charlie rangel was critical? rangel-- >> but, sean, we know the process isn't ended yet and many more appointments to be made and i guarantee the president will be making those. >> sean: the top positions, the top women-- and before we go on, anita dunn former white house communications director. and pay close attention, the white house for a hostile workplace, meets tbecause it acy fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace. >> and christina romer said she felt like a piece of meat in the white house. it's known to be a boys' club. look, this president is happy to try to destroy republicans by painting them as somehow wanting to drag women kicking and screaming back to the 1950's. that's actually the language that he used. he viciously attacked mitt romney for saying that he went to extraordinary measures to pick women, qualified women. mitt romney at one point had more women in his cabinet than any other governor in the country, and yet, barack obama viciously attacked him and t

does charlie rangel have a point? may not be something that support the president want to hear but is he basing this in fact here? >> well, what's interesting about what rangel said was that he's actually sayi ining someth that you hear privately. you have heard this time and time again. they aren't, i think, in a position to say it publicly but this is the white house that's been criticized about its lack of diversity, particularly around women. you have stories in "the new york times" about it. you have had stories in "the washington post" and chapters in books dedicated to what some see as an all-boys club in this white house. the inner circle of the president primarily male. i think an issue here with the cabinet positions typically people look at the top four cabinet positions as the most prominent and powerful and seeing white men to take over the posts, holder looks like he will stay at least for some time period and perhaps janet napolitano will take over that position but when you have had a campaign from the

congressman charlie rangel joins us next.nell: first, let's take a look at some of the winners over at the nasdaq. ♪ dagen: all the presidents men, literally, john kerry is mr. obama's choice to replace hillary clinton. jack lew will replace timothy geithner. chuck hagel at the pentagon. the president will be down to how many women? you will have the labor position to fill. again, you have hillary clinton leaving, connell and i were going through the list. there are few women in cabinet positions. connell: charlie rangel is here with us to talk about this. is this a big problem for the president, the lack of diversity >> i spent so much time making fun of republicans and the action not women and jewish people in the congress and blacks and hispanics, it has just been unreal. i will have to explain why our picture looks the same. i do not think we should just look for women. we should have qualified people out there. we have not found them. that is just not true. it is a problem. it is a problem that can and i am convinced wil

here is charlie rangel's quote. it is embarrassing as hell.all this with mitt romney and we were very hard on mitt romney and binder of woman and things and i kind of think there is no excuse with a second term. that is what charlie rangel had to say yesterday afternoon. joined by juan williams, fox news political analyst and mary katharine ham, editor-at-large at hotair.com and a fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. happy new year. haven't seen you since everybody got back. great to have you here. juan, what do you think of the comment by charlie rangel? >> i think he is on target. it is a lot of talk, not only interesting focused in terms of absence of women in the now famous picture from the oval office where obama is surrounded by senior staff and all male except for the leg, barely visible of valerie jarrett. you know, charlie rangel went on to saying i thought was really telling. he said it is a harvard problem. you just know certain people from your college or background and those are people you trust and elevate. so there's a

if you buy what rich is saying, you have to disagree with what we've heard from charlie rangel and theassed over at least from what we're hearing for chief of staff were two deputies, nancy-ann deparle and alyssa mass trow mondayco. ? a problem for the administration? >> well all due respect i think it is a phony issue. when they are done picking the white house staff and cabinet, this will be the most diverse group of people that will reflect the country just as they did in the first term. just as the democratic caucus in the congress does. when it's done, you'll see lots of women and min orts. it will reflect america and i just think it's a totally cheap shot at the obama world to criticize them for this. >> steve. >> what happens is, it happens with every president and every administration, republican or democrat, the other guys. sometimes your own people as mr. rangel did, counting too closely whether the numbers match up. in the end, you have to go for the best person for that job at the time the job is open. and generally speaking, because the talent on the united states is so la

