graham and the new chair of the congressional black caucus, marcia fudge. we are glad you joined us. "vision for a new america" is starting now. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day we know that we are only halfway and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> speaker gingrich, i wonder if you can help me imagine what a white house conference to eradicate poverty with the left and right present to talk about ideas that they could agree on. take me inside and give me a sense of what some of the ideas on the table might be that could get discussed. >> the fact is for 60% of the cost of public schools in big cities, catholic schools graduate with an extraordinary high amount of kids that go to college. what if we said to the catholic schools, we will let you enroll as many poor children on the same ratio, and we will find it? all o

the congressional black caucus has taken this up year after year. no one fights for more people more than they fight for poor people. no one fight the battle, even the congressional black caucus, which was basically able to hold off on the last vote because of this spirit of people understand we say, how did you pay for this? they pay for it by cutting things like dialysis and renal failure treatment and diabetes. we understand clearly our caucus is not always on our side, because they get so caught upto in the middle class. the congressional black caucus has just handed to retreat today and our meeting saying we are not going to go for raising the age of medicare. we are not going to go for putting social security on the table, because we know that increases the poverty in this country. >> since you went there, and i want to be transparent and always attempt to be authentic in these conversations so we can make progress, you are the new chair of the congressional black caucus. you have seen this reported everywhere. the president, the first black p

mitt romney carried 12 of the 16 congressional districts in the state of ohio.nsidering passing a bill that says, not winner take all, do it by congressional district. the state of virginia, the governor says he dent support this law. not enough state senate republicans support this law. the state of virginia, president obama narrowly carries it. if you look at it here, it's 7 of 11. mitt romney carried seven of the 11 congressional districts so he would have won the majority of the electoral college votes. the country, if you did it by congressional district, in all 50 states, mitt romney would be the president today. what about this appears now to be dying but what makes it fascinating is if you had a change like this, look at it. if you did it that way what would change? democrats would be down campaigning in places like alabama. places like georgia. any of these voting rights states that have african-american congressional districts. we'd have a presidential campaign in which republicans would be out campaigning in california. we haven't seen that since that

district plus two votes going to the popular vote winner of course those congressional districts in several traditionally blue states like pennsylvania wisconsin ohio and michigan were drawn by newly elected republican state legislatures after the two thousand and ten census and they were drawn in a way that gives republicans an advantage by carving up democratic strongholds and creating safe republican seats and safe democratic seats but known seats basically locks it up that's the republicans kept control of the house of representatives in two thousand and twelve despite the fact that house democrats won a million and a half more votes nationwide than house republicans for example last november president obama won the popular vote in wisconsin and that's received all ten of wisconsin's ten electoral college votes he won the majority the vote in the state the whole state went for it under this republican plan he would have all they have received one electoral college vote for each congressional district that he won since he only won three of the new jury bander districts and theref

advantage republicans who control more congressional districts than democrats. and the electoral map? >> let's take a look at the new, as of 9:00 in the east, 6:00 on the west coast. the new electoral map. >> reporter: maine and nebraska already award electoral votes by congressional district. but that's never changed the election outcome. but if the whole country adopted plans now being considered in virginia, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania and wisconsin, instead of obama winning 332-206, the electoral map would have gone from blue to red. romney over obama. 273-262, by one estimate. some leading republicans oppose the change. >> i am a traditionalist myself. i really am a conservative. i'm a little bit skeptical of this. >> reporter: and tonight, virginia's governor, bob mcdonald came out against it. in fact, potential candidates are warning the party as a bigger problem. >> we've got to stop being the stupid party. and i'm serious. it's time for a new republican party that talks like adults. we had a number of republicans that damaged this year with offensive a

