one sense, that she was the real power behind the throne in a way you didn't sense either with barbara bushight. but nancy reagan a little bit. >> nancy reagan a little bit. >> a lot of people thought nancy was involved in policy. and then w. and laura bush. and that was a very respectful, very close relationship. >> right. >> and he benefitted from her, there is no doubt about it. >> i think so, absolutely. >> but i don't think i've ever seen an interview as overtly romantic as the obamas put on friday night. >> when she said that i do love you, yeah you don't hear a lot of that. >> you don't hear too much of that in politics this evening -- not this evening, or in this country. all right. good, hume, thanks very much. we didn't rattle you with too many questions you had to go back to. >> thank you, bill. >> you and james buchanan, though, were great together. we need clips of that. tv wasn't invented then. but if you could have seen hume and buchanan, they were tight. bernie goldberg on. madness, this time starring katy perry. bernie is next. >>> back of the book segment tonight. more cra

in one sense she was a power behind the throne and the way you didn't get with nancy or barbara bush.t of people thought nancy was driving the policy. >> she was liberal. >> then we get to w. and laura bush and that was a respectful and close relationship and he benefitted from her. >> no doubt. >> i don't think i've ever seen an interview as overtly romantic as the obamas. >> when she said i do love you, you don't hear that much of that. >> you don't hear that much of that in this country. hume, thanks. we didn't rattle you too much. >> thank you, bill. >> you and james buchanan, you guys were great together. wish we had old clips of that. tv wasn't invented then but if you could have seen hume and buchanan, they were correct. madness this time starring katy perry. it's next. inute... ...you could be a victim of fraud. most people don't even know it. fraud could mean lower credit scores, higher loan rates... ...and maybe not getting the car you want. it's a problem waiting to hapn. check your credit score, check your credit repo, at experian.com america's numb one provider of online

you know, he said the name clinton, and i am one of those guys, i agree with barbara bush. enough bushes, there been enough clinton. and noa big fan of dynasties. chemically i am and averse to it. maybe unfair, but that is the way i feel. think she has to overcome that, but her name is still magic of in the democratic party. >> it is, but in 2008 she was going to be corneille, and somebody -- suddenlyut of nowhere came this guy that no one entered of. some young, exciting figure that we cannot even possibly predict uld come out of the woodworks. if hillary and joe biden are running in the primaries, it is going to be the geezer primaries. hillary i going to be 69, biden, according to my estimation could be 75. lou: what is it to my geezers, coots, or codgers? >> let's call them dodgers. lou: let's be very careful because you aneurin dangerous territory. your thoughts here now? how much of a liability is this present now, this administration, as performance? on not talking about simply the disaster that is upon health care. how big a mess is for the democrats? >> it is enormo

he and barbara bush released a statement saying: >> i want to bring in congressman charlie ranble joinings from harlem. you met with nelson mandela after he was released from prison. can you take us back to that moment? >> well, i had no idea that the president would have known me. i was with a congressional delegation, and this was before the election, and ron brown, who was secretary of commerce, i was so awed for the rest of my life i was speechless. when he called this the bloody wrangle amendment which cut off united states doing business in south africa and thanks to me and america, i never thought i would meet a guy like that. there's something i'd like to say that i don't think others could be aware of. that is that he has given a gift to african-americans that i cannot think of anyone else giving. most people have history that they can talk about from countries all over the world. those of african dissent, they had names taken away, culture, songs, languages, and even in taking away they substitute it with stain and sense of infear yorty to people of south africa. when african-am

. >> barbara bush taught me to live life, laugh a lot and [ bleep ] my [ bleep ]. >> thank you for comingthe show. great [ bleep ]. >> dad taught me how to be a president and before that he showed me how to [ bleep ] a man. >> the san antonio spurs. >> ooh, i want a black [ bleep ] so bad. >> i remember when [ bleep ] was just something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. >> you can hatch the opportunity to be able to put your [ bleep ] inside one of their mouth and [ bleep ] them. >> i want to [ bleep ] harrison ford. >> big, fat, [ bleep ]. >> jeff and stacy. >> [ bleep ]. >> no. >> andrea mitchell in our newsroom [ bleep ] us off again. andrea, thank you. >> i'm going to [ bleep ] a live cow. >> is [ bleep ] a cow hard, farmer ben. not when you had as much practice as i have had. >> wow. >> jimmy: let's take a break. when we come back from that break, the plan is this. i am going to, hook a real child to a fake lie detector, naughty or nice this year. will farrell, adam scott, and music from christopher cross and ron burgundy. come on back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ is this the one you

