hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time awards night because john boehner it's been a mixed bag of first year for the speaker of the house on his watch we've come close to a government shutdown and congress almost like a nation default on its debt all because the speaker and the president couldn't come to a deal that would include new revenues which led to the creation of the super committee now leaders on capitol hill including john boehner are feeling the heat over the stalled negotiations of the super committee and the group only has a few weeks left to reach a deal to cut the deficit and if no deal is reached and several triggers will kick in and that means that social programs democrats love and defense projects that republicans love all be on the chopping block so it is weekly news conference later was asked about reports of the supercommittee was looking at tax increases to reduce the deficit and he signaled that revenues might be part of the plan which for republicans is a big big deal so that's one advice i've received luke russert after the tax increases boehner was seemi

john boehner did not get involved, harry reid did not get involved. i suspect knowing how washington works they were involved in advising and consenting and doing play-by-play leaded night but they did not publicly get involved in these conversations. the white house stayed away for the leaders knowing how important this issue is to stay away from this work. was that a good thing, was that a smart choice? >> that is being little unfair. i had seen reports that they sat down and try to make this work. the president wants jobs. congress has done nothing about jobs. the republicans have no jobs planned. he is being the president and went to asia and spent 10 days with people who can help us create jobs by buying our stuff, that is the sensible thing to do. i reject that criticism. i do think the president is doing what he is supposed to do and john boehner and harry reid did what they could do. the problem is john boehner who i think has potential as a good speaker cannot control his caucus. he is afraid of the members of the tea party and that is the pr

john boehner was asked about it today. >> speaker boehner, grover norquist was on the hill this morning. is he a positive influence on your conference? >> listen, our focus here is on jobs. we're doing everything we can to get the -- to get our economy moving and to get people back to work. it's not often i'm asked about some random person in america and what i think. >> is he a random person, though? to your conference is grover norquist a random person? >> listen, our focus is on creating jobs, not talking about somebody's personality. >> it's interesting boehner called norquist a random person. here are some of the pictures of boehner sitting by norquist that were found on americans for tax reform website. if you take a look at the names of the random person's anti-tax pledge, you'll find speaker boehner's name right there. so i ask again, congressman, do republicans care more about a pledge than they do about the 99.8% of the american people? what do you think? >> they care more about their tea party politics. they care more about grover norquist. not a random person but a guy who h

before the debt limit deadlock democrats called the debt limit the a quote satan sandwich but john boehner he loved it. and when you look at the this final agreement that we came to with the white house and i got ninety eight percent of what i wanted i'm pretty happy folks at home and so john boehner and the republicans getting ninety eight percent of they want what they wanted has brought us to this point this points on the verge of a supercommittee failure on the verge of heavy handed cuts to the social safety net and on the verge perhaps of another credit rating downgrade as they win tails we lose of course we should have never gotten to this point to begin with because government by gang is notoriously a bad idea and tom expose this bad idea for what it is recently in one of his rants take a look. no one is likely to be happy with what comes out of the gang of twelve but what else should be expected from a government by again so i mean gang government doesn't work gang government does has never worked the founders of the framers didn't have gang government in mind it's not in the const

the hill is reporting that former astronaut mark kelly scolds john boehner in a new book for failing to visit his wife in the hospital or calling to check on her after being hot in january. considering she was a member of congress, he would at least visitor call to see how she was doing. no word from the speaker's office. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton not getting a warm reception in the philippines. protestors threw red paintballs at her motorcade outside of the presidential palace today. the crowd said they want to end the military pact between our two countries. clinton was visiting the country to urn a peaceful resolution to the territorial dispute in the south china sea. >>> two days ago, she got a.m. bushed by a streaker while posing with executives in hawaii. he was carrying a tike torch and wore a loin cloth. she handled it well. >>> wal-mart is coming to the district. with up to six stores. see the locations planned in d.c. and hear why some are not happy about it coming up. >> first, this ad ought to catch your eye. the united tellers of beneton, hard to believe the

