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bowles, and what i learned today, sam stein, he actually offered the vice president's secret servicemen $5 for a tsa-style pat-down. >> that's silly. >> i overpaid, i guess. >> is that what you learned? >> i would have done it for free. >> oh, my gosh! >> prince charles is not going to do the magnanimous thing and hand it off to william. >> willie, what did you learn? >> i learned our friend alec baldwin enjoys a really good wegman's holiday pie and who doesn't? >> i love it. and mika, you have a big event tonight. >> we're doing an event to raise money for the carpenter shelter which is a great, great, great organization here in d.c., helping people restart their lives. >> all right. very good. eig willie, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's "morning joe." have a great weekend, everybody. stick around for "the daily rundown." summit fever, the president in portugal for another round of back-to-back meetings with world leaders. chuck is there live.
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on the nato agenda, the afghanistan handover timeline, but this as the fighting appears to be intensifying. we're live in afghanistan. and a hollywood murder history, who killed a famed public li publicist as she drove through beverly hills, police say she was targeted. we'll bring you the latest. good morning, everyone, i'm savannah guthrie, let's get right to "daily rundown." president obama globe trotting for the nato summit where he'll face tough questions about the exit strategy in afghanistan and his high-stakes gamble to get the s.t.a.r.t. treaty done this year. chuck is traveling with the president this morning and is live in lisbon, portugal. chuck, good morning. >> well, good morning, savannah. look, the president got here a couple hours ago. he's doing sort of the -- doing some of the celebratory things that you do when you land in a foreign country. meeting with the head of the
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portuguese government, both the president and the prime minister. but then it's on to the business at hand, and as you previewed, two things out of this that matter most to the white house and to the president politically in the short term. number one is this issue of afghanistan, and what is the withdrawal timeline. and what the united states is going to outline and what the president hopes nato nations embrace is this idea, as afghan army -- the afghan army stands up, nato and u.s. troops can begin to stand down as they move in sort of a geographical nature around afghan's provinces, so that would mean the beginning of some form of a withdrawal in 2011, but not ending until 2014. and, of course, selling that politically to the american public is going to be a lot trickier frankly than it is even with nato nations, a lot of whom are fatigued by this and have -- the war's not just unpopular in america, the war's unpopular in a lot of those nato nations. the second thing that nato's
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going to be dealing with is this issue of missile defense. and so why is this connected back home? 12, t the issue of missile defense is one of the objections, of course, for some republicans having to do with the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, and if nato and the united states can come to an agreement on how and where missile defense systems would be put in and where they would be put in, it may be, shall we say, an excuse for some republicans who are standing firm with republican senator jon kyl in trying to owe pose ratification of the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. it may be the trigger to get them off of that and get this thing passed, and, of course, the white house -- this is becoming one of these political showdown moments for the president. the white house, savannah, is very aware losing this battle is more than just losing the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, messing up relations with russia, which, of course, could have an impact on iran and a bunch of other foreign policy issues, but it
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would politically make it look like this white house and this president can get rolled. and that's something that they fear down the road in dealing with a, of course, divided congress. >> all the more so, because he's so publicly put it on the line there yesterday, chuck. i want to play you a portion a portion of vice president joe biden who was on "morning joe" this morning, talking about the drawdown in afghanistan. let's take a listen. >> i don't think we can stay there five years with 100,000 american forces, 150,000 nato or isaf forces combined. 2014 is now a date that everyone has agreed upon, nato as well as the afghanis, that's kind of the drop-dead date, but that doesn't mean we're going to have anywhere near 100,000 troops in 2013. >> chuck, you write about this in "first read" this morning, the administration will say it's consistent with everything they've said about drawdown timelines, yet a lot of people will wonder, is it a change in policy. what happened to 2011? >> that's right. and they know that a lot of this
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stuff gets shorthand, right? they never said 2011 was when they would withdraw from afghanist afghanistan, they always said it was conditioned based. it got shorthanded in the press and the political world. will 2014 do the same? and, of course, the other question, savannah, and i think it's one a lot of people will pose to the president and nato leaders will pose to the president, what makes 2014 any different than 2012, any different than 2013? what make you really think the afghan army will be in so much a better place in 2014 when 12 years later -- you know, that's 12 years after this war started. so, i think the sales job that the president has to do on this is going to be quite tough. >> well, it's a big agenda there in lisbon, portugal, we'll check in with you a little bit later, chuck. thank you. while the president and nato allies talk strategy, the actual fight appears to be intensif intensifying. the u.s. reportedly sending heavy tanks into battle there for the first time. nbc's lester holt is live at bagram airfield in afghanistan this morning. lester, good morning to you.
