gallup and the family. we're going to go around the circle and see what the five think, the five's most admirable admirable. >> to the united states military and armed forces, hands down, so proud of them, admire them so so much and the sacrifice they make day in and day out only to come home to a veteran's affairs administration that's a mess. i tell you this weekend, i saw the movie american sniper and i had the pleasure to meet chris kyle amazing too. very nice military film and you see what he did when he came back he actually spent time working with veterans who had post-traumatic stress syndrome and the like. >> mine would be the doctors and nurses without borders who went to west africa and worked with ebola patients. i think it takes a tremendous amount of courage and also charles. >> charles what about you? >> a guy named alfred man he was born in 1925 his father was a grocer he started 17 companies as a billionaire, he's given away $23 million. after 20 years got fda approval of inhaled insulin. a

there's a gallup poll that asked people what's the big issue, most important issue that's a constant question in the gallup folks said for the first time the issue of race and racism has to be about the same as the economy and dysfunction in government. is a new matrix. it's spiked over the last few we've as a result of what seen and this gap in perceptions between white america and black about these issues. >> the interesting thing is that look across the board, race relations are better. look at this table. it tells you they are better. there are pockets in policing and race is one of those pockets where there's a of opinion based, in part, on how people have their with police. you would dare say, dan, that ifr interaction with police, you had any, have been different from mine. i had one case where i was for a over and it was minor traffic violation and suddenly a second police officer appeared with his hand on his weapon and i was thinking, wait a minute, i'm two miles from my house, it's 8:00 p.m., why am i like a criminal. gwen: and so many people have stories like that and tha

gallup releasing a poll with the most admired people of america. hillary clinton. even russian president vladimir putin is stopped. the president has been on the most admired men tore 7 years now. bill clinton and pope francis in the top three. hillary has held the top spot for the past # 13 years oprah winfrey, malala also making the list. who do you moist admire? send us your comments on facebook twitter or foxfriendsfirst@foxnews.com. we will share them later on the show. >> a nationwide epidemic more than 2,000 cases of the flu virus the growing risk to children. >> way out of bounds. assistant coach caught on camera hitting opposing players. >> welcome back to "fox & friends first". breaking overnight bodies and debris found for the missing airflight 8501. it vanished from radar on sunday. reports just said they sited a shadow in the water which could be the remains of the plane. divers are at that location. search and rescue recovering dozens of bodies floating in the water. objects believed to be the plane door along with an emergency slide and life jacket a

what do you make of the "gallup poll"?> well, traditionally in the aftermath of big swings like 2002, towards republicans, 2006 towards the democrats. 2010 towards the republicans. there tends to be a change in the partisan identification, the party that won the election becomes more popular. how long the popularity lasts depends how well they do in subsequent months. how well the republicans do in january, february, march and april could have a big impact determining whether the republicans go into the 2016 with a head of steam up or not. cheryl: you are the one who seems to me it's timing for the announcement. whether it's hillary clinton or jeb bush or chris christie, take a pick of the names, politico is reporting she's got cold feet. what do you make of that? >> i've always thought this is a more difficult decision than most people think. she'll be 69 in october of 2016, if she were to be elected and serve two terms, he would leave office at the age of 77. do you want to go through two years of running for office afte

the recent gallup poll listing the overall health of the economy as america's top economic concern was just the latest poll in which americans have listed jobs and the economy among their main worries. the democrats have spent years ignoring the need for jobs and focusing on their own political priorities. as the senior senator from new york said, and i quote -- with democrats focused on health care, the average middle-class person thought the democrats aren't paying enough attention to me." end quote. well, madam president, that average middle-class person was right. in a few short weeks, republicans will take over the senate. we will be running things very differently. our first priority will be passing legislation to create jobs and opportunities for american workers. a significant part of that will be working to undo the damage obamacare has done to the economy. we will work to repeal the medical device tax and restore the 40-hour workweek. madam president, i hope democrats will join us, and i have a feeling that many of them will. as we have seen opposition to these damaging obama

a new gallup poll reveals as many people approve of the job he's doing as disapprove, 48%. the last time that happened, september 2013. >>> the president is well into his second week of vacation in hawaii and golf appears to be occupying most of his time. the president hit this approach chip shot before tapping in a gimme par putt. he revealed he shot an 84 in a previous outing that forced a wedding of two army captains to be moved. >>> from the washington post, gao to federal workers, no taxpayers can't pay for your plastic forks. the government says utensils are for personal benefit and not a specific governmental use. so federal employees have to bring their own. >>> pete souza is the official white house photographer and he released his year in review collection that gives a candid look into the president's life. here are a few starting with the president and chicago mayor rahm emanuel stopping to pet sunny on the white house grounds. here he is holding a koala at the g-20 summit in australia in november. this one shows a young boy at a washington school checking the pr

