dr. carson. listen to what cornell brooks said. >> i believe dr. carson, with all due respect, should stick to the operating room rather than the campaign trail. these are the facts. we have a criminal justice system that overincarcerates and undereducates, broadly speaking. the facts are african-american males are overincarcerated. >> you want to react to cornell brooks? >> well, i always find it interesting that people think that doctors only know medicine. and i like to point out the fact that there were five doctors who signed the declaration of independence, three who signed the constitution, signed the bill of rights, have been involved in lots of things. believe it or not, doctors actually have brains, too, and can think about things and can opine on things and have been trained to make decisions based on evidence as opposed to ideology. so i am very happy that we all have the ability to express our opinions. >> do you want to be president of the united states? >> well, i'm not sure that anybody wants to put themselves into that kind of horri

ben carson t dr. says -- hhe says the right things and does the right things -- that this is no the usa a conflict. conflict is the political ccoming from the anarchists, taking advantage of a message of attacking the systems promoting socialism. host: okay. thank you very much for the call. well, "the huffington post" is also writing about race relations. does not hat he believe the issue played a role. he disagreed with the majority to hear an-american spoken with who believe that was not secret service adequately protecting the president because of his race. he says that 85% of the spoke to merican he saying that obama would be better protected if the issue was about race -- he does not agree. a book review of george w. bush's new book "41". look at the rest of the top 10 as we listen to steve from mississippi. good morning. caller: good morning. you are on air, go ahead. caller: i have trouble most of i am not s, and the big ated by most of neighborhoods -- chicago -- but i don't go there in the n

dr. ben carson might seem a bit controversial to them and it's really going to depend who gets in the middlere as to who has the swaying power. dr. ben carson pulls the party and gop primary to the right. that makes hilary clinton a little more viable or we're going to see former governor jeb bush really coming out strong. he's already said he is interesting and coming out strong and saying we're going to see what we can do about this. so we'll see. >> tell me more about the gop and how they're pitching this bigger tent to attract minority voters? what's going on there. >> when president obama came in and had a huge showing of minority support they said we want a piece of that. they're doing a great job of attracting hip younger candidates. the gop freshman class this year coming in this january is going to be significantly younger than the rest of the house and the senate but it really depends on whether or not they're actually going to attract minority votes. senator tim scott very popular is scoring position black republican but only got 10% of the black vote in that district so i think w

dr. ben carson, brilliant nooeurosurgeon, pediatric neurosurgeon.e's at the top tier. >> a prominent role as a fox news commentator. african-american conservative who says, push the social issues, also push for fiscal conservatism. what's working for him right now is he's not a politician. republicans and democrats, if they share one thing, it's disgust with politics as usual. he's a new face as a nonpolitician, it helps him. he's going to be a factor if he runs in this race and he is actively exploring it right now. can he be the nominee? that would take on obama-like lightning bolt. >> he was a fox news contributor but no longer because he is thinking about running for that republican presidential nomination. what about the democratic side? >> no clear front-runner. 65% -- look at, this hillary clinton, 65%. the republicans look at a muddled field. she's the overwhelming choice of democrats. 10%, elizabeth warren. 9%, joe biden. bernie sanders at 5%. andrew cuomo at 1%. if you look at this, if hillary clinton doesn't run, it gets interesting. loya

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dr. carson. directly ahead, we haven't heard much from president obama since the slaying of the new york city cops. why not? dana perino with thoughts on that in a moment. >>> thanks for staying with us, i'm greg gutfeld in for bill o'reilly. in the unresolved problem segment tonight. year end press conference last week. president obama was asked about the state of black america. and he didn't hesitate to defend his records. like the rest of america black america is better in the aggregate than it was when i came into office. the jobs that have been created. the people who have gotten health insurance. the housing equity that's been recovered. the 401 pensions that have been recovered. a lot of those folks are african-americans. they are better off than they were. >> that's open for debate. what definitely is true. is that tension between black america ampted law enforcement in our country appears better than today than it was is president obama joint toyably to blame for that my co-host on the f

