i think that's our point. >> all right, john paul ryan, dr. bruce bailey, we have to leave it there. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> what's trending now, hermella. >> a new report from the surgeon general say we've come a long way since 50 years ago detailing the hazards of smoking. today the number of smokers is down to 18%. the report credits the decline to public health efforts such as banning smoking indoors and banning tv ads on tv. surgeon general says we've got a long way to go. >> today the annual death toll from smoking is approaching 500,000 per year. enough is enough. >> a key finding in the report is that cardiovascular disease actually kills more smokers over the age of 35 than young cancer. now to your reaction. viewer sarah says we have seen that warnings of harmful behavior affecting long term health is a deterrent for everyone. sarah says, we have a long way to go? why can't the government trend against e-cigarettes. you can learn more at aljazeera.com/considerthis. consider more studies need to be done to weigh the

health care koss on our economy, but we do already have a final verdict right now on john boehner's prediction and paul ryan'sd happen to health care costs in 2011. they both predicted skyrocketing health care costs in 2011 and that did not happen. the opposite happened. they will continue to make predictions about health care costs, and most of the media will not warn their readers or viewers that those republican predictions have already been proven wrong. republicans are very good at making very clear, very specific economic predictions. and they are very good at being very wrong in those predictions. >> tax increases will so weaken the economy that, in fact, a recession will come on, jobs will be killed, revenues will go down and the deficit, instead of decreasing will increase. i believe that that will, in fact, kill the current recovery and put us back in a recession. >> could not be clearer. no punches pulled there. tax increases will put us back in a recession. that was newt gingrich in 1993 fighting against bill clinton's proposed tax increase, which later that year passed the house and the senate wi

john byner ¿no? el lÍder de la cÁmara de representantes. >> y el liderazgo republicano, >> y el liderazgo republicano, eric cantor, paul ryan y john boehneriÓn y pedirles que tomen acciÓn en informar, presionar, hablar, cabildear, con su congresista para que Él le diga al seÑor boehner, seÑor byner esto ya es un problema en mi distrito, necesitamos un voto y lo necesitamos ahora. >> ayer, tuve la oportunidad de conversar con, con tres de las voces anti inmigrantes mÁs fuertes aquÍ en los estados unidos, los representante de numbers usa, del centro de estudios migratorios y con del sur de los estados unidos, y ellos me decÍan, nosotros que no queremos una reforma migratoria ya ganamos, o sea. >> falso, completamente. >> no, o sea, el argumento de ellos juan josÉ era, no hay nada, no tienen reforma migratoria y la logramos, pasÓ en el senado, pero la logramos pasar en la cÁmara de representantes, en otras palabras, me dijeron, nosotros ganamos, ustedes perdieron y ahora se las paso a ustedes, ¿estamos perdiendo esto? >> no, mira yo pienso que >> o es que no tenemos nada todavÍa. >> no, no, es que eso no se puede ver asÍ. >> mhum. >> no tene

thanks tom yeah we have trickle down pain right now it seems to be the john boehner eric cantor message paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and all all the others you're right and it's it's it's tragic it's absolutely tragic and in fact it's even extending now a got the republicans blocking an extension of unemployment benefits are ran out right after christmas and then. now we hear also with food stamps the democrats did their usual oh well we'll negotiate with ourselves in advance and give stuff away before we even start talking to republicans so we're going to give away if we're going to negotiate away four billion dollars worth of food stamp benefits so they go to the republicans and say see we are to give up four billion is that good enough for you there for republicans of course say no we want forty billion and it looks like they're going to compromise around eight or nine billion in cuts to food stamps at the same time that there's no long term unemployment benefits at the same time that we've got you know thirty two years or reaganomics is ripping apart arca it's it's nuts here's another messag

