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last week after barney frank said he would like to be the temporary appointed senator from massachusetts kerry becomes secretary of state, a former chief of staff to governor duval patrick, said i respect mr. frank and what he accomplished, but there are better answers. we asked the former chief of staff who he thought the better options are. he gave us the names of three women, a former president of mit who is currently on the board of general electric and qualcomm, a retired massachusetts supreme court justice and a bank of america executive. he also gave us the name of a man who was the head of the massachusetts taxpayer's foundation, in other words, no one with any idea how the united states congress and specifically the united states senate actually works. the governor's former chief of staff who clearly doesn't know how congress or the senate really works, then told the boston globe "the theory that we have to send experienced people to washington to break the grid lock, the experienced people are the ones creating the grid lock." now i know that the greatest governor of all time d

should he pick barney frank? it's our gut check. senator lindsay graham is threatening to block chuck hagel's confirmation. fresh from yesterday. ahead of tomorrow's hearing. we will play the comments for you and joining the conversation, a lot of you sent us tweets in the first 18 minutes of the show. you can mind me and my team. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios >>> we are waiting for senator john kerry to deliver farewell walks after being confirmed yesterday as the new secretary of state. kerry is expected to speak in about ten minutes. duvall patrick named an

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barney frank has offered his services to the senate.ck's reaction. >> has he totally annoyed you? >> he is a compelling candidate for that appointment. he is a fabulous congressman, >> has he totally annoyed you? >> he is a compelling candidate for that appointment. he is a fabulous congressman, and would make a great senator. unfortunately, we have a few others on the list who are also compelling. >> are you close to making a decision? have you narrowed it down to one or two people? >> i'm close, yes. >> have you approached the person you're thinking about? >> we've talked, i should say my team has talked with all or most of the candidates. >> here is what barney frank had to say about all of this tonight. >> i want to respect the governor's choice on this, i had not previously been interested in it. i was ready to make a little money doing some things, making speeches and writing a book. and then i saw the important decisions coming up, so i expressed my interest doing it. >> ari, i have breaking news for you. i want you to include th

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i asked barney frank about it earlier? and clever almost never work. there is a reality to things. i think this is an important political fight to have, and i think we will win it. i think we say to them, okay, let's take it to the country, do you really want to say we wouldn't pay the debt that we incurred. >> but the platinum coin has also attracted powerful backers. a nobel prize winner wrote "should president obama be willing to print a trillion dollar platinum coin if republicans try to force americans into default" yes, we will, being faced with two alternatives, one, the coin, the other, both vile and a disaster. the president, he said should offer to sign a bill revoking his authority to issue platinum coins so long as that bill also does away with the debt ceiling. that seems fair, you get rid of one dumb thing and get rid of another. so i should probably now give you my strong, stirring, totally difinitive conclusion, but i'm kind of torn. if obama proposes to mint the coin, then the issue will immediately cease

barney frank, and you, have outlined a very substantive case. and for most who have watched politics from a distance, it makes sense if you have a job are limited time you want somebody with experience, the way you want somebody who played in the minors, before you have them play in the majors, particularly if it is only for a few games. >> like you and me, of course, he used to be a senate staffer before he ever went off into his judicial career. >> people always tell me that lawrence o'donnell and ari remind them of george mitchell. >> same guy, thanks, ari. "the ed show" is up next. some republicans in demographic denial are fumbling on immigration reform. i don't trust them. let's get to work. >> this will be the year. >> the immigration overhaul is on. republicans look like they're cooperating. but can democrats trust them? >> in espanol, vamanos. >> senator bob menendez of new jersey is here with the details. plus, labor reaction with leo gerard of the steel workers. in center left tonight, paul ryan broadsides the president shirks thinkin

he replaces retiring congressman barney frank. joe iii is the grandson of the late robert kennedy who was assassinated while running for president in 1968. he is the first member of the kennedy family to serve in congress since patrick kennedy of rhode island retired back in 2011. >>> this year's freshman class helps make the 113th congress the most diverse in history. new members include as we just reported there, kennedy was the first openly bisexual member, a former army helicopter pilot who is also a double amputee, a record number of women, a record number of minorities, congress's first buddhist member along with a couple of entertainers and a novelist as well. let's bring in one of those new members, a newly sworn in from oklahoma's 2nd district, a small businessman, we should note. not an entertainer. good to see you, congressman. congratulations. >> thank you. thank you for having me on. >> how has your life changed in the last 48 hours? >> you know, it's something we've been working towards this whole time and so this is

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why did you jump into this and why barney frank?ds a strong knowledgeable progressive alley in the senate. he will be a fighter. but it must be said last night you kicked off a phenomenon right here. when you uttered the words appointbarneyfrank.com. in the 24 hours since, hundreds of thousands of people talked about that on twitter, i'm proud to announce that our website, we have over 20,000 signatures urging governor patrick to appoint this man to the senate. >> the committee is an effective force in her campaign. the governor has to take notice of what you are doing. >> we are committed to ensuring that governor patrick has two strong bold progressives in his state. and he needs to know that bold progressives in massachusetts and the country are depending on him. and they are letting him know their opinion.

why did you jump into this and why barney frank?ds a strong knowledgeable progressive alley in the senate. he will be a fighter. but it must be said last night you kicked off a phenomenon right here. when you uttered the words appointbarneyfrank.com.

