once again, substituting for gwen ifill, michele norris of npr. michele: good evening. i hope your thanksgiving holiday was bountiful. now that the president has finished his holiday celebrations, he faces a difficult road ahead. as the white house regroups after two overseas trips that produced mixed results, and as the administration reconsiders how to press ahead after mr. obama's self described "shellacking" in the mid-term elections. complicating matters, the u.s. must decide how to respond to north korea's military aggression this week. the president himself has acknowledged that the weeks ahead present a test of leadership. and, peter, forget about the republican takeover of the house. it looks like the president has significant challenges in the lame duck session ahead. >> you think your plate is full, he has a lot on his plate and not a lot to be thankful. he has had a couple weeks since the election. look at what is on agenda since then. asian trade, tax cuts, nato summit, the new start traity, afghanistan transition, iran talks maybe, middle east maybe, unemp

and it was difficult to watch that kind of rejection of michelle. >> hinojosa: so now, where michellee... you know, we are... and you sometimes write, you say, "you know, when i'm having a bad day, i think about michelle, and boy, it's got to be worse for her!" but i'm thinking about, "well, how's michelle doing today? what is she doing?" you know, i'm really glad she's got a lot of support in that household-- because she does, lucky her; we all wish we did-- but you know, how is she handling it? and i do often think, "it's got to be rough." >> yup. >> hinojosa: it's got to be rough for her. >> you know, i'll say that... so the acceptance-- the coming to love and find michelle obama as iconic-- in one part helps to heal that anxiety i was talking about, but if we go back to cathy cohen's push, it's also to say, "okay, so the acceptance of michelle obama still ends up marginalizing other folks." so my mother, who's retired and lives in the home with me and helps raise my daughter, loves the obama family mostly because mama robinson is part of the obama family, and she was like, "yes, t

. >> you were going to rape michelle bosko. is that true? >> ...over and over... >> you don't recall what happened to the knife? >> ...hour after hour. >> i'll show you another picture and ask if you can identify this female. >> dan grabbed her around the mouth so she couldn't scream. >> one by one, eventually, they all confessed. >> dan was about to start raping her. >> dan was the first to have intercourse with her. i was the second. eric was third. >> i noticed that dan and joe were getting really rough. >> jeff went, grabbed the knife from the kitchen. >> do you remember your exact words at that point? >> "just go ahead and stab the bitch." >> based on these confessions, the jury found them guilty. >> is this the truth that you're telling us now? >> yes, it is. >> but were they telling the truth? tonight on frontline: "the confessions." >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine

time marches on. >>> the father of the tea party goes after michele bachmann.hris hayes on what's in the teapot next. >>> as far as straight-up conservativism goes there isn't much daylight between michele bachmann and her opponent in the race to be the next house republican spokesperson but michele bachmann the founding member, her hopes of being the fourth ranking republican in the house appear to be in trouble. she told politico, i have been able to bring a voice and motivate people to put the gavel in john boehner's hands so the republicans can lead going forward. she brings a voice all right. she claims. the she doesn't have the support of pence, cantoregon ryan. today rand paul endorsed henserling. asked about the tide against her she told fox pac about her creative idea to get her message to the peoples. >> what does it signal when you hear from party leadership that say they want someone else and not you? >> well, i think that again we need to make sure the house leadership reflects charting a new course which the american people want us to do. i bring

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as with michele. this generation was in some ways a misunderstood segment of the greatest generation. they bore up under incredible up odds. they were in many ways locked in a caste system and i describe the great migration system as a defection from a caste system which was untenable and could not last and ultimately ended violently through the civil rights movement but ultimately these people needed to be -- i felt their stories needed to be heard and told. and they were not talking. one reason the story was not told, they were not talking. they were not talking for many reasons. one is it was just too painful. another is when they left, they left for good and they did not look back. some people changed their names. one of the characters in the book actually no longer wanted to be known by the name he'd grown up with. some melted in the new world and didn't look back and they started anew. they turned the page and they whatever happened before had not happened. and their children were raised in a wh

