p.m. eastern time. america's election headquarters special, previewing tuesday's race live from iowa hosted by bret baier, who is on his way to the state right now, and megyn kelly. plus we'll have special coverage of the caucuses this tuesday beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern time right here on fox news channel. >> president obama is in hawaii spending some quality time with his family this new year. but he's also preparing to spend much of 2012 on the campaign trail. what can we expect from the president once he heads back to washington? doug is not in washington. he's live in honolulu. hello, doug. >> hello. not a bad place to be. you hear about all the back and forth that carl just described. so far, the president has been happy to watch all of that play out, watch these republicans beat up one another and really kind of stay above it all. next year he will have to enter the fray and we got an idea from white house official how he sees this all playing out. the campaign will begin in full force later i

p.m. eastern with a full roster of reporters and the all-star panel. coverage tuesday of the iowa caucuses begin here on "special report" at 6:00 eastern and runs all evening long. we'll have up to the minute information and live updates both here and on fox news. and at foxnews.com. wall street closed out the year on a down note. the dow lost 69. the s&p 500 gave back five. the nasdaq closed nine behind. president obama continues his vacation in hawaii with the start of a busy election year, a couple of days away. correspondent doug lezadur is traveling with theth and joins us live with a word on change of plans today. good afternoon, doug. >> hi, jim. this is last-minute drama we didn't expect. thous doesn't think this is going to be a big deal. but it's down to the wire for the debt ceiling. the government money is running out. soon, treasury department will have to resort to accounting gimmicks to keep the cash flowing. right now, we are within $100 billion of the legal debt limit. this clock isn't stopping. the white house was expected to formally

p.m. eastern time, 6 p.m. pacific. we will have instant analysis, live chats, and we will have fox news contributors at foxnews.com/debate. >>> another fox news alert now, we are awaiting the start of a new round of congressional testimony from former new jersey senate and former new jersey governor jon corzine. the house oversight committee is scheduled to start grilling corzine anytime now about the failure of a hedge fund that corzine ran and more than a billion dollars in investor money that has gone missing. we'll bring you the latest news as it happens right there. >>> well, back now to capitol hill, house speaker john boehner is saying that he's optimistic that a government shutdown can be avoided. the big debate over the spending bill snagged on disagreements over how to expand a payroll tax holiday. now, if congress fails to act, the government could run out of money by tonight. we've heard this song before. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live from capitol hill. hey, mike. >> reporter: hi, megy

p.m. eastern. megyn kelly and bill hemmer hosts. guests, trace adkins. and cast of the broadway hit, rock of ages. send us a new year's greetings send it to 36288. you have new text and leave a space and type a brief message. you can text happy new year gregg. >> gregg: or heather. >> heather: i'm going to be watching the ball drop. you have to do it once. >> gregg: good for you. it's warm out there. >> heather: doesn't feel like january or december. >> gregg: wait for two days, it will be 29. >>> president obama is taking a less talk approach to diplomacy. has that paid off? >> heather: look out below, a camera coming crashing down missing players at a college bowl game. amazing video up next. >> gregg: top of the hour, top of the news. slang investigating a new round of suspicious fires, as many as eight vehicles are torched in what police suspect is connected to recent car fires in the area. >> heather: crowds and anticipation building in new york times square all for the world famous ball drop.

p.m. eastern only on c- span. >> the white house recently opened its doors for tour of this year's holiday decorations. the team is "-- the theme is "shine, give, share." >> pleasure to be here. beautiful holiday ornaments. probably the state dining room is absolutely spectacular, but there are a lot of beautiful rooms. it is all done very well. [inaudible] >> a replica. you're looking at the cards. those are historical cards. >> one to my senator. senator -- office contacted the white house on my behalf. >> when did you get the word -- [inaudible] really little.'s [inaudible] ♪ ["what child is this?" playing] [inaudible] >> the house is made of gingerbread on the inside, that is the foundation, and white chocolate on the outside. in his architecturally -- it is architecturally accurate. it has all the carvings that you see on the outside of the real white house. it weighs about 400 pounds and takes about two months to make. we moved it here on monday morning. since then, we have added the marzipan and macaroon forest. you see the macaroons and the marzipan shaped into fruit. everything in

