coming up next on abc, abc's very own jake tapper on jimmy kimmel. good night, america. >>> up next on an all-new "jimmy kimmel live" -- >> that can help you lose your job, it's called facebook. >> mel brooks. >> how did you get into show business in the first place? >> that's really none of your business. >> from abc news, jake tapper. music from jason aldean. and "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> wow. this world is steeriously [ bleep ] have a good night. here you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagagen. visit vwdealer.com today. >>> hi, i'm jimmy kimmel with a word about the new windows phone 8 from microsoft. it's

very own jake tapper on jimmy kimmel. good night, america. >>> up next on an all-new "jimmy kimmel live" -- >> that can help you lose your job, it's called facebook. >> mel brooks. >> how did you get into show business in the first place? >> that's really none of your business. >> from abc news, jake tapper. music from jason aldean. and "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> wow. this world is steeriously [ bleep ] up. >>> hi, i'm jimmy kimmel with a word about the new windows phone 8 from microsoft. it's the only phone that uses live customizable tiles that allow you to make your phone as unique as you are. to show you more, it's time to play "guess that famous person." and let's meet our contestants tonight. contestant number one, someone we picked from among our studio audience, cliff. wrf are you from? >> riverside, california. >> jimmy: riverside, california. our opponent tonight is resident celebrity expert, yehya. hello, yehya. >> hello, jimmy. >> jimmy: you can identify any celebrity. what? >> genius director.

jake tapper is here. i've been reading this. it's actually great. also the guy who, on election night, famously taught us this. >> i just want to make sure that everybody's clear on the fact that barack obama's not white. >> jimmy: that's the first i was hearing of it. and then, a multiple platinum selling country artist, jason aldean, from the bud light outdoor stage. jason will be performing on the american music awards, this sunday night here on abc, so, watch him there. we've got a very good lineup next week. tim allen been here, eric stonestreet, l.a. reid, simon cowell, demi lovato and music from amy mann and james mercer and flo rida will be here, too, so please watch it. if it weren't for our first guest tonight, the world might never have discovered how a very funny nazis hunchbacks can be. he holds the brain behind classics like "the producers," a monday more great films. a new box set celebrating his 65 years in entertainment, the incredible mel brooks, an irresistible collection of unhinged comedy is out now. please welcome mel brooks. [

please welcome jake tapper.nd applause) jake, good to see you again, thanks for coming back. all right, jake, we're going get to the book in just a second here but first, you're a newsman, you're like the premier white house correspondent of network tv. right now. >> okay. >> stephen: white house, people think tapper. what other stories, now that the election is over, where has the news moved to right now because i did about two minutes on the fact that they are not charging their cell phones on homeland tonight. >> that was a good point, good point. >> stephen: well, thank you. the peabody people are watching i'm ready to submit. what's everybody talking about? >> the fiscal cliff. >> stephen: fiscal cliff, yeah. >> trillions of dollars of spending cuts and tax increases that are going to happen when the ball drops on new year's eve unless president obama and congress come to some sort of compromise. >> stephen: all right so, we're all doomed. >> it's like the movie thaw you have to either cut off your arm or d

abc senior white house correspondent jake tapper tells us the latest on this duel that would affect every single american family. >> reporter: the manufacturers of these angry birds building sets in pennsylvania will later this week be visited by president obama as he makes his case for raising tax rates on wealthier americans as part of a larger deal with congress. and while the president is not trying to provoke anger necessarily, he is trying to drum up passions for his proposal. meeting with small business owners today such as texas crop duster manufacturer, david ikert. >> there was a lot of talk in the room about certainty. small business wants certainty so they can plan, strategically look at how we move forward. >> reporter: and releasing these showing them pleading for their tax cuts to be extended. >> if you take away the $2,200 from my paycheck, it would severely impact my family. >> reporter: while those for wealthier americans are allowed to expire. >> we're not going to solve this problem by creating villains and drumming up outrage. >> reporter: republicans today slammed th