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>> reporter: savannah, good morning. whether it's 2011 or 2014 for this transition or whatever phase it is to transfer security controls to afghan troops, the soldiers and marines and airmen i talked to here, it's business as usual. and that's the deadly business of taking on the taliban, so while the president and nato allies have their discussions in lisbon right now, this war continues at a hectic pace. i just returned several hours ago from a trip into helmand province at camp leatherneck. i was met by major general richard mills, who is the commander of the battle in that part of the world. he took me by helicopter to the community of marja. you may recall earlier this year there was a pitched battle there. it was a major marine offensive to take the town, wrestle the control away from the taliban. the general wanted to take me there to show me the signs of progress, which are working with afghan troops. in many ways the transition
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we've heard so much about is already taking place as u.s. marines patrolled alongside mefbls of the afghan army. the general also told me, you hear sometimes about a pause in the fighting for the winter. he said there will be no such thing on his watch this winter. >> this winter we'll press the insurgents to their limit. we'll keep pressure on him all throughout the winter. deny him the opportunity to retrain, to refit, to restock, to reinli-enlist his people. there has been a traditional lull in the fighting and we're not going to allow him the opportunity and luxury this year. >> reporter: so, they continue. they will try to push right now. marja, they control the center of marja but they are taking ieds in the area. they've got other pitched battles in other parts of helmand province. one of the things they note that's positive, they believe the taliban is short on money, and they say the leadership, the quality of the leadership has
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dropped, as many of the leaders are doing their business on pakistani soil, not inside afghanistan. savannah? >> all right, lester holt, where the action is in afghanistan. lester, thank you. and a programming note, lester anchors live from bagram air base this weekend on the "today" show and "nbc nightly news." it was about 20 minutes until the opening bell, the big question today can wall street extend its rally into friday? cnbc's becky quick is here with a quick look at what is driving the market. good morning. >> it looks like the stock market will open down about 30 points this comes after the dow was up 170 points yesterday. what's happening this morning is really all around china, china coming out today and saying it will be raising the reserve requirements on the banks in china. this is the second time it's happened in the last two weeks, it's the fifth time this year, and china is doing this because they are trying to tamp down inflation. they've been watching food prices skyrocket and that's a big concern for the administration or the government there in china, it also shows the dichotomy between china and
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here in the united states, in the united states we have the fed with the qe2 trying to boost the inflationary prices out there and that's something ben bernanke was making comments on this morning as well. the market has been looking to ireland once again. we only got a oneday reprieve the story, there are concerns about whether ireland needs a package to bail them out, but what are some of the strict terp terms that go a long with that, including raising corporate taxes. and the market is concerned about that. the gm had its ipo, and the stock was higher and that's good news. but we hear about another ipo that is getting yanked. harrah's will not be raising its initial public offering as it had expected, because they can't get public interest. that shows how fleeting fortunes can be on wall street. >> thank you, becky. england's prince charles opens up in a rare, exclusive interview with brian williams. what he says about the media
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glare and his future role as king. brian will be with us in a minute. plus, the hollywood murder mystery. police say it wasn't road rage or random carjacking. someone wanted a publicist to the stars dead. we'll get the latest on that investigation. but, first, a look ahead at the president's schedule today. he's in lisbon a, portugal, for back-to-back summit. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. is is the aar.
