with us tonight, christiane amanpour, and in the fifth chair, peter beinhart. alex, what do you make of their relationship? >> first, i liked hillary with those wolf blitzer glasses on there. i think it is tough for any politician go to through the process. hillary clinton era of big government is over but with president obama the era of big government is back with a vengeance. in a primary she has to hug barack obama. but barack obama in a general election that is a different story. >> does anyone doubt she is going to run for president? >> no. >> you don't doubt it? >> what has happened to bring this into full focus right now today? what is now about this relationship? as far as i can see you were the only one quoted in there. no one wants to talk about this? the democratic party. >> she is out there working the trail and making outreach to black voters. she was -- >> "the new york times". >> she was on the campaign trail in virginia. she is busy for someone who is not running. >> but the piece didn't provide evidence of tension or conflict and for obvious reasons

it's been a critical week for scotland a long lead up to its vote on independence late next year peter alex summoned launched a weighty document laying out what he labelled a mission statement for the nation's future artist s are so real it's the key points scored by the pro independence movement the scotland b an independent country to six or question that requires a simple yes or no waking at three hundred euro looking at could hardly be said for the scots are not taking it lightly as it stands only about thirty percent of scots say they will vote for independence. a figure those of the gas cap hope to increase by presenting that much anticipated white paper with the scottish national party says has the answers to all the questions about the dependence of my medicine david chapman and those who wanted to go cap in since the minute that this is laden with risks and problems with morning sun just about everything. taxes and death no count suggests the worst air and higher taxes. eu membership month it's as scotland can forget about it the trident nuclear program david cameron claims getting

colleague and friend of peter and alex. i would only add the successful cases that i'm aware of financial institutions suing the government were all defunct ones that then sued under the fslic and others after they were basically shut down and shareholders brought suit. they were successful but they were no longer operating so it didn't make any difference. they had nothing to fear but ultimately they were successful but that is the only way they were able to take it on. >> gerald chandler. would you go back to basics and compare what you've been talking about, having, reserves required, required reserves and so on, to having the government take over? suppose you had a system where the government guaranteed we'll buy everything at 75% of its last transaction value or some other number? how would you decide between having those two systems? >> well, with, with what industry are you talking about? >> banks. okay, i'll clarify my question. banks have securities or something they own. you talked about first and second level typ

thank you so much, peter alex alexand alexander. joining me now, democrat senator bob casey. always a pleasure. nice to have you. >> thanks, alex. good to be with you. >> is your colleague, senator schumer, correct that 2014 is not going to be about obamacare but about jobs? >> i think he is, alex. wherever i go in pennsylvania, that's still the number one issue that people come to talk to me about, jobs and the economy. they're seeing good numbers in terms of economic growth. over 4% growth for the third quarter was good news. and the monthly job numbers are getting better, but there's still a long way to go. we, for example, in pennsylvania just went below half a million people out of work about a month or two ago, about 485,000, but that's still too high. i think the economy and jobs and the struggles and the real trauma that's been heaped upon the middle class not just recently but over a generation. i think that's going to be the number one issue. >> senator, let's together take a listen here to representative aaron shaw who gave the weekly address for the republicans yes

. >> you have alex, philip, sergei and peter.he was talking to a vet and he went to a cafe and spent all his money playing this song, "i'll be home for christmas." >> so the family got together and made this video as a tribute to those service people that won't be home for christmas or just service people that serve. >> i do want to let you know that philip, who is playing the role of a soldier, not in the military. none of them in the military. they wanted to give them all a big salute and say, happy christmas! ♪ if only in my dreams >>> he is giving santa a run for his money with this gift, because, look at what kurt dose made for his grandkids? the x-wing bomber. what makes this gift truly out of this w >>> when brad norman was at work, he heard honking all the time on the other side of the hill. he never took the time to figure out what it was until this day. this is what all that was about. he knew there were geese back there but he didn't know how many geese. >> with that kind of honking. >> that kind of honking. >> as you

. >> you have alex, philip, sergei and peter. cafe and spent all his money playing this song, "i'll be home for christmas." >> so the family got together and made this video as a tribute to those service people that won't be home for christmas or just service people that serve. >> i do want to let you know that philip, who is playing the role of a soldier, not in the military. none of them in the military. they wanted to give them all a big salute and say, happy christmas! ♪ if only in my dreams >>> he is giving santa a run for his money with this gift, because, look at what kurt dose made for his grandkids? the x-wing bomber. what makes this gift truly out of this w [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone 'round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. starbucks is just $6.99, that's a cup of good cheer. get sweet clementines for $4.99, enough for everyone here. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make

peter, who is the president reaching out to? >> well, alexis bipartisan pair of senators just yesterday in hopes that he can give some of a boost to that what they put together, dean heller the republican from nevada as well as jack reed, the democrat from the rhode island. the president apparently told them that this is "an urgent economic priority," that according to the white house right now. to give you a sense of the urgency associated right now, it affects 1.3 million americans, the long-term unemployed. the folks who now see the expiration effective today. they would have been receiving weekly benefits about $300 a monthly average is about $1156. the supporters of this extension say say not extending it would only hurt the economy. they say they'll actually cause further unemployment. a white house report recently said 240,000 additional individuals would become unemployed as a result of this. the people who think it should stop where it is right now basically make the point that the job market has improved dramatically, unemployment i

alex perez, abc news, chicago. >>> and now we head to rome where today the world watched as pope francis delivered his final message before christmas. right there among the swelling crowds in st. peter'square was our own "gma" anchor robin roberts who had a face to face encounter with the people's pope. >> reporter: hailed with cheers of joy from the crowd. we were there, as pop francis entered st. peter's square. accepting a cross, blessing the sick, greeting families with hugs and kisses. his face is so expressive. people have been waiting for hours. dear brothers and sisters, buongiorno. good morning. "god is with us, and god still has faith in us," he says. a former janitor and nightclub bouncer, they call him, " the people's pope." and in just 9 months he's captured the imagination of not just the world's 1.2 billion catholics, but the world itself. his style was different almost immediately. just yesterday he celebrated his 77th birthday by having breakfast with three homeless men and blew out candles surrounded by children. he ends his christmas message of compassion by leading us in prayer. jesus is god with us. the crowd repeats. afterwards, it was our moment. meeting face to

alex? >> yeah. >> was it just me or did you hear peter earlier say, it may be deja vu all over again, it may be dejaower. >> i don't know exponential deja vu. >> we're going to have to call him out on that. peter? anyway, tom costello thank you very much. we're glad everything is going well so far. it's the number one campaign to watch in the 2014 election year that is what chuck todd says. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. some are giant. some not so giant. when managing your weight, bigger is always better. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ ♪ green giant ♪ hi honey, did you get the toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. it's not the "fumbling around with rotating categories" card. it's not the "getting blindsided by limits" card. it's the no-game-playing, no-earning-limit-hav

. >> alex, i want to go back to something peter said at the top of the hour.r obama care so far in of course that's an important question because one of the main premises for this, the idea younger healthy folks will sign up and offset the costs of older, sicker americans. do we know whether young healthy folks are flocking to the website and signing up en masse? >> we certainly don't know in the kind of conclusive way would allow us to say whether this program will work overall and shift the health care market in the direction we want. we do know in the states opted to set up exchanges in places like kentucky will there's been a lot of interest, enrollment in the medicaid side of the program and slower enrollment in standard side of the program. if that's a trend that were to continue, that would certainly put real financial stress on that side of the federal health care rollout. but you know, look, as you say we're going to know before the midterm elections whether as lynn said people who get the plan like their plan, the larger big picture democrats made go