haley thought for a moment and then said this, "decide what you want. decide what you're willing to give up to get it." do you have sentences in your head that never go away? i do, and none has been more meaningful to me than this one. i've been fortunate. i have had wonderful success in many areas in my life. when i get in trouble, though, is when i try to do too much. i take on task upon task upon task and start thinking there is a big "s" on my chest. superman, you can call me. then i hear haley's voice and am reminded that i can't do everything. i have to prioritize and discard those things that i simply must give up so i have time and energy and creativity to complete that which is most important. i just wish i didn't have to re- learn this one so often. i'm lou heckler. >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for friday, >> good advice and very difficult advice to follow. that's "nightly business report" for friday, january 4. have a great evening everyone, and a great weekend, too. >> tom: goodnight, susie. we'll see you online at nbr.com and

haley to come up with mr. young lalague. young is a track maintenance supervisor and terry manages the entire maintenance of way division and is here on behalf of the signal crew. both of these gentlemen have been with the agency for 13 years. and we're really recognizing them for two specific projects, one of which director heinicke is well familiar with, the eureka curve track replacement project which was replacing the track that you heard updates on often at the director's request over the course of the project. very significant in terms of the basic service of the muni metro service through the tunnels and that the track had gotten worn to the point where we couldn't run. it was not safe for us to run the trains at full speed. and the diminished speed diminished the level of service we were able to provide. after the rest of us went to sleep every night over the course of many, many months, young and his crews went in and worked very efficiently, very cost-effectively to systematically replace those rails to put that pa

it's not about stopping stupid remarks as haley barbour as jindal or peggy noonan says. a lot believe this crap and they believe in self-deportation. that wasn't a stupid remark, it was politically, but that's what mitt romney campaigned on. they believe in preventing gay marriage. they believe -- they believe -- >> they do agree with some of the stuff, i don't want to marginalize it all. >> say on the tax policy, they fought against raising the taxes on the rich and 60% of the public believed in that. >> they came out -- coming out for cutting government spending will help you. >> but the rich. >> why don't they stick to their strong points? anyway, republicans look ridiculous this week i believe when they decided to go after secretary of state hillary clinton who is riding so high in the polls right now. why'd they go at the very point she was at her strongest, they attacked. let's take a look. >> i'm glad that you're accepting responsibility. i think that ultimately with your leaving you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11 and i really mean that. h

haley thought for a moment and then said this, "decide what you want.re willing to give up to get it." do you have sentences in your head that never go away? i do, and none has been more meaningful to me than this one. i've been fortunate. i have had wonderful success in many areas in my life. when i get in trouble, though, is when i try to do too much. i take on task upon task upon task and start thinking there is a big "s" on my chest. superman, you can call me. then i hear haley's voice and am reminded that i can't do everything. i have to prioritize and discard those things that i simply must give up so i have time and energy and creativity to complete that which is most important. i just wish i didn't have to re- learn this one so often. i'm lou heckler. >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for friday, >> good advice and very difficult advice to follow. that's "nightly business report" for friday, january 4. have a great evening everyone, and a great weekend, too. >> tom: goodnight, susie. we'll see you online at nbr.com and back here monday

haley if he wants to add a few words. >> director heinicke, [speaker not understood]. i heard you might. [laughter] >> we'll give it to you. >> good afternoon. actually, it's good morning to me because i work graveyard shift. to the chairman and to the board, thank you very much. i'm just up here representing the track maintenance crew which is a crew of 50. and i'm going to have to break this up in pieces and hand it to them. because as a team it's the only way we can function. one of the biggest significant things of this project we were able to do it on revenue hours which is no service disruption to the public. and those are the folks, the people at the city and county of san francisco that pay our wageses so we can go home and support our families. so, we are at a track maintenance department true civil servants of the city of san francisco. we thank you, board members for doing your job. if you weren't doing your job, we wouldn't have a job. so, thank you very much. (applause) >> i'd also like to thank the board and mr. rifkin and mr. haley for giving me the oppo

presenting these awards is john haley, director of transit services. >> good afternoon, mr. haley.

