adam: mr.nson at jcpenney tried to do craziness of discounting to cheapen the brand and he failed. does that mean we'll never see a store do that? >> he failed miserably and he is not in the job. stores will continue to do it. discounts are a race to the bottom. what is ultimate thing? giving products away for free. that's where they're moving. this is big problem. adam: brian and bruce, thank you for joining us. >>> money is flying around the world today, first in the netherlands, they offered tiffany's to pay half a billion dollars to settle a lawsuit. that lawsuit was from accusations, tiffany was backing out after joint venture both companies entered into in 2007. it was a 20 year deal for swatch to make watches under tiffany brand. in addition to the 449 million bucks for compensation and they have to pay $9 million for swatch's legal fees and plus the cost of arbitration. >>> in u.k., british retailer marks & spencer under fire after a worker in london store refused to sell champagne for

adam: happy new year. i am adam shapiro. and i'm in for melissa francis. the county down is on, not just for the new year but the official launch of obamacare coverage. health care took its toll on the process leading to lackluster enrollment figures. young people particularly shied away from obamacare accounting for less than 25% of enrollees. still health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius tried to put a positive spin on the subject earlier today. >> i'm thrilled that we're going to have millions of people for the first time that have health security and it should be a great new year for lots of families across america. adam: so what can we expect from obamacare in the new year and will the financial burden fall onioning people? joining us now, are, susan ochs, former treasury department advisor under president obama, and georgia tech undergrad john labute. thanks for joining us. john, i will start with you, the affordable care act, obamacare, is dependent on people your age buying health insurance. are people your age doing that. >> sure, we

adam: thank you for joining us. i'm adam shapiro in for melissa francis. weather is frightful and deadline caused by additional deadlines delay or that each state has a different deadlines and list of registrants on the exchange may not match the list the governments have. ultimately the cost is going up and you will pay the price. here to break it all down, a "weekly standard" editor and fox business correspondent rich edson. daniel, i want to start with you. we get some different numbers when we talk about enrollees for the affordable care act, obamacare. what's the real number? just because you enroll doesn't mean you have bought insurance, right? >> that's right. the real number is when you first pay for your premium. that is when you have insurance. just like anything else you're getting covered for, anything else that you're purchasing. you dope have it until you pay for it. so until you have made the first payment i don't believe you have health insurance. adam: so do we have any numbers, rich, who actually made those payments and how many people we

adam: what about you. >> i do some of that. adam: you talk to her fiance?hter] >> breathing and meditation. i'm sure he is great. but, a lot of things that really keep in mind are perspective. everything has a perspective. you're not dying. adam: nobody dice in tv. >> i was a lawyer before i did this even as a lawyer i did civil because refused to get involved with children or people going to jail, no one will ruin their life over money or time. adam: jared, how do you destress. >> i remember not to get emotional. my job is to close a deal. in real estate, my job is close to deal. if i get nasty email or phone call, i detach. i make a clear decision and don't take it home with me. adam: thanks to the three of you joining us. i go to colorado. i take a deep breath. i don't know anything else [laughter] >>> coming up robots are already taking our jobs and now they're taking us under the knife. we have two machines on set revolutionizing the health care industry and one of them could be your next doctor. he doesn't make house calls though. >>> are you prepared

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adam: and i am adam shapiro. the findings of a new fox poll just ahead, but that doesn't mean everything's coming up roses. the "wall street journal" stephen moore straight ahead. lori: why some social networks may be better bets for your portfolio. adam: recreational use legal and flights already sold out. the big money in pot still ahead. lori: and why champagne producers are not celebrating the new year. let's get to it. three hours to go on the last trading day of 2013. let's check in with lauren simonetti. another record day for the dow and s&p. lauren: absolutely. 12 more hours until 2013 ends on wall street. the dow at a record high as we close. the dow took out another intraday high. it closed at a new high. the nasdaq hitting a fresh annual high. a solid day of volumes. also to the upside, the vix popping a little bit, but still maintaining the gains for the year. shares of ibm, you look at the dow 30. 29 of the 30 dow components up. many of them up better than 50%. the sole loser is ibm, down about 3% i

