and two years probation for federal corruption. jane, outside the courthouse in richmond. run down the details. >> reporter: i ran out of the courthouse, judge was reading the sentence saying two years in prison, two years of probation. this is a pretty good sentence for what he was charged with. he could have gotten as much as 12 years earlier this morning. the judge said early on he was looking at six to eight was the guidelines the probation office looked at and he was considering. toward the end of the trial he said, you know this is a good and decent man and by all accounts we have to take that into consideration. he said you know we are going to give you a meaningful sentence, but when it came out, i think there were some people who were surprised that it was so much lower. it's clear that the judge really did take the defense into consideration. the defense was really that you know his wife had brought this person in and he just wasn't really aware.

and the judge looks at him and says you know the wife may have let the serpent into the mansion, but you let him into your business affairs. that seems to be the most poignant quotes of that sentencing. >> indeed. thank you for that. also cycling right now, a massive winter storm spanning most of the country and making it a snowy start for the 114th congress. as the new congress gets seated so much for thaw in washington. d.c. and 22 states blanketed in snow. that's a 2,000-mile corridor of america. those not buried in snow are in a deep freeze. let's get to msnbc meteorologist dough da minimum domenica davis. what's up with this huge storm? >> and guess what in d.c. there's more than one white house. i've been working on that joke all afternoon. here's the radar. we're looking at the snow settling down.

it's a clipper system coming out of the great lakes. really the big story is the cold. so look at these massive windchills we have. these are current windchills right now. the worst of the cold today and tomorrow is going to be over the northern plains, great lakes and ohio valley. it feels like minus 18 in fargo. minus 8 in minneapolis. minus 10 in chicago. that's not the worst of it. we do have windchills for parts of ten states now spanning across the great lakes. so, tonight it will feel like minus 35 minus 45 even minus 50 in some cases. so this cold is going to be the worst tomorrow for the great lakes and the ohio valley. and then as we get into thursday, the cold spreads to the south and off to new england. that's where the dangerous windchills will be. new england will see their coldest day of the year on thursday. so this is a potent system. bundle up everybody because the majority of us across the country are feeling it. back to you, toure. >> now you see why i love her. thank you for that. in a frigid d.c. it's the

day republicans have been waiting for for eight years. full control of the capitol hill. now the question is can they prove they can govern? there's already a divide among house republicans. 24 republicans voted against speaker boehner's third term as present. that's more than the 12 who did the same in 2013. the revolt is not isolated to d.c. 60% of american voters wanted someone other than boehner to be speaker. in the senate, mitch mcconnell, now he's got his dream job. senate majority leader. he's vowing to give more power to his committee chairs and tackle everything from tax reform to keystone to stopping the white house's coal regulations. if the chambers can't get it together, as many voters fear they can't, 44% of voters will still blame the president for gridlock, not the gop. but the president is ceding nothing and planning to use his two greatest actions, executive

action and veto pen. he's meeting with mexico's president and u.s. governors. later this week he hits the road with stops in michigan, tennessee, all leading up to the state of the union address on january 20th. as always it will be the most important state of the union of his presidency. let's go right to the hill nbc's luke russert. luke do you expect an actual thaw an end to the obstruction, republicans using the legislative process to attack the president, or do folks actually want to do business this term? >> reporter: well you see all these nice articles that come out in publications like "the politico" where they say, we want to do these big things we want to work with the other side, we want to try and get some stuff for our legacy. when it's all said and done toure, what is the first issue this congress has to tackle that's significant? that's funding the department of homeland security on february 28th. that's when the funding runs out. that has to do with immigration. the first fight we'll have in

this congress is immigration where house speaker john boehner and mitch mcconnell will have to figure out a way in which they can fund the department of homeland security and allow for their members some way to air out their grievances regarding those executive actions the president made on immigration. that's not an easy thing to do off the top. so, could there be these large-scale agreements? mitch mcconnell in theory has a conference where you have some members running for president. a lot of them come from some -- some members come from the swing states. ones democratically held so they don't want to be pushed too far to the right when they have to make those floor votes ahead of the 2016 elections. i'm skeptical. i want to see what happens on immigration to see if we can gauge the mood of this congress. >> i want to bring in manu. hi it's mikey kay in for krystal ball. i want to talk about the many bills the republican house have passed in recent years with bipartisan support. they've never been brought to

