ezra cline filling in for "the rachel maddow show" tonight. >> good evening. a dreary december day turned out to be full of news today including big news out of the supreme court. and one of the coolest pictures ever having a big revooufl. but we begin with important news out of washington. for all the squabbling politicians and the whining pundits, we can announce to you tonight, right here, right now, there's a budget deal that's becoming clear. our long national nightmare might almost, and i repeat, it's washington, almost be over. this is kind of like one of those kids games where you have to look at a picture that looks like nonsense until your eyes filter out the garbage and you can finally see the sailboat. that's what's going on in washington. you have to filter out the garbage. take yesterday for example. i don't tune into c-span 2 for comedy, just because it's good television. but the senate was being hilarious about the debt ceiling, which is hard to be hilarious about. here's what happened. the white house has been pushing a plan to take control of

johnny manzel and colin cline and your winner is .... >> and now the 2012 winner of the heisman memorial trophy is... johnny manzel. >> throwing for 3400. >> leading them to a 10-2 record. he becomes the first freshman to have win the heisman. >> what a pleasure this is. i would like to thank everybody that makes this weekend possible just great guys off the football field, as well. >> is the army navy game, winner gets the commander in chief's trophy with the best record. trophy is up for grabs. for the first time since 2005 navy strikes first. here is 12 yards and midshipman is up. here a 11-yard run, 13-10. navy quarterback slips the tackle and scores. he ran for 40 and 17-13 navy. last call for army, minute to go larry dickson fumbles and trent recovers, crushing loss for army. 17-13 is your final. >> the niners are in need of some reinforcements of wide receiver -- i'm available. randy moss and a.j. will have to pick up the slack. he suffered his injury against the rams and one man's injury is another man's opportunity in the n.f.l. that want would be a.j. jenkins. even though he ha

all the gusts were still include and included ron's wife jenn and stephanie and mark cline who are here today and everyone was inside the church waiting for something and characteristically it was milton and figured it out and slapped his hand across his head like a v8 mothers and said "the mothers" and they went and escorted the mothers out and the rest of the gusts looked relieved and i remember why he was called the in house episcopalian and raby it might be interesting to know that well behaved ones wait for the esures and escort the mothers of the bride and carole groom first. now with connection to people. >> >> milton was curious about everything. when susan and i moved to cleveland after graduate school many of our friends wrote us off and milton thought of it as a chance to explore a part of the world he hadn't seen and visited often and he went to see the rock and rel hall of fame and he had his spells of self doubt from time to time, but fundamentally outward looking and very much his own man. most of you know and it was talked about he was literally the namesake of two two l

in ireland today, secretary of cline hillary clinton, met with the russian foreign minister. it happened at a meeting of the coganization for security and cooperation in europe, known as the o.s.c.e., and margaret brennan is covering for us tonight. margaret. >> reporter: well, scott, officials familiar with those talks say the russians now think that bashar al-assad may not survive the war, and they want to have influence in syria if his regime falls, or if he loses control of the chemical weapons inside of his country. u.s. officials are particularly concerned that those weapons dould fall into the hands of an al qaeda affiliate active within syria. r: pelley: so what's coming next? >> reporter: well, it's a start to a new round of diplomacy. the russians have refused to meet for months, but this is not nabreakthrough. the russians are signaling they're willing to help with the political transition, but they are still officially supporting haad. secretary clinton says the russians have refused to give him asylum. oher countries have offered, but so far, he is not negotiatin

he would be the defensive player to win the heisman, colin cline would be kansas state's but the favoriteann would be the first freshman to win the heisman. >> it would mean the world to me. it would be a dream come true to be the first freshman to win the honor and to bring heisman trophy back to texas a&m. the pride to my family and everybody involved with the texas a&m program. >> baseball news, when a's fans think about in this be the first thing they think about. he could have killed them. mccarthy has agreed with a two-year deal with arizona for $15.5 million. >> to the ice, san francisco bulls hosting the colorado eagles. bulls were down 4-0 but we need one goal because this was teddy bear talk night and fans deliver with the teddy bears all to be donated. bums lose 5-1 but the kids all win. good stuff right there. that is wrap on morning sports. mike shumann will be here with the heisman trophy winner. who wins it? have a great weekend everybody. i'm larry beil. >> katie: it's 8:26 and next, putting a downpayment on a house bay area people are applying for $20,000 in flee mortgage

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colin cline and meotie and johnny manziel are the finalists. >>> the holidays are quickly approachingg meals and a whole lot of yumminess like those desserts. so, who has time to hit the gym? well, that's why we're going to show you how to burn off some calories around your home and without any equipment. with us now is desiree nathanson. a certified nutritional expert and the official personal trainer of the atlanta hawks cheerleaders. you say that people shouldn't worry about hitting the gym. >> you just want to focus on being less sedentary. you want to move when you can. it's not about necessarily getting to the gym and getting to a treadmill or elliptical machine, you just want to move. if you have a desk job, you want to get up every hour and move around a few minutes a day. if you sit a lot, you want to stand up when you can. i feel like we're going to evolve into this hutch back society. stand up, engage the core and moving around when you can. >> i know you brought a few props withia today. one of them scares me, it's a broom. >> i'm cleaning. with the broom you can do severa

me now is michelle cottle, washington correspondent for "newsweek "and "the daily beast" and ezra cline who is a policy analyst. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks, rev. >> michelle, let me start with you. the president ran on raising taxes on the rich and he won on that premise. why didn't the gop get the message? >> oh, they got the message but this is high posturing season. they have to get in there and be as intransident as they possibly can. the president has said that he wants tax rates for the wealthy on the table. so they are just going to push this as far as they can. they are going to kick this can down the road again. >> now, ezra, you wrote today that speaker boehner's trying to call a mull lee began. what do you mean by that? >> i'm drawing on my very shallow message of golf. he wants a do-over here. so what speaker boehner's proposal is today, i give him some credit here, this is the most moderate proposal he's made in public by a long shot. he's taken the proposal that erskine bowles presented to the super committee as a compromise, now