but people like jeb bush, chris christie, scott walker, john kasic, bobby jindal, rand paul, paul ryan, they know that the most important election for our country, the election this year. to the degree that they have time for politics, their political energy is going to be focused on this year. chris christie is the chairman of the republican governor's association. 36 governors races this year. so that's where people are focused and then as jeb says, after these elections, then is the time to decide am i going to run for president and it's a hard decision. i can tell you that personally. >> i know indeed. let me does you about immigration. you've been a big leader for a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform and house gop has released its principles and there is a step towards legalization and this is going to be controversial with some of your party. how should the party move going forward, should they try to work with the white house and come up with some way to do step by step immigration reform? >> well, the house has already announced last year. they are not going to have one

john boehner has been very helpful. paul ryan, my great colleague from miami.e right direction. we'll have a set of principles and soon legislation will follow. the first step is border security. >> tell your republican friends -- one of the things i've found, univision and telemundo specifically, they cover the immigration issue as closely as the english-speaking channels cover health care. >> absolutely. i am so glad you're bringing that up. most of the folks, democrat or republicans, really have no idea how strong these two networks are in all of our districts. my district is about the second or the third most hispanic district in the country. >> they get all their news from spanish-language television. >> telemundo and after, of course, "morning rundown with chuck todd" they'll go for that one. >> there you go. >> that's intertwined, whether the kids are getting jobs, whether they're getting a lot of college debt. so, we're concerned about everyday problems that every american would, but immigration trumps all of them. so i think our party is getting behind

it will avoid a government shutdown that's what paul ryan and john ayre wanted all along. >> what does it say in terms of the prospects for reaching an agreement on unemployment benefits? >> it does have some collateral benefit. they reached this deal last night and will put it to the floor, it lowers the temperature of little bit in congress. it perhaps raises the prospects for elisa three-month deal and that works separately in the government. that is still not a done deal. it does not hurt the chances the fact that they have reached this agreement. >> peter cook, thank you. let's get to the rest of our front-page stories. there are a couple of high- profile deals to kick off the new year. charter friendly makes a bid to takeover of time warner cable but time warner cable rejects the $64 billion offer. put ourd we did not house up the sale and got a lowball offer. >> that is around one. this will go several rounds back-and-forth. this is a bit of posturing to get the price on this deal upper time warner cable. i do not want to settle for less share.50 per the shares are trading above

do we think that john boehner and paul ryan are going to force a vote on a substantial immigration reformstion is when. i had paul ryan on my show yesterday. we went back and forth on this. he did everything he could not to use the phrase pathway to citizenship. i said are these folks going to become citizens? he said it's too soon to tell and we have to wait until we write the legislation. of course, they will end up with a pathway to citizenship. i'm with you. i think this thing could explode in the republican base outside of the corridor and you look at -- you know, right now, you know, the canary in the coal mine are all of these senate primaries, right? all of these guys are favored. all of these senate incumbents are favored. even though they are not the ones dealing with immigration, that is how you would see this sort of prairie wildfire. if they look like they are shoving this down the throat of conservatives. i think the tight rope they are walking on this, i think they believe they have to do it and they believe it's better for the national party. they believe it's better to ge

speaker john boehner, majority leader eric cantor, and congressman paul ryan. and what do they all have in common? none of them demanded offsetting cuts. so what is the excuse? they don't have one. it's a heartless ideology that puts politics ahead of people. and that's why president obama and democrats are ready to fight for fairness. bringing the heat in the dead of winter. joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott, democrat of washington, and msnbc's abbey huntsman. thank you for being here. >> thanks, rev. >>. >> congressman, let me good to you first. speaker boehner wants to offset the cost of unemployment aid, even though he voted for bush policies without any spending cuts. what's your response? >> well, you don't expect him to be honest and even handed. this is about an attack on the poor. now one of the myths, al, that they're operating under is they say people sit at home and don't go out and look for a job. but in the last five years, the number of college graduates who are working for minimum wage jobs has doubled. that means that people who went

