al franken was laboring under a rare burden when he became a freshman senator.amous than almost every senator there. imagine how much better he was able to get along with his colleagues when they realized he was never going to take their seat on "meet the press" or any show they wanted to be on. by the time i privately advised senator franken, the special burden on freshman senators who are already famous has been handled well by most of them. danielle patrick monahan had been on the cover of new york. he had experience to know that his new colleagues feared he would steal their national media spot spotlights. he made press conferences with local new york media a weekly ritual long before becoming a regular on "meet the press." in the seven years that i worked for him in the middle of his career i saw him turn down many national media wre requests than he actually accepted. big bradley became a united states senator from new jersey and quickly showed his colleagued that he was there to work not bask in the media lime light. when hillary clinton took his seat she

we have a lot of discussion, senator franken and others have introduced bills in the united states senate to address precisely the questions that you are asking, governor, and we have supported them and we continue to look forward -- as a prosecutor i always want more tools. you know, i see a problem out there and i want to have the tools to fix it. we passed a hate crimes law in 2009 that enables us to work with local law enforcement in much more effective ways to combat hate crimes including but not limited to lgbt motivated violence. so we'd love to have more tools. but, you know, with the tools that we currently have, we're doing as much as we can and i think ruslyn's point about the uptick in the number of complaints we're both receiving, i'm not sure that necessarily reflects, as ruslyn correctly pointed out, that there's an uptick in violence. the doctrine of futility often

. >>> with some hype, the media said it was a media franken storm. was the coverage done right. >>. >> they got the spotlight giving updates and assessments but did some take advantage of the situation to politicize the problem and did the media help them do it? election day just days away. did hurricane sandy cause a media distraction taking the heat off the president on key issues? most in the media still in a blackout over the terror attacks in benghazi, ignoring new details about what happened and helping the white house cover up the real story. and do the tv shows you watch 6 any influence who you will puck as president? >> i marry bessy and dee. >> judy miller, richard grenell. jim pinkerton, contributing editor and alan colmes, thanks the liberals for saving america. she host of alan colmes show. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >> were on the southern tip of manhattan, the area known as the battery, named the cannons that were defending it back in the 17th century. but nothing could protect the city when the water of water came

harry reid offered the job to minnesota senator, al franken. al franken said, no.then offered the job to new york senator, chuck schumer. chuck schumer said, no. nobody wanted this job. finally, on his fourth try, he convinced someone to take this terrible, terrible job. poor patty murray. the senator from washington state. look at this. democrats beseech murray to take the job. nobody wants to be set up for failure. nobody wants to take on a job at which they are almost guaranteed to fail. and in 2010, the job of trying to secure democratic control of the senate in this year's election, seemed like a completely impossible prospect. look at this. democrats face an extremely tough map in 2012. the democrats must defend 23 seats while just ten republicans are up for re-election. no way, right? odds totally stacked against the democrats. no way democrats can hold the senate under those circumstances. that is how it looked when poor patty murray had to be beseeched into taking that job. it's not how it turned out. >> when harry asked me to take this on, there was not o

they want her to stay in the house and not risk the republican opportunities at defeating al franken. she is satisfied and enjoys herb time in congress and doesn't go for the senate race in 2014 is a big priority for republicans. >> quickly, number 5, avoiding primary challenges against senate incumbents. >> this may not most important task of all. we saw richard lugar in 2012 lose a primary to a conservative challenger, richard mourdock, and then he couldn't hang onto the seat in november for republicans and happened in 2010 with a few other senate races. there are a few from deep southern states like lindsay gram in south carolina, chambliss in georgia, they could have challenges on their right in primaries but if you see all of this energy being focused on defeating republicans and not after taking back a majority which is the general goal for senate republicans you can see they may have more problems than they realize. >> good to see you. thanks. >>> today's tweet of the day comes from someone maybe just a little cynical. fake dispatch writes cyber monday is the day you find out t

