john king, he didn't want to answer the question. do you want to take a stab at it? >> if you go back to the state of the union, jonathan, at the beginning of the year he was 0 for 2013. look what he proposed and got? nothing. added he wanted gun controls after new town, didn't get them. not all his fault. any democrat listening is flaming republicans. historians tell you the first legislative year is the most important. as the president heads off, he has to think about what lessons did he learn and what does he want to try to get done next year? it will be harder to get anything done next year because he is low in the approval rating and democrats have a serious case of the jitters and republicans are looking at 2014 in the elections. it was a tough 2013 and even thou though, it wouldn't get optimistic about 2014. >> he said the new years' resolution is to be nice to the core. he did prize the bipartisan deal but he also said he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. so any clues as to whether we'll see a defiant president, an accommodating president? does the whit

. >>> donna brazil is here, john king is here and era him rasool is here. john, you were there in almost 20 years ago when nelson mandela was inaugurated. tell us what it was like. >> it remains the most powerful moment i have ever seen. before then, the vice president al gore mentioned the delegation. fidel castro was walking out of the hall, ga davi, many of the african leaders, some quite controversial to the leadership of the united states, were walking out, and then president-elect mandela, just moments he was having brief meetings. after he met with the vice president, there were a few reporters, and he shuffled over and very quietly and shook our hands and asked how we were doing. on this days when, that's who he was, this quiet dignity and grace. i want to show this. the vips were given this. and some of us hung around. >> you were working for the associated press. >> at the time. this is the new stamp they issued that day, commemorating the new president, but there was a new national anthem, a new flag, an there's a commemorative stamp. these are t

john king is here to break it down for us. what do the polls tell us about our potential presidential front-runners? >> well, we should make clear from the get-go that late 2013 polling is a far from reliable indicator of what the american people will be looking for when they next pick a president in 2016. but these early numbers fun for holiday political conversations and could have some impact on how the potential candidates look at the weeks and months ahead. here's the test. early democratic favorite hillary clinton versus nine republican 2016 prospects, and with just one exception, secretary clinton comes out on top. in most cases by a landslide. she beats former florida governor jeb bush by 21. former arkansas governor mike huckabee by 15 points. 18 points is the clinton advantage over texas senator and tea party favorite ted cruz and she's up 17 over the texas governor, rick perry. another 2012 gop contender, former pennsylvania senator rick santorum behind clinton by 19 points. two senate newcomers, rand paul and marco

john king, many thanks to you. >> you're welcome, carol. >> i'm sorry? lou paulumbo, a cnn analyst, formerly with the fbi. am i right, lou? >> actually, i'm from the police department. >> you get this report that comes in about possible explosives in a building in four buildings on harvard's campus. this is a large area. tell us the protocol. >> there's going to be a boiler plate response. there's going to be emergency services, fire, haz-mat, fbi joint task force, certainly the massachusetts state police, you're going to have a complete response of this as if it is legitimate until they are able to determine that, in fact, it is not. >> often times these things are not legitimate though, right? >> yeah. that's correct. to be very honest with you, carol, this could be a byproduct of somebody attempting to disrupt the testing at the end of a semester, for example. that is one thing that will be considered. but to go in and treat this as if this is the real deal until they are comfortable that this isn't, that they are playing with lives at this point. >>

john king is in washington to talk about this. so john, this panel came up with 46 recommendations, including more oversight from congress, and approvals from the courts. the question is, will the president actually put these recommendations into place? >> it's a big question, carol. the president's going to take this report and we should give the administration some credit. this is a serious report by serious people that has started what is now a serious conversation about whether the united states, whether our government should take the most dramatic turn, turn back, if it you will, national security policy since 9/11, and we are at a turning point for the president, the challenge is, the president said he wants to make some changes. the president said given the evidence we've now seen spilled out in public he thinks the government has gone too far. the question is how far back to you go? you mentioned the phone, collecting all those phone records. the nsa says gee, we just collect all this metadata, only look at it when we have

