Good morning, everybody.

Joining Morning Joe today... Donald J. Trump, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham from Iraq, and more! Stay tuned!

There were no killings or capturing of any Dolphins Sunday/Today but there were some caught on Saturday/Sunday. My article about the Dolphin Hunting Season will be out later on today. Keep an eye out for it. Its in editing being proof as we speak here.

On a Global level, Dr. Ben Carson says the refugee camp he visited was 'nice.' Donald trump not only cancels his press conference with Black Pastors, he is also doubling down on his stance that Muslims were dancing on the roof's in New Jersey after 9/11 in 2001 (He had hundreds of Tweets and Phone Calls telling him about it). Trump is on the show today and he was on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd yesterday.

The panel is discussing how everyone that lies, just doubles down today even though there are so many fact checkers this day and age. But then again, they just merely blame the media on calling them out on the lie. It is the GOP tactic used today. Trump, Fiorina and Carson all did it just this weekend alone. Cruz may have too about something but I am not 100% sure of him doing it.

Also in the news this AM is that there was shooting that killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.  The New Hampshire Union Leader backs Chris Christie and the POTUS arrived last night in Paris to attend the climate control meetings and conference and then to also visit the spots where the terrorist acts went down two Friday's ago.

And, there is a special show announcement at the 8AM hour and with regard to Chris Christie. 

What Ben Carson says he learned while visiting Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East. Ben Carson says the Syrian refugees he met during his trip to the Middle East don’t want to come to the United States — they want to go home.

“I had an opportunity to talk to many of the Syrian refugees and ask them, ‘What is your supreme desire?’ And it was pretty uniform: They want to go back home,” Carson said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday. “I was a little bit surprised with the answer, because it wasn’t what we’re hearing a lot. We’re hearing that they all want to come here to the United States. And that’s not what they want. They want to go back home.”

The Republican presidential candidate was speaking from Amman, Jordan, where he visited two refugee camps in an effort to better understand the crisis while attempting to beef up a foreign policy résumé his own advisers recently described as weak.

“Their true desire is to be resettled in Syria,” Carson said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “But you know, they are satisfied to be in the refugee camps if the refugee camps are adequately funded. Recognize that in these camps, they have schools. They have recreational facilities that are really quite nice. And they are putting in all kinds of things that make life more tolerable.”

“There’s so many people who think that the ideal for everybody is to come to America,” he continued. “But that is not the ideal for everybody. And we need to be looking at mechanisms that already exist.”

Carson said he supports the refugee program that is currently in place in the Middle East, saying the United States and its allies must do more to help fund it.

“It seems like everybody in the international community is spending more time saying, ‘How can we bring refugees here?’ rather than, ‘How can we support a facility that is already in place that the refugees are finding perfectly fine when it’s adequately funded?’” Carson said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

“If you do that, you solve that problem without exposing the American people to a population that could be infiltrated with terrorists who want to destroy us,” he said on ABC. “If you can eliminate the possibility of terrorists infiltrating them and wanting to destroy us, you have a different argument. But I don’t see that being eliminated.”

Carson was then asked if he thought there were terrorists among those refugees he talked to.

“I don’t know whether there were or not,” he replied. “But I do know that the ISIS terrorists have said that if we bring refugees, that they would infiltrate them. And why wouldn’t they?”

Earlier this month, Carson was criticized for comparing Syrian refugees to rabid dogs.

“If there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way,” Carson said. “Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.”

On Sunday, the retired neurosurgeon stood by those comments.

“The Syrians and the people here completely understood what I was saying,” Carson said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday.“ “It’s only the news media in our country that thinks that you’re calling Syrians dogs. They understand here that we’re talking about the jihadists, the Islamic terrorists. And it’s very obvious to most of them. The reception is quite warm. So maybe they can teach us a little bit about how to interpret language.”

Trump campaign forced to cancel press conference with black pastors after they shred him in the press.
US presidential candidate Donald Trump, pictured on August 17, 2015 in New York City, is growing increasingly competitive in a general election match up against Hillary Clinton (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)
A press conference scheduled for Monday, where GOP front runner Donald Trump had expected to announce the support of black clergyman, has been cancelled after the pastors blasted the campaign for announcing they would be endorsing him, reports CNN.

A scheduled private meeting with black pastors was supposed to be followed by a press conference where, according to the campaign: “A coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders will endorse the GOP front runner after a private meeting at Trump Tower.”


This did not sit well with prospective attendees, many of whom claim that they had no intention of endorsing Trump, with one calling him “an insult and embarrassment. But he represents the country we have become.”

Bishop Paul S. Morton of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship tweeted on Friday that he had refused to meet with Trump, saying that the candidate lacks “respect for people.”

