>> hey, it's fred. >> who or what is fred? >> fred is -- i think he might be the number one subscribed channel on youtube or close to it. >> close to it is right. previously in first place, the fred channel moved to the second most subscribed channel on youtube in 2009 with more than one million subscribers. >> oh, my god! >> fred is sort of an internet phenomenon. >> but with a following that size, who are the brains behind the operation? comedy sketch group in new york? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> a major entertainment company in hollywood? >> uh, no. >> how about a teenager in rural nebraska? >> oh, my god! it's cold! >> if you guessed the teen, you're right. fred is the brainchild of a 16-year-old boy named lucas cruikshank. the fourth of eight kids, lucas has been coming up with funny characters as long as he can remember. >> i was always like making random characters and sketch videos with my family with my mom's camera. >> but after receiving a camera of his own at 13, lucas unknowingly took his sketch comedy videos over to a

>> fred: i don't know. i'm sure it will object somebody's. >> sean: fred thompson, thank you very much. karl rove is coming up. and we have our great, great american panel straight ahead. ee with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaids, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing skin or eyes. tell your doctor about all your medicines, including those for migraine and while on cymbalta, call r

fred mcclure's transcript is useful. it is based on other primary and secondary resources, including my own interviews with members of congress, congressional staffers and other knowledgeable folks i interviewed in the bush administration. if the spirit of full disclosure, i'm a congressional scholar so my paper probably does have a kind of congressional skew of perspective. now, i argue here and elsewhere that presidential legislative success, while certainly in part a function of the president's and his administration's political skill is much by the context in which he operating. in other words, how the president plays his cards does make a difference, but the hand he is dealt is more important. what was bush's hand? i'm arguing it was not really a hand conducive of policy making on a heroic scale. what specifically? well, he won election with a very respectable 54% of the vote. but his party lost seats in congress. so he faced an opposition-controlled house and senate. it was controlled by democrats in substantial ma

i went up and told fred. fred said calm down. it will be all right. he will change his mind over time. indeed he did. he came from congress. those were his friends. it is part of his personality. which is that you don't make it personal. you don't make it confrontational. outside of the diplomatic entrance on the northwest side of the white house, they call it the stakeout place for the press? and this lasted over four years. interest groups would go out for the meeting with the president. go out to the press stakeout and dump all over us. they would say these terrible things about all of our bills. and again, one day i said to the president, mr. president, how long do we have to put up with this? they are not saying anything supportive. he looks at me and he said, bobbie, this i the people's house, not our house. they are the people. they have a right to express their opinions. you must always respect that. that's pretty, pretty classy way operate. we used to invite new groups to the white house that hadn't been invited before. fred tells the story o

>> yeah, he's got a lot of support from the establishment cuban community here in hialeah, fred. he did a rally here and it is a cuban restaurant, that is usually closed on sunday. they opened it especially for this event and jammed it here. there is probably 500 people. ileana ros-lehtinen was on stage with him. mario lincoln diaz-balart, a congressman from the miami area spoke for him. craig romney, romney's son, spoke spanish and introduced his father. he said in spanish, you know, my father doesn't speak spanish but can talk about the economy. look, ron talked about how immigration may not be as big of an issue among the cuban-american set here in florida, but castro is and romney took a hard line against fidel castro as he has been this is his closing argument to the community, his last push in the cuban-american community before tuesday. he heads here to kind of -- to pompano beach to visit with elderly voters and then back through the i-4 corridor which holds a lot of republican votes as well. >> is he changing his message depending on what community he was going to? he wa

i mean, john certainly encouraged fred to stay in. i think everyone understood fred knew that he was not going goat the nomination. fred thompson's vote totals in the upstate really took into ours and john won handily in the south part around charleston. that's ultimately what did it. >> okay. >> but that's politics. >> you think john mccain, knowing him, let that one go? far from it. here he is hitting back just a few hours later. >> it's totally patently false and for him to say something like that, maybe it makes him feel better but it's not the truth. the fact is that fred thompson was viewed as a viable candidate. it is not necessarily so that he took all of huckabee's votes. i had a lot of votes there. all i can see to governor huckabee, good luck in your programming on fox, but you're not telling the truth. >> anyway, this morning fred thompson denied making any arrangement with john mccain. this time around it's mitt who could sneak away with a win if conservatives don't pick one and just one of their own. instead dividing the

