showdown on the tax cut compromise. in five hours, we'll know where each senator stands. they'll have to go on the record with a key test vote, and barring some extraordinary test of events the compromise will pass in the next day or two. the question is, by how much.

if support is overwhelming it could influence what happens in the house which is divide over the deal. here's what congressman chris van hollen said last hour. >> it's not a done deal. the bill in its current form is unacceptable. it will come to the floor of the house in some form and it will be open to changes. >> joining me, former chairman of the democratic national committee and former vermont governor, howard dean. good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm wondering what your folks are telling you. do you think this is a done deal? >> it probably is not a done deal, if chris van hollen says it's not a done deal. look, there's a lot of problems with this bill. leaving aside the ideological objections to which taxes get cut, how much, the big problem in this country is not just unemployment it's the enormous federal debt. and this bill, essentially, gives about $300 billion to people who make in the neighborhood of $1 million a year over the next two years. that doesn't do anything for the

economy. but it does expand the deficit dramatically. the other thing it does, for the first time it takes money that was going to go to social security trust fund and diverse it to tax breaks. long, everybody loves tax breaks. >> let me take these one at a time. let me start with the latter, which is whether or not this is going to hurt social security. i'm sure you know, governor, aarp has supported this deal. do you really think that there is a better short-term fix for where we are right now? >> most certainly is. you do not cut taxes. look, here's the problem. every politician on both sides of this one, the republicans and democrats, are promising things they ought not to be delivering. the republicans ran on reducing the deficit. first thing they do is try to ps a tax cut for people who make $1 million a year that's not paid for. the largest component of the deficit projected in 2018 is the bush tax cuts. 60% of the deficit and national debt will be caused by these tax

cuts. i want to know when politician is are going to stop promising americans all of this stuff and do the job they were hired to do which is get america back on the track. >> the chairman of the economic advisers asked about the deal adding to the deficit. let me play what he had to say. >> you cannot reduce the deficit if the economy is not growing, period. they each have made clear that the short run growth of the economy, we should not be connating medium-run deficit reduction with short-run getting out of recession and getting ourselves growing. >> what do you say to that? the argument that is made by people who have supported this is the number one priority is to get the government growing to get the economy going again. once that happens, then it becomes much easier and much more plausible to deal with the deficit. >> why don't we ask the irish and the portuguese and the spanish how that worked for them. you've got to make tough choices while you're trying to get your way out of this stuff.

i think it's a foolish statement to say there's -- you shouldn't connate the short-term unemployment with long-term deficit. we have a huge deficit and a huge national debt in the country. we've got to deal with that. giving tax breaks to people who make $1 million a year does nothing for the long-term deficit and it does very little to improve the economy. the middle class tax cut, i understand, that makes some sense. there's got to be a better way than taking money out of the social security trust fund. >> what should happen? could the tea partiers and the progressives get together? when did the progressives become the deficit hawks? >> you know, look, i'm a progressive and i'm a deficit hawk, and i always have been. i believe in the long run if you run the place properly, you're going to have a good economy. i agree with the chairman of the economic advisers council. this is a very tight, difficult tightrope to walk on. i don't see how giving tax breaks to people making $1 million a year helps anybody.

all it does is crank up the national debt and reduce confidence in the united states of america and confidence has to be restored to get out of this recession. >> howard dean, thank you. let's bring in our company. karen hunter, "the washington post" ezra klein and sophia nelson. is this a done deal or could the house have something to say about this? >> they could have something to say about it. the odds are it's more of a done deal than people are letting on. with the deals it's wise for the two sites to build and something to, negotiated up or down a little bit so people feel like they've got something. there's talk of green energy tax credits, pelosi wants them, that's a get she can bring to her members. i do not expect it to change dramatically in the coming days. i think the smart money is that it passes. >> is this the best deal the president could have gotten? >> i don't know. a bunch of millionaires making decisions for rest of us and i'm

