kiki has more from the world of social media. kiki?pending has been damaging to us and has limited our ability to help on global issues. let us find common ground. let us stop the stagnation politics and then build towards the betterment of our country and the world. " [applause] >> please welcome our next speaker. kirsten gillibrand. senator? [applause] >> well, as the senator from new york, i welcome you all here to our great city, agreed university here, and i welcome the students to be a part of our conversation. i cannot figure enough with the efforts you are undertaking with this conference. it could not come at a more important time in the history of our nation and an extraordinarily important time. not only do we have an unemployment rate near 10%, we have two wars and in national security crisis at every border. this is a huge time of enormous discordance in washington, as well. we have seen time and time again that people on both sides are measuring success by the amount of bills they have lost as opposed to the amount of sol

good to have you both with us. >> thanks, judy. >> thanks for having us on. >> woodruff: kiki mclean to you first. i could ask either one but i'll start with you. both of you have been so deeply involved in politics at opposite ends of the spectrum, why are you doing this? >> i'm doing this for a lot of reasons. i want to make my party stronger. but i also believe that it's my job in my role as a mother to a six and an eight-year-old that i can see their future. i know that that future has to be about solving problems. we can't just keep flipping elected officials around every two years hoping it will get better when we really need a culture change. we say to people, no, when you do the right thing, when you work for progress across the aisle we're going to stand behind you as opposed to punishing them when they reach out across the aisle. >> woodruff: mark mackinnon what's the dream scenario here? what would you like to have happen in. >> we'd like to provide a vehicle and a channel for the millions of americans who today don't feel like their voices are represented. they look at wa

, wit, which is kiki and which is bubba. >> i'll go kiki, the spiky one over here. >> that's correct.to say. >> you are in the 95% people. at the american museum of natural history. s for coming, buba nice to see you, kiki, nice toe see you. your hair you need the brazilian straightening. we go to the maps. it is cold! say it with me again, people. it is cold! yes. but, it is going to get better. it's not going to get warm but better. we're looking at icy conditions rolling through sections of kansas into missouri, into tennessee, slowly pushing toward the carolinas. not a lot of ice, but just enough to make it really treacherous on the roads from this afternoon into the overnight and into tomorrow. watch it. meanwhile, across the rest of the country, we're talking about more snow from sections of north dakota into minnesota stretching down and pushing towards illinois, actually, over the next 24 hours or so. watch it, maybe a couple of heavier bands but two to four inches in general. one to three in lighter areas. that's a quick look at the >>> you guys look very good in paper mache,

hello, kiki.world. >> we got comments from friends around the country who could not get here. one says, "i have seven children and 10 grandchildren and i want the beauty that is the united states of america to always be there for posterity. we can do better if we look to the vision of our forefathers with the constitution as our guide. i want my country back. and i will go to any lengths to ensure that the future is bright. i pray that you, as their leaders, will do the same." [laughter] >> thank you, kiki. please join me in welcoming a man who is the epitome of rational thinking in the united states house of representatives, from the great state of south carolina, congressman bob english. [applause] >> i have to live up to that epitome thing. i was in front of a fairly liberal audience this week and observe one of the most irrational responses ever. the speaker said that the president may not defend the power of the epa to regulate condoms. the crowd hissed. it was the most irrational response fr

these issues, ed, with all due respect to kiki, i love that aberration. whether you're left or right, if i went to john boehner and nancy pelosi and said, now, listen, i want you two to find one we agree on that we can start. they'd say, nothing. okay. there we go. so i don't know where this common ground is. right now we have unfortunately, ed, a group, a country that is raf ajsed by torper. we're walking around zombified. we don't hardly vote. >> we will do it again, my friend. you're spot-on. >>> final page in the playbook, brett favre's consecutive starts record came to an end last night. this is a remarkable record. i wonder if congress could work 297 consecutive sundays. i don't think so. congrats, brett favre. a heck of a career. >>> coming up, everyone is talking about the weeper of the house, john boehner and about the double standard the righties have for nancy pelosi. joan walsh, salon.com sounds off next. . i'm looking to save in insurance. don't want to deal with a lot of flibbity-flab or mumbo-jumbo. sounds like you need to name your price.

hello, kiki.world. >> we got comments from friends around the country who could not get here. one says, "i have seven children and 10 grandchildren and i want the beauty that is the united states of america to always be there for posterity. we can do better if we look to the vision of our forefathers with the constitution as our guide. i want my country back. and i will go to any lengths to ensure that the future is bright. i pray that you, as their leaders, will >> thank you, kiki. please join me in welcoming a man who is the epitome of rational thinking in the united states house of representatives, from the great state of south carolina, congressman bob english. [applause] >> i have to live up to that epitome thing. i was in front of a fairly liberal audience this week and observe one of the most irrational responses ever. the speaker said that the president may not defend the power of the epa to regulate condoms. the crowd hissed. it was the most irrational response from a group of people who

