and bank of america was the only bank who would talk to my father. and we've stayed with bank of america. we have four stores now, three in the pacific northwest and one in oregon. my parents would not believe how popular it is now. the stock market is back in positive territory for the year after the dow skyrocketed nearly 500 points yesterday. the s&p and nasdaq are in positive territory. again, yesterday's showing, the best in two and a half years good to see you. what happened yesterday? >> well the markets are thrilled that the fed and the rest of the world's central banks have parachuted in. they were in the middle of a

credit crunch the same way that we were. the fact that the fed is going to lend money at lower rates is great news. >> we have seen this before. we have seen ups and downs and ups and downs when ever the banks made a move like this. any indication that this might be lasting? >> the amount of money that we're talking about is a lot and it's great news. countries have huge amounts of debt. so those are the real problems that have got to get fixed now. >> help us understand the bigger picture. most people have money in the stock market, at least through their 401k. there has been a lot of uncertainty. we know how consumer confidence plays into the overall company. we saw a great black friday

significant upswing in the sale of existing homes. >> it's almost a schizophrenia in the market. given half a chance, stocks want to rise. there are emerging markets which is where a lot of americans get their money from and they are growing strongly. there is growth out there but markets still get worried when they see politicians not taking action around that. we have seen political gridlock and that's where you see the market moving up and down. >> when we look at this year. what will be the key indicators in the right direction?

>> you want to look at unemployment. we have seen some good news on that front. you want to see three month trend lines going up. you want to see consumer confidence which is continuing to go up. you want to see people tackling the debt crisis. >> i think that speaks to worries that europe may not follow thr follow through with this. >> it's marginal so far. good to see you. thank you so much for coming in. let's talk politics now. the pressure is starting to show. mitt romney who survived surges by bauchmann, perry and cane is now trying to survive gingrich. that's the one that many have left for dead. the latest questions about the

flip-flopper label got romney hot under the collar in a tv interview. >> how request voters trust what they hear from you today is what you will believe if you win the white house. >> your list is inaccurate. we will have to be better informed about my views on issues. >> when the cameras were turned off, romney apparently let brett have it telling him it was not right. >> i think right now what you are seeing is that romney is having to fight wars on two different fronts, right? he is having to fight the obama war, which is really the one that he wants to do which is the

general election campaign. but now he has got face, also, this resurge ent gingrich. he is well known within the republican party. he has always had a significant number of grass roots support. the one thing he didn't have was any money. so the question that the romney folks are facing is just how real is gingrich. by mitt romney's attack calling him a career politician in the brett barret interview is the romney campaign knows it has a significant problem on hand. >> we're seeing him spend money now we see him re-introducing himself to the people of new hampshire. >> i spent my life in the

private sector. i have competed with companies around the world. i have learned how economies grow. i am in favor of cutting spending, capping federal spending and having a balanced budget amendment. >> he has a house, there. what do you think is going on inside the romney campaign? >> they are hoping that people are just tuning in that have not been listening to the mixed coverage that romney has been getting. i think you guys make a good point that newt gingrich has a speed bomb to him. politico is reporting that there is a three part strategy. one, we can see mitt romney playing up his own solid family life with an impolice it contrast with gingrich's three

marriages. second he is going to try to talk about newt as the flip-flopper and his record flip-flopping. mom, he's worse. and third, as liz suggested, they will play up the fact that he has a long washington insider record, that he has been in washington for years and years. romney is going to go at him agrandsonsively front on and from the sides. >> let me ask you because you have written this e-book called the right fights back and you do have interesting insights. >> there was a lot of consultants who worked for romney in '08 who are not working for him this time. that means a lot of consultants on the market, people who used to work for mitt romney. advisors to rick perry say they

went to the former romney advisors to figure out how to rattle him, how to get under his skin. in his own debate prep that mitt romney will get a little testy when challenged on these questions. talking about the lawn service that had illegal workers. in that case mitt romney took the bait. >> we saw a little of that testiness. we should say that he is not alone in going after gingrich. obviously anybody else who thinks they still have a shot in this nomination is trying to go after gingrich as well. >> we don't always see eye to eye, do we newt? >> no. but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change. >> newt has been on both sides of the same issue, sometimes in the same week. >> i don't think that right wing