jake tapper remembers. he day jake's son was born, our white house correspondent heard the story of other american sons at one far out post and a terrible battle. jake set out on a three-year quest to bring us their story from the northwest reaches of afghanistan. >> what's up, dude? >> not a thing. >> reporter: for years the troops at combat outpost keating feared they were sitting ducks. located at the bottom of three steep mountains 14 miles from the pakistan border. and when the taliban attack finally did happen in october 2009, seen here in this terrifying video posted months later, the 53 u.s. troops there were horribly outnumbered by 400 enemy fighters. >> well were alone, isolated. air support was too far away. that location was indefensible. >> reporter: why was the doomed outpost put there, why would the u.s. military leave them so open to attack? captain ross burkeoff was an intelligence officer and one of the first assigned to keating in 2006 >> we knew there were weapons, fighters, supplies movi

our jake tapper, with powerful lessons with some american men who became heroes for country and for each other. >>> good evening on this veterans day monday. and as we come on the air, new details are pouring in about the man in charge of so many of the nation's secrets, general david petraeus, forced to resign. and what about the woman at the center of his story? tonight, new questions, as well, about what was really going on and when and the avalanche of e-mails now beginning to emerge. abc's martha raddatz reports in now. martha? >> reporter: diane, an official tells abc news tonight, the fbi discovered hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mails between david petraeus and paula broadwell on her computer, an affair that petraeus is claiming did not begin until he left the army. a friend close to petraeus says the general was "shocked and surprised" to learn broadwell had been sending anonymous threatening e-mails to jill kelley, the petraeus family friend who was so alarmed by the e-mails, she called the fbi. those friends also tell us the general's wife, holly petraeus, is furious with he

>> jake tapper here in ohio with me tonight. jake and i have been crisscrossing each other, covering both of these campaigns. with the race this close tonight, it will all come down to which campaign can get the vote out. in one cleveland suburb today, we discovered that dueling campaigns can watch each other from across the street. we're here at the obama-biden field office in one of the sub burrs surrounding cleveland, aus just to give you an idea of how crucial these votes are in the suburbs, how competitive both campaigns are, i wanted to show you how long it would take us to get from the obama field office to the romney field office. we literally drove down the parking lot and, well, look across the street. there's romney-ryan. how are you? >> good to see you. >> reporter: few days left. that's where we started, with the team trying to unseat the president. and they know they need ohio. inside, you can sense it. they know they have just few precious hours left. so, this is the buzz, two days out. >> can i speak with michael

. >> let's go back to jake tapper and david muir with the campaigns. jake, let me start with you, clearly the excitement is starting to build inside the obama headquarters. they sense something is happening. >> reporter: indeed, george. president obama said earlier today that he could see this election spilling into tomorrow, but it does not seem right now that they think that's going to happen. you have all sorts of indications that president obama is getting prepared to come here to the mccormick center and we have all sorts of indications including cameramen getting into position up in the rafters there, sound systems being checked. it seems as though people are preparing to are a speech to be delivered sometime in the next hour, so people are getting excited, and as we have seen the projections being made and every single one of the states, the romney campaign was suggesting might fall into their column, pennsylvania, wisconsin, minnesota has gone to president obama. new hampshire, a growing recognition that this does look like a good night for pres

two and a half years ago, our own senior white house correspondent jake tapper saw the faces of somew he had to write their story. and his new book, which comes out tomorrow is called "the outpost: an untold story of american valor." >> reporter: on october 3rd, 2009, i was at the hospital with my wife and my newborn son. out of the corner of my eye i caught a news story from afghanistan. >> eight soldiers lost their lives. >> reporter: an attack on a remote u.s. military base, combat outpost keating. >> i've been on three deployments, i've never seen that large a force attacking one static position. >> reporter: just 53 americans fought valiantly against up to 400 taliban insurgents. shown here on this terrifying video posted months later. and as i held my son, i learned of eight other sons taken from us that day, in what was the deadliest day for the u.s. in afghanistan that year. over the next two years, i tracked down the stories of the eight men lost that day. kevin thompson. josh kirk, michael scusa, chris griffin, josh hardt, verve mon martin and stephon mace. i wondered why t

