plouff was ordering david axlerod what hotel rooms he should stay in and told him to wear -- i lot of scene where he tells axlerod to wear a lucky tie. axelrod is not mr. neat, if you know him. spends 30 minutes on his hands and knees rooting around in the middle of the campaign like when he should be writing speeches and stuff on his hands and knees searching for his lucky tie. >> it looks like the chicken terndz and the ban on thai food seemed to work out for the obama campaign. >> the larger nonculinary theme of the book is that jeff martin does some great reporting in boston. the sense of self-delusion, the fact that romney micromanaged it in a sometimes idiotic way really contrasted with this machine that chicago had really -- >> you can say the chicken tenders and lucky thai stuff is garbage, but at the end of the day that's a superstitious thing. when it comes to actual strategy, sam, i thought this was incredible. romney's point system -- >> exactly. >> romney instituted a point system that assigned a specific numerical value to each event. rallies, speeches, fund raisers and

hiring david plouffe was probably a smart move. chris: they ambushed him at the end because they didn't know what was coming. helene. you covered this. >> i'm with katty. they're all such good choices. but i think the scrounging up the votes -- i remember it going to richmond, virginia, like may or something. early -- fairly early on. and they had such -- siterring at the obama campaign headquarters office and i remember one of the aides there saying do you know there's a goya factory, lat teen owe food company. and the goya factory and so many latinos -- we're not talking about northern virginia but the heart of -- the heart of virginia. and they were going after those voters. even then. chris: sam. >> on to something. not those four. it was june. the executive order that allowed the children who had come here illegally brought lat teen owes who stayed for a while. and nailed down the latino vote. george bush in 2004 got almost 50% of the latino vote. he got almost 92% of the latino vote. and romney didn't have a chance. chris: ne

anita dunn also plouffe, david plouffe less so a little bit, ron klain a little less so said hold ite got to make this guy look presidential. romney is killing himself. we don't need to be -- the word they kept using was caustic. so they gave him a lot of contradictory advice. he himself was conflicted. and my sources say right before he left for that disastrous prep debate in nevada, look, i don't know what to do here. you're giving me contradictory advice. >> here is a tough question. maybe you don't know the answer to. this tell me. john kerry was the head of the debate team. he was the guy playing him. was he part of the team that said get tough and the other guys overruled him later? what happened? what was his role in this? >> i would defer to glenn. but generally john kerry was not blamed by the president or the president's high command for his poor denver debate performance. they said kerry did his job effectively. and the proof of that, chris, the fact that john kerry is about to become secretary kerry instead of senator john kerry. but glenn can speak more to the kerry role

your thoughts, then, the way he disdained him in that debate. >> will klain and axlerod and plouffe camep to kerry during some of the sessions and said look, you got to start hitting this guy. that's exactly what happened. in nevada, when they got to that disastrous debate prep in nevada, we report this 1:30-minute session was just a shellacking in which kerry got right into obama's face and called him a failure repeatedly. they had expected it would arouse obama, wake him up, but it didn't. >> forever trying to figur let me go to john on this one. i'm being sarcastic because it drove me crazy. because he is so smart, the president. why are the romney people, who had all these incredibly paid staffers, the highest paid in the history of national campaigning, fehrnstrom seemed smart, neil newhouse, and they got the whole thing wrong. they told the guy he was going win. what happened at the end? you first, john. that. >> emphatically thought they were going to win. if anybody tells you that we didn't think we were going to win, they're lying to you. the candidate thought they were going to

temperatures dropping back to the upper 20's or lower -- plouffe 30's. -- low 30's. of 40% chance for rain or snow shower, not a big deal. in the mountains, some of the snow showers could cut the grass. the forecast going into the weekend stacked up like this. fairly quiet, a couple of chances for a little rain or snow but only a 30% chance on thursday and sunday. the ravens came on saturday is looking okay, a little chilly, but not that bad. >> still ahead, it is uncomfortable and it could be dangerous. >> it is a condition that is on the rise in the u.s. details on what it is an inouye form of treatment. >> 2012 was a busier, the state reduced say the least. >> take a look at the crowd gathering in new york's times square, getting ready for the big new year's eve celebration. >> one man is dead and an investigation is underway in carroll county tonight. it happened about 8:15 this morning along the 200 block of moral avenue. thomas skipper jr. suffered some type of medical emergency wall behind the wheel. he was rushed to the hospital's emergency room but was prono

