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joe lieberman, head of the homeland security committee. republicans look to regroup after a disappointing election. does the party need a new message or better messengers? we talk with two leading governors. bobby jindal of louisiana and scott walker of wisconsin. plus, the president and congressional leaders try to pull back from the fiscal cliff. with 44 days and counting, we'll ask our sunday panel can a deal be made in time? and our power player of the week. killing us softly with her song. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ >> chris: hello, again, from fox news in washington. we'll talk with our guests in a moment. first the update on the tense military situation on the israel-gaza border. fox news correspondent leland vittert is on the scene with the latest. >> reporter: there is no question, this is a country on the brink of war. behind me are tankss maneuvering waiting for the order to head to the gaza strip. the iron dome intercepted rockets today but there have been a dozen israelis injuried in the attack. the airstrikes con

[laughter] john mccain and joe lieberman. the reason that joe came back -- what a wonderful lady she is. >> have you finished your rounds? >> a have to do that because i do appreciate this opportunity. i came to the congress in 1972 as a young freshman congressman. i served during the reagan years of the house. i was a partisan warrior. the house tends to make you a partisan warrior. everyday you get up and try to figure out how you can beat the enemy. after a while, you say you have to change your attitude. i'm going to try to make this place work for the things i believe in. so i started working on that. what happened over the years, our biggest enemy is time. >> 20% of the members of the house leaving their office. >> they leave their families back home, they don't know each other, when i first came to washington as a staff member for a democrat, i went into the office. my job was to pour the cheap bourbon and light the cigars. they played gin rummy. i've never heard of that before. >> are you suggesting that nancy -- nanc

we showed video of senator joseph lieberman. if he does not show the same contempt as the republican senators this morning, it does certainly leave them out there without this trio or bipartisan trio that we've seen or quartet. in his interview with cnn, i'm going to read a portion of what he said when asked about susan rice. she had a distinguished career up until now. secondly, i don't know if i feel i know exactly what she was told before she went on tv that sunday. i think we ought to find out before we decide on whether she's a good or bad public servant. that's what he said on the 25th. >> but here's the problem. the senate's already voted on her once to be the ambassador of the united nations. it's not like -- i don't think anybody thinks she's not qualified to do the job. >> i don't think you can say that. john mccain was on tape questioning whether she was qualified. there's one, a powerful senator. >> he thought she was qualified before. i'm not sure what's changed. here's the problem with the entire debate. everyone i

lieberman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to one minute and not have the time taken out of the republican side. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. lea lieberman: mr. presideni want to respond to the concern of my friend from texas that if cloture is granted on this motion to proceed, that there will not be an opportunity to amend the bill. i understand why she's saying that but i do want to say that senator reid has made clear i think twice today that if cloture is granted, he is open to -- he will allow amendments. he's said that he can't allow endless amendments because we're in a lame-duck session with limited time, but that he's -- he will allow a finite number of amendments, if you will, on both sides. so i want to assure my colleagues that -- and appeal to my colleagues to vote to at least take this measure up. i mean, the cyber enemies are at the gates. in fact, they've already broken through the gates. and the least we can do is debate a

jon kyl, joe lieberman are both leaving. he's seeing his relative power inside the caucus on foreign policy challenged for the first time in a very long time and fighting for the survival of that power and that plays into everything that we're seeing. >> the more he swears on camera, the more you can tell he's feeling that. josh, could you stay with us for just a moment? this afternoon, i sat down with house democratic leader nancy pelosi. and she had something very interesting to say about the connection of the david petraeus scandal to some of these other issues. i'd love to get your response. hold on? all right. hold on. we'll be right back. >> what has triggered about informing the congress in any event, just talking about congress, does it have an impact on our national security? >> you think this did not rise to that level? doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. [ female announcer ] unlike sprays and dust rags, swiffer 360 dusters extender can clean hard to reach places in less time. swiffer. great clean in less time.