dr. ben carson qualified to be president of the united states? >> i admire dr. ben carson very much.on't suspect he will be the nominee. i think we have some possible outstanding candidates their governors or former governors. i lead toward someone who has in in elected office -- i was a senator and maybe -- particularly right now, we need an experienced hand who has run something like a state. a big state. we have some good candidates we should take a look at. >> thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we will be right back back with a peek into our very own special with all due respect at -- at event calendar after this. ♪ >> we love the holiday season mainly because as a great reason to celebrate with friends and family, meaning of course, lots of drinking. so we are opening up our advent calendar. we missed the first four days, so we are jumping to five. behind the door is the white house gingerbread house. in real life, this baby weighs 420 pounds. 40 of them are pure marzipan. yummy. check it out. this advent thing is going to keep going. we are alw

dr. ben carson, 11%. mike huckabee, 10%. and then everybody else, all below 10%.rs and fives down there. a lben carson, look at his friends up here, he's the only one who's not a politician. who is he? you might not know this. he was born in 1951, a native of detroit, michigan, the author of six books. they sell like hot cakes especially in evangelical bookstores. a noted pediatric neurosurgeon. he was a fox news contributor. he just stepped down that post to explore running for presidency. one of the interesting things about ben carson is he's not afraid. he's not shy. listen to a few of the provocative things he is has that, well, raise eyebrows. >> obamacare is really, i think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. in a way, it is slavery, because -- because it is making all of us subservient. i mean, very much like nazi germany. i know you're not supposed to say nazi germany, but i don't care about political correctness. you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. >> provocative, doesn't care about political cor

dr. ben carson's analysis of several issues facing the country in "one nation." dinesh disease saw comes in fourth on the list with "america," which questions the future stability of the united states. in fifth is" hands off my gun, with" by dana lash, a look at gun control regulations. charles krauthammer's collection of political columns, "things that matter: three decades of passions, pastimes and politics," comes in sixth on politico's list. in seventh, former secretary of state henry kissinger shares his take on international affairs if "world order," and in eighth, james risen's book. next is a collection of mark steyn's columns from the national review, and wrapping up the list, peter zion argues that the global system is going to experience an extreme reorganization in "disebl superpower." that's this week's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to politico. >> russ roberts talks about adam smith's take on human nature and his writings on the pursuit of the happiness. this is about 50 minutes. ..

dr. carson at 11% and christie and paul ryan, all familiar names. thing most interesting about this is, number one, bush is formidable but not a front-runner and number two the ben carson factor. he had a platform as a commentator on fox news. his books are very popular in evangelical bookstores. we're seeing he's not a politician and republicans are disgusted with washington so they're looking at him as an outsider who could run. but if you look at this, i've been doing this for 30 years, never have you seen a republican field so wide open. >> interesting. so what about the democratic side? >> that's a very different calculation. no front-runner on the republican side? look at the numbers on the democratic side. hillary clinton 65%. >> wow! >> that's -- jeb bush would look at those and be envious. elizabeth warren at 10%. if clinton doesn't run that gets interesting. joe biden at 9%. bernie sanders at 5%. if clinton doesn't run, carol, and we all expect she will run and we expect we'll hear from her in a month or two, the loyalty to joe biden, loyal

dr. carson, welcome. i think the best way to start before getting into the book is getting into you. you have a very inspirational story in many ways. tell me about where you grew up. >> guest: i grew up in detroit and a couple years in boston. my mother came from a large rural family and got married at 13. >> host: from where? >> guest: tennessee. she and my father moved to detroit because he was a factory worker and she discovered she was a bigot later and she had to raise us. >> host: how many were you? >> guest: my sister and i. i wasn't a good student. i was it dummy. >> host: how do you get from dumb to neuro surgeon? >> guest: any success i have had i have to contribute to god and may mother. she came up with the idea of opening our eyes and looking around us and noticed the homes of the people that she cleaned people didn't want tv, no offense, and they read a lot of books. she looked at where they lived and where we lived and it clicked in her mind if i can get my boys to stop looking at tv and start reading and she imposed that on was. >> host: what was your favorite show?

