coastal we go back to our book, and our guests, glenn thrush and jonathan martin. the book is "the end of the line," which you can get on kindle. glenn thrush? guest: again, this is jonathan's great reporting on this. that chris christie stabbed them in the back. this crossover move. they tend to alienate the base, and they also tend to lose what they cross over to. they feel that the chris christie support for the request for a sandy relief is hurting them with republicans, so things move on rather quickly in politics. host: there are some lingering feelings that chris christie did not do what mitt romney. and then it was said they did not change anything. is go there is a lot of rearview mirror grumbling when it comes to chris christie in this campaign. -- guest: there is a lot a rearview mirror bromelain -- bromelain. he was not a staff favre, to put it mildly, but what i found out is that when the grumbling took place, mitt romney's said, "i know this. i was a governor, too," cindy msoft chris christie. some were deeply angry about the chris christie embrace of

. >> suarez: margaret warner talks to jonathan martin and glenn thrush of politico. their new e-book focuses on the crucial final month of the presidential race between barack obama and mitt romney. test. >> barack obama didn't perform that well until late and romney didn't perform the campaign well. campaign management is more important than an individual candidate's performance. >> woodruff: from boston, hari sreenivasan reports on a city- wide effort to keep kids engaged in education through meaningful work experiences. >> we're starting at the very early ages to try to help young people speak. that is a direct relationship to being successful in school and being successful in your life

host: our guests are glenn thrush and jonathan martin.heir book is "the end of the line" on ebook available on kindle at amazon.com. this is a notion based less on polling science them raw emotion from a campaign during battle. there was a sense among republicans that chris christie had stabbed him in the back. what's interesting about these candidates to do the crossover move is they tend to alienate the base and they tend to lose their effectiveness of a party that they cross over to. in recent days, talking to people in the senate you actually feel that his support for the $60 billion request for 70 relief is hurting them with republicans. things move on rather quickly in politics. host: there are lingering peelings that he did not do what romney expected with the keynote address. he said he said that today and a half before and they did not change anything. guest: there's a lot of grumbling when it comes to chris christie. a lot of them felt he cared more about himself than governor romney. he was not a staff favorite, to put it mildl

joining me now, political reporter jonathan martin.e i to say, you have to be careful not to pop your peas. barbara walters get these interviews, it's not news, i'm doing a holiday thing. they all sucker in to it because it's a way to talk to a nonpolitical office. hillary clinton's response was to me rather interesting and i think more honest than people realize. >> yeah. >> she's more undecided on this than i think folks realize. >> everybody you talked to around hillary, if you asked her right now, probably not going to do it. but they say if you ask her a year from now -- >> after the rest. >> she's exhausted. but after she's been down for a year, you're waking up and it's tuesday morning, you don't have anything to do. but at some point when you're as passionate about politics and public service as the clintons are, you have to wonder what's next. >> if i told you in december 2008 that bit end of 2012 the two most popular democrats in the country would both be named clinton, look at this. positive rating bill clinton, 60-24. hilla

i'm still here with jonathan martin and glen thrush, both experienced white house reporters. tribute to theresa hines-kerry, who started as a u.n. interpreter as a young woman from mozambique who is foreign-born, come to the united states to work at the u.n. also, paying tribute to john kerry and the fact that john kerry gave him his first platform, his first national platform. he was a young state senator in 2004 who was invited to keynote the democratic convention in boston. >> and i'm also reminded of the fact that in 2008 john kerry offered a key endorsement of then senator obama at a rally many south carolina, and that south carolina primary was also hugely important for then senator obama, and john kerry gave him that endorsement. it was a very important day. >> obama also references this debate prep session, which is really -- >> that he worked so hard on. >> because kerry apparently at the initial sessions played it really softball to obama and people like david plouffe walked up to kerry and said, look, you have to take it tougher on him, and apparently kerry really