because al franken's race went for a recount. specter switched parties. he had a very short amount of time. [ overlapping speakers >> which is necessary but shouldn't be necessary. >> you know what i reject? everything has to have a primary race base narrative. [ overlapping speakers >> there is an objection to policy that is the majority of the objection. [ overlapping speakers >> but jelena are there issues that are unique to a black president or are there situations, responses, tensions, anything about this particular presidency that happened because of race? >> yes. but that entire fiscal crisis we're going to deal with over the next few months, that has to do with the fact this was the first black president. obviously it's something that you can't prove, right? it's something they believe strongly. i cannot prove it. >> it's a farce. [ overlapping speakers >> she thought concerned about the issues concerned about, george bush sold the government in record form number one. [ overlapping speakers >> the tea party did not form its functionality to the d

whether this franken storm effects it -- i would like to see ads of doing dishes and taking care of my baby. that's what would win my vote. >> let's talk about what has moved some swing women. it was the first debate appearance from governor rick r. he was excellent. that evente gave a lot of swing voters permission to support romney someone who they now see as an alternative. >> that's right. no women's issues were raised in that first debate. when we saw in the second debate when the presidential candidate answered a question around pay equity, it shows us once again how the republican party fails to address the issues that are specifically important. >> that was not true. romney talked about -- let me finish. when he was governor. women came to him -- >> that's not true. >> can i talk? women wanted time, they wanted flexible work schedules. they shared jobs where they can go home. you know what he said in that debate, it's important for women to be home with their kids and job share. it's not about lily ledbetter. >> what's going to sway those undecided votersci in swing stas >> con

. >>> coming up, franken food, marijuana, g marijuana, gramatic mistakes. >> franken food? explain. >>> we want to get to the challenge of president obama's second term. we want to bring jon karl back. democrats in control of the senate. republicans in control of the house. president obama, in control of the white house. the question this time around, will they be able to work together? >> that is exactly the question. and, george, if you look at it right now, there's absolutely no time for a period for a second term honeymoon. in fact, if you look at it, he faces a deeply divided congress, perhaps even more divided than before. and a series of problems that have been put off for the election, that demand immediate attention. president obama has his second term. >> i return to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever, about the work there is to do and the future of the lives ahead. >> reporter: as talk of the election fades, there's growing rumors of a looming crisis, taxmageddon. >> taxmageddon. >> reporter: to steer clear of the so-called fiscal cliff,

senator franken is up for reelection in 2014. have you given thought on that? guest: i have thought about that and i am not doing it. i had my full run but now i'm focused on my new job. host: we thank you very much for being our guest on "newsmakers." we are back after talkin to governor tim pawlenty who is now the ceo of the financial roundtable. he represents the financial sector but this week, the president met with business leaders as part of his crafting of the fiscal clip deliberation. what were the message is the two exchanged? what did the president have to say to the business community and what was their message back to him? >> the message is fairly similar on both sides. the business has been very productive getting the message out to congress. they're concerned about the impact of the fiscal cliff and they want them to deal with the deficit but they don't want it done in a dramatic fashion. the president and members of congress have been consistent as well. when you have the business community and the white house getting together, the business commu

. >> nice, juicey franken steak. >> here is the problem. the outside of a piece of meat comes in contact with a lot of bacteria making its way from slaughter house to table. cooking a normal steak will usually kill that off. the center is sterile and that's why you can eat it rare. but glue pieces of mate together and bacteria such as e-coli can be on the inside. >> say somebody wants the fillet stake -- steak rare. the center temperature will not reach the temperature to kill the bacteria. >> the most glued products are fillet mignon served as restaurants, banquets or hotels. analysts and a spokeswoman says it has to be labeled as reformed. you wouldn't see it if you were eating out. >> it is on the label. it may not be on the label on the menu of a restaurant, but it is on a label somewhere in the facility. talk to the wait staff. you need to ask and be informed. >> if you are going to a wedding or another reception, there is a chance you will be serving a meat dpliewed -- meat glued fillet. you can see the investigations at abc7news.com.