social engineering is any more important than left wing social engineering. >> let's not forget that the former speaker has a bunch of political baggage. he has been in the public sector for a very long time. he -- not just votes but commentary and different kinds of opinions that folks are now diving into yet again and picking over. there is a lot in his background. i think what you're seeing is this is going to be an incredibly nasty month. he is saying all along down playing the chances in iowa. now all of the sudden, our reporter wrote he is going up on

the air. that signals he is really in this for the long haul. >> let me ask finally about the candidate who was in gingrich's position just a few weeks ago. he will not make a decision on his political future until he talks to his wife. they have spoken on the phone. does anybody care at this point? >> i think it's clear that he will get out of the race. comment after comment he has opened that door. any time when you are going to have a meeting with your wife, that's not good. >> i'm going to leave it on the classic comment of the day. >> happy weekend. >> the anybody but romney bus does continue.

>> and choking up when asked about his son and the thousands of others who have served in the iraq war. >> first of all, i say i'm so damn proud of you. so incredibly proud of him and his kids. and i say it mattered. they straightened out the situation that they inherited. they did it in a way that this is, in my view, the greatest generation. this is not the x generation but the exceptional generation. these kids -- they're not kids. >> some of them are. >> some of them are, but some of them are also considerably older. they are just -- i apologize.

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>> well the u.s. has not had an embassy in tehran for more than 30 years. the campaign said her quote was taken out of context. >> senator john mccain got into it over mccain's jab. >> isn't it true that justice ocon nor was specifically referring to a case where a person was captured on long island? last i checked long island was part of the united states of america. >> and schumer shot back with the fact that long island deserves an apology. >> i'm sorry that there is at least one of my colleagues that can't take a joke. and so i apologize if i offen d ed him and hope that some day he will have a sense of humor. >> well apology not accepted.

tweeted back, americans can take a jock but if mccain wants to mock parts of america, stick to arizona. >> will 2012 be the year of the woman? d democrats have more women than m men. >> congress being viewed at all time negative levels. they believe that the image of having a woman running in a lot of these big battleground senate

races is a positive. they symbolize they are not part of washington even though some of them have spent time in congress and in the house. but they believe image-wise, having a woman run in a state-wide race is a political asset and anti-politician type of year. >> but another part that you point out and you talk about elizabeth warn. >> we have the first woman to be the lead chair person of the campaign committee. like you mentioned, chris, a lot of these leading candidates have very liberal voting records either in congress or like elizabeth warren, talking about

embracing the occupy wall street protests. you have a class with hawaii, wisconsin, and massachusetts, being very liberal. >> harry reed is the big power broker in nevada politics has helped shelly berkley not face any primary opposition. it is incredible that we talked about 1992 being the year of the women when a big increase of

women democrats getting elected to congress and the senate. if all goes right, this would with a bigger surge. democrats need these races to hold on to the senate. sit a very tough environment for him. they are going. they think that's the ticket. to hold it on to the majority that they have. >> you did say that if democrats expect a replay of 1992, they are in for a tough road. >> like we have been talking about this is an anti-washington environment. it's time to see if the ideology overwhelms that. >> we talk so much about the presidential race but i think the senate race will be great.

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>> the question is how to get there. there are two plans. first the democratic plan which is going to come up for a vote today or tomorrow would have a surtax on millionaires. that would be used to pay for that plan. that's not good enough for republicans because they say that is a tax on job creators. yesterday they introduced their own plan. look at what they had to do on that screen. a three year pay freeze, cutting the government work force by 10%. means testing for millionaires, no tax increases and voluntary contribution so that if you are a wealthy person and want to give to the treasury it would be easy to do that. >> both oit still remains

unclear. all that being said, wa you're going see with the payroll tax exsengs. gridlo gridlock, gridlock gridlock and finally some magical agreement appears. they never make it easy. honestly, if the payroll tax extension is not put through and they don't extend unemployment benefits, you can see 725,000 jobs lost. >> not to mention the political impairtive. do you want to on the eve of christmas telling people that you will get $1,000 less next year. >> that's a lump of coal in your stocking. >> none of that for us. thank you so much. >> take care. >> southern california is getting waxed by wind gusts of up to 80 miles an hour. hundreds of thousands have already lost power and the santa

