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p.m. eastern on c-span.org radio and nation wide on xm channel 132. now the weekly addresses. first, president obama called on congress to address earmarks, items inserted into bills without proper review. he also urges more transparency and accountability and the government. then the gop transition chairman delivers the republican address. he discusses his party's legislative priorities for the new congress and talks about the gop online initiative. >> this weekend, i am concluding a trip to asia whose purpose is to open up markets in that part of the worl the economic battles for these areas is fierce. as i have said many times, america's not take second place. the future we are not -- we are fighting for is not imports. it is the world's largest manufacturer of ideas. this will create new jobs for american workers. it will help us reduce our deficit. the single greatest tool for getting our fiscal house in order is ribble -- robust economic growth. that will ensure that our students are getting the best i

p.m. eastern here on c- span. now president obama is a pardon for two national thanksgiving turkeys. two 45-pound turkeys named apple and cider were flown from the sow, fell for it, for this annual presentation. this is 10 minutes. >> good morning. i have malia and sasha here to help me with this official duty. there is one deep that i am sort up old as the era of the most powerful nation on our, issue a pardon for turkeys. it feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this november. [laughter] this year possum national turkey goes by the name of apple, and his father under study is appropriately named cider. they are being presented today by the chairman of the national turkey federation, hubert envia, and hubert seems very comfortable with that turkey. as well as the man who helped raise and handle them since birth, ira bristol. give ira a round of applause. i want to thank you both for joining us here at the white house. they came from a ranch outside of modesto, california, and out of about 20,000 turkeys point this summer, 25 were selected for a final competition that in

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p.m. eastern. on the agenda, a vote on a temporary delay in a 20% cut of reimbursements to doctors who treat medicare patients. i live coverage of the house on c-span. in the senate, members return at 2:00 p.m. eastern and legislative work at 4:00 p.m.. they will look at the fda spending cuts. live coverage of the senate here on c-span2. >> now, a look at one of the new members in the senate. republican kelly ayotte who won with 60% of the vote. in colorado's governor's race, democrat john hickenlooper repeat the republican opponent. >> take a look at the new members of congress with the c- span video library. find a complete list. every new member is listed with campaign finances and any appearances on c-span. it is all free on your computer any time. it is washington your way. >> now i look at some of the newly elected governors. democrat dan malloy won the democratic election committee is the longest firming -- longest serving mayor. then, in florida's governor's race, republican rick scott won

p.m. eastern and pacific. you can find links to the house of commons and prime ministers website. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," the national education association and the 2010 campaign with care and white. also a look at house and senate races. first conservative perspective was david keating. later a look at top congressional races with john mcardle of roll call. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> on saturday we travel to canton ohio for a gop rally featuring house republican leader john boehner. >> he said when they got in there to ask about all this stuff. >> i am here because it is time to take our country back. john boehner is the guy to do it as speaker of the house. >> he is a lot better than what we have been there as speaker of the house, a lot better. >> if they can compromise -- compromising get to that [unintelligible] >> to get our viewers that in denmark a picture of who es. we know what nancy pelosi stood for. what does he stand for? >> i wish i could answer that better.

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p.m. eastern.e chairman charles rangel. federal funding for the remainder of the year and the expiring bush tax cuts. the senate also returns at 2:00 p.m. eastern. they will discuss food recalls and imports. paula the house here on c-span and e senate on c-span2. >> now, a discussion on how u.s. presidents have dealt with the nation's crisis. republican democratic strategists talk about the difficulties facing national catastrophes. posted by the bipartisan policy council in new orleans, this is 1:10. >> thank you bipartisan policy center. the democracy project is really important. we are actually doing something. young people are thinking about doing something. this is how you can help. you young people were very impressive. we are feeling a lot better about everything. you are asking the right questions and very smart ones. thank you very much. if you make us all so proud. the politicization of crisis is the last panel. it caps of the day's discussion, all of them about the various and pediments

p.m. eastern here on c-span. as the votes come in coming you can watch c-span for complete election coverage. we begin at 7:00 p.m. and we invite your input. why the election night coverage beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. from "the washington post" this afternoon, pat tommey and -- pat toomey and joe sestak are nck and -- neck and neck. toomey is shown with 45% and sestak with 42%. this came one day after the president visited for a rally. >> this weekend, john goldberg, best-selling author of the national review online discusses the election results, the conservative movement, and the next wave of leaders on the ride. join us with your calls, emails, and tweets. >> this year's stew did carry video documentary is in full swing. make a five-eight minute video on this year's theme -- washington, d.c., through my lands. this should include more than one point of view along with c- span programming. of the door video before the deadline of january 20th at for a chance to win $5,000. there are $50,000 i

