give it up for, fred, everybody. >> fred: thanks. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: and fred, very excitingere i get to talk to you about the stuff you're doing. and it's very impressive. it's so impressive that i will admit times -- it's so impressive fred that i'm not sure if i should believe you. >> fred: okay. [ laughter ] >> seth: i feel like -- i feel like you're telling me things you're working on that you might not actually be working on. >> fred: uh, i'm working on stuff. >> seth: okay. [ laughter ] 'cause we were backstage and obviously martha stewart is here tonight. she is going to talk to us about one of her new cookbooks. and you were telling me that you were about to release a cookbook that's going to sell more than all of martha stewart's cookbooks combined. [ laughter ] >> fred: that's exactly right. [ laughter ] >> seth: do you want to give us some details about this cookbook? >> fred: yes, i'm developing something where i'm cooking with -- you know that prehistoric amber, you know when there's like a -- like a mosquito? >> seth: sure. i think famously in "jurassic park."

you in fred kaufman author of bet the farm how food stop being food our gratitude for your time. the u.s. homeless population is on the rise for the first time since the great recession new york city's homeless population rose four percent in two thousand and seventeen and several cities in the west including seattle portland san diego and sacramento all reported surges and people living on the streets r t a correspondent natasha sweet has more on that. it's arguably one of the worst one main disasters in any first world country even though millions are being spent to combat the issue of whole business in the u.s. those in the middle of the crisis the same the numbers are only well we. we've never seen anything like this driving through the streets of los angeles it's hard to know what the country's worst homeless population it's you know it's like a female like red cross disaster and it needs to be treated as such and the bills c.e.o. of the union rescue mission has been working with those without a home for nearly thirty years bill says right now it's the worst he's ever seen w

how are you, fred? [ cheers and applause ] and fred, it's just always such a joy to see you.catch up, because we'll go months without seeing each other. and you always have so many great accomplishments that are real. real things that you've done. [ laughter ] and yet at the same time, i feel like instead of just being happy with that, you also add on things that i believe you are making up. [ laughter ] to impress me. and i just want you to know, you never have to make anything up to impress me. >> fred: okay. [ laughter ] >> seth: like, for example, i heard you backstage tonight saying that you have a new idea for a new year's eve tradition that you think this year will be more popular than the times square ball drop. >> fred: yes. everyone, this year -- and for years to come -- try to go to your local dentist and get to know him. [ laughter ] just go there. knock on the door of the office. you know, hey, happy new year. tell me about what you do. tell me about your job, and, you know, you could use medical lingo, or you could just use regular lingo. and just tell me about

this week, fred armisen is back with us. how are you doing, fred?applause ] >> fred: hi. >> seth: i'm always so happy to have you here, because when you're not here, we don't see each other and you're off doing other projects. and, i will be honest, sometimes you tell me about your projects and you have so many that i know are real. like, i know "portlandia," i know "you're here," i know the movies you do. but then other times i worry that you make up other things to impress us. and i just want to say, we're proud of you no matter what. you don't have to make up stuff. [ light laughter ] so -- like, for example, i heard were in the "justice league" movie that came out this weekend, but they cut out your part. >> fred: yes. >> seth: that's true? >> fred: i'm telling you it's true. >> seth: all right, so what was your part in the new "justice league" movie? >> fred: i played the part of gasoline. [ light laughter ] so what happens is, like, i play -- like i'm just like this gasoline and they put me like in the cars and stuff, you know the traffic scen

you in fred kaufman author of bet the farm how food stop being food our gratitude for your time. the u.s. homeless population is on the rise for the first time since the great recession new york city's homeless population rose four percent in two thousand and seventeen and several cities in the west including seattle portland san diego and sacramento all reported surges in people living on the streets r t a correspondent natasha sweet has more on that. it's arguably one of the worst one movie disasters in any first world country even though millions are being spent to combat the issue of homelessness in the u.s. those in the middle of the price just saying the numbers are only well we. we've never seen anything like this driving through the streets of los angeles it's hard to know what the country's worst homeless population it's it's like a female like red cross disaster and it needs to be treated as such in the bills c.e.o. of the union rescue mission has been working with those that are home for nearly thirty years bill says right now it's the worst he's ever seen we have more

