byrd was ambivalent about jimmy carter. there were some problems with him. carter was an outsider. he did not really like politics or the hill. senator byrd regarded his role as leader of the senate, but also a person who basically was an advisor to the president, helped the president, he improved his programs. the book shows senator byrd helping carter through virtually every issue from the panama canal treaties to the energy legislation where byrd worked tirelessly on it to get it done without a filibuster. he had the sense that the senate leader should have a special relationship with the president and that is the way the system was supposed to work. of course, the most important in for the senate leader is to make the senate work. byrd knew the senate rules better than any person that ever lived. he lived in dealing with the notion of the fear of a paralyzed senate. he wanted to think that the rules worked, but he knew that in fact jim allen of alabama had cracked the code. he had figured out how to have this filibuster so the senate could be tied up in paralyzed. robert byrd l

carter thought ebay shares were worth clicking on. >> we like it here. >> if carter likes a stock it has to be worth a bid mike thought. buying it outright 100 shares could set you back almost 5 grand. so to spend less mike bought the january 50 strike call for 2.25. to make money, mike needs to raise above the price by january expiration. shelling out $2.25, we ain't bidding on rare art here, buddy. >> $107 million. how much? sold. mike, how can we spend less? >> i'm going to sell the 55. >> now we're talking. mike managed to cut his costs by -- enough with the double-talk. what is mike trying do? make money easier. between the $2.25 he paid and the 85 cents he collected, mike managed to cut his costs by more than a third to just $1.40. instead of needing the stock to rise, now mike sees profits of ebay shares rise above the 50 strike call by more than the $1.40 he spent or above 51.40 by january expiration. but there is a tradeoff. by selling the higher strike call mike capped this profits. to the difference between of the strike of the call that he bought and the strike of the cal

and carter obama is choosing to challenge us rather than coddle us. in the coming weeks i'll use whatever power all this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. because what choice do we have this is exactly what our nation needs for far too long tragedy after tragedy after tragedy we have ignored the harsh realities of the american violent gun culture and this time the president's challenge won't be derailed by a republican promise in the world as carter's was because obama doesn't have to win a reelection i mean the powerful and cash gun lobby can't define this moment on their own terms through presidential politics let's hope the president understands this is an enormous opportunity while there's no single silver bullet solution of these massacres president obama can start by leading the charge to take assault weapons high capacity an eclipse and other weapons of war literally weapons of war off the streets he ca

carter about service after the white house. the carter family's role in the recent election. and the rocky road to middle east peace. which he helped pave. >>> 100 new hurricane-resistant homes. and 600 volunteer construction workers in the middle of it, an 88-year-old statesman. former president jimmy carter working in heat nearing 100 degrees, with wife roselynn in haiti. during a break, the carters describe one of the people they helped. >> she cried a couple of times when she saw the walls going up in the mid many. she had tears going down her cheeks. >> maria lived in a tent for two years after the 2010 quake. >> it was a big honor for the president to build my house. i was really happy about this. >> a year after marie received her house, carter remains moved. a reminder of his decades-long focus on international human rights. his crowning international achievement, middle east peace. the 1978 camp david peace accord. many years later, carter remain as tough critic of the current players, including benjamin netanyahu. >> the netanyahu policy needs to change. because he'

i really appreciated president carter's optimism about haiti's future and isn't this he has to appeal to the international community to open up the rest of the aid that was pledged but never allocated from the two thousand and ten earthquake his wife rosalynn carter jumped in on the conversation to add her two cents. and deed with such a tumultuous history of political instability it has been an arduous road for the haitian government to progress into a fully functional apparatus and closing president carter made an ironic remark in which i found pretty interesting. that the haitian government is functioning better than the american government and as you know the european union has a plain old even the paschal budget so we have to put things in perspective and give them credit when they do some good things by implying that the haitian government is functioning better than the u.s. government or the e.u. is a cutting global critique of the dysfunctional nature of these government bodies carter mention that he's seen haiti's struggle for years to fully implement self-governing democracy

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carter thought ebay shares were worth clicking on. >> we like it here. >> if carter likes a stock it has to be worth a bid mike thought. buying it outright 100 shares could set you back almost 5 grand. so to spend less mike bought the january 50 strike call for 2.25. mike needs to raise above the price by january expiration. $2.25, we ain't bidding on rare art here, buddy. mike, how can we spend less? >> i'm going to sell the 55. crea mike managed to cut his costs by more than a third to just $1.40. now mike sees profits of ebay shares rise above the 50 strike call by more than the $1.40 he spent or above 51.40 by january expiration. but there is a tradeoff. by selling the higher strike call mike capped this profits. since the time of the trade shares of ebay have risen by 8% making this trade a winner. now they must make a choice, stay in the trade and hope for more gains or close up and find the next stock to bid on. >> "options action" biggest fan. only wants to know one thing. >> before we answer that let's see how much money was made had you bought ebay at the time of the trade,

