>>>lori: el liderazgo republicano se dio y el presidente de la cámara baja john biden era la hora de. john biden dijo que significa no se aumentará los impuestoss a 160 millones de estadounidense el primero de enero. horas antes el presidente barack obama invitó a casa blanca a trabajadores que bajarían su ingreso. es hora de escucharlos. es washington tan disfuncional que aunque estamos de acuerdo no logramos hacer nada preguntaba el mandatario, porque la mayoría de republicanos y demócratas en el senado pudieron unirse y extender por dos meses el recorte de impuestos. además extiende el beneficio del seguro de desempleo que reciben 2 millones de personass entre ellos 150 mil latinos y los médicos no verían reducidos los pagos del medio quiermedicare. >>> no creo que un grupo tan extremo en la cámara va a detener una propuesta que va a salvar a 160 millones de trabajadores en este país, de un, incremento de sus impuestos. >>>lori: no sólo fueron demócratas quienes presionaron el líder de la cámara alta, imploró a sus colegas dar luz verde a la prórroga de 2 meses y el año entrante p

just that now the irony is that john for as i was lobbying so that role wouldn't be passed earlier and we have a video you do not want to miss a vice president joe biden talking about how he literally calls john or zine to ask for advice on policy so we ask how can you. regulate the people that you call for advice on policy but you don't want to miss that that's coming up next on the capital account that's going to do it now for the news for more of the stories we covered at r.t. dot com slash usa and check out our you tube page it's youtube dot com slash artsy america you can also follow me on twitter as well the capital account with lauren lester is up next. more news today ballinger says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day.

vice president joe biden is setting them straight. john nichols of the nation will respond next.'ve got a rex story to tell you. rex rescue. the buying will story coming up. this guy is so cute even the right-wingers loved him. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes-benz... ho ho ho! ...at the winter event going on now. but hurry -- the offer ends january 3rd. >>> good to have you back with us. thank you for watching. this holiday season, you have to admit there's no question that republicans are the scrooges of the holiday season. i mean from washington to iowa, the message has been very clear. the gop is looking out for the wealthiest americans. vice president joe biden lays out the stark contrast between the obama administration and republicans in an op-ed appearing in the des moines register. he targeted mitt romney's writing. romney appears satisfied to settle for an economy in which fewer people succeed while the majority of americans are left to electrode batter or fall behind. his

jamie says this isn't going to have any consequence, but there is hilarious video of joe biden saying, my buddy john the smartest person in the room. >> like something from solyndra, there is embarrassment here. core sign was considered for treasury-secretary so it. >> it could be worse he wouldn't have any idea where the $15.2 trillion went. >> it's not good for eab when he running against wall street. >> these are huge sums. >> that was a trillion dollars. >> this is a huge sum of money. >> wait a minute, when osama bin laden did the terrible incident on 9/11. we finally found him. when the surplus, we're going set the record right. >> valid part of that, jack, $1.2 trillion billion is under federal budget -- $1.2 billion. there is different scale, i think. great panel this evening. thank you for being with us. i'll be back tomorrow night for another edition of hannity. we toss to it shannon bream who standing by live to go on the recor >>> thank you, mark. tonig

biden said this time. he said taliban is not our enemy. what was the vice president thinking? ambassador john bolton is here to talk about that. first, a big warning with to republican to rush limbaugh. rush says there is hope for the republicans despite what you hear in the mainstream media. >> obama's approval numbers are up and tea party is defunct. conservatives army or not and nobody cares what they wanted and extremist whackos. i'm concerned. i know how you are going to get hit. i know how difficult it is to not be affected by a media onslaught. even i, the rush-bo knowledgeable of what these people rd and how they try to do it, if you i let my guard down for a split second can get sucked in. i know over the course of 12 months, i'll be getting phone calls, can you see this. i want you to see it's not over. if it's over for anybody right now, it's over for obama and the efforts that the media is going to be making until november is evidence. they are the ones that have an indefensible track record and agenda and they have to lie about what they hope to do and lie about what they have do

well, i mean, a lot of head scratching with that, but i think that john boulton had the best explanation, this is not an accident. biden is well-known for gaffes, what they want is a way out of afghanistan. say we defeated al-qaeda and leave behind the taliban and they'll be okay. that's the biden argument that of course bolten doesn't agree with. >> all right. and it's time for a break, but first, if you want to keep up on the media stories that erupt during the week, go to our website, and watch the daily bias bash and up next, over a week until the iowa caucuses get ready for media overload. . >> what's up, ganstas, it's the-- it's the mi-double 'tisle. >> and g.o.p. contender ms. romney goes out to get his mug seen everywhere. is it work sng while it built up in my system. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantiis proven to help people quit smoking. it reduthe urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking orood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop taking chantix and call your doctor right

