. >> still to come at noon, billy graham achieved something no the story is after the break. >> billy graham is celebrating another achievement. >> he is no stranger to the list. this is his 59th time making the top 10. no other man can say that, not >> the most admired man of 2015 is president obama. it is the seventh consecutive year he tops the list. donald trump ties pope francis and the most admired woman of 2015 is hillary clinton. she has topped the list for the 14th year in a row. >> wow. 59 times in the top 10. he is a special man. >> we'll be right back. reducing the frequency of kidney stones, what you can do to try to avoid the pain. >> i'm stuck in the mud and call a few pued dies and see if they can lend a hand. >> cleaning up after floodwaters causes a section of roadway to collapse.

bush had with billy graham and kenny. billy graham was a guest at his father's compound.think that, as he began talking to billy graham, he began embracing god in a way that he had not before. the threshold of middle-age, he turned 40 when he gave up drinking and took god into his heart. laura bush was extremely supportive of all of the decisions that her husband made, including his embracing christianity. >> he made the decision that he wanted to make a bid for the governor's mansion in texas. there was concern because of the twins being young at that point. ultimately, she agreed to support him at that point. was she embraced the people? >> i think she was. in many ways, it was a very low-key position. she talked about how she liked sneaking out the back door and going around the corner to the drugstore to buy postage stamps. it is hard to imagine that somebody could live like that today. i think she really enjoyed it. she had a rich life and enjoy the texas book festival. i think she had influence on him with his education initiatives. as is the case with lots of marri

franklin graham, the son of billy graham. billy graham was unbelievable. they were incredible. think we will do -- we are doing really well with evangelicals. by the way, i do like ted cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals, out of cuba -- come out of cuba. not a lot come out. i like him nevertheless. we are doing great with evangelicals. we are doing great with the tea party. leading with the tea party. [applause] doing fantastic with old and young and middle. we are doing great with everybody. it is very important to me to win iowa. i could put less pressure on myself and i could say i don't care about iowa, but i do care. i do care so much about it. that is why am here all the time. then lies happen. they lie so much. the people of iowa can't be that stupid. the people of the country -- i'm trying to make a point. i said the people of the country cannot be that stupid. they cut the country out. iowa, i love you people. remember that. [applause] i was talking about something and i won't even mention what i was talking about because the guy i was talking about was actually a very

bush had with billy graham in kennebunkport. he took god into his heart. i think this is -- laura bush is streamly supportive of all the decisions that her husband made. including his embracing christianity. >> he made the decision that he wanted to make a bid for the governor's mansion in texas. laura bush was concerned because of the twins very young at that point. ultimately, she agreed to support him on this. what was laura's experience like as first lady of texas. seem like she'll be embraced easily by the people there. was she? >> she was. it's a low key position. she could talk about how she like ducking out the backdoor and going around the corner to the drugstore. kind of hard to imagine with everything that happened after september 11th that somebody can live like that today. i think she had a rich life. she started the texas book festival. she very quietly had influence on him with his education initiative. not in the sort of you will do this way. he learned about what role early childhood education have about environmental and early literacy. f

franklin graham, the son of billy graham. billy graham was unbelievable. they were incredible. think we will do -- we are doing really well with evangelicals. by the way, i do like ted cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals, out of cuba -- come out of cuba. not a lot come out. i like him nevertheless. we are doing great with evangelicals. we are doing great with the tea party. leading with the tea party. [applause] doing fantastic with old and young and middle. we are doing great with everybody. it is very important to me to win iowa. i could put less pressure on myself and i could say i don't care about iowa, but i do care. i do care so much about it. that is why am here all the time. then lies happen. they lie so much. the people of iowa can't be that stupid. the people of the country -- i'm trying to make a point. i said the people of the country cannot be that stupid. they cut the country out. iowa, i love you people. remember that. [applause] i was talking about something and i won't even mention what i was talking about because the guy i was talking about was actually a very

