i'm alisa weinstein. as my 7 year ol often asks me, daddy, how many dollars is that. >> susie: teach them now so we won't have a fiscal cliff in the future for them. >> tom: that's "nightly business report," for thursday, december 20. have a great evening, everyone, and you, too, susie. >> susie: good night, tom. we'll see you online at nbr.com, and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org narrator: explore new worlds and new ideas through programs like this. made available for everyone through contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john sebastian: folk music has been around as long as there have been folks to sing it. folk music is about real people and real lives and the frustration of dissent. there was a time in america when the simple act of gathering together to share experiences united us and helped us sing our troubles away. how do you do? i'm john sebastian, and that was me, and this is my music. to

i'm alisa weinstein. as my 7 year ol often asks me, daddy, how many dollars is that. >> susie: teach them now so we won't have a fiscal cliff in the future for them. >> tom: that's "nightly business report," for thursday, december 20. have a great evening, everyone, and you, too, susie. >> susie: good night, tom. we'll see you online at nbr.com, and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

it is jaime weinstein. he is one of the authors of the e book "the lizard king." and in finishnd la he is considered a q tip. it is bill schulz. and if hilarity was a breathalyzer, cops would make drunks blow him on the side of a road. or -- on the side of a road or a highway or a road highway. what is wrong with me? sitting next to me tom shillou. and his cd came out called "big room" and he tries to impress, but his writing is a mess. our new york times correspondent. good to see you, pinch. >> ♪ improve your family's standard of living ♪ ♪ with the gift ♪ that keeps on giving ♪ as the holiday bell chimes ♪ ♪ subscribe to the new york times ♪ ♪ have a happy hanukkah and merry solstice and happy kwanza. pinch out. >>> was it over the line to goof on her behind? carolyn woos knee yaqui is uh us coulded of making a racist -- is accused of making a racist comment about her friend, serena williams after stuffing her short and shirt. it was something called roger fedderrer tour and the 22-year-old dane walked on to the court spoofing serena who also participated in th

joining us now, producer harvey weinstein.radio and the web. all proceeds will go to the robin hood foundation for relief efforts. >> the list is remarkable. springsteen and the e street band. paul mccartney and the rolling stones and billy joel. kanye west, alicia keys and eric clapton and roger waters. >> good lord. >> the list goes on and on. this is staggering. dicab dicaprio will be there and the hosts of "saturday night live." amazing event. tell us about it. >> jim runs madison square garden and amc channels is my best buddy. years ago, we did the concert for new york. we wanted to be affected by it. with robin hood which i'm on the board for, we raised $65 million. this is the first to say yes for a good cause. always there. we raised $65 mi yon. we have the money right now. it was out three weeks later. already on this concert, we have done $19 million on the selling tickets last time. worth $35 million now without the telethon and without that stuff. we put it in the street already. we will get this money out. we are

but the weinstein co., for some reason, they kind of dumped this movie after cannes. they didn't put a lot of publicity into it, they kind of knew it wasn't an awards film. so they kind of just threw it out there, and obviously the box office reflected that. > "killing them softly" is doing just that. > > that's right. > i want to ask you about this: i feel like it is a little early to talk about oscar contenders, but i made it to a lot of these movies so far, i have to say: "argo", "lincoln." i now saw "silver linings." it is terrific. i loved "flight." i thought "arbitrage" was very good. what do the winners look like for you? > > i think there are probably three films right now that if you are looking for best picture contenders, i think the three films right now are "argo", "lincoln," and "les miserables," which is coming out in december. all those three films i think are going to be competing for the top. i think "lincoln" has the edge right now. but you are going to see a lot of other- "zero dark thirty," the kathryn bigelow film about osama bin laden, is starti

but now lives in some calls in for paul weinstein. caller: i am calling from the home of alan simpson. are there more discretionary spending cuts? -- i will take my answer off of the air. all of the cuts. i will go through some of them that we have suggested. they are controversial and painful. that is why these are illustrator for the house -- these purposes. capping the number of contractors that work for the federal government. we have pieces on freezing federal pay. we looked at some of the agencies out there that may be redundant or redundant programs in government. we looked at some agencies that provide support for u.s. businesses overseas. we were wondering whether not that was appropriate for the government to continue to do these things. on the defense side, we took a lot of savings that were proposed by the administration and some others, looking at everything from looking at bases to how we can pay for health care for our military more effectively. host: you can look at the website. it tells you all about the commission an

