let's go to someone always in the hear and now. take it away. >> you got that right. thank you, abby. good afternoon, afternoon. it is thursday, december 12. and you know it's a fun day right here in washington, d.c. when the speaker of the house is channeling his inner john mcenroe. ♪ >> today we'll consider the bipartisan budget act. >> this is not a draw. >> it's not everything we wanted. >> it's the final surrender of the house republican leadership. >> i take my fair share of criticism from the right and left. when you criticize something you have no idea what it's criticizing. >> i thought it was a little strange. >> are you kidding me? >> what will you say? >> read the deal and get back to me. >> why conservatives wouldn't goat for this is beyond any recognition. >> republicans never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. >> have a merry christmas.

>> 'tis the night before congressional recess, and all through the house, there's lots of stirring. debate continues in the house of representatives as congress moves towards a vote on that $85 billion bipartisan budget deal. but don't let all that bipartisan holiday spirit mislead you. there are all kinds of political attacks on this plan, including a potentially significant split for republicans. many criticize john boehner for caving to tea party republicans, but the speaker neared his boiling point. >> i came here to cut the size of government. that's exactly what this bill does. why conservatives wouldn't vote for this or criticize the bill is beyond any recognition i can come up with. >> that was pretty interesting. he also turned the famous rhino charge back at conservatives, challenging tea partier's

credentials for opposing a package that cuts spending and the deficit. >> if you call the day before the government reopened, one of these groups stood up and said we never really thought it would work. are you kidding me? >> there you have it. democrats did get some domestic spending out of the deal for next year. but by 2015, the sequester will be cutting very deep. nancy pelosi told her troops to "embrace the suck and vote for the deal before leaving town." still, she said democrats will go to the mat for unemployment benefits. >> this is so unconscionable. it's at the level of immoral. this is an intolerable situation to us, but we also want to end sequestration. so you have two nos. two nos don't make a yes.

>> there's all kinds of math there, but we're going to keep an eye right here on msnbc and get to that first yes, because the house will vote pretty soon in the next couple of hours on the package. right now, let's get to our panel here in washington. welcome to everybody. i want to start with you on this potential fissure with republicans. usually it's the tea party being loud and boehner being quiet. is this reversal somewhat significant >> i think it's fantastic that speaker boehner has shown up as a leader. i think it's a mistake, though, to think because he's pushing back right now that it is any way demonstrating a shift in his

ideology or a shift in the way that the caucus is going to attempt to govern. the fact that we have a budge set a great thing. we need to underscore that. >> that's what martha stewart would call a good thing. >> it's a good thing. but what we know is that the philosophy remains, that the republicans are still very resistant to doing things to enhance the american public's ability to thrive and instead they're focusing on how to save corporations and the wealthy essentially. that's what we saw with these cuts. >> when you go to saving the cuts, you wrote a piece today that got some interest. the budget is a win for democrats, but you said the only people who will agree with you are those who are already pessimistic about the sequester. explain that. >> the deal preserves more than 90% of the sequester cuts. the question is, was there was any realistic chance of reversing that.

my view is no. the democrats had their best chance back in april when republicans were anxious about the cuts to the faa, which were crimping business travelers, and business travelers were letting the republican congressmen to know about it. they had leverage. ever since, you know, we basically had to deal with the sequester as the reality. given that, i think this was a good deal for democrats. it was essentially a bet. republicans were saying we want to end this lurching from crisis to crisis. if the focus is on obama care, they say we're going to win. the democrats are going to say we'll take that bet, because if we can stop the worst of these cuts in 2014, the economy is going to recover some momentum, will be consolidated. and we can live in a world where the economy is glowing really well. >> that's the political piece. i want to go to professor

peterson on merging the political piece with what i would call the moral center of this deal. we spoke to the white house yesterday. gene spurling said look, as for the next calendar year, 2014, we are saving a bunch of money for head start, for schools. he was very proud of that, while acknowledging some of these other problems. it's easy to sit on the sidelines and say here's what's wrong with it. as compared to the status quo, the democrats saved some programs that matter a lot in this recession. where do you come down on it? >> i think the politics are sound from the democrat's perspective. the capacity not to go from ka pass -- go from crisis to crisis does favor the president. that 10% that got sort of carved out of the sort of draconian cuts and sequester, i'm not sure if that's enough to satisfy