you in fred kaufman author of bet the farm how food stop being food our gratitude for your time. the u.s. homeless population is on the rise for the first time since the great recession new york city's homeless population rose four percent in two thousand and seventeen and several cities in the west including seattle portland san diego and sacramento all reported surges in people living on the streets r t a correspondent natasha sweet has more on that. it's arguably one of the worst one movie disasters in any first world country even though millions are being spent to combat the issue of homelessness in the u.s. those in the middle that the price is the same the numbers are only well we. we've never seen anything like this driving through the streets of los angeles it's hard to know what the country's worst homeless population it's it's like a female like red cross disaster and it needs to be treated as such in the bills c.e.o. of the union rescue mission has been working with those that are home for nearly thirty years bill says right now it's the worst he's ever seen we have mo

>> fred: i think she's very right. it appeared to me that al franken was trying to make himself into a marter, that somehow these charges against him are not true or else there's something wrong with them they've been misinterpreted i mean he's denied i think one or two of them but the others he hasn't. they were obvious strategy to sort of cloud what he's been accused of and making himself out to be some wonderful guy whose being pushed out and he will, he the marter will accept it. >> liz: you know it's going to be tough for the democrats in the midterms if the u.s. economy strengthens. goldman sachs saying tax cuts could add nearly a point to u.s. gdp growth that means 4% gdp growth, u.s. economy adding 228,000 jobs in november, wages inch up but remember, how msnbc has been arguing for weeks now that companies are not creating jobs or raising wages. watch. >> the market is doing very well because companies are flush with cash and when they're flush with cash they're not paying their employees more. they're doing di

how are you, fred? ] >> fred: awe, hi seth. >> seth: so fred, we talk a lot about when you come back on the show, all the things you have going on. i do sometimes worry that you are trying to impress me with the things that you claim to have going on. and that they're not true. [ laughter ] i just want you to know, especially on tonight, a holiday where we're thankful for our friendship, that you should know our friendship is strong enough that you don't have to lie to me. >> fred: okay. [ laughter ] >> seth: well, alright, black friday's coming up. and i heard you saying backstage that you have some doorbuster sales and that everyone should come on down. what is it that you're selling? >> fred: yes. please, guys, come on down. i've got crossword puzzles, all kinds. crossword puzzles from this week -- from last week -- from monday -- [ laughter ] i've got all kinds of crossword puzzles. some of them are solved. some of them are partially solved. we got some from tuesday. from saturday -- some of them fr

fred barnes, great to see you, merry christmas, fred. >> good to see you, liz. liz: you wrote a great column today. what is your reaction to nancy pelosi saying tax cuts hurt 86 million middle-class americans? >> in 2027, and the way this tax bill was squeezed through these requirements made by the budget rules, they had to meet a certain spending standard in tax reduction, a standard in number. what they've done is the tax cuts go away in 2007, but everybody knows these tax cuts for the middle class then will just be renewed. democrats aren't going to not renew them for the middle class, and beside, this figure of $80 billion is one that applies to 2027. it doesn't apply now. and nancy pelosi can't talk about that because the american people, particularly 80%, will get a tax cut starting january 1. liz: you know, economists get it wrong all the time. i don't know a lot of economists to be so bold as to predict anything that's going to happen in 2027. >> of course. liz: liberal think tank said that the majorities of the tax cuts do go to the middle class, and yo

kaufman joins us from new york fred thank you for being with us the department of agriculture released a recent report which documents that the cost of food for families is about seventy one hundred dollars per year that's only up just a little bit over last year and that has really impacted iowa and south dakota where in the second quarter of the year the g.d.p. the gross domestic product which actually negative but as important there are twenty three other states so you combine that all of all of those that's half the states of the nations are being impacted negatively by these food prices because of the commodities that they grow obviously and many people don't realize how many states of the unions have a role in producing this food that makes us really the most plentiful nation in the world with regard to food at the lowest cost but what does that mean for these rural communities fred. well it's a it's a real hit part because one of the things is that we're looking at that that grocery bill and we're looking at bread and crackers for instance which are coming from the grain from th

