getting inside the mind of richard nixon. during this campaign. i will read you one paragraph of the opening. this is where i am trying to say this is what it would have been like if you could read his brain waves in 1952. i try to put myself in his mind set. a lot of what he has experienced, a career crisis. anyone who has had a career crisis can do some method acting and get into what it must of been like for this young man on the rise. here is the purse paragraph of my imagined internal merrill log, the bastards want me out, they want to sack my political career, they don't have much on me but they will use when they have. that is how they played, smuggles and smear boys in the political press. i'm something in the chair on my train just rattling along the heading out of california, my first date for the center of oregon and all i'm hearing from that fat little man who bubbles with fine political advice and fumes about my enemies is the press boys are going wild with this thing. i can feel my eyes glancing at the headline

that also narrowly misses richard. richard's okay. you see him in this video watching this clip over and over with his family, but richard is lucky. >>> this is dash cam footage from the patrol car of officer k kenneth angeleni. he's on the way to a call. on the way to the call, you do see him speeding up to about 77 miles an hour and cars pulling off to the side like they are supposed to. when he reaches this intersection here, a truck pulls out right in front of him, and as he tries to swerve, manages to clip the truck, and at 77 miles an hour mashes right into that house. >> he's going super fast, which is okay, but you still have to approach these intersections with caution. you just can't assume people hear and see you. >> if you look really closely, it looks like the light of the officer just turned green, which makes it seem the truck was trying to beat the yellow light. >> even if the light turns green, somebody could be in the middle of the intersection. >> the officer was taken to the hospital, he was okay, the truck driver

miles away from richard.undreds of other bastrop residents, brian returns to find nothing but a foundation and charred memories. >> this is just one of 1,600 homes that burned. this story repeats itself 1,599 other times. fire could take everything you got, just like that. >> the historic blaze claims the lives of two bastrop county residents and consumes 34,000 acres. richard counts his blessings. because he stayed behind and filmed, it could be used by the texas forest service to better understand the path the fire took. even so he has a word of warning for those who find themselves in the path of a wildfire. >> my advice to others that get in a situation like i was in, if you can get out, get out when you can. >> hope i get to see you guys again or hope you guys get to see me, again. >>> coming up, a storm chaser catches up to the storm, but gets a little too close to the action. >> oh, my god! >> when "caught on camera: man versus nature" continues. it doesn't matter which of our great states folks visit.

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ghazi, richard, john.should explain the reason secrecy was important here, the reason we couldn't share the fact that this was going on until it was resolved was to deprive their captors of the knowledge of the value of the prisoners they had. secrecy was in this case a life and death matter. and by the way, richard believes their captors were a pro-assad, pro-syrian government militia. so we'll take a break. when we come back, the gathering storm that could make a mark on holiday travel in this country. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your

and we wish them well. >> richard, it's david. and let me just add it is so great to see you and your team and to hear from you this morning. can you take us a little bit more through who you think this was? did they seem experienced? you and your team have been throughout syria. and what clues were you getting along the way about what they wanted? >> yeah, i think i have a very good idea of who they were. this was a group known as the shabiha. this is a government militia. these are people who are loyal to president bashar al assad. they are shiite. they were talking openly about their loyalty to the government, openly expressing their shia faith. they are trained by iranian revolutionary guard. they are allied with hezbollah. we were told that they wanted to exchange us for four iranian agents and two lebanese people who were from the movement. they captured us in order to carry out this exchange. and that's what they were hoping to do. they were going to bring us to a hezbollah stronghold inside syria right now. we were on our

