joining us is paul begala and gloria borger. joining us from miami is ana navaro. went through your mind when you read this? >> i thought somebody had too much wine and not taking their medication. it was inappropriate and beyond the pale. one, let's keep the kids off limits. let's -- you know, they are not the ones that ran for an elected office. let's respect the families, really. and, two, things that you say in social media have an effect and do matter. sometimes it amazes me. i've seen perfectly normal people go off and become monsters on social media. let's not do that. let's have a little restraint. it's a lesson for all of us about how we treat families and deal with social media. >> well said, indeed. gloria, i assume you agree? >> i think people ought to have a ten-second delay so before you post something, before you send something, maybe you can reread it and self-edit. what stuns me about this is that this woman is a communications director. she should know a lot better if communications is her life's work and, you know, i totally agree with ana. i'm s

we lost gloria borger. i'll move on. sh via twitter says he is, indeed, thinking of running for president of the united states. we'll talk much more about this. i want to get gloria back on the phone. >>> in other news, the family of a man shot and killed by police at a walmart store in ohio in august is now filing a federal lawsuit. john crawford was carrying a. be b. gun he had just picked up in the store when police approached him. police call it a mistake in there which there were "no bad guys." but the crawford family blames his death on excessive force. our nay cabrera is following the story live from chicago. good morning, ana. >> good morning, carol. this is a federal civil suit that the family and their attorneys are planning to file today in the death of john crawford, iii. this happened back on august 5. the police officers involved want through grand jury proceedings, they were not indicted in the case which is part of what has been the outrage in the recent days and months after several different instances of

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with me now here onset, gloria borger, and our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. to you first. we know this whole thing, this is feinstein and the democrats, and then you have the republicans who fervently disagree of the release of this with the asterisk footnote john mccain today. >> well, you know, john mccain today came out and said, i thought quite eloquently that this is a really hard pill to swallow. and to those people who this is going to give isis another excuse to behead americans. he said they don't need another excuse. this is, you know, this is what they do. but he believes that torture is the wrong thing and it's ineffective. so what you have here is not only a political argument, brooke, but it's two different world views. is torture effective? or is it ineffective? >> that report says it's not. the cia -- >> says it is. >> did the cia mislead congress as members of the intelligence say because they were not briefed. when you hear from intelligence officials, they say we didn't mislead congress. we were not allowed to tell them about parts of this

we have with us today presidential historian douglas brinkley and chief political analyst gloria borgerhis hour on friday before many people are taking off for the holidays. it's great to have you both. gloria, specifically, you wrote an interesting op-ed. the title is -- i love this title -- "own sheds clark kent demeanor, tries on superman costume." tell us what you mean. >> okay, first of all, i'm not saying he's superman but i am saying he is trying to soar a little bit. he's trying to fly. everybody assumes okay, lame duck president, can't get anything done, lost control of the congress. and what he's doing is he's flexing his executive action muscles and he's saying, look, there are things that i can do as president of the united states that i don't need congress for. he's got a list. he's going down it and he's checking it twice as we say at this time of year and it's no secret to anybody, michaela, that this is a president who is frustrated during the last election. he had to stay largely out of in the those red states. he was trying to protect a lot of democrats by not causing

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joining us, ryan lizza and our chief political analyst, gloria borger. ia, he'd be hinting for days now. but all of us were surprised the announcement would come today. >> we thought he might wait till after the new year. but we learned that he was releasing 250,000 e-mails from his time as governor, that he was going to pen an e-book, clear sign. and then today that he's established a leadership pack. six months ago i would have said to you, this man isn't running for the presidency. but i think he took a look at the field and he sees a place for himself in this field. and also he took a look at the democratic field and took a look at hillary clinton and said, i think this time maybe a bush can beat a clinton and that's why he's getting in. >> he also as a former florida governor, pretty popular in florida, speaks spanish, had a lot of hispanic support, florida is critical, if a republican wants to be elected president of the united states, he or she needs to carry florida because the democrat is probably going to carry new york and california. republica

