rushed to a nantucket hospital while vacationing with her family off the island of cape cod. a few hours later she was flown to massachusetts general in boston. she is still in critical condition. we are outside of massachusetts general hospital. the information we have is that this incident occurred on nantucket. she was rushed to the nantucket cottage hospital and brought to massachusetts general hospital. the secretary of state, her husband john kerry at her side during course of this. the family is grateful for ought outpouring of respect but they are asking for privacy at this time. we are told secretary kerry was afforded the equivalent of the
and then as soon as he lands, or very quickly after that, he heads for nantucket. now, in nantucket, on nantucket, he has a boat, a very nice one, and you can see it in this cbs picture. cbs producer was on the spot. they noticed, that producer noticed secretary kerry, yelled out something about morsi. there was no reply. but then that producer began tweeting about it. now, that day, secretary kerry did make a lot of phone calls and there was an important one, a conference, a meeting at the white house at the situation room with president obama and other senior officials. and so, the implication was that he was basically phoning it in from his boat. thursday, jen psaki, who s the spokesperson for the state department, denied that he was on any boat. she said, any report or tweet that he was on a boat is completely inaccurate. and then today, friday, there was basically an oops from jen
jamie: more on what has reportedly deadly protests in egypt following a coup. as we told you protestors have been fighting it out in cairo today. leaders from around the world including the u.s. watching very closely and jennifer griffin is live with more. what are u.s. officials saying about the changes in egypt? so far the white house and other administration officials have refused to refer to the egyptian military removal of president morsi as a coup. the president left the white house to play golf at andrews and he took off for ry remains on nantucket and is facing criticism boating while
back to hardball. now to the sideshow. first bring on thanksgiving on nantucket. how about a cold dive in the ocean? that s how vice president joe biden spent his thanksgiving a.m. they took part in the annual cold turkey plunge, the fund-raiser for the local library. cold might be an understatement for the water temperature in nantucket this time of year is about 40-something. for a less festive side of the holidays, the american family association, which i think is on the right, has released its annual naughty/nice list of companies that celebrate christmas only at the cash register. as a rule of thumb, if a company winds up on the naughty list, it s because it doesn t use the word christmas in its christmas sales pitches. the against christmas list includes barnes & noble, i actually love that company, office depot, and banana republic. the rankings doesn t reflect the companies charitable giving during the holidays. barnes & noble, for example, runs a holiday book drive. n
happened during that election was really they turned around kerry s war record with veterans of truth, i talk about this in the book and made it all sort of a referendum on his claim to be a hero. bill: there was all of that. that went to character and what i see at the network news now is basically they re trying, they being certain individuals, not everyone. i just want to mention it s not everybody but certain individuals trying to portray romney as this rich, out of touch guy. we saw a clip of diane sawyer in the cold open saying, you know, you and your party out of touch. there isn t anybody more wealthy than john kerry. he lives on beacon hill and he has a house on nantucket and wind surfing all over the place, all right, he s a swell. yet, it was never mentioned and now romney, that s the theme. and so some people might say, look, they re trying to demonize romney because of his money while they gave kerry a pass. i m not saying that they shouldn t have they shouldn t cove