. > > and now we will see what the weinsteins can do with a wide start.g on to "les mis," this has some blockbuster powerful names behind it: anne hathaway, hugh jackman, russell crowe... > > this is going to be a big holiday event, because it is the first time that the stage musical, "les miserables," has been adapted for the screen. it is director tom hooper's first film since he won the oscar for "the king's speech," best picture. i think both hugh jackman and anne hathaway are going to be sort of in play for best actor, best supporting actress nominations. > > wow. > > so i think there is going to be a lot of interest in the movie, and certainly the awards people will definitely be keeping an eye on this one. > > what about "parental guidance?" this one has billy crystal and bette midler. "grandpa tells lots of jokes that you won't get. just laugh." "they're here!" "hello boy! you still single?" [laughter > > that sounds like a hit, potentially. > > potentially. it's a pg-rated comedy. it's a family movie in general. billy crystal hasn't really had a

let's talk about it with jamie weinstein, senior editor of daily caller. first. looked it up the third debate president obama boldly promised, i'll quote him, sequestration will not happen. couple days later in an interview he said, i'll wash john boehner's car and walk mitch mcconnell's dog to get a deal done. at this point, does it seem like empty promises? >> we don't know yet. certainly the type of negotiation would you expect is not happening. both sides have put out deals that were rejected from the other side. so we don't know where this is going, perhaps speaker boehner and the president have a secret deal they will put out in the last minute. >> gregg: the president repeatedly told campaign audiences that we have to combine spending cuts with any revenue. then he comes out with his plan and actually proposes tens of billions in new stimulus and net increase in spending. as consequence, are there folks on the hill that are convinced this is evidence that she not interested in finding a two-party solution? >> not only that. you have the republican plan tha

tomorrow on washington journal, paul weinstein, the former senior adviser to the simpson bowles commission, on the wall the commission's recommendations are playing in the ongoing negotiations concerning the fiscal cliff. from the government accountability office, they discussed the state of the facilities at guantanamo bay and the factors to be considered in moving detainee's stateside. and what did it did for near east policy, the latest from egypt after president mohammad morsi granted himself hoarse above the court. washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public-service by your television provider. >> now secretary of state hillary clinton talks about her recent travels to the middle east to help broker a ceasefire agreement between israel and hamas and the gaza strip. she also, the iranian nuclear threat and criticizes israel's decision to build homes on israeli occupied lands. this is a little over an hour. [applause] >> i am somewhat overwhelmed, but i'm obviously thinking i should sit down

weinstein was always reporting about a house fire.there. >> stephanie: yes. >> that could be. >> let's set the house on fire. then we'll be warm. >> stephanie: he also says p.s. you wonder why i grew up so weird? if you had to watch that every commercial break almost your entire childhood -- all right. i don't know what that kid is. >> there are three of them in the ad. three different ones. >> stephanie: wonder how things worked out for him. one wonders. aside from that story of the man what tried to put meth in his wife's cigarette. >> could be pun of the upon tilla brothers. >> stephanie: annie in los angeles. hi annie. >> caller: hi, steph. hi max. i'm one of the gals in the chat. i watch you every day. love you. yeah, i'm the blond that shows up as your l.a. sexy liberal shows and i talked to jim a little bit. i'm disabled. i'm 40. i just turned -- i'm turning 40 something. i became disabled at 46 years old. it was a i chiropractor who broke my neck. i went back to work arrive i had surgery. -- to work after i had surgery. six sc

joining us is jamie weinstein. what do you think of that? >> i don't know if his threats are going to work very much because even his proposal has to have the acquiescence of all senators. the fact of the matter is senators know whether they do something or not the next day after the fiscal cliff there is going to be a bill in congress to lower tax rates after all the tax rates expire below $250,000. maybe at this point it looks like the big win that the republicans might get, if you want to call it that, is extending that slightly upwards to $400,000 or $500,000. this is bare bones deal. we're not solving our fiscal approximate and not discussing it. this is going to be fought another day, perhaps in a month with the debt ceiling. >> gregg: "wall street journal" probably had in an op-ed today the best line of the week. we'll put it up on the screen. the fiscal cliff melodrama is bad cabling reality show, real housewives of new jersey without the seven siartd without though not without the plastic surgery. they are phony and the "wall street