adam: i'm adam shapiro. hashtag, twitter stock trouble.n market cap the last few days. has the twitter bird flown the coop? nsa snooping. they intercept spyware shipments. lori: will democrats call for raising the minimum wage hurt corporate america. tweet us your responses and our expert will join us with his take just ahead. adaa: if you're in the market for a new car, you need too stay with us to find out why quick action may get you the best deal that and much more ahead on this driving hour of "markets now. markets looking for gains on the second to last trading day of the year, after a strong day that has the dow on track for the strongest percentage gain since 1996. lori is sharing? are they candied almonds? lori: yes. you weren't supposed to out me. adam: i will out you with the almond. lauren at the stock exchange. sandra smith at cme. it is top of the hour. lauren, no almond for you, ma'am. >> gee, what kind of new year's is this? got markets are flat. the dow is up two points. the trading range today is just 23 points for the do

adam: dunkin' donuts. tracy: adam is here. >> hi, adam. tracy: say it isn't snow.kind of burnt coffee. dunkin' donuts is, go with dunkin. >> every 15 minutes we have to bring in a report. tracy: i love the dunkin' donuts pumpkin but the skinny vanilla latte is my favorite thing on planet. adam: i have a thermos. it gets me through the first part of the day. tracy: we'll get awe percolate tore if all else fails, schnick coal. we'll see you in 15 minutes. adam: shopping season kicked off and barely boosted optimism as the nfib index barely post ad one point gain. bill dunkelberg is the nfib chief economist and says the world year is not ending on a high note and joins us. thanks for being with us. this is troubling because we keep hearing signs of thingsstrength in the economy and hear a report, that people that put people to work are not that confident. >> that is unfortunately the case but, they're telling us what we see kind of in the macro numbers. that is, sales are not really great. we still have more owners saying sales are trending down than trending up. that

back to adam and lori. adam: lauren green. thank you very much.re a new poll that finds shop remembers feeling pretty grinchy this holiday season that means possibly more discounts. liz macdonald with the bottom line. >> pretty grinchy. this poll result from princeton research, bank rate monitor condition reflects the same mood we saw back in 2010 when the economy was really in a slump. the poll results of 1,000 adults now shows that four in 10 essentially, now plan to spend less this holiday shopping season, only, one in 7 say, they plan to spend more. and this comes at a time when the respondents told princeton research that they are feeling more secure about their finances but, they are worried about their savings accounts, the amounts they have saved and flat-lining income breath. the other thing we're watching too, retail stocks have been on slippery ride. tj maxx, walmart, all trading off their 52-week highs. so this bodes ill for basically retail chains. we may see them dumping inventory by dramatically slashing prices and offering more dis

adam: well, i'm curious.you actually, one of the cars, top 10 cars that you actually like i think is a 1980s oldsmobile with diesel engine. gm had all kind of technical issues and reliability issues with their diesel engines which essentially was no good. yet this is a car you liked but not necessarily something a consumer would like, right? >> that's correct. really i did not by any cars or drive any cars that were rated high in our surveys. and so i experienced the bad news and that helped me in understanding what was going on but it also helped to show that i had no favorites. adam: let's talk about where the auto industry is heading. globalization obviously. i mean you have, china is the largest car market in the world now. what else can we expect for cars in the future? >> well i think we're going to see all of the manufacturers having to compete on a global basis. and that's good for the consumers. the consumers here in the united states and also around the world. what about battery technology? do you t

