troops are finally coming home warhawk senator john mccain is upset in interviews borning on an n.b.c. mccain grumpily blasted president obama arguing that he thinks the troop withdrawal is unnecessary. we risk losing everything that we gain i think it's a great risk and i think it was unnecessary we always envisioned some residual force and this administration they were never really serious at all let me ask you could i say yes you're seeing seeing iraq break up into three countries which is what the vice president and the remember that the president and the vice president all opposed the surge said we couldn't win and they wanted to withdraw and they have succeeded so john mccain one of the most vocal advocates of this illegal war in the first place a war that has cost nearly four thousand five hundred troops there a lot and killed or displaced millions of iraqis now want to give advice on how we should leave iraq. after nine years of illegal war john mccain has lost the right to be taken seriously when it comes to war voters it's very ugly. coming up in size daily take a christmas

so john mccain jokes and he is a stooge.t not fit to share mccain's vietcong prison cell and he is a saint. republican jokes and it's flat. democrat jokes they call it a slip. is that fair, is that balanced? whether you are a democrat or republican is that right? i'm not saying one side is the saint around the other is a sinner. but is the media acting like a saint? picking and choosing who is right for rebuke and who gets a pass. it doesn't mean not holding anyone's feet to the fire. how about everyone's feet to the fire. on this show i tried to make this much clear. i am not red. i am not blue. i'm green. your green, your money. it's why i hold republicans account to believe budget-cutting promises from which many try to wiggle out but i don't let them. just like i did with president bush in 2008 on the financial rescues. i said then i do now, they would never work out. that president's people didn't like it then and this president's people don't like it now. i don't care. people hear what they want to hear. this is what i

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john mccain is following me.60 days while we negotiate a long-term approach. it was a responsible, bipartisan overwhelming vote. 89-10. for those who were taking 2% out of the payroll tax it would extend it to the end of february. but what john boehner suggested is stop at this point, nine days away from this deadline. >> what is the next thing here? the other option is a conference committee maybe. that won't happen overnight that could be an option here. i'll get your thoughts on that in a second. speaker boehner had a photo op yesterday. there are republicans, appointed negotiators to a conference committee, a conference committee that deoesn't exist yet. and that empty side of the table is presumably where democrats would sit. can you envision any scenario where democrats show up at that table there? >> what he does not understand or does not admit, in the senate, unfortunately, it takes days for us to set up a conference committee and meet. we can't do this before january 1st. even if it was our intention to

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we're going to talk about it with senator john mccain. he's got the strong views. hearing from secretary clinton. stand by for my interview with senator mccain. >>> also, iraq's president accused of organizing death squads. it has sectarian tensions and sparking fears of an all-out civil war. we're going to talk about that as well with senator mccain. >>> here are some of the stories we're working on for next hour. public frustration with washington gridlocked as house republicans are blocking the plan to extend the tax cut. also, kim jong eun is mourning in pyonyang -- but what does the transition of power mean for a nuclear north korea and brian todd looks for the truth about marine captured in iran and accused of spying. stand by, those stories and a lot more. you're in "the situation room." just days since the last u.s. troops left iraq, there's fear already of bloody new sectarian violence, even potentially civil war. arwa damon reports from baghdad on the arrest warrant for the vice president and that has the country reeling. >> stunning allegations that the n

john mccain had said this would go the same way as colonel gadhafi you know this prompted a response from the prime minister saying that well perhaps john mccain it should spend too much time in the prisoner of war camp during the vietnam war and this had affected his mind. where. he's saying he was. a pardon for. two if he were to admit his guilt and it was of course if let me a putin became president in that election in march all of this coming in well a momma's session from the prime minister four and a half hours how long you spoke for piecing is previous record by around five minutes peter all of a reporter syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have been killed by army defectors in the southern province of god are meanwhile human rights watch has released a report naming dozens of syrian officials it claims are responsible for the violent crackdown on protesters political analyst chris bambery told me syria's now in danger of repeating the libyan scenario. i think there must be worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not least in the syr

