in the book we liken him to congressman barney frank. barney frank was the godfather of fannie mae and freddie mac in the u.s. congress, and the two of them -- mozilo in the private sector, frank in the public sector through fannie and freddie -- were the unholy alliance who allowed the people who with profited from countrywide to create loans that people could never repay. they just turned around and sold those loans to the federal government, and how was that made possible? it was made possible by barney frank through fannie and freddie in the names of altruistic social benefits. housing for everybody, and let's put poor people into mcmanagess that they can't afford. that's the world of atlas shrugged, the world we just barely survived in the financial crisis. >> host: donald luskin, what do you do for a living? >> guest: i'm an investment adviser for other investment advisers. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: i give strategic ad vice on the stock market and commodities markets to other investment managers to serve customers. hedge fund mana

as barney frank frank did one time.on't do it when someone sincere his tried to answer my question. >> 15 years ago there was a crying need for a network that focused more on conservative issues. fox has done that. msnbc has now come along and tried to provide -- not because it saw the need for an ideological balance but it saw the balance sheet. >> getting their butt kicked but there's a big difference between fox and msnbc. >> what do you think it is. >> do you know. >> i don't know. >> we actually do hard news here from 9:00 in the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon. eight hours. and msnbc doesn't do one hour of hard news. it's all, let push the liberal democratic agenda from signon to sign off. >> i don't think anyone is going to be confusioned as to the ideological belief of most of the people who appear on fox. >> i think that's grossly unfair to the hard news reporters. okay? if you look at our bureau system and the people we have reporting, the network is more traditional. i think that's a fairer term -- than t

barney frank has been one of the great congressmen for years in the united states congress. he's been representing massachusetts since he was elected back in the early '80s. i want to talk to congressman frankthank you for joining us barney frank. >> thanks for the chance, chris. >> i think you have probably been thinking big about what you have been doing these incredible numbers of years, since the '80s, since the reagan era. can you feel in you or do you sense progress in this country or perhaps decline from the reagan era to the obama era? when you put them all in your head? >> certainly. look, i'll take one very close to me. the question of legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisex you'll or transgender. that fight is about over. it's sort of odd to hear mitt romney complaining that president obama got an advantage because he was for same-sex marriage. not very long ago that was a wedge issue bob dole was using against bill clinton. i think we've made progress in some other areas. clearly be done and we have the deniers of global warming, but we're reducing the amount of oil that we import. there is progress in that regard. on the other hand, there's been, i think, retrogre

barney frank. last time congressman frank and i interviewed together, it got interesting. he's coming back on. good man. >> >> the best i know, he's going to want to be on squawk box. he's done nothing since he took over that job. we look forward to hearing from the blackberry coo this morning? >> if free exchange is free to. ♪ but we can still help you see your big picture. with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do next. all in one place. i'm meredith stoddard and i helped create the fidelity guided portfolio summary. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. made a retirement plan, they considered all her assets, even those held elsewhere, giving her the confidence to pur

i prefer easier. >> reporter: barney frank, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> warner: barney frank may just stick around capitol hill a little longer. shortly after paul finished that interview, there were reports frank may be appointed to temporarily fill john kerry's seat if the senator is confirmed as secretarof state. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: a massive winter storm disrupted travel for tens of thousands of americans across the country and merchants hoped for strong after-christmas sales to rescue the holiday season, as early reports show sales their weakest since 2008. online we follow up on last >> ifill: george bush has been in a houston hospital since seasoned, he's been treated for a bronchitis like cough since november. online we follow up on last night's story about mammograms and ask for your views. kwame holman tells you how to tell us. >> holman: weigh in on the debate over how often women should get breast cancer screenings. there's a poll on our health page. there you also can review a range of professional opinions and find tuesday's repor

barney frank in action. there is no one i enjoy, there's no one i think most of my colleagues enjoy seeing debate on the floor more than barney frank and i would say that there's probably no one the republicans fear more in debate than barney frank. he has the ability to be able to make the most important points but also maintain a sense of humor. and it has made him one of the reasons why he's been so effective. i've had me good fortune of sharing communities with barney over the years. we represented city of fall river together. and i think it's important for people to know that in addition to being this national leader, barney frank is also a very effective bread and butter, nuts and bolts politician who cared very, very deeply about every single issue that occurred in his district, whether it was, you know, an economic development initiative, whether it was a bridge or a road, whether it was you know, helping a veteran get his medals from world war ii or helping mrs. o'leery find her lost social security check or becoming the champion of fishermen on the east coast. he immersed himself in these issues and he was unbelievably po

markey: now on barney frank, barney frank is at the same time the smartest member and the witnessiest member of the united states congress -- wittiest member. he has a nuclear power plant for a brain. there is nothing that he cannot recall when he needs it here in this legislative process. now, over his career, he is usually right, but too soon for many people to be able to accept. that is how far ahead he was on so many of the issues which we worked on here in the house of representatives. his political philosophy, if you want to negotiate, he wants peace. he would love to negotiate you -- with you. he knows that he will outnishte you, but -- outnegotiate you. but if you want political war, he will give you that, too. the truth will ultimately prevail. when he was in the state legislature when i served with him, when we had monumental battles on whether or not to reinstitute the death penalty in massachusetts, whether or not we were going to have a black senate seat in massachusetts, it was barney frank who led the efforts to sustain the veto that would make sure that our state would