policy wise the needs we have in our society as we're engaged in this recovery. i'm not sure it's enough for the people that need the discretionary spending to be at its normal levels. so politics yes. policy, not so sure. >> i hear you on that cautionary note. a lot of people taking john boehner's rant today and running with it. "the washington post" says, now that baner is a free man, let's move on to extending up employment, insurance reforming and immigration. on the politics, people see an opening here, a loosened john boehner. i don't know that i'm going to bring out a free boehner t-shirt yet, but there's some energy here. >> there is some energy. i think it's an opportunity to govern. the one thing i took away from

his rant today is he realizes wait a minute, i'm the leader of the house, i'm in control. i should probably be passing legislation, doing something and governing. they haven't done much of anything over the last several years. so it is an opportunity to get things done. >> i think boehner is a savvy guy. he senses weakness among the tea partiers. the general sense is they were discredited by forcing the government shutdown in october. that said, the tea partiers are savvy themselves. what they're trying to do here is not so much win. they're not going to derail this win but to collect grievances so in a couple months from now when it comes to raising the debt ceiling, they can say you sold us out three months ago. now we have to do things our way, we have to play hardball. i think boehner will be more susceptible to that. >> i think that's right, and that's why there's a certain

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welcome back. one of the weirdest parts of covering washington is seeing how often the focus is on long-term certainty for wall street instead of the jobs crisis or the immediate emergencies facing a lot of regular americans. today, we're hearing about the billions this budget deal could save the deficit over the next few days but little about unemployment insurance that could get people through the next few weeks. the budget deal does not address extended unemployment benefits. there's little rush in washington on that issue, even though they expire two weeks from tomorrow. with no action, more than 1 million out of work americans

would lose those benefits immediately. the first step is pressing john boehner to hold a vote on the issue. and nancy pelosi did dial up the pressure with some questions today. >> what is the intent of the republicans not bringing up unemployment insurance? do they think that people shouldn't have these checks? why wouldn't they be saying here's some of of the things we could go along with. that's really the question of the day. >> an important question. first, we're going to go to congressman glenn moomoore in w. i want to start with this question. do you think the votes are there for these benefit it is the speaker holds a vote, and how can you and your colleagues press him to do that? >> very clearly, the votes for unemployment insurance are there in the democratic caucus. if we were to align ourselves

with a few good republicans, there would be a good chance it would pass. simply when you look at the playing field here in washington, d.c., you can see very clearly that there's very little empathy. we don't have a farm bill for people that are hungry. very little empathy for people that are up employed because of a bad economy. i do think it's very telling. >> congresswoman, you mentioned getting some republicans on board. that was an issue today that produced some harsh exchanges on the house floor. let me play just a sample. there was a republican congressman responding to a massachusetts democrat who said look, this is holiday season. have a heart. take a listen. >> anything short of a bipartisan solution is show boating for those folks that are hurting, not doing a thing to help them. we don't need show beating, mr. speaker, we need results.

>> i wanted to give you a chance to respond to that charge. >> i wasn't there for that debate, so perhaps he was talking about the bipartisan budget deal on the table. if we were talking about unemployment insurance, i would agree with him that we need a bipartisan agreement for that to pass. and that it would show having a heart for those people unemployed. with regard to the budget deal, obviously there's a lot of disappointment in the bill, but this is what compromise is all about. very clearly, many people -- people that we care deeply about and are hurting, care very deeply that there is $65 billion of relief in this bill. we are very disturbed that there is no effort to help the long-term uninsured. but i was really, really hopeful when i heard paul ryan say through the media just today that the door was open for some

