"i don't remember." >> dickerson: welcome back to "face the nation." i'm john?? dickerson. u.s. intelligence warn this week about a possible al qaeda terror attacks. how real is the threat? townesend and washington post's david i g ignatius is here with? more. how serious is this? >> it's important this is corral saisaicoreal qaeda. i'm told this?? came after the in the provence of northeastern afghanistan two weeks ago. his discussion of operations plans is where this begins. it is taken seriously. it's specific. it snakes three states and a time. one reason an official says we're not?i in panic mode about this is core al qaeda is a great distance away. it has a difficulty organizingan what is the most is the lone wolf, home grown problem. someone with a gun going to a polling place, motivated by all stuff?i on-line. in terms of this threat it was specific and disseminated. the reason officials think it's not a three alarm fire. >> dickerson: the reason is the ability to carry out an operation is degraded the last planner who survives, now dead but survived in his conversation

dickerson: we will be back in >> dickerson: be sure to join us news election coverage. starting at 7:00 eastern. our entire team will be there. all night long to get you and the rest of -- to get you the latest results and tell what you it all means. i will start writing an election blog today at facethenation.com. the blog updates through tuesday night and we will tweet it from ?i >> dickerson: some our cbs staugss are leaving us now. for most of you we will be back with more "face the nation" including an update on the election day terror threats and our political panel. stay with us. ? ? ? with simply right checking from santander bank, just make one deposit, withdrawal, transfer, or payment each month to waive the monthly fee. and there's no minimum balance. you're alright with simply right checking from santander bank. >> dickerson: welcome back to "face the nation." i'm john?? dickerson. u.s. intelligence warn this week about a possible al qaeda terror attacks. how real is the threat? senior news analysis fran david i g ignatius is here with? more. how serious is

we have to finish after the dickerson: we will be back in one minute with what we were >> dickerson: we're back now with more insight as to why the race is tightening with anthony salvanto in our new?? york stud. anthony, our last meeting before election day. what do you see with the numbers out of florida and ohio. >> trump even in florida. he has gotten a few of the previously unsure voters. there weren't a lot to start with. they have moved towards donald trump. one of the reasons, i think, we asked people how?i they saw each candidate relative to the political system. the majority says they feel hillary clinton is what is wrong with politics. now they see trump separate from the political system. right. you can imagine some unsure voters on the fence have moved towards him because of. that whether that's enough to carry into a win we will have to see. it comes down to turn out. >> dickerson: that why he's hammering the change message in the final stretch. in florida the latino voters. clinton campaign enthusiastic. did that show up in the numbers? >> it do they are strongly for h

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dickerson: we will be back in >> dickerson: be sure to join us news election coverage. starting at 7:00 eastern. our entire team will be there. all night long to get you and the rest of -- to get you the latest results and tell what you it all means. i will start writing an election blog today at facethenation.com. the blog updates through tuesday ?i >> dickerson: some our cbs staugss are leaving us now. for most of you we will be back with more "face the nation" including an update on the election day terror threats and our political panel. stay with us. >> all right. downtown cleveland, two hours away. cowboys and yet another week and another opportunity for the browns to get that illusive first win on their home turf. the tailgate kicking off. from cleveland 19 tailgate 19. all right. welcome to the tailgate everybody. bernie, good to be back tin this seat. you look a lot like that guy that was in the field suite behind home plate in the world series. >> fantastic dug out suites, the indians, we didn't end up the way we wanted, i thought it was

captioning sponsored by cbs >> dickerson: today on "face the nation," mr. trump goes the washington and takes a victory lap after the greatest real estate acquisition of them all, the white house. the ultimate outsider begins his transition to the highest office in the land amidst promise and protest. will president-elect trump change washington, or will washington change him? will he keep his more controversial campaign promises, or is everything negotiable? >> they're talking about a fence in the republican congress. would you accept a fence? >> for certain areas i would. but certain areas a wall is more appropriate. >> dickerson: we'll get a preview from his first post-election interview that will air tonight on "60 minutes." plus can trump unify the republican party and the nation? >> we are now talking about how we're going to hit the ground running to make sure that we can get this country turned around and make america great again. >> meaghan: we'll talk with former speaker of the house and trump transition team member newt gingrich, and after a thor

dickerson: present company included. one of the challenges of the election is the smart people think they know what is going on. donald trump is successful doing his thing. is that the story of the old fashion question of the -- of turning people out and analytics and all you hear that is suppose to make politics a science? maybe donald trump knows something better. >> well, if that's true?i a lotf us have to check a lot of our preconceptions at the door. here is where i don't think it's true. i think it's most important to think about what is going on. michigan and everything else. there are -- we have an election day on tuesday. in some states like michigan election day is election part of why they're there is there is no early vote in michigan. there is momentum tightening it could play out in michigan. he would win on election day. a lot of the other states they have been voting for weeks or many weeks or many days, right. that's the question of science. where money and infrastructure, get out of the vote operations