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something the president mentioned the other day at a news conference as you look at charlie rangel rangel taking hn on the house floor. to hear sandy levin, congressman levin, ed, talk about this s not the end of potential revenue essentially saying this isn't the end of tax increases and the effort to go after high income earners for more taxes was something that the president seemed to be signaling the other day that campaign style event at the eisenhower executive office building. >> you're right, bret. the president said it at that event here at the white house basically said more taxes will be going up in the days ahead in order to pay down the debt. and let's not forget there are other taxes going up today january 1 even as we talk about the bush tax cuts that are being extended permanently. number one in order to pay for healthcare reform some people are seeing their dividends tax on dividends go up starting today just over 3 percentage point increase. payroll tax cut that had been on the books for the last couple of years expired yesterday. that is not part of this deal. many of t

. >> on chris jansing & company, chris had congressman charlie rangel on. i just want to play what he said. take a listen. >> it's as embarrassing as hell. we went through this with murit romney. and we very hard on mitt romney with women binding thing. in the second term, you could say people got to know who is around who is qualified in order to get this job. >> chris, i want to go with you, he's saying as embarrassing as hell. talking about this, we are in of the second term, and the president set the standard here in changing how diversity can play a greater role in broadening these positions. is charlie rangel to say this is as embarrassing as hell and there should be a deeper bench when coming to replace these positions? >> well, i think there's a couple ways to look at it, the statistics of the administration in terms of diversity, it's on par with what the clinton administration was and it's more diverse than president bush. that being said, you know, as the proud father of a 6-year-old daughter who is already planning her presidential run, the opti

democratic congressman charlie rangel got even more blunt. here is what he said. just see it for yourself? >> i wonder. >> if it speaks for itself what does it say going into the second term. >> it's embarrassing as hell. >> when cnn covered the nomination of jack lew for treasury a second it ran a banner said another white man added to second term cabinet. even now the national organization for women sent an email that proved the old adage hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. i'm just repeating that i didn't originate it on my radio show i simply stated the obvious as already affirmed by the not so conservative "new york times" charlie rangel now and others. and that's president's cabinet and inner circles seem loaded with and running a little low on estrogen. for the women who thought that the president had promised women a more prominent role in his administration, i just remind to you review the speeches democratic national convention. the cry from the podium was not so much for positions of authority, but for free birth control pills and abortions. any tim

democratic congressman charlie rangel got more blunt, here is what he said.yourself. >> and speak for itself, what does it say going into the second term? >> it's embarrassing as hell. >> now, when cnn covered the nomination of jack lew for treasury secretary, it ran a banner, another white man added to second term cabinet. even now the national organization for women sent an e-mail that proved the old addage, hell hath no furry like a woman scorned. now, i'm just repeating that. i didn't originate it. so on my radio show he this week, i simply stated the obvious as already affirmed by the not so conservative new york times, charlie rangel, n.o.w. and others, and that's the president and cabinet and inner circle seemed loaded with testosterone and running a little low on estrogen. but for the women who thought the president had promised women more prominent role in his administration, i remind you to review the speeches at the democratic national convention. the cry from the podium was not so much for positions of authority, but for free birth control pills a

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charlie rangel said on msnbc, it's as embarrassing as hell. melissa joan hart tweeted this.inder full of women now? you know when you are being dissed by sabrina the teenage witch, have you a problem, mr. president. bill, i'll give you this one. >> that photo that's been so widely talked about, all of the folks in the white house, i mean, i don't know if you are allowed to say this on tv, but barack obama is black. >> yes, he is. >> and that picture is not representative of the whole team. >> he's also a man. >> dan pfeiffer is hungry, apparently, in the oval office. but some of the top advisers are women. half the white house staff is women. this has been a diverse cabinet. a diverse white house staff. >> not that diverse. >> pretty diverse. >> a double standard does exist. no way republican president would get away with this cabinet. >> well, first of all this cabinet is a lot more diverse than president george w. bush's is. he apparently got away with that. so president obama has been committed to diversity. but what i think we're experiencing now is a communications prob

