it's great to have this art form visible as you walk by. >> klein founded sfjazz in 1983.ince then, he's grown the organization from a small weekend festival to a critically acclaimed institution, presenting more than 100 concerts a year including its own award-winning, the "sfjazz collective." for the past three decades, those performances took place in rented clubs and concert hubs across the city. this is about to change. this is the main auditorium? >> this is it. >> wow. what makes this so special? >> well, for the performers it's looking out into the faces of people here. jo lavano, member of the sfjazz collective who's performing on the opening night likened this to a roman amphitheater they performed in in the south of france. this energy of getting the energy from the audience. there's a particularly favorite seat of mine. i've been sitting here for the last few weeks here. >> look at that. >> these seats literally are on the stage like you're in the most intimate of intimate clubs. this whole area, this whole zone in here can become a dance floor. >> there will b

jonathan klein was the head of cnn. he said he was going to change the esthetic of cnn, and it was going to be different, and it was going to be about storytelling, and it was going to be about important issues, and then the runaway bride story happened, and we had an interview to talk to him, and then the runaway bride story happened, and i had to deal with the runaway bride story, and it was in some ways the most hilarious interview i have ever done. he was so mad that cnn will not let anyone come on our show anymore, and fox generally will not let anybody on our show anymore, and then people who you would think would want to come on, seymour hersh would not come on because he does not want to be edited, and a lot of people who would go on "charlie rose" would not come on our show. hersh has sometimes come on our show. you know, for a long time, he would not. a lot of people just do not want to be in my hands. i cannot understand that, but that is the way it is. yes, whole networks will not talk to us. they are less l

joining us now from washington, msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein of "the washington post."lways great to see you, my friend, especially on days like this where i am so confused as to how this could be happening. i ask you, my friend, is hank greenburg getting high on his own supply? >> it's honestly hard to talk about this issue on television, because you can't curse, and it's hard to talk about this issue without using all seven of the words you can't say. it's very important to know the loan rate that aig could have got if they had gone to the market, to the private market, that rate is nothing. it could have got no loan. it would have been forced immediately into bankruptcy, and it is aig, the reason we had to save it, the ugliest thing we had to do in the financial crisis, was the role they played in the entire financial system was they had backed up the horrible bets every other bank had made. so if aig went down, all of wall street would have gone down. they were the nerve center. what scared us about aig was that if they went down, goldman sachs went down, jpmorgan w

joe klein? >> it's more significant for republicans because they now know they are a minority party. but we won't have 2 million people in the mall tomorrow. >> fewer people. but if he hadn't been re-elected it would have been very significant that the first black president was only a one-termer. so the fact he's re-elected is important. >> big deal. i think it's bigger. people are still as enthusiastic as they were four years ago. they're going to be out there, not in the same masses as they were before, but this is a big deal. >> the event not as big, but it confirms the huge amount of significant legislation, whether you like it or hated that obama, reed and pelosi passed. chris: i think the doubling down, as the new book will say. it's a big deal. thanks to all of you. that's the show. thanks for watching. see you back here next week thanks for watching. see you back here next week after the

we'll talk fiscal realities when ezra klein joins us next on "now." [ male announcer ] at scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our support teams are nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investors are saying... [ all ] i'm with scottrade. >>> there's no spending cuts, we're adding $4 billion a day to the debt. >> i thought we were in a deficit crisis. i thought our families were being put at risk by this massive debt. what does this do about that? >> tonight, we will pass 83 provisions that remove federal revenue. totally $3.9 trillion. we are going to look back on this night and regret it. >> a day late and $4 trillion short. the fiscal cliff debate began 519 days ago when congress gave itself a deadline to address the ballooning debt and deficit. but according to the congressional budget office, the bill