you can jump in anytime you want richard if i go to you first in nashville the fiscal cliff is looming and everyone has to pay including ending tax cuts and this is going to hurt charities but everyone has to pay how do you feel about that well i'm all for capping deductions at a reasonable level and clearly part of fixing the fiscal cliff is going to have to be government reductions in spending and increased revenue but i don't think that that indian or capping charitable deductions is a wise move for over one hundred years now america has been doing this and we've discovered that americans give a lot more when they are given a charitable contribution for doing so and the estimates are that for every dollar in tax relief that a person gets it's three dollars of advantage to the community and to the economy there's no other government program that's a three to one advantage and ten percent of our workforce ten percent of our workforce work for a not for a nonprofit charitable organizations religious and nonreligious seems to be penny wise and pound foolish to cap the charitable deducti

richard?ten, i didn't hear much talk today about the sequester, big spending cuts people are talking about. didn't hear also about the debt creeling that tim geithner, the treasury secretary was saying we'd need to raise pretty much any day now. is this going to be the next couple of months in terms of this debate? does the white house have a strarjgy for dealing with both in the next face? >> well, they're quite clear that there's probably just too much at this point to put that in this initial package. specifically the debt ceiling. they're saying there's probably no way they're going to be able to address that right now. so they know they're going to have to deal with that and the tax hikes and spending cuts. you're absolutely right. in terms of strategy, if they have one, they haven't revealed the details about that quite yet. but president obama today, i thought it was interesting using the power of his bully pulpit to put pressure on congress to get this basic deal done that he's calling

the politics of charities i'm joined by richard land in nashville he's the president of the southern baptist convention's ethics and religious liberty commission in new york we have stephen pimp ere he is a professor at columbia university and in bloomington we cross to leslie lynne kosky he's a professor at indiana university school of public and environmental affairs all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want richard if i go to you first in nashville the fiscal cliff is looming and everyone has to pay including ending tax cuts and this is going to hurt charities but everyone has to pay how do you feel about that well i'm all for capping deductions at a reasonable level and clearly part of fixing the fiscal cliff is going to have to be government reductions in spending and increased revenue but i don't think that that indian or kaffeine charitable deductions is a wise move for over one hundred years now america has been doing this and we've discovered that americans give a lot more when they are given a charitable contribution for doing

richard? >> nbc's kristen welker in hawaii with the president. thank you, kristen. >>> speaker boehner has his work cut out for him now, not only does he have to cut a deal with the democrats, but he has a plan b fiscal cliff proposal and let's bring in jonathan allen and third way resident fellow bill schneider. i want to start with you. you wrote an article titled revenge of the purged, and you basically were saying in your article, jonathan, that the three amigos that spooker boehner stripped out of their positions and we see them on the screen, what beef did they have? was it simply because they were stripped of their titles? >> look, i think there's a fundamental divide between them and not only speaker boehner with a lot of the republican conference. these guys lost their assignments voting against republicans a lot, but also members of the republican steering committee that led the committee led by speaker boehner have basically said that these guys have gone to another level of trying to hurt the team over the last couple of years and tha

richard?ing with us a little bit later in the evening there for you as the day closes out. thank you, aim ann. >>> the failure of plan b shows that major challenges for republicans to come to any agreement on their own, much less the president. speaker john boehner explained the failure this way. >> that vote last night was going to increase taxes. i disagree with that characterization of the bill, but that impression was out there. we had a number of our members who just really didn't want to be perceived as having raised taxes. that was the real issue. >> as we saw throughout the election, the narrative of the republican party broadly led in many instances by congressional races here much the way it was in 2010. so pushing forward to the 113th congress which convenes january 3rd, the new future of the gop may not be too far away and in fact, 25 republican representatives will not return and only have a week of work left. joining us in the war room, karen fin me and we also have robert traina

richard? >> i'm tempted to go with the obvious here. the obvious would be 47%. the obvious would be being honest in front of a bunch of wealthy donors, when you're mitt romney, and thinking no one would pay any attention. how many times had he given that speech? and then that one was recorded? but i'm not going to be obvious because it is the revvies. i'm going to go with worst political move of the year? everything carl rove spent his money on. >> oh, that's good. >> you're stealing my thunder. >> i could have gonl for the wealthy, elderly. but, you know, there are elderly and they have so much money, who cares. carl rove is the one, the supposed architect, the supposed genius. >> so exposed in this election. >> i agree. without tipping my hand, i have a special recognition for carl rove coming up. i think the worst political move of the year was the republicans' engineering on aggressive voter suppression. i think they angered and energized voters that may not have come out. the worst thing

