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welcome back to morning joe, willie, what did we learn today? lawrence just figured out bing crosby at the age of 77. >> only 33 years behind. >> what did you learn, mark? >> mika hasn't caught on to the will farrell thing. >> i want to revise my remark about the golden globes. i want mark wahlberg to win best actor, i think i said about him earlier, he might kick my -- >> >>. >> i will listen to the e-mailers and wear sleeves. >> please. >> apparently, offending a lot.
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sorry. >> be nice to her. gosh. >> forget it. i'm too old. i'm outta here. >> map that hurts. >> willie too, early, what time is it? >> too early. stick around for the daily run down. the tax deal all but done in the senate, it will be undone in the house in the heart of health care reform struck down in federal courts will legal attacks accomplish what political opposition never could? we will talk to the texas attorney general who filed a lawsuit of its own. larger than life, we remember richard holbrooke, a powerful and colorful force in american diplomacy for decades. good morning, everyone, it is tuesday december 14, 2010, i'll savannah guthrie. >> i'm chuck todd. also the latest on the storms and very frigid weather out there if there is such a thing as very frigid. michael steele surprises us and everybody again and wait until you hear how julian assange described himself on an online dating website. we are going to get to the
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rundown in a moment. first, here is what we are watching today. at the top for us, where is speaker pelosi? as the tax deal heads toward the house after today's deal in the senate, simmering tensions between house dems and the obama white house are now boiling over. is she going to take the lead, start talking publicly and try to kwai yet yet things down? >> we will see. lawsuit politics also on our radar, will virginia attorney general ken cool. nelly use his success with the health care challenge to launch himself into higher office? here is a hint. he is raising money online. >> senate race in '12, governor's race in '13. >> rahm his day in court, facing legal challenges over whether he really is a resident of chicago and whether he can run for mayor. get to the rundown, the senate nears final passable of the tax deal, house democrats must decide whether to fight it or fall in line. kelly o'donnell, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, she joins us now. walk us through what time today
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we should expect the tax deal to pass the senate and what's going to happen on the house side. >> a couple of loose ends still. on the senate side, senator tom coburn, republican of oklahoma is trying to get some amendments there is a little bit of procedural stuff to get through with that, to be could happen late today to get a final passage vote, a couple of smaller hurdles still to go. late tonight, the house democrats, about 6:30, the end of the business day, they will all get together and meet behind closed doors. we know the last time they did that, they came out with a unified message of no to this plan, see if they revise their views a bit it is definitely moving forward. one of the things that has been pushing it along is the involvement of the president and he appeared in the briefing room yesterday, talked about it, but he also did something we don't see often and he talked to local supporterses who have invited and invited from states and markets look like a road map of
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2012, colorado, ohio, iowa and florida. here is what was said to a local reporter from a florida station about having to give up some things to get this done. >> this package require node take some thing also didn't like t requires them to take some thing these don't lick and that's part of the compromise that we are going to have to probably look at on a whole host of different issues. and on the house side, steny hoyer, the majority leader for democrats and more moderate voice in this says he believe there is will be a way to get this done but also thinks there might be a bit of room to make some changes that, of course is the big question mark, democrats on the senate side like to see that, too, and republican leader mitch mcconnell hoo heere says r not no partisan game it is they don't want to risk the chance of spoiling this whole deal. >> kelly o'donnell on the hill, thank you, kelly. one of the most well known and accomplished diplomats in
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history pass aid way, richard holbrooke died last night after suffering a tear in his aorta, he was 69. holbrooke served every democratic president in modern history, gap his foreign service career in he vietnam and wrote a volume of the pentagon papers. his latest assignment, a tough one, special ambassador to afghanistan and pakistan. his signature accomplishment was negotiating an end to the war in the former yugoslavia and served 16 months as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. as well as ambassador to germany. holbrooke fell ill friday while in a meeting with with secretary of state hillary clinton. he underwent two major surgeries over this weekend but he never regained consciousness. nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell will join us later to remember holbrooke's legacy as we remember him. the announcement that many in the political world of republican politics, rnc michael steele says he is going to seek another term. mark mur vity deputy political