and now we go to abc's white house correspondent jake tapper here to tell us what the white house is saying tonight. jake? >> reporter: well, diane, senior white house officials tell us the overwhelming emotion here is surprise and, of course, sorrow, for a colleague and his family. white house officials were told about this on wednesday, the day after president obama was re-elected. they were told by the director of national intelligence, james clapper. on thursday, president obama was informed about this situation. the entire situation, the fbi investigation, as well as the affair. general petraeus called the national security adviser, said he wanted to talk to the president. at that meeting yesterday, he offered to resign. president obama thought about it and today called petraeus and accepted that resignation. the new acting director of the cia will be the number two, the deputy director, with whom president obama has worked closely during the osama bin laden raid, planning, for instance, and he has the inside track. but this does come at an awkward time for the cia. they are goin

jake tapper, what else are you seeing?they're clearly getting ready for the president to come out. remarks were put out the they are running as they have been for several hours now, these videos that have been a very popular part of the obama campaign. with supporters. they have been, running them. this of course is the famous fired up, ready to go speech, which president obama likes to tell at the end of his campaigns. he did it in 2008. he did, guess, last night in des moines, possible that was last night. last night in des moines he told the story about a little old lady at a campaign stop during desperate time for his campaign. and you hear president obama chanting, fired up, ready to go. the crowd very excited. a smaller cr eer crowd than we d to. >> president obama expected to come out. >> now, look at this. >> george, they're raising the curtains of course, a whole bunch of people there, in the stand behind me. president obama will come out any minute. [ cheers and applause ] >> he will be surrounded by supporters w

says romney has not called president obama yet but we want to go to jake tapper who is in chicago ande crowd is growing there as well. not quite as big as four years ago, jake, but just as much excitement. >> reporter: they are, indeed, just as excited although, of course, it's not the same, not the same crowd, it's not al gore's. it's not the same type of moment we experienced four years ago but that's always been the case with the election. -- the president was not drawing the same crowd he drew four years ago but was drawing bigger crowds than his opponent. would have been interested if he ran against him but he wasn't, he was running against mitt romney. victory in a lot of states that were very hard fought. also a victory for polling. for the poll numbers that ultimately proved correct even though there were many, many skeptics on the other side of the aisle saying that the poll numbers were wrong, that the turnout was going to be quite different. it turned out it was as many respected polls said it was going to be but this is a very historic moment, the third president in a row

for "nightline," jake tapper in washington. >>> the heroes, thanks to jake. thank you for watching abc news. jimmy kimmel is up next. we will see you here tomorrow. >> jimmy: i am jimmy kimmel with a word about windows phone 8 from microsoft. the only phone that uses live customizable tiles that allow you to make your phone as unique as you are. to show you more it is time to play "guess that famous character." [ cheers and applause ] and tonight, ctestant one, a gentleman we picked from studio audience, jose. where are you from? >> san diego, california. >> jimmy: jose from san diego. and our resident celebrity expert, yehya, ready to do battle, yehya? you know every celebrity there is? >> y know me. >> jimmy: thank you, yehya. the start screen of a famous character's phone. guess who this phone belongs to based on customizable tiles. you will see three tiles. and the first clue is the weather channel app. it says north pole, negative 26 fahrenheit. blizzardy. your second clue from the friend tile. that clue says, argggh, argggh. and for a final clue. one of

let's bring that to jake tapper in chicago. and are they feeling it right now in chicago, jake? you have the people here in this arena who are cheering both every time there is a state projection for a victory. new hampshire was a big one. pennsylvania a big one. minnesota, of course. but then, the question, of course, of what's going on in obamaland. president obama is in his hyde park home in chicago with his family. some campaign aides telling me there is a lot of cautious optimism. it's not over yet. we still have to hear from ohio and wisconsin. the obama team feeling good as matt dowd has observed. the projections they made about the electoral about who would turn out today have so far, and it could change, but so far has proven correct. so there is a lot of excitement about that state of ohio. there was a lot of focus by the obama team and their allies on ohio. on making sure that they had field offices. there were 131 obama campaign field offices in ohio, compared to 40 for romney. 100,000 campaign ads for obama in ohio, compared to 40,000 for romney. that state is like

