vote for barney frank. and i've seen an amazing transformation now that i'm going to have the privilege either to represent the city of new bedford, barney in taylor -- tailor-made suits and i saw that transformation as well. but i've got some big shoes to fill down there. he's beloved in that area. as much as he's dealing with the intricacies of something like dodd-frank, many of the other things he's done representing sidious issues, he is by far the most popular elected official that the fishermen in the new bedford area and southeastern massachusetts area have ever seen. his loyalty to them is probably only eclipsed by their loyalty to him. and he understood, he knows so much about fish. i don't know if i'll ever catch up or ever have the opportunity. but it's amazing how complex that issue is as well. but i would say this. of all the things, all the actions he's taken in his time in public life, one of his most proudest actions would be, not just what people would think is working on dodd-frank, but i

barney? >> barney, it's time for barney cam. are you ready for it this year?lot about? i can see from the look on your face, barney, you haven't even thought about the plot. hey, barney, you better get started. and you better run along right now. >> i'm in. i'm in. i'm in. >> you've got to be kidding me. >> well, maybe better luck next year, margaret. look, i got to rehearse. can you help me out here? >> barney, you better wake up, fellow. there's a lot of work to do around here. we're sprinting to the finish. not napping to the finish. >> that's a cast of characters that definitely didn't have more important things to do or to deal with like a couple of war, a bad economy and some bad acting. but barney never seemed to mind. you know what they say, if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. by the way, barney has always been my favorite bush. >>> tonight in our survey, i asked you, who has the upper hand in the fiscal cliff negotiations? 98% of you say the president and 2% say the republicans. >>> coming up, an unprecedented strike could change paychecks

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barney frank entered congress at the start of the reagan revolution. he's leaving it as it begins to crumble, some say. the man from massachusetts joins us tonight. >>> finally, consider yourself warned, barack obama is a socialist leading the country to communism. that's the latest from the sage of wasilla, sarah palin. that's what she's still saying. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> political campaigns are always competing to figure out the best ways to use social media. as the romney campaign learned, not all publicity is good publicity. yahoo! announced its top search terms of the year, and three of the top ten came from the romney campaign. good news? not really. coming in at nine, etch-a-sketch. romney adviser eric fehrnstrom's famous prediction he would shift sharply to the middle in the general election and did. number eight, eastwooding. inspired by clint eastwood's bizarre convention performance. talking to that empty chair. number two yahoo! meme, binders full of women. that came out of the second debate as romney clumsily

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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. he

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 secretary of 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

. >> joined by congressman barney frank of massachusetts. it is good to see you, congressman. good evening. >> thank you. >> you're coming -- the senate's coming back at 11:00 tomorrow morning. what are chances there will be something to vote on, do you think? >> i think there are very good chances there will be something to vote on. the question is whether it will be a bipartisan agreement or simply the senate democrats putting a vote and hoping republicans will vote for it. trying to get an agreement is difficult because that gives right wing of the republican party this big veto. a number of republican senators, not just those generally considered to be moderate, have said that they agree that it is important now to keep taxes from going up on most people and accept the reality that they will go up by the top 1 pshgs 2%, 250,000 in income and above. and it does look, to me, that there are enough votes if senator reid puts that on the floor for it to break the 60. but the republican probably going to filibuster it. >> even at 250,000, not 400 or 500, other numbers that have

barney on the losing side. he knew he would lose early on, but ultimately, those defeats led to the victories which we talk about today. out here on the house floor, barney was the lead opponent of the defense of marriage act. he knew that if he was on the wrong side, he was going to stand up and everyone else knew what the right side would look like. there was one day i was standing right here at this microphone and i was talking about oil subsidies, what i felt were unjustified and i said, giving a subsidy to an oil company recording record profits would be like subsidizing a fish to swim or a bird to fly, you just don't have to do it. i was feeling quite good about myself, and i finished and i just walked over here and barney stood up and he came over to me and said, you didn't finish that. i said finish what? he said the whole thing, fish got to swim, birds got to fly, got to love that man until the day i die. and that man is jim and barney is married to him and it's because of his efforts and making it pos