last year ended with scenes of come in bipartisanship you had paul ryan and patty murray put together a budget deal that had john bane tore clear independence from a tea party in amazing press conference. they lost all credibility. you wouldn't have been crazy to think that this year would begin with someone like harry reid offering a more gentle tone and reaching out to boehner, saying, he's come some distance. what was surprising this morning was that rather than try to see if legislating, which appears to be popular with the public, might be a strategy. i heard harry reid saying, no, going to be more of the same. polarized bipartisan politics, i'm surprised. >> schieffer: david, you cover foreign policy, you cover national security and things like that, just step back from that interview how did you take it? >> i thought there were two interesting things across the three interviews. first was, you didn't hear a broad vision from any of the three who you interviewed for an american resurgence out of this. for president obama i think that is troublesome because obamacare has really led to the question, can thes

there are clearly house speaker john boehner has been a proponent of these principles, paul ryan has come out saying these principles are potentially a good path forward, but there's resistance. there have been several prominent conservatives who have said this isn't something the gop should be doing right now, right before the midterm elections, so in addition to the fight over what to do, i think you're going to see a debate about timing. is this something they want to do before they have to go to the polls? you have some conservative groups saying this would essentially demoralize the gop base in a year they need turnout to be high in an attempt to take out the senate and maintain majority in the house. >> how much, though, of this reputation is being a party of no, how much is that playing into this decision to throw weight behind this particular issue? i'm even going to quote john boehner who said it's important we show the american people we're not just the opposition party, we're the alternative party. >> it's clearly part of the overall strategy. americans are really frustrat

i fear john boehner, eric cantor, paul ryan are in concert with big business, chamber of commerce typesrk my words, that will divide the republican party like you haven't seen for probably seven or eight years. it's a perilous course they're on. they're going to give obama a huge life line and a huge gift. so that's what i'm concerned about. i think republicans should basically say we can't trust this administration. they go back on their word. they go around the rule of law. we are going to explain what we're going to do for this country when we take the senate and other than that, unless the president kind of moves to the middle a little bit, we're not going to work with him. i think that's the better play. >> all right. laura ingraham, just getting ready for her radio show, starts about 15 minutes from right now. by the way, i was kidding about school out. kids got to go to school. >> oh, my gosh. i was going to get on my phone go, oh, my gosh, my kids aren't going to school. >> my goodness, that was scary. >> have a great week. see you back here next week. >>> heather nauert, time f

john boehner. as dee dee says, he's got to get something because as paul ryan said they won't take nothing, but whatan they get? do you think approving the keystone pipeline is enough to satisfy the raucous caucus? >> they're not getting that. you can just imagine the white house negotiation where they push over piece of paper that just says "lull" on it. after what happened with the government shutdown which also was connected to a debt ceiling increase, there is no belief among anyone anywhere, and this might turn out the on a dangerous fact, but there is no belief among anyone anywhere that the gop can sustain any kind of intransigence on the debt ceiling. it is possible, as dee dee says he'll end up with with something symbolic, something both sides wanted to do anyway, a post office in milwaukee will get named as a price for the diehl, but the idea the republicans are going to do the thing think they they're going to do, get something for nothing, right, get something without giving out something else, the core issue has always been republicans raising the debt ceiling as a concession to democr

set him up to look presidential but i'm glad he is talking about this and i'm glad paul ryan is talking about this and johnh is talking about this. it is how we help the most disadvantaged among us. >> with optimism and -- >> a optimism and just like we did in the mid 1990s on welfare reform when every liberal in america said we were cold and heartless and we changed -- we changed an entire culture. >> yeah. >> for the better. it's changing back for the worse. we republicans have an opportunity. >> you mentioned paul ryan. he is doing a panel on poverty. brian williams is a part of that and rand paul is coming out with policy ideas. >> is brian williams for or against poverty? where will he come down on that? >> will you look that up in wikepedia? >> can you look and see objective? >> stop. >> and his hair? perfect. >> yes. >> i'm going he is against poverty. >> you think brian is? >> he is against it. >> he is far a tight knot. >> ask again later. >> let's go around the table. do you regret anything you said this block? >> no. >> i do. i think i need to apologize for a few things. halpern, any regrets? >>

