in his new book jesus of flaz rhett the the pope challenges the traditional story of christmas.for instance, he writes that the 6th century monk who established the year of jesus's birth made a mistake in his calculations by several years. the actual date of jesus's birth was several years before. big deal. come on! jesus is a celebrity. of course he shaves a few years off. (laughter) anyway, that just means he was almost 40 and he still has those abs. that is amir ago el. now the pope-- (applause) >> the pope also wrote that angel spoke the words proclaiming jesus's birth instead of singing them. so apparently according to the pope, the birth of our lord didn't sound like this-- ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪. >> stephen: it sounded like this. >> how you doin? >> stephen: doesn't feel the same. (applause) now as a lifelong catholic i have stood by the church during its various trials and public triblations. 9 debate over birth control, the role of women in the church. and a third controversy i've taken drugs to forget. but frankly i got native teed off when the pope wrote that although it's

. >>> no major concern about rhett roadways around our area. 41 degrees to get things started. tom kierein is here with our forecast. >> all i've got to say is whew, what a good thing it missed us. it's still spinning just south of nantucket. it's kind of slowing down and stalling out. actually, just in the last couple radar updates, looks like it may be drifting a little to the northwest. it has been pounding new jersey, new york, most of new england with heavy snow. many locations in connecticut have had ten, 11, 12 inches of snow, wind-driven with 60-mile-an-hour winds, and now thankfully the snow has ended. eastern long island and up into new england, they're still getting bands of heavy snow, that stretches all the way up into maine and eastern canada. this storm system is looking like a hurricane spinning away here. here's nantucket. it's just south of nantucket in martha's vineyard. there's cape cod. it does look like it may be trying to track off to the north and northwest, which is going to keep new england in wind and rain and snow here throughout much of the rest of

. >> rhett, if you go, where will i go? what shall i do?ar i don't give a damn. >> bill: all right, now an odd thing happened to one of b the film's academy award statues. what is it? what happened with one of the gone with the wind statues and i thought you couldn't sell those things. >> no, you are not supposed to. nothing will happen to you. it's kind of like committing murder in new york city. [ laughter ] >> just a joke. >> sad b but true. maccallum breaks on top. question number two, star wars well remembered for wide array ofd characters? >> i'm captain millennium. tells me you are looking for passage. >> yes, indeed. if it's a fast chip. >> fast chip? you have never heard of the millennium faulk? >> bill: what famous actor turned down who turned down that part? cards up, please. and the answer is b, burt reynolds. >> whoa. >> guessing. >> right timing for burt reynolds. >> right timing. >> he would have been about the right age how old they were. what burton may have been doing at that point. he turned down star wars for smoky and t

. >> rhett, if you go, where will i go? what shall i do? my dear i don't give a damn. >> bill: all right, now an odd thing happened to one of b the film's academy award statues. what is it? what happened with one of the gone with the wind statues and i thought you couldn't sell those things. >> no, you are not supposed to. nothing will happen to you. it's kind of like committing murder in new york city. [ laughter ] >> just a joke. >> sad b but true. maccallum breaks on top. question number two, star wars well remembered for wide array ofd characters? >> i'm captain millennium. tells me you are looking for passage. >> yes, indeed. if it's a fast chip. >> fast chip? you have never heard of the millennium faulk? >> bill: what famous actor turned down who turned down that part? cards up, please. and the answer is b, burt reynolds. >> whoa. >> guessing. >> right timing for burt reynolds. >> right timing. >> he would have been about the right age how old they were. what burton may have been doing at that point. he turned down star wars for smoky

