president obama finishes up in about a year, which, according to the tonight show, makes him just like kobe bryant. kobe actually said he s going to retire at the end of the season. he made the announcement in a poem published on the player s tribune. he s not the only person who s retiring in 2016. president obama will be finishing up his second term. and he actually published a poem of his own. take a look. america, the time is near. there now remains but one more year. i ll tell you this, cause you re my friend. i can t wait for this hell to end. that was sweet. and that s your morning dish on scrambled politics. i m joined now by political analyst and best-selling author ellis henican. good morning, ellis. good morning. a lot of laughs there on the campaign trail. i m sorry i didn t bring a poem. i didn t know that was the homework today. i liked his impression of president obama. spot-on, jimmy fallon. absolutely. shall we begin with hillary clinton s e-ma
time now for your tuesday edition of scrambled politics. it was a busy day for hillary clinton. the largest batch of her e-mails are now public. the state department released 7800 pages spanning from 2012 to 2013. that includes the day following the attack on benghazi. with the now declassified update that initially indicated that internet film was, in fact, responsible for the attack. also revealed, nicknames for mitt romney and newt gingrich. mittens, and grinch. those are her words. also yesterday, clinton held an event with 13 of the 14 democratic women senators. the only no-show, progressive icon senator elizabeth warren. bernie sanders will be back at it today, taking time off yesterday for an elective outpatient procedure on a hernia. he also leads online voting for time magazine s person of the year, at more than 10%, almost double second place, malala yousafzai. that will be revealed on the
eventually later today we ll watch some of that heavier rain moving into areas just north of atlanta, too, into georgia. this heavier rain total is in blue. that s one inch. purple over the next two days is two inches of rain and that does include the asheville area. today s forecast maybe some possible travel delays, new york, baltimore, philly and d.c. especially at the airports. and we re starting to warm it up in the middle of the country after they had that horrible ice storm. oklahoma is looking much better. all right, bill, thank you so much. scrambled politics is up next. may not work. but a few might shape the future. like turning algae into biofuel. .new technology for capturing co2 emissions. .and cars twice as efficient as the average car today. ideas exxonmobil scientists are working on to make energy go further. .no matter how many tries it takes. energy lives here. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it s a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretendin
clinton, boston mayor marty walsh. clinton rolled out a $275 billion infrastructure plan. president obama went on a book spending spree for small business saturday, he took sasha and malia to a store in d.c. his list was a mix of adult works and young. purity with a character similar to edward snowden. britain s queen elizabeth was in her 50s when trudeau was a pm. now appearing with trudeau s son justin, not lost on an 89-year-old queen. thank you, mr. prime minister of canada, who made me feel a bit old. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. time to welcome in kevin cirelli, politics reporter for bloomberg. hope you had a great thanksgiving. same to you and happy cyber monday to you.
trial today. william porter is the first of six to be tried in the death of freddie gray. prosecutors say that gray told porter twice that he needed medical attention but medics were never called. porter is charged with manslaughter and misconduct. he has pled not guilty. a scary scene in southern virginia last night, a bus carrying 50 passengers overturned. many of them were students from virginia tech, uva returning to school after thanksgiving. at least 35 people were hurt, one critically. the bus driver was charged with reckless driving. check this out. unbelievable video. what is it? three vehicles looking as if they re levitatlevitating. is it ghosts? something else? well it is something else, a steel wire got entangled with the three vehicles and caused that mess. that would be weird as you re driving. a major about-face for donald trump, plus canada s prime minister strikes a sensitive nerve with queen elizabeth. scrambled politics is next.