to try to cover but as you just mentioned he's yet appointed a replacement for karen mills who resigned over ten months ago i mean it's really amazing how reluctant they are to have replaced this really important position let's talk about what they're alleging is happening here they're saying it's because of anomalies and human error that all of these contracts are going to fortune five hundred companies you. but that's not the case you're saying this is deliberate what's the motive what's the reason to give these contracts a giant corporations. well you know basically i think the government is corrupt i think what's happening at the s.b.a. a systematic what's happened in every agency but. it's about a group of these large corporations want that money we're talking about you know two hundred fifty billion dollars a year they want the money so they've lobbied congress and work with federal agencies to get policies you know to divert the money to them. but it is kind of interesting that since karen mills resigned by the way he's appointed two hundred seventy people to feel they can positi

let's get right to our panel to break it down with us from washington, msnbc's karen finney, host of "disrupt" and dana mill bank for "the washington post." karen, we went through some of the hurdles and the votes on this bill, the incumbent tea party challenges, the anger over that rules change, which is a big deal. they were angry at obama for trying to staff the government with his nominees. now angry they can't obstruct that. how much of this is going to get in the way of a final deal? >> all of it. if you listen to some of the rhetoric friday and saturday and going into the vote tomorrow, a lot of this is about right now is people doing their politics, particularly those members, as you pointed out, who may have tough primaries. those republicans who have got tea party primary challengers. they have to puff their chests up and, you know, thump -- you know, stomp around a little bit. many of them, like mitch mcconnell, won't end up voting for the bill. but at the end of the day, i think harry reid is going to get it passed. >> yeah. and we don't know exactly how they're going to divi up those responsibi

mill valley and oakland expecting 50 as well. we do want to leave you, again, with this photo. i couldn't not show this again from my weather viewer, karen, in napa. on her jacuzzi, she had enough frost, this is pretty big type. i didn't enlarge the photo. to write baby, it's cold. in napa. so cold on your etch tub, you can etch in baby is cold. i was thinking about it, ladies, maybe it isn't too cold. 19 degrees to fire up the jacuzzi and hop in. >> i say start it up. >> thanks, jeff. let's get to sports now and jim kozimor in the comcast sportsnet newsroom. the 49ers had a stellar game yesterday. we're going to talk now about baseball? >> i know. you're right. you know what, can we scratch this? can i just start with the 49ers? heck with this baseball. i'm going to give you baseball and make you wait for some 49ers stuff. we've got all -- i tell you this, we've all got the holiday shopping list we have to do, sometimes the best gifts are the ones you get for yourselves. the giants looking to wrap up a left fielder. here's ahmed fareed at the baseball winter meetings in orlando with more. >> reporter: the giants did a lot of their chris