sodastream. >> dickerson: welcome back to "face the nation." i'm john dickerson. we're back with our politics panel, peggy noonan of the "wall street journal," michael gerson from the "washington post," jeffrey goldberg of "the atlantic" and "slate's" jamelle bouie. peggy, i want to start with you. tough election. the country is split. there are more people voting for health trump, but he's the president. what does donald trump do to address that situation? >> oh, it's probably always good to start out with a valujet banal yet truthful insight like a kind word, ratchet it down, be cool, be humble, be calm. i think a lot of people willing looking at the staff members and appointees he makes over the accomplished people who look like they can do this and are seen inherently moderate, or is it going to be a little more unusual than that? one of the things i think that we'll see over the next six months is that it's a mistake to discount the amount of pent-up energy there is in capitol hill on the republican side. they've got a house. they've got a senate. they haven'

i'm john dickerson. president-elect trum presidential candidate mitt romney, a possible candidate for the job of secretary of state. the two appear to have moved past romney's tough criticism during the campaign. mr. trump also met with former centcom commander james madis. >> all i can say is he is the real deal. he is the real deal. >> dickerson: we're joined now by the head of the transition team and vice president-elect to start, are there going to be any announcements today on staffing? >> i think that's yet to be seen, john. good to be with you this morning. we're here at trump national after a brisk day yesterday. but i have to tell you, to be able to have the opportunity to help lead this transition effort , to be sitting shoulder to shoulder with our president-elect as he's talking to men and women of extraordinary backgrounds and capabilities, putting this administration together, building the agenda, being there when he's talking to leaders around the world has been deeply inspiring. i think e

>> dickerson: thank you. florida republican senator marco rubio is the son of cuban immigrants and join us us from miami. what would you like to see change in u.s.-cuba relations now? >> i would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of cuba, free press stop putting people in jail because they do not agree with you and stop helping nort north korea. and a lou the parties to be able to function. the things that you find in the country in the western hemisphere except for cuba and increasingly venezuela. and i would like to see our foreign policy geared towards that. >> president-elect trump has called fidel castro a brutal dictator. and then he did not renew his promise to reverse president obama's executive order reopening relations. he did not talk about an embargo. was that a sufficient response by your likes? >> it's no different than the one i put out. what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the united states of america. i believe it

>> dickerson: welcome back to face the nation i'm john dickerson. and we continue our conversations with people we are grateful for including 2016 teacher of the year, jahana hayes. you were talking about students before. and you said there is no benefit to anyone if a student achieves high grades. if they have no desire or knowledge of how to help others. what does that mean? >> it means i think that the purpose of education is more than just graduating students who get good grades. i think they need to be compelled to help out in their communities and improve society and that is how i focus my teaching. i want my students to feel connected to the communities to improve the places they live to use what they have learned in school to help out. and i think that is what all teachers should do. that students should know that it is a privilege to be able to give and not everyone can do it. i really bring my students out and try to get them involved in their community. >> and how do you do that? >> wow. we do all kinds community service projects we are a

>> dickerson: welcome back the "face the nation." i'm john dickerson. while republicans are busy preparing for a trump administration, democrats are doing some soul-searching. >> when you lose the white house to the least-popular candidate in the history of america, when you lose the senate, when you lose the house, and when two-thirds of governors inhi country are republicans, it is time for a new direction for the democratic party. >> dickerson: one of those auditioning for the job as the new head of the democratic party is minnesota congressman keith ellison. he joins us from minneapolis. congressman, what should the new direction for the democratic party be? >> well, we've got to strengthen the grassroots. you know, we got 3,141 counties in many, many cities across this country where democrats are thriving and working every day. hands. we need the make sure the resources are with them and everything else. we need the prioritize voter turnout. that doesn't mean get out the vote at the end of the election. that means 365 day a year engagement relation

i'm john dickerson. america has an addiction problem, and today in the first report of its kind, suron general vivek murthy called for a major shift in the way we treat this. his report says nearly 21 million suffer from substance abuse. it affects more americans than cancer, yet 90% are not getting treatment. the economic impact is more than 440 billion dollars. dr. tara narula joins us now. tara, do we really know how to define addiction? >> reporter: the report does a great job of telling us this is a spectrum that ranges from substance misuse all the way to the more severe form of the disorder addiction. it's a call to action for a public health crisis that affects individual, families, society. the number of americans affected by substance abuse disorders is as many americans affected by diabetes, more than 1.5 times the americans affected by cancer, yet we accept a diseases? probably not. the hope is this will catalyze change, as did the surgeon general's report in the 1906s when it came to tobacco