♪ ♪ ♪ adam: hello, i am adam shapiro. stocks soaring as consumer income and spending rises.ow jones and s&p 500 and nasdaq are at record levels. so much wrestle holiday week on wall street. confusion over obamacare. despiie reports of the contrary. the center for medicaid and medicare services tell rich edson that today is the deadline to sign up for obamacare. and apple reached an agreement with china mobile. which could translate to billions of dollars in new revenue. santa has a few extra helpers this holiday season. more along the line of cell phones hackers. in shedding light on your shopping habits, sales are up this year. this pocket-sized charger is packing a serious punch. and we have nicole petallides watching out for us at the new york talk exchange. reporter: that is right, the dow jones and the s&p 500 hitting all-time record highs today. just when we thought the rally was over. up 81 points. the s&p 500 up about a half precent. and the nasdaq, helped along by apple. forty-one, 43. these are the highest levels that we have seen. the s&p 500 is also out. if you a

adam: bill will may be stepping into a new tech arena. adam: a potential partnership. among the largest buyers of server processors and the world. intel dominates. the fifth largest customer. shares are trading down on today's session. adam: whether they wait until next week, the managing director says it is a buy on the news opportunity for both equities and fixed-income. great to see. >> thank you for having me. lori: let's begin with that. we are so anxious to hear the fed planned on tapering. you say it does not matter if we get it next week or early next year. by on the news. >> absolutely. first of all, this is probably the most telegraphed move in history. everyone knows it is coming. is irrelevant whether it is coming in december, january, march. we sit here like the credit markets. tax receipts continue to go up. the treasury's offering less securities. they're offer 600 billion less securities than they did this year. if the fed were to taper by $50 billion per month, which is obviously a very robust estimate, no one thinks there will be that aggressive. that

adam: gordon chang.u back in 2014 and keep eye on it. >> especially if it falls apart. cheryl: we're looking at cities we've been watching on television and it's a real possibility. adam: videos and pictures of overconstruction. can't deny it. cheryl: nice to see you gordon. >> merry christmas. cheryl: you too. time for stocks now. lauren zimmmerman on floor of the new york stock exchange. once again we're sitting at 104 points to the upside at 16,461. we're on track for another record close. nasdaq and s&p also pushing to new potentially record closes. >> yeah. cheryl: but the volume, lauren, how worried are you about the volume on this. >> not even 200 million shares changing hand here, cheryl but every time you come to me i have a new piece of good news for you. not only is the dow up 105 points, two points away from a record set a couple seconds ago, the s&p at a record high, the nasdaq just took out a 13-year high as well. these markets are flying. dow transports, russell 2000 also at record highs r

adam: thank you.ack above $100 per barrel for the first time in two months following the data. will the street continue into the new year? it is good to see you, merry christmas. here we are, are you surprised by the decline? >> surprised by the rate of decline over the last month. a big draw this month, this week with notable there was a draw in gasoline u.s. u.s. gasoline production hit the all-time high. cheryl: estimate 2.2 million. as you mentioned. >> one of the stories was the u.s. demand is up about an million barrels per day over the last year. it is interesting, the car sales figures will come out thursday or friday. we are buying bigger cars again. i may have grown, all of this is resulting in deman a demand ince of a million barrels per day. cheryl: opec has got this callout, you are saying it is unrealistic amount of oil they say they will put on the market. they will not be able to sustain the production levels. >> all the agencies are calling for about 29 million barrels per day call, w

adam: snow, sleet and ice. a winter storm sweeping across the country causing traffic trouble on the street and in the skies. we are tracking the path from the fox weather center. cheryl: scrambling the egg industry. wanting people to rethink the incredible edible egg. we are interested with the cofounder coming up. adam: and better-than-expected jobs report. a lot of people saying it was a terrific jobs report. but the floor of the new york stock exchange, find out what the dow and s&p are looking at doing on the five-day losing streak. nicole: it was a good jobs report, jobs were added. the labor participation rate improving some. it could be going the right direction, that obviously is good news for americans who need jobs and we want jobs if they want them. dow jones industrials up 180 points resting at 16,000. we have snapped the recent losing streak, there is the one week chart. we have traded down every single day since last friday, all down arrows. the question was whether or not this week we would snap

adam: thank you very much. lori: investors concerned about fed tapering, treasury yields on the rise. the yield on the 10-year bond edging up, and it is really touching the highest levels since september earlier in the session. just shy of 4%, strategist looking ahead to friday monthly job report saint is a key factor for the upcoming fed meeting. lot of alice are saying benchmark 33% market perhaps by the end of the year. adam: some of the world's largest banks got hit with fines from european regular readers. institutions paying more than $2 billion in fines for rigging key benchmark rates including leiber. shares of those banks are mixed on a big findings and all that news. lori: jcpenney slumping down 3% announcing same-store sales jumped 10% from a year ago. sounds good on the surface but last year's sales were so bad that analysts thought the jump would be even bigger. so despite today's slide, jcpenney shares up more than 21% in the past month. credit agencies watching a bill the governor of illinois cou