. >> my name is lou weinstein and i write novels.one wants to hold up a tax cut for most people in this country so the richest people can avoid paying their fair share. it's absurd. happy to pay the additional taxes if he agrees not to spend any more than he already has. >> reporter: come on. give me a break. >> of course the rich will have to pay more. they could certainly suck it up. >> i don't know what that means. >> one party can't add and the other party are too much wooses. >> reporter: the fiscal cliff? >> there's money problems. >> please don't film me. >> republicans can't add and the democrats are woosies. i'm not dead yet. >> they're not looking out for us like they're supposed to. >> reagan started the whole thing. >> they wouldn't get around to me. i'm not important. >> reporter: we have this beautiful 9news now travel mug. you get a travel mug out of the deal. give you a travel mug. >> the defense department doesn't need anywhere near what it's getting now. we have enough weapons to kill everybody on this planet severa

now thanks not only to the biography of whittaker chambers but the courageous scholarship of allen weinstein and others who followed his pioneering work. nobody can reasonably doubt the truth particularly in light of the evidence that surfaced from soviet sources in the last 20 years or so. and if you stand in side streets in upper manhattan and shout out alger hiss was guilty. what so strongly struck me in reading "witness" for the first time, however, was less how well it holds up in the light of recent scholarship, that i had known about and expected. what i had not expected in reading this book was what seemed to me to be a number of peace similarities between the personalities of whittaker chambers and a man i spent a lot of time with recently, george f. kennan. these reside in the fact that neither chamber's nor can 6 categories or the compartments. they did not fit. chambers was a unique blend of romantic religious pilgrims and political revolutionaries. he goes on to say chambers did not stop quarrelling about him. to some he was fascist, to some a martyr, to most a mystery. and on a

jamie weinstein says it's anti-illegal immigration. you listen to this and -- break it down. so mexico wants the arizona courts to say it's illegal to ban harboring illegal mexicans. do i have that right? >> actually, the -- in arizona court, a lower court put this law on hold. it's before the u.s. court much appeals in san francisco where the mexican government filed an amicus brief saying the law, it's illegal to harbor illegal immigrants but only if you're committing a crime or in the process of committing a crime in addition to that. that's the only people in violation. if you're already committing a crime or having committed a crime and harboring illegal immigrants. the brief says the law, one, harms diplomatic relation with g united states and prevents the mexican government from negotiating with the united states because they can't say the u.s. government is speaking with one voice because arizona has a different law with this regard, even though it's similar to the federal statute. number 3, it adversely affects mexicans in the united states because it treats them dif

and i'm-- i'm lucky now have that situation with harvey weinstein. >> rose: you've in a lot of peopleou have been influenced by a lot of what you have seen, a lot of what you've read and studied and all of that. tmy guillenav u som advice before you made "reservoir dogs." do you remember what it was? >> i sure do. "you see movies and they can be full of vision and you want your movies to be like that. but you see these other movies that don't have any vision but i'm sure the director tried. what's the difference between this guy versus that guy? how was this guy able to get this on the screen and how was this guy not able to get on the screen? i'm sure if i talked to guy, i'm sure he wanted that. who knows? d i s afraid of being that guy. i want to be that guy. terry gilliam definitely had the vision. we were at sundance and it was, like a lunch going on at the picnic tables, and it was just me and him talking, which was a thrill. and look, you have a very specific vision in your movies, and it's right there on the screen. how do you do that? how do you get that vision that's in your

weinstein, to give us about five minutes of oral testimony. you are full statements will be included in the record. then we can have the discussion. >> good morning, mr. chairman. thank you for your leadership in helping our state through this difficult time, and thank you to the members of this committee for providing this opportunity. new jersey transit is the second largest transit agency in the nation. asante had a particularly hard. while we took extraordinary steps to -- sandy hit us particularly hard. the system suffered damage to track and signal systems, terminals, and others. under governor christie's leadership, we worked with the federal emergency management agency, the department of transportation, the transit ministration, and other partners to immediately implement extensive interim bus and ferry service and continue to deliver essential public transportation to our region's transit riders. sandy has shown we can at not merely restore our -- cannot merely restore our real to its previous state. that would leave as a laudable to