. >> nice, juicey franken steak. >> here is the problem.side of a piece of meat comes in contact with a lot of bacteria making its way from slaughter house to table. cooking a normal steak will usually kill that off. the center is sterile and that's why you can eat it rare. but glue pieces of mate together and bacteria such as e-coli can be on the inside. >> say somebody wants the fillet stake -- steak rare. the center temperature will not reach the temperature to kill the bacteria. >> the most glued products are fillet mignon served as restaurants, banquets or hotels. analysts and a spokeswoman says it has to be labeled as reformed. you wouldn't see it if you were eating out. >> it is on the label. it may not be on the label on the menu of a restaurant, but it is on a label somewhere in the facility. talk to the wait staff. you need to ask and be informed. >> if you are going to a wedding or another reception, there is a chance you will be serving a meat dpliewed -- meat glued fillet. you can see the investigations at abc7news.com. for the

. >> nice, juicey franken steak. >> here is the problem.ece of meat comes in contact with a lot of bacteria making its way from slaughter house to table. cooking a normal steak will usually kill that off. the center is sterile and that's why you can eat it rare. but glue pieces of mate together and bacteria such as e-coli can be on the inside. >> say somebody wants the fillet stake -- steak rare. the center temperature will not reach the temperature to kill the bacteria. >> the most glued products are fillet mignon served as restaurants, banquets or hotels. analysts and a spokeswoman says it has to be labeled as reformed. you wouldn't see it if you were eating out. >> it is on the label. it may not be on the label on the menu of a restaurant, but it is on a label somewhere in the facility. talk to the wait staff. you need to ask and be informed. >> if you are going to a wedding or another reception, there is a chance you will be serving a meat dpliewed -- meat glued fillet. you can see the investigations at abc7news.com. for the i-team dan

water levels begin to recede from the superstorm known as sandy the question remains whether the franken storm will have a lingering effect on the other major force coming ahead on tuesday the elections are t r t's laurie harshness took to the streets of brooklyn to see what new yorkers had to say about this. new york with his. hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan or sixty four and i see every day so if you see water. water everywhere the beach was in the street people should know by now. was cool when this type of storm comes so how to build a house a lot of people build a house fred know is not an honest all happen every couple years whatever you got to do to see it and now it's happening more morning crazy climate change events start building even stronger and how did this storm change your mind about any of the issues like climate change or anything like that how stupid the guy was compared obama in terms of what was he gain can. name romney romney why is he gathering can

which brings up how we as citizens respond to these franken storms mile long tornadoes and levee busting floods all the more important a president jimmy carter created for fema when he did as he did so cities and states will never again be alone in rebuilding after catastrophes as famous mission statement reads the his mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build sustain and improve our capability to prepare for protect against respond to recover from and mitigate all hazards the keywords we work together whether you're cleaning up your neighborhood after a block party or cleaning up after a hurricane we all know things work out best when we're all in it together that's why we've included disaster relief efforts as part of our commons right alongside law enforcement and fire protection. these aren't services the work best would run for a profit or to maximize wealth for shareholders these are services owned by we the people to serve we the people and work best when kept in that pure small d. democratic form so it shouldn't s

>> the franken bedroom. >> if your voter suppression throughout this beautiful country enables romney barack obama, we will burn this mother. [ bleep ] down. >> number six. >> if you vote early you don't have to pay taxes. i'm sorry that's not accurate. >> o.h. god i love that. it's so fun. >> yes, it's not that fun. our city has got a way better calling response thing. new york! yeah. >> number two. >> early voters will receive a $5 million donation from donald trump. >> mr. attorney general, as i remember, mitt romney wrote that op ed that said the gm should go through a managed bankruptcy, which they did which the president says that's essentially what car industry. mr. attorney general. >> what is that related to? >> what. >> a deal that went down before the storm ever happened. if bloomberg gets this date, you're going to come out and endorse president obama and then tie it to climate change, they have to go through this. that was a back door deal because no one in their right mind would go out yesterday and say i'm endorseing president obama because of his climate change stance.