>> it ought to, ed, because look, you had a situation where in john boehner's home state you had a test -- you had a test of whether you should balance the budget on the backs of working people and the people of john boehner's home state said no way. we don't want that. we want to have a fair balancing of our budget that puts the burden on the wealthy people that ought to be paying their fair share. >> john nichols, great work. always a pleasure. good to have you with us. now let's turn to my colleague, rachel maddow, host of the rachel maddow show here on msnbc. rachel, your impressions of what has happened tonight across the country. we have seen the governor, a democrat in kentucky, win by 21 points. we see the state of maine tonight has voted to restore same-day registration. and i think it also should be pointed out that in the state of arizona russell pearson, who wrote the anti-immigration law, is trailing in his recall. rachel, how do you call it? some pretty interesting stuff happening out there tonight. >> it is for liberals and for democratic-minded americans and for progress

john boehner knows the struggles that small businesses face because he once faced them himself. growing up across the river in ohio, he worked at his dad's tavern, a place called andy's cafÉ. the mop the floors, waited tables, tended bar. he put himself through college working odd jobs and night shifts. he tarred roofs, refereed kids in sports teams, drove tractors, and worked as a nice gesture. through hard work, he put himself through school and graduate from college -- and became the first member of this family to graduate from college. he ran a company that represented manufacturers in the packaging and plastics industry. they had only a few clients, and the company was barely hanging on when the order passed away. john took over and suddenly found himself the president of a struggling small-business and he turned it around. along the way, john learned a lot of important lessons. he learned how to meet a payroll. he learned what it means to go -- to wrestle with government red tape, and most of all, what it takes to create jobs. john learned that it is the hard work of the m

. >> it does and also, john boehner has a secret house, republicans have an interesting list of bipartisanro jobs bills that passed the house. >> jon: is that getting coverage. >> no, the only person i'm reading about is john boehner putting it out and nobody else, interestingly enough. >> now date a came out completely buried even in the wall street journal, poverty rates have risen and 6.7% increase in the poorest of those, we have americans, families of four, trying to eke out a living under $11,000 and yet, those figures they were completely buried in the quote, job growth. >> the other figures, are those that show that people who are quote, poor in the country have tv's and vcr's and have cars. >> they don't have food when you look at access to food they're not eating well. >> wait a minute, jim, nobody has a vcr anymore. >> alan got me there. [laughter] >> vcr? i'm going to watch today's show on mine. what about this though, also the financial story involving john corzine, the head of mf investments, friends of the president, long time democratic governor of new jersey, did that get

they received a visit from john boehner.out it in the book saying they received a simple gift card. let's see the results of what you said. 95% of you said that john boehner should have called or visited giffords after she was shot and 5% said no. wow. that does it for this edition of "news nation." tomorrow your business host will join us to talk about small business saturday. have you heard about this? martin bashir is up next. ♪ when the things that you need ♪ ♪ come at just the right speed, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ no, i wouldn't use that single miles credit card. hey, aren't you... shhh. i'm researching a role. today's special... the capital one venture card. you earn double miles on every purchase. impressive. chalk is a lost medium. if you're not earning double miles... you're settling for hal

john boehner brannished this flyer, showing the job creation he's passed. i asked the speaker how compromise has become such a dirty word on capitol hill? mr. speaker, thank you very much for being here. let's talk about jobs. you talked about trying to find common ground. at the moment, there doesn't seem to be much. infrastructure can't get through congress. >> we have seen some common ground. we passed three trade agreements. part of our plan, part of the president's plan. as a matter of fact, it's all part of our plan for american job krcreators. we passed 22 bills all with bipartisan support that would help reduce barriers to job growth. they all remain in the united states senate. you'll see the house move, i think, before the end of the year on an infrastructure bill. >> now, you disagree with the idea of paying for this with extra taxes. some 75% of americans agree with an increase in tax on millionaires as a way to pay for these job provisions. do you not feel by opposing it that you're not out of step with the american people? >> the people who wo

lance errantly speaker of the house of representatives john boehner hasn't learned anything from the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan earlier this year he also hasn't learned anything from his own party's outrage over the manufactured sole interest scandal you know the so-called scandal in which brainer said quote for the federal government to be out there picking one company over another one type of energy source or another i think is wrong and quote only a few weeks after saying that painter is now taking one company over another and one energy source over another is pushing for a two billion dollar loan guarantee from the department of energy for a new nuclear plant you know course the companies seeking the loan is us the scene incorporated which just so happened to give ten thousand bucks in campaign contributions to boehner since last year and yes the price is right joining me now to talk more about the dangers inherent in the proliferation of nuclear power here in the united states and what type of energy our nation should be promoting instead is kevin camps radioactive wast

