we'll see if that happens. >> jonathan allen, ed o'keefe.ppreciate you clearing up your ethnicity there, as well. >> hasta luego. >> we'll have more on the possible nomination, gentlemen, have a great saturday. >> coming up, 60,000 people, half the population of allentown, pennsylvania, 60,000 have been killed in the war in syria. now u.s. troops are on the border with turkey. we'll take you inside that battle. also the 2012 election ended yesterday. yes, just ended yesterday in case you were wondering. president obama managed to eke out a victory. the race for 2016 has already started. you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. nurses are dealing with a wider range of issues. and there are ever-changing regulations. when you see these challenges, do you want to back away or take charge? with a degree in the field of healthcare or nursing from capella university, you'll have the knowledge to advance your career while making a difference in the lives of patients. let's get started at capella.edu. with scottrader streaming quotes, any way

jonathan allen joining us at the capitol. >> i say that about cnn. >> i've done it. in that room once and it is hard. >> he didn't lose it for 2013, the gripping sar chism. >>> football, not the only game in town. stay with cnn all day for all of the developments, house back in session at noon this is not over yet. could be a lot more. >> very compelling. totally not watching football today. >> don't watch football, watch us. >>> in other news, hillary clinton's doctors revealing details about the blood clot that handlaned her in the hospital. doctors say mrs. clinton did not have a stroke or suffer any neurological damage, they also say they are confident that the second of state will make a full recovery. cnn's jill dougherty is live at the state department this morning. what is the latest on the secretary's condition? >> the latest is as the secretary is in that new york hospital, she's being treated with blood thinners, that's the main thing. they have to get blood thinners as they say treated properly so they give her enough, not too much, and be able to be rele

let's bring in high school yearbook editor, i mean politico's senior washington correspondent jonathan alleno break down our superlative picks. you are a doctor, a yearbook editor, you do it all. >> best eyes, best smile you best all kinds of things. i know you guys have all those. >> all right, sir. all right, sir. >> off to a good start. >> mr. al learning i got to confess and i will not make many friends by saying this, but the sort of --len, i got to confess and i will not make many friends by saying this, but the sort of -- i don't say the 112th congress couldn't be less productive because we didn't have a hindu in office. what do you make of all of the diverts coming into 1913th and what kind of landscape is that gonna set up in terms of productivity and stuff we can get done? >> a couple of things i would say that some of those groups overlap. you mentioned women and african-americans and iraq and afghanistan veterans and hindu member of congress. again, some of those overlap a little bit. people with different experience he is and backgrounds. i think it would be nice to have a day s

jonathan allen and msnbc's, and perry bacon, jr., with the conversation. than, you covered the hill and do so extensively and "the washington post" is reporting that democratic senate leaders are advising the white house to go arc comed do that and bypass congress on this issue. i'll show everybody this letter to president obama and they advise him to take any lawful steps to avoid default with congressional approval and they talk about the 14th amendment and is there any way for the white house to avoid another fight like this with the congress completely. >> they've been writing about this letter that senator reid said to the president and if the president if they want to can certainly direct the treasury to ignore the debt ceiling and then basically say go ahead and sue me and see if anybody does and go to the core process and i don't think that's something the president wants to do that he doesn't want to evoke this 14th amendment and that's the shorthand used for it and i think what's fascinating here and you have members of congress, ceding their inst

take care. >> bill: jonathan allen senior washington correspondent for politico.hate to see all of these people write off and say congress will never do anything. we know congress will never do anything. they have to try to make it a horse race. it is up to you and me to force congress to act. because they won't do it on their own. but we can do it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." this monday morning current tv presents special coverage of the presidential inauguration. the circumstance & the inside analysis. the presidential inauguration this monday morning at 10 eastern only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: hey how about it. in the next hour, felicia from "the washington post" will be joining us. and we'll continue our conversation about the president's big announcement yesterday. some people criticizing him for going too far. i think the problem is that political reality in this country, prevents the president from even going even further. i don't thin

. >> let's go to capitol hill, jonathan allen, a senior correspondent for politico. happy new year. i want to pick up where brianna left off. john boehner has a choice here, to correspon corral support fro republicans or put it to an up-or-down vote. the distance is allowing super groups to put pressure on congressmen to say we don't like this deal. people on the left don't like the deal, say it gives away too much. people on the right don't like it, it raises taxes. what's your sense of the best play here? >> i think what we've heard from speaker bainer and his allies in the republican leadership, this is a binary question for the republican congress. either pass this bill the way it is or amend it to a way that is more likely for house republicans. the option he has not put on the table is go home and leave it be. what you will see in the next 24, 48 -- well, we don't have 72 hours anymore in this congress. what you will see in the next hours is getting through, getting done and getting the president's desk. whether it remains in the current form or not, the question we will have

jay the big a, politico's jonathan allen working on a book about hillary clinton herself. jonathan, from your perspective, was that a good-bye from yesterday or a hello for 2016? >> well, look. i don't have anything more than you've heard to suggest that secretary clinton is running in 2016. she's been -- she's said that's not something she wants to do. >> go ahead and engage in wild speculation like we like to do. >> right, right. look. if you want to look at yesterday's hearing, the big read business handled herself bell before the senate and the house. there were a couple of people that tried to take some swings at her. for the most part, they weren't very effective. what happens in libya would have an effect and an issue to come up for her in a presidential race. it's sort of a one area where there are any questions about her tenure as secretary of state in terms of something happening on her watch that americans would be uncomfortable with or with the killing of four people that americans have reason to be angry about. whether or not that should be directed at her is a

we'll talk to you again real soon >> staying in the capital now with jonathan allen.l correspondent for politico. john, give us some sense of the word from the house this morning. because we're going to spend a lot of time telling all those folks who might have been doing something other than paying attention to what was going on with the fiscal cliff overnight what the details of the plans are. we wasting our breath? is this going to make it through the house? >> the message we're hearing from house republicans now is that one of two things is going to happen. they're either going to attempt to amend this bill and send it back to the senate with something that the house republicans like better. but failing that, and of course they failed to do that with their plan "b" last week, failing that sounds like john boehner will put this on the floor to see if it can pass with a mix of democratic and republican votes. >> let's think about that. i mean, this was -- it got overwhelming democratic support in the senate. and there were really some doubts about that last night. t

i want to bring mack molly ball and jonathan allen, senior washington correspondent for politico.st of all, let me start with you, molly. did senator feinstein's bill have any chance of passage? >> it's going to be very difficult. you know, this has been true since the day after the sandy hook tragedy and it's hard to see how it has changed. the math is just extremely hard. first in the senate where you have a lot of red-state democrats whose strategy electorally has been to diffuse the gun issue, to be pro-nra, pro-second amendment. >> yeah. >> and then you get to the house where there's a republican majority and we just haven't seen a lot of evidence of republicans really defecting on this issue. >> i want to bring in congressman the democrat from long island there and congressman, do we have you there? there we go. there's the congressman. thank you very much, congressman. from rhode island. i think we got that in there, at least. good to see you again, sir. >> you, too, craig. let me pick up where molly just left off there. political feasibility, is there a chance here that th