sick and tired of -- >> middle class americans voted in those. >> howard dean is not an economics expert. he's a doctor. and a lot of these folks are making decisions based on political positions not based on what's best for the american people. >> i hear this a lot, i think a lot of smart friends, i have a lot of smart members in the family hear one economist saying one thing, other economists saying another thing. >> that's the point i'm making. i, personally, think the president thought this out. i, personally, think the president, and he recently went in with bill clinton, he made decisions based on the best interest of the american people southwest of the folks are politically posturing for their own personal gains. howard dean has nothing to lose. most of the people in congress have nothing to lose but the american people do if it doesn't go through. >> a lot at stake, no doubt about that. are you comfortable with this deal and what it does for the deficit? >> i am, and pif been consistently saying that and i agree with my friend karen there, this is political posturing on the part of the democrats, it could be very

costly if we don't get a deal done by the end of the year, the republicans take control of the 112th congress, and i keep saying this, then you get a pack an that you really don't like. steve harvey, i got a lot of things i wanted, college tax credits, unemployment extended and if i had to give tax cuts to the upper income to trade that off, that's what i did. and i think karen's right, i think the president has thought about this and he cut the best deal he could. trust me, this isn't a great deal for them. conservatives are not happy with unemployment extension, et cetera, but both sides gave a little, and i think they got a good deal. >> look agent "new york times" analysis, this does help the people who have become disenchanted with the problem, that is the vast middle, they will feel it in the pocketbook. maybe politically this is a good deal as well, is it? >> what makes it a politically good deal if it improves the

economy. at the end of the day, the triangular posturing, none of that matters. one thing i wanted to add, wait the social security bit works here, we're going start moving money in from the general fund into social security. there's not crazy about that. you're just lowering the tax on work and bringing money from other places. you can do that. you can shift money around in the government. and frankly it's probably a good idea. we fund social security less from the progressive payroll tax and more from the progressive income tax, i'd be a happy man. >> we have much more to talk about. heard the wildly conflicting reports from the royal caribbean cruise line and passengers on board the "brilliance of the seas" both side as degree violent wave slammed into the ship but rest is in dispute. passengers say they were thrown around the cabins and furniture

turned into flying projectiles. a spokesman for royal caribbeans say there were no minor injuries but minor damage. the photos show a pretty messed up ship. joining me on the phone, the passenger who took the photos, lee cirillo. >> doing okay. we had sunshine today. the sea quieted down finally, i'm doing okay. >> let's go back to when the storm hit. it's night, you're in your cabin. take us through what happened to you. >> it was about 2:30 in the morning. we had rough seas for 24 hours prior to that, 20, 40-foot waves. unfortunately majority of us were used to slamming around, a lot of people were sick. you know, we spent two days not sleeping, holding on to our bed and laying there. when we had le-- he made a turnt one point and the boat started

to slam. >> what did that feel like. >> were you in bed? i can't explain it to you. that wasn't the point at which we hit trouble. it was many hours later into the night. i felt the boat slowing down and he brought the boat down, he looked on the monitor and the screen, 3 1/2 knots. it felt like the boat stopped and that's when the trouble happened. we got caught in a shipping lane and he tried to slow down or whatever, and the boat lost speed, wind hit us on the side and the boat began to roll. and we -- i'm on the seventh deck on balcony, i jumped out of the bed -- i'm sorry, it's upsetting to talk about -- the boat rolled and i saw the water wasn't ten feet from my window. the boat immediately threw backwards and we went throughing to the other side of the room, and at that point i don't know how, but i was able to get into

the howlway but i was the only one in the hallway. i heard people screaming, things flying. i was trying to get into my mom's room. >> what was going through your mind? did you think your life was in danger? >> i thought we were going to die. everybody did. everybody did. >> i don't know if you've heard about the statement -- >> i'm sorry. go ahead. >> i was going to say, royal caribbean issued a statement saying that reports on the -- of the ship almost tipping over or coming close to that would be grossly exaggerated. what would you say to them? >> i would say it's a lie. a lot of the reports that we've seen since we've been able to get on to the computer is a lie. they're saying there's no power outages. that's not true. there are people that haven't had power since this happened. there are people that have broken bones. i personally have seen people with broken hands, broken noses.

