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congressman joe courtney. gram from connecticut. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: good to see you again. three sub joe. >> two sub joe. [ laughter ] >> bill: i just remembered your nickname. good to see you this morning. >> same here. >> bill: i've got to ask you about a breaking story this morning to get your general thoughts. nbc news obtained a copy of a memo that the department of justice had given the white house on the use of drones saying it's okay for the united states to use these drones to kill even american citizens anywhere in the world. if we think they're a member of some terrorist organization, even if there's no evidence they're planning an attack against the united states. do we know what the policy is regarding the use of drones and who makes the decisions and when and where? >> it actually -- this is a pretty big deal with the release of this memo because this issue has been sort of -- you know, circulating below the surface for months. actually years. but the response of the administration is

. >>> joining us, joe courtney. i just want to point out where that ad will air in san francisco, louisville, and las vegas. >>> the minority leader, she has an "f" rating by the nra. harry reid has a "b" rating. one thing we also know is lawmakers are offering their tickets to certain vice presidents. we now you're taking a wounded warrior as your plus one. explain what the strategy is by having someone in teenance that suffered gun violence? >> i think we want to put a human face on this issue, because at some point, you know, we have to debate it in terms of constitutional sinuses. how a university background check would work, but at the end of the day, this is really about the unacceptable levels of violence that ordinary americans are suffering every single day because of totally out of control system of gun ownership, which allows guns, very dangerous guns to get in the hands of the wrong people. >>> one has said that it's not going to happen until the heat is on and members are feeling the heat every day. how

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. >> reporter: connecticut congressman joe courtney said the inaccuracy denigrated the state. >> somebodys artistic license, what i still can't believe is being overlooked is that a vote is not dialogue between characters in a movie. a vote is an event. >> reporter: lincoln's screenwriter tony kushner admitted to change two of connecticut's votes to clarify that the 13th amendment passed buy a narrow margin. he added, i hope nobody is shocked to learn that i also made up dialogue imagined encounters and invented characters. that's hollywood. and in fact, lincoln's revisions are minor compared with two other best picture nominees. "argo"'s most dramatic scenes never happened including the daring escape attempt from iran. and then there's this year's most controversial nominee. >> i'm not your friend. i'm not going to help you. i'm going to break you. any questions? >> reporter: "zero dark thirty" about the killing of bin laden. senior members of congress have complained that scenes showing torture to get intelligence never happened. >> hollywood is known not as the truth factory but the dr

current connecticut congressman joe courtney wrote spielberg and said that placing connecticut on the wrong side of the historic and divisive fight over slavery is easily against verifiable facts. agreed says movie host ben mankiewicz. >> i think if the movie is about the passage of the 13th amendment or whether we're going to torture people in the united states of america, you bet their feet should get held to the fire. >> reporter: but oscar has celebrated dozens of films over the years that were based on true stories, but that imagined characters and dialogue and whole scenes. from "patton" to "a beautiful mind" to "the king's speech," film makers have relied on artistic license to create historical dramas, not documentaries. if some confuse the two, that does worry historians. >> as i teacher, i find that what students think know know about history often comes from movies. you have to disabuse them about some of the misconceptions and give them broader context of history than hollywood movies are capable of giving them. >> reporter: in the oscar spotlight this year, three movies a

he says he loved the movie, but that bothered him, and congressman joe courtney checked the record, and fact, all of connecticut's representatives back then voted yes. no official reaction as of yet from the legendary director. >>> well, it was put to a national vote on the web and social media and monopoly players have voted and a big change is coming to the big board. the iron is out as a game piece. the cat is in. as dog-lovers scramble to compose a statement of reaction to the news, hasbro says the cat won out over a diamond ring, a guitar, helicopter and a robot. so there you have it. we're back in a moment with the countdown under way tonight, if you can believe it, for the winter olympic games. you'll hear those trumpets exactly one year from tomorrow night, the beginning of the next winter olympics, now exactly a year off. we'll be in sochi, russia, a place nobody really knows anything about. so we get a scouting report tonight from nbc's jim maceda in sochi. >> reporter: welcome to sochi, host of the 2014 winter olympics. with a year to go on the countdown clock and temperature