esko senior fellow at the campaign for america's future richard welcome back to the program. always good to be here thanks thanks for joining us i had christian freeland on the program a couple of weeks ago and she argued that the most to gallus tarion time in the history of america was in the in the two generations of and immediately following the founding of this nation to do great. no not really i think that we saw some of you know i think that the history of that period the early american history tends to leave out large segments of our population at that time slaves for example but you know i think what we have now is a period where in recent memory where the statistics are a lot more reliable we had a movement towards much greater egalitarianism in the one nine hundred thirty s. as you mentioned and in the one nine hundred sixty s. in the one nine hundred fifty s. under dorothy eisenhower even in the forty's after the second world war so i think we have periods of time in recent memory that are very well documented where we wanted to be adjusted fair an egalitarian soci

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>> reporter: well, they were very good, richard. i'm at the grove getting ready to open up in a few hours and people are expected to come here and ignoring the tweet you quoted saying home and relax. retailers don't want you to stay home and relax. showing the gift card video, the most popular we're told is starbucks, you got walmart in that top five, target and macy's and visa and mastercard and researchers say they reach a record $110 billion in gift card sales this year, expected to top $130 billion by 2015. we asked consumers if they like them and buying more and from where. listen. >> i think more this year, again, it is like a lot more convenient. >> they're convenient. you know? they fit in the card. easy to take on the plane and go home, too. >> i like walmart, places like that. they have them, big selection of things. >> macy's or jcpenney. >> somebody give me, i spend it. >> reporter: i'm with her. more people are spending more of the total amount of gift card than they have in the past. it's only down about 2% of that not

here is me and richard engel together in iraq.gel together in this room, on this show, talking about something that involved a map. and here is richard engel last week in syria, in extremis, along with his crew, both of we've had to work with on the show. richard and his crew managed to get out safe, and the chance to hear from him the story of what happened and what it means i'm telling you is worth stopping anything else that you are doing right now just to hear this out. this is worth it. i am glad you are back, obviously. >> i'm very happy to be here. >> nbc's chief foreign correspondent. you have spent your entire adult life reporting from places that most people have never been to and do not understand well. can you just tell us logistically how this happened, where you were, and how it started? >> yes. so this map shows the border area between turkey and syria. the yellow line, everything above that is turkey. this is the gate, the crossing between turkey and syria. and we crossed through bab al hawa, we were heading into t

>> well, these are two separate questions, richard. on the first point, boehner has a tough time corralling some of the republican votes to vote for obama's plan. if the president brings the 250 plan to the house floor and it gets through the senate, wow won't see many republicans go after it, but at the same time, boehner is pretty safe when it comes to the speakership. you had guys like tom price or eric canter or other guys if they were making noise against him, there would be huge noise that he is in trouble, be but i don't hear that. i'm on capitol hill everyday and i don't hear that and i believe he is safe because there is not a challenger. >> if boehner is safe in the job, that does not mean to say he is at all relevant here, because they are negotiating past him right now and he is not a factor, is that right? >> yes, it is right, and that is partly because boehner proved na he could not get it through the house, and now the ball is in mitch mcconnell's corner, andi i can only imagine how upset mitch mcconnell is with boehner,

