not helped by the fact that max baucus was not necessarily a close friend or ally. >> narrator: baucus allowed republicans on the committee to tear into daschle's personal finances. >> you had a very rigorous senate finance committee staff that was scrubbing the tax returns of the nominees that were going through that committee that's unlike anything that i think we've seen in many years. >> narrator: senate investigators found income tax problems. daschle had left the government and cashed in, making millions at a washington law firm. along the way, a client had provided a limo for daschle's personal use. eventually, he paid more than $140,000 in taxes and penalties on the gift. >> to this day, i think there are people in the greater daschle universe who say that the reason that tom daschle did not make it through the confirmation process is because max baucus gave him such a hard time dragging out the confirmation, and the details, and all the financial disclosures. >> there is plenty of drama in washington at the moment. >> republicans taing about "limousine liberals" who don't even

spencer baucus was for the wall street bailout.r baucus for many reasons. but it cannot be true that palin is against baucus because he voted for the wall street bailout. that's why she says she's against baucus. but that can't be the reason. because sarah palin herself was for the wall street bailout. >> as for the economic bailout ç provisions and the measures that have already been taken, it is a time of crisis and government did have to step in, playing an appropriate role to shore up the housing market and make sure that we refine out some of the potentially frozen credit lines and credit markets. government did have to step in there. >> david corn did a great piece on this. he said governor palin said she is anti-spencer baucus and lisa murkowski before they were for the bailout but she was for that bailout too. there's got to be something else going on there. >>> story number three. u.s. senate race in alaska is done. is that true or false? false. all three falses today. the associated press called it for incumbent and write

baucus: mr. president, i'd like to object. mr. baucus: mr.urther amend that request? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: after the swearing-in of senator-elect kirk, that the time be equally divided until 6:30 this evening, and that the senator from oklahoma be recognized to speak for 15 minutes. and the time to be divided between the two leaders or their designees. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. inhofe: the question i have is what time would that be, approximately? right after the votes or right before? no objection. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: i would ask unanimous consent to be added as a cosponsor to the johanns amendment 4702 to the senate bill 510, the food safety modernization act. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: mr. president, i want to compliment the senator from nebraska for his leadership on this issue. he has done a great job of advocating on behalf of sm

baucus, technically a democrat, poses the surrender terms. if they're not on the side of the working people anymore, what will they have become? >> they'll become grover cleveland democrats again, john w. davis democrats. there's a lot of stuff floating around. baucus is on record as saying he doesn't think they should be extended for millionaires. so it's going to be very interesting to see what he is actually writing in that very complicated committee of his. maybe we'll take as long on this as we took on health care, and then we won't have to deal with this issue until about a year from now. but i think you also have surprising democrats, dianne feinstein said no, we shouldn't extend this. let's have a vote on extending it to 250,000. mark warner is saying, you don't want to take that money out of the economy, let's take the money that would've gone to the really rich people and put it to more -- better uses to create jobs, like maybe a temporary payroll tax cut. and schumer proposes you lift it to $1 million, and you're going to have a re

morgan is now trying to squash this lawsuit because an baucus charging them with fraud right of selling them bogus mortgages that they knew were bad so j.p. morgan got the ambac fraud case they got it just b.c. is also suing them i believe everybody really is saying they're being sued along with j.p. morgan for fraud well they manipulate this little market oh my i need to play but they keep track of all this fraud all right well when we come back from the break we're actually going to be following up on this and talk about the am back with renowned journalist terry bull don't go away stacey thanks so much for being on the cars report thank you matt that's going to do it for this segment stay tuned much more don't go away. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we go to the future of covered. welcome back to the kaiser report joe you know those nasty banks on wall street and around the world the reason we got into this whole global financial meltdown principle is because they were involved in hundreds of billions and even trillions of mortgage relate

morgan is now trying to squash this lawsuit because and baucus charging them with fraud right selling them bogus mortgages that they knew were bad so j.p. morgan got the ambac fraud case they got it just b.c. is also suing them i believe everybody. along with j.p. morgan for fraud well they manipulate this little market oh my god i need to play but to keep track of all those fraud all right well when we come back from the break we're actually going to be following up on this and talk about the am back with renowned journalist terry bull don't go away stacey thanks so much for being on the cars report thank you matt that's going to do it for this segment stay tuned much more don't go away. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead. now the result one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by graham whichever you are but also there are. on this beach which of course is where most appropriate signification is a symbol of everything that's wrong with our god. government allowing not only garbage but to a chair way where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. hist

morgan is now trying to squash this lawsuit because an baucus charging them with fraud right of selling them bogus mortgages that they knew were bad so j.p. morgan got the ambac fraud case they got it just b.c. is also suing them i believe everybody. along with j.p. morgan for fraud the only manipulated civil market oh my god i need a playbook to keep track of all these fraud all right well when we come back from the break we're actually going to be following up on this and talk about the am back with renowned journalist terry bull don't go away stacy thanks so much for being on the cars report thank you matt that's going to do it for this segment stay tuned much more don't go away. sweet and clean. and fair useful. radioactive and dangerous. and even dead and desolate. they only keep their unique secrets their bottoms unique lakes on our team. brighton if you need to move from phones to pressure. screens tontine don't calm. down the official auntie up location on the phone and called talk from the top story. on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s money fuel costs and o.s.'s features now