diane: we are watching charlie rangel speak as the house members go around and debate the fiscal cliffteal from the senate. i also wanted to talk about , thursday at noon, a new congress in session. the steel expires. what happens at that point? if we don't get a vote now it's kind of a done deal. they start from square one? rich: basically. in fact, if this does not pass this evening, if we don't have enough votes to get this through in your basically at square one. you have to figure out exactly how you're going to deal with tax rates that have gone back to clinton narrates a broadbased tax increases on nearly every one u.s. bank of . that's what happened tonight. as we were earlier in the evening, not sure they would consider this by noon on the third because that is when the current congress, the 112, expires. the legislation that passes, in both houses of congress don't pass a piece of legislation, all that legislation expires. yes and you have to start the clock again. if this book takes place and we're headed for in about an hour, if it does take place in the vote fails and this

i think it maybe is charlie rangel blowing -- it's not diverse enough!i can see how people would be upset about it. >> john: i'm inclined to agree with both sides. >> well played! >> john: let me explain why. yes, we did expect more from this particular president. i will say that president bush had 24% women in his appointees. obama is at 35%. women are a 1% of the world -- world --51% of the world population. at the same time, i don't think fox news or most of the corporate media or the republican party have any right to criticize anyone for lack of diversity. >> here's the thing. if mitt romney had been elected we all would have been -- >> john: yes. does it take away from the advances he's had. two female supreme court justices. >> it doesn't take away at all. i think the mistake is holding those things up that are corrective saying hooray, we're done. if they're corrective, we're still ending up baseline at a position where we need to improve on. i think when you're talking about the highest levels of leadership and these photographs that the world s

." >>> congressman charlie rangel is on the floor of the house of representatives right now.'d think the whole place would be shut down and everybody would be going home. there are in fact some issues going on, particularly with members of the new york delegation to the house of representatives. let's go to our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. rangel just left the podium. what's going on with new york? >> reporter: it appears that the house is going to leave without passing the $60 billion in assistance that the senate passed for victims of hurricane sandy. that's why you're seeing -- there you see republican from pennsylvania, likely his district was hit, but mostly new york and new jersey members, republicans and democrats going one after the other to the house floor really angry about this. doesn't necessarily mean they ultimately won't get the federal dollars but what it does mean is on thursday a new congress is sworn in. so the whole process of having to get this money through the system, through the senate and the house will have to start all over again. t

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joining the show then house minority whip james clyburn and charlie rangel here as well. alex wagner is coming up next. what do you think about the lance stuff? forgiveness? lifetime ban lifted? what? >> denial ain't just a river in africa, thomas. i don't know. painful footage watching him scold america about asking about the doping. >> now he has gone to the confessional of oprah. we'll see how america responds. >> we'll be monitoring that, you and i, my friend, i'm sure in the coming days. today on our show, president obama is readying for a fight on the debt ceiling, or maybe not. will he be able to coax republicans in congress to do something, anything, or will the party of no take a page from its 2011 playbook? we'll dance on the debt ceiling with andrew ross sorkin, ryan grim, steve, and joy reid. plus, telemundo weighs on in immigration reform and whether the gop can get it together. after that, slate's talks about the hurdle of american workers and employees who are cutting hours to avoid paying for employee health care. we'll discuss lance's lies with investigat

. >>> congressman charlie rangel is on the floor of the house of representatives right now. you'd think the whole place would be shut down and everybody would be going home. there are in fact some issues going on, particularly with members of the new york delegation to the house of representatives. let's go to our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. rangel just left the podium. what's going on with new york? >> reporter: it appears that the house is going to leave without passing the $60 billion in assistance that the senate passed for victims of hurricane sandy. that's why you're seeing -- there you see republican from pennsylvania, likely his district was hit, but mostly new york and new jersey members, republicans and democrats going one after the other to the house floor really angry about this. doesn't necessarily mean they ultimately won't get the federal dollars but what it does mean is on thursday a new congress is sworn in. so the whole process of having to get this money through the system, through the senate and the house will have to start all over agai

>> by raising it in the media, charlie rangel, congressman, went after the president, he said it's embarrassinghell, his words. as vacancies open up, they will put in people of color, more women, more diversity. it should reflect america. his cabinet should reflect america. i'm not kidding, ray lahood is an african-american on the cabinet. there's a lot of diversity but should be much more. >> i was listening to our editorial call this week. and i was thinking, this is a lesson for all of us, fortune 500 companies, media companies. look at ourselves, our primetime lineup, if people we have in charge. i think many companies look exactly like the white house. so i think this is something that we need to talk about in america and pull the stone out of your own eye before talking about someone else. >> diversity is not all different shades of white. that's really true. >> dean, speaking of all different shades, donald trump says bill maher owes him $5 million. and he may even sue. >>> dean is back. dean, bad blood between donald trump, bill maher, which should be no surprise. maher twisted the knif

