nbc's hallie jackson is here. good to see you. rubio, immigration. >> yeah. this has been a big issue for him over the last few days. he will certainly be asked about it and interactions with the media afterwards and we may hear about it in his speech at the sunshine summit. he's defending himself after ted cruz went on the attack given that he was a supporter of the immigration bill in 2014, a position he's backed away from since then as immigration's become a hot topic on the trail. getting the vibe of the sunshine summit here, it's a hometown crowd for governor bush, for senator rubio. i just met a young man who's 17, he skipped school to come here and see marco rubio -- >> he skipped school -- >> his parents know about it. he's not old enough to vote but likes senator rubio. >> do you think immigration will be discussed, except with the possibility of donald trump, in a different way than we've been hearing it on the stump? >> you have to look at the audience. we're here in florida. this is a crowd that's sort of the establish

nbc's hallie jackson reports. >> you might not recognize every face but every one is an american icon, filling the east room, 17 honorees in all. >> you're going to need a bigger boat. >> from the director of jaws, steven spielberg. to stephen sondheim, maker of musical theater's most memorable lyrics among the newest recipients of the presidential medal of freedom picked by president obama for exceptional service to their country, culture and communities. >> they represent what's best in us. we're very proud. the highest honor civilians can receive. any ones who have a grammy. or seven. or on oscar. recognized not just the funny girl. but the ground-breaking women. shirley chisolm, the first african-american woman in congress, nasa's katherine hamilton, so good at math that before john glenn piloted friendship 7 he insisted she double-check the computer.

hallie jackson has the story. this morning, republican presidential candidate ben carson will visit with syrian refugees in jordan... the surprise trip overnight coming amid controversy... ... when the retired neurosurgeon made a comparison between refugees and dogs... carson sot: we have to have screening mechanisms to determine who the mad dogs are, quite frankly... who are the people who are coming to kill us? in iowa, carson has dropped to third place... as foreign policy takes center stage in the gop presidential primary... but ben carson isn't the only candidate coming under fire for controversial comments... donald trump's latest twitter tirade? aimed at the new york times - demanding an apology... trump denying he mocked reporter serge kovalesi's congenital joint condition. trump: 19;58;30;27 "ohhhhh i don't know what i said! i don't remember!" trump -defending his now widely-debunked claim that thousands of new jersey muslims cheered 9/11 used a 2001 kovaleski article in the washington post citing alleged

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i wanted to, you know, try to stop him. >> here. >> hallie adams takes the belt from her husband. >>i believe she got it away from him. and she wanted to stop him. but at the same time she had to make it look like she was on his side, otherwise he would turn against her. >> you turn over, i'm going to spank you on your butt. you turn over like a 16-year-old and take it like a grown woman. turn over. >> she won't. she's disobedient. >> let me do it. >> give it to me. >> turn over. >> she was trying to protect me by keeping hold of the belt. because if she took the weapon away from him, hopefully that would make him cool off just a little bit. >> i took the belt away from him and he asked for a bigger one. >> i'll go get another one. >> turn over! >> hallie says she hopes he'll let it drop if she makes a show of disciplining hillary. >> i knew he was outside the room. i was talking loud, talking mean, hoping he would overhear me. >> all the way on your stomach. thank you. >> hillary is stunned when her mother hits her with the belt. >> at that point i didn't understand the complexity o

lester. >> hallie, thank you. >>> let's bring in chuck todd. chuck, the whole idea of a data base, it has chilling connotations. what is happening here? >> it has. i think in many cases we see what happens when the politics of fear mixes in with an actual fear of terrorism. i mean, you look at sort of the political response this week and how our political discourse was conducted this week, after the paris attacks, one week later and you can't help but wonder what would happen if god forbid, something happened here. could our political system as it is structured right now, could the republican party as it is structured, could washington, could the media handle it in a sober way? could we put ourselves above toll picks right now.p right noo right nol right noo right not right noi right noc right nos right now. politically, it is clear that what has happened here is that donald trump is successfully conflating the immigration issue that sky rocketed him to the top of the polls. and replace the word mexicans with muslim. so he has taken a national

