jimmy williams. thanks for being with us. >> happy friday. >> so our friend steve kornacki is not here, but he has strong feelingses on the shove philly filibuster reform. he thinks the changes won't make a difference. >> it's called the motion to row. it means that a bill could only be filibustered once it's being debated on the floor. even if adopted, it will still take 60 votes to pass anything in the senate. >> and steve also says that requiring senators to hold the floor like the old fashioned stewart goes to congress, mr. smith goes to congress, wouldn't also an major advance because ultimately republicans might like to showcase their obstructionism on fox news and become a champion of the right. what do you make of the reforms? >> well, i mean, first of all, we don't know what it's going to be yet. there's a lot of rumors swirling around in the building behind me right now. but what we think we do know is that reid whether mon we get ba january and he'll move reforms by a simple majority vote.

joining me from columbia, south carolina, msnbc contributor jimmy williams with more on why it matters "usa today" did this great chart that breaks it all down, the spending or these tax and spending changes go into effect, because americans across the board are going to be affected on this from the top 1% to the nation's poorest so how likely is it that this will happen? >> well, i don't think it's likely that it happens because i think both sides have a hell of a lot to lose. the president having just come off a re-election and gaining seats in the house and the senate, i think that he has political capital. he would lose a lot of that capital if, in fact, he didn't force congress to come to a deal and on the same -- on the flip side is the congress. they'd have to figure out a way to do this. wall street expects it. main street expects it. it's not just about the bush tax cuts which by the way i think we should start calling the obama tax cuts. he extended them twice. he owns them. he has to figure out what to do with them. he put out a plan on that and so we know what he wants to d

contributor jimmy williams is here to break it down for us.eright. so elizabeth warren a big emotional win for the democrats getting back that seathat was teddy kennedy's for so long. what does the new leadership role mean? >> understand how the senate works. when a freshman senator comes leadership role. they may have a symbolish role. taking the seat back -- being against the banks. which is the new financial protection bureau. >> certainly, will the the senate. most freshman senators when they come in they sit back on the backhes. they sit down they listen they come up with anr it be immigration and taxes or whatever it is. and they learn as much as they can. and they give speeches when needed. and they keep quiet. that's what freshman senators usually do. in the mold of a hillary clinton, in the mold of certain senators that did that. there are certain senators who have not done that in their first year terms. rand paul jim demint. these are tea partiers. they don't care about the protocol. when it comes to nin i suspect some of them will

. >> and joining me now is rachel smolk and michael smirkonish and jimmy williams. ray she will, let me start off with you. i want to play a couple of other clips from "meet the press." let me play lindsey graham, because what we heard from senator feinstein was a response to some of the comments made particularly by mr. graha miker. >> would this white house mislead people about american security events? i think they might. when the bin laden raid occurred they leaked every detail. we heard details about classified information. to make this president look good, so if they would leak classified information to make him look good, would they withhold information to prevent him from looking bad? >> it went to this so-called deputies committees populated by appointees from the administration. that's where the narrative changed. we do know that the intelligence community as they presented it was accurate. >> the allegation that the white house changed those talking points, that is false. only one thing was changed, and i've checked into this and i believe it to be absolu

former state department middle east officer joel ruben, and molly ball and michael skirmonsih and jimmy williams. you heard kelly o'donnell report that the face of all of this is susan rice, but we know that the intelligence, the talking points, if you will, did not originate from her or the u.n. is it appropriate she's the face of all of this in your opinion? >> thank you, tamron, for having me on. it's unfortunate that dr. rice has become the face of this, because, in fact, she is a highly regarded accomplished civil servant leading our mission in the united nations. she was put in the spotlight in order to communicate what the intelligence community and administration believed to be the best way to communicate the attack on benghazi. rightly now congress is looking at the question of what went wrong, but the question about whether or not she is personally responsible for it is a bit far-fetched, and it's really going into a point where members of congress are making themselves look silly. they're day in and day outhave different statements. the house sent a letter to house republicans on posi

in the guest spot today helping us identify senators to depoll larize our senate is jimmy williams whok durb durbin. >> jimmy -- >> that's not easy. >> jimmy, so you heard harry reid's obstructionist mantra before the election. should we expect a softer harry reid to emerge after the election? >> harry reid was a boxer in college, so i think that tells you -- he was a capitol hill policeman before he was a united states senator and the majority leader. that gives you everything you need to know about the majority leader. >> so no, then? >> the answer is i think the comment that you put up on november 2nd was preelection date, and now he is going to be leading an expanded democratic caucus. he wants -- listen, his reputation is on the line e.s the senate to be old school, to get aalong, to do things, to produce things. so i know -- yes, kornacki does hate the words "fiscal cliff," but watch for the fade-away of the gang of six. there's three democrats and republicans that are working together to walk us away from the fiscal cliff on august of 2011 and watch for the president of the unit

