and she looked at me and she looked at my official obama pen that said lgbt for obama and she looked at me with tears in her eyes and she said, our time has really come, hasn't it? we both cried. that moment with bernice takes some of the pain of this day away. on this day i always feel a heightened affinity with my uncle for this was that night 34 years ago that i had to first reflect on my own conversations with harvey. anyone who has had conversations with harvey will know, you cannot get away easy. and he didn't let me as a teenager get away easy either. i had to reflect about the meaning of those conversations. it was a day that i had to look hard at what his love and guidance would mean to me that that was gone, that i could only think of the words and the conversations that we had. my uncle was moved by all extraordinary heroes of authenticity that he would see, particularly when it wasn't pretty or easy for them. that is in many ways where the milk foundation is today. we will go where no one else will go. we will go when other organizations and activists had said no. we will

. >> con esto en breve por quÉ el presidente obama decide suss penned er sus vacaciones y >> mi nombre feliz navidad cuidarse, feliz aÑo nuevo. >> en estados unidos, comienza la cuenta regresiva para buscar una soluciÓn a la crisis econÓmica del paÍs y evitar asi el llamado abismo fiscal que entrarÍa en efecto el 1 de enero si no se logra un acuerdo. todo lo que estÁ pasando desde washington. >> serÁn unas cortas vacaciones de navidad para el presidente obama hoy dÍa la casa blanca confirmÓ que llegarÁ de hawai a washington el jueves por la maÑana con el propÓsito de lograr la anhelada soluciÓn que evita el abismo fiscal no han cambiado las posiciones, sin embargo, el hecho que el presidente haya hecho el ruido de suspender las vacaciones de alguna manera es buena seÑal porque pone presiÓn en el liderazgo republicano. >> precisamente en un comunicado en conjunto emitido esta tarde dijeron: (comunicado en pantalla) >> reiteraron ademÁs su compromiso para evitar el abismo fiscal es que los grandes incremento en los impuestos se combinan con recortes agresivos en el presupuesto gubernamen

michelle obama penned a letter that everyone will see here today when they wake up. want to read you an excerpt. he said her heart grieves, aches for all of these families. she's a mother of two. she understands the pain. she also said, zoraida, that she was so touched by the outpouring of support from the first responders in newtown, from everyone who has helped in this community. that really stood out to me in the letter that the first lady wrote to the local paper here. again, that will be one of the things that greets this community this morning. zoraida. >> really appreciate that. thank you so much, poppy. live for us in newtown, connecticut. >>> this was organized by the head of gamer fit nation. he's calling on all gamers to put down their controllers and stop firing virtual bullets in order to remember those who were killed by real bullets in newtown a week ago. >> i think that's a really interesting tribute. >> it's really great. i was talking to a mom yesterday in newtown who said, you know, that the shooter, that she looks at him as a disabled little boy.

obama. she penned a letter to newtown in the local paper here.you part of it, very eloquent. the first lady saying, please know that every minute of every day we are thinking of you and praying for you and holding you and your families in our hearts as you begin the slow and wrenching work of healing and moving forward. and that's just beginning. i mean, this is so raw. five more funerals still today. there say memorial service being held across the street from where i am. we're seeing children, families coming here to look. we're seeing signs like this one that really stands out to me. sorry, hon. little kids behind me. but we are sandy hook, we choose love. and this makeshift memorial is so telling. it has grown across the street. it has grown blocks down from here and it is just continuing to grow day by day by day. >> it is the adults leaving the flowers, but also the itty-bitty children coming by, perhaps with little ones of sandy hook, perhaps they know the story. you mentioned the letter from the first lady. it was the first thing i read t

