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Now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back to "the five." according to the "new york times," a paper, our inability to create resolutions created $62 billion industry made up of health club and diet industries. our lousy with l power means gyms and weight watchers will never go out of business because we are all losers at losing. where you might see failure in this, i see something uniquely human. resolutions are based on the fact that humans loathe humanity. we hate our faults so we try to slay them. why is that? we are the only animals on the planet who try to quit th...

Show of force by iran, shawn a thomas joins me live from hawaii where the first family is still on vacation. shawna, good morning. happy new year. i know you're fresh into 2012 now. tell us about the president signing the defense bill and his issues with the iran sanctions. >> well, as you said, thomas, the president signed a $662 billion defense spending bill yesterday. he had meager reservationsment one are the sanctions against iran. the sanks are really against foreign financial institutions and central banks that do business with iran. the administration has a twofold problem with this. o...

Goes up, placing first, second or third, he'll be immediately recognized as the conservative alternative to challenge mitt romney in subsequent races, newt gingrich and rick perry are looking past iowa to compete in south carolina and a state where christian conservatives are very important and for many of the so-called second tier in this case, in other words, not romney, ron paul urich santorum, the rest of them -- or, rick santorum, they are looking where they will compete when the race rolls onto the first primary in new hampshire and the first test in the palmetto state, south carolina wh...

Thomas joins me live from hawaii where the first family is still on vacation. shawna, good morning. happy new year. i know you're fresh into 2012 now. tell us about the president signing the defense bill and his issues with the iran sanctions. >> well, as you said, thomas, the president signed a $662 billion defense spending bill yesterday. he had meager reservationsment one are the sanctions against iran. the sanks are really against foreign financial institutions and central banks that do business with iran. the administration has a twofold problem with this. one, they're worried that they s...

Revolutions. we began to see signs of economic recovery here at home, even as too many americans are still struggling to get ahead. >> the president is struggling to finish up last-minute business. today, in fact, he just signed into law the national defense authorization act which is a huge $662 billion measure that authorized funding for everything from the war in afghanistan to new weapons program for the pentagon, all kinds of things. it also specifies how a terrorist detainees are treated in the united states. the president issued what's called a signing statement, kind of giving his opin...