or was it an influence of somebody -- george had billy graham. i was a little curious when she said she later came back. i wonder if there was something that drove her back to god? >> thank you. i don't know. i don't know that there was a catalyst. do you know of anything that that would have been catalytic in her life? >> no. i agree with you. kind of modesty and privacy she projects means that she is not given in the same way her husband is to talking and witnessing her faith in a public fashion. she was raised a methodist. certainly, always attended church. it was a part of community life. i thinkort of that -- she is certainly talked about the comfort of scripture in a way that is part of her interest in literature. i remember her picking a bible verse out after september 11. i don't know if there are words for her strength. i don't know if there is a catalyst. i wouldn't presume to speak for her in that way, as to how she found her footing again. >> that caller mentioned billy graham. he had a role to play in george and to finding faith stop

crime would have been unfaith automaticcable a generation ago when he outpolled ronald reagan, billy graham, and pope john paul ii as america's most trustd and admired man. more than 30 million people tuned in each week to watch "the cosby show" in 1986. >> why, sir? american male lead in a tv drama, "i spy," in 1965. >> how much? >> hey, hey, hey! >> axelrod: the creator of the beloved kid show "fat albert." i'm going to sing a song for you. >> if you're in there, you sure are terrific. >> axelrod: the pitch man who was madison avenue magic. >> you mean it was. >> axelrod: and a man who at one time held more than 50 honorary degrees. bill cosby is now center stage as the subject of a great american fall from grace. >> bill cosby never seemed like he was playing a character. he was this, you know, great husband. he was this wonderful family man. >> axelrod: renee graham is a the "boston globe." >> he was a finger wagging morallallist criticizes comedians who used profanity or young black men whose pants were too low. mewhile, you now have all these allegations, and on top of thellegations,

then i found out that one person had done it twice and that was billy graham. tom: standing along side his wife candy, knowing well his numbers are still stong but have slipped in recent weeks, he is ahead and the rest of the campaign to come. >> we are delighted to be here. thanks for coming out to join us for what a joyous time of year this is. tom: carson held a forum at unh earlier in the day and toured a manufacturing facility in manchester. he is due back in the state after the holiday. shelley: new jersey governor chris christie hosted a town hall in new london tonight. it' s a format he is very familiar with. chris christie: i' ve done 134 of these as governor of new jersey and i' ve loved every minute of it. it keeps in touch with the people i' m representing. shelley: he talked about his executive experience and why he believes it' presidential candidate marco rubio had some special guests with him at a town hall in bartlett. he talked about his goal of making sure he leaves all children a country that' s better than the one he grew up in. he also hel

the son of billy graham wrote on facebook, after all of the appalling facts revealed this year about planned parenthood, our representatives in washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn't. graham compared planned parenthood to nazis and wrote, quote, that should have been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding. nothing was done to trim this 2,000 page $1.1 trillion budget. he said it was why he has resigned from the gop. though graham was recently spoken favorably of donald trump. >>> we are learning much more this morning about the u.s. service members killed in a suicide attack in afghanistan on monday. the air force has identified all six americans who died when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle drove into the group and detonated a bomb. among them major aid draina vorderbruggen, she was the first openly gay female officer to be killed in combat. her wife will continue to raise their young son. she spent years working to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of its repeal. and staff s

audrey hepburn, and you have to throw in billy graham. >> and sandra bullock, if you have seen the cover of "peoeoe" magazine, shshs a mother again. she has a little daughter named lila. >> she has a home in new orleans. >> she adopted her son from there and now her daughter. she tells "people" magazine, i can tell you the exact right children came to me at the exact right time. >> and i love what she's going to end up doing for foster c ce childrdr, because so many people fall in love with a baby. but this little girl's 3 1/2 years old. and often times they run out of people interested in getting a child that far along. mom. already they're bonding so well. >> louie spearheaded t t whole thing, her son.n. >> she says there's pink and glitter in the house mixed wit lay fwoes. >> and the photographer who took the picture happens to be her boyfriend. >> sounds like she's got love on a lot of levels right now. >> nobody deserves more, that's great. >> what else is happening? >> amy poehler and tina fey have something they do, they got glammed up for glamour. they have a new movie coming out