. >>> a new gallup poll is out. good news for president obama. it's at 68%. the reason, his move on immigration. >>> in the bayou battle, bad news for mary landrieu. early totals are down by almost 18%. landrieu is trying to fend off republican bill cassidy. >>> meet the front-runner ashton carter who could replace chuck hagel. he is a former pentagon official with years of d.o.d. experience. >>> john mccain has a new book out, "13 soldiers." but how factual is it? well, stephen colbert found out. >> do you cover any of our present wars in this, for instance, bill o'reilly and the war on christmas? >>> move over, maclemore and ryan lewis. here's michele bachman's "thrift shop" performance. ♪ i wear your granddad's clothes ♪ ♪ i look incredible ♪ from the thrift shop down the road ♪ >> let's cut that short. that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." unfortunately we can't unsee that. good morning to you. are you a better rapper than michele bachmann? >> you know, i always thought i was the whitest person in america. michele, you got me beat

get that. >> let me -- >> gallups poll show that because presumably these deductibles proposed in the article cannot afford it. but it is a policy that if you don't take you're going to be fined. the government is going to tell you what you have to have, how much you have to pay. and if you don't get that policy 1% of your income or a set amount of dollars will be taken from you. that is government-run -- >> that -- >> hold on. i want in sheeveporlt the other day and a woman came up and wrapped her arms around me to say i want to thank you. for the first time in my life -- i have been working here for 12 or 15 years, have inshurens. i only pay $150 a month. so for some people it's working very well. do we have to fix it? can we tweak it? yes. but all he's voted for is repeal 50 times. we need to fix it, not repeal it. and i am proud to have tried to help everyone, the poor, the middle class, and the wealthy, get insurance particularly because he and bobby jindal closed the public hospital. >> let's move on. >> it's been widely reported that america's infrastructure is crumbling talkin

. >> yes, although i did see a gallup poll which shows there is a lot of support in greece for losing the euro, which is surprising, given the consequences. they have benefited massively from being part of the euro. i think leaving would be disastrous for them. i think the popular support is in for the euro. the public sees it as a source of pain for their economy, whereas the opposite is true. >> you are a little concerned about this. in terms ofove us the fear gauge for you? >> i think the repercussions of the oil price being so low are significant. i think that is going to have a big impact on the high-yield market. we will start to see default. i think that could have an important impact on contagion if we see mutual fund redemptions, acause they earned about trillion dollars. we could see affect. people have redemptions, it would lead to the equity market. theould see contagion from u.s. high-yield market. that is one of our big concerns. china there is always a concern if the property market doesn't start to slow down. we should see deflationary impact. >> let's focus on that fo

let's take a look at this gallup poll. 42% say they oppose the president delaying deportations for millions of illegals. and it's a far cry from the 75% of hispanic immigrants who approve of the president's plan. and senator david vitter says maybe that is because immigrants abroad have everything to gain from this. and i think that it tells republicans that they need to consider the latino vote a lost cause. >> i think that we should first of all do the right thing and i is that a huge majority of american people are fully supportive of enforcement and not just wide-open bor the president's executive amnesty which is the most extreme version of the latter. neil: he says the american people stand by that showing that that is not the case that when it comes to nativeborn, that's not the case. >> clearly not the case, americans have a problem with this onto basis is, first of all this is a horrible policy and it's going to produce more illegal activity when you reward something like that and you produce more of it. and secondly even more fundamentally this is a real constitutional problem goi