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well, the intrigue, the history and the grandeur of the british monarchy on full display this week with the announcement of prince william's engagement, the father of the groom rarely
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gives interviews, but tonight prince charles opens up in an exclusive interview with nbc's brian williams and brian is here with a preview of his conversation. brian, good morning. it's so rare to get to sit across from prince charles. what were your inpressions? >> well, it is rare. he doesn't do this often. he has a lot of passions on a lot of subjects, and you sit there thinking, of course, if and when he assumes the monarchy, he's supposed to leave all that aside. the unwritten british constitution requires them to be out of politics and policy. but you can't imagine that. here he is 62 years old, and, you know, in one way he couldn't be involved in more things, savan savanna. he's obviously been talking about the environment for many, many years. but more than that, architecture and organic farming. it gets interesting, however, and we have -- we have a couple snippets from this, when you
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talk to him about subjects like the monarchy. what do you see as the job description of prince of wales? >> well, it isn't a job description. so, you have to rather make it up as you go along, which doesn't always -- doesn't always appeal to everybody else. >> reporter: do families like yours talk about how to be a monarch? >> no. really you pick it up as you go along if you know what i mean, from a very young age, and it gradually dawns on you that what is actually all about, or what the implications are. you know, you watch and you learn. >> just like any american family, his mom's the queen. he's going to be the king. he is raising two sons on his own, one of whom will also be king of england. it's really remarkable, savannah, to see how they live. i think we saw a total of three
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of the domiciles from buckingham palace to his house outside london. we did the interview here on these beautiful grounds of the castle of may in the far northern reach of scotland. >> rubb it in, brian. rub it in. >> but that castle was his grandmother's house, her special summer home, and it's now his. >> and you mentioned william. i know you asked him about william who, of course, is all in the news this week. >> i did. we spent a portion of it talking about the media and his boys and their military service, including this portion, about prince williams. do you have words of advice for your son, william, embarking on this in an even worse media environment? he's under the microscope already. >> well, don't take the advice of the media is my advice. >> reporter: but how could he possibly -- >> i know. it is very intrusive indeed, and
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i feel for him deeply, because in my day it was difficult enough. >> and while the interview was a couple weeks back, no, he did not tell me, you know, keep it under your hat. but will and kate are getting engaged. everyone asked me that like they would entrust that secret, so, no, we had no idea in advance. >> you didn't do the whole whisper it in my ear routine? >> no. i asked, but no. >> okay, brian, before i let you go -- >> i know what's coming. >> -- we have some business. >> i know. >> it happened again. let's roll it. >> by the way, samantha has -- i did it again. savannah, i knew a samantha guthrie, that's the backstory. >> it's true. let me be your advocate here. it was 3:25 in the morning. >> and we'd been -- that was our 90 hour ninth hour on the air. it's hard, when you know someone with a one-off name. >> i know. well, you do know a samantha
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guthrie, and i answer to it. so, it's good. i had to tease you, but thank you, brian. >> this is where i get to say your recent write-up in "elle" magazine where you look cute as a bug, the quote in there from me is how i actually feel about my friend, samantha, and everyone should read that write up, it's the true you. >> all right, that's a big wrap. brian williams, thank you so much. a great hourlong "dateline" special tonight "the man who will be king" tonight 9:00 eastern on nbc. and following the interview, stay tuned for a special broadcast "harmony prince charles environmental documentary" and you can see brian every weeknight on "nbc nightly news." we will be right back.
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silva who will make statements to the press from the summit. and we are joined by bbc america to talk about some of the issues the world leaders will be talking about and at the top of the list will have to be afghanistan. it seems 2014 is the new 2011, at least for some people who will think, we thought this drawdown of troop was starting in 2011. what's this we hear about 2014 now? >> i interviewed the british foreign secretary william hague in washington, he said the same thing, it's pushed to 2014 and possibly even later and he acknowledged it would be very difficult to sell it to the various queasy publics that make up nato who are already wondering what are we doing there. are we going to defeat the taliban? and president karzai will turn up as well, and trick questions to answer as well. >> the nato allies, a lot are withdrawing troops. we see that with canada, other countries, saying, wait, it's already enough. we're out.