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every day, richard, i can tell you.ell you that every time i see one of my colleagues on the house floor, i say can i come by and they say, yes, let's talk. it's very, very difference. there are confessions aversatio people put together principals. it's happening in the senate and the house. would i like to see the white house with greater participation? yes. >> you are not worried about this being brought up in 20 obsce15? >> no, the election results will not tolerate it. if you think that community will say, okay, we will wait another four years i think the congress of the united states and the white house had better not think that that is going to happen. no, look, i think the president has a very clear commitment to this. >> right. >> i think we can do this. i think we can do gun control. i think we can take these issues on. >> and the question is, again, will the latino communities, will the communities that are interested in immigration reform, will they cop together and not let the fall deaf ears that is the othe

richard, the supreme court has choices of cases it could take here. it decided to take these two, doma and proposition 8. why do you think they took these and not others? >> you know, after this election, this issue is so ripe for the supreme court the jurisdictions are so split in their laws, many states recognizing same-sex marriage and performing same-sex marriages. some states not recognizing them. this is the perfect scenario for the supreme court to step in and ultimately make a ruling. there are over 1,000 cases, joe, in which federal laws are impacted by marital status.

richard, erika? >>> thank you so much, alexis. the redskins magical season will continue for at least another week. >> the burgundy and gold are heading to the playoffs thanks to a thrilling win to the cowboys. the redskins rookies, they were the big story. they accounted for all 28 of the 'skins points. alfred morris rushed for 200 yards and three touchdowns. robert griffin iii rushed for a touchdown too. this is the redskins first division title since 1999. >> this is a special year for us, we went out and we were 3-6. we won the division at 10-6. i think that speaks volumes about the character in that locker room. i think those veterans really appreciate the rookies that have stepped up for them. >> the last time the redskins were even in the playoffs was in 2007. >> robert griffin iii may be the 'skins captain but it's alfred morris who is setting redskins records. he broke clinton portis' record for most rushing yards in a single season. morris didn't feel additional pressure last night despite playing in perhaps the biggest

let's ask richard usko here in los angeles he's a senior fellow at the campaign for america's future and here in the studio marc harrold libertarian commentator and attorney and author of the book observations of white noise an acid test for the first amendment welcome to you both richard marc thanks for going to be richard you were an article for the huffington post yesterday and you argue that wall street is behind a lot of these mass shootings going to reformat quick yeah i mean i think it's more you know to say wall street's behind it sounds a slightly more conspiratorial i think it's what the israelis call the conspiracy of shared values or in this case shared interests you know i think there are a lot of people who are outraged at the n.r.a. because wayne la pierre the head of the n.r.a. makes a very convenient target because he's so outrageous but a lot of people are making a lot of money off the gun industry and a lot of people are doing very well politically by being allies of the gun industry so you have you have it for example severus capital which is run by steven feinber

is me and richard engal here in the show, and here is richard engal last week in syria.d held for five days, along with his crew which includes both of which we've worked with on the show. we have had to shoot in places more far and dangerous than our usual new york digs. richard and his crew had a chance to get out safe, and the chance to hear from him and what happened, i am telling you it is worth to stop what you're doing just to hear this out. this is worth it. i am glad you are back, obviously. >> i am very happy to be here. nbc's chief foreign correspondent, you have spent your entire life reporting in places people do not understand well. can you just tell us logistically where you were and how it started. >> so this map shows the border between turkey and syria. the yellow line, everything above that is turkey. this is the gate, the crossing between turkey and syria. and we crossed through bab al hawa, we were heading into this. we were traveling in this area. a rebel-friendly area. we came down and we were heading into this area in the center to meet with a reb

i'm richardg and aaron gilchrist are off today. many public transit agencies are running on modified schedules today. metro rail will stay open two hours later closing at 2:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. metro rail and buses are running on a regular weekend schedule. the march rain will operate the penn and brunswick lines on an s schedule. there will be no service on the camden line. the virginia railway express is running on a holiday schedule. >>> a chilly start to the morning as you head out the door. storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson is here with us. to tell us about your new year's eve forecast. how everything is shaping up. >> that's right. richard and erika, it's a coat, gloves, hat kind of morning. one of the coldest starts we've had this winter. at 30 degrees right now. the windchill reading at 22 degrees. the air dry. allowing that temperature to really fall off during the overnight period. oakton right now coming in at 2 degrees. ar warrenton at 21. 30 in d.c. around capital heig