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authorities say dennis klein parked at the top about 9:00 p.m. yesterday with plans to hike down. hours later he called 911 saying he was near a creek injure and had disoriented. responders lost contact with him some time last night and dispatched 675 searchers. the teams located him early this morning. >> we had temperatures reported up on mount being in the upper 30s, some places maybe even freezing so very fortunate that i'm told that he's in good and fair condition. >> heavy terrain hampered efforts to rescue klein by helicopter and it took crews nearly four hours to carry him down the mountain on foot. >>> the midnight fire works show in old sacramento was cancelled last night after two people were shot and killed at a sport bars in that area. as a result those fire works were set off this morning shortly after 8:00. city leaders say they decided to launch those fire works because it's too dangerous to store them after they've been load and had ready. >>> as for that barroom shooting, sacramento police say it started as an argument and escalated. a bar employee steped in to t

joining me now is ezra klein, an msnbc columnist, who could add more. for the 99th episode of what happens if we don't raise the debt ceiling. give us the idea of what the latest talk in washington is of what may or may not happen. >> we got a call from the head economist for j.p. morgan, and we asked about treasury debts. what if it was not as secure as we thought. it would be like the painting of hell. people need to think about that. when you try to understand what is going to happen, if the white house is able to follow through on not negotiating on the debt ceiling, which i think they actually will be able to do. the president is backing himself into a corner, where he said so many times he wouldn't be held hostage, if he did, it would undermine his credibility. he sod he would negotiate, because it would essentially troy him in office. when it -- when it becomes clear to republicans, on the obligations to social security, pensioners to folks who need the defense department payments, they're going to see the financial sector, the economic sector, e

ezra klein will explain it all next.the rewrite tonight, why wayne lapierre's attack on president obama last night was a crime against history. that is coming up. app to get a tow truck. it's gonna be 30 minutes. oh, so that means that we won't be stuck up here, for hours, with nothing to do. oh i get it, you wanna pass the time, huh. (holds up phone) fruit ninja!!! emergency roadside assistance. just a click away with the geico mobile app. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first week... i'm like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasn't smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or other mental health problems, whic

jason and debbie klein couldn't believe their eyes.earing for their young children. >> i was so scared. it just was a huge explosion. the entire sink, up to the ceiling. >> reporter: it started just weeks ago, when they noticed their water was fizzing. then when debbie lit a candle near the sink, the water lit up. >> we're putting our kids in the bathtub every night of this explodable water. >> turns out there's highly flammable methane gas in their well water. it's invisible and naturally occurring in the ground. it can seep into wells. that seepage even worse if the ground is disturbed. anything from earthquakes to drilling. and near the klein's house, it just so happens a natural gas company was drilling. before they started, the company paid to test the family's water. methane levels were nine, just within safe limits. but months into the drilling, tests show the methane levels had sky rocketed, reaching 22, more than twice the acceptable level. >> this family in ohio is not alone. there have been methane found in drinking water ac

ezra klein is also an msnbc political analyst and "washington post" columnist. robert costa is the washington editor at national review and a cnbc contributor. gentlemen, the 112th congress was not only unproductive, it was hugely unpopular. for comparison's sake, the irs, nixon during watergate and bp during the oil spill all had higher popularity ratings than this congress, and yet, ezra klein, if the objective was to thwart all things obama, you could say they were immensely successful. >> and yet they weren't because the overarching strategy was to eventually thwart obama himself, to get him not re-elected, to allow mitt romney or whoever was the republican nominee for president, to become president in 2012 thus fulfilling what senate minority leader mitch mcconnell once referred to as his top priority. that didn't work at all. the republican brand was so tarnished in part because of the actions of the 112th congress, in part because of the way republicans acted around things like the debt ceiling, that in the end president obama was re-elected with a quite

for more on kramer's influence we're joined by jil klein of "time" magazine. joel klein you're a storyteller, too, in much the same way richard ben cramer was. what did his way of telling stories -- how did it inform what you did? >> well, you know, he had such a wonderful eye for detail. and he was so relentless. he also had the time and space to write in detail and he wrote beautifully. and the thing that i think that most informed my journalism after that year that you spent with them and i spent with them on the bus in 1988 was the kindness and the humanity that he displayed toward politicians. at a time when, you know, the default position for hour business was cynicism, non-stop cynicism, wall-to-wall cynicism, richard realized these were, many of them, amazing people who had run for office who lived incredible lives, who had been challenged and really had a visceral need to do public service. i don't think there's enough of that have in our journalism today. >> ifill: let's talk about that, chris, you are one of the practitioners of new school journalis

