travels are safe and secure wherever he goes, that he doesn t run into trouble with the grinch just in case the grinch s heart shrinks again or you know, we ve got bumbles may get his teeth back and we ve got to deal with the an bonable snowman. but santa has always been escorted safely and peacefully by norad. we look forward to do it for santa for as long as he needs us. general, i hadn t thought about that, all the threats. that s true. you re absolutely right. many kids, have they been naughty and nice and santa making more or less stops this year? have you been naughty or nice? who me? yes. always sweet. always sweet. awesome to speak with you, general. great job you and the guys are doing there. really appreciate that. thanks so much. yeah, tracking santa. appreciate all of you and have happy holidays and thanks a
list. don t expect the republicans to lose seats. they can defend enough of their own turf up in 2014 in states that mitt romney won in 2012. that includes open seats in west virginia, south dakota and montana. not surprisingly, the states are home to four of the most vulnerable in the senate. one republican held seat is up for grabs in a state that president obama won last year. that seat belongs to maine s susan collins. it is likely seasonate overall will get more conservative? why? there will be more conservative republicans to replace less conservative republicans. they are facing a tea party challenge. if he doesn t run, you know it s a more conservative member replacing him.
until you have an accent. reporter: then there s a potential hillary clinton run. she s 51 points ahead of biden in second place in the latest cnn/orc poll of potential candidates. is the only way he can way in 2016 if he doesn t run? look, at this moment in time, if hillary clinton runs, nobody can win. she is clear the front-runner. she will be the democratic presidential nominee. from the obama camp, there seems to be ambivalence from joe biden. one analyst says the obama team is still seething from last year s moment when biden overstepped on gay marriage, voicing support for it, before the administration was ready to make an announcement. alison and george. brian todd, thank you. definitely an interesting race. oh, yeah. so imagine getting arrested if you will, not once, but twice. every week for years.
he is doing the subtle things to lay the frowned work that he s going to do this no matter what she does. is he making phone calls to key democrats in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. he is not doing they fund-raising. that s poor form to do that before the midterm elections but doing the subtle things that you need to do to lay the groundwork. it looks like he s going to make a run. you pointed out poll numbers. we always talk about the elephant in the room, hillary clinton. he s way behind her in an same an poll. he s 51 points behind her in that poll today. if she runs, he most analysts don t give him much of a chance. if she doesn t run, you saw the numbers, 43%, he s in good shape. he s going to probably do this no matter what it appears now. some of this must be strategic against the other candidates. build that machinery and support so that warren and cuomo decide not to run? probably, yes. so they can stack the deck more heavily in his favor. they are probably not goi
look at those numbers. when you only have a quarter of americans saying that things are going well, i ve got to tell you, not good he news for the obama administration. let s talk about another poll that cnn just did. for the first time we re seeing a front-runner in the republican party for the 2016 president alal election. and if you take hillary clinton out of the running, more and more democrats seem to favor vice president joe biden. and i must say, this surprised me. a lot of people think that joe biden is not the heir apparent to barack obama obama. but if she doesn t run, democrats at least at this point want to see joe biden run. and his closest come pet ter is