right now on "andrea mitchell reports," guilty of violating house rules. the house ethics panel delivers its verdict. a big foreign policy setback for the white house. a key republican senator shuts the door on ratifying the new nuclear arms treaty with russia. plus, more alarm bells on the mortgage front. is the crisis getting worse? senator chris dodd joins us ahead of his committee's hearing on the matter today. and bush and cheney reunit to break ground for the bush presidential library. >> when times have been tough and the critics have been loud, you've always said you had faith in history's judgment. and the big announcement for all royal watchers.

prince william and kate middleton are officially engaged. >> i didn't realize it was a race, otherwise -- >> bbut also, the times are right now. we're very, very happy and i'm very glad i have done that. >> with us this hour, tina brown and martin bashir. we begin in house where charlie rangel has found guilty. a sharp rebuke for the common who arded the panel did not give him enough time or the resources to fight the allegations. luke russert joins us now. what happens next? >> it's quite remarkable. a two-year investigation essentially over. we heard he was guilty of 11 of the 13 counts they put against him. ethical wrong doings if you will. what will happen now is that

this subcommittee will then meet for a hearing to decide what exactly his punishment should be. it could be a rep remand, an pums, a fine or the committee would write a letter saying the case is over. once they recommend a punishment, it will go to the full ethics committee. if it is -- it will then go to a vote of the full house. if you want to look at this historically, the last rep remand we had was newt gingrich. the last expulse was jim trafficant. as well as a fine or official letter. >> there's a personal drama here, also. he was just re-elected.

a legendary congressman. what about his clout in his district? he has been extraordinarily popular throughout this. >> he was re-elected with stunningly high numbers. a beloved member of congress to many. he has been in the congress for almost 40 years, so he haslot o friends. however, when he took to the house floor that pelosi called a jobs day, and rangel went on the floor and defended himself, a lot of his allies said maybe he is too full of himself. the one thing he has to hold on to was yesterday, i keep going back to it. representative butterfield of north carolina as the prosecutor in this case whether or not they thought rangel was corrupt. he said no. he thinks he was guilty of having poor people around him and some lousy accounting

practices. one thing is for sure. republicans have used this as a political issue saying it puts a nail in the coffin of nancy pelosi. >> that gives republicans more ammunition. thank you very much. president obama told russia's president medvedev that he is committed to getting the nuclekclear arms treaty throughs year. jon kyl says he is not going to let that happen. with us now, jonathan altar. this is one possible unkept promise because as you know, as well as anyone, this was a critical promise from the white house, something that hillary clinton and the president care about very deeply and now, it looks like it is detoured, delayed, possibly derailed. >> absolutely. the constitution of the united states says you need two-thirds,

67 votes, not 60 as in the rest of legislation which is not in the constitution, but this part is. for a treaty, you need 67 votes, so it is going to be a hard slog for the president to get the treaty ratified. he had really hoped to get it done in the lame duck session and jon kyl, who is the republican's expert on this issue, has a lot of clout in washington. he indicated that it won't be until next year that they'll take it up for consideration. >> what does this mean now between the united states and russia? it's another foreign policy setback so soon after the g-20 summit, which did not go at all well for the president in south korea. >> yeah, it is a setback. we don't know yet how enduring a setback it is. if you read what jon kyl and

some of the others who are skecht cal of this treaty, they haven't said they are opposed entirely, they have certain reservations and want some things in the treaty done for their vote. folks shouldn't believe that the treaty is dead or anything like that. it's just going to be a hard struggle through much of 2011 before they can get the ratification and this is a problem the united states has always had. we have a democracy. other countries like russia that really don't have democracies, they don't quite understand the way our process works and they need to be alerted to the fact that they need the consent of the senate for this to go through and it is ever been thus. >> exactly right. thank you so much. great to see you. and smooth sailing for the

republicans in their transition to power in the house. shelley moore is a member of the transition team for the incoming majority. right now, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of disagreement, but look k ahead, you've got the challenge of working with tea party new members who have a very different view of washington than the new majority leaders. >> well, i think that obviously there's a lot of them. there's 80 new members on our side and that's going to bring new and fresh ideas. a lot of folks were elected with an overwhelming feeling that washington doesn't listen. so, will they help us set the agenda? absolutely. they've been very vocal since they've been in washington this week. >> let's talk about earmarks. everybody's talking about earmarks and the republicans are going to have their vote this afternoon on voluntary decision on earmarks to give up earmarks

