Correct The Record Tuesday November 25, 2014 Afternoon Roundup

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*​**Correct The Record Tuesday November 25, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:* *Tweets:* *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: Watch the new @CorrectRecord <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord> video, “The American Dream: Hillary Clinton Writing A New Chapter”http://youtu.be/Nezan76vwhc <http://t.co/5PBKtbra3c>[11/24/14, 4:16 p.m. EST <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/536991677940895744>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> pushed for equality in education for girls & boys #HRC365 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash> http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/HILLARY_Bio.html … <http://t.co/nM4DfPuUE2> [11/24/14, 1:31 p.m. EST <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/536950162304671744>] *Headlines:* *Bloomberg Businessweek: “Scene Last Night: Clinton, Schwarzman, Corzine, Neidich, Diamond” <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-25/scene-last-night-clinton-schwarzman-corzine-neidich-diamond>* “Clinton was honored and sat with Brooke Garber Neidich, a friend and co-founder of the Child Mind Institute, who’s eager to become a grandmother herself.” *CNN: “Schumer on 2016: 'Democrats must embrace government'” <http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/politics/schumer-democrats-press-club-plan/>* “Schumer's argument was that Democrats must regain the mantle as the party for the middle class by focusing laser-like on populist legislation the benefits a large number of voters and sticks to a coherent, simple message. This ‘strategy must become our blueprint. Indeed it should unite Democrats from Elizabeth Warren to Hillary Clinton to Joe Manchin,’ Schumer argued, noting politicians across the Democratic spectrum.” *ABC News: “The Note: Ferguson Under Fire” <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/11/the-note-ferguson-under-fire/>* *ABC’S LIZ KREUTZ:* “Speaking at the Child Mind Institute’s 5th anniversary gala, Hillary Clinton last night told a seated crowd at the Cipriani restaurant in midtown Manhattan that there is still too much of a stigma around the care and treatment for mental health patients and that while it has ‘never really been a priority on a national agenda’ – it needs to be.” *National Journal: “When Will Hillary Clinton Stake Out Her Policy Positions?” <http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/when-will-hillary-clinton-stake-out-her-policy-positions-20141125>* [Subtitle:] “Whenever she wants to—for better or for worse.” *Articles:* *Bloomberg Businessweek: “Scene Last Night: Clinton, Schwarzman, Corzine, Neidich, Diamond” <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-25/scene-last-night-clinton-schwarzman-corzine-neidich-diamond>* By Amanda Gordon November 25, 2014 Steve Schwarzman had a granddaughter yesterday morning. Last night he sat one table away from new grandmother Hillary Clinton. On the joys of grandparenting, they can agree. “You almost only get the good times,” said Schwarzman, the chairman and chief executive of Blackstone Group LP, who supported Mitt Romney for president in 2012. “She really is remarkable,” Clinton, a probable Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, said of eight-week-old Charlotte. The occasion was the fifth anniversary gala of the New York-based Child Mind Institute, which treats children with mental illness and researches the developing brain. Clinton was honored and sat with Brooke Garber Neidich, a friend and co-founder of the Child Mind Institute, who’s eager to become a grandmother herself. “I’m dying for it,” Neidich said. Until then, Neidich gets to live vicariously through Clinton. “She is so psyched, you have no idea,” Neidich said. “You can tell, there is nothing that matters more, period. World peace, OK, grandmother, let’s go for it.” Jon Corzine noticed a change in Clinton last night. “She is beaming way more than anything that I normally see out of her,” the former governor of New Jersey and former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said. “Since I have five grandchildren and it’s the happiest part of my life, I know it resonates with her.” *Clinton’s Prospects* Being a grandmother “should help” her candidacy, Corzine said. Asked about Wall Street getting behind her, Corzine said, “I’m sort of removed.” Goldman partner Ram Sundaram, David Shapiro of KPS Capital Partners, Carlyle Group’s Olivier Sarkozy and Thomas H. Lee of Lee Equity Partners were among the Wall Streeters at the event, which was held at Cipriani 42nd Street and raised $6.6 million. Clinton was also honored on Nov. 21, by the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, an event that raised $2.5 million and drew its share of finance types, including Robert Diamond, chief executive