by the way, i'm one of those guys, i agree with barbara bush, there have been enough bushes.ave been enough clintons. this is not a deny city. i chemically am adverse to it. it may be unfair, that's the way i feel. i think she has to overcome that. my gosh, her name is still magic in the democratic party there it is. but, you know, in 2008, she was going to be coordinated and suddenly out of nowhere comes is guy nobody ever heard of. >> that coulhappen again. >> your thoughts here now. how much of a liability is this president now? this administration, his performance, throughout the entire five years, i'm not talking about simply the disaster that is obama care, how big a mess sit for the democrats in 20? >> i think it's enormous. i don't think he will dig his way out by pretending that class warfare is going to solve his problems. it's not. he still has not figured out how to coordinate wealth before he distributes it. you know, he can't even create the wealth that's necessary. >> he's done as i said earlier pretty well on the market. it's real quite funny to watch him talk

but i remember when first lady barbara bush said she knew bill clinton was lying when he said he didn'tident is regarded now as having lied. now others are saying that is the lie of the year. >> sure. but the intention was being looked at by david axelrod. >> the intention? >> yeah. the intention behind it. listen to him. he said -- i think he believed at the time when he said it. so it as bad? take a listen. >> i think part of it is being honest about it and he has been honest about it. part of it is getting it fixed as best that you can. there is no doubt that that is at the core of the problem when you come to this measure and i think he was ill-served because -- i'm sure when he said what he said, he believed it. >> going back to my barbara bush analogy, i can't believe that -- >> do you want to go back to that again? >> i can't believe that he believed it because the believing it is such a stretch. it's not like it's a close call. it was as we were discussing, delaying the implementation of the mandate. >> it was not only the lie of the year. then the past four years continuing. >>

that is followed by barbara bush, hillary clinton, laura bush and michelle obama.ive here on c-span and c-span radio. the whiteartners at house historical association, we offer a special edition of a book, first ladies of the united states of america. it provides a biography and portrait of each first lady. available for $12.95 plus shipping at c-span.org/pro ducts. she was everyone's soul sister. everyone thought they knew where. they did, pretty much. she laid her life out for everybody to see. about what life was like in suburbia. for women in the 1960's through the 1990's. one of the wonderful things about her, she wrote mainly humor and it was humor that was accessible to everyone. humor that happened in everybody's lives. they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column. time things happen all the but we have to be on the lookout for them. she was the one that focused our attention on the funny things that happen in a family. think that at the moment see my craziness and drive you nuts but when you look back at them,

he received a fan letter from barbara bush.it went behind the iron curtain, 126 countries around the world. she won a special emmy for it. it was a real high point for the first lady. deserved it. >> he couldn't believe what he was seeing. here we have my wife raising money, buying art and artifacts and furniture. interesting to us. but for most americans, this is going to seem very different from the way of living. it had exactly the opposite impact. it made people love this project that you take on. >> at the end. so he comes in and does a little he talksvignette where about the important of the united states and -- >> one of the worst performances. >> stilted -- >> one of her friends thought ll thought it was so great, i cried when i watched jackie's performance. cried when , yes, i i saw my performance too. >> if you've been watching, you have a robust website. all of the first ladies where all of the videos of the programs are archived. ut also, a number of other videos are there. each week, a special item you can see for

. >> how about 49 trees under barbara bush. the number can get up there. had nancy reagan who had mr. t. come to the white house. >> i remember that. >> i love it. >> what doesn't mean christmas other than mr. t. >> a lot of bling, a lot of bling. >> i mean, we've seen everything over the years. but what i found to be really remarkable is that this is a place where people actually live. and that you really get a sense of it being a home for our first families. some of the pictures i found first for the book were the kennedy family. just really poignant of these young kids, john-john and caroline, re-enacting the nativity for our parents. >> a cute side note. we found a blush, speaking of president reagan, he had an allergy to some of the live christmas trees. >> to the live trees and also president clinton. they had to scale back the live, especially in the oval office and in the living quarters. president reagan especially said he would suffer through for the american people. >> well done. >> is there a common theme throughout in your research when you're