adam: thank you. webmac the latest in washington the house during the put the final vote on a bipartisan budget deal. it is a step in the right direction, next guest says it doesn't fix the country's biggest problems. republican senator of massachusetts at fox news contributor scott brown joins us. great to have you this afternoon. begin with your take. why do you think congress was able to reach a deal so quickly? >> take the good and the bad. they are getting back to regular order. the senate passed a budget, the house and senate can conference it, creates uncertainty and stability for a little bit and avoid a government shutdown and reestablished all little confidence with the american people saying they did something before christmas. that is the thing that will be left. the bad items are doesn't do much of anything. we are $17 trillion national debt, cuts $28 billion over ten years, those cuts are at the end, doesn't address social security, medicare, medicaid, defense spending and other items th

adam: cheryl. cheryl: lets get to our man who will bring us latest news and said the fed, peter barnes live from the federal reserve. 55 minutes and counting, peter. >> this one is a coin toss. i have been reading so much research going into this meeting, starting yesterday, whether or not they will start to taper now or wait. the taper is going to come, just a question of will it come now or in the new year. the indicators are pretty mixed. we have had strong economic indicators. through the roof new-home sales, new-home permits. retail sales came in pretty solid for november, the jobs report have been better, financial conditions have kind of eased off, they are not as tight as they were before. the threat of the government shutdown is gone. these are things the fed is watching but the other thing they are watching is inflation. 2% inflation target, it is running at less than 1%. what is the harm in waiting to see how inflation is going to shake out. if we don't get tapering, we might get a plan

adam: adam shapiro with your fox business brief.nterested in purchasing head corp. as stations. plans to sell 1300 of its retail locations, more than half of the 200 locations in kicking each ring at age eastern state. a number of u.s. banks has dropped to a record low. new data shows the total number of federally insured financial institutions is below 7,000 for the first time since the great depression. the number of u.s. banks peaked in the 1980s at 18,000. prices increased in october, real-estate data, prices are 0.2% over september, home prices of 12.5% year over year. that is the latest from the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. tracy: nighters special series got to have it. tech gadgets and novelty gifts are popular around the holidays. i have one in my hand but there is no better place to find them and brookaustin, the least we want to go to. the hottest holiday items, specialty retailer, we were talking about that. you are one of the last brick and mortars out there that you got to go to because you can

back to lori and adam. adam: have a great day.ut of the white house, close to nominating stanley fischer, according to dow jones. that was last held by janet yellen who will take over as fed chairperson in january. in bank of is your from 2005 through this year and served as chief economist at the world bank. lori: just as general motors named the woman as its ceo, a first for the industry and new apps taking social media by storm highlights sexism in the workplace still lingers. dennis kneale joins us with a closer look. dennis: it is great news, a 33 year life for rising to the top at gm and look at this ad for canteen care product. it ran in the philippines, but was far beyond that one market. the thought-provoking spot basically asked why the men are seen as a boss when women are seen as bossy? y men are deemed persuasive when women are seen as pushy? men working overtime dedicated but a woman working overtime is called selfish. why indeed? the commercial has been seen four million times on youtube, part of a pro woman campaig

adam, what do you like? >> i like funds.r 2 fund full of under valued big companies. best way to invest broadly. >> the rally has been phenomenal. so was this show. the calls for freedom continues with the place for business. you know where it is. stay tuned, fox. >>> ringing in the new year with more executive orders. president obama's new white house counselor wrote the book on howo use them to bypass congress and push through pro tbres sigh policies on his own. this is what he said very bluptly in 2010, the ability of president obama to accomplish important changing through these powers shold not be underestimated. now some hearsay that means taxpayers better hold on to their wallets in 2014. hi, welcome to forbes on fox. let's go in focus with steve forbes. sabrina schaefer, mark tagie and john