he says he loved the movie, but that bothered him, and congressman joe courtney checked the record, andin fact, all of connecticut's representatives back then voted yes. no official reaction as of yet from the legendary director. >>> well, it was put to a national vote on the web and social media and monopoly players have voted and a big change is coming to the big board. the iron is out as a game piece. the cat is in. as dog-lovers scramble to compose a statement of reaction to the news, hasbro says the cat won out over a diamond ring, a guitar, helicopter and a robot. so there you have it. we're back in a moment with the countdown under way tonight, if you can believe it, for the winter olympic games. to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and shou

he says he loved the movie, but that bothered him, and congressman joe courtney checked the record, andin fact, all of connecticut's representatives back then voted yes. no official reaction as of yet from the legendary director. >>> well, it was put to a national vote on the web and social media and monopoly players have voted and a big change is coming to the big board. the iron is out as a game piece. the cat is in. as dog-lovers scramble to compose a statement of reaction to the news, hasbro says the cat won out over a diamond ring, a guitar, helicopter and a robot. so there you have it. we're back in a moment with the countdown under way tonight, if you can believe it, for the winter olympic games. to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and shou

yesterday morning we told you congressman joe courtney of connecticut wants the film corrected. he said congressmen from his state were wrongly depicted as voting against the 13th amendment which outlawed slavery. screen writer tony curb ner says while courtney is correct, they also changed the names of the lawmakers. they made the change to illustrate how the amendment passed by a narrow margin. >>> the caps are skating on extremely thin ice after yet another blowout loss. just four days after falling 6-3 to the rival penguins, washington fell hard again to pittsburgh 5-2. the caps completely unraffled in the second period giving up all five goals in 12:00. they netted -- they return home tomorrow to face the florida panthers. >> tries to throw it up. it catches -- hope john is okay. >> turns out hockey reporters are pretty tough too. rinkside reporter was hit on the knows nose during a rangers game last night. he did not run to the locker room. he stayed between the glass and reported while getting cleaned up by the rangers head trainer. he finished reporting on the rest of th

according to congressman joe courtney from connecticut, "lincoln" falsely depicts his state's two congressmenme voting against the 13th amendment which outlawed slavery. courtney says all four congressmen backed the amendment. so far, dreamworks is not commenting. >>> president obama could be trying to ground some private jets as part of the upcoming debt talks. the president is working to close tax loopholes including what he calls tax breaks for private jet owners. the national business aviation administration says closing the loophole would punish the one million-plus employees who work in the industry and would hurt the $150 billion in economic activity. >>> overnight, somebody in virginia jumped up quite a few tax brackets. >>> also, a very close call for a local business owner. >>> a news4 exclusive this morning. the owner of a local deli talking about the moment an explosion leveled his store and nearly killed him. what he told us from his hospital bed and why police are saying this is no accident. >>> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. someone in the commonwealth is w

democratic congressman joe courtney of connecticut says the oscar-nominated film falsely depicts connecticut's two congressmen at the time voting against the 13th amendment which outlawed slavery. courtney says all four congressmen actually backed the amendment. so far, dreamworks has not commented. >>> right now, members of the olympic movement are counting down to the winter olympic games. here's a live look at the ceremony in moscow's red square. we are one year away from the opening ceremony. russians are spending $15 billion on the games. and you can watch the xxiv winter olympics on nbc 4. >>> we should probably start calling the wizards the giant slars after yet another huge win. washington took down the hot new york knicks last night 106-96. the knicks were coming off a five-game winning streak. john wall led, 29 points, nine assists. it's the first win over the knicks in three years. and the wizards have beaten every division leader in the league except san antonio. the wizards will try to take down another new york team, the nets, tomorrow. >> all right. >>> this morning, people are

. >> other headlines you need to know as you head out the door congressman joe courtney who was on oursterday is calling out steven spiels berg for a historical inaccuracy sending the director a letter about the scene in the film where they are voting to abolish slavery. two of the three members of the connecticut delegation in the movie vote to uphold slavery. courtney couldn't believe it when he saw it. so he did some research and cond firmed entire the entire connecticut connecticut delegation voted to abolish it. he hopes somehow it can be corrected in the movie before it goes to dvd >> bill: how did they get that wrong? >> how do you mess that up? >> he says he has no problem with movies taking some liberties. you but this is a historical vote. you can't have that historical inaccuracy. >> a movie like this. >> that's a simple fact. like we know that there are tales and stories surrounding abraham lincoln but a simple fact, they should have gotten right. >> bill: the way they portrayed him. >> that's all the facts have to be straight. good for joe although i am pretty pissed that