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. >> former congressman barney frank on the new republican messaging on failed conservative ideas. >>> plus, reverend jesse jackson on the latest republican effort to disenfranchise minority voters. >>> and call the whambulance. the obama-clinton interview has righties spewing conservative conspiracy theory nonsense. >> i'd like to know did she pass out and hit her head? was she pushed? >> i'll get to the bottom of all the whining with jonathan alter. >> there was no follow-up. >> good to have you with us folks. thanks for watching. republicans are waking up to the realities of a center left country. they need to partner with the democrats on immigration reform, or basically be left in the dust. this is just one of many issues. senator chuck schumer new york led seven of his senate colleagues in announcing a bipartisan plan for immigration reform today. they want the proposal to be pushed through the senate this spring. >> for the first time ever, there is more political risk in opposing immigration reform than in supporting it. >> the plan is a common sense approach to give 11 millio

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barney frank, though, wild card, which is why everybody loves him. here is how massachusetts governor deval patrick reacted to that rather surprising development just a couple of hours later. >> would you have preferred that he not go public? >> well, would i have preferred. does it matter in the case of congressman frank what i would have preferred. i have treated those conversations as confidential. and i think in every other case the person has treated them as confidential. and in congressman frank's case, he has chosen not to on his end. i'm going to keep my end. >> it is probably true that deval patrick has had the conversation about the senate seat with a bunch of people. but barney frank is just going on tv and talking about it and saying that he wants the job. really, nobody does it that way. the serving massachusetts senator john kerry of course has been nominated to replace hillary clinton at state. we learned this week he is starting to prep for confirmation hearings. he was at the state department all day wednesday. the staff there now sa

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i want to play what former congressman barney frank had to say early on. he was on saying if another group had a comments made about them, chuck hagel would be seeing more trouble and now barney frank is saying i was hoping the president wouldn't n nominate him. the question is going to be afghanistan and scaling back the military. your response to those new comments that were in "the boston globe" of mr. frank? >> i think senator hague sell an exceptionally well qualified chosen for the posting. as a military daughter and granddaughter of an army sergeant, there's no one who knows better how to lead troops than sergeants but people in the lgbt have legislate concerns based on the voting record and the public statements he's made. >> let me play what president obama said on "meet the press" and asked about chuck hagel and the lgbt apology. >> with respect to the particular comment you quoted he apologized for it and i think it's a testimony of a positive change over the last decade in terms of people's attitudes about, you know, gays and lesbians serving o

but barney frank is just going on tv and talking about it and saying that he wants the job. really, nobody does it that way. the serving massachusetts senator john kerry of course has been nominated to replace hillary clinton at state. we learned this week he is starting to prep for confirmation hearings. he was at the state department all day wednesday. the staff there now say they expect him to start reporting to the department regularly. they say they're now working with the foreign relations committee to pick a date for his confirmation hearings. should he be confirmed, what happens to mr. kerry's senate seat is this. the massachusetts governor you see on the right side of your screen there, deval patrick will appoint somebody to fill the seat. so without any sort of political contest, that person gets to hold the senate job for a few months, until a special election will be held this spring or summer in massachusetts. now barney frank is saying that while he would like to be the interim senator for a few months, he doesn't want the permanent gig. he says he will not run

well to your point of sort of politics of how it went down and barney frank is a great case in point. >> yes. >> when hagel was floated as maybe the nominee, they said they're not comfortable with him and now that he is the nominee, barney frank said, actually, i do support him. >> of course. >> i think it's worth pointing out that the president by having this leak and letting him twist in the wind for a while, the left would have closed ranks and come behind him much more quickly announced as the nominee to start with. >> i think you're right. >> but what's a criticism i'm sympathetic to and voiced myself is a seeming impulse of democratic presidents to want to choose republicans as secretary of defense. you know, this feeling that democrats aren't tough enough or they're not viewed as tough enough to handle the pentagon. and steve clemens on "rachel d maddow" made a point that swayed me. >> the democrats that came in many of them that came in with president obama and also part of the concern that americans don't trust democrats to deploy power to be forceful in the world have adopte

but barney frank is just going on tv and talking about it and saying that he wants the job. really, nobody does it that way. the serving massachusetts senator john kerry of course has been nominated to replace hillary clinton at state. we learned this week he is starting to prep for confirmation hearings. he was at the state department all day wednesday. the staff there now say they expect him to start reporting to the department regularly. they say they're now working with the foreign relations committee to pick a date for his confirmation hearings. should he be confirmed, what happens to mr. kerry's senate seat is this. the massachusetts governor you see on the right side of your screen there, deval patrick will appoint somebody to fill the seat. so without any sort of political contest, that person gets to hold the senate job for a few months, until a special election will be held this spring or summer in massachusetts. now barney frank is saying that while he would like to be the interim senator for a few months, he doesn't want the permanent gig. he says he will not run