add to that, the congressional pension for speech making.senator mccain who had been pointing to this day for months. he said out as you heard part of harsh indictment of the whole affair, said secretary clinton's explanation were unacceptable but never questioned on a single question. in the house, laitman listed a series of good questions but never settled on one allowing the witness to pick which one to answer. a smart and tough witness can dominate such hearings. secretary clinton did today. >> bret: we always talk about short questions being the best. that was not the case today? what about today? out of this looking at two hearings, five hours, twa do you think overall comes out of it? >> there are a lot of unanswered questions, still. there are things that she refused to answer. but how far anybody will get pursuing that after today. this was in the eyes of so many people big moment. these congressional interrogators did what they often do. they blew it. >> bret: brit, thank you. more on this with the panel. we will talk with the head

congressional leaders have left the capitol and are head over to the white house.all that security along with them. they, of course, will have coffee with the president. the senators who are in charge of the planning committees for this inauguration and festive activities will be there, along with some of the bipartisan leadership of the senate and house. >> chuck schumer, harry reid, nancy pelosi, eric cantor, and john boehner will be headed over there. first, president obama began with the slogan hope and change. then he got a jolt of washington reality. we'll take a look back at the some times rocky road of the first term. >> we've seen that crowd building, craig. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the crowd, indeed, has been growing throughout the morning. say hello. say hello. before you get from the u.s. capital behind me, the less it is like an inauguration, the more it is like a block party/picnic. folks from texas, buffalo, new york, who have said several times this is far from cold. i do want to -- where are you from? >> from new jersey. >> r

fox news chief congressional correspondent. our first guest tonight voted against the fiscal cliff deal in the house and says it's jut another deal by washington insiders with no real solutions d points to a lack of courage and will in washington. he also rallied opposition against the speaker's plan the proposal after the republican leaders removed him from the house budget and agriculture committee, a move he described as petty, vindictive politics. joining us, congressman of kansas. good to have you with this. >> good evening. pleasure to be here. lou: obviously voting against this plan. i just watched this market rally . 308 points on the dow after a deal in which the national debt will rise by $4 trillion nearly 80 percent of all americans will see a tax hike. what are you guys doing? >> well, the rally on wall street, things we good, but from a street is not a good deal. it ais taxes, increasing spending, did not deal with entitlements reform. it is a bad deal, the typical washington deal. at the end of the day most repub

rather a long time ago and currently there are congressional oversight arrangements and i if if if you are running a project about the future of the cia i wonder if you have been in touch with those congressional committees and giving them evidence because it is their job to look at what the cia is going and see whether that's consistent and the directions of the u.s. government now have you been in touch with them well let's go to dr let's go to drone so ok what's the congressional oversight for drone well that you're jumping to a different issue but it was religion aiming to the same issue where is the oversight when you're making a general claim and let me remind you that the cia consists of lots of things go ahead it is not just drones it's not just what are amounted to nothing or pretty big deal aren't you want to jump in there. they're the cia the cia is in fact an arm of the executive branch of the government. and if that executive branch says we're going to kill americans we're going to we're going to if the executive branch if the politicians say you we're going to give them k

>> according to the congressional budget office. >> take it from me, that is what the congressional budget office told us. >> neil: so, if that be the case why are members ignoring these numbers from the congressional budget office? they are right out there, put out by the cbo putting out for everyone to read. like reduce funding for non-defense agency by 1% annually and you save 932 million. you slash the growth in funding for the department of defense by 1% and you save another $862 billion. we're not cutting or slashing anything. we're curbing go the growth. how about this. raise the earliest eligibility a age for social security, and you could be looking at another $144 billion in saving. nearly two trillion in savings from those three examples i gave you. there are dozens more. a total of $4.6 trillion of potential savings if washington would get on the stick and start cutting, not hacking, cutting. not reducing but slowing the growth. is it any wonder that cockroaches have higher approval rating than members of congress. it is really bugging craig smith. when you look at this, these