>> well, i have to say my collaborator jonathan martin has been senting me emails for this entire appearanceing sell the damn book. >> that's what we're trying to do now. >> it's $3, which means you can give it to somebody. >> it's a good deal. >> you really are selling the book right now. can we talk about the chicken tenders? >> snis stocking stuffer. >> it's cheaper than the actual chicken tenders. >> plouff was this hyperrationale guy who ran this campaign like a corporation, was apparently so nervous after the first debate and everyone was so nervous they moved around conference rooms. plouff was ordering david axlerod what hotel rooms he should stay in and told him to wear -- i lot of the scene where he tells axlerod to wear a lucky tie. axelrod is not mr. neat, if you know him. spends 30 minutes on his hands and knees rooting around in the middle of the campaign like when he should be writing speeches and stuff on his hands and knees searching for his lucky tie. >> it looks like the chicken terndz and the ban on thai food seemed to work out for the obama campaign. >> the larger noncul

jonathan martin is here. let's start with the concession.hand was interesting is you were able to connect the karl rove moment -- infamous karl rove moment of denial to romney's campaign's decision not to concede. there is an unknown character here that caused all sorts of delays. tell me about it. >> there was basically for over an hour a pause in the romney campaign's high command in boston -- >> because they were about to concede. right? they were all ready to go. >> political junkies out there who go to amazon and get this book will love the opening scene. we have the suite in boston at the westin on the 16th floor. and the chicago suite where the president is. sort of back and forth on election night what's going on. romney was ready to concede at 11:15. ten minutes later karl rove is on fox news saying hold on, you're calling ohio too soon. what we found out, chuck, is that both carl at the fox studio in new york but also the romney campaign in boston was talking to the same person, scott jennings, who is romney's ohio campaign directo

smith may be matched up against jonathan martin a rookie from stanford by the way.ust five off the record set here by michael strahan in 2001. that's when brett favre took a drive for him. the other smith justin on the defense -- he's saying hey i'm pulmoing for my teammate -- pulling for my teammate al den smith. >> they're usually pretty good from the get-go and you know al den got better his last year progressed and then he just blew up. i mean that's attributed to him and a great football player no matter what we're doing. the stunt, the one-on-one pass rush. he's doing the work and he's getting it done himself too. i mean we take pride as a defense. that's the thing. you know records this and that. that's great. and he feels the same way. you know it's all about -- winning these games and getting to the playoffs and ultimately hopefully winning some super bowl and you know hopefully that record falls on the way -- on the way there. >> just tin smith. >>> it went viral on the internet this week. when 49er head coach jim harbaugh and acting role while playing wit

the president felt very down afterwards as glen and jonathan martin report in their new e-book what aresident. he had to find win himself and come back. >> so raching, finish it off, bring it to today. there's the fiscal cliff. got to be the most recent of the big points in politics for 2012. >> absolutely. that shows just how fleeting a victory is in this town. president obama won a stronger than predicted victory. he basically got every state that was seen as being open up for play, up for grabs. he won them all. he won ohio. he won virginia, he won fa fla. he campaigned largely on this issue of middle-class tax cuts, fairness for the middle class, give the middle class a chance. he saw his win as a validation of the strategy, this philosophy that he ran on, but now we've country to a political reality in washington, total gridlock. the republicans do not agree his victory means the american people endorsed his vision for the wealthy paying more. so far that's not been enough to carry him to the victory. >> when it comes to politics, 2012, a big one for you and me and everyone else.

by the authorsed of the new e book from politico, glen fresh and jonathan martin. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> as president obama begins his second term, what is the most important issue he should consider in 2013? tell us. >> if you are in grades 6-12, but a short video with your message to the president. >> had your chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 and there is $50,000 in total prize is. the deadline is gingrey 18th. but to studentcam.org. of south carolina is retiring in january. on monday south carolina governor nikki haley announced she would appoint tim scott, who will be the first african- american republican to serve in the senate since the 19 0's and the first black senator in the south since reconstruction. he was first elected to the u.s. house in 2010. this is about 35 minutes. >> good morning and it is a great day in south carolina. it's a historic day in south carolina, because, you know, first of all, we all were saddened and surprised when senator demint told us that he was not going to continue in the