. >> let's to go john king along with cnn contributors. john king, what's the reaction to this deal from the white house and from congressional republicans and democrats that you've spoken to? >> let's start with the white house. the white house is very happy. i'll read this from an official who wod not be named. we're happy. it is a good package. balanced. great to avoid governing by crisis. we don't love all of it but that's what you get in compromise. this deal announced by, as dana noted, once a hero of the right. now the latest exhibit. the hot potato in what is a civil war between governing conservatives and those who believe the best approach is confrontational. the tea party doesn't hike this. john boehner and the establishment do like this. here's one telling piece. speaker boehner said i like this deal. his deputy, leader cantor likes it. >> it will be interesting to hearhat the number two senate republican who also faces the teem challenge, what he has to same john, this is a big departure from washington. taking up negotiations

let's dig a little deeper right now with our chief national correspondent, john king. also our cnn political commentator, charles blow and republican strategist ana navarro. charles, what did you think of the president's speech today? clearly seemed to resonate with south africans. >> i think it was an amazing speech. i think this is the kind of moment where you see obama kind of rise. something happens between him and large crowds, stadium kind of crowds, where they feed off his energy, he feeds off that energy and he kind of lifts himself above both rhetorically and also in his demeanor above the kind of smallness that is actual governing. this is when you see him and i think it's kind of a non-political moment. this is a moment when you can be proud that we have a president who can do this sort of thing and represent the country well, whether or not you agree with him on policy or not. this sort of thing is where he really does shine and he makes america look good in moments like this. >> you know, ana, there was some controversy as you well know, you live in florid

a longtime confidant, telling john king, the senator informed indirectly. his term is up at the end of 20140. he's also announced earlier this year he would not seek reelection next year. >>> other news we're following. india apparently punishing the united states for the arrest and strip-search of a diplomat. security barriers from possible terror attacks have been removed. this escalating dispute is threatening america's relationship with one of its strongest allies. we're learning more explosive details also about the arrest and the retaliation. cnn national correspondent deborah feyerick is standing by in new york. let's go to cnn's mallika. >> reporter: wolf, here in india people are still very, very angry. thes seething it is treatment. he called the incident deplorable, but the latest move by the u.s. could calm tensions. tonight, u.s. secretary of state john kerry is scrambling to unravel a diplomatic crisis, calling india's national security adviser to quote express his regret over the strip-search and treatment of an indian diplomat by u.s. marsha

now, john king, you're joining us back in the states. when you think about that, the ability of what robyn was just saying, a man from south africa to get the netherlands together with scotland in an international affair and speak to leaders no matter where they were, whether critical or not and maintain respect, how unique does that make nelson mandela as a politician, let alone as a leader? >> i think he's one of the few singular figures of the 20th century. in terms of what he did. the awe people felt for what he did, the power of forgiveness, the power of unification, the ability to bring the country together, to have a peaceful election and to have an administration where he delivered on his promises with no recrimination. other politicians hold that in awe of his personal strength and political abilities. and so, yes, i remember at the beginning i was at the mandela inauguration. you had the same scene, fidel castro in pretty good health. i remember walking by him in the hall that day. you had gadhafi. they were all at once at the

. >> let's to go john king along with cnn contributors. john king, what's the reaction to this deal from the white house and from congressional republicans and democrats that you've spoken to? >> let's start with the white house. the white house is very happy. i'll read this from an official who would not be named. we're happy. it is a good package. balanced. great to avoid governing by crisis. we don't love all of it but that's what you get in compromise. this deal announced by, as dana noted, once a hero of the right. now the latest exhibit. the hot potato in what is a civil war between governing conservatives and those who believe the best approach is confrontational. the tea party doesn't hike this. john boehner and the establishment do like this. here's one telling piece. speaker boehner said i like this deal. his deputy, leader cantor likes it. >> it will be interesting to hear what the number two senate republican who also faces the teem challenge, what he has to same john, this is a big departure from washington. taking up negotiat