vote by the democratic senate majority. what's going to be high on mcconnell's hit list as we go into 2015? >> mcconnell you know he really wants to bring order back to the senate. what he's talking about, of course, first we know the keystone bill. once they dispose of that, it's kind of anyone's guess on what mcconnell will move to next. we know he's talking already about moving to the iran sanctions legislation after they get done with keystone. luke mentioned the department of homeland security funding measure. and then a bunch of leftover items from last year. things ranging from terrorism risk insurance to raising the national debt ceiling. those measures that you talk about, those big republican priorities are really not going to be -- you know may take a backseat to some leftover items. you know if they don't -- keep in mind, they also have to deal with difficult things like passing a bublgdget, which is no easy task in a divided republican conference. so, there are a lot of basic

housekeeping measures and leftover items that divide the -- divide their own party they have to deal with. let alone all those other issues that republicans hope to do to advance their agenda. >> so we have the president about to set off on this three-state tour trying to build support for the ideas he's going to put forward in his state of the union. do you expect a countermessaging approach from republicans during these three weeks leading up to the state of the union, setting up their own agenda for the way they would govern now that they're in charge again? what would that look like? >> it's an interesting question. i think that when that happens, really in the senate side, they're going to be focused almost exclusively on energy and on keystone because this is a debate that may take us up to the state of the union. you may not hear much from the republicans other than the issue of energy. that's going to be their focus coming into the new congress. you won't hear much about health care probably until we start to get into the real negotiations over the budget.

that's how the republicans plan to push it then. watch for the president to try to seize an opening while this message -- sausage-making is happening on capitol hill to try to push a message a little more -- more effectively than they have in the last several years. >> luke i want to hear from you about what's going on with the steve scalise situation. we're talking about him being in leadership, even though he's reported to have addressed a group of white supremacists and has said to someone years ago he was david duke without the baggage. are republicans supporting him? are they abandoning him? why is it the problems he creates aren't enough for them to say, you know what we don't need that. that's not what we need going forward. >>. >> reporter: well steve scalise is extremely fortunate this story broke in the holiday recess, without the holiday glare on these members, without the tape recorders shoved in their face. a lot of members today because the families are around, it's more of a day of celebration,

they're not being forced to answer tough questions. tomorrow when house republican leadership, we plan on them having a press conference. if they don't do it tomorrow, they'll do it by thursday. when they have to start facing tough questions about mr. scalise, it will be very interesting to see what happens. the strongest things he has going for him right now is his file. the rank and file seems to be okay with his apology. saying, look, i was talking about the issue of taxes. i'm an affable guy. i was hitting the trail. it was 12 years ago. i'm sorry. it was a mistake. he also has the support of john boehner and also an african-american from louisiana saying steve scalise does not have a racist bone in his body. with the white house coming out hard against him yesterday, saying is this someone who's representative, perhaps emblematic of someone that should be in leadership that can speak for the country? if that sticks and you're starting to see house democrats calling on him to resign if there are some fractures within

the house republican conference perhaps one of the more northeastern/midwestern members saying, you know what we're not comfortable with this guy, then there might be a problem. where he stands right now, scalise does look secure. one last thing i'll throw in there. what are cities that get a lot of republican fund-raising, new york city, los angeles, to some degree chicago. steve scalise right now, to quote my friend at politico sherman, could be damaged goods. even if members are comfortable him staying as a leader one fortunate big things about this job to raise the party's profile is to raise money. if he can't do that then maybe they look somewhere else even though they're okay with what happened 12 years ago and his apology for it. >> we also want to get to some other politics. luke, do you ever watch "the west wing"? >> i watched it back in the day. i thought the last season was the best one. santos mcgreerry. >> you may remember they do this