, wit, which is kiki and which is bubba. >> i'll go kiki, the spiky one over here. >> that's correct.le. at the american museum of natural history. s for coming, buba nice to see you, kiki, nice toe see you. your hair you need the brazilian straig >>> you guys look very good in paper mache, i'll tell you that. that's a quick look at the weather picture. inside you to. >> mark wahlberg has been making us laugh a lot this year with hit comedies now getting serious. in his new film "the fighter" wall berg plays a boxer torn between loyalty to his family and the woman he loves. >> i think he's a junk bag he's a junk bag. >> i'm his blood. i'm his family. >> i'm the one fighting, okay. not you, not you and not you. i know what i need. >> you need dickie? >> i want dickie back. >> and i want you, charlene and o'keefe. i want my family. what's wrong with that. >> mark wahlberg joins us this morning. good morning. >> thank you for having me. >> this is based on a true story, right, older brother played by christian bale a good fighter ends up stuck in a crackpipe, basically. his career goes d

, wit, which is kiki and which is bubba. >> i'll go kiki, the spiky one over here. >> that's correct.> you are in the 95% people. at the american museum of natu >>> let's take a look at the forecast fort day, sunny and cold. 32degrees this afternoon. it will feel more like 18 to 21. right now, it's about 9 with the windchill. 19degrees on tv hill. tonight, the wind is breezy and 16 is the overnight low. tomorrow's going to be interesting. it will be gray and we'll have snow around in the afternoon. >>> you guys look very good in paper mache, i'll tell you that. that's a quick look at the weather picture. inside you to. >> mark wahlberg has been making us laugh a lot this year with hit comedies now getting serious. in his new film "the fighter" wall berg plays a boxer torn between loyalty to his family and the woman he loves. >> i think he's a junk bag he's a junk bag. >> i'm his blood. i'm his family. >> i'm the one fighting, okay. not you, not you and not you. i know what i need. >> you need dickie? >> i want dickie back. >> and i want you, charlene and o'keefe. i want my family. wha

[applause] >> thank you, kiki.n welcoming the man who is the epitome in thinking. from the great state of south carolina, congressman bob english. [applause] -- bob inglis. >> that is tall billing. i was in front of a little audience recently. it was one of the most rational crowd response as ever. the speaker said the president might not defend the power of the epa to regulate carbon. the crowd hissed. these people should know better. i was in front of a republican audience. the guy said, the president is so unpatriotic, he doesn't even cross his heart when the pledge is recited. he sat down. i need to say, what would you expect? any of those things would have done. i decided i would not do that. so i said, "it is just not true. i have been with the president. the president loves his country, loves his wife, loves his kids. i just disagree with him on most everything." in a republican operative came up to me and said, don't give him that. that is our challenge. will have to do is replace this sense of grudging --

makes it better. >> reporter: kiki smith is an avant-garde artist known for her work in a variety ofsculpture and drawing. she's even tattooed stars on herself. >> oh, this made i made as a teenager. >> reporter: this time she and deborah ganz decided on a most colorful canvas. >> then two layers of glass. >> reporter: in fact you might say they used a time-honored medium to create their very own festival of light. instead of the traditional lead lines used in the synagogue's older windows the new stained glass was fabricated like a giant layered jigsaw puzzle based on a computer-generated template it's made of more than 1,000 pieces of glass. >> this traditional lone stained glass in small pieces that are then laminated on to plates of glass. >> reporter: the six-glass plates and their steel frames were then hoisted into place. >> the trick was how to make this look light because if you look behind, there is one mama piece of steel. >> reporter: 75 23-karat gold stars were then applied to complement the stars already etched into the glass. >> the gold leaf is made so that if in the

. >> kiki, one thing that seems to exacerbate the problem is the primary.any centrists as well as others who are now packing up their boxes and getting ready to leave because they lost reelection. it seems like a tough place to be in the middle, especially in this election season. >> well, elections are tough. but here's what we do know. we know that there are millions of americans who aren't participating in primaries. we have millions of independents that some come to engage in the general election, but not in the primaries. and so there are some states with open primaries. and this is where this really becomes a grass roots movement. because this is about things happening at home, on the ground, thousands of people across america, where will they participate? where will their voice be heard? and while mark and i are sitting with you here today, there are 1,100 americans coming to be with us today across the country because there are reforms they'd like to see in the process. >> is one of those pushes to allow open primaries? >> i think the folks coming i