. >> john as we know from vice president biden that has an op-ed pooes in the des moines register, first two words are mitt romney. i want to read it. romney appears satisfied to settle for an economy in which fewer people succeed while the majority of americans are left to tread water or fall behind. the president and i firmly believe like my father that every man and woman is entitled to basic dignity. how does romney, john, fight that message on the campaign trail and drive a different message to those people? >> first thing i would do is talk about how the labor force under barack obama has shrunk by 300,000 people. these are people that are actually out of the work force because they stopped looking for work. remember the financial times last week or a couple weeks ago said the real unemployment rate was 11%, not 8.6%, but 11%, because a lot of folks that have given up looking for work aren't even included in those surveys nowadays. i think the consumer sentiment at record lows, lowest it has been since the carter administration, i think we're seeing a repeated malaise of the late 1

john was right. >> wow. >> you got to love joe biden.ou got biden praising him but that and what corzine did and they don't like it. >> so billion dollars of investor money, right? >> this is like solyndra. they think the politics and the corruption are all tied together. the president and vice president tied together in the video and that is why those lines are off the charts. >> i wondered if knew enough people knew who jon corzine was. apparently so. >> they have gotten to know who he is. they will see him a lot. that is what you are going to see. when you have video of the president or the vice president either on the attack or defending something and then you realize there is a story behind the story, that is when you have a credible ad. we have a second one that doesn't do, as well. obama administration is doing everything it can to undermine mitt romney. here is there best shot. let's take a listen. >> john mccain, george bush and president obama all released names they have relied on to raise millions of dollars for their preside

democrats like bill clinton, hillary clinton, joe biden, john kerry, and john edwards had been itchingoverthrow saddam hussein since the time bush was spending his afternoons in the texas governor's mansion using his office computer to play video golf and fine tune his fantasy baseball teams. the iraq war framed a disastrous decade for u.s. foreign policy. president obama should be praised for bringing it to a close. as we move forward into even more uncertain times, americans should always remember that the iraq war was not the product of one man or one party but of a political system that continues to betray the very citizens it is supposed to protect and serve. >> well said. >> the quotes, mike barnicle, when i started researching this, the quotes from democratic leaders, from the "new york times", from "the washington post", through 2002, sounded like it was written by george w. bush's speechwriters. and this amnesia as we move out of iraq, what it really shows is that the party that is in power has to immediately transform itself to being a pro war party. and we've seen it even no

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and if this next ohio effort to overturn a john kasich law brings out anywhere near the enthusiasm that the last one did, president obama and vice president biden a ballot with the latest opportunity for ohio voters to tell john kasich what they think of him. >>> best new thing in the world today, this is the george washington bridge are, connects new york city to ft. lee, new jersey, the most heavily used vehicular bridge in the world, millions driving over the decks every year. it's a suspension bridge so those two decks of road are hung from suspender cables which in turn are huj from the main cables strung between the two hours. this is what the gw bridge looked like when it was first built back in 1931, 80 years ago. that's when with the suspender cables were new. the suspender cables haven't been replaced since. this week the agency that owns that bridge, the port authority of new york and new jersey authorized the first chunk of a more than $1 billion project to clean up the bridge's main cables, the really big ones and to replace the smaller cables, the suspender cables, all 592 of them. the suspender cables alone end to end would be ab

