i'm joined by karl rove, he, of course, was a senior adviser to george w. bush. he previously was involved in more than 75 campaigns for president, governor, senator. and he's just published a very relevant book. "the triumph of william mckinley, why the election of 1896 still matters." i'll react to the book in a moment. react to my commentary. >> i think you're right. the initial response was to fall back into the old pattern. but let's realize, is this not the old pattern. this san internationally inspired act of terrorism inside our borders. we had people who appear to have been radicalized over the internet. there may have been some seeds planted in miss malik's background, her upbringing in pakistan and in saudi arabia. and pack citiz in pakistan, it appears when she graduated from college in an area known to have sectarian strains, that she destroyed her personal computer telling family members that it contained personal information on it it. maybe the seeds of radicalization were there. but this is not an issue of gun violence or workplace violence. this

asanti-muslim. >> jon karl live from the white house.yrn, thank you. >>> now, to that tonight, finding 50% of voters say they would be quote, embarrassed if donald trump were to become president. 35% of all voters say they would be embarrassed if clinton is elected president. >>> and one more poll number y) tonight. a surge foree t cruz. as any national poyet. right there, nearly tried with donald> w mallses right outside.ut in that packed mall j ÷5 christmas. shoppers evacuating. crowding that staircase. video of shoppers hiding in a store. outside, confusion and fear this could be terrorism. abc's linzie janis reporting in tonight. >> it was pure pandemonium. everybody was running. >> reporter: just two days istmas, panic at thi new york mall. hundreds of last-minute shoppers running for cover. >> i heard like three sounds, like that sound like gunshots. ede came through. ampled reporter: many trying not t its. others hiding in store >> we locked the doors, ran to the bathro store and we just crouched there and we waited. >> reporter:

you know, rahm emanuel, i kind of agree with karl. this wouldn't be one where smoking gun that he ordered a cover-up, but he presided over a department that covered up this horrible event. i think the people of chicago have every right to be doing what they're doing, which is getting out in the streets, so far peacefully, but very rowdy way, showing they're unhappy. i don't know whether iran has to pay for it with his job or not, but the whole rest of his political career will be defined on how he makes this city better. it's got a lot of other problems. it's educational systems, debt, pensions, and he has a heavy load to lift. >> you're being more general about his involvement or lack of involvement in the decision to slow-walk the release of this video. affair it is last year he repeatedly said this video had to be withheld from the public view, because there was a criminal investigation going on. he may get choked up now, but is he getting choked up about the >> look, i think people have a right to be suspicious of this. it's very

i love women. >> and jon karl with us now live from the white house. and jon, back to hillary clinton and what she said at the abc debate. that isis is using videos of donald trump to recruit jihadists. has her campaign provided that video? >> reporter: the clinton evidence to back up the allegation that isis is using trump's words to recruit terrorists. but clinton herself doubled down today, she pointed out that trump's words have been broadcast all over on arabic television and she said that plays right into the hands of violent jihadists who want to portray the u.s. as anti-muslim. >> jon karl leading us off live from the white house. jon, thanks. >>> and now, to that new poll tonight, finding 50% of voters say they would be, quote, embarrassed if donald trump were to become president. 35% of all voters say they would be embarrassed if hillary clinton is elected president. >>> and one more poll number tonight. a surge for ted cruz, his highest in any national poll yet. as you can see, right there, nearly tied now with donald trump, who now leads cr

as anti-muslim. >> jon karl live from the white house. jon, thank you. >>> now, to that new poll tonight, finding 50% of voters say they would be, quote, embarrassed if donald trump were to become president. 35% of all voters say they would be embarrassed if hillary clinton is elected president. >>> and one more poll number tonight. a surge for ted cruz. as high as any national poyet. as you can see rigig there, now leads by just four points. >>> we move on this tuesday night to other news and the scare late today, panic inside one of the nation's biggest mallses right outside new york city. gunshots bringing out in that packed mall, just days before christmas. shoppers evacuating. crowding that staircase. video of shoppers hiding in a store. outside, confusion and fear this could be terrorism. abc's linzie janis reporting in tonight. >> it was pure pandemonium. everybody was running. >> reporter: just two days before christmas, panic at this packed new york mall. hundreds of last-minute shoppers running for cover. >> i heard like three s

