:qq-x r&tsá !ib"0ah)fpt8y(y(g ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody.ight is a presidential historian. i'll ask her why obama isn't history yet. please welcome doris kearns goodwin! ( cheers and applause ) doris, good to see you again. thanks for coming back. always a pleasure to have you on. >> thank you, sir. >> stephen: now this is a big high time for you presidential historians, right? >> big time, big, big time. >> stephen: now you know which sort of presidential lego to snap into the next four years of of the-- of the big sort of picture you're making of american history. now you're perhaps most famous for writing the book that obama said he would bring into the oval office if he could only bring the bible and one other book. it's "team of rivals." >> got it. >> stephen: about lincoln and his, you know, conflicted cabinet. it's out right now in paperback because it is one of the books that the movie "plirchgon" by spielberg is based on. you got the daniel day lewis on the cover. >> he's sexy, don't you think? >> stephen: you mean, lincoln or danie

:qq-x r&tsá !h),x+-) >> jon: my guest tonight is the founder the "new york times" political blog, please welcome back to the program, mr. nate silver. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ nice to see you again. >> thank you, jon. >> jon: so, obviously, i think with the election results last night, do you want to offer an apology? ( laughter ) >> we missed the north dakota senate race. >> jon: yes, you did! ( laughter ) you said that republican rick burt would win. he lost. >> he lost. >> jon: you better get out of the bbuddy. last night, here is honestly how i felt-- i didn't know obama would win, romney would win, the country would survive either. what i was really concerned about last night was that if your prediction model had been wrong, that it would have been a defeat for arithmetic ( laughter ) and that they would have seized upon that to, like, i think then gravity would be up for grabs. >> sure. >> jon: is that how you viewed it, to some extent, dispassionately for math? >> it would have been bad,

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:qq-x r&tsá !ib"0ah) ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody.u so much. now, folks i gotta tell you, one of the things that has gotten me deblessed about obama's ridiculous reelection was that speech he gave last night on evidently nairobi time laying out his priorities for the next term. >> we want our children to live in an america that isn't burdened by debt, isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. >> stephen: you hear that? warming planet. that's global warming ( laughter ) whether we want his ieflt energies or not, he is going to bend america over and stick solar power where the sun don't shine. ( laughter ) but as i suspected, folks, alternative energy come with risks. >> at first, ernie marshall was all for the new wind farm going up near his home >> and it sound like a great idea. >> but soon after the turbines started rolling, he said he started suffering a litany of health complaints. >> i've had problems with my heart. i have problems with my ears. it traumatizes your whole bod

:qq-x r&tsá !ib"0ah) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody.uest tonight is a bearded conservative who famously supports barack obama. after this, he will be going to the smithsonian. please welcome andrew sullivan. ( cheers and applause ) ( crowd cheering ) ( crowd cheering ) >> stephen: hi, andrew. >> hi, stephen. ( laughs ) >> stephen: all right. come on. gloat. i'll put a poncho on. >> i just want to taste the tears of unfathomable sadness. ( crowd cheering ) >> stephen: can i get a rain check on that one, andrew? >> right now. karl rove is challenging his own polling unit and telling him they're wrong. >> stephen: what do you think happens to karl now, he promised my billionaire friend that if they give him $300 million he would deliver obama on a platter. >> does he have to go into a witness protection program now. i mean sheldon adleson poured million in six races and lost all six of them. money is not... ( crowd cheering ) >> stephen:all right. what's next? how do i stop obama in 2016? >> you can't. as a black man in power who has nothi

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:qq-x r&tsá !>> stephen: welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight is here to talk about his new documentary about the dust bowl. if he brings the grape, i'll bring the wrath. please welcome ken burns. (cheers and applause) hey, ken, good to see you. thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> stephen: all right, we have a melange of documentaries. >> we do. >> stephen: let's see, oscar nominated-- nominated emmy award documentary, civil war, jazz, prohibition, two dualaries now, the central park 5 with your daughter and some you made, and that will be in theatres november 23rd. and the dust bowl which will air in two parts on november 19th and 18th, not in that order. >> that's right. >> stephen: on pbs. let's tuck about the dust bowl first. i hear a lot about the dust bowl, okay. how big of a deal was it? how big of a thing was it. >> this is the worst man-made ecological catastrophe in american history, a ten year apocalypse that not only killed crops and cattle but people's chi

:qq-x r&tsá !b"0ah) tonight a former governor of arkansas, host of huckabee on the fox news channel, also a best-selling author. his new book is called dear chandler, dear scarlet, a grandfather's thoughts on faith, family and the things that matter most. please welcome back to the program, mike huckabee. ( cheers and applause ) how are you? >> well, i'm doing great, jon. let's just don't talk about the elections. >> jon: look at this book right here. >> that's a good thing to talk about >> jon: dear chandler, dear scarlet. i find that there is nothing kids love more than letters from their grandparents >> that's why i wrote it. i knew even when they're just tots they'll say please read those to me again >> jon: hopefully it will be about the way the weather used to be. >> it could be. jon: all right. let me ask you a question. you said something... i don't know if this was election night, it was about the republican party and how they have to expand their base. take a look at this. mike huckabee t