i want to bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger. gloria, we knew this was likely.ngs the last few days that you only do if you're thinking about running for president. nevertheless, to me, at least, this is the first big move of the 2016 race. >> if you've watched the evolution of jeb bush, it's been the evolution of someone who, i would say last summer most people were saying even folks close to him were saying it's 50-50 at best jeb would run and now as he's inched closer to this over the weekend releasing 250,000 e-mails from when he was governor saying he was going to write an e-book, now saying he's going to establish a leadership pac. i think he's looked at the field deciding he could beat anybody who might run. he's also decided this is his moment that he f he doesn't do it now he won't do it. i think he figures that this time bush might actually be able to be a clinton. >> he's not officially running, officially exploring. >> of course, but still, this has to make make things different for people like mitt romney. for people like christie. so-called establi

let's bring in david gehrigen, and cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger.tty unusual. you have dianne feinstein on one hand giving you this impassioned speech. she got the backing of john mccain. but john brennan, issues a statement strongly disagreeing. you've got the other republicans on the intelligence committee saying this is a disaster. john kerry concerned about u.s. diplomats and their security right now. there seem to be so many conflicting messages out there coming from these folks here in washington. >> look. and, wolf, why shouldn't there be. this is the most sweeping condemnation of the central intelligence agency in over 40 years. and what it shows when you lift the veil is what was very often a rogue operation, disagreement in the cia whether what they were doing was appropriate or even worked, deception at all levels, including to congress and perhaps to the president of the united states. and i think that there's got to be conflict over whether this should be released, particularly if you're sitting at the cia. these people are not going to

cnn's gloria borger has that. >> reporter: talk about fear -- >> i am not gay. i never have been gay. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself. >> as much as i did talk about going to -- >> i ended up. >> reporter: no, it wasn't. and now mark sanford and three fellow infamous politicians are the stars of tailspin, an off broadway comedy about their sexual exploits. >> oh, my favorite young staff doing. >> reporter: the entire script is verbatim, the words exactly as they were spoken, texted and tweeted. really? >> this day is ready to do damage. >> it was instant chemistry. >> reporter: starring next to the offended is rachel, you may remember her as "saturday night live"'s debbie downer. now she's live again. >> come on. i'll show you. this is life in the theater. you put on your own makeup. >> reporter: on stage, she plays the wronged wives and the other women, too. from one of anthony weiner's e-mail buddies -- >> i'm a person that strips sometimes. >> reporter: to mark sanford's ar gener argentenian soul mate. >> you hear they were sexting and t

let's bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger. it turns out that political pergatory can spark a conversation with the public about what it takes to be president and what goes into deciding whether you want to run." tell me why this is so important? >> i think in public appearances both candidates are thinking out loud. politicians don't like to do it. think about how much trouble joe biden gets in when he actually thinks out loud. and what they've been talking about, jeb bush, for example, talking about how he could -- he has to think about whether he would want to make his family go through this process. he said, would it be tolerable for his family? he said you also have to be able to lose a primary in order to win a general election so it's clear that he's thinking about the fact that he's out of touch in many cases with the base of his party. hillary clinton herself is talking about the stress of her job and how you need to surround yourself with people who can tell the truth and make fun of you. when she talks about stress,

. >> gloria borger, the president in these final two years, he opened up by saying we're going into the fourth quarter talking about a football game. he says interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter. he's got two years to go. he's setting the stage that he wants to be active every single day. he says i'm not going to stop for a minute in trying to make life better for the middle class of america. >> he was making the argument that's what he's doing. as to why sony might not have called him, maybe they didn't want to call him because they know what his answer would be. his answer would have been i don't think you should do this in the interest of national security. you shouldn't cave into this kind of hack attack. that may be one reason they didn't do it. i think this is a president who is energized and in many ways -- it's been no secret to anybody in washington that he was unhappy with the kind of lead bracelets he had to wear during the campaign and he felt like he had to reign himself in and was getting criticized from the left and criticized from the right and i think now he

