george mitchell won a place in irish history for his contribution he received the distinguished service award from president mike that he does this afternoon. the ceremony in dublin last night. the eight year olds will be moving me for the most visible links to iran. my father's parents were born. and left for the united states. the great migration when the great migrations out of this country. searching for a better one. but they didn't find it. my father's mother died very early the father couldn't care for the children my father was reasonable. several years been abducted by an american family that wasn't rich. so i don't ever remember my father saying the word. in his entire life. q my mother lived a very typical example one can you wear the struggle was for supply so when i came here i really didn't know much about the issues. nice things if it's edible. participation but i feel that i was the principal. the efficiency of my coming here. because i had a chance to learn about the fid. the scents of life of the circuit. which he unfortunately never know how and about which i do for y

. >> george mitchell, the fracking engineer. it has done as much to change the entire world as any other businessman i know. >> jeff basos for suckering us in the media to take his drone delivery system seriously. >> her late husband john walton and former green beret and son of wal-mart founder sam walton. we'll be back with person of the year. >>> the taliban survived because she's campaigning for education for girls. she's exciting a new generation coming up now. >> 2013's person of the year is putin. he seized the word the spotlight on the syrian crisis and threw ukraine russian orbit and relative decline of americans influence. on that note, and happy holidays. bye-bye.

i respected majority leader george mitchell. tough, ran this place like clock work. we were in late at nights a number of times, but every member of the minority had the opportunity and the right to offer an amendment, the right to participate, the right to be heard and the right to offer an amendment to a provision. george mitchell as leader recognized those rights, and he would say guys, ladies, you can offer any amendment you want. we will take it up, we will have a vote on it. you may win, you may lose, but you have that right. so the reason why we're frustrated here and the reason why we're using some procedures now which deny all of us a lot of sleep that we would like to have, and at christmas season, we would like to go out and shop for some gifts for our families. we would like to make some plans for the christmas season and we're stuck here. the reason for this is it boiled over. the last insult was simply basically saying forget it, forget the rules that have -- forget the procedures and forget the courtesy, forget the privilege, forget the right that you

. >> george mitchell, the fracking pioneer who died. he is credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas through the process of fracking, which has done much to change the entire world as any other business world that i know. >> jeff for suckering up the media and for taking his drone delivery plans seriously. >> 2013's capitalist of the year award goes to the world's richest woman. christy walton, the wal-mart heiress. john was a former barade. and son of the wal-mart founder. >>> vladimir putin, john, who has gotten a dramatic move, not only in the middle east, but worldwide. trying to make himself the leader basically of conservative traditionalists, the national forces against the cultural and immoral purism of barack obama. >> it makes me want to point out that michelle just wanted an extraordinarily strong victory for a second term, not con secttive in chili -- consecutively in chile. and two women faced off against each other and the socialist won. but actually my real honorable mention is the victims of violence

three decades of american force fit education and two ingredients for your food for thought i was george mitchell conclusions are primarily reflective of that blacks only comprise thirteen percent of ivy league school that cindy's but i don't need to be valedictorian and so you there we don't need princeton's approval so you know we've already given birth to sons of princes of dot mouth. perceives the poetic expressive dars that spew from our mouths this ignorance it doesn't mean that we are powerful understand. you're upset that you lay you pin pin you down under the weight of their common application i transformed you from sweet heart to stick but even you being a white woman in me being a black boy i hear your subconscious screaming screw cornell columbia harvard and yale you just want to be brown you just want to be brown to be the brown saw you that was cast off as dirt but then sprouted the most beautiful wall flower was to be the brown tree that was cast off his free will but has the strongest of roots outsell you where you weaken to a foundation you can foam and lost your uniqueness eight

decades of american force fit education answer to ingredients for your food for thought i was george mitchell conclusions are primarily reflective of that blacks only comprise thirteen percent of ivy league school that cindy's but i don't need to be valedictorian and so you there we don't need princeton's approval so you know we've already given birth to sons of princes of dot miles. perceives the poetic expressive dars that spew from our mouths this ignorance it doesn't mean that we are powerful understand. your upset that you lay you can pin you down under the weight of their common application i transformed you from sweet heart to stick but even you being a white woman and me being a black boy i hear your subconscious screaming screw cornell columbia harvard and yale you just want to be brown you just want to be brown to be the brown saw you that was cast off as dirt but then sprouted the most beautiful wallflower was to be the brown tree that was cast it off as frail but has the strongest of roots out so you were you weaken to a foundation you can phone and lost your uniqueness eight c. a