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p.m. eastern time.ek, how ronald reagan almost won the republican presidential nomination in 1968. >> in 1968, nixon main competitors for the g.o.p. were two liberal governors. george romney of michigan and nelson rockefeller of new york. that left an opening some thought for ronald reagan, though he had been california governor for only two years. >> nixon saw reagan even then as a rival. serious rival. >> people don't realize that reagan came close to winning in 1968. he had all kind of people pledged on the second ballot. so they had to make sure they won on the first ballot. >> 30 votes for the nominee in this election, richard nixon. >> many of the pundits said if it's not nixon it would be rockefeller. i was there. if it wasn't nixon, it would have been reagan. i came close. >> bret: this series is fantastic. if you miss the first part of the series, see it saturday or sunday at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. we will talk about what is at stake in a lame duck congressional session with the fox all-stars

p.m. eastern.the agenda is a vote on a temporary delay for reimbursement for doctors with medicare patients. in the senate, members return at 2:00 p.m. eastern. they will remove -- resume work on the fda oversight of food recalls. they will both consider remaining spending and tax cuts for the remainder of this year. now a look at some of the newly elected governors. republican rick snyder won michigan election, defeating verge bernero. in oregon's race, democrat john kitzhaber won. >> from barack obama to george washington, learn more about the nation's presidents online at the c-span video library. biographies, interviews, historical perspectives, and more, they are searchable and free. it is washington your way. >> former arkansas gov. mike a victory -- mike huckabee spoke at a gathering of evangelical ministers. the former governor won the 2008 iowa presidential caucus. this is about 40 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite

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p.m. eastern on hln and we're still tv's most provocative entertainment news show at 11:00 p.m. >>> thankan international desk editor joins us now to tell us what's coming up internationally. ireland, and some people had predicted this, they are in trouble. >> they are in trouble and their finance minister for weeks was saying we don't need a bailout and today he came out and said he encouraged the government to sign off on one. that's going to be handed down ob monday. this could mean -- part of this is to build confidence in investors internationally, what this means in relation to the euro and the dollar will play out in the weeks to come. >> the country will need a bailout of tens of billions of euros. that is not good. also, there is some uproar, an uproar happening in haiti and it has to do with the cholera epidemic that's going on over there. >> it seems they keep getting hit over and over and over again. they're claiming that a u.n. nep nepalese peacekeeper has brought cholera to the country. this is just a week out from the slated elections. there's some talk about moving the ele

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p.m. eastern time and then landed at about 6:00 p.m. at jfk. they're trying to determine exactly what the problem was but all the passengers deplaned safely and they will be getting aboard another flight to moscow scheduled to leave at about 8:00 eastern time tonight. don? >> susan candiotti is following this story for us. saw soon, imagine the stories that will come from the passengers aboard the plane and i'm sure we'll be hearing from them. we'll get back to you in this broadcast if it warrants it. >>> we're going to move on and go out west. he's the popular student body president at fresno university in california. he's rejecting calls he step down and it's not because of anything that he did, it's because of who he is. pedro ramirez turns out to be an illegal imimmigrant. he was outed last week in an anonymous e-mail to the campus newspaper. he joins us live from fresno, california. thank you, sir. as i understand, did you not find out, and this is what i read, i believe this is according to "the l.a. times" it says you did not know you wer

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p.m. eastern time and great to see nascar getting that type of dramatic finish for the season. >> not to throwou under the bus, how many points can you win with one of those things. maybe rick knows. >> enough to win for the second place racer, but not enough for the third. >> okay, thank you, rick, actually, for having to answer that. >> you know what, it's so early in the mork we forgot to get a lighting guy out here and as usual it's the time of year i forget my winter coat before going outside. >> the time of year where you get the flu as a result. >> of course, today is my friday and lose my saturday. there you go. take a look at the weather picture, there are things going on. cold air across the northern plains, but this is kind of that dividing line. 59 in kansas city, 29 in sioux falls so big differences in those temperatures there. the cold air is going to win out and a lot of us are feeling the first really winter plastic and stretching to the east at least by this weekend and feeling like christmas will have thanksgiving, it won't be bad for a lot of people. here are the temps acros