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director. perhaps michael steele doing the unconventional shouldn't be surprising that is actually conventional for him. >> exactly, chuck, however, all signs pointed to the fact that steele might not be running. after all, always visible but the past morning the he had been in radio and tv violence, also hadn't established a campaign infrastructure for re-election and seen other republicans enter earth field but last night, michael steele surprised everyone by making his bid official. it does necessarily two things, one, make this rnc chair race takes place next month interesting and make the contest all about michael steele and stewardship of the rnc the past two years. other candidates running against michael steele include former bush administration official maria seen know, former rnc staffer gentry collins, michigan committeeman began saul anusis and other candidates, an interesting race to watch. >> mark murray, i got say,
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chuck, you said keep an eye on this one yesterday. you said he is full of surprises. >> running against total operatives at this point. presidential candidates may have to step up if they want to stop steele or the rnc might become completely irrelevant. >> interesting times for you and mark murray, our deputy political director. thanks so much. now to the brutal weather. at least 16 deaths are being blamed on this slow-moving storm that brought snow and bone-chilling cold to a big part of the country. nbc's john yang is live for must michigan city, indiana, this morning. john, you just look cold. >> i am cold, savannah, believe me. this is the third straight day of snowfall here in northwestern indiana. the snow be, make effect snow blowing in here off lake michigan. there's already two feet of snow in a lot of the areas around here. the wind creating drifts of up to four feet and the roads and highways are being covered with with snow as quickly as they can be cleared. still, roads, highways closed
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here. there were about 100 cars stranded on the highways yesterday. drivers stuck in their cars for hours and savannah, i know you are from arizona, chuck's from florida. it is about 16 degrees right now. the temperature has been dropping since the sun came up, the high was -- the high of the day was about 20 before sunrise and believe it or not, you look at these waves in lake michigan, they have been chasing surfers out of the water here. >> come on. >> oh, geez. >> that's just crazy. >> kind of looks like you are in maine, like the atlantic ocean or the northern california, just does not look like a lake. twoenchts stop talking to poor john. john, go inside, we need you, we can't lose you. >> get in the truck are. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, john yang. stock futures flat lining up ahead of the opening bill a preview of where the market is headed we are joined by cnbc's becky quick, the action in the senate and washington providing any solace to the markets this morning? >> you know, not especially,
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chuck. this is something that they expected to get passed. they expected to see a vote like this my guess is if you had seen the vote go a different direction, you would see the futures down sharply. but at this point, for the last week or so wall street has been writing this in. futures flat lining because we have a big decision later today. 2:15 eastern time, hearing from the federal reserve, open market economy with their statement i last policy meeting for the fed this year, not expecting to see huge changes but traders nervous before a big decision like this, right now you not following make too many bet ones direction or the other, do get information this morning from the government producer prices climbed by a larger number than expected because oil prices have been increase and that's increasing the amount the companies have to pay for all the goods they produce and also saw retail sales better than expected, up .08 versus .05. that means people are out in force, not shopping at best buy.
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we heard from best buy. best buy said the numbers below what the street had been expecting, they are concerned because nobody is out there buying flat-panel tvs in years past. sounds like this could be an outlier, like a lot of the competition is taking things away, walmart, target, sam's club, all the places you buy these things, guys, best buy is going to be in for a rough ride today it looks like, stock down 10% last time i looked. pretty rough, becky. >> not that funny. >> people are spending money, just not at best buy they are not. >> don't kill the messenger, just speaks the truth are. >> becky quick, thank you. coming up, president obama's landmark health care law hitting its first major legal roadblock. so what happens now? and what about those two dozen other states mounting their own legal challenges? coming up next, we will have the daily run down interview with the texas attorney general, greg abbott. and who had the best and worst campaigns of 2010? roll out the red carpet.
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we continue the first annual -- and the music, yesterday was the worst candidates. today it is the campaigns, which in some cases had had to overcome mediocre candidates. first, a look ahead at the president's schedule, a quiet one but a big meeting on afghanistan with his afghanistan team minus one major player, as the whole white house and the diplomatic community remembering richard holbrooke today. you are watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. all of a sudden, it's like an earthquake going off in your body. my doctor put me on an aspirin regimen to help protect my life. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone. so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. to my friends, i say, you know, check with your doctor, 'cause it can happen to anybody. [ male announcer ] be ready if a heart attack strikes. donate $5 to womenheart at iamproheart.com, and we'll send you this bayer aspirin pill tote.