carter braxtonworth of oppenheimer. hi, carter. >> hi, there. let's get to the peabody poll. here we have one of the most dynamic moves over a one-month period. shanghai is up almost 9%, up 4.5% last night and 3% move a week or so ago. up 9% when the s&p is unchanged. that's an explosive kind of thing. take a look at a second chart. what it shows is that move of the last two weeks or so has allowed us to break above the down trend that's been in effect for the last two plus years. btu, typically stocks lead actions in indices. here is btu verses century aluminum and u.s. steel. they are highly correlated. they are all bottoming. they've all been working for months. in fact, four months of outperformance. take a look at btu itself. the same scalloping bearish to bullish move. importantly, it was going up in september and october when the stock market was going down. it leads the way, checks back to the average and starting to bounce and then just to put in context, this action a little longer term. not only is it too broken above its down trend just as shanghai. it's been doin

we've got a new carter in office and president obama. most of the themes of "wealth and poverty" that sprung from the awful doldrums of the u.s. economy under jimmy carter apply stronger, more strongly today. >> house so click >> obama is the same kind of antibusiness president and insight president. same kind of managerial, interfering, strangling, surprising president jimmy carter was. >> you writing here about president obama. i want to get to the right page so i can quote it correctly, sir. you write under the obama administration that the u.s. had a morbid subversion of the infrastructures of its economy. the public sector has become a manipulative forest, aggressively intervening in the venture and financial sectors with guarantees and subventions that attract talent and debunking. >> the worst of this is the korean cast of the obama administration. the epa now has gained control over everything. see so to have been deemed a pollution, dangerous to the environment in co2 is of course that these plans. they attempt to surprise or tw

asked that to jimmy carter. mr. carter was a champion of solar energy during his time at the white house. though the new technology didn't catch on as fast as he had hoped. >> back in 1979 you famously put solar panel on the white house. and you said, and i'm going to quote here, you said, either they would be a curiosity, a museum piece, or they would be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the american people. i am sorry to say, the solar panels are at the smithsonian, they are museum pieces. what does this say about our commitment, where we are today, in protecting the environment? >> well, it says that the protection of environment goes up and down in america. basically because of the attitude of the president. and when president reagan came in, he removed the solar panels and sent them to a college up in, i think, connecticut. now we have one of the solar panels at the carter center, the museum, and number one producer of solar panels in the world in china, also bo

it says "soon after jimmy carter installed solar panels on the white house. a generation from now i think this is in the 70's or early 80's the solar heater can be a surcosity, a museum piece, a example of a road not taken, or a small part of one of the greatest adventures under taken by the american people and harness the power of the sun and move away from the crippling dependence on foreign oil, and again at that point we can say that the solar panels were a museum piece. i am hoping cleanpower sf isn't this interesting idea that creeped up and disappeared because of all the misinformation and whatever that certain interests will probably have in seeing this sort of plan not succeed, so again when i was 16 my first venture into politics was through this group called "people for safe energy" in fresno and i was 17 and our first venture was to go to the power plant and protest the fact they wanted to have a nuclear power plant sitting next to an earthquake fault. in japan i think the conversation around nuclear power is shifting again and there are challenge

but what carter and byrd did -- carter was a difficult person, but they were able to bring together. it was a truly successful administration legislatively. two cabinets were formed. the most important environmental laws we have today came out of the carter administration. carter enacted an energy program, which if reagan had not wiped out come would have saved us the problems you are having today. the synthetic fuels corporation . two million by 1995, but reagan wiped it out. ira is correct to talk about the congress of the last great senate. byrd's first two terms as senate majority leader, it was byrd who made it happen. byrd the last great senator. i thank ira for the title. thank you. [applause] >> at this time we will take a couple of questions. maybe. [laughter] >> tell me, dave, what president did you enjoy writing about the most that senator byrd served with? >> kennedy. not even a close question. my two favorite people in history are robert byrd and john f. kennedy. i have always had an affection for kennedy. everybody know about the west virginia primary? it showed the cou

byrd was ambivalent about jimmy carter. there were some problems with him. carter was an outsider. he did not really like politics or the hill. senator byrd regarded his role as leader of the senate, but also a person who basically was an advisor to the president, helped the president, he improved his programs. the book shows senator byrd helping carter through virtually every issue from the panama canal treaties to the energy legislation where byrd worked tirelessly on it to get it done without a filibuster. he had the sense that the senate leader should have a special relationship with the president and that is the way the system was supposed to work. of course, the most important in for the senate leader is to make the senate work. byrd knew the senate rules better than any person that ever lived. he lived in dealing with the notion of the fear of a paralyzed senate. he wanted to think that the rules worked, but he knew that in fact jim allen of alabama had cracked the code. he had figured out how to have this filibuster so the senate could be tied up in paralyzed. robert byrd l