glenn thrush and jonathan martin. live it 7:00 eastern and c-span. >> as president obama begins his second term, what is the most important issue to consider in 2013? >> make a short video about your message to the president up. c-span a student can competition. >> a chance to win $5,000. the deadline is january 18. go to studentcam.org. >> the national institute of drug abuse director talks about the abuse of prescription drugs like adderoll. >> i want to welcome everybody here and thank you for being here. we are monitoring the future, it is a way for us to get a pulse of the drug use among high school students. also, very importantly about their perceptions. through this information we can have prescripts -- this year we have indicators that are going to work the negative side, indicators that are going towards the positive side. i will start with those on the negative side because i think we need to pay attention to them in order to prevent them from going up. that relates to marijuana use. we have seen significan

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joining us now glenn thrush and jonathan martin. >> does it seem to you that the media missed some orh of what was happening in this campaign? >> from our reporting, we spent about a month after the election. >> a month? >> digging deep. >> about 23 hours a day. >> we worked -- we found some new information certainly. but, look, i don't think that this campaign is similar to '08 in terms of, you know, john edwards having a mistress and that kind of thing where there is some huge bombshell that, you know, was not seen. >> sarah palin. >> what we found out, reinforced what we thought already. what was some interesting, fresh, new details. mitt romney, always had this tension, howie, in terms of how to talk about his personal life and his faith. we found out his campaign had a mormon document arian follow him around that they cut in 2010. they were concerned it was talking too much about romney's faith. it captured something that we knew are was there. >> you write that president obama stored out of a debate session and he had tensions with the staff who knew he was not up to par and tha

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the authors are senior reporters jonathan martin and glenn thrush and they join me now.gratulation, gentlemen, on your book. >> thank you very much for having us. >> warner: let's just set the context for a minute. if you go back to say mid 2011, the conventional wisdom was president obama would have a very hard time given how bad the economy was, given how high unemployment was. what was your conclusion based on this reporting, about whether he and his campaign won this year, won this campaign or whether mitt romney's team lost it. >> i must dodge your question, but we think that it's both. that both governor romney failed to tell the story about who he was, to make the case for his candidacy and that president obama effectively preempted his ultimate attempt to do just that by rung a really brutal campaign against governor romney in the spring and early summer. those two factors in our minds what what were so key in the president's victory. >> and the central paradox of the campaign is mitt romney was supposed to be this c.e.o. for the united states, the harvard mba an

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jonathan? >> but, martin, here is the problem with jan brewer and senator rubio for that matter.r, both on climate change and on immigration, their leaders in the republican party who were leading on this, remember president george w. bush was leading on immigration, so was senator john mccain, both on immigration and on climate change. the fact that the republican party has gotten away from sensible positions on both those issues shows how far down the rabbit hole the republican party has fallen. >> okay. well, politico reports governor brewer has met with casino magnate sheldon adelson amid talks she may run for president, yes, in 2016. stop laughing. he was such a big help to mitt romney, i suppose jan brewer might be the right logical choice next. after all, he's only spent, what was it? $150 million on this election? john? >> go ahead, john. >> go ahead, ana marie. i'm dumbfounded by the fact -- >> you're speechless? >> i'm speechless. >> why? >> jan brewer, presidential timber. are you out of your mind? there's no way. i mean -- >> i say jan brewer 2016. ana marie cox and j