let's bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger and dana bash. passed what they needed. they needed 219 votes. they got 219 votes. pretty close there. what's going to happen in the senate? >> well, the expectation at this point is that it will pass but it's probably going to be close and we don't know when it's going to happen. the latest message i got from somebody in democratic leadership is probably today but the definition of today could mean before we go to sleep, which could mean before the sun comes up tomorrow morning because they have to decide when they are going to do it and one of the most fascinating dynamics is over the past couple of years we've been waiting to see if things are going to get passed or not mostly because of republican opposition. this is coming from some republicans but mostly the most outspoken elizabeth warren had not answered the question from me and others about whether she was so opposed to this that she would use all of her powers and she has a lot to stop this. >> it's interesting, gloria. you have tea party

let's bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger.ts may have suffered badly in the midterm elections a month or so ago. >> you would never know it. >> the president is moving forward as if they had a vote of confidence from the american people? >> in talking to some people in the administration they're feeling as if the president felt very constrained by his tactical responsibilities to democrats in the midterm elections which really means, don't move on a lot of stuff you want to move on until the elections are over because you don't want to give them any headaches. as it turns out they had headaches anyway, wolf, and i think the president now is lookilook looking towards his legacy, saying these are the things i want to get done, i promised you that i would engage with our so-called enemies when i ran for the presidency in 2007 and 2008, so their feeling is he's checking some boxes that he wanted to check all along, but felt constrained and frustrated that he couldn't do it. he understands republicans are not going to give him much

gloria borger, you know, the president almost seemed liberated, if you will, to go out and speak cannopenly about many issues. >> he didn't want to engage. he said when we respond it will be proportional at a time and place of our choosing. i won't raise their profile anymore than it already has been raised over a comedy satire. i can't remember the last time i saw the president so cheerful other than when we won re-election actually. he went out of his way to say i'm energized and excited and this is the fourth quarter and great things will happen in the fourth quarter. a lot of interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter, which it often does. he was clearly sending a message to the american people as we've been talking about before he had his press conference. they may call me a lame duck, but i'm going to keep quacking here. this is not over by any stretch. i think he is boyd by what happened over the last several years. >> what will the united states do to retaliate against north korea? >> no question the president is setting out an unyielding position. we'll decide how to respond a

joining us now to discuss all of this and more, our chief political analyst gloria borger, paul begalat gingrich. newt gingrich, of course, the former speaker of the house of representatives. newt, let me ask you quickly. you think the president should go to ferguson, missouri, and meet with the michael brown family? >> no. i think the president has failed to take honest statements about some -- what i think are some obvious facts. he ought to be saying to people, don't rob stores. don't push around storekeepers half your size. don't disobey the police. this whole totally one-sided version, which, by the way. i think this is a very one-sided story. and i think the president, frankly would simply stir more trouble if he were to go to ferguson. i think he ought to stay out of it. there's no case to be made here that i think is not one-sided on the president's case. >> paul, you agree? >> no. the president's the president of all america. and there's a role to heal. i think the timing is problematic right now. give it a few weeks, few months. he's bringing people to the white house. there

jake tapper is here, gloria borger is here. jake, this is something the president clearly wanted to do from early in his administration but couldn't do in part because alan gross was being held a prisoner in cuba. >> that's right. early on in the president's first term, he took steps to -- i wouldn't say normalize relations but to ease restrictions on travel and remittences, cuban americans sending money back to cuba. but this, of course, is a major change. you heard president obama. he didn't give it as the definition of insanity. but the idea that doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result didn't make sense to him was what he invoked. he also did talk about the fact that cuba is still doing arbitrary arrests of human rights activists and the cuban people. and in fact in 2013, the state department's own country report on human rights practices for cuba says most human rights abuses were official acts committed at the direction of the government. the president isn't emphasizing but doesn'

