shirley bassy singing "gold finger" 50 years later and that great production number from "les mis" and my friend barbara streisand. finally, you know i like jennifer lawrence winning for best actress. she really s and that's "hard ball" for now. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, gop hack job. there are just four days until $85 billion of spending cuts are scheduled to kick in. these cuts would be disastrous. and may also throw millions of people out of work and hurt our economic recovery. the president wants to stop these cuts by closing the loopholes that favor millionaires but republicans just flat out refuse. but here's the problem -- outside of the republican caucus rooms and quiet gop rooms where the big money men make their deals, there are real live american families who will be unnecessarily hurt. >> thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. tens of thousands of parents will have to deal with finding childcare for their children. hundreds of thousands of americans will lose access to primary care and preventative care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings. and the longer these cuts are in

s, being a pilot, this was not a new experience. he had served in korea, flew 62 combat missions in an f-86 saber. called shirley's texas tornado, after his wife. shirley. so he flew 62 in korean war, vietnam he's on his 25th. flying an f-4 phantom he left lay ocean air space, came into -- left laotian air space, came into north vietnam, shot down by ground fire. this wasn't his first duty of -- tour of duty in vietnam, he was advertise second. sam johnson was an american warrior. after heffs shot down in 1966, his life took a turn. a different turn. when he parachuted out of his plane, his shoulder was injured, of course the vietnamese didn't do anything to help his injuries, he still carries some of those wounds from his prisoner days and from when he crashed, or when he came back down to earth in that parachute. he was captured by the north vietnamese army and put in a prisoner of war camp. the north vietnamese probably developed prisoner of war camps better than any place on earth. they were hard. they were tough. they were mean. and not everybody survived those camps. so he spent seven years as a prisoner of