. >> in terms of the vote today and what happens next, charlie rangel, a member of your party was celebratinghere he is. >> i think it's been a good day for congress and for the country. it reinforces the concept we've had since the beginning of this nation that if any part of our country is affected by a disaster, that they can and should expect the rest of the country to come to the rescue. >> congressman pollone he said the sandy aid bill got messed up because of communications and there's no problems and it's going to move ahead and everything is fine. i i'm very concerned. as you know, speaker boehner made a commitment at the end of the congress that this whole package was going to come up and if it had come up it would have gotten the votes, be on the president's desk and we'd be rebuilding the shore. now we have to wait two or three weeks and the speaker has divided this up into three different votes wchl very to get a majority each time and go back to the senate where the bill had already passed before in the larger package. >> so you're worried that it will not be as easy as. >> no,

i want to bring in charlie rangel. congressman. >> to see you as always. first black president. he's getting questions about diversity. are you concerned? >> of course, i'm concerned. any questions are fair and the record speaks for itself. >> if the record speaks for itself, what does it say going into the second term? >> it's as embarrassing as hell. we've been through all of this with mitt romney. and we were very hard with mitt romney with the women binder and all of these things. with the first term, you could see people got to know who is around and qualified in order to get this job, number one. i had thought that it could be the harvard problem where people just know each other, trust each other. and women in minorities don't get a chance to rub elbows and their reputation and experience is not known. but whatever it is when you have minorities that do understand the problem as colin powell as has often spoken out that people with minorities don't know how to use it. so in the second term, these people should be just as experienced as anybody. any other american. >> you

. >>> congressman charlie rangel is on the floor of the house of representatives right now. you'd think the whole place would be shut down and everybody would be going home. there are in fact some issues going on, particularly with members of the new york delegation to the house of representatives. let's go to our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. rangel just left the podium. what's going on with new york? >> reporter: it appears that the house is going to leave without passing the $60 billion in assistance that the senate passed for victims of hurricane sandy. that's why you're seeing -- there you see republican from pennsylvania, likely his district was hit, but mostly new york and new jersey members, republicans and democrats going one after the other to the house floor really angry about this. doesn't necessarily mean they ultimately won't get the federal dollars but what it does mean is on thursday a new congress is sworn in. so the whole process of having to get this money through the system, through the senate and the house will have to start all over agai

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in fact, here's what congressman charlie rangel said about this on msnbc. here it is. >> it's embarrassing as hell. we've been through all this with mitt romney. we were very hard on mitt romney with his women binder. >> so overly harsh assessment by the congressman? what do you think? >> it's three people. i find it a little bit funny that we're going into all this over three people. the cabinet is not three people. these are three of the picks. you still have valerie jaret there who was probably more influence than any person in the white house. eric holder attorney general. no small potato. you still have kathleen sibelius there. maybe the positions we don't talk about as much. hilda solis is leaving. that's not to say there won't be another woman at labor. there are still opportunities to add women. we had two supreme court picks that were women. the optics. the susan rice debacle i guess you could call it tainted everything that came after that. i think it tainted poor john kerry's nomination because people were an assuming he was the second choice. i

and more, new york congressman charlie rangel said that the races in the south are to blame for the lackthat region. >> new york in a the lot of areas and some of the states and some of the southern areas have cultures that we have to overcome. >> sean: so, with reaction to this the entire gun control showdown, author, attorney, david limbaugh and fox analyst, juan williams, juan, your reaction? >> well, i don't think that this is about the president's race, but i think that race has a lot to do with this conversation and that's why i think you have congressman johnson from georgia, saying, hey, look, if you look across the south, high membership in the n.r.a., high amount of gun ownership, principally among whites and in fact, mostly republicans and it makes for a huge divide in terms of how-- >> and puts in place reasonable gun control. >> it's a more rural area and people have been brought up with the use of guns and hunters widespread. not many hunters in new york city, juan. >> i agree. >> it's different than an urban or city environment, isn't it? >> that wouldn't stop you from say

