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does joe manchin have a point? >> this committee isn't the end of it.resident obama supported a comprehensive bill that would have this committee do things by deadlines or a 20% cut will take place on domestic and military programs. you know they are not going ahead with those cuts. >> brad, the republicans have the majority of the house. the cuts go into effect unless the republicans agree they shouldn't go into effect. >> and you have control of the senate. >> tom coburn, a respected conservative senator points out there were $21 billion in tax writeoffs for gambling losses. and yet we can't get anybody republican on that super committee to agree to do away with that $21 billion writeoff. >> the problem is the democrats never wanted this committee to be successful. so that the president -- megyn: let's talk about that. i want to ask you about it. >> the grover-norquist wing of the republican party says no tax increase and no loopholes. megyn: let me jump in please. president obama we all watched and we debated it. he was very hand none the healthcare

late today, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham joined west virginia democrat joe manchin in calling on president obama to embrace his own deficit commission, the bowles-simpson plan. the ro pose sal $4 trillion in cuts. graham says he will urge congressional leadership to bring that plan up for a vote. bret? >> mike emanuel live on the hill. thank you. the crash and burn of the sub committee means congress will have to pick up some of the pieces. and do in a hurry. chief washington correspondent james rosen looks at what lawmakers have to do and when. >> here we sit at the end of the congressional session and the highest profile committee is a failure. they abandoned the hunt for the $1.2 trillion of cuts but vehicle for slew of other legislative pressing items. the deadline for these priorities unlike the super committee won't just go away. first, congress is only approved three of 13 annual spending bills. the continuing resolution passed last week only keeps uncle sam in business through december 16. >> the lack of progress in the super committee will spill over to eve

he's been serving as acting governor for a year since joe manchin left for the u.s. senate. mike? >>> today is the start of american education week. our next guest has the keys to reforming our schools which a lot of people talk about wanting to do is getting you, the parent involved. the president of the national education association. i'm a dad. i enjoy being a part of my child's school. is that the key to make things better? >> absolutely. at the school, when we get the administration teamed together and the school board and all of the people who work there, then when we reach out to parents of the community, that's the formula for success. you have to be involved with your son or daughter's education. talk to them about it. at the elementary school, we often see parents come to open house and so on. through the high school years, it is just as important. conversation, the rides in the car. opportunity to ask them about school, what they see happening there. how they see it, envisioning their future. what do you want to be when you're 25. conversation is big. >> do you think pa

by senator amy clobeshar, who is not known for her partisan legislating at all, put forward with joe manchin, who is maybe one of the most conservative democrats, definitely one of the most conservative democrats in the senate last week, ben nelson and joe lieberman voted against it and republicans were able to successfully filibuster it. but now we're able to see some more roads and bridges stuff move forward in another way. so why do we get to move forward on the highway bill and we don't get to move forward on the one that's attached to president obama's jobs bill? >> well, i think implied in your question is the fact that it is clearly the case that -- it's a little like groundhog day reporting on it, right? because every day the republicans come in and every day they want to block what the president is doing. in fact, the veterans bill had to be so non-controversial that it could pass 94-1. and that's the threshold? you know? things can either pass 94-1, you're naming a post office, you're giving tax savings to veterans, or they can get blocked. it's those two options. there's nothing i

really, really, really conservative democrat joe manchin of west virginia signed on to the bill as a co-sponsor with senator klobuchar. we expect republicans to be unified against jobs bill at this point, even on infrastructure which they used to support, but if the democrats stop splintering on this side of the issue, that frankly is a big political leap forward for the democrats. and for the record, as a matter of strategy, democrats getting together on this 100%, no defections, is a necessary step toward getting some republicans to peel away from their own party and vote for this thing. everybody says a jobs bill cannot pass. even roads and bridges. keep your eye on this one. it is moving. democrats making a ruckus these last couple days about republican efforts in the states to make it harder to vote, to cut the time for early voting or not let you vote without documentation you have never had to produce before and that hundreds of thousands if not millions of eligible american voters do not have. democrats on the house judiciary committee calling for hearings on the new laws to

bob schieffer talks with pat toomey and ron paul of texas and joe manchin. reairs begin at noon eastern with "meet the press," "fox news sunday," "state of the union," then "state of the nation." e d.c. area, xm 119 or online on cspanradio.org. >> every weekend, the people and events that document the american story. this week and come up from oral history, 1971 at a staff assistant on president nixon's speech writing team. three years later, he wrote his letter of resignation. also, a balanced budget act, the debt ceiling, spending, and taxes. from lectures in history, university of albany-suny on the civil war. look for the complete schedule on c-span.org/history. click on c-span alerts. host: we want to welcome to "washington journal washingtoncarolyn atwell-davis. a thank you for being with us. let's begin with some of the facts, and we will put these on our screen. the 18 states require any adult who knows or suspects trout the beast reported by law. 42 states and district -- 32 states and district require teachers and medical providers to report. conne

