cross not whether obama is a lame duck i'm joined by my guests in new york check why he's a democratic political strategist and we also have don de bar he is an anti-war activist and host of the day we radio program right gentlemen cross talk rules and attack that means you can jump in any time you want and i very much encourage it chad if i go to you first in new york congratulations on your victory. race in new york a breath of fresh air a lot of people say but let's go to president obama he's got very low numbers in the polls right now about forty six that's the lowest during his time in office and a lot of people are saying at home and abroad this guy just doesn't cut the mustard he doesn't have the to get his agenda through and hence he is a lame duck now agree or disagree. well i i really disagree you know i mean any time you have three years ago on any term. there are really too soon to make that kind of declaration in american politics so barack obama has a little bit of distance right now but he has some some great opportunities to implement he said gently ok that was short an

>> not just a lame duck, miss katie, but a quadripleg pleerip platypus. joke is barack obama leadership skills. it's like saying paula deen at the apollo. >> oh, yikes. all right, steve. your guy, your guy. >> listen, the criticism coming from the republicans now is the president is overstepping his executive authority by making changes to the health care law. you can't be a lame duck and overreach your authority at the same time. the congress, if you want to look at a lame duck, they're the worst congress in the history of this republican. >> why? because they won't do what republicans want? >> they're having the least work done -- >> the last i checked they tried to repeal obamacare the same way the president is doing himself. >> the president says i will not rest until whatever controversy is fixed, except he goes to the vineyard with tiger woods and goes to vacation in hawaii but he's not going to rest. the second term presidents go too big too fast. clinton played small ball and the president should probably have done this as well. >> we of course ca

it's clear that the president doesn't seem as lame duck.ng and putting pressure on congress to think about immigration reform. i think the jury is still out on what he can get done in the second term. i just love the cataloging of all these doomsday naysayers over the course of the last five or six years. and just like the president said in the clip you just played, he's down sometimes, he's up sometimes. what's good for him is he has an opportunity to come back up. the 24 hour news cycle is how he dominates the process. there's serious challenges in that. >> you know, you wrote about the times that they've asked whether or not the president can come back or not and whether he can recover. you wrote it was asked again in january 2010 from orlando to buffalo after republican scott brown won a special election in massachusetts. he did and so did obama care. and again in january 2011 after democrats got shellacked in the tweb midterm. when sean hannity asked in a panel in august 2007 can obama recover from a sinking dough and other bad economi

. >> they were lame then and they're lame now. >> at the time, spidey everywhere. they got all the attention. she with her plastic surgeries, he with his famous attitude towards life. >> you seem like you know a lot about them as a couple. >> how could we not know about them? >> i didn't know they were named spider or whatever. i take the high road. thanks for teaching me. i wish i could unlearn it. >> we'll talk more, my friend. i'm richard lui, this is "early today." we hope it's your first stop of the day today here on nbc. >>> leading the news in the chicago tribune, driving off the decline in u.s. cities, study says. the newly release report saying americans on average drive 7.6% fewer miles now than when driving peaked back in 2004. why? well, due mainly to improvements in technology, high gas and auto prices and shifting attitudes. >>> on nbcnews.com, it's the great hexagon. storm pictures shine in saturn pictures. the orbiter capturing these amazing images of an unusual jet stream on saturn's north pole. any ideas? >> if i knew, i'd be rich. >> you also mig

that's going to be his future, this whole idea of when does the lame duck begin?party when you are sitting in the side begin to pull the blug on you. that happened with bush republicans in late 05 and early 06. that's what the president has to brace for. >> that are is starting to happen when they vote for the bill that would gutted it. >>> are exactly. i think you will see increasingly the red state democrats and mary landrieu and mark bag itch and mark pryor trying to make the campaigns about anything else besides obama care. when that comes up, keeping a safe distance. >> i want to bring up a quote and it's a blind quote from somebody who turned down a job from the president and said to some extent you are seeing the clinton effect. why take the risks of worging in a second obama administration when you can make $300,000 and work for hillary. this is a democrat saying this. a blind quote, here's the thing. it's stunning to read and not stunning to hear. >> it's not stunning at all in the fact that it's the way washington thinks. if you told me the president wou

recognize that he makes a lot of what goes on in washington look pretty stupid pretty thick pretty lame and i think for the last week there was a maybe a pause and i and i enjoyed that because i think that you know reflecting on his his values reflecting on what he had gone through reflecting on the struggle of the south african people had made us maybe feel that maybe our are the fights that seem so critical in washington right now being you know obamacare for example it's pretty small and petty. i'm going to give you the last word on the ticker and also may go ahead jump in go ahead i think you can also make us ask what side of history do we want to be on i mean looking back at who did or did not support mandela when he was in the midst of his struggle and then ask ourselves who today may be engaged in similar struggles or who in another forty fifty years may be saying similar similar things about when they end up passing who is taking over his mantle is it on song su kyi who might it be and where do we want to stand. where when we look forward another forty or fifty years ok well tha