but as our hallie jackson explains, they are leaving on a bit of a political cliff hanger. >> reporter: from candidates, a kind of presidential pardon. >> i'm pardoning it for being ugly. >> reporter: giving turkeys a break, while they take one. most off the campaign trail for the holiday. >> the holiday presents an opportunity to maximize your exposure to voters, whether it is at thanksgiving day parades. >> reporter: still a slower holiday week makes momentum key. whether you have it or you don't. like ben carson, slipping double-digits in the latest iowa poll. at the same time ted cruz surging there. to within striking distance of donald trump who issued this warning last week. >> if he catches on, then i guess we'll go to war. >> the two, the political bromance cooling on a collision course. >> no one could predict what trump is going to say next. but from cruz point's of view, he will play this very cool. >> but watch for cruz to draw distinctions on policy if he is attacked by trump. who spent his thanksgiving week with family. a rare appearance by his wife on the campaign trail.

and nbc's hallie jackson has faces of the crisis who did find refuge in america. >> reporter: beaten in syria, not just kamal, his 6-year-old son too. assad's policemen broke his arm, kamal says, before the family escaped to find a better life in houston. >> i miss my mother and my father and my friends. >> reporter: like him, half of the 2,000 syrian refugees in the u.s. are kids. fewer than 50 are single males of combat age. but it is that group that is most alarming for some. >> we cannot let terrorists take advantage of our compassion. >> reporter: republican leaders are hoping to press pause on letting syrians into the u.s. with the white house doing damage control today as more than half of the nation's governors so worried about security, say they are refusing, opposing, or suspending syrian refugee resettlement. the states don't really have the authority to do that. but congress does. >> i think it is absolute lunacy. >> senator ted cruz int tends to introduce a bill to block refugees. now the subject of political ads, the refugees a top issue for presidential candidates, jeb

and i would just say that we're very pleased with where we are in this campaign. >> that was hallie jacksonorting. let's welcome syndicated columnist bob franken this morning. happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving to you, dara. by the way, there is no proof to the rumor, no proof whatsoever, that among the balloons in the macy's day parade will be one of donald trump. >> oh. that would be interesting, though, wouldn't it? >> well, there are those who suggest that with all his hot air that perhaps he should be in the parade. >> oh, i should have seen that one coming. >> that's right. you're a very good straight -- >> bob i do have a question. they're taking a bit of a thanksgiving break for the candidates but they've got iowa ahead, and two republicans, maybe not so restful because you've got ted cruz moving up and ben carson moving down. what is going on there? >> well, what i think is going on is that -- that ben carson was very, very hurt by his display of lack of knowledge, at least the lack of confidence, when it comes to foreign relations. with all the attention that's now b

hallie jackson is with the christie campaign in new hampshire.kasie hunt is in iowa where ted cruz and jeb bush are both holding town halls. here in new york, donald trump is sticking to his story on 9/11. he still insists that thousands were cheering in new jersey when the twin towers fell. told our own chuck todd that he expects the footage to emerge, despite local officials, police, and journalists, debunking his account. >> we're looking for clips and i wouldn't be surprised if we found them, chuck, but for some reason, they're not that easy to come by. i saw it, so many people saw it, chuck. and so why would i take it back? i'm not going to take it back. >> donald trump isn't winning favor within the republican party. jeb bush and john kasich both had trouble saying that they would support trump should he become the nominee. outside of the ring of candidates, trump is having just as much endorsement trouble, he had to cancel an event where he planned to unveil the endorsement of a hundred black pastors. support fell short of that leader. rel