now that mitch mcconnell has gone along with jim demint and others who have been calling for this decision. what is the real significance here? we're talking about now $15 billion, it used to be $18 billion, out of an enormous budget. it really will not affect the deficit long-term as much is bigger, tougher decisions. >> well, i think some would say it's just a symbolic gesture, but when you look at the size and scope of earmarks from all the different members, me included. i have asked for earmarks in the past, took the voluntary decision not to ask for them last year and will do that again this year. i think it really takes a broad step for us to say no more behind the curtain deal. earmarks are -- of not just the spending issue, but also the cover of darkness over much of

our business has been conducted. i think it's significant. it is $15 billion. that's significant. so i think you'll see us moving in that direction. >> you come from a state where the king of all appropriations was certainly the late senator robert byrd. famously. and you yourself just mentioned that you have what, $35 million on 13 earmarks from 2008. that's before you voluntarily took the pledge. so what are people back home saying to you about this? you can't produce something like the lock -- >> that's okay. >> that was one of your more recent two years ago, i should say, earmarks. so some of those projects are really important to the people. >> right. i have maintained that we can

direct spending better in our districts than leading it to washington. we have to look at what happened to the earmarking process. it got way out of control. became very much centered in those who have the seat of power other than senator byrd. we are the beneficiary of that. but we need to redirect and look in a different direction and i think that's what the electorate was telling us. i believe i could put forward some valuable earmarks, i'm willing to say let's sit back, do the process and do the voluntary decision not to put any earmarks forward and see how it moves forward from that. i don't think i'm in conflict from what i've done, but now is the time to step back and lessening earmarks is a significant symbol of that. >> thank you very much. a new member of the leadership.

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all right. save the date. roll out the red carpet, start picking out the perfect hat and don't forget those gloves. after years of anticipation, prince william and kate middleton are engaged. tina brown, editor in chief now of newsweek. tina, this is a big day for royal watchers. >> it's such a good feeling, actually, because people in britain, they need a burst of good news.

>> so many budget cuts and bad news and the war continues and all of that. let's take a look at what happened today. this is first prince william describing how importantly the ring is his mother's ring. >> it's my mother's engagement ring, so of course, it's very special to me. it is my way of making sure my mother didn't miss out on today. >> now, the other contrast is there was a contrast with prince charles and diana. february of 1981, they had their obligatory meeting of the press when they announced their engagement and that's when i think charles said, are you in love. this is the way prince william described their relationship. >> it was -- we had a wonderful holiday in africa and it was at

a very quiet lodge. it was very romantic and -- >> did you get down on one knee? >> that's going to stay a secret. >> the smiling prince william. they were in kenya, which has importance to him and other members of the royals going all the way back. why people are so crazed and mesmerized by the royals and this family and of course, diana. >> this is something that survives. it's traditional. it has pedigree. it has glamour. it has a sense of escapeism. people love that. >> dare we say three out of four of queen elizabeth's children have been divorced, but marriage isn't exactly done well by these royals. >> they have been really bad at it, but you know, kate middleton

has done eight years hard. it's like she was given p the ultimate test. we don't do marriage well in this family. you have to take a test to see whether you pass. she has toughed it out. >> what do they expect of her? how has her life now changed? not only the security, the paparazzi around her all the time, but how do we know, what can we hope for? that she can survive the test better than princess diana? >> she has two things happening to her now. firstly, she has a lot more protection than before. she's been hounded by the press for eight years and has handled it very well, but occasionally, has gotten really fed up. now, she's a royal. she gets the palace gates closed behind her.

however, the other side means she loses her freedom. she never be in a room without some whispering butler behind the door. that's what drooef diana crazy and camila is finding it hard. there will be times when kate middleton longs to be back to waity katey. >> what the fantasy here for all of us commoners? >> commoner girl marries prince. i think that actually oddly enough, it's the right time exactly for a royal prince in england to be marrying a woman who isn't aristocratic. it really says, it would have been almost too much for prince william, who's such a grandly born, noble youth to pick another highly privilaged woman. yes, she is from a wealthy family, but there is a down to earthness. >> so, this is cinderella.

>> it is cinderella. the slipper finally fit. >> and we hope they live happy ever after. thanks very much, tina. >> thank you. coming up, the midterm disconnect. why washington and the american public appear to have their signals crossed. and it's official. the beatles are coming to i-tunes. apple has finally struck that deal to provide all of their 13 studio albums. mmmm. you don't love me anymore do you billy? what? i didn't buy this cereal to sweet talk your taste buds it's for my heart health. so i can't have any? if you can deprive me of what can help lower my cholesterol... and live with yourself. right. mmm, i worry about your mother. cry herself to sleep every night over my arteries, but have yourself a bowl. good speech dad.