here is cnn's chief national correspondent john king. >> brianna, we should make clear from the get-go, it's far from a reliability indicator, far from reliable of what the american people will be looking for, but these early numbers, fun for some holiday political conversations, and they could impact how some of the potential candidates look and act in the weeks and months ahead. the early democratic favorite, hillary clinton versus nine republican 2016 prospects, and with just one exception, secretary clinton comes out on top, in most cases in a landside. she beats former governor jeb bush by 20 points, 18 points is the clinton edge over ted cruz, and up 17 over texas governor and 2012 candidates rick perry. another contender, former rick santorum is behind clinton by 19 points. two newcomers run behind clinton by 13 points and 19 points respectivelily. paul ryan, well, he comes closer. the new poll shows clinton with an eight-point edge. who is the one exception? new jersey governor chris christie, over, he edges 48 to 46%. that's a statistical dead heat, but nonetheless early bragg

as many had expected the bureaucrat turned military official was seated right next to king john then during a national ceremony marking the second anniversary at the death of king john in working with elite units to the north young leader. we revolutionary forces will honor no one else but our great leader kim jong. we'll protect our one and only supreme commander through all the hardships stacey was one seat closer to king john and then at last year's ceremony said knowing the promotion speculation is also rife that ted who was known to be a military hardline there was one of the main speakers behind the expulsion and execution of time was a moderate. mix to stay in for tea from the general staff of the korean people's army the young gay and minister of the people's armed forces and film them. it used on the right was killing them the president of the stadium supreme people's assembly and the nominal second in command the ceremony started with a keynote speech. prime minister. who's in charge of north korea's economic reform plans was seated next to him despite concerns that more ti

king seven the day ended on the execution of the peacock we could do that again on monday. the dog with top of the enlightenment went into teaching and abundantly the peacock go to the body which includes all the pupils in schools has been out on a few photos and stupid to put it aside to support the course of next few days fourth that the top of the taunts from when mom who can decide on the teachings of both off from amity also been productive. the event began with the commercials for them and pulling the procession from the main temple. his home country of a bond with each grumbled via india and hong lim our time and she lanka and vietnam attending the un with cinnamon. what tom reign supreme mother of a broken bottle for the ungodly into a bridal fashion be put into teams in the way the attention it either that was vacated on the back of the fason fiesta on monday presented to us and i have presented a cd ripper on the protection seven they did this to the bench with jess is moving its head and beak and have a go. but he had trouble speaking like a fun day playing judge

john king and christiane amanpour, thank you so much. and speaking of cuba, who could forget the gut-wrenching image from 2007. elian gonzalez being grabbed by these federal agents for deportation back to cuba. fast forward to today. he's grown up, talking to cnn about that experience. gonzalez, remember he was rescued off the florida coast when his mother fled cuba with him. tragically, she drowned. gonzalez's father fought this bitter legal battle to get him back. that debate fueled hot emotions on both sides at the time. cnn's senior latin-american affairs correspondent has been poring through this interview with elian gonzalez today. just first, rafael, set the stage for me. where was elian when he spoke to us? i have to ask, was he hacoached? >> he sounds very much like he's been coached. he is traveling outside of cuba, brooke, apparently for the very first time since he was rep repatriated back in the year 2000. he's attending a youth conference in ecuador. this is for young people around the world, to put it mildly, of a leftist

another man who found himself in jail this year was john king the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to have served his two and a half years sentence i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture in the hunt for whistleblowers journalists have been targeted as well u.s. authorities secretly tapped the phones of dozens of associated press journalists the partner of glenn greenwald who broke the story about n.s.a. surveillance was detained in london while carrying materials from edward snowden to british authorities so closely cooperate with washington now accuse him of quote terrorism. aaron swartz was neither a whistleblower nor a journalist whether he was a champion of the free internet fighting against censorship he fills in advocating the online when lisa. as much information as possible on the government on january eleventh the twenty six year old committed suicide. prosecutors wanted to put him in