water levels begin to recede from the superstorm known as sandy the question remains whether the franken storm will have a lingering effect on the other major forces coming out ahead of tuesday's elections now the lori of the residents lori harshness took that question and many others to the streets of brooklyn to see what new yorkers had to say about the election and sandy's effects on it. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan sixty floor and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere the beach was in the street people should know by know. what's going on when this type of storm come so how to build a house a lot of people build a whole thread no not come a stop happen every couple of years or whatever you got to be big and now it's happening more and more crazy climate change of balance we should start building even stronger and go how did this storm change your mind about any of the issues like climate change or anything like that. in term

well good evening and happy halloween we're going to start this evening with a closer look at franken storm that super storm named sandy pictures of destruction and devastation continue to come in as millions of americans try to pick up the pieces from what is now being referred to as the worst storm in at least one hundred years we want to talk about the effects of the storm and dissects not so much the weather weather patterns that lead to it but the patterns in lifestyle that led to some of this extreme damage and wreckage earlier i was joined by jacob remus assistant professor at suny empire state college as a disaster area story and having seen the rash from superstorm sandy straight from new york i asked him what some of the lessons were that could be drawn from this event i think that we see some of the same patterns that we see in other disasters we see that different people are affected in different ways so for instance in the evacuation zone in new york city. that the creation zone a as it was called people were more than twice as likely evacuation zone a. thing than they we

stoddard and bob franken. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having us. >> let me start with you, some people say the president clearly has the upper hand in these negotiations, is that true? >> not entirely. i think what kristen said is true that polling shows that most americans agree a pretty strong majority agrees that the wealthy need to pay more taxes and so that president obama is going to be pushing. you look at the republican side and as you know, many on the house side say we have house republican majority, came here to cut government. we need to replace these sequestration cuts that take place at the same time that the tax cuts expire. these spending cuts are goingo combination with tax cuts that expire of sending us into recession. they say those spending cuts if we're going to replace them, we need to see some numbers. democrats are not coming up with any spending cuts in these preliminary discussion and that's making republicans they say they need spending cuts. at the same time you'll see t

neil: we don't know what they're whining about, we are big into for acting, franken is at a record highgh, read the details on what is on private land versus public land, but they say there's a policy of building results. you say what speak wit>> if it is a misrepre. said the gas prices woul have to go up to push forward green energy agenda. said cars are going to be twice the efficiency buying half as much gas but offered no real installation. neil: mitt romney got a bad rap on his campaign, making energy such a prominent feature. if we get our energy act together, if we became self-sustaining energy, we are really off to the races. not only does that create jobs and make us a lot more independent, but we are firing on all soldiers with that, and that was an integral approach beyond taxes, budgetary issues. >> believe it is the patriotic thing to do. right now we're in the import of energy. by 2020 we could be a net exporter of energy. not only does that help us from economic standpoi creating hundreds of thousands, even millions of jobs, it also helps us in the national security stand

and i was talking with senator franken backstage. al tries real hard to maintain the gravitas of a senator. every now and then he gets back into being a comedian. he said this deal that romney did to try to cover up and make people forget that he opposed the chrysler bailout, by talking about jeep. he said, it's all i can do. i could make a living on that for the rest of my life. now, you remember what he said? he said -- he's trying to convince everybody that he really wasn't against the gm bailout, except that he was. and we got it on record. he tied himself in so many knots, i think he was offered the job as chief contortionist for cirque du soleil. finally he gave that up. and he said, well, president obama is helping jeep move jobs to china. you all saw that, right? out of ohio. there, i got you now. i took that personally, because when i was president, our white house actually worked with ohio to bring that jeep plant to toledo. i know a lot about that. the problem with a lot of governor romney's charges, somebody knows a lot a

after all al franken is their senator.hether or not to add a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. so, it's a big year for this and we also will hear in a week or two which cases the supreme court will take up. there's the whole proposition eight case coming out of california and the ninth circuit, and then write out of boston there's the gay and lesbian advocates and defenders and they are bringing what is the most effective case against the so-called defensive marriage act, doma and we will find out whether the supreme court will take up one or more or any of those cases and then have -- we should have a ruling by next june. so, is a big moment for marriage and marriage equality and it felt appropriate to write about this and i will tell you a little bit about why intended it for. the book is laid out in the conversation between me and someone who would describe themselves as reasonably tolerant of gay and lesbian people also tolerance isn't all it's cracked up to be. i have a frien