the government's disciplined commitment to equity investment while protecting the american taxpayer baucus even a successful ipo means less than half -- while protecting the american taxpayer." even a successful ipo means that less than half of the money invested will be recouped. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with john collins. >> a quick check of our hd doppler radar. a couple of sprinkles over the lower eastern shore road and ocean city. clouds anne dicker in western maryland. we have a couple of -- clouds are thicker in western maryland. we had some indications of a mix and coupled snowflakes out there. most of this will be hung up in the mountains. let's take a look at temperatures right now. most readings around the bay are in the mid-fifties. roughly at where we're going to be for temperatures today. colder with the cloudier moisture to the west of loss. they are not going to see much rise in temperatures today either. heavy clouds with the weather disturbance. most of these clouds and light precipitation a seceded with them will be hung up on the mountains. -- and the

baucus' complaint essentially a variant of the claim tea party candidacies didn't turn -- cost seatsdidates a challenge for voters to love. all interesting theories, quantity fie bl. republicans have been making a structural argument. structural argument that the republican party, itself, was too disorganized and too poorly run this year to convert voter sentiment in their favor into more republican seats. that they missed seats they should have picked up because they weren't financially and logistically together enough to win elections they should have won. the first iteration of that argument or the first evidence for that argument came from the davis intelligence group. the weekend after the election. their post-election analysis was we would have a senator-elect ken buck in colorado and a senator-elect dean knino rossi. have the get out the vote efforts actually gotten out the vote? because the party was not more organized, more on that, those seats were lost to democrats. today that argument got way more personal and way more pointed. the political director of the republican nat

i like the idea senator baucus mentioned.we should look at some of the areas we know what the tax gap in the spending gap in the product to be god. we've got to look at everything. i also believe that we must not fall to the notion that some have put out that it will be hard for this commission to do much of significant that we can maybe talk a little bit of the low-hanging fruit and hope we can call a success. i think we need to have a much larger and a much more powerful vision than that. and i believe we can achieve it because the american people needed and expected of us. we have a unique opportunity to really do something that make the huge difference for this country. >> thank you very much. i want to thank mr. bowles and mr. simpson for chairing it. i want to thank the president for giving us this opportunity. i want to give special credit to two members of this commission. it is a little overt a year and half ago when senators gregg and conrad approached me with an idea that really spawned this commission. and they bu

but they are open to on extending it for two years under a plan and senator baucus from montana. >> mcconnell wants them temporary, and boehner wants them permanent and last option is through small business tax provisions. enough to make your head spin but the bottom line unless they have an agreement in the lame duck session your taxes will go up january 1st. senator hatch of utah weighed in on the president's ever changing position. >> the spot playing games trying to act like he is call that cares about the middle-class. there is not everyone who doesn't want the middle-class to have the relief and we need 750,000 small businesses thrown into that extra tax the president wants to charge and that is where we create 75 percent of all new jobs. it is stupid to not kick it over. the president knows. >> some democrats agree with mr. hatch because they think the president has opened this door for a compromise, on "60 minutes," opening the door and democrats feel their hands are tied because he has spoken. a majority of americans are in favor of extending the tax cuts for everyone. look at this n

tax increase for the rich another candidate wanting for reelection republican congressman spencer baucus who is a ranking member of a house committee on financial services he has reportedly taken over four million dollars from wall street and pledged to find against tom for rules for the financial markets the list of corporate favorites on capitol hill is long and not only republicans are on it the democratic process is supposed to be a check on corporate power and instead what we're seeing is corporations hijacking that system in order to funnel more money to themselves many argue the new supreme court decision which made it possible for corporations to invest unlimited amounts of money in politics and be able to be credited as anonymous donors has basically legalized corruption one definition i have of core option is the privatization of public parties here mongering is arguably the main tool corporations use to gain public support for the candidates they choose some channels like fox news are especially good at getting their message across and it's clear that pushes people to the stre

government regulations and against a tax increase for the rich and other republican congressman spencer baucus is going to be the chair of the house committee on financial services he has reportedly taken over four million dollars from wall street and pledge to fight against tougher rules for the financial market and it seems there is no way around it the election system in the u.s. is such that it's virtually impossible to run for office without strong financial backing but the bigger the backing the more candidates over to their benefactors many argue the latest supreme court decision which made it possible for corporations to invest unlimited amounts of money in politics and be able to be credited as anonymous donors has basically legalized corruption one definition of core option is the privatization of public policy two years ago corporations supported obama knowing it was going to bail them out but now that he imposed tougher rules on the financial market and wants to increase taxes for the rich they're betting against his party fear mongering and constant attacks on obama were arguably

to introduce a bad all soviet symbols and says the move will help fight terrorism and expand the baucus scene but many fear the new measures are just an excuse to suppress dissent as anger amounts over the government's performance artie's arena reports from tbilisi. in with nothing new the georgian parliament has approved a first hearing of what it calls a freedom charter it's controversial and seeks among other things to wipe out all soviet symbols the author of clubs and believes it's a necessary step to help georgia make a break from the past. there are two main parts to it fighting terrorism and getting rid of the country's communist legacy georgia cannot develop any jemma craddock man or maybe allow people with a communist back in mind to keep important posts. but lots of says many progressive e.u. members like poland and not here have successfully adopted such a law and he thinks georgia should follow suit but not everyone agrees and many want the authorities to focus on the present rather than the past it. has. anything. serious. think about and. nothing to say to the site other