haley. >> thank you, bond. thank you, mr. chairman. myra, with myra, by the way is her superintendent ernie >> thank you and we appreciate her being recognized. this was a violent crime. and she was instrumental in helping the young lady and it's nice to know that other young ladis that may feel in that same predicament know there are people out there willing to help them and we're proud to have her at green division and she is a great person. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you for recognizing me for doing this. this is something that i do on a daily basis. if i see anyone in trouble or what have you, i'm helping them. whether it constitutes me calling central control or not, i'm helping them. it's just nice to be recognized for something that i do on a daily basis. thank you. >> thank you on behalf of the board and the entire agency for your outstanding service. we really appreciate it. [ applause ] >> this is angela johnson. >> good afternoon miss johnson and congratulations and thank you for your great service to the agency and

haley after he departed with his national guard unit after a month of training. they will deploy to afghanistan. a very big snake hitched a ride on a quantas airlines jet from australia. the ten-foot long pylon wenled itself between the fuselage and wing but was fighting wind of 250 miles per hour and it did not survive that flight. >>> on sunday, it will be one year since the italian cruise liner, the "costa concordia" ran aground killing 32 passengers. preparations are under way for the memorial at the half-sunken ship. nbc's michelle kosinski is there with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: hi, richard. on sunday it will be one year since the costa concordia disaster. people are starting to arrive for this service. people are always amazed to see that, yes, it is still here in the exact same position it was. what has changed, you can see these enormous structures that salvage crews have built around it. they've been working 24 hours a day, seven days a week preparing to finally roll it upright, then float it out of here. probably not until the fall. today

haley. after a month of training he'll deploy to afghanistan. >>> and a very big snake hitched a ride on a qantas airline to new guinea. the ten-foot pine thon lodged itself through the fuselage and the wing and did not survive the flight. >>> on sunday, it will be one year since the italian cruise liner, the "costa concordia" ran aground killing 32 passengers. preparations are under way for the memorial at the half-sunken ship. nbc's michelle kosinski is there with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mara. people are already starting to arrive here on the island for that service on sunday. and it always amazes people to see that, yes, the ship is still here in the exact same position it was. what has changed, you can see the enormous structures the salvage crews have built around it. they are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to prepare to finally roll it over upright and then float it out of here, probably not until the fall. but you know what, today, you talk to the s

haley barbour warns this party to stop making stupid comments again, that word about rape. don't lose heart. like an old car that won't turn off even when you turn the key to off, some character out in new mexico wants to stick women who are raped with stiff prison sentences if they get an abortion. she calls it tampering with the evidence. but wait a minute, crazy guys. didn't one of your republicans say you can't get pregnant in case of a rape? anyway, tonight finding our way through the crazy even as we hear the first loud barks and meows from the backyard of american politics. i have with me joy reid and "mother jones'" david corn. anytime i can get you to giggle a little bit, joy, i consider myself a success. i owe some of this material to a lot of republicans today. pegging noonan, a friend of mine and very smart, i don't always agree with her, talks about middle of the road conservative. she's got a brain. in a "wall street journal" column, quote, it became obvious this week that the republican party top to bottom has to start taking barack obama seriously. he means

now you have got haley barbour, lance armstrong, preparing to do an interview, famously win over the has lost those titles because of doping accusations. it appears that he may make some confessions here, like to be reinstated, according to some of the reports be to be able to compete in the olympics or triathlons and the like. how does this work? public mea culpas and reinstating his good name? >> well, it doesn't do anything about excessive federal spending. we know it. >> do you have a view on it? >> well, look, the doping deal is very good for america. for the people that are making the decisions say you got to play by the rules if you want to get the benefits. now, that's just the way it ought to be in our country. some of those people i thought were -- some of those ball players, baseball players i genuinely admired, crazy about, but people ought to be held the standard of the rules. >> yeah. >> i'm tired of the contrition culture, he is guilty and disgraced his sport. i don't think armstrong ought to get any quarter at all. ought to be banned for life. >> anybody disagree? >>

