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difd mccullough will give us perspective on the present through the lens of the past. why in the world is not a tiny nation about to skip over a date entirely? i'll explain. next up, a fascinating look inside spy games. both the fictional and nonfictional varieties with columnist and novelist david ignatius. then a look at innovation with the master architect frank gehry. finally, why president bush might have offended some italians on inauguration day. first, here's my take. we hear a lot about leadership these days, mostly in the sense of the failure of leadership, the ab...

both the fictional and nonfictional varieties with columnist and novelist david ignatius. then a look at innovation with the master architect frank gehry. finally, why president bush might have offended some italians onnationrati inaugurat. first here's my take. many talk about the absence of leadership, especially those who oppose president obama. many democrats believe that president obama head doneas bee leader. the conventional wisdom is that he doesn't have the leadership he needs to be the leader that we need, the leader that we have had in the past. such as bill clinton, a...

years working with you. as i said, we will always be friends and i look forward to seeing you in new york. >> i will see you there soon. >> the next chapter. >> one more day. i'll be here tomorrow. >> so will i. i'll see you then. t.j., thank you very much. good afternoon, i'm alina cho. fredricka is off today. it's saturday december 24th. thanks so much for joining us. two big stories today. politics and the christmas eve shopping crunch. in virginia, two candidates not making it onto the ballot. newt gingrich and rick perry. what happened? and last-minute holiday shopping. will i...

going to happen in 2012. tell me where you sit right now is 2012 going to be a better year economically than 2011? is there going to be economic growth? are we possibly headed into further stagnation? >> well, you know, the political strategist side of things i've never had to look so much at politics to figure out where the economy was going. i tell you, it's like watching the keystone cops. it's ridiculous. going forward we do have momentum carrying us into 2012. we hope we don't lose it because of political ineptitude. that's what would kill it. we have a lot of icebergs ahead. we...

this is one of a number of embarrassing videos from 2011. we'll show you. and a pretty big setback to tell but now for newt gingerich and rick perry. two presidential candidates have not collected enough valid signature to appear on the state's primary ballot. athena, everybody is wondering, how in the world if you're a serious candidate for the nomination, can you, i don't know, just forget to get your name on the ballot? they didn't forget, but still, how can this happen? >> i mean, it's really baffling to a lot of observers here. people were surprised, especially about newt ginger...