thing there we wr they do the walk and talk. they say, i'm so busy, i can't just talk to you i have to walk down the relatively short aisles of the west wing to show my import. we have jeb bush out here with his new pac. i don't know if you've seen the video. he's doing the walk and talk. it's a full walk and a full talk. and what he's saying in the walk and talk to you, if you feel busy as you watch is hey, i give money to my pac. i'm really running. what do you make of this presidential aspiration and walk and talk? >> reporter: the interesting thing i think about jeb bush here is a guy who has not run a campaign since 2002 but he's always said he's been a man of technology. technology is always what he's about, when he was in florida, trying to get technology into the school system. he's going to look ahead with new technology. if he wants to be the candidate about technology what the heck was he doing? i mean that looks like a video that one of toure's kids could make when they steal dad's iphones. >> you've seen those? >> reporter: with all due respect, i get what he was going

at but you're jeb bush. you're going to raise a lot of money with that superpac. you come from a wealthy family. throw in a few bucks. do it a little more professional. have one of your -- i don't know if republicans have any friends in hollywood, but at least someone who would out there, maybe jon voight have jon voight get a nice camera and do the same thing with the walk and talk. guess what, jeb bush is he in? he's probably in. if you're going to throw out that video and try to raise money, you're probably not in. >> do you watch the brooklyn hipster show "girlz". >> reporter: allison williams. we miss allison. >> luke russert, manu ari melber, thank you very much. new leads in the search to find whoever shot two police officers here in new york city last night. we're live on the scene for that. and a former nypd detective joins us to talk about the overall challenges for police officers right now. plus, a new theory on how flight 8501 went down. "the cycle" rolls on.

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cycling right now, a man suspected of shooting two nypd police officers is in custody. sources telling our local nbc station, police are continuing to question a second suspect at the manhattan hospital he went to. the plain clothes cops were shot multiple times but are expected to survive. it's not believed they were targeted.

trymain, what is the latest you can tell us about this and the investigation. >> reporter: news of these suspects apparently in custody just broke about two hours ago. we know they are in custody. what we don't know are really any of the details about how they were captured. i've been in the bronx for much of the day. all behind me in the several blocks leading to the chinese restaurant where the shooting occurred, you see placards boasting of a reward $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects who shot those officers. now, again, we don't know much of the details, but we do know they are in custody. also police have also been riding around the neighborhood in a van with a loud speaker, asking anyone with any information into the shooting to police give police a call. so again, the details are still scant, they have those two guys in custody, apparently. >> trymaine lee, thank you for your reporting. there is no indication these particular officers were targeted for being police but last night's shooting does come in a period that has been both difficult and successful for new

york policing. crime is down but tensions between police u.n.s and de blasio administration are high. says nypd police are doing their jobs despite some reports of some kind of union supported slowdown. he was objecting to that. now, on monday the mayor and police commissioner had tough words for those thousands of officers who did turn their backs on the mayor at the funerals of the two assassinated officers liu and ramos. >> they were disrespectful to the families involved. that's the bottom line. they were disrespectful to the families who had lost their loved one. and i can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in a context like that. >> what was the need in the middle of that ceremony to engage in a political action? i don't get it. looking at the papers this morning, the cover story focused

on them the selfishness of that action. the selfishness of that. a funeral is not the place for it. come demonstrate outside city hall. demonstrate outside police headquarters, but don't put on your uniform and go to a funeral and engage in a political action. >> joseph is a former nypd sar gentle sar gentle at jon jay criminal college of justice and 20 years of service. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> this is such a peculiar time for those who follow policing criminal law issues and civil rights issues, all of which have been touched here. on the one hand as i mentioned, and i can't emphasize it enough the lowest murder rate in new york since the 1960s. something is working. policies i should say, to be very clear and fair instituted under a previous administration republican, but continuing today under this more liberal administration. yet these tensions so high. the commissioner there, as you saw, having to really seriously

