harry reid will put together votes on nominations the president wants to see filled. the reason they're doing that now come january republicans will take control of the chamber and it will be a lot harder to get those things done. it has set up a fight that will take us through the weekend and into next week. c-span junkies are not going to have to watch reruns this

harry reid does nothing by accident.arry reid's openness to this plan in stark contrast with nancy pelosi said and will be a stark contrast to anything president obama or the white house would say. harry reid and the white house have not been getting along very well lately. couldn't help but wonder if harry reid was in slightly thumbing his nose at the white house figuring there will be some way down the road to up and republicans if they choose this strategy but certainly not a strategy i don't see how this strategy is one that is good for democrats or good for the white house. jon: harry reid almost lost his seat and is running again for reelection in 2016 so is he trying to prevent a more moderate face to his nevada voters? >> he, harry reid and the democrats still in charge of the senate until the end of the month is a full budget except for homeland security departme department, democrats get a bunch of victories. they're going to get some of victories at the edges and they don't get this done by the end of the year

it goes to harry reid. >> i give it to the two senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell. boring can be beautiful. they are having a very productive, well they had a very productive laying duck session this year. congratulates to both of them. >> tom? >> i think that it is going to be al sharpton just trying to be repetitive and tedious. >> mark? >> well again i'll go with harry reid as the leader of the democrats and the senate to just about putting everybody to sleep. it's almost a miracle that he is now going to come out as the majority leader. >> the most boring the so-call gop war on women. democratic campaign ads, hammered the theme relentlessly in the battleground states this year to the point where even most women voters toned them out. okay most charismatic, pat? >> i think pope francis, john. i think he beats out matthew mcconaughey. [ laughter ] >> is that a private joke? [ laughter ] >> you don't know matthew mcconaughey? you better go and look. >> put me on your list. eleanor go ahead. >> i second on pope francis, but i also give it to elizabeth warren who rea

not necessarily to harry reid and senate democrats.arack obama, the dynamicsç of his negotiations such as they are, and they have been few, with congress have shifted. now harry reid is out at the centre of those negotiations. it's speaker boehner, mitch mcconnell and the president. elizabeth warren has said through her actionsç, mr. president, you make a deal on trade, you make a deal on a nominee, you let republicans slip in. erosions to dodd frank into some bigger bill, you are going to have to deal with me. you may get it passed because i can't stop you but i can make you pay for it politically and make the left of this party, the progressive and liberals who are up set this party got kozey with wall street, i can make them very mad at you. >> woodruff: dow look at these divides we're watching in both parties getting bigger or what? a frantic effort? >> i think it's really important to understand, at least where the divides are. i think on the republican side, there are some serious policy differences that are significant and i t

harry reid brought her into the leadership.le into the leadership to bring her on to the leadership team. when you have one of those titles no matter how phony they are, the deal is you get in line with the party votes. she doesn't care about this title he gave her. she's going to go out there and fight harry reid on the senate floor on this bill. >> i bet there was some tea party people that would agree with her. whether they can vote this way or not, i don't know. the tea party got started because of kind of abuses that used to go on wall street. i don't think they want to bail out banks more than anyone else. you may very well see the republicans can't hold their votes together either. >> when you see this happen, what it means for leadership, what it means for chairman trying to see if a bill can move and their republican committee, they're going to have to check with elizabeth. no democrat is going to want to go out on the senate floor again and run into opposition from elizabeth warren. >> right. her point is well taken.

harry reid knows this. he does this to prevent george bush from doing, and i quote, an end run around the senate and the constitution. i found it fairly persuasive, mr. speaker. in fact, president george bush found it fairly persuasive. and this ended the argument. because no president has a vested interest in making an end run around the senate and he constitution. but president obama didn't see things that same way in january of 2012. faced with the exact same circumstances, mr. speaker, faced with the exact same circumstances, a senate in pro forma session designed specifically to prevent recess appointments, the president woke up one morning in january and said, the senate is in fact in recess. they say that they're not, but they're wrong, they in fact are. i'm going to make four appointments today. you would think having just read what we read from senate majority leader harry reid that the senate would have melted down with defenders of article 1, standing up and saying, mr. president, we may agree wi