get their way, it will be the united congressional districts of america. it's the latest mickey mouse gimmick to win elections without having to win with the most number of votes. rebel all of those cuts and the effort to make it harder for people to vote, all of that targeting to vote in ways that people don't like voting? well, now they're trying something new. they don't like states like pennsylvania that regularly vote democratic. so some kwauk thougquack thaugo to give the rural votes more power. their decided to kill the power of how the real state goes overall. if they can't get people to vote for them, they try to kill the power of those who don't. will they get away with it? not if you stay tuned and keep an eye on these little buggers. they've got their mickey mouse ears on. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, president obama won. this president has no time to waste and he's using it to push for change on gun control, on immigration, on climate change, on ending t

i want to say to the head of the congressional black caucus, i want to step way out there. i was impressed with the intensity of your comments about some of your colleagues. i think part of the challenge we have in america is a real dialogue now takes more than 90 minutes. here is my proposal, which i will carry to the republican side if the congressional black caucus wants to do this. i believe congressional black caucus members should offer to match up with the republican member so they are each going together to spend three days in the district, and you spend three days in the republican district, and those six days and will lead to a conversation that will help lead us to help the by partisanship and help each side have a slightly different understanding and maybe start to create some friendships for which we can rebuild the ability to govern this country. >> if you can make it work, i am in. if you can get society to do it, i am in. >> check it out. tell me how many of your folks are willing to visit. i will find that number of republicans and make sure it happens. tim

between each congressional session, you know, after a two year congressional session ends and right before the next one begins, so this would greatly weaken a president's recess appointment powers. >> as jim carney was mentioning earlier in that sound bite, he said this has been practiced and precedent for a long time. so is the likelihood that this particular rule cog have an effect on all sorts of presidential appointments going forward? >> absolutely. some people pointed out that many federal judges are sitting on the bench now thanks to their reaes-- recess appointments. and as a result of today's ruling of the three judge panel of the federal appeals court and the district of columbia, those judges appointments could be nullified. and there are prisoners sitting if prison nowadays thinking wait t this is good news. maybe my conviction, maybe my sentencing can be overturned because the judge who ordered my sentence was a recess appointment. >> so considering the magnitude of all this, the supreme court likely to take it up? >> i think so, hari. it's not absolutely clear but because thi

in addition to the unresolved issues, new hope congressional lawmakers will pass a congressional relief victims of hurricane sandy. john boehner was criticized after he would not allow the bill to reach the floor. >> if the people of new jersey feel betrayed today by those who did this in the house last night, they have good company. i am with them. >> the senate previously approved a $60 billion relief bill but it stalled in the house. according to congressman peter king the house plans to have two votes. when this friday, and other january 15. hillary clinton is spending her -- her first night out of a hospital. she was accompanied by her husband and their daughter when she left the new york city hospital today. doctors are giving her blood thinners and expect her to make a full recovery. returning to our effort -- turning to our forecast, temperatures are down after a calm day in the region. bob ryan joins us. >> it has been a quiet day. more quiet weather. look at our current temperatures. we are right into our coldest time of the year. our temperatures feel like january. we will be

between each congressional session, you know after a two year congressional session ends and right before the next one begins so this would greatly weaken a president's recess appointment powers. >> as jim carney was mentioning earlier in that sound bite, he said this has been practiced and precedent for a long time. so is the likelihood that this particular rule cog have an effect on all sorts of presidential appointments going forward? >> absolutely. some people pointed out that many federal judges are sitting on the bench now thanks to their reaes-- recess appointments. and as a result of today's ruling of the three judge panel of the federal appeals court and the district of columbia, those judges appointments could be nullified. and there are prisoners sitting if prison nowadays thinking wait t this is good news. maybe my conviction, maybe my sentencing can be overturned because the judge who ordered my sentence was a recess appointment. >> so considering the magnitude of all this the supreme court likely to take it up? >> i think so hari. it's not absolutely clear but because this d