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. >> reporter: john boehner said he doesn't want another government shutdown and the bipartisan agreement hammered out by paul ryan and senator patty murray avoids that. but the nation's debt ceiling will need to be raised in the spring and republicans will want deficit reduction in exchange for it. the president said he is not in the mood for bargaining. >> no, we will not negotiate for congress to pay bills that it has aaccrued. >> reporter: which raises the questions why republicans would want to give him extended job benefits for a raise in minimum wage. >> if he wants to work with us on getting jobs created on getting the economy back on track, we have a lot of really good ideas and solutions we've put forward, he just refuses to want to discuss how to get that done. >> reporter: if the question is how much bipartisanship we'll see this year, the president's latest hire doesn't answer it. former clinton chief of staff pedesta started work by apologizing for a past comment comparing tea party members to the 29 in johnstown who poisoned themself. >> wendell goler. happy new year to you. >>> about 40,000 new sta

and congressman eric cantor paul ryan kevin mccarthy pete sessions jeb hensarling pete hoekstra and dan lundgren and republican senators jim de mint jon kyl tom coburn john ensign and bob corker. the whole thing was orchestrated by republican propaganda master mind master mind frank luntz over the course of four hours this group of the most powerful conservative lawmakers in our country committed themselves to a plan of action they promised each other they would filibuster to obstruct any and all legislation supported by the new president obama congressman pete sessions said in march of two thousand and if the republican sabotage plan hatched at the caucus room restaurant was modeled after the insurgent campaign run by taliban terrorists in afghanistan he said that the taliban insurgency is an example of how you go about to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message and we need to understand that insurgency may be required when dealing with the democrats on the other side. you gay marriage who is also there at the caucus or dinner appeared on my radio show a few years ago actually bragged that the whole reason for

as well as paul ryan, head of the budget committee. john, washington, republican caller. will be covering senator revealed -- senator marco rubio's speech. caller: i think it is an economic problem. by incomeed disparity. it is causing a structural problem with our economy. tax code ofd by problems. if we fix the tax code, repatriate dollars overseas. change the tax code from capital gains and income taxes being so high and reverse that, we would take money from the rich and give to the poor. change the income disparity and maybe fix the economy. there is an example, that is the great depression. that is the other time we had income disparity. i think we are in a similar situation. that is my comment. again, theuld say, real issue is wage stagnation. purchasing power of the individual in their life. i think the politics of this is that it is easy to point fingers at the rich and point out the differences in income and use that as a way to score political points. what we have got to do as a country is figure out a way that we elevate the purchasing power of folks at all le

john paul kasich. i'm not going to choose favorites. i don't intend at this point to endorse anybody in the campaign until the primary is over. but i start by mentioning paul ryan because we're cloebs friends. >> he was your running mate. you didn't mention ran paul or ted cruz. >> they represent different parts of the party. i'll give them a chance to express their views. i think we'll be best if we can unify behind a leader. >> on that issue, a lot has been talked about leaders and how strongly you respond to events and as you know, given the sochi olympics a great deal of concern about security and whether the president has been responding forcefully enough about real threats that's out there. you in an interview on nbc said you would be fine send urge family to sochi. you think it's a very safe city and will be safe for the olympics. did that extend to going outside of sochi, or would you stay within that strict, you know, quarantine zone. >> it's a dangerous neighborhood as you know and that being said and the threats there are probably greater than we've seen at any other olympics prior to the games. at the same time the russians have put together, i thin

john said and that's an important factor. to me, ongoing, over the next year or so, the fascinating story will be, is there someone that can united the two wings? scott walker or marco rubio or paul ryan those three has the ability to united the party and that'ssgoing to be crucial. >> who were the three? >> i'd say ryan, rube you and scott walker. >> how about ted cruz? >> then you would have equal distribution of the tea party. >> i don't see that. >> greg, i detect a certain "can't" to your perspective. >> you have two groups that want to fight but for practical reasons it going to be much less of a fight than they thought. >> lee me be clear. if the republican party doesn't produce an appetite to follow the 11th amendment of ronald regan, all of the nonsense talking about 2016 is going to be pure vapor because if they lose, this election cycle, this mid term, it's going to be very tough sledding, indeed and it's time for everybody to be, at least the leadership in the republican party, if they're to be an effective countervailing influence, they need to calm down and open their arms to one another and well beyond the confines of a conservative staff. >> we agree. if the tea party