say to these officers even though they may have genuinely held beliefs, that that kind of political protest isn't right for the funeral. and, obviously, i suspect as well he like the mayor is frustrated, some of this is also distracting from what is a falling murder rate. >> sure. the new york city police department as well as other police departments across the country have helped reduce crime nearly 50% over the last 20 years. to go from 2300 murders to just above 300 is actually pretty amazing. it had to do a lot with proactive police strategies which is the thing that's been attacked over the last year or so. >> define proactive. >> stop and question frisk issues, the drinking in public the urinating in public, the gambling. all those things people don't realize it that these are the things that lead to bigger crime. if you have a bunch of guys together gambling and drinking next thing they're fighting, stabbing shooting. that's when your major felonies start occurring. the thing behind broken windows is if you dealt with the small problems, the big problems would take care of themselves.

>> joseph you have a formidable amount of experience in the field, as ari already mentioned, over 20 years. i want to get a sense of what the tactical picture is. we've had ferguson eric garner case, the two shootings in brooklyn. what are captains telling their guys as they go out in the field? has the situation changed in the way police officers engage with people or is it business as usual? >> no, it's far from business as usual. there is a real threat against police officers everywhere. not just in new york city. we've seen shootings or several types of ambush types of incidents across the country. the message that's gone out is your safety is number one because you're no good to anybody else if something happens to you. >> sure. >> so i think things are slowing down in the respect of you know be careful running from radio run to radio run. seeing what is going on ahead of time before rushing into things. as a police officer, you blindly rush into things. people need your help. that's your job. you ran in there and do it. that's what you signed up for. >> right now we're seeing nypd is vir stul at a work stoppage.

they have some reasonable things they're complaining about, the contract and the critique from de blasio. but is a work stoppage the way to get what they want? >> i wouldn't clarify it as a work stoppage. i don't think it's enough evidence per se. maybe a slowdown but these two officers that got shot -- >> let's call it a slowdown. >> two officers got shot responding to a robbery in progress shows police officers are still doing their jobs. they might not be doing those broken windows type theory things, which still count as arrests. for instance, the urinating in public, the drinking in public those kond count as arrests under the criminal court, some of this. >> what i don't understand about this is the traffic and parking stuff. you've had a 94% decline it traffic violations. police wait for backup before getting into situations with violent criminals and stuff like that. i don't understand concerns about safety could be the driver of handing out fewer speeding tickets and fewer parking tickets. aren't we right to look at that and say that's a work stoppage aimed at reducing city revenue and putting political pressure on the mayor?

>> can you look at it that way but many police officers get shot and killed during car stops. it's a very dangerous thing. remember -- >> ticketing someone for blocking the box in manhattan for -- >> well not so much that. you have to remember something, most of the summons get written from traffic officers. they're not police officers but they wear the police-type uniform. you know, they look like cops. they're not armed. >> so i think some of them -- >> it's too dangerous to write speeding tickets in new york? >> in manhattan no one is going more than ten miles an hour in certain places. >> that's true. >> we've all been there. if you look at it maybe on your highways, belt parkways they have 50 miles an hour but i've never been able to do 50 miles an hour on the belt parkway. the issue it comes down to listen, there is some evidence there is a slowdown. however, we also have to look at the fact and take into consideration they had to pull police officers from just about all over the city to do the protests. >> right. >> and, sergeant, you ended on a point we can all agree on there is too much traffic in

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back now with a market alert. the dow is down for the second afternoon in a row. plunging oil prices caused by an oversupply in the u.s. russia and iraq have sent energy stocks into a frenzy. just about 30 minutes until the closing bell. we'll keep an eye on it for you. speaking of a frenzy that's the feeling among teens trying to find answers in the crash of airasia flight 8501. dozens of ships and planes continue to scour the java sea for wreckage of the plane. while the search area was expanded again today due to storms causing strong currents and ten-foot waves. dive teams had a brief break in the weather overnight, but make no mistake, this is monsoon season out there. visibility at the sea floor is