kevin klein: this ladder is actually kind of tricky to make. klein, a master carpenter and amateur sleuth has studied every inch of it. i think hauptmann probably found whatever he could and scrounged it up to build this. narrator: the ladder was cleverly designed with three sections that nestled together, making it easier to carry, set up and remove. after the kidnapping, the police brought the ladder to arthur koehler, a wood expert, to see if he could find clues that would lead to the kidnappers. koehler numbered each piece of wood and traced its origin. probably the most important part of this ladder, or at least in terms of convicting richard hauptmann, is rail 16, which is found on the third section here. this rail was positively id'd as connecting to a floorboard in hauptmann's attic. narrator: rail 16 is made of yellow pine. when police noticed that hauptmann's attic contained yellow pine floorboards, they asked koehler to compare a sawed-off board with rail 16. he looked at the grain patterns and drew the conclusion that the two had be

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ezra klein and jared bernstein, thank you. >>> and coming up, republican governor chris christie versus boehner, and university john king, versus john boehner. and more on hillary clinton's condition and the republicans who lied about that. >>> and in the rewrite tonight, the secret governing, totally secret governing that took place in the united states senate today even though it was on c-span, it was completely a secret. i know you have been told the senate is closed after the fiscal cliff vote. but that is not true. the truth is that the senate works better than you think. and it did that today. that is coming up. i tell them de very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily. its unique micro-clean formula kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. that's why i recommend using polident. [ male announcer ] polident. cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. >>> it is hard out th

ezra klein and jared bernstein, thank you. >>> and coming up, republican governor chris christie versus boehner, and university john king, versus john boehner. and more on hillary clinton's condition and the republicans who lied about that. >>> and in the rewrite tonight, the secret governing, totally secret governing that took place in the united states senate today even though it was on c-span, it was completely a secret. i know you have been told the senate is closed after the fiscal cliff vote. but that is not true. the truth is that the senate works better than you think. and it did that today. that is coming up. my name is marjorie reyes, and i'm a chief warrant officer. i love the fact that quicken loans provides va loans. quicken loans understood the details and guided me through every step of the process. i know wherever the military sends me, i can depend on quicken loans. big time taste should fit in a little time cup. new single serve cafe collections from maxwell house now available for use in the keurig k-cup brewer. always good to the last drop. >>> it is hard out there f

sarah klein will join us for a closer look at food safety measures. that is coming up on this edition of the "washington journal." today is saturday, january 12. we will be back after this break. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> if you ask how many people would describe themselves since -- as libertarian, he might be getting 15%. if you give people questions about different ideological things, depending on which poll you are looking at, you get up to maybe 30% of americans calling themselves libertarian. if you asked if you are economically conservative but socially liberal, over half of americans say that is what they are. just because people say these things does not mean they believe them. if you ask most americans if they want smaller government, they say yes. they say they want government to spend less money. if you ask them to cut a budget item, they do not want to cut anything. it is not clear if they really believe in it. i would have to say as low as 10% and as

ezra klein. >> reporter: i am impressed they actually came to a deal. the big change, we knew earlier they were going to set the bush tax threshold to $450,000. the bill deal tonight, they reached the deal to avert the so-called sequester, the spending cuts to begin in the first of the year. they reached that deal for two months. and what is important about that deal, it relies on tax increases and spending cuts. the tax increase is a little bit complicated and dodgy, regarding the roth ira accounts. it puts together the principle that after the deal further changes, needs to be half on the tax side and half on the spending side. what that holds open to them, going forward, when we have the sort of inevitable deal over medicare, possibly social security, and to raise the debt ceiling, democrats want to be very sure that that is going to be again, half tax side, mostly revenues coming through tax reform and half spending cuts. so that they're not giving up what the tax revenue could be from the fiscal cliff, in order to just let the republicans take a bi

i'm joined by "washington post" columnist, and msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein, who has written about this. good morning, ezra. >> good morning. >> in one of your columns, you wrote that republicans are wrong to think that the sequester gives them leverage. what's your reasoning? >> it's just become a somewhat bizarre conversation. look, you have to go back. the sequester, it's a very weird, kind of boring word. it comes out of the debt ceiling deal in 2011 and it was the backup to the supercommittee. and way it was designed, it was originally supposed to be half taxes and half spending cuts. so both sides would be terrified of letting it happen, and because they were so terrified of letting it happen, they would come to a deal. the point of the sequester was to get the two sides to a deal. but republicans wouldn't allow tax increases, even in the sequester. and so they made this weird deal with democrats. and they said, okay, the sequester has to be all spending cuts. but because we're not giving you any taxes, they can mostly be spending cuts you don't mind and that we really hate.