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purchase insurance, so-called individual mandate is unconstitutional t is the first time a judge has ruled against laut since the president signed it back in march. >> nbc's justice correspondent pete williams is here to break down the ruling you and how many lawsuits have been filed, ruled on, et cetera. pete, take it away. >> well, what the judge said is congress does have broad power to regulate economic activity but he said that doesn't mean congress can regulate economic inactivity so he said the federal government has no authority to compel anyone to enter the stream of commerce. the obama administration had argued there is no such thing as staying out of the commerce on health care since everybody gets sick at some point and somebody has to pay for their care, so the obama administration said this was a false idea the judge had but nonetheless, that was the basis of his ruling. now it is going to be interesting to see as this case moves along and other courts look at it, another part of what the obama administration said was a defense of that law and
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like all loyal viewers of "daily run down" i have my pocket constitution and another part of the constitution that says congress has power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out his authority. this is another thing. the judge said, yeah this thank is a defense the obama administration offered here, but that doesn't mean that congress has the power to violate another part of the constitution, to do something necessary and proper to carry out the health care law, i think that is a controversial part of his ruling. you are right there are 24 lawsuits, the obama administration has won two, another in virginia and michigan, one argued this week in florida, so, going to have more of these coming, the one in florida is a big aggregation of republican officials, attorneys jones from other states and that will be another big one to watch. >> pete, very quickly, the government's defense on the mandate and the penalty if you didn't buy health insurance did
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they end up defending it as a tax so that basically by saying, well, look, the federal government has the power of taxation? >> that's right. the president initially said this suspect a tax but when it came time to argue this in court, the government said here is another reason why this is defensible. congress has very road brood power to tax, tax almost anything it wants and the courts k get in and say, no you can't do that, the judge said it may look like a tax it may have been stuck in the tax code, but it is a penalty, not a tax. >> okay, pete williams, justice correspondent, latest on this fascinating to watch as we go through in fact, we are going to talk with an attorney general right now, pete, thanks very much. the virginia lawsuit is one of at least 24 across the country to take aim at that health care reform law. >> texas attorney general greg on bought says monday's ruling bodes well for his state's lawsuit against the obama health care law. mr. attorney general, thank you for being with us this morning. >> my pleasure. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's get right to it the
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case is whether the government, the federal government has the power and authority to regulate something people choose not to do in this case, choose not to buy insurance. as you know earthquake the federal government's argument is, look, whether you choose to buy it or not, you're still in the health care system because you're going to eventually get sick and then tax payers are going to end up footing the bill. why isn't it within the power of the federal government to regulate in an area that is going to directly cost taxpayers money? >> they do have the power to regulate in the area that directly cost taxpayers money what they don't have the power to do is to force fellow americans to go out and purchase a good product what congress could have done is use their tax and spend powers to achieve the very same goal them chose not to go down that pathway because they knew it was politically unpalatable and tried to get around that by imposing the individual man day. as the judge pointed out yesterday and we believe the the
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judge will point out in the case where texas and florida and other 18 states will be arguing later this week. never before has an appellate court in the united states ruled that congress has the authority under the commerce clause to make someone be swept into the stream of commerce who otherwise wants to be inactive. we believe the court in our case as well as the supreme court will strike down obamacare as going beyond the outer bounds of what is alounder the commerce clause. >>ment is the commerce clause it says anything that substantially affects interstate commerce is within the federal government's authority to regulate two other federal district courts came out on the other side of this question. >> you got the quote almost exactly correct, any activity that substantially affects commerce it doesn't say any inactive that substantially affects commerce if could you sweep in any inactivity that would mean congress would have
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the power to order you and all americans to eat vegetables every day because your failure to eat vegetables, your failure to join a gym and go work out, would mean that you could perhaps be more obese, have a greater likelihood of contracting diabetes and drive up the cost of health care for all of us so you and all americans must eat vegetables and must work out that is beyond the power of what congress has. congress does not have the power to regulate your behavior or to force you to go out and purchase a product. >> one of the arguments made in defense of this mandate is, hey, you are forced to buy auto insurance, if you choose to purchase a car and in many states it is illegal not to have auto insurance. for instance in virginia, you can actually pay the state for the right not to have insurance but essentially, you're paying a penalty. describe the difference.