discussion about including it. now, he wants some sort of offset for it. but we've passed unemployment insurance continuously on a bipartisan basis, when the unemployment was at 7% where it is now, on a bipartisan basis, we have done this, you know, over and over and over again throughout the year without an offset. >> paul ryan keeps saying he's getting more and more reasonable. we're keeping an eye on that. i want to bring in aisha here, about compromise and democracy. john boehner isn't just saying he's against this. he's saying that becomes all too normal in washington, that we may not even get a vote on the issue to find out where people stand on a key question going into the holidays and going into a period where people are hurting in the recession. >> the congresswoman brings up a great point. this idea of compromise. the question i always have, why

are we always compromising on the backs of regular middle class american folks. we did some great things with this budget deal in terms of cutting into this idea of austerity. at the same time, though, i think that we're still seeing this attempt to balance on the backs of regular americans. could you talk to us about, you know, what are we going to do about interest? we're seeing okay, we're not doing anything for workers. but we now have where it's more expensive for workers to retire at this point in this plan, and we're balancing again on the backs of these folks who can be retires. so what are we going to do about that and when can we see movement towards relieving the american public opposed to balancing on their backs? >> we're going to have a very hard time recruiting good federal employees. again, federal employees are taking a hit on those pension

plans. with regard to interest, no, we lost the democrats in these negotiations by not getting extra revenue, which is what we have always said would be a fair and balanced approach. people have to work for this. they can sleep and get this money. but at the same time, the republicans weren't able to crack us on what they really want. they really want to cut benefits for medicare and social security. and senator murray held strong on that. so in the end, neither democrats or republicans got really to the pot of money that they're really going after. but again, hitting those federal employees with another more than 1% cut in pensions and not including unemployment insurance is cruel at this time of the

year as the congressman pointed out. >> that's well put. the other thing we want told get your view on and also professor peterson, is the pressure that republicans facing on another issue that they have tried to duck and not help floor votes on and that is the question of immigration reform. this is brand new just today. you see protesters desending on their offices. what do you think about the role of this, which is a type of direct action to tell washington that's great you're moving on a budget, but there's more work to be done and votes to be held. professor? >> that's why we have to understand speaker boehner's outburst today in that context. he's leveraging the capital he's accrued. he's using that capital here and now, because he know that the republican party has to make a move on immigration. on unemployment insurance, that

1.3 million folk, when they get their $1100 a month on average, that goes back into our economy. that could result up to 200,000 jobs lost. so there's a practical case to make for unemployment insurance, as well. >> congresswoman, i want to give you the final word, and if you care to speak to what those activists were doing entering those offices today on immigration? >> i certainly welcome the fast for families. i'm in solidarity with them. i agree with dr. peterson totally and i'm prepared to come back at any point in time before december 31 to vote on extending those unemployment insurance benefits. certainly we have two years. this deal that is going to be put on the floor today gives us a -- it replaces the budget control act and gives us two years to work through system of these issues.

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we are watching a vigil at the national cathedral here in washington for victims of gun violence. and the tributes not limited to this year's sandy hook anniversary. they are honoring the memory of more than 30,000 americans who have died from a gunshot since the newtown shooting. it's a sign many hope this newtown anniversary can spark a deeper debate over what the national cathedral today is calling the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in america. and in many states, it turns out sometimes below the radar, that debate is going strong. in the wake of sandy hook over the past year, states have enacted 39 laws to tighten gun restrictions and attempt to advance firearms safety. when connecticut acted, sandy hook was the catalyst. >> we can never undo the senseless tragedy that took place on december 14 or those tragedies that play themselves out on a daily base necessary

our cities. but we can take action here in connecticut and make connect cut towns and cities safer and this bill does that. >> many other states, however, did react differently. out of all the gun related bills enacted in the past year, and this is important, the vast majority for actually to loosen gun restrictions according to "the new york times" that. is, by the way, how federalism is supposed to work. each state can make these calls. as we mark this serious anniversary this week, don't tell me we shouldn't legislate in response to a tragedy. don't tell me it's not time to debate public safety. that's actually what we've been doing all year. and that is our challenge ahead. how can we take these mass shootings seriously and take america's second amendment dilemma seriously? our constitution does provide a right to some weapons. but you know what? it also provides a right to