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recognize that he makes a lot of what goes on in washington look pretty stupid pretty thick pretty lame and i think for the last week there was a maybe a pause and i and i enjoyed that because i think that you know reflecting on his his values reflecting on what he had gone through reflecting on the struggle of the south african people have made us maybe feel that maybe our are the fights that seem so critical in washington right now being you know obamacare for example it's pretty small and petty. i'm going to give you the last word on the ticker and also may go ahead jump in go ahead i think you can also make us ask what side of history do we want to be on i mean looking back at who did or did not support mandela when he was in the midst of his struggle and then ask ourselves who today may be engaged in similar struggles or who in another forty fifty years may be saying similar similar things about when they end up passing who is taking over his mantle is it on song suu kyi who might it be and where do we want to stand. where when we look forward another forty or fifty years ok well t

recognize that he makes a lot of what goes on in washington look pretty stupid pretty thick pretty lame and i think for the last week there was a maybe a pause and i and i enjoyed that because i think that you know reflecting on his his values reflecting on what he had gone through reflecting on the struggle of the south african people have made us maybe feel that maybe our are the fights that seem so critical in washington right now being you know obamacare for example a pretty small petty. i'm going to give you the last word on that it also may go ahead jump in go ahead i think you can also make us ask what side of history do we want to be on i mean looking back at who did or did not support mandela when he was in the midst of his struggle and then ask ourselves who today may be engaged in similar struggles or who in another forty fifty years may be saying similar similar things about when they end up passing who is taking over his mantle is it on song suu kyi who might it be and where do we want to stand. where when we look forward to another forty or fifty years ok well that's the e

to cross not whether obama is a lame duck i'm joined by my guests in new york chet why he's a democratic political strategist and we also have don de bar he is an anti-war activist and host of a daily radio program right gentlemen cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in any time you want and i very much encourage it chad if i go to you first in new york congratulations on your victory. race in new york a breath of fresh air a lot of people say but let's go to president obama he's got very low numbers in the polls right now about forty six that's the lowest during his time in on.

almost nothing that's unknowable now in politics and they really perfected that are is it hard for a lame duck to really be good well what it is i mean president bush used to say i covered him there's a certain amount of political capital you have and you use it and then once it's dried up then you're done and the problem is that. a lot of political capital got soaked up by this president in the early part of his presidency he got health care and he got it on a party line vote and that has real repercussions because that didn't set in motion the tea party but it accelerated it and then you get to a place where you're in your second term and you want to do the next big thing and you don't have that reservoir of support to do it you know the budget wars to have really dealt a blow and we've been through this debt ceiling fight in a way that's also really we continue so i mean look at bushie. comes in a second term he's so debilitated by iraq he tries social security and there's no no more political capital of the immigration forget about it he had no more juice point so yes being a being a

every day that goes by, he is becoming more of a lame duck president with a lame duck presidency.eems like the big problem in the 2014 elections is for democrats. are these the guys that are going to be in the cross hairs in 2014? it is the same story that would be in 2014. if you had talked to any expert months ago. there is no way republicans can overcome a government shut down. in two or three months the pendulum could shift again. if most of the problems are fixed and repaired don't be surprised if senate democrats are just fine and the issue goes back to the question of who do we want to govern this question. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. >> the investigation into a deadly train derailment into the bronx into the ntsb we will hear about the conditions in a live report from new york. so you can see like right here i can just... you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim...you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that's so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar.