another man who found himself in jail this year was john king the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate carol suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to have served his two and a half years sentence i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture in the hunt for whistleblowers journalists have been targeted as well u.s. authorities secretly tapped the phones of dozens of associated press journalists the partner of glenn greenwald who broke the story about in the states surveillance was detained in london while carrying materials from edward snowden to british authorities so closely cooperate with washington now accuse him of quote terry's. aaron swartz was neither a whistleblower nor a journalist when he was a champion of the free internet fighting against censorship details and advocating the online please. as much a question as possible on the government on january eleventh the twenty six year old committed suicide. prosecutors wanted to put hi

let's bring in our chief national correspondent, john king, who has covered a lot of these kinds of trips. we have been on many of these major trips. can it get awkward from time to time? you have -- there will be four american presidents, current president, three former presidents, in south africa with their wives at the same time. >> number one, a major security challenge for the united states secret service and their international allies as they cooperate on this. i just spoke to a couple sources, they say they are very confident. can it get awkward. you mentioned the current president of the united states and raul castro. i was at the mandela inauguration where vice president gore was there and fidel castro. fidel castro several times tried to approach vice president gore and he literally ducked him, went behind aides. it was a comkocomical scene. >> i have the official program that the south african government put out and among the tributes after ban ki-moon, the u.n. secretary general speaks, the tribute by foreign dignitaries, then the president of the united states, barack obama,

joining us now, our chief national correspondent, john king, our cnn political commentators, democratic strategist donna brazile, former bush speech writer, david frum. john, let me play this clip. this is the president acknowledging the blunders as far as the rollout of the affordable care act, and then he made a turn. >> the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. and since i'm in charge, obviously we screwed it up. you've still got two million people who signed up, or more. and so what that means then is that the demand is there and as i said before, the product is good. >> so what do you think of this strategy? can he move beyond some of the failures by pointing out some of the successes? >> number one, good for him. presidents hate that question. what was your biggest failure in the year and he answered it. he meandered but answered it. it was obvious what the answer was but at least he answered. look, the president has a tough job right now. he's at the lowest approval rating of his presidency. many of his own party, in hi

king being read another article for time to knit jumpers in the real amount of money entering china is not what the chinese government now tonka been a lot of hot money that god has for direct investment. money changes and that the target want to enter china. something that i need to contact him at the real comedy about two to four hundred eight hundred billion us dollars the money occupies forty to eighty percent of the total real the transaction doesn't well tom also point out the hot money usually doesn't happen that sometimes milk the market directly the money would enter chinese commercial banks. don't allow the thing for money for housing loans. eventually dr housing prices up when more people are getting long day therefore jumped on to the hot money and three china has a major reason for prices going up. there are many reasons lack of concrete and tied the knot in the government failed to rate mortgages of speculation and the company to own the house money is part of the wicked conspiracy but also pressed to come in kindergarden. okay that's all we have time to get a ton of c

let's bring in chief national correspondent john king. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning. >> the obvious question is why didn't sebelius do all of that before but let's move on from that because republican leaders plan to do just that. it to them lus administrate obama care's problems are deeper than the website. what can we expect from today's hearing? >> reporter: two very different things. we should move on. that's what secretary sebelius is hoping to do. she's hoping to look forward and say yes we made a lot of mistakes. she wants to make the case that the program is good, people will get their coverage. in six months or a year from now people will look back bad roll out good program. republicans think the opposite. the speaker said let's get the budget questions out of the way, let's put any ross aspect of a government shutdown out of the way and let's focus on this because that's a winning policy issue and political issue heading in to 2014. republicans will go beyond the website and tell you stories of people who -- rem

john king and meryl tisch said the test results would be 30% less next year than they were right now. the question is -- how did they actually know the exact number? it creates huge distrust. you can actually figure out what the cut scores were and how to align it. between the lack of preparation for teachers, the lack of communication with parents, and the sense that you are using the data, using the kids' data, and you know exactly where the scores will come in. this year, what has happened is that because people did not fail the test, they do not have enough funding for actually real implementation. the state put something called "engage new york" on the state website. some of the stuff is really good. some of it is not. if you go to a teacher, think about it. if you say, here's the website and here are 500 pages, just do it. it is a huge instructional shift. it is not about wrote memorization, but critical thinking, helping kids persevere, helping kids get through it. that is why there are a lot of ways of saying that it was not done in a way that teachers trusted. parents really