of Atlas Merchant Capital and former CEO of Barclays Plc; Richard Gilder, co-creator of Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co.; hedge-fund manager Joseph DiMenna and Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. *Isaacson Interview* For this crowd at the Mandarin Oriental, Aspen Institute head and author Walter Isaacson interviewed Clinton, getting her talking a lot about the Roosevelts and a little about her granddaughter. Six days after Charlotte was born, Clinton said, she had lunch with Bernard Schwartz at the Four Seasons. “I didn’t realize I spent almost the whole time talking about her,” she said. Later her brush broadened to consider Charlotte’s future. “I’m excited about whatever she’ll wind up doing -- of course she’s brilliant, advanced, wonderful and all of that -- but I think talent is universal but opportunity is not,” Clinton said. “I think there were babies born in this country on the same day that Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was born who are just as smart and will never have the opportunities to go just as far, and that bothers me.” Clinton left Charlotte out of her remarks at the Child Mind Institute benefit, instead focusing on children’s mental health needs as “every bit as important as their physical health.” *Prison Care* She expressed disappointment that this notion “is not yet firmly enough embedded in our national understanding,” giving as an extreme example that prisons have become primary providers of mental-health care. And she traced her interest in child development to her days at Yale Law School, when she said she took a year to study at the Yale Child Study Center, observing clinical sessions. More recently, Clinton Foundation research alerted her to the number of connections in a newborn’s brain. “These early years are a period of great opportunity and vulnerability,” Clinton said. No wonder grandparents are good to have around at this stage, or as the other honoree, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, put it: “For millennia, we grew up as tribes where multiple generations were together,” Insel said from his dinner seat. “The idea that you’d have three generations that would be separated in time and space, that was not the way we evolved as a species.” Next to him, novelist Erica Jong set the record straight: “Grandmothers should be ruling the world,” she said. *‘Busy Lady’* Harold Koplewicz, founding president of the Child Mind Institute, said raising a healthy child is “all time and attention. That means sometimes it’s not about quality, it’s about quantity. Hillary is a busy lady, but Charlotte needs to be one of the priorities. With someone as organized as Hillary, Charlotte’s going to get that. I know Hillary and I assure you, there will be a playpen in the Oval Office because Hillary knows what’s important.” And if Clinton doesn’t run for president? “Charlotte’s got the genes,” Koplewicz said. As for Steve Schwarzman: the latest addition to his family arrived at 6:30 a.m. and her name is Mary, daughter of his son Teddy, he said. And she’s just the start of the family’s excitement these days, as Mary’s smiling grandmother, Ellen Katz, Schwarzman’s ex-wife, noted from her table across the room. “The Imitation Game” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, which Teddy produced, comes out on Nov. 28 in the U.S. “and it’s going to be a blockbuster,” Katz said. Teddy’s sister Zibby is due to have a baby next month. What might be the perfect baby gift? The Child Mind Institute had an answer: an $18, special-edition Bloomingdale’s teddy bear, a bigger example of which shared the red carpet with guests. Two dollars of every sale will go the Institute. *CNN: “Schumer on 2016: 'Democrats must embrace government'” <http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/politics/schumer-democrats-press-club-plan/>* By Dan Merica November 25, 2014, 12:50 p.m. EST Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that in order for his party to win in 2016, his party will have to run on big government, "not run away from it." During a long, scripted speech at the National Press Club in Washington, the boisterous New Yorker heralded government -- and its programs to aid the middle class -- as what "unites" the party. "Together, Democrats must embrace government," Schumer said. "In order to win in 2016, Democrats must embrace government, not run away from it." Schumer's argument was that Democrats must regain the mantle as the party for the middle class by focusing laser-like on populist legislation the benefits a large number of voters and sticks to a coherent, simple message. This "strategy must become our blueprint. Indeed it should unite Democrats from Elizabeth Warren to Hillary Clinton to Joe Manchin," Schumer argued, noting politicians across the Democratic spectrum. During a speech that was as much a history lesson as it was guiding vision, Schumer