>> here is what i would say if it was john boehner ceo or nancy pelosi ceo and the sec sought a pattern of trades. >> bill: did you see pattern of trades? >> in boehner's case he bought five health insurance company stock as few days before the public option was killed. numerous other examples of other members. >> bill: that's not good. >> yeah. my point is is this. if they were a ceo and the sec saw a pattern. >> bill: they would be in on it. >> the sec would investigate. and if the ceo said my broker did it the se crncht wouldn't say move on. they would investigate it. >> nail it down. should -- do you want the speaker of the house or anybody in congress voting on health care legislation when they have a direct rule on the outcome? >> bill: put their stuff in blind trusts and have nothing to do with it while they are in office. one of the wealthiest members of the senate, you got him doing bad stuff. what is he doing? >> in his case it's mostly his wife's investment funds. they have a management team. his position is similar to bay n he says he has no involvement with the investor dec

>> here is what i would say if it was john boehner ceo or nancy pelosi ceo and the sec sought a pattern of trades. >> bill: did you see pattern of trades? >> in boehner's case he bought five health insurance company stock as few days before the public option was killed. numerous other examples of other members. >> bill: that's not good. >> yeah. my point is is this. if they were a ceo and the sec saw a pattern. >> bill: they would be in on it. >> the sec would investigate. and if the ceo said my broker did it the se crncht wouldn't say move on. they would investigate it. >> nail it down. should -- do you want the speaker of the house or anybody in congress voting on health care legislation when they have a direct rule on the outcome? >> bill: put their stuff in blind trusts and have nothing to do with it while they are in office. one of the wealthiest members of the senate, you got him doing bad stuff. what is he doing? >> in his case it's mostly his wife's investment funds. they have a management team. his position is similar to bay n he says he has no involvement with the investor dec

first by eric cantor, then by jon kyl, then by john boehner. as the president's offer on deficit reduction skyrocketed to a peak of $4 trillion. an offer that horrified some democrats afraid of the spending cuts but was, of course, reje rejected by house republicans as the president knew it would be because it included tax increases on the top tax bracket. the president then feigned disappointment over the final boehner walkout, but the president knew that to voters, he appeared to be the reasonable man looking for a solution while he was actually painting republicans into the absurdest corner of standing for nothing but low taxes for the rich. and so the supercommittee will cut no spending. the automatic cuts will not take place until the beginning of the next presidential term which should leave you wondering exactly how much spending will be cut during president obama's first term in exchanged for raising the debt ceiling? the answer is $21 billion. that's right. not $4 trillion. not $900 billion. not some giant, horrible, onerous amount of

you saw that in your interview with john boehner. he's trying to create jobs.ou see president in front of crumbling bridges, suddenly we're getting closer to 2012, he wants to be seen trying to create infrastructure jobs. it's all a show, no real effort -- there are many ideas out there about how it could be done. >> i want you to weigh in on this, show you some numbers about who the american people blame and hold responsible for. basically in october the president had a 15-point advantage over congressional republicans on the question of who the public trusts to handle the job. a month later, our poll has them tied at 40%. which is a big drop for the president in terms of pure politics, what does this mean? >> that's where the president is in trouble on this. even if there's a glimmer of hope in some statistical basis on job creation, the american public gets to make the decision whether or not we're in a recovery. until america's income changes, they do not believe that the country is on the right track. and if that number goes further month to month, the pre