we'll talk to joe lieberman in a moment. what is state of play whether the president is sticking with her in he did quite the show of support during the cabinet meeting yesterday at a photo op. >> reporter: he has publicly maintained that show of support. officials say that despite the fact that susan rice continues to come under fire from a number of lawmakers, including those woman she met this week say they have more questions after having met with her, senior officials tell me the president is not turning away from her, that he is still holding her up as a high possibility as one of his choices for secretary of state. of course the meetings go on the investigation goes on. senior officials tell me the president is standing by her, not only publicly but privately. >> ruth there have been issued raised whether she was being attacked, criticized because she's a woman, african-american, whether that in fact would make it harder for the republicans to gang up on her if there were a real full-throated confirmation battle. i as

lieberman: thank the chair a second time. i ask unanimous consent further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lieberman: thank you very much, mr. president. i rise to speak on an amendment amendment, broadly bipartisan amendment that i have filed and that i hope and believe will be called up at some point, obviously i'd like it to be adopted by consent but if not, it merits a roll call vote and i'm confident it will be adopted on a roll call vote. this is senate amendment 3090 to this national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2013. it will reauthorize our two very important and very broadly supported programs, assistance to firefighters, a.f.g. program, used to be known as fire, the fire act, and the staffing for adequate fire and emergency response program known as safer. this amendment also reauthorizes the u.s. fire administration for five years, an agency which is a component of feem fema that is focused on supporting firefighters and e.m.s. personnel

the big blockade against the site the documents show mastercard europe admitting senator joseph lieberman and representative peter king were behind the push to cut off finances to the site both members of congress have publicly condemned wiki leaks. this type of hacking this type of cyber theft are really the terrorist weapons of the twenty first century and that's why we have to adapt that's why we have to use traditional legislation such as the espionage act but also i've called to have wiki leaks declared a terrorist organization so we can seize their assets julian assigns it seems to me by taking that material and disseminating through wiki leaks says while at the espionage act of the united states of america i hope the justice department will soon indict him and that we will be able to extradite him from britain and bring a back to stand trial in the united states. also allegedly revealed senator joseph lieberman boasting that he persuaded amazon to cut ties with wiki leaks if you can recall representative peter king tried to designate wiki leaks a terrorist organization and how to p

saw were two pieces of legislation earlier this year and one was a democratic bill that senator lieberman was. trying to move forward to and that would still allow increased surveillance and the other was a republican bill of the house of representatives that. did approve and that would allow but not require companies private companies highest providers what not to turn over information to intelligence agencies and other arms of the federal government and there was a big outcry but to clear the house anyway well let's talk about surveillance you know communications online exists kind of under this reasonable expectation of privacy and why does seem like we have to fight so hard to protect something that should be our right to privacy online back on well. you know this is been a fight for over ten years longer than i've been doing it i have been doing about fifteen covering these topics the way i think of it and maybe this is a little simplistic but if the police want to say read my diary they have to get a search warrant they have to come into my house they have to actually let me know th

the key thing that he and lieberman pushed so hard was that iraq was an imminent threat. it was top of the national security pyramid for them. you cannot rewrite history. he's not just off the rails here. he's lost a bit of his memory there. >> okay. his faculties. he's short on it? >> i think he's being erratic. >> okay. susan rice, there is no evidence that she misled the public. in fact, the white house has been very clear, the president was clear in his press conference that she had the same material that the congress had. why is mccain so adamant about discrediting her? >> i don't know about his personal motives here. i mean, i do think there's a striking pattern of critics of this administration. i don't know whether it's john mccain, but them going after prominent african-americans in this cabinet. number one. number two, susan rice doesn't have line responsibility as u.n. ambassador for events, for security for diplomats. as a senior diplomat, she needs protection herself. the idea that susan rice would be willing to tolerate a lack of security for career foreign

which leads us to connecticut where we had joe lieberman retiring so-called democrat, and chris mcmurphys tough trying to run as a republican in connecticut so let's deceive people to think i'm running on the same ticket as president obama. >> i'm supporting linda mcmann and barack obama. >> i'm voting for barack obama and linda mcmann on the independent line. >> i'm voting for president obama and linda mcmann. >> almost everyone in that is black. hilarious. nonsense hasn't worked. chris murphy leading 52 to 43, a sizele lead in connecticut according to the latest poll. and chris murphy joins us now. congressman murphy, thanks for coming on "the young turks." this will be the same tradition he has come on before every election he has won to "the young turks" no matter where wear are. congressman murphy, how does this stand? >> first of all not really a superstitious guy except on elections. i've worn the same suit on every election day since i ran for state representative when i was 25 years old and now i've got to come on "the young turks." this is good karma. [ laughter ] it feels good