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>> states don't require every citizen in their state to purchase auto insurance, only those who choose tone gauge in the activity of the driving must purchase auto insurance secondly, not the federal government that makes you purchase auto insurance because they don't have the power under the constitution to make purchase that under the ten president amendment, because they don't have that power that's why it's the states and not the federal government under the state's police power that provides them the authority to regulate the activity. >> circumstance doesn't the premise of your argument presuppose that a person will never enter the health care system whether they pay for themselves or have the government pay for their care, rest on the premises that somebody can never get sick and never need the health care system? >> not at all. it rests on the premise that if you look at the constitution and importantly, look at court interpretation of the constitution, never before has congress been allowed to regulate inactivity, point one. point two, there are a lot of
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people, especially people in their 20s, for example, millions of americans in their 20s who may not get sick, may not go to a hospital for a couple of years. why should those millions of 20-somethings have to pay for insurance just to make it cheaper for others? point two, and that is there are some people in this country who may pay for all of their medical care with cash. why should they have to go out and purchase insurance if they are going to pay for it out of their own pocketbook? >> all right, greg abbott, the attorney general from the state of texas, i think this is a debate that is going to continue, as you predict and many others, probably all the way until the supreme court hears this the next few years. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. well, up next, i know this has been a big hit on twitter. day two. >> we are huge on twitter. >> day two get out your menorahs, stay tuned. this morning, crowning the year's best campaign and worse, different from candidate, bus a good campaign can overcome a bad
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candidate. >> we will get into that subtlety. first, washington speak today. this is a good one, echo chamber, we consulted the urban dictionary for this one it is an insular communications space, ie, washington, d.c., where everyone agrees with the inform organization talking points i and no outside input is allowed. >> republicans, conservative movement in particular, in over drive yesterday, pushing yesterday's court ruling on health care, making seem as if the entire obama health care plan was ruled unconstitutional by the court system. of course, that wasn't case but that didn't stop the talking points. the pr machine is in overdrive and it does show you how behind the 8 ball the obama administration is in dealing with this. they have just completely ceded the argument. >> how powerful the echo chamber is although disagree they have ceded the argument. you have washington speak you want us to clarify, send us an e-mail at dailyrundown@msnbc.com. we will be right back.
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just gives me chills to hear that music. stay tuned for the award for the best of the worst of the year in politics, we honor the best 2010. didn't we hand out a chuvannah yesterday? >> yes, we did. >> a difference between a good candidate and campaign bosnia we will illustrate. >> a best actor and best director and different, sometimes best picture doesn't go to the best director are. today we recognize the role of campaign, strategic messaging, fund-raising know-hows, nuts and bolts the ground game had in this year's surprising victories. the nominees, start with a big one, it is harry reid. his approval rating 35% in his home state, unemployment over 14%. while charisma was not going to
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save his, the reid campaign and the nevada democratic party developed an exceptional ground operation, several years, final months just crushed sharron angle, a ruthless offense and figured,do it without up in of this nonsense. >> michael bennet, appointed to office in a purple state, everybody calling colorado a bellwether in a bad year for democrats. toad wear the incumbent label even though never run for office himself. the most expensive race in the country, raised more money than his opponent, mustered 1900 volunteers from election day, help from the top of the ticket, pulled it off, won by nearly 30,000 votes. >> finally, lisa murkowski, no campaign is perfect. she misspell herd first write-in ad but her campaign developed aly as hearn like focus on teaching alaskans to spell her
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name. >> the word is murkowski. >> could you please use that in a sentence? >> to re-elect lisa murkowski, you must fill in the oval and write in her name. >> murkowski, m-u-r-k-o-w-s-k-i. >> the first senator to win a write-in bid before alaska was a state, the murkowski campaign a a nominee she did run a horrible primary. >> fortunes can change. so without further ado -- >> gave away who is not getting it, by the way that last little shot. >> a tiebreaker. >> i don't know what the other one says. >> yes, document. >> do i? >> harry reid, congratulations. >> look. >> first of all, a democrat in this republican year, we told you everything he was up against. here is a look at what our friend john ralston called reid's terminator-like single-mindedness. >>. >> what do you call a candidate who says the way things are
