100 fresh faces of congress undergo boot camp. first on the agenda, let's make a deal. >> if that's all we can get, that's better than nuthing. >> i hope we can get a better extension. >> who will behave? charlie rangel against the ropes and the ethics case against him rolls on today. can we expect more drama after yesterday's walkout? the freshman class of 2010. new members of congress always think they can change washington, but will washington change them? we're talking with former house speaker dennis hastert and the youngest member of the house, congressman aaron shock. finally official, kate middleton and prince william are engaged. we're expecting to see the happy cuppal for a photo-op later this morning. joining the discussion this morning pat buchanan, "washington post" editorial writer jonathan capehart and the fourth highest ranking

congressman larsen and valerie blame and her husband, former ambassador joe wilson. good morning, i'm chris jansing. this is a special edition of "jansing & company." we're live out on the balcony of the rotunda on capitol hill and tremendously busy in washington, d.c. what will their influence be? we'll be talking with one of the longest serving members of congress and talking about one of the longest serviing memberss of congress. he's waiting to hear, frankly so are we, what the consequences are of that hearing that he said for almost a year what he wanted on those ethic charges. the strength of the tea party and all that even before we get to who among the elite of washington, d.c. will get invited to the wedding of this

young century. wills and kate are officially engaged. all right, let's start with politics, though. here's a key question for the democrats this morning. we know republicans want all of them extended, so do the democrats fold or fight? leaders will take the temperature of their members in the first caucus meeting since the election today. here's msnbc luke russert. luke, who has the political advantage right now? what will happen here? >> chris, welcome to washington. ashame you're outside in that cold. this really is a huge issue for this lame duck session and there are a few options which are available to both republicans and democrats. number one, the one that is getting the most traction, especially after the white house is david alex rod said they'll accept this as a two-year extension for all the tax cuts for the highest earners and middle class. that's all we could get and we'll take it. for us to get anything done, we'll take that. the one democrats want is a temporary extension on the bush

tax cuts for the highest earners and a permanent extension for the middle class. those earning under $250,000. that is a possibility but the republicans are going to go for a temporary two-year extension for all of them and won't hold back to the democrats where they want. two other options out there, charles schumer senator from new york have said why don't we absolutely not raise taxes on anyone making less than $1 million sort of increasing the threshold from $250,000 and that has not gained a lot of traction in the gop and one other mark warner threw out there. make the permanent tax cuts for the middle class doing the obama plan. get rid of the one for the highest earners and revenue would go directly to the small businesses. that hasn't taken off too much. remember, chris, the deadline for this is january 1st. if congress does not act, everybody taxes will go up on january 1st. that is their ultimate deadline and they would like to get something done in the next few weeks and really comes down to

negotiations between senate democrats and senate republicans and what kind of deal they can pull off. joining me now toalk about this jonathan capehart and pat buchanan. we were getting rained on earlier, but okay now. interesting for the democrats here. do they cave or do they compromise and is there a fine line between the two? do they have to in some ways give a little to these new republicans that are coming in? >> i think they ought to look at the correlation of power. the congress and the country wants, obviously, the extension of the middle class tax cuts and the republicans have the whip hand in extending the tax cuts for the rich for two years. if i were the democrats i'd give them that and say beyond that, above $1 million, that goes. and i think that is a very powerful case and republicans in the senate would have a hard time killing that. but i think if the democrats go too far -- >> are they coming for you, pat? >> it's my car parked down

there, chris. >> well, here's the question, jonathan. is he right? do both sides gain a little something if they go with the chuck schumer proposal? >> i think pat lays out an excellent program for them to actually consider. the question here is temporary versus permanent. i don't see how the white house and the democrats go for a permanent extension when the president and democrats argued throughout the campaign that to do so would mean that the government would have to borrow $700 billion in order to give tax cuts to the wealthy. >> let's not forget that the bush tax cuts can't pass without democratic support. it's not as if the democrats don't hold any cards here, right? >> the democrats will go, the house can do pretty much what it wants, it's still pelosi's house. what the democrats have to do they really want the rich, one way or another. >> however they define it. >> if they don't sun set those tax cuts now, they may never get it done because the new congress is going to be far more