it was even scarier to watch karl rove rapping in person than on the tv.e movements that only dick cheney could manage. >> mc rove. ♪ our dnc is what they're calling me ♪ ♪ our dnc >> colin powell is equally musically challenged. here he is singing at a security meeting in indonesia. ♪ >> and bad boy blagojevich is caught on camera taking on elvis. ♪ >> yikes! don't quit your day jobs, fellas. oh, wait, never mind. perhaps they should have made a speedy escape like president bush tried to do after this press conference. >> this was one of the famous episodes with george bush looking like he didn't know what he was doing because he didn't even know where the door was. >> i was trying to escape. >> and talk about wanting to escape, who can forget vice president dan quayle exercising his spelling expertise in front of the cameras. >> add one little bit on the end. potato. how's that spelled? if you write phonetically. what else? there you go. >> i wouldn't try your luck at, "are you smarter than a fifth grader," dan. >> i guess he was wrong and i was right. >

karl, don't you have fryeah, so? ng over? it stinks in here. got to wash this whole room are you kidding? wash it? let's wash it with febreze. for all the things you can't wash, use... ...febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze... ...to continuously eliminate odors for... ...up to 45 days of freshness pluggable febreze and fabric refresher... ...[inhale + exhale mnemonic]... ...two more ways to breathe happy just prepping for my boss's party in a couple weeks. what are those? crest whitestrips. they whiten way better than paste. crest 3d white whitestrips whiten 25 times better than a leading whitening toothpaste. someone's making quite an impression. this holiday season, select crest whitestrips are buy one, get one free. whfight back fastts tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum smoothies! only from tums the gillette mach 3 turbo still feels better after 10 shaves than a disposable on i

karl: which is fascinating.ecades, who were the biggest perpetrators of the over incentivized, keep the cars going, keep the assembly lines moving. this discipline we are seeing is quite impressive and if they can maintain that, even in the face of some share loss, they will maintain revenue and profit numbers and i think long-term that is smarter especially in the face of peak and some slippage. alix: we have the profitability issue, the demand issue and you see the potential for gm and ford to come out on top citing those problems? karl: i think that they know that long-term it is better not to chase the ball give numbers. better to maintain profitability and they have learned that overtime. thankfully, everyone got a reset with the whole downturn. the ability to be profitable even at lower production numbers exists like it did not 10 years ago or even seven years ago. gm and ford, if they position themselves well, they can maintain great profitability in slipping volume number. matt: how much is protectionism

lou: you're doing that dog gone karl rove-mckinley stuff again. >> oh! i'm not saying the 18 '96 election. i'm saying with the rhetoric and talk represents extinction event for the republican party and they'll get together and either he'll change or they beat him. lou: when you say they beat him, that's going to be a sorry mess. if you need a committee to run for president, that would be an interesting committee of candidates, i mean. i'm not sure folks would look favorably upon that. i'm just guessing, one country reporter's view, chris stirewalt. always good to talk with you. >> this pundit is happy to be with you, brother dobbs. lou: we say good night with full heart. >>> be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you believe president obama and congress should order an immediate suspension of refugee programs into the united states until public safety and national security can be assured?

karl trish magnusson says: i don't mess with mailing packages and getting stressed out,because that is not what christmas is about. being with family and friends ,just enjoying the time i have with them. and melissa rose risenhoover- warfield says: oh now you tell us i walked in and back out of a satellite post office today haha ((dave courvoisier)) > the winter weather is helping out the lee canyon ski and snow resort on mount charleston. they say they got lots of snow overnight... making it nice and powdery for skiing.. snowboard and tubing. tedd... >5 inches of glorious new snow

joining us now from austin, texas, karl rove. polls changing much after last neat's debate, mr. rove. am i wrong? >> no, i think you are right. i do think this that the impressions that have been formed in these debates and by people's conduct on the campaign will over the next five or six weeks bin to have a cumulative impact on people's perception is of the candidates. we are now getting to the point where at least in iowa and new hampshire people are starting to lock in on their candidates. and last night was the last chance that everybody had to sort of make their final pitch before people sort of tune out for the holidays and talk about this over turkey and football games and holiday parties. and it will start again in january. we have five more of these. we are at4w the halfway point. we have five of these in january, february, and early march. this was their last chance to sort of shake it up a little bit. there is not much change that we are going to see. >> do you think the republican party regulars in washington underst

