lands katie couric as its global news anchor.t's next in our "digital downlo download." >>> time now for our "digital download." a big get, as we say in the business, yahoo! landing katie couric not just for an online show but as its global news anchor. >> obvious a major hire. it raises this question -- can big-time websites steal more of the audience that now watches television news? >> seems to me kaushg kaushg excelled as an anchor and host on the "today" show because she could do a little bit of everything. she could do great interviews, cover the conventions, go to afghanistan, cooking segments, but join line is really about niches. >> it is. it's also what marissa mayer is betting on about personalities. i think what she is trying to do is get original voices that then can translate to the web. it's about for her personal brand, and katie certainly has one. >> very large katie couric there while we're talking. >> i know. i feel very little. >> marissa mayer has gone down this top talent road, hired david polk. >> megan lie

can even katie couric draw a big audience to a place like yahoo!?oogle gives you everything else that everybody has done and you can see it done. you can see it there. what they're trying to do is not make this a tradition nal tv network but turn it into something new. maybe they'll be ahead of the curve. the core problem for yahoo! has always been display ad revenue. i remember this from u.s. a today, in terms of your video revenue, you're sold out months ahead of time, which is not a good thing. it means you don't have enough video content that advertisers want. so her job here is to get those video advertisers back by increasing the amount of video content that yahoo! has. >> yahoo! can avoid to put up a lot of video content. i wonder, though, think of the term anchor, what it means in television is that you have a team of reporter who is run mea in television is that you have a team of reporter who is go out and cover stories and you are the presenter, to use the british term and you do live interviewings and so forth. there's not going to be a

. >>: we are learning that katie couric been paid $6 million a year for a part- time job with yahoo. >>: 6 million a year can be on the internet. stop and think about that for a moment. this is a high paid internet celebrity which is good for all of us and the thought that maybe i have a job waiting for me they need to one in finance. if it's bad news for abc and msn b.c. and five all-star going elsewhere. if i think this is a story that benefits netflix. again as we are streaming obverses broadcasting at this point in time and i see that continuing. >>mark: a new survey showing most americans think of that 2014 is going to be flat and we won't see the kind of economic expansion at least for stocks as we saw this year. >>: keep in mind more than half of americans aren't investors they say that-did not even notice that the market had a good year so you can't fit into surveys. missing the mark considerably. those were professional investors. pay no attention to your friends and neighbors. >>: what about google. bynum boston dynamics. military robotics is what google is getting into now

>> you know, i like katie couric, first of all. i think ever since the "today" show, she's not been totally engaged. i got mad at her for not being more excited about being the managing editor of "cbs news." she's always said things like i have a life, i'm fought going to go overseaes and -- >> well, she did go to afghanistan. >> i think there was a tension between her desire to do more serious issues and what were afternoon syndicated -- >> but you know, if you remember, when she came in, people thought she could be the next oprah winfrey, which was a big, big pair of shoes to fill. she did do 2.2 million people a day. that's impressive. she didn't fail totally in this show. in baltimore, she was with the worst station. >> the local angle. >> and it was a mutual decision, they say, between abc and couric to end this show. >>> i want to turn to duck dynasty. this has become a cultural war topic. i'm getting a tweet. phil robertson not out of the line with the arrogant god haters. radical gays have made hateful anti-gay statements.

katie couric got into some hot water for a show on h.p.v. vaccines. we look at those and others and the dangers when america decides not to getvaccinated. >> and the man that got the beat at the "the denver post." he joins us. >> we begin with an announcement from the capital. house and senate negotiators patty murray and paul ryan have a deal to avoid a government shutdown. >> our deal rolls back sequestation, cuts to education, medical research and infrastructure investments for the next two years. >> we are paying for that with reformed on the autopilot side of the expenditure. that is a good deal. >> many conservatives are arguing the point. i'm joined by stan collender, a partner at qorvis communications, who does consulting for al jazeera, and a budget expert and founder of the blog "capital gains and games." great to have you back. this deal eliminates $65 billion in sequester cuts and $20 billion that would hit the pentagon. we are only talking about trimming $23 billion and the deficit in 2013 is $680 billion. >> it's a $23 billion reduction