dr. carson cautions, protests do not necessarily lead to change, making the goal of shaping public opinionr critical avenue. he cites the example of michael brown. >>$ñ that's somebody's brother, that's somebody's son, that's -- americans should ask is, would i want someone i'm -- i love being treated this way. >> reporter: policing changes in light of the brown and garner cases are still evolving. and other historic examples, the vietnam draft triggered anger and impacted millions. yet the draft still took place, iwf for good chunk of two decades. in 2003, americans protested the decision to invade iraq, and those efforts proved futile. on the other hand, the tea party movement before the 2010 real change. >> i now pass this gavel -- >> reporter: both in terms of who got elected to congress and how government spent or didn't spend taxpayer dollars. all of these events reached critical mass, saw a sustained protest, and carried a perceived threat. the success of national protests varied greatly in each case. if history teaches anything here, it's that you do need sustained protests, a perc

dr. carson, should he choose to run is, getting that all important support in the field, getting an organizationg endorsements, getting people to hold fund-raisers for him, getting people to have meet and greets for him. as of now, he -- i don't want to say coasted but has gotten as far as he has based on his charisma and based on the fact that he's an outsider. when push comes to shove, you need an organization and we'll see if he's able to get that together. >> charisma, just like you, jake tapper. just like you. >> he's a lot more soft-spoken although his rhetoric is much more blistering. >> i kid because i love. "the lead" with jake tapper starts at the top of the hour. thank you very much, my friend. >>> police are looking at michael brown's stepfather, investigating whether what he screamed eight times incited a riot. we'll delve in that ahead and a new threat to american teens. not heroin or crystal meth but something that police have are having trouble identifying. don't miss it. that's next. a remote that lives on your phone. more wi-fi in more places. a movie library you can take where

dr. ben carson.said yesterday about ferguson, now this was before the grand jury decision came out here in staten island. this is what he said in terms of not setting up the conversation against the police, let me play this for you. >> i challenge people all the time. imagine living for 24 hours with no police. people would be walking into your house saying hey, i think i like that television, i'm taking that. it would be total chaos. so the police are our friends. are they perfect in all cases? of course not. >> paul, does president obama need to reflect some of that sentiment? the police are our friends. >> yes, look he's the leader of the executive branch. i don't know how many cops he's got under his jurisdiction. dr. carson, eminent surgeon, if i ever need brain surgery, i would go to him. not much of a politician. nobody is saying we should do without cops. that's the kind of thing that frustrates people. there is legitimate pain, there's legitimate anger and politicians and dr. carson is one n

dr. ben carson, the famed neurosurgeon known for his outspoken views seems to be on every conservative'sndidates. >> how is that conversation going with god about this potential presidential run? has he grabbed you by the collar yet? i read an article about that. >> i feel fingers. >> one-on-one with dr. ben carson. >> americans have to recognize we a a a a a a a a a a >>> we will begin with breaking news police are questioning two drexel university students about an early morning polite that sent another student to the hospital with stab wounds. investigators say student was stabbed in the back during a fight outside a dormitory, myers hall, in the 3300 block of race street about 4:00 o'clock this morning. victim is in stable condition, and at the hospital of the university of pennsylvania. >>> also breaking news this morning police say a man has just been robbed of thousands of dollars in oxford circle. it happened around 5:00 a.m. in the corner of large and saint vincent street. police have a vague description of the robbers. and, $7,000 on hand. >>> good morning, everybody. she made

dr. ben carson is third. none of the front runners have officially declared. helicopters will start searching for that plane within hours. the search area will be divided into two broad sections and they may also be searching on land as well. heavy storms have been reported in the area. and and this incident comes ten months after malaysia flight 370 vanished with 239 people on board. what people are saying online including those who are exacttives. >> this event not trending worldwide on twitter. having said that we do have plenty of reaction including the ceo of air asia our priority is looking for all of the next of kin. let's get first to the malaysian prime minister who offered his condolence condolences. a lot about flights and issues. he is saying all of our thoughts with the passenger and crew and their families. for those of you at home who want to join the conversation tweet myself. >> all right. thanks for monitoring that for us. we are continuing to monitor developments. he will be returning to the area shortly. latte or au lait? cozy or cool? exac

dr. ben carson is interviewed by nbc news political director chuck todd. at 9 p.m. karen armstrong, author of "fields of blood," is interviewed by sally quinn of the washington post. later at 10 p.m., historian james mcpherson on his book "embattled rebel." that all begins at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> "q&a" is ten years old, and to mark a decade of conversations, we're featuring one interview from each year of the series over the holiday season. thursday, the president and chancellor of the university of houston on u.s. competitiveness and the global economy and the role of colleges and universities in preparing youth for the work force. that's at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> here's a look at some of the programs you'll find christmas day on the c-span networks. holiday festivities start at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span with the lighting of the national christmas tree followed by the white house christmas decorations with first lady michelle obama and the lighting of the capitol christmas tree. and just after 12:30 p.m., celebrity activists talk about their cau

