across town, firefighter mike henry has made his way back to the meadows apartment complex and, againnts insist to him the building has collapsed. >> everything looked fine and we told them the same thing. >> but then right as henry is about to drive away for the second time with his fire truck, a man in the distance clawing at the base of the building catches his eye. >> i stopped the rig, got out, went over and asked him, what are you doing? he said, there's somebody trapped under the building. i kind of thought this guy might be a little nuts. >> even though henry can clearly see the building is standing, he decides to step back and compare it with another section of the l-shaped structure. >> i saw the first floor balcony or the second-floor balconies line up and the third-floor balconies line up and i went to the roof line and all of a sudden the roof jumps up 8 feet. then it dawned on me the building has collapsed and a whole floor is pancaked. that kind of hit me like a ton of bricks. >> henry starts to do the math in his head. 50 apartments on the first floor and the worst cas

tonight on "special report," mike emanuel and ed henry look at the political maneuvers on capitol hilltration. jim angle show us how the keystone xl pipeline fits in to ongoing talk and how the issue is splitting the president's base. we are two weeks from the first in the nation caucuses and james rosen show us how some of the candidates called the second tier have new cause for optimism. shannon bream has more on letting illegal aliens vote. and in the grapevine how half a million dollars of your money used to show the relationship between rock 'n' roll and the collapse of the soviet union. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and my colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: yellow river? i don't know what that means. progressives went to hobnob with obama. this lump of lefties included schultz, rachel maddow, bloggers too boring to mention and the lady from the nation. the crowd in the room was bigger than the collective audience. the only group more progressive than this wore mouse suits to work. they tackled the strategy to fight the candi

tonight on special special, mike emanuel and ed henry look at what is happening on capitol hill, along, i'll interview new york democratic senator chuck schumer live tonight. 13 days until the iowa caucuses. carl cameron brings us the latest from the 2012 trail. including interview with romney on the campaign bus. there is a heated back and forth going on now. chinese hackers hit the u.s. chamber of commerce. doug mckelway has details. catherine herridge explores some of the nasty thing printed in textbook of our ally saudi arabia which has been the recipient in billions of u.s. taxpayer moneyment don't miss this. in grapevine, wardrobe malfunction on capitol hill. "special report" starts at 6:00. now back to "the five" in new york. ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five." we just informed greg gutfeld we are playing christmas music until january 12. he is ecstatic about it. >> kimberly: look at his face. >> greg: it's wrong. 'canes when i was five years old my christmas list to santa, i wanted easy bake oven, pony and just like greg a unicorn poster to have it up on my wall. get a loa

mike emanuel and ed henry have team coverage.ives froe mortgage giant fannie mae and freddie mac are charged with fraud. jim angle will tell you why. the hearing of the wikileaks scandal focused on someone else in the courtroom. catherine herridge explains. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern now. back to new york and my colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back to "the five." all right, sow much should candidates' personal lives and their marriages matter in politics today? barbara walters sat down with president barack obama and decided to ask him what he thought. listen to this. >> you know, i'm not big on people's personal lives. being poked and prodded. i think what the people care about is what kind of job can you do. >> andrea: do you think he is saying that because he has a decent personal life himself and they can't seem to find anything on his marriage? or his personal life has been poked and prodded in the past. by a man named donald trump. >> greg: i think obama needs to do more tv

, his thoughts turned to his longtime friend and partner in the founding of patco, mike brock, another veteran of henry levin. maher knew exactly where rock would be at that moment. in a union strike at core, a secret safe house, the bunker. maher himself had taken out on a rundown street near the capitol in washington. from that location, brock was helping to direct something never before seen, a carefully planned illegal strike stretching from puerto rico to guam, from key west to a great against the most powerful government in the world. maher result at the moment he had to go to washington. he was determined to stand in solidarity with the brock and his friends. jumping in his car, back to i-95 and headed north. as the miles rolled by the carburetor carried frequent bulletins of the walkout, announcers reported the scheduled flights had been cut in half that morning and a skeleton crew of non-strikers, supervisors and hastily deployed no to air traffic controllers were scrambling to handle the remaining flights. trains and bus depots were swamped with worried travelers. they were offering stagnant

mike emanuel is on top of that. ed henryat fort bragg, north carolina, there to celebrate the coming end to the war in iraq. plus, in grapevine, the politician sends out an unusual holiday greeting card. "special report" from sioux city, iowa, starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back to "the five." becausevy no life, i read the "new york times" columnist bill keller's blog where he confessed that something horrible. he was mad because he called them illegals. the short-handed phrase is now considered a slur. why is that? keller's cohort says the anti-immigration size uses that phrase. see what they did there? they said anti-immigration. isn't that a slur? they call you anti-immigration even if you are a prolegal immigration. i love immigrants. some say too much? i frown on law-making but time erases that stance with sinister slur. then he obsesss over new phrases from illegal immigrant from undocumented to mid-status household and grabs a gimmick of offering too much informatio

