there are groups that van jones is involved with that are somewhere else. and then in the middle there is the constitution project which tries to bring these groups together. this panel today really represents a cross spectrum view of this problem. i'll introduce the panel members as we go on but i have to say that from the beginning our representative here represents a group that has been interested in criminal justice reform from the beginning. family is against mandatory minimums really was started with the assistance and support of the foundation and we appreciate that and all else that you have done. i can say the same if we had some of our very liberal benefactors here because this is something that has attracted support from way different parts of the spectrum. we have a number of folks dropping in so we are going to handle this sort of casually. congressman danny davis is here. i would like him to say a couple of words. congressman davis is from illinois. he has served in the congress since the '90s. he has taken an interest in these issues before o

>> i'm going to go to van jones in a moment. but the vice president is swearing in the first group of senators. i want to listen in for a moment. >> congratulations, senators. >> thank you, mr. vice president. >> that was the first group of senators, senators lamar alexander of tennessee, corey booker, bill cassidy of louisiana. he's going to be doing this throughout the next hour or so. groups of four senators being sworn into the 114th congress. we8 sta van, what do you think? you served in the obama administration. what's your expectation for cooperation or lack thereof over the next two years? >> first of all, i think that the republican party is now on trial for its ability to be a governing party. one of the things you saw, they said, look, we've got to be a good opposition party. we've got to show that obama is a horrible president. we've got to block him everywhere we can. and by doing so, we think we're going to be rewarded at the ballot box. that strategy paid off. they were able to run against obama and win. now is qu

van jones with my new good friend from koch institute. now that should be a headline by itself. just the fact that -- >> dogs and cats sleeping together. >> dogs and cats sleeping together. i don't know that we'll sleep together but anyway. just mentioning it. >> "ghostbusters." but anyway this is, historic moment. it is, it is funny, but it really shouldn't be. i think we've been talking past each other for a long time. i think we missed opportunity after opportunity for a long time. that's why you have 595% growth in the federal budget and federal incarceration rates, when probably both side know there are better and smarter ways to get where we're going. i come before you because i had a show on tv with a guy named newt gingrich and we show called "cross fire." we fought every day and didn't agree on one thing, except this issue. talking with newt gingrich i realized i made a terrible mistake in my judgment, in my assessment where libertarians were on this issue, where conservatives were on this issue. when you make assumptions about where people are coming from you missed th

national security visors in the woman who famously said an romney never worked a day in her life and van jones a self appointed communist. before i got on the set i was hoping that piers morgan would bring up ted kennedy and thankfully that moment came. in this video they played they showed mitt romney debating ted kennedy when he challenged for a seat in the '90s and he said he was pro-choice and since then he has changed his position but that didn't stop him from asking me did it make you uncomfortable hearing mitt romney espousing the choice to be pro-choice? and i just responded you know, what made me uncomfortable that at a convention that claims to be fighting the war on women that they would play a blank. >> host: minute video, a tribute to a man who left a woman to drown in his car. [laughter] [applause] after that the panel exploded we cannot bring up chappaquiddick we cannot talk about how all mitt romney bullied a kid when he was 13 but not with ted kennedy. so hilary rosen immediately yelled, and peers market and said my comment was below the belt. [laughter] so during the commerci

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science guy, talk show host lonny love, ben stein, bethany watson, actor fred willard, cnn contributor van jones and brook baldwin. it's all the best, all the worst, 2014. >>> welcome, i'm tom foreman, and even a carnival huxture would have a hard time coming up with a word to describe the year just past. 2014 was full of brilliant, baffling, mind-bending moments like no other. and we're going to look at all of them over the next hour. so we'll take down the lights, you pull out the popcorn, and let the side show begin. ♪ >> 2014 went by really fast. really, really fast. >> i think for the first time in a long time, i'm going to be celebrating that the year is over. >> it wasn't too bad, it wasn't too good, it was nuts trying to keep up with the news. you felt like you couldn't stay on top of it. >> let's start our look at big stories with one of the biggest and worst of all, the missing malaysia air jet. plane took off with 239 people aboard, disappeared, and despite a global effort to track it down, that continues to this day, not a single scrap has been found. >> well, but look, how could the

host loni love commentator ben stein, radio host bethany watson actor fred willard, cnn contributor van jones, and our own brooke baldwin. it's all the best, all the worst 2014. welcome. i'm tom foreman and even a carnival huckster would have a hard time coming up with

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political correspondent, van jones, national security commentator mike rogers. are you surprised he would bring up race now in this speech? >> no it doesn't. we had a lot last year in race. this year it should be healing. we're not divided on solutions as you think. we had a republican governor in ohio sign a bill saying if a police officer takes someone's life an independent outside prosecutor should come in. bipartisan support. no problem. people agree on solutions black and white on that. another set of solutions, a lot of people when they're marching they're concerned about overincarceration, the prison system gobbling up too many black lives. p president doesn't like that. you know who doesn't like it? rand paul chris christie newt gingrich a bunch of republicans also concerned that we've given too much power to the prison system. we're divided on the causes but united on the solutions. i hope he speaks on that tonight. >> jay carney you were in the white house with the president, how carefully does he approach the topic of race in this country? we've seen