a person on come ma din had to stitch his arm up. people didn't get attention for 9 to 12 hours taft happened. a lot of things they said happened isn't true. >> you have another 24 hours on the ship. you're not due to dock until tomorrow, right? >> >> 7:00 a.m. we've been on the water for three days, we haven't seen land. >> good luck to you. we'll stay in touch. thanks for taking time to talk to us. hang in there. >> thank you so much. >> meantime, on land, it's not going so great, either. day three of a major winter storm and the worst apparently is not over yet. with more snow and even colder temperatures in the forecast. the storm closed major highways in several states, canceled more than 1600 flights in chicago, at least six deaths blamed on this

weather. did you see this? the roof of the metrodome collapsing sunday morning after 17 inches of snow fell on the twin cities. the dome's inflatable roof left with a gaping hole. the football field was covered with snow. looked like a crater, the metrodome did grout side. yesterday's scheduled game between the vikings and the giants was moved to detroit. it's going to take place tonight. weather channel meteorologist scott williams join me live from minneapolis. how are things looking there today? >> reporter: good morning, chris. we are dealing with the bitter cold right now in the twin cities. public schools are closed, and the feels-like temperature about 23 degrees below zero, when you factor in the wind. so a really -- over the one the area was dealt a one-two punch. the heavy wind and also snow brought down, of course, the dome here at the metrodome. mall of america typically held

up by air pressure but the heavy snow and winds caused three-tear panel in the dome's roof. it no longer look looks a dome. it looks like a bowl or crater. inside crews will survey the damage and assess how much it will cost to repair and how long it will take for those repairs to completed. the game between the giants and vikes taking place at tonight at ford field. no word if the next home game will take place between the vikings and the bears. that is slated for the 20th. they're looking for an alternative location. back to you. >> scott, thanks so much. you know what's happening here? >> my nose is running. >> no, it's not. >> john boehner, maybe trying to hide the fact he's getting emotional on national tv. what drives the speaker-to-be to tears? the midterm election made this past year interesting, to say the least. richard lui checking out the top moments. >> a fun year, chris. we're going to look at political

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prosecutors say the suicide of bernie madoff's son over the weekend will not stop them from going after his estate as part of their efforts to recover $50 billion stolen in the ponzi scheme. mark madoff hung himself on saturday, last day for people to file legal claims to try to get some of their money back. meanwhile, bernie madoff sits behind bars. mark and his brother an dry report lid haven't spoken to their dad in two years. nbc's jeff rossen is following the story for us. jeff, what are you learning? >> reporter: as far as mark and

andrew are concerned, the brothers, the feds have been looking in to them since 2008, a lot of questions whether they've been involved in the scandal, if they knew about it both denied any involvement in the scandal. according to a "wall street journal" article out, just hours before mark madoff's suicide posted online that some believe may have sent him over the edge, the feds were getting closer to possible criminal charges. though mark madoff may have committed suicide, there's no question about it, the feds will continue to investigate andrew now, just as they were investigating mark. of course, important to note, though, no criminal charges have been filed yet. here at the apartment of mark madoff in hsoho, a couple of nyd officers went in a couple of hours ago to check back in. they left quickly. the garage attendants here near mark madoff's apartment building say that he actually came in hours before his death, mark madoff did, gave them a card and $400 tip and said, good-bye to them. this follows a lawsuit that was

filed just, again, hours before his death, sources say something else that may have put him over the edge, mark madoff, of course, sued for tens of millions over the couple of years but the new lawsuit targeted his wife and young kids, and friends say he took that especially hard. no question about it, the criminal case does move onward as investigators try to figure out what they knew. andrew madoff, of course, the only living sibling now, chris. >> jeff, thank you so much. the co-founder of twitter is here to talk about the next big thank could change the way you live your everyday life. take a look at the new face of terror. striking in a place few could have predicted. the inside story on what it means for americans, next. [ sneezes ] client's here.