in the history of the survey--with a whopping 20 times.other names on the lists: pope francis, billy graham and ellen degeneres. 3 time for weather 3 and traffic every 10 minutes. minutes. 3 showers clear out this morning leaving a partly to mostly cloudy sky and highs in the low 70s. river flood concerns remain all day as drainage continues from the overnight. tonight, clouds increase with lows in the 50s, ahead of more rain wednesday with highs in the 60s. skies begin to clear on new year's eve with temperatures in the mid-60s. sunshine and seasonably cold air in the 50s during the day and freezing at night move back in for friday and the weekend. showers clear out this morning leaving a partly to mostly cloudy sky and highs in the low 70s. river flood concerns remain all day as drainage continues from the overnight. tonight, clouds increase with lows in the 50s, ahead of more rain wednesday with highs in the 60s. skies eve with temperatures in the mid-60s. sunshine and seasonably cold air in the 50s during the day and freezing at night move back in for friday and the weekend. 3 ((weather

the who, it's evangelist franklin graham, son of the legendary pastor billy graham. ranklin graham announced he's leaving the republican party over its failure to defund planned parenthood in last week's spending bill. now to the what. it's not quite the millennium falcon, but spacex made history last night with an unprecedented vertical rocket landing. it's the first successful landing for a spacex rocket, fueling the space race between elon musk's spacex and blue origin. now to the where, our friends in the "new york times" times collected a bunch of these. the farm route here, appearing in front of a tractor. a lot of senators included pets, but diane feinstein featured just her yorkshire terrier. and virginia's tim cane is jamming out with santa here, or something. >>> now to the when, 2025, the year when hillary clinton wants alzheimer's to be cured. he's proposing $2 billion a year in hopes of treating the decease. >>> now to the why. year-end statistics on congress. 100 bills were passed into law on 2015, compared to 224 in 2014. 12% of the bills that made it t

and you have to throw in billy graham. got to do that. >> sandra bullock is moving up that list. if you have seen the cover of "people" magazine, sandra bullock is a mom again. she's got a little daughter, 3 1/2, named lylea. she was in the foster care system in louisiana. sandra is such a good friend to new orleans and she has a home there. she loves it there. she adopted her son from there and now her daughter. she tells "people" i can tell you absolutely the exact right children came to me at the exact right time. isn't that beautiful? >> i love what she's going to end up doing for foster care children. so many of them, people fall in love with a baby, but this little girl is 3 1/2 years old. oftentimes, they run out of people that are interested in getting a child that far along. so she's going to be an awesome mom. like crazy. they're inseparable. her 5-year-old son spearheaded the whole thing. >> now she says there's pink and glitter in the house mixed with legos. >> the photographer who took the picture happens to be her boyfriend, bryan randall. she's just got love on a l

with a sex crime would have been unfathomable a generation ago when he out-polled ronald reagan, billy graham, and pope john paul ii as america's most trusted and admired man. more than 30 million people tuned in each week to watch "the cosby show" in 1986. >> why, sir? >> the first african-american male lead in a tv drama, "i spy," in 1965. >> how much? >> the creator of the beloved kid show "fat albert." i'm going to sing a song for you >> if you're in there, you sure are terrific. >> the pitch man who was madison avenue magic. >> you mean it was. >> and a man who at one time held more than 50 honorary degrees. bill cosby is now center stage as the subject of a great american fall from grace. >> bill cosby never seemed like he was playing a character. he was this, you know, great husband. he was this wonderful family man. >> renee graham is a contributing opinion writer for the "boston globe." >> he was a finger-wagging moralist criticizing comedians who used profanity or young black men whose pants were too low. and you have this man who seems to represent this way to live and how to be a

but this puts donald trump ahead of people like bill gates, the dalai lama and the reverend billy graham. it's plenty of chatter. by the way, president obama, this is the eighth time he has been the most admired. this is hillary's 20th time. number one. she is number one on the list of all time. 20. eleanor roosevelt had 13. hillary clinton, 20. leon: i would have thought oprah would have broken the string at some point. interesting. scott: oprah is third place in women. leon: you have government figures but the poll looked at what people think about it. what did you find? scott: a separate poll cnn poll. people are always dissatisfied with congress. it's worse than ever. 85% of people right now are dissatisfied with congress. that is going to play a role in the upcoming election. we will see it play out. 14% approval for congress. 7 points down from february of this year. so in a mere ten months. leon: all-time low. scott: they avoided a government shutdown and pass a budget, did things they can claim are progress. leon: but they don't like them. they keep sending them back. figure that