haley for giving me the opportunity to lead young and also the maintenance crew. again, to reiterate what young said, it's the guys, the boots on the ground that really carry this through, that when everyone else is sleeping, they're the ones out fixing the problems and getting the project done. so, i appreciate all of them, all your crew and all of the signal maintenance crew. >> thank you for outstanding work on these two vital projects. director heinicke. >> sure. i will say a special thank you. this has been as you know, terry and young, it's nice to see you. something of particular interest to me. and i think it would be remiss if i didn't note particular interest to director beach who i suspect is smiling for a brief moment and then will continue yelling at you guys. [laughter] >> so, on that note i will say this is a very tangible and significant thing. the speed and the curve is significant. when you multiply the number of people that go through the curve, by the time lost because of that track wear, you're talking about very significant losses and people

coming up here, former republican party chair and mississippi governor haley barbour.nd kimmel kidnapped. >> i ran out of time. >> apologies from matt damon. ran out of time. >> i want to apologize. >> to matt damon. >> we ran out of time for him. >> matt damon. >> extremely overrated matt damon. >> after being the butt of jimmy kimmel's notes for a decade, matt damon gets help from an eh-list of friends. >> if you bump a man long enough, a night will come when you bump him back. i am in command of this ship. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell. somebody can kidnap us. live in washington where president obama just named his advisor denis mcdonough to run the white house from now owner where republicans are meeting in charlotte and planning a revival of the grand ole party. more on that in a moment. more for our daily fix. david gregory, moderator of "meet the press," nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker and justice correspondent pete williams. a loot going on all fronts. denis mcdonough, and news out of the white house on the secret service skrefgs in cart ha

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here is south carolina governor nikki haley, wrapping her arms around her husband, captain michael haley national guard unit mobilizing for a month of training and her she is with her son, and long mission with afghanistan. like so many military families the haley's have children, ten-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter and south carolina senator lindsey graham was also on hand to send captain haley off. pictures tell you so much, so easy to forget about what the families, whether it's the governor and her family or regular folks go through as you go about your day job and think about the folks overseas serving our country. god bless them. well, over in colorado, a little controversy being created by some proposed new rules and underaged drinking. state has caused a fuss by recently legalizing marijuana and one is introducing laws for 18-year-olds in bars as long as they have parents. >> and that's state senator greg brofree and so the legislature could vote on this thing. the deal is, as you can say you can drink if you're with your parents, 18 and over, as long as you and your parent

haley's comet fly by, a mets world series win, dick morris accurating calling an election. [ laughter] then there's the rarest of the rare, the certificate of thing they are foretold in prophecy and never dream you yourself would live with. >> justice clarence thomas broke a sen year silence on the supreme court. >> jon: why would one of the justices keep completely quiet for so long unless -- ursula the sea witch stole his voice when he fell in love with a human! i have little kids. [ laughter ] but there must be a reason clarence thomas doesn't like to speak publicly. [ laughter ] there must be a reason that he keeps silent that doesn't involve him being a merman. he has done interviews. >> the perception is that -- critics will say you are not smart enough, you are insecure. >> jon: they make fools out of themselves with those kinds of comments. [ laughter ] >> jon: that's y. that's not really his voice. sorry. we changed it for humorous effect. here is his real voice. >> they make fools out of themselves with those kind of comments. [ laughter ] >> jon: now, i know why he never sp

. >> the argument against an assault weapons ban was made concisely by haley barbour who said, quite simply, if you make it a crime to have a gun, only criminals will have gun. but many lawmakers -- mostly democrats -- have been trying to poke holes in that argument. and senator chris murph frecontact connect, who attend several funerals for sandy hook students thinks the national rifle association is flat-out wrong. >> newtown fundamentally changed things. the nra doesn't get this. they have to come to the table on gun control as they are saying they are coming to the table on mental health because their previous allies and backers in the house and the senate are not with them anymore. >> reporter: senator joe mansion, the democrat from west virginia, endorsed by the nra and famously ran a 2010 campaign ad, shooting the cap & trade bill with a rifle, has an all-in approach. he thinks it would be hard to pass legislation that focuses on only one element of the issue like guns or magazines. we have to wait until tuesday to see what the vice-president's task force will recommend to the