. >> her late husband john walton and former green beret and son of wal-mart founder sam walton. we'll be back with person of the year. >>> the taliban survived because she's campaigning for education for girls. she's exciting a new generation coming up now. >> 2013's person of the year is putin. he seized the word the spotlight on the syrian crisis and threw ukraine russian orbit and relative decline of americans influence. on that note, and happy holidays. bye-bye.

look, the walton family, like the original walton may be able to take credit for creating this giantmpire but the six members alive inherited their welt and they have more wealth than the entire 40% of americans combined. the six members of the walton family have more wealth and spend a huge amount of their money ensuring that their workers don't make a real living wage and walmart is also a job killer. when you see wall marts go into small communities and get rid of small businesses because they cannot compete for the lower prices. for every two new jobs you create in a new walmart, you kill three jobs in the areas where they -- >> thets not true at all. >> and, also, if you work there for a year, you actually do get benefits, which you may not get at a smaller store. >> but they're killing three jobs for every two jobs they create. >> that's not true. they're not doing that. stand by. stay with me. >> i want to ask you what is a true living wage in the united states today? but, first, let bill maher weigh in. >> now, when it comes to raising the minimum wage, conservatives say it's

let me tell you, in this walmart example, you have the waltons who own walmart. six of them are richer than the lower 42% of the -- >> that's not fair, but -- >> all i'm suggesting is that if they shared that a bit with their workers, like henry ford did way back in the day and paid $5 so his employees could buy the cars they were producing, that's exactly -- >> the walton family has created hundreds of thousands of jobs, has done -- >> good for them. >> done. >> what they haven't done is paid them a fair and living wage. >> back to the minimum wage point, because when you talk about employment, i would assume we care a lot about the people who are at the lowest end of the employment ladder, particularly those who have the hardest time, that tends to be historically teenage male minorities. when you raise the minimum wage, the people who are the first -- the last hired are the first fired. they are the ones who do not get the job. that is why it is the example with supply and demand that has given in the first -- >> why would you pay more to stay in a low income

. >> reporter: victoria ann russell walton is a breast cancer advocate and survivor. falling through those cracks even cost her loss of sight in one eye but what pulled vicky on the healing side after brutal four-year cancer ordeal were the love letters and spiritual notes she received from her beloved mother daisy may russell. >> she always made me understand that this walk is not about me. it's about what i'm doing for my community. >> reporter: vicky told her story a few months ago at carrollton elementary's career day. >> one little girl gave me a little card and said feel better, get better. you can do it. >> reporter: that's when it hit her. what she could do for your community. she started the pink ribbon love letters project and called on these 9-year-olds to help her send out the good vibrations to survivors. some even offer advice in the form of a corny joke. >> knock knock. >> reporter: who's there? >> medicine. >> reporter: medicine who? >> drink medicine every day. >> i wrote a line across it, eliminate the cancer. >> sometimes as adults we go to the left

christy walton, the wal-mart heiress. john was a former barade. and son of the wal-mart founder. >>> vladimir putin, john, who has gotten a dramatic move, not only in the middle east, but worldwide. trying to make himself the leader basically of conservative traditionalists, the national forces against the cultural and immoral purism of barack obama. >> it makes me want to point out that michelle just wanted an extraordinarily strong victory for a second term, not con secttive in chili -- consecutively in chile. and two women faced off against each other and the socialist won. but actually my real honorable mention is the victims of violence in this country from the boston marathon to the washington naval yard to the 28 school shootings that have happened in the year since sandy hook. and so maybe the nra has come back, john, but that's not good news. >> well, it was a tough year.  we're going on that. >> stephen harper, the prime minister of canada that has lead that country in the most extraordinary ways, being able to resist the creeping effe

