dionne, susan del percio, republican strategist and john nichols, washington correspondent for the nation magazine. john, start with you, you are in madison, wisconsin, a state you know well, scott walker well, having followed his last three races in the last four years, is it money, too high of a burn rate? >> yes, too high of a burn rate. i was told by a very high ranking republican over the weekend that there was -- this campaign was going through tens of thousands of dollars a day on staff, on offices on just basic travel, beyond your tv advertising or anything like that. i have heard different figuring floating around but no question they needed a massive inflow of money on a steady basis to just keep this campaign on the road. so money is a huge factor. >> why was the burn rate so. >> >> there's been a lot of criticism of the walker campaign, that the people that took charge of it, instead of running it as an outsider campaign, a renegade campaign trying to get, you know, built up to a powerful position, that they started first class, that they went for, you know high salaries, lots

amy: john nichols and david cay johnston, thank you for joining us.ne of the issues that was hardly touched on last night, i mean, the fires were not mentioned in california, though the debate was in simi valley, california. was the issue overall of climate change, a real debate on that taking place. we will talk about that in a moment. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "the polar bear song," irish singer/songwriter enda reilly. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: a coalition of more than 400 organizations have called on the white house to stop issuing new fossil fuel leases on public lands and oceans. more than 67 million acres of public land and ocean are already leased to the fossil fuel industry. the coalition says that declaring unleased oil, gas and coal on public lands as "unburnable" would accomplish more in the global fight against climate change than any other single action taken by the obama administration. amy: joining us here in new york is climate justice acti

joining me from madison, wisconsin john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation," and a veteran walkerologist. having watched him up close. john, are you surprised by this? >> yes. i was surprised that he did it today. i expected that scott walker would quit the race before iowa because there's no trampoline in presidential politics. you don't go to the top and then bounce back up. and so he was in trouble. but my sense was that he would at least hold on for a little longer. he had money. that's not the problem. he was running low. and knew money wasn't coming in. but he had enough to go on for a while longer. what i think happened today was a playout of that poll number you that just mentioned, that 0.0, and the notion that he had actually fallen to a point where it was very likely that he would be the first major contender to be pushed out of the main stage debates down to the kid table. and that -- for a guy with scott walker's ego and his lingering ambition, the fact he still wants to be in politics, the notion of being shuttled off to the kids' table and having to debate bo

certainly in the spirit of goldwater-nichols, if not the exact letter of it. john: if i could just add a comment of my own on that. i was not involved in the reform process. i was serving as ambassador to iraq at the time. and actually the first time i read the legislation was when the president asked me to be the first director it. seems to me, whatever the merits or demerits, one has to accept things as they are. that legislation was passed and i think the idea of trying to reform the intelligence community again, the least in any significant way, would be opening up a can of worms. so i think that that's the best, to make what we have work. vice president cheney used to talk to me about maybe at some point you might have some perfecting amendments, he called, to suggest. but i'm not even sure that we want to do that. perhaps what is we want to do is make sure that we make the improvements we can within existing legal authorities. here's a question about the snowden affair. can you give a capsule summary of how the snowden issue has affected our i.c. operations?

ntinue to promote innovation certainly in the spirit of goldwater-nichols, if not the exact letter of it. john: if i could just add a comment of my own on that. i was not involved in the reform process. i was serving as ambassador to iraq at the time. and actually the first time i read the legislation was when the president asked me to be the first director it. seems to me, whatever the merits or demerits, one has to accept things as they are. hat legislation was passed and i think the idea of trying to reform the intelligence community again, the least in any significant way, would be opening up a can of worms. so i think that that's the best, to make what we have work. vice president cheney used to talk to me about maybe at some point you might have some perfecting amendments, he called, to suggest. but i'm not even sure that we want to do that. perhaps what is we want to do is make sure that we make the improvements we can within existing legal authorities. here's a question about the snowden affair. can you give a cappsual summary of how the snowden issue has affected our i.c. operations?

and nichole wallace, senior member of the bush white house and the john mccain presidential campaign. have you all here. i never talk to two people at once but in this case it's perfect. beth, i need to ask you because you are our someone when just quit correspondent, isn't it weird that it's scott walker? >> oh, no. >> no? >> he was dead man walker for the last two and a half weeks. certainly since the aft debate when he made no impression and when the latest cnn poll came out showing him having less than 1% it was over. >> tied with jim gilmore, george pataki, bobby jindal, rick santorum. in iowa he's ahead of guys like rand paul, chris christie. he is doing better and seen as more viable than some of these other guys but he's the one who has to go? >> it's not that he has to go. i think he's someone that is very well respected and admired and taken seriously but he's in that very competitive establishment bracket. we talked last week, this is a race being dominated by outsiders. and that's why ben carson and donald trump and carly fiorina have more latitude with republican voters,

john boehner gone. .rancine: that is a good point hans nichols nichols is our former white house correspondents the shutdown, and also bring it back to europe and the u.k.. inflation rates unexpectedly turned negative in september. to break it down for us, the bloomberg chief economic correspondent joins us. i think that if we break it down, the fact that inflation is going down, is that something that central banks do not have a power over? >> to some extent. they are struggling for power because they do not have the ammunition anymore. the acb will come under rusher for a quantitive easing program. there will be a question if that works and is translating into economic growth or asset market bubbles. the people we talked to said the ecb will do more. tom: the phrase that is going to wrong was coined by stephen england at citigroup is coldfusion, which has physics to it. what is in the toolbox for yellen, drug a, and carney. what do they have left to provide stimulus? low, theyn keep rates can be in negative territory. the fed wants to do that according to the dot plot. party scene that. there

hans nichols in berlin on the latest from jean-claude juncker. john bolton is still with us -- jon moulton is still with us. this is europe's biggest issue at the moment. jon: very much so. humanitarian angles and pure economics. on an economic basis, the demographics are notoriously poor. getting some relatively lively, productive refugees to join the population is economically attractive to them. it'salso their age problem, their productivity problem. you are seeing that very clearly in germany's willingness to take in large numbers of immigrants, and a fairly strong minority right-wing component very opposed. francine: i wanted to ask about capital. you were talking about the market -- you had a tough time -- are you worried about the future? jon: always. francine: are you really worried? jon: no, i'm quite a robust soul. we have some great successes. you play the turnaround field and you have to get used to the idea that you will have failures. end, weut the other have an aerospace engineer. francine: so there is no company you won't get involved