ethel i don't know about that but i know there's a lot of good people many in your audience who might you know relax those purse strings and send them a little something ok so another value liberty how can you be free if you can't even sleep because your house is so carol. you know i want to tell you something tom about two years ago i had a client's who was in the oil business and he got in trouble with that's apartment of taxation new york state and i tried to work out a deal with him where he would provide low income families with heating oil for a significantly reduced rate if they would just reinstate his license and they were intransigent they didn't give a tinker's damn about these poor families and i don't think the federal government does either are you suggesting we should not be a political issue right now are you trying to demonize people like myself who are financially responsible fiscally receipts are you suggesting we should go into our jails and say to people if you help the poor we're going to lunch hour it doesn't make sense to me do you agree with the new tom tim bu

eeled iron son, old ethel, the bastard of back stone? what was his neicknamenickname? ed aulgz i-- the answer is c an you both got it wrong. it was easy. >> that was in can stas. >> you and dorothy. >> you got that wrong and you both should be ashamed. >> benedict arnold revolutionary war making his name forever cinnamon nows with being a trader. which american force did arnold unsuccessfully attempt to hand over to the britt fish in exchange for a money bribe? which fort did arnold sell out? roll the tape. >> in the predawn air force benedict arnold said farewell to a young british officer and headed back home along the banks of the hudson river. major general arnold commander of the american fortress of west point had just handed over information vital to the enemy's planned attack of the port. a west point. >> i was going to say west point. >> i used to use those excuses. i really knew it. >> take that from the urchins. >> the movie top gun featuring tom cruise as a navy pilot was a huge hit. >> i feel the need for speed. >> ouch. >> what aircraft did the character

ethel kennedy and anne mara who own the giants. they have 600 children and 8,000 grandchildren. >> i don't like when people say it's thanksgiving and i'm all done. i don't like that feeling. then there is the practical gift giver. these people skip the gift and go right to the gift card or cash because they know the recipient would rather have that or else they are lazy. >> it seems lazy, but in truth -- if you're giving gifts to people -- >> you don't know. >> it goes back to why are you giving gifts to people you don't know. with teenagers, you often misread what they would like. the provider. the provider buys items they think are needed but not desired like turtlenecks and ties and socks. >> here are some socks, merry christmas. >> i want socks this christmas. >> what if you unwrapped and there would be socks. >> i would be thrilled. i want workout clothes, socks and a new treadmill. that is something we all go on the treadmill and ours is from the flintstone era. >> the socializer gives what they want to the person. hey, i lov

they were named lucy and ethel, but apparently they were a boy and girl and they had a bunch of babieso the school and they got lost in my apartment. then i moved and i don't know where they are. >> some guy in the apartment caught a mouse and gave it to you and told you it was a russian dwarf mouse. >> can i tell you, there is a big christmas present coming our way next year. new president. >> injected it right in there. we got to take break. what's your favorite christmas movie? mine is "wild christmas nights in tijuana" i made it myself. bob will tell us his g rated choice. after all, it is christmas. if you leave now, santa will return and take everything he gave you. ♪ okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps y

they were named lucy and ethel, but apparently they were a boy and girl and they had a bunch of babies to bring it to the school and they got lost in my apartment. then i moved and i don't know where they are. >> some guy in the apartment caught a mouse and gave it to you and told you it was a russian dwarf mouse. >> can i tell you, there is a big christmas present coming our way next year. new president. >> injected it right in there. we got to take break. what's your favorite christmas movie? mine is "wild christmas nights in tijuana" i made it myself. bob will tell us his g rated choice. after all, it is christmas. if you leave now, santa will return and take everything he gave you. ♪ @ ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah @ ♪ . >> i want to thank the newark boys chorus school for being part of "the five" christmas special. if you can, make a donation to these young men on their web site. also you can find more information on the choir by logging on to foxnews.com. we've heard several song, but i want to know what's your favorite christmas carol. >> my favorite christmas al

his wife ethel, i would say, was probably my dearest friend.e got here is an original painting by harry wingfield. there's the illustration in the book. and there's his subject. that's right. he's your son. yes, my son. that i find most remarkable. the books really do illustrate the sort of life they had-- them playing and learning and going to their house after school. i went to college as a mature student, and was only able to do so because they had the children after school. that was a remarkable facility that you had right on your doorstep. oh, absolutely. not every artist can get that. artists need inspiration, and subjects to work with, but what we've got here is a pretty close resemblance, a remarkable lifelike resemblance. that's unusual. he captured him beautifully. he did. so that was you in your bath time. do you remember that bath time? not that particular one. i do remember we posed for lots of the illustrations so friends would be pointing at fictitious hedgehogs. so you did official posing... absolutely. as well as real-life insp