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teacher hostage in eastern france. police say he had two saber swords when he took the class captive. guardsmen stormed the school. the teacher and the children were not harmed. take a look at who police say is the latest face of terror. flashpoint partners obtained these photos of a 26-year-old from a dating website. this picture presumably taken before he decided to become a suicide bomber. this is amateur footage, then, of the car that exploded in stolingle holm sweden. everybo evan kohlmann, senior partner of flashpoint global partners. >> first of all, this guy's got a profile on a dating website. we've got audio of him now. you say he sounds like a 14-year-old. it's such scary stuff. what else do you know about this guy's history? >> we're learning more from the statement that he's issued. first of all we know he wasn't

in sweden until recently, he was in the uk, as a college student living there with his wife. he was in luten outside of london and he had gained a reputation for being an extremist. in his actual martyrdom will or the statement he left with swedish authorities he made reference the idea he was carrying this out, at least in the name of al qaeda in iraq, where the islamic state of iraq, back in september of 2007 had threatened to launch attacks against sweden in response to the cartoon controversy and various other crimes that sweden was accused of. we have to see now whether or not the individual was doing something because of the fact that he was doing it in solidarity with al qaeda in iraq or whether he was trained and dispatched by al qaeda in iraq. he says, i went for jihad in the middle east. i learned how to -- i got training there. i learned how to do this there. the question is, was he given orders, did somebody tell him to go back and do this? we'll have to see what the

investigation leads. >> there's a big picture question here, too last week talking about the terror threats in baltimore and before that in portland, places that, frankly, most americans would feel safe. sweden, if you read the local newspaper reports there, they are absolutely shocked by what has happened. is this, though, exactly what that magazine that you've talked about so much inspire really encourages jihadists to do which is even if you can't kill people, at least make them fear you? >> yeah. in fact, that's what people are saying now. look on al qaeda messaging forums, is what the reaction to the attack? it doesn't matter that he killed himself. he created a spectacle. he drove fear into the hearts of swedes across the country. he sent christmas shoppers running for their lives. that alone achieved the goal for which he set out to do. and it's remarkable because of the fact that, again, sweden, it's not a country you think of first when you think of terrorism. but then again neither is portland, oregon, virginia,

springfield, illinois. we're seeing homegrown extremists are popping up in places we could have never anticipated and it's not just new york or los angeles. it's smaller places. it's countries that are off the beaten path but nonetheless, it's quite significant level of activity. >> very sobering. evan, thanks for coming in. live pictures of the president and first lady at the harriette tubman elementary school where the president will sign the healthy hunger-free kids act of 2010. the first piece of legislation pushed through by first lady michelle obama. the new law will improve the system that provides free and reduced priced lunches to 115,000 children. it also sets nutritional standards for all food that's sold in schools. down. straight. go straight. no, to the right. to the right. >> go to the right, go to the right. >> whoa! >> whoa! >> what is that? >> man: well, that's a, uh... i don't know. >> whoa.

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of 15. winds gusting to 24 miles per hour. the one ter storm that pounded the mid west over the weekend is heading to northeast where temperatures are going to fall 10 to 30 degrees to start off the week. the weather channel's julie martin joins me from boston. how's it feel out there? >> reporter: i have to say, chris, i feel lucky here in busten. we're at 52 degrees, abnormally warm right now. you're right, temperatures will continue to fall throughout the day today. by the overnight hours, we'll be back in the 20s. i guess enjoy it while you can, if you live near boston. so far it's been a beautiful morning. we've had little rain come through the area, after a messy day on sunday that caused travel delays here. the big story in the northeast will be temperatures falling and the lake-effect snow particularly in cities like buffalo, which could pick up another foot or so. take a look at windchills in the midwest. midwest earns dealing with below zero temperatures. those windchills feeling frigid in cities like chicago. and the cold weather extending

from atlanta in through the florida panhandle as well where temperatures are abnormally cold, too. the cold air's coming this way. just not quite yet. maybe by the time you get out of work. >> word to the wise. thank you. >> here what happens might be the next big thing to help you streamline your life. square.com will offer consumers a simple solution for everyday shopping. it's a device that goes into the audio outlet of your smartphone and transactions can be done in seconds. jack dorsithe founder of square and the chairman and founder of twitter. good to see you little white square thing. >> it's a credit card reader plugs into the jack of your phone or ipad or ipod touch, and you put it n. an amount and it enables you to take credit card payments and deposit directly to your bank. you swipe a card through. >> it has a swiper. >> okay. >> if i go into a store that