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>> that's exactly right. some are starting to withdrawal, there's training to get the afghan troops ready for the eventual security handover. but you have to ask yourself, this is slightly different to iraq. there's no anbar awakening in afghanistan. the taliban seems to be on the up-and-up, and there seems to be a huge emphasis of talking to the right elements of the taliban, if you talk to the ordinary afghans who benefitted enormously from the nato occupation, they don't want to deal with the taliban, because we want our daughters to go to school, we want women to be able to work. there's an awful lot at stake here and there's real fear that some sort of shoddy deal will be made down the line so nato can withdraw with a fig leaf of degnyty. >> you mentioned the afghans, but president karzai is ushering in thisdate saying we don't want you anymore. >> he's mercurial to say the least, he seems to be changing his mind almost on a daily base, and he's a very tricky ally to deal with, everyone is tearing
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their hair out about what you can expect from president karzai, there was the fraud in the elections, he's difficult to work with, but he's the ally you have. you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want. do you remember that? >> i remember that. let's go to the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, the president stepped it up and put it on the line yesterday. he wants to see the arms control deal with russia done this year, and yet he's facing this wall of opposition. this is a high-stakes gamble. >> it's a high-stakes gamble because it's about his image at home and abroad. and remember, yesterday, he lined up every republican dine sore of foreign policy that you can think of. >> you mean it in the best possible way, dinosaur. >> absolutely. there they were, from kissinger to brent scowcroft, this is the republic not the same republican party, the white house i'm sure will turn around and say if it fails,
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it's more important for mitch mcconnell to see me bow out after one term than to have america and russia have decent relations and national security. >> as we keep our eye on that presidential palace in lisbon waiting for the president's statement, i have to go back to march of 2010 when i was in a briefing with president and secretary clinton, secretary gates about this s.t.a.r.t. treaty and whether or not it could pass in this political environment. do we have -- we have the president and president silva, so i want to pause for a moment as we await the statements. these are the traditional -- you covered a lot of these summits. these are the traditional opening statements. we'll dip in for a moment here. >> indeed. >> i took two years portuguese. [ speaking portuguese ]
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>> okay. so, matt, as i just said, we didn't all take two years of portuguese, but i couldn't translate if i tried. >> i think he's talking about president obama. >> i picked up that much, too. excellent. let's go back to the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. so, you know, the president and the white house officials really frame this as if the president can't get this done, it imperils not just the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, but everything else they're trying to do with russia. >> they have put the highest possible stakes on this deal getting signed, and, of course, that could also bite them in the back. and if it doesn't get signed, they raised the stakes so much it makes perhaps president obama weaker than he really is. and, of course, the american public probably wasn't aware of the s.t.a.r.t. treaty until this week it was ratcheted up in the press. >> that raises the question about what about medvedev's own internal politics? some in the administration will make the argument to put medvedev out on a limb with the u.s. on this treaty.
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if it goes down that putin is empowered. >> exactly. i think, well, that's another mess altogether. there's a real problem here. if you don't sign this treaty which is clearly in the interests of both nations because it sets up a verification regime, we can basically send people to see what they're doing about their nuclear arsenal, and they can do the same to us and, you know, that hasn't been able to happen for some time now. you know, it would be very bad for nuclear disarmament, it would send the wrong signal to iran, in other words there's a divided frontier between the united states and russia. it would send the wrong signal to the russian public as well as the american public. it's a bad deal altogether if it doesn't get passed. but, again, domestic politics may well trump this. >> some even republicans who support the treaty, support the president on this, will say, do you know what, the white house was a little late to the game in engaging on this. on the one hand, secretary clinton and gates were up on the hill a lot, but the president not until this late hour got very personally involved. >> there's some bad planning here. they should have prepared this some time earlier.
