many thanks to kim lawton, to e.j. dionne, and to jason byassee.happy new year to each of you and to our viewers. probably immigration reform and climate change. more partisan illegal activities. >> issues of ppverty and hunger. >> one of the issues is smae sex marriage. you can see history changing >> where is the peace? >> what happens with divorce and fatherless kids. >> the immigration debate. the whole is going to be altered with limate hange >> there are tax provisions that help poor families. >> causing people who have dreams to shut down and go into protective mode. >> potter: finally, on our calendar: wednesday, many christians celebrate epiphany, marking the visit of the magi to the infant jesus, and many orthodox christians will celeate christmas this upcoming week. that's our program for now. i'm deborah potter. there's much more on our web site, including more of our interviews with religious leaders on what they'll be watching for in 2010 and transcripts of our conversations about the year past and the year just beginning. join us at

tom borrow cause, david brooks, e.j. dionne and doris kearns goodwin here on "meet the press." >>> our political round table weighs in on the year ahead for the obama agenda. >>> we're back joined by presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, nbc news tom brokaw and david brooks of "the new york times." welcome to all of you. happy new year. tom brokaw, this christmas day plot, this this was the 3:00 a.m. wake-up call that hillary clinton talked about in the campaign. >> i think they have been more responsive. it dmen straights the vulnerability of great powers like the united states against an enemy that really is very nimble, cunning, and suicidal. and for all of the technology that we have in the world, all of the coordination that goes on with security apparatus in europe and the rest of the world one piece is not in place, somebody can slip through and have a devastating effect as that bomber might have had on that northwest flight that day. the administration certainly has now been responding in a much more robust fashi

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