if you are unfamiliar with lucille ball and the chocolate factory, it shows lucille ball and ethel at the factory and the conveyer belt gets going so fast they can't get them in the wrappers. >> and at first it's easy and then it gets her i believe. >> that's right. newt gingrich wasn't prepared for all the stuff coming his way and just like that. >> i've seen it a thousand times and it's still great. >> it never gets old. >> what is funny in addition to this clip of them having to now eat the chocolates. it seems like mitt romney was thinking it up at the moment. he compared it to what, pearl harbor? that reminds me more of "i love lucy." but that was a line he crafted but he delivered it as though it's impromptu. >> of course, everything in politics is practiced. >> he said he read his notes on the ipad. >> nothing is spontaneous. here's the thing, if that was the gloves coming off, he's teasing. >> well, it didn't go over too well with newt gingrich because he had this in response to being compared. >> i would love to have him say that to my face. you want to run a negative campaig

ethel writes, mike, will you take me to my senior citizens center prom? >> you know, ethel, i'll check out the program. if guy lombardo is appearing so will i. that's about it. thanks, john. "morning joe" i can't believe we do this every day -- "morning joe" starts right now. >>> jon huntsman should be a conservative hero. his program is the most conservative. red states eric erickson, george will, "the wall street journal" agree. huntsman has the best plan to fix the economy. jon huntsman's record is more conservative than newt gingrich and mitt romney combined, has better foreign policy experience, is more pro life and huntsman would be a more conservative president. jon huntsman, the consistent conservative who can win. our destiny pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> good morning. welcome to "morning joe." look at times square. it's tuesday, december 20th. we're counting down. with us onset we have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin and also visiting professor at nyu former democratic congressman har

and so, the wives of my brothers were called ethel or marjorie or nancy are things like that i.r.a. side when i was little yvonne had a touch of class to it, little bit more cosmopolitan perhaps, that more stylish, at the morse fourier. i described her as the gin in the tonic in the cream and the coffee. she was cheerful and humorous and one said to me that really the only unforgivable sin was to be boring. which has haunted me all my life. fear of becoming a bore or being bored, stark terror, tedium. [inaudible] >> yes, it's with me always. i mean, i think it's probably the most devastating word one can use against somebody or risk having used against yourself. don't be boring. >> this book is full of names, boldface names as i say. i'm just going to throw some out and have you respond. mark amos. who is he and what is his relationship to you? >> as i'm sure a lot of your audience know, a brilliant novelist both of humor and of gravity. he has written novels about the holocaust and about the gulag archipelago but he is also written his best known one called money, which is the stud

>> lucy and ethel are zany. abbott and costello are zany. obsessed with hitler than ava brawn. his comments are demonic and they show he doesn't have an understanding of history. >> we'll have fun on this one. if our viewers haven't seen this clip you need to see this one. herman cain, i know, you remember him, maybe even miss him a bit. he was on barbara walters most intriguing people special. listen to this interaction. >> reporter: what kind of cabinet position might you like if it were possible? >> we are speaking totally, totally hypothetical, right? >> reporter: yes. >> totally, totally hypothetical. department of defense. >> reporter: what? >> her reaction is classic. will, what is your reaction? what would your reaction be to a herman cain secretary of defense? >> herman cain secretary of defense. i could not think of one he would have named that he would have been more ill suited for. this was a man that felt like it was important for us to root the taliban out of libya. that joke can escape many people's attention here. the taliban

is very important because she wore that dress when she went to the theater with robert kennedy and ethele is so much history in this room. i want to walk over and get to something that i think must be kind of the crown of this whole election called the elizabeth taylor diamond. all i got to say is, wow. >> it is wow. it's one of the greatest diamonds that the world knows. it's 33 carats with no color. it has no color other than the light that comes from the rainbow and is reflected. and the cuts of the stone are so deep that elizabeth taylor referred to them as steps into eternity. >> one can only imagine what kind of price a diamond like this would fetch anyway but the fact that it was elizabeth taylor's must make the value go into the stratusphere. >> it is estimated at $2.5 million to $3.5 million and because of the fame should bring more. >> i want to show another room. there is so much memorabilia and fashion. you actually have set up here at christy's her dressing room, a replica. tell us about it. >> we have. one of the extraordinary things about elizabeth taylor's collecting is t