henry live on the north lawn. thank you. chief congressional correspondent mike has the latest from capitol hill, including political pitfalls facing lawmakers on both sides of the argument. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. pressure builds here on capitol hill, even though most lawmakers are home now. house republican leaders are standing their ground so far. >> the bill is what the president asked for. the senate only produced two-month bill. the process is to sit down and resolve those differences. we are here ready to work. >> traditional allies including senate republicans don't think the arguement is working. "wall street journal" editorial entitled the "g.o.p. payroll tax fiasco" blasted the republican leaders to allowing the president to position himself as election year tax-cutter and wrote, "we wonder if they might end up re-electing the president before the 2012 campaign begins in earnest." >> we fought for lower taxes for 21 years i have been on the congress and we'll continue to be the party of lower taxes. >> as for this fight, one senate d

mike emanuel tells us how that is going. ed henryat president obama appears to give up on hope for a millionaire surtax. that's at 6:00 eastern on "special report" now. back to "the five" in new york. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bob: welcome back to "the five." not only am i as usual at the end of the show -- >> bob: i am after you, bob -- >> greg: i am after you, bob. >> bob: fine. i have to do this without a teleprompter. casey anthony who we remember fondly from florida who remarkably got off if the trial of killing her daughter is now shopping her story around. she wants $750,000 to get her story out. now, i wouldn't pay $7.50 if she were working out of the chicken ranch in nevada, but that is not the point. is anybody going to buy the story? >> greg: nobody. >> dana: she was on the front page of "people" magazine for every week for ten months. i think that they must know something. freddie nobody wants the stigma of paying for it -- >> greg: nobody wants the stigma of paying for it. >> eric: if you were a magazine editor, how much would you love

mike emanuel has that story from capitol hill. ed henry obama recent comment he may need a second term to fix the economy. we'll contrast that with what he said in the past. gingrich is on top of the latest republican presidential polls. that means he will soon be hammered by negative ads. carl come ron tells us what is coming and how gingrich is getting ready. members of both parties are calling on the obama administration to come up with a plan for dealing with iran. a heated hearing on capitol hill today had top democrats criticizing the administration. catherine herridge is following that. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and the colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back to "the five." sanitation officials plan to haul away 30-tons of debris from the ok pay l.a. encampment, not including the protesters 306789-tons is a lot of trash. imagine two tons and multiply it by 15 or 60-tons cut in half. 30-tons squared by and divided by 30. at any rate it's 30-tons more than the tea party left behind. th

ed menry has the white house response -- ed henry has the white house response to political back-and-forth, but mikeel has the latest on the maneuvering on capitol hill. >> the house sounded anything but bipartisan today. trading verbal jabs over the payroll tax holiday issues. so president obama steps in to force the issue. >> let's be clear. right now, the bipartisan compromise that was reached on saturday is the only viable way to prevent a tax hike on january 1. >> moments later, the speaker responded he needs the president's help. >> president obama needs to call on senate democrats to go back in session, move to conference and sit down and resolve the bill as quickly as possible. >> earlyer the house voted 229-193 to set aside a senate two-month payroll tax holiday extension. and have a congressional conference negotiate a one-year extension. senate majority leader harry reid who passed a two-month plan said, "it's unconscionable that speaker boehner is blocking a bipartisan compromise that would protect the middle class families from the tax hike looming on january 1. a compromise that senato

we have team fox coverage with ed henry live at the white house and bret baier live in our washington newsroom. but, first to mike emanuel tracking developments on capitol hill. mike, so what happens now? >> well, lawmakers, jon are expected to try to pass this, what is known as unanimous consent. speaker jon boehner also talked about a broader effort to strike a full one-year deal. >> the senate will join the house in immediately appointing conferees with instructions to reach an agreement in the weeks ahead on a full one-year payroll tax deduction along with unemployment reforms and extension of unemployment and the so-called doc fix for two years. >> jon: if there is a snag tomorrow. if a member comes and objects. mr. boehner says he will not hesitate to bring the entire house back next week, jon? >> jon: what sort of political fallout can we expect? >> well, the speaker revealed this deal to members about two hours ago on a conference call. he did not ask for feedback. he did not take questions. and that really seemed to anger some of the republic members. a lot of grumbling about that the speaker a short tim