at the same time the question just real quick at the same time fred we've got hunger and malnutrition all around the world how do we deal with this problem. we've got eight hundred fifteen million people around the world who are hungry we have all this excess wheat in this country so much access that the price is going down in terms of the spike you have to realize that even during those years one of the reasons for that spike was the unbelievable influx of wall street money which is just been sucked out of the commodity sector because of this overheated stock market so this is actually a really old problem this is not something new since the beginning of civilization farmers have come to market all at the same time with an oversupply of their grains and the prices have tanked and there's a really old and simple solution to this from mesopotamia to egypt to ancient china up until the present day this is the moment for government intervention either to go in there and set price floors to. buy the grain and put it in a grain reserve and what will happen is you will stabilize that price

. >> that's right, fred. he's still kind of selling this bill as you just heard him do before he departs for camp david. right now the white house is cautiously optimistic that barring any kind of procedural snafu this will be their first major legislative victory, the passing of the first major tax reform bill in more than 30 years. they're confident, in part, because we've seen some republican senators that were previously in the no column switching over to yes, including florida senator marco rubio who drew a red line on thursday saying that he would not support this bill unless there was an increase in the child tax credit. yesterday, it seems there was an agreement to increase the child tax credit. and so he shared a con gra laer to phone call with the president, pledging his support. also this is something a bit personal for the president considering his daughter ivanka has worked for months to push for an increase in the child tax credit. another senator, bob corker, was a no, because of his concern ov

fantastica but do you do you think this is ministrations able to comprehend and get on that task fred that foreign policy component of commodities this administration is. particularly unable to understand any of these subtleties they've been events aerating the diplomatic corps they have no sense of the of the pushes and pulls of how foreign diplomacy works and they also don't understand foreign trade i mean they're putting up all these tariffs and barriers and what's that what's that doing it's making the e.u. and france in particular putting up their own tariffs and barriers to protect their own farmers so they're not put in the position of well really the farmers let's say in a country like india who are losing so much money that farmer suicides are are very common people are drinking the pesticides which were meant for their crops it's a global shame fred thank you so much you know i've heard there's a vacancy through the state department middle try to smuggle you in fred kaufman offer of bet the farm how food stop being food our gratitude for your time. time now for a quick break

kaufman joins us from new york fred thank you for being with us the department of agriculture released a recent report which documents that the cost of food for families is about seventy one hundred dollars per year that's only up just a little bit over last year and that has really impacted iowa and south dakota where in the second quarter of the year the g.d.p. the gross domestic product would generally negative but as important there are twenty three other states so you combine that solve all of those that half the states and the nations are being impacted negatively by these food prices because of the commodities that they grow obviously and many people don't realize how many states of the unions have a role in producing this food that makes us really the most plentiful nation in the world with regard to food at the lowest cost but what does that mean for these rural communities fred. well it's it's it's a real hit part because one of the things that we're looking at that that grocery bill and we're looking at bread xin crackers for instance which are coming from the grain from tho

. >> at fred's christmas trees in new jersey, owner fred dowd says people are rushing to get a tree. >> they're telling us they're afraid they can't get a tree. because of the shortage. >> he thinks he might sell out early this year. he can't get his hand on moore. >> have you been able to order more trees. >> this season, no. asked to get a few hundred more. the truck wasn't full. they just didn't have them. >> growers are planting more trees. it will take time for them to reach full height. which means next year prices could be the higher again. meg oliver, cbs news, clifton, new jersey. >>> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. she's had a tiny cough. see you at 5! seriously? protection. lysol kills over 100 illness-causing germs and viruses, even those that may cause coughs. lysol. what it takes to protect. i was wondering if an electric toothbrusthan a manual.s better and my hygienist says it does but they're not all the same. who knew? i had no idea. so she said, look for one that's shaped like a dental tool with a round b

