2012. who will stay and who will go? let s ask our panel this morning. joining us is executive director of the republican party of new york state and former chief minority counsel on the house judiciary committee and author of the book a better congress joseph gibson and the president and c.e.o. of women s campaign forum, shivonne bennett also known as sam. welcome. nice to see you this morning. let me start with you. is this a big deal? a lot of people saying the white house is undergoing some major changes. this is signs that the white house, there s divisions inside the white house. do you read it as something other than that? absolutely not. being in the white house is a real pressure cooker, you can only have people there so long and they ll burn out and axelrod easing out and being replaced and pretty common. the thing i like, i see a lot of clintonesque type appointments going on in the white house right now and lord knows, our economy needs a dose of clintonesque right now.
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up over $480 billion this year setting new records. in fact, so much so, this today this black friday could be the new black friday. some retailers calling it fantastic friday. it is huge because now you get that weekday shopping day before christmas and it could break a record. could eclipse 2007 in terms of the spending they expect up, 3.3% which is a huge number. it looks like things are finally turning around. who is shopping today? men. we shop today! women are all done. women when i was reading the articles about this story, they all said that we are all procrastinating this year because it s been really busy holiday season for all of us. we ve been working extra hard. hold on, you re giving men a pass here. we re giving you a layup right now and men, according to the retail one of the mall at the mall of america, i believe, saying that, in fact, almost all the shoppers are going to see today will be men running out the last minute and there s a piece in the ne
and getting hammered by the press for a couple of hours every day. i would be a nervous wreck! i would not be able to do that. it would be difficult. e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. who would you like to see out of the obama white house? we ve heard whispers that arnold schwarzenegger could get an appointment in the obama administration but time will tell. meanwhile, the white house staff isn t the only thing changing. congress also undergoing some big changes this year. fox news reporter doug lazader has more. twas the night before christmas and all through the house. well, frankly, it s a mess on christmas eve. and one of the people who is usually here to the bitter end is fox s capitol hill producer chad pergrom bundled up against the chill of winter and making his way to the hallowed halls. you remember that scene from the very end of indiana jones where the camera starts in close and then begins to widen out.
keep private if there s something actual intelligence about this? or should they get the word out? you know what i m saying? create kind of a bottleneck, you know what? we ll leave the thermoses home now and then people can move through security a little bit more quickly if they re not concerned about it. for the second straight day, there s been a security scare involving a runaway car and the united states president. that s not something we say every day. last night, a man being chased by police blew through a security checkpoint near the neighborhood where president obama is staying in hawaii. molly henneberg has the latest from washington. hey, molly. good morning, ainsley, clayton and dave. this is the third straight year that the obamas will spend christmas in hawaii and although there was some police activity. in fact, a high speed chase, near the neighborhood where the first family has rented a house, officials say it was not related to the president s visit. during his 1