dr. ben carson get in. we have a graphic that we've used on special report. i think it's 23 possible.nd you think about the first debate possibility. >> it looks to me -- let me ask about jeb because he has the most attention. i read a lot of social media and it seems the conservatives especially not happy. as it relates to the debate. >> i think he's going to have some challenges and there's going to be a big conservative challenge, much like there was for mitt romney, now in the end, romney succeeded in getting through the gauntlets of primaries. jeb bush says he's not going to shift his policies. >> there was a story that came out on how he will deal with the conservatives in the party. is there a niche where they will divide that vote? >> i think jeb bush, by all accounts, is going to try be jeb bush. he is, as carl mentioned, prolife. it's a big deal for him. he's talked about lang up a number of these primaries. i think that's going to be problem for him. he needs sit down and explain it and stell it but right now it's not selling. >> hawaii his answer was, i'm not, present tens

so who is ben carson and where did he come from? >> reporter: dr. first registered on the political radar in 2013? we can solve the problems at the usually apolitical breakfast he seemed to go after president obama's policies. >> i'm sorry. you know, our deficit is a big problem. >> reporter: fast forward a bit and the criticisms became far more cutting. >> obamacare is really, i think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. >> carson is known for his blistering rhetoric as well as an up from poverty personal story. he grew up in inner city detroit and boston. his mother, one of 24 kids, referenced by president bush when he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. >> she was married at the age of 13 and ultimately was left to raise his two kids alone. >> reporter: in his younger years, carson was a terrible student and even tried to stab another boy and eventually fell in love with science, got into yale and went to medical school and became one of the leading pediatric neurosurgeons in the world. >> hopefully that wou

dr. ben carson, not ruling anything out either. both have support and admirers so we will see.m will likely be looking for their share of national media focus, each looking to be the leader of the party so who will be the leading voice of the republicans come january? john boehner and mitch mcconnell will lead the republicans without doubt on capitol hill and contesting with those 2016 hopefuls from media attention and for the first-time since 2007 republicans will be in charge of both the house and the senate and who will emerge as the leader of the party? john boehner and mcconnell working together now already and serving notice on the president and the democrats and those gop hopefuls that they are going to be full partners in public policy. >> i said before thanksgiving republicans would fight his unilateral actions and we are looking at a variety of actions right now and when the republicans control both houses of congress, this is a serious breach of our constitution, a serious threat to our system of government. >> the president got crushed in this election so i have bee

dr. ben carson aren't ruling anything out either. both have support and admire, so we'll see, and each of them will likely be looking for their share of the national media focus each looking to be the leader of the party. so who will be the leading voice of the republicans come january? boehner and mcconnell will be leading the republicans without doubt on capitol hill and contesting with those 2016 hopefuls for media attention, and for the first time since 2007, republicans will be in charge of both the house and the senate and who will emerge as the leader of the party? boehner and mcconnell clearly working together now, already, and serving notice on both the president and the democrats and those gop hopefuls that they're going to be full partners in public policy. >> i said before thanksgiving, the republicans would fight his unilateral actions, we're looking at a variety of options both for right now and when the republicans control both houses of the congress. >> this is a serious breach of our constitution, it's a serious thre

dr. ben carson.hio senator rob portman who got less than .1% in our poll has announced he will not run for the white house. instead will focus on re-election to the senate. >>> embattled nfl star ray rice speaking out about the infamous elevator punch that knocked out his then-fiancee. the running back is looking for a new team. now that an arbitrator has ordered his reinstatement. take a listen to what he tells matt lauer what it will take to get him back on the field. >> somebody willing to look deep near who i am. and realize that you know me and my wife had one bad night and i took full responsibility for it. and one thing about my punishment and everything going along with anything that happens, is that i've accepted it. i went fully forward with it i never complained or i never did anything like that i took full responsibility for everything that i did and i'm, the only thing i can hope for and wish for is a second chance. >> according to some reports, rice is drawing interest from the a least