“I was asked 2 meet with Mr Trump too but I refused because until he learns how to respect people you can’t represent me thru my endorsement,” Morton wrote.

Faced with a potential disaster on their hands should the attending pastors address the reporters in front of the candidate, the Trump campaign called off the press conference and stated the meeting would remain private — no press allowed.

“On Monday, Mr. Trump will host an informational meet and greet with many members of the Coalition of African American Ministers,” Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks said on Sunday. “This is not a press event, but a private meeting, after which, a number of attendees are expected to endorse Mr. Trump’s campaign for President.”

In an op-ed published by EBONY magazine on Friday, Christian activists asked pastors who might back Trump to consider the implications of endorsing a candidate who is considered by many to be an unrepentant racist.

“By siding with a presidential candidate whose rhetoric pathologizes Black people, what message are you sending to the world about the Black lives in and outside of your congregations? Which Black lives do you claim to be liberating,” the leaders wrote.

Donald Trump: I was '100% right' about Muslims cheering 9/11 attacks. Republican presidential candidate says he won’t take back remarks despite fact-checkers having debunked them.

Donald Trump insisted on Sunday he was “100% right” when he said he saw Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheering the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center – even though fact-checkers have debunked his claim.

In a phone interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said he was getting an “unbelievable response” from “hundreds” of people who told him they also saw televised Muslim celebrations of the 11 September 2001 attacks in Manhattan.

“I saw it. So many people saw it. And, so, why would I take it back? I’m not going to take it back,” said Trump.

Trump came under fire last week after making remarks at a rally and in a nationally televised appearance that he had seen thousands of people in Jersey City cheer the collapse of the Twin Towers in Manhattan. On Saturday, he appeared to reframe his words by saying the sentiment was shared worldwide.

Trump has been a frontrunner in many polls ahead of next year’s election. But as the fight against terrorism has come sharply into focus as a campaign issue following the attacks in Paris, he has lost some of his lead.

In the past five days, he has dropped 12 points from 43% to 31%, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling of Republican voters nationally, though he continues to hold a wide lead over his competitors.

When his remarks were revisited as an issue on NBC on Sunday, he said: “All over the world – forget about New Jersey for a second – all over the world, it was reported that Muslims were celebrating the fall of the World Trade Center.“

He quickly rejected NBC anchor Chuck Todd’s assertion that “this didn’t happen in New Jersey”.

“It did happen in New Jersey,” Trump said. “I have hundreds of people that agree with me.”

He said people were reaching out on social media, telling him in person at campaign rallies and calling the Trump Organization, saying: “We saw it. It was dancing in the streets.”

“I have a very good memory, I’ll tell you,” Trump said. “I saw it somewhere on television many years ago. And I never forgot it.”

Trump on 9/11 Cheering Claims: 'I'm Not Going to Take It Back'. Despite a lack of evidence, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday kept pushing the claim that he saw cheering from Muslims in New Jersey on September 11, 2001.

Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press", the Republican frontrunner said, "I saw it. So many people saw it ... So, why would I take it back? I'm not going to take it back."

Asked where he witnessed this, Trump replied, "I saw it on television. I saw clips. And so did many other people. And many people saw it in person. I've had hundreds of phone calls to the Trump Organization saying, 'We saw it. It was dancing in the streets.'"

Trump said there were reports of Muslims celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers "all around the world. That has been reported very strongly." On New Jersey, he continued, "Why wouldn't it have taken place? I've had hundreds of people call in and tweet in on Twitter, saying they saw it and I was 100% right."

While citing the Washington Post for his assertion there were "tailgate parties" following 9/11, Trump conceded, "We're looking for other articles. And we're looking for other clips. And I wouldn't be surprised if we found them…but for some reason, they're not that easy to come by."

On the issue of allowing Syrian refugees into the United States, Trump declared it "has the potential to be one big fat Trojan horse."

Repeatedly, the businessman has alleged there are plans to allow 200,000 Syrian refugees into the country, while the Administration says that number is actually only 10,000 for next year.

Responding to that statistic, Trump said, "I have it, upon a certain amount of knowledge — I'm very friendly with a lot of people on both sides — that Obama's plan is 200,000-250,000."

He continued, "I think what he really has in mind is 200,000 people and maybe even more than that coming into our country. And we can't have it. We don't know who these people are. They're undocumented totally."

In fact, Syrian refugees are referred to the Department of Homeland Security after first being screened by the United Nations. According to the White House, of over 23,000 Syrian refugees referred by the U.N., about 7,000 were interviewed by DHS, and a little over 2,000 have been accepted into the United States.

Trump Trolls Disability Community Again In Statement Denying He Mocked Reporter’s Condition.
After taking fire for an on-stage impression of a reporter with a congenital disability on Tuesday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump spent part of his Thanksgiving denying the whole thing — and tossing another taunt the reporter’s way.