a whole bunch of nose will move the needle on jobs, adp and a poll out from "gallup."from the fed talking about it, and the weekly eia crude report. this used to be the tree that emptied felony force, it's making marching orders, my marching orders are about the same. stay the course. jim? >> all eyes are on the jobs report, it is the most meaningful economic announcement this week. people are expecting 200,000+, and i think wages will be fairly benign or flat. the fact that people want to see more jobs. >> what's a strong 200,000+? 280? 290? >> 250. >> we're running out of time. real quick, no, you don't go fat. you're great and brilliant but you don't go fast. appreciate it, the tweets were fantastic, i'll read one of them tomorrow. catch us every night at 6:00, you can't see the show, dvr it. you don't want to miss a moment of "making money," you also don't want to miss a moment of lou dobbs. keep it right here on fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. it seems one of the most serviceable words to describe the obama administration these days is screw ball. the

a new gallup poll indicates republicans have a 42% to 41% advantage on democrats since the midterm elections. democrats were up four points prior to the voting. there's also been a shift in louisiana, as carl cameron mentioned earlier, we are four days away from deciding the final makeup of the senate in the next session, saturday will be the runoff for the seat in louisiana. candidates staged their only face to face confrontation in the overtime campaign period. john roberts tell us how that went. >> reporter: if the polls are correct, this may be the last debate of mary landrieu's senate care. landrieu is throwing one last pass deep down field in an attempt to derail republican big cassidy's fortunes. >> told us that he was a doctor for the poor, but he is not a doctor for the poor, he's a doctor for himself. >> these charges are absolutely false. >> reporter: for his part, cassidy kept up the drum beat, that cassidy is about to continue president obama's agen agen agenda. obama care is deeply unpopular in louisiana, but when asked by cassidy about revelations the bill was written in a way

the index is at a 17-month high, according to the latest gallup report.he gallup report noting that the index remains in negative territory, at negative eight, but it is the highest monthly reading. the pop -- closest it has come to positive territory in some time. for those who don't know what the index is made up of, it is an average of 2 components -- how americans view current anditions of perception -- perceptions of whether the economy is getting better or getting worse. the economic confidence index moving upwards since 2009. we are asking our viewers, should the president a credit for the improving economy? we will start with gainesville, virginia, on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. i am from gainesville, virginia. thank you for taking my call. i think president obama did a magnificent job improving this country from the brink of collapse to what it is today. he came to office in 2009, our deficit was around $1 trillion per year and we were losing something on the order of 900,000 jobs a month. wall street was broke. pretty much ever

john: a "gallup poll" says a third of americans believe in astrology. times square, it seemed like most did. >> i love astrology. i'm a big believer, yeah. >> rational to believe in astrology? >> absolutely, absolutely. everything happens from the stars. >> yeah, i'm deep into it. john: why? by what logic would the position of stars and the moon at the time of your birth govern your personality. let alone predict what will happen to you? it's not reasonable. i once paid a famous astrologier to do a clart on this man, she created a 25 page horoscope based on his date and time. kemper is a serial murderer who murdered six hitchhikers, his grandparents and mother. we gathered their birth dates before and said don't look at your neighbor's copy. this is personal, your 24 page horoscope. the students read the same 25 pages and said things like, wow! i didn't believe in astrology before, but this is amazing. no one could have known all these things about me. i'm a believer. why would they think kemper's horoscope was theirs? because aastrologers and psychics

they call it the gallup and then the scientists were left to refute this idea so what i brought to the party was i spent about of time on television and sometimes as an actor what will really go badly is if you lose your cool, if you forget yourself. then the other thing that i disagreed on with my colleagues is you want to go second. they all want you to go first. now, and because apparently he would go first and throw the scientist into a tailspin to debunk all of these issues but this other guy brought up but i said no you want to go second and what is fundamental is the audience for that talk, that debate wasn't there in the room. and i say to everyone i want to go to the lions den and into the theater where it is the most comfortable. thank you for your support. just to tell you so far the answers in genesis may have crossed a big line. their job application requires you to testify to your christian faith which by the way isn't all old testament. [laughter] >> i'm just a science correspondent to help discuss biblical matters. the other thing, you can't be. that is on-the-job appli

now, gallup has been asking this same question all the way since 2001, well before the health care law had ever been passed. and this year it is the highest number ever. this is after the president's health care law has been signed into law and has taken effect and the exchanges are in effect. highest ever of people not getting care because of the cost. those people, two-thirds of them say they have put off treatment for a serious condition. one is woman named patricia. she works part-time at landscaping company outside of chicago. the patient -- the president's home state. she told "the new york times" that she has a small brain aneurysm that needs monitoring. she told her story on october 17 under the headline "unable to meet the deductible or the doctor." patricia that is a health insurance plan through obamacare that has an annual deductible of $6,000. so she has to pay for most of her medical expenses up to that amount. because of that she says she is skipping this year's brain scan and hoping for the best. she says, a $6,000 deductible -- that's just staggering. this is the kind