faulted Democrats for, in his opinion, fumbling the mandate they won in 2008 by focusing on the Affordable Care Act -- also known as Obamacare -- at the outset of the Obama administration. "After passing the stimulus, Democrats should have continued to propose middle class-oriented programs and built on the partial success of the stimulus, but unfortunately Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them," Schumer said. "We took their mandate and put all our focus on the wrong problem - health care reform." He added, "The focus on Obamacare gave anti-government forces and the Republican Party new vigor and new life, at least temporarily" and led to their wins in 2010. Schumer told the assembled reporters that the Affordable Care Act was "a good bill" that "should have come later." Instead, Schumer said the reason he opposed pushing health care early in 2009 was that he law did not affect enough of the electorate to be worth the political capital it cost. "To aim a huge change in mandate at such a small percentage of the electorate made no political sense," Schumer said. "So when Democrats focused on health care, the average middle class person thought, 'the Democrats are not paying enough attention to me.'" Schumer's remarks come at a turbulent time for Democrats. The 2014 election saw massive Republican wins across the country. Democrats fell deeper into the minority in the House and Republicans took back the Senate. Republicans, who have argued the nation wants smaller, less involved government -- and point to their 2014 election win -- seized on the senator's speech. "Schumer's message has an old car stank to it," said Brad Dayspring, strategist with the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "Embracing a dysfunctional government that is 17 trillion in debt is a thumb in the eye to middle class voters and young Americans, but reflects how out of touch Democrats are heading into 2016." *ABC News: “The Note: Ferguson Under Fire” <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/11/the-note-ferguson-under-fire/>* By Shushannah Walshe November 25, 2014, 8:53 a.m. EST *NOTABLES* - *FERGUSON LATEST: *Live Updates as Ferguson reacts to grand jury’s decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson: http://abcn.ws/11rIqK6 And more from the unrest overnight, which St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said was “worse than the worst night we ever had in August” http://abcn.ws/11sl5rv And details from the evidence the grand jury heard: http://abcn.ws/1piuZqQ - *OBAMA URGES CALM:* *President Obama* <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/barack-obama.htm> last night urged the public to accept the *grand jury’s decision* <http://abcnews.go.com/US/ferguson-grand-jury-indict-officer-darren-wilson-death/story?id=27146400> not to indict the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager this past summer, saying that “it’s an outcome that, either way, was going to be subject to intense disagreement,” *ABC’S DEVIN DWYER* and *MEGHAN KENEALLY *report. “We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make,” he said…”Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” he said. At the same time, the president also appealed to law enforcement officials in Ferguson to “show care and restraint.” “The situation in Ferguson speaks to the broader challenges we still face as a nation,” Obama said, noting that “a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color.http://abcn.ws/1xwlFNQ - *WILL HE GO?* *ABC’S MARY BRUCE *reports the president is still considering a visit to Ferguson, but it won’t be today, according to the White House. Reminder, the president will be nearby in Chicago this afternoon highlighting his executive action on immigration. Last night, the president was asked if he will pay a visit to Ferguson. “Well, let’s take a look and see how things are going. Eric Holder has been there. We’ve had a whole team from the Justice Department there, and I think that they have done some very good work. As I said, the vast majority of the community has been working very hard to try to make sure that this becomes an opportunity for us to seize the moment and turn this into a positive situation,” the president answered. “But I think that we have to make sure that we focus at least as much attention on all those positive activities that are taking place as we do on a handful of folks who end up using this as an excuse to misbehave or to break the law or to engage in violence.” - *DOJ INVESTIGATION CONTINUES:* Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement, according to *ABC’s MIKE LEVINE* saying in part: ”While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department’s investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing…the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now. Even at this mature stage of the investigation, we have avoided prejudging any of the evidence. And