and john d. rockefeller and people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people give me mon before you settle for another ordinary mattress, isn't it time you discovered the sleep number bed? becausonly the sleep number bed offers dual air technology that lets two peopled the perfect balae of comfort and support for their bodies. their sleep number setting. ok, righ

john: that is our show, tonight. our show. tonight. john >> and now, john stossel. john: hollywood has undergone mission creep. actors don't just want to entertain us, many now want to fix the world. if an actor can use his fame to help the world, why not. the world needs fixing. box office is nice but world office is more important. so actors do so-called, public service commercials. after yasser arafat died, richard gere did this get-out-the-vote video for an advocacy group which ran it in gaza and the west bank or palestine as leftists call it. >> hi, i'm richard gere and i'm speaking for the entire world. john: he is speaks for the entire world? seems pretty arrogant. he is an actor. popular one, yes, but what gives an actor the right to speak for the entire world? maybe because they're often portrayed as god-like? >> for centuries the people had nowhere to turn. no one to look to for help. until --, he arrived. as long as there were people crying for help, there was one man who would never rest. hercules. john: he's here in our studio. actually, it is actor kev

i'm john roberts. thanks for watching fox where more news and proposals are always on the way. >>> i'm chris ren old. observe obamacare goes into effect on january 1st. but more problems with the website could bring a chaotic beginning to the new year. >> there probably will be glitches. there have been glitches before and there probably will be glitches moving forward. >> we'll discuss obamacare in 2014 with former governor howard dean, and dr. scott gottlieb of the american enterprise institute. then nsa leaker edward snowden releases a christmas message with more warnings about government surveillance. >> a child born today will grow

john lennon. i was totally shocked. i threw him up against the wall. i said you did what? >> former beatle john lennon has been shot with .38 caliber bullets at short range. police rush him to roosevelt hospital but it's too late. he was pronounced dead. >> john lennon was gunned down as he entered -- >> john lennon, shot and killed in the dakota apartment building. >> it was really shocking. 40 years old, john lennon of the beatles. how could he be dead? how could this have happened? the city was in shock, not just people, my jegeneration that gr up listening to their music in the '60s. i think just about everybody felt on so many levels it was wrong. >> it was terrible, so many people didn't even know john. it hit me so much more because he befriended me and he didn't have to befriend me. >> laura came up with new facts about john lennon's killer. >> killer was identified as mark david chapman, a 25-year-old fan and drifter from hawaii. >> nothing from his background set off or would have caused

john: you said that? [laughter] to george clooney. >> he says raise taxes. >> to drive a toyota petraeus to the ms -- jemmies but they have a private airplane and i wish i had a private airplane. >> many advocate to raise taxes but well-connected celebrities are quick to use your tax dodges. >> owning acres of land in new jersey but pays only $100 of state property tax because he raises honeybees' he qualifies for the honeybee subsidy. bruce springsteen owns hundreds of acres of land but pays little tax because a an organic farmer works his land his pour neighbors pay more. >> i don't get anybody trying to lower taxes but bonn jovi and springsteen publicly supporting for obama holding rallies but then cry tax cuts for their riches and they robbed of poverty programs and a social contract with america being destroyed the middle-class is harmed but then you r those anti-poverty proams by calling yourself a former? that is the hypocrisy that is frustrating to see why i wrote the book calling of ese people on

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and to my father left we have john taliaferro -- to my farther left we have john taliaferro and his book is called content about the statesman john hay. so i thought what we could do is start by asking each of our authors starting with h. w. about his subject and why they wanted to write it right now. h.e.w.? >> yeah, thanks, erica. thanks all for coming. i wrote a book about ulysses s. grant because i had music that he said i was going to write a history of the united states through biographies. i had written my way up to the middle of the 19th century. then i had a gap and i picked it up again at the end the 19th century and i'd been avoiding the civil war for a while for a number of reasons. one is there's lots of subjects about the civil war. secondly, there was a lincoln bicentennial that was coming and it was pretty clear, it was 2009 and it was pretty clear stuff on lincoln was going to suck the air out of all the rooms on the general subjects i wanted to give it some clearance. when i eventually came back to it i wanted to write about someone -- i had a very specific need. i need

and john d. rockefeller and people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people beard and chemistry of people give me mon what about jobs? no? now try your closet. still no jobs? just more... stuff? well, you really have both. see, "stuff" is defined as "household articles considered as a group". sometimes this stuff is no longer needed. wait, no longer needed? that