that's been played out in annual gallup surveys.that you can make the argument that scandals have been to blame for this. it's very hard to rebuild trust after a scandal. i also think the fact that the media is bringing more scandals to light might have a role to play in this as well. >> let me ask you this question. how do you if you are running a government, you've got an irs scandal. you've got a va scandal. you've got an nsa scandal. it's just over -- not like watergate size. it's almost like death by a thousand cuts. that's a real problem. not only for democrats but for anybody that wants to run for government. >> it's the reason everyone has to run as an outsider even if you're an insider. the pillars we talked a lot on this show have cracks in them. it's very hard to run as a life-long politician when basically every political institution is flooded at this point. as we all know, an outsider never works in washington. there's a little bit of a conundrum there. >> sophie, i wonder, is it just scandal in the media or is it actu

there was just a gallup poll.service the most highly regarded government agency with 75%, 80% ratings of approval from the population. the ratings were highest among the young people and that's a reflection of the great public infrastructure in the day of ecommerce. it is the young people shopping on the internet more than anyone. >> this is going to cut jobs. thousands of jobs across america. what hope do you hold out quickly that there will be a new majority in congress? >> a some point there will be a new board of governors. we're hoping with public pressure to turn it around. stop the changes and the mail sortation, and delivery system so it doesn't get slowed down. there's no good reason. if we are looking ahead, we need the plants, package there's fill it up so we're hoping, we look at this as bipartisan. it deeply affects rural america and city america. this is not a partisan issue. we're going to be calling on congress as well to act, to serve the american people as they should. >> president of the america

it is why i think that "gallup poll" out, i think it was last week, that even among democratic voterssupport for gun rights in america is at its highest in some 20 years. that's a pretty staggering thing. but it will always be that balance and, you know, i think it is sort of interesting in australia they have banned guns just about all guns for personal ownership yet somehow this insane killer managed to get himself a, you know, a shotgun, my understanding that should have been banned. it pass part of the ban. leland: reporting has been it was a sawed off shotgun. after a couple massacres in australia, there was a massive gun control. a number of people turned in their weapons and didn't want them anymore. hailed by gun control advocates as the poster child for the way things should be. a number of folks said this is what should happen in the united states. ab, what does it say despite all the gun control they have in australia a guy with a sawed off shotgun walk into a cafe? >> that could happen even if they're not inspired by radical jihaddism. that can happen in any place at anyti

john: a "gallup poll" says a third of americans believe in >>> a gallop poll says about a third of americans. in times square it seemed like most did. >> i love astrology. i'm a big believer, yeah. >> is it rational to believe in astrology? >> absolutely, absolutely. everything happens from the stars. >> yeah, i'm deep into it. >> why? how does logic at the time of your birth predict anything? this man, ed kemper, she created a horoscope based on kemper's birthplace and time. kemper happened to be a serial killer who murdered six hitch hikers, his grandparents and his own mother. i then gave his horoscope to a class of college students. we gathered their birthdates before, and i told them, don't look at your neighbor's copy. this is personal. this is your 24-page horoscope. the students read the same 25 pages and then said things like, wow, i didn't believe in astrology before, but this is amazing. no one could have known all these things about me. i'm a believer. why would they think kemper's horoscope was theirs? because astrologers and other fortune tellers like psychics and palm readers

but, the gallup poll people released their annual survey the most admired men and women of this yearhe the winners, some of them are politicians. >> yes, president barack obama is most admired living man in any part of the living world. he has held the number one spot beginning the year he what's electric president. 19 percent select him. 6 percent said pope francis. also on the list former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush and reverend billy graham. >> how about for women. >> hillary clinton is most admired living woman for the 13th year in the row. >> i'll than darned. >> still the top spot for 17 of the last 18 years and laura bush. 12 percent chose clinton. 8 percent said oprah winfrey. 5 percent said noble peace prize winner malala. >> liberty medal winner malala right here in philadelphia. >> 4 percent said first lady michelle obama. >> you wand fur there is a multiple choice question. >> i don't know. >> hillary clinton all those years back to back. >> yes. >> i thought pope francis would be number one. >> yeah. >> he will be number one in philly for sure. >> in septe