like harvey weinstein, george clooney, brad pitt and leonardo dicaprio.iring any movie with a murder scene get an r rating or violent video games get warning labels like cigarettes. >> there is a fear of confronting, taking on a controversial subject which is so profoundly important to get done and get done right, that baffles me. >> reporter: both the gaming and the movie industry prefer selfregulation or policing. they spend just as much as the nra lobbying to keep the federal government out of their business. bill: william la jeunesse on that story in los angeles. thank you. martha: paying tribute today to the senate longest serving senator in u.s. history. we are waiting to hear from president obama as the nation remembers senator daniel inouye. bill: a major showdown happening in washington right now that will affect every single american in this country. two republican congressmen are live in a moment to tell us what is next. >> i don't want taxes to go up. republicans don't want taxes to go up. but we only run the house. the democrats continue to r

i would like to ask each of you, i would like james weinstein to give five minutes of oral testimony. your full statements will be included in record and then we can have a discussion. >> good morning, mr. chairman, thank you for your leadership in helping us take our state through this difficult time and thank you and members of this committee for providing this opportunity to address you today. the jersey transit is the second-largest transit agency in the nation. sandy hit us particularly hard. we took extraordinary steps to mitigate potential harm. nonetheless the transit system suffered extraordinary damage to critical bridges, a local substations, track and signal systems, rolling stock and key terminals. in addition under governor chris christie's leadership we work with the federal emergency management agency, the federal transit administration and other partners to immediately implement extensive interim bus service, kerri service and other services to continue to delivery essential public transportation to our region's transit rider but mr. chairman, sandy has shown we canno

. >> which of these movies is harvey weinstein's movie?ust think that it's going to be -- it's going to come down to a lot of "zero dark thirty"/"lincoln" kind of contest in a lot of ways. >> if that happens, will they cancel each other out in some cases? >> in some cases -- >> it might slide through, like. >> it could be "argo" could sneak through, but i think in general, those are going to be the two big titans, ones you see going head to head in this. >> what do you give ben affleck's chances? "lincoln" leads and then "argo." i'm happy for ben affleck being nominated for best actor. >> i think it had the disadvantage of opening earlier in the year. "lincoln" is fresher in people's minds. >> "les mis," tom hooper was the academy award winner last time. >> yeah. >> did not get nominated and he took some real risk here. >> yes. "les mis," as ed helms kept saying. >> yes. >> had a very good showing, and i think that's really a movie people are going to see during the christmas season, it's going to pick up a lot of momentum, so i think it c

weinstein l.a. elaborated clearly. if you experience the gridlock in manhattan and the outer boroughs and impact at large, you would see the impacts on the community. the transportation network that these three agencies provide for the new york region is the lifeblood of that region is an understatement. that is the way i would respond to that. >> i heard your numbers and they went upward in the original estimate and not down. it is likely that all of your numbers will go upward and not downward at the end. >> mr. chairman, i think that is right. service is only restored to one of the stations yesterday. allow me to note three points. in accordance with the approach that governor cuomo in new york and governor christie have taken, they believe in accountability. we understand we will get countable to the federal government and the taxpayers for every dollar we receive. second point, the port authority has spent out-of-pocket about $200 million on october 29. those dollars are real. we are compared to demonstrate every

they wonder if producer harvey weinstein who has called for a movie sum lit look to delay its releasen film, gangster squad. i guess a lot of the ads are violent. they were airing during the nfl games. a lot of people were watching with their kids. several studies pointed out connection between television and real-life aggression. again, we had my friend, dr. wanda on who said there are studies on the violent video games because they're interactive and anyway, interesting. one executive at lions gate said hollywood is an easy target to point the finger of blame at. no one can say there isn't too much violence but these images -- you made this point chris. the images are available in virtually every civilized nation in the world yet no country has the death by firearms epidemic that exists in america. our violent video games are seen everywhere yet you don't see this level of violence in other countries. that's why, to me, the larger chunk of this is automatic weapons. but you know, i think it is all has something to do with it. let's go to bob in north carolina. >> caller: hi, stephan

. >> jamie weinstein from the daily caller.you mentioned the muslim brotherhood has cadres, but maybe not police and the military. my question is, do we know to what extent is that all there has been any muslim brotherhood sympathy within the military company with the general bubble, but the kernel level that of another revolution would hope the muslim brotherhood install a dictator leadership? >> why do we take a moment and address these three questions. shalom, so the question that israel and gaza and border security and then we'll move onto solid faith in the army. >> yesterday, cooperation between the two countries and that large in sinai, cooperation on this smuggling of others since terry's son. as we understand the situation now, if seems that there is a real split between the political level in security and military level in egypt that are not really going together. it seems there's a real effort coming from the brotherhood and from the president closely to take the portfolio of israel regarding the cooperation the coun