republican. so, i think their best bet is to get it done now. >> what is the risk in that? i mean, what did the american people send them here to do? was it to raise taxes, what will essentially be what happens on january 1st. >> the american sent new congress to come in but they don't get seated until after new year and they expire on january 21st. the one where the democrats are still in the majority, they're the ones that will have to do this. >> if they just extended them all for two years, right in the election of 2012, they have to be extended again. and then if barack obama really wanted to play hard ball and threaten to veto them. if he's willing to stand up for his convictions, he would really have a battle. >> we want to talk about charlie rangel in a few minutes. but, first, news that has take on the world by storm today. after years of speculation,

final finally, it's official. prince william and kate middleton are engaged. nbc's jenny is in london where the royal engagement was announced today. are people over there going crazy, jenny? >> they really are, chris. only one story in britain. kate and william are going to be married next spring or possibly the summer, but we're expecting it to be the summer because it would be a long engagement otherwise which is normally a very short engagement period in the royal family. this wausz announced a few hours ago and it took over by surprise even though we were building up to this. really a true fairy tale because kate middleton is perhaps slightly, but that's just a technical term because she's not a member of that sort of ruling elite. she's actually a middle class girl, a girl next door and it's not, i don't know how widely known this is in america, but

she's actually a young girl that when she was back in school, she even had a poster of prince william up on her door. no doubt she had eyes for him then even before she met him. they did, of course, meet at the university up in scotland more than eight years ago. she really had to wait for this. but now, finally, we have this really delightful news that they're going to finally be getting married next year. >> we're all so happy for waiting katie. i hated that they called her that. jenny, thank you so much. we'll have more about that coming up. we want to talk more about what's happening here in washington. can we talk about charlie rangel. >> perseverance on the part of that girl. >> how long did your wife have to wait for you to propose? >> four. >> four years or four days? charlie rangel, okay, we're waiting to hear what will happen to him. pat, you've been around a long time. what was his strategy in walking out yesterday? here we hear him for more than a year saying i want my day in

court and show people -- >> look, this committee had enough and they say, charlie, we're tired of your act and they went ahead and heard these charges and they said the charges were credible and the charges are convincing. i think charlie is going to be censured or one of the three censure things you can do and i don't think they will put up with it any more. he did have lawyers for a long time. he knew this was coming. >> we told you since 2008, if you want to set up a legal defense fund, you can. >> he could have liquidated some of these bonds and mutual bonds to provide for his own defense. i had just written a piece for our website where it said congressman rangel is a congressman in new york and a legend in his own mind. this man is a shadow of his former self standing before a jury of his peers thinking he is this great man. >> someone who just came out of an election bid where he was

overwhelmingly re-elected. >> he's well-liked in the city. democrats, republicans, they get him but he stayed too long. he's remained too long and he's pushed the envelope too far and that committee, when it did that yesterday, three members, yeah, they're colleagues for his for years and years. we had it, charlie. >> guys, you'll stick with me throughout this hour, thank you. but jonathan and pat, we have to go to breaking news from ohio state university. let's go to richard lui. what is going on there? >> we're watching a situation at ohio state university there in columbus, ohio. we're just getting information about an incident that reported to happen at 8:41 local eastern time. what we understand is that four buildings were evacuated. faculty, staff and students were removed after a bomb threat occurred in this location. those four buildings evacuated. what we are hearing from authorities there is that as of

now we're not sure if it is a phone threat or the items or packages were found at the locations yet. we're watching the website right here which they also have details there. we're also understanding that a text message was sent out to 32,000 buckeye students. we'll stay on top of this right here at msnbc. back to you, chris, in washington, d.c., talking about democratic unrest in this lame duck congress. i was young, i was in shape, and i had a heart attack. you need to do the preventative things that you need to do for your heart health. for me, it means an aspirin regimen.