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message of disapproval and 14% a message to president obama. outside the beltway, it is a different story. 36% of the general population say the midterms were an indictment of d.c. 22% said it was a message to the president. similar divided can be seen on an issue after issue in this poll, so with me now to sort it out, john harris, editor i chief for politico. no prize to you or me that there is a problem inside and outside the beltway. is that the definition here? >> we've done a number of these polls throughout the year and we find that when we measure what we for purposes of this poll are calling washington elite, but people in different policymaking jobs or various high level professional jobs in washington and compare that to the public as whole, we're seeing a gulf. this latest poll we did similarly found that gulf on such issues as health care and enthusiasm for repeal and the

likelihood of repeal. even a question of whether president obama is likely to win re-election. >> it isn't only geography that separates people inside the beltway with those outside. they're different by income, by other indicators as well. they're not as connected to the average voter. >> well, there's no question. j geography really isn't it. i think it has to do with basically people's professional orientation. here, washington, d.c., we are oriented to the work of government even if we're not in the government, in some way, most of us in professional jobs find ourselves thinking about following the news of the government on a full-time bases. that's not the case with people outside of washington. these are kind of like workshop test results. people see different things when they look at them. >> what about attitudes towards

the tea party? those inside washington and outside washington. >> definitely some skepticism inside the beltway about the tea party. and not surprisingly the tea party is an outside the beltway phenomenon. also, much more confidence in the ability of the tea party and the republicans, much more confidence in their ability to actually influence the agenda and be effective here in washington. high confidence outside the beltway. inside washington, relatively low confidence. another way of putting it, high cynicism about whether the republicans will be effective once in power. >> one of the other indicators was people inside washington have much higher confidence that president obama will be elected in 2012 than people outside. >> i was really shocked. the outside the beltway audience, only 26% thought he

would be re-elected. about 49% said they did not think he would be. that leaves about a quarter giving what is really the only correct answer which is who knows. nobody can predict the future. about a quarter didn't have an opinion. pretty strong consensus inside the beltway that obama's election prospects are okay. >> well, except that he has to get elected outside the beltway. >> yes, that's right. >> thanks so much, john harris. politico. thank you. coming up next, we will talk about the royal engagement with msnbc's martin bashir. plus, gorge bush and dick cheney reunited to break ground in dallas. and send me your thoughts. this is "andrea mitchell reports," only on msnbc. [ sneezes ] client's here.

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advising the roads may be crowded with a 12% boost in driving. prince william finally popped the question toe kate middleton after proposing with the same ring that his father gave to lady diana spencer nearly 30 years ago. at their first appearance, kate middleton spoke about joining the royal family. >> it's quite a daunting prospect -- i'll take it in my stride and william's a great teacher, so he'll be able to help me along the way and i really look forward to spending my time with william. >> very good at flashry. >> martin bashir now joins us. welcome to this network. >> it is a pleasure. >> it's very exciting and we're excited to have you for a lot of reasons. in this particular instance, you are the only person who

interviewed princess diana. >> that's true. i'm the only person to have conducted an extensive interview with her, but the united kingdom is in pleasure. this has been a long time coming and there are few things that will excite the british people as much as a royal wedding. there's huge excitement about this wedding. >> why is there so much fascination? >> i think because culturally, everybody can play a part. you've got bookmakers waging on when the wedding's going take place. you've got people talking about the wedding dress, what it's going to look like. you've got academic historians talking about kate middleton is the oldest spinster to ever marry a future king. the youngest was isabella, 6

years old, when she married -- >> now, i'm not sure she would describe herself as a spinster or young women would nowadays, but she has waited a long time and it is a fairy tale come true. the fact she was not a royal. you interviewed diana. kate middleton is far more middle class. >> indeed. her father was an air steward on british airways and so was her mother until the late 1970s. they set up a company which sells children's party ware. interestingly, that difference doesn't or hasn't brought any significant difference in terms of the marriage. the betrove value. these two are both 29 years old. when princess diana married prince charles. she was 20 and he was 31.