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jones on the field during warmup and he even war a cowboys scarf. eagles fans are happy about the cowboys loss as you can imagine lesley van arsdall will have highlights from the game and a lot more coming up in sports. justin? >>> and we have some rain and freezing rain moving into the delaware valley right now. i'll let you know how it impacts the morning commute coming up. >> and a one in a million delivery. a couple just looking to add another bundle of joy to their live ends up with three bundles of joy. their very rare but incredible story when "eyewitness news" >>> take look. this is what three days worth of lake effect snow looks like. snow piles at least two stories high. the water town, new york, area was hammered by snow up to 4 feet in some areas and when it comes time to plow all of this snow you get those huge piles that everything else around them. we're in for wintry weather around the area tomorrow morning. nothing like this. justin will tell you more. meteorologist justin drabick has his eye on the storm coming up in a few minutes. >>> authorities in michigan they say all lanes finally reopened on interstate 942 days another a 193 ve

jones makes sense of investing. martha: democratic congressman chris van hallen calling for wealth redistribution.is stuart varney. it sounds like the democrats said one of the reasons they lost their following is they hadn't focused enough on increasing taxes on the wealthy and moving money from the more well off to the less well off in this country. >> they concluded they didn't play the redistribution card heavily enough. had they got for more redistribution they would have won last november. i think they are wrong on that. we are in the middle of the best stimulus the country has seen in the form of cheap gas. along come the democrats they say we want to take some of that back. we want the government to have it so we can redistribute it to the middle class. specifically in van hollen wants a bonus for putting money into an ira if you are under $100,000 a year. he wants a tax credit, a bigger tax credit for children. he wants to give all that away, and at the same time tax wall street on every single transaction and do away with business tax credits for businesses. you take it off this group an

jones on the field during warmup and he even war a cowboys scarf. eagles fans are happy about the cowboys loss as you can imagine lesley van arsdall will have highlightsore coming up in sports. justin? >>> and we have some rain and freezing rain moving into the delaware valley right now. i'll let you know how it impacts the morning commute coming up. >> and a one in a million delivery. a couple just looking to add another bundle of joy to their live ends up with three bundles of joy. their very rare but incredible story when "eyewitness news" continues. hey! guess what day it is?? >>hump day! hummmp daaay! it's hump day! >>yeah! >>hey mike! mike mike mike mike mike! >>mike mike mike mike mike. hey! he knows! hey! guess what day it is! hey! camel! guess what day it is! >>it's not even wednesday. let it go, phil. if you're a camel, you put up with this all the time. it's what you do. (sigh) if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. ok... >>> take look. this is what three days worth of lake effect snow looks like. snow piles at least two stories high. the water town, new york, area was hammered b

kent washington, tamarine jones is working the night shift at the days inn, one of the shuttle drivers dropped off a purse that a guest left in his van. >> i went to look up her room number, not more than 30 seconds later, i heard someone say, excuse me, can you tell me where a certain room is? i told him, it's on the second floor all the way down. then i went back to the phone, looked back down at the phone, dialed the room number and he was standing on the other side of the counter and he said give it to me. i said, you ain't getting it. it doesn't belong to me, it's not my property, i can't give it to him. so i told him, no, he can't have it. >> frustrated that she isn't scared into giving him the purse, he jumps over the counter and launches at her wielding a huge butcher knife. >> that shocked the heck out of me when he jumped that counter because it comes up to chest level when you're standing next to it. >> tamarine recovers quickly and instantly comes up with her own plan. >> i started backing up into our back office area and threw the purse all the way into the kitchen. then i came back out towards him, forcefully and tried

van hollen. there are two types of communications that the federal law requires to be disclosed to the federal elec election commission. so if they run an ad that says vote for smith or vote against joneslly through any medium they have to file a report and disclose that expenditure. and they have to disclose the donors that gave to the organization, if the donors gave for the purpose of funding that add. in 2002, and the bipartisan campaign format, congress expanded the disclosure to additional ads beyond those that expressly advocate and election to those ads that are an issue ad run near an election. so that now, after 2002, if i run an ad that says that senator smith has voted to raise your taxes 84 times. call senator smith and tell him to take his hand out of your families pocket. that is an issue ad. but congress decided to require disclosure of those ads, as well. congress set up a regime that when you run those ads come you need to disclose all of your donors for two years prior to making that add. when it came to the federal election commission, the federal election commission wanted to set up a reporting regime that was harmonized with the regime for express advocacy ads, so

handshake with cowboys owner jerry jones on the field during warmups and even wore a cowboys scarf as well. eagles fans are happy about the cowboys' loss. our lesley van arsdale will have highlights of the game coming up in sports in just a bit. justin. >> and we have sleet and freezing rain approaching the area right now. i'll let you know how it impacts the morning commute coming up. >> straight ahead, one in a million births or should i say one in 3 million. a couple welcomes identical triplets. meet this triple threat after the break. >>> also a cup of coffee an cat. we'll take you to the cat cafe where customers can sip a cup of hot joe while ring ring! progresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself. and try progresso chili. slow-simmered, homemade taste. ♪ ♪all day and all of the night - the kinks♪ ♪all day and all of the night - the kinks♪ yoplait. with a smooth and creamy taste your whole family loves. it is so good all the time. >> welcome back. you know sometimes you do get to see