the kaiser report imax keyser time out of turn to businessman investor commentator and journalist lame alegate other telegraph laim welcome to the kaiser report max good to be here could see you now haven't seen it even though our ties clash modern seasons kokanee when we ripped up the children omics economics former member it was fantastic there we were in the in the southeast of of oil in the sunny south east as the locals call it what an amazing combination on the williams's directorship get together some economists from all over the world and have them chaired by sharp stand up irish comedians surely it's only a matter of time before kokomo mix comes to london was fantastic because they popularize economics in a way that the average punter can understand it so we have you here today to help us get through some of these comments by the chancellor george osborne who gave his autumn statement last week and he says it's boom times but foreign trade and fixed investments are declining household debt fuel consumption is rising and the worst drop in living standards in the u.k. sense the

service is under comes from the postal accountability and enhancement act, passed by congress in the lamession back in 2006. the law forces the postal service to prepay retiree health care for 75 years into the future and do it within a ten-year window. now, you don't see the private industry being forced to prepay retiree health care. how come u.p.s. and fedex aren't doing that? republicans want to run the post office right into the ground, force it to go bankrupt and take it to private when the operators know this is what they really want to do. as an independent government agency, the post office, if they were left alone, they would be able to easily compete against the private sector. the post office receives zero tax dollars for operations. postal employees are civil servan servants. it's the only institution in america that is forced to prefund 75-year pension and health care plan within a ten-year window. know what that means, folks? this puts $5.5 billion annual, line item in their budget. who can shoulder that? the postal service would have a $1.15 billion surplus in oh 2012 with

>> do you think he considers himself a lame duck now that they are talking about the next election? >> no wi he can admit that. most say presidents have about to eight months to get the agenda through. we are well beyond that point. there is no real chance for democrats to take back the house. there is a chance republicans take back the senate. what happens if mitch connell is running the senate and john boehner is running the house? unless there is a lot of give from the president, he is going to be in lame duck status unless he gets executive orders through. >> speaking of duck, let's talk about this subject and that's phil robert and the duck dinasty and the politicians defending him. what they're defending. >> the protagonist here in duck dynasty was interviewed by gq magazine and had comments about members of the lgbt community and racially charged comments as well. >> controversial remarks about homosexuality. >> absolutely. what happened though was he was suspended. when that happened, that triggered conservatives like sarah palin and bobby jindal to say he was expressing fir

. >> are we part of lame stream media? >> you're part of the lame stream media. you're waging war on christmas. you're turds. >> and rhinos. >> i'm glad we settled that. fresh off trying to ruin your thanksgiving, the people behind the official barack obama twitter account are going after christmas. it must be day infinity of o obama-apocalypso-care-ageddon gate. >> i tune in. i just tune in late. >> you're too busy doing your sick perverted acts on google. that's why he's afraid. he does who ahorrible things. they said quote, may your days be merry and bright and your christmas include a conversation about health insurance. what should that conversation be? i suppose it could be about if you like your health care plan, you can keep it as the lie of the year. that's probably not what he had in mind. you know who doesn't want to talk about health insurance ever. christmas cat. you are losing your mind. control yourself. this is a serious topic. tucker. >> yes, sir. >> we're all for discussing issues, but who talks about politics at christmas? is that a liberal way

. >> lame video featuring a lame duck president. we want you to join the conversation. log onto our facebook page. do you think the broken obamacare promise is the lie of the year? plus, it's time to trend at 10:00. use # hannity over the next hour. here we have tom cotton and jason chafitz. >> hi, sean. >> congressman cotton, you're leading in the polls. red state democrat mark pryor. >> yes. even a so-called fact checker knows the president's promise you can keep your health care plan if you like it was the lie of the oh year. marc pryor said he just learned that but he voted for obamacare and for the very regulation causing people to lose their health insurance. i gesds he didn't know or understand. >> didn't he regurgitate the same talking points as the president is this. >> absolutely. he's been saying for four years it would help you. if you liked your health insurance you could keep it. i guess he didn't know or understand and the people of arkansas realized he's directly responsible for up to 50,000 arkansas getting higher deductibles and co-payses. >> your race

host: one of the news remembered resident obama accepting lame for the health-care failure.lay a little but of that clip, and have you put it in perspective. >> i understand why folks are frustrated, i would be too, atause sometimes people look what is taking place in notington, and they say enough is getting done that helps me with my life. and regardless of what congress does, ultimately i am the president of the united states, and they could be to do something about it. in terms of how i intend to approach it, i'm just going to as i caning as hard around the priorities that the american people care about. i think it is legitimate for them to expect me to have to win back some credibility on this health care law in particular, and on a whole range of these issues in general. that is on me. we fumbled the rollout on this health care law. host: in that clip the president talks about winning back credibility. however other residents won background ability in their second term? guest: that is a good question. ronald reagan had a real problem with iran contra. his poll ratings