>> hallie jackson? he seems to be making a point that could resonate well tonight if he does it again at the debate. >> reporter: let's be honest, it would be surprising to not hear this kind of language coming from donald trump tonight. i just got off the phone with a top aide to the trump campaign who says they are looking forward to tonight. they are not revealing much about their strategy as it were. mr. trump is still in new york heading to milwaukee today. some of the other campaigns have done walk-throughs. it's interesting, donald trump on the debate stage has had a couple good debates but also at some points in the last few debates has faded into the background a little bit. there have been long stretches where we didn't necessarily hear from trump, where he had a couple good moments, for example, at the last debate. he had that lehman brothers slam against governor kasich. so he has these moments where he can shine, but overall, it's not as though the debate is doing for him what it does for,

hallie jackson is in milwaukee with the rubio campaign.in new hampshire with the clinton campaign. i'll start with jeb bush who may be running out of chances to make it back into the top tier in the republican race. today, bush stumping in wisconsin with scott walker at an event promoting school choice. bush aiming to capitalize to one of his key issues. >> quite simply, when you empower parents, giving them the power to choose, everybody gets better. >> msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt joins us now from that bush event in waukesha, wisconsin. going into the last debate, everybody was saying jeb bush needed a break-out performance. out of the debate, jeb bush was apologizing to his supporters for botching it and saying he'd get it right this time. any reason to believe they've come up with a new formula that will work for this one. >> i've been talking to some of governor bush's top aides, about school choice, and i think you are going to see something of at least a tempered approach in this debate. they feel like bush turned in go

lester. >> hallie jackson. thank you. >>> for the first time since allegations of widespread doping among russian athletes surfaced this week, putin addressed accusations that his country encouraged athletes to cheat. with a friday deadline looming with possible suspensions for the 2016 rio games, putin himsmsf has promised to cooperate with the investigation. nbc's keir simmons reports. >> reporter: vladimir putin welcoming the world to sochi for last year's winter olympics where russia won 33 medals, more than any other country. but today in sochi, he was scrambling to contain a doping scandal that could bar russian athleteu from next year's olympipi. >> we have identified possible criminal violations. >> reporter: accused of state-sponsored doping of the athletes at sochi and the 2012 london games, russia was at first defiant. but today putin acknowledged that russia has a problem. promising what he called the most open and professional cooperation with internional anti-doping structures thx week's damming r

hallie jackson, nbc news, washington. >>> we have a lot more to cover. just ahead from paris, we go inside of the horror at the concert hall. new images just coming in as we hear a chilling story of survival. how strangers crowded together in the dark in total silence, barricaded behind a door as so many were massacred on the other side. >>> back now from paris. and we want to take you inside of the scene of the deadliest attack at the bataclan concert hall. new images coming to light minutes before the gunman burst in and began firing on the crowd. so many smiling faces, having a good time, listening to the music and waving at the camera. and a shocking image from after. the horrifying carnage. so many bodies on the dance floor covered with blood. tonight we hear from a survivor who ran for cover as the gunfire began, terrified and hiding for hours behind a barricaded door. the terrorists on the other side. >> it is a great picture. people having fun. >> yes. >> for dennis, friday night's visit to the bataclan concert hall was a rare chance to see his f

lester. >> hallie jackson, thanks. >>> still tonight, tracking terror. how the same technology used to lock our smartphones may be thwarting efforts to track extremists and others to stop another attack. now finges are being pointed at biggest names in silicon valley. rs are being pointed at biggest names in silicon valley. >>> we're back from paris. the site of the attacks that reignited a fight back home in the u.s., pitting privacy against security. one of the top prosecutors called on congress for more authority over silicon valley to unlock smartphones, because, as pete williams reports, the same technology that protects the contents of our phones could protect terrorists as well. >> reporter: an urgent question after an act of terrorism, are others involved? french police say a discarded smartphone contained important evidence about friday's attacks. but new york city top prosecutor warns that u.s. police are hitting a road block investigating crimes here. phones lock when they are inactive or turned off. if they are found at a crime scene and have