been in thetude yes with us many times and congressman barney frank retiring unfortunately, congressman, soon to be former congressman barney frankssachusetts they came and spoke. we got a photo on our facebook page. >> at facebook.com. >> we tweeted it at bpshow with me and mark levine and barney frank and david shuster. check that out this morning. richard engel was partying in turkey because he was freed after five harrowing days of captivity, the best foreign correspondent on the planet working for nbc, just incredible. does great, great reporting, fearless and shows up everywhere. he was in syria. let him tell what happened to him and his team. >> we were driving in syria about five days ago we were with some of the rebels. as we were moving down the road a group of gunman just jumped out of the trees and bushes. there were probably 15 gunmen wearing ski masks, heavily harmed. they dragged us out of the car. they put us in the container truck. >> can you imagine? really, really scary. he said there was no physical torture but psychological torture for sure. you wouldn't get me in a situation like that >> dan: i am telling yo

barney frank talking in his sleep. >> hadn't even noticed that through the glare on the glasses. barney franka great congressman and a great guest, even with his eyes closed. >>> and who can forget this moment following the iowa caucuses. >> if you had told us one year ago we would come in third in iowa, we would have given anything for that. and you know something? you know something? not only are we going to new hampshire, tom harkin, we're going to south carolina and oklahoma and arizona and north dakota and new mexico. we're going to california and texas and new york. we're going to south dakota and oregon and washington and michigan, and then we're going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house! yeah! >> it was the scream that defined howard dean's ill-fated candidacy. intense to borderline manic. research conducted for a group called media cultured society shows it was his microphone because it only picked up his remarks for tv, not the crowd's boisterous cheering around him. a video camera picked up the crowd noise overpowering him. i think i speak for howard dean when i say, s

as speculation about the outgoing congressman barney frank saying that he would have -- be interested in this. politico in a new article today quotes frank he is tired. but is the governor there tipped his hand to victoria kennedy or barney frank as an option? >> he hasn't. he has to make up his mind. he said he expects to appoint an interim who will not run for the seat. i think he's under pressure from democrats both in the national party and the u.s. senate, even in the white house that maybe that's not the best option. they have to have somebody in there to run and be able to hold this seat and try to avoid a divisive primary. it's not a good situation. we've had this picture before with scott brown who does very well in special elections. he's the republican who stunned the world in 2010 and grabbed a seat. he lost it in the tough election this time around but in a special election, a low voter turnout, he'll be strong and we're not seeing much from the national democrats yet and i think they got a real problem here. >> frank, talk about that. because obviously if the democrats only -- and duval patrick wants someone interim in the

joining me now is congressman barney frank, democrat from massachusetts and former chairman of the financial services committee. chairman frank, thanks for joining me today. >> let me ask you, will this time be different? do republicans understand we have to change our gun laws now? >> i'm not sure they do. but the democrats do and it is different. i've been in support for tougher gun laws for some time. but i've got to explain to my liberal fans that we haven't always had the vote. there are parts of the country where, unfortunately, the support wasn't there. newtown has changed that. the majority of people who wanted unrestricted gun ownership and ammunition ownership cared so strongly about that that they had more points than one group of people through a high priority issue. now it's a high-priority issue. and a large number of democrats say we're going to do the right thing. and the fact is now they'll have the courage of their convictions. some republicans will also agree to that. i believe you're going to see early in the next congress, a few legislative successes. >> but the nra will be fighting strong. do you think t

barney frank that i will miss the most. the are still more to be done on be donerule and alan west i will miss the least. host: what comes to barney frankis it his efforts on banking? caller: it is mainly his efforts in banking. i think democrats are losing a very important resource in there. i understand the democrats are not in power in the compress -- in the congress and must be boring for him. i wish to be governor of massachusetts would appoint him as the interim senator. host: do you think banking legislation has had an impact? caller:no, because the republicans have blocked the dodd-frank rule. i think that will need to be implemented. we're not really safeguarded from another meltdown until it does. host: from twitter -- he was nominated by the president last week as his choice for secretary of state. he faces a formal hearing process. this is from spring hill, fla., republican line. caller: the people i would miss a have already been mentioned. the least of all would be alan west. i think the tea party was a good movement but it seems it like -- like it was hijacked by people with microphones. host: from twitter -- representati

barney frank. she was asked by house democrats to serve on the house financial services committee promoting a vocal liberal who has been a critic of wall street. she's going to roll back the dodd franking about on that video. 29 minutes after the hour. back with more hump days with hal sparks on "the stephanie miller show." let's rock and roll. there is so much going on that every day presents another exciting issue. from financial regulation, iran getting a nuclear bomb, civil war in syria, fraud on wall street, destruction of medicare and medicaid. there are real issues here. having been a governor, i know that trade-offs are tough. things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. i want our viewer to understand why things have happened. at the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, what's going to happen tomorrow. did you get chips for the party? nope. cheese plate? cheese plate...nope. i made something better. ♪ ♪ you used the oven? boom ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin. [ female announcer ] why settle for plain bread? here's a better idea. pillsbury grands!