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zales is the diamond store. >>> the winter olympics in russia are less than two months away, they startuary 7. today the white house announced the american official presidential delegation to represent the united states at the opening ceremonies and the closing ceremonies of the winter games. now in yearses past, the leaders of the u.s. delegation to the olympics have been really high profile political figures like first lady michelle obama, vice president joe biden, president george w. bush. this year, though the leader of the u.s. delegation will be former secretary of the department of homeland security janet napolitano. no offense. but janet nap pal napolitano. in addition the delegation includes the u.s. ambassador to russia, a presidential assistant from the white house, a deputy secretary of state and a bevy of former u.s. olympians, figure skater, a speed skater, also two u.s. athletes who are openly gay. tennis star billy jean king and ice hockey olympian kaitlin kayhow. no word on whether the decision to send this particular group, including two openly gay athletes has been --

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zales is the diamond store. >>> are you kidding me? listen, you all know me. all right?y. i'm as conservative as anybody around this place. all the things we've done over the three years i've been speaker have not violated any conservative principle, not once. >> that was house speaker john boehner just moments ago talking about the fallout of the budget deal pushing back against conservative groups who he says pushed them into the government shutdown and then said they never thought it would actually work. those same groups are telling members to vote against the budget, a series of votes on that deal are expected to begin moments from now coming up in the house. we'll keep an eye on that. so the 2014 award season is well under way with a record number of award nominations that have now come out for black film. 12 years a slave one of the two leading the golden globes, while the butler starring oprah winfrey seems to be snubbed. it received several s.a.g. nominations. joining me msnbc contributor and columnist for grio.com. the grio is pointing out on top of the golden

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zales is the diamond store. >>> thanks for staying with us tonight on "the ed show" here on msnbc.aring from our viewers in it segment. tonight in our ask ed live segment, our first question from james garfield. how can obama and biden be on the side of the tpp? the transpacific partnership. it is a huge trade deal, if you didn't know what that was. in fact, it is a trade deal that is going to dwarf nafta and gat, no question about it. to answer the question directly, it's a mystery to me. but what's troublesome is that the administration has not explained to the american people just how this is going to be good for american workers and how it's going to create jobs in our economy. okay, so we're going to trade with other countries. but there's also clauses in there that deal with international tribunals that will circumvent american law when it comes to trade and the grievance process is pretty gummed up, as i understand it. also, this is an attack on american labor. it's an outsourcing on steroids agreement. and none of the trade agreements we've had have been productive when it

zales is the diamond store. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." secret, congressman darrell issa, california, has been waging a permanent taxpayer-funded witch hunt on the obama administration. this guy, chairman of the house oversight committee, issa, has tried and failed to manufacture scandals wherever and whenever he can. there's sew lan dra, fast and furious, benghazi, the irs and now his sights are on obamacare. issa's latest fishing expedition was on full display monday at a house oversight committee hearing in dallas, texas, titled, who are the navigators? in reality, navigators are the people who help others oh sign up for obamacare and understand the process and what's going on. but at this point, it should be clear, darrell issa doesn't live in reality. >> these individuals, these so-called navigators, don't follow any of the rules that every state in the union has for insurance people. so the idea that they're bonded, they're identified, they're fingerprinted, anything that would cause you to know that they're not felons and identity t

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