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going, the time may be coming for second amendment rem chills are. >>'s crazy what she is actually talking about is armed resistance. >> she says she would phase out social security. that it's like welfare. >> she say it is you have been raped, you should be forced to have the baby. sharron angle, just too extreme. >> way too extreme. >> sharron angle, views so extreme, she can't tell you the truth. >> i don't think harry reid ran one positive ad. i do vaguely remember one very version early before he had a republican opponent but it was -- it really is unbelievable because what shocked me more was not just him winning thafsz he got over 50% of the vote. >> amazing turnout operation, too. so coming up, going to reveal our picks for worst campaign of 2010. and explain the super scientific methods we used in term determine hog gets the coveted award. >> here is three words for you, funk & wagnalls. >> i don't understand that coming up, the other award as well show we should mention,
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nominees for the golden globes just amounds, reveal who made the cut. >> aren't those the ones you can buy? wikileaks founder julian assange pleads for bail in london. online dating services supposedly belonging to assange, let's put it this way it is a doozy. >> s to be a fly on the wall in this hearing room today, rahm emanuel heading to court in chicago today to be questioned not only by lawyer bus every day residents about whether he is eligible to run for mayor. >> first, today's trivia question from the almanac of american politics what is the only state that still bars its governors from running for re-election in the answer and more ahead on "the daily rundown." nobody in my family ever had a heart attack. if anything, i thought i'd get hit by a bus, but not a heart. all of a sudden, it's like an earthquake going off in your body. my doctor put me on an aspirin regimen to help protect my life. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone. so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. to my friends, i say, you know, check with your doctor,
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achblts san edge wants to be freed while he fights extra digs to sweden, a process that could take several weeks. nbc's correspondent is live outside the court in london. where would he reside if he is granted bail, because that's been another issue here. where does he live? >> i can't tell you exactly wrest going to live but we know an address has been submitted to the court today. he has been offered an address by the owner of a club, a journalism club in london yes has been working for a number of weeks prior to his arrest over a week ago now and i can tell you the hearing has now begun, it began around 20 minutes ago, he arrived here this morning amid huge attention from the world's press inside a prison fan from wordsworth prison. he has an address he can call his own and secondly, he could be electronically tagged that would help the authorities to keep tabs on him and thirdly,
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his face is now so well known all around the world that it would be almost impossible for him a-to-escape and he needs to be release sod he can properly fight these extradition proceedings extradite him back to sweden where he is, of course, wanted for allegations of sexual assault and rape allegations, that he strenuously denies. >> jenny, i guess we are getting some new insight into julian assange from a most unlikely place, reportedly his profile on an online dating site. >> reporter: yes, that's true are. there is a site called okay stupid. we have got to be slightly careful because we don't know for short-term sthaern this pro-vial does belong to julian assange, although it does bear his feet tote person on it is using a pseudoname n this profile, he says that he is seeking out exotic women and spirited women and also women from countries that experience
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political turmoil. he also describes himself on this website, presuming of course that it is julian assange, which we can't verify, describes himself as passionate and of the pig-headed, also an activist and intel lech watch as i said, we can't say certain whether or not it is him because it hasn't been accessed since 2006. savannah? >> all right, jenny wivle, outside that london courtroom monitoring this story all day. thanks very much. well, more now on the life of ambassador richard holbrooke, a man whose career in government spanned nearly five decades. >> president obama called him a giant of american foreign policy. andrea mitchell's nbc's chief foreign correspondent, host of "andrea mitchell reports" and somebody who knew ambassador holbrooke very well many years of covering foreign policy. i know this came as something of a shock, frankly, a lot of people watching his health over this weekend thought that perhaps the worst was behind him. >> this was a very, very difficult, tragic so, a torn