brianne carter, abc 7 news. >> we appreciate the update. we want to update you on another story we have been falling throughout the morning. john gonzalez is in fort washington. >> all morning you have been updating us about neighbors who were pretty concerned about what is the wheatland. what review hearing now? >> right now we can tell your relatives of the folks who live inside this home are inside the house at this hour. we can tell you, they are checking on their loved ones. the man of the house of being treated at a nearby hospital. this all happened around 2:30 this morning, a shooting inside the zone. police tell as it appears to be a home invasion. you could see the giant christmas wreath. well, the glass door there is covered with fingerprint powder and police have spent much of the time this morning focusing on the upstairs bedroom, where it appears this shooting took place. police tell us multiple armed suspect somehow making their way into the single-family home, and it is still unclear whether there is forced entry but inside

>> let's turn it over to carter. what do you see in the charts? >> i think this is a very good trade. i'd stay with it. nike plunged and has rallied feebly. we think ultimately 85 bucks. >> dan, where do you stand on this? >> this is an interesting one. for those of you that follow us on twitter, this is a trade i've managed a couple times. i originally sold a weekly put expired, then sold the next weekly put against it. we updated that on twitter at cnbc options. then the other day on the weakness i turned it into a vertical. now i own the put spread for less than 20% of the width of the spread. let me tell you what i'm hoping to happen. the stock closed a little below 97. i want the stock to go to 95. i want a nice profit in it. i want to take it off before the earnings event and move on. if there's any good data or commentary about chinese sales, stocks going up towards 100. >> is that what you would do? >> one way you could conceivably take a look at a bearish bet might be to sell a call spread on it. so you're looking to collect some of the p

jimmy carter and rosalynn carter walked the entire distance of a mile and half in 1977 from the capitol back to the white house. the inaugural parade that will take place, reviewing stand is always set up in the white house. that is grover cleveland back in '85. there is the white house in the background. a classic inaugural parade picture. the capital in the background with bands marching. 1953, a famous old cowboy named monte mantegna lassoed dwight eisenhower with his permission. in the afternoon of inauguration day backing 1829 there was a stampede in the white house. they have a big party, and the people sampled the place, triple the white house with their money boots ripping the curtains and wrecking the carpeting. finally the fiasco ended when somebody get a brilliant idea of putting a large tub of whiskey out on to the white house lawn. slowly but surely everybody laughed. inaugural ball at night. 1953. the kennedys in 61. storage and laura bush, barack and michele obama. unplanned inauguration's are also a big part of inauguration day. not really the inauguration day, but as pa

we're here with the options action traders and carter braxtonworth of oppenheimer. how do the markets look as we set up going into 2013? >> sure. well i mean, holding aside the news today, if one were just to look at the last four or five weeks we've moved on the s&p from 1343 to 1443, 100 point move, 7%. it's perfectly normal to have a 1%, 2% pullback. the issue is this. right now the s&p is the worst performing bourse or index of 24 developed countries. britain, germany, france, portugal, you pick it, canada. it's not a particularly robust period with u.s. equities and we think q1 is going to be sloppy. in fact if there's any asymmetry it's downside risk, of course, then very little upside potential. >> carter makes a good point in that other markets may look better at this point given the downside risk that we might have, especially if this as john harwood said expected to be some sort of a slimmed-down deal where we're kicking the can down the road for a period of a couple weeks, a month or so, we don't have any resolution in the first month of the year either.

carter, abc 7 news. obama's approval rating of the highest level in more than a year. and associated press poll finds 57% of americans approve of the the president is doing. highest levels since the navy seals killed osama bin laden in may of 2011. up by points book -- from last month's election. also finds 42% say the country is on the right track. coming up, the inspiration doggie door bell. still ahead, frightening aments on >> good boy. that dog learns quickly. a veteran in oregon created what a doggie door bell. his dogsred of when heng the door out or come back in. about a year of testing with a portable doorbell to be insider outside. the dog seemed to love it. successful heso working on a version of cats. i just was the dog could let himself back in. he trainer how long it.dog to use dog could use one of those. thes take a look at weather. with that.ui jeras >> happy friday. i should get one of the lettings as opposed to my dogs scratching the door when he wants to go outside. you will need the umbrella of it -- you hardly need the umbrella but there areg spott

>>host: but president carter appointed you? >> yes. then there is a new department of education and i went back to teaching and that i was appointed. >>host: when did the clear it would be a permanent

