it is only a simple composition without any special meaning gruber wrote in his diary and. christmas 1818. come out on christmas eve $1818.00 a time marked by bitter poverty and named home the original german version of silent night holy night is less 1st song during christmas mass on an open door of by the 2 friends to the sound of a guitar big land because of. this road only it was intended to be a song of peace and hope in the difficult years after the napoleonic wars over mass water time fatalities famine epidemics and failed harvests had created a mood of despondency as if those of more himself or grown up in grinding poverty and had enjoyed much in the years before he penned the poem that would go on to become a world famous carol. google to gether with france he created a song sung today by 2000000000 people across the globe during the christmas season one that has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects of business to become but it took 117 years and a very long journey via hamburg new york and los angeles before silent night became the most popula

gruber was the one who was the architect of it. he was heard to say later it was passed because the american people are stupid. with this new thing, the impeachment thing, when pelosi said pass this bill, read it later, i think the same thing is happening with the impeachment thing. pass these articles and read them later. up where they end said they were in mourning, where they were laughing and partying. it was a great thing. i think somebody is going to be overheard saying this was passed because the american people were stupid. thank you. host: thank you for the call from new york. i did not hear a question, but what i did here anda lot of the same angst probably a little bit of rage. it is why i dedicated an entire chapter to obamacare. the obama administration knew from what some time while they were gathering the votes to pass the affordable care act, which did pass on very partisan lines, that millions of americans would lose their health coverage. they would have fewer options for plans and in many cases those premiums wou

i want to tashow you what ray gruber had to say. >> i'd rather see us focusing on raising minimum wageer see us focusing on what we took away from the affordable care act and putting it back in again. i'd like to see where all those thousands of people losing their rights from food stamps. impeachment is a process. the process is going to come, it's going to go. >> reporter: hallie, ray is a labor democrat. he does support impeachment, but he just worries it's taking too much oxygen out of the room. that's something we heard from democrats, republicans and independents here. the one bright spot at the end of this week, usmca trade deal passing with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. people are hopeful heading into the holidays. >> you know president trump will be talking about that on the campaign trail especially in places like ohio. >>> thanks for watching this hour of msnbc live. right now more from my colleague chris jansing in new york. >> are you taking a couple days? >> no. i should mention i'll see all of you from west palm beach. i'm on mar-a-lago duty. >>> i'm chris jansing

they would have said yes to them or gruber's and no to the dean's. opinion, i think he just thought the ends justify the means. he thought he was a patriot. he did not seem to have much emotion. deep't have too many personal insights into him. host: chuck was not involved. ms. wine-banks: gordon, we never heard his voice. i think he is really a dangerous nutcase. i find it interesting that he is ,he one who is a public figure he's friendshow, with a current candidate for president. he says it's ok because he's his friend. of forery extreme views miscible activity that no one would think is legal or same. ne. but we don't know him because he never let us speak with him. colson?uck my dealings with him were very remote. my impression is based more on hewing what he did and how did it, then following him into his born-again prison ministry. i guess he has been doing it a long time, so maybe i have to say he really did change. again, he was one of those totally amoral, or maybe in his case, immoral people who thought anything went, they were right, so le

. >> alan rickman's performance as hans gruber is one of the key movie performance of the '80s, becausehero but was a guy who our hero had to outthink. >> a lot of action stars think it's cool to show no fear. to me, that's not a courageous person, that's a stupid person. the courageous person is is tthe who has fear but goes through it anyway. it isn't the size of the fireball, it's how much you occasion about the perscare about the person running from the fireball. ors. that's why we graduated to tide pods sport. finally something more powerful than the funk. tide sport removes even week-old sweat odor. it's got to be tide. in connemara. right! connemara it is! there's one gift the whole family can share this holiday season, their story. give the gift of discovery, with an ancestrydna kit. - do that are degrading?ideo tapes, film reels, or photos, give the gift of discovery, legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. visit legacybox.com today, and get 40% off. -- - >>> i'm telli

the model was not -- that gruber guy from one of the ivy league schools did not create this model.e overrated. he read the model and knew that it wasn't going to work. host: i got your point. we are talking about the federal law. the national law. the affordable care act, also known as obamacare. adding your thoughts on it here. we are talking about your -- talking about the future of that laws well. this is law -- rob in springville, oregon. caller: good morning. i am a republican, but i voted for obama twice. trump. for i think this is a political issue. what theok back at states had to do to get federal money for their highway programs , they had to comply with raising the drinking age to 21. and they were willing to do that because they wanted federal dollars. i think we should block grant money to the states and set requirements for those states to get money from the federal government. that way it would give us a 50 atte pool of options to look to find out which works the best. and, i enjoyed the phone call from maine. we need more common sense ideas like that. host: dorothy

gruber was the one who was the architect of it.e was heard to say later it was passed because the american people are stupid. with this new thing, the impeachment thing, when pelosi said pass this bill, read it later, i think the same thing is happening with the impeachment thing. pass these articles and read them later. up where they end said they were in mourning, where they were laughing and partying. it was a great thing. i think somebody is going to be overheard saying this was passed because the american people were stupid. thank you. host: thank you for the call from new york. i did not hear a question, but what i did here anda lot of the same angst probably a little bit of rage. it is why i dedicated an entire chapter to obamacare. the obama administration knew from what some time while they were gathering the votes to pass the affordable care act, which did pass on very partisan lines, that millions of americans would lose their health coverage. they would have fewer options for plans and in many cases those premiums would

maria: takes me back to the obamacare situation where jonathan gruber said we had the public not knowingen secured his lead among the 2020 hopefuls in a number of recent national polls, rob, i have to get your take on this. quinnipiac survey leading among democratic voters, however, younger voters seem to have the socialist bug, 18 to 34-year-olds are supporting senator bernie sanders, rob. >> oh, boy, we have a lot of work to do in order to kill the idea of socialism in this country. actually i do a lot of work on college campuses in turning point usa and it's all about pushing the idea that capitalism is good because socialism is being sold to young people right now but when it comes to joe biden, i will say like i've always said before, he will clinch the democratic nomination because the road to the democratic nomination goes to older african-american voters in the south, they are comfortable with joe biden, he was the vice president under the first african-american president, they will lead him to that nomination. i've always believed this and i think that these numbers bear it out.

was gruber not the best villain? but these guys -- i saw ted cruz yesterday. believes you but mike pence there. they hurt the child for partisan -- no, she didn't. she used a bad pun, but then he goes into -- then he goes into the whole, let's end this impeachment. card, card, please? word, word. debacle. they're such bad actors. >> yes, they are. but let me explain this. >> of course, that's the least of it. boy, i really miss alan rickman. >> that was him latching on to when she explained the difference between monarchs and presidents. it sparked outrage from even melania trump who wrote, quote, a minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. pamela karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biassed public pandering, and using a child to do it. well, apparently -- who would do that? >> first of all, they didn't do that. but let's just pretend they did attack a child. who in the world would attack a child? that's heinous. >> you get the -- >> nobody would. >> -- feeling -- >> -- attack a child. >> -- that perhaps -- >> -