charles had been to cambridge university. the princess had never been to college. he was also in a career. he'd served in the royal air force and then had settled into a career in the royal navy. prince william and kate middleton, both the same age, both were at the same subject at the university. both have had similar experiences and that's important in terms of their future. >> as partners, as man and woman, they're more equal. let's talk about princess diana. it was very touching today that he said he used, he gave kate middleton the ring that was his mother's ring because he wanted his mother to be part of this. we know how close they were. you did the only interview with princess diana. what can you tell us looking back at that and her feelings

for her sons and the terrible sadness that also goes with this that she didn't here to see this day. >> it's immensely sad. that engagement ring cost 28,000 pounds way back in 1981, around $44,000. it's a beautiful burmese sapphire. she wore it throughout her marriage to prince charles. but the reality was that she was brilliant naturally with children. that was her strength and skill. she was amazingly a jil with kids and adored her children. some of the most -- photographs are of those of her rushing toward her children having been away from them for a couple of days. i think for about a week. she was clearly very much in

love with her children and they adored her. i think the fact he has given his bride to be, this is an amazingly moving affection of his mother and fiancee. >> it's great to have your insights and it's going to be wonderful working with you. >> a great pleasure. thank you. and crossing the wires right now, this breaking news. momentum is losing another chief of staff. the ap is reporting the first lady's office has announced that susan sheer will leave the white house and return to chicago after the first of the year. in a statement, mrs. obama says she was gaufl for the leadership of susan sheer. she was also involved in the efforts to pass health care reform. president obama said in a statement that she brought tremendous skill to the administration. a replacement has not been named.

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at southern methodist university in dallas today, a lengthy ovation for former president bush at the ground breaking ceremony for his presidential library. laura bush and condoleezza rice were among those attending. dick cheney praised president bush for how he responded to the pressures of office. >> i've seen him dealing with the various august figures whth come through the oval office. i've seen him dealing with the folks who look after the presidential household and it's always the same. we could all forgive a president for carrying himself with a certain expectation of privilege, but with this

president, no such allowances were necessary. it's a classy way to operate. very american. and wonderful to see in the oval office. >> this is the nation's 13th presidential library, the third in texas. the $300 million center is set to open in 2013. testing tea party power. mitch mcconnell is changing course and is now backing a tea party ban on earmark spending. tea partiers may soon score another victory with a deal in the works for temporary extension of bush tax cuts. let's bring in karen finney and vin webber. welcome both. karen, to you, how is the democratic base going to feel if the white house caves in on this extension of the bush tax cuts? >> yeah, not good and it looks like and i think there's a meeting on thursday with congressional leadership and the white house and i think it's going to be very important that going into that meeting and

coming out of the meeting, the white house and democratic leaders make it clear that the middle class tax cuts are sort of nongauchable. there are some rumblings today, you've heard some members of the progressive community calling on the white house and democratic leadership to say middle class tax cuts only. not sure if that's where we'll end up, but it's critical that no matter what, the middle class tax portion is in the final bill. >> vin webber, you've been watch ing the budget and deficit commission report. along with everyone else and you have a real expertise in this. what do you think is the tolerance level among republicans for doing something really important and taking on some of these tough issues? >> i think higher than most people believe. i understand anything we're going to be doing here that would be serious in terms of the long-term deficits going to be politically very painful. but republicans i think are

willing to step up to the plate. the ones i've talked to and i've talked to many of them believe the problem we face is so serious they have to do something and perhaps a period of divided government is the best opportunity to do something as strange as that may seem now. i don't want to be exuberant, but i'm optimistic we'll do something. >> karen, what about the base, word that the president is going to move to the center as bill clinton did after his defeat in 1994. are they will be to take a look at entitlements and same issues on the liberal side? >> i think the issue on the liberal side and conservative side is as long as we're sharing the pain and everybody's sharing in the pain, that's a conversation i think we all recognize is going to have to happen because we're in a big enough hole. but what they won't stand for is

conversations that say let's give additional tax cuts for millionaires. let's cut social security and medicare and preserve tax loopholes for the wealthy. it's going to be that kind of comparison, push everybody to make good on what they're saying. i think this will be an important test for the president with this new congress coming in to show where the lines are, where he's willing to have conversation, but what are those fundamental principles he's just not going to give on. that's what clinton did on social security and it was critical. >> what we're hearing is that pete sessions are reporting a possible deal connecting the extension of the tax cuts to the extension on unemployment insurance, which is what democrats have been pushing for. does that look likely? >> i think that's a possibility. with republicans on the tax cut, it's kind of a flip side of what karen said from the progressive

side. with republicans, the issue is no decoupling. they don't want the top tax rates decoupled from the middle class. extend all the current tax rates and i think the administration is probably willing to compromise on that because they could get a temporary extension. if they wait until next year when the republican majority comes in, they may not get a temporary extension. the republicans may insist on a permanent extension. up next, chris cillizza with what's happening in the next 24 and add children's book author to president obama's resume. his new picture book hits stores today. it is a tribute to 13 americans including george washington, martin luther king. royalties will go to a scholarship fund for children of soldiers killed or disabled.