. >> and you have to throw in billy graham. got t do o do that >> and sandra bull lock is moving up the list. >> yes. she is. >> and if you seen the cover of the "people" magazine, sandra bullock is a mom again. she has a 3 1/2-year-old daughter lie la who has been in the foster care system in louisiana. and sandra is a good friend of new orleans and adopted her son and daughter from there and she says i can tell you the exact right children came to me at the >> isn't that beautiful? >> i love what she is going to be ending up doing for foster care children, and so many people fall in love with the baby, and this little girl is 3 1/2 years old, and so many times they run out of people who are interested in becoming foster families, but already, they are bonding like crazy. and she said that louie, her 5-year-old spearheaded the whole thing, and now they are together. >> and she said pink and gliter in the house mixed with legos and batman. be. picture happens to be her rienian randall. >> sounds like love in a lot of levels. >>

. >> after his father, the reverend billy graham, reverend franklin graham is the most well known influential evangelist in the nation probably in the world. in the last 24 hours he is really shaking things up. reverend graham taking to his very popular facebook page and announcing he is leaving the republican party and declared himself an independent. president ceo of samaritan's purse reverend franklin graham is here to go "on the record." >> your facebook speaj shaking up a lot? >> you know, greta, there is a lot of good people i think probably in both parties and we see some good candidates in the republican party running for president. greta, i'm so disappointed in just the leadership of both parties our nation is in trouble and it's in a mess. starting january 5th, i'm going to be going to all the capitols, state capitols holding prayer meetings on the steps of the capitol and we senator des moines, iowa. i felt it was best for me and not to be aligned either party but to be an independent, if i'm going to stand there and ask for people to pray for this country, i don't want people to t

with a sex crime would h he been unfathomable a generation ago when he out-polled ronald reagan, billy graham, and pope johnaul ii as america's most trusted and admired man. more than 30 million people tuned in each week to watch "the cosby show" in 1986. >> why, sir? >> the first african-american y," in 1965. >> how much? >> hey, hey, hey! >> the creator of the beloved kid show "fat albert." i'm going to sing a song for you >> if you're in there, you sur e terrific. >> the pitch man who was madison avenue magic. >> you mean it was. >> and a man who at one time held more than 50 honorary degrees. bibi cosby is now centerertage as the subject of a great american fall from grace. >> bill cosby never seemed like he was playing a character. he was this, you know, great husband. he was this wonderful l mily man. >> renee graham is a contributing opinion writer for the "boston globe." >> he was a finger-wagging moralist criticizing comedians who used profanity or young black men whose pants were too low. and you have thihiman who seems to represent this way to live and how to be a good citizen of t

billy graham was thought to be -- was going to act to as the conductor of the ceremony but he was tooll at the last, so they got an ordained episcopal priest. brian: there is an unofficial do not admit list of the reagan white house. they wanted to make sure those people do not get to the funeral. oliver north was among them. where was the unofficial list? craig: well, reagan stormed in his diaries about oliver north, claiming he briefed him at camp david about iran contra. then of course, when north ran for the senate in virginia in 1994, both nancy reagan and another to the unprecedented step of endorsing jim miller, his primary opponent. normally they would never get involved in primaries, but they did. there was bad blood on the part of the reagan white house and the reaganites towards north over iran contra. brian: anyone else on the list? craig: i will have to take a moment on that one. [laughter] brian: is it an enemy list? craig: no, but it's an unofficial list. it is not really an enemies list, it is just a not welcome list. brian: he never spoke at harvard. why? craig: its a

