretary , who has seen the americans pullout from afghanistan, as well as rick -- as well as internal reforms. >> he is the first enlisted combat veteran to serve in that position. he understands men and women like few others because he stood where they stood. he has been in the dirt and in the mud. 14 of years he has been an exemplary defense secretary. >> why now? u.s. media is suspecting hackel was forced out and obama wants to shake things up. henkel serves at the pleasure of the president. >> it is a team effort. that is the part of the front of it. >> hagel continue at the pentagon until a new secretary defend -- secretary of defense is in place. >> richard, we heard there is a lot of speculation. what is the back story on all of this? >> john -- josh earnest has been briefing the press about this. there is one expression he used.

lou: this is the part of the show that is a favorite of the obama white house. so here we go. a few comments on a new washington dc. it's holding a strong position in share of government power. republicans no longer second-class citizens in our nations capital. no longer junior partners in power sharing. it should be clear to everyone, but strangely it is not. one person at least doesn't get the message. the changing political of the consequence of the obama presidency believe the man most responsible for change. president obama has spoken. but our president either indifferent to the message. the president insisted before the elections that his policies were on the ballots everywhere and now voters have rejected his policy and i would argue that they not only repudiated mr. obama's policy but they also rebuked him for his often antagonistic rhetoric and his usually incompetent governance. in his postelection news conference yesterday, president obama insisted the election results were a reflection of his policies but rather the product of laziness. the laziness, he said, two t

these groups whose representatives who often visited the obama white house are shocked by the designation and they're urging the uae to reconsider their decision. muslim groups stepping up efforts to co-opt the shooting of michael brown. organized by care linked muslims for ferguson, a cair officials compares it to a detroit mosque leader killed during a raid in 2009 stating that both were quote victims of the national security apparatus that had completely gone wild and engaged in demonizing and criminalizing muslims. >>> joining us tonight santeta jackson and christian adams, former u.s. department of justice attorney serving under presidents bush and obama, exposing the racial agenda of the obama justice department. well, welcome to you both, and as we are bracing tonight for a grand jury decision expected this week or certainly at the outset next week, missouri senator said it is understandable that some african-americans are making a rush to judgment. >> the rush to judgment by some in the african-american community is, in fact, understandable because there is driving while black in

white house. erin, how is the white house, the search now for the new defense secretary, how is it going? >> victor, it's not going all that well, as yet you may remember when president obama first took office he talked about creating a team of rivals. chuck hagel who is a republican may well be really the last vestige of that. in the last months as the white house tried to fill out cabinet positions after people have left and resigned, they had to wide at any searches. it may be they are concentrating even more decision-making power back into the white house. >> new leadership should take over at the pentagon and for the last two years the president's term, that's what's going to ham. >> at least how the administration tells it officially. president obama and chuck hagel agreed on that. it's led to more second guessing of the president's management style. and even late night comics are taking shots. >> roomers at washington that joe biden was not happy with the way the white house forced the resignation of defense secretary chuck hagel. >> that may make the challenge of replacing hagel tougher. >> i will always give you my honest and most informed countsle. >> when presid

obama care together. the problem is what he said in the last two weeks and how the white house has handled it. >> new video. a former key adviser to president obama reveals the true extent of jonathan gruber's relationship with the white house and congressman jim jordan. is he going to bring gruber before a house committee? you got the bargain kind. you would need like a bunch of those to clean this mess. then i'll use a bunch of them. what are you doing? dish issues? get cascade complete. one pack cleans better than six packs of the bargain brand combined. cascade. now that's clean. so you can see like right here i can just... you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim...you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that's so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you're on the jumbotron! whoa. ah...yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app. then boom... what happened? stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what? let's build a new, smarter bed using the dualair

the paper reporting that the obama white house has teed up the president's long-awaited executive action on immigration. and, as early as an ex week, president obama will announce that he will change the enforcement priorities for homeland security and immigration officials to basically allow 5 million people who are in this country without proper documentation, to come forward, make themselves known to authorities, pay a fine, pass a background check. if they do all of those things, they can qualify, for, essentially, a temporary promise that they will not be deported. so it's not a change to the law. it's not a permanent fix. it's essentially a reprieve hoping to buy time until the system can be fixed until the president can do legally on his own without congress acting to change the law. >> it's law. it's less than what they say the white house has been hinting at for months now. >> just waiting for the day to use it. but that's sort of what it's been like to watch the conservative media today. oh, my god, today, their new word was explosion. look. it's like the republicans in the foc

chuck hagel's own exit from your administration no space make sources say the obama white house had grownatient deliberating longer than they had referred. issue raised earlier this month when suspected al qaeda carrier was transferred from gitmo where he resided since 2002. they have vowed to tighten the process for such transfers making them more difficult. concerns president obama slow but steady emptying is incurring greater risks. >> we have to be very careful about the release of any one of these detainees because of the potential to go back into the fight. providing a leadership role in that fight because that is these people are. >> president obama softened here term of his office to close it. "wall street journal" article reported an estimate for each of the detainees still there, and will cost runs as high as $3 million. >> james, thank you so much. jon: this week chuck schumer dressed down president obama for the obamacare during the depths of the recession. in a major speech said economic matters should have taken precedence. we saw virtually no coverage of his remarks on the