. >> in delaware, they do a very good job of exercising, a gallup poll shows fewer than half of the peoplee first state exercise on a regular basis. >>> 5:57 is the time. do you have holiday shopping to do this weekend? we have your forecast straight ahead. but first lets get to lauren johnson, hi lauren. >> good morning, chris. racey sex video is circulate nothing a bristol township middle school. police and district attorney are involved. we will have good morning everybody. we are about to make more deliveries to more places than anybody on earth. we have the speed. we have the technology. and we have the team. we made over 15 billion successful deliveries last year. 15 billion! football has a season. baseball has a season. this is our season. >>> a photo sparking outrage on social media, what is even more shocking the man who posted on this photo works for the philadelphia fire department, how city is responding. >>> disturbing video being passed around by students at a middle school in our area, two kids in a sexually explicit video what police are saying about their investigation. >>

gallup reported earlier this year that 64% of american adults say they have occasion to use alcoholicerages and other studies suggest that that increases significantly this evening. there will be tragic ramifications, of course and here is where we caution you to drink responsibly or tack a cab home or uber but let us think of the glass as half full. think about it for a second. most of us tonight will drink whether champagne or beer or wine or liquor it's a process and a tradition older than most of the world's religions. even though it's often bad for us. after all, as frank sinatra once said alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. ♪ ♪ >> for a lot of us tonight's new year's celebration will be occasion to toast with adult beverages in hand. whether you're partial to whiskey as in animal house. >> thanks. i needed that. >> tequila like the three amigos or just a brewski like e.t. your libation is part of a proud tradition thousands of years in the making. there's 10,000 years of human farming and and 2,000 use of engineering and technology and all of th

want you to respond to "gallup poll.."hat they or family member delayed health care due to health costs. is this what we intended for obamacare that people would get care? >> it's a real problem. notion of people directed health care plan where people are responsible for decision an health care choices. that is something pursued in a path to control health care spending. but the idea you ask people to chip in money for discretionary types of decisions, things where they might make a decision about seeking certain medical care where it might not be as necessary. what you don't want to do is expose people to cost of things they actually need much that's what these plans are doing. it is rather indiscriminate. someone might have cans other or chemotherapy could be saddled with tens of thousands of bills. that is what you want insurance to be covering things you need because you god forbid have a catastrophic illness. gerri: i thought this was all going to be so much more affordable? this is so disappointing. none of the promi

and then after it was all over, gallup took a poll and blamed 39% blamed republicans, 37% blamed obama>> we did a segment on it. but i do appreciate your input just the same. no, you're the best, thank you. you're right, the numbers speak for themselves. you know how it goes. you're familiar with the drill. >>> better listen up. guess what is on terrorists' list for this christmas after this. they challenge us. they take us to worlds full of heroes and titans. for respawn, building the best interactive entertainment begins with the cloud. this is "titanfall," the first multi-player game built and run on microsoft azure. empowering gamers around the world to interact in ways they never thought possible. this cloud turns data into excitement. this is the microsoft cloud. >>> a major scare in the air. british intelligence uncovering a terror plot to blow up five european passenger jets over the christmas holiday. officials nearly banning all carry-on luggage over the result of just this one threat. a former cia operative mike baker on which european airports could be vulnerable to such an

. >> reporter: and because he issued the executive order, the gallup poll finds, it's up ten points to 68%. but republicans are encouraged by polls that find about half of american voters want congress to do more to try to roll back those obama executive orders. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >>> we're learning more about a potential blow to the terror group, isis. the lebanese army has arrested one of the three wives of the isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. she and a small child were detained as they tried to speaker lebanon with forged identification panls. the woman may know a great deal about isis, and its inner workings. lebanese security officials tell nbc news, she was detained nine days ago and is still being interrogated. >>> coming up, messages of hate at three separate locations. and tonight, neighbors are talking about the damage as police try to find the vandals. >>> his recovery is nothing short of a miracle. how a local rugby coach defend the odds and walked again, despite suffering a serious injury on the field. >>> an historic moment. 356 years in the making. we'll repor