joining us is rick cline, and mr.ndn york. >> a couple things caused the legislator to go ahead and pass it and then the protests. one is the wave of union-limiting legislation and action that's taken place in wisconsin, and indiana pass add right to work act earlier this year. and the other thing is the unions tried a new tactic to try to cut this off, is they proposed something called proposal 2 in michigan, which would have put collective bargaining rights into the constitution and would have made it unconstitutional to pass something like what we saw today. it lost 58-42. and i think that emboldens the republicans who wanted to go ahead and turn michigan into a right to work state. >> byron is right. this was the exact thing they voters for obama decided to shoot down this union bill. >> it's surprising. >> it caught us all by surprise. it isn't going to be like wisconsin. i think this bill is going to pass. and the situation in wisconsin was different. you had to get a quorum, and they tried to prevent a vote on

man teo second and collin cline coming in third.gy from rapper psy biggest youtube sensation ever gangnam style. is he apologizing to the u.s. for pretty harsh anti-american comments he made earlier in his career they include hate-filled lyrics about killing american soldiers and their families. psy is scheduled to perform in front of the president tomorrow. i'm elizabeth prann, now back to geraldo at large. >> you really believe this story? usama bin laden. >> yeah. >> what part convinced you? >> her confidence. >> if you are right, the whole world is going to want in on this. people killed in libya being arrested by cops rather than killed by our commandos, fox news reporting just this past week the alleged leader of a terror network suspected of participating in that fatal attack on our consulate in benghazi was detained by egyptian authorities in chaotic cairo. jamal abull ahmed terrorists arrested in connection with with the murders. what does our own colonel oliver north think about arrests versus assaults? fox news military a

the kansas quarterback -- kansas state quarterback collin cline and north name linebacker manti te' o be the first win from her kansas state. and te-o would be the first defense only player to win. none day in 1992. telecommunications engineer in great britain sent the send button and fired off the world's first text message. working on mobile messaging project for a european cell phone company. that first message wasn't like the ones we send now it came from a pc to one of those huge old clunker school phones because regular phones didn't have the capacity to send messages back then. the first text went to the

the huge reams of communications, you shouldn't be able to go to the database and google for ezra cline would use it f-- >> let me say something about the white house. mian understanding of obama's movement on civil liberties, he was much more aggressive we needed more fisa oversight, as a senator than as a president. >> oh, absolutely. >> where is the house on this did bait? >> it's a total 180. barack obama initially pledged to filibuster the fisa amendments act and then ultimately, reluctantly he said, decided to break another senator's filibuster, but said because his own supporters were upset about this, a group called get fisa right became the largest supporter group on mybarackobama.com, forced to release a video, and say i recognize it's a small bill, instead of not letting them have a tool they need, it's flawed, i'll do a review later and see what kind of additional civil liberty selections might be need needed. but yet he's fought every possible proposal, often in incoherent terms that -- for example, senator americaly wanted to require the fisa court -- or at least the justi

the huge reams of communications, you shouldn't be able to go to the database and google for ezra cline then be clearly using information to go after an america american. >> let me ask you something about the white house on this. i think it's important. my understanding of obama's movement on civil liberties, he was much more aggressive we needed more fisa oversight, as a senator than as a president. where was the white house in this debate? >> they have essentially steadfastly fought any modifications. it's a total 180. barack obama initially pledged to filibuster the fisa amendments act and then ultimately, reluctantly he said, decided to break another senator's filibuster, but said because his own supporters were upset about this, a group called get fisa right became the largest supporter group on mybarackobama.com, forced to release a video, and say i recognize it's a small bill, instead of not letting them have a tool they need, i will support this, it's flawed, and i'll do a review later and see what kind of additional civil liberty protections might be needed. but yet his adminis

. >> guys in the united states like ezra cline who wanted to rebrand the austerity cliff, there's something to that. again, i'm not so forceful in believing that near term spending cuts may be the weight on which this package is built. i don't think that aggregate demand in the united states is low today because people are worried about medicare 50 years from now. but in the context of this package, that's what's going to make it successful, fixing the medium to longer term deficit package while trying to some degree to support demand in the near term. >> last word quickly, then the prospects for 2013 if we put something together inspect. >> well, the bias is obviously to the upside for the economy, modest to the upside for risk assets. but that depends on your starting point. if this goes wrong, your starting point will be lower than if it goes right. >> stay right there. we want to take a quick look at what's on the agenda for the u.s. weekly jobless claims out at 8:30 eastern, expected to rise 18,000 to 3611,000. we'll get the final estimate of third quarter gdp. growth is expected to ri

"the amateur" has been written by edward cline, who is our guest on booktv on c-span2.where did you get the title for this book. >> it came from a meeting that bill clinton had in chappaqua new york, north of york city where he has a home. this is back in august 2001. he invited several gas and it showed that he wanted to challenge the president and she is surprised by all this. and she said though, how can i do this, and the secretary of state. i have the ones with the miniver thursday. what about loyalty? and he said, there is no such word as loyalty in politics. he then went on to say that the people. the aaa credit rating of the united states, the barack obama was, in his words, an amateur. i spoke to people at that meeting. when i heard that, i said, that's the perfect title for this book, "the amateur." >> president clinton has denied publicly that he has used that term. >> i will tell you an interesting story. he has denied it, but hillary has told his friends that she suspected that of all people, chelsea had told me about this. now, that's not true. i've never