>> fred, i think it's a case by case. some districts that are red, some districts that are still where president trump is still personally popular, he probably will show up or in some states. in other districts republicans are going to want to keep an arm's length district. in california, new york, new jersey, where the tax bill resulted in a loss of the state and local income tax deduction for wealthier upper middle class folks who use that to lower their overall federal tax burden, you're going to have some republicans saying don't come here, we can do this without you, we'll get elected without you. other states i think you'll see president trump show up. >> president trump predicted in a tweet in 2018 he will start working with democrats for the good of the country and that passing an infrastructure bill next year will be easy. so what are the chances of that kind of bipartisanship, especially after just moments, you know, a few days ago he was talking about the democrats standing in the way of, you know, progress in

fred wouldn't bark back.d a no dogs policy in afghanistan. get caught with a stray and that dog would be euthanized no questions asked. but craig said there was something different about this dog. i'm not the one that felt that way. everybody with me in the field could see it. we knew tluz somehere's some rules meant to be broken. >> the afghan commandos didn't appreciate a dog living in their compound. one day, it got so tense, a gun battle almost erupted over fred. >> he is always creating drama. >> reporter: craig realized when he left he wasn't going alone. he smuggled fred in camp leather leatherneck in his beautiful bag. fred frenchly made it ohm to craig in the u.s. >> i never heard a dog gasp. that's what he did. he was going crazy and licking my face. that was a special moment. >> reporter: being reunited with fred was the great part of coming home for craig. other parts were tougher. while in afghanistan, he not only suffered a traumatic brain injury he watched as one of his closest friends, gunner

sam went to fred and fred went to his father and told him the situation. i think what grant said next really shows his true character, he said, i don't want to be exclusive, let them come. 1884, there was a bit of buzz in the literary community about grant writing a book. one of the people that was interested in publishing the book, other than century magazine, that had already made a offer was samuel clemens, better known by mark twain. he had started his own publishing firm. he self published huckleberry finn that year, 1884. he shows up at the grant household. he had been a casual friend of general grant since recent -- civil war, he showed up in new york city in the following 1884, as grant with starting the memoirs. he asked the general, could i look at your contract? he looked at the contract and said later on, he said, i did not know whether to laugh or cry it was the worst contract. it was only offering 10% of the profits. he said, that is inappropriate for a man of a stature -- of your stature. he said, i have a publishing firm, i can offer you 70

fred: it is baffling.as repeatedly nominated people, whether it is acting head mick mulvaney to run the consumer bureau, scott pruitt, scott garrett, even rick perry. this is really good job of congress and the senate. today, the senate did their job. sendsaid president trump them five nominees and when it specter general we approved. nominees and one inspector on a bipartisan. the committee rejected one member who was not interested in doing the job. actually beginning to work in this case. shery: it is still no head for the export-import bank. how functional is the bank right now? fred: if leader mcconnell goes forward, the four nominees and the inspector general could get a vote this week, and the bank would have a quorum and could continue working right now. it is estimated there are $37 billion in the pipeline and eight to $10 million of transactions ready to go within four to six weeks. if they choose to act, and it is up to leader mcconnell, the bank can get that to work within days. david: this is

>> hi, fred. well, there was certainly applause after those remarks. and during those remarks, especially when he recognized the widow of medger evers, who was there inside the museum during the tour. he came, he toured the museum, he saw several exhibit, including freedom writers, who helped desegregate buses in the '60s. he mentioned james meredith, who was the first black student to attend the segregated university of mississippi in 1962. he spent a good deal of time talking about medgar evers himself who was assassinated here in jackson in 1963. yak son's airport is named after him. it's interesting, that bit of sound, that clip you played just now, with the president talking about the fight to end slavery, to break down jim crow, end segregation, gain the right to vote. a lot of the president's critics, those protesting his inclusion in today's festivities, including congressman thompson from right here in mississippi and georgia representative john lewis, who is himself a civil rights icon,

fred? >> all right. it's still unclear exactly what kind of comments we're going to hear from the president and given that there has been -- there have been so many people who have decided no longer to participate. all right, athena jones, thank you so much. we'll check back with you. >>> in the meantime president trump's trip to mississippi comes hours after he rallied for embattled senate candidate roy moore, the president sending out an optimistic tweet this morning saying great evening in pensacola, florida. arena packed to the rafter, the crowd was laughing, loving, and definitely smart. they definitely get what's going on. thank you, pensacola. just three days until plaemalab special election, the president telling the pensacola crowd they can't afford to let roy moore lose. >> we can't afford to have a liberal democrat who is completely controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. we can't do it. so get out and vote for roy moore. do it. do it. >> all right. i want to bring in cnn white house rep