doesn't take credit cards, or if i owe you money, if you're my baby-sitter and i owe you money i can use this instead of cash? >> your baby-sitter would use it to take money from you. encourage your baby-sitter, hairdresser, interior designer, go to squareup.com, we send you a free reader. it allows you to swipe the credit cards but sign with your finger as a payer, add a tip, if you want and hit continue and also offer e-mail or receipt. >> so let's go over this sort of point by point. if i decide i want to use this if i have people that want to give me month any i go to my bank and i get information from them that i then somehow register to my smartphone? >> all you have to do go to squareup.com anddown load an application to your phone. we send you a free reader. the application is free. and then once that process is complete, you put in your bank account information so then you can take a card from anyone and

then money goes into your bank account that night. >> little will rally by the end of the day we have cash? >> absolutely. >> who can use this? what is it not nickable for? restaurant in new york city city don't take cash. >> anyone you can imagine who you want to pay with a credit card can use this. so your hairdresser, your baby-sitter, dog walker, tax accountant. we have piano teachers. we have ptas on. ptas raise $100 to $200. we have a pta on square raised $3200. >> the disadvantage of plastic and the reason businesses and restaurants don't use it because there's a fee. does this eliminate the fee? if people are paying -- if i'm paying people or they're paying me using square, does somebody pay the credit card company? >> we pay the credit card company out of the fee that you pay scare which is 2.75%.

we've simplified the fee. so you don't have to pay the entire interchange. you pay one fee 2.75 and 15 cents on the transaction. >> am i not going have to have those bills. >> headed to a paperless society. >> unbelievable the technology. i can tell you, from -- i'm grabbing it, how much does it weigh? nothing. >> nothing. >> what happens if i lose it? >> if it's right on your key chain with this hook, so you can bring it with you everywhere. >> thanks for coming in. next month the most powerful republican in office but he's not afraid to show his emotional side. if a profile on" 60 minutes" john boehner broke down in tears, not just once. >> making sure that these kids have a shot at the american dream. it's important. >> you know what's happening here? >> yeah. >> no, my nose is running.

>> no, it's not. >> what set you off that time? because she's proud of you? he cries all the time? >> no, but he's going through an emotional period, too. >> well, this isn't the first time. it has worked well in his district for the past 20 years, the fact that john boehner is a very emotional guy. how is it playing to a national audience? let's bring back our company. karen hunter, ezra klein, sophia nelson. ezra, he's a crier, we know that. is that going to endear him or will a wider national audience that don't know him from ohio say, what's with that? >> you must get tired of me responding to questions to say it won't mat, it's just politics. . i going to say it won't matters. democrats who want to attack john boehner will say he's a cry baber. folks who like him will say it's proof of his sensitive side. most americans will not know he

ever cries ever. the world will go on. boehner will be judged by what happens in the house of representatives than the interviews. >> still does very, very well. i have to say, just in the time from this one, when this aired until this morning a number of democrats said to me they kind of found it endearing. did you find it endearing. >> i'm nicknaming him snotty pippen. i was watching the "60 minutes" piece and it has this american feel. he chokes up when he talked about the american dream, a man that was a januaitor. >> met his wife while he was take out the garbage. >> they were kennedy democrats. he made millions. you know he did the american dream and it's emotional for him, and i think it resonate -- it resonated with my. it's the classic story we hope for you, you can come from nothing and be something. it will endure him with many

americans. >> if i can have all of you hold on for a second. we want to go to this signing. we were telling you about a little while ago. the president has come with michelle obama. her first big legislative achievement, the nutrition bill. let's listen for a second. >> too many kids don't have access to school meals. often the food that's being offered isn't as healthy or as nutritious as it should be. that's part of the reason why one in three children in america today are either overweight or obese, and we're seeing this problem in every part of the country, in kids from all different backgrounds and all walks of life. as a result, doctors are now starting to see conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type ii diabetes in children. these are things they only used to see in adults. this bill's about reversing that trend and giving our kids the healthy futures that they deserve. and this bill's also about doing what happens right for our

country because we feel the strains that treating oes bety-related health conditions puts on the economy. we've seen the connection between what our kids eat and how well they perform in school. for the country to succeed in the 21st condition tri will have the best prepared, best educated workforce around. we need to make sure our kids have the energy and the capacity to go toe to toe with any of their peers, anywhere in the world, and we need to make sure they're reaching their potential. that's precisely what this bill, the healthy, hungry free kids act, will accomplish. this legislation will help 115,000 children began access to school meal programs. wherever we can, we're doing away with bureaucracy and red tape so families don't have to fill out mountains of paperwork to get kids nutrition they need. we're improving the quality of those meals by reimbursing schools an additional 6 cents.