al franken is there senator, they will be voting on whether or not to add a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. so it is a big year for this and we also will appear in a week or two which cases the supreme court will take up. there is coal proposition 8 case coming out of california, and the ninth circuit, and right out of boston here, fantastic work -- 1 a glad, gay lesbian advocates and defenders, they are bringing the most effective cases against the so-called defense of marriage act and we will find out whether the supreme court will take up one or more or all of those cases and then we will have -- we should have a ruling by next june. so it is a big moment for marriage and marriage equality so it felt appropriate to write about this comment and i will talk about who i intended it for. the book is layout, imagined a conversation between me and someone who would probably describe themselves as reasonably tolerant of gay and lesbian people although tolerances and called it is cracked up to being if you haven't noticed. i have a friend who s

al franken won the senate by -- there are more kardashians than tv shows than that.n -- i hate to say, this is not cliche, your vote can make a huge difference in this election. it is so close. everyone knows. >> yeah. i think you're absolutely right. you just got back from ohio last night. i'm curious what the atmosphere sl tl was like. did you meet a lot of people that said that they weren't going to vote, or were they? >> they were excited about voting. they didn't mind the tv commercials when i was there. every single commercial was for the campaigns. local and presidential. they were getting phone calls every day about who are you going to vote for and campaigns. they were excited. they were actually excite. there were a lot of students i met with. i think it was an exciting time. for me it was the political olympics. i like politics, so it was a carnival, a mardi gras. >> i think you're iffing to be the first one in line tuesday morning, aren't you, at your polling place? >> i'm going to vote early, and i'm going to -- i'm addicted to politics. i'm going to hav

gold, franken sense, must be three wisemen.istian art paints two and sometimes as many as four, and some give 12 wisemen. it's not clear how many there were. >> well, there goes the pope trying to set the record straight, huh? it's very, very interesting stuff. thank you so much. >> thank you. it's nice to be here. >> thank you. >>> for more stories on faith, be sure to check out our widely popular belief blog. you can find it at cnn.com/belief. >>> he has been in the headlines both widely praised and widely protested this week, but there are some things about egypt's president mohammed morsi you haven't heard. we'll share them with you. so it's like i won. sure. oh my gosh i won!!! i won!!! [ male announcer ] get a $100 walmart gift card when you buy any android or windows 8 smartphone. through december 1st. from america's gift headquarters. walmart. or that printing in color had to cost a fortune. nobody said an all-in-one had to be bulky. or that you had to print from your desk. at least, nobody said it to us. introducing th

they want have meet label genetically modified stuff i'm not even sure it is that organic food or franken>> the campaign against it is doing a very good job of making those questions. any proposition or there is uncertainty that answer is always gonna be no. they spent months and $40 million and a very good job of getting people and nobel prize winners who ever to say it's as good this is congested that. the question is how we define genetic engineering? someone who sits in the backyard and splices this thing and creates something like a plot. is that genetic engineering? >> you're saying if i go to the ball and i'm confused just vote no? >> the titles sort of make it and they sound good to have a chance of making it through. who ever >> who ever thought of putting together a plum and apricot was a genius. >> update on our breaking story at a san francisco than muni station on montgomery street is closed. you can see the fire rescue the lights flashing and they're investigating a death on the track. 7:45 a.m. on man walking on a catwalk you are not allowed in that area fell and was struck

she stays in the senate with al franken. those two seats were held by a moderate republican and a more conservave republin. those two minnesota seats. and some are in retirement. >> i talkd to dave. that's right. he's a man i was going to say without a party. i mean he certainly is not comfortable in the current configuration. a word on joe donley. joe donley is the first notre dame graduate, i believe, elected to the united states senate. >> you know why? because of purdue. mitch daniels became president of withdrew... purduend withdrew from politics. >> ifill: we've gone into collegiate competition which is a perfect time to take a short break both of you. some of you are going to be getting updates on your state and local results. for the rest of you, we will be right back with more coverage of the 2012 election here on pbs. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: technology can provide customized experiences, tailored to individual consumer preferences. igning wold o possibilies om iide out. sponsoring t