craig heard looks like a fred. the name stuck.dogwood be euthanized, no questions asked. but craig said there was something different about this dog. >> and i'm not the only one that felt that way. everyone in the field could see it and we knew there were some rules that were meant to be broken. >> however, the afghan commandos didn't appreciate a dog living in their compound. one day it got so tense that a gun battle almost erupted over fred. >> he's always creating drama. >> craig realized when he left, he wasn't going alone. craig smuggled fred into the heavily fortified camp in his duffel bag with the help of some workers and a veterinarian. fred eventually made it home to craig in the u.s. >> i never heard a dog gas. i just lay there and let him go crazy and lick my face and that was a really special moment. >> being reunited with fred was the great part of coming home for craig, other parts were tougher. while there, he not only sustained a traumatic brain injury, he watched as one of his closest friends was killed by an i.

he's doing this because he's in panic mode, fred.it walks like a duck, flies like a duck, it quakes, it's a duck. flynn has the goods on the president and he knows it. >> how will the president's words, perhaps in this tweet or some other fashion now be used against the president or the white house that its best defense is there's no problem here, we don't know anything? >> well, you know, what's so interesting, in the battle over the travel ban, one of the things that the courts have been struggling with is can we use tweets coming from the president. and the conclusion has been, interestingly enough, yes, you may. so the tweet today is probably giving the legal team conniptions because there should be no commen from the white house, none. the fact is that these facts, now that they've come out certainly since the conviction yesterday, identified flynn and it's in the indictment, in the information, as a surrogate. well, a surrogate to whom. is he a surrogate to the president? yeah. is he a surrogate to the advisers? yeah. and the b

give it up for fred!applause ] >> seth: fred, always so excited to have you here. it's been months since we've seen each other. and you're back. and we get to catch up. and i just want to say this. i am your friend. i've been your friend for a very long time. you never have to make anything up to impress me. >> okay. [ laughter ] >> seth: but i sometimes feel like we're talking, and i feel as though you're inventing things, just so that i will be, you know, more impressed with you. >> uh-huh. [ laughter ] >> seth: for example, christmas is coming up, we're all backstage talking about the last-minute christmas present that we're all trying to figure out. and i heard you saying to someone that you have come up with a perfect last-minute gift that will satisfy everyone you know. >> yes. >> seth: that is true. >> it's absolutely true. this is the best gift. what i'm going to do is, i'm going to go around, helping everyone synchronize their clocks. you know what i mean? [ light laughter ] so people i know from

. >> at fred's christmas trees in new jersey, owner fred dowd says people are rushing to get a tree.> they're telling us they're afraid they can't get a tree. because of the shortage. >> he thinks he might sell out early this year. he can't get his hand on moore. >> have you been able to order more trees. >> this season, no. asked to get a few hundred more. the truck wasn't full. they just didn't have them. >> growers are planting more trees. it will take time for them to reach full height. which means next year prices could be the higher again. meg oliver, cbs news, clifton, new jersey. >>> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. garden party for her birthday. a fabulous so i mowed the lawn, put up all the decorations. i thought i got everything. almost everything! you know, 1 in 10 houses could get hit by a septic disaster, and a bill of up to $13,000. but for only $7 a month, rid-x is scientifically proven to break down waste, helping you avoid a septic disaster. rid-x. the #1 brand used by septic professionals in their own tanks. it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me.

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fred? >> athena jones, thank you so much. >>> outside the museum in jackson, mississippi. >>> all right. meanti meantime, just three days until a crucial election in alabama. voters deciding whether to elect rc roy moore or doug jones. some of the biggest names including cory booker, campaigning throughout the state this weekend, and last night, trump put his star power on the line at a rally for moore. i want to bring in cnn's alex marquardt who is in montgomery. this is getting down to the wire of both candidates presumably trying to stump for those last minute votes. at the same time both sides getting that star power push. >> reporter: well, sort of. what we're seeing here is a flurry of activity on one side. doug jones holding four events today, at least one tomorrow. we don't know of any for roy moore. this is a continuation in what we've seen in terms of campaigning styles. particularly in the wake of the sexual misconduct allegations. we've seen doug jones trying to squeeze every la