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and live pictures of the white house east room where in just a few moments, president obama will be awarding the medal of honor to salvador giunta. it's the nation's highest military honor and the first time since the vietnam war that a living recipient is getting the award. he is being honored for actions in battle in afghanistan, for running into fire during a 2007 ambush to rescue a fellow soldier. a fellow watchdog is weighing in on the mortgage crisis. a panel is warned that the foreclosure paperwork mess could cost banks billions more and lead to another financial crisis. this as the senate is preparing to hold hearings to investigate allegations of fraud. senator chris dodd is chairman of the senate banking committee.

an old friend and we're glad to see you. what do you want to find out in this hearing today? >> we're going to have this hearing and another next week with regulators coming in, but we need to know the depth of the problem. we know about the robosigning. foreclosures are a mortgage the. they own it outright. or people being told you can only get a workout if you fail to make payments over a period of time. a lot of misinformation occurring. the industry is going to claim this is a technical problem. others are suggesting it's deeper than that. i don't know the answer to this. it's one of the reasons the financial stability oversight council really needs to get busy on this. that's why we reformed the group for moments like this where you have systemic risks occurring across the spectrum. this is a crisis of one

magnitude or the other. i'm hopeful that the secretary of the treasure aand others will convene that oversight council, begin to bore in on this, drill down into it, and come up with some answers to make sure we don't find ourselves in a larger problem than we're always in. >> some are witnesses in front of your committee today. you have the argument between should we have the moratorium, should we not, are we freezing the market? do we need to protect consumers? where do you come down on that, or do you need more information? >> well, i'm in favor of a national moratorium. i think that's overreaching. you have 23 states that have a judicial process. 27 that don't. i'm told that there's a tremendous concentration within the 23 states with a judicial review process, where most of the problems exist. so a moratorium across the board probably doesn't make a lot of sense. candidly, andrea, there are a number of places that have been

vacant for over a year. we ought to move that product along. get it through the foreclosure process, get up the property -- get it cleaned up, get it back on the market again. obviously people running the risk of foreclosure we worry about. the people holding the housing bonds, i worry about. also people in the neighborhood that own their own homes, but have two or three houses within the neighborhood in a foreclosure process without any resolution of it. everybody suffers under those circumstances. moratoriums, i'm not in favor of. but drilling down, finding the cause of the problem and fixing it quickly. >> how concerned are you that there's another major crisis? that we're looking towards a meltdown on the housing sector? >> well, i'm worried about it. but i can't tell you we have information that reaches that conclusion. i know others are saying that. but words can affect markets right now. some people are suggesting it's only technical. i don't know that.

it could be far worse. that's one of the reasons for having the hearings with the regulators to get more information. then again, i'll emphasize this to you, andrea. the reason in the financial reform bill we set up this council was exactly moments like this. to bring together these regulators, not just one, but a group of them, ten of them, under the leadership of the secretary. what is the magnitude of this problem? what steps need to be taken to make sure this crisis, whether technical or larger doesn't become a larger one as we saw in the fall of '08 that brought this country to near collapse. >> breaking news that we're understanding that senator kyle said there's no chance of ratifying start before congress recesses before the end of the year. tell me why, if you think, that this is a mistake. this white house and state department are really, really upset about this prospect. >> well, i don't blame them. jon kyl and i are good friends,

but he couldn't be more wrong. every former secretary of state. every former national security adviser. every former and current leader of the military forces believe this is absolutely essential. right now we don't have any ability to verify what is o securing in russia. and we need to be able to get back on the track where we have the ability. ronald reagan said it well. trust but verify. right now all we've got is trust and no capacity to verify. if jon kyl provaevails in this bill, he leads our country vulnerable. the last thing our country needs at this moment in history. >> what political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris cillizza, managing editor of postpolitics.com and author of the fix joins us now. >> hi, andrea. >> hey, chris. >> keep an eye -- the house leadership elections. it's not super -- it hasn't drawn that much attention.

nancy pelo nancy pelosi made things so that jim clyburn is going to be number three, the south carolin to be number two. moderate and conservative democrats, many said they don't want her to run for minority leader. they know they can't keep her from it. she has the votes. the caucus has gotten more liberal. but they're going to try to send some messages tomorrow behind closed doors to try to send the message that this is not acceptable. again, ploelosi is going to win but there could be a little drama and intrigue. >> more drama and intrigue in washington. >> what would have thought it? >> thanks so much. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." on the show new york senator kristen gillibrand is following us. follow the show online, tamron hall as a look at what's next on

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