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for the first time ever. >> you mean the group that opposed it before they stau it? >> what is that supposed to be, a sick joke? >> are you kidding me? >> what? >> are you enjoying this moment, being able to speak up and speak your mind? >> are we having fun yet? >> i don't understand the point. >> the civil war, this battle temperament. and how to handle divided government has been simmering for quite some time. >> you're not going to get everything you want in divided government. >> when spokes like the speaker said we didn't get everything we wanted, i can guarantee the american people didn't get what they wanted. >> marko rubio said your deal is going to make it harder for meshes to achieve the american dream. >> read the deal and get back to me. >> does it tick you off that people say that it's going to destroy the american dream? >> are you kidding me? >> i'm a big boy. >> i'm as conservative as anybody around this place. >> i've been around for a while. >> this is an intolerable situation.

but we also want to end sequestration. >> there's this older british guy who often said, you can't get what you want. >> i grew up in a bar. >> but if you try sometimes, you get what you need. >> let me say to that, have a merry christmas. >> now you know what happened today. we're going to take it to our panel of washington insiders, molly is right here with me and in washington, julian epstein, a former democratic council to the house judiciary committee. molly, we have a bit of breaking news. it looks like paul ryan will be heading to the house floor to continue. he's right there on the house floor. that's live footage of our friend, who is having a good week, depending on who you ask, sell thing bill. but he started selling it a long time before this. i want to read something that you wrote. do we have what molly wrote?

the budget deal was a clear bid by ryan to temper his idealogical profile and be seen as a pragmatist with leadership qualities. but the question, would it get him branded as a sellout, what is the answer so far? >> one of the things we're learning from this, if it passes as expected, in the coming hours, is how much clout paul ryan has with the conservatives. you know, if you see the coverage of this, you know, next round of the republican civil war, you might think it was the same as the last round. but the last round shut down the government. this round looks like it's going to result in a budget deal that means the government can't be shut down for two years. that means that paul ryan was able to do what john boehner was not able to do last time. >> exactly. julian on that point, there's this feeling that we're seeing a new john boehner. the feeling in washington is that paul ryan is calcifying the

backbone of john boehner. now, we don't know yet whether he's the dumbo or not, but something is going on between these two guys. >> to butcher or perhaps paraphrase a small saying, this is a small step on the budget, but potentially a giant step on the politics. you have the house republican leadership, two real leaders, both boehner and ryan, pushing back on the jihadist wing of the extremist republican party. that's very, very significant. it's the first time we've seen that. secondly, it is, as we just said, a detante on budget issues for 18 months. that's also a major shift in the politics. the third reason it's a major shift is because it signals that republicans going into the midterm elections want to play the game on the health care field, which is -- they are

essentially betting the ranch right now, which is a very risky bet. >> that raises the question whether the ranch is on the field and where the giant leap for mankind is. i don't want the love fest to go too far with paul ryan. i want to give you some of the quotes we've heard here. when he was picked by mitt romney as a running mate, we heard from a major conservative that he had a genial personality, he had serious policy wonkery, and he had political courage. now the same conservative says the ryan budget deal will cause a stampede of conservatives out of the party. what do you make of that? >> i think that remains to be seen. i think the republicans, and i think even some of the tea party republicans, are looking at the polling after the government shutdown and realizing that jihadism doesn't sell. it may sell in a jerry manderred

districts and primaries. republicans have lost three out of four of the past national elections and in the generic polls they have been down every single week for the last year except after the health care rollout train wreck. so this reflects a growing recognition that the extremism, while it's played well for their parochial primary political purposes, it's not selling at a national level. so this is a significant shift in terms of the extremist win of the republican party. >> you mentioned the primaries. republicans have more candidates to choose from than usual. doesn't mean they like them all. look at this difference between the two parties. 14% is the number of democrats who say they're unsatisfied with their current political candidate. when you go and lock at the republicans, that number jumps up to 41%. at a certain point, when you have half the senate republican caucus primary, you have guys