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they had plenty of distractions, one being the midterm elections. but they should have prepared earlier. the republicans have a sort of point here. this is a big deal. to put this through in a lame-duck session is not the ideal setting to be honest. if you wait until next year and it gets kicked into the long grass, it may never happen, and the political consequences of that are far more serious. >> is that a legitimate argument? because some say this urgency is a little bit false on the part of the white house. arguing that we're going to have to start on ground zero on this, and we'll have to have another 18 hearings if it waits until january. >> it's a little bit false and they're trying to put under pressure and they are mobilizing all the arguments, but they have a point. there's a lot of other stuff going on as well. but you might argue this might be one of the few things they could agree on in the next session, something you might keep for a rainy day, you know, as it were. we agree on s.t.a.r.t. and let's see if we can build on this and do something else. but for the white house the stakes are this is about
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political prestige at home and abro abroad. they can't afford to lose it. >> let's turn the question to nbc's chuck todd who is traveling with the president and is in lisbon, portugal now. he joins us now. i'm sure there will be talk on this trip as well, whether or not as matt frye just said, the president has lost some luster on the world stage. >> well, if he doesn't get s.t.a.r.t. through, i think that is going to become like a flash point where one of the tipping points where, you know, you can have this argument, has he lost his luster, has he not. you know, i think that that's a -- it's a perspective issue. but if he doesn't get s.t.a.r.t., i think then you have a concrete thing to point at. >> yeah. well, let's join the remarks of the president live in lisbon. >> it's very fitting that we are gathering here in lisbon. it was from here that the great explorers set out to discover new worlds. it was here a gateway of europe through which generations of immigrants and travelers have
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passed and bound our countries together. and it was here that europeans came together to sign the landmark treaty that strengthened their union. now we've come to lisbon again to revitalize the nato alliance for the 21st century and to strengthen the partnership between the united states and the european union. mr. president, i thank you and all the people of portugal, for everything you've done to make these summits a success. our meeting was also an opportunity to reaffirm the strong partnership between the united states and portugal. president silva is commander of portugal's armed forces and will be representing portugal at the nato summit. we pledged to continue the excellent cooperation between our militaries, especially the field in the azores which provides critical support to
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american and nato forces in iraq and afghanistan. i expressed my gratitude to the portuguese armed forces, who are serving alongside us in afghanist afghanistan. and here in lisbon, i look forward to working with our nato and our isaf partners as we move towards a new phase, a transition to afghan responsibility that begins in 2011, with afghan forces taking the lead for security across afghanistan by 2014. so, this summit is an important opportunity for us to align an approach to transition in afghanistan. finally, we discussed ways to expand our bilateral cooperation on the economic front. we're looking to deepen our partnership in trade and investment, in science, in technology. i am very impressed with the outstanding work that portugal has done in areas like clean energy, and we think that we can collaborate more. on the security front,
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portugal's upcoming seat at the u.n. security council will be an opportunity to advance peace and security that both our nations seek around the world. so, mr. president, i want to thank you and the portuguese people for your hospitality. i'm confident that we're going to have two successful summits and that we will continue to deepen an extraordinarily strong partnership between the united states and portugal, one that's based not just on relations between heads of states, not just on the basis of treaties, but based on an enormous warmth between our two peoples, one that in part is forged by the wonderful contributions that are made by portuguese americans each and every day. so, thank you so much, mr. president. >> well, as you heard, savanna, from president obama, interesting use of language here on afghanistan, coming together with this meeting of nato to talk about the transition that's
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taking place in afghanistan, so seems to be a buzzword that the administration does want to emphasize so that -- so that they can start selling this withdrawal plan that is apparently going to take upwards of three years, and that it is a transition of nato and u.s. forces securing provinces in afghanistan to the afghan army doing that. and, of course, the president also pointing out there is a second summit that's taking place here at the same time, the eu, the european union, also having a summit basically the next day. this is just like what happened, if you recall, savannah, last year, where the eu sort of piggybacked on that so that they could have president obama attend in person. >> yeah, back-to-back summit the as we call it around here, summit fever. i know you've got it bad. you got a lot of stuff on your plate. >> always. >> thank you for that. we'll check in with you a little bit later. >> by the way -- >> yeah?
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>> wait a minute. by the way, matt frye, you know, i had him on and obviously you were jealous. and i under thstand that. you weren't there. >> that's true. >> to get his deep knowledge. there's nobody that understands the international land cscape le matt frye. we talked about the royal wedding. you are talking about a more weighty subject. >> it has deep political impligations, don't you forget it. >> i hate to see you go there in lisbon, portugal, but i'll turn it back to matt frye. we only have about 40 seconds left, but quickly on another issue, this gilani verdict really imperilling the president's plan to try some terror suspects in civilian courts. your take? >> none of the opponents of civilian trials that they thought would happen did happen. he didn't use the court as a
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soapbox in order to declare jihad. there were no security issue, but what did happen is that we came perilously close in terms of the critics of having this guy acquitted altogether. he will serve 20 years or longer, which doesn't bode well for the other cases. i bet they won't be tried in political court. >> got to leave it there, matt frye, thank you. >> thank you. [ male announcer ] at e-trade, low cost invting means getting a low price.