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americans one hundred billion dollars so this is called the shelter it's a tax shelter known as the walton grantor retained a new woody trust or grat and this is an accidental loophole that saved the wealthiest americans one hundred billion dollars over the last ten years federal law requires billionaires such as seldon ableson who want to leave fortunes to their children to pay state or gift taxes a forty percent on those assets it also has blunted that by by exploiting a loophole that congress on intentionally created and that the internal revenue. unsuccessfully challenge it's all just a mistake and of course the likes of sheldon adelson only tell you over and over look i'm a billionaire i we're thirty billion dollars and i have to pay forty percent taxes on inheritance this is unfair this is unfair this is unfair but the fact is he never has to pay he doesn't pay it's just the normal schmucks with like a ten million dollars that end up paying the estate taxes that are paid yet again shelly adelson living on the right side of the apartheid wall so he accidentally gets a tax benefit that

americans one hundred billion dollars so this is called the shelter as a tax shelter known as the walton grantor retained an annuity trust or grat and this is an accidental loophole that saves the wealthiest americans one hundred billion dollars over the last ten years federal law requires billionaires such as selden ableson who want to leave fortunes to their children to pay state or give taxes a forty percent on those assets it will send as blunted that by by exploiting a loophole that congress on intentionally created and that the internal revenue. service unsuccessfully challenge it's all just a mistake and of course the likes of sheldon adelson only tell you over and over look i'm a billionaire i we're thirty billion dollars and i have to pay forty percent taxes on inheritance this is unfair this is unfair this is unfair but the fact is he never has to pay he doesn't pay it's just the normal schmucks with like a ten million dollars that end up paying the estate taxes that are paid yet again shelly adelson living on the right side of the apartheid wall so he accidentally gets a tax b

strike fighter along with hurlberth field, the training center for special ops forces are near fort waltoneach, which are just a few miles from me. kindle air force base is in panama city where f-22 raptors and helicopter gun ships are deployed. the pensacola naval air station, not too far west of me, is home of the blue angels. these are the tough all brays who fly into a storm that sometimes rescue people who are as dumb as the coast guard is brave. i'm used to low-flying aircraft zooming above my house, sometimes rattling the windows. i can see navy ships in the gulf going through manner you'ves, and my reaction when the planes come screaming near is to smile and say thank you because those sounds are not the sounds of annoyance. those are the sounds of freedom. i never tire of hearing them. those sounds mean that the most moefshated and highly trained men and women in the heft of the military are on the job to provide a safety net of security for my family. i would prefer that than what has been put there by america's enemies. in fact, i feel that way. i tell you this, if the army, nav

that is right, he used this loophole, first founded by the walton family, to keep $2.8 billion from theeral government alone. that is more than enough to keep the unemployment benefits in place another month to get through the holidays for 1.3 million americans, instead, the money is simply being handed over to people who, well, let's be honest, in no way need it. as warren buffet said, that is no way to run a country. >> i don't recall think that has a society we want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great amount of wealth. >> so as one of the most unproductive congress wraps up here, let's take a look at what was supposed to bring them together. as the scare regarding unemployment insurance, they look to sustain the austerity, if putting pressure on the middle class, make no mistake, america, you are the one taking the tennis ball to the face. i was having trouble getting out of bed in the morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number bed conforms to you. i

oody hayes showed up, bill walton. people showed up in san cle to them.nd talk he would spent hours with them. wrote a book son about that. he got pretty close. nixon people won't write books about it. we'll tell a few stories here and there. up to julie and trish if they want to write that book. e had a fascinating postpresidency in the way that w is having a fascinating postpresidency. ill clinton has done it differently than any other president. era. izen hour lived quietly. talked to the president. nixon was disgraced. slowly emerged. bill clinton never stopped being president. he's always out there. he's fascinating. it's a different study. in the white house again. w has been -- his father wrote a piece for fortune magazine. w has followed those rules exactly. disappear, raise a lot of money for a lot of people and be good to the folks who were good with you. with the troops. >> go back to radio. you interested in radio national d you get a three-hour-a-day talk show? >> i'm the luckiest guy in i was giving use p

walton beach, west of auburn, into northern georgia. here's a live look from atlanta from wsb. hotlanta. it's cloudy there this morning. there will be rain coming your way. georgia and alabama, been a very wet year. one of the wettest on record. our future cast, our storm animation, will show that while cutting up the atlantic coast, that's going to come into the carolinas. will continue moving up the atlantic coast into the northeast, bringing an inch and a half to two inches. the cold air goes flat into the atlantic early. if this were coming in, what a blizzard in the northeast and new england. that's going to lose out. the cold air comes in behind that. out west, we're going to look at big winds. 50-mile-per-hour to 70-mile-per-hour winds. all the way out to los angeles across the country. a quiet day on this saturday before the storm gets going down south, heading >> washington forcaster dave zahren here. it loo like another nice day today, but a saudi into the weekend. enjoy soggy thisis why you can. y weekend.-ogg enjoy this while you can. a astal storm f for tomorrow. 5