congressional black caucus. c.b.c. members stand firm as the voice of the people and the conscience of the congress. we are dedicated to providing service to those who elected us to this offer. tonight we focus on the culture of violence. with no end in sight, the culture of violence continues to permeate and define our society, mr. speaker. we cannot hide from it. it is everywhere we go. merriam webster defines an epidemic as something affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large numb of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time. it is clear the culture of violence is an american epidemic. it is time for us to face the music. we are complicit in the violence that takes place in our nation if we fail to strengthen our gun laws, if we fail to invest more resources into our mental health services and address the issues of bullying. we must take a meaningful and immediate action to eradicate the culture of violence in our country. mr. speaker, this evening i am joined by a

congress members, congressional members have to choose.ve in to the nra or they can protect america's children with reasonable reform. i'm joined tonight by katrina van den heuvel, editor and publisher of "the nation" magazine and jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view. great to have both of you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> the pulse of the country has changed. katrina? >> the pulse has changed, but one thing we must do is end the nra's stranglehold on our politics. you know, i think it's important to remember, ed, that the nra has some 4 million members but there are 100 million gun owners in this country who support common sense legislation to reduce gun violence. the nra represents the gun industry more than it does its rank and file members who, according to a poll by republican frank luntz, support, nra members support common sense gun control legislation. i think we need to make this moment a moment where americans are angry, are outraged, make it into a movement. and we need americans to tell t

they're the numbers that paul ryan himself gave the congressional budget office. they are his own vision of his plan. they're what happens if everything goes exactly how he wants it to. and so what you're seeing here is the definition between paul ryan's most recent budget and the law as it is currently read. and it is two different things, ten years from now. this gives you a very clear idea up until now of what ryan has been cutting. first, people tend to think that ryan's budget is about medicare. but that is not where he gets savings, at least in the first ten years. it is only about half of gdp, or 10% of his cuts. then, he doesn't touch medicare at all. then there is this category of health care, which is mostly health care for poor people, medicaid, obama care, things like that. and now you begin to get into bigger numbers, ryan gets 1.5% of gdp, or more than three times of what he saves in medicare, but cutting mostly health care on poor people, about 10% of total savings. then there is everything else, food, education, infrastructure, everything else the

he was an entrepreneur and accidental congressman running in 2010 in the texas congressional district including corpus christi, and at the time included brownsville, a district, in other words, that was 70% hispanic. blake, himself, spoke no spanish, and was a political unknown; however, in 2010, despite the numbers being overwhelmingly again him, a midterm year, latino voters stayed home, and there was a big tea party movement in the area, and he won by 800 or 900 votes. >> beat senior, a long time democratic member of the congress. >> that's exactly right, yeah. he arrived because he was inexperienced of the ways of government at large. he arrived three and a half weeks after everybody else did because the recoup, and so he was, you know, i followed a lot of the congressman around to get aceps of the congressional experience, and his was one of the citizens politician who tries, as he might, to never catch up, just always, sort of, you know, holding on to the medicine ball for dear life and never getting on top of it. he was -- he -- his -- he told me he had this recurring nightmare

he did not have any congressional leaders on this issue.g children who had written him letters urging him to take action against gun violence. that is pretty much perfect example of the way he is trying to reach out more to the public and that direct way, rather than trying to build better relations with congress. >host: auriana joins us from ann arbor, michigan. go ahead, please. good afternoon. caller: basically my comment is i feel like the model for congress this next four years should be compromise, because i feel like if you are going to go to combat with the president, let it be for something relevant instead of your personal feelings for him. i feel like this has been everyone sat in the corner and pouted. you will not listen to what i want to do so i will completely shut down. this is not a republican issue, a democratic issue, this is an american issue. this is people's lives at stake. instead of having your own personal agenda, you need to look at the american people as whole and we need to come together and compromise, and basic

shows and movies on their can get congressional computers this is according to u.s. news and world report here's a sample of what they've been downloading home and away it's an australian soap opera of the voice singing competition show supernatural the ultimate fighter and degrassi the next generation just to name a few interesting lee enough it looks like congress members and staffers themselves may be among those affected by n.c. piracy legislation earlier today i spoke with our the producer rachel curteous we first discussed how it looks as though lawmakers are practicing what they preach lawmakers not practicing what they preach live shocker breaking news i think i think that certainly clears we're not sure at this point if it's the lawmakers or just the employees using their computers but either way it's very clear that literally at the exact same time that they were creating this legislation like sopa which would essentially create a kill switch by which any website that had any sort of copyright information could be taken down they were looking at that copyri