. >>> katie couric's talk show will not be returning after two seasons. the last episode will air in 2014. >>> olympic figure skater brian boitano came out as being gay. boitano said being gay is only one part of who he is. >>> one direction found out they were claire davis' favorite singing group through a twitter campaign so the boys sent her a special message. >> we wanted to show you what has happened to you is terrible and we wanted to share love with you. all of our prayers are with you and your family. lots of love. hope you get well soon. >> classy. >>> new voice mails related to the british hacking scandalal reveal that he calls his wife babe. he left his brother, prince harry, a message pretending to be his girlfriend. giggle, giggle girl stuff. >> is he as cool as he appears to be? >> i think so. >>> i'm mara schiavocampo. this is "early today." we hope this is just your first stop of the day on nbc. >>> right now on "news 4 today," they've all placed their bids. now we are just hours from learning which company will get to build a casino in pr

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katie couric. what a loser. you came in. >> yeah. katie couric. i know. katie: it was one of these very random things that happen in new york. >> we all do it. we all flosss outside. >> this move seincredible by the way. i think that you both turn out amazing performances. jake, you have a way of describing how people feel when they are watching this movie. it is so intense. >> forgive me for smiling. it is inten subject ma subject . when i was a kid i used to listen to the radio on the way to school and different things. there was a commercial. i grew up in l.a. there was a commercial for texas motor speedway. it was like sunday, sunday, sunday. you will pay for your seat but you will only need the edge. that is like this movie. you will pay per your seat but you will only need the edge. >> that is going to be in the marketing. i love that. >> it is a good discount. it is perfect. katie: well it is something that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. hugh, you play a man named keller dover. i think what is wonderful about the film is that w

after her last episode in 2014, katie couric's talk show will not be returning after just two seasonscouric is slated to anchor yahoo!'s video news coverage. >>> one direction is arapahoe shooting victim's favorite group. they sent her a special message. >> hi, claire, we just wanted to share some love with you, all our prayers for you. i hope you get well soon. lots of love. >>> the british hacking scandals have revealed new voice mails involving prince william. evidently he calls kate baby and babykins. he also left harry a message pretending to be harry's girlfriend at the time. quote, kissy, kissy, i love you so much, babykins, yes, i do, giggle, giggle, girl stuff. it's chelsea. that's what he put in the message. imagine that. i'm richard lui. this is "early today," we hope it's just your first stop of the day on nbc. >>> leading the news, on the "today" show meet the heroes behind this act of bravery. an armed gunman in a commuter bus demanding passengers' cell phone. one man grabs the gun and he wrestles the robber to the bus floor. >>> slightly haunted pennsylvania home doesn'

mayer has given them a new home page, and new talent like katie couric, and led yahoo!t-ups, including the acquisition of tumblr. one of the most powerful women in business, she's worth an estimated $300 million. >> it's god, family, and yahoo! in that order. >> fashion not in the top three, but something she's now known for, she's appeared in an eye-catching two-page spread in "vogue" and reportedly paid $60,000 at a charity auction to have lunch with oscar dela ren tachlt she lives at the top of the four seasons, the business of being marissa mayer is rewriting the code for women in tech. >>> up next, women in the workplace, and men in the home? who earns more? i do. [ laughter ] >> by a wide margin. >> working moms and stay-at-home dads, how they're redefining work-life balance. it's donut friday at the office. and i'm low man on the totem pole. so every friday morning they send me out to get the goods. but what they don't know is that i'm using my citi thankyou card at the coffee shop, so i get 2 times the points. and those points add up fast. so, sure, make me the

is paying katy couric to be its part-time global anchor.up next, a bomb scare this morning at harvard university. it happened in the middle of exam time. up-to-the-minute coverage next in your fox news minute. >> at 24 minutes past the hour i'm julie banderas with your fox news minute. updating you on the bomb scare at harvard university, officials clearing three of the four evacuated buildings on campus, thayer, emerson and sever halls remain open while science center remains closed. firms received a email threat this morning that explosives were planted in four buildings on campus. students were evacuated from those locations at around 9:00 a.m. >>> the united nations will need nearly $13 billion in aid for the upcoming year. among those receiving relief, the millions of syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war. according to the u.n., it is the largest amount ever at requested at the start of a year. >>> the megamillions jackpot is soaring. up to $586 million, making it the second largest prize for the game and fourth largest overall in