charlie rangel, a member of your party, was celebrating. here he is. >> i think it's been a good day for congress and for the country. it reinforces the concept we've had since the beginning of this nation that if any part of our country is affected by a disaster, that they can and should expect the rest of the country to come to the rescue. >> congressman pollone, he said the sandy aid bill got messed up basically because of communications and there's going to be no problem, it's going to move ahead, and everything's going to be fine. >> i'm very concerned. i mean as you know, speaker boehner made a commitment at the end of the last congress that this whole package was going to come up, and if it had come up, we would have had the votes, it would be on the president's desk, and we'd be rebuilding the shore again. now we have to wait another two or three weeks, we don't know exactly what's happening, and the speaker has divided this up into essentially three different votes. we have to get a majority each time, and then we have to go back t

congressman charlie rangel represents new york's district. it had from voting and is live from capitol hill. congressman, thanks very much. highlight of the vote, lowlight of the vote? go ahead. >> well, i think it's been a good day for the congress and for the country. it reinforces the concept that we've had since the beginning of this nation, that if any part of our country is affected by a disaster, that they can and should expect the rest of the country to come to the rescue. so we got off track with this darn thing for communications reasons. i don't know why. it caused a lot of pain and a lot of hopelessness for the people that find themselves without homes and without jobs. we're back on the right track. as soon as we get back we expect on the suspension calendar that the $51 billion we were look being forward to in the first place will be restored. it's my present understanding that it will be in two parts, $18 billion package that would be for the immediate need, and a $33 billion package that will be voted on separately since most

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joining us is democratic congressman charlie rangel of new york. >> good to be back with you. >> congratulations on a new congress. in an interview today paul ryan said those comments of his had nothing whatsoever to do with medicare and social security recipients. does he seriously expect us to believe that? or should we treat that in the same way we treat his record time for running a marathon? >> well, i really don't think that mr. ryan's statements carry as much weight as the republicans thought they would. you know, martin, when the president had his first unaugust ration, the republicans got together and they said the most important responsibility is to destroy him and make him a one-term president. and since that time everything that the president tried to talk about, job legislation, taxes, environment, all those issues that america was concerned about, the republicans found some way to tie it up to make certain he suffered defeats. now the president has gone to the american people and said have i been wrong all along with these issues? we've debated them in the campaign. you, america, w

>> by raising it in the media, charlie rangel, congressman, went after the president, he said it's embarrassingwords. as vacancies open up, they will put in people of color, more women, more diversity. it should reflect america. his cabinet should reflect america. i'm not kidding, ray lahood is an african-american on the cabinet. there's a lot of diversity but should be much more. >> i was listening to our editorial call this week. and i was thinking, this is a lesson for all of us, fortune 500 companies, media companies. look at ourselves, our primetime lineup, if people we have in charge. i think many companies look exactly like the white house. so i think this is something that we need to talk about in america and pull the stone out of your own eye before talking about someone else. >> diversity is not all different shades of white. that's really true. >> dean, speaking of all different shades, donald trump says bill maher owes him $5 million. and he may even sue. ear, i got . hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right he

new york congressman charlie rangel was none too pleased this morning. >> it's embarrassing as hell. we've been through all this with mitt romney, and we were very hard on mitt romney with his women binders. >> it is worth noting that this trend is not consistent with the president's record. currently eight women serve in cabinet level positions, making up 35% of his team. less than one-quarter of george w. bush's cabinet was made up of women. that merely mirrors of percentage of high level women appointed to federal positions outside the white house. 35% under president obama, and 25% under george w. bush. equally worth noting both of president obama's supreme court appointments were women. perhaps the real question about diversity within the president's inner circle isn't biological, but intellectual. the washington post's ezra cline notes that president obama hasn't named an outsider to his economic team since his initial 2009 picks. in a little over an hour the president will nominate jack lu for treasury secretary, a man who previously served as a budget director and currently a