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grown men cried hugging first responders and others found a chance to released penned up emotions. president obama promised change. >> these tragedies must end. and to end them we must change. in the coming weeks i will use whatever power this office holds in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. >> funerals have been announced for seven of the 27 victims. the first two will be tomorrow. services all over the bay area honored the victims of the shooting. what local people are doing to remember the victims, and what you can do to make a difference. >>> out of the tragedy at sandy hooks elementary there is a story of survival. a little girl whose instincts told her to play dead when the gunman burst in the class m rue. she was the only one to make it out alive. >> she was the first student who ran out of the sandy hook school, six and a half years old. she ran out covered in blood from head to toe and the first words she said was, mommy, i'm okay, but all of my friends are dead. >> the little girl is already suffering survivor's guilt. we are learning more about the 20-year-old sho

grown men cried hugging first responders and others found a chance to released penned up emotions. president obama promised change. >> these tragedies must end. and to end them we must change. in the coming weeks i will use whatever power this office holds in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. >> funerals have been announced for seven of the 27 victims. the first two will be tomorrow. services all over the bay area honored the victims of the shooting. what local people are doing to remember the victims, and what you can do to make a difference. >>> out of the tragedy at sandy hooks elementary there is a story of survival. a little girl whose instincts told her to play dead when the gunman burst in the class m rue. she was the only one to make it out alive. >> she was student who ran out of the sandy hook school, six and a half years old. she ran out covered in blood from head to toe and the first words she said was, mommy, i'm okay, but all of my friends are dead. >> the little girl is already suffering survivor's guilt. we are learning more about the 20-year-old shooter. lili

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. >> president obama has said that he has pen in hand and he's prepared to sign the middle income tax cuts. >> you have a president of the united states that has the mighty pen. you bailed out the banks. bail out the american people that don't have homes for the holidays. >> in his second term i hope he will offer fresh ideas and serious leadership. >> we need a response from the white house. >> i'm hea here to tell you that nobody wants to get this done more than me. >> it's true that president obama won reelection and i congratulate him on his victory, but on january 20th, he'll face a stagnant economy and a fiscal mess. >> our people in an overwhelming way supported the reelection of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that. >> you want the answer to solving the fiscal cliff? we put an offer on the table. the president now has to engage. >> you might even say he'll inherit these problems. >> the president is going away for christmas. he's going to hawaii for 20 something days. where am i going to be? where are my neighbors go

president obama says, go the pen ready. i will sign it.s is a vote in the house of representatives. why won't john boehner schedule a vote. >> because he is willing to hold the middle class hostage so that he can get tax cuts for people doing extremely well. >> top two % sglfrnings ton 2 percent. for billionaires and multi-millionaires. we have a way out of this. the way out of it is simple common sense. the president is right. you are correct. the president, the pen is ready to sign a tax cut for every american on the first $250,000 of income. every american. the senate has passed that bill. john boehner is holding the middle class hostage. here is what we are willing to do. yesterday, we offered what's called a discharge petition. it simply says if you can get a majority of members to sign that discharge petition john boehner must bring that fo-$50 tax cut to the -- that 250,000 dollar tax cut to the floor. 27 republicans to sign that discharge petition to make sure that the middle class doesn't get hurt, that they can do their holiday s

pen. >> president obama owes president clinton a great deal for helping him get elected.eaningful citizen education engagement effort with the white house in formada, next year to build the case for a grand bargain. the official version of what i did and what my colleagues did over the last several months and we need congressional hearings that will set the stage for tax reforms, social security reform and the president needs to negotiate privately and have discussions with congressional leaders of both parties privately. those three things can get us to the promt promise land. and without all three of those, we're in trouble. >> but, david, that is exactly what was supposed to happen between july of 2011 and today. and guess what? none of it has happened. none of it. we're having the same conversation. >> you know what? >> only the president can lead. only the president can lead. >> he has the pen. he has joe's pen. >> mine is a viagra pen. wouldn't that be embarrassing if he held that up and said i have a pen? >> i don't know why you have a viagra pen, but maybe we can

obama was elected to the senate four years ago. >>> he'll no longer have to fill out a census survey with a pen and mail it back in.espond online. the agency is hoping the move saves money and boost the number of responses it receives. the first questionnaire will be the american community survey sent to more than 3 million households each year. >>> montgomery will receive aid. governor o'malley announced that decision by fema yesterday. that leaves baltimore county as the only one in the state not to receive help from the governor. the aid will help pay for damages to buildings and roads, as well as debris removal. somerset county will receive aid for individual homeowners and business owners. several other counties on the eastern shore and western maryland were denied that money. >>> 4:51 now. time for traffic on the 1s. tom kierein here to tell us more about the forecast. wet this morning, tom? >> we've had overnight light rain. that's ended now. we had really dense fog earlier last night and around midnight. since then, it's dissipated. take a i look at what's happening over the last 12 hours. we have a front m