katie couric got a lot of money to work for yahoo but eventually, you migrated back on tv with "the blaze's the end game? >> to be there as possible. this being, you know, what it has been when we were growing up. >> uh-huh. >> that's over. i don't know when it's over, and i said when we launched gbtv that we're about five years too early, maybe seven years too early, maybe three years too early. i don't know. we need to be where anybody is watching, and so we will be on cable. we'll be on your phone. we'll be on, you know, your ipad, wherever you are, we want to be. >> you will be there. so you've said some controversial things in the past. >> me? >> yes, you. saying controversial things has a lot of currency about this building whether about sarah palin or santa claus. have you ever said anything you regret, went home -- >> never. not once. >> i don't believe you. >> not once. i don't know any of these people who don't -- they go home and question. >> i know -- >> they go home -- >> you're a deeply contemptive guy. you go home and talk to tonya and talk to god and i know you think about

and katie couric and the top five. so ron burgundy is a top notch journalist, no doubt about it. there is no movie about me, whereas burgundy plays a small role in "anchorman 2," which is in theaters because it got promotion as you may have noticed. let's be honest, they didn't exactly go the beyonce secret route in releasing this thing. there are posters everywhere. and commercials everywhere. and they will pretty much let everyone do them. i was just doing my best ron burgundy impression, the mustache, the whole persona, everybody was doing it. when i started "ac360," ron's shadow still loomed over the show, literally. there was a cardboard cutout of him in the studio. there were lights blocking it, he had it in his contract that it could never be removed. it was a huge pain in the [ bleep ]. technically, that was not a commercial, just a fun thing. any way. not only are there many commercials for "anchorman 2," burgundy has been showing up on virtually every show on the air. >> wolf, it is a pleasure to be in your presence. i just have to ask you, do you use vitalis hair spray

and picking up former evening news anchor katie couric and long time tech writer david poe. >> numberet. according to the company, at least. smart phone grand daddy taking drastic measures to keep itself alive. put itself up for sale, laid off around 40% of its work force. before canceling plans to sell itself. even that may not save the company. >> number seven, tech winners. a year and half after facebook's ipo, and twitter with the stock exchange, make something co-founders very, very, very wealthy. but they can't reach google. google up to a $1,000 a share. >> number six, in bitcoin we trust. showing the world that it's real. at least for now. and some are calling it the safe haven investment for the 21st century. despite massive volatility on the way. the little virtual currency that could. up $14 at the beginning of the year. closing around $1200 at the end of november. number five, us airways and american airlines. the merge enthat's taken off. creating the world's largest airline. the carriers given up some take off and landings. washington, reagan and new york la guardia, the

. $1.1 billion for the blogging website tumbler and picked up katie couric and david pope. >> reporteraccording to the company at least. smartphone granddaddy taken drastic measures to keep itself alive. yet put itself up for sale. laid off around 40% of its workforce before cancelling plans to sell it self. even that may not save the company. >> number seven, tech winner, facebook stock higher than where it started and twitter launched on the new york stock exchange making its co-founders very wealthy. now facebook and twitter can it match google when it comes to share price. google's share price topped $1,000 a share. >> reporter: number six, in bit coin we trust. now bit coin is the electronic cash. shows the world that it's real at least for now. some even are calling at any time safe-haven investment for the 21st century. despite massive volatility on the way, the little virtual currency that could surged. up $14 at the beginning of the year. i want closes around $1,200 at the end of november. number five, u.s. airways and american airlines, the merger that's taken off. creating t

katie couric got a lot of money to work for yahoo but eventually, you migrated back on tv with "the blaze's the end game? >> to be there as possible. this being, you know, what it has been when we were growing up. >> uh-huh. >> that's over. i don't know when it's over, and i said when we launched gbtv that we're about five years too early, maybe seven years too early, maybe three years too early. i don't know. we need to be where anybody is watching, and so we will be on cable. we'll be on your phone. we'll be on, you know, your ipad, wherever you are, we want to be. >> you will be there. so you've said some controversial things in the past. >> me? >> yes, you. saying controversial things has a lot of currency about this building whether about sarah palin or santa claus. have you ever said anything you regret, went home -- >> never. not once. >> i don't believe you. >> not once. i don't know any of these people who don't -- they go home and question. >> i know -- >> they go home -- >> you're a deeply contemptive guy. you go home and talk to tonya and talk to god and i know you think about