and that means harry reid as majority leader are over. he tells the new york times that the gop will get a fight. nina is a columnist and editor for fortune magazine and jamie weinstien a editor for the daily caller. if mitch mcconaugh nel. >> it is interesting. i go out and speak to a lot of people in washington and there is so much frustration with the bitter divide and the partisan divide in washington, and people often blame the house republicans forgetting that harry reid has been the number one obstructionist on capitol hill. he prevented legislation from come to the floor numerous times and it doesn't surprise me that he declared war on the new republicans coming in and it is a good batch of candidates and law makers that are coming in and good batch when they ran and they are a group that is interested in and the republicans are interested in governoring and it is the democrats preventing that. >> some people might be chastened after losing control and taking the shellacing and harry reid is not one of those people. >> he doesn't

why did the speaker deal with the president, the vice president and harry reid? coming up next, juan williams, steve hayes, they will analyze the political fallout from the tense standoff. and did boehner make a mistake teaming up with obama, biden and reid? head over to facebook and give us your answer. my answer's pretty obvious straight ahead. >>> this is a fox news alert. just a short time ago on capitol hill the house narrowly passed a budget bill to avoid a government shutdown. earlier today, president obama and vice president biden hit the phones in a last-ditch effort to drum up democratic votes for boehner's spending bill. the president even dispatched his chief of staff to capitol hill, but some members of the president's party, well, they were not having this. watch this. >> we are fighting anybody who's lobbying to tell people to vote for this bill. if the president is lobbying, we do not like it. and we're saying to our members don't be intimidated by anybody. >> wow. does that mean president obama's losing his political power on capitol hill? standin

now we have harry reid with an open war over these tax extendering.e need to have the republicans sitting down and enjoying the fight until they control all the committee chairman and the two houses have the upper hand and return to regular order. th that's the way a smart party would act. >> some of these businesses had already factored in, because this was retroactive, they were thinking this was done deal. >> that's the problem with the way we rung the government, we expect the bad thing to continue. >> will obama exercise a veto over harry reid? >>> next up setting the gop table for 2016. ♪ it's cyber monday at verizon! hurry online to snap up our best cyber monday deals! like the lg g3 in blaze red, now free! the incredible 7-inch verizon ellipsis tablet, also free. and get a $150 credit for every smartphone you switch. so, hurry online and get it all on america's largest, most reliable 4g lte network! verizon. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know genies can be really li

but a lot of this comes down to the relationship between rich mcconnell and harry reid.> dead man walking is harry reid. the governor just 142 points. >> but i don't disagree with you but more than what everybody is talking about is what this is 37 but it seems to be richer with chris christie getting clobbered in his home state. failing to beat bolivia clinton. >> obviously it is not true anymore. there is still a few industries that wanted them but it has lost its appeal. >> i would not write him off just yet. lou: we want them to link your. [laughter] >> but the person who is is mitt romney. and looking more seriously i have been predicting that for the last six months. but they believe he has some interesting and the country might take a third look at mitt romney. >> those that walk away with $1 million apiece have an interest of running again. he is a tough candidate to beat. lou: good to have you with us. now a wrap up of the handyman to implement the executive and fiat on amnesty the mayor who insist and open borders once a very big fence around him and his family

that's harry reid. or the people who do not believe it. of the 11 million people in this country, 310 million are not judges and they're not lawyers. they're the ones. it is the people in the villages you have to convince that this is in their interest. lawyers and judges might help you do that, we can talk about it, and they should. but they're the ones that have to be convinced. and go look at that history. and go look at the ups and downs. and that's what that exhibition would make you do. i think it is really a great opportunity to see the documents and to see them exhibited with other things and i'm glad to have the opportunity to be here, in part, because i could see that. >> the highest calling of mankind, i think it is fair to say, is public service. i want to thank you on behalf of my fellow citizens and your fellow citizens for the public service you've given to our country. thank you very much. >>> you've been watching c-span's american history tv. we want to hear from you. follow us on twitte twitter @cspanhistory. facebook.com

