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Killborn is selected to take over the late late show on cbs. jon stewart seems an unlikely replacement but the match is made nonetheless. >> when jon was chosen to replace craig it was surprising because i had seen a stand-up act and there was nothing political about it. >> i remember the writer saying will he wear a stoot and him getting really pissed they would ask him that and the funny thing about a suit is you can buy them in stores and when you put them on youre a guy wearing a suit. >> in...

Running, the media, you and me r in this odd position of writing about 2016 without anything happening in the 2016 race. we hit that moment -- >> its not even 2016. >> right. >> we hit that moment where theres interest in talking about the presidential campaign but no actual presidential campaign to talk about. well have to see. when she announces which i believe will be in april from the current reporting. and begins campaigning, my hunch is shell campaign aggressively against republicans to co...

>> not really. there are so many questions that are not being answered. and you have to note that the state department and also the white house, theyre in this odd position of running interference for hillary clinton. she isnt saying anything. her staff has said very little. she is likely a few weeks out from her campaign really getting off the ground. she doesnt have a team in place that can handle this controversy as effectively as a campaign. today at the state department you had reporters as...

People getting on their planes waiting for a little bit longer but getting out of here so far. chris? >> miguel marquez, in the odd position of being in an airport, but going nowhere. well be back with you soon. so who is going to get hit the hardest? and when will things clear out? meteorologist chad myers joining us with the information. miguel calls it winters last hurrah. false optimism? or does he have it right? >> i hope he didnt just jinx us honestly. heres the problem with the storm to...

The world runs through china. thats the good news. the bad news out of this, of course, is that back in may the united states indicted five chinese members of the peoples liberation army for cyber theft from american companies. so youre in the odd position of having north koreas sole protector in the world be the one way in. now whats made this different and i think this gets right at the debate that joe was picking up on before. there have been a lot of cyber attacks, home depot, target and so ...

Is that the president is not moved by what the conversation is on whether or not he should enkbaj gauge in the optics of some debate or another. if he thought it were helpful to go to the border, he would do it. sometimes you have to do it without announcing it publicly because of the security risk and different things like that. but maybe he also doesnt want to pull personnel off what they are doing dealing with the crisis happening down there. >> dont you think it is an odd position to say thi...

Bills. its an odd position hes taken. he doesnt want congress doing it legislatively though we have legislative authority. hell make similar changes on his own. thats not the way the constitution is structured. >> i believe in the constitution. i taught the constitution for ten years. i will not be doing an end run around congress. what can be done? what can be done? what happens with your bill? >> so my bill is basically the house will express disapproval about that. so we are on repocord sayin...

People are so afraid of grabbing something. this has bipartisan appeal, it has things that democrats like and things that republicans will like, and it also has things that both parties will object to, which means i think that were on the right track. >> well, i want to talk about the sort of budget negotiations that may come in a second, but first of all, if it comes to pass, a deal is hammered out in the senate along the lines of what weve seen so far, it goes to the house and if it comes to p...

In what you can. >> i am in an odd position. not only did i send my children to public school, i went -- private school, i went to a private school. but she has a point. >> competition destroys -- >> 98% of american children go to public schools. who doesnt go to public schools typically is people of means and wealth and high level of education. you know -- >> thats why you should open it up to give, if you really want to spread the wealth around, give kids that are less fortunate the opportunit...

Group groups. i immediately wanted to talk to you about this. we had conversations about progressives in the catholic church and our interesting, tense relationship with the church. were you surprised by these comments by pope francis? >> in many ways, no. i think the two groups youre most likely to hear the word humility from are political leaders and religious leaders. theyre the two groups least likely to mean it. i think with this pope, were constantly impressed regardless of his theological...