started with a phone call from richard who, as you know, was always in a troubled spot.bul. on this day he was actually en route to the white house. we were making our christmas plans and laughing and joking on the phone and all was well, and an hour later i had a call if there the ambulance that was taking him to the emergency room and that was our last conversation. and then being the wife of such a public man, my morning cou ii mourning could not stay private and i understand that. and i had to plan a memorial that was worthy of such a public man, and that imposed its own stresses. but at the same time, it was a balm, reassuring to me to have discovered that richard had touched so many lives around the world and letters kept pouring in and i red each one. but in reading those letters, decided that i really couldn't stay in our home and in our city of new york if i wanted to get on with my life and that's when it took me to paris. paris is at the heart of this love story because for whatever reason every happy moment in high life seems to have taken place in paris. >>

richard, please come forward. >>> good morning again.as looking over at the betty republican radiation center. i took liberty of going out there, looking around, seeing location. i talked to a facilitator there. they seem to have a little problem with the setup, where they are going to be going into program developments from the new $40 million from the park bond of trying to be monitored location. i believe it was already approved, that they will be able to have some type of surveillance but there was an additional complication. young kids with their laptops and their ipads need to have better source of of wi-fi. if they get half dozen trying to do homework, it overloads the umbrella. i don't know what type of costs, whether it comes from programs or development. i would expect mr. ginsburg and his staff to rectify. but the little kids, they will be doing a lot of their after-school programs and stuff. they do need some of that type of -- how should i say it. high-tech communication devices present. probably be costly. another problem i

our conversation with richard gere, coming up right now. always the right time to do thei try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome richard gere to this program. the talented actor and tireless human rights advocate stars in a new film out now called "arbitrage." the movie is the story of a troubled hedge fund manager and also stars susan sarandon and tim roth, so here now a scene from "arbitrage." >> everybody wins, if we sell the company. if i live for you. >> you don't have to live. you didn't know about it. that is why didn't tell you. >> that will take away my brokerage license. delmar to supervisor chu. my name in every paper. -- failure to supervise you. >> because it is my job. >> it is illegal, and i am your partner. >> you

richard is here tonight for the interview. that's ahead. >>> president obama announced today his first nominee to his second term cabinet. it has been 45 day news since the election. this is the president's first official nomination for his cabinet. now historically speaking, this is rather late. it's taken him longer than president reagan after he was reelected, longer than president bush after he was reelect, longer than president clinton. but today president obama did it. he announced today that he wants senator john kerry to be his next secretary of state to replace hillary clinton. one of the reasons we may have had this announcement today, as andrea mitchell pointed out today, is that the white house finally had time to deal with this issue only because congress cleared the deck when the republicans and congress all decided to give up and go home and submarine their own speaker last night. that unexpectedly left some time for making announcements today. >> i'm very proud to announce my choice for america's next secretary

are safe. >> richard, as you know, is widely respected for his reporting around the world.oining us now is andrea mitchell. good to have you here. >> it is great to be here on a happy day to report. >> amazing what happened. just touched on it briefly. they got lucky in order to be freed. >> they were lucky. they were essex experienced. richard being fluent in arabic was able to even while blindfolded and bound all three of them could listen and hear their captors talking. that's how they had a better sense of what was going on. as he described it was was terrifyinging because at sayer times while they were blindfolded they were threatened with which one do you want to be executed, which one will be sacrificed. then they would fire shots in the air and did not know whether one of their colleagues were being shot. so it was a frightening five days. terrifying for them. i have to say very, very frightening for their loved ones and for the circle of people here at nbc in new york who were working around the clock on this. and the state department was doing its best to assist a