this is a huge day for ethel merman and the rest of us.. it's because of the block buster sales and the gift guards given out as presents every year. >>> in connecticut this morning, investigators are saying it could take days to find out what caused this fire. it killed five people including three young girls. officials do not believe renovations to the home caused the fire. >>> makers of enfamil formula say there's no ling to the form lay and a death of baby in missouri. the so-day-oel died because of a bacterial infection. >>> the iowa caucuses, only eight days away. the republican hopefuls are hirgt the phones airing new ads, many of them degree active. mitt romney's support is building in the state. all of the candidates are working to derail congressman ron paul. he's got the best organization on the ground. >>> there is a would-be robber sporting a black eye in morning. he tried to hit up a store in north carolina. he came face to face with one very fed up store clerk. abc's rob nelson shows ups what happened. >> reporter: it wount

this is a huge day for ethel merman and the rest of us.hopping today, compared to 43% last year. it's because of the block buster sales and the gift guards given out as presents every year. >>> in connecticut this morning, investigators are saying it could take days to find out what caused this fire. it killed five people, including three young girls. officials do not believe renovations to the home caused the fire. >>> makers of enfamil formula say there's no ling to the form lay and a death of baby in missouri. the so-day-oel died because of a bacterial infection. >>> the iowa caucuses, only eight days away. the republican hopefuls are hirgt the phones, airing new ads, many of them degree active. mitt romney's support is building in the state. all of the candidates are working to derail congressman ron paul. he's got the best organization on the ground. >>> there is a would-be robber sporting a black eye in morning. he tried to hit up a store in north carolina. he came face to face with one very fed up store clerk. abc's rob nelson shows

e ethel kennedy and a anne mara who own the giants.y would like. the provider. the provider buys items they think are needed but not desired like turtlenecks and ties and socks. >> here are some socks, merry christmas. >> i want socks this christmas. >> what if you unwrapped and there would be socks. >> i would be thrilled. i want workout clothes, socks and a new treadmill. that is something we all go on the treadmill and ours is from the flintstone era. >> the socializer gives what they want to the person. hey, i love this red dress, here's one for you. >> i did it once for my mother. i was little and got her the pink stuffed poodle i wanted so badly, i gave it to my mother. one time in my life and i still feel guilty about it. the perfect gift-giver gives something they know you would like, not something they want for their selfish selves. they take their selfish self-absorbed selves out of the picture. >> if you get a gift in the next couple of days you don't like, and you will, about.com shared some advice. i happen to disagree wit

i mean of baldacci and ethel's mainstream outcome and wasn't always so and a good sign to become a sloganonely for people that feel like they may be getting heard. c-span: i have to confess that when i got into preparing for the july not to the coup started to drum and all the different website and blogs and all that we talked about earlier about cafe hayek i wanted to ask you what is that? >> guest: that is my blog that i do with don boudreaux. c-span: and your taste of george mason university teaching what level? >> guest: correct. undergraduates and grads. c-span: teaching what course? >> guest: this semester in teaching a seminar on adam smith to both graduates and undergraduates. c-span: did they have to watch your videos? >> guest: know they are all fans. they told me about how it's doing more than i'd final leone. they like it. c-span: and econtalk again what is that? >> guest: that is my weekly podcast it comes, it's sponsored by liberty fund. it comes on every monday morning at six thanks 30 a.m. interviews with economists, authors, everyday people, business leaders. c-span: how

hubert humphrey went to see him, george mcgovern went to see him, ethel kennedy went to see him. in her case, i think it was a sense of compassion after what had happened. in other cases, it was the politics of it. they realized that they would like to have his support. nixon did more than go and see him go. he also manipulated the shooting of governor wallace by trying to blame -- trying to link the man who had shot him to george mcgovern. >> joe reed, do you remember when george wallace was shot? >> i learned of it at my office. my sympathy went out to the wallace family as well as everybody else. it was one thing you did not want to happen. i remember it very well. i went to the democratic convention in 1972 where george wallace was. he was trying to make his way. when he was shot and paralyzed, that pretty much ended his political career as a presidential candidate. on the other hand, he continued to run for office and hold office in alabama as governor. of course, after the shooting, and after he was paralyzed for so long, you might get to that later on, but i think that is