john boehner is driving this train and he is asking for these principles, given it his blessing. a couple of people to keep an eye on -- paul ryanan provide political cover for others, if they can move forward with these principles and get enough buy-in from a majority of the house republican conference this week. >> you say that boehner is driving the show. the government shutdown, it did not look like he had control. will he be able to get the ducks in a row? >> i think there is a 50-50 chance. one of the reasons here is the timing. april is important. april is the deadline when republicans cannot face a new challenger. if there was someone out there who shot -- saw this immigration , april is the filing deadline for a primary challenger. you move it past the deadline and then people might be a little bit more comfortable about testing this vote. -- casting this vote. >> thank you very much. rennert with us. a major u.s. executive said to asteriska ceo with an next to me. these are tender box issues. immigration. you, with your heritage. it is something we lived day-to- day, isn't it? >> unfortunately. i am not defeatist about

paul ryan play a critical role. tor to jackas a men kemp. he will be almost a conservative whisper for speaker john get the helping issue through. the conservative block is very uneasy. they sense momentum among john boehner, eric cantor, they would the movement to pass immigration reform would stop. very uneasy about the prospect. democratsttends -- have these retreats as well. strategy sessions. beyond young members of congress, who also attends? congress,members of who also attends? are there lobbyists? guest: each party brings about a dozen speakers. not only the football coach to give pep talks, motivational speakers. a conservative radio host. you also have pollsters. one of john banner's -- one of llsters,hner's top po he will go over data and try to give them a look on the politics they are working on. the polling of key issues. it is part strategy, part motivational, part social. they can connect on a human level with colleagues. dot: the lobbyists attend -- lobbyists attend? guest: no. a few my pop up as guests. is kept out, lobbyists are kept out. this is members only. there is strict se

congressman paul ryan has confirmed that the plan itself does include a path to legalization, not a path to citizenship for this country's 11 million or so undocumented immigrants. here's house speaker johner earlier today. >> you can't begin the process of immigration reform without securing our borders. and the ability to enforce our laws. everybody in our congress understands that's the first step in terms of meaningful reform of this problem. >> nbc news capitol hill correspondent luke russert joins me from cambridge, maryland, on the eastern shore. what more can you tell me about this gop immigration plan? >> well, craig, around 4:30 p.m. is when the leadership will announce this plan to their conference, and as of right now we're still waiting to get the specifics from them. what we do know is there will be some sort of pathway to legalization but not permanent -- i'm sorry, permanent status but not full, shall we say, citizenship. that's an important distinction that's caused a lot of rangling or ruffling of the feathers. a sticking point as we mentioned before comes down to border security. you heard it from speaker john boehner. since we last spoke i spoke to some of the house g

paul ryan play a critical role. tor to jackas a men kemp. he will be almost a conservative whisper for speaker johnet the helping issue through. the conservative block is very uneasy. they sense momentum among john boehner, eric cantor, they would the movement to pass immigration reform would stop. very uneasy about the prospect. democratsttends -- have these retreats as well. strategy sessions. beyond young members of congress, who also attends? congress,members of who also attends? are there lobbyists? guest: each party brings about a dozen speakers. not only the football coach to give pep talks, motivational speakers. a conservative radio host. you also have pollsters. one of john banner's -- one of llsters,hner's top po he will go over data and try to give them a look on the politics they are working on. the polling of key issues. it is part strategy, part motivational, part social. they can connect on a human level with colleagues. dot: the lobbyists attend -- lobbyists attend? guest: no. a few my pop up as guests. is kept out, lobbyists are kept out. this is members only. there is strict secu

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