fred has commented in his oral history that one of the things that he did with sutter was he went to all the guys who had been attorneys general of their states when sutter was attorney general in new hampshire to build a body of support among those individuals. fred said that gets you the joseph liebermans of the world or people who had been prosecutors like patrick leahy or people who have had similar career experiences. and then fred added in his oral history, david's a very smart guy and my biggest concern about his confirmation other than the personal side and how they were going portray him, because sutter was a life long bachelor, there were stories that circulated about that, but his biggest job was to keep david sutter from getting in to intellectual discussion that he shouldn't be getting in to with members of the senate. that was a big challenge with him fred said, but he was smart enough to listen to us and so it all worked out in that regard. indeed it did. despite its democratic majority, the senate judiciary committee then chaired by joe biden voted 13-1 to send the su

>> the sixth circuit got it so wrong, fred. the justices on that bench never went to a basketball game, never saw a basketball game. they claim kobe bryant's lawyers moved for summary judgment to dismiss the case and the trial court granted it saying you can't sue. it's an assumption of the risk. if you sit in the front row you assume the risk of a ball getting thrown towards you and a player running into you. what the justices said when kobe fell initially, that was the assumption of the risk. but then kobe took his hand and pushed off the gentleman to help himself up. >> talking about intent. >> that motion -- no, not intent. that motion in and of itself took it out of assumption of the risk and that was the civil assault they are allowing it to go forward on. it's ridiculous, pathetic. >> is this going anywhere or are you in agreement with richard that it is in his words ridiculous and pathetic. >> no, i don't agree with that at all. all the judge did from the beginning is say let the jury sort it out. three judges and court

you're killing me, richard. >> it's on underneath, fred. >> just checking. well, this is an interesting case, gentlemen, because we're talking about a woman who is imposing this lawsuit. she says that a black woman should not be buried in this jewish cemetery, but avery, you first, isn't the burial plot, isn't that in an area that's considered an interfaith plot? wasn't this 72-year-old woman who was part of this contesting of this burial part of the original, i guess, agreement that it was okay to bury someone of another faith in this interfaith section? >> yeah. back in 2009, the congregation opened up a section of the cemetery because of interfaith marriages and conversions. and the wonderful thing about that is that the deceased person, juliet steerer, who actually was thinking about converting, she's african-american, this is where she wanted to be. she was buried there in 2010. now one of the people that voted for this change said, well, she's buried a little bit too close to my relatives, if you can believe that, and she wants the body exhumed. well,

but it didn't end, as fred pointed out. the effects of the chemical warfare continued and will continue. the, soon turned into, very quickly turned into crop destruction, major war crimes. fred can tell you a lot her about this than i can, so i won't go on with it. just add one more word about it. there are serious consequences to not paying attention to what we've done in the past. one of them's just moral. if we're incapable of facing up to our own history, we're in trouble morally and a serious problem. but it's also quite practical. because if you don't face up to it, you continue doing it. and, in fact, that's happening. people are dying right now from american chemical warfare, one of the many things i've done over the years is a number of visits to southern colombia to isolated, endangered peasant villages. sometimes when i go down, it's too dangerous to go even into the countryside, so they bring people into the local town to give testimonies about what's happening to them. these are people who have been subjected t

um, on december 2005 fred was on his christmas break from work. we got into an argument, and hew came after me, and he grabbed mt neck. c um, i leftam the house with my o children for four days and went down to my sister's house, um,nd that w was 45 minutes away. i wouldn't come home until fred, um, made an appointment to see an anger management, um, doctor. he kept calling me and calling me and apologizing, begging me to come home, and i wouldn't until he did that.to c he did go to a few sessions, but that did not help. he would stand over me when he was angry many times with a fist and just stand over me. um, he was, he's much bigger than me, so it really scared meb in 2009 things were not getting better with fred and i.d marriage counseling didn't help. i told him i wanted a divorce. he told me he would kill me and put a knife in my head. he called me a fat whore, an ugly bitch, a cunt and many other horrible names. a couple of days later i got a protective order. in november we decided to wake things out for the sake of our children, and i dro