for us in turkey, thank you for the live information. >>> coming up, mark kelly slams speaker john boehnervisiting his wife gabrielle giffords after she was shot. we'll tell you how speaker boehner is responding. it is today's "news nation" gut check. >>> first a lot going on here today. some things we thought you should know. herman cain may be happy to hear this. some members of congress want pizza to be counted as a veggie as a way to keep on it school lunch menus. they say they aim at making school lunches healthier are too expensive and the government shouldn't be regulating what kids eat. some districts are saying the requirements go too far. >>> here's a creative presidential campaign tool. take a look.("ti rá is the 2012 paul calendar. it was created by a personal trainer as a way to get people to notice ron paul and learn more about where he stands. in case you're wondering, go get your pennies together. it will cost you $25. a great christmas gift. >>> and hillary clinton got the shock of a lifetime in hawaii this weekend while posing for a picture with long congress's chief exec

now is this a few weeks ago that speaker of the house john boehner gave a speech at the heritage foundation warning of a neo soviet russia with the impending return of lattimer putin and telling the president he should rethink the reset as it's contrary to american interests and values so despite the reset since president obama came into office despite the signing of the new start treaty seems like republicans still want to hold on a cold war thinking or is it just anti obama thinking criticizing everything he does despite the value that his policies might bring out the rhetoric heating up over iran's nuclear aspirations here in washington how important will it be to keep up the reset keep the right wing war hawks if they join me to discuss this is graham allison director of the belfer center for science and international affairs at harvard's kennedy school and a former assistant secretary of defense in the clinton administration graham i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and let me first ask you what it is that you think is going on here we hear these comments coming from jo

says john boehner. karen henretty joins me, and kirsten powers, fox news contributor. this is a conversation in this country right now and it's very interesting, when you look at these numbers, wall street making money hand over fist right now, in fact, a lot more under president obama, and this is after the regulations that were put n. kirsten, than they ever made under president bush. >> yeah, well, the class warfare talking point basically is what it is, it's a talking point that republicans use whenever democrats try to do something, basically, and claim that the democrats are out to get rich people, even though, as you just said, wall street has done perfectly well under president obama, and john boehner also talked about in that interview, another talking point over and over is how, you know, 1 percent of the population pays 38 percent of taxes. well, that's because they have all the money. you know, what is the solution? i haven't heard any republicans saying like is the solution that they want to raise taxes on poor people? you know, they're just constantly com

listen to house speaker john boehner talk about this issue, the pay roll tax this morning. >> there'sbate about whether these extensions ought to be paid for. the president has called for them to be paid for. democrats here have called for them to be paid for. so if in fact we can find common ground on these extensions, i think you can take to the bank the fact they will be paid for. >> and tamron, the extension of the pay roll tax cut, the president wants it to go from 4.2% to 3.1%. that will cost the nation about $240 billion. now the idea is that a lot of that money will go back into the economy and help stimulate it. but that has a significant amount added to the debt that both sides want to figure out a way to pay for. obviously how to pay for that comes down to the contention which has divided the capital for a long time. >> we just showed speaker boehner. he once referred to grover norqvist. i think he said he was a random person. nonetheless that random person will be speaking to house republicans. what's going on there? >> well, november 3rd of this month, house speaker john

john boehner when he came in in 2010 he didn't promise 60 billion in cuts, he promised jobs. that was his promise. [ overlapping speakers ] >> that's what it was all about. they have not talked about jobs. >> they brought jobs plans to the table. they've been completely ignored. >> republican jobs plan. and there are postcards floating around the halls of congress right now. it's largely repealing regulation. >> exactly right. >> and cutting taxes. there is much more to discuss on this topic. one thing i do want to touch upon is the idea that in some far corner of congress there is a great bipartisan group of congressional folks if not leaders who are meeting in an informal breakfast club to talk about issues. there's an article about it in today's -- >> that is nice. >> sound like a good movie title. >> as much as we are seeing this sort of congress bottoming out in terms of partisanship and an inability to get things done, i think inevitably there has to be a swing upwards. and perhaps this little breakfast club is a sign of what may come. >> i like the optimism. >> we'll r