jon karl, the president has to strike a delicate balance. >> he does. he has to show he takes the threat seriously. what the president wants the american public to be both vigilant and go on carrying on their normal lives. after this, he will attend the kennedy center honors in washington. >> he says we should not give in to fear. here now, president obama, from the oval office. >> good evening. on wednesday, 14 americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays. they were white and black, latino and asian. immigrants and american-born. moms and dads, daughters and sons. each of them served their fellow citizens, all of them were part of our american family. tonight, i want to talk with you about this tragedy, the broader threat of terrorism, and how we can keep our country safe. the fbi is still gathering the facts about what happened in san bernardino, but here's what we know. the victims were brutally murdered by one of their co-workers and his wife. there's no evidence they were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or pa

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl now. >> reporter: defense secretary but dogged by questions about his use of private e-mail for official pentagon business. >> particularly someone in my position and with the sensitivities about this issue should have known better. i didn't do the right thing this is entirely on me. >> reporter: in march, revelations about hillary clinton's use of private e-mail as secretary of state set off such a firestorm that the white house issued firm instructions to all administration employees that they were to use government e-mail for government business. >> those guidelines have been made clear. >> reporter: but it turns out secretary carter kept using his personal e-mail for at least two months after that, much to the surprise of the white house. how is it that secretary carter kept on using his personal e-mail even after the white house made it perfectly clear that it was against policy, that it was not to be done? >> jon, i think even in the context of some of the exchanges that we had about secretary clinton's e-mail habits, i observe

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abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl traveling with the president. >> reporter: it's the biggest presidential photo-op in history. 150 world leaders crowding onto the stage in paris, vowing to combat climate change, a problem president obama said the u.s. helped cause, as one of the world's top emitters of carbon pollution. >> the united states of america not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it. >> reporter: but the climate agenda here has been overshadowed by the more immediate concern about terrorism. president obama laying a rose at the growing memorial outside the bataclan theater, where 89 were killed in the deadliest of the attacks here on november 13th. and extraordinary security measures to prevent an attack on the summit. here's something you never see. paris with no cars on the street. but the government has shut down virtually every major roadway in the central part of the city. but you can still get around. with so many streets closed, the government has allowed everybody to ride the metro t

it was near karl's jr. and several men stabbed a man and woman after buying food. dispatch were told the female victim went to the market with a stab wound to the throat or neck and the male went to the chevron station to seek help and a witness working at an auto store spoke about what he saw. >> we notice add guy bleeding at the door and we did not know what happened until the police came and next thing you know we realized someone...something happened. >> pice say the group of men took off in a gray car but so far no word on arrests. >> thank you. we have develop news a grandmother in solano county is facing murder charges, she deliberately drowned her four-year-old grandson. the 51-year-old dawn diana raines-hewes committed murder in the bathroom of her fairfield home and police arrived yesterday. neighbors called in with reports of a child drowning. after interviewing her, authorities say that it looks like the debt was deliberate. we other grandchild in her care are unharmed and slow is hold without bail. asan francisco police are look ing two for problemers

emmanuel, i kind of agree with karl. this wouldn't be one where necessarily we're ever going to find a smoking gun showing that he ordered some sort of coverup but he presided over a government and a police department that covered up this horrible event and i have to say i think the people of chicago have every right to do what they're doing, getting out in the streets, so far peacefully showing they're unhappy with it. i don't know whether he has to pay for it when his jobber onot but the whole rest of his political career is going to be defined on how he makes this city better and it's got a lot of other problems. its educational system, debt, pensions and everything else and he's got a heavy load to lift. >> you're being more gentle about his involvement in the decision to slow walk the release of this video. over the last year, emmanuel repeatedly said that this video had to be with held from public view because it was a criminal investigation going on. he may get choked up now, but is he getting choked up about the

jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >> got to love presidential politics. don't you? well, the twin birth rate hit an all-time high last year in the u.s. one in about 29 babies was a twin last year. in 1980, only one in 53 babies was a twin. the increase may be due to women waiting longer to start families. in the meantime, the birth rates for teenagers dropped 9% from 2013 to 2014. >>> that's interesting, the grandparents took the kids to the museum today. my mother-in-law was saying how they noticed so many sets of twins, brothers and sisters or sisters and sisters. >> we all love twins. >> we do. speaking of twins, voters in one east texas county may do a double take in the race for sheriff. >> people say all politicians look alike. that's literally the case here. identical twins harry and barry washington are running for the office. barry started as a teacher and a coach, then became a texas ranger. he was joined in law enforcement a few years later by his brother. >> and despite their differences, barry says we're going to be biological brothers to the end of the

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> okay. one more note on all of this. there's a new poll that shows the embarrassment index of voters. if the two front-runners were elected -- so get this. 50% of those polled say they would feel embarrassed if donald trump was elected to the white house. and 35% of all voters would feel the same way if hillary clinton won the election. as for ted cruz the campaign is getting a boost from a new poll. he's just four points behind trump among the republicans. his biggest showing yet in a national poll, with rubio, carson, christie, and bush trailing. six republicans will be on the stage at the next debate, late next month, hosted by fox. >>> well, the woman charged for sunday's deadly hit-and-run incident along the las vegas strip makes her first court appearance in just a few hours. lakeisha holloway is facing charges of murder, child abuse, and leaving the scene of an accident. prosecutors say they expect additional charges to be added as well. holloway's defense attorney says he expects holloway plead not guilty. severa

>> jonathan karl traveling with the trump campaign tonight. jon, thank you. >>> on the republican side, one candidate is out of the race this evening. lindsey graham announcing he's dropping out. graham, who never polled above single digits, frustrated by the two-tier debates. saying tonight, this is not my time. that still leaves more than a dozen candidates in the republican race tonight. >>> we turn now to the extreme weather, just as millions head out for the holiday this week. the west getting slammed tonight, 12 states under winter weather alerts. the images coming in now. an 18-wheeler blown off the road outside portland, orror. a massive tree uprooted in forest grove, oregon. drenching rains in california. a mudslide in big ben. abc's gio benitez with the dangerous driving in the west and the weather pattern coming to the east, as well. >> reporter: tonight, strong winter storms slamming the west. 55-mile-per-hour winds ripping this free from the its roots and snow blanketing these roads. all just in time for holiday travel. this, as m

>> jon karl traveling with the president. jon, safe trip back. >>> and the president was in paris with nearly 150 other leaders, pushing for action on climate change. and tonightht a new warning from chinese authorities, urging families to stay indoors. from beijing this evening, the image of two people there wearing their masks. you can bearly make out the building behind them. in the middle of it all, abc's bob woodruff, on the streets of beijing with what he found. >> reporter: this is today in china. most people staying off the the background barely visible. so, this is what it normally looks like here in beijing, as the sun goes down and the cars turn on their headlights. but the sad news is, because of all this pollution, this is noon. that heavy smog stopping traffic on the highways. that sign, right there, is a warning to drivers, reading "visibility low. slow down the speed." the government issuing an alert. advising residents to avoid being outdoors, orderinin factories to shut down temporarily. schools keeping the

jon karl live at the white house front. jon, thank you. >>> of course, the democrats duel next and we hope you'll join martha raddatz and me when we moderate the new hampshire democratic debate, this saturday, december 19th, 8:00 p.m., 7:00 central. >>> in the meantime, we turn to the economy tonight, and to a major development. the federal reserve raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. the first rate hike since the sending wall street soaring, closing up more than 220 points. but many americans asking tonight, what does this now mean for car loans, credit cards, mortgages? abc's chief economics correspondent rebecca jarvis with what you should do tonight. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, the federal reserve is hiking interest rates from zero to one-quarter of a percent. how confident are you that our economy won't slip back into recession? >> the underlying health of the u.s. economy, i consider to be quite sound. >> reporter: so, what exactly does this mean for you? everything from your cre