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i'm jonathan capehart in for martin bashir on this december 31st, 2012. we're so very close to a deal that would stop all hell from breaking loose. oh, and happy new year. >> today it appears that an agreement to prevent this new year's tax hike is within sight. >> we're going cliffing. >> still no deal in sight. >> they just shovel it out to us. >> washington still in deadlock. >> we're falling over that fiscal cliff. >> republicans simply can't utter the word yes. >> the president is, i believe, slowing down the process. >> they have no strategy. they don't know what they want. >> kim kardashian is pregnant. >> a lot of democrats get mad at me. >> no deal is better than a bad deal. >> something has gone terribly wrong when the biggest threat to our american economy is our american congress. >> hats off to the president. >> as of this point is looks like i'm going to be spending new year's here in d.c. i can come to your house? is that what you're saying? >> happy new year! >>> grab your party hats, chill the bubbly. just eight hours to go. yes, we are a

and we are joined by martin khor, executive director of the south centre in malaysia. ambassador, you're on the panel with the jonathan pershing, the u.s. climate change negotiator. do you agree with greenpeace international, that they should be forced out of the conference, or follow what president obama has to say, if in fact, president obama is saying something different from what they are saying here? >> i want to be sure we are not shooting the message in spite of the message. my problem is the message from the u.s.. this morning when we started, the doha caravan seems to be lost in a sandstorm, battling to find its way out. the u.s. it is not the only actor, although it has a big effect. all the big countries and they have limitations of what they can do, are in an economic crisis, but are we living in a world where only the u.s. and the eu are in economic crisis, and small countries are not in an economic crisis? we are all in a crisis. if they can cut emissions, and they do not, how is that affecting others in the philippines? >> the number of dead from the typhoon has increased to 270. what about the seychell

martin bashir. >> you've put me between two of the most attractive people on this network, jonathan capehart. >> i a title, did you know that? >> this is a legendary moment. >> this is hot. >> this is hot. >> in the days before my time, less known your time -- >> we're just babies around you. >> that's why i come on, to get my wag on. i get my wag on. >> stop right now. >> now! >> thank you for getting me wag on. >> anybody watching this show, by the way, doesn't have direct plans to vote is an idiot. go vote, vote. don't watch this until you've voted. >> the man that gets the last word every night on msnbc and here too, i bet. >> it's in my deal, last word. >> when lawrence o'donnell is here we go metta. >> nobody talks about catholic men being able to get viagra. >> exactly. >> hello? >> what is viagra? >> this conversation needs to be dialled way back. >> stage of capitol hill, celebrity doppelganger. >> here now chris hayes. >> just spit on you. nbd. >> it wasn't always easy. >> before we go, we will leave our readers with -- readers? watchers. >> pancake crisis or political fearmongering? i c

jonathan alter is an msnbc political analyst and julian epstein, a democratic strategist, joins us now. welcome to you both. >> hi, martin nra still have the potency that apparently that congressmen appear to fear, that new york city mayor michael bloomberg says is exaggerated. >> it is exaggerated but it is a very potent, probably the most potent lobbying organization, because what happens is when attention fades, then the nra lobbyists move in and they nibble away at any possible legislation, they kill the legislation in the dark of night. what needs to happen is that we need a movement, a new conversation and a new movement so that they feel the political pain, so that somebody who opposes what should always be called common sense gun legislation, common sense, keep that in mind, never fail to attach common sense, so when you -- >> is the common sense when michigan governor rick snyder who is promising to look at close legislation that would allow concealed weapons in school and churches. that's the common sense discussion that's taking place today from a governor. >> okay. here is the deal. until rick snyder loses, a

martin. we'll talk about the future and outlook of the stock with jonathan geller of "the boy genius report." little over a week since he met with president obama to talk about avoiding the fiscal cliff and caterpillar's ceo joins us from the nyse to talk about the fix the debt campaign and more. you know anything we don't know, doug, that you can tell us about how this finally looks and whether we do it? >> i don't know if i know any more than you do or not, joe, but we've all been working hard to impress upon our leadership in washington how important this is not to go over the cliff. we had good sessions with republican leadership, democratic leaderships and with president obama in the white house. nobody over there wants to go over the cliff at this time, there's nothing that wants to do it. >> once we get over it, we hope it's a bridge to something that will help you and caterpillar compete better in the world. after the cliff, what do you want? is there any emphasis on corporate tax reform that we need or how to bring $2 trillion back to this country? aren't those things, did you talk a