-- michele norris and bell and me. they will be signing on the other side of this. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this event was part of the texas book festival. to find out more about the festival and the authors that appeared there, visit texasbookfestival.org. >> i'm holding the essential engineer why science alone will not solve our global problems. it's author joins me henry petroski. welcome, sir, what's the reasonabling behind the subtitle. why science alone will not solve our global problems? >> we hear a lot about the global problems, climate change and so forth. we also hear a lot about the science will do to help alleviate or solve them. the history of science and technology teaches us differently. science and scientists generally do not solve problems. engineers are the problem solvers. engineers and prove solving are hand and glove. >> host: in your book, you define the difference between scientists and engineers and how they work together. tell us more about that. >> gue

if people want to line up to ask michele and isabel questions. the question ought to ask him you talked about, michele, yearbook numbers from the contributions about race. i'm curious how you feel like your book has contributed to conversations about race at our side and unsaid. you talk a lot about how both white people and black people have these conversations, sometimes with each other, often not with each other. how do you feel like your book will contribute to the conversation? >> i feel like it's come full circle. i set out to read a book about hidden conversation about race and what about the hidden conversation of my family. as i travel the country now i'm a 30 plus book tour, i find myself swimming in that conversation. people often come to hear about my story and wind up telling me there is. i website i have actually a link called your story, where people can actually leave their stories. i wound up writing a book about race, but in many ways it's not about race. i mean, i captured my racial legacy because of these hidden conversations

as is michele norris. and the majority of african-americans that you might ever meet in the north, northwest, and west. i grew up around people who had migrated from georgia, carolinas, virginia to washington, d.c., grew up with the music, the language, the folk ways, the food, and no one -- no one ever talked about it as being the great migration. no one said i am someone who came up in the great migration. yet, it was everywhere. and i later as a journalist in interviewing people all over the country became more aware of how huge it was. because whenever you went, whether you are in los angeles or in chicago or detroit, there were always references to the south. everywhere that you went. it all became together for me. i wondered why was there in grapes of wrath for the huge migration that had gone on for most of the 20th century. that's what i set out to do. not being a novelist, i wrote it as nonfiction. so it took 15 years of interviewing, 1200 people, it took 15 years. if this book were human being, i

unlike many first ladies, michelle obama can laugh at herself. are you sick of people talking about your toned arms? i notice you are not wearing a sleeveless dress. >> i will never get sick of people talking about my toned -- if it's a positive compliment, i am a woman, it's like, bring it on. i'm cool with it. but no, i -- you know, i -- i still wear what i like and enjoy and i thought this dress was pretty. in fact, my husband, you like this dress. >> that's a nice looking dress. >> reporter: the most comfortable with herself and the most outspoken. you love him very much, don't you? >> i do. yes, i do. >> yes. >> reporter: i ask this, because after your husband lost the democratic primary campaign for congress in 2000, you wanted him to give up politics. >> oh, yes. >> reporter: and you talked about it openly. it affected your marriage, you wanted him to get out of it. is there ever a moment when you say to yourself, one term is enough? >> you know, i think that it's important for him to finish what he started. if i had to pick the man i'd wa

congresswoman, michelle bachman is back in the news. is she trying to respin something she plainly said right here on this program. a false allegation she made. in a moment we'll play the tape so i can decide. you'll recall, anderson invited her on to talk about the deficit and identify some specific budget cuts for closing the gap. instead, on the very first answer she started talking about how much money president obama's trip to india was costing, using a totally outlandish figure. >> i think we know that within a day or so the president of the united states will be taking a trip over to india that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. he's taking 2,000 people with him. he'll be renting out over 870 rooms in india. and these are five-star hotel rooms at the taj mahal palace hotel. this is kind of over-the-top spending. it's a very small example, anderson. >> no one really knows the cost because for security reasons they don't disclose the cost. so this idea that it's $200 million is simply made up. >> these are the nu

michelle, thanks. >>> we turn now to homeland security. weeks ago it was toner cartridges discovered after they had been converted into potential cargo bombs. on board u.s. bound aircraft. today, we learned of tougher security standards from the feds. our justice correspondent pete williams is at the department of homeland security tonight. and pete, i know part of what's going to be regulated are these toner cartridges. but you have to play the odds. what are the chances the terrorists are going to use them again? >> reporter: they say here at homeland security, brian, that they can't rule that out. these rules do extend the pan on all cargo shipments from yemen, which is where those two packages last month came from. and they apply as well now to somalia. another country where al qaeda is operating. starting today, all cargo shippers cannot put high risk cargo on passenger planes. which carry about a third of air cargo coming into the u.s. what's considered high risk will depend on intelligence about the sender and the content, and all p