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also big up irlevel low across the southwest producing a goot bit of snow. we're talking several inches in the mountains across the rockies. it continues to be beautiful in the east. chris, back to you. >> it is, indeed. here is a look at other stories that people are talking about. penn state's new president is promising to raise ethics to a new level. officials have been criticized for failing to do more to alert authorities to alleged sex abuse by former defensive coach, sandusky. the suit was filed wednesday by an alleged victim. that victim is not part of the grand jury investigation. complete with an intricate

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kind. check this out. we will have more details and video coming up when we go down to the wire in 20. >> and now take a look. >> the challenge is not simply to replace obama in 2012. the real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. >> they want the former alaska governor to get into the race which begs the question, when is late too late? msnbc's richard has been scouring for the possibilities and what are they? >> we talked about this several times and we have to ask it again. late is getting later. fuelled by the gop races ups and downs. it is starting to sound more

prudent. to get the nomination you would need half of that plus one. the estimates resolve around 1143, but that could change. if a candidate thinks they can win all the delegates, again, this is mathematic, not pragmatic, the drop dead date to make that decision would be sometime in february. february 2, some might believe. so it's that late. another possibility? a write-in. final deadlines have passed in like new hampshire. they do allow write-in votes in new hampshire. winners have done it in the past for the gop. hoofr, eisenhower and nixon made it to the white house. democrats, too. then there is the brokered

convention. it has been more than half a century since that's happened. in 1948, to decide the nominee. sor skip the gop nomination process all together or lose it and come on back in the general election as a third party candidate. huntsman has not denied he is considering that. so though iowa and new hampshire are upon us, late plays do exist here. some could be waiting for the millions of dollars of matching funds. >> so can somebody, a wealthy somebody still get into the race as say through a new nominating process? a third party candidate? elliot akerman is coo of americans elect 2012 which is trying to create an alternative online nominating process.

good to see you. you are quick to say this is not about a third party candidacy, yet what is it? >> we're not offering up a third party. i think this country has got enough special interest and idea oblg but we are offering up this new way to select who the president is going to be. ballot access for a nominating convention. >> you have how many so far? >> we got our tenth yesterday. we gathered just over 2 million of the 2.9 million signatures that are needed. >> tell us how this would work. maybe this was a quote from somebody in your organization saying this is sort of like the "american idol" of politics which makes it sound goofy. >> that is not something our organization has said this is voting. wa we're doing is leveraging our newest technology to empower voters, allow more direct representation of democracy.

>> online what will they find? >> you can go to americans elect.org and sign up to be a delegate for the election we will be holding. as a delegate you will be able to vote for who you would like to see get 50 state ballot access in the general election. >> this has happened before. there have been any number of third party candidates. occasionally they could become a spoiler. you could make the argument that mitt romney is not the candidate for a lot of americans. but can a third party candidate, can a third candidate really make a difference? >> sure. it could be a republican with an independent, a democrat with a republican. we're not asking anybody to change their party ideology? independents are the largest segment of our elect rat right now.

we're inviting every registered voter to come and participate. >> we want to take you now back live to george washington university. let's take a listen. >> might have been recipients but now are in a position to step up as major donors. china and other major economies are in a position to transition in a way that can help more people. to congress, keep working together. keep the commitments you have made in tact. at a time when so much in washington divides us. the fight against this disease has united us across parties and presidents. it shows that we can do big things when republicans and democrats put their common humanity before politics. we need to carry that spirit forward. >> it is that spirit that has

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back. it's really heartbreaking. i can't imagine what position that grandma is in. >> we have talked before about how difficult it is. you get these high profile cases and obviously they put as many resources towards them as they can but most cases are not high profile. budgets are being slashed all over the place in law enforcement. what are you seeing now as you work closely with the agencies and how is this affecting your ability to catch the bad guys? >> it's directly affecting them. they never had enough resources. there is good cops and bad cops. 140 cops lost their lives in the line of duty. >> there are shows like csi. everybody thinks that the agencies have the state of the art high-tech devices and

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