money coming in through paychecks that will affect how people shop, but when you are in a theor theory rhett, again and again. when you see companies, blaming sandy. like chrysler, and gm, and saks and you know we noted michael ed mike kors. neil: why do the do that? >> a y2k blame game. neil: a weak excuse. >> right, they take it for a reason as cover. i think. >> remember also, that there is a seasonality, behind christmas and after school sales halloween has third largist, for a lot of the nation we skipped those, that will add additional volatility and skew the numbers. neil: or delay pent-up buying for christmas. >> for halloween candy, you know right, could you arg wha argue t i mised in halloween i want to make up for. >> we could see that there, and housing starts and rebuilding, but whether or not this contributes to growing the economy that is the big question. neil: laurie you sound optimistic on overall economy environment. >> when like to major retailers that reported in october, that ended saturday, they actually had a better month than september, up 5%, retailers from target,

because of veterans day or the rhett rains day holiday, metrorail is on a saturday schedule today.k fares are in effect. there is track work on the red, orange and green lines today and metrobus is on a saturday supplemental schedule. check your route timetables for details on that. gentleman lets he take a live look outside. look how gorgeous the sunrise is. this is beautiful. 6:14 quite now on this monday, this veterans day. so it is good to see it and it is good to see along with that sun today is going to come some warm temperatures because we know how deceiving the sun can be at times. >> mild temperatures today and if you want to see the sunshine, you got to get outside the next hour or two because we'll cloud up here. you can see some clouds on the horizon. the high cirrus clouds moving in and later today, the clouds lower and thicken up. did you catch any of the chicago football game last night? >> i did not. i heard how cold it was there. >> and it was pouring rain. that rain headed in our direction. right now, we are 50 and in chicago, it is 34 degrees. that is how much c

federal workers had the day off for rhett vans day but many people still had to go to work. metro though was operating on a saturday schedule yesterday and with track work on some lines, there were major delays. some red line trains were so packed people could not even get on. others tell us their commute normally 20 minutes took an hour yesterday. metro says ridership typically falls between 20 and 30% on holidays. >>> complaints about power are common after a storm rolls through. today, marten o'malley will discuss ways to protect the power grid from severe weather.  ♪ ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> their boss threatened layoffs if president obama was reacted but now they are getting a raisin stead. more on that in a minute. first, let's take a look at the market. lauren simonetti is live in new york with this morning's business beat. good morning. >> good morning. >> stock were kind of flat yesterday. any news that will spark some moves into positives. >> how about really negative

that yielded information that led police to 18-year-old tyrann mikel rhett of southeast washington who was arrested and police say in court documents when he was arrested he was wearing a cap that in fact was a ski mask of the same kind that the woman noticed when she was up close to the man. and in a post-arrest interview this 18-year-old d.c. teenager said to police officers quote, i messed up. we're changing a word in that sentence. you all got me. that lady could have been my grandmother. i feel sorry for the lady. the defense attorney entered a not guilty plea on behalf of this teen. prosecutor asked for detention and magistrate judge karen house declined to release the teenager. he will be held untiles this a further hearing later this month and if convicted of burglary one, a serious offense in d.c., he could face decades in prison. that's the latest from d.c. superior court. >> thanks for the update tonight. >> gps being used. keeping up with the times. >>> coming up here on the 5, a food truck fight. why some owners say new rules in the works could ultimately put them out of b

once again, the rhett of the world watches to see if the united states, the center of the global economy, will actually commit economic suicide. the most puzzling aspect of our dilemmas is how manageable they are. unlike greece or spain or even britain, the united states has a fundamentally healthy economy. we have problems, but we have solutions to them. the true virtue of the simpson-bowles deficit reduction plan is that it illustrates that the united states's debt problem can be readily resolved as lop as both parties compromise. the truth is most of america's problems could be solved using some version of the simps simpson-bowles approach. imagine a bipartisan and independent panel that proposed comprehensive immigration reform or social security reform or tax reform. perhaps we need an inpen department agenciered by koj to generate such plans when asked. the american system is simply not working. the parties have become too polarized. institutions and traditions have been abused to create permanent gridlock and it's attempting to pretend this has always been part of the country's ra