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e-trade. investing unleashed. right now on capitol hill, the newly elected house members are participating in a time-honored tradition known as the office lottery. more random than ruthless. it's the way congress divvies up office space. apparently it's the only thing happening on the hill without a fight. i'm not sure i know that. nbc producer ken stricler is here. let's start with s.t.a.r.t. we've got reporting. i know you talked to senator kyl
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who is leading this one-man wall of opposition in the senate right now. what did he tell you? >> i saw senator kyl and he was saying up until yesterday he didn't think there was a way they could get the s.t.a.r.t. treaty ratified this year. when when i saw him yesterday, he said there was no chance. he said his concerns are so varied and so complex. the nuclear treaty is very complex. specifically about how they're going to protect the nuclear weapons they have. how are they going to keep them modern and make sure they're working and making sure there are enough of them. but basically when he said there's no chance, there's probably no chance. most people forget it was jon kyl back in 1999 who almost single handily stopped the clinton administration from stopping the test ban treaty. until that point the treaty hadn't been blocked for 80 years. >> is it as kyl goes, so goes the senate? the other republicans are waiting for his signal? >> i think that's the case. it's an interesting division within the republican ranks, you have jon kyl and history and
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then you have dick lugar, he essentially taught president obama everything he knows about nuclear reduction. it was then senator lugar who met with then candidate obama, who met with him, if you are interested in nuclear reduction, i will try to get on the senate foreign relations committee and he took him around doing that. who has more influence in the republican party? is it dick lugar or jon kyl, right now jon kyl seems to be holding the upper hand. >> luka, let me turn to you on another issue. congressman charlie rangel facing a censure. what happens next? this isn't totally done and done yet, right? >> no, it isn't, savannah. in the history of the house there's only been 22 censures and exactly what could happen to mr. rangel, it has to go to the house floor, and the collective body, has to vote on whether they approve krenures, if they do approve censure, charlie
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rangel would have to stand in the well of the house and possibly have speaker pelosi read the charges against him, almost a public admonishment, and the house could vote on something else and give him reprimand of sorts, you better believe a lot of republicans and democrats will vote for that as well. it will be interesting to see whether or not it happens. the timeline possibly sometime in december. we have no concrete details yet, but a big deal. i mean, it has not happened since 1983, and not widely used at all. it's the second most serious thing apart from expulsion. >> just to watch that hearing yesterday. you almost saw charlie rangel physically wilt before your eyes as he faced that punishment from the ethics committee. i want to turn back to ken, on the senate side of things, i know a lot of republicans are grousing they're trying to jam a lot of things in here in the final hour. one of the issues, don't ask, don't tell. do you think it will come up for a vote? >> if you listen to joe
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lieberman, he's the senator independent but he cause cucuseh the democrats, he said if they debate the senate appropriations bill, with don't and, don't tell in it, they are 60 votes, collins and dick lugar will there be a fair and open process? when they brought up the bill before the election, that's the very thing that susan collins voted against the democrats saying we want assurances to make sure we want time to debate and offer an amendment. if he can't convince republicans of that, there's no chance to get it done. >> you were at a news conference with speaker pelosi, current speaker pelosi, but not for long, and i want to play your "q" and "a" with her and ask you about it on the other side. >> madam speaker, for 60 house democrats lost in this cycle, your positive ratings with
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independents in the last poll stand at 8%. why are you the best person to lead the house democrats in the current political landscape? >> well, let me put that in perspective. how would your ratings be if $75 million were spent against? because i'm an effective leader, because we got the job done on health care and wall street reform and consumer protections, the list goes on. >> how about it, luke? no, just kidding. you don't have to answer that question. but what are democrats saying privately about miss pelosi? is this issue now behind them, or is there still private grumbling? >> i hope no one spent $75 million against us one day. but, look, this week was quite contentious for speaker pelosi. she came in thinking she had the support of a lot of the democratic caucus, and no doubt she did, but she faced quite a against her. they tried to have the leadership elections in
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december. slow down, we need to regroup, we don't want to hand the keys over right now. and then you had 43 democrats voting against her in a protest vote, voting for hugh schuller, the moderate blue dog democrat, nobody on capitol hill expected him to get 43 votes and only 20 blue dogs left, 23 rank-and-file democrats said no to speaker pelosi. we've heard a lot of that, a lot of rank and file democrats have said to us, why is she still here, she'll be a huge drag in 2012. and then you ask them, did you vote for her, well, yeah, who else will we vote for. at the end of the day, while there's a lot of uprising, there's not a lot of votes to change the leadership position. >> you mentioned heath shuler, and we'll put you on the spot with the trivia, but we didn't get to pose the last hour because of the president's event. in 1993, heath shuler finished second in the voting for the heisman trophy award. all right, luke and kenny, who
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won the heisman that year? >> heath shuler at tennessee, oh, my goodness. ken, you go first. >> oh, no, no, no, no, i'll yield the floor to the gentleman from columbia, who was the sports aficionado. >> i'll go with carter of penn state. >> well, nice try. but you're wrong. this is so unfair. >> who was it? >> the answer is florida state quarterback charlie ward. >> charlie ward! >> plays nba basketball for the new york knicks and drafted by two major league teams. >> he's an amazing athlete. an amazing basketball player. i believe he's a preacher right now, charlie ward. he's a good guy. >> we'll leave the trivia side. and thank you for your knowledge of the house and senate respectively. thanks, guys. coming up, a murder mystery unraveled in los angeles. a hollywood community reeling after a publicist to the stars was shot dead in her car on sun set boulevard.