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raining, but still a lovely morning here in washington, d.c. welcome back to "jansing & company." you know the line of that old song, meet the old boss, same as the new boss. despite a mini rebellion, democrats are about to reinstall the same leadership team that oversaw the biggest shift in political power in more than 50

years and, of course, that leadership team is headed by nancy pelosi. i'm joined by john larsen who is chairman of the house democratic caucus. you're busy these days, it thanks for taking the time. you're an hour away from going to caucus. >> today, actually, it's a very difficult day because we have all our former members who lost an election. as you pointed out historic. they're all still part of a very historic congress. so, today is an opportunity for us to come together as a caucus and talk about our organizational meeting tomorrow, but, more importantly, to listen to our members and what happened out in the field to them and as importantly the human dynamic that very rarely gets discussed and what's going on in their lives personally and what happened to them and what will happen to them down the road. >> a key question really is, as they leave, what was the message that voters were sending? some people say the message was clearly changed. they wanted something different and, yet, it looks like the same leadership.

you know that there are critics within your own party, particularly blue dog democrats who say we're sending the wrong message to have you continue in your position with all due respect to have nancy pelosi continue with all due respect is not sending the message to the voters that we heard you. >> well, i think the message is not about john larsen and i don't think the message is about nancy pelosi, albeit those are fair questions to ask and certainly for our members. the issue is the economy. the economy and jobs. look, we did an awful lot. >> do voters and you and nancy pelosi and other members of the leadership didn't represent that they didn't get the job done that you wanted them to do. >> we got a lot done but not enough in the voters' minds. ask that has to do with jobs and putting people back to work even though our make it in america and settle around the world was a very important and worked very well on two posts, but not in the heartland. and there was an awful lot of money spent in a number of races and we'll hear that from our

candidates, as well. but our candidates are coming back and telling us, look, it was about jobs and we never did enough in terms of that area for us, really, to have the kind of success that we would have. we had a roosevelt moment and we responded like hoover. i think that's true. we didn't do enough and they didn't see the infrastructure improvement and they didn't see the jobs taking place and so, therefore, i think they responded in kind. >> what do you think will happen with tax cuts then? is it clear to you, look, everyone agrees middle class tax cuts -- including 250,000 and above and a million and above. what is going to happen here? >> i think the democrats have felt very strongly along with the president about 250,000. there is room for, there is room for compromise, but there isn't compromise on providing millionaires with additional tax cuts beyond what they already have. i mean, that, you know, that goes directly to the question of what are we going to do about

the deficit and in this economy do we really need to give them more of a break while so many in the middle class are suffering? i don't think so and neither do the american public, i believe. >> it was really good of you on a very busy and rainy day to sit out here on the balcony with us. thank you so much, good to see you. five shootings over the past month targeting military installations in the d.c. area. we just got some new information on the case. we'll have that for you, next. also the central figures in the cia leak investigation, now, valerie blame and joe wilson's story is heading to the big screen. we'll talk to them in just a few minutes. [ male announcer ] in the past, landing an airplane

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five long years after her disappearance a human jawbone has been found in aruba. forensic experts are conducting tests right now to determine if there is a dna match. 18-year-old holloway disappeared on a high school trip in aruba more than five years ago. well, from here in d.c. we're just getting new information on the search for the shooter who has been targeting military buildings. five incidents including bullet holes at the pentagon and military recruiting offices are under investigation. now, the fbi is offering a $20,000 reward for tips. michelle sagona investigative crime reporter and i know you have been talking to your sources, michelle, at the fbi. what are they telling you this morning? >> the reason why i spent a little bit longer, took a little bit longer time putting out this reward, chris, they had to get clearance through the department of justice and kind of going

through some chains and then put some key players in place at the tip line. now that that reward is in place, they are looking for the identification and possibly car information and vehicle description and they want anyone in the public with that description to be able to call their tip line right now. they have agents standing by waiting for you. >> one of the things that, obviously, they look for, a pattern. one pattern is that these are taking place at night. what do they make of that? >> it's interesting because this particular person and what i was told from the fbi is that they could have some sort of rage against the united states marine corps. this could be someone that you may know that is displaying odd behavior. this is someone who could possibly be disappearing in the middle of the night and you don't know why. these are some key signs and someone who possibly knows this area, the washington metropolitan area anywhere from virginia, d.c. to maryland. so, if anyone that you know is