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p.m. eastern. "big stars, big giving," my one-on-one interviews with jennifer lopez, tony bennett, president clinton, and will ferrell. all of these big celebry theies giving back in a big way. that's at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. i'm alina cho. "fareed zakaria: gps" starts right now. >>> this is "gps," the "global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a wonderful show for you today. some of our best interviews of the year. we'll start off with one of the great historians of our age. difd mccullough will give us perspective on the present through the lens of the past. >>> why in the world is not a tiny nation about to skip over a date entirely? i'll explain. >>> next up, a fascinating look inside spy games. both the fictional and nonfictional varieties with columnist and novelist david ignatius. >>> then a look at innovation with the master architect frank gehry. >>> finally, why president bush might have offended some italians on

p.m. eastern for a special situation room. with all seven presidential candidates. then at 8:00 p.m. sunday night, our special countdown to iowa and it all leads to the first votes cast in the 2012 presidential election. the iowa caucuses. we'll have special coverage beginning tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. >>> republican presidential front-runner mitt romney calls in the big guns hoping to seal the deal in iowa. just ahead. why the new jersey governor, chris christie, is now threatening to quote go jersey style and iran flexing its military muscle. up next, why the united states is gearing up for a particularly tense weekend off the iranian coast. nyquil:what? tissue box (whispering): he said nasal congestion... nyquil: i heard him. anncr vo: tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion... nyquil cold & flu doesn't. [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we

p.m. eastern. donald trump joins piers morgan at 9 p.m. stern. >>> a 19-year-old man claims former penn state football coach gave him whiskey and then sexually abused him. an attorney says the alleged incident happened in 2004 when the accuser was 12. joining us to talk about the event is sarah ganim. what do you know about the newest victims and his claims? >> don, what we know is that this man is now 19 years old. he was 12 in 2004 and a second mile child staying at the facilities in state college. he went to a swimming event with jerry sandusky and other children but was separated by sandusky, taken on a tour of the football building on penn state's campus, and eventually taken into an office where he alleges that jerry sandusky gave him whiskey, started talking to him about his life, how he ended up with the second mile charity, and then assaulted him. >> so these claims now, because jerry sandusky has so many charges against him, do we know at this point, are there going to be additional charges? because people are saying they're specu

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p.m. eastern/5:00 p.m. pacific. >>> a dilemma united these two moms.a and sheila say elementary school staff pressured them to medicate their sons for behavior problems. >> the principal told me, your son is not focused, not on task, and this is a continual problem. she goes, counseling is too slow a process, and you need to put your child on medication. >> you fought it, though, in the beginning. >> something inside of me told me that that was not what i wanted to do. >> right. >> and i had everybody telling me, oh, it's safe, it's going to help him focus. you think, here are experts, maybe these people know more than me. >> patricia gave her 7-year-old various drugs for more than two years. >> he was up and down. he became psychotic. >> what do you mean? >> he literally attacked me, physically hitting me. he went to school and he was banging his head against the desk. when he was asked to take a test, he ate the test. i said, this is not my son. i'm pulling my son off these drugs. >> you sheila had a similar situation? >> my son, too, he was 7 at the

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p.m. eastern time and again tomorrow on christmas day at 4:00 p.m. eastern. i hope you'll watch it. to go before the iowa caucuses, first presidential contest. who is up? who is down? that's next. how do i get to charlie grant's house? [siri - here are directions to charlie grant's house.] is it cold in sante fe? raleigh? cleveland tonight? [siri- really cold. down to about 14 degrees.] find that e-mail with the naughty or nice list. [siri- new message from mrs. claus: go easy on the cookies.] [laughs] how does the rest of my day look? [siri - you have 3.7 billion appointments.] >>> less than three minutes benefactor top of the hour. donald trump is abandoning the democratic party. he's changed from republican to unaffiliated. an aide says trump switched to preserve his right to run for president. and also because he was, quote, disgusted with the way republicans handled the payroll tax cut battle. >>> republican candidates gearing up for a big week in iowa. let's turn to political editor paul steinhauser in washington. >> reporter: hey, alina. call it a time-out. the campaign trail

p.m. eastern today and tomorrow. contenders.ur chance to hear the candidate necessary their own words. tuesday night, cnn's special alive america's choice coverage of the iowa caucuses begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> now, you may have seen the rodeo riding monkey. you may have even heard about pocket ticking monkeys. but have you ever heard of a tweeting monkey? there is one. we'll explain. >>> san francisco's zoo curator joins me now with more details about a missing monkey there and they would like to get him back. . if you replace 3 tablespoons of sugar a day with splenda®, you'll save 100 calories a day. that could help you lose up to 10 pounds in a year. and now get even more with splenda® essentials, the only line of sweeteners with a small boost of fiber, or antioxidants, or b vitamins in every packet. just another reason why you get more... when you sweeten with splenda®. ♪ >>> two nasa satellites are set to orbit the moon, the first one as early as today. reynolds wolf is here with the details. ra is this mission all a