>> the first lady a huge proponent, talking about how american kids need to get up and move, eat better. is this a good thing for the first lady? it shows her clout. >> you know, chris, that i think the first lady's fabulous. i think this is an excellent program. i had the opportunity to meet her on tuesday night at the white house, so i'm still thrilled about that. i just think he's doing a great job focusing the nation on how our kids need to be healthier. and i know some have said that's big government in the hand of big government, but i think that the things that the president's saying about diabetes and high blood pressure and hypertension in young children, particularly children of color, disproportionally impacted by this, it's a great thing she's doing. >> as i'm watching the president speak, i'm thinking about what's going on at the same time on capitol hill because this first, big vote on the tax compromise is coming up. we were talking about john boehner. let me play for you something he had to say about compromise. listen.

>> you're saying i want common ground but i'm not going to compromise. i don't understand that. >> when you say the word compromise, a lot of americans look up and go, oh, oh, they're going to sell me out. so finding common ground, i think, makes more sense. >> why won't you -- you're afraid of the word. >> i reject the word. >> i reject the word compromise, karen. it is interesting because compromise is something that the president, who is speaking right now, looks at as a positive, reaching out, being able to work with the other side. john boehner says he rejects the word "compromise" and the argument could be made, if this tax bill goes through the way it is, that the no compromiser won. >> well, you know, we can split hairs over what is's a name but reality is they will compromise, whether it's common ground. that's a brilliant thing. he knows his audience and knows for them compromise is a bad

thing. he's not going to say it out of his mouth though he's going to do it. this man could be president. i was nervous watching it. >> ezra, she think his could be president. >> i'm not going on that one. it made me feel bad for john boehner. it made me realize what a hard couple of years he's about to have. if you talk to his staff, he would like to believe he's not going to be a partisan, polarizing speaker like his pred serw predecessors. he would like to bring the house together. this who is he sees himself as. he has a base that won't let him use the word "compromise" when you are in that position, when you need to legislate on the country and to please people so extreme they're against the very idea of making a deal with the other party, you're going to have a tough couple of years ahead of you. sounds good on "60 minutes" but it's real testify when you cut that deal. >> there are those who suggested

if nancy pelosi cried, it would have been viewed differently about the first lady just got a standing ovation. now, she's commenting on the nutrition bill. let's hear from her. >> to work very hard to make sure that this bill was a priority in the session, and i am grateful to you. >> because i would have been sleeping on the couch. >> but i am thrilled to be here. we won't go into that. let's just say, got done. don't have to go gown that road. but i'm thrilled to with all of you today as my husband signs the healthy, hunger-free kids noo act into law. we felt it was important to do this one right here at tubman elementary because we wanted to share this moment with our partners, with the students, the parents, the teachers, the community leaders, like all of you here who have been so

instrumental. our white house chefs have worked closely with educators at the school, and they've seen your commitment to serving high-quality school meals to all of your students. i've worked side by side with kids from the school as well as bancroft elementary school to harvest the white house garden. we couldn't have done it without all of the students helping us. i saw how hard they worked and i also saw how brave they were to try vegetables that many of them never even heard of. and i also understand that there are students from merch elementary school here today as well. we all had just a great time last spring working up a sweat and exercising and playing on south lawn of the white house. so with everything that all of you are doing to give these children a healthy start in life, you are fulfilling the mission of this legislation

every single day, that's why we're here. i want to thank you all. all of our partners for what you've done, not just in hosting us here today, but in making sure that we're doing right thing by our kids. i also want to echo my husband's thanks to leaders and members of congress, many of whom are on the stage, many of whom are not and are down here, and you vault done just a tremendous thing in making this day possible. as he said, this was truly a bipartisan effort. with passionate supporters from both parties putting in late nights, working around the clock to make sure the bill got passed because while we may sometimes have our differences, we can all agree that in the united states of america no child should go to school hungry. we can all agree -- >> first lady michelle obama,

having a little back and forth with her husband. very charming that they were together. important stuff. whatever your politics, kids in america have some nutrition issues. so this is going to provide more school lunches, better nutrition for lots of kids across america. thanks for coming in. we'll take a break. we'll be back with more. [ male announcer ] this is lara. her morning begins with arthritis pain. that's a coffee and two pills.