. >> when katie couric asked years ago what are you reading that was a lead in.sking what newspapers you're reading is a leadist question. anyway, thank you guys. howard fineman and sam stein. >>> coming up, the president's on a mission to sell his health care plan to the american people, of course. can he make the sale all the way? it's getting close. he's gaining on this thing. >>> plus republicans said they'd reach out to minorities. remember they did that after the big autopsy they called it? well, one year later looks like the autopsy report is dead itself. they managed to alienate those voters again and again. how about keeping black people from voting, that's a start. >>> and rush limbaugh has attacked everyone to his left. who's next? the pope. called him a marxist. >>> and let me finish tonight with our big show this thursday. as i said the president of the united states is going to be joining us here on "hardball" to talk about the issues we talk about here every night. he's going to be joining the conversation and i can't wait. i know you can't. this i

he beat out me and megan kelly, katie couric, wolf blitzer and the top five. think the data is skewed. for one thing, there is no movie about me and burgundy plays a small role that's out today because it's got some promotion as you might notice. they didn't go the beyonce super secret route in releasing this. there are posters everywhere and commercial. they will pretty much let anyone do them. >> the truth is when i first graduated from college and started reporting, i was just doing my best ron burgundy impression. the whole persona. when i started "anderson 360":ron's shadow loomed over the show literally. there was a cardboard cut out of him in the studio blocking a light. he had it in the contract that it could never be removed. it's a huge pain in the [ bleep ]. technically that wasn't a commercial, just a fun thing, anyway, not only are there many, many commercials for anchor man two, burg -- burgundy is showing up everywhere. >> wolf, i have to ask you do you use vitalas hair spray. >> i do use a hair spray -- >> you should use -- >> i tell the artist

bul burgundy beat out me, megyn kelly, katie couric and wolf blitzer.might be skewed. for one thing there's no movie about me. whereas burgundy plays a small role in "anchor man 2" which has gotten some promotion you might have noticed. they didn't exactly go the beyonce' super secret route in releasing this thing. there are posters everywhere. and there are so many commercials for that moviers they'll pretty much let anyone do them. >> the truth is once i first graduated from college and i started reporting, i was just doing my best ron burgundy impression. everyone was back then. the mustache, the suit, the whole persona. when i started anderson cooper 360 ron burgundy loomed over the show. there was a cardboard cut-out in the studio blocking one of the nights. he had it in his contract it could never be remove. a huge pain in the [ mute ]. >> that wasn't a commercial. just a fun thing. not only are there many commercials for "anchor man 2" burgundy has been showing up on every television show currently on the air. >> wolf, it is a pleasure to be in y

heidi klum, katie couric, a nice way to offset. all we talk about are retail sales.about giving. >> what a great idea. >> move to something that is totally unrelated and not charitable at all a new ferrari, the most expensive ever? >> it's giving of a sort. if you want to give to yourself. the most expensive, powerful ferrari built. la ferrari. $1.4 million. the ceo of north american ferrari was on this morning saying that if you bought the last super car they made, which was the enzo, in 2002, for $650,000, you would have more than doubled your money. he's saying this car is an investment. this could actually appreciate -- and a hybrid. >> and a hybrid. 40% more fuel efficient. this is sold out. they've sold all 499 models they're going to make. >> thank you very much. to phil lebeau for quick breaking news. >> tyler, the research firm auto data haskell clatsed the november sales number and the sales pace last month came in at 16.4 million vehicles. that was much higher than most on wall street were expecting and to put that in perspective, tyler and sue, that is th

. $1.1 billion for the blocking website tumbler admire picked up former evening news kidder-as katie couric. seven. tackle winners. a year-and-a-half after facebook face plant ikea. twitter launched a new york stock exchange may get some of its co-founders very very wealthy. but neither facebook nor to enter can match google per-share price for it they topped $1,000 a year. no. 6. and the coin we trust. --vic coin shows the world it is real. some say a safe-haven investment. despite mass of volatility on the way the virtual currency that could have surged. it was up $14 at the beginning of the year. it closed around $1,200 at the end of november. no. 5. yours always. american airlines. but-u.s. airways and american airlines. the merger creating the largest airline for it for the justice department says that will bring get low-cost carriers and help travelers with ticket prices on the rise. consumers may still lose out. no. for the government shut down for i the shutdown lasted 16 days. government offices, national parks close, 800,000 workers sent home for it final cost of the economy aroun