there was a recent gallup poll -- gallup polls every year and they asked people about whether the amountof money you're spending is affordable for healthcare and they found no change over the last few years. there are people who find it's unaffordable but it's not changing dramatically. host: in chicago democratic caller. hi jerry. caller: a couple of calls ago about medicare. i'm a senior and i have medicare but i have an advantage-plus plan through humana, ok, and i don't need a supplemental plan but i guess it's according to the state you're in. it's like an $8 -- minimum drug coverage through what i have medicare. and i just want to know to tell people if you have medicare and go to another plan do not cancel medicare b because you're going to need that. secondly, i'm also a tax adviser with a reputable tax firm and last year we informed all our class about the mandate and next week we'll be in the office calling my class up and for all those who have shopped in the marketplace to remind them to bring in their 1095-a form so they can determine whether they'll get the -- i'm glad you

out today shows, and we can tweet that, gallup poll shows because presumably these , deductibles thatre proposed in the article they cannot , afford it but it is a policy that if you don't take you are going to be fine. -- you are going to be fine. the government is going to tell you what you have to have it if you don't get the policy 1% of your income or a set amount of dollars will be taken from you, that is government run. >> we are up against the gun a little bit. i will give you 30 seconds to respond. >> i was in shreveport. a woman came up to me and literally said, senator, i want to thank you. a the first time in my life, i have in my five children -- and for 12 orworking here 15 years, have insurance. we have never had a before. $159 a month. so for some people, it is working very well. do we have to fix it and can we tweak it? yes. all he has voted for its repeal 50 times. we need to fix it, not repeal it. i am proud to have tried to help everyone -- the poor, middle class, and the wealthy, get insurance, particularly, because he and bobby jindal -- >> let's move on. >> it i

the latest gallup poll shows the president with a 43% approval rating.great, but it's six points higher than where former president george bush was at the end of his sixth year in office. and recent polling shows obama on an upswing, no doubt a result of americans's growing confidence in the economy. we'll be right back. fact. fast-acting advil is designed with an ultra-thin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core technology stopping headaches and other tough pain. fast. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. [vet] two yearly physicals down. martha and mildred are good to go. here's your invoice, ladies. a few stops later, and it looks like big ollie is on the mend. it might not seem that glamorous having an old pickup truck for an office... or filling your days looking down the south end of a heifer but...i wouldn't have it any other way. lo ok at that, i had my best month ever. and earned a shiny new office upgrade. i run on quickbooks. that's how i own it. why do i take metamucil everyday? because it helps me skip the bad stuff. i'm good. t

the gallup poll has found that she's the most admired woman in the world.he beat out oprah, michelle obama and a host of others. he's been the most popular woman among the last 17 years. not a bad number. sort of the sally fields, they like me, they really, really like like me. >> i think that's part of what you get when you're in the white house. obama is the most admired man. she only beat oprah by 4%. >> how do you see this? it's early and you're going to have this dance and this conversation for the next two years. but how do you see this thing setting up right now as we begin 2015 and the race for the presidency is under way. how do you see it falling out for jeb, chris christie has got some dangling participles out there in investigations. how do you see this playing out for them and hillary clinton? >> the problem for hillary comes if inevitability becomes her only argument. you know i am the front-runner because i'm the front-runner. because as soon as that starts to erode, then the entire argument is gone. the argument for her in 2007 and 2008 was

an individual can have a deductible of $6,000 that they found in the gallup poll that people are forgoing the needed care now more than before obamacare. presumably these deductibles that are proposed in the article they cannot afford it but it is a policy that if you don't take you are going to be fine. the government is going to tell you what you have to have it if you don't get the policy 1% of your income or a set amount of dollars will be taken from you, that is government run. >> moderator: i will give you 30 seconds to respond. landrieu: a woman came up to me. we have never had it before. i $759 a month. so, for some people it is working very well. we have to fix and can we tweak it, yes. all that he's voted for its repeal 50 times. we need to fix it, not repeal it. and i'm proud that we try to help everyone in the portrait poor, the middle class and the wealthy. cassidy: talking mainly highways and bridges i believe it is one out of every nine that is structurally deficient. i drove over one here tonight and i say that because louisiana is $12 billion behind in the bridge and road