bush and former first lady barbara bush on air force one with him. >> former president clinton was just seen. you heard the crowd react. it's a special thing about this occasion at nelson mandela's memorial, that you have regular people mixing in one place with some of the most important people in the world, christiane amanpour. it is so unusual on that level. >> a huge crowd as we said. it is very unusual. a huge applause for the obvious. you know, president obama and ban ki-moon, it's extraordinary to see the huge applause for muga mugabe. he was a great liberation leader. he obviously overstayed his almost by decades but nonetheless, he was one of the original to cast off the mantle of white oppression. people here don't forget that. sometimes that's difficult for people in the west to get their heads around. we see them as dictators. raul castro, fidel castro, mugabe. president clinton is here, along with george w. bush. even though the world and especially africa hated iraq and the rest of it, they loved what he did with the amount of money george bush pledged for combatting aids i

bush and barbara was quite unique. how did that happen? >> the gerald r. ford library opening. ey were doing a formal picture, president bush 41 did this for my benefit. he was a guy who was jumping out much airplanes when he was 85 years old. mrs. bush saw what he was doing and said, "george, won't you ever grow up?" >> this photo is a beautiful one between michelle and barack obama. >> today i think it's one of the nicest moments between the president and mrs. obama that we have seen captured on camera. it goes to the heart of the relationship, like a high school prom picture, where the gallant guy has given his date his coat. this is in an elevator. i refer to as the best night of his presidency because it was day 1, before all the problems started piling up. >> right. >> and it shows a loving relationship between these two folks. and i really like that picture. >> tonight at 11:00 on al jazeera america we'll take another look at david hume kennedy's photos. including the one that won him the pulitzer prize. >>> dozens of photos, the lunar aircraft touche touched down lat sat

>> calmar roosevelt, barbara gush and laura bush, many of the great ladies that were not included in the book and mainly because if i had done that i could have had to pick the first first lady and you could arguably say that roosevelt was because she did change the role of first lady bug of the madison did, too. abigail adams was an incredible person's life didn't put the category and. i think that our first leakey's have a special place in america and i think the contribution that they make is phenomenal. i think that the beautification of america is a lasting legacy. i see it everywhere. i think that eleanor roosevelt's contribution to the country and towards the quality of women in every way is legendary. so i didn't put that category in but the whole book could be written by great leaders like those. >> senator from texas are you consider running for the governor of texas? [applause] >> you never change. [laughter] >> i'm not thinking now about it or talking about it tonight for sure. i do think that we have come off of an election and it's time to sit back for awhile. i am not

bush was in office when mandela was released from prison. barbara and i had great respect for president manage della, and send our condolences to his family and countryman. former president george wildcats bush, and former first lady laura bush are among those expressing their condolences. they release add statement that read, president mandela is one of the great forces for freedom, and equality of our time. he bore his burdens with dignity and grace, and our world is better off because of his example. this great man will be missed, but his contributions will live on forever. let's go to ray swarez live in washington, d.c., with more from washington. ray? >> you know, john, listening to those tributes from former american presidents, you have to remind yourself that it wasn't such a clear thing to american leaders that nelson mandela was a hero. or a leader of any kind. he was widely referred to in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, as a terrorist by some american elected officials. there was a great deal of reluctance on the part of the ragan administratio

bush. it says barbara and i have had the privilege to know. as president i watched in wonder as mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment setting redemths and grace for us all. he was a man of tremendous courage who changed the course of history in his country. barbara and i, he write, had great respect for president mandela and send condolences for his family and country men. this from the far corners of the world like we might receive for few others on this planet. >> when you mention that about former president bush 41 saying nelson mandela was kind even to jailers that kept him in prison 27 years. bush said before he thought it was incredible one of the jailers became an adviser, security official to mandela when he later became president. mandela thought it would be a great act of reconciliation that he had forgiven the team that jailed him. this is not about party. mandela is someone that crosses all of those lines. the state funeral the president talked about, you can expect presi

bush, issued his first tweet, barbara hand i wish we could have joined the u.s. president mandela. today. he and his countrymen are in our prayers. his son, george w. bush and first lady laura bush are returning from south africa at this hour aboard "air force one." the bushs, joined the obamas for dinner in the "air force one" conference room tonight along with ambassador susan rice. tonight, last word goes to kid president. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. which is why he's invest