although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions…In addition, the Department continues to investigate allegations of unconstitutional policing patterns or practices by the Ferguson Police Department…Those who decide to participate in demonstrations should remember the wishes of Michael Brown’s parents, who have asked that remembrances of their son be conducted peacefully. It does not honor his memory to engage in violence or looting.” *WATCH ABC’s PIERRE THOMAS’* reporting on*GOOD MORNING AMERICA* on this investigation: http://abcn.ws/15ml6Qj - *MISSOURI SENATORS REACT: ABC’s ARLETTE SAENZ* notes both Sen. Claire McCaskill and Sen. Roy Blunt released statements after the grand jury’s decision. *McCaskill:* “There will be many people who are disappointed in today’s decision, even though it is a result of a deliberate legal process that’s being independently checked by Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Justice Department. While we await the conclusion of that independent investigation—and continue working together for solutions to systemic issues highlighted by this tragedy—I’m praying that the good people of St. Louis and local law enforcement will remain peaceful and respectful of one another.”*Blunt:* “Michael Brown’s death was a tragic loss for his family and for the community…We must balance the rights of Americans to exercise their free speech alongside the rights of people to live peacefully and safely in their communities. …Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.” - *IN OTHER (BIG) NEWS: *Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s resignation Monday morning sparked speculation about President Obama’s next potential nominee, who will have to lead the Defense Department in its fight against ISIS. *ABC’s VERONICA STRACQUALURSI *and *KIRSTEN APPLETON*take a look at some potential nominees. http://abcn.ws/1uSqVyx *ABC’S LUIS MARTINEZ* reports it will take a while before the potential nominee gets into the job because the choice will likely have to go to the new Congress. The expectation in the building is it could be as late as February before the new Defense Secretary takes over. - *THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY:* In Chicago, the president is expected to highlight the economic impact of his executive actions, *ABC’S MARY BRUCE *reports. An administration official notes that immigrants and their children start one-third of all new businesses in the US. The president will also likely hit on the fact that immigrants give the U.S. a strong entrepreneurial advantage. And once again, he will call on Congress to “finish this job” and pass a bill. - *DNC NARROWS TO THREE:* Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced the finalist cities under consideration to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention: Columbus, Philadelphia, and New York—specifically Brooklyn. From the statement: “The announcement comes after a round of site visits by the DNC’s Technical Advisory Group to five cities…In addition, the DNC announced the potential weeks for the 2016 convention that will be under consideration: Weeks of July 18, July 25, and August 22. The DNC will announce a final city and date early next year.” *THE ROUNDTABLE* *ABC’s RICK KLEIN:* President Obama appealed to the nation for calm. Calm the nation was not, at least if its cable television images are any guide. The looting and the fires and the clashes had already begun by the time the president advised the American people that “there are ways of channeling your concerns constructively and there are ways of channeling your concerns destructively.” Racially charged incidents have had a way of bringing out the president’s own competing urges. His brief statement Monday night featured the word “but” nine times, as if he was arguing cases against himself. The next choice for the president: Does he visit Ferguson? He’ll be in the Midwest, in Chicago, on Tuesday… *ABC’S TOM SHINE:* One solution to insane generic drug price increases—”let some competition in from over the border,” says Sen. Amy Klobuchar. The New York Times says Klobuchar and John McCain will soon “revive stalled legislation to allow some prescription imports from Canada.” The article also says Maine is testing a new law that permits its residents to buy drugs from Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In fact according to the Times, “companies have been set up in Canada and Britain specifically to sell prescription drugs to Mainers,” part of an effort to counter what one economist calls, “The wild, wild, west of drug pricing.” http://nyti.ms/1vjra5p <http://nyti.ms/1vjra5p> *ABC’S LIZ KREUTZ:* Speaking at the Child Mind Institute’s 5th anniversary gala, Hillary Clinton last night told a seated crowd at the Cipriani restaurant in midtown Manhattan that there is still too much of a stigma around the care and treatment for mental health