john king and meryl tisch said the test results would be 30% less next year than they were right now. the question is -- how did they actually know the exact number? it creates huge distrust. you can actually figure out what the cut scores were and how to align it. between the lack of preparation for teachers, the lack of communication with parents, and the sense that you are using the data, using the kids' data, and you know exactly how the scores would tumble. this year, what has happened is that because people did not fail the test, they do not have enough funding for actually real implementation. the state put something called "engage new york" on the state website. some of the stuff is really good. some of it is not. if you go to a teacher, think about it. if you say, here's the website and here are 500 pages, just do it. it is a huge instructional shift. it is not about wrote memorization, but critical thinking, helping kids persevere, helping kids get through it. that is why there are a lot of ways of saying that it was not done in a way that teachers trusted, parents really em

john king is here to talk more about it. i guess where the relation. is right now with russia and the tension between the two countries, i guess it's not a surprise that the president is not going but what do you make of the message? >> it's a clear public snub, kate and chris. michaela as well. no question. the president went in the past, the first lady went. janet napolitano sent the delegation. what was her job in homeland security. who's sitting in russia right now? edward snowden. and billie jean king, the tennis great, a direct message because of the anti-gay sentiments. this is president obama saying to putin, things are testy, in fact, i'm going to make a political statement here. >> what will it do? is it just a public statement or will it do something to shift the balance in u.s./russia relations? >> this is a relationship that is broken and getting worse not better as we speak. both governments say when this he have to deal with the big issues they still can have a conversation. they can say we disagree about this and this but let's talk abo

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cnn chief national correspondent john king joins me from washington. i'm sure you saw a lot of that, right, behind the scenes covering that so much as you did? why do you think mitt romney didn't show more of this personal side during the campaign? >> it is a question we've asked so so many candidates. my first campaign was michael dukakis. another former massachusetts governor. a liberal democrat. the knock on him, he was too stiff. what was the knock on mitt romney? he was too stiff. what about al gore? he was too stiff. that's why politicians like bill clinton, like george w. bush, like barack obama, and now we're looking at the rise of chris christie. we'll see if there's a fall, but politicians who seem more authentic, anyway. some are acting a bit. that's part of the job performance. governor romney, some is his mormon faith. some of it, forget his faith, he's a reserved, private person. some of it is a lot of these politicians, governor dukakis was the same way. that's my life, this is a serious job. i'm supposed to be serious. like your parish

john king, what jumped out at you? >> at a time, if you look at the polls, talk to democrats around town, he's at the lowest point of his presidency, he was 0 for 2013 in terms of what he wanted to accomplish, yet, the president tried to end the year by saying i think it's at least half full. he hoped the economy in 2014 makes for better political circumstances, he hoped people love the health care law six months from now better than today. and if edward snowden was hoping to get amnesty as a christmas present, no. >> a senior lawyer floating that idea that maybe he should be grabted amnesty if he comes clean, returns all the documents and all of that. van jones and newt gingrich, co-hosts of "crossfire," did something jump out at you, van? >> first of all, that was barack obama as muhammad ali doing the rope-a-dope. he was tired, he was laying on the ropes. his main goal, i think today was to get through that press conference and get on that airplane and not cause problems. he did that, but there is good news in what