dwyane wade and lebron james of 2012, john heilemann, mark halpren, thank you for joining us. >>> after the break vice president joe bident romney are squaring off. that's next. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >>> team obama isç shaping its campaign strategy around the middle class with a message that says companies, specifically mitt romney, will not save the american dream. joining our panel now the man behind the magic, the reverend al sharpton, host of "politics nation" on msnbc. it's a pleasure to have you. >> always blood to be with you. >> so joe biden sort of went on the attack against mitt romney and accused him of embracing policies that would basically gut america's middle class. mitt romney went back at him yesterday and we have a little sound as far as what he said to the vice president. >> so, mr. vice president, let me be very clear, i am in this race because the policies of your administration have harped the middle class. the poor have a safety net, the rich are doing just fine, but the middle class in america

biden negotiations. he asked his vice-president to lead bipartisan negotiations to get a budget agreement. after that, the president got involved and negotiated directly with john boehner. he tried to negotiate with us in good faith, but he was unable to deliver the votes and support from his party necessary for a compromise. congress decided after that that they wanted to try it themselves and they called for a super committee, where democrats and republicans would work on their own. the president respected that and he sent a proposal with over three trillion dollars of additional proposals. as the super committee went on, members of the committee, both democrats and republicans, repeatedly said, let us try to do this. the white house should not get involved. they have rules of confidentiality where they were very tight about even telling us what was going on. at the end of the day, when it failed again for the same reasons things failed over the summer, to go suggest that it is the president's fault is an understandable political line for people on the campaign trail. it is not an accurate record of what happened. >> does it leave you with any hope for progre

biden, also president obama's campaign attack dog, at least on this day and now, the white house is putting him on the candidate they believe is the president's strongest republican challenger, mitt romney. joe johnsng the story for us. what's going on here? this fight today between joe biden and mitt romney? >> very sharp words. you can tell we're getting pretty close to the iowa caucuses. mitt romney had a few hard knocks lately as the lead has changed hands every couple of weeks or so, but as the christmas holidays approaches, he's still a huge factor in the race while some of the others have lost traction. >> we have to grow -- >> now that the newt gingrich boomlet has started showing signs of fading, mitt romney is thrust back into the spotlight. he's getting pressure from all sides. a lot thanks to some powerful newspapers. new hampshire's union leader slammed romney for doing events with seemingly scripted questions, taunting him to debate gingrich, who happens to be the guy the union leader has already endorsed. and in iowa, where some of the latest polling suggests romney, gingrich and ron paul are statistically tied for the lead, it was romney who was being singled out for special attent

as john alston reports there is concern over his health and safety. >> there are about 24 monkeys at the san francisco zoo biden banana sam is not one of them. >> it's really tragedy that the animal may be by himself. it's important to get him back. >> someone cut the chain on the back fence and cut their way into the area where the zoo says there is no surveillance cameras. >> at this time we don't know what the motive is. it could be an animal rights group. it could be someone who does want to make a profit off this animal. >> reporter: on the web we didn't have any problem finding squarely monkeys for sale. having pet monkeys is legal in some states but not here in california. we did find some for sale in oakland and sacramento. one person familiar with it is suzy carey who residents sanctuary in san diego county. >> there are people that breeds monkeys to sell. unfortunately they take them out of the wild for laboratories and probably for pets also. >> reporter: the squirrel squirrel monkeys at the zoo arrived after funding ended. banana sam is one of oldest at age 17. they normally live to be about 20. exp

john allen said that our troops are going to be in afghanistan far past the two thousand and fourteen withdrawal deadline meaning of the war in afghanistan is nowhere near over that vice president joe biden said of the taliban was in our enemy in afghanistan everybody went crazy thought it was a huge deal a change of policy but apparently none of that was a big of a deal as the made up non-existent war on christmas is the bill o'reilly would rather spend time waging a culture war day in and day out than talking about the cost and the news surrounding the real wars that he and his fellow fox news host so valiantly champion it's a sad day for america when the highest rated host on the highest rated network would rather spend his time every night talking about the literally fake news rather than real us wars so it's no wonder why the american people are disconnected from the cost of the wars that our government wages on our behalf because you don't hear anything about them because bill o'reilly doesn't think that they're important to talk about so for choosing to spend his time creating a fake war rather than covering the us is very real wars bill o'reilly wins tonight to a time award. our