thank you. >> coming up, the one and only barney frank is leaving washington. not before his "politics nation" exit interview. you'll want to hear what he's saying about the gop future. and a scandal is brewing around the revvie awards m all. all kinds of out rage. stay with us. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. >>> >>> there's a growing controversy to tell you about tonight. and it has something to do with this. ♪ i am so in love with you >> that's right. all the out rage involves president obama singing. and chris christie is also involved. probably not what you're thinking, though. we'll fill you in ahead. stay wus. le thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purc

i think we made some progress in other areas including environmentally. >> barney frank talking in hisleep. >> hadn't even noticed that through the glare on the glasses. barney frank, a 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

i'm joined tonight by congressman barney frank from massachusetts. congressman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. >> where should the emphasis be when it comes to cuts? boehner says he's got to have spending cuts. there's not enough spending cuts. where do you think the emphasis should be when it comes to spending cuts in an effort to get a deal? >> being that i've done a lot of work in banking i'll quote somebody who had a great relationship to banking. the bank robber willie sutton. they asked him why he robbed the banks at least reputedly and he said that's where the money is. if we're going to cut let's go where the money is. in the military budget, particularly in that part of the military budget unrelated to legitimate national security needs, unrelated to the need to protect people who really are in trouble. we are still fully stocked to wen a thermonuclear war with the soviet union long after there isn't one. we are still protecting germany, italy, england, and austria from staalin and his successors even though they are no

, soon to be former congressman barney frank from massachusetts they came and spoke.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 you man >> bill: the closest i ever came w

barney horner, who is the great grandson of chief john grass from standing rock reservation in south dakota. one of the songs he gave me before he passed on, on indigenous people's day in 1995, was a song that he called the blue horse special. the blue horse special is the song that i have been fortunate enough to be able to play in a lot of different performance contexts. it's a song that was made by a man named matthew too bold, a very well respected elder whose wife, ellie, just recently passed on. both of them were very well respected for their singing skills. when i thought about doing an arrangement for today, the blue horse special came to mind. i thought i wonder if i can bring a cedar flute into an air, i thought, i wonder if i can take a pala song and turn it into a reel. what i will do is sing you the original pala song, so you can hear that, then we will go into an arrangement that also includes a little something at the end for my grandparents. (singing) . >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad. mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni

bernie to the rescue. -- barney. a little creative thinking. we have a pretty nice day ahead of us. >> have a great day ahead of us. it's friday, a long holiday weekend for a lot of folks. the weather could not be better. this time tomorrow we will see the white stuff coming down. 36 degrees is our temperature right now. wind out of the northwest at 12 miles an hour. it's a little present. we have a windchill factor this morning, feels like 28 in the district, 24 at dulles, 25 in gaithersburg, 27 in frederick 26 in quantico at this hour. we have a fair amount of clout left over this morning, but we will see the sun shines filtering through a lot of this today. we will call it partly sunny skies. we're waiting for our next system tracking and from the south and meeting up with the cold air. winter weather and by trees have already been issued across much of northern maryland. it's just outside baltimore. it's not including the district. but we could see some accumulating snow here. a fair amount of clouds today. overnight tonight into early tomo

still to come my two cents more on barney frank's next career move. it is a shocker.t? scott martin will tell us whether santa will bring a bull or a bear a what 2013 has in store for us. ♪ . melissa: "fox business alert" for you now. tflix is facing scrutiny over a facebook post by its ceo. listen to this. securities & exchange commission recommending action be brought against ceo reed hastings. he posted hisonline video, viewing exceeded one billion hours for the first time ever in june. information how the company was performing. the sec says that information should have been disclosed in a regulatory filing or news release. shares of netflix rose more than 6% on the day ofhe post and another 13 points on the next trading day. in response to the sec notice hastings used facebook again toall the probe a fascinating social media story. wow! taunting them. and while the dow and s&p ended the week in the green, wall street seems pretty split how the market will perform in 2013. some analysts predicting gains as much as 14%. others a loss as much as 2%. scott martin, ch