the fate of the accommodator fiscal year long government bill is in the hands of harry reid and his final days as majority of leader of the u.s. senate. congress is definitely divided on the legislation and house speaker greater need of more than 50 democratic votes to pass the massive spending bill but the president himself lobbied democratic congressman for the votes to expose a deep divide among house democrats. is the policy was urging her caucus to vote no and she blasted the president while number two was urging the passage. the democrats are that divided but the spokesperson for the president said no hard feelings between the white house and the minority leader. >> president always had not just a good working relationship but that did not change yesterday and did not change in the future. lou: bay harry reid once that bill passed tonight but the democratic ranks are severely divided. with the chief correspondent mike is on capitol hill with our report. >> the house passed a $1 trillion government of hot funded extension to now is to the senate. >> to keep the government open and fu

was that senate majority leader harry reid's decision or othe president's? they were working in concert and talking back and forth? >> i think the president didn't want anything to come to his desk that he didn't like. so it served his purpose for the senate not to vote. and reid convinced his members that these would be bad votes that would hurt him in the election. it was to their advantage not to vote. proved to be a very bad miscalculation. for example, democratic senator in alaska running for end of the first term been there six years. never had a role -- "roll call" vote. his opponent who won the election brought it up on a daily basis. i think it was bad election strategy. served the president's purposes because he never got anything on his desk that he was uncomfortable with. >> what about the nuclear option? that was something that senate majority leader harry reid invoked nuclear option so there would no longer be filibuster on nominations is that something that you intend to continue? i know that one time on the floor you sort of warned that, you

by harry reid is now gone at least as majority leader.s is a great opportunity for republicans to do two things. pass everything that you believe that you want to see passed. jason is absolutely right they don't care if it gets the veto. it's win-win. if the president vetoes it, it proves what in fact the president actually said himself in the same interview. one of the reasons he didn't have to veto is as he said himself, harry reid blocked so much in the senate that he didn't like. so in fact this is a way for republicans to retro actively reshape their image they have been called the party of no, democrats did that for obvious reasons, the media has accepted it as gospel truth. this will be a way to show that the party of no for the four years before now has been harry reid, and once you got rid of him, the republicans could actually enact stuff. so start with keystone, do tax reform, do a whole bunch of other stuff and watch what the president does. >> charles makes an interesting point among many points i should add but one that i wa

still with us, ari robinoff, former adviser to harry reid. rebecca berg with the washington examiner, and ari, i don't know if they really have the wherewithal to stop the president's new policy in its tracks, but they intend to make it uncomfortable, don't they? >> look, i think they'll come back, homeland security issue will come up. they'll probably go right to the deadline. look, i think they'll have to deal with a number of republican members who want something, and they're going to have to figure out something to satiate that. i don't know what that is, but the president is not going to back down on his executive order. he'll itch for the fight. he'll want republicans out there on this, and i think republican leadership won't want the fight as much. i'll tell you who else won't want the fight. this is where it gets interesting. people talk about ted cruzs. people don't talk about rob portman, the seven republican senators who have to run in states in 2016 who will likely be carried by a democratic candidate. philadelphia, maine, new ha

senate majority leader harry reid hopes to finish with the bill today. that would clear the way for the holiday break. that requires cooperation from both sides in the famously unpredictable senate that has senators on both sides that they don't like. >> i don't support dodd frank and the restrictions on the district of columbia and other things. i didn't write the bill. the senate democrats didn't write it. that's what legislation is all about. the senators are unhappy with it and they will have the chance to make the objections heard. >> i am joined by new jersey senator bob menendez. thank you very much. what do you think is going to happen? >> well, we haven't gotten notes as we speak about when this vote will take place. i think there will be a fair number of members who are concerned that we are moving backwards on wall street reform that took place result of the worst financial crisis the nation has seen since the great depression. for some of us like myself who say sit on the banking committee and shed blood to ultimately get the system back in o