displaying these types of behaviors, they are looking for a vehicle description and i am pretty sure they have some surveillance and they are keeping golden nuggets behind and hoping when someone comes forward with that information, they can sort of match it up to their tips and to their information and say, okay, this is a good lead to be able to move forward. but so far, five shootings and four different military buildings and no one has been injured and right now what i am told from my sources that fbi, not so much the ballistics that have linked these, chris, but the gun. there may have been muzzle flashes that have gone off at the scene. >> michelle, thanks so much for getting us updated. >> have a good day, chris. another big story out there today, chris. details into the investigation of the missing family in ohio. police now believe the man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl who was found in his basement may have been watching her family before they disappeared. authorities are now fearing the worst for the girl's mother,

brother and a friend of the family. >> you have to be just realistic, you just have to be realistic that there is a possibility that these folks are dead. >> nbc peter alexander is in howard, ohio, with the latest for us. peter, good morning. >> chris, good day to you. an emotionally taxing time for this entire community. first the joy sunday morning of finding that 13-year-old sarah m maynard who was bound and gagged in a basement. there is also a grim conception made by the sheriff that the other three individuals may not be found alive. he says he wants to be optimistic, but he has to be realistic in this case. there is still, though, a level of hope from family members including steven thompson, one of the woman who is missing right now. >> as far as i'm concerned they're locked up in another house somewhere or maybe even in a shed somewhere. they may be cold, they may be hurt, but they're coming back.

>> we're also learning some new information about how investigators were able to track down matthew hoffman as a suspect in this case. the sheriff yesterday confirmed that they are reviewing surveillance tape from inside a walmart in mt. vernon after reports that this man, matthew hoffman may have purchased a tarp at that site. also new information that they became aware of mr. hoffman last thursday, when they found a vehicle that was belonged to tina hurman, one of the missing woman and nearby in that parking lot about seven miles from here they also found hoffman sitting in his own vehicle. matthew hoffman, the suspect, now faces kidnapping charges and he'll be in court later this afternoon. that is the latest from mt. vernon, chris, back to you. >> peter, thank you so much. well, if you can believe it, they're still counting ballots up in alaska to see who will head here to the capital for the new senate term. lisa murkowski still holding a slim lead. more than 100 new members of

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welcome back to "jansing & company." live from capitol hill. let's get you caught up on the still undecided senate race. senator lisa murkowski is now leading by 1,700 votes and election workers still have 19,000 absentee ballots to count. kristen welker following the story live from anchorage, alaska. what is going on there today, kristen? >> hey, there, chris. well, yesterday was definitely a big day for senator lisa murkowski. she pulled ahead in the vote total, but it's important to point out that part of her lead includes about 7,000 contested ballots. those are ballots that joe

miller's camp has disputed due to things like spelling errors and allegeability. but it is expected today or tomorrow senator murkowski will pull ahead in the undisputed votes. all eyes right now on the uncontested ballots because if at the end of the counting process joe miller can't catch up to lisa murkowski, even if he gets all those disputed ballots thrown out, he'll have a really tough time convincing folks that this should actually go to court. we'll have to wait and see what the final numbers actually say. yesterday senator lisa murkowski's camp was triumphant saying they didn't see a path to victory for joe miller. but joe miller says he's not ready to concede and the counting continues for a seventh day. today they will count about 9,000 absentee ballots they hope to be counting. >> kristen, thank you very much for that update. more than 90 new members

getting a taste of washington and the new-found power that goes with it. right now the freshman are getting their bearings and figuring out where to live. the class of 2010 got to town on a change of wave, but could it come crashing. congressman aaron shock and former speaker of the house, dennises hastert. thank you, gentlemen, for being here. you know what it is like to be a new kid on the block. the question a lot of people have because there are so many new members of congress, will they change washington, is that what the chrisette voe-- what w the new members of congress? >> 90 members coming out of 345. nearly a quarter of the congress. no question that even the new democrats and republicans will bring a different flavor, a different perspective on the world and the members who they've replaced but the realities of washington, d.c., and the united states congress is things tend to move slowly. so, i think one of the realities