obama. let's listen. >> what we're seeing here is a monumental failure of presidential leadership. the president is the only person with a penign this and it is the president's responsibility to work on something that the house will pass and the senate will pass. he is outsourcing this. he continues to campaign and lecture when he ought to be focusing on the number one problem that hurts us in the country which is our debt. >> what is your reaction to hearing that? >> that is a lot of nonsense and i think the american people who have been following this conversation recognize that the president has proposed a balanced deal meaning he is going to ask higher income individuals to pay a little more matched by additional cuts. by the way, we have made $1 trillion in cuts. what has really happened is speaker boehner in the house and republicans have refused to allow a vote, an up or down vote on the president's proposal. we are not asking all of them to vote for it. the speaker doesn't have to vote for it. for the good of our democracy let us have a vote. the worst thing that could happen would be it didn't get enough votes but s

obama. this is time for the president of the united states to lead. there's only one person who has the pen who can sign into law the law preventing us from going over the cliff and if the president actually wanted to get it done, he would tell harry reid and others this is what we had to do and he would make the arrangement to make sure we didn't go over the cliff. so i think he's just -- senator reid is just playing the role for president obama. >> you said he's eager to go over the cliff because he gets his revenue, he gets his cut. >> blame republicans. >> and he can blame republicans but the problem is many economists say if we do go over the cliff, i don't know if it's true or not, but many economists are saying we will go back into recession. >> the president seems so fixated on increasing tax rates. it's confusing him to all the other issues that are out there, which is spending. the problem is we spend too much. the only way to get out of this, the only way to get out of this $16 trillion debt that we have, is to grow the economy and do reforms to the entitlement programs, to medic

obama. i heard he gave you some souvenirs, as well. >> yes. he gave me a penwe all watched you on "dancing with the stars." >> yes. >> the fierce five showing up to help shawn out. that must have been fantastic. >> it was a lot of fun. and we had so much fun performing on stage with shawn and derek. >> so, what is next? you're on the book tour right now. going to have a little break over christmas. but gymnastics, still in your blood, right? >> i'm hoping to attend 2016 and get back into the gym. get back in the swing of things. and just gain more. i want to go to more world championships. and i think it would be cool to attend two more olympic games. >> it would be cool for all of us. thank you for coming in today. the book is called "grace, gold & glory." it's in stores today. >>> when we come back, a hol >>> back, now, with a real favorite of ours, katherine jenkins. with us throughout the "dancing with the stars" run, hers, however, this morning, bringing a lot of holiday cheer to the show. remarkable voice. you're going to hear it in a moment. she sold 7

obama's fiscal cliff offer. i'll show you how they are really crying. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> there are no shortage of pens in the white house. and i carry one around for emergency just in case. just waiting for the chance to use it to sign the bill to make sure people's taxes don't go up. >> the adult in the room continues his campaign to cut taxes for the middle class and john boehner keeps shooting spit balls. the latest on the stalemate and the democrat's upper hand. >>> mitch mcconnell gets ridiculous with his demands to weaken medicare. one of the architects of obama care responds tonight. >>> house republicans pass an immigration. bill democrats say is divisive and inferior. tonight, congressman javier pasara on why the latino community won't. be fooled. >>> the first fast food strike is historic. what you need to know about the lowest-paid workforce in the country. good to have you with us. thanks for watching. president obama knows his opponent is on the ropes and he's not letting up. the president took his tax plan agenda on the road today. he e went to a pennsylvania toy factory to focus on the people who will be h

pen people who make over a million dollars a year. it isn't even 1% of the country. you just can't -- how is obamato negotiate with them, it is such an extreme plan, they've gone from being the party of fiscal responsibility, used to be their brand, to, we will never raise taxes on anybody, no matter what. and, i think that obama actually, has, look, you know, he gave in on the issue one time, and, now, coming back, and, they will not give even on the small little number of people, and, i just -- i think it is going to politically backfire on them, eventually. >> chris: it isn't just democrats, who feel this way. one of speaker boehner's allies in the house, congressman steven la turret, also of ohio, blasted his tea party colleagues for blocking the boehner plan, let's take a look: >> 40, 50 chuckle-heads, starting with hr 1, the entire congress screwed this place up and, so, you know -- and he has done everything, in his power to make nice to them, and bring them along, and to make them feel included. but, it hasn't mattered. >> chris: question: are the people who oppose boehner's plan b chuckle