Serge Kovaleski drew Trump’s ire for challenging the candidate’s claim that thousands of Muslim residents of New Jersey had celebrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. While discussing that controversy at a rally on Tuesday, Trump said “The poor guy, you gotta see this guy,” before launching into an apparent impression of the reporter that involved flailing his arms and shaking.

Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that causes children to be born with contracted joints.

“We think it’s outrageous that [Trump] would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters,” spokeswoman for the New York Times, where Kovaleski now works, told Politico.
Trump tweeted a lengthy statement Thursday denying that he was doing an impression of the reporter. Trump says he’s never met Kovaleski and would never intentionally mock a person’s disability. Instead, he “merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago.” Trump also noted that “I have tremendous respect for people who are physically challenged and have spent tens of millions of dollars throughout buildings all over the world on making them handicapped accessible and ADA (Americans Disability Act [sic]) compliant.”

But the statement begins on a less conciliatory note. “I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovaleski is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence. I don’t know if he is [NFL player] J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime — or somebody of less athletic or physical ability,” Trump said.
Trump also denied knowing Kovaleski. “Despite having one of the all-time great memories, I certainly do not remember him,” the statement says. But Kovaleski covered Trump at length in the 1980s while the reporter worked for the New York Daily News. “Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years,” Kovaleski told the Times. Trump also expressed familiarity with Kovaleski in the same South Carolina speech where he mocked the reporter, calling him a “nice reporter” before launching into his impression.

Kovaleski previously wrote for the Washington Post, where he co-authored a story in the wake of the 2001 attacks about law enforcement officials probing the Muslim community in northern New Jersey for leads. It includes a sentence noting that “law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops.”

Trump began touting that sentence in recent days as support for his false claim that thousands of Muslims celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey, which itself is meant to justify his call to shutter mosques and apparent support for keeping lists of Muslim Americans.

“There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations, they were cheering as the World Trade Center came down,” Trump said to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos last week. When Stephanopoulos challenged him, Trump said he personally saw the celebrations. He also told a rally crowd that “I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”

Kovaleski’s story relays only that some people had been arrested for allegedly celebrating the attacks, not that thousands were doing so or that the allegations were even accurate against those who were sought out by police. Law enforcement officials in New Jersey say the reports of macabre celebrations of the attacks were false.

John Farmer, then the state’s attorney general, told the Times they investigated the rumors that very day and found no truth to them. Fearing riots if radical Muslims were indeed celebrating, Farmer was ready to mobilize the National Guard. “The word came back quickly from Jersey City, later from Paterson. False report. Never happened,” he said.

Suspect spoke of 'baby parts' after Planned Parenthood shooting. What moved a man to kill three people and wound nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has not been disclosed. But the suspect accused of carrying out the shooting spree, Robert Lewis Dear, made remarks about "baby parts" to investigators after his surrender, a law enforcement official told CNN.

Dear, 57, told them he has anti-abortion and anti-government views, but that doesn't mean those opinions were his motive for allegedly shooting up the Colorado Springs clinic on Friday, the official said. It's too early to tell, as investigators are still processing evidence.

After a nearly six-hour bloody standoff that left three people dead and nine others wounded, the accused shooter dropped his gun when a SWAT team drove up in an armored police vehicle, a BearCat, and cornered him, the official said.

Law enforcement officers found propane tanks in the area of Dear's car in the parking lot and believe he was trying to shoot them to cause an explosion, the official said.

'Crime against women'
In the absence of an announced motive, public officials in Colorado and beyond are drawing their own conclusions about the attack.

It was a "crime against women receiving health care services," said Attorney General Loretta Lynch. She pledged the full resources of her office to investigate.

"You can certainly infer what (the motive) may have been in terms of where it took place and the manner in which it took place," Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told CNN.

Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, went beyond an inference, saying the shooter "was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion."

Carly Fiorina Calls Planned Parenthood Shooter a 'Protester,' Decries 'Left-Wing Tactics'.
Carly Fiorina Calls Planned Parenthood Shooter a 'Protester,' Decries 'Left-Wing Tactics'
In an interview this morning with Fox News Sunday, Republican primary candidate Carly Fiorina said that attempts to link Friday’s Planned Parenthood shooting with anti-abortion rhetoric were “typical left-wing tactics.”

Fiorina was responding to a statement by Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. In her statement, Cowart said, “We’ve seen an alarming increase in hateful rhetoric and smear campaigns against abortion providers and patients over the last few months. That environment breeds acts of violence.” Fiorina rejected the connections made by Cowart saying, “This is so typical of the left to immediately begin demonizing a messenger because they don’t agree with the message. The vast majority of Americans agree what Planned Parenthood is doing is wrong.”