. >> reporter: lieutenant john king describes the attack h he sa say took place at the wildcat canyon regional park in richmond last friday night. the girls ages 14 and 17 went to the park to hang out with three teenage boys who supplied them with alcohol. >> we're not quite sure how it happened, but the girls somehow passed out, and when they woke up in the morning of the 30th, they discovered they had been sexually assaulted. >> reporter: police arrested the three boys at their schools. kennedy high and the city's continuation high school on wednesday. they say the boys could face gang rape and other charges. >> this was a parent's worst nightmare for a mother or father to hear their daughter has been, you know, attacked in this manner. or even for a parent to hear that their son was party to such an action. >> reporter: reverend andre shumake with the richmond improvement association says it's hard to hear of yet another sexual assault case involving teenagers. especially on the heels of the 2009 gang rape of a richmond high school girl. >> we have to start making it clear to men,

our senior media correspondent is here with us as is john king and jeffrey toobin. dr. drew pinsky, host of "dr. drew on call." these are difficult decisions not only for us at cnn, but for all news organizations, when to play it, if to play it, what are you hearing? >> and these happened early this morning. days ago but early this morning and all throughout the day about what to do with these tapes. all of the networks and major news organizations took a wait and listen approach. they didn't decide what to do ahead of time about it. for example fox news within an hour played a couple audio clips, but not what they said was heart wrenching, abc is not going to air it at all. nbc is not going to air the audio at all, but cbs will. many different decisions from organizations today. >>> dr. drew, for the families, how painful could this be hearing those audio tapes. >> horrific, they need to not listen to this absolutely. the fact that the families need to avoid all of this, you showed the pictures of the victims, a bystander, and that was difficult to look at. the fact th

let's take a closer look with john king. i want to just -- these were not taken by white house journalists photographers, but these are the official white house phograph woohe picket terse, then released them to all of u in the media. one we'll put up there, john, because you and i flew on air force one on many occasions. there you see the president and first lady, ben rhodes, hillary clinton, that's a room you're familiar with. >> that's the president's office. regardless of your politics, it's nice to get a piece of these. it's a vip plane, with two presidents, perhaps a future president, two first -- three first ladies. by all accounts, pleasant conversations, and pleasant dinner conversations as well. i think we have the photo of george w. bush showing off his favorite new pastime. >> on his ipad or tablet. >> he's e-mailing less, because he had a hacking problem, he loves to show them to close friends. he's modest but proud about his work. laura bush is making a lot of fun about it. you can see the president wanted to s

joining us, cnn chief national correspondent john king. you heard -- we will get to the santa tracker in just one second. we'll get to the most important thing of the day, don't worry. >> the debate question is what time did you start the egg nog? >> john king. >>> back to obamacare. a day added to the enrollment period. is it being seen as a good sign that there's interest at the end or is this seen as moving the goalposts again. >> the administration says, look, we're giving people an extra day. if they sign up by midnight tonight now, if you haven't signed up, you can go online. that deadline was supposed to be last night, midnight, 11:59. it gives people an extra day. the administration says why not. if there's been a rush at the end. they acknowledge the glitches they've had. as we talked about many, many, many times, the more people in, the better the financial footing of the program. critics say there's been more proof, modifications made, deadlines extended. more proof, this thing is too big, too bulky and doesn't work. lo and beho

also with us, cnn chief national correspondent john king. he was in the room 20 years ago when mandela was inaugurated as president of south africa. we thank you all for joining us to share your recks and time with mandela. we start with you, congressman. i'm curious, as a man, as a politician, tell me about the impact he had on you after meeting him. >> wow, no one has presented the question as you have. as a kid, i'm embarrassed to admit i knew very little about africa. if you wanted to insult a black kid, a colored kid, you killed him african because the world, including the united states, had allowed us to believe that africa was so underdeveloped, that the world had an attitude that they were inferior people as opposed to the europeans. when nelson mandela became a world leader and was on television and people of african descent, not only in the united states but throughout the world could not possibly identify with a country. mr. cuomo identifies, kennedy. our history has been torn apart and substituted with this inferiority. but when

ron fornier from the national journal and our chief national correspondent, john king. she referred to this poll in the "washington post," who do you trust to do a better job on the economy, issue number one. back a year ago, 54% said obama. 36% said republicans. now look at this. 41% say obama, 45% say republicans. that's quite a swing. >> it was up 18 points, now down four, right? it's crazy how this has switched, even given the fact that the republicans blew the government shutdown in october and you would think the president might still be riding on that but he's not, for a variety of reasons. one is people don't think he's as competent as they used to think. they don't think he's as trustworthy as they used to think. one of the poll numbers also shows that they don't believe he's going to protect the middle class as much as they once believed and we all know that's his bread and butter, when he ran for re-election, that was it. i'm all about the middle class. >> is it simply the rollout of the affordable care act, the health care website, the promise if you like yo