barbara? >> all right. thanks vj. >>> former president george bush just joined twitter. he sent his first tweet expressing regret he could not make it to nelson mandela's memorial service. he's only sent one tweet so far, but he already has more than 50,000 followers. >>> and a peek at this year's christmas card. a pop-up miniature of the white house with tie any versions of first dogs sunny and bo. they adopted sunny back this august. the card is signed by every family member, including paw prints from the pups. the message reads as we gather around the season, may the warmth and joy of the holidays fill your home. >> that's a cool card, isn't it? >> it is cool. >> is it real pop-up? it is. so, how did the much buzzed about movie "12 years a slave" hold up today? >>> and new promises from casino owners in maryland may change the game in prince george's county. >>> and a family of six survive two days in the >>> it's often a sign of what's to come for the oscars. and so the nominations for the screen actor's guild is getting a lot of attention. >> survival is not about c

bush, issued his first twechlt t tweet, barbara hand i wish we could have joined the u.s. ndela. today. he and his countrymen are in our prayers. his son, george w. bush and first lady laura bush are returning from south africa at this hour aboard "air force one." the bushs, joined the obamas for dinner in the "air force one" conference room tonight along with bfd sambassador susan rice. tonight, last word goes to kid president. humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? you can fill that box and pay one flat rate. how naughty was he? oh boy... [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. >> it's the holidays. some people are so excited. time to give the perfect gift. ha-ha-ha. >> that's right, kid president is here to help you find

president bush 41 first used his 140 characters to pay tribute to nelson mandela with this tweet posted yesterday. barbara and i wish we could have joined the u.s. delegation. bush 41 is now the third u.s. president to join twitter, beating his son president george w. bush to the punch. mr. president, feel free to follow u us @andreamitchellreports. and ah, 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. mom swaps my snack for a piÑa colada yoplait. and when mom said i was going out too much, i swapped it for staying in. [ shouts ] guess who's going out tomorrow. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. it is so good. [every day we're working to oand to keep our commitments.t. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supp

bush 41 tweeted, barbara and i wished we could join the u.s.nt mandela today. he ant his countrymen are in our prayers. the former commander-in-chief didn't travel to south africa on advice of his doctors. back to ashley and tracy. ashley: arthel neville. thank you very much. we appreciate that. >>> new technology is making it possible to turn your house into an intelligent home. good luck with mine. fox news' adam housley is in l.a. with the details. adam? >> hey, ashley. we call it "the jetsons" home for more layman's terms. you can control anything from your house, whether affordable home like two bedroom, two bath. or something like this. we're in beverly hills. this home is for sale for cool $36 million from the agency. if you're so interested. do this with my iphone and opens up the garage door for this case, opens the garage door. i can turn on lights and do all sorts of things. as that opens up, i hit the wrong button. it will open here in a second. meantime you have ipad availability, iphone availability. you can do anything anywhere i

bush. his first tweet, read, barbara and i wish we could have joined the delegation honoring nelson mandelae and his countrymen are in our prayers. he's 89 years old. he wasn't physically able to make that long plane ride to south africa. so far, by the way, that's been his only tweet. >>> 8:18. the official search for a san jose pilot and his family missing in the rugged back country of idaho has now ended. but family members and friends of dale smith say they plan to keep searching using a private aircraft. a website has also been set up so volunteers can look at satellite images to try to find the missing plane. dale smith and four family members disappeared december 1st during a flight from oregon to montana. >>> 8:18. a meeting scheduled today to update us on the toxic cleanup at treasure island and yerba buena island. about two dozen families on treasure island are being forced to move because of the cleanup. the work is part of a navy project to remove bury and inaccessible low-level chemicals. some surveys in the past found radioactive debris on waste disposals on treasure island. >

bush on the death of nelson mandela. barbara and i mourn the passing of one of the greatest believers in freedom. we have had the privilege to know. as president i watched in wonder as nelson mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailors, following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment, sending a powerful message of redemption and grace for all of us. he was a man of tremendous moral courage who changed the course of history in this country. barbara and i had great respect for president mandela and send our condolences to his family and his countrymen. once again, i want to remind our viewers, we are standing by to hear from president obama. he will be walking into the briefing room over at the white house, going to the microphone and speaking about a man he so deeply, deeply admired over so many years, president of the united states will pay official respects to nelson mandela and what he did. christiane amanpour is watching the reaction pouring in. we shouldn't be surprised, 95 years old, christiane, we were all braci

bush 41 is now on twitter and here's his inaugural tweet. barbara the u.s. delegation honoring president mandela today. he and his countrymen are in our prayers. he is only the third u.s. president to join twitter, along with obama and clinton. bush 43 has not made that leap yet. >>> and that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing & co." i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. hello, thomas. we didn't mention jimmy carter. i'm assuming he's not on twitter either. >> just bill clinton, president obama and the elder bush. if he shows pictures of his socks, tweets pictures of that, that's good stuff because he's got good taste in socks. chris, thanks so much. the agenda next hour, tough headwinds on the hill as a bipartisan budget deal is negotiated. leading the way, the golden child paul ryan. so why are leading fiscal conservatives calling him a sellout and how is the president reacting to seeing his congress talk compromise? >>> speaking of compromising positions, what's the real deal with this handshake of president obama and cuba's raul ca