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let's bring in contributor and democratic strategist jimmy willia williams, msnbc contributor robertto the three of you. robert, let's go to the end game. it's neck and neck in pennsylvania. it's a state you know very well. so jonathan capehart was on the set earlier and he called pennsylvania fool's gold for mitt romney. what do you think? >> the last time a republican won pennsylvania was back in 1988 when george h.w. bush won the state. 1 million more registered democrats than republicans. pennsylvania is even in play, who would have thought six months ago that the polls would be neck and neck. the fact that mitt romney is within striking distance, that speaks more to the president's vulnerablilitie vulnerabilities. if bill clinton is in the state, if they are spending more resources in pennsylvania, it tells me that the obama campaign has a lot to be worried about. >> what do you think jimmy? do you agree that the obama campaign should be worried right now? >> the obama camp should probably will not be worried. the exact same things were being said about four years ago. especiall

chuck todd. >> jimmy: brian williams and david gregory. aurant menus with wacky fonts, for basically saying, "eating here is a really bad idea." [ laughter ] >> steve: "i'll have the -- >> jimmy: "you gotta try the suicidal wave." [ light laughter ] >> steve: "no, i don't. no, i don't." >> jimmy: "you gonna try that one? you want hot? or you can get devil's butthole." [ laughter ] "yeah, the whole family's eating it." >> steve: the devil's butthole? i don't think i want to eat that. i don't want to put that in my body. >> jimmy: yeah. ♪ thank you, mitt romney, for losing out on your bid for the white house. guess you'll just have to settle for your blue house, your yellow house, your gray house, your red house -- [ cheers and applause ] -- your brick house, your dutch colonial, classic tudor, neo-victorian, french chateau and your summer house that has a tree house that's the same size as a regular house. [ cheers and applause ] he's disappointed. ♪ thank you, ice, for not minding that you float in a pool of your own blood. [ laughter ] it'

i'm sorry, i worked with billy dee williams, i'm sorry. >> jimmy: you're family is coming?y come in for thanksgiving. we divvy it up. i like cooking the turkey, my grandmother had a method. my mom and dad take over the sides. i'm building a new barbecue at my house, smoke a couple turkey breasts to change it up. >> jimmy: smoke it up. >> we have that in common we love to cook food. >> jimmy: that is right. congratulations. >> what was funny about that? >> jimmy: i don't know. we'll take it, though. eric stonestreet. "modern family" wednesdays at 9:00 on abc. we'll be back with l.a. reid. ♪ ♪ ♪ time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. buy now. save later. we're for the individual. the food lov

>> you're going down. >> jimmy: who is this guy, man? randy williams, everybody. nd -- >> jimmy: i don't know what is going on with him, man. >> steve: oh, that's so bad. >> jimmy: we have time for one more suggestion box. this one is from donna wilson. "hey, jimmy, i'm a huge fan of both the rapper, shaggy, and barber shop quartets, but i've never seen them combined. anyway you can make that happen?" sure. in fact, i happen to be a member of a barber shop quartet called the ragtime gals. and we do a really swell version of a song by the rapper, shaggy. let me bring out the rest of the gang. fellas? ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, combining the four-part harmony of barber shop quartets with the rapper, shaggy, please welcome the ragtime gals! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yo, man. >> what do you want, man? >> jimmy: my girl just caught me. >> you let her catch you? >> jimmy: i don't know how i let this happen. >> with who? [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: the girl next door. you know. >> oh, man. >> jimmy: i don't