cheryl: adam talking to ups and get an updated statement. adam: ups is at a 52 week high.et impact of holiday deliveries and we bring in donald brownton, chief market strategist at avondale partners. these delivery delays we are talking about when you look at the big picture, hundreds of millions of parcel delivered by john and shipping companies, painful and upsetting, these small delays are going to be a minor issue for the company going forward. correct? >> absolutely. if you look at the underlying base of capital infrastructure these companies invested being overwhelmed, they may lose money on a few of those packages they have to give back the delivery feet, vast preponderance -- eased because of stock out. we just don't have any more tickle me elmo dolls and that is not the case anymore. last time i heard about stockouts was in 2004-2005. huawei adam: the black eye for the companies, ups hitting a 52 week high, fedex hit highs for the year. the shipping companies will only be getting bigger as everything moves towards the internet. is that correct? >> exactly right. t

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adam: thank you.ryl: like the coming back on but thousands are still without power from michigan to main and freezing temperatures and more snow on the way. accu-weather meteorologist has the details. just a rough week for the northeast. >> absolutely. power outages continue from michigan into maine and part of the problem is it has been so cold. many areas have barely gotten above the freezing market that all the last several days so that has allowed the ice to sit there. we have good news to report. we will be looking at slightly milder temperatures as we head into saturday so some areas will finally come above the freezing mark but it is going to be brief. this is the system that will be the main weathermaker. scattered showers across texas with heavy downpours in offshore. the general trend will be to the northeast bringing a lot of moisture with its although the storm system will be mostly a rainmaker for many areas we are talking quite a bit of rain. the heaviest will be standard across southern

adam: okay. concept is, for instance, if you walk into my office, you see pictures of family and of different things and all kind of clutter on the desk. in this environment all the desks are everybody's. so you have a locker. you keep your stuff in the locker. pull out the materials you need for the day's work and go to any desk you desire, correct? >> well, not necessarily any desk you desire. you have to, depending on the type of space in the space we have in our headquarters office here in l.a. now there are 14 different alternative types of space, depending which of those areas you choose, you may have to reserve them in advance if there's a lot of demand for them. but yes, you do keep your materials in a locker. check them out and go to the space you're going to use for the day. in terms of your personal effects, things have changed a lot over the years. used to be we had half a dozen pictures on your desk or on our credenza of our family. now we have hundreds of pictures of our family on o

it ended with adam packing to leave. saskia went through his things and saw a hidden handgun and said, what's the deal? he said he was going to take it to sell it because he would need money. on top of the other pressures, they have no money. she just held the gun. he came out with a shotgun and really tried to jam it at her. to get her goat so much that she would pull the trigger and kill him. saskia said she wanted to, she wanted this over, not only to pull the trigger once, she wanted to pull the trigger twice. that is what it had come to. instead, she steps onto the porch and screams something like, be a man. she goes on the porch and comes back. a few minutes later, he is nowhere in sight. she searches the house and finally goes downstairs into the basement. the worst room in the house, this furnace room, where adam sometimes would do some work. there he was sitting with a shotgun against his chin. you know, it went on for a while until she finally got him to put the gun away. but, one more day in their lives, right

adam: i am adam shapiro.xpects the commission to approve the volcker rule which will prohibit banks from proprietary trading in a closed-door meeting next week. that will will limit a bank's ability to invest in private equity funds and hedge funds. twitter him its first female board member, former ceo of christian publishing education company has been elected to the twitter board of directors, she left the 12 year stint on the board in april. fast-food workers in 100 cities across the country have walked off the job. that strike is part of labor group campaign that demand wages be raised above $15 an hour and for the right to organize. that is delayed as from the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. >> the year ago today prohibition, the ban on the sale of production of alcohol was repealed. >> new york celebrate for the first time since that bleak january morning when the great drought, was itself again. the vast amusement center comes into its own. [applause] ashley: a bleak day when prohi