things were declassified when judge bates and walton had the opportunity to speak, they, in effect, saidtently mislead to the point there wasn't a system of rules at all. you had general alexander, for example, say at one point, you can see it on youtube, we don't hold data on u.s. citizens. andrea, i consider that one of the most false statements ever made about u.s. surveillance. >> before i let you go, congratulate you on what is expected if everything falls into place. max baucus, chair of the finance committee will be nominated ambassador to china. you would be next up to chair the committee. how will things be different? what are your top priorities? >> andrea, i'm going to certainly wait for speaker reid to make any official announcement here. i'm going to continue my long-standing interest, bipartisan pro growth, you've seen work with senator greig, coates, begich, medicare reform, tackling a chronic disease. this is an opportunity to show medicare in 2013 is very different than medicare in 1965. each of those will be bipartisan efforts and continuing long-standing work. >> exact

the walton family, who owns wal-mart, are worth about $100 billion. they are the wealthiest family in america. they own more wealth as one family than the bottom 40% of the american people. extraordinary wealth. and one of the reasons they are so wealthy is the american taxpayer subsidizes wal-mart because wal-mart pays low wages, provides minimal benefits, and many of their workers end up on medicaid. they end up on food stamps, they end up in government-subsidized housing. i'm not quite sure why the middle class and working families of this country have to subsidize the walton family because they pay wages that are inadequate for their workers to live a dignified life. so my hope is that when the american people are loud and clear about the need to raise the minimum wage, that congress will respond. but i have to tell you, i have my doubts. mr. president, what we also hear, and most recently from pope francis, is an understanding that there is something profoundly wrong about a nation and increasingly a world in which so few have so much and so many

i mean, i think walton is sympathetic and at a certain point it takes on its own momentum and is aboute. >> each week it's like, here's the box walt is in, how is he going to get out of it? each person he works with is worse than the person he worked with before. so i mean, i love the way it starts small scale and then by the time you get to season five, it's a multinational thing where they are exporting meth into eastern europe and getting all these -- the episode when they are -- the german company, that was brilliant. but i understand -- look, i cannot get into "the walking dead" if you say that to a walking dead fan -- >> i agree. i can't get into "walking dead" but lived for "breaking bad" this nerdy white man from suburb ya can go into the drug economy and overthink and outplay all of these guys and beat them at their own game. >> there are people who will say, that's part of the appeal "breaking bad", it was a white fantasy, sort of like here's a guy, a school teacher, he can o outwit the mexican cartel. >> i don't have that fantasy. >> you love "sound of music." why, sir? >> i

. >> reporter: matt hammer helped write the report, partially funded by the walton family foundation, a group that's long helped fund and support alternative and charter schools. >> here in this valley that's got incredible economic resources, some of the best jobs in the world here, but if you're not going to be getting into college and being successful in college, a lot of the jobs are way out of reach for you. >> ready? go. >> reporter: susan oba says success is not impossible at lower performing schools but changes are needed. she says students, teachers and parents all need to work harder to be part of the solution. >> no, it's not easy, and, you know, we come to school, we, you know, work hard. we work hard on the weekends to really be ready. >> reporter: they put in 8 1/2 hours a day at school here at kip heartwood. their motto, no excuses, no shortcuts. we wanted to hear back today from the superintendent of public schools in santa clara county today. we did. his office called back a short while ago and said the superintendent wants to look at the entire report before he makes

just talking about six members of the walton family, you know, sam walton founded walmart, they have115 billion and $144 billion. these six individuals have more wealth than the combined financial assets of the poorest 40% of the u.s. population. six people. 40% of the u.s. population. i think when we start to see this in the streets, just like mandela was part of a movement, people across the political spectrum do care that these very extremely wealthy families are getting huge tax breaks and they are relying on tax subsidized help for their workers because they need welfare, they need s.n.a.p. >> is there any reasonable either ethical or empirical economic reason that six people should have a wealth that is that much more than everybody else? like just that number alone, is there some way to explain that, that it makes sense? >> yeah. let me go back to the original question you asked, which is is this empirical or philosophical. it's both. there's a dispute about what the solution is. conservatives would say it's economic growth and private sector activity and employment. there is