. >> jamie weinstein of the daily collar. you mention the muslim brotherhood as cadres, but maybe not police and the military. my question is, do we know to what extent, if at all that has been any muslim brotherhood sympathy within the military, maybe below the general level that may be another revolution would help install an islamic dictatorship? >> why don't we just take a moment and address these three questions. shalom will start with a question about israel and gaza border security and that will move on to the army. >> cooperation between the two countries and that large and cyanide, cooperation on this smuggling of others since terrorism. as we understand the situation now, it seems there is a real split between the political level and military level in asia have regarding to israel are not going to get there. it seems that there is a real after coming from the brotherhood and maybe from the president is said to take the portfolio of israel re: to all kinds of cooperation that the two countries have together to the in

and quentin terrentino, harvey weinstein also involved in the reelection.ht. and as a matter of fact, the "new york times" referred to warner brothers as a studio with violence in its bones. we're talking movies like "dirty harry," the batman movies the "dark knight rises," the shooter, james holmes, thought he was the joker. and now we have massive effect being talked about because the brother of the shooter had liked it on his facebook page and the early media reports mixed it up and thought he was the guy. but still the central point is that obama is a beneficiary of this industry. just in august, his wife, michelle, was at barry myers' home and that's where people were paying up to $25,000 a plate, top executives at warner brothers, just to give to the obama campaign. >> eric: i know "call of duty," one of the scenes in that literally, it's called first person shooter, which means you're pulling the trigger of the gun. the scene is you can go up an escalator and it opens up into an airport where you can literally shoot, blow away multiple innocent victi

harvey weinstein recently called for a summit on violence in the aftermath of the littleton theater shootinginvolved in the music industry, music industry, television industry, video game industry, get together and they come up with a clear understandable rating system that helps parents in this critical time. >> james hearsten, you've made a convincing case this morning about one of the things that's wrong in our culture. thanks so much. >> it's my pleasure, thanks for having me. >> something we've been talking about. next, a live update from connecticut state police. we're learning new details about the investigation. amid the devastating tragedy, this picture leaving an indelible image as our nation mourns. now we know this woman's sister died a hero, shielding her students from the gunman and the stories of bravery do not end there. >>> behind every one of those names and ages, a family that desperately loved all those kids and adults you saw there. it drives home the tragedy of all this when you see the ages next to their names. many victims are turning to faith today for comfort. >> in

weinstein, it did not sound like there were other choices to be made. >> i think we are constrained with choices we have, senator. we will obviously develop based on the information we had at other possible alternatives, but if you lay a floodplain mapped over our rear road in new jersey, there are very few places that are not at some point, under some circumstances prone to flooding, and those areas that are not, are subject to downed trees, wires. . boardman talked about 11 trees coming down in the northeast corridor. i had 630 trees coming down. if that damages equipment, it damages equipment as badly as flooding would. sandy taught us something, about the inability of our aging infrastructure to handle such severe weather events. there is no indication that this could not be replicated in the future, the magnitude, the devastation, the winds, the whole thing, were impossible to guess in advance of the occurrence. but we now are unfortunately wiser as a result. so what do we do about rebuilding? in a way, i do not even like the even"rebuild -- even like the word "rebuild," because of

. >> swraimmy weinstein from the daily caller. you, steve, mentioned that the muslim brother had has cadres, but maybe not the police in the military. and my question is, do we know to what extent if at all there has been any muslim brotherhood sympathy in the military, maybe at the colonel level, that maybe another revolution would help the muslim brotherhood install an islamist dictatorship? >> why don't we address these three questions, shalom, we want to address the questions about gaza and border security, and then we'll move on to salafists and the army. >> that's today cooperation between the two countries and at large in sinai cooperation on this is -- you have this -- [inaudible] and other things, terrorism. as we understand the situation now, it seems that there is a real split between the political level and security and military level in egypt that regarding to israel are not really going together. it seems like that there is a real effort coming from the brotherhood and mainly from the president, morsi, to take the po