>> in my book, it's david plouffe, you saw the beginnings, with dean, and obama.s will change the way people organize and campaign. >> krystal? the most valuable player? >> i have to say we don't know exactly his identity or her identity, but probably the waiter who placed the camera at the mitt romney fund-raiser and captured the 47% comments, which i think showed a lot of people their concerns about mitt romney and the fact he really was not there for all of america. that he didn't understand the problems that average americans were facing. >> let's listen to that little moment of video history. the 47%. >> there are 47% of the people who will vote for the president, there are 47% of people who are with him. who believe that they are victims. who believe that the government has the responsibility to care for them. who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. and so my job is not to worry about these people. i'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility. >> a very valuable comment. >> i am going to go

he traveled with his senior adviser david plouffe, joe lieberman, press secretary jay carnie and also two members of the congressional delegation. we're going to be hearing from him sometime around the top of the hour. this service will get under way. we will be back with live coverage from newtown, connecticut, after this. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or

about how the national security agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in plouffe dale, utah, as part of a secret nsa surveillance program. >> you have this massive agency collecting information by tapping into undersea cables, picking up microwave links, tapping cell phones, and data links, computer, and e-mail, and so forth, and it has to store it some place, which is why they build + tail. with the death of a man who was sunday white plains police officer in his home. >> my father accidentally triggered his life alert pendant that morning. the police responded to his own supposedly to do a medical check to see if he was ok. he told them he was fine, yet, they insisted he opened the door. when my father said he knows his rights and did not need to open the door, they began to bang on the door for over one hour come ultimately breaking the door down, and shooting and killing him. >> this is your help center. mr. chamberlain, the need help? >> yes, this is an emergency. i have the white plains police department at my door. i did not call them and i am not sick. >>

david plouffe who was the mastermind of '08 took on a much more substantial role in running things outchicago after things were starting to fraul apart in may. >> you set up my next question. why now after the contest is over would people on both sides tell you these things? some score settling going on? >> people on the obama side, you know, it's really interesting. you know, obviously, this was, this election was a result of this enormous grassroots hero. the grassroots organizers and the people who did the tech stuff, but people want credit for this. a lot of jockying for what happens next. a lot of folks in chicago not getting jobs in the white house because those jobs are already taken. >> when you report that campaign aides tried very hard to keep valerie jared, white house aide away from president obama feeling she riled him up, that says to me -- i'll use this as some source was unhappy with somebody else and using this opportunity through you to take a shot. >> that was multiple, multiple sources. >> no, on that one. in fact, before i published that, several people in the admi

he traveled on the plain with senior adviser david plouffe, with senior adviser valerie jarrett, theecretary jay carnie is with him, members of the connecticut congressional delegation, congresswoman rosa delauro and congressman john larson. it is the president who for now well over an hour and a half since he arrived, we believe, has been meeting privately with the families of the victims of the tragic shooting, meeting with the first responders. the more stories that come oust this, jenny, about how people have reacted, the heroism, the complete lack of selffishnessse the complete compassion for the community is so moving. >> it is. it's almost to the point of being unbelievable. the fact that in the school, you know, the teacherers lunging at the shooter who was obviously fully armed, just to maybe save a few bullets that might be going toward children, and the teacher that sort of held the door closed while he banged on it, keeping the children out, that's -- or keeping the children in and he eventually moved on somewhere else. so think that all the little stories that we're hear

kerry apparently at the initial sessions played it really softball to obama and people like david plouffeup to kerry and said, look, you have to take it tougher on him, and apparently kerry really did. calling him a failure, just going point by point by point anticipating the attacks of romney. >> thank you so much, both of you. glen, jonathan, congratulations on the ebook, and we'll be right back. >> $3. >> what's next for the fiscal cliff, up next. arrhea, gas, blo? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later. oh, somebody out there's saying, now i get it! take beano before and there'll be no gas. to do next? will they bail boehner out of the fix he's in? what is the compromise? joining me is the man on-the-spot, maryland congressman and house minority whip, steny hoyer. anything happening up there today? >> we just had a press conferenc

how could he possibly trot out there -- i could see axelrod and david plouffe, but the treasury secretarys on our paper money and if they did jack up the taxes for the richest 2%, it could run our government for eight days. then what do you do with the other 357 some odd days. >> brian: i'm not saying to throw a nickel in the ocean. >> steve: no. absolutely. but interestingly enough, i was reading in the l.a. times today, it talked a little bit about how tax -- if they don't come to a deal, taxes don't necessarily go up on january 1. that's because you could stop it either with an act of congress, which could happen, or tim geithner himself could actually sign something and say, until they resolve -- >> gretchen: let's not give them -- >> steve: listen, everybody on capitol hill knows that the secretary of the treasury can do that. he can sign something that says, until we get a deal, no tax rates go up. >> gretchen: why is discussion not about spending? why in the plan that the president originally sent over increased spending? haven't we been -- this was the whole impetus for the tea pa

this is a conversation i had with david plouffe about the probability of this democratic victory.he entire stretch of the campaign was really important but the republicans are one great national candid it away from getting back in the game. it is not a matter of structure. it is a matter of lightning in a bottle. host: and also the house of representatives. guest: the question he asked was answered emphatically. we now have a congress on both sides which is more concerned about the primary threat to right and left than general election issues. one of the most for bart will numbers i have seen was born in new york times who wrote over half of the republican house was reelected with 60 +% of the vote. bottom line, they're concerned about primaries, not general elections. host: the the introduce him to his favorite music groups, ac/dc and led zepplin? there was a back-and-forth over the music. guest: they had some of on a rather different musical tastes. i do not think he became a big ac/dc fan. host: our guests are glenn thrush and jonathan martin. their book is "the end of the line