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Need to be dealt with. we havent talked about health care reform yet which clearly will be of national interest throughout 2014. look, i think the one thing we havent talked too much about, but which overhangs all of this is 2014 as election year and does this congress want to be the do-something congress or the do-nothing congress and politically speaking, does one or the other advantage either party? >> ramesh, weigh in on that. what do you think well see from congress? are we going see more p...

Remain to be answered when it comes to that indeed. i want to thank you both, fred yang, we appreciate your insights. >> thank you. >> thank you. a bus explosion in the egyptian capital of cairo just one day after the countrys government declared the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization. whats the latest in the recent surge in violence? well have that up next. bag each month, we can. and glad forceflex bags stretch until theyre full.* so you can take them out less often. is sweatier and...

thousands of deliveries did not make it under the tree. what the carriers and the retailers are saying and doing to make it up to customers. what a way to have christmas if you dont get your gifts. good morning, everybody. we want to start with a video perporting to show warren winestein in pakistan. >> my name is warren winestein. >> al qaeda support the 13-minute video to several western news agencies. nbc ewes cannot confirm when or where the video was produced. martin fletcher join...

>> i want to start off with what political fortunes we should watch for in 2014. i think the biggest question is can president obama rebound and of course dependent upon that will be what happens with health care. we should point out that peter alexander is reporting that nearly 2 million visits to healthcare.gov and 250,000 phone calls since yesterday. moving in the right direction but hasnt rebounded yet. >> president obamas approval rating and the health care laws fortunes go hand in hand. ou...

identity theft and all the problems involved with that isnt worth it to me. >> holiday shoppers angry about the target security breach, while disappointing new numbers are out about this shopping season. and -- >> yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> make a lot of money. >> yeah. i do all right for myself. >> looks like a good one. lots of movies about to hit theaters tomorrow. which ones are worth watching? well break it all down for you. but we begin with the winter wallop. a developing st...

A drop in job approval and personal favorable ratings and like bush, the public is questioning his leadership ability. you saw that throughout the poll and it had a reverberation effect. it shifted in favor of the other party. will republicans do the same? can the president recover and do what bush didnt do? the man behind the numbers, pollster fred yang. fred and bill, this was a topic of conversation yesterday. is president obama, reagan or clinton or is he more like bush or carter? fred, what...

0 waiting to be broken. eric eric sop say the democrats took advantage of the nuclear option and paul ryan will help them raise spending. the red state blog said in more detail no matter how it gets, it can be conservative and its like a duty it pay for it. its like giving your percocet. >> the deal was announced at 6:09 p.m. marco rubio was out with a statement condemning it. this confirms the irresponsible budgeting decisions by spending more money than america takes in. its not the savings yo...

>> someone said chris christie. >> chris christie? >> ignorant. >> personality. >> indifferent. >> self serving. >> pass. >> got father. >> no opinion. >> uncaring. >> no political figure out more praise than first lady michelle obama. >> you can have one of these people as your next door neighbor. call it out. >> i want michelle obama. >> how many want michelle obama? i got four women all with hands up. >> hillary. >> you cant have both! >> none of them wanted president obama as their neighbor,...

Forces that are changing the economy. >> fred, when you look at 2014, i know that its easy to say its going to be a bad year for the democrats because of health care and the presidents job rating. you have this recovering economy. i assume that benefits all incumbent governors first. does it help democrats? >> yes, i do. i think in terms -- >> you thank or know that? >> i think and hope. >> and then think. >> i think with the president, its all with the fundamentals. will he perform? will the am...

That outweighs so much else. even though the anger towards washington persists. >> brad and fred, you are big consumers of focus groups. anything in that group surprise you some. >> not at all. we see that everywhere whether its a fly over country or the coast. i predict the voters will figure out how to take out anger on washington next year. it hurts republicans a lot less when voters are angry. they know republicans hate government. when government is disfunctional, they punish the people who...