. >> fellow soccer team member is dan rice. >> i would bet that he would be a general but not that ild be in this position now. >> he entered the business world and then reenlist during the iraq war as infultry. and back in the states and back in business, he and other graduates saw an opportunity in the gates. this was managed about as well as the federal budget. >> it was struggling after 9/11 and a group of graduates took over the management of the hotel and have really revived it. we have corporate strategy meetings here, over 100 weddings. it's part of america's history and owned by the american public. >> which brings us back to the golf course, it too was in need of spit shining, so the sayer donated markers commemorating the major wars, and number one is the american revolution, a war won by the man who gave birth to this place. as golfers battle the course, they're reminded of the military battles that shaped our nation, through the war of 1812 and the civil war, the nation's bloodiest in which westpoint educated generals led the war on both sides. >> for a lot of cudets, it

we got there just in time. >> for general malcolm frost and dan rice, both west point graduates, the6th hole has particular meaning. >> it's in honor of "operation desert storm." operation forces class of 56 from west point liberated kuwait at the direction of president george herbert walker bush. >> turning a blind eye to saddam's aggression would not have avoided war. >> the one west point graduate who was killed in action was lieutenant donnie tiller who was our classmate. he was shot down on the last day of the war. >> it brings it home to you guys. the sacrifice of so many of the men and women who have gone to this institution. >> that's what helped motivate me to say in the united states army and continue to serve through bosnia and into the last couple of wars which we have seen those on 17 and 18 the great monuments for "operation iraqi freedom" and "operation enduring freedom." >> the course is unusual in that final two holes are both par 5s. long in golf speak. it so happens they commemorate our nation's two longest holes, iraq and afghanistan. >> in those wars combined, 95

we got there just in time. >> for joan malcolm frost and dan rice, both west point graduates the 16th hole has particular meaning. >> it's an honor of operation desert storm. >> u.s. forces under general norman schwarzkopf, class of '56 from west point, liberated kuwait under the direction of president george h.w. bush. >> turning a blind eye to saddam's aggression would not have avoided war, would only have delayed the world's day of reckoning. >> the one west point graduate who was killed in action was lieutenant donny tiller who was our classmate. he was shot town on the last day of the war. >> so brings it home to you guys, the sacrifice of so many of the men and women who have gone to thursday constitution. >> that's what helped to motivate me to continue to stay in the united states army, continue to serve through bosnia and the last couple of wars which we have seen those on the 17 and 18, the great monuments for operation iraqi freedom and operation enduring freedom. >> the west point course is unusual in that the final two holes are both par-5s, long in golf speak. it so happ

. >> reporter: one of his west point classmates and fellow soccer team member is dan rice. >> i wouldet he would be a general but i wouldn't bet that i'd be in this position now. >> reporter: after west point, rice fulfilled his army commitment, then entered the business world, then re-enlisted as an infantry officer during the iraq war. back in the states and back in business, rice and some fellow graduates saw one opportunity ride inside the west point gates -- the historic thayer hotel, a property owned by the u.s. government but at the time managed about as well as, oh, the federal budget. >> it was struggling after 9/11 and a group of graduates took over management of the hotel and have really i think just revived the hotel. we have corporate strategy meetings here. we have over 100 weddings a year. it is just a great place. it is part of america's history and it is really owned by the american public. >> which brings us back to the golf course. it, too, was in need of some spit-shining. so the thayer donated, and wepot dedicated, markers for each of the 18 holes on the course co

america and what that means for society, speakers include former labor secretary robert rice and white house adviser danate can you talk about the black lives matter of movement, and you have the third wing of the party with no candidate or pretends and they exploded into public view. >> coming up at 6:30 p.m. on sunday evening, the republican jewish coalition featuring republican presidential candidates sharing their thoughts on national security. poor website c-span.org. >> congress has two more weeks of work scheduled before they wrap up for the year. leaders working on a catchall spending bill to fund the federal government as it faces a december 11 deadline to avoid a possible shutdown. we talked to capitol hill reporter to learn more about the negotiation. >> congress is back next week for what could be the final work week and the friday deadline looming on to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown. a recent story continues as the deadline looms. what are some of the key issues involved in this spending bill

dan: great game, guys. john: we have a box of rice-a-roni in the green room.we come back, the iowa caucuses under a microscope. ♪ mark: thanksgiving is over. exactly two months or now, we will have the iowa caucuses. we will not bring out our countdown clock today, but with a discussion on which candidate has the best phone banking and pizza ranging in iowa, it's time for the victory lap. sasha issenberg. ♪ so, iowa, ground game, does not take a lot of numbers. what you think? sasha: the candidates are looking at the trajectory, but they are counting individual votes. this is when they knock on the door, and enlist them as a supportive. they are moving toward what they call their win numbers. what numbers to they need to get the results they want out of of iowa? when you break it down, when you look at it in terms of raw votes, you see how small this is and how much, when we talk about ted cruz surging or staying, what it means. john: let's look at this historically. in 2008, 119,000 turnout on the republican side. mike huckabee beat mitt romney by just over 1

dan schenamen has more on this developing story. >> reporter: more than a year after tamirrice. >> the grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against th timothy lowman. >> riceplaying with a pellet gun outside a rec center when someone called 911. >> scaring the [ bleep ]. >> that was not communicated to the responding officers. patrolman timothy lowman, a rookie, fatally shot rice within two second of a police cruiser skidding to a stop near the boy. >> police are trained that it only takes a third of a second or less to draw and fire a weapon upon them. >> evidence shows that tamirwas removing the gun from his waistband and could not have known the weapon was a pellet gun. >> simply put given this human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police. >> tam irrice's family released a statement which said they were saddened and disappointed by this outcome, but not surprised. dan schenamen, nbc news. >>> the woman who survived that deadly shooting during the live tv broadcast in roanoke, virginia, plans to return to work soon. she was being interviewed by allison parker when one of her

dan abrams, thanks. >>> now to cleveland, a city on edge this morning after a grand jury decided thought to indict the two police officers involved in that shooting death of rice's family saying they are the grand jury's decision. abc's t.j. holmes has the latest. >> reporter: marches in cleveland overnight. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> reporter: in new york city as well. >> justice for -- >> all: tamir rice. >> reporter: after a grand jury refused monday to indict two officers in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice. >> the death of tamir rice was an absolute tragedy. it was horrible, unfortunate and regrettable. but it was not, by the law that binds us, a crime. >> reporter: the shooting captured on surveillance video was a perfect storm of human error according to the prosecutor. rice was shot by rookie officer cleveland rec center in november of 2014. the officer and his training partner frank garmback were responding to a report of someone with a gun. and mistook rice's toy gun for a real one. >> to any observer it's difficult to distinguish between the real and fake gun. >> reporter: the shooting shook cleveland. >> whose streets? >> all: our str