so bringing on cape park is a genius mol so bringing in katie couric next year -genius move. >> i thinka better chance here that they are delivering beer to us that amazon drones are bringing packages to us. i think there is a better chance with robots going on below group wrote a think google is barking up the right tree. 5çwç5ç5ç5ç5ç5ç5ççyçy5ç5çwç5ç5ç5ç [ female announcer ] here's to a whole wo of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone 'round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. with starbucks at $6.99, serve coffee everyone savors. top it off with coffee-mate... just $2.79 for all kinds of flavors. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. sleep traiends sunday! interest-free for 3 event it's your last chance to get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery and sleep train's 100-day low price guaran

katie couric is doing the same thing being a global anchor for yahoo! sports.erstand people not tethered to their televisions anymore, they are consuming video content on their computers, on the tablets, they're smart phones. why not push content to those media? stuart: i have an iphone. i am just getting used to it. y everywhere i go. >> as long as you have wi-fi access. you can watch our games, our studio content and we are a network, we talk a lot in our industry about being able to geotarget and college sports is so regionalize. studio programming as soon as those shows are over we put the on video-on-demand and use campus insiders as our brand ambassadors and have a phenomenal partnership wiih ing, one of the strongest -- stuart: we are just giving you enormous commercial. >> but -- stuart: what is the name? >> campus insiders. stuart: good luck. it really is a very interesting new development. very brave of you to get out and do this. the costa concordeyea. how do you book convince someone to book a cruise these days? just because it is cheap? we will ask

engine to displace google and now about a content provider with recent acquisition, and hiring katie courict females are doing this. and a lot of it is public perception especially for yahoo! which had a bad rep for a while. didn't deserve it or earn it and made changes and this is one. stuart: and kaplan, your political correctness is just too much. >> i apologize and i'll say cruel things the next time. stuart: ford is down big, the company announced lower profit outlook and that always gets a stock and says the long-term global outlook is at risk. whoa. investors don't like that. that thing is down 5%. a big move for a company like that. check the big board, now we're up 44 points, maybe investors like my prediction or tres knippa's prediction on what the fed is going to do. you'll find out at 2:00 eastern this afternoon. dow is up right now. question, what kind of house do you get for $1500 a night during super bowl week if that house is close to the stadium? what do you get for $5,000 a night? we'll have the answer for you after the break. ♪ i'll be home for christmas ♪ you can plan on

she picked up of former evening news anchor katie couric and longtime new york times tech writer andto pogue to expand the news coverage. >> light berri just recently made headlines, taking drastic measures to keep themselves alive. just last week there released that they lost more than $4 billion in their third quarter earnings. >> but the likely biggest exporter of the year, was the health care dockewebsite. what the president initially called the glitches quickly turned into a political catastrophe. if the government called in outside experts to help all. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. former nsa leaker edward snowden delivers a holiday message. >> welcome back. a christmas message coming from a very unlikely person. n-s-a leaker edward snowden. he addressed the british people and the world on a london based t-v network. it is an alternative message that accompanies the one the queen gives. the u-s intelligence leaker warned people everywhere. your government may be watching. >> this determines the type of trust into the government. together we can find a better balance.

katie couric daytime talk show ends in june after only two years.that it rent in the top ten. she will make to as yahoo. global news anchor, whenever that is. a place that has no newscasts. and duck dynasty debacle. the fallout continues with the family's rentable the plugging cable second most popular series after a and the networks suspended debt patriarch phil roberts and permit the anti-gay comments. last night they brought out a statement supports saying, we are disappointed that he has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith among which is is constitutionally protected right. we cannot imagine a share going forward without our patriarch at the helm. but how real is the suspension? last night they went ahead with plans to run and six above the mini marathon of back dynasty were phil was present aplenty. in january season five begins and is already shot where phil welt also appear. cheryl: that story will not die. everyone keeps talking about back dynasty. the best thing that could happen. the holidays may be all about your family, but we

i think of katy couric, anyway.i: yes, we know. >>> merger that brought together american airlines and us airways was finalized this morning officially creating the world's largest airline but still may take months to truly transfor the two carriers into a single airline. jeff flock covering the story from o'hare. hello, jeff. >> you know, lori, they said it would be a cold day in hell when us air and american managed to merge. well they got the weather right on that one at least. look at these lines. this is the actually weather delays and people getting their flights canceled in american. not great in chicago. it is a great big airline. we'll walk through the whole terminal as we talk and give you numbers on this. look how big of an airline this is going to be, in terms of flight, 6700 flights every day for this airline. 336 locations, 56 countries, 1500 aircraft, 100,000 employees. i'll tell you, that is the world's biggest airline. doug parker talked earlier in the day to fox business, talking about, you know th