jake tapper, he's out with an untold story of american valor. to have you in studio. and msnbc contributor jack jacobs. >> and jake's here on an important day. "new york post" is reporting that jake has told all his viewers not to watch abc. that is, quote, filth, and it's against his religion. >> oh, wait a second. that's the "two and a half men" -- >> i tweeted lewis' number to everybody. >> congratulations on the book. from everything we've heard, it's remarkable. but first, let's go to the fiscal cliff. >> this morning's "washington post" says talks between top republicans is accelerating. they must contend with members of the president's own party who are pushing back to proposals to significantly reshape entitlement programs like medicare and social security. white house press secretary jay carney yesterday said that the president is open to compromise should republicans make a realistic proposal on taxes. >> math tells us that you can't get the kind of balanced approach that you need without having rates be part of the equation. it simply

his new book is called "the outpost, an untold story of american valour" jake tapper, thank you for being rachel. good to be here. >> what did you learn on focusing on this one outpost that you felt like you couldn't learn from reporting on the war as a whole? >> when you talk about the war as a whole, whether it is 66,000 troops or 100,000, it just becomes vague in its kind of esoteric goals. what exactly are we trying to achieve there? what exactly are we accomplishing? by drilling down on this one combat outpost, combat outpost keating built at the bottom of three steep mountains 14 miles from the pakistan border and going over the entire life span of it from the push up north to get there in 2006 to the counter insurgency in 2007/2008, that is trying to win over the local population, trying to connect them to the afghan government, encourage economic development, pay for millions of dollars in projects and ultimately the end of the outpost, the overrunning of the outpost in 2009, it helped me understand exactly what it is that we are trying to achieve there, why it is so difficult and

jake tapper was there. he's there this morning. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, elizabeth. it was a grueling grind of a campaign. but after almost 180,000 flight miles on air force one, 170 events by the president in battleground states. and hundreds of thousands of nasty, tnegative ads on both sides, early this morning, it all came to an end with some grace and some poetry. it was a victory that came earlier than many expected. >> i want to thank every american who participated in this election. whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time. [ cheers and applause ] by the way, we have to fix that. >> reporter: the outcome became clear before midnight, as the president's mid western firewall fell into the "o" column. wisconsin, ohio and iowa. >> barack obama has been re-elected. >> reporter: he and first lady michelle obama rejoiced with the vice president and his wife and other friends and family. the president, giving a special thank you to the first lady. >> and i wouldn't be the

abc's jake tapper on the countdown to election day. >> reporter: as the candidates crisscross battlegroundifferent planets. both campaigns claim victory is within reach, their pitches, combinations of soaring rhetoric, and needy cries to not buy what the others are selling. >> he's hoping we'll settle. americans don't settle. we build! we aspire! we dream! we can do better! [ applause ] >> they're bet is on your cynicism. but, florida, my bet is on you and your hope. >> reporter: to appeal to undecided voters, sick of d.c. dysfunction, both candidates are cloaking themselves in bipartisan robes. >> i'll endeavor to find those good men and women on both sides of the aisle who care more about the country than they do about politics. >> i want all parties to work together. we're not democrats and republicans first. we're americans first. >> reporter: and as a sign of how close the obama campaign thinks this could be, the president appeared in new hampshire, which has four electoral votes. he was joined by bill clinton who mocked romney's pitch. >> don't pay too much attention to what our solu