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senators rockefeller and lieberman a few years ago that initially proposed this. kill switch they didn't use that term at least it didn't like that term but that's what it amounts to once you start putting in legislation words like disconnect and urgency powers given to the president in a cybersecurity emergency that's pretty much what it amounts to right and then there were there was just a series outcry people did not like the idea of killswitch in the hands of the president a matter whose party and they backed down it took them a while they did back down and instead what we saw were two pieces of legislation earlier this year and one was a democratic bill that senator lieberman was. trying to move forward to and that would still allow increased surveillance and the other was a republican bill of the house of representatives that did approve and that would allow but not require companies private companies highest p.z. email providers whatnot to turn over information to intelligence agencies and other arms of the federal government and there was a big outcry but

. >> your chairman came out, joe lieberman, and said obviously he won't get a vote because he is retiring the same questions, presumably got the same answers, and said he thinks she is -- >> we i didn't sit in on his briefing so i don't know that the exchanges were the same. >> would you go as far as some of your colleagues and place a hold on her nomination? [ question inaudible ] >> i think john kerry would be an excellent appointment and would be easily confirmed by his colleagues. >> senator -- >> thank you. >> she'll be back this afternoon to answer other questions but has a meeting. >> all right. so that was great timing on behalf of our dana bash, getting those -- that lineup right away of senator susan collins, republican of maine, who is the top republican on the homeland security committee. and her comments were clear, in fact crystal clear. one thing she brought up that was very significant and somewhat different from what we've heard in terms of criticisms from other republican senators has been that she was very troubled over the 1998 series of embassey bombings in africa. wh

well you heard it from senator lieberman himself encouraging president obama to issue this executive order said apparently it didn't pass the senate and so this is likely it looks like this is what's going to happen but interestingly enough as we did this just came out even though it happened a couple of months ago that just came out a report in the washington post that shows that president obama actually secretly signed an executive order also related to cyber security and what this order does is enable the u.s. military to respond and thwart cyber attacks but much of that executive order is still still remains a secret and of course we have this other one that is in the works so one thing is for certain it's not going anywhere in congress and look certain that because of that it's going to be the white house that's going to step in here yeah and certainly a whole lot of people could potentially be affected by this you know not piece of legislation but a directive or piece of paper that the president signed without even knowing what's in it very you know disconcerting for a lot of p

anyway, joe lieberman, who's fascinating to watch because you never know which way he's going to go.e's usually a faithful ally of mccain and graham, but this afternoon joe lieberman came to a far different conclusion. take a listen. >> i specifically asked her whether at any point prior to going on those sunday morning television shows she was briefed or urged to say certain things by anybody in the white house related to the campaign or political operation. she said no, she was not given messaging points at all by the white house. to me, based on her public record and her public service, barring some evidence to the contrary, i think she's answered the questions that i have about why she said the things she did on those sunday morning talk shows. >> well, there you have joe lieberman. i think he's an honest broker in this case saying everything he asked her the right questions did you get any pr advice from the white house, any way to spin this thing so it looks like it was a spontaneous demonstration we couldn't have prevented. if he asked her did you talk to the white house about

i'm pretty sure joe lieberman's jowls are memory foam. >> bret: neither lieberman. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. >> shepard: this is the fox report. tonight, mitt romney drops by the white house for a bite to eat with the president. plus, history as the united nations gets palestinians an upgrade and recognition as a palestinian state. it's a major change in status for the palestinian people. >> i think this is very important day for palestinians. >> shepard: but the united states and israel fiercely fought the shift. >> this is a provocative, unhealthy step that could undermine the peace process. >> it's a huge set back for the prospects of restarting peace talks with israel. >> shepard: tonight, what this means for the entire mideast. plus, two winning tickets for the record-setting power ball jackpot. >> the power ball jackpot winner in arizona will split the prize with the other winner in missouri. >> shepard: so who are those mystery winners? and executives at the twinkies manufacturer got big pay hikes last year even as the compa