." >> i know high hopes that katy perry -- katie couric's show is cancelled. >> the market is oversaturatedth yahoo! to be the face of their news. >> is there any hope for a current talk show host? >> some are doing really well. arsenio hal's show is doing excellent and latifah but it's a hard market. >>> the worst movies of between have been relieved and topping the list is -- >> it topped it and probably should top it. it was pretty bad and it bombed. a king of summer. he studies the formula so people were surprised this movie did bad but it was pretty bad. "sharknado" also made the list, along with "after earth." >> it was so bad it was good. >> you could be on the best and worst movie. worst movie of all time. >> i love that scene. twilight shrich twilight! >> what is the worst movie of all time? "twilight." >> i wanted to watch that. >> it's so bad, it's good. >> i agree with you. >> thank you, alicia. watch e news week nights at 7:00 eastern and pacific. >>> coming up next, we are going to see how things are going up in space and answer some of your questions about what it's like to b

. $1.1 billion for the blogging website tumblr and mayer picked up katie couric and david poe. >> reportermber 8, blackberry not dead yet, according to the company, at least. smartphone granddaddy's taken drastic measures to keep itself alive, and put itself up for sale, laid off around 40% of its workforce before cancelling plans to sell itself. and even that may not save the company. >> reporter: number 7, tech winners, a year and a half after facebook's face-plant ipo, the stock higher than where it started, and twitter once on the new york stock exchange, making co-founders very, very, very wealthy. but neither facebook nor twitter can match google when it comes to share price. google shares topped $1,000 a year, thanks in profits to the company's ad business. >> reporter: number six, in bitcoin we trust. now, bitcoin, which is the electronic cash, shows the world that it's real, at least for now. and some even are calling it the safe haven investment for the 21st century. despite massive volatility on the way, the little virtual currency that could surged. it was up $14 at the beginni

. $1.1 billion for the blogging website tumblr and she picked up former evening news anchor katie couric> reporter: number eight, blackberry not dead yet, acco according to the company. they've taken drastic measures to keep itself alive. it put itself up for sale, laid off around 40% of the workforce before canceling plans to sell itself. even that may not save the company. >> reporter: number seven, tech winners. a year and a half after facebook's face plant ipo, the stock higher than where it started and twitter launched on the new york stock exchange making some of its co-founders, very, very, very wealthy. neither facebook or twitter can match google when it comes to share price. they topped $1,000 per share. >> reporter: number six, in bitcoin we struck. bitcoin, which is electronic cash, shows the world it's real. some are calling it the safe haven investment for the 21st century despite massive volatili volatility. the little virtual currency that could surged. it was up $14 at the beginning of the year. it closes around $1,200 at the end of november. number five, us airways and

and especially i was on toed show with katie couric, and she was very nice.with the boy book, the war against boys, i had one hostile interview on health care snbc. -- msnbc. they didn't like the idea that boys were this trouble. they were still back in, i don't know, the 1950s thinking that women were an oppressed class, we sparred about that. but i've been on a number of shows, and the hosts are sympathetic to the point of almost going beyond me, they're panicked about what's happening with boys. >> host: christina hoff sommers, vicki jo e-mails in: what do you think of rush lick ball's term -- rush limbaugh's term, ", femi nazis? >> guest: i don't like it. it should be left to cover the specific evil that it encompasses, so it should just be with there. there are other ways. he's part entertainer, so he's doing, you know, overstating and so forth. that's part of the humor. but it's not a word i use. >> host: jim, gadsden, alabama. good afternoon to you, you're on with author christina hoff sommers. >> caller: oh, she's wonderful. i'll tell you a little sto

katie couric's staff didn't have a lot to celebrate at their holiday party this year. not be back for a third season. katie will continue to tape new episodes until june to finish off the second season. and no cell phone signal, no problem. text your friends via vodka. scientists in canada sent a text message through the evaporated liquor proving it's possible to send data through the air using chemicals. according to researchers it's similar to how animals communicate. tucker? >> thank you, mike. new report out will have you wondering which side of the law the department of homeland security is working for. a federal judge has accused the agency of hand delivering smuggled children to their illegal immigrant parents right here in the united states. some evidence it actually happens. joining us with more on this is michael cutler retired special agent with the u.s. immigration and naturalization service. mr. cutler, thanks a lot for joining us. >> thanks for covering this. >> well, it's a remarkable story. so as i understand it, the department of homeland security taske