she could have done a great many things, instead, jake tapper and others praised her as a good soldier. and msnbc suggested that the optics are very good for the democrats because any questions raise abouted her will be interpreted as racist and i think so that's wrong. >> or saw as racist. and maureen dowd, and dan, if they had to vote for susan rice and nothing would make a big chunk of the chatting class in the media in president obama's second term to be sort of light critics, some detachment and ironic distance and meanwhile the agenda goes forward and tarnishment will not stop her being the next secretary of state. >> if the press did their job there would be different questions. >> if they did, that's a huge "if." . >> the former head of the ceo david petraeus, his belief that the attacks were carried out and planned as terrorism attacks, and then came his resignation from the cia. the new york times put this piece out, a phony hero for a phony war, lucien trustcot, and then david petraeus in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts, no matter how good he looked in his biographer-mist

coming up next on abc, abc's very own jake tapper on jimmy kimmel. good night, america. >>> up next on an all-new "jimmy kimmel live" -- >> that can help you lose your job, it's called facebook.

jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >>> romney was also striking a harmonious note as he hit thel in florida. refraining though from lashing out at the president. >> the latest abc news poll shows the race is still in a dead heat. romney replaced any criticism of his opponent with talk of unity. >> look, we can't go on the road we are on. we can't change course in america, if we keep on attacking each other. we have got to come together and get america on track again. >> romney hits the road today in another key battleground state. holding several events in virginia. and supporters there will be able to drop off donations for storm relief efforts. >> you listen to some analysts. i still think it's really unclear whether this helps or hurts the president. romney or the president. i think people really don't know. it is a tight race, the bottom line. but legitimate questions about people who have lost power, will they go to vote. will polling sites have power in the hard hit areas. lots of questions come tuesday. >> arguably, the northeast will swing democratic, right, that's histo

♪ >>> well, abc's jake tapper has covered the wars in iraq and afghanistan for years, usually from the of the white house. >> but a very personal experience inspired him to look at the wars in a very different way, and the result is his new book, "the outpost: an untold story of american valor." here's jake. >> reporter: october 3, 2009, i was at the hospital with my wife and my newborn son. out of the corner of my eye i caught a news story from afghanistan. >> eight soldiers lost their lives. >> reporter: an attack on a remote u.s. military base, combat outpost keating. >> i have ben on three deployments i have never seen that large of a force attacking one standing position. >> reporter: just 53 americans fought valiantly against up to 400 taliban insurgents. shown here on this terrifying video posted months later. and as i held my son, i learned of eight other sons taken from us that day in what was the deadliest day for the u.s. in afghanistan that year. over the next two years i tracked down the stories of the eight men lost that day. kevin thompson, josh kirk, michael scusa, just

. >>> straight ahead, one day after his own son was born, jake tapper saw a report he couldn't ignore. while he was celebrating the birth of his son, eight american families lost their sons in one of the deadliest battles for u.s. forces in afghanistan. over the next two years, tapper made it his mission to get answers about what happened. he's here to tell you what he found. it's horrifying and gripping. jake tapper is next. >>> texas senator-elect ted cruz said he knows what republicans have to do to win over hispanic voters. what's his solution? he's here to tell you. >>> plus, o.j. simpson news. did a serial killer murder his exwife, nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. stunning new claims more than 18 years afterrrrrr >> october 3, 2009, camp keating, the most technically disadvantaged american outpost in all of afghanistan, located within three mountains. 53 u.s. troops hoping it would not happen but they were attacked by 400 taliban, outoutnumberred almost 8 to 1. what happened and why? abc news senior white house correspondent jack tapper set out to get answers. the fact of o

abc correspondent, jake tapper. john kerry may be the alternative pick for secretary of state. but is he also a teen idol? viewfinder is coming up next. but whether he's climbing everest, scuba diving the great barrier reef with sharks or jumping into the market he goes with people he trusts, which is why he trades with a company that doesn't nickel and dime him with hidden fees. so he can worry about other things like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense from td ameritrade. >> eliot: coming up, the less fortunate need our help. and some think that includes goldman sachs. but first, the empire state building light show, the john kerry fan club and the winners and losers in the middle east. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, we put it in the viewfinder. >> broadway wasn't the only place to catch a good show last night. the empire state building put on its first ever light show. it showed off the building's new l.e.d. lighting system. >> new york's legendary skyscraper has a new look. >> now the buildi