they're going to be dealing with is while they've been elected on a theme of change, even the president has seen it takes a little bit longer than even most of us would like to see. so, there may be some frustration that sets in when they realize that they can't do it overnight. >> mr. speaker, you were here in '94 when there was a similar change, although the economy was a little bit different then and a lot of people are make comparisons. are there comparisons to be made? allen west of florida said, we're not going to get ten years. we have to turn this around in two years. is he right? >> well, first of all -- >> speaking to that anxiousness they're going to feel. >> it takes some time to turn things around, which could start to set the trend and in '94 we did set a different trend as we came into power and we did the contract with america. we passed it. three quarters of it was signed by a democrat president. so, we did really start to make some changes. i think you can do that, but you have to do it step by step by step. >> is it a more polarized washington than it was then?

>> first of all, on the republican side of the aisle, you have a majority. you can do a lot of things with the majority and all the spending and all the taxation comes out of the house of representatives. so, you can begin to set that tone. i would have another caution to give to the new freshman on both sides of the aisle same thing i told aaron shock when he came to congress. make sure you spend some time at home and get to know your members and what people at home are talk about. so you don't lose touch with that main street america. >> let me ask ask you about main street america and what message you think they sent and let's talk about tax cuts because the idea of one side compromising and both sides compromising. do you think both sides have to compromise on the issue of tax cuts? >> well, i think if we're going to do something before january, the democrats still control the house and the senate and the president is still democratic president. now, the reality is 38 house democrats of this current congress before we adjourn to the election cycle, 38 house

democrats came out and said, you know what, speaker pelosi, we disagree with you and we'll vote with speaker baner and the republicans or john boehner on the current rates. you only need 40 house democrats to flip on speaker pelosi for republicans to win. >> but do you see that happening? >> there's 38 house democrats who have already spoken on the issue. so, i think the president has lost on the narrative of taxing the rich, if you will. and i think the public has spoken in this last election and getting back to what speaker hastert mentions, absolutely, one thing mentioned in this last cycle, washington, d.c., is not listening, washington, d.c. is broken. if anything in this next congress, i hope we spend more time back in our district and little bit more time listening to our constituents and less rough shot arrogant power out here in washington, d.c. >> you know in politico they quoted tennessee representative

hillary to this point. he likened the lure of washington to a retaining wall against the ocean. here's what he said, it will keep hitting you and no matter how strong you are, it will wear you down. how does a new member of congress keep from getting worn down? getting frustrated? >> my advice is go back home. keep your family at home. keep your roots there and, you know, for me going back home, even when i was speaker for a couple days or a day kind of refurbished you. you've got your roots back, you talk to your friends and you went down to the corner coffee shop and talked to real people and you went to the farm table at the corner restaurant down at cross roads and you got to know what people were really thinking. you went to the grocery store. my kids didn't want to go to walmart with me because it took two hours to get half a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread because people came up and talked to you and you had that type of relationship. i think you need to build that. one other thing that members talk about to access you, when

you go back home 75% to 80% of new job creation is help start small business. if you start cutting the ability for people to make $2 $250,000 which are small businesses, mom and pop shops -- >> chuck schumer proposal, move it up to $1 million? >> there are ways to negotiate. i think there is going to have to be some kind of compromise, but to cut people earning $250,000 is pretty tough. >> all right, mr. speaker, congressman, thanks to both of you. i know you have a busy day. we appreciate you coming over. fair game. a new movie that chronicles the cia leak scandal involving valerie blame goes into wide release this weekend. >> valerie, turn on msnbc. >> mom, why can't i have some soup? >> we launched an investigation. ashcroft just announced it. they say he's going to convene a grand jury. >> the fbi is now conducting a criminal investigation into who leaked the name of the cia