as pat mentioned, talking about the son of billy graham, here is the story on the hill.com.hat the son of billy graham is leaving the republican party over the $1.1 trillion government funding bill that last week passed. franklin graham and a facebook post declared himself independent saying shame on the republicans and democrats for passing such a wasteful spending the last week. he said in the post. let's hear from albert in chicago. caller: good morning. views don't affect my political leanings. for two reasons, one, the constitution calls for a separation of church and state. ie other really -- reason is am a christian and my lord and savior commissioned me to do two things. love my neighbor as myself and go out and spread his message of the gospel. he did not tell me to go out and interfere with someone exercising their god-given free bombing an abortion clinic or refusing to do my job. marriage license to same-sex couples and the thing with franklin graham leaving the republican party because of the funding bill, i wonder with his involvement in the political arena, wh

with a sex crime would have been unfathomable a generation ago when he out-polled ronald reagan, billy graham, and pope john paul ii as america's most trusted and admired man. more than 30 million people tuned in each week to watch "the >> why, sir? >> the first african-american male lead in a tv drama, "i spy," in 1965. >> how much? >> hey, hey, hey! >> the creator of the beloved kid show "fat albert." i'm going to sing a song for you >> if you're in there, you sure are terrific. >> the pitch man who was madison avenue magic. >> you mean it was. >> and a man who at one time held more than 50 honorary degrees. bill cosby is now center stage as the subject of a great american fall from grace. >> bill cosby never seemed like he was playing a character. he was this, you know, great husband. he was this wonderful family n. >> renee graham is a contributing opinion writer for the "boston globe." >> he was a finger-wagging moralist criticizing comedians who used profanity or young black men whose pants were too low. and you have this man who seems to represent this way to live and how to be a good

now the reverend billy graham says he is tearing up his gop card, leaving the party, getting out becauseing bill. we are back in three minutes. ashley: hillary clinton has launched at counterattack on donald trump. her voice seemed to break just a little and she spoke about what she called from's bullying, she went on to describe the videos circulating in the arab world of is banned all muslims statement and sheep treated his most recent of all guarantee with humor. match, side-by-side, sound bite by sound bite and there will be many voters who say hillary is presidential, donald is not. take another look at that quinnipiac pulls it showed half the voters would be embarrassed if trump were to sit in the oval office. the embarrassment is not about policy so much as personality. do voters want a president who uses a digital gary when talking about his female political opponents or jokes about bathroom breaks? trump's appeal is his plainspoken anti politicians take killed prisoners approach to campaigning. is entertaining and is working so far. look more closely at the polls, you can't igno

cardinal dolan said you outpreached him, you were like billy graham.his was an optional thing, right? also there was a rabbi and an imam there. where's the beef? it's not like you were saying you have to follow jesus christ and name him as your lord and savior. >> you have to get out in six months anyway, but while you're here, why don't you just listen? it was meant to be inspirational. some of the prisoners were crying, some were very thankful that somebody was paying attention to them and offering them some hope. >> the stature of cardinal dolan as well. >> and president obama held a similar event. >> here is the hypocrisy, president obama in the white house, which last i checked was a government facility, in the white house, offering an easter message, talking about jesus, talking about redemption, that's okay, because we haven't heard from the aclu or the left, but for a republican or anyone else to talk about god or jesus or whatever. >> at a voluntary prison event. >> a voluntary prison event and mass, you can't separate yourself. i am who i am

>> listen, billy i wouldn't vote for any of them except lindsey -- over hillary except for lindsey grahamke a bare coast charlie crist. i you get the feeling is he the chance. and pataki who i shared an elevator once is he is a creepy creepy drip. other than that, i would vote for any of those people over hillary to. say that hillary lyings like a rug during a twister a regular rug might get airborne. she is a serial liar better yet she is a breakfast cereal liar. she lies the moment she opens her eyes in the morning. i missed a lot of the debate because i missed the opportunity it be waterboarded instead. when they start pointing out that trump is insane, i would remind you sometime in the last night john kerry talking about france said at least there was a rationale for the one before that. >> charlie hebdo. >> rationale. that's crazy that's insane to me. not trump. that's crazy. >> look, you and i do these shows and we go out and have fun. at the same time the overarch is the country is in trouble. is there anyone you can see that might be able to turn the thing around in your mind? ch