i sat down with four of the retirees at senate joe lieberman's hide-away office in the capitol to talk about what they'll miss, what they won't miss, the days they'll remember the most and what's still left to do before they go. let me start out. we are at the end of the year. we are looking at a situation where the country is about to go off the so-called fiscal cliff, and i wanted you to kind of look back and think did you ever believe that people -- that congress would get so entrenched in different sides that there was a possibility the country would go off the fiscal cliff? does it surprise you where we are? >> i mean, what shocks me is that we're actually $16 trillion in debt. i mean, we built up this incredible debt over a period of years. i never would have guessed that we would be in this position when we started out. >> you are all here for that? >> we're all guilty. we're all part of it. a couple of presidents contributed to. am i surprised we facing this fiscal cliff now? no, because we put it in. we created this cliff because we thought it will be so terrifying that congre

those are the real three amigos big but because lieberman is leaving the senate the two of egos needed a new amigo and they chose one of the republican party's rising stars new hampshire senator senator kelly or yeah i owe. someday we'll figure out who real clear politics even speculated may have been mitt romney's running mate for mccain and graham picking a woman as their new third amigo was particularly useful since the three amigos first job as the new of the new political year was to take down a woman u.n. ambassador susan rice so she'd be so badly tarnished that president obama wouldn't nominate her to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state and why would they care so much about destroying the reputation of a rhodes scholar a stanford graduate in one of america's most distinguished deployments well given that the three amigos have always been basically a political hit squad a two bit republican gang that's usually promoting wars to either enrich their military industrial complex sponsors or to score points political points against democrats it's a fair bet but it's all abou

also allegedly revealed senator lieberman boasting that he persuaded amazon to cut ties with wiki leaks if you can recall representative king tried to designate wiki leaks a terrorist organization and have a put on a u.s. treasury back blacklist the treasury refused saying there wasn't enough evidence to put wiki leaks on such a list but lawmakers were successful in financially suffocating the website of visa and master card which make up a majority of credit card payments were blocked from doing business with the site meanwhile wiki leaks founder julian assange remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london hell likely be arrested and extradited to sweden where he faces questioning over sex charges if he steps foot outside of that building. well if you think drones are controversial wait until you hear about killer robots these machines or take warfare to a whole new level the robots. it has a mind of their own meaning they could pick and choose which targets a fire on that means humans would almost be completely detached from the decision making process and decide who lives and

stand up for the constitution even in the face of the so-called terror threat and as senator joe liebermanas a senior member of the senate armed services committee said he hopes to get says done at the senate gets us down before the end of the year but also noted partisan gridlock is a major reason for why and just might not talk a little bit about the politics of this. harry reid the democratic leader in the senate is very mad at rand paul for this and b. was telling reporters say he wanted them to understand it's not the democrats holding up this defense spending fail it's the republicans but it's sad that the democrats are not willing to be the party that stands for civil liberties i mean the paul i think in the end rand paul probably will get barrels over on this because all reid have to do is fall for a so-called cloture vote you just need sixty senators to say hey rand paul you don't get to have this vote on that you know whether the military can just lock people up without a trial and i'm suspecting that's probably going to happen but what rand paul willis to keep in doing is markin

an independent here joe lieberman retired he was kind of a thorn in the side of democrats for the last few years and chris murphy is going to win this seat for the democrats so you know the democratic party shifts a little bit more to the left in the senate and that leaves eleven close races still in republican have to win eight of those to control the senate to continue keep these updated as well as all the other battleground states left christine tom back to you right. now to take a closer look at everything going on tonight joining us is democratic strategist erica community and marc harrold libertarian commentator attorney and author erica mark want to thank you guys so much for joining us. so we just got the update and some of these polling stations closing in around nine pm do these numbers say anything at this point mark not really no real surprises looks like it's going to be a later night than we may have thought virginia saying they were right this is unconfirmed stay open pretty late with the voting the whole lot of people in line and some problems in florida and ohio but no