. >>> let's get some more with our chief national correspondent, john king, our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar and our cnn political commentator, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent for "the new yorker." what do you think? will it be even more difficult, more partisan, if all of this falls out like that? >> i think so. the history, the recent history of these retirements is even in a district that may be a 50/50 district who are moderate, after they have been around for a long time and retire, they may be able to keep that district for a long time and keep a moderate record. but as soon as they retire, what happens in the last 20 years is a far right or far left person takes over the seat. that's more likely than not what's going to happen with these seats. i think the biggest mistake barack obama made when running for president in 2008 is he described this country as not red america, not blue america, and the history of his presidency is this deepening polarization and a middle carving out. >> he has three years in office. he has his legacy. i know officials at the white h

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kim is in the post affairs secretary of the party after the death two years ago of his father king john and alice say the announcement of chen's execution is meant to shore up the cans and leadership leadership from japan and southeast asian countries say no went together to ensure flights in their region. i say. this is to make a pledge on the matter at a summit in tokyo expected announcement follows a mov by china to impose a new air defense identification selling in the east china sea. japanese prime minister seems ill than his counterparts from the ten ounce and states will meet for three days they plan to release a communique and a separate declaration of friendship and cooperation after making calls on the countries to collaborate to ensure the safety of flights. it says japan will help us cnn china and creed legally binding rules for settling ted turner issues in the south china sea. the gap does this as japan and asean should work more closely in such fields as to katie and economics is as though settle isputes peacefully according to international law. billy is the summit to co

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john kennedy and robert can maybe there would be a fourth jesus christ but but but but in south africa. they say that when nelson mandela and others went to prison remember for the life. bake they could not even possess an image of those men they were like ghosts they were gone they with no intention of ever seeing them again and that's why you had literally tens of thousands of people mostly young people showing up because they wanted to see what this man looked like they had never seen what they never saw and you got to remember in south africa this was the date and this is when they had passed books you had to have a passbook and if you didn't have a pass but this young man told me his father was arrested and was sent to prison for a year for simply not having a passport when he was stopped by the south african police and he could not see the father for one whole year your papers please your papers that's absolutely that's amazing so why in your mind what is the state. in the united states what's the state of race relations in the united states with how we help where how we come how

john kennedy and robert and maybe there would be a fourth jesus christ but but but but in south africa. they said when nelson mandela and others went to prison remember for the life of bake they could not even possess an image of those men they were like ghosts they were gone they were in with no intention of ever seeing them again and that's why you had literally tens of thousands of people mostly young people showing up because they wanted to see what this man looked like they had never seen what they never saw and you got to remember in south africa this was the date and this is when they had passed books you had to have a pass book and if you didn't have a pass but this young man told me his father was arrested and was sent to prison for a year for simply not having a passport when he was stopped by the south african police and he could not see the father for one whole year your papers please your papers that's absolutely that's amazing so why in your mind what is the state in the united states what's the state of race relations united states where how we help where how we come how

earlier this month following the execution of king john's uncle and some pay. north korea also lashed out against south korean president twickenham friday here in a state run media taking note of the one year anniversary of president fox election day victory. a korean central news agency article titled sweet promises better reality strongly denounced president for not keeping a campaign pledges and said she would be quoted but strict be judged by history. the piece went on to become president the president was suppressing anyone who asks for democracy and justice and then continued. as south korea has decided to step up efforts to better prepare for any possible scenario on the korean peninsula. it has decided to set up a standing committee in the secretariat of the national security council to make security meetings more regular in the command structure more streamlined our presidential office course wanted a change to pass the chips. but the security situation on the korean peninsula becoming increasingly tense after the execution of time spent at the back of