. >>> you may recall that president bush is a big fan of fancy socks, but he may have taken it too far. >> this is him accepting an award with his wife barbarathese s

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. >>> you may recall that president bush is a big fan of fancy socks, but he may have taken it too far. >> this is him accepting an award with his wife barbaracture of him on the socks. ion by the former president's standards, these are a and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the importan and i got you this visor. you made a visor! yes! that i'll never wear. ohh. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight benedict cumberbatch. and r. kelly. with cleto and the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> that's very kind.

bush. you can add him to the former president ranks on twitter. his first tweet praising nelson mandela and wishing he and barbara could have gone with the delegationning twitter. mr. president, easier than skydiving. you have it today, presidents tweeting presidents. laurie siegel, brian stelter. to talk about all the tweeting among these presidents. laurie, let's begin with you. how many president sas are on twitter. >> barack obama, first one to join. everybody knew him as the twitter president. he was on there before he became president. he's the fourth most followed person on twitter. bill clinton, in april he jo joined. he has over a million followers, and as of today, bush senior. he has 63,000 followers and that's going to go up quickly. katy perry has 48 million followers. >> hello. >> justin bieber, 47 million followers. bo b got in early. he has tons of followers, but you see the appeal for these guys to join. people want to hear from these former presidents. >> they do, my next thought, though, is who is really tweeting? i know with barack obama, right, isn't it the b.o.? that's how we know? >> he has a strange way to sign off as i do.

you should go back and watch the speech that representative barbara lee of california gave him the original blank check was written for the bushadministration's global war because she was the only member of congress that voted again the authorization for the use of military force. she was trembling. she was receiving threats at the time. she got up and said we cannot become the very first they claimed to be against in the world. i fear we are throwing our values out the door by granting the president this kind of sweeping authority. if you remember what it is safe in the direct aftermath of 9/11, the climate that existed for her to do is incredibly brave. history has vindicated her. at president obama second and maturation, much of the media focus was about the beyoncÉ lip-synching michelle obama's bang. the president obama said in that beach, we cannot and do not want to exist in a perpetual state of war but there has to be an end to this at some point. that day he authorized it drove strike in yemen and they're creating the disposition matrix, an algorithm to ensure the assassination will remain a central component of what i

bush and his wife, laura and former secretary of state hillary clinton. bill clinton will meet them there. jimmy carter arrived and oakland congress woman barbara lee is part of the under the circumstances -- u.s. congressional gel del investigation. here is a look at the schedule of the events in south africa. >> this is where the big public memorial will take place tomorrow. the 95,000 seats will be packed tomorrow with south africans of all stripes as well as dignitaries from are around the world this, will be the biggest event during the week of mourning, started yesterday with prayer and remembrance. will be follow by the three days of lying in state in the capitol, for the south africans to say their final goodbyes sunday will be the funeral mandela will be laid to rest in the village where he grew up. >> abc news is planning live coverage of the memorial to begin at about 1:00 a.m our time. they hope to carry the service until president obama delivers remarks, at least two memorials are planned locally here in the bay area. in san francisco, mayor ed lee will host a civic memorial wednesday and a celebration planned for noon at frank ogo

bush and his wife, laura and former secretary of state hillary clinton. bill clinton will meet them there. jimmy carter arrived and oakland congress woman barbara is part of the under the circumstances -- u.s. congressional gel del investigation. here is a look at the schedule of the events in south africa. >> this is where the big public memorial will take place tomorrow. the 95,000 seats will be packed tomorrow with south africans of all stripes as well as dignitaries from are around the world this, will be the biggest event during the week of mourning, started yesterday with prayer and remembrance. will be follow by the three days of lying in state in the capitol, for the south africans to say their final goodbyes sunday will be the funeral mandela will be laid to rest in the village where he grew up. >> abc news is planning live coverage of the memorial to begin at about 1:00 a.m our time. they hope to carry the service until president obama delivers remarks, at least two memorials are planned locally here in the bay area. in san francisco, mayor ed lee will host a civic memorial wednesday and a celebration planned for noon at frank ogowa p