patients and that while it has “never really been a priority on a national agenda” – it needs to be. “Sadly it is not yet firmly embedded in our national understanding… so that we all recognize the work that must be done and the fact that we still face stigmas around the treatment and care of children who have these mental health challenges,” Clinton, who was honored with the group’s Child Advocacy Award, said. “We have to fight to remove the stigmas,” she continued, “And ask ourselves what more we, the cities, states and our nation needs to do to.” These remarks came the same night the grand jury in Ferguson announced they would not indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting and killing of teenager, Michael Brown. Clinton, who was seen seated during the dinner at the same table as the Olsen twins, did not comment on the situation and slipped out of the restaurant before the decision was announced. *WHAT WE’RE WATCHING * *THE FORGOTTEN FIRST PRESIDENT:* Who was the first president of the United States? According to some, it wasn’t George Washington. Pass the gravy and get ready for a history lesson. It was actually John Hanson, a founding father whose name is largely forgotten in the pages of American history – until now. *ABC’S RICK KLEIN *traveled to Frederick, Maryland – home to Hanson, who was the first elected president of the Continental Congress in 1781 – and he also helped establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. * WATCH *this episode of Top Line: http://yhoo.it/1FmVLlX *WHAT WE’RE READING* *IN FERGUSON: BUSINESSES BURN, POLICE CARS TORCHED AS VIOLENCE ‘MUCH WORSE’ THAN AUGUST by THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: *At least 61 people were arrested, said St. Louis County Police Sgt. Brian Schellman. Charges ranged from burglary to trespassing to receiving stolen property…(Belmar) said he was grateful nobody was killed but disappointed at the amount of damage in the Ferguson area…He said that there was basically “nothing left” along West Florissant between Solway Avenue and Chambers Road. “Frankly, I’m heartbroken about that,” he said. Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson said, “We talked about peaceful protest, and that did not happen tonight. We definitely have done something here that’s going to impact our community for a long time…that’s not how we create change.” http://bit.ly/1zpdWDC *HOW OBAMA DUMPED HAGEL by Glenn Thrush of Politico:* When President Obama first summoned Chuck Hagel to the Oval Office in October, he wanted to know how his Pentagon chief planned to cope with the dangerous new threat posed by the Islamic State that had drawn the reluctant president back into war in the Middle East, not to mention getting a sense of Hagel’s other plans for the final two years of Obama’s presidency. But after several lackluster, low-energy sessions, Obama was so unimpressed by the performance of his laconic, self-effacing defense secretary that he decided Hagel “just wasn’t the man for the job,” according to a senior administration official. That set in motion the decision that led to Hagel’s decorous dumping on Monday by a president who almost never fires anybody—and never admits it when he does. http://politi.co/1rnD8G0 *THE BUZZ* *with ABC’s KIRSTEN APPLETON* *DEFENSE SECRETARY CHUCK HAGEL TO STEP DOWN. *Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down, *ABC’s LUIS MARTINEZ, JEFF ZELENY, *and *MARTHA RADDATZ *report. Flanked by Hagel and Vice President Biden, President Obama announced the Secretary’s departure Monday morning from the White House’s State Dining Room. According to a senior administration official, “Secretary Hagel began speaking with the President about departing the Administration given the natural post-midterms transition time” in October. It didn’t come as a big surprise, one longtime associate of Hagel tells ABC News. “He took the job to end the war–not start another one,” this associate of Hagel’s told ABC. The senior administration official indicated that a successor “will be named in short order.” Hagel will remain on until the successor has been confirmed. http://abcn.ws/1C54VVW *HOW CHUCK HAGEL’S RESIGNATION MIGHT AFFECT ISIS FIGHT. *Chuck Hagel’s departure as Defense Secretary will probably have a minimal impact on the administration’s three part strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria that is expected to take years. Hagel had raised questions about the strategy’s lack of focus on the Syrian regime of Bashar al Assad, but not about the president’s decision that American troops sent to Iraq will not serve as combat troops. Online supporters of the Islamic terror group ISIS have taken to Twitter to cheer the resignation of Chuck Hagel, claiming it was ISIS that forced him out. Regardless of how ISIS supporters may want to interpret Hagel’s resignation, it does not mean the administration’s strategy to combat ISIS is about to change, *ABC’s LUIS MARTINEZ *reports. http://abcn.ws/1AI1KC0 *HAGEL DEPARTURE LEAVES OBAMA CABINET LESS COLORFUL. *With the resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s cabinet just got a lot less colorful, *ABC’s DEVIN DWYER* notes. The former senator from Nebraska and Vietnam war veteran has long won the fascination of the blogosphere and social media users for his patterned socks, bright sweaters, colorful polo shirts and casual shoes, all worn while on the job. He famously wore a bright pink button down beneath a beige blazer for a meeting with the president in the Situation Room. http://abcn.ws/1tf3Dya *JOHN MCCAIN ‘STRONGLY ENCOURAGING’ LINDSEY GRAHAM TO CONSIDER 2016 RUN.