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♪ blueberry hill >> looks like vladimir putin found his thrill with the rendition of "blueberry hill" showing off his pipes for a benefit of children's resent. also attending goldie hawn, kevin costner, sharon stone, mickey rourke. putin told the crowd, i cannot sing nor dance, but still love doing it. well the old adage, politics

makes strange bed foal lfellow coming alive in new york city. those who normally went see eye to eye on issues, who might not even like each other very much have formed a group called no labels. the idea is simply to -- is simple to say, hard to achieve. nonpartisanship is good for the country. michael smerconish, he joins me from the no labels launch. i understand you're already given a little speech there, a little talk, michael. give me a sense of what's happening there. what's the mood there? >> i've got tell you, it's pretty cool. as you point out, it's 1200 folks from all 50 stated, and an awfully impressive list of speakers. myself excluded. i mean individuals who are elected office holders, evan bayh, kristin hilla brand.

those coming together saying too much incivility. we can have disagreements but wife got get along to move the nation forward. >> i know it sounds like a great idea but i can sense people sitting out there saying, yeah, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk but when push comes to shove, implementing is another thing altogether. >> you may be right. and tomorrow is when we'll really know. tomorrow meaning -- moving forward we'll know whether this can make a difference. for as long as i've been paying attention, which is a whiling i don't recall a movement that was so well-organized and involved so many credible people coming together to say, you're right, we're sick and tired of it and the nation is suffering because we've allowed those at the polar opposites to month onnize the conversation and the rest of us who are stuck somewhere in the middle determining issue by issue what label may or may not apply to us. we want a seat at the table. >> ever expanding vast middle. good to see you. thanks for taking time out to

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>> it is that time of year for lists with one of our favorites, richard lui. well, i don't mean you're the favorite. >> yeah, i know. >> the list is one of our favorites. i'm kidding. >> it is one of our favorites. >> this is a vote, then a list. >> that's correct.

>> a vote for a list. >> a vote for a list. if you'd like to make a vote on the list. a way of having fun, as we're reaching the end of the year. coming from political analyst who writhes a biweekly newsletter. the list of end of the year awards for 2010. we'll start with, yes, the i'm over them candidates who should not run again category. dino rossi, christine o'donnell, they make the list. maes barely got the vote. barnes is best of this list. next category, yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is the i'm betting you haven't seen the last of them category. this is the ambitious group, shall we say, that will run for some office of some type. the four democrats here will make a go at it again. o'donnell, who makes this list, too, by the way, while i'm at it, she's won yale's list of quotes with her "i'm not a

witch" ad. the final category for this morning for you. worst political hair of 2010. we start with congressman steve chabot, hails from a very cold ohio. charlie cook of the cook political report makes his list with a full head of hair. take a look here. senate candidate chuck purgason with a before and after shot of him. he decided, by the way, to lose the hair piece to assure voters that nothing, quote, will be swept under the rug on my watch, end quote. all right. stu puts himself on the list as well. stewart rothenberg. a youtube of rick scott who rounds out our list. his family lamenting in the youtube video he had former curlying locks. we've got blago.

a little fun as we close out the year. >> we're not allowed to add people willy-nilly. >> how can you not have blago? >> i didn't think some of the hair was that or zblibl some picturize found i couldn't show you. >> ouch. richard lui, thank you, for sparing us. justice for elizabeth, i'll talk with elizabeth smart's father about the conviction of her kidnapping. lake-effect snow, otherwise known as many feet of snow, pummeling the upper midwest. coupled with frigid temperatures. what it means for your week ahead. etfs? exchange traded funds? don't just give me ten or twenty to choose from. come on. td ameritrade introduces commission-free etfs with a difference-- more choice. over a hundred etfs.... ...chosen by the unbiased experts at morningstar associates. let me pick what works for me. for me. for me. the etf market center at td amitrade. before investing, carefully consider the fund's investment

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