the last one, jimmy fallen, brian williams and matt lauer. here is the point. hurricane sandy. half the state of new jersey still doesn't even have power yet. don't you think they could have waited for a few days? this feels like a rush job to get it up on the screen before the election. >> bob: i'm sure they got together and worked it out with the obama campaign, don't you? mine, tell you mine. take a look at two polls out today. on obama's approval rating. you see the approval rating at 51-44, substantial, way outside the margin of error. is that the gasolineup will poll? the other -- gallup poll? the other is the abc, cbs poll excuse me. never in modern presidential history has any president, 50% or over lost the election. >> dana: but never has obama been at 50% up to now. >> bob: he was up a few weeks ago. >> kimberly: the last poll is within the margin of error. >> bob: you can pick it apart but more people think he is doing a good job than you. do >> dana: that's for sure. >> kimberly: talk about something serious. your vote and making it count. >> bob:

. >> yeah -- >> jimmy: this is hank williams' first guitar and you're like, what?oking at the weirder and weirder stuff until you find something that's just like, kind of, a couple hundred bucks and you're like, what is this thing? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, what exactly is this? yeah. can i play it? >> this is very -- >> jimmy: some mandolin that was in india in three wars. you're a very -- you're a great dramatic actor but i also know you as being a very funny gentleman 'cause i've hung out with you before and we always have a good time. would you ever do a comedy? >> uh, i would like to, yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. i think you'd be good in a comedy. [ cheers and applause ] >> i was just thinking -- i would like someone -- i would like -- we were talking about it earlier, i would to mime a comedy and have somebody else do my voice. >> jimmy: no, come on. >> i would like -- that would be amazing. i would love to just be a puppet. >> jimmy: you want -- and just do someone else's voice? >> i wish i could just do it for every single job. i wish i could do it right now. >

jimmy: they could, yeah. and how are the people? have you gotten any william hung's this year? t. >> there's no way you know she bangs. [ talking over each other ] [ cheers ] >> jimmy: do you ever sing -- you never sing on the show. >> i'm the worst singer in the universe. i am absolutely 100% tone deaf, which is why i host the show. >> jimmy: after all these years? >> i can't do it. as much as i want to. i tried the recorder, i tried "hot cross buns" when i was a kid on the recorder. i couldn't even get a-d-d-a, whatever -- >> jimmy: they always make you learn "hot cross buns." >> "hot cross buns," right? i sucked at that. on the radio show, we do this bit called "finish the lyric." and we do this a couple of times a week where i'll start a song. and we'll have a caller call in and finish that song on the air. i say to them, "look, i appreciate you calling up and sharing your gift of song. with my gift of song. and together, we'll create an amazing gift on the air." >> jimmy: and you basically just make them sing? >> yeah. >> jimmy: what if we begged you, could you do a little

brian williams will be there, jimmy fallon will be there, i think sting. so it's going to be a big collection. christina aguilera as well, 8:00 tonight on nbc. >> wonderful. >>> let's swing to presidential elections now. with just four days to go, president obama is focusing on, where else? where do you think he went? ohio. he's making stops there every day between now and tuesday. he'll also be in virginia, florida, new hampshire, iowa, colorado and wisconsin over the next 96 hours. mitt romney will be in many of those same states over the next four days, although he's hitting pennsylvania and skipping florida. president obama was back on the trail yesterday after a three-day break to oversee the storm recovery. rallying to a crowd of 10,000 in colorado. the president made what some are saying was a jab at his opponent's tendency to change his mind. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you know me. you may not agree with every decision that i've made. you may be frustrated at the pace of change. i always remind people that when we did the

find out what jimmy kimmel is up to when abc2 news comes right back. >>> what a real surprise for cleo williams and her family. the single mom of six received a home in brooklyn stuffed with presents, furniture and a thanksgiving meal. it was because of orec did you know and his charity to help habitat for humanity. >> stability, comfort, and just come home to. sorry. >> the commissioner of football is here for the home for the holidays program has helped more than a hundred single parents throughout the country realize the dream of living in a home of their own. >>> you can own a piece of entertainment history, jimmy kimmel auctioning off his desk to raise money for the sandy relief effort. signed by jimmy, fellow late night host david letterman, steven cobare and john stewart. you can bid on the desk. and the proceeds will benefit the red cross. >> that's a cool idea. everybody pitching in to help out those in need. >> it's a nice desk. i'd put money on it. >>> we have a cold morning. let's get you out the door tomorrow morning with temperatures in the 30s. north and west upper 20s to around

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