what adam wanted, adam got. >> have you been able to listen to any of the tapes?o you have intention of listening to them? >> i was aware of what was on a lot of the tapes. i have listened to parts or majority of the tapes and the recordings. i wish they weren't released. it's just a sad reminder of what happened and clearly the day is etched in my mind. december 14th. from the time i left jesse really until the time we buried him. it's etched in my mind. the picture is there. it's at a very rough time and a hard time. the one-year anniversary is coming up. aside from that, we have christmas which was now a very difficult time for many. >> how will you deal with christmas this year. is it gone for you as something you can enjoy? >> probably the same way i dealt with this t last year. you can only try to imagine what it is like to lose a child unless you have lost a child, you can't imagine. the best description i could give is it's like losing a leg and an arm and not being able to hold yourself up or support yourself. along with thinking about the tragedy and the

eddie vedder and adam sandler?hop fan. >> i could tell that, obviously. >> well, i mean huge. i wanted to talk to you about that. >> is it bothering you? >> it is. >> what's the problem? >> i have something i want to get off of my chest and it's this sweater because it is ill fitting. i'm a giant hip hop fan and it's just -- it's kind of frustrating that as i love the music so much, i can't sing along with it in my car or at a concert or anywhere where the lyrics are played because of the n word. >> nutella? >> nutella. it's just mentioned so much in rap. nutella what? and i certainly do not want to say the n word. >> yes. >> and i don't want to say it ever but i love the music. >> so it's a dilemma? >> it's a huge dilemma. but i think i have found the loophole. >> what is the loophole? >> this may or may not work but i would like to perform a song for you and the audience. [ applause ] >> all right. all right. all right. let's wait and see how he does. >> yeah. >> the song is by one of my favorite musicians, mr. k

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>> he invited russia -- >> adam's point, what was it? >> i'm going to try to talk about the health care costs, especially in corporate america. which is what the point is here. i mean, neil, it's funny, most of you would probably agree that one of the problems, the way health care's been paid for over the past generation is that people stopped taking responsibility for their costs, right, they said, oh, my company will pay for it. the company said, guess what, we want you to pay for it a little bit more. maybe you'll think about some of your wasteful spending or -- just running off to wherever -- >> that might be very -- if anyone had said at the outset, to charles painter's point, this was going to come to pass, it would have never passed, would have never passed. >> by the way, if they were really concerned about sts, th would have done something with tort reform. >> well, i guess my point is is -- >> well, if you had health care -- >> -- is not what was promised or is pabi inpanning out here. a lot of companies e, charlie's point, goi

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as adam said it is the law of the land. we are presently living under an oppressive and unjust law called obacare. that's the law of the t land. there is nothing to do. >> i read 20 billion to 200 bilion. they lose track and tax refunds are inappropriately distrited every year. th pays foreverybody'sealth care. that's what we can expect maybe to happen again. >> that's what happens when you turn over health care to the federal government. that was a i big mistake in the first place. now it's been done. can it be repealed? can we get a republican congress next time? maybe yes, maybeno. i doubt it. >> give us a solion. you have the facts i front of you. >> do you know what's shocking about this? thers with these vendors check to see if you owe back taxes when they give you the initial contract. they don't follow up. these vendors think the irs is so lousy at collecting taxes th they don't ther to pay them on time though they are doing business with them. >> there is a solutio here. that's journalism. people like us going out

adam?bman, our special guest host this retail sector, stocksil are up about 42% so far this year. which, if you compare it to the other 10 industry groups, it is the best out there. and yet you talk about all the discounting. 60%, 75% -- how sustainable is all of this? on tv showing the viewers anyway some of the data, and for those on radio, suffice it to retail sale on the stocks in spite of the fact there are plenty of sales in the stores. how sustainable is that kind of share outperformance, given the fact we're seeing the discounts? >> the discounts have become so much of a part of the u.s. retail sales marketing approach, we just expected now. retailers build into their plans, especially this time of year. they are figuring out they've got to get people in the stores this time of year or lose them altogether. for the most part, it is built into their overall strategy. 42%an you justify stocks up -- i mean, these are the steepest discount since 2009. that has to be a moment of reckonin