congressman joe courtney finally got to see the movie "lincoln" in recent days.resentatives over the 13th amendment outlawing slavery. >> congress must never declare equal those who got created unequal. >> reporter: later, the climactic scene, the actual vote. we're not allowed to show you the clip, but here's what the character said. the clerk of the house, quote, we begin with connecticut, mr. agustus benjamin on the matter of this amendment, how say you? mr. arthur, nay. so two congressmen from connecticut voted against abolishing slavery? >> something's wrong here. this just cannot possibly be correct. >> reporter: courtney, who represents connecticut's second district, was bugged about it all the way home. when he got home, he googled the information, thought he was on to something. then courtney got with the congressional research service, part of the library of congress, asked them to check the historical records. they did and quickly got back to him with the news that he was right, that all four members of connecticut's house delegation had voted in favor

congressman joe courtney as saying steven spielberg's "lincoln" shoes them voting 2-1. four-member delegation voted in favor. it's asking for the movie to be changed before it's releaseded on dvd. >> good luck. finally, receipt includes discount for well behaved kids. the website knocked four bucks off a check for family meal because the kids behaved themselves at the table. it says if only all restaurants did this. you know, that's a really interesting idea. >> kids should get lollipops for that too. not just the parents. >> you've got to give the kids the incentive, not the parents. >> exactly. coming up next. it's big and it's bad. the latest on the northeastern blizzard. for some of you, your local news is back. for the rest stick around. we're joining by boston's mayor coming up. >>> good morning. the perry hall high school stupt charged with shooting a classmate on the first day of school will be tried as an adult. 15-year-old robert gladden, junior is accused of opening fire in the school's cafeteria back in august. his lawyer says robert needs mental health trea

joe courtney says that didn't happen.to director steven spielberg and told cnn's brian todd it's important people know his state's delegation wasn't on the wrong side of history. >> that's a source of information that a lot of people may never get any other source in terms of the history of the civil war or the 13th amendment. >> hollywood movies frequently have these kind of errors in them. and "lincoln" is an exceptionally good hollywood historical film, and so i think we have to have a certain amount of tolerance for a certain amount of error. >> not that error. congressman courtney is asking for that part of the movie to be corrected before "lincoln" is released on dvd and blu-ray later this month. >>> next today, advice from george mitchell. we'll have that coming up. >>> just minutes away, spy wars between the u.s. and iran and claims that some of our cia drone secrets may have been exposed. >>> 58 minutes past the hour. we wrap it up as always with best advice. >> here's christine. >> peace negotiator and former se

current connecticut congressman joe courtney wrote spielberg that "placing the state of connecticut on wrong side of the historic and divisive fight over slavery is a distortion of easily verifiable facts." agreed, said turner classic movies host ben mankowitz. >> i think if the movie is a movie about the passage of the 13th amendment or it's a movie about whether we're going to torture people in the united states of america, you bet they -- their feet should get held to the fire. >> reporter: oscar has celebrated dozens of films over the years that were based on true stories but then imagined characters and dialogue and whole scenes. from patton to "a beautiful mind" to "the king's speech," filmmakers have relied on artistic license to create historical dramas, not documentaries. if some confuse the two, that does worry historians. >> as a teacher, i find that what students know or think they know about history often comes from movies. you have to disabuse them of some misconceptions and give a broader context of history than hollywood movies are capable of giving them. >> reporter: i

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cnbc's courtney reagan. let's talk to joe lavorgna, deutsche bank chief economist.. >> you got it. >> morgan brittany. and kathy mangu-ward. good to see all of you. is this warmt catastrophe going to be apocryphal? tax hike from payrolls. higher gasoline. we get late refund payments, joe. what's the deal here? >> larry, certainly something to bear watching. walmart's a very important company. they account for about 40% of retail sales, which account for about 30% of consumption. so clearly they're important. anecdotally it's interesting but if these are the worst sales in seven years that's really not that bad because those six was a decent year for growth. housing was still peaking. i'd be more concerned if they said it was as bad as what they'd seen during the downturn. i don't know if it's company specific. i don't know if it's related to the tax rebate. all i can tell you is the data don't look as bad as i would have thought a month ago. >> they don't look great. i know you're an optimist. i'm an optimist. but retail sales are kind of crummy. retail sales were k