* *ABC’s ARLETTE SAENZ *and *JEFF ZELENY *report Sen. John McCain is prodding one of his closest allies in the Senate to consider a run for the White House – Sen. Lindsey Graham. “I think he is looking at it, and I am strongly encouraging him to take a look at it,” McCain, R-Ariz., told ABC News. “I know of no one who is better versed and more important on national security policy and defense than Lindsey Graham, and I don’t think these challenges to our security are going away.” In an interview with The Weekly Standard last month, Graham, R-S.C., said he might consider a presidential bid after this year’s midterm elections if other candidates aren’t promoting an aggressive foreign policy agenda. http://abcn.ws/1vFoD7V *REP.-ELECT DEBBIE DINGELL ON WHAT HER HUSBAND JOHN IS NOT TELLING HER. *Rep.-Elect Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, is no stranger to the halls of the Congress. Her husband, the 88-year-old dean of the House, Rep. John Dingell, has served on the Hill since 1955. But now, Rep.-Elect Dingell, 61, is set to take on the U.S. Congress herself — representing her retiring husband’s old district in the 114th Congress. *ABC’s ERIN DOOLEY *reports that on the campaign trail, the two were careful to maintain a “concrete wall.” http://abcn.ws/11rj13h *COLUMN: HOW TO FIX AMERICA’S STILL-EXISTING SEXISM DYNAMIC.* For how far men and women have come through the years, we are still a culture where many are trapped in old models and ways. The tragic circumstances surrounding cultural icon Bill Cosby and those who have come forward to accuse Cosby of sexual abuse puts such a highlight on the sexism dynamic which still is rooted in our culture, says *ABC’s MATTHEW DOWD. * http://abcn.ws/1pgVZXI *IN CASE YOU MISSED IT* *TOP 5 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THIS YEAR’S MEDAL OF FREEDOM CEREMONY.* President Obama honored 19 impressive individuals with the nation’s highest civilian honor. According to *ABC’s MARY BRUCE,* the president heaped praise on the recipients, highlighting their distinguished and varied accomplishments. He also revealed some interesting anecdotes about the trailblazers. http://abcn.ws/1yOnSX8 *IN THE NOTE’S INBOX* *New Quinnipiac University poll out this morning:* American voters are divided on whether President Barack Obama should take action to address the immigration issue if Congress fails to act, as 45 percent say the president should issue an executive order while 48 percent say he should not…American voters give Obama a negative 39 – 54 percent approval rating, close to his lowest-ever 38 – 57 percent score in a December 10, 2013, Quinnipiac University poll…Offered three choices on what to do about illegal immigrants 48 percent of American voters say they should be allowed to stay, with a path to citizenship, down from 57 percent November 13, 2013, and the lowest this number ever has been, 11 percent say immigrants should be allowed to stay, but not be allowed to apply for citizenship, consistent with previous surveys, 35 percent say illegal immigrants should be required to leave the U.S., up from 26 percent 12 months ago and higher than this number ever has been. http://bit.ly/1yQYuzZ *Americans United for Change out with a new Immigration Web Video: “Pass A Bill”* “It’s a montage of Congressional Republicans on cable news excitedly weighing their options for responding to the Executive Immigration Action including censuring the President, suing the President, launching an investigation, and blocking nominees. But for some reason the most simple and responsible option keeps slipping their minds: passing the bipartisan Senate bill, or any immigration bill for that matter.” It’s backed by paid ads on Facebook and Twitter. http://bit.ly/1C9TV9R *WHO’S TWEETING?