like ted cruz re-redefining the right ring, and he put out a statement blast thing deal, it's not all good news for them. there's a lot of angst. >> what's happening for a long time is that the conservative movement has been at war with the republican party. so you have people saying, we're not republicans first, we are conservatives first. and we will take out as many republicans as we have to to make that point. boehner now, and paul ryan have called their bluff. their card has always been, we can take you out in a primary if you do something we don't like. that's put these outside groups in control. banal so what we're going to see in the coming months is who's right? who is making the right gamble? can the tea party take out all these republicans who decided to call their bluff or not. >> the new deadline will be

march when you have the ending for filing in some of these primaries and some of these folks may come back. thank you both for visiting with us ohhen a big day. coming up, we go beyond the budget and look at secretary of state john kerry. he's leading a furious pace on foreign policy issues from iran to syria. and refusing to give up on the prospect of this president obama doing what many have failed to do, reach a middle east peace deal that's the hope. we'll cover it all. as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cash card from capital one, i get 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. i break my back around here. finally someone's recognizing me with unlimited rewards! meetings start at 11, cindy.

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we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. welcome back. you know it's a busy day for the budget, but we want to look at some other important action in washington and some moves for president obama's foreign policy agenda. secretary kerry is back in the middle east where he met earlier

with the palestinian president, just two days after he testified for nearly three hours before the house foreign committee, responding to criticism of the preliminary agreement with iran. this morning, it was his undersecretary of state that pushed the case that a new round of sanctions on iran could sink the whole deal. >> now is not the time to introduce new sanctions. doing so could derail the first step, alienate our allies and risk unraveling the coalition that enabled sanctions enforcement. >> in syria, the situation continues to move from bad to worse. today, the obama administration announced it will be suspending all of its non-lethal aid to the more moderate opposition groups, which is a relative term.

and finally, this is important, there are new reports that the top rebel commander with some of the western backed groups may have fled the country under duress. don't worry, we'll make sense of all it. we have steve klemmens, who just got back from vice president biden's trip to asia. let's start with syria. it's confusing to a lot of people and feels like maybe we are pulling back, but maybe because we don't have a lot of options. let me read you what john mccain said. he said to protect u.s. interest and prevent extremism from flourishing, we must support the aspirations of the syrian people and provide moderate leaders with assistance. >> we've long wanted the moderates to be doing better. the islamic front has always been at the harder edge of the civil war, and now you have a

civil war within the civil war. and now their general, who high tailed it out of syria to turkey, they put out a statement saying he's meeting with various groups there and it was planned. but it was clear to those watching that there's been a collapse of their authority inside syria. we have long said that while we are open to dealing with the various component units of the syrian opposition, we will not supply the islamic front. and now the islamic front is really in control. >> when we talk about john mccain, we talk about senator lindsey graham. they are a dynamic duo. let's take a listen on iran today to senator graham. >> there is no difference between rohani and the ayatollah. there are no moderates in the government when it comes to iran.

>> that's the view we shouldn't be doing this negotiation at all. when you talk to obama security officials, it doesn't matter whether there are moderates or not in iran, it matters if we can force them to do what we want. >> it is what senator graham did, these people will create the biggest strategic blunder for u.s. foreign policy since the invasion of iraq. to quote one white house official, this is not another crank at the wheel at sanctions. this is a fragile moment where we are going to be either on a war track with iran or have an opportunity to move iran in a very wholistic way. >> do you think the democrats on the way are posturing or are they open to blowing up in deal the president reached? >> there are some democrats that are quite sincere in their belief that only more and more and more sanctions is only the right policy. we now see some rumors that bob

ma mendez is backing off. right now it's the democrats in this debate that matter more than the republican voices about this. rohani was a lieutenant and aid to the president, who also shut down his nuclear program. >> you see john kerry, who i worked for ten years ago, he's always been a busy guy. now he's trying to do something where so many administrations have failed on the palestinian/israeli diplomacy. >> he's the most fascinating secretary of state we've seen in a long time. he's throwing himself and his credibility on the line. he is everywhere, but at the same time, he's throwing himself into something and not letting the israel/palestinian peace deal die, which many people think it's gone past that point. he refuses to let it go. >> it's important. it's not something the obama administration has oversold. but pessimism is not a policy.