and it is not just harry reid.u have his comments, but you had chuck schumer, another leading democrat saying we shouldn't have passed this in the first term. you had tom harkin, the retiring senator from iowa, one of the more liberal senators from congress saying this was a poorly drafted law and we should never have passed it. more importantly, paul, you've got this statistic which that is of the 60 democrats who voted to pass this law 30 of them are now gone. >> right. but why are they admitting this now? is this just facing reality? i mean, most of these guys -- i mean, they still have to defend obamacare. >> they do, except i think they understand that there is great political liability of defending it full throatedly. and what this is is a message to some of the rank and file that may be for their own future survival they need to be more free to maybe make some changes and modifications to the law which is something that republicans are planning to do. >> okay. joe, we also had jonathan gruber, the famous jon

he had harry reid. harry reid gone and mitch mcconnell run aring the senate, they are able to enact agenda. they have an agenda. and they should be willing to pass whatever they can and to dare the president to go ahead and to veto. now, they can do stuff that they know the president will sign. the most obvious thing is to trade negotiating authority. harry reid was holding it up because of the unions because of many liberal democrats. but presidents want negotiating authority. republicans are protrade. they should could that give the president a win and a victory. but then they should begin to work on stuff and challenge the president. keystone pipeline tax reform he repeating the medical device tax. repeating the employer and individual mandates and healthcare reform. let the president show where the party stands and let the country know that the new president, republican president this stuff, which is very popular will be able to get through. >> i think you are so right. it transcends the bridge betw

harry reid, his first six year, 281 filibusters.revents us from progressing. in fact, you can think of it this way -- we are giving a veto to powerful special interests over the legislation that's important for working american. and that's unacceptable. >> now quickly, explain how ted cruz actually delivered to us a bunch more nominations that are actually passing in the senate tonight. >> many of us are going to send a thank you note to ted cruz. >> he has apologized to republican senators about what he did. >> there was an arrangement agreed to between the leadership of both sides to complete work, leave for the weekend, come back on monday and ted cruz said, you know what, i want to make my point about immigration and really to grand stand a little on immigration. so i'm going to keep everybody here all weekend. and in the course of that, that simply accelerated the consideration of nominees. rough estimate, probably an extra dozen judges. >> because he provided all of this extra floor time for harry reid to use and eat up on the

with harry reid gone and mitch mcconnell running the senate, they have an agenda and they should be ableo pass whatever they can and to dare the president to go ahead and veto. let the president show where the party stands and let the country know with a new republican president this stuff which is very popular will be able to get through. heather: robert hoops is a former dnc chief of staff to vice president joe biden and rich lawrie, a fox news contributor. charles krauthammer says to the president, bring it on. what should the republicans gain or lose if they take that strategy. >> there are still things they won't be able to get through the senate because harry reid will still thereby to be an obstructionist. the first one will be the keystone pipeline which will get democratic support. it will be a big bipartisan jobs and infrastructure bill and the first thing the president will have to do is veto that bill which will put him in an awkward place politically. heather: the latest fox news poll shows 58% of people believe keystone should be built. what will the president do? >> i don'

the most important thing about the case, the person who said this was harry reid.harry reid said that and ses ta despite the fact that the case was important, but not popular with at least half of the people, none the less it was not popular particularly and it was the remarkable thing was there were not people killed. there were not i had on thes. there were not things thrown at people's heads in the street. no guns. when i say that to a studio audience, i usually add the power. i know perfectly well that a good percentage of you were sitting there and too bad there were not a few riots. i would like you to see what happened where people decide there major disagreements under a system of law and that is a remarkable thing that people call. it has a long history. that history does begin 800 years ago and with those barons. that is where that began. why do you think it is so famous that it was aggravated by king john and the pope and pafs of our history when it never went into effect? >> you know more about the history than do i. you held the archives and in 97. i w

electiond harry reid's in 2010. he was going to have the latest technology. he said he was going to build the most 40 senate campaign ever. -- the most thorough senate campaign ever. he probably got there. he built a very impressive campaign operation. there was data mining, identifying target groups, they -- they had to know which voters they wanted to go after. had a broken down by geography and region and everything. caliber a presidential campaign running for a senate race. >> here is an ad that was run by the mcconnell campaign against his opponent. the?evan -- he was -- who was he? >> he was a businessman, very wealthy, he had a delta manufacturing business in connecticut. -- a built manufacturing business in connecticut. people werel looking for any possible primary opponent for months. they were going to keep party meetings. they were befriending a lot of be potential folks and convincing them to get out of the race before they ran. they started to hear about -- he was this guy? they did an extensive opposition research months before he got into the c