bush. karl rove. hillary clinton. lance armstrong. mother theresa. very good choice. prince williams. the royals. and nelson mandela. barbarapick a winner again this year. good choice. >> -- whatever her name is. >> kim-ye. >>> coming up, a disturbing new poll shows americans don't trust each other very much anymore. okay: . >>> one of the nutty things that makes america great is we're for the most part friendly people. easy to get along with and trust worthy. that may be eroding. according to a poll, surprisingly one-third of americans say most people can be trusted as opposed to '72 when almost half the country felt that way. a record high say you can't be too careful in dealing with others. this is when the crime rates are down all over. there's got to be a reason for this. what do you think, eric? >> i don't know that the crime rate's high. i think violent crime is down. the thefts and the bernie madoff things and those types. i don't trust liberals. i don't trust anyone with my medical records. >> you had to bring it to that. okay. >> i think these numbers track the way people feel about the general direction of the co

bush, the 41st president could not make the ceremony but he did send out this tweet, says, barbara and i wish we could have joined the u.s. delegation honoring president mandela today. he and his countrymen are in our prayers. >> let's head now to washington, d.c. joie chen is standing by to tell us what's coming up on "america tonight" at the top of the hour. joey? >> we are going to go whale watching on the northern california coast. the itinerary will take us to monterey bay. >> that's where marine life is converging on one lowly, salty element of the food chain. it turns out an an chaovie tourtist spectacle. it includes everything from climate change to a missing predator. we will go board with researchers as they try to understand the science behind the feeding frenzy. >> what's happening is the sea lions and the whales are diving down, working together to gather the anchovies out here currently and they all tend to pop up around the same time, kind of pushing the groups of anchovies up toward the surface, cornering them up against the surface of the water. >> science and technolo

george bush number of 41, the latest living commander-in-chief to join twitter honored nelson mandela in his first tweet. quote, barbara and itch wish we could hav joined the u.s. delegn honoring president mandela today. he and his countrymen are in our prayers. martha: they know the secret to longevity in that family. it's staying interesting things and passionate about things. bush 41 is starting to tweet at his age. 43 took up painting after his retirement. how about these numbers that we got. the dismal poll numbers that show democrats may be in danger of losing the senate and also some not good numbers for the president. is obamacare taking a toll on the approval numbers for democrats and the president? we'll take a look at the numbers. bill: this 6-year-old boy being accused of sexual harassment for kissing a girl on the hands. a true story. martha: that's horrible. >> i did something wrong. she sent plea to the office. i feel sorry. i have been good fat school. martha: "time" magazine named the person of the year. they just named pope francis for his humble nature in taking on tough i shall piewps. second runner

bush to twitter. he tweeted out on december 10 that barbara and i wish we could have joined the delegation honoring presidentandela. they are in our prayers. over 70,000 followers on twitter already. the huffington post that ted cruz attended and walked out of the mandela memorial service in when growl castro -- raul castro came to the podium. he walked out in protest of what happened there. the discussions about the house budget deal. we will talk to house members coming up next about how they plan to vote. we will talk to kurt schrader and then we will talk to sean duffy. first, i want to show you a little bit of the back and forth in the senate when republicans kicked off their talkathon. this was yesterday evening between harry reid and chuck grassley. it was about the protest on republicans over changing the senate rules. [video clip] >> i object and i would like to state the reason i object. object is heard. >> the reason i object for the to moving these votes is that i think we should follow what regular order we have left on nominations, especially after the way the majority change the rules on nomin

bush-cheney senior adviser robert treanam. ready to go? goldie, first up to turning the corner. the president spoke about his second term and legacy with barbarahat you've only got a limited amount of time left, and you want to make sure that you are squeezing every last ounce of energy that you have to try to deliver on the commitments you made to the american people. >> give me your best guesstimate as to how much the president will be able to accomplish in his remaining three years. >> with what we've seen from this current congress and what we expect going forward, it's going to be tough to execute on any number of policy issues. chief among them, immigration reform. we talked about earlier, environmental stewardship and our energy policy. i think it's going to be very tough for the president to formulate a legislative proposal that this congress will pass. i think they're not interested in negotiating, but i think we'll have to see what happens after 2014 and see what this new congress, if there is, in fact, a new balance in congress, what it might bring. >> so you think with regard to immigration reform, the only chance that happening wo