she plays the role of carrie matheson, a brilliant but psychologically troubled c.i.a. agent. "one of the nation's greatest losses on 9/11 was its illusion of invince ability." claire matheson personified the country's confusion. >> a green spen what i want. >> and blue is what is available. >> green is important. green is necessary. it doesn't make sense if it isn't green and it's really not an unreasonable request. >> carrie? >> oh, thank god. my green pen is dry. i asked four, five, six times far new one but there's no understanding. they offer me blue, they offer me block. is green so saturday? is green elusive? i told them for a [no audio] green pen! is she yours? >> yes. >> she should go to her room. the doctor will be in. >> i amylaser focused. i believe there's more. the things i saw, the avenues here have methods and patterns and priorities, a single sniper, no, no. he would don't that. he never has, he never will. he goes big, he explodes. we know that. >> slow down. slow down. >> we have about a week, maybe less, to figure out the real target. not this "who shot the

the man hurrying past the camera is utah jim matheson, the $5,000 a plate breakfast.und the corner air, steakhouse holding a breakfast fund-raiser for republican chairman of the house ways and means committee dave camp of michigan. for $5,000 the invitation says you'll be a star of his re-election campaign. on this thursday morning, a dozen or so fund-raisers will be held before a single congressional vote is cast. it's all status quo says author peter switzer, business shaking hands of anyone that wants to do business here. >> it's a feeding frenzy. we need to break the back of ability of politicians to leverage position to ex tract donations. >> dp that sounds he's abusing politician temperatures of using power of their office to shake down constituents for cash, well, he is. he is at the hoover conservative institute and head of the group called government accountability institute. he's also just written a book called "extortion." the poll situation, in leadership or one that's powerful can make or break a company. companies and other entities are put in a situatio

. >> al jazeera's ross matheson has more on the government efforts to regain control. in anbar province, the heartland of a sunni minority signs of a government ruling grip. this is where security forces are battling. thousands of fighters have taken over buildings, seized weapons and freed prisoners, a violent response to the government's crushing of a protest movement this week. to regain control military jets took to the skies. the defence ministry released these pictures of air strikes targetting fighter positions. not just in ramadi, but fallujah. the group behind it is called thest lambic state of iraq. it's capitalizing on sunnis, and is a faction fighting in syria. >> i think the ultimate objective is to be able to carve out an amount of territory in western iraq and eastern syria that might be contiguous and provide them with a physical territorial base. iraq's deep-rooted sectarianism has resurfaced in the past year. the sunni population accused the shiite government of neglecting their interest. the prime minister nouri al-maliki wants to resolve the standof

the man hurrying past our camera is utah democrat jim matheson. his ski pac is holding one of them. it's a $5,000-a-plate breakfast, a fund-raiser for a guy who would soon announce he's leaving congress. around the corner, a steakhouse is holding a breakfast fund-raiser for the republican chairman of the house ways and means committee, dave camp of michig michigan. for $5,000, the invitation says you'll be a star of his re-election campaign. on this thursday morning, a dozen or so fund-raisers will be held before a single congressional vote is cast. it's all status quo, says author pet peter schweitzer, businesses and politicians shaking hands and shaking down anybody who wants to do business here. >> it is a feeding frenzy going on, and i think we need to somehow break the back of the ability of politicians to leverage their position to extract donations. >> reporter: if that sounds like he's accusing politicians of using the power of their office to shake down constituents for cash, well, he is. schweitzer is a fellow at the conservative hoover institute and with the government ac

>>> this is "nightly business report" with tyler math son and su matheson and susie daly. >> our ratings service provides objective, independent ratings daily on over 4,-300 stocks. learn more thestreet.com. >> on a high note stocks rally ending at record highs on the dow and s&p putting a capper on 2013 and huge gains for investors. the nasdaq up nearly 40%. the s&p's best year since 1997. the dow, best since 1995. the january effect. old man winter may be rough on us, but the first month of the year tends to be kind to investors. will the same hold true in 2014? >>> and big payoffs. our market monitor says he has three stocks that could get you at least 20% in the year ahead. all that and more for this final day of 2013, december 31st. >>> good evening, and happy new year, everyone. tyler's off tonight. well, champagne on wall street was flowing today as the dow and s&p 500 ended the year with another round of new record highs. 2013 will be remembered as the longest bull market winning streak since the 1990's. the dow posted 52 record closes, and the s&p taxed on 45 new highs -- tacked

jim matheson's district. if you look at that map and add it all up, democrats will need to win 43 of those 45 races we currently see us competitive in order to take back the house. that's something we've never seen before. in fact, the likelihood i think is republicans will make a small net gain in the house in 2014 for three reasons. first of all, simply the history of the six-year itch election, the pattern where in post-world war ii era we've had the party in the presidency lose an average of 29 house seats and six senate seats in the second term, midterm election. second of all, the terrain. and just the fact that the house is very well sorted out right now. there are only 17 republicans left in districts that president obama carried in 2012. there are only nine democrats remain in districts that mitt romney carried in 2012, two of whom are in this room today. congressman murphy and congressman barrow. the third factor is really the midterm turnout dynamic. this is something that flies under the radar a l

and rob matheson al jazeera. >> reporter: he has been in a coma for 8 years is getting weaker.e past hour doctors said his condition has deteriorated again in the past 24 hours. and he is a controversial figure and inquiry found he carried personal responsibility for the massacre of up to 3500 people in refugee camps in beirut in 1982. the hospital said his kidneys are failing. >> he is not suffering. he is receiving maintenance therapy by his physician. he is closely attended by his children. and by the medical staff. and i can't say that there is improvement in his conditions since yesterday. no, the other side i will say is most likely a slight deterioration in his condition. >> protests against the military coup started ahead of friday prayers and giza people set a police car on fire, that is a tactic used to hinder police forces trying to shut down protests. in november egypt's president made it illegal to hold demonstrations without prior police approval. and al jazeera is demanding the release of staff members held in custody in egypt since last sunday and condemning the

here's sara eisen at cnbc global headquarters and tyler matheson in chicago. >> good afternoon. the markets are up big. the dow gaining 230 points in just two days. >> i'm here in chicago as was just said, at the morningstar annual fund manager of the year award. it is perhaps the biggest event in the entire mutual fund industry. think of it as kind of the golden globes minus the alcohol. i will be somewhere between tina fey and if you watched sunday night, jacqueline bissett. rea we are joined by the best managers in domestic stocks, international stocks, asset allocation, fixed income and this year, alternatives. we will find out what they owned last year, what they're doing this year and you will want to be asking yourself why the heck am i not in their fund if you're not. if you are, listen to this, our domestic fund manager, if you put $10,000 in his small cap fund or his team's small cap fund 15 years ago, $10,000 would be worth more than $50,000 today. and in the international category, that team, they have been in the top 1% for one, three, five and ten years. these are

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fighting is in the cities where many american troops were killed during the war in iraq and rob mathesonorts and since the troops pulled out in 2011 the cities have increasingly are hubs of extremism. >> reporter: the heart land of sunni minority and signs of a government losing grip. this is ramadi where security forces battle with forces linked to al-qaeda and thousands of sunni fighters have taken over local government buildings, seized weapons and freed prisoners, this is a protest movement this week. to regain control jets have taken to the skies. defense ministry released the pictures of what it says are air strikes targeting fighter positions and not just ramadi but falusia and the group behind the violence in both cities called the state of iraq and said to be capitalizing on the anger of sunni and one of the main factions fighting in syria. >> i think the ultimate objective is probably to be able to carve out the amount of territory in western iraq and eastern syria that might be contiguous and therefore provide them with some sort of physical territorial sort of base. >> report

the top five congressional districts most likely to flip 4 where jim matheson is retiring. 31, florida 13, iowa 3 and new jersey 3. mostis the top five seats likely to flip according to the national journal. you can see their full rankings tionaljournal.com. your reaction to the supreme court halting utah gay marriage. good morning. i have a comment. marriage,t is, gay the issue, everybody saying that it is something that is being set up to disguise the real issue, but the gays are the ones pushing the issue. that is the problem there. the second problem is, gay is just a nice term for what used to be called queer. queer is something that is different or abnormal. is an acty or queer against nature. it has nothing to do with religion or ethics or morals. is act against nature. -- it is an act against nature. host: what you think should happen to those 900 couples that were married in utah in december before the supreme court stepped in here? hostcaller: i think those marris should be abolished. mark is in ashburn, virginia on our line for independents. i would say that polygamy and hom

jim matheson in utah who represents a district that he should absolutely not represent. if there's anyone else there, it's a remarkably republican district, also regarding. jim gerlach, a republican in the suburbs of philadelphia. also retiring. i don't think that's by accident. i think congress is in less than pleasant place to be at the moment. there are some members of congress here again dispute my theory but i think it's not the most pleasant place to be right now. one number i was struck by, the blue dog democrats, in the 111th congress there were 54 members of the blue dogs coalition. that are currently 50. this is one of my favorite kind of fascinating sets, of the seven most conservative house democrats, according to "national journal"'s vote rating, of the seven most, all of them are no longer in the house. this was the seven most influential. dan boren of oklahoma, mike ross, jason altmire and tim holden of pennsylvania, into our -- joe donnelly is the other one redistricted. elected to the u.s. senate. i don't think it takes a rocket scientist to conclude tha