a new gallup poll shows president obama's approval rating up ten points to 68% among latinos. that's like big, bear-loving hugs. >> i love that intro. >> major howard. >> reach out to you right now. >> i feel, i feel, i feel the reach out. i see republicans fight immigration and other things by proposing legislation which they know will not get through the senate. using the legislative process as a way of burnishing a future campaign rather than looking to actually govern. >> either burnishing it or destroying it. as that number for hispanic support for the president shows, there's a big risk for republicans in this. i thought it was very interesting that john boehner said that he would consult with his own members about what to do next. because that's what this is all about. it's about internal republican politics, not about reaching a deal with the democrats. don't forget as speaker, john boehner declined time after time after time to bring up for a vote the senate-passed bill on immigration reform, which is sweeping and which not everybody likes. there's something for every

in 1996 gallup asked the question, just about five years after the cold war ended. the question, do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of cuba? 81% unfavorable. barely anybody in the country said they have a favorable view. now four in ten americans say they have a favorable view of cuba. there's a softening of americans' view of cuba. then the political evolution of the cuban/american community. for a generation, for two generations, really, after fidel castro took power in cuba, the cuban/american vote was as rock solid republican as can you find. because the republicans were the hard liners against communism, against castro, in all of those cuban refugees in the united states sided with them. as recently as 2002, 64% of cuban/americans called themselves republicans. just last year they polled that question again. the number is basically dead even. you can see in these numbers why there's political space right now. when you look at florida, the cuban/american community, there's political space right now for president obama to do something like he's doing tod

host: a gallup poll on the top money problem. that is the gallup report from earlier this year. is up next from south carolina. he is an educator. caller: i wanted to reiterate some of the statements about the 20% of high school students who need remedial classes when they reach college. i think that has been a real problem. the net price comment was right on target. unfortunately, it is very hard to find what the true price is of college. in comparison between colleges is very difficult. the credit issue deftly have to be addressed. i've heard stories of people being in one state system, in another state school will not recommend the credits. this have to be addressed nationwide __ requiring some sort of credit to be shared between schools, may have been accredited by the same organization. i went to talk to high school programs. specifically, i am concerned about faculty, and the profession of teaching at colleges and university. it is a real concern. we've seen a jump in positions. we have a program in south carolina where students go to committee college for a few years. the

from gallup, costs still a barrier between americans and medical care. from the "fiscal times," high deductible plans have more people delaying treatment. from "u.s. news & world report," americans unhappy with obamacare shopping experience. and from "the hill," security flaws found in obamacare fecal congratulator. and i could go on. those are just headlines from last week. i could read you similar headlines from the week before and from the week before that. madam president, any way that you look at it, obamacare is a mess. the president promised the law would lower premiums by $2,500. in fact, the average family health care premium has increased by $3,064 since the law was passed and family premiums are still going up. the president promised americans could keep the health care plans that they had and liked. in reality, obamacare has forced millions of americans off their plans. the president promised that americans would be able to keep the doctors that they liked. in fact, americans have lost the doctors they liked and trusted, not to mention access

we have water projects like the navajo gallup project that can't keep waiting. there is money in this bill to keep that project going. communities can't just put their needs on hold because congress is broken. navajo communities in new mexico still need clean water, in fact, every day we delay, their situation gets worse. that's true of so many projects that are funded by the federal government. communities and businesses have to plan, they need concerned. the needs don't go away -- certainty. the needs don't go away so let's get this done. finally, i would like to talk a little bit about the authorization of force that we just produced out of the foreign relations committee. i would urge congress to address another important issue, this issue of the authorization of force. we need to update the authorization of force for our military in light of our changing involvement in a variety of middle eastern conflicts, most notably isis. if we leave without doing this, we are failing the american people, our troops, and shirking our constitutional duty. isis is a bruta

the speaker of the house put out this tweet, that according to gallup one in three americans say they have put off getting medical treatment because of the costs. so what are the problems that need to be fixed to lower the cost? >> guest: well, i'll give you one of them. i was on another radio station this morning. a guy working for a company, he makes $11 an hour, and the company is less than 50 employees, and the owner of the company offers a plan to his employees. now, this guy says on $11 an hour and my family income, i'm not -- that's too much. and i forgot exactly how much it was. but he said it was too much. now, if he rejects the plan he gets from his boss and goes over to the exchange, then he goes into the exchange, but he gets no subsidy, and his costs go up even higher. so we have to, we have to look at this question about affordability. because one of the people they talked about in this article they said it would be the same as the mortgage payment would be my payment for my insurance. i can't live like that. so i've got to let the insurance go. i've got other things i'v