almost near to zero. "time" describes the java sea as a murky soup. for more on the status of the investigation and what the early clues might tell us michael, former chief of staff at the faa. welcome. >> welcome, michael. >> i want to talk about airasia. there's evidence mounting specifically in two areas, the first one is being the fact that the airline wasn't authorized to fly the route on the sunday. and the second one, there's reports that the pilots didn't actually take a net brief before going flying. if you were the ceo of airasia, wouldn't you be more proactive in coming out and trying to address these two key aspects of the investigation? >> well, michael, you know as a pilot, i mean, that is absolutely a cardinal sin. we have an experienced pilot who flies monsoon season all the time. if, in fact he -- they did not get a weather briefing that's kind of hard to believe. but we don't know that for sure. the second thing is it is significant that they were not

allowed to fly on a sunday and they did. so that is not just the ceo of airasia problem, that's an indonesian authority problem. i'll tell you, we're going to look back on this and look at the indonesians and how they handle air safety. there's a lot of reform needed to provide the safety with the growth that's occurring in that region. >> michael, nbc news spoke to an expert who concludes that perhaps this plane was horizontal when it met the water. two questions for you. how would that be ascertained? and what would that tell you about this crash? >> once again, it's a lot of speculation. we only have pieces of the wreckage and some of the bodies. so, the speculation's probably 90%. even the leading theory turns out not to be the case. but given that perhaps there was an aerodynamic stall, perhaps the pilot may have regained control at some altitude of the aircraft, and that plane can glide for up to 30 minutes after an engine out. so putting all that together, the fact that the pieces of the

fuselage seemed intact and the bodies seemed intact people are saying, well maybe that's a scenario. but for every one of those theories, there's many things that would, perhaps, work against that. we need the black boxes, the plate data and cockpit voice recorders. that will solve this puzzle. what it won't solve is, quite frankly, the rather horrific -- >> hold on for one second. bob mcdonald is speaking right now. let's go to that. >> the people first as governor. but i have failed at times and some of the judgments i have made during the course of my governorship have hurt myself my family and my beloved people of virginia. for that i am deeply deeply sorry. i would also say to the great people of virginia that i have never, ever betrayed my sacred oath of office in any way while i served as the governor of this great common wealth. i want to thank the incredible

friends, new and old from around the state and arnd the country, who have lifted me up over these last months and years to give me their love, their support. and their undying kindnesses and telling me they continue to believe in me, despite these proceedings. i don't believe that i would be as -- as much able to handle the news of today without the love of so many people around the state. i also want to thank my distinguished team here of jones, day, holland and knight. john brown, tom shuttleworth and all the team that's behind me today. they have really been remarkable and i know they are enthusiastic about the appeal that will be filed here shortly. i also want to thank my family

who have been unbelievably resolute. this has been an extraordinarily difficult time for my children my wife my brothers sisters, cousins, nephews, nieces, many, many of whom were in the courtroom here today. they have been beyond loving and forgiving and uplifting in their supported for me. finally and most importantly, i want to say that i have immense faith in the justice system, but i have tremendous faith and trust in the providence of the lord jesus christ and his ability to mete out justice and so that is my hope for ultimate vindication. i know his love never fails. it never gives up. and it's never going to run out on me. that's what's kept me going. and will keep us focused on a

bright hope for a productive future so i can continue what i've done for 38 years, and that is to serve the people. >> governor -- >> with that -- hold on. with that -- >> governor you were looking at 10 1/2 to 12 years -- >> i'm not -- i'm not going to take any questions, so there's no sense starting, okay? so, what i'm going to do is my counsel just want to make some brief comments. let me just say also i do want to thank you members of the press, many of whom i've known for quite a long time. many, many of you have gone -- >> listening to former virginia governor, bob mcdonald, who today was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of probation on federal corruption charges. we'll have more about him later. next the one issue you should not expect congress to touch with a ten-foot pole this session. still ahead, as movie award season ramps up, we bring you the most important statuette for hollywood, the koefted golden tomato.