of the instrumentalities, for each modality you have different receptors like rods and cones in the rhett na, you have old factory receptors old factory receptors in the nose .. each one has a private line, receptors specific to it and nerve fibers that lead to it. >> rose: hear, feel, touch. >> exactly, with pain people thought that it may not have a system of its own, that it hijacks other systems and doesn't have receptors of its own. >> for example, many people thought that pain was the touch system, tactile system that were firing inappropriately. >> we know this is wrong. many of these are small caliber fibers, many are these are finers that are specific to mechanical pain, cerebral pain and chemically induced pain. >> rose: and this is a breakthrough is. >> this is a major breakthrough and another occurred when we began to identify specific receptors that mediate this, and david julius who is here was one of the people who characterized one of these receptors. these are iron channels called trip channels, they respond to both thermal and chemical stimuli, this is a wonderful advanc

is this the buff rhett rule really should have been?have david altman, and daniel, great to see you. what is amazing to me, reading your proposal here, that would tax the wealthy as opposed to the rich, it's against the constitution right now to tax wealth in this country. >> that's right. can't have a direct tax like that. we needed a constitutional amendment to get the income tax back, so we need another amendment. it's 100 years later, let's update for the 21st century. >> i want to change the voting day. i'm all for it. let's break down your math. if we taxed wealth, where people accumulate over time. 2010, 58 trillion dollars. if you put 1.5% tax, 8$870 billion. that's a lot of money. more than we got on income tax this year. and it will disproportionately affect the wealthy. it seems close to a silver bullet. >> you can increase the estate and gift tax with a wealth tax of 1.5%. it should be graduated and progressive. the most important issue is to deal with wealth inequality. which is much more severe. getting worse, getting wors

when andrea mitchell broke this news about general rhett payous. we're going to speak with richard engle about this in a moment. about what the news of general petraeus means for the winning of that part of the government. we'll be talking with andrea about her scoop today. in order to appreciate how big a deal this is, how surprising it is, how not just consequential but potentially further consequential this thing is that happened today, you should know that before this was a reportable story, before it was clear what had actually happened and that andrea was going to be able to report the reasons for general petraeus saying he was resigning we were hearing all sorts of things about potential reasons why he might be resigning. maybe he had irreconcilable political differences with president obama. he had to resign because of some huge political disagreement. it was rumored before andrea's report that maybe general petraeus had been in talks to take a job with the romney administration. he had been plotting that move behind president obama's back

. >> some of the rhett rick, doubting about his birth certificate. don't think that had a backlash effect on some voters? >> i think that's won of the worst parts of the republican party and alienated a lot of people in the suburbs. but to say that's the only reason republicans voted. >> james. >> look, first of all, the man won re-election, okay? that counts for something. my point, the consequences are employing to be dramatic. the republican party has to reassess itself. the tea party has cost them five senate seats. i don't know the value of the senate seat, but it's very high. nevada, colorado, delaware, indiana. >> cross control of the senate. >> they have to figure out how to come to terms with people, because they can't afford -- they can't live with them, can't live without them. >> candy crowley, standing by at romney headquarters, obviously a very different mood. >> really different, and errson. th a quiet crowd all night long. subdued, waiting. they did see an analysis on another network about why the ohio numbers might not be right. that

nobody, as bill clinton said so eloquently in the democratic convention, no president since fdr inher rhett rid the kind of me, the kind of challenges people in this area really do remember, the kind of fear, the free fall of our economy. he has turned that around. cities like mine, we see it still hurting. unemployment is extremely high. but hell this is newark, new jersey's, biggest economic development period of growth since the 1950s, first new hotels in downtown in 40 years, first new office towers in 20 years, so much of that is because of our federal partnerships that are going on. so this is a president that has batted through. and then there's a whole group of issues i think have people afraid of what would happen if obama left. families with children with pre-existing conditions that now will suddenly be vulnerable to insurance companies. you have people in the military, who now are able to serve, proudly telling the truth of who they are, not worried about who they love, but only about the capacity of them to serve. they are afraid of what will happen if this president loses. we

