ronald regan starts to go up. he was very popular at the end.democrats were saying don't give george h.w. bush a third reagan term. reagan's numbers were going up, george h.w. bush won the white house. hasn't happened in a long time. the question is where will president obama be at the end of the his numbers are going up now. only early 2015. watch his numbers as we head into 2016. it is possible if president obama stays up above 50 that it helps hillary clinton. no disrespect intended with the s seesaw. >> hillary clinton has to be thinking i want this president, i need this president to be moving this way. >> absolutely. she had to be very happy with the message that he laid out in the state of the union, very aggressive, kind of setting the distinctions between the two paertsds. here's what i would do for the middle class. let's hear represent scans tep -- republicans step up. we heard that where he's saying, listen, these are the battle lines, let's fight. with the clip you played there he was very kind of belligerent, sort of very in your f

san francisco attacking ronald regan -- address in san francisco attacking ronald regan and it may have pushed him all the way to the white house. >> there is despair mr. president in the places you don't see or visit in your shining city. >> cuomo considered running for president but never was a formal candidate. this week hours before his death, his son andrew was inaugurated for a second term as governor of new york. and senator harry reid recovering at a nasty accident. he was exercising in henderson nevada, when one of the elastic bands snapped causing him to break a bone in his face and a rib. he will be back in washington over the weekend. >>> a new jersey couple is accusing united airlines of being insensitive. they say the crew humiliated them because of their disabled daughter was not buckled up. >> my little baby is sitting there on my lap not hurting a fly. she can't walk by herself she can't sit by herself and here is this woman who's just -- is standing behind the law without put anything humanity into the situation. it was really heartbreaking. >> she sat her 3-year-old d

. >> reporter: james brady literally took a bullet for president ronald regan in 1981, but the whiteress secretary survived and overcame physical limitations to become a crusader against gun violence and championed the brady bill into law. ariel sharon was the symbol of israel's iron fist. wounded as a soldier during his country's fight for independence, he became a brutal yet brilliant general and eventually served as the country's 11th prime minister. >> mrs. robinson, you're trying to seduce me. >> reporter: "the graduate" was his masterpiece, but film director mike nichols was one of just a dozen people to win an emmy, grammy, oscar and tony award. playing private eye jim rockford made james garner a tv legend, but he also found big screen success and an oscar nominee along the way. before there was "saturday night live" there was "your show of shows." sid cesear made live sketch comedy a weekly tv event in the 1950s. >> can we talk? >> reporter: not everyone loved joan rivers and her caustic humor, but many did, and she blazed a trail for female comedians becoming the first woma

ronald regan was at 49%. bill clinton leads the pack at 64 3. 47%. 47%. he's feeling better about himself but the republicans just walloped him in the last election. the president is going to give a list of proposals the republicans say he's really hopeful he can get these passed or is this about framing contrast? >> they always hope they can get things passed. they know real liz stickically that the vast majority of things he's going to announce on tuesday night will not get passed. this is about sending two messages. one is sending a message to republicans, i know what you want and i'll sit back and let you push your agenda through. i'm going to be pro active. the second piece of this, i think, is about setting the tone for democrats heading into 2016. if you look at the proposals on taxes, this is just a classic democratic message. raising taxes on the wealthy to front taxes. if he can set that agenda he feels like he can prop uphill ri clinton, perhaps another challenger if she doesn't run. the president is making himself part of the conversation. >>

. >> this would be as if ronald regan wouldn't have used the word communism. >>> an iraq war veteranand democratic representative from the great state of hawaii gabbard joins us. >> aloha. >> why won't the president say islamic extremism? >> the first thing we have to understand, it's not just about words, it's not about semantics, it's about having a real true understanding of who our enemy is and how important that is. that we have to understand what their motivation is and what their ideology of this radical islamic ideology that's fueling them. a couple of days ago secretary kerry said in a speech that isis and al qaeda are engaging in, quote, criminal conduct rooted in alienation poverty thrill seeking and other factors. now if we really look at what he's saying and if that's really the cause, then the solution would be to give them a trophy give them a hug, give them a good paying job, $10,000 and a skateboard so they can go and get their thrills and say, okay, great. they're going to be happy and they won't be fighting anymore. that's not the case. unfortunately we have people

the minimum wage is way lower than it was when ronald regan was president and there was nothing bad happeningllowed the ability of unions to organize workers to completely erode in this country. valerie is right. in fact if you give the right kinds of protections that let people take time offer when they have a pressing family -- >> right. >> -- need more people take jobs more people enter the labor force, you get more workers and that ultimately increases -- >> right. >> -- the scale of the economy. >> but, larry -- >> yeah. >> -- here's the concern with that. right now minimum wage is largely going to be tied with what the states want to do right? that's going to be a hard thing to create one pattern with but you also have this fundamental pattern of what is allowed to be rewarded in your economy. you're saying value workers, but we've moved completely the opposite way. look at the disparate betweenity between wall street and main street. look at jampie dimon, even after current conditions no one went to jail he still says banks are under assault. in the old days you dealt with one reg guul

ronald reagan was a popular president. he stood up and he said "you know what, president regan, you see this as a shining city but it is a city of - it's a divided city", and that is something that people today really embrace and have repeated many times, and they owe that to former governor cuomo, and we heard major bill de blasio come out and call him a giant. he was, and will remain that. especially a giant of the progressive movement and the democratic party. >> we'll leave it there. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the city of chicago is beginning the new year with hope. >> 2014 ended with fewer murders than the year before. illegal guns and shooting are a problem. diane eastabrook has more on that. [ siren ] >> reporter: chicago closed another violent year marked with crime scene tape arrest and 7,000 compensated illegal guns. but the city the fbi labelled the murder capital three years ago says it got safer in 2014. >> right now we have the fewest murders to date since 1965 - 49 years ago. over all crime is down 12% from last year and down 27% from two years ago. >> still police superintenden