* @GStephanopoulos <https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos> In St. Louis this morn for @GMA <https://twitter.com/GMA> after grand jury decision in #Ferguson <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash>-violent night here. Shots fired, buildings burned, Natl Guard here. @RealClearScott <https://twitter.com/RealClearScott> · Often overlooked amid the GOP’s rebranding effort, Christian conservatives aim to find their horse in 2016: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/25/christian_conservatives_plot_2016_revival__124747.html … @CahnEmily <https://twitter.com/CahnEmily> The Anti-Cantor: @DaveBratVA7th <https://twitter.com/DaveBratVA7th> On Bringing Rationality to Washington http://bit.ly/1xyUVMN <http://t.co/spczztT8hE> @MattFriedmanSL <https://twitter.com/MattFriedmanSL>Christie administration gave key @govchristie <https://twitter.com/GovChristie> ally’s son a job, apparently without giving others a chance to apply http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/nj_state_job_won_by_essex_county_executive_joe_divincenzos_son_was_never_publicly_advertised.html … <http://t.co/pUohWMDS9m> @TheStalwart <https://twitter.com/TheStalwart> BEEEAAAT. GDP rises 3.9% *National Journal: “When Will Hillary Clinton Stake Out Her Policy Positions?” <http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/when-will-hillary-clinton-stake-out-her-policy-positions-20141125>* By Emma Roller November 25, 2014 [Subtitle:] Whenever she wants to—for better or for worse. Hillary Clinton barely has to lift a finger to command an astonishing lead in a presidential primary that's still 405 days away. A recent Bloomberg Politics poll found that 62 percent of likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire said they'd support Clinton for president in 2016. In many ways, Clinton is a very well-known quantity—after all, she's been a public figure for more than 30 years. But on many specific policies, Clinton has remained coy, often opting to speak out about women's equality in the workplace rather than tackling the political debates of the day. Should she run for president a second time, she's given little indication as to what that her campaign would look like, or what policy platform would form its framework. Even Democratic loyalists seem to be confused about what Clinton's philosophy going into 2016 would look like. As Ryan Lizza recently wrote, "everyone in the party seems to be supporting her, and yet nobody can articulate exactly why." We got perhaps the first real policy position from Clinton on Thursday, when she voiced her support for President Obama's executive action on immigration. So, when can progressive policy wonks (and reporters) expect more fleshed-out policies from Clinton? Don't hold your breath. An educated guess would be shortly after she announces her candidacy—if she does, in fact, decide to run—in "early 2015." Joe Trippi, a veteran Democratic operative, said that Clinton would be ill-advised to start laying out her platform until she and other serious Democratic opponents have announced their candidacy. "There's no imminent reason for her to have to start doing that," Trippi said. "The clock's not ticking on any of that for her, because of all the advantages she already has." That may be a fine strategy for the many solid-blue Democrats who have already mentally cast their vote for Clinton in 2016, but some progressive activists are wary about her record. The progressive wing of the party right now is particularly focused on two areas—blocking the Keystone Pipeline and reforming the National Security Agency's mass-surveillance programs. Clinton's near silence on both isn't going over well. *NSA reform* It's been more than a year since NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked a trove of top-secret documents exposing the U.S. government's mass surveillance apparatus. Last week, Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would rein in the NSA's spy programs. Clinton could have easily penned an op-ed about the stalled bill in the Times or the Post, or even issue a statement as she did after Obama's immigration announcement. Instead, she chose to say nothing. Neema Singh Guliani, a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said Clinton will need to break her silence on NSA reform soon. "You've seen prominent political figures stake out a position and express their concern. You see, for example, Jim Sensenbrenner—who was one of the drafters of the PATRIOT Act—say, 'Look, this isn't what I intended,'" Guliani told National Journal. "If she is a presidential candidate, I don't think this is an issue that she's going to be able to avoid, and I don't think it's an issue that really any candidate is going to be able to avoid." On privacy, Clinton's legislative record is somewhat of a mixed bag. After 9/11, she voted for the PATRIOT Act—along with 96 of her fellow senators. In 2008, she voted against an amended version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which paved the way for the surveillance systems, along with the wide berth given to the government to monitor American civilians. Since her time in the Senate, Clinton has largely stuck to platitudes about balancing privacy with national security interests. On the campaign trail she praised Sen. Mark Udall for calling for NSA reform. But back in April, she told a crowd of