but barney frank is just going on tv and talking about it and saying that he wants the job. really, nobody does it that way. the serving massachusetts senator john kerry of course has been nominated to replace hillary clinton at state. we learned this week he is starting to prep for confirmation hearings. he was at the state department all day wednesday. the staff there now say they expect him to start reporting to the department regularly. they say they're now working with the foreign relations committee to pick a date for his confirmation hearings. should he be confirmed, what happens to mr. kerry's senate seat is this. the massachusetts governor you see on the right side of your screen there, deval patrick will appoint somebody to fill the seat. so without any sort of political contest, that person gets to hold the senate job for a few months, until a special election will be held this spring or summer in massachusetts. now barney frank is saying that while he would like to be the interim senator for a few months, he doesn't want the permanent gig. he says he will not run

victoria kennedy and barney frank. any names jump out at you? >> i think barney frank would be the most entertaining of the bunch to hold the seat. he would be a little more devisive. it's massachusetts. they can do whatever they want. democrats control it. >> the only show in town. >> the safer pick would be to go with a kennedy or dukakis because they have been there and have certain connection to massachusetts. >> let's get to secretary of state, outgoing secretary of state, hillary clinton. received a going away gift from the obama team. according to bloomberg, they decided to pay off her campaign debt $250,000 as of last year. 120 people cut checks to pay off her bills. in fact, they gave way too much to clinton's campaign, which was never officially shut down. now she has a surplus of $200,000 in the bank. should she run, there's a superpack supporting her calls vote for hillary. >> they can apply the surplus to the debt and say it's part of the deficit reduction plan. >> it is. i think it was a great moment of political drama on "60 minut

to the national media story here, is patrick going to appoint barney frank.e was openly campaigning for the appointment. he knew he was probably not going to get the appointment. he tried to pressure patrick into it. i don't have a problem with what patrick did. his voting record for the income four or five will be the same as what the nominees will have. we will forget what it was for these few months. he will join him. i think the appointment said something good about the evolution of massachusetts and the evolution of culture and politics in massachusetts. i grew up in the state that massachusetts, you don't have to go back that far to talk about the bussing riots and refusing to integrate. bill russell, his life was hell because of the race in and around boston. i can remember as a kid, the celtics were the best team in basketball in the late 1980s. in roxbury, they were wearing lakers jersey. things have changed. when i was a kid, it was a few irish names. now you have got in 2006 duvall patrick from the southside of chicago who came to massachusetts and

take a listen. >> former congressman barney frank would you consider possibly being future senator barneyhe governor calls you and says fill in for a couple of months. >> i'm not going to be coy. i told the governor that i would like to do that it's only a three-month period. i wouldn't want to do anymore. >> jennifer: is this a good idea? >> yeah, the prospect of he and elizabeth warren in the senate makes me salivate over what could be done. and it's probably making a lot of goldman sachs guys poop right now. [ laughter ] >> jennifer: to a technical term. stephanie miller the host of the great "talking liberally" on current tv, so glad you were able to join us inside "the war room," steph. up next it's pretty well documented that if you wait around for congress to do something, you are going to be doing just that, waiting around. and for many of us when it comes to gun safety that is just not an option. that story is right after the break. ♪ hershey's simple pleasures chocolate. 30% less fat, 100% delicious. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking a

and he did not choose barney frank, despite me publicly urging him to do so for weeks now. what could the guy possibly have been thinking? we'll find out when the governor joins me tomorrow night on this program. and we'll show you the man he did choose later in the show tonight. that is coming up. [ dog barking ] ♪ [ female announcer ] life is full of little tests, but your basic paper towel can handle them. especially if that towel is bounty basic. the towel that's durable, and scrubbable. in this lab demo, bounty basic is stronger than the leading bargain brand. everyday life? bring it with bounty basic. the strong but affordable picker-upper... now costs even less. >>> too many children are dying. too many children. you must act. be bold, be courageous, americans are counting on you. thank you. >> former congresswoman gabrielle giffords, the victim of a gun massacre using a high-capacity magazine was the first to speak at the senate hearing on gun violence today. she was helped out of the hearing room -- after her short introduction, and then succeeded in her testimony

and he did not choose barney frank, despite me publicly urging him to do so for weeks now.hat could the guy possibly have been thinking? we'll find out when the governor joins me tomorrow night on this program. and we'll show you the man he did choose later in the show tonight. that is coming up. she keeps you guessing. it's part of what you love about her. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess with cialis. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term

barney frank last week. considering the character of the opposition to chuck hagel that has emerged in the interim, barney frank has changed his mind. mr. frank said today, quote, the attack coming out of the right, i hope he gets confirmed. this fight over check hagel as secretary of defense gives an interesting window to what going on in the right sort of devolving in some ways. an architect of wildly expanded presidential power gets sent to nip at the heels of a president over this new guy having too much power. everybody is now supposed to see bill kristol as the arbiter of reasonableness in foreign affairs. the fight over chuck hagel also gives awes window into what is going on in the left, what is going on among democrats. does having the correct enemies outweigh all the left's other concerns about chuck hagel? will that be enough to get him confirmed in the senate and to at least lock up democratic and liberal support behind him? or do those concerns get aired in full on their own merits? joining us n