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p.m. eastern. we will be live as the house takes up nine bills, including temporary extension of medicare payment rate for doctors. the senate will continue where expanding food and drug administration oversight of food recall and both will discuss federal spending this budget year and the long-term jobless benefits. once again, coming about 1:00 we expect remarks from secretary of state henry clinton on the wikileaks release of secret documents. until then, the look at federal debt reduction and tax reform from today's "washington journal." , the task force co-chair of the debt reduction task force from the bipartisan policy center. also, joseph minarik, a member of the task force. thank you for being with us. in the news right now, how to deal with that the deficit and the debt. your organization came out with it this report. what is the most significant thing here the actual content of the report or the fact that this group of individuals was able to develop a plan? >> -- guest: i said that i wo

p.m. eastern. joining us now is karen kapler, the state house bureau chief for ohio public radio and television. and she is in columbus. karen, it's good to see you. you know, we've been talking about these two statewide races in ohio. the senate race. it's been called. rob portman the republican has been declared the winner. your governor's race, john kay sich running against your incumbent. governor strickland is still on the bubble. help us understand the difference between these two races. >> well, it's very interesting because in both races you have former republican congressmen john kasich and our apparently senator-elect rob portman. on the democratic side you have the incumbent side strickland. two democrats who have very similar... the races couldn't be more different. rob portman has had a 20-plus point lead in almost every poll in the recent polling results that we've seen. so it wasn't a surprise when i heard you project rob portman as the winner but the strickland race is a dead heat i

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p.m. eastern and always back at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific every night. >> good to see you.. >> bye. >>> and what cnn personality -- you'll love this -- will make a special presentation at the 2010 soul train -- yes, the soul train music awards tomorrow night. how about don lemon? how about wolf blitzer? maybe ali velshi? you have may be surprised by who's got the most soul. >>> before the bribing here was the question what personality will make a presentation at awards tomorrow night? don lemon? wolf blitzer? ali velshi? the answer is -- wait for it -- there he is. the man. wolf blitzer, soul train music awards tomorrow night in hotlanta. wolf as you know part of the best political team on television joining us from the political desk in washington. can't wait to see you. >> a lot of people don't know i'm a soul man going way back my whole life. it's going to be exciting sean fun and tomorrow night in atlanta and will air on b.e.t. on i think november 28th. so it will be something everybody can see. >> well, i'll be there cheering you on. wolf blitzer the orch soul man. can

p.m. eastern. it replays tonight at 10:30 tomorrow night i should say.onight at 10:00, tomorrow night at 10:30. >>> a big decision about the future of u.s. troops in afghanistan. the announcement just made in portugal. that is straight ahead. >>> also, dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a prominent doctor whose experiences as a patient led to him making big changes with his hospital. fiber one chewy bar. how'd you do that? do what? you made it taste like chocolate. it has 35% of your daily value of fiber. tasty fiber, that's a good one! ok, umm...read her mind. [ male announcer ] fiber one chewy bars. took some foolish risks as a teenager. but i was still taking a foolish risk with my cholesterol. anyone with high cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier, exercising more... and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol...stop. along with diet, lipitor has been shown to lower bad cholesterol 39% to 60%. lipito

p.m. eastern time. he is expected to talk about issues he wants to work on with the republicans. coabc news will provide live coverage of that news conference. >> looking a bit further ahead, the new congress will be sworn in officially january 3rd, 2011. >>> now, for this morning's weather from around the country. another wet day along the gulf coast, with some heavy rain and flooding from houston to the florida panhandle. showers in florida, from tallahassee to miami, moving into georgia, the carolinas, and southern virginia by this afternoon. cool and breezy, with showers from duluth to detroit. >> mostly 50s from fargo to indianapolis. 40 in boston. 54 here in new york. and a wet 78 in new orleans. 90 degrees in phoenix. 76 in sacramento. and 60s from seattle to albuquerque. >>> and when we come back on nie this morning after the midterms, revealing, new details about the bush white house. did the president at one time consider firing dick cheney? >>> plus, the morning's other news, including the mysterious death of a world-champion surfer. stay with us. ♪ i hate suburbia and

