and both smith and roosevelt lost the california primary to house speaker john garner and the only reason garner one that is because william randolph hearst the great isolationist had thrown his weight behind barn are's campaign. what that meant his when the democrats made a convention in>÷ chicago, franklin roosevelt was living in as the front runner h- had zero overwhelmingly a large number of votes but in those days the democrats were required a two-thirds margin to be nominated so he was about 100 votes short. there were five or so top leading opponents one of whomñ?? was the governor of maryland who i am not related to and another one was newton baker who was the former secretary of war in the wilson administration and al smith and william mcadoo and several others. if those five had been willing to coalesce behind any, but there is a good chance they could have stopped roosevelt. if al smith had been willing to endorse anybody other than himself, that personally would have gotten the nomination but as they discovered you can't beat somebody with nobody. it wasn't enough to stop roos

. ♪ we are men >> reporter: the band soon garnered a cult following and the attention of john kusak whoporter: his physical comedy stood out. but when he bounced on stage for his big finale performing a marvin gaye classic for the director, his moment was almost lost. >> we did it the first time. i didn't do it with very much confidence. i was a little insecure about my performance. the director said, "cut." he got up on stage. he didn't look at me. he looked out at the audience and said, what is wrong with you? you've got to have more enthusiasm. and he didn't yell at me but i knew i was yelling at me. >> reporter: so he got his second chance. and then. .. >> and then they said action and i brought the thunder mustard. >> reporter: the thunder mustard indeed. fear of failure, it turned out, was the best lesson of all. >> now i don't even want to do the role if there's no fear because if there's not a little bit of fear, that's the rocket sauce. that's what pushes you to, you know, to go to new places. >> reporter: bernie is certainly a new place for jack black. he seems to have no bigg

the celebration in chicago, and house speaker john boehner was already hinting at another major fight in congress over taxes and spending. >> in order to garner republican support for new revenues, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up entitlement programs that are the primary drivers. mr. president, this is your moment. we're ready to be led, not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. >> president obama will make a statement tomorrow in the east room. the automatic spending cuts and tax hikes kicked in january 1st if washington can't reach a deal. a lot of people fear it's going to be a repeat of what happened in 2011 when the republicans 4e8d the debt ceiling hostage to get what they wanted. but thing, i guess, you could say are a bit different. we are two days removed from a landslide victory, as well as a new 55-45 democratic senate majority. the president is also the winner of the popular vote. did you hear that, republicans? winner of the popular vote with the majority of the country supporting him. the only area in government where the democrats fell shot was in the congress, the house of representatives

i want to play for you what speaker john boehner had to say about striking a compromise during his news conference yesterday. take a listen. >> in order to garneran support for new revenues, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up entitlement pramograms that are the primary drivers of our debt. >> it seems as if speaker boehner is willing to extend an olive branch recognizing this is an eight-year commitment to president obama now? do you think he means it while still trying to make tea party members happy? >> i heard speaker boehner's speech yesterday, and it was somewhat of an olive branch. i think it's important to note that president obama campaigned very clearly on a balanced approach to deficit reduction. we needed to make sure we made responsible spending cuts but we also asked people who can afford to pay a little bit more do so. we need to make sure, as we go through the discussions, we don't allow the middle class tax cuts to expire. we've got to give certainty to the middle class, but the olive branch, i'm hopeful, i'm a glass is half full person, but i hope the republicans realize that there was a clear mandate

increases for the rich spoke by phone to john boehner to begin talks on how to prevent the country's economy from going over the so-called fiscal cliff. >> in order to garner republican support for new revenues, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of our debt. >> reporter: while mr. obama has hinted in the past he's willing to include social security and medicare in the fiscal negotiations, the rest of his party may not go along. >> it's better to dance than to fight. it's better to work together. everything doesn't have to be a fight. everything doesn't have to be a fight. that's the way it's been the last couple of years. >> reporter: meanwhile, romney's loss has prompted hang wringing and a blame game among republicans. >> i think it's going to be a circular firing squad for the next six months in the republican party. >> reporter: republicans lost by a wide margin among latinos, african-americans, asian americans, and women. >> don't tell me the republican party doesn't have outreach, we do. but what are we supposed to do now? are we supposed to -- does that mean open the borde

reason, in order to ga garner republican support, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of our debt. >> john, you're the political one here, is he putting down the marblinger? is this like we're not going to budge but we're going to budge? >> he left the door open there. everyone, all three sides yesterday between the president, senate, and the house speaker left a little bit of the door open there. they don't want to show too much leg. they don't want to alienate the best base. but there is reason for optimism and hope for compromise, at least today. >> i know. 54 days to fix the fiscal cliff. huge tax increases and spedding cuts. nobody wants it to happen. it's just how they're going to fix it and who's going to give up more. >> i would say it finally sounds like they don't want it to happen either. that's how i felt -- sounded like compromise. >> additional revenues through tax reform is not that i will allow tax increases. >> we're going to be optimistic this morning. >> absolutely. i'll let it sink in for a second. special delivery for the colorado governor's office. keet yoez and gold

garner all the attention but there's another competition featuring nearly 2,000 athletes that we'll be watching. it's the national dog show. and joining us now, the host of tomorrow's event on nbc, actor johnth us little abner and stella. they are ambassador dogs for the ronald mcdonald house. >> this is stella right in front of me. she is lighter. little abner, well named except for the word little which he is not. >> they are so well behaved. >> one of the oldest french breeds. their job is to do a lot of the work in the vineyards in france and to guard the vineyards which i sympathize with because i would lay my life down for a vineyard. that's happened many times. >> these are good dogs then. tell us first of all how the competition is going to go tomorrow, what should we be watching? >> tomorrow we'll be beginning our 11th version of the national dog show present ed by purina. we garner an audience every year now 20 million to 25 million people. an astounding tradition. you know, it's a great piece of programming. thanksgiving is the day everybody is together and when you think about programming television you have to have something that has something for everybody. >> good dog. >> wh