lester. >> hallie jackson, thanks. >>> a big health scare for chipolte, which te, whicle has shut down dozens of restaurants amid news of an e. coli outbreak. people sickened and hospitalized after eating at the restaurant. and investigators are warning there could be a spike in cases. nbc's miguel almaguer with late details. >> reporter: the e. coli outbreak linked to chipotle, the popular chain that promoted the mexican food made from fresh, healthy ingredients has hospitalized at least eight people with 22 reported sick in washington state and oregon, a number expected to rise. >> the day i went to the e.r. is when i started to feel it. >> ashley became violently ill three days after she ate at this portland area chipotle. >> i was terrified that i was going to go to bed and not wake up. >> the very young and the elderly are the most vulnerable to becoming sick from e. coli. with no cause for the outbreak identified, chipotle says up to eight of the kitchens may be connected to the contamination. over the weekend, chipotle voluntarily shut down every location, 43 of them in washingt

as our hallie jackson tells us, some of the biggest names in movies, music, sports and more gathered to receive the nation's highest civilian honor. the medal of freedom. >> reporter: you might not recognize every face. but every one is an american icon. today filling the east room. 17 honorees in all. from the director of jaws, steven spielberg, to steven san heim, maker of the most memorable lyrics. among the newest recipients of the presidential medal of freedom, picked by the president for exceptional service to their country, culture and communities. >> they represent what is best in us. and we are very, very proud. >> reporter: the highest honor any civilian could receive, even ones who already have a grammy. or seven. or an oscar. recognized today, not just the funny girl, but the ground-breaking women. shirley chism, the first african-american woman in congress, katherine hamilton, so good at math before john glenn piloted seven he insisted she double check the computer. honorees range from those who play beautifully, to those who played beautifully. willie mays at the white

even in a state where the establishment candidates have done well. >> hallie jackson, thank you. >>> it is early in the season but a record breaking first snow has fallen in the southwest. flagstaff, arizona got five inches, the most recorded for this time of the year. a winter advisory is in effect until late this evening. and in texas, tomorrow, the same system is expected to put 16 million people will be in the panel of severe weather. >>> still ahead, the expensive new cholesterol drug that a young man desperately needs an the ceo of the company that makes it opening up about why the price is so high. he says it is completely justified. >>> also the new set of wheels for kids who were missing on out a childhood rite of passage until now. >>> tonight nbc news is getting answers. rare insight into the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. a crushing burden for tens of millions of americans. why do medications cost so much more here than in other countries. nbc's anne thompson spoke with a drug company ceo that a problem for so many people means your money or your life. >> report

probably not the last. >> hallie jackson, thank you very much. >>> much more on the political fallout in paris tomorrow mourng on meet the press. how do we defeat isis? tonight, 22 million americans are under winter storm warnings and advisories across the midwest which broke records this morning with more to come. mike seidel has more from the hard hit suburbs of chicago. >> the midwest slammed with heavy snow. from secretary of defense -- south dakota to illinois. more than a foot in some areas. >> these bushes have fallen completely down. >> ice and wet snow blanketed roadways creating dangerous conditions causing multiple accidents. in the suburbs of chicago near white out conditions, on i-80 the semi overturned. outside des moines firefighters had to rescue a woman whose suv slid off the road and into a creek. plows out in full force this morning. removing the snow nearly as quickly as it was falling. >> with the temperature falling in the single digits we want to make sure to get on the pavement and get a healthy amount of salt down before it freezes. >> reporter: in iowa stadiu

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our hallie jackson takes a look as carson seems to be solidifying his place as front-runner. >> reporter: received like a rock star, today in florida. one of the kawhiest candidates, ben carson, greeted fired-up fans. [ singing ] >> i continue to do what i've been doing and that is to tell the truth and talk about the issues that are important to the people. >> reporter: carson now the first or second choice for fully half of the people we polled. the new republican front-runner also at the front of a fight to shake-up gop debates. his advisers part of a huddle of campaigns ub happy with the last debate. on stage all adversaries but around the table accompliced angry and looking for these demands. 30 seconds for opening and closing statements. control over on screen graphic and no lightning rouous and room temperature below 67. no sweat for them. but there is the heat as the campaigns cut out party leaders to deal directly with tv networks. >> this is similar to what the campaigns did in the previous two cycles. >> to hell with the press. >> but now a curveball with trump negotiating sep

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