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Business news now. and cyber monday. the holiday sales numbers are in and it seems like a lot of shoppers may already be a little bit swiped out in advance of the full swing holiday season. steve sedgwick joins from us london with more on that. good morning. >> yeah, very good day. really interesting looking at this. you and i have discussed how the national retail federation said this is the year when the consumer is back in the states. the figures they told us to recap was 4% increase they think we're going to get in holiday season sales into december. to $617 billion. what we had was a damp...

We have had this particular crisis. it's going to mushroom into something that has already been done. big government is part of the problem. >> we have to find what has prompted, you know, wait times for treatment, to go from 24 days to 100 days, even with all the money coming in, i think we have to get to the bottom of that before we start throwing more money. >> lack of accountability and bonuses for poor performance, which is rampant throughout the va system, and funding has gone up dramatically since 2005, and it's more than $57 billion annually, up 76%, the number of veterans being treate...

Situation and we would be on the receiving end of this oil that would wreak havoc on our $57 billion a year tourist industry in florida, not to say the least of what it might do to the everglades, which are a source of our drinking water. >> it sounds very personal what you've done here. >> i always try to tie the jack swytack books to what's going on in my life or what's going on in the world. jack started out as a single, unmarried guy. now he's married in "black horizon" and so forth. i really love the angle here of tying it on to what's going on in the world. i'm looking pretty smart right...

Site is now working more than 90% of the time, up from 40% when it was launched. >> the bottom line, healthcare.gov on december 1st is night and day from where it was on october 1st. >> officials say some consumers may encounter problems. they are encouraged to phone the call center if that happens. today kicks off phase two of the holiday shopping rush and john's favorite day, cybermonday. analysts predict americans will spend nearly $2 billion today alone. that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the entire weekend's take. by the end of today, americans will have spent an estimated $5...

$157 billion over the next ten years, that is the kind of thing the budget conference ought to look at in the coming years. we take you through breakouts of very exciting developments outside washington and raise the question why don't we have some political movement, republican, democrat, or bipartisan, designed to take these new bold ideas and apply them to solving our problems. >> and if chris christie could win, and appoint you, newt gingrich as one of his key men, removing any residual issues. great to talk to you, the epic battle to decide america's fate. newt gingrich, always great to h...