me in my studios in washington, chief washington correspondent jake tapper, political analyst gloria borgertional security correspondent jim sciutto. also joining us from new york, cnn global affairs analyst bobby ghosh, the managing editor of "quartz" and douglas brinkley. the democrats suffered an enormous setback in the house and senate and motivated to move quickly on so many of these issues despite the setback. >> that's right. we had jay carney on earlier and the pundits thinking that president obama was check out, that's not true. i will say, it's not making any impact whatsoever on his job approval numbers. one of the interesting things, if you look at president obama's job approval numbers, they are pretty much immune to the ups and downs that we've covered this past year. the public seems to have, at this point, kind of made up its mind with about 52% disapproving of president obama and early low 40s, 42, 43% approving of president obama. so he goes into 2015 still struggling when it comes to the public's perception. >> gloria, you have a piece on cnn.com that's being widely read.

. >>> and joining us, gloria borger and jeffrey toobin and anna navarro. gloria, the timing therefois surprising. they will not have problem fundraising but why make the announcement so early? >> because he is saying to the funders, don't go to anybody else. but setting up a leadership pac, it is a strong signal, wolf, that he will run. and he causes problems by doing this for chris christie, for marco rubio and maybe even for mitt romney because some of the funders who might have gone to them will now say wait a minute, we have jeb bush in the race so maybe we'll start moving toward jeb. so what i think this does is it kind of forces the other candidates to make their decisions a bit earlier than they had initially anticipated. >> so you agree, it sort of jump starts them into the game and the other candidates on the republican and candidate side a little bit earlier? >> it does. some of them already have leadership pacs, wolf. so for example like rand paul, he's already doing this. but there are others like chris christie who are going to have to decide t

joining us, gloria borger and our senior analyst, ron. gloria, jeb bush is releasing, what?00 e-mails during his eight years as florida's governor. he is writing an ebook. he is going to south carolina and an early primary state. what does all of this say to you? >> i think it means, wolf, that he is more likely to run than not run. and i think what he is trying to do is be very transparent. presidential candidates write books about. they. they like to tell their own narrative before anybody else does. that's what the ebook is about. releasing the e-mail is about transparency and programs saying to other republicans, okay, i'm doing this. what about you folks? you have to be transparent, too. and i think he is sort of putting it all out there saying these are my ideas. these are my e-mail from when i was governor. now you decide. >> ron, could some of those e-mails ruffle some feathers out there? >> it is hard to believe there won't be some out of 250,000 e-mails in the modern era that won't raise some hackles in the party. but with jeb bush, what is in front of the curtain

let's talk about all of this and more with our cnn national analyst bob beir, paul crookshank and gloria borgeron this sensitive issue, whether or not the information obtained during these enhanced interrogation techniques helped save lives, helped find bin laden. >> unknowable is the word of the day. when you look at john brennan, you have to understand what he's trying to do is serve a lot of masters here. he's serving the president of the united states, who is ambivalent about this. he's serving the cia, whom he has to defend. and he also knows that in the future, if he stays as cia director, and i believe he will, that he has to repair a relationship with the democrats on that intelligence committee. so what he was saying is, you can't draw a direct line, and he's probably right about that by the way, wolf, between a and b. because in the case of osama bin laden, as we know, interrogators were lied to, but it was the lie that made them think twice about that important courier. so is that a result of torture or not a result of torture? so brennan, again, walking this fine line and nobody ask

gloria borger went behind the scenes. >> reporter: talk about political theater. >> i am not gay.been gay. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself. >> as much as i did talk about going on the appalachia trail. is that where i ended up? >> no it wasn't. and now mark sanford and three fellow infamous politicians are the stars of tail spin, an off-broadway comedy about their sexual exploits. >> how is my favorite person. >> and they are verbatim, exactly as how they were spoken, texted or tweeted. >> this thing is ready to do damage. >> it was instant chemistry. >> and standing next to them is rachel drach. you may remember her as saturday night live's debbie downer. and now she is live again. >> come on, i'll show you. >> this is life in the theater. when you leave tv temporary, you put on your own makeup. >> she played the wronged wives and the other women too. from one of anthony wiener's buddies. >> i'm just a person. >> to mark sanford's argentina cell pate and now his former mystery. >> can you believe all of this stuff was real? >> the thing i was most shocked at