let's go to john king with the very latest on this. so all eyes on the senate, john. we heard from lawmakers, especially senators why they want to support it. they might not love it. that's the art of compromise. what are you hearing from senators on why they were voting against it? >> kate. you hear a number of complaints, on the republican side, you hear it doesn't allow deficit, or spending above this year's level. some republicans have complained that military personnel have to pay more, so they essentially lose money in the deal. democrats have said it doesn't give them the tax revenues they think are necessary in washington. they don't like the fact it doesn't spend enough in some cases. i ran into three democratic senators, all three preed to give me a list of complaints t. expectation is it will pass. don't expect 90-10 or 80-20rks something closer to 60-40. the expectation is it will pass. >> who cares as long as they get it done. let me ask you this the veteran's benefits, why are they taking money for veterans? i feel like we are not hearing enough about it

think jurassic park meets the lion king. >> john leguizamo leads this dino on his way. take a look. >> i can get us out of here. time to turn on the trail blazing skills. whoa. holy crab. >> i see you like to dance. what will it be, the mambo, the salsa, the deadly lombata. tough guy. you messed with the -- ow! get it off. >> look at the wiggle. >> is that all in the script or did you make up some of it as you went along? >> we ad libbed like crazy. like honey badger, the guy who did the ad libs all over the honey badger. we did that kind of thing, just adding stuff. >> it looks like a documentary, oddly. not like a cartoon. >> technology called photo realism. you feel like somebody went to the jurassic period with a little camera and got some shots. beautiful. >> and include something dinosaurs that are, like, basically newly discovered, right? >> yes, the pacorynasaurus. i thought i would be a t-rex or something with a big voice and they told me i'm a bird. like the first prehistoric parrot, basically. >> you've seen the movie? >> saw it this weekend at the premiere.

that of course is the question and the man with the answers, chief national correspondent john king is here to break it down. >> an old school compromise. believe it. >> old school. this is old school with this congress. it's modest. both sides agree on that. is it a good deal? it seems not everyone is in agreement on that. >> no, not everyone is. the bottom line is it's a two-year deal, meaning no government shutdown. in january and next october, we won't be having a having a shut down clock. the end of the so-called force sequester cuts. there are people who don't like it on both extremes. liberals don't like it. it forces federal employees to pay more into their plans. republicans don't like it, kate, because spending does go up a little bit. doesn't deal with medicare, social security but paul ryan, patty murray, they think there are enough votes in the house and senate that we're about to find out. >> paul ryan said something interesting during the event yesterday. paul ryan said this is the art of the deal in washington where you can't always get everything you want. so is this s

let's turn to chief national correspondent john king to break it down for us. interesting poll numbers coming out. you got the deadline. you also have to go through these numbers. favor when you talk about support, 35% favor the law. 62% oppose. >> you see the ditch the administration has dug for itself. you had to rollout a lot of the president's support herbs. it's he's losing part his own base in the opposition? >> here's one number i think is troubling on the question of when we ask people, the amount that you pay for medical care under the new law, look at that, 63% think their medical bills, what they're going to pay is going to increase. only 7% think their bills will decrease t. affordable care act, you got to say, that's a problem. >> it's a problem both from a policy standpoint, economic standpoint for american families. it's a huge problem for the administration politically, kate, if that does not change. republicans are their doctors or their plan republicans are counting on it for the political argument. this is president's signature domestic initi

john king is here with what we can expect. i know we can never expect the final outcome of any vote, especially in this house. but how do you think the vote is looking today? >> you know, we've had these conversations in the past where you say i don't know. checking with everybody, kate, late last night and a quick e-mail or two this morning, people expect this to pass and pass comfortably. they do believe there will be a significant number of house defections, those conservative members, mostly the tea party members who doesn't think this is a good enough deal. a few liberals might vote no because there are things they don't like. if we pass this deal, number one speaker boehner says it's a good compromise in definite reduction. number two, it takes the threat of a government shutdown off the table and republicans can head into 2014 to protect their house majority by focusing almost exclusively on the president and health care. that's his biggest argument, if we pass this, the political climate in 2014 is much, much better. w