fred polite fred pleit >>> secretary of the state rex tillerson says americans should be encouraged byment has made in pushing for global peace and stability, especially when it comes to north korea. in a "new york times" op ed he defends president trump for abandoning what he calls the failed policy of strategic patience. >> he writes we hope this will pressure the region g pressure regime into abandoning. we have made it clear the regime must earn its way back to the negotiating table. until denuclearization occurs the pressure will continue. >> tillerson also says china should do more. cnn is now being told the trump administration is planning to take a quieter tone. they're hoping this will help u.s. dep mats in ongoing talks. >> there are no illusions about regime and their meddling in our election and others chl . he says the relationship is poor but work together. this comes as russia accuses the u.s. of meddling in its upcoming election. let's get to fred in moscow. this is an interesting new twist. >> reporter: yeah. it is certainly an interesting twist. this is something that

>> so, fred, first of all, great reporting as always by my "washington post" colleagues. if, indeed, this is the direction the administration is going, and it's coming top-down, it suggests to me, frankly, that this is showing that republicans who have made political correctness, made hay out of political correctness for years turn out to be the snowflakest of the snowflakes when it comes to words that seem to defend their ideological sensibilities. you can disagree on policy, whether it has to do with health policy or transgender rights or words implicated on this list that's being reported out, but even if you're against transgender rights or against the idea of transgender identity, it is a thing, so to ban a word like that or to ban some of these other terms suggests something that's almost soviet in a way. you know, we'll see what happens as this story goes forward. >> patrick, it really smacks of control, control of people's thinking and action and perhaps even dismissal. if you don't see it, perhaps you don't think it's there. >> well, george orwell wrote, you know

fred is going to call you?"is going to call you at 2:00, which might be at 5:00. so i call her up and say, "hi, mrs. meyers, how are you doing? great. hey, what time do you have?" >> seth: okay. >> "that's actually wrong. it's a minute later than that. it's a minute or whatever it is. merry christmas. happy holidays. and i hope the rest of the year is filled with the correct time." [ laughter ] >> seth: how many -- how many times are you going to sell this gift? because it seems like it's very time-intensive for you. >> it is -- it's so many people. it's insane. it's all i've been doing. >> seth: oh, really? >> day and night. >> yes. all hours of the night. >> seth: do you think you'll have to work past christmas on calling everyone on your list? >> into next year, yes. >> seth: okay. and so if people want to buy this service, where do they go? 5:00 or 4:00, depending where you are, contact the studio here. [ laughter ] that's it. >> seth: that is not helpful, and don't do that. give it up for fred armisen, ever

thank you very much, fred. good to see you. appreciate it. melissa: love fred. david: the best.he best. melissa: they know what you've been searching for. google is keeping its eye on you, and your neighbors. ♪ ... >> melissa: google knows what you're searching for and now the best of the world can get a look at the most popular search terms of the year. the rest of the world. google released its most searched terms, how to number three is to buy bitcoin. >> david: i imagine that now, number two how to make solar eclipse glasses and number one, more important than bitcoin, yes , look at the slime. how to make it. they've got the details of it. >> melissa: you do not want to make slime. it is a mess. >> david: most of the people in the world want to find out how. >> melissa: here is risk & reward. >> president trump: we're very close to getting it done. people are up 30%, 40%, 50%. we think we're going to grow that a lot more and wages are starting to go up first time in many years, something that i think will really be the capper is going to be the massive tax cuts that we're pl

>> well, right now, fred, it's a win. but the game is not over. there's a lot of time between now and november. so you've got a tax bill that's basically unpopular but the president has a chance to do something about that. now trump said that he doesn't think he really has to sell the tax bill. >> right. >> he does it, that would be a mistake. we saw that during obamacare. the president sort of won the battle and lost the war. and trump has 11 months to go around the country, convince people this is a really good idea. the deductions will put some money in people's paychecks right away, whereas the -- i mean the lower tax rates. but their loss of money won't come until they file their taxes much later. at the same time, right now, the numbers with working against him. he should try to fix that if he can. >> okay. signals a little spotty so just bear with us on that, josh. so the president, you know, arguing that he doesn't need to sell it. you're saying that's a mistake. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, you know, perhaps agrees with you. ta