she is said to be lame in her hind legs. most of her injuries happened before she was thrown away. the life of a start of a 10 week old. dan ruben, kron4news. >>> a man was beaten with a pipe by the driver who almost ran him over. the victim is in critical condition. >> reporter: down on the ground, dazed just minutes after this man was nearly hit by a car and beaten by the driver. they weren't able to head off the driver before he sped away. police say the 47-year-old was crossing the street after 7:00 saturday, the suspect driving in a late 80s 4-door almost ran into the victim. the two men exchanged words. the verbal alterication turned physical. the caucasian man got out and hit the man a pipe. the victim was taken to a hospital, admitted to intensive care where he is in critical condition with a skull fracture and other facial injuries. investigators are talking to witnesses. if you have information call police. >>> one person is in the hospital after a shooting on 580. there is no additional details. >>> there was a freak accident on the 101 the front fire of a minivan. those

so i figured we should treasure every lame one we had left. -- captions by vitac -- . >> reporter: the first night of a big chill as residents pull out the winter weather gear and do what they can to prevent plant life. how cold we will be by tomorrow morning coming up. >> this is part of what kwou take on. >> reporter: friends talk about the risks taken by one man in san francisco known for his appearances on a popular tv show. . >> reporter: the bay area tonight bracing for temperatures below freezing in some places. the chill is already starting to creep in. rose mary is in our weather center now with where the temperatures stand tonight. >> reporter: temperatures are 10 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. this is just the beginning. the chilly days and the bigger concern: the cold nights. take a look at the numbers right now. 43 in napa. 43 in oakland. upper 40s around sfo. temperatures in the north are cold already. 45 along the peninsula. in to the east bay, 40 degrees. we have a ways to go. some of us will bottom out in the 20s. i'll have more coming up. >> reporter: some peopl

well, my parents are having the same lame christmas party they have every year. all the adults.ighbor, is that mistletoe? all right, how does that look? looks great. that looks so fabulous. guys, the ornament's are up here. both: oh, yeah. looks great. oh, i just love christmas. it's all about good tidings and cheer.

>> if you continue to have partisanship, you're going to have a lame duck president.elieve midterm elections, gop has a grand opportunity to reach out to those pop that have suffered the most. they can take over the house and senate if they do grassroots advocacy, if the tea party and party establishment would join as one we have a grand opportunity. >> chris, last word. >> a lot of this is going to fall on republicans come midterms, what do they want to do. for example, take immigration. if you want to address this issue and to be viable at a national level, you have to put something forward. if you're going to be basically trapped by fringe within your own party, you end up doing nothing. part of that is the reality. they have to come to the fact divisions are not -- >> senate republicans do something about immigration, chris. >> not house republicans. >> approval rate, low rate but we're out of time. angela, lame duck president has three years to go. >> i got you. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> we will be right back. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a

i thought that was kind of lame. light-hearted attitude stands with the gravity of his charges. he's not only accused of murdering his 21-year-old daughter, rebecca, but of torturing her. prosecutors say he shot her seven times in the leg, foot, knee and side of the head. then he's alleged to have hogtied her and put her in a large ice chest where she suffocated to death. while butterfield denies committing the murder, he admits to concealing the body. >> i didn't really know what to do. basically i didn't do anything. then after three days i just put her in the ice chest and she just stayed with me. >> butterfield made one other stunning revelation to authorities. he kept the ice chest containing his daughter's corpse in his motor home which he drove and lived in for nearly two years. the body was discovered when the motor home had been impounded after butterfield was arrested on an unrelated minor charge. >> i probably cooked 1,000 gourmet meals two feet from a corpse. that's why i left the motor home a little dirt

>> we were just talking about how lame the acting is, the story line is so predictable. it's like oh, yeah, the guy with cool gadget gets the girl, the other guy that doesn't have it makes a fool of itself. but because the video is so bad is why it's getting ai tension. >> bad by design? >> i think so. >> hey, pretty lady. zat cla >> it's a classic camaro and one guy's dream to get it sold. >> and hear why dad's gain is one guy's loss. >> plus adventure in the deep blue sea. >> what a different world to be able to experience. >>> closed captioning provided by: >>> time is running out, folks, to vote for the best videos of 2013. >> we want to know what you think. >> head over to rightthisminute.com and click on best videos of 2013. >> hit the web and make your vote count. >> what is a cooler gift than an original song? that's what danny did on christmas for his dad. and danny here is performing his song. the title of it -- ♪ you never used to know the difference between the bass and treble clef and it isn't hard to tell you i like you better deaf ♪ ♪ if i run out of anyth