. >> obama: if we could get just a few house republicans on board we could pass the bill in the house. it will land on my desk, and i am ready. i've got a bunch of penshis bill. i'm ready to sign it. [applause] there are no shortage of pens in the white house. and i carry one around for an emergency just in case. just waiting for the chance to use it to sign this bill to make sure people people's taxes don't go up. >> cenk: i have a stylistic question for you guys. has he jumped the shark. >> the presidential pen thing. you can turn it down a couple of notches. one joke okay, i've got a pen. i've got a pocket full of pens. >> he and does the same act on the road. >> the first time you're president, so they laugh. it doesn't mean that the joke is really worker. >> cenk: maybe they have a binder full of pens. >> he has got to be bill clinton for a moment. explain it to people like my husband would clayne to me, stop spending money. that would help. but then he realizes that i have to make money. stop spending money is not enough. >> the problem is when you don't stop spending money. here who is not laughing this is john boehner speaker of the house. >>

obama can use to reduce total u.s. carbon emissions 10% by 2020 with the stroke of his pen without permission from congress.now. if people are looking for a place to focus their energy on trying to make something actually happen here, this is a tool that is laying on the table. right now, the epa is very nervous about using it and could use some bucking up, i think. >> the epa is in the midst of a process about what rules are going to come out. they have come out with some rules and others. the supreme court has authorized them to regulate carbon. . they have that legal authority. they have put out this report sketching out a way they could go about doing it in a plausible fashion that wouldn't be too much. >> if you are interested in the details, i wrote it up at grist.org, which also deserving $1 billion. >> my thanks to kathleen mcginty, bob freeland, shalini, and dave roberts from grist.org. thanks for getting up. thank you for joining us today from "up." tomorrow, we will have dan savage. the first day it will be legal in washington state. i sat down with him last night for an amazing talk about same-s

the world to prompt a war between two nuclear weapons state pen and efforts to keep it from happening has to remain the goal. president obama has every right and so does sct and secretary hillary clinton and dan benjamin every right to be proud of the damage we have inflicted on the core of al qaeda. not just thely elimination of high corral target. number one the successful prosecution of the drone war. for understandable reasons the ambassador didn't use the d word. i'm fortunatefully a position where i can use the d word. the drones have proven to be remarkably successful. of course they come with a price. what is most striking about this when you look at it is that the prosecution of this conflict is come with us keeping the government of pakistan as much as possible in the dark, and over the objections of the government on pakistan. president obama made an extraordinary decision in 2011. after he and his predecessor provided the government of pakistan with over $25 billion in military and economic assistance to fight al qaeda when the moment of truth came, he decided we couldn't trust the government of the pakistan. he

pen apartment. >> whoa. >> and narrowly edging out his -- my friend by joe gonzalez beating out steven strasse comburg for the cy young award. >>> when we return we honor a man president obamaan american original plus with the cliff still looming we'll ask our star financial panel the pressing question is your money safe? we'll be right back. thank you very much. let's give thanks - for an idea. a grand idea called america. the idea that if you work hard, if you have a dream, if you work with your neighbors... you can do most anything. this led to other ideas like liberty and rock 'n' roll. to free markets, free enterprise, and free refills. it put a man on the moon and a phone in your pocket. our country's gone through a lot over the centuries and a half. but this idea isn't fragile. when times get tough, it rallies us as one. every day, more people believe in the american idea and when they do, the dream comes true. we're grateful to be a part of it. that retiring some day is even an option for sean and me. how'd you get comfortable enough to know you could really do it? well, planning, of course. and we got a lot of good advice. a few years ago, your mom and i put some m