adam, what do you make of that? >> straight out, the bail-out did work.oney spent to pursue a policy, an important policy is money well spent. same for spending money to fight wars and protect the country. that is what we did here. it was the right thing to do. we don't have to like it. >> they did what they said they wouldn't do. bankruptcy. shut plants and got rid of workers. if they said that in advance i would have said all right. >> erican airlines survived bankruptcy. >> the argument was it couldn't have been the same thing there because we were in the middle of a meltdown. do you believe that? >> yeah. at another time we could haven't had to bail themout. >> i think you're right. thank you. up next, stashing cash for the new year. americans is now saying saving money is the úp@@xcç >>> all right. stocks to save for the future. charles? >> play on the global infrastructure, boom! >> ben? >> i love s.d.y. index fun. emphasis on dividends. >> adam, how about you? >> vwo. vanguard emerging markets etf. add more when it's down. >> you did th

adam's wife who as adam was walking to the helicopter that day to come and he called d her and said he was on his way nd at one point in the conversation, she said, i'm a little afraid of what you might do to me. assured her he wouldn't do anything and he hung up. and he said, i don't know what's going to happen. do.n't know what i'm going that's just one more mystery. military wife, i think, at the end of a thisyment, well, actually, wasn't the end. he was coming home ill, she had set of expectations. she was going to come home, he safe, they would heal together. everything would be as it was. hat's how it started out for her. but over time as the centerpiece f this family became this psychological wound, she -- very went from on, she pure compassion to irritation to anger to fury that they couldn't get better. so this is one example of a family trying to heal. >> where do they live now? end of the book. so much of the book takes place n kansas, they've moved to north dakota. the marriage didn't survive. the end of the book, it's a rather, i think, a lovely kind hopeful moment as adam

john quincy adams was not really known for his presidency. he was more known for what happened, as na thannal said for his post-presidency when he actually goes into the house of representatives. and also nobody as the man of refusal, and that word is interesting to me because one of the very last words that he utterred was, no. a word of refusal. and my particular book starts with the death of john quincy adams in 1848, standing up and saying, no, as a particular issue that was a vote on whether or not to give more medals to mexican war veterans, and he had been john quincy adams had been opposed to that war and he was opposed to decorating generals who fought in what he felt was a greedy war and one that was continue ringing the death knell of the union because of the issuery of slavery and was not looking good for the country. and so here was a man who had served his country well, both as president and then in the house of representatives, userring -- uttering, no, and ending his life, and that was a watershed moment, not just because of t

adam, what do you make of that? >> straight out, the bail-out did work.ey spent to pursue a policy, an important policy is money well spent. same for spending money to fight wars and protect the country. that is what we did here. it was the right thing to do. we don't have to like it. >> they did what they said they wouldn't do. bankruptcy. shut plants and got rid of workers. if they said that in advance i would have said all right. >> american airlines survived bankruptcy. >> the argument was it couldn't have been the same thing there because we were in the middle of a meltdown. do you believe that? >> yeah. at another time we could haven't had to bail them out. >> i thinkou're right. thank you. up next, stashing cash for the new year. americans is now saying saving americans is now saying saving money is the hi honey, did you get e toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with n fedex one rate, i could ll a box and ship it r one flat rate. so i kn untilt was full. you'd be crazy not to. is tt nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, fl

be honest, make adam happy. republican idea and a terrible idea no matter who it came from. the idea that government can tell you what wattage of lightbulb to own is nuts. if they can do that, plus forget about $525 million owed by a contractor, scariest day for america. scariest of all is income inequality. be terrified of that. >> i guess it goes to the saying. absolute corruption and power. no matter who is in power, when a government is this big, they make crazy decisions. no more incandescent lightbulbs. i can't get good light from the new ones. >> i call this progress, not government overreach. there is all sorts of things. i'm not an expert on lightbulbs, neither are any of you. i believe the experts that say we are moving in the right direction. >> experts? >> we don't have carbons in the aerosol cans anymore. that is good. >> there are poison in the fluorescent bulbs. >> they didn't have to ban something to get us to upgrade to better computers. if there is better technology we'll peeve toward it withou