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aorta doctors it will tell you is a difficult thing to survive when it is this serious. he had health problems and i know just how personally how he had refused to stop traveling and we all thought it was a blessing that he was at least at the state department, a block or two from the hospital, from the er when this happened. he was meeting with hillary clinton. if he had been on plane or pakistan to or afghanistan, he wouldn't have survived a minute but at this point, it was just too much, even for his great heart to survive. >> tellingly about his hard-charging personality, as i understand, wanted to car on the meeting after fell ill so many remembrances, admiral mike mullin said today, i had to be, quite honest, quite convinced of his evan ul recovery knowing as i do his deep distaste for nothing. the truth is of course, that richard holbrooke lost no he never lost time fighting for ideals he believed in. he never lost touch with the problems faced by millions. he was a big man in every sense
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of the word and a cherished friend and true patriot. >> this has been difficult for many of us who watched him over these years. there was never a moment greater than dayton, head-to-head with milosevic a man described as war criminal, going up against all of these figures from the former yugoslu yugoslavia. the future of europe, many believe, was at stake, the future of nato, enlarge. of nato, at that moment this man stepped forward. he had lost three cherished colleagues in a motorcade accident that he was involved in with wes clark, chris hill, outside sarajevo in august and he put these things together and managed to reach those peace accords, there was cyprus, the balkans. people will focus on afghanistan and say incomplete but we would not have had a tripling of the civilian staff of there and a focus on civilian redevelopment making possible for this week's
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review to talk about an end game in 2011 or 2012. >> one of the most impressive things i feel about him was his thick skin a lot of people practice petty politics when it came to ambassador holbrooke and he never let it get under his skin, almost as if he kept his eye on it he always had his eye on a different ball, going further out, thinking a couple years ahead. he didn't mind if a politician took a cheap shot. >> great strategic thinkers, very few, think of kissinger, brzezinski, i didn't know as a child he had a school markt the sop of dean rusk and ended up in vietnam as a very junior aide in the the embassy, you had these large, large figures during the vietnam war, ended up the junior assistant to kissinger at the paris peace talks, all these
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years of diplomacy, none of us thought that this would be the end, keep thinking, hoping he was a survivor much i want to say a word about katy. >> his wife. >> katy martin, a great human rights advocate, great human rights journalist and author, theirs was an extraordinary love story, a 21st century love story, many different continent a lot of travel. she and his children are really sacrificed because everyone knew that richard holbrooke was pushing himself too hard. and the end, really, job the killed him. >> diplomat's life. 13-hour flights all the time. no sleep. you don't know what time zone you are in. this is -- this is not easy. >> in fact, he had a very long and difficult last trip to afghanistan and in fact, decided not go to lisbon for the nato summit because it had been so long, he had been up all night, doing meet eggs and no question
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the job was wearing on him and i remember he said to me recently, you know, i got a big job, not a good job and he laughed, he said, but a big job and the work of afghanistan, pakistan, in a key phase this week as well. >> you know that phrase, rest in peace, i mean it is very fitting for him. i hope he is getting some rest. >> i don't think he will ever rest. that's the wonder of him. it is. >> andrea mitchell t is great to have your reflections. thank you so much for being here. >> don't miss andrea mitchell reports today at 1 eastern, more on the life and legacy of richard holbrooke with chris hill a friend of ambassador holbrooke and former u.s. ambassador to iraq. >> thanks, andrea. we will do our trivia and the question is which is the only state that still bars its governors from running for re-election? >> believe it or not it is the state of virginia, which has more governors -- living governors per capita than we think -- i made up that statistic, i think i'm probably backed up. >> now we know why, if that is the case, they are term limited. up next, former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel in
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nominations all together. "the fighter" and "the social network" each six. > how about that for "social network" i don't think anyone saw that as a player in the best picture. >> really? >> that it was made to be a player. some movies are created simply to win oscars. this didn't seem like it. >> did seem to get buzz after it came out. >> sure. >> anyway, 15 minutes, former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel will try to convince the chicago board of elections he is eligible to run for mayor, the question, whether emmanuel forfitted his chicago res kensey when he moved to washington to work in the white house two years ago. >> here now, carol american, political editor for nbc chicago station wmaq and columnist for the "chicago sun-times." carol, just go through the specifics of chicago's law, because i have to say when you serve in government, you are not supposed to lose your residency at home. that's one of the deals in public service. how is chicago's law written in such a way this is even a