that's harry reid. or the people who do not believe it. of the 11 million people in this country, 310 million are not judges and they're not lawyers. they're the ones. it is the people in the villages you have to convince that this is in their interest. lawyers and judges might help you do that, we can talk about it, and they should. but they're the ones that have to be convinced. and go look at that history. and go look at the ups and downs. and that's what that exhibition would make you do. i think it is really a great opportunity to see the documents and to see them exhibited with other things and i'm glad to have the opportunity to be here, in part, because i could see that. >> the highest calling of mankind, i think it is fair to say, is public service. i want to thank you on behalf of my fellow citizens and your fellow citizens for the public service you've given to our country. thank you very much. >>> you've been watching c-span's american history tv. we want to hear from you. follow us on twitte twitter @cspanhistory. facebook.com

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any difference in mitch mcconnell's ability to compromise versus harry reid?l he be a compromisor as the majority leader next year? >> that is the big question. i think he is in a very difficult spot. this is going to test his political skill. it is going to be 46 democrats. he needs a six democrats to pass any legislation. he needs 60 to break a filibuster. he has to balances competing interests, which is not just conservatives running for president, but blue state republicans who are up for reelection. he will have to balance those interests, get democratic support, keep the conservative house at bay, and get the democratic president to sign something. we will have to see how much he digs in, or how much he tries to play in the middle. >> on the personal side, if you were a young person watching this and you see mitch mcconnell wrote a thesis in college about henry clay. then he came here as an intern. then he went to work for his senator. and followed him, because he was a judge in jefferson county. he has been here for 30 years. what does it say to people

harry reid and mitch mcconnell. your thoughts?ing bill, they're in the middle of negotiations over the nominees. real quickly, one of the nominees is for immigration and custom enforcement, that is a major issue that plays into the issue. republicans would love to block that to have some victory on immigration regardless of what happens next year when they have to face this over the spending bill. that's one of the reasons the bill is tied up. a lot of this comes down to the relationship between the two men, mcconnell and read and the senate and what they want to get done. mcconnell will have a sizable number of troops. the focus will be on half a dozen red state democrats up for re-election in the next two cycles to see whether they're willing to play ball with mcconnell as well. >> dead man walking is harry reid. sandoval, he will clobber harry reid. >> i would like to think that's not true. everybody is talking about 2016 is looming and that is what a lot of this is about. >>. amber: a lot of the talk on 2016 seems way premaddu

senate majority leader harry reid has been locked in a battle between democrats and republicans overassing the measure. and it appears now any vote will be tomorrow. so for today it looks like they will try to knock out some nominations instead. our chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel is on capitol hill. sorry about that, mike. how troubling is this? can they get it done? >> kelly, at this point they're going through some procedural hurdles. all indications are they'll vote on this massive trillion dollar plus government funding extension, maybe tomorrow, maybe monday, but at some point they will. right now senate majority leader harry reid is using procedures to introduce nominees he would like to get confirmed. a short time ago he blasted some of his colleagues. >> regrettably small group of senate republicans has determined that if it's in their political interests to hold this legislation hostage. i'll remind everyone 12:00 midnight, 12:00 a.m., the united states government tonight runs out of money. >> let's take a live look at the senate floor which is buzzing with

it seems to me it's in harry reid's interest to accomplish as much as we can in the final two years of the obama administration. obama has two more years of opportunity, and i find, is a look back, some of the most productive years of any administration are the final two, that's certainly true of bill clinton, and you can argue that about other presidents but there's no question, there is a very rich agenda here that could be addressed if we could find real cooperation. i have been encouraged -- trent and i were just talking about this. i've been encouraged by the signs of maybe a new found relationship between mitch mcconnell and harry reid in the last two weeks. they steam be talking more. steam be comping up with grandmas a little bit more frequently, and if that's any indication, i'm stoked, even though it has to be shown. i'm still hopeful we can really find some common ground next year. >> he did say, after he had been working to try to put together the tax extenders, big package, and it was -- felt apart, he did say he would support just the one year extension, which the house v