p.m. eastern."fox news watch." we cover the could have krage of all the big week's news stories. jamie: cold war space race between between united states and russia. now the u.s. is facing new competition up in the skies. coming up we'll tell you who it is. ♪ are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. jamie: fox news alert. the situation hasn't got eni better. massive and deadly demonstrations are going on in syria following friday prayers. there are hundreds of thousands of protesters that have filled the streets answering the calls of syria's opposition leaders. despite the presence of arab league monitors. leland vittert live in jerusalem and monitoring all the developments there. leland, what is the latest? >> reporter: seems like, jamie, today we saw the largest protests in the streets on syria in last couple months. video i

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p.m. eastern. live call-in programs at noon, 2:00 and 45 with world war ii historian into 71941 author craig shirley and throughout the day, first person accounts from servicemen and civilians. this weeks national park service conference about pearl harbor, a tour of the visitor center and our footage of the attack and its aftermath. sunday on c-span threes american history tv. >> on your screen is well-known historian stanley weintraub whose most recent book is called "pearl harbor christmas." that was 70 years ago at this time. what was christmas 1941 like in this country? >> christmas 1941 was a very quiet time. people were stunned by what had happened at pearl harbor. this was the first christmas after the event, and so i wrote about the aftermath worldwide, what it was like around the country, what it was like around the world. it was still a time when people would like to christmas trees. there was an official blackout but nobody paid attention. rationing hadn't begun yet, so the seriousness

p.m. eastern time, 7:00 p.m. central time. we will have a caucus live on c- span1 and another on c-span2. caller: i support and respect michele bachmann. remember mitch daniels and tim pawlenty, they stayed in that race with such fluidity and volatility. they will pretty much finished off ron paul. gingrich is just a lobbyist, and romney is basically running. romney.cally rompin michele bachmann must accuse gingrich of hijacking the tea party. thank you very much. guest: in terms of mcdaniels and pawlenty, running for president is an excruciating endeavour, annette involves every -- and ticket involves every amount of your energy. while the straw poll in -- while the straw poll did not work out a way he would have preferred, i completely understand his decision to get out. it is exhausting and excruciating, and for mitch daniels, clearly he made the decision of what is best for his family. it cannot hold anything against anyone who has made the decision to not get into this fray, because it is taxing on the individual as well

p.m. eastern. later, testimony from a year colder -- eric holder. the program allowed hundreds of firearms to cross the u.s.- mexico border. >> to route my military career i prided myself upon -- the worst thing you can do is let a senior leader head down the wrong road if you are thinking, maybe we ought to look at this from this perspective. people's lives could be at stake or we have an obligation and a duty to be good stewards of the resources that the public entrusts us with. you sometimes have to be courageous in a meeting. and you are going at think i have a different perspective. >> marcia on her career as the highest ranking female african- american in the history of the army. sunday night

p.m. eastern time. that's the exact time of the japanese attack. silence will be observed in the memory of those killed and lost. >>> and the cuban boy who became the focus of a headline-making international custody battle a dozen years ago, well, he's now all grown up. elian gonzalez celebrated his 18th birthday in cuba yesterday. on thanksgiving day in 1999 you will remember a fisherman found him off the coast of florida clinging to an inner tube after his mom and others fleeing cuba drowned trying to reach america. he was taken to live with relatives in miami, but his father, who was separated from his mother and remained in cuba, demanded that elian be sent back. on april 22nd of the year 2000, federal agents raided elian's uncles home in miami seizing the boy from a closet at gunpoint. gonzalez how 18 studies at a military acadek dem in cuba. >>> president obama is promising to promote gay rights around the world. his global fight against the criminalization or abuse they face springboard off the recent don't ask don't tell. charlie morgan and

p.m. eastern and 6:00 p.m.er and george stephanopoulos moderate the abc news republican presidential debate from des moines, iowa. for all of us here, thank you for watching and we'll see you next week. >>> people buying guns for chrisman mass join shawn saysy billy murphy and lisa orenstein on square off sunday morning at 10 on abc2.