. >>> last night's bcs title game at the superdome in new orleans, here is nbc's fred roggin. >> good morning. alabama came into last night's bcs title game as the second ranked team in the nation laevent new orleans as national champs. with a combination of field goals and stifling defense, the crimson tied led from start to finish from lsu. tied a bowl record with five field goals and their defense did the rest. they shut out the tigers. alabama wins its second national title in three years. 21-0. we will have much more on the bcs title game coming up in sports. for now, back to you. >> thank you very much, fred. >>> here is a look at the stories making news early today in america. nothing stealthy about an atm heist inside a florida nail salon. a tree of robbery suspects broke in to use their car to smash in the door. they escaped with stolen property. no arrests have been made. >>> security cameras are rolling at a new jersey store when a deer smashed through the glass doors of a goodwill store. after the animal regained its footing, quickly made an exit through the same way it ca

fred? >> shameless plug, shamelessly plugging one of my colleagues, jeff guerin, who conducted focus groups about the state of the union and wrote a great memo. >> can i see the memo, please? >> and me? >> do we have to pay for it. >> and mine is we're going to have a little bit of the nbc/"wall street journal" poll coming out a little early at 6:30. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." see you back here tomorrow. "jansing & co." is next. then at 1:00 don't miss "andrea mitchell reports." bye-bye. i had enough of feeling embarrassed about my skin. [ designer ] enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months, and keeps it clearer up to 9 months. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it ma

[music] >> hi, my name is fred lein. i'm most proud of driving a ramp taxi since the beginning of the program in 1994. [music] >> fred, you are the absolute best! thank you fred for providing transportation for me and opening up my social life, and taking care of medical appointments, taking care of my mother [music] >> hi, my name is ann bailey and i've driven for luxor for almost five years now. i drove for desoto cab for 10 years prior to that. i drove in 1976 for the old, old yellow cab. this is frances mecchi and i've been driving her for about 11 or 12 years to her alzheimer's day program, which we call the memory club. every day when we drive through the presidio she'll say, "oh goody, you're taking me through the enchanted forest." [music] >> my name amr a.mahmoud. i am like 49 years old. i have been driving cab more than 13 year in general. then i drove a ramp more than 3 years. this is my fourth now. i have been enjoying doing the job. i like every moment of it. >> thank you amr. [music} >> hi, my name is peter

the mystery, fred, has endured for over 30 years now. even if this case is closed, i am certain a lot of folks will believe there's something suspicious that happened that night. people love a good conspiracy theory, don't they? >> yeah, they do. there's another star people are fascinated with, a.j. lindsey lohan reportedly facing more legal problems. what now? >> yeah. this time involving money. she's being targeted by the irs. they're saying she did not pay her 2009 federal income taxes. they've obtained a lien on lohan for more than $93,000. there are reports she's being sued by a pat pa rats si person. he was injured when a car she was riding in crashed into his vehicle. he's suing lohan because the car was being driven by an assistant under her direction. once again, it is pile on lindsey time. >> thanks so much. we'll see you again. beyonce talk baby talk. the new baby has arrived home with some pretty unbelievable gifts. a.j. will give us a sneak peek and give us the scoop on that. other showbiz headlines in the next hour in the "

john certainly encourage fred to stay in. fred knew he was not going to get the nomination. fred thompson's vote totals took into ours. john won handlely in the south part and that's what did it. but that's politics. >> do you think john mccain knowing that one let one go? think again. here's him hitting back. >> it's false for him to say something like that. maybe it makes him feel better, but it's not the truth. if fred thompson was viewed as ç viable candidate. it's not necessarily he took all of huckabee's votes. i had a lot of votes there. all i can say is good luck in your programming on fox, but you're not telling the truth. >> any way. this morning fred thompson denied making any arrangement with john mccain. this time around, it's mitt who could sneak away with a win if conservatives don't pick just one of their own. instead dividing the vote. mccain took a break to sit down with david letterman discussing how his party is fairing in the leadup to this 2012 presidential election. let's watch. >> how do you think things are going for your party? how's it going, sena

fred seems to think so. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather are our amazing spring-like weather could continue for maybe a couple of days. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports, the way they are playing, dwight howard and the orlando magic look headed for a certain divorce. the only question seems to be how long will it take and how ugly will it get? here is fred roggin with an early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. dwight howard has made it clear he wants out of orlando. an avenue last nice ate road loss to the sixers he also wants to get out of philly. the big fellow isn't happy losing five out of six can do to that a gay. howard got the magic within two before the half and he finished with 17. orlando fell apart once again. scoring nine in the third while the sixers poured it it on. the magic are unraveling and lost it. clippers came out firing aga