president obama says is he ready to act. >> there are no shortage of pens in the white house. and i carry one around for an emergency just in case. >> here is the thing, will congress sign on the president's budget proposal all about more taxes and spending some folks say? >> and frosty and santa are front and center. why is one school in florida hiding baby jesus in the closet? the war on christmas is back, clayton. it's back. >> say it ain't so, joe. first the twinkie, now bazooka joe, juliet. >> no, no, no. >> after 60 years, say good by to bazooka joe. >> nobody will miss that horrible gum. >> it's amazing. >> how could you say it's bad? >> it can good gum. debating the merits of the gum. "fox & friends" in for juliet huddy. the gum that used to come in the tops cards. remember how terrible that stuff was. >> once you get past the stale and hard rock like substance it turns into a flavorful. >> i agree it is delicious. >> more on that plus ugly christmas sweaters this morning. county guys from ugly christmas sweater party.com top. i think they can. i brought mine this morn

i would guess that they're the ones holding the pen when he wrote, "i will not raise rates" in that letter he sent to president obama. but the problem is, we can agree or disagree with the president's position. i honestly take the president at his word. i do not believe there will be a deal here without some increase in tax rates for the top 2%. it doesn't have to be all of it, but some of it. i think the president has changed his tune a bit from the way he's handled some of these other negotiations. and take everything you say and turn it around. boehner and the republicans have to be aware of where obama's at in his own head and with his colleagues, which is no deal without some increase in rates, or we go over the cliff. >> let me just add one thing. when obama made that initial offer, we talked a little bit about how, you know, it was a wish list. it was ideological, whatever you want to say. i think it actually helped boehner in some respects because it gave him three or four things that he could then go back to his caucus and say, look, i moved obama off of this, this and this. and when boehner put his offer o

president obama has said, if they pick it up and pass it tomorrow, i'll put my pen to tot immediately. that's one thing that could be done right now. but the house republicans will not take it up. i say, if they were to take it up today -- they are not doing anything over there anyway -- pick it up today, pass it, the president signings it, i sigh you're going to see a -- i think you're going to see middle-class families do a little more christmas shopping and that'll help spur our economy. i would point out that some of my friends on the other side of the aisle here and in the house have been talking about do that very thing. so there are some republicans that recognize that this would be one of the best things we could do; that is, pass the middle-class tax cut that we passed here in july. nonetheless, i keep hearing that what we really need to do to drove the so-called fiscal cliff -- to address the so-called fiscal cliff to enact significant entitlement reform. now, what does that mean, "entitlement reform?" when you hear our friends the republicans and others talk about entitleme

obama is pressured to deal with this because he got four more percentage points. >> this is the artificial crisis. the crisis of insufficiency, it's created by our actual policy. with a stroke of the penh legislation like all issues that are difficult, they're difficult for a reason. it's tough to get their politically but the easiest way to go about it. let's get the numbers of visas way up there so it reflects at least some bit of reality and stop criminalizing human existence. >> business push on this as well. >> there's a business push. frankly, there's going to be a fight. even though business is on the same side as immigrant rights movement, there will be a fight between business and those groups. because business will probably, the chamber of commerce and others will want a more conservative kind of immigration reform. just to back up to your textbook example, what's important about this discussion is 15 years ago, this was not in the mainstream of discourse. it was a small group of activists who dreamed about what immigration reform could look like and started organizing and pushing it. 15 years later, their theory of change has come true in terms of -- >> at least. >> yes. bu

obama's agend ae. she said those of you who know me i am a fighter but not at the cost of what's right for our country. she pennedop-ed with a similar sentiment. this decision coming on the heals on a waiveve of criticism following her television attacks following the attacks in pecan pecan benghazi. she said it's manufactured charges that gave a false picture of her character and that she was simply filling in for hillary clinton on those television shows and never meant to mislead the american people. now that rice's name is out of the running, obama's next top choice is likely senator john kerri. he has so far had no comment but he is a pick that republicans wanted especially john mccain who has been grilling rice on those t.v. appearances ever since september. last night mccain's spokesman said he thanks rice for her services and wishes her well but will continue looking for facts about what happened during that benghazi. more "bill press" coming up and live in our chat room at current/basepress. see you there. matter. >> i work with adults with developmental disabilities. growing up i had a single mother of