thanks for spending time with us today. still ahead, is there a schism on the american left? i think you might have heard something about this before. we're going to talk big picture politics for the democratic party in 2014. but first, sue has our cnbc market wrap. >> another very tough day on wall street to tell you about. the dow jones suffered another triple digit loss. the s&p down 6 3/4 points. so that's it from wall street and from cnbc. we're first in business worldwide. we're back in a moment. ♪ ♪

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emergency extended unemployment benefits. >> this is the holiday season, have a heart! have a heart! >> if the answer is, someone's got the heart and the other -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> we're not going to be able to solve the issue. >> we have been covering today's big battle over unemployment insurance, because it's important to a lot of people right now. but it's also part of a larger political battle over our nation's social safety net. it's not just a partisan fight. the privacy of social security divides democrats, too. in one corner, you have one of president obama's favorite harvard professors. and she's told deficit talks to get their claws off social security. but in the other corner, you have the self-appointed serious crowd in washington, backed by some wall street money, including groups like third wave, warning democrats that

just standing by social security could send them falling off a populist cliff. joining us now to give us some historical perspective is al fromm. his new book "the new democrats and the turn to power" chronicles those years and offers advice. welcome to the show. >> delighted to be here. >> let me start with a thought. you are old enough to remember when vietnam and crime haunted the democratic party. i'm old enough to remember the last time hillary clinton was the inevitable nominee for president. give us some perspective here, and should she run on bill clinton's legacy, on barack obama's legacy or specifically on some of the new democrat third way centrist bill of goods

and policies that you say are better for the long-term solven solvency. >> i think she could run on an agenda for the future. it ought to be grounded in the third way policies and the policies, what are basically what i call the core democratic principles. opportunity for all. that's andrew jackson's credo. we all have an obligation to take advantage of those opportunities to give back to the community, and particularly in the modern context, the context of the day, what i call his thirst for innovation, constantly reforming government. >> let's put some details on that. you have written such a plan for growth would require spending reductions, modernizing entitlements, and increasing revenue by reforming the tax code. do you think that you can sell that in a democratic primary

population that if anyone thinks this president hasn't gone after wall street enough? >> i think you can sell a growth agenda anywhere, including a democratic primary, in the democratic primaries. look, it's very simple to me. democrats believe in government. we believe government ought to be the agent of our collective will. it's the vehicle for helping people and helping each other. but we have to make it work. we have to have a government that's solvent and we need to grow the private economy. >> a lot of times people i talk to in the grassroots and watch nbc on twitter, they say it feels like the right gets right and more right and more right. and they worry there's no counterbalance on the progressive left. what do you say to that? >> what i say is that we saved progressive government in this country. memories are short, but in the

'80s, democrats had the worst three elections any party has had in terms of electoral college votes in the history of american politics. had we not come back with a modern liberalism, in my view, we wouldn't be having this argument. but the key to having a liberal government is growing the economy and creating more wealth. >> i think that's a point of consensus. you remind me a little of kanye west. he also believes he's a savior. people can check out the book. >> probably a little different generation. >> people can check out the book and make up their own mind. thank you very much for being here. we will be right back. [ baby crying ]

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thank you so much for watching today. you can follow me on twitter and be sure to watch tomorrow as we cover the budget homestretch and an important story shaping up on voting rights. now coming up next, "the ed show" with ed schultz. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. democrats, help the unemployed, vote no. let's get to work. ♪ >> i am happy to report that senator murray and i have reached an agreement. >> it side stepped the crisis facing 1. 3 million americans. >> what type of witchcraft is this? >> republicans have their sights set now on ending long-term unemployment benefits. >> he's been out of work since january and joined the ranks of the unemployed last