he has three more years or two more years plus until he is a total lame duck.e has brought back john podesta to help. outwardn start looking as my colleagues have suggested help,t non-chicicagago mafia people he is not so comfortable with but know what they are succeed in public adadministration in ways he has not at the moment. >> what about his relationship with the congress? >> disaster. >> his fault? >> partly. he's dealing with difficult people in the tea part but he has not made an effort to reach out.. he does not go up there. he does not play golf with them. he has not reached out. he has been too insular. he has withdrawn. i think he is a private person and does not like to be around people who make him uncomfortable. >> how has the capital changed in the last 25 years? >> he called bob michael -- >> can we talk about the current scandal? >> let's make it clear what he di in 2006 givinga us a history lesson. how has washington chged in the past 25 years? in 1988, he wrote the 100th congress had been one of the most adopted in decades. people.congress h

in arkansas, freezing rain and icy conditions are being lamed for a pilot. stores had, grocery people stocking up before the storm. >> milk, bread, potatoes. things you can do quickly. >> there has been one death confirmed. it was a man in arkansas who was killed when a tree toppled over on his camper. here in north texas, people are without power. nearly 200 people without power and that is expected to rise. thank you. >> wow. you can see it all behind you. winter wonderland, inc. you. -- thank you. it is pretty, but it is so dangerous. >> we're going to have a major freezing rain event here. we're going to see a little bit of everything. there will be snow on sunday, but it will also be sleep and freezing rain. it will eventually change over to all rain. a lot to get to. let me start off with right now. we have seen falling temperatures throughout the day. there has also been a good bit of rain. this is a time lapse from fairfax. we had quite a dell you traits outside of our studio. look at our temperatures. 46 degrees right now. that is our low temperatur

. >> the united nations as an in thursdays base lame the lives of two peacekeepers and south sudanese who have shot -- sought shelter there. to masharye loyal seized on thursday. he admits he has called for the overthrow of the president. 460 people have and killed -- have been killed in the capital. soldiers have been fighting members of the ethnic group. u.s. president barack obama warned south sudan stands at the precipice of renewed civil war. the evacuation of american and european expatriates is underway, and african mediators are trying to rocher a peace deal. >> live from paris. --e is a reminder of our trying to broker a peace deal. >> live from paris. here is a reminder of our top stories. has landed in germany after being pardoned i president putin. at least 20 civilians were slaughtered in south sudan. civilian from a different ethnic group sought refuge. this is sparking fears of a civil war. barack obama is holding an end of year conference at the white house. i look back at key events that marks 2013 before the u.s. president goes to hawaii for the christmas holiday. it

duck quality about this. >> with that lame duckish quality that david is saying, john king, you saidpresident was 0 for 2013. what big ticket item does he have the best chance of getting done in the coming year? >> that's the question he has to ponder on vacation. he wants immigration. speaker boehner wants immigration but can speaker boehner get a path of citizen ship? i don't know. is the president willing to accept a path to legal status short of the path of legal citizenship? that's the question. harry reid happens to be from nevada. what about the eight or ten democrats, he has to ask them how far are you willing to go and democrats willing to go on that? immigration is one where things the president can get done are things that are also in the republican self-interest and most republicans want to pass an immigration bill but john boehner would have to stand up again if he wants to get into the quick sand of immigration politics. >> candy, he suggested more changes may becoming to the staff, inner circle in the coming months. is he tipping his hand that heads could roll over eve

well, a&e is so lame, a&e has known about this for years because robertson has been saying those same things for years. you can even get on youtube on a&e computers just like on your laptop at home. they knew about it a&e new all about robertson. now that a&e is getting heat for what robertson has been saying for years, a&e is running for the hills rather than standing up for the first amendment. a&e is cowering and trying to pull a fast one on all of us. pretending that they just learned about robertson's views and they find his views so appalling him that they are suspending him. that is a fantasy. now here is the truth. "duck dynasty" gets big ratings and a&e likes the big cash that comes with big ratings so they never cared what robertson said as long as he kept high ratings. you know that and, of course, a&e knows that a&e executives must think we are all stupid with their phony reaction now. but in that holiday spirit if you are charitable towards that a&e executive and you well, maybe they have re-thought about robertson's statements and now they have change of heart even to th