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p.m. eastern only on msnbc. the place for politics. >>> two years to go before the 2012 presidential election. and things are already getting interesting. once again, sarah palin is involved. in an abc news interview, the tea party favorite says she's seriously considering a white house run. palin, who's been busy filming a tv series and watching her daughter on "dancing with the stars," says she's trying to figure out if jumping into the race would be good for the country and her family. when asked whether she thinks she would beat president obama, palin said, "i believe so." >>> a mixed verdict in the case of a former guantanamo detainee. the first to be tried in a civilian court is reigniting the debate over how terror suspects should be prosecuted. yesterday a new york jury acquitted ahmed ghailani on all but one of over 280 charges against him for the deadly bombings of two u.s. embassies in 1998 that left 224 people dead, including 12 americans. he faces 20 years to life in prison for conspiracy. several l

p.m. eastern, sundays at 3:00 p.m. eastern. christine is also the author of "smart is the new rich" with some very cutting edge ideas of how you can take advantage of a very changed and changing economy. i have a trivia question for you now. what year was the heinz company created? 1801, 1869, 1910 or 1957. we'll have the answer for you after the break, and the ceo of heinz is going to join us live to talk about one of the oldest companies in america, one of the oldest brands in america, how it's lasted through the years. we're going to talk about food in the nation. a great conversation. [ woman ] when my dance company went on tour, i took emergen-c. with 1,000 milligrams of vitamin c and energizing b vitamins, it made every performance count. emergen-c. feel the good. >>> before the break, we asked, what year was the heinz company created? 1801, 1869, 1910 or 1957. these days with google, you can cheat and look it up. if you did, you found out it was 1869. that's when they launched heinz and noble with horses, by the way, aro

p.m. eastern and it's on thursday, though, hello. on at 10:00 p.m. eastern. thanks, eric.eaking news now from the hill, the continues verse yep he -- controversial head of medicare and medicaid, chuck grassley has had strong words in fronts of the hearing as doctors get ready for looming cuts to the system. there's a budget issue that has to be managed the next couple of weeks, otherwise a 23% cut is set to hit the first of december. dr. manny alvarez, with me now, good morning to you, donald berwick is the gentleman's name, who is testifying. you know him? >> yes. bill: hee has a lot of power. >> and he wasn't voted in, he has to go through congressional confirmation but is in charge of the medicaid/medicare system now and has a lot of tough choices to make because we're looking at a 23% cuts, december 1st, something that has been looming, over doctors' heads the last 2-3 years and comes out of, you know, the '90s when they were trying to balance the budget, of course. at 23%, cut, right now, on medicare reimbursement to doctors will absolutely destroy 43 million people t

p.m. eastern. also, a subcommittee hearing on the case against representative charlie rangel, who is accused of failing to disclose at least $6,000 in assets and income. we will have not lied, monday, and 9:00 a.m. the -- will have that live, monday, at 9:00 a.m. eastern. now, a look at some new senators in congress. marco rubio won 49% of the vote in florida. then, in dollar's senate race, democrat chris combs one with 56% of the vote, defeating republican candidate to christine o'donnell. byll take the seat once held ted kaufman, who is requiring. >> and one of his first live television appearances since his presidency, george w. bush discusses the crib -- did -- the decisions of his administration. >> now, we will look at the prevention of terrorism organizations from using safe havens both in and outside of the united states. you will hear from william banks, who direct syracuse to diversities institute for security and counter terrorism. -- who directs the syracuse coach del university -- syra

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p.m. eastern only on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> a football coach gets the ax.tsto puts the "v" in mvp and the heat are on a cold streak. the san diego chargers owned the skies last night against the denver broncos. your first look at sports is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. and sitting next to us, chevy chase. and we really hit it off. we play golf, and then the luau. he's like da vinci with ice. and after, we help hang christmas decorations. wait, wait, wait. you flew last minute... on christmas... with points from chase sapphire? yeah. amazing. believe it. with points from chase sapphire, you can book airline tickets with no blackout dates or restrictions. ♪ [ male announcer ] open up a cadillac during our season's best sales event and receive the gift of asphalt. experience the exhilarating cadillac cts with a direct injection v6. it's the one gift you can open up all year long. see your cadillac dealer for this attractive offer. backed by the peace of mind that only comes from cadillac premium care maintenance. the season's best sale

p.m. eastern. >>> here's your chance to participate in the special town hall event.end your questions to msnbc town hall questions at nbc uni.com or visit us on facebook at facebook.com/thelastword and on twitter at thelastword. >>> your first look at some of the other news going on around america today. in colorado three u.s. soldiers were arrested after their attempted raid of a medical marijuana dispensary hit a snag. security video captures the panic when they realized they accidentally locked themselves inside. they've each been slapped with burglary charges. >>> a three mile stretch of one california beach is littered with thousands of jellyfish. officials are investigating. they say a similar event happened about seven years ago, but it was a smaller type of jellyfish. they believe these are moon jellyfish which are about a foot in diameter. >>> heavy snow in minnesota didn't stop a group of 300 cyclists from competing in the state championship. racers did their best to keep warm, but unfortunately that didn't prevent the inevitable wipeouts. the promoter offe