not giuliani, not fred thompson, not fred conley, not anybody. >> you said the worst candidate in history. >> given the where he started. if somebody, like, started and was a major tier candidate, we were ready to be sort of blown away here. and this is -- i'm sorry, he was the worst ever. this guy was the worst ever. >> rick perry is ryan leaf. rudy giuliani is certainly jemarcus russell. anderson, first of all, look -- they certainly know jamarcus russell lsu. when you look at newt gingrich, new hampshire is about the economy. he goes on this tangent attacking ron paul about foreign policy. makes no mention about the foreign policy. david said he's so upset and so angry. you need to focus if you actually want to stay in this campaign. i'm not quite sure what in the world he was trying to accomplish here. the other piece, rick perry, first time he's ever lost the election. he got his hats handed to him. look, this whole notion of go back to texas and reassess, he's not going to be in this campaign. so i mean, look, he's done. >> i was a fred thompson girl last turnaround. perry was one o

fred, back to you. >> thanks so much, ladies. appreciate that. much more straight ahead in the "cnn newsroom" with don lemon. >> just a few minutes away, right? these debates, the pious, let's cut the pious whatever. i was like, okay, that was interesting. two big debates as the candidates prepare for the first president yial primary in new hampshire. i'll speak with former cbs news anchor dan rather about the election. he's not holding back. he has a few choice words and folksy, driving through a car wash -- >> so many presidential races. he has a lot to offer. >> and he's working for hd net now. he'll be there. says the republicans are playing with dynamite now that they're talking about major changes and fears there could be some surprises on tuesday. so we'll see. also, you were getting the latest from reporter sarah ganim about the penn state investigation. we'll talk with johner with t w about the new coach. there is a bit of controversy, the lettermans club, a lost them not supporting him. and also, the live report from new orleans. >> lik

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fred? >> so, shannon, one has to wonder if the republican party as a whole there in south carolina feels like it is in sync with the tea party movement or representatives of the tea party there in south carolina. >> well, i can tell you this much, that a few people got up on stage and said, what will happen here in south carolina in this primary will set the stage for what will happen eventually in terms of who will be the nominee. a lot of speakers said that. in terms of if they're in sync, they feel the conservative values are reflected in south carolina more than they were in new hampshire, more than they were in iowa. whether or not they're in sync is up to anyone's guess. these -- a lot of these tea party activists here feel like it should be decided here. >> shannon travis, thanks so much from myrtle beach. appreciate that. >> shannon just said it, south carolina governor nikki haley won her seat with tea party support, but none of the states' major tea party groups have endorsed any

for now, back to you. >> sounds good, fred. thank you very much. >>> here is your first look at some of the other news going on around america today. there is nothing stealthy about an atm heist inside a florida nail salon. a trio of robbery suspects broke in using their car to smash through the door. they abandoned the car after escaping with stolen property. made. >>> security cameras are rolling at a new jersey store when a deer smashed through the glass doors of a goodwill store. after the animal regained its footing, it made an exit through the same way it came in. >>> and while much of the nation misses winter snowfall, cordova, alaska, has been buried under more than ten feet of the whited of 2200 a disaster area, triggering state assistance. dozens of troops have a tough job ahead. 82 inches of snow fell in december. 56 inches have already accumulated in the first eight days of january. >>> now for a look at the national weather, we turn to bill karins with the weather channel forecast. i know that's a lot of snow, but

and missouri state trooper fred guthrie junior was one of them. in 2007, he aeearned our state' highest medal of honor. by saving a woman. it was the same spirit that compelled him to brave the currents of the missouri river which claimed his life last august. fred guthrie was a hero who died as he lived. protecting others. even as we mourn our loss, we are lifted up by his courage. missouri is a better place for his service. please join me in thanking the fa family of fred guthrie and all of our men and women tonight in uniform. thank you and god bless. >>> quinton anderson and gred guthrie, the men and women this uniform have shown us what it means to be strong in the you toughest of times. what i want means to take that extra step. we have seen our share of tough times these past few years. it began in 2008 when our country was hit with a severe recession. we lost more than 55,000 jobs. in december of 2008, we had the most layoffs since we began tracking the number. we did not wait around for help, or make excuses, missourians stood up and got

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