fred barnes. great to see you, fred. thank you very much. >> appreciate it. you're welcome.issa: big news out of washington. 33 out of 48 democratic senators and head of the dnc are calling for senator al franken to resign. this after a sixth woman accused franken of unwanted sexual advances. among those calling for him to step down, senator kamala harris of california tweeting, sexual harrassment and misconduct should not be allowed by anyone. it should not occur anywhere. i believe the best thing for senator franken to do is step down. kirsten gillibrand of "new york posting" this on facebook, it would be better for our country that he sent a clear message any kind of mistreatment in our society is not acceptable by stepping aside to let someone else serve. senator franken responding to these calls, his office is saying expect announcement from him tomorrow. hmmm. david: it will be very interesting announcement, when you have the head of the dnc calling for you to resign -- melissa: feels like setting it up for roy moore. david: a lot easier to criticize roy moore is frank

the things that don learned from fred friendly, the things that fred friendly cared about, these arething wes practice to this day. and they're all about different aspects of what we do, and i think they are a huge part of why we're still successful. i don't want to talk about numbers a lot but this past sunday we were the most watched nonsports show of the week. i think that says something. that still people, that many people, 14-1/2 million that night, were willing to give up an hour and watch "60 minutes," more than any other program on all of television that week, except one football game. and some of those things, which are simple, are directly from fred friendly, such as we near underestimate the audience; yet at the same time we know that we know more bat story than they do. we never talk down to the viewer. we always assume they know more. than most people do. most broadcasts do. we care so much about how we tell a story. we pour ourselves into it. it's intense. and it's always been intense and always will be intense if never forthforget the time it was in a doon hewitt scree

it's pretty awesome for me to be with fred on the same panel. and so i go right into my reading.et me just grab my water over here. this is my book "tightrope," and after my reading you can get copies of it in the back of the room. my wife carol is manning the table. federal district court uniondale, summer 1988. i sat shoulder to shoulder with my 20-year-old nephew michael. struck by his resemblance to jfk junior, and also to my brother at the same age. jet black hair, large dark eyes, and a dazzling kind smile. michael and i listened to federal prosecutors layout their case against his father and my brother. earlier that morning governor mario cuomo had called me at home. after three years of working nearly round-the-clock with cuomo at the two world trade center office in new york, even sleeping over during snowstorms, i was now his met at the long island power authority laboring long hours to shut down the nuclear power plant for health and safety reasons. you do good work, steve, the governor said. you have great, great ability and a great future. it's a pleasure working wit

>> hi, fred.ouse and republicans on the hill are feeling pretty good about this vote right now. they got two key senators on board yesterday. marco rubio and bob corker. and the president just departing the white house a few minutes ago spoke to reporters for just a couple of minutes talking a lot about the benefits that he says the economy is going to get from this tax bill. he's talking a lot about economic growth and he was also asked a little bit about the impact on middle class families and whether or not they would benefit as much as high income earners. the president responding that he thinks middle class families are going to benefit a lot and the biggest impact is going to be on jobs in the long term. so trump saying that the urgency is there for this bill to be passed as soon as possible. he wants it to be the biggest christmas present for american families this next week, and he plans on signing it. they're planning on doing a vote as early as tuesday. plans on signing it as soon as it

i'd like to quote what to me is a priceless exchange involving fred. on february 24, 1994, a answers nightline gave air time to allegory his allegations who was funding climate skeptics. before reminding viewer the cosmologist carl sagan predicted massive environmental damage from the alleged climb mate county is effects of the first war. fred predicted if there were in smoke it would clear quickly, as ted koppel told viewers the record shows in this instance, -- sagan was wrong and dr. singer was right. before going on to accuse al gore of, quote, resorting to political means to achieve what should ultimately be resolved on a purely scientific basis. which brings know what the historian peter gay wrote recently, what he calls the science of freedom. the most important science for us that there is. the enlighted despots of the 18th century believed they new bert than the people they governed, how to be governed. he wrote the ruler must have had his disposal a perfectly obeaden bureaucracy, all the knowledge possible to gather and unlimited authority to