mike emanuel has a live report from capitol hill with another government shutdown looming friday night. we have learned more today about president obama re-election strategy. ed henrylive from sioux city, iowa, starts at 6:00 eastern. now we send it back to new york where it's not raining and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: that is the great actor robert davie singing mistletoe and holly. if you download the song on itune and amazon, the proceeds go to salvation army. my favorite army by the way. >> kimberly: thank you. >> bob: they don't have nukes either. >> greg: i'm going to do my monologue. senator harry reid made a claim, so mean, inflammatory and hateful it sickens my ears and my ears don't even have stink. if there are young ones present, leave room or put soundproof bucket over their head because this is disgusting. roll tape, roll-tapers. >> national public radio went looking for one of these fictitious millionaire job creators. ditches ticked by with no luck. job creators are like unicorns and possible fine and don't exist. >> kimberly: wow! >> greg: do you need any more evidence that the democratic party is the party of intolerance, to deny the existence of un

henry harrison. governor, what did you learn? >> i'm devastated to know that mikent he would wear it as well. i learn aid cording to newt gingrich and his camp that not appearing on the virginia ballot is tantamount to pearl harbor. we will just let that one soak in for a moment. also learned it's the birthday,

powell, former republican secretaries of state james baker, henry kissinger and condoleezza rice, former defense secretary robert gates, admiral mike mullen and general david pet trace. there is -- petraeus. for eight long years during the previous republican administration, republicans on the floor arguing time and time again that it was inappropriate, some said unconstitutional, for congress to ask a basic question about the bush administration's policies on issues like iraq, torture, waterboarding and warrantless wiretapping. time and again we were told that congress should defer to president bush, our commander in chief. let me give you one example. my friend, senator lindsey graham of south carolina on september 19, 2007, said -- and i quote -- "the last thing we need in any war is to have the ability of 535 people who are worried about the next election to be able to micromanage how you fight the war. this is not only micromanagement, this is a constitutional shift of power." end of quote. now with a democratic president, obviously some of my colleagues have had a change of heart. they think it's not only appropriate but urge

henry live at that building with more. sound like neither side is really giving in at this point, ed. >> reporter: they are not. to under what mike ayman all is reporting with his excellent reporting there why senator mcconnell the republican leader in the senate is getting involved, he is hanging out on a him here. remember on saturday, 39 senate republicans, including mitch mcconnell voted for the compromise senate democrats put together. that is giving the president a lot of cover to say look, it is house republicans out of the mainstream here. senate republicans worked with the white house and senate democrats to move forward. that's why president, yesterday, picture presenting picking up pizza, taking his dog to petsmart, doing holiday shopping for girls at best buy. he is projecting image, what me worry? that's why jay carney at podium basically said it is house republicans who have to compromise here. take a listen here. >> the ball is in the house's court. there is compromise available. an avenue out of this blind alley if you will they have driven themselves into and it is the senate bill. vote on it, pass it. >> reporte

john randolph compared henry clay to a character in the novel "tom jones" and basically called him mike chard -- a card cheat on the senate floor. clay was not there to defend himself -- it was seriously and [no audio] jeered. >> how long did was a part of the american political life? >> the net -- the killing goes back to the 1860's. and henry clay knew he was not a great shot. why was he involved in this? >> honor was the whole issue. clay had a great sense of honor. if your honor was at that, you had to defend it. sometimes you defended it through newspaper stories, and sometimes it gets so bad he thought the only way to defend it was to challenge someone. and if they answer the challenge, then he twice went to the dueling grounds. that would be used against him as well. randolph was particularly -- >> this is senator john randolph of roanoke, right? >> yes, a man who is very eccentric. at one of the great quotes about henry clay. it may apply to other people, but he said that henry clay was like a rotten apple in the moonlight -- keep both shines instincts. that is a great vision th

henry clay got nominated three times. but then the age of television and the post-war period, once you lost, you were kind of a pariah. guys like mikeext democratic convention. about gore, kerry and mccain, they've all tried to become more relevant. dukakis went back to teach school. dole retired from public service. mccain has tried to assume the old mantel of being a leading critic of obama very early on. his speech which we saw to open the segment, very gracious. did a lot to healing the divisions of the election, but pretty quickly he said, he's our president but let me tell you he's doing things wrong and trying to be a spokesperson for the gop. >> the book is "almost president." scott farris, thank you so much. nice to meet you. >> pleasure. >>> up next, new numbers crossing right now on the holiday shopping season and how it's shaping up. business before the bell with tyler matheson next on "morning joe." ♪ ♪ ♪ mom? dad? guys? [ engine turns over ] [ engine revs ] ♪ he'll be fine. [ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes, and lexus for audi than ever before. take advantage of exceptional values during the seas