they are five days, richard engle says they wish to forget.t's going to be very hard to do. >> shepard: free and safe, but there is still one american correspondent who is still in captivity and has been for monthses. >> richard engle is familiar because of his work with nbc news. but there is a print journalist who has not been heard from since august 13. his name is austin ties. a former marine, went to syria to report for the mckarachi news service. had an article published in the "washington post." his parents are desperate for news from him. they simply do not know who is holding him, although the suspicion is that he is being held by pro-government militia. worth remembering as well that there are syrian civilians dying every day during all of this. >> shepard: 40,000 according to activists. thank you. justice department announced it will not, will not be filing cyber stalking charges against the mistress of the disgraced ex-c.i.a. chief, david petraeus. he resigned last month after he admitted that he did have an extramarital affair. th

avery friedman and richard herman.uestion filed is whether this guy can collect on what was essentially a verbal contract. this is basically a breach of contract case. do you think he can collect on a verbal contract for this kind of money, avery? >> well, you know what? shakira made "hips don't lie" famous but she claims her ex-boyfriend is lying. when it comes to the existence of the contract you're on point. there is no evidence except for one thing, joe. that's that in october of 2011 shakira writes an instruction to her lawyer that's gone public that says fire delarua, as if he were an employee. if not an employee why would shakira give instructions to fire him? while there is no contract, the court will dismiss most of this. what remains is that one question. i think that's ultimately what goes to a jury. that's where shakira is facing problems. >> richard, there is more evidence when you think about it from her website january 2011 a statement where she said, quote, we continue to be partners in our business and

richap richard arichard ans usual new york digs. arichard a p get out safget out sa he say i'll come and pick you up from the border. came and picked us up, hello, hello. we drive off. a few minutes after leaving the border crossing, traveling with the rebel commander and one of his men and our whole team, we get ambushed. gunmen came from the side of the road, surrounded our car, wearing ski masks, had a truck waiting for us, and threw us in the back of the truck, boom! the doors close, they drive off. >> a large snof peopnumber of p lying in wait. >> this was an ambush. these were government people. we knew it was government by what they were saying. the rebel commander thought maybe this was another rebel unit. so unusual it would happen in this area. he said what are you guys doing? why are you taking us, we're with the rebels. oh, you're with the rebels? started beating him, oh, you're with the rebels? don't you support bashar? and he said, yes. of course we support bashar. and they said you dog, you don't even sderve to say hi

scott thanks a lot for being with us tonight richard thanks again. now on to another critical insurance program in the crosshairs of republicans in congress social security just like medicare republicans have never been fans of social security going all the way back to the one nine hundred thirty s. when f.d.r. passed of during the great depression and today when there are the austerity knives sharpened republicans want to do away with social security as we know it and hand it off to wall street so banks toure's like the fears that we can skim billions off the top of it luckily several progressives in congress are aware of that scheme here is what senator sherrod brown said on monday on innocent b.c. . i've seen over the last ten years when over the last fifteen years when newt gingrich had a chance or president bush had a chance they wanted to shift costs on to the officiers by in part turning wall street over in part to turning so surely in part over to wall street i mean there there is been a move in among conservative republicans of a bit of a di

so, richard, what do you think about that?well, you know, i don't know where the parents are in all this. i don't know to what extent the parents have supported this transgender awakening in this fifth grader -- fifth grader. but in any event, i think the judge's ruling in this particular case was sound. and i don't think that there's going to be any relief on appeal on this case. and interesting. it happens in many cases like this, deb. this child is no longer in the school district. this child is in a private school somewhere. all they did was say, listen, you know, you are -- can you not go into this one particular bathroom. we're going to let you go into the faculty bathroom. we made arrangements for you. and that's what you have to do at this point in time. it's a unique situation. they tried to deal with it as best they could. and i think the court was within its power. >> avery, i heard you sort of grunting for a lack of a better word. >> look, i think the court was wrong. this was an action pursued by the maine -- the

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