the answer is because they win all of the congressional votes now.t it by districts, democrats would pick up eight, nine, ten. it's interested they're only interested in giving this fairness to the voters in president shl blue states. it's an interesting kwens dent, isn't it? >> it's called selective democracy. >> madame chair lady, governor, thank you boet for being here tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >> coming up, the mud slingers are back at it. new ugly attacks on hillary clinton that are crossing the line. and then, beyonce and what really matters. stay with us. ♪ [ female announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day women's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for women's health concerns as we age. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day 50+. >>> the old attacks on hillary clinton are back. i wonder why? that's next. >>> right now, as we've been talking about, it's focused on big issues. jobs, guns, immigration. but some republicans aren't thinking about that. they t

. >> nothing exposes congressional ignorance and incompetent actions better than a congressional hearing. you actually have to know something to sound impressive in a congressional hearing. it is not just reading speeches, it is interactive. asking a question of the chairman of the federal reserve or making any kind of statement to him when he is actually there to respond is a grand opportunity to look and sound like an idiot. an opportunity that many senators and house members have taken over the years. witnesses at congressional hearings in the house and the senate tend to know a little more, in fact much more about the subject at hand than the members of the committee listening to them. today, the most experienced testifyer under pressure in modern washington history took the hill. >> good morning, mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman, i have greatly appreciated all of this effort that has gone into making sure that we are all moving forward and trying to realize the hope of providing health security for every american. >> the pressure is on potential presidential candidates in high profile

court ruled president obama's appointments to the national labor relations board made during a congressional recess were unconstitutional. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the decision and the reaction from the white house. >> brown: then, we hear from two of our newshour colleagues on the road: margaret warner reports from jerusalem on moves in israel to form a new coalition government. >> sreenivasan: and ray suarez updates the high-powered meetings of heads of state, business leaders, and others at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. >> brown: from mali, lindsey hilsum looks at tensions caused by government troops as they advance into islamist territory. >> sreenivasan: spencer michels has a story about trash and one city's crusade to eliminate all of it. >> reporter: san francisco boasts that it recycles 80% of all garbage, and is aiming for zero waste. but some skeptics don' believe it. >> brown: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's ne

he won the -- the democrats won the congressional vote by 1.5 million. election. people will understand that, and republicans will be punished. >> i believe that if a state that votes majority for one guy for president, either party, and finds out two or three days later that the majority of their electoral votes went the other way, we'll have a revolution. anyway, i don't think it's going to happen. but i understand what you guys are up to because you can't win a majority vote anymore. thank you, steve mcmahon and the objective robert costa from the great renowned "national journal." >> national review. >> when we return, the republicans' mickey mouse club. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. low testosterone, you should know that axiron is here. the only underarm treatment for low t. that's right, the one you apply to the underarm. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18. axiron can transfer to others through direct contact. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avoid contact wh

some senate and congressional side stepping and questioning the president's push for new gun laws. our next guest saying not only can democrats push for gun control in the south and win, some have already done so! joining us now is our favorite nerd in the world, nate cohn, staff writer for "the new republic." how are you? >> good to be back. >> you say in the new article, pro-gun control dems can win in red states and succeeding in dixie with a "f" from the nra. what? how? who? how are they doing this? >> best example is bill nelson who ran for the first time in 2000 when gun control supposedly cost al gore the presidency and won the state by five points and most importantly, he was winning in pensacola and -- not pence ka lo but the florida panhandle. he was carrying a place like liberty county which voted for romney by 40 points in november. and these are areas that are only separated from alabama by an artificial border and he didn't just have a "f" rating from the nra. >> nate, "the washington post" polled republicans before the president announced his gun control package. and