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a response from the prime minister saying that well perhaps john mccain it should spend too much time in the prisoner of war camp during the vietnam war and this had affected his mind elsewhere vladimir putin also spoke about mikhail khodorkovsky the jailed billionaire he's saying later he would consider a pardon for of course if he was to if he were to admit his guilt and if this was of course if let me a putin became president in that election in march all of this coming in well a mammoth session from the prime minister four and a half hours how long you spoke for the thing is previous record by around five minutes. peter all of our correspondents in moscow russia's put forward a draft resolution on syria to the u.n. security council calling on both sides the country's leadership on the opposition to hold violence and start political reform moscow believes the previous western backed mandate which russia and china vetoed in october was one sided and could have open the door to military action like in libya the new document voices support for the arab league's initiative for a politi

well staying stateside prime minister putin also heard some comments for us senator john mccain john mccain had said this to me as putin would go the same way as colonel gadhafi you know this prompted a response from the prime minister saying that well perhaps john mccain it should spend too much time in the prisoner of war camp during the vietnam war and this had affected his mind well elsewhere there was also statements made on. the jailed on oil tycoon now to me putin said that there was a possibility he would be looking into a pardon for her to cause all of this coming of course in a four and a half hour long q. and a session the longest so far in the ten years that led to me if it has been doing these beating his previous records in my five minutes of the new york. many thanks peter all of a fair process that thomas k. . now tara south banks and america could be held in prison indefinitely without charge trial because of the senate passes a controversial bill which is already been signed off by the white house the house of representatives it could mean the military being able to

he tweeted to john mccain, all of america saw how heroic long islanders were on 9/11. cain apologized this way. >> i'm sorry there's at least one of my colleagues that can't take a joke and so i apologize if i offended him and hope that some day he will have a sense of humor. i yield. >> schumer is still not laughing and tweeted again, new yorkers can take a joke but if john mccain wants to mock parts of america, stick to arizona. ron paul, republican presidential candidate and author of the schoolbook, you can make raspberry scones. >>> the huntsman girls are back, the tune is from justin timberlake. ♪ we're bringing huntsman back the rest of them is one big circus act ♪ >> not sure if this song will help the campaign but they certainly know how to get themselves attention for their dad. that will do it for me. see you back here tomorrow 11:00 a.m. eastern time. stay with you are with alex wagner comes your way next. omor♪ ♪ co-signed her credit card - "buy books, not beer!" ♪ ♪ but the second that she shut the door ♪ ♪ girl started blowing up their credit score ♪ ♪ sh

here is the thing with john mccain.is a guy who was one of the earlier sponsors of the dream act. when he was challenged in 2010 in the primary, he was against it. here is a guy who said that when the general said they come to me on don't ask don't tell, i'll do what they say. then in 22010 in the primary he's against it. he has no right to talk about people using politics in terms of flip-flopping and changing their position. >> will, i'll ask you, was it time to bring the troops home and is it political expediency like john mccain said. >> second one first, it is a political decision. we know it's an unpopular war, unpopular to leave troops in iraq. the president himself has been against it from the very beginning. just because it's political doesn't mean it's right or wrong. to know whether it's right or wrong, don, i don't know the answer to that like l.z. when you think of iraq, think of iran. if iraq within the sphere of influence of iran is unacceptable, if that's a threat to the united states, then you say this

they said john mccain could never get elected in south carolina because it's such a conservative state a number of these states with below 50% of the vote is just disconnected with recent history. >> you haven't answered the question. >> joe interrupted rudely because he was eating and the camera went in on him. >> i'll ask mitt romney the same question on monday. how has he evolved as a candidate. there's a flat-line reaction that people have to him and at this point in the game that could be concerning. >> i will say this. there's deep concern among many republicans about newt. mark just pointed out when we were talking about the segment that if newt wins the nomination, it's highly likely there will be a third party of the i've been struck in the last few days raising money for romney and struck by how many people arms i was twisting who literally got off the fence because they said, my gosh, if newt is the nominee, it's a motivating impulse. i just think as more and more news comes out about newt, the contrast with romney, the contrast with romney, the column yesterday in "wall str