michelle, thanks so much. of course you can watch our special coverage of the macy's thanksgiving day parade hosted by matt lauer, meredith vieira and al roker beginning at 9:00 a.m. right here on this nbc station. >>> well, now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. in missouri, police are looking for a suspect who tried to steal a car with a 6-month-old baby inside. surveillance video shows the man approach the vehicle, which was left running with the baby strapped in the back. when the suspect backs out, the terrified mom sprints towards the car and ends up getting dragged for several feet. eventually the dad caught up with the carjacker who then ran off. aside from a few cuts and bruises, no one was hurt. >>> in california, 150 firefighters battled massive flames that engulfed a furniture manufacturing plant. officials aren't sure what started the fire, but say two explosions were heard. at least one firefighter was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. >>> in west virginia, a

chef michel richard's cuisine is also featured on the rails. amtrak acela first-class cars and in the skies on open sky airline. we'll be right back. >> mitchell: the seventh harry potter movie has outdone all its predecessors. "harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1" raked in more than $125 million at the weekend box office. the franchise's biggest opening yet, and it's close to surpassing another enormously popular series as we hear from elaine quijano. >> from california to london and taipei, harry potter has cast his spell on the box office yet again. in the latest and second-to-last movie, ""harry potter and the deathly hallows" part 1" is taking on some of hollywood's biggest block bursters. >> it's just remarkable that seven movies in they're still doing over $100 million on their opening weekend. >> with a domestic gross of $1.8 billion, the potter series has surpassed the 23 james bond flicks and is likely to swoop past six "star wars" movies which launched in the 1970s. >> i guess i'm more of harry potter fan because star wars a

let's talk about michel backman. here is the sound cut.terview with the bbc. >> you suggested that president obama's anti-american. do you really believe that? >> well, you know, i've been very concerned about the policies that have come out the white house and i think i share that agreement with people who voted at the ballot box in the first tuesday of november. they're rejecting the federal government into baeng owning an enty share. >> do you think that he's anti-american. do you think that the president of america is anti-american? >> well, the policies that are antifree enterprise are ones that are not familiar to the people of the united states. >> laura flanders, she won't back down. what do you make of it. >> well good for the bbc reporter there. you know, two things. one, what's anti-american is what katrina vanden huevel has talked about. 60% of all of the income in this country going into the top 1% in the last decade. but you know, what is really going on here is the party of no is the party of no ideas. this should have stopp

michelle bachman is not a newcomer but leads the tea party caucus. so many more tea party representatives in the house. >> well we are united in that we are republicans. and you have, in this contest in this particular contest, you have two very strong conservatives, actually. jeb hensarling and michelle bachman have both been very strong conservatives both fiscally, socially and i really don't see it as a fight between the tea party and the establishment in this case. they both probably have very similar voting records as such. it's other considerations that the members will take into regard. >> now, i know you've been sensitive to the fact that women have had a hard time breaking into the inner circle of the house republican leadership. couldn't michelle bachman make the argument that there aren't enough women, you're a leader, but there haven't been very many more republican leaders? it's been an all-boys club? >> i would love to see another woman around the leadership table. i think is important that the leadership table, that our committee chair

>>> además, dicen que michell quiere seguir los pasos de su supuesto padre luis miguel, pero la mandaronos leones y aparece una nueva supuesta víctima de gloria trevi, ahora culpa a la rockera de su fracaso artístico >>> cuando salió de la casa, y ... a mí se me cerraron las puertas >>> el hijo de maribel guardiak, salió calenton que empiecen ya esta tijera >>> muy buenas tardes, para todos, hoy la tijera les tiene un analsis detallado del nuevo libro de ricky martin, que es noticia por las fuertes confesiones que dio a conocer, pero hay más datos que no se conocen, hoy nos acompaña enrique santos, bienvenido de nuevo, y empezamos con el veneno de coors light carolina sandoval >>> el actor yañez, vuelve a dar el cobre, es más, más adelante les mostraré las intolerables imágenes >>> sorprendimos a una actriz mexicana tratando de evadir a los paparazzis, usando una doble, al más puro estilo en las calles de méxico, imitando a las estrellas de hollywood >>> y siguen más cantantes echándole la culpa a gloria trevi, por su supuesto fracaso artístico >>> y maité demostró una vez más que puede