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carter evans with what is happening across the country. a congressman goes public with his long battle against obesity. what he hopes his example will do for others. >> and a holiday classic that anyone can join. tony guida shows us a hallelujah chorus with a mass. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. the company that calls itself the world's largest arms supplier says in three days it sold over three years worth of ar-15 ammunition magazines. the company brownell apologized on-line for delays in shipping the orders. the ar-15 the nation's most popular semiautomatic rifle similar to the weapon used in the newtown shootings. in washington meanwhile the gun control debate ramped up. on "face the nation" bob schieffer spoke with national rifle association president david keane, the first time the group has spoken since making a statement on friday. >> when you came on television at this news conference friday you seemed to blame the mentally ill. you seemed to blam

it says "soon after jimmy carter installed solar panels on the white house. a generation from now i think this is in the 70's or early 80's the solar heater can be a surcosity, a museum piece, a example of a road not taken, or a small part of one of the greatest adventures under taken by the american people

. >> live is stephen carter and he is the author, among many other books of this one, his most recent, "the impeachment of abraham lincoln: a novel." professor carter, they are to premise in here that i want to get to that are historically inaccurate. number one, abraham lincoln survived the assassination of him, and abraham lincoln is impeached. where did you come up with this? >> i start by making clear that in spite of the title, i am a lincoln fan. this is not an argument on behalf of lincoln's impeachment. it's not a brief -- it's just a novel and for me as a fan and someone interested in history, what if lincoln had survived and what if, in my telling as political enemies, he had many including in his own party which would tend to forget, political enemies as late as 1865 were looking for way to get them out of the way. what if you tried to do it the impeachment process. >> but again, where did you come up with the idea? when did it occur to you that this might be a fun thing to do? >> i don't know when it decided to turn the novel. i remember when i was back in college, chattin

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carter and ford got behind shell oil when it was not economically feasible. it is hugely economical he fiscal. why not for wind. >> no one has the iron lung of government subsidies. >> i love that phras >> this is a political whim of lobbyist and politics. >> it was zilch for that. it was george mitchell who make fraking possible. why do they love wind power. they are the biggest buechlers for birds aund. >> it is amazement that we are having the discussion . it never wked in the past andf markets can't suppt wind energy no reason to subside it >> bill, over all factor, we are trying to cut the expensive government. wind power is going i the opposite. that is a program despite paying billions hasn't paid off. >> it hasn't paid off. i am trying to dole with a congressional addiction . green stuff, i have to feed it somehow and it is the least harmful way. >> they are green addiction it is our dollars . they are spending trilons on that. >> i goes to big companies. wind energy and seimens and ge know where toet t trax eak. >> you are against corp right welfare

reporting live, brianne carter. >> a smiling brianne carter. thank you very much. here is a look in the meantime at the nfl playoff picture. for a wild-card weekend cincinnati takes on houston. another saturday game will feature minnesota against green bay. on sunday, indianapolis takes on baltimore. the redskins will host the seahawks. the divisional round games will take place january 12, and that includes denver, san francisco atlanta, and newwe are following a developing story from new york where secretary of state hillary clinton is being treated for a blood clot. a spokesman says that the plot was discovered in a follow-up exam for a concussion she suffered after she fainted and hit her head earlier this month. clinton is expected to stay in the hospital so doctors can monitor the medication being used to treat the clot. but neglect to john gonzalez on capitol hill to talk about the other big story in washington, d.c. that is the fiscal cliff. we are now just hours away trying to avert it. what is the latest, john? >> just hours, and some are calling it a fal

jimmy carter and rosalynn carter walked the entire distance in 1977 from the capitol back to the white house. in the inaugural parade that will take place the reviewing is always set up in the white house there's the white house in the background and is a classic inaugural parade and the capitol is in the background with the bands marching. in 1953 famous cowboy named monty montana lassoed dwight eisenhower with his permission. [laughter] in the afternoon of inauguration day back in 1829 to was a sort of stampede in the white house the had a big party there and the people trampled the place with their boots and direct the curtains and the carpeting and finally the fiasco ended when somebody had a brilliant idea of putting a large tub of whiskey on the white house lawn and everybody laughed. the inaugural ball athlete, this is 1953 come here are the kennedys and 61, george and laura bush and dhaka and michelle obama. the young plant inaugurations are also a big part of inauguration day. well it's not really the inauguration day but part of inauguration history. you can't you i and many

. >> ambassador eisenstadt, you were involved in the carter administration. if you could, just recap what you did for the president. >> well, i was the president's chief domestic adviser, but it was my recommendation that created the u.s. holocaust memorial museum, the excision that led to that. i -- the commission that led to that. but during the clinton administration, i was ambassador to the european union, and i did as undersecretary all the holocaust negotiations. i negotiated $8 billion of compensation from the swiss, the germans, the austrians for slave labor, forced labor, looted art insurance, property restitution and the like. and here i'm really trying to look at this from the perspective of someone who's been a senior government official but also a leader in the jewish community. and that's why this book has been endorsed by both president perez and president clinton. >> stuart eizenstat, "the future of the jews." this is booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. beginning at 7 p.m. eastern