undefeated mma fighter chaz the hybrid walton has made fight night a tradition and it imcoulds to holdhis heart. >> the i fought at toys for tots last year. that's when i actually asked my wife to marry me. i like doing it because it's charity. it has a big draw. there's a lot of people here. >> southside's steve rick ham has hosted the event at wild bill's since its inceptionings in 2008. >> i've been fortunate because i have friends in the service to see them go to homes where they handed out toys and gave them to parents with tears in the driveway knowing their kids' christmas morning would go have toys and believe san tam had come for them. >> but the work doesn't end on fight night. beginning in october and continuing nonstop until christmas, toys for to the has a large undertaking >> we're not charity experts. we're united states marines. we have this other thing we do for a living. so but this is great an that -- it's a great opportunity for us and it also promotes the marine corps in a positive way. >> so next time you donate a toy or place a monetary donation, know that it tru

bill walton showed up. people would show up in san clemente to talk to him, and he would spend hours with them. it was a fascinating time. robert, sam -- they read a book about that. nixon people won't write books about it. we will tell a few stories about it, but that is up to julie and tricia if they want to write the book. he had a fascinating post-presidency, in the way that w is having a fascinating post-presidency. though clinton is doing it different from any other president. eisenhower lived quietly. nixon was in disgrace and then he slowly emerged and played a world role. bill clinton never stopped being president. it is fascinating. he may be back in the white house again. w has been, his father wrote a piece for "fortune" magazine, how to be an ex-president. he has followed the rules exactly. disappear, raise a lot of money for people, and be good to the folks who were good for you. >> back to the radio show you did. what got you interested in radio, and how did you get a national three-hour a da

it was judge walton, also a republican appointee, judge leon, a republican appointee who have been furiousct the nsa basically has jerked the fisa court around from time to time. so when you get dick clark, who is a part of this administration, a mr. anti-terrorism. a pan i trust implicitly with these stuff, coming out with some of these recommendations, they got to be taken seriously by the president. >> noon the republicans on this, there is two wings that have emerged in the republican party on these issues, you got of pete king from new york embodies one, he is the absolute priority to stopping terrorism. we will do whatever it takes. then you got this rand paul libertarianism. where do you come down on that? >> i am deeply concerned about toeshl e potential abuses, i am deeply concerned about national security. we do face hideous threats. there is no question about it. look at what we saw with the behavior of the irs over the past year, which has been observed and studied in terms of their targeting certain groups of citizens because they're political police. >> that's a dispute. >> f

the walton family owns 100 -- they're worth $144 billion. 42% of the working population. >> the rest of america. >> the rest of america. the rest of america. and so where our walmart, our fight is very simple. walmart can play each employee a minimum of $25,000, that raises them out of the -- >> out of poverty. >> exactly. the question is that they choose not to. it is not that they can't. it has been actually said that walmart can actually pay employees $13 an hour if they raise per shopping experience, 64 cents. that's like ten groceries or something like that. >> i think most americans, if you put it to them like that, you know, would you pay 64 more cents a trip in order for folks like richard to have wages that are above the poverty level? and, by the way, to get a lot of folks off of food stamps, would you be willing to do that? a bet a lot of americans would say yes. we'll have more thoughts on this topic after this. dawn helps open something even bigger. [ all ] 3, 2, 1! this year, dawn is also donating $1 million. learn more at dawn

c, it was the pilot for the hit tv show the waltons?ith b. [ding] >> it wasn't b. >> which star led the magi to the baby jesus? >> the star of bethlehem. >> that is correct, guys. you know your bible history there. this is a great one. in season 2 of duck dynasty, uncle cy brought christmas by dressing up as a? the correct answer, guys, and this is a great episode. it is b, an elf. >> in santa camo. >> uncle cy got in trouble because he told a kid that santa ate one of the reign dears. >> that is why he has antlers sticking out of his belly. >> you've got to watch theshow. christmas was made a federal holiday by what u.s. president? was it rutherford b. hayes, warren g. harding or u.s. grant? >> i'm going with c, u.s. grant. >> do presidents decide holidays? >> lincoln decided thanksgiving. >> the answer is u.s. grant. >> todd will be back with us. todd, can you tone those down? >> i'll work on it. >> let us know how you did. >> 28 minutes after the hour. merry christmas. another day, another change to obamacare. the administration chan