john: so what? >> is very good to use, for dan to use the public land for running a private business or rent apart where all year round there is commercial revenue from renting in up to businesses. he keeps all that money. people don't realize that. i was in the park yesterday. i walked around and did a survey i asked 20 people if they thought this money was going to the city, and they'll think it is. so. john: so what if they think it's going to mars. the park is nice. >> it would not have the taxes. we have the money left over. the park could be just as good. john: well, it certainly is true that the park is very commercial these days. but buying and selling going on. holiday gifts. very commercial. on the other hand, the public seems fine with that. >> its and look very nice. a different story. >> a lot of the things that they should be doing. you should -- john: some money. >> that's right. you will study. if everyone would feel just as good. >> is a very public. nobody has viewed it as privatiz

hinckley jr. >>> in this hour john hinckley jr. pleads not guilty to charges he tried to kill president reagan and both he and his lawyer agree he is competent to stand trial. >> from the moment he was arrested the issue of sanity became paramount to the legal teams assigned to prosecute and defend john hinckley. >> facing a judge for the first time, hinckley stood while the clerk read the 13 count indictment. among the spectators were hinckley's parents. they watched intently as the clerk asked their son, how do you plead? in a clear, loud voice, the 26-year-old hinckley answered, not guilty. >> you know, hinckley is an interesting person, but not interesting at the same time. >> there didn't seem to be much there. you could not form a rapport with him. he seemed to have little expression of emotion. >> dr. will carpenter, a research psychologist at the university of maryland was hired to give an expert opinion in hinckley's defense. >> i believed that i spent about 44 hours evaluating him. most of that would have been in intervie

>> father john bernard feit. >> father john feit. back then, a catholic priest. >> no evidence in this case right now points us in any other direction. >> so why is he still a free man? by all accounts, irene garza was a remarkable young woman. >> she kind of broke the mold. >> irene's younger cousin, noemi sigler. >> at that time, hispanics stayed on one side of town, anglos lived on another side, and she kind of transcended that. >> she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. >> lynda de la vina is another cousin. >> she was really a role model, and to see how she had gone through college, was a teacher, was a beauty queen and yet was just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. >> but in 1960, the body of this inspiring woman was found face down in this canal. she was 25, the age for thinking about getting married and raising a family. >> she didn't have a life. irene never had that chance. >> irene garza lived in this house in what was a very nice neighborhood near downtown mcallen and remains so today. she lived here with

john: thank you. i will try to pick up one your language from now on. free-market our free-market. capitalism can be government politically managed. coming up, lessons about capitalism from an 11 year-old. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] ♪ i'm feeling better since you know me ♪ ♪ i was a lonely soul, but that's the old me... ♪ annouer: this song was created with heartbeats of children in need. find out how it can help frontline health workers bring hope to millions of children at everybeatmatters.org. ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. outside the studio i once tried selling lemonade legally. i found that the new york laws make that nearly impossible. i found it nearly impossible to try to understand the rules. i need an assistant. the government said i had to take a 15 hour food protection class. bicycle injuries. i don't have bicycles. when i was a kid, sell

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john: many say it is that inteally. but john mccain said this. needs to do more than firing up libertarian kids and their college dorms. >> it did fire up libertarian kids. i thought that was great. stand with him on twitter, it's about. but you worked with senator john mccain. how is that ing? >> we have a good personal relationship and i respect him as a wr hero. it doesn't mean it is always right, but he deserves our respect and others for his time spent as a prisoner of war. but one of point of view is that if you are deemed to be dangerous, of course we can't incarcerate you with no trial d no attorneand no harges. in my response to that is that it begs the question. who gets todetermine whether or not you are guilty you of something? the government has critea that says that you ar susicious if you like to pay cash atthe ore. if you have missing fingers, stains on her clothing, or have changed the color of your hair. and that might include quite a few people in our country. you don't have to build back very far to see the government abusing