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one thing not to expect from the 114th congress gun control. it's been two years since the sandy hook shooting which killed 26 people, 20 of them children. and 21 months since background legislation proposed by manchin and toomey failed. a new pbs "frontline" document called "gun down: the power of the nra" traces its rise and revolution. >> the nra was a safety organization. they helped people teach their children and their friends and family how to use and store and keep firearms safely. >> then the assassinations of the '60s. >> effective crime control

remains in my judgment effective gun control. >> those were fighting words for some in the nra. the 1968 gun control bill banned mail orders and restricted some purchases. >> the nra people said wait a minute, we've got other things to worry about than teaching guys how to shoot and how to hunt or so forth and collect guns. that's when -- that was the transformative period. >> the documentary airs tonight at 10 p.m. eastern. with us now is "frontline" filmnacre michael kirk. the nra has money but lots of lobbies in washington with lots of money. unparalleled record of success in getting its policies enacted. why does the nra win so much? >> because their membership does one thing most groups don't do especially the members of the anti-gun groups. that is they vote with a push of a button from nra headquarters. they can amass -- they say they have 5 million members.

they can amass either a letter-writing campaign an e-mail campaign people showing up at town meetings beleaguered members of the new congress know too well the legend of the nra's power, everything from knocking off al gore in the election against george w. bush to taking out the speaker of the house to lots of other moments where the nra has exerted that power because their members volt. >> yeah. and those members are often described in the jargon as single issue voters. basically, that this is their issue. there are certainly a gun-owning nra members who back democrats in regions where they find democrats to be good enough on guns. talk to us about the sort of cultural or almost religious feelings that your piece explores, because you have members in their interview who talk about this like a religious faith. >> it's an amazing thing, josh. the thing about the nra is that they -- you know, after every

one of these terrible events, sandy hook, gabrielle giffords columbine back in the '90s there's a movement that starts up by anti-gun folks. they all want something to be done. and the something they want done often turns out to be regulating guns. then they melt away after a few weeks or a few months. we all have different issues we care about. in some ways more than that. but the gun owners of america, as you say, involved in a sort of religiosity believe more than anything their patriotic duty is to protect the gun. in that sense they are a religion according to many of them. >> michael, it's a fantastic documentary. i want to show the folks a little bit of it especially this piece about wayne lapierre. take a look. >> he was a very quiet man. i was amazed he was a lobbyist because he did not have the fellow well met attitude

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enliven us than those who make us wish we were dead. i always check in with rotten tomatoes to see what the folks and critics are saying about that film. hollywood's awards season is upon us. the golden globes are this sunday. after this segment, i'll be back to talk about how disappointing hollywood has been. for now, smiles everyone let's talk about the best reviewed films of the year. the winners of the golden tomatoes from rotten tomatoes with the editor of that great site matte.. you brought a trophy, golden tomato. so, let's talk about some of the best reviewed films of the year. one of the greatest films of the year in my opinion, "selma" got the award for best limited release and it's a thing of beauty. >> we divide our main categories

of movies up to wide release and limited release. "selma" is opening in wide release this weekend so people can see a golden tomato winner in theaters. the director is mentioned in another golden tomato winner this year. she gets covered in life itself which is the movie about roger ebert, and he kind of championshiped her career early on, and she says that. she gets coverage in that movie. but "selma" is a fantastic movie. the critics love it. it's 100% with upwards of 70 reviews right now. that's rare for a movie to stay at a perfect 100. >> it sure it. it's an extraordinary film of this moment with ferguson and eric garner. an extraordinary picture, extremely long. it took 12 years to make different than we normally get. >> it is different.

this is kind of a character study of watching someone grow up in front of our eyes. richard linkletter made a series of movies where he checks in with the character every seven or eight years. this is taking the idea to the extreme. he filmed this movie over the course of 12 years. starts out with a boy about 5 or 6 years old and we see him grow up to be a man. the story is about a kid whose parents have split up and his mother kind of marries a succession of guys that aren't really good for her. it's a really -- i mean this is the mother of all coming of age stories, really. and the critics love it. it's a 98% on the tomato. >> a good shot at the oscar. >> i was intrigued by "the grand budapest hotel." i wasn't sure. i was kind of hesitant. saw it and was blown away. i was really surprised in a really lovely way about how good it is. why did it stand out for you?