dr. ben carson is interviewed by nbc news political director chuck todd. at 9 p.m. karen armstrong, author of "fields of blood," is interviewed by sally quinn of the washington post. later at 10 p.m., historian james mcpherson on his book "embattled rebel." that all begins at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> "q&a" is ten years old, and to mark a decade of conversations, we're featuring one interview from each year of the series over the holiday season. thursday, the president and chancellor of the university of

dr. ben carson. what do you make of this?al polls at this point are name recognition and too early. i don't make anything of it, to be honest with you. think of the last primary where they were saying, santorum was leading and donald trump was leading at one point. i don't make anything out of polls at this point in the race. >> governor dean, later on in this broadcast we'll do a story on hillary clinton and her position on keystone which really is not a position that's very defined right now. there's going to be an environmental push by liberals and progressives for 2016. where is this going to come down with the leading democrats in your opinion? >> keystone is going to be decided one way or another probably by the time hillary clinton gets into the race. i would be surprised if keystone were an issue in the 2016 race. i think it's going to be resolved in the next month or two. >> okay. howard dean, good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >>> coming up, the new republican congressman headed for the hill, glen gro

dr. ben carson, and there's about to be an avalanche of books coming out from these candidates-starting withd paul and carli fiorina, and then the big question for jeb bush whether conservatives will accept him giving miss support for common core and -- >> get out. politics writing books? >> oh, boy, we'll see a bunch of them. you said die nastic donor base. thought you were talking about hillary clinton. >> don't rule out democrats having plenty of money and keeping the republicans at bay using their perceived advantage with the cyber campaign. liberals hear elizabeth warren using the presence tent when she says i am not running for president. progressives think that may lead to her running in the future. it is really important to remember that his elizabeth warrant has said she will finish her senate term, which isn't up until 2018. so he into not be around to run for president until 2016. >> you have martin o'malley, the soon to be former governor, he admitted it's tough raising money and pushed off his decision. -- bernie saunders today, the independent socialist from vermont, has said h

dr. ben carson. >> my life has been truly amazing. >> and the white house may be calling next. >> look at> we pop the big question to the potential presidential hopeful, on today's "700 club." >> has he grabbed you by the collar yet? >> i feel fingers. ♪ >> pat: well, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to this edition of "the 700 club." it sounds like a fruit delivery company, a pineapple express, but what it is delivering is a brutal storm to california, the worst in several years. a storm so strong it is called a, quote,, quote,"

dr. ben carson came in ahead of rand paul.e early, but i thought that considering rand paul has a lot more name recognition, his father obviously ran for president a couple of times. what do you think about the grass roots aspect of this? >> these numbers will shift a thousand times in the next couple months. but look, ben carson is something a lot of people including myself really admire. he's a world class pediatric neurosurgeon who's brilliant. a lot of activists have heard him speak across the country and say what a refreshing intelligent guy. whether he can cut it in the deep water the deep end of the pool when this really gets going remains to be seen. but it's obvious why he has some appeal for a lot of people. >> uh-huh. well, now we're going to move onto a more local issue here in new york city. of course you had the funeral of officer ramos this weekend. you had thousands of -- thousands, not hundreds, thousands of nypd officers turning their backs on mayor bill de blasio for some incendiary comments he made before t

dr. ben carson even making a trip to israel. a look at the 2016 playing field.eland, what's going on? >> pick any issue in the news right now and it's fast becoming the latest sparring topic for those jockeying in the 2016 republican scramble. president obama's bombshell announcement on cuba provided the latest topic for everyone to draw battle lines. former florida governor jeb bush earlier this week said he was seriously considering a run. quickly issued a statementconde. saying, in part, the beneficiaries of president's ill advised move will be the heinous castro brothers who have oppressed the cuban people for decades. senator cruz, governor perry joined in the lambasting of the president. senator rubio himself the son of cuban refugees promised then to take the president on. >> i intend to use every tool at our disposal in the majority to unravel as many of these changes as possible. i do so out of animosity towards the cuban regime's oppress of the cuban people. >> standing virtually alone from the pack, senator rand paul. who tweeted, hey, @marcorubio, if