he and harry reid joined together to get a bipartisan funding bill passed, 56-40.sed just last night. succeeded in keeping the government open all the way until next september. sure, have to wade a little bit back into this in february to extend homeland security funding but for the most part they bought themselves almost ten months of keeping the lights on in a bit of bipartisanship. but the real story this morning is the story behind the story. the long, messy detour that both had to take to get there. politico reporting this morning it was all supposed to be finished on friday night. that was part of the deal. harry reid would get the republicans he needed to pass a measure in the senate and republicans would block many of for president obama's nominees before moving forward before the end of the session. republicans hoped they would be able to do that under that deal. but then ted cruz and mike lee took to the floor late on friday night to call for a vote on obama's recent executive action on immigration. the senate worked through the weekend in order to do it.

harry reid, nancy pelosi. i noticed this yesterday in california progressive politics in america, it was has been, totally democratic state. governor of california, 76. two centers in california 80 one and 74. nancy pelosi is a leader from california, 74. that is the forward-looking, young progressive democratic party currently take that -- take joe biden -- i do think there is a way for me as a republican, as a conservative, the most encouraging thing about the election was not so much just the results and the numbers but the quality and the youth of republican candidates. you have got dan sullivan and cory gardner and others coming into the senate. people in their late 40's and 50's. military veterans, impressive people. they were all younger than the democrats they beat in each race. the republicans will be younger than the democratic congress. suddenly the image one had and i had as well, depressing as a conservative in 2012 of the republicans as the party of backward looking, older, hanging on desperately

all product of harry reide's nuclear option. thank you. >> former governor jeb bush is announcing he is seriously considering a run for the republican presidential nomination and poes posted this message on facebook. i have decided to actively explore the possibility of running for president of the united states. i hope to visit with many of you and restore the promise of america. jerry, it seems like the announcement in here, i am somewhere between thinking of it and doing. it why make the announcement. >> you form the exploratory committee. and have a place to hire people to staff up and collect contributions and donations. and so this is close to saying i am running for president and puts the machinery in place to do that. why do that now. the jeb bush team is small and a closely held decision and my guess is they want to get out ahead of a draft mitt romney movement and puts everyone on notice, that if you are a donor or talented republican operative you have a place to g. and i suspect he wants to scoop up the donor and sta

lou: why do i see senator harry reid strut down the hallway. >> we want someone who can beat harry reid next time. lou: the cia, the feinstein, obama, democratic party cia report. what do the republicans do? why aren't we hearing more from them. >> the republicans came out immediately and said this is a partisan diatribe and to embarrass bush. put the report down. close your eyes. remember how they felt after 9/11. thousands of americans murdered. billions of dollars in immediate damage. lou: i don't have to close my eyes. i carry that anger with me for the rest of my life. that really doesn't get to what the republicans will do. >> they have to do something. obviously, we watched the cia get dismantled by jimmy carter and the church commissions. long time to rebuild it. cia was cutting edge. i wasn't for the torture before. but now we've done it. we don't need the gory details. move on. lou: let the clandestine services -- >> why hasn't obama shut down guantanamo bay yet? lou: we'll put that forward to those folks. ed rollins. lisa said: all of a sudden the grand jury system doesn't wo

harry reid allowed a vote on none of them except 19.t 2,000 amendments introduced, vote on 19. he affectively stopped the senate from doing business. john: he will be the minority leader and last time he was minority leader he was able to cause all kinds of chaos for the republicans. don't count harry reid out just because he is not the top dog. keystone pipeline, built it, congress says this will be the first priority. mitch mcconnell says the number one deal, we have a vote on keystone. cheryl: i think they will have a vote on keystone, it will go to the president, let him veto that. it will set off a war within the democratic party for the union vote. you are already seeing that. it is one of the most interesting stories going on inside the beltway. the warren wing versus what is left of the moderate wing of the democratic party and this pipeline will get built. of the market needs it at some point it will get built. john: interesting to watch the battle. let's talk about the fracking ban in new york state. joining us is wall street