john -- john got his own show on hbo which is long overdue and we're excited for him but this is unfortunately his last night with us. [audience awwwws] i went through a charade of writing this royal nut bit. >> we're to the doing the (bleep) bit. >> jon: of course not. what do you think we're doing here. >> i thought you cared about the queen. >> jon: i don't care. there's only one british royal i care about tonight and his name is prince john oliver. [cheers and applause] here is what i want to talk about a little bit. you came to us from -- i think you came from he he ellsbury on rightly. muffin on puffin stuff. >> that's offensive but fine. >> jon: it should be. but what john brought to social security a broad range of characters from different backgrounds. jond from london by the daily show's correspondent. >> hello jon, how are you? hello mr. stewart fine and dandy if i may say. have no fear england is here to make you feel a little better. can we have some more. it be christmas day, sir. india there's a land worth sunday sub gating. i can't meet the royal baby with peach fuz. what if he

john: why do you care? >> i want to do what i want to do as long as i do harm another person and i found out through google's. >> you were a conservative. >> neo-conservative by m embarrassed about that. john: through the internet you read about libertarianism and i want to help spread the movement? >> so many are politically apathetic there are so many conservative people talk about big government, the war, and morality have in taxes and spending i want young people to know that i am a libertarian. john: and use that i can do that? >> i started a channel in my bedroom by myself i did not know much about tecology i just put up a you to channel john: a few people would watch and then a few more? >> has gone up pretty slow but now lot of people watching at. john: i will show you another sample of her works they're not angry of the nsa spying so here is part of a video that has more than 100,000 views. >> when did the government become the jealous girlfriend? i note need to know who you're talking to all times

john: o more cuts? they spend more than 3 trillion and that is why it puzzles me that the president says over the past twoyears he will reduce deficits that more than $2.5 trillion. more than two thirds of it through spending cuts. john: spending cuts? no, they didn't cut muchch of anything. the deficit decreased becase of the blowup stimulus. and the president proposed increasing spending by less than he wanted to. it's's not a c. and also tis being said about obamacare. >> every time they have pricted something not working, it has worked ♪ ♪ john: hardly. they applaud, but it didn't work and that's when they postponed a mandate. the prblem is that we have a government that is soig and so powerful and so expensive and fast that cannot adequately be supervised. >> and senator mike lee is on my nice list for pointing that out andavid axelrod agreed with him this year. so he is on the niceide of is as well. along with rand paul, because he demanded that the president come clean about drone strikes. >>

john, thank you for being here. what an incredible story. >> john, that story is amazing. , not so much that john beale did it, but i think maybe that he got away with with it. >> jon: right. >> the key question here is: how on earth did all those people fall for all this c.i.a. bull [bleeped]. >> jon: i have no idea, no idea. >> how could he possibly have been a covert operative in pakistan, jon, when his native american background expressly forbids him from being deceptive or crossing big water. [laughter] >> jon: wait, what? no. native americans can cross... he's not native american. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, he's not native american? jon, he's the great, great grandson of sitting bull. >> jon: john, that sounds like another lie. >> really, jon? if that's a lie, then this is probably just some cheap costume from halloween shop and not a priceless tribal heirloom that beale gave to me out of the kindness of his cherokee heart. >> jon: first of all... sitting bull... >> i guess it's all a lie to you, isn't it? >> jon: s

john: thank you. i will try to pick up one your language from now on. free-market our free-market. capitalism can be government politically managed. coming up, lessons about capitalism from an 11 year-old. ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. outside the studio i once tried selling lemonade legally. i found that the new york laws make that nearly impossible. i found it nearly impossible to try to understand the rules. i need an assistant. the government said i had to take a 15 hour food protection class. bicycle injuries. i don't have bicycles. when i was a kid, selling lemonade was how you learned about capitalism, but i cannot now legally sell it in my town. it is not just new york. this month in oregon and a 11 year-old plant trees to pick mistletoe. she then tried to sell the mistletoe so she could help pay for her braces. authorities told her, you may not sell it to people on the streets. it is illegal. the authorities then told her, you can bank. that is legal. her father then sent us this videot

john: thank you. i will try to pick up oneour language from now on. free-market our free-market. capitalism can be government politically managed. coming up, lessons about capitalism from an 11 year-old. ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. outside the studio i once tried selling lemonade legally. i found that the new york laws make that nearly impossible. i found it nearly impossible to try to understand the rules. i need an assistant. the government said i had to take a 15 hour food protection class. bicycle injuries. i don't have bicycles. when i was a kid, selling lemonade was how you learned about capitalism, but i cannot now legally sell it in my town. it is not just new york. this month in oregon and a 11 ar-old plant trees to pick mistletoe. she then tried to sell the mistletoe so she could help pay for her braces. authorities told her, you may not sell it to people on the streets. it is illegal. the authorities then told her, you can bank. that is legal. her father then sent us this videotape.