dr. ben carson, not widely known outside of the kon s conservative political circles, but it is changing, because his star is rising among the republicans, and we will will talk about him in a moment, but i want to get a reaction from charles barkley from michael smerconish and ben jones, and what an interview, michael, that you heard from charles barkley and he agrees with the grand jury, and do you agree with him? >> i do agree with him. the handling of the grand jury was imperfect, but it came to the correct conclusion, but when all of the evidence was evaluated there is no conceivable way that if there had been a conceivable criminal trial there would have been g l guilty with beyond the reasonable doubt of four of the five charges for the officer darren wilson. >> he is at odds with some af r african-americans or black america that they don't trust the ruling, and he is at odds with it? >> e e kyes, that is true, beca you have black americans in ferguson who say they don't trust this prosecutor at all, and they wanted a special prosecutor from the government, and that is true, becaus

dr. ben carson and former governor mike huckabee and senator rand paul rounding out the top five.ameron joseph is here. he's a campaign reporter for the hill to talk about it. hi cameron. >> thanks for having me on. >> let's talk about who in the republican party will rally behind jeb bush and who in the party might be less supportive of him. >> so jeb bush made a huge splash, especially on the east coast and with the donors. he's got obviously a big network from his brother, his own time in office, his father and a lot of folks who are kind of this more business-minded, center right are very interested in what he has to say. someone like christie was hoping he could lock in early. the big question is how the base reacts to him. he's not on their side on immigration. a lot of them disagree with him with wanting comprehensive immigration reform and the other issue is education. he's pro common core. that's toxic with certain parts of the gop base. it's going to be interesting how he plays that out and handles that. >> that's what i was talking about, cameron. the core. at the end o

dr. ben carson is in third. rand paul mike huckabee round out the top five.ember none of the front runners have officially declared for the 2016 presidential race. let me bring in zeke miller rebecca berg and cnn senior digital correspondent chris moody. zeke, i guess this isn't a surprise that you have jeb bush as the early front-runner. >> he's the son and brother of former two presidents. name recognition alone. he's also the fronts runner with the donors. actually surprising to see the base like him as much as the donors do. but he has the ability to reach out to the donor community and bringing a significant amount of the establishment -- his support comes from the chamber of commerce republicans, the type of republicans that you see that fill the mainstream part of the party. he'll have trouble with the base the folks who vote for rand paul or ben carson. this is a good show of support for him. with chris christie coming in second the two combined it's a good indication the republican party is still a mainstream republican party. >> rebecca, what's the

dr. ben carson is here with me this hour.ts of questions for him from ferguson to immigration to president obama, a whole lot more. we'll get his take. >>> hello. i i'm wolf blitzer. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. let's begin with the tensions in ferguson, missouri, and an apology from the stepfather of michael brown.

dr. ben carson. donald trump and sarah pacarson are attending too.e moves, it's interesting to see all the supporters who have been whispering about mitt romney perhaps making a third run, have suddenly been quiet. and lastly, as the calendar turns in a couple more years, we can expect an avalanche of new books coming out. ted cruz has a book coming out in may, businesswoman carly fiorina has a book coming out in may as well. and rand paul has a become coming out in june and by that time, we should have a pretty good idea of who's running. liberals love to hear that elizabeth warren is using the present tense when she says she's not returning. martin o'malley says he may have to push back his decision line and today, the independent socialist from vermont bernie sand ders says he'll make up his mind by decision day. >>> we thank you for inviting us in as well. hope you have a great new year. the five is next. >>> i'm kimberly along with juan, and tom. we hope you all had a very merry christmas. and we're going to tell you how we spent ours, but that'

dr. ben carson at 8% as well.s preliminary report might do to the numbers? it's worth taking all the numbers with a grain of salt. they change rapidly. this is the time right before the 2008 presidential race. you had hillary clinton in front on the democratic side. you had rudy giuliani leading the republican field. things can change. what can i tell you when bridge gate scandal is done turned 2014 for a lost year for christie. in 2013, he won re-election resoundingly. was going to use that as a spring board to have potentially line up fundraisers, other types of people to get the christie presidential bandwagon going. 2014 didn't turn into that. not saying how he might not be a play for he decides to run but 2014 turned out to be a tough year for him. at least in the presidential sweep stakes. there's more to be seen. we'll see what the other investigations on this bridge gait turns out. >> the presidential sweep take stakes. thank you. >>> let's turn to a story we covered when it made headlines. rolling stone's