abc correspondent, jake tapper. john kerry may be the alternative pick for secretatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatata >> eliot: coming up, the less fortunate need our help. and some think that includes goldman sachs. but first the empire state building light show, the john kerry fan club and the winners and losers in the middle east. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, we put it in the viewfinder. >> broadway wasn't the only place to catch a good show last night. the empire state building put on its first ever light show. it showed off the building's new l.e.d. lighting system. >> new york's legendary skyscraper has a new look. >> now the building has upgraded its lighting system, gone are the old floodlights rerks placed by a state-of-the-art computerized system that can deliver all kinds of colors. take a look at that. >> all new all l.e.d. all unveiled for the first time during an historic light show at the empire state building. >> that's it right there. it is the tallest building in the world.

. >>> straight ahead, one day after his own son was born, jake tapper saw a report he couldn't ignore. while he was celebrating the birth of his son, eight american families lost their sons in one of the deadliest battles for u.s. forces in afghanistan. over the next two years, tapper made it his mission to get answers about what happened. he's here to tell you what he found. it's horrifying and gripping. jake tapper is next. >>> texas senator-elect ted cruz said he knows what republicans have to do to win over hispanic voters. what's his solution? he's here to tell you. >>> plus, o.j. simpson news. did a serial killer murder his exwife, nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. stunning new claims more than 18 years after the double murder. the latest coming up. c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that's not all you'll see, cause c-max also beats prius v, with better mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer

. >> jake tapper at abc asked him some tough questions.ur ed henry asked him some tough questions. and then there was this from christy parsons of the chicago tribune. >> thank you, mr. president. and congratulations, by the way. one quick follow-up. >> when i was running for state senate, there. >> that's right i was. >> christy and i go back a ways. >> i've never seen you lose, i wasn't working that one time. >> there you go. (laughter) >> all right, alan, appropriate? >> beautiful, beautiful moment. what do you have against love? come on. you of course chose a particular heart warming moment there. this is a president, that sat down with bill o'reilly a couple of times, i don't think he's afraid of the press and to conflate the number of times that he, or some kind of counter punctual things with the number of times he played golf versus the number of times he had a news conference, we can play that game with any president, he's not supposed to have recreation, a pardon me, way to look at that. if playing golf is a horrible thing. >> jo

. >> first one of our own, senior white house correspondents, jake tapper spending some time last night on the couch with our friend, jimmy kimmel! it's all next on "world news now." is that your ding-dong? >> paula, get a -- yeah. >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular. and we got onesies. sometimes miracles get messy. so we use tide free. no perfumes or dyes for her delicate skin. brad. not it. not it. just kidding. that's our tide. what's yours? >>> welcome back, abc's white house correspondent jake tapper is just out with a new book about an attack on a remote u.s. military base in afghanistan. >> the book is called "the outpost an untold story of american valor." and jake talked with jimmy kimmel about the surreal experience of writing a book about afghanistan. >> you interviewed hundred of people including people who aren't necessarily on our side. >> right. i did interview an insurgent or two. >> how do you interview an insurgent? are they on craigslist over there, or how do you get them? >> i had a fixer. and the fixer was from this, this remo

and, abc's white house correspondent jake tapper, with us again tonight. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. after logging more than 170,000 miles on air force one and a grueling and intense campaign, president obama finally got an opportunity today to take a breath and enjoy his hard-fought campaign. late this afternoon, the first family boarded air force one to return to the white house, which, for four more years, they can call home. in his victory speech in the wee small hours of this morning, the president said he was invigorated. >> i return to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do. >> reporter: before he left chicago, the president stopped by campaign headquarters to thank campaign manager jim messina and other staffers with hugs. e might want to stock up on those hugs. the american people have voted for the sameme divided governme and potential grid lock we've had for two years. today, republicans and conservatives were overwrought, wringing their hands, trying to figure out what went on. >> i went