myra lieson, independent senator joe lieberman. faced with independent opinions on obamacare, the president seems to focus the idea on unemployment benefits that ran out yesterday for 1.3 million americans and also raising minimum wage. brit, how strong an argument does the president have both on the merits and