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question? >> well, you are really talking about i think, two laws that sometimes get confused, chuck. one is a voting rights law. if you are a soldier serving in afghanistan, you don't forfeit your voting rights but every state and every municipality has the right to create, not a voting rights law but a municipal code that deals with your election he is and chicago's election code is pretty clear, that you need to have lived here for a year if you are planning to run for office. and the idea that you're serving in government this is not a soldier kind of notion. what this argument might be is whether you were the president's social secretary or his chief of staff, but that constitutes the same privilege and in chicago it does not. >> i know this will be a case that turns on the facts of rahm will say, of course, he kept his voting in chicago he paid property taxes so on and so forth, carol, reading about this do i have this right that every
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day residents who are challenging this are going to be able to question him today in this hearing room? >> you have that exactly right, savannah, the hearings which has gone on for hours and today go on for many hours, lining up right now over at the board of elections, described to me as a cost between a relentless condo meeting and circus. one guy yesterday challenged the hearing officer saying, you sir, are under arrest, a certain insane quality about it it. >> carol, very quickly is this the final word how this court rules or is there an appeals court or get appealed if it goes the wrong way for rahm? >> it go:get appealed no matter what happens this is a board of elections hearing officer, this can go to the circuit court and supreme court. >> she said circuit, not circus court. in case anyone was confused. carol marin from wmaq. >> sounds like it.
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>> great to have you, thank you. >> thanks, carol. all right, the chuvannah is coming back, it is the worst campaign of 2010. we know you have a lot of nominee bus this is a first, folks, not everybody gets a trophy. >> we will be right back. so many tough decisions i felt lost. unitedhealthcare offered us a specially trained rn who helped us weigh and understand all our options. for me cancer was as scary as a fastball is to some of these kids. but my coach had hit that pitch before. turning data into useful answers. we're 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. but my doctor told me that most calcium supplements... aren't absorbed properly unless taken with food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. citracal. with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only listerine® that
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well, back fwr our chavannah bonus round. it's the worst campaign of 2010. >> all this week winners were voted on by the daily rundown academy and a select group of savannah, myself and then we make our picks and seal them in a mayonnaise jar until you see the envelopes here. nominee number one, utah's bob benne bennett. had a life-time conservative union rating of 84. a solid republican voting record, but sat over the vote
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with the t.a.r.p. and his campaign has failed to see the club for growth and the bennettcampaign didn't make a convince case. an insider lost the ultimate insider's primary. >> for not being conservative enough. bizarre. >> bizarre. next on our list, sharron angle. despite her hapt of being quotable. angle ran an onslot of ads featuring scary-looking latino men in a state that is a quarter hispanic. 68% of latino voters picked harry reid. >> finally since it bled into 2010, you have to put massachusetts' own martha coakley on this list. the only mistake she made was not campaigning. at bruins' games and fenway park
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hopefully took week-long caribbean vacations just before the election because she thought the primary was the only thing that matter. not only did coakley say it was way too cold to be there. if it weren't socluse rudy giuliani woobt have come in either. and besides he's a yankee fan. >> but scott brown has curt schilling okay? >> and another. >> schilling? >> well, he's not there any more. >> oh. i don't know anything about sports. >> the chuvannah goes to -- there are a lot of people we didn't nominate. >> don't yell at us on twitter. >> we know there are so many worthy nominees. >> the winner is -- >> martha coakley. you know what made her the winner of this. we went through this. she just won the re-election to
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attorney general. >> a popular prosecutor in massachusetts. >> duval patrick just won re-election. you had to run an exceptionally bad campaign. yes, she was a bad candidate, but she clearly can win campaigns. this was an exceptionally bad campaign. >> highly consequential because, of course, it changed everything with the health care reform law losing that seat to the republicans. >> absolutely. >> we could go on all day, but that is "daily rundown." coming up next, "chris jansing & company." at 1:00 p.m., don't miss "andrea mitchell reports." >> you're free of this music, until tomorrow. [ male announcer ] this is james.
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