mike huckaby beat john mccain in iowa in 2008. >> mccain didn't play. >> he didn't play. what cow mean. >> he stayed in the -- [everyone talking at once] >> beat romney in -- >> iowa high risk and higher for romney because first the nomination could be over in a couple weeks. but if he finishes fourth or fifth, he'll have a significant downdraft in new hampshire, just the way he did in l.a. and that's a doomsday for him. >> what kind of bellwether is iowa? is it reliable or unreliable as far as the nomination is concerned? the answer is deeply unreliable. >> that's correct. but -- [everyone talking at once] >> very same question. enormously important. >> take huckaby beating romney. huckaby goes on to win south carolina. if romney and won iowa, i think romney would have been the nominee in 2008, john. he just didn't beat him. and then he didn't win new hampshire. and he didn't win south carolina. >> what do you make of -- boosting the importance of the gals in the place what do you think of that? >> i think she's got a point. [everyone talking at once] >> straw poll but i

john mccain suspended his campaign, as i recall, and there was a question actually about whether he was born to have the first debate. >> what did you guys do. over the debate commission. >> well, they -- would mccain wanted was the debate to be postponed and obama said i'm coming. it was kind of a blinking kind of thing. the debate commission folks said to me because we were -- on his already in oxford. when all this happened. the debate commission, we are prepared for debate. there will be a debate. unless we're told something else happens. i was approached by the folks through intermediaries, people from the university of mississippi. they spent millions of dollars preparing for this debate. it was a big deal for the state of mississippi in the university and all that. they asked me if i would moderate and events just with obama. in other words, if mccain did not come, maybe using students and run at town hall thing. i said, well, let's say they'd did delay the debate for a week or so, which, it was all -- and i had a lot of conversations about kind of what we would do and whenever,

he is a guy who did a horrible job running john mccain's campaign. you just said john mccain's. john mccain lost. he did a horrible job running. i watch him on your show, and i don't even know how he gets on your show. i'm sure the ratings are very bad as he speaks. >> he's an msnbc contributor now. he's been on my show in the past. not now. >> he's a lightweight. total lightweight. >> he's a smart guy, steve schmidt. >> i don't know if he's a smart guy. >> i'm telling you -- he's a smart guy. >> a lightweight or a smart guy. i leave it to you. >> well, i, you know, listen, he's obviously -- he's very upset. he's very upset. you know, it's no small achievement to be the head of the republican whack pack in 2011. and i think he's done it. i think the party escaped a bullet here by having him participate in this debate to moderate it. the public relations disaster. when you look at this nbc poll out today, lawrence, you see very clearly the president is enormously vulnerable on the economy. when we have the front-runner talking about the biggest threat being electromagnetic pulses

. >>> payroll taxes and republican politics with former presidential candidate john mccain. >>> and the reality and politics of a drop in unemployment with alice rivlin, douglas holtz-eakin and ron brownstein. >>> i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." >>> the iowa caucuses are curious things, places where a guy named "jimmy who" began his journey to become president carter. places where inevitable winners like hillary clinton and howard dean lost. places where somebody could rewrite the story that this republican race has come down to mitt versus newt. somebody like ron paul. >> newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues. sometimes in the same week. >> it's wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions. because then people have to ask themselves what will you tell me next time? >>> ron paul hit newt gingrich pretty hard this week and he's got the money to keep at it. $3.6 million in cash. even better, he's got the army, "time" magazine reports paul insiders claim to have hard pledges from 20,000 caucusgoers, a record 120,000 iowans showed u

dole and the des moines register passed over romney in favor of john mccain. >>> we are one week before christmas eve now. have you finished your christmas shopping yet? not this guy. the rush is on, as shoppers look for last minute bargains on a day that's been dubbed super saturday. darcy spencer joins us live from tyson's corner, where she's been checking out the deals. what do you see, darcie? >> reporter: it's close to impossible to come out here to tyson's corner and not buy something pip got myself a pair of $10 gloves and took care of one item on my list. for many we spoke to they wanted to finish up all their shopping tonight. >> at tyson's corner center, the rush is on. people taking advantage of the last full weekend of shopping before christmas. >> it's been great. we've done a lot of shopping. >> are you hoping to get everything wrapped upton in the. >> absolutely. >> did you wait until tonight? >> no, i did little steps at a time, but tonight was the last push. >> are you finding any deals out there? >> yeah, it seems that most of the retailers are cutting a little bit to

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