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. >> barney. >> barney, and?shammy. >> these are the comfort dogs. >> reporter: what is a comfort dog? >> a comfort dog is one who brings comfort to other people when they're suffering or hurting, or bring happiness to people. it helps people process their grief. >> reporter: so they're specially trained? >> they are specially trained. these are all specially trained service dogs. we don't use them with disabled, we train them additionally to work with all different age groups and people. to some people, and we've seen this with children, it brings a sense of calmness in a time of confusion for them during this period. to some it helps them process their grief. they'll start crying, and they'll hug the dog. and to some children they'll come up sad and they'll walk away happy. >> reporter: do you know that luther is incapable of being mean? luther is a friendly dog. >> hayden loves dogs. >> reporter: when does training begin to be a comfort dog? >> 5 1/2 weeks. we buy puppies at 5 1/2 weeks and turn them upside do

still to come my two cents more on barney frank's next career move. it is a shocker.ttle christmas for the stock market? scott martin will tell us whether santa will bring a bull or a bear and what 2013 has in store for us. ♪ . i look up to a lot of the older heads, you know, the innovators, the heads of the art movements of the past. they kept it really edgy, and, like, lot of the latin american muralists and the latin american artists, their styles are very unique and new to their time, you know, somewhat controversial, but that's who i look up to mainly. personally, i'm very excited about going to college. it's something new, nd it's something different than what i'm used to. i'mefinitely going to be a little out of my element, but that's what makes it so exciting is that, you know, it's something fresh. well, there's so many opportunities that i think i could miss out on if i didn't go, you know. getting into college takes planning and vision. you know, it's just like when i take a brick wall and turn it into a canvas for my art. painting's helped me realize i've

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caller: it will be barney frank that i will miss the most.he are still more to be done on be donerule and alan west i will miss the least. host: what comes to barney frank, is 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 m

but is the governor there tipped his hand to victoria kennedy or barney frank as an option?n'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 post aend not run in the special election, wouldn't it make sense that person would gain the traction they need in

clinton saw that and bush with barney. >> bo being an interesting first pet.re's the bo replica. >> there's the real bo. >> getting the picture with the replica. he's a portuguese water dog which a lot of people may not be familiar with that style of dog in america. but given to them by ted kennedy. right? >> yes. and that sculpture of bo is actually made out of pom-pons and last year it was pipe cleaners. i can't wait to see next year with bo. >> he has to top himself all the time. >> exactly. it's getting harder. >> harder. well, it is quite a treat to see bo being so highly revered at the white house. dogs around the country are rejoicing. >> of course. they have a celebrity dog in the white house. >> great to see you. >> merry christmas. >> and to you, as well. >>> coming up, no delivery, no food. a small group of workers with a unique protest. details ahead in that one. >>> hi, my name is reg nal bell and serving in germany and want to say to my sister, happy holidays and best wishes in norfolk, virginia. everyone loves surprise parties. yeah, so last wee

. >> he kept saying no and we put a later up and he -- ladder up and he was scared e grabbed onto barney and they put a rope around his hand and pulled him out. >> he is doing fine. crews have filled the well with 20 tons of dirt. >>> all right. this story is something. a family got a big shock when an uninvited guest slithered into the picnic area in florida. this 17 foot burmese python was keeled by a park ranger -- was killed by a park ranger. the state is hosting a python challenge next month. a grand prize of 1500 dollars will go to the person who kills the most snakes. researchers say pythons have devastated rabits, fox rabbits, foxes and possum. you can open your eyes. >> 17 feet. >> we had a neighbor sorry i did cut you off. >> no. i am scared of snakes. >> we had a neighbor with a python as a pet, and got loose and it ended up under our refrigerator.>> florida wildlife. >> good eats. >> florida wildlife says because they have them at pets and they escape or get released in the wild and come back mighty big. >> all righty then. >> nothing to worry about that here. >> no. just col

so while you may think that sweater at barney's or nordstrom's is a value, at whatever price it is, you can't afford it. and affordability is something that is resonating a lot more than value. >> reporter: so the season is not expected to be a sparkling one for merchants, with gains in the low to mid single digits. discounters are expected to do better than luxury stores. but don't forget, it is the holidays, and christmas just wouldn't be the same without a few splurges. >> we kind of get in the spirit of shopping. we go, okay, okay one more, oh they'd really like that, he'd really like that-- and a little for myself, too. >> reporter: erika miller, nbr, new york. >> susie: don't let the fiscal cliff scare you away from buying stocks. that's the advice to investors from andy cross, the chief investment officer at the motley fool. tom hudson recently spoke with him, and began by asking if the s&p 500 will be higher or lower this time next year. >> that's a tough question. i'm not in the job of picking the stocks over, you know, three, six, nine, even 12 months is tough for me. here's w