let's get our chief political analyst gloria borger. wanted to do since taking office. he spoke about it during the campaign as well. >> he talked about it during the campaign and clearly doing it now because first of all he has mr. gross free and he said yesterday that stood in the way of this. but i think it is part of a larger think for this president, which is that he's a lame duck who doesn't want to be a lame duck. he has a lot of things on his to-do list and he figured, you know what, i'm going it with or without the congress. and if you look back, it's been less than two months since the election and you look back at what he's done on immigration, climate change and what he just did on cuba, he is suddenly this energized president who is not only setting his legacy but also in a very interesting way, wolf, setting the agenda for the 2016 campaign because he's forcing republican candidates to react. >> and he's getting surprising support, not just from democrats but even republicans. rand paul today, who may be a republican presi

. >> gloria borger is with us as well. 13-year-old, 16-year-old, clearly off limits. >> off limits.a ten-second delay before you can post something like that on your -- >> facebook page or tweet something like that. particularly since this is a person whose expertise is in the realm of communications, wolf. she ought to know better. i think everyone ought to move on from it. it is kind of a sad story. >> let's talk a little about, is it really possible there could be another government shutdown in the next few days? >> if i say no, which is what i really think and it happens, what will happen? will you come back and -- who knows? no. i really don't think it will happen. the republican leadership are absolutely, they're determined not to let the government shut down. more importantly, most of the rank and file republican who's push for a government shutdown last year because of obamacare don't want to do that with this. they don't think there's any way they can actually achieve what they want to. which is to stop, the whole reason we're talking about this. to try to push back on the

want to bring in our chief congressional correspondent dana bash and our chief political analyst gloria borgerspending bill, passed barely by one vote, passed the house of representatives yesterday. what's going to happen in the senate, because the deadline is monday? >> i literally just came here from capitol hill. what's going on in the senate is they believe on the democratic side that they have convinced elizabeth warren that she kind of has won the battle, if not the war. that she's made it clear that she's very much opposed to this and she's not going to hold up this bill much longer. the issue now is the other side of the spectrum, ted cruz and other republicans, they're still giving their republican leadership some heartburn over when this is going to get done. i think at this point the issue is when, not if. will it be this weekend, monday, tuesday? again, there will not be a government shutdown, they will do what they need to do to keep the government running. the question is whether this big bill, $1 trillion, is going to pass. >> she'll vote against it, but she's not going to maneu

. >> gloria borger is with us. i want to play another little clip.ge on the specific issue of mitch mcconnell working with the president. this is from dana's interview. >> your meeting with the president went well. why did it go so well? >> it was unusual. we had a chance to talk very much. in his defense, he didn't need us the first two years. he had huge majority in the house and senate. the last four years he controlled the senate them guaranteed they never got anything he didn't like. now he needs to talk to us. that's good. when the american people elect a divided government, they're not saying they don't want anything done. they are saying they want it done in the political center, things that both sides can agree on and in the conversation last week, we talked about the things where there may be some agreement. >> famously at the beginning of the obama presidency said that your political goal was to make him a one-term president. what is your goal now that he just got two years left, but flower you're going to be the majority leader and it is

let's bring in gloria borger, jeffrey toobin and dana bash. thank you very much for joining us.ere's been a lot of this back and forth all day today between the president and sony about the decision to pull the film. president obama said he wished sony had called them, sony pushing back to our own fareed zacaria saying he didn't have much choice. how much blame goes to sony and how much to the theaters? >> this is really the decision of the theaters. since 1948, a supreme court decision, movie studios are not even allowed to own theaters. so this was not sony's decision. but i think this misses the main point, which is that sony has been left out twisting in the wind by the other entertainment companies, who have not stepped up and shown any solidarity at all. where is disney? where is comcast universal? where is our parent company, time warner? you know, these are the people who are really at risk. do you think north korea is going to stop with this one movie? this just shows that these companies have acted in a small minded way, in a shortsighted way when it's not just the gov