edward klein, the amateur. tina fey, and american sniper was published in january, and that was on the list for 17 weeks. sarah weinman, what is "wild"? >> guest: a really amazing memoir by a woman who had previously written a novel called "torch. toy toy and she disguised in retrospect how in her mid-20s, after a failed marriage and herma had died, there had been in drug issues, she decided, on essentially a whim, she would walk the pacific coast trail, which is well over a thousand miles, and she did so with minimal preparations and she described essentially how doing this long distance walk broke her apart and put her back together again. the big reason why the book was on the bestseller list for so long, even though there had been a great deal of -- i read it before publication, and certainly understood all the advance hype -- is that oprah win free started her new book club. she has the oprah winfrey network, and the magazine, so when she chose it as the first selection of her reconstituted book club, it s

joining us now by phone is ezra klein of "the washington post," and nbc political analyst.a you are probably watching this. and for many of us watching it if you will did you think it was going to come down to the income thresholds? i was reading your latest post. and it was the first item listed on the major parts of this deal. >> yeah in some ways i think the income threshold has long been one of the big sticking points, right? and early in this process, president obama was very very aggressive in arguing the point that he was not allowed taxes -- hopes that tax rates, for people making $250,000 or above, him going up to $450,000 is a genuine significant concession particularly given the default here with higher taxes. but i give both sides of the negotiators both credit and blame for that. this comes down to just a dozen or two dozen different things to estate taxes, whether or not we off set the sequester. the number moving parts of the detail in this deal were really significant. and it is probably why we were not able to get a bigger deal. they had trouble adjusting t

dry skies for klein and mongolia. a few showers here just in inland china. not anything particularly heavy. could see some widespread fog here as well. as for japan things are starting to clear up now after low pressure system moved across today. much of the couldn't nent is very dry. we see very heavy rain and causing quite a problem. widespread flooding. you can see it's going to be an on going stream of moisture coming in. so further flooding and mudslides are going to be a concern. manila, 30. 34 with popup thunderstorms in bangkok. 23 degrees in hong kong and taipei. seoul and beijing seeing 3 degrees. tokyo 8, and minus 15 inially you in ulaanbaatar. >>> extremely frigid in the americas. summerlike temperatures creeping up the west coast, and then dangerous windchill for much of the northeast and central canada. let's take a look at temperatures. not much in the way of precipitation coming around. we're looking at summerlike temperatures creeping up the west coast and then dangerous wind chill for much of the northeast and central canada. let's take a

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jonathan klein was the head of cnn. he said he was going to change the esthetic of cnn, and it was going to be different, and it was going to be about storytelling, and it was going to be about important issues, and then the runaway bride story happened, and we had an interview to talk to him, and then the runaway bride story happened, and i had to deal with the runaway bride story, and it was in some ways the most hilarious interview i have ever done. he was so mad that cnn will not let anyone come on our show anymore, and fox generally will not let anybody on our show anymore, and then people who you would think would want to come on, seymour hersh would not come on because he does not want to be edited, and a lot of people who would go on "charlie rose" would not come on our show. hersh has sometimes come on our show. you know, for a long time, he would not. a lot of people just do not want to be in my hands. i cannot understand that, but that is the way it is. yes, whole networks will not talk to us. they are less l

colin klein take on the high-flying oregon ducks. chip kelly up for several nfl head coaching jobs.his might help his cause. opening kickoff, deanthony thomas, taking it to the house. he's about 5'8", 170 pounds. are you serious? the game just started. under 30 seconds to go in the first half. marcus marriotta hits kenyon barner. the ducks leading 32-17 early in the fourth quarter. all right, how about some college fastball, tough game for paul hewitt and his george mason guys. northeastern keeping it close then pulling away. part of a 14-26 run. geern goes on to win 84-74. one final note, head coach bill o'brien, not going to the nfl. he will stay >> a bad football call can bother even the youngest of sports fans. the ref called for a first down in the outback bowl. it looked like there was still space between the ball and the first down pole. a south carolina fan let his 6-year-old daughter break it all down. >> yep, it's close to it. but is it touching it? >> no. >> are you sure? >> the football is really not touching that. it's really not. because it's closer to that. >> easy en