george mitchell, from maine, a very distinguished majority leader, filled the tree three times in six years. and bob dole when he was majority leader filled the tree seven times in three and a half years. point i'm making -- and then i'll sit down -- is that this majority leader, in an unprecedented manner, has filled the tree over and over and over again. why? to prevent other senators from having an opportunity, as representatives of the 50 states, to offer ideas and improve bills and get us on record on important issues. i hope that we can have a parliamentary motion in just a few moments to allow this tree to be taken down and to allow the elected representatives of the 50 states to come before the president of the senate and before the american people and offer different ideas. and i yield the floor. mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, in a moment i will make a -- i will offer an amendment and i know the distinguished chairman of the armed services committee is here but i want to lay five minutes of groundwork.

majority leader george mitchell did it only three times in six years, and majority leader robert c. byrd did it only three times in two years. in other words, this used to be an extraordinarily rare use of the tool that the majority leader has to block amendments to legislation. by the way, majority leader bob dole did it seven times in three and a half years, about once every six months. by contrast, majority leader reid has done it 70 times, 70 times. and what recourse does the minority have when they are blocked out of the legislative process on the senate floor? well, the only tool we have available to us is to block cloture because it still takes 41 votes -- excuse me, it takes 60 votes to get to a final passage of legislation. but when the minority exercises its rights, then we're called obstructionists. because the majority leader has blocked any amendments and denied us an opportunity to have a voice and shape legislation, and the only recourse we have is to say 41 republicans stick together and block the legislation, hopefully to set up a negotiation. but what happens more

mitchell) oh. if i could get everyone to raise their glass as i quote from one of our nation's great fathers-- jefferson. george jefferson. "i never dreamed that one of my own "would be going off to a university, "but here i stand, a proud black man, knowing that all those hours i put in at the dry cleaner--" - phil. - not now, weezie. - where was i? - quoting that president. okay, if she's the future of america, we should start using chinese money now. (scoffs) we already are. my arm is tired. to haley. - to haley! - (glasses clink) and before everyone puts their glasses down, uh, uh, we're also very proud of lily. tomorrow is her first day of kindergarten.

chief foreign affairs andrea mitchell, also eugene robinson, robin wright, elliott abrams, former policy adviser to presidents reagan and georgesh, and dr. peter starns, first time on the program. he's here because i spent more than a month with you listening to your great courses on the brief history of the world. it made me sound very smart in front of my kids, even though they weren't as interested. welcome. welcome, all of you. eugene robinson, as we think about the u.s. and the state of the world, it's still my big question. what is the big story in the u.s., about the u.s., that dominates 2014? >> well, number one, this continuing conflict between two visions of government which paralyzes our government, and in turn, paralyzes the world in that the u.s. is the center of the world economy and the world political system. more government, less government, big government, small government. this whole approach is -- this conflict is going to continue. that's one thing. other big stories, we saw, of course, our domestic surveillance, the snowden story, you've covered that in the last segment. and one story, huge story in 2013

mitchell reported in a holiday message. >> reporter: morning service at church and pretty much everyone was there with one exception, prince georgeore interested, his parents told the crowd in his wrapping paper than his presents and at 5 months old, who can blame him? ♪ in her christmas day broadcast, recorded at buckingham palace a few days ago, the queen spoke of the importance of pausing occasionally to take stock. >> we all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. >> reporter: she looked back across 60 years. >> i myself had cause to reflect this year at westminster abbey often my on my own pledge of service made in that church oncor row nation day 60 years earlier. >> reporter: after reflecting on the past and the many changes that have occurred since she came to the thrown a nudge toward the future. prince charles was shown deputizing for the queen and then the birth of the third in line to the throne. >> here at home, my own family is a little larger this christmas. the arrival of a baby gives everyone the chance to contemplate the future with renewed happiness and hope after the christening we gathere