undercover -- >> they want me to comment on the investigation. >> i'm now joined by former ambassador joe wilson and his wife, former cia agent valerie blame author of "fair game." morning, welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> i wonder why we picked that, could it be because it said msnbc? one thing i thought about as i was considering talking to you today is you know what it is like to be in the eye of the storm in washington, d.c., and there's a lot of argument that when barack obama came in, obviously, the election was about change. argument that this new wave that's coming in starting today is about change and i'm wondering as you've watched what happened since your story started to unfold, valerie, do you think washington has changed you? do you think it's possible for washington to change? >> well, we've moved away from

washington. we were never native wash tonnians and we woke up and realized we didn't have jobs. we rebuilt our personal lives and work lives out in the southwest, we are very happy and love it there. what i am sensing is that, in fact, gridlock, rather than change, unfortunately. >> can i just add to that. i first went to washington in 1976. and, actually, served as a congressional fellow in both the senate and the house in the mid-'80s and i think the atmosphere in washington has changed tremendously since about the mid-'90s and i think the atmosphere there is poisonous now. i think it's very, very difficult to get anything done. these politicians, they don't talk to each other except on the floor. where they basically hurl insali insults at each other and on talk shows where they do the

same thing. i don't think the atmosphere is conducive to the sort of change that either side wants. >> and one of the changes that the president has talked about is very close to you and that is nuclear proliferation. i know that valerie countdown to zero was a documentary that a lot of people were hoping would do for the nuclear arms race what "an inconvenient truth" did for climate change. obviously, it didn't get quite as much attention as the other documentary. president obama is pushing for the stark treaty in this lame duck congress. do you think that is even possible? is the whole sort of nuclear issue just sort of not sexy enough any more? >> i do think it is possible. and leaders around the world, as you saw, perhaps you saw "countdown to zero" they had at least a dozen world leaders from tony blair to gorbachev. these people, this statue who

some of them who literally had the finger on the button would not be involved in this whole issue if they did not think we could make some significant aadvances towards reducing our nuclear arsenals. unilaterally it won't happen in a week's time. i do believe it can be done. i'm delighted that i can speak out as an advocate on these issues. >> valerie blame, joe wilson, mr. ambassador, thanks to both of you. good luck with the movie. >> thank you very much. we have some new information coming in now on that breaking news from ohio state university. let's go back to richard lui who has more details on this. what are you finding out, richard? >> a lot happening in d.c. and osu. columbus, ohio, right now. two hours a bomb threat came through. four buildings evacuated. what we have heard from pete williams. we are learning that an fbi official in washington saying that a message was sent

overnight to the public that comments in the comments section of the fbi's website. that sender claiming to have seen paperwork suggesting that bombs had been placed on campus and were set to go off at 9:00 a.m. eastern. that's about an hour and o40 minutes ago. this is the campus and these are the four buildings affected right here. about a four-block distance that we're watching. i just called their emergency hotline and it was updated at 10:15 and still getting more information and not identifying how they found out specifically in terms of who has done that but we have got more information from pete williams. more on that breaking story. we'll talk about 2010 losers that might be back come election 2012. nobody in my family ever had a heart attack.

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falling in love takes less than one second. at least according to a new study from syracuse university, which found intense love activates 12 areas of the brain flooding you with euphoria with chemicals similar to cocaine. they also found couples newly in love had high levels of growth factor which plays a large role in the love at first sight phenomen phenomenon. washington, d.c., a beautiful place to fall in love as i sit next to mr. patrick buchanan. some great company joining me here live as we continue in our next hour. republican strategist frank donitelli and alicia menendez and eril suthers and patrick gavin. do you sometimes wonder if some candidates are tenacious or masks because we're already hearing whispers of meg whitman

who lost 140 and she is now reportedly setting her sights on a senate seat, potentially a 2010 run against dianne feinstein who is trying to make a jump back in the game after a loss. what do you make of that, pat, she wants to get back into the game. we think she'd be done with it now. >> she has an awful lot of good will out there. she's lost, i think, because of the hispanic gal that worked for her she didn't treat very well and this could be a good year in 2012 the year of the republicans. she has $3 million and only went through 3% or 4% of it, you know. >> that's just small change for her. >> yeah, pocket change for meg whitman. what the problem is, money doesn't buy votes. you can have all the money in the world but if your message doesn't resonate with voters or strange or the people don't go for it, you're not going to get