. >>> meantime, we're going to be also check wg joe johns who's going to give us an idea of what's on the political ticker. joe bidendefending mitt romney. what's going on? we'll find out. forty years ago, he wasn't worried about retirement. he'd yet to hear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement solutions for our military, veterans and their families. from investments... to life insurance... to health care options. learn more with our free usaa retirement guide. call 877-242-usaa. >>> with thousands of american troops packing up and leaving iraq, a lot of them will be looking for jobs. president obama will be speaking to troops at ft. bragg, north carolina, in just about maybe five or ten minutes from now. he has already put in place tax breaks for businesses that hire veterans. alison kosik is with us now from the new york stock exchange. alison, just how serious is the jobless rate, particularly among veterans? >> yeah, this is serious, fredricka, because it's higher th

john mazany and i sea food differently. >>> you're being judged now on your performance. >> no, no, no. i'm being judged against the ideal, and, you know, joe biden a good expression. he says don't judge me against the almighty. judge me against the alternative. >> well, nut nutriand mitt romney are duking it out, fair to say on the republican side, looks like one guy is getting duked and the other is winning. president obama's team in chicago is preparing strategies to run against each candidate. back in 2008 barack obama actually benefitted from a long and drawn out primary season against hillary clinton, but will a similar scenario on the republican side hurt newt or romney, depending who wins the number nation? david axelrod is the much beloved senior strategist for the obama campaign. he's out there in chicago. you're looking grim. this is called friendly territory compared to other territories, mr. axelrod. so let me ask you and give you a chance to talk about one big thing. many people, myself included, like barack obama not just because we were thrilled by his love of this country and what he said about his country in his very being and a

john boehner, the speaker as he is with them. we're going to talk to two tea partiers about how the gop managed to hand the president a huge victory that could have been theirs. plus joe bidentuck it to mitt romney in an op-ed piece saying mitt romney would double down on the very policy, the economic policies that actually caused the great recession. we're going to talk to the "hardball" strategists about what romney and the other republican hopefuls need to do between now and the republican caucus, january 3, to seal the deal. >>> also, what republican turned down desperate pleas he run for president won't say know when it comes to being a v.p., that's in the "side show," and it's our last show before christmas. that means it's time for the new york magazine critic david and me to go over the issue. we start with president obama playing "hardball." michael steele is here, and he's dressed in fine christmas fare. bob, you're in your usual suit. i see no sign of christmas on you, except -- >> it's red, it's red, chris. >> red, pink -- >> we have decked the halls with bows of holy here, and you, s , sir, -- >> he wears it well. >> it's a zippered sweater. anyway, the preside

john boehner and now once again walked away from as he walked away from the agreement with president obama on the default of the four trillion dollar bargain as eric cantor walked away from the joe bidenks. the list is 1 mile long. right now they are walking away from the middle-income tax cut for 160 million americans. >> i have a question. you said earlier today that he thought john boehner knew what the right thing to do was. earlier you said you're not sure he was for a cut. >> he was for this before he was against it. he was against it before he was for it. what explains that? the american people. mr. mcconnell was not as enthusiastic. he said we're going to put it on the floor because the american people have been pulling in support for this proposal to give stability to middle-class families so they will have an opportunity to support themselves and help grow the economy which economists says this will do. i think while he knows the right thing to do, that is why he came out and said it this deal, this agreement to give a middle- class tax cut some certainty for the next 60 days was a victory. he told his caucus came back, the members, the tea party faction, and said we do not

john kasich note what he is like. i said, calmed down. i said, listen, they will be far more nervous about this and we are. i said, just relax. i hear biden has been out there hitting balls for an hour. we get out to andrews air force base and here is the vice president. he is sopping wet. he had been out there pounding balls. we hit a few balls. and somebody gave the president some pretty good advice. i'm not sure who it was, but it was very good advice. we hit quite a few before we go out. and the president said, all right, banner, you and i are going to take these two on. i thought john kasich was going to cry. [laughter] and we whipped them pretty good. but it was just off. -- and just golf. >> what about the payroll package? what is one thing in this package that we will see this week at he would be willing to let go of. -- to let go of? >> the house has acted on the jobs bill. it is time for the senate to act. when the senate acts, they can take our bill and pass it. they can amend it. they can pass their own bill. but it is time for the senate to do their job. >> you already said that. ask him something else. >> i got up early. i s