. >>> later, wisconsin senate majority leader scott fitzgerald sends around a fund-raising e-mail claiming fraud of the scott walker recall effort. a recall volunteer knocks down his claims. now she wants an apology. >>> and in "psycho talk" >>> and in "psycho talk" tonight, earlier this week i had coffee at the white house with about ten others of the liberal persuasion. well, that didn't sit too well with the folks over on fox. >> this lump of lefties included schultz, rachel maddow, a few bloggers, too boring to mention, and that lady from "the nation." the crowd in this room was bigger than their collective audience. basically it was occupy the white house without the drum circle and vandalized porta-potty. >> cheap shots all over the place. come on. moments later commentator bob beckel and former white house press secretary dana perino reminded the group that president bush did exactly the same thing with right wing talkers. >> it's one of the outreach things you do with media. you know, you've been through this before. i mean, they used to have on the white house when george bush was

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>>> coming up next, wisconsin state senate leader scott fitzgerald claims there's voter fraud going onker recall effort and gets taken down by a recall supporter. >>> later newt gingrich gets confronted on the issue of gay marriage. we will have an interview with the gentleman who spoke directly with the candidate. >>> don't forget to tweet us using #edshow. want volume or length? how about both? with covergirl lashblast fusion. our biggest brush meets our fiberstretch formula for a blast of volume and length. lashblast fusion. from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. >>> to the middle of the country, the heartland, the attempt to recall governor scott walker of wisconsin is well ahead of schedule. these folks have done a heck of a job. they're going to get a million signatures. in one month the democrats have collected over 500,000 signatures. they only need about another 40,000

scott fitzgerald. >> it is the movie of the year that encapsulates all of the nostalgia, all that longingn things were more intense, more adventurous, more exciting. >> reporter: this holiday season brings us "warhorse," it is steven spielberg's epic adventure of a boy and his horse in world war i. the sweeping cinematography evoking visions of some of hollywood's grandest films from the '40s and '50s. while "hugo" is morton sco scorsese's own movie. >> happy endings only happen in the movies. >> reporter: movies that this year are full of history. filmmakers hoping the luster of the past is the gold of the future. >> cut. >> reporter: kristen dahlgren, nbc news, los angeles. >>> that that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. coming up next "football night in america" followed by "sunday night football", the ravens versus the chargers. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

, and an enormous amount is you know has been written about the 1920s and 30s at the time of scott fitzgeraldand so forth. but i felt that this period was just waiting and it sure appealed to me. i have been thinking a lot about this idea, this point of view. i think that it's -- kho history as you know is much more than just politics and soldiers. social issues. it's also medicine, science and art, music and theater and poetry and ideas, and we shouldn't lump things into categories. it's all part of the same thing, and one of the most interesting characters in this study that i have done is all over wendell holmes senior, who spent his whole life devoting his whole life, career to medical science. on the faculty for 35 years in a very prominent figure in american medicine. but he saw that there was nothing, there is no incongruity and he also wrote poetry and essays and helped to start a magazine called the "atlantic monthly." this is all part of it, and i think that is the way history ought to be taught and i think it's the way it ought to be written. that is the way i would like to think m

scott fitzgerald said there are no second acts in american life.hard nixon before his successful comeback in 1968 was known as dick nixon, political hatchet man. when he went through his new nixon phase, he came richard m. nixon world statesman. and same thing with bill clinton, there's something that all these four men have in common is that they have a durability in american politics and all four have been written off by the intelligenceia at some point in their careers and some back at sheer force of their own will. >> sure. he does have a history and he's worked with a lot of people on capitol hill. it's interesting, i was reading, i think at the hill.com, i was looking at the number of congressional endorsements people in congress who are endorsing newt vs. mitt. mitt romney has 50 and i think newt gingrich has six. i've heard from all the six supporting him but i've heard from a lot of people who used to work with him. didn't like his management style. seems like everything is a crisis. >> right. if you -- if you would have asked him and in f

fitzgerald. skelton loves it. the cards upset the niners. back to pass. loses the ball. there to scoop it up for the touchdown. the ball slipped out of river's hands and scott was waiting there. long season for san diego's quarterback who had mvp aspirations this season. the kansas city chiefs against the jets. not exactly what they were hoping for. the ball has to travel ten yards. watch this. it goes about three. what are you doing? where are you going? that's the kind of season it's been for the chiefs. how about a local guy making a play of the week. former gonzaga high school football. running down the field. look what i have here. his sister, one of our producers in the sports department, she was going nuts on sunday. this is the first game he's been active all season. picked up by the jaguars how cool is that? speaking of hometown, the redskins made the plays twice this week. once for absolutely horrendous tackling. we call this the forest gump run. you can't get him down. that was brutal to watch if you are a redskins fan. rex grossman, he flips it over to banks. banks, you know what he does. throws it downfield to a wide open santana moss and finds