elected. she's a prime example and carly fiorina is a prime example and other examples who didn't have money who had other problems. >> let's talk about totally other different kind of case. russ feingold running against barack obama. >> i predicted it on something called the mclaughlin group on something you never see. i predicted it because people have told me that, i thought they were pushing me to make the prediction, but republicans said that they had heard, you see, he would run as an anti-war candidate. that's a deep belief of his. you're not getting out of iraq and not getting out of afghanistan and the anti-war really inspired them and he couldn't beat barack obama -- >> your friend here is skeptical, pat. >> i think it's part of this washington parlor game. we're so impatient to get to 2012. we have been talking about 2012 from the moment barack obama took the oath of office last year.

so, i think the idea that russ feingold would challenge a sitting president of the united states, ted kennedy did it. look how successful he was at that. >> look, jean mccartney did it against lyndon johnson. if you have a point of view people believe deeply in and strongly in like the anti-war liberals in america. they have no representative and obama tripled forces in afghanistan and if russ feingold went out there and ran on that issue, i agree. he's not going to beat barack obama, but he could make a place for himself in american history. >> let me ask you one more thing. you'll see how the tea partiers do. they're a huge part of this new freshman class. what about sharon angle? what about christine o'donnell and they're apparently thinking about runs. >> i know christine o'donnell has run three times now. she had that mess with bill maher. i thought she was attractive at the end of that campaign. she closed that game 19-10 and i

don't know about another house seat or senate run out there. i would think this lady has a future in tv or politics. >> tv or politics. >> tv. and lotes let's leave it at that. christine o'donnell should not do that to herself. if she does, she's certifiable. >> there's a lot of certifiable people in this building. >> unequivocal statement. well, you never expect senator john mccain and snookie to be best buds, would you? they have a twitter relationship going on. they joined forces over president obama's proposed tanning tax and now it's going beyond politics. the senator tweeted birthday greetings to the mtv's "jersey shore" girl and snooki tweeted back, thank you, johnny. she said xoxo. hugs and kisses. by the way, notices the typo in thank you. ♪

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we have new information for you now on that breaking news out of ohio state university. take a look, we have some live aerials over the campus there. now, four buildings evacuated. bomb threats were e-mailed into the fbi. threats sent to the bureau's washington headquarters this morning. so, the university sent out text messages to students. we'll keep our eye on what's happening at ohio state university. it's one of the biggest college campuses in the country. now, here at msnbc, it is green week where we're highlighting environmentally friendly solutions and alternatives and today some real options that not only save energy costs but also thousands of dollars in savings. richard lui, you were looking at savings. what did you find out? >> some ways to save some money. with the consumer carbon

footprint, that's what we can take a look at. if you're thinking of getting a new stove or update your furnace as it gets cold outside during the winter. meaty tax credits expiring in just six weeks that you might want to take advantage of. how about a biomass stove. don't worry, you don't need to hold your nose if you use one of these. it does not burn natural gas or a water heater that saves you hundreds of dollars on your u l utility bill. they're not even solar. then a foot note for you on this one. your tax credit maxes out 30% of the price that you pay for it and $1,500. here's another 30% credit you can cash in on. geothermal heat pumps that take the heat out of the earth to heat your home and small wind turbines that pump out electricity for you just for your house and solar energy systems. rental homes don't qualify for those. ready to go big, consider an energy improvement mortgage.

you can enhance energy upgrades on your existing home or try for an energy efficient mortgage and get energy savings on a new home. okay, it's not only for us consumers, but also for small business owners. some green commercial benefits in the reep program loaning you up to 75% of the project's costs. that's huge. so long as the project ranges from $5,000 to $25,000. 8 8% of the funding here, chris, is set aside for small, rural businesses and agricultural produces and plenty of ways to renew. start going green if you want to save some money. >> who doesn't want to save some money? thank you, richard, so much. student romance and now royal wedding. it's official. prince william and kate middleton. we just got a statement from her family and we'll have that for

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