this morning, one of the newest members of congress, west virginia democrat and senator joe manchin. he says every time he meets with voters, he apologized. good to see you, senator, this morning. >> good morning, chris. >> a tongue in cheek here. i want to begin with congress' approval rating at 9% and put this in context a little bit for the people at home. during watergate, president nixon was polling at 24%. b.p. polling at 24% during the gulf oil spill. the u.s. adopting communism running at 11%. what does congress have to be thankful for at 9% approval rating on this day after thanksgiving? >> i can't even find a 9% that approves of anything we are doing so i don't know where they are getting that number from. >> how do you improve it? that is the big question. right now, we are talking about all of this dysfunction and gridlock. what can get done at this particular time? >> we have to come forward and it has to be about this country, about the next generation. right now, it's about individual politics and partisan politics and we are not getting anywhere because we are afraid

this morning, one of the newest members of congress, west virginia democratic senator joe manchin says every time he meets with voters he apologizes. senator, good to see you this morning. >> good morning, chris, how are you? little tongue in cheek, but i want to begin with congress' approval rating. and i want to put this in context for the people at home. during watergate president nixon polling 24%. bp polling at 24%. the u.s. adopting communism running at 11%. so, what does congress have to be thankful for with a 9% approval rating on this day after thanksgiving? >> chris, i kraent even find the 9% of people who are approving. >> how do you improve it? all this dysfunction and all this gridlock. what can get done at this point? it doesn't seem like anything. >> chris, it has to be. it has to come forward and about this country, about the next generation and right now about individual politics and partisan politics. and we're not getting anywhere because we're afraid of who is going to get credit for whatever we fix something. we've got the blame game down to a science. we can, by t

and joe manchin, the senator from west virginia has taken the ground out of this is a rich man's war,f these grand ideas about how we're going to reconstruct a democracy or we're going to save ourselves from terrorism or all sorts of grand ideas and he takes it to the people with retail politics and say, why are we fighting this? what's going to happen in west virginia. >> sam stein, a decade longer maybe? five years longer in afghanistan when we already have people doing four, five, six, seven deployments. that has never happened. >> well, i would say -- and this gets to your point. the turning point, i think, was when you sort of melded the fiscal conservatives with the people who are skeptical and inherently of going over to afghanistan. and when you started asking the question, why are we spending this much money? it's trillions of dollars, we are having a dire fiscal situation at home. what exactly is the purpose? and so now you have a very popular sort of grass roots movement that's with a more traditional republican foreign policy. and i think, you know, the libermans, mccains

five votes now sets the stage for this particular provision which the senator from west virginia, joe manchin and i have cosponsored. the fair compliance act simply says that we want to continue to meet those standards but we need to do it in a time-sensitive way so that industry can comply with the necessary procedures to arrange the plafns, to hire the contractors, to install the equipment. the time line proposed by the e.p.a. is simply unattainable. it's unreasonable. it's punitive. it costs jobs, it costs money, and furthermore, it prevents these necessary energy-producing facilities in the united states which is critical to our manufacturing base and critical to our economy and to employment to allow this to play out over an extended period of time. now, i say extended period of time. we're talking about an extension of two years on one of the provisions and three years on the other so they can do these together. so for those who have advocated and indicated on this floor in previous debate that we are undermining and undercutting and stopping regulations from going forward and reduction

that's senator joe manchin.rom florida says, this sucks. >> john thune came out and threw his support behind mitt romney the other day in iowa wants to come out and apologize. he almost said look, if it was better for me to come and bash congress, i might do that or distance myself, i might consider doing that but even this statistic on the bottom of the list here is jaw dropping. even the u.s. thinks that adopting communism, that got a higher rating than congress. 11% of americans say we'd go for communism over 9% for congress this morning. >> that's why so many got this nondeal done and got on planes and went home and hid in their homes with their family. >> also explains why a lot of times members of congress don't get elected president. i mean, barack obama is a rare exception going back to j.f.k. before that. but most representatives, rick santorum, not likely. >> meantime, we have to move on to some headlines and we're starting with the tragic story out of pakistan where an american woman and her husband a

i'd especially like to recognize one of my best friends in the senate, senator joe manchin of west virginia, for our collaborative effort on many issues, the latest being a bipartisan resolution calling for the congress to go big on deficit reduction. when we first came to the senate together, we saw that there were few opportunities for republicans and democrats to interact outside the senate floor. it's why we began to have an open lunch together each thursday instead of the regularly scheduled partisan lunches to discuss ways to bridge the political divide in the senate and in washington. i'd also like to highlight the partnership that i developed with my senior senator from the state of illinois. while we may not see eye to eye on many issues, senator durbin and i have worked closely on a whole host of issues for illinois. following in the footsteps of the late senator paul simon, senator durbin and i have now held more than 25 joint constituent coffees here in washington. it's like a town hall meeting, where we talk with illinois families about what is going on at home and in the congr