john harwood, what are the numbers? >> first of all, let me talk about some of the good things that happened. you mentioned the mandela funeral. that was a good moment for the president. i do think this deal has very important political benefits for president obama, this budget deal we've been talking about. the reason is that congress has been actively harming the economy but the brinksmanship, the government shutdown by the problem with the debt ceiling. i think the debt ceiling is likely to get raised without incident. so for the president to get to the end of the week and say we have a truce on the budget. the facts that the economy is not getting pummeled by the capital, that's a good thing for the president. we had a poll this week that took stock of the effect of the end of year troubles the president had on health care. there's very serious fallout for him. his poll approval rating ticked up just one point since the pop about a month ago at the height of the struggles over health care. still 54% of the people, t

john callahan, in reply. so they agree quickly on the street, the great triumvirate, but then there were not certain about the other two senators. and they decided to choose a leading progressive from the 20th-century and a leading conservative. for the conservative they chose robert taft to have passed away, a stalwart republican senator from ohio. when it came to the progress of there were decisions. kennedy very much wanted to select george norris, a very kind of aggressive, popular senator from nebraska. but the current senator from nebraska had had some run-in's and said, you're not going to select him. in fact he wrote a letter was looks an awful lot like a threat of a filibuster if kennedy actually went forward and suggest to him. and also styles bridges was on the committee. so they ended up doing -- choosing robert from wisconsin. so this was a project that -- and it was interesting for me to just read the paper work, try to piece together the deliberations of the committee and just see the kind of i

i think john, his emotions got ahead of him a little bit. i credit the tea party with getting our mojo back. >> joining me now, steve smich and the washington post. steve, this just sounds like good cop bad cop. boehner said what he had to say. he's not taking that back. paul ryan gets out there and tries to talk in a way that some of the people who might be bothered with what boehner said will start to feel better. >> i think that john boehner had a message that is fundamentally directed to the profit crowd of the republican party. people who sit atop the profit wing of the republican party. those who were available the last decade when it comes to keeping careful watch on the nation's pursestrings and a republican congress. paul ryan, of course, does have future national ambitions. i think john boehner is trying to run the house and he has had great difficulty doing that. >> this budget deal in the senate, it feels odd to me at this point that it doesn't have more public republican support. >> this is peculiar. paul ryan, it's almost easy

and john d. rockefeller and people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitae to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he mad automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people give me mon this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. it's not the "fumbling around with rotating categories" card. it's not the etting blindsided by limits" card. it's the no-game-playing, noarning-limit-having, deep-bomb-throwing, give-me-the-ball-and-i'll-take- it-to-the-h

john: no mmore cuts? they spend more than 3 trillion and that is why it puzzles me that the president say over the past two years he will reduce deficits that more than .5 trillion. more than two thirds of it through spending cuts. john: spending cuts? no, they didn't cut much of anything. the deficit decreased because of the blowup stimulus. and the president proposed increasing spending by less than he wanted to. it's not a cut. and also thisbeing said about obamacare. >> every time they have predicted something not working, it has worked ♪ ♪ john: hardly. they applaud but it didn't work and that's when they postponed a mandate. the problem is that we hav a governme that is so big and so powerful and so expensive and fast that cannot adequately be supervised. >> and senator mike lee is on my nice list for pointing that out and david axelrod agreed with him this year. so he is on the nice side of this as well. along with rand paul, because he demanded that the president come clean about drone strikes

here is senator john mccain. >> this is a grass roots revolution here. it has been peaceful except for when the government tried to crack down on them and the government hasn't done that since. but i'm praising their ability and their desire to demonstrate peacefully for change that i think they deserve. >> well those protests are the largest the country has seen in nine years. >>> senator mccain speaking out about the disappearance of an american in iran. suggesting the cia has not been telling the truth to congr fox news is now confirming that robert levinson was working for the cia when he went missing in 2007. despite claims by the government he was there on private business. secretary of state john kerry saying today the u.s. is still working to find levinson. we are live in our new york city with more. brian. >> reporter: hi, greg. just days after an associated press report revealed levinson was a cia agent on a mission in 2007, the leave annin son family now says the government has abandoned the search but in an interview on this week, john kerry