mark klein in his declarations in the court about the a t.n.t. facility in san francisco did documented the n.s.a. room inside that ace t.n.t. facility where they had naris devices to collect data off the fiber optic lines inside the united states so that's kind of a powerful device that would collect everything that was being sent that could collect on the order of one hundred over one hundred billion one thousand character e-mails a day one device so that's that gives you an idea of the magnitude of the kind of collection that's going on well you think they sift through those are really is the billions of e-mails i wonder how do they prioritize i mean is it like for national first what what's the how do they prioritize how do they i don't trip i don't think they're well first of all i don't think it's any filtering they're just going to store it all ok so then it's just a matter of selecting it when you want it so if they wanted to target you they would take your attributes and go into that database and pull out all your data that's what i was

the latest on kevin klein when we come back. >>> we are in the center of the investigation. we heard from one of the neighbors who knew one of the persons of interest. a live report next weather ad libs >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> san francisco police search for some new clues in a 1980s cold case. >> i'm michelle griego live in new orleans looking forward to super bowl xlvii. we're talking mardi gras, football and apparently weather. >> lots of weather around the bay area but the kind we like. plenty of sunshine right now. but there's also some rain in the forecast. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and no accidents right now but we have some roadwork. i'll tell you where. >> and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, january 30th. i'm frank mallicoat here in the bay area. >> i'm michelle griego, of course live in new orleans. we are in the french quarter right off of the infamous bourbon street. i have my umbrella because forecasters are calling for rain. lawrence is telling us a big storm is heading toward us. right now its muggy, not too ba

ezra klein wrote, obama isn't making it easier for rs to vote for this deal but probably thinks if the rs kill it they get all the fiscal cliff blame. >>> new information on secretary of state hillary clinton and the blood clot that has her hospitalized. the clot is located in a vein in the space between her brain and skull near her right ear. it did not cause a stroke or neurological damage. doctors say clinton should make a full recovery and she is making excellent progress. the blood clot is related to the concussion clinton suffered earlier this month. it was discovered during a follow-up exam sunday. >>> from amazing fireworks displays to ancient traditions to our favorite polar plunges. folks around the world marked the beginning of 2013 in their own unique way. nbc's kirk gregory takes us on a tour of all those crazy celebrations. >> reporter: the first major city to celebrate 2013 was auckland, new zealand. fireworks and boat horns rang in the new year. in australia, a seven-ton fireworks display dazzled hundreds of thousands in sydney. with an estimated 1 billion people watchi

in mali will be a short one but journalist and contributor to the british guardian newspaper neil klein believes there's a high chance western powers will be trapped in their african country. back to the first world war that is going to be over by christmas we have the vietnam war was only going to last a few months even that lasted for many years and of course the afghanistan where you which the war they're still ongoing after twelve years or so so i think there is a real danger that this is a search of the cross over into what they say that will be over a few days or weeks and i think we could be talking more about months actually intervening in mali you've already heard the civilian casualties are taking place obviously this is going to speak with certain groups there and there is a great danger that terrorist campaigns will come back to france so i think this is a very mistaken policy by hollande he is extremely unpopular he's been a power left me here and i think that the contradictions are here again because al-qaeda groups are equal the islamic rebels in syria to get france well

to bat michael savage on sunday the conservative radio host told fellow radio show host area aaron klein that quote we need a nationalist party in the united states of america savage went on to argue that the tea party isn't strong enough and the quote a to restructure their party they need a charismatic leader which they don't have. and the interview savage also attacked the republican party calling it quote an appendage of a democrat machine. sorry michael but i don't think that an appendage of the democrat machine would hold critical legislation hostage time after time purging the livelihoods of millions of americans in the process and the very very ugly senator ted cruz despite not being on the job for a week yet senator cruz is already making it clear why he is a tea party favorite hearing on fox so-called news sunday cruz made it clear that he doesn't approve of compromise in washington who said quote i don't think what washington needs is more compromise i think what washington needs is more common sense and more principle. basically cruz wants to continue the pattern of republica