>> it stood out for me because i think this is one of wes anderson's best films. he's a great film maker but he takes his stylization that i think he started working on with some of his animated films and takes that to an extreme and applies the learnings from fantastic mr. fox to this film. this is a movie that comes off almost like it's animated at times. great performances. i'll tell you who is really the standout star of this is ray fiennes. he plays a character who would be at home in a old school drawing room comedy. he's on so funny. >> i was saying he's not a man you would associate with comedy. he's in bond the red dragon more serious roles. >> and he's very funny. for those people who have seen "in bruge" from a years back know he can do a bit of comedy but he's swinging for the fences with his comedic chops here. he's fantastic. >> rotten tomatoes also does television. your best reviewed miniseries of the year was the fargo reboot on

fx from 1996 best picture nominated film. this is a dangerous thing when you take something that's so acclaimed and beloved and change it. it seems to have worked this time. what did they do they got right? >> it. >> they worked on the characters, they worked on the writing. really where you look at the difference with movies is movies are a director's media. tv is really a writer's medium. the writing will make or break a show. what you really get with "fargo" is a great set many script and great characters. with tv they'll talk about you get invested in these characters, and you want to see more of them on a weekly basis. >> my kids' favorite movie of the year was "the lego movie." >> i thought you were going to say "whiplash." >> no no but everything is awesome in the movie. just every part of it was so intriguing.

>> such a great movie. who would have thought that movie would be that good right? >> i think it's a shoo-in to get nominated. it's really well written. it's the other movie that cements chris pratt. i think we'll see better ratings for "parks and rec" love to see lee an neeson playing comedy as the voice of the good cop/bad cop. >> kind of amazing what's happened with "parks and rec" to asis anzari breaking out. people will look bake on that. golden tomatoes, a fantastic site and good segment. >> thanks for having me. the 2015 class for the major league baseball hall of fame. it's heavy with pitchers.

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together. i wish them well. he looked so happy about the way vote have gone. >> the preliminary stages of oscar voting has begun. i, for one, could not be less excited. december is typically the type when hollywood unveils its films. i was blown away by "selma" but nonplussed people. "american sniper" was good but everything it tried to do was done better by "the hurt locker." as an industry it rakes in over $10 billion a years you but with no one almost buys no dvds yaern more, they have relied on escapist fare.

when all it creates at the exclusion of ambitious social dramas that force us to confront deep truths well that's a loss. the spiritually epic films are becoming rare apocalypse now, good fellas the hurt locker 12 years a slave, her. a film like "selma" is an important mirror on a society currently struggling with how to protest in order to get change. meanwhile, last year's top-grossing movies merely allowed people to put their brains on pause for two hours, probably why we have fewer epic dramas because a few years ago it led to studios releasing 24 films a year to 12. fewer risky bets and fewer thought-provoking films. all this of course is an ancient tug of work. rudolph around hype said critics

should deal with films as an economic product. i know he's right. hollywood is in the widget production business just like detroit, but hollywood has the potential to change lives. and films can be art, and to use that potential so rarely is a loss for society. the most talked about movie of the year was "the interview." i can't escape talking about it. it was funny at times, but for that to become some exercise in patriotism and constitutionalism was absurd. it reminded me of the caricature of america as a young nation as a sort of brash, bratty teenager of a nation insistent on saying what it wants whenever it wants. we're better than that. "selma" reminded us we are a great nation of depth and seriousness, where we can change for the better which is a sign of great maturity as a nation. we are the country that put a man on the moon and ended the cold war, and made apocalypse

now, and shall lind her's list do the right thing, the graduate, and we need more epic films like those. in a time of war and protests in the streets, bringing a historical moment as deep as any of the vaunted '60s, but hollywood is like the mall selling us stuff we don't need instead of trying more often to challenge us to the core. now it's time for ari melber. \s. it's tuesday, january 6th this is "now." >> we're anxious to get started. >> members of the 114th congress. >> congressional republicans now reign. >> the house and senate for the first time in eight year. >> it's boehner and mcconnell for better or worse. >> the election didn't solve