and the johns will approach her. if she gets all the elements of solicitation, they'll be arrested for soliciting prostitution. >> this san francisco police officer is an undercover decoy who has worked this corner many times. >> this corner is known for transgender and for female prostitutes. a lot of times i will get men who ask me if i'm male or female. >> drug dealers, muggers and sex traffickers also roam the tenderloin so the undercover's safety is a primary concern. >> you never who know the person is pulling up. sex offenders, pimps, we have a an undercover officer. >> is the wire still good? copy. >> as soon as the team assembles at the corner, there is a problem. two regulars have already set up shop and are open for business. >> made contact with them and asked them to leave. >> steve wants the stroll completely clear for the undercover. as soon as the competition moves to another corner, the decoy immediately makes her first date. >> let me know what verbiage you hear coming out. they quickly close in on

john: you said that? [laughter] to george clooney. >> he says raise taxes. >> to drive a toyota petraeus to the m -- jemmies but they have a private airplane and i wish i had a private airplane. >> many advocate to rse taxes but well-connected celebrities are quick to use your tax dodges. >>wning acres of land in new jersey but pays only $100 of state property tax because he raises honeybees' he qualifies for the honeybee subsidy. bruce springsteen owns hundreds of acres of land but pays little tax because a an organic farmer works his land his pour neighbors pay more. >> i don't get anybody trying to lower taxes but bonn jovi and springsteen publicly supporting for obama holding rallies but then cry tax cuts for their riches and they robbed of poverty programs and a social contract with america being destroyed the middle-class is harmed but then you rob those anti-poverty programs by calling yourself a former? that is the hypocrisy that is frustrating to see why i wrote the book calling of these people o

john says that is great news. explain the flip side, john. >> stock markets love gridlock. they don't love when the replaceses or democrats are passing law when -- republicans or democrats are passing laws. the stock are at all-time high not the rruption of money quantitative easing t a year ago, president obama's legislative program ended. ben bernanke will be out at the fed next year. we have a total big credit. this is bullish for the stock market. the two are related. no legislation. great stock. >> gridlock is good for this country. >> it' completely irrelevant. anything congress has or hasn't done did not affect the market. the market is up because people don't have anywhere else to go. if congress would have gotten busy and go with the infrastructure and jobs prgrams you would see real impact. >> rick blames the slow economy on ok instruction. i. what do you say? >> i disagree. the best thing to he americans is a robust economy and the strong jobs. but the government is getting in the way. we can't ignore that we have a $17 trillion debt. as john said so many times t

>> but john, it is kind of the issue because sometimes a rising tide lifts all boats to quote john f. kennedy, rick's favorite president. if you look at what happened under the reagan term, the lower 20% and the top 20% increased by double digits after those tax rate cuts. >> i'm one of those people who believes that income and equality is unrelentingly beautiful. when that expands that means that life-style and equality is shrinking. people generally get rich by virtue of mass producing that which was formerly available to rich people. they're not producing enough inequality and that's giving a great deal less life-style enhancements for those not rich. >> but the ttom line is that when you have a slow economy like we had in the 70s, the rich very often get richer but the poor get poorer. that didn't happen during the reagan era, did it? >> no, it didn't. look, it's not just the obama administration's fault. it's the bush administration's fault. the cheap dollar policy creates financial bubbles. who can take advantage of financial bubble? the rich. the poor always have to sell out at

john boehner called it a modest deal. it has $63 billion over two years in relief from the sequester. that's raising the caps equally for domestic and domestic priorities. it has an additional $22 billion in deficit reduction. just $22 billion over two years. it does not raise taxes and does not touch medicare and social security. therefore, it avoided the hot buttons but does eliminate the threat, we believe, of a government shutdown in january and likely with it a potential debt crisis in february. you had a press conference with paul ryan, the republican chair of the house budget committee. patty murray, democratic chairman of the senate budget committee. paul ryan said conservatives can get behind it and so did patty murray. here's their comments. >> as a conservative i think this is a step in the right direction. what am i getting out of this? more deficit reduction. the deficit will go down more if we pass this. point number two, no tax increases. point number three, we're finally starting to deal with auto pilot sp