p.m. eastern. can get instant analysis and par tisnate a live chat with the fox news contributors at foxnews.com/debate. president obama indicates it does not matter who republicans put up against him next fall. chief washington correspondent says ed henry president telegraphs the re-election strategy that focuses on party more than personality. >> the re-election strategy is coming from the top. president obama telling cbs "60 minutes" he may not be perfect, the other guys are worse. >> joe biden has a good expression. don't judge me against the almighty. judge me against the alternative. >> the campaign advisors say they are determined to make sure a race is not referendum on the policies. the president will try to make it a choice. painting himself as a fighter for the middle class. charging the eventual nominee wants to return to tax cutting policies that cause crisis in the first place! the core philosophy they are expressing is the same. where they want too take the country and i want to take

p.m. eastern. -- at about 12 of 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> i am here arguing in favor of higher taxes on wealthy. if i am one of the wealthiest 1%. >> would you guys be willing to donate to the department treasury? >> individually? no. >> would you? >> i am very philanthropic active. >> right here i have a donation page. you just need to put your credit card number and you can donate to the government and that is not going to help anybody >> > you don't want to donate to a government? >> i want our class to be -- you have heard made. you are being silly. >> i am a video journalist. i would say that what we are doing is almost like citizen journalism which is basically when an individual does not have that much training in journalism has the tools of modern technology to capture a live event but does not have a background in journalism. >> video journalist michelle fields shares her experiences reporting on issues for the news site, the daily caller, tonight on cspan's "q &a." >> supreme court justice clarence thomas was born in 194

p.m. eastern time. join us at foxnews.com/debate.washington, the capitol hill clock is ticking on two separate and connected fronts tonight. the senate is divided over response to the house version of payroll tax cut extension. a bipartisan budget bill. still not been passed by either chamber. raising the threat of government shutdown. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has an update. good evening. >> good evening. democratic leaders were summoned to the white house to talk about the bipartisan compromise funding deal they held up. also discuss officials say the pay for scrapping the surtax, millionaire surtax as the pay-for, payroll tax holiday extension. meanwhile, sources say house republican leaders plan to file that bipartisan government funding bill that would keep the government up and running through september. and vote on it today. john boehner blasted democrats for taking it to the brink. >> it's clear to all of us that president obama and senator reid, want to threat an government shutdown so they can get lever

p.m. eastern in iowa. >>> that's the news you need to know to start your day.r this. >>> a year from now, december 21st, 2012 if the mian calendar is correct. we're not going to rely on primitive astronomy. if you want to make decisions based off of what could actually happen next year you're in the right place. a child prodgy who became one of the greatest minds of our time. he's a top physicist and picked up where einstein left off. he wrote "physics of the future" talking to hundreds of other scientists to piece together what our lives will look like in the next century and joins us with a glimpse into 2012 and the future. glad to have you here. if people watch, this you are definitely some smartest tern they hear from today. let me ask you, first of all, recently we reported on the finding of a few planets that are sort of earth-like, but too hot. you're thinking that we may soon find an earth twin somewhere in the galaxy. >> that's right. the holy grail of planetary astronomy is to find a twin of the earth in outer space. came very close in 2011. planets t

p.m. eastern -- contenders," every night at 10:00 p.m. stern. >> at 8:00 eastern on c-span 3, donald rumsfeld on his memoir. then former vice president, dick cheney, whose book is called "in my time." then, former secretary of state, condoleezza rice, author of "no higher honor." >> now through friday on c-span 3, american history tv at 8:00 p.m. eastern each night. we will hear from white house photographers from the clinton and ford administrations, as well as both bush presidents. also, the unveiling at the -- of the ronald reagan statue outside of washington. a discussion of the lbj television ad showing a girl picking petals from a daisy followed by a nuclear explosion. and a tour of the watergate exhibit at the nuclear -- richard nixon presidential library. >> the iowa presidential caucuses are one week from tonight. we have live coverage from two caucus sites. one of them on c-span, the other on c-span 2. leading up to that, live coverage from across the state. in this morning's the moines register, and op-ed from joe biden, who sai

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p.m. eastern. visit c-span.org/thecontenders. >> which part of the u.s.itution is important to you? that is our question in this year's student cam competition. tell us the part of the constitution that is important to you and why. be sure to include more than one point of view. there is $50,000 in total prizes and a grand prize of $5,000. for all the details, go to studentcam.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: meet john larson, the chairman of the democratic caucus, here with us to talk about the compromise on the government spending bill. are you going to recommend and why will you recommend to your members to vote for this? guest: as soon as we learn more about it. we are having a meeting at 11:00. host: that is pretty late in the day. guest: we do expect a vote on the appropriations cited it. the good news is we are finally through with this holding the government hostage. i realize this is nomenclature that perhaps a lot of listeners do not understand but unfortunately that is how government has been operating. this will approve the approp