as this week when recording surfaced of obamacare architect jonathan gruber who bragged the obama white housead duped not for the first time, the american people and ordered to pass obamacare. >> the clever basic exploitation of the lack of understanding of the american voter. >> and basically, you know, called the stupidity of the american voter. lou: professor gruber is still employed at m.i.t., despite lying to congress, lying to the media, lying to the american people. m.i.t. must not have a morals clause in its employment contracts. what do you think? but that contract surely will now be tested in this one instance because the odious obamacare consultant gruber appears on a fourth video this week, this time bragging about fleecing the federal government, longtime senator ted kennedy and some as he put it smart people. >> the dirty secret in massachusetts is the feds pay for our bill. in massachusetts we have a powerful senator, you may know, named ted kennedy. ted kennedy figured out to rip off the feds for 400 million dollars a year. lou: surely, at least the democratic minority leader

white house. a woman with a gun in custody after an incident near the white house. i'm jan jeffcoat. >> i'm derek mcginty. she was arrested shortly after president obamassed the nation. mola lenghi is life outside the white house. what do we know about this woman? >> reporter: it was around 8:30 tonight when the secret service spotted a woman walking along the north fence line here of the white house. a secret service spokesman tells distribution news the special agent spotted a 9- millimeter gun in a holster around the woman's waist. that's when she was arrested. president obama was home here at the white house at the time of that arrest just finishing up his address to the nation on immigration. the woman is identified as 23- year-old april lenhart of michigan. this comes one day after an iowa man was arrested around the white house when a rifle and ammunition were found in his car. also two fence jumpers in the last few months, one as you probably remember who actually made it inside the white house through the front door and inside the white house before he was finally arrested. it's certainly an embarrassment for the secret service. they caught s

president obama can't seem to remember, but his former white house advisor might be able to clear that up for him. >> gruber was certainly viewed as an important figure in putting obama care together. so it's exactly what you said, it's not that gruber helped put obama care together, he was the man, the problem is what he's said over the last few weeks and how the white house has handled it. >> i'm not sure what the -- he was here. >> and so was the president and mr. gruber was the advisor, as the president himself said. >> now that we know how the obama care hoax was really passed and told to the american people -- >> our kochk should stop and they should say, now that we know what's in this bill, and now that we know that there's been amount of subterfuge involved here, let's rediscuss it and let's vote again. >> three votes? >> can i take about steve ratner? >> sure. >> let me tell you about steve ratner, he's one of the wealthiest people around. he was a wall street hedge funneled person who was plucked off of wall street. they brought him in to do the whole car, cash for clunkers,

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white house. this going back earlier this summer with the rise of isis. president obama described them as a jv team. at the time secretary hagel indication's were he was describing them the largest threat that the u.s. faced there were some people at the white house that were not happy that secretary hagel came out with the characterization. more importantly, going forward since then the policy has been somewhat ambiguous. the president said they wanted to defeat and degrade isis. recently secretary hagel sent a memo to susan rice suggesting that the president needed ed e articulate a clearer strategy what the u.s. is going to do with assad. it's am biggous. >> we're getting information that the white house has a short list of individuals it's looking at to replace secretary hagel. but the timing here indicates we won't have a are placement until the new year. >> that's right. one of our capitol hill reporters is reporting that anyone don't expect anything to happen during the lame duck. that's the period right now until the end of the year. you have conformation hearing

in the meantime, republicans filed a different lawsuit today goodness the obama white house.ouse republicans say the president broke the law to implement obamacare. speaker john boehner says the president waived the employer mandate and transferred money to insurance companies without the approval of congress. the lawsuit claims the president used money designated by congress for other purposes. democrats call it a political sideshow and a waste of money. >>> millions of dollars from d.c.'s child and family services budget will be shifted to help pay for homeless families this winter. city law requires the government to provide housing if the temperature falls below freezing. d.c. general, the largest family shelter in the district, does have room for 240 families. but it already has 200 living there. today, city officials announced deals with two hotels, allowing the city to rent rooms for the homeless at discounted rates for the next six months. >>> and it feels like we're in the middle of winter right now. but doug says there is another big change heading our way. doug? >>

white house again today. one in which turkeys do not get eaten. domenico montanaro has that. >> reporter: in front of an audience at the white house, president obamasided over his sixth turkey pardoning as commander-in-chief today. the annual tradition sees two lucky birds spared from the dinner table; this year they are mac and cheese. only one is selected to take part in the ceremony. this year it was cheese from jaindl's farm in pennsylvania. >> i'm here to announce what i'm sure will be my most talked about executive action this month. today i'm taking action fully within my legal authority, same taken by democratic and republican presidents before me, to spare the lives of two turkeys-- mac and cheese from a terrible and delicious fate. >> reporter: the tradition has happened every year for the last quarter century. but there's debate about how it all got started. >> president truman was the first president to pardon a turkey. >> reporter: but that's not true. in fact, the library says, truman sometimes indicated to reporters that the turkeys he received were destined for the family dinner table. truman was actually the first president to rec