john: thank you. nick, sab reason adavid, com, sr rand paul. ♪ grew up in a small town and when the rain wod fall down ♪ ♪ i'd just stare out my window ♪ ♪ dreaming of what could be and if i'd end up happy ♪ ♪ i would pray i could breakaway ♪ ♪ i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly ♪ i'll do what it takes till i touch the sky ♪ ♪ i gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away ♪ ♪ wanna feel the warm breeze, sleep under a palm tree ♪ ♪ feel the rush of the ocean ♪ ♪ get on board a fast train, travel on a jet plane far away ♪ ♪ and break away ♪ out of the darkness and into the sun ♪ ♪ but i won't forget the place i come from ♪ ♪ i gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away ♪ john: in 2013 our rulers added to this pile of rules we muftz must ebamustobecause. together the strong else life. i was delighted when a lawyer i barely knew, sudnly erupted with statements like this one. >> this is an agenda of con

on one side, john d.podesta. when he would lay into other aides, he or they would often turn the name plate around to reveal skippy, the nickname for podesta's hard as nails alter ego. it's openly known, even democratic sources will tell you that president obama's relations with capitol hill are not very good, be it with democrats whose support he needs on health care reform, or republicans whose help he will need if he is to tackle immigration reform. to that end, podesta will be key. he knows the senate very well. he was the chief of staff to patrick leahy, who is the longest serving not only democrat but senator, period. >> he's got a lot of experience. i'm sure he will help the president. stand by, brianna keilar, at the white house. let's dig a little deeper with our chief political analyst, gloria borger, our senior political analyst, david girgen and andy card, chief of staff for president george w. bush, now at the bush school of government at texas a & m university. david, let me start with you. it was a

john is sitting over here. [laughter] >> one last question and we will take some questions from the audience on the affordable care act in the opening here. do you think if the affordable care acted and in place with your health care have been any different? you are covered bye bye insurance the whole time. >> insurance i had, there was a time when i was 23 when i got second hospitalized and had no health insurance. i spent our honeymoon money on medical. later on i learned i needed health insurance and i got the regular who crossed lou shield program and i've had that throughout my life. that basically finance the care and i believe when i left the white house at that point, i think that was the way it worked in terms of my concerns, there are a lot of them. i talk about for example the importance of continuity and doctors. i had my second heart attack in 1984. i was in the congress and the semito bethesda at that time. the care was perfect. i had been in the hospitals and this was my second heart attack. one

i have never underestimated anyone as much as john podesta. the best white house chief staffer in modern times. >> he could save obamacare. >> it is salvageable. thank you for being with us. thank you for watching. see you next week. >> "political capital" is a production of bloomberg television. ♪ >> i am deirdre bolton. welcome to "money moves weekend," where we bring you some of the best interviews from the week on "money moves." our focus is on alternative assets -- places investors are putting their money outside of traditional stocks and bonds. we reach out and speak with experts in the world of private equity, venture-capital, real- estate, and much more about where they see opportunities. today on "money moves weekend," alt strategies for the new year. mimicking hedge fund strategies that offer greater transparency to be traded daily. deil

house speaker john boehner blasted . >> they're misleading their followers. they're pushing our members in places they don't want to be, and frankly i think they have lost all credibility. to defund obamacare and shut down the government. most of you know my members know that was not the strategy that i had in mind. but as you'll recall the day before the government reopened one of the people of one of these groups stood up and said, we never thought it would work. are you kidding me? >> the last of officials years, with votes expected on the budget and approval of jay johnson to head homeland security and janet yellen to be the new chair of the federal reserve. >> here to talk with us over the senate's final days the turn was . norm, unprecedented low ratings for both chambers from the public, has it provided the outside pressure that would have forced these men and women to do something different. >> the last poll showed a 6% approval rating. i heard john mccain at an event, he said we're down to blood relatives and paid staffs, and then he said my mother w

big john. ♪ big john ♪ big john ♪ big bad john >> that's real. that was senator john cornyn trying to show just how texas he was in his last election, we can only imagine what he's going to have to do for this one, after the news dropped yesterday, a primary challenge from the very far right. we will bring you that next. li? because no other mouthwash works like listerine®. in your mouth, bacteria forms in layers. listerine® penetrates these layers deeper than other mouthwashes, killing bacteria all the way down to the bottom layer. so for a cleaner, healthier mouth, go with the mouthwash dentists recommend more than all others combined. #1 dentist recommended listerine®... power to your mouth™. >>> big surprising shake-up in the texas senate race. a primary challenger for republican senator john cornyn, congressman steve stockman also of texas. a man who, and i am saying this totally honestly, when i first encountered his twitter account, i took it to be a parody. the best thing about the earth, is if you poke holes in it, oil and gas come