. >> with princess margot rhett.er langan was crawling under the table and nibbling her. >> a right royal nibble. >> reporter: pretending he was what? >> pretending he was a dog. >> oh, very nice. >> reporter: this is the sort of the thing you get on the coast in britain on a wet afternoon. yours. >> it's the first dish that peter langan put on the menu. >> reporter: why did he want to put a spinach souffle on the menu on what is this quintessentially british restaurant? >> he hated chaps. he wanted to be really difficult. >> reporter: doesn't get much more basic than this, fish and chips and sausage. how do you make this 2012 sort of nouveau cuisine? >> it's a classic. if i want to make it to my next birthday, i don't touch it. >> reporter: there are restaurants you can take your friends to. there are restaurants that you can take your boss to, but when it comes to getting a real taste of this city, my city, langan's in london is the only place in town. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before

it's upsetting to know that 20,000 recently returning rhett rans from iraq and afghanistan will find themselves homeless tonight. that is a national disgrace. and as all of us rush through airports every week, along with thousands of americans, it's not uncommon for scarves and hats and other articles of clothing to be left behind. i myself left a scarf behind which prompted my thoughts of how to handle this esurplus clothing. it adds unto thousands of pounds of abandoned clothes an wallly. there can be no better purpose than for this unclaimed clothing to help america's veterans. record homelessness has been on the rise among our veterans and this is an unconscionable, untenable situation. as a country we have a moral obligation to do so much more to help this untenable situation. this is one step toward that effort. even if one of our veterans stays warm because of the clothing provided by this legislation, it will have been well worth the effort. the clothe a homeless hero act direct the t.s.a. to make -- to donate abandoned clothing to charities that serve homeless veterans. it d

i think we all agreed that was probably the one rhett lent reality of our lives.as the symbol. look at bill clinton and all of these guys inspired to go into public life because of him. >> mark halperin? >> chris, beyond his brothers, the two subsequent generations, nobody has risen to that level. do you see in the second generation after president kennedy others who may still rise up and become big national leaders? >> well, i don't see it yet. i think the new joe kennedy in congress will do well. he'll be there for life if he wants to be. he may become senator for massachusetts. patrick has had problems with addiction and he's dealt with them. he's happily married with a child. he's gotten through it. it was good for him to get into private life. i thought maria shriver could have done something besides be first lady of california. i thought she had a lot of talent. incredible charisma. i'm not sure i know anybody. one thing with the kennedys is a lot of possibilities. i tried to interview ethel kennedy one day and if you want to know what she is really like. re

the rhett pit care provides a break for family members engaged in the full-time task of care giving. in fact, it is the most frequently requested support service, yet nearly 90% of caregivers still go without needed assistance. that's why i have introduced the respite care re-authorization act and will continue to add vow date for its passage and funding. mr. speaker, family caregivers are our nation's silent heroes. and they deserve our recognition and support not just in november but every day of the year. and to all of them, i say heartfelt thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york seek recognition? does the gentlelady seek unanimous consent? >> i do. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, all along the east coast, families are struggling to recover from superstorm sandy. that makes avoiding the fiscal cliff even more important. unless we come together in this body to reach

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] rhett credit [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> that news conference from late this morning. late that's right white house, press secretary jay carney also answered questions about the benghazi attack and announced that the president will meet with middle class family this is week in pennsylvania to talk about the fiscal cliff and the deficit. mr. carney says, quote, the american people matter in stopping the fiscal cliff and budget cuts that will take effect in january if congress doesn't act. >> ok. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the james s. brady white house briefing room, i believe we have some visitor fres this united arab emirate here, i want to welcome you and thank you for being here. i have just a couple of thins i want to announce at the top, some of which you know about, others you may not. today, as enge you know they can president is meeting with small business owners -- let me back up. it is not happening right now. i believe it happens -- 2:30 i'm reliably informed. he'll b