assistant police chief by the name of frank reid tried to dissuade me from taking the job. "don't take it and two weeks later if something happens they will blame you" but i like to take on jobs. well, he kind of felt sorry for me, and i had no vehicles, nothing, no employees. the door bell rang and there is a police officer outside and the chief sent these keys. you have a unmarked police car until you get a vehicle. well, i paid them back. three weeks later i was driving down venice and left on to broadway and the radio went on and strong arm robbery in pacific heights and woman assaulted and bag stolen and identified the car and two individuals and proceeding north on lawenna. gee, i am going in that direction. i have a naval aif eightor's eye and incredible eye sight and wouldn't you know it there is the vehicle coming straight towards me and the traffic was slow and could reach out and touch and i made a u turn and i got on the roo. the director of radio services had a call sign at the time and close to the police chiefs. i got on and called in and there was a pregnant

reid to go f himself? we are not talking about frank. we'll have the inside story on that. then, bernie goldberg on whether americans care about the fiscal debate. also juliet huddy on celebrities demanding gun control. we hope you stay tuned for those reports as the factor continues all across the u.s.a. and all around the world. >> bill: speaker of the house boehner told senator troid go f himself. joining us now from d.c. chief washington news correspondent james rosen. so, rosen, did it happen? >> it did. >> bill: what prompted it? these little verbal things. we remember cheney he did that to senator leahy of vermont. >> right on the floor. >> bill: this wasn't caught on tape. so tell me what happened? >> first of all, speaker boehner took, to borrow a phrase from sonny core lone, he took very very personally some statements by the senate majority leader harry reid made during this run-up to the fiscal cliff package deal in which senator reid said, for example, that speaker boehner is running the house like a dictatorship and also perhaps even more insulting that he was

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>> so frank's point is that the democrats, like harry reid, instead of getting out of the way and lettingns destroy themselves, harry reid will go on the senate floor and be unnecessarily provocative, rub their noses in it. frank doesn't talk about this, but other democrats have even brought up the president's press conference while he was in the middle of negotiations. >> right. >> with the cheerleaders. it was very interesting, having pom-poms saying rah-rah reid. >> pom-poms were missing. >> a lot of people say that's unnecessarily provocative. again, i'm just, you know, lending support to frank's argument here. do you think maybe the president -- the democrats need to be more gracious and just let the republicans destroy themselves while they're smiling from the sidelines? >> you brought up two instances when there are hundreds of thousands of instances that happen every day that we don't know about of graciousness and things like that. you know, harry reid, i'm not a big harry reid fan. i think sometimes he goes way too far and isn't terribly effective leader, but i do think we are g

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reid, thank you. >>> republicans in congress have taken a beating this week between the fiscal cliff drama and the decision to put off superstorm sandy relief. let's talk about it with frankn a very tough week after a tough two years for the gop. i was with a number of members last night and while the wounds have begun to heal the american people are very frustrated with congress right now. they're frustrated with washington. they do what senator john mccain has said they want them to get along, get stuff done. the gop is hoping today starting with a new congress things will be different. >> frank, i didn't even get a question in there. you took it and went. i mean, i didn't have to say a thing. you just start talking. >> but -- >> i want to ask you about the state of the republican party. >> sure. >> you heard governor chris christie excoriate the house republicans yesterday saying it's disappointing, it's disgusting. he said that he had tried to call speaker boehner four times and didn't get his phone call returned until the next day. what does this do for the state of the party, this in fighting? >> it is a challenge. remember that speaker boehner was trying to deal wi