senator harry reid's top aid ripped the white house for screwing up the obama white house.v news barely noticed. the i attack on the president's teenagers struck a cord because the media love a simple morality tale. but compared to obama care's affect on the country, it's a blip on the radar. >>> there are more kmefblts from jonathan gruber making the rounds now. republicans can kill obama care from the inside without repealing it. >> the entire law just craters if there's not someone in the white house who cares about making it work. so you don't need active repeal. you just need ignoring the law and letting it wither on the vine, that may be enough, that's the real threat, that's the major threat. >> gruber also said leaders needed to be cheerleading the law in its early stages. gruber is scheduled to testify on the hill next week. >>> the tension between congress and the president over the budget and immigration, we will talk about it all with the panel when we come back. i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mm

i'm celebrating this week because this is the last few days of the harry reid senate in history.t has to be positive to end that. i hope we get to a more productive place with the president obama but that is largely up to him. that is about whether he is open to real compromise working with congress. so far unfortunately showed no willingness in that direction since the election. lou: senator david vittert, vitter good to talk with you. let's look at our online poll results. whether both parties are taking direction from the chamber of commerce and the business roundtable or just the gop. both parties won 77% of the vote. here is tonight's poll question. do you think the republicans will try to stop defacto amnesty? cast your vote at lou dobbs.com. >>> to the week long box office, the 2 1/2 hour bible long epic, ended "the hunger games" top spot. exodus, took in 24 1/2 million dollars for fox. "the hunger games: mockingjay - part 1", was second place after three weeks at the top, bringing in 13 million for lions gate. fox's penguins of madagascar came in third, 7 million. >>> up

that is why harry reid is psyched about it. if republicans think they are going to have a lot of leverage playing a game of chicken, i have a bridge in los angeles i would like to sell them. >> i would like to buy that bridge in los angeles. i think it really is kabuki in the sense that we know boehner needs 40 or 50 votes and pelosi is going to provide them. she has been doing that for boehner throughout the entire last two years. next topic -- attorney general eric holder announced a investigation into police in new york where they have been using unnecessary force. this coming 24 hours after a grand jury in new york decided not to indict the officer in staten island. the consensus has form that the travesty is the injustice. can this weird consensus lead to positive effect for public policy going forward? >> are three things i would like to see. we need prosecutors who are more politically savvy then these prosecutors we have seen in st. louis and staten island. they had to a better sense of the impact. there's a real argume

it is up to harry reid to get his party to push it across the finish line. minutes ago he reminded democrats the clock is ticking. >> legislation is a compromise. that's what this legislation is. there isn't a lot of time. government funding runs out on 12:00 midnight saturday. >> so will progressive democrats get on board? we know where elizabeth warren is. will conservative republicans get on board? >> congress should stand up and use the power of the purse. we will not allocate taxpayer dollars to lawless and illeg illegal -- >> or will elizabeth warren join ted cruz forming the oddest coalition of all time? stay tuned. joining me is former governor of vermont and former chair of the dnc, howard dean, washington bureau chief for buzzfeed news, john stanton and washington bur rechief for "time" magazine, john sharer. does this portend of something more to come? >> it may. here's the deal. i'm not sure this is partisan. i do expect some members of the tea party on the right to vote no on this thing. there's two kinds of compromises. one is one you don't lik

. >> president likes it, harry reid likes it -- when those guys agree, that's a very big deal. yesterday on the program, you and i did not see this insurrection clearly as it has emerged today, but the fact of the matter is you see a real discomfort on john boehner's part with a talk of a shutdown and you see people like ted cruz who is always an outlier commecial bachman, who is retiring, steve king, who a lot of members of congress wish would quiet down -- this is largely going to be a sideshow and if it passes with a coalition of steny hoyer and john boehner, that's going to be good for those who wish the two parties to come together. >> it is hard to think -- i said it looked like an old-fashioned tea party rally. it's hard to imagine they are going to be stronger in these last few years. all of the signs point to it being weakened significantly by everything that is happening. take out your manhattan's and drink, because for the first time since the midterms president obama had a meeting with the incoming senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell from the bluegrass state of