white house and democrats on the hill still standing by her and joe lieberman, senator lieberman alsoerday and said he was satisfied she did nothing that could disqualify her from secretary of state, should the president nominate her. unfortunately for her, senator lieb lieberman is retiring this year so he doesn't get a vote. today she meets with senator susan collins, top republican on the homeland security committee and senator bob corker, republican on the foreign relations committee. both of them said they have some concerns but e willing to hear her out, soledad. >> elise labott, thank you. we appreciate it. member of the foreign relations committee which will vote to confirm the next secretary of state once there has been a nomination. thank you for being with us. >> good morning, soledad. >> you have said in the past -- i'm reading off your press release on saturday, october 27th. you said this. it's becoming more apparent that the administration's lack of truthfulness seems to emanate from a desire to hide something from the american people. you said this along with senator c

in kind of a likud bit a new coalition with avigdor lieberman a right wing coalition and it wasn't holding up very well the numbers weren't looking as good as he wanted them to look and he was being challenged by omar possibly who is going to run as kind of the candidate who has this record of cracking down on gaza he took care of gaza and at the same time that's and yahoo has in his cabinet who brock who was pushing for an operation on the gaza strip and was going to run in the elections as well so what does knesset have to authorize a punishing operation and in order to outflank all measure the architect of operation cast lead and who brought who is known who has much more credibility among the military than that in the i was so essentially palestinians are dying in order to win votes for benjamin netanyahu and his new partner i think gore and lieberman it's a tradition in israeli politics to campaign on the blood of caliphate in we saw it in operation cast lead in every major party including kadima then led by sibby livni boasting about how much they supported israeli retallack in the g

palestinians are dying in order to win votes for benjamin netanyahu and his new partner as they were lieberman it's tradition israeli politics to campaign on the blood of ellis that ins we saw it in operation cast lead every major party including kadima then led by tzipi livni i'm boasting about how how much they supported israel talent in the gaza strip with city livni actually declaring that the israeli army acted like hooligans and that was a good thing so this is classic israeli politics and that's earlier on we showed a photo of a b.b.c. journalist carrying the body of his baby this was on the b.b.c. website and is no longer on the front of the website we think i mean is this just because things are moving so fast there. i think it's kind of it's absurd that you don't see more journalistic solidarity more solidarity in the western media for one of their colleagues who is working in a war zone and whose family is dying as a result and the only answer is that because they're deeply uncomfortable about reporting palestinian deaths and indeed in the u.s. we're just really not seeing a lot of

. >> senators john mccain and joe lieberman supported the families in their effort. >> joe and i decidedto introduce a resolution that called for the appointment of a commission. >> mccain and i, the families %e punishing it, and then finally the administration said, okay, we'll support a commission. >> then there was a phone call from apparently vice president cheney to someone i think on the house side that the conditions were not agreeable with the white house. >> why do we not have one? why all talk and no action?>> a families made a surprise appearance at a meeting to discuss the commission. they faced down white house advisor nick caleo. >> we stood up and held hands and stared them down. >> we stood up and said, how can you look us in the es us there' commission? there was silence. >> and we were, you know, basically put on the spot. >> it was a moment when, you know, truth and pain spoke to power, not just truth. >> the families had taken on the administration and won. on november 22, 2002, president bush signed the legislation mandating a 9/11 commission. >> thanks to the activ

also joining him was senator joe lieberman.oday sh after meeting with ambassador rice, joe lieberman chose not to join the baseless criticism of ambassador rice. >> based on what she has said as clearly as possible, backed up by the director of the cia, i think it wouldn't be fair to disqualify her based on what she said. >> ambassador rice released this statement after meeting with the republican senators. while we certainly wish we had >> ambassador rice released this statement after meeting with the republican senators. joining me now, msnbc's karen finney and howard fineman. howard, what is your understanding of how these meetings actually went today? we got a very little by way of actual reports on what went on there. you've got lindsey graham trying to say something happened in this meeting to make the situation worse. what could that have been? >> well, from talking to a top official in the white house and to senator mccain, behind closed doors, the meeting wasn't as contentious as those statements after ward made it sou