p.m. eastern tomorrow. oh, yeah, you can expect plenty of company if you're traveling this holiday week. the nation's highways and airports should be packed. the weather could also be a factor. some parts of the country got socked this weekend by a blast of winter weather. our meteorologist jacqui jeras is here with your holiday travel forecast. >> reporter: hey, don, it's been pretty brutal out there especially across parts of the west where we've seen incredible amounts of snowfall into the higher elevations and valley rainfall. salt lake city and across parts of utah today. man, you've got a lot of snow. we had about a foot on the benches. two feet into the higher elevations and we're looking at a good three to six inches easy on the valley floor. things are starting to wind down tonight, but we are expecting more snow to kick up as we head through tuesday and into wednesday. this system is just the first in a series that's going to make its way across the west so expect bad travel weather all across the west, at least through wednesday morning, before things start to improve. now tom

p.m. eastern time this afternoon.s near the launch pad there in florida may force nasa to delay the flight yet again. "discovery" must head for the international space station by sunday, or the mission will have to wait until next month. >>> one of the chilean miners rescued last month is arriving in new york today, ahead of sunday's big marathon. edison pena, who trained by running in the mining tunnels to elvis music, plans to run the marathon. he will appear on "david letterman," and visit graceland and las vegas. >> wish him lots of that. >>> on top of that, celebrity couple, demi moore and ashton kutcher are headed to the united nations today. they're using their star power to launch a fund to fight human trafficking around the world. >>> and coming up later on "good morning america," the nation's newest panda cub. that's right. lun lun was pregnant. she has now given birth. >>> also, medical news. there's new home for kids with a rare but debilitating kind of brain tumor. a drug used to treat kidney cancer is no

p.m. eastern on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> in health news this morning, government researchers reportore than 45 million americans or 20% of all u.s. adults have some form of mental -- had some form of mental illness last year. young adults aged 18 to 25 had the highest amounts, while those 50 and older had the lowest. the survey hints at the record of unemployment rates which last year hit a 25-year high. for more information on this and other health stories, you can check out the health page at msnbc.com. >>> the magic can make a mockery of phoenix. an explosion on the ice. and a soccer ball gets stuck in the mud. the chicago bears were in miami last night and accomplished something no team has done before in the nfl. ♪ [ man ] i thought our family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag. and like that, we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity, the hartford is there. protecting their employees and property and helping them prepare for the future. nice boots. nice bag. [ male announcer ] s

p.m. eastern time and again at 1:00 a.m. eastern.ailable at cbsnews.com and at youtube.com/cbsnews. and that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight, i'm katie couric reporting from news election headquarters in new york. i'll see you again soon. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.or >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. a lot of it, and fast. amid the orange glow - it's >>> san francisco in crisis. the city needs orange and black confetti a lot of it and fast. >>> amid the orange glow, it's election day. and already, signs of a dramatically changing political landscape. >>> and not without a few glitches, how a smudge has one bay area county pulling out the erasers. good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. >>> election day most people think red, white and blue but everywhere in the bay area today, we are seeing orange and black right there the letters s and f on sign hill in south san francisco, are sporting giants colors in hon offer the te

p.m. eastern time. >>> we have news tonight from deep space.tunning images of a comet called hartley ii, that's hurtling along on if fringes of our solar system. a nasa spacecraft got close, at least in space terms, to the comet and started sending back images within an hour of this fly-by. the spacecraft was launched back in 2005. it takes a while. it's traveled 1.7 billion miles in its way to this encounter. >>> when we come back here tonight, remembering a baseball legend, the man they called sparky. the man they called sparky. that's going to go right in your glove. ohhh. oh. see that? great job. ok, now let's get ready for the ball... here it comes... here you go. good catch. perfect! alright now for the best part. let's see your pour. ohhh...let's get those in the bowl. these are way too good to waste, right? oh, yea. let's go for it... around the bowl and... [ male announcer ] share what you love... with who you love. mmmmm. kellogg's frosted flakes... they're g-r-r-reat! good catch, dad. [ laughs ] i'm friend, secret-keeper and playmate