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police believe it was not random. this murder was planned well in advance. we'll get the latest on that investigation. but, first, the white house scoop of the day, if chuck were here, he would probably say they're a little crabby at the white house. and they're playing my song. we'll be right back. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. don't forget mrs. collier.
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on this date in 2004, one of the worst brawls in american sport history, fight breaks out near the end of the pistons/pacers game. nine players were suspended without pay for a total of 146 games. 5 were charged were assault and sentenced to a year of probation or community service. five fans were also charged and banned from attending piston home games for life. well, other news now, the
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beverly hills mayor confirms that highly regarded hollywood publicist ronni chasen was deliberately targeted tuesday night when she was gunned down in her mercedes. george lewis has more. >> reporter: a glittering the f and christina aguilera pose for photographers publicist ronni chasen can be seen on the sidelines. >> just did not compute at all. >> reporter: police say early tuesday morning she drove her mercedes west into beverly hills. calling her office voicemail at 12:22 a.m. to leave a to-do list for the following day. shots rang out. >> the likelihood of gunshots in
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this neighborhood is just so unlikely, i didn't think that is what it was and i came to realize that it was probably something about 15 minutes later when police arrived. >> reporter: chasen's car wound up in the curb. paramedics worked on her. took her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. the hollywood reporter quoting an unnamed beverly hills official say police believe the killing was planned in advance, although it was unclear whether she was personally targeted. the theory according to the story is that another vehicle pulled up alongside her mercedes and that the shots were fired from that second car. police would not confirm the report. >> people in hollywood are more than horrified. they are in absolute shock. >> reporter: ronni chasen helped create oscar buzz for countless movies and the people that make them. along the films "on golden pond"
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driving miss daisy" more recently "slumdog millionaire." representing film composeurs and musicians. >> she had a timeless energy, those people who get things done. >> reporter: police have removed items including computers from chasen's office and home. rewards totaling $125,000 have been offered for information leading to the capture of her killer or killers. george lewis, nbc news, beverly hills, california. and we will be right back. there was a lot of information out there. but it was frustrating trying to get the answers i needed. then my company partnered with unitedhealthcare. they provided onsite screenings, healthy cooking tips. that's a recipe i'm keeping. ( announcer ) turning complex data into easy tools. we're 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare.
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well, before we go. let's take a dip in the shallow end. turns out pets can predict the future, or at least your career path. according to a new survey by careerbuilder.com, dog owners are more likely to be professors, nurses, military personnel or entertainers. they're also more likely to report holding senior management positions, like say chief white house correspondent or nbc news
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political director. this is mikey, chuck's dog. i think he should be the new mascot around here. here's adorable. apparently he only has one eye. moving on, if you have a bird, congratulations, you are most likely to be satisfied with your job. cat owners are more likely to be doctors, real estate agents and lab techs according to this survey. workers with a snake or other reptile were the most likely to report earning six figures. now, this last one isn't covered in that survey but we think chia pets are the best for white house correspondents. these are really the only kind of pets allowed for the press corps because they're never home. pet rock, it's a classic, it sits, it stays and you can allow it to roll over with a little bit of help. coming up next "chris jansing & company." and at 1:00, don't miss "andrea
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