one of the questions gallup routinely asked starting in 1937 was if a woman were otherwise qualifiedto be president of the united states, would you vote for her? i love the phrasing of that. anyway, so -- [laughter] they put out this questionnaire to readers, and it says should wonder woman be allowed to join the justice society? >> my favorite, i don't think we have a slide of that, but my favorite was they were very clever, and i think this was marston's idea, that they put wonder woman's photo twice? it was like this subliminal tactic. >> yeah. there's another questionnaire they send out where it's like six different superheroes, and they're saul acing -- they're all saying vote for me to join the justice society. and then there's a ballot. like, which of us should be allowed to join the justice society? wonder woman's head is huge, and the other guys were like these fifth rate losers, little boy blue, the gray ghost. like, these total benchwarmers. [laughter] and then, and then on the ballot itself which you have to cut out of a page of the comic book, there's like another big he

that from gallup and you can see that online on their website, gallup.com. let's go to fran, waiting in jacksonville, florida. good morning. i am calling to make a comment on this. i have a personal interest in this now. i was displaced from my job seven years ago, and for five years i was holding my breath for health care. i enrolled in the affordable care act in february of this year, and in may got diagnosed with brain's cancer that with breast cancer. i just finished my treatment. i am all clear, i suppose, but i looked at the bills coming in, and there is no way that i would ever be able to pay that off. i could not afford health care before the affordable care act made it available to me. -- i don't know how many people -- who are in my position. and people still in my position because they will not even give it a chance because the republicans have poisoned their minds against it. what could be bad about everybody being able to save their lives? and as far as young people, they are discouraging them as if they do not need health care. that is what the

this is put together by the gallup poll people. >> okay. >> most admired people right now. >> but firstand in are with go to go tomorrow. why not go for a run. coming up why formal a tire is best for one local new years eve race. >> that is a live shot. >> look at them. >>> welcome back just after 8:15 a.m. on a tuesday where maybe you are watching from the comfort of your own home. we are about to head out. either way it is cold, feels so chilly out there because we have had a series of very mild days. right now we have the clouds and snow showers further south, mainly in central delaware, all very light not all making it to the ground but flurries certainly possible there. for the rest of us it will be clouds we will overcome today. overcast right now, probably will be through the rest of the morning but just like yesterday, once we get in the afternoon we should start to see more sunshine especially the further north that you go. so ending the day with a little bit of sun. >> i saw you on the air at 4:00. >> yes. >> i was at home. >> you are laying there in bed, thinking of you. >> y

if you go back to the gallup poll in 2008, during the democratic primary 8% of republican primary voters said they would not vote for an african-american for president even if he was the republican nominee. you know that's got to be rive of the republican party as a whole. there were reasons obama's name was used and it wasn't just because they didn't like obamacare. >> ronald reagan fired the a irtraffic controllers signaling the start of the republican effort to get rid of big unions. now in new york, we're seeing the union members turn their back against the democratic mayor and the republican governor and exmayor coming to the side of the unions. what's changed? >> what's changed is we've had 14 years of lionizing and praising in particular new york city police officers and fireman since 9/11. look, the cops in new york have never -- you can go back to frank serpico in the 1970's, the cops don't like being held accountable for their behavior. i think this is less about who is the mayor and governor and more about a union resistant to any kind of change or oversight. >> jason thanks f

there was a recent gallup poll and they asked people these questions -- is the amount of money you are spending affordable for healthcare. they basically, there's no change over the past few years. there are people who find it is unaffordable, but is not changing. host: jerry from chicago. caller: listen, i want to comment on one of the previous callers. i have medicare but not a supplement. i got an advantage plus plans through humana. i guess it depends on the state you are in. $8 for not enough, a minimum drug coverage to medicate. i just want to know, do not go for medicare b. you never need that. secondly i am also a tax visor with a reputable tax firm. last year we informed all the clients about the mandate. next week, i will be in office calling all my clients to remind them to bring their 1095 form. they can determine whether you got to get the insurance. i'm glad you ladies are out there to exthis to the callers in the country. it is very important. thirdly, for a country like ours, it is hard -- it is not a free enterprise. i think there is something we can do. i wish people