dr. ben carson, the reverend floyd flake, george martin, former nfl player for the new york giants. him and i have been working together trying to build bridges. and we are reaching out to these particular individuals of credibility along with eleanor tatum who runs the amsterdam paper. i would like to start to work towards some ideas i have that i think would be helpful to build bridges going forward with the community and to get them to understand exactly what the police do. the police in this country and in this city are not the enemy to people. we are by no means the enemy to people. and we're trying to provide the best in public safety that is available. >> sergeant, let me ask you, what does it do to the officers on the front lines to their job, their ability to do their job when there are these threats, credible threats that are coming in? and yet they get in their cars, leave their families every day and go out and work their beats. >> the stress levels are monumental right now. officers are very vigilant as to what takes place. the simplest act of walking into a store or go

dr. ben carson, he's now thinking of running for the republican presidential nomination, he's a famed pediatricm johns hopkins university, we spoke about what's going on in ferguson, missouri, before the grand jury decision in staten island, but listen to what he said about police in america. >> i challenge people all the time, imagine living for 24 hours with no police. people will be walking into your house saying, hey, i think i like that television, i'm it taking that. it would be total chaos. so the police are our friends. are they perfect in all cases? of course not. >> you want to react to that, debbie rose? >> yes. this is not an issue of police and what they endure. this is about treatment, a different standard applied in communities of color as opposed to a standard that they use in other communities. and so with ben carson's remark, he does a disservice to this community when he tries to triv vallize how the what we know the reality is and how those services are delivered. >> is one of the problems, tom fuentes, you were a cop before you became an fbi agent, former assistant director

dr. ben carson is off to israel. lists you check if you're running for president, you go over to israel and say i'm a firm friend. dr. ben carson. a conservative exploring a run for the republican nomination. jeb bush facing questions, bloomberg reports about his personal work a in venture capital. including some overseas funds which are tax shelters for the rich. is he going to gear up and run for the president? our "inside politics" friend reporting at politico that people close to mitt romney say his body language is starting to change as we get closer to the holidays, and his no no no about 2016 might be becoming a maybe. because he's looking at the field and he's not all that impressed. really? >> i think we're going to have these stories for as many months into next year over and over again. it is true that he is intrigued by the idea of the presidency. there are people around him who keep encouraging him to get in. it's true that he, you know has some real reservations about the field. but we're a long way fro

dr. ben carson has suggested. and our pharmaceutical companies for cahoots with the f.d.a.and talk about a military industrial complex, we have a pharmaceutical industrial complex that is running our medical system in america. host: ok. julie rovner? >> pharmaceutical companies are making -- if you look at who's got the biggest profit margins. the pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies have the biggest profit margins but to go to the broader issue there are many people unhappy with the functioning of the healthcare system. the affordable care act was not ever intended to fix everything that was wrong with the healthcare system. it was intended to make a start. mostly focused on coverage secondary focus on sort of cost and starting to give a push to a system that was starting to change itself anyway. there are still a lot of people who would like to go far off in one direction or far into another direction. if you look at the difficulty congress had and the country had passing just the affordable care act, it's hard to imagine doing something that would more d

dr. ben carson, hands down. we need a president that is decisive.alker and rick perry? proven leaders that aren't afraid to take on the establishment. a lot of people say we got to go governors now. >> it would help to run something before you run something bigger. >> right. >> are you talk being our current president? >> possibly. >> i'm just saying. >> so just looking at our facebook page, right now look, it's early. everybody has got a favorite and they're all over the place. >> sure are. >> we have plenty of time to pick our people before the next election. >> when you look at jeb and then you look at mitt together, that's 30% of those that answered that survey. >> name recognition and you know what? we have not seen jeb bush in ten years out there, taking questions at a dizzying rate from all different ends of the spectrum, going to three states every two days. so it's going to be interesting. >> it's game on. meanwhile, the premiere of the new movie "the interview" has been canceled over a new 9-11-style threat. this is not the first time the

dr. ben carson. the noted pediatric neurosurgeon saying he's exploring. the social conservative.ntorum saying i'm here, too, don't forget me. >> is there any bigger indicator than the sweater vest is back. the sweater vest is back, that means he's running. >> it will probably come up in holiday sales. sleeves slow him down. >> i have one somewhere. >> underneath your suit, i bet. john, thanks so much. >>> well the outrage over the killing of eric garner and michael brown hitting the hardcourt. nba superstars taking up the cause. will they go beyond t-shirts and slogans. we weigh in. if aunder a microscope, put we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday. and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it's out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association'