The former HP President has been one of the most public defenders of the series of deceptively edited videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. CMP, headed by David Daleiden, claims that Planned Parenthood is engaged in the illegal harvesting and sale of fetal remains. During the September GOP primary debate, Fiorina passionately claimed that the CMP videos showed “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” Though the statement struck a chord with primary voters—Fiorina’s numbers did a sharp, but brief, climb—it was patently false. Despite that, Fiorina has stood by the statement, issuing a series of videos that ostensibly backed her claims.

And Fiorina seems to be sticking to her proverbial guns. Though she called the murder of three people (one that appears to be motivated by ideology) a “tragedy,” she added, “Any protesters should always be peaceful. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter or pro-life protesters.” Image via AP.

For our safety, our future: Chris Christie for President By JOSEPH W. McQUAID, PUBLISHER New Hampshire Union Leader.

Thanksgiving is just past. Christmas is ahead. We doubt that too many people across New Hampshire have politics front and center right now. But in just 10 weeks, New Hampshire will make a choice that will profoundly affect our country and the world. We better get it right.

Our choice is Gov. Chris Christie. As a U.S. attorney and then a big-state governor, he is the one candidate who has the range and type of experience the nation desperately needs.

We don't need another fast-talking, well-meaning freshman U.S. senator trying to run the government. We are still seeing the disastrous effects of the last such choice.

Chris Christie is a solid, pro-life conservative who has managed to govern in liberal New Jersey, face down the big public unions, and win a second term. Gov. Christie can work across the aisle, but he won't get rolled by the bureaucrats. We don't need as President some well-meaning person from the private sector who has no public experience.

Gov. Christie is right for these dangerous times. He has prosecuted terrorists and dealt admirably with major disasters. But the one reason he may be best-suited to lead during these times is because he tells it like it is and isn't shy about it.

Other candidates have gained public and media attention by speaking bluntly. But it's important when you are telling it like it is to actually know what you are talking about. Gov. Christie knows what he is saying because he has experienced it. And unlike some others, he believes in what he says because he has a strong set of conservative values.

Gov. Chris Christie is exactly the conservative Republican needed to take the fight to Hillary Clinton next fall and then get about the serious business of defending us and rebuilding our economy.

French Police Fire Tear Gas At Climate Protesters In Paris.
A demonstrator kicks a tear gas canister during clashes with riot police near the Place de la République after the cancellation of a planned climate march.
French police fired tear gas to break up a group of activists defying a ban on mass demonstrations in Paris on Sunday.

The activists were gathered on the eve of a huge United Nations climate conference, which will bring together leaders from across the world.

Following the terrorist attacks of Nov. 13, France declared a state of emergency and banned huge rallies that had been planned to coincide with the COP21 climate summit.

The BBC spoke to Joe Ware, of the charity Christian Aid, who saw the scuffle.

"There were flares being set off, and at one point there were a couple of loud bangs, and shortly after that one group of riot police started running towards the protestors," Ware said. "The protestors were mainly French, all the signs were in French, they looked like French political protestors. It looked like there were hundreds, rather than thousands."

Reporting from Paris, NPR's Peter Kenyon says that other activists have found creative ways around the gathering ban. One group lined up thousands of pairs of shoes at Place de la République.

Another group is creating a "human chain" to call for meaningful action to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Peter filed this report for our Newscast unit:

"At an artists' workshop on the outskirts of Paris, organizer David Solnit says besides hampering public events, police are using the state of emergency invoked after this month's terror attacks to target environmentalists

"'There's people being stopped on the street, I mean, we're basically in an authoritarian police state,' he said. "And the French government is particularly targeting activists.

"With the climate conference set to begin, France's interior minister says some two dozen green activists are under house arrest."

Along with leaders from nearly 200 countries, President Obama is flying to Paris to attend the conference, which is expected to produce a landmark international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to curb climate change.

Obama pays respects at Bataclan theatre. US President Barack Obama has visited the scene of the Bataclan theatre attack in Paris, after arriving in the city for the UN climate change summit.
President Obama with Francois Hollande and Anne Hidalgo. 29 Nov 2015
Accompanied by French President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, he laid a single white rose at the venue where 90 people were killed.

Security was stepped up for the visit, with helicopters flying overhead and roads in the area sealed off.

About 150 world leaders are attending the summit which opens on Monday.

Mr Obama's motorcade went straight to the Bataclan shortly after the US president arrived at Orly Airport.

After placing his rose, Mr Obama stood in silence with his head bowed and his hands clasped in front of him. He then walked away with his arms around Mr Hollande and Ms Hidalgo.

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