college students that the Snowden leaks "gave all kinds of information, not only to big countries, but to networks and terrorist groups and the like." Privacy activists are perplexed by Clinton's apparent cognitive dissonance. "I think it's really hard to tell what her position is," Guliani said. "When we look at her prior voting history, that was before the disclosures, and I think before the public and before members of Congress frankly knew what was happening. And so whether that changes things, I think it really remains to be seen." *Keystone Pipeline* Aside from immigration, government funding and the ongoing battle against the Islamic State group, the Keystone Pipeline may be the biggest legislative topic facing Congress. Yet, despite campaigning for pipeline-advocate Sen. Mary Landrieu, Clinton has maintained radio silence on the crude oil pipeline, which would stretch from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental activists have found her response to the fossil fuel debate in general, and Keystone specifically, to be lacking, to say the least. Bill Snape, a senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity, told National Journal that while Keystone may seem like a niche concern, it represents a far larger ideological rift. "The fundamental issue with Keystone for Hillary is that it's a microcosm of her position on fossil fuels in general," Snape said. "She's trying to straddle a number of worlds right now...at some point, you're going to have to make a decision." Jerry Austin, an Ohio Democratic strategist and Jesse Jackson's former campaign manager, pointed out that if Clinton were still secretary of state, the Keystone Pipeline would be "under her aegis." As it stands, Clinton is still a quasi-private citizen, and she's said next to nothing on the topic. "Because she is a presumptive candidate, everybody wants to know where she stands on these issues," Austin said. "I don't think she can get away with waiting a long period of time to answer them." But while it may irk activists, some Democratic strategists say silence can be a virtue. "It's better to really formulate the policies that she wants to implement and govern with, and only when she's ready to articulate those would I advise her to go out and talk about them," Trippi said. "Understanding where you want to take the country before you enter the race is a much better formula, a much better way to get to the presidency than focus-grouping, polling or reacting to interest groups in either party." *It's The Economy, Etc.* Al From, another veteran Democratic strategist who served as Bill Clinton's domestic policy advisor in 1992, told National Journal that the general state of the economy will weigh more heavily in voters' minds than Keystone or NSA reform. "The most challenging issue for any candidate for president is on questions of economic growth and economic equality. It looks like she's feeling some pressure to take a more populist line on these issues than she has in the past. But she's also been very careful not to get nailed down on specifics," From said. While the Clintons have often praised From's work, progressives are not as big fans of his governing philosophy. Jesse Jackson once said From's organization, the Democratic Leadership Council (or DLC), stood for "Democrats for the leisure class." From says the top-of-mind progressive issues of 2014 matter just as much—or little—as they did back then. "It's more than likely that Keystone will have long since been decided by the time the 2016 Iowa Caucuses happen. But this longer-term economic debate, and how she approaches it, is a challenge that's not going away," From said. *Keeping It Under Wraps* Clinton's silence may frustrate special interest groups on the left—and the donors who are trying to figure out who to support—but it's a tried-and-true political strategy. Why show your cards when you haven't even been dealt in yet? "Anybody who's been through this—and she has—knows you take your time, you think things through, you develop your policies, and then you decide to go or not," Trippi said. "There are a lot of people who haven't done this before who think you just announce an exploratory committee and go. Those candidates tend to end up on the side of the road." Daniel Schnur, who served as Sen. John McCain's spokesman during McCain's 2000 presidential campaign and is now director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, seems bigger questions ahead. Schnur said that, while wearing the badge of Inevitability can have its perks, Clinton will eventually need to lay out an argument for her candidacy, beyond the fact that she's the most well-known candidate. "Because she's the frontrunner, she can afford to wait as she wants to," Schnur said. "But the longer she waits, the more likely it is that potential supporters start asking what's motivating her to run, and even simply, 'Do you want to be president?'"