and then tomorrow morning at 6:15, michelle will join mike and andrea to talk about holiday dating.ssure of all these holiday parties. and some of the solutions. so be sure to tune in. >> i have to think that i have a very sheltered life because no one has ever broken into my house [ laughing ] . >> there is still time, right. no deceased dogs. wow. >> nothing. >> wow. >> my life seems -- >> i have been off the market so long. >> i haven't had a date in 20 years. >> actually it's true. you don't have dates with your wife. >> that's true. >>> are you ready for a little travel weather and thanksgiving weather? let's start with what is going on right now. temperatures are very mild. it's like october. it's still in the 50s. 56 in bethesda. these are actually average highs for this time of the year. temperatures have fallen into the 40s out in leesburg. but it's only 48. 54 still in rockville. 46 in college park. that is well above average. all right. temperature roller coaster the next tum of days. tuesday will be mild. a few showers tomorrow afternoon. there is not a lot of moisture w

michele is right. a lot of democrats look at that and say this is not rallying us for the election 48 hours away but simply showing some people on the left are angry at the media, just as some people on the right are. anger and fear are dominant now and that's propoling what's going to happen tuesday. the challenge will be for the president and for the republicans, and the majority perhaps, to then take the anger and fear do what the election is supposed to dorks absorb the message and actually trying to do something about it. it's going to be really tough and the pressure will be not just on the president, which everybody focuses on, but also those new republican leaders. >> i'll say this, though. this is two different washington environments, if the republicans control the senate or if they do not, if the democrats control the senate. it almost frees the house to be more polarizing, potentially, the republican leadership, if there is no republican senate. then it becomes this odd game of the white ho

michelle obama is not a child.with sarah palin. you shouldn't go after the kids but look at how they're still going after bristol palin and america's basically given the finger to her for over "dancing with the stars" which i love. 5 million people tuned in to watch sarah palin's show last night. everyone loves the palins. you guys on the left can't stand it how much america loves the palins. >> 39% of the country support -- approves of sarah palin. 50% was country disapproves of sarah palin. >> it doesn't matter because they all watch her. everything that she says makes news. >> are you calling that program -- are you calling in and voting for her. >> she's got all of her listeners calling in. >> i love bristol palin. i think that she's a tough girl and that it's great. i haven't vote for her because can't do it. haven't figured out that texting. >> i think that she's voting, todd. >> all the republican of the ho transportation committee says that we can fix these problems at the airport. that we won't have anymor

give thanks you're not michel richard. >> how are you?tulations. >> reporter: his new restaurant in suburban virginia, michel, opened less than three weeks ago. his recipes are also now being served at the garden cafe in the national gallery of art in washington. and he's got two other places to keep tabs on in the nation's capital. clearly he's a big hit with customers. >> on the way out, thank you, michel, thank you very much. >> it's nice. >> i love butter. i'm going to put a lot. >> reporter: he's run restaurants around the country. and won awards. one from the james beard foundation for outstanding chef. he also received wine spectator's award of excellence and a national order of merit from the french government. at 62, he's got a lifetime of cooking under his chef's hat. >> i killed a rabbit when i was 8 years old. found the rabbit, i killed the rabbit. i made the sauce. like my mother used to do. >> reporter: but cooking is not his only passion. >> i want to be an artist. >> reporter: he's also an artist. on a good day he'll paint

michelle bachman. i was going to say go, sarah, go but now i'm all for backman. >> so am i. >> you guys are terrible. >> please, please! >> listen, i think. >> larry: i think ari would complain, too. >> larry, barack obama is the most popular democrat in the country. -- the most popular politician in the country, still, in every poll. sarah palin is actually the most popular republican politician in the country. so, you know, there it goes. go, sarah, go! >> larry: if it looked bad do any of you -- go ahead. >> larry, three years ago nobody would have thought barack obama could beat hillary clinton so my only point about presidentials is there's so much history yet to be written and it's way too early to handicap it. anybody could win. i just think -- i'm a big believer in capitalism and competition and i love the fact republicans will have a real fight for who's going to represent them and what direction the party wants to go. that's how we should settle things. >> larry: thank you all very much. reme

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we have michele norris and isabel wilkerson, and i'm going to do a brief introduction for both of them and then i'm going to ask questions, and i will leave time at the end so that people can ask questions, so probably about 3:50 we will stop and you can ask questions. in the introduction to the grace of silence, michele norris writes should begin the process in 2009 because she became convinced an unprecedented hidden and robust conversation about race is taking place across the country in the wake of barack obama's historic residential campaign and his >> from this project he show apl net painful family secrets from her father shooting by thefshooe birmingham police left been twos weeks after discharge from service in world war two to a grandmother peddling pancake grdmothe makes as an itinerant and jemima. traveled from her childhood home to her father's childhood home in the deep south to explore the things left unsaid by her famile when she was growing up. the chosen as a journalist ofsea the year in 2009 by the nationat association of black joheurnalis and is a co-winner of a dup

congresswoman michelle bachmann thank you very much.t's calls a pleasure to visit wooliness for leadership that you've shown in fiscal and budgetary responsibility. [applause] great to have you here. >> thank thanks, mike. >> mike: well, can't wait until christmas? when we come back we're going to get an early start to the holiday season with all the gift of giving. later, b.j. thomas joins us right here on our show. etfs? exchange traded funds? don't just give me ten or twenty to choose from. come on. td ameritrade introduces commission-free etfs with a difference-- more choice. over a hundred etfs.... ...chosen by the unbiased experts at morningstar associates. let me pick what works for me. for me. for me. the etf market center at td ameritrade. before investing, carefully consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. contact td ameritrade for a prospectus containing this and other information. read it carefully before investing. [ female announcer ] this isthis is norma.ption. who's inundated with all the

. >> sean: but the media does have michelle obama. crazy michelle obama.pe. >> it's a charm style offensive that has all of us reaching for the inevitable comparison. india just by this glamorous first lady by the ultimate style icon jackie kennedy almost half a century ago. from the moment michelle arrived in a gray sheath and pearl buttons he turned the fashion wattage up daily. while her devine predecessor captured her perfection, michelle obama gives the role a modern approachable twist. >> sean: you know, like we have a queen. i don't know what to think of that. >> close your eyes and imagine nancy reagan getting that treatment. laura bush. barbara bush. when it's republican first lady they're ignored or vilified. democrat, put on a special throne. "washington post" when hillary clinton went to africa they called her queen of the world. two years later, laura bush went to europe and headline was first lady takes europe by calm. the allure is wearing off of michelle obama like barack obama. they've got this mantra about they're reaching out for the poo

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. >> reporter: michelle lindell mcclure is director of the national institute of military justice. she spent 11 years in the military as a lawyer. she is not connected with this case but we asked her for some insight. >> in this case i'm not sure if it's a matter of that they don't have enough evidence at this point that they think they could keep the individual in confinement. >> reporter: we also asked why the story kept changing. >> it's not all that unusual that there would be changes. such dramatic changes, a little more unusual. >> reporter: and if the family had any recourse to force the military to tell them what really happened. >> they can't file a lawsuit for a wrongful death or anything like that against the military itself. that's prevented by case law a, but certainly the squeaky wheel does get the grease and so if the family does stay active, which i imagine they will, they'll be in better shape than just sitting on their laurels. >> reporter: the mcbeth family says they will do whatever it takes to get to the truth about their daughter's murder. >> i'm not going to

hypocrite for shaking first lady michelle obama's hand. the minister is claiming mrs. obama forced the handske on him. >>> federal officials say they've arrested three former marines for selling weapons to a las vegas gang. the suspects ringleaderho served in iraq oversaw the sales of two cases of firearms, including an ak-47 and two other semi automatic rifles. at the sale, which was attended by both a government informant and a gang member, the former marine was asked if he would be willing to sell more weapons to other gang members in the future and he agreed. the suspect called the charges unte. >>> and now here's a look at other stories making news early today in america. a california mystery has been solved. an unidentified object thought by many to be a missile launch just off the coast of california was not, at least according to the pend gone and the faa and

after michelle bachmann lost her battle, they're going to create a new position?> john boehner has not been viewed as a figurehead of the tea party but recognizes how crucial they were to both his success and the party's this time around. he's made a lot of forays and entrees to that community. he did a skype chat on election night with some tea party folks. one thing he's doing is essentially going to create a seat on the gop's leadership table for a freshman. that essentially means probably one of these new tea party lawmakers that very much is coming with this swell of enthusiasm. i think that is another gesture that boehner is trying to do to reach out. in terms of michelle bachmann, even though a lot of people thought it was her versus jeb hen hensarling. and he got it. perhaps that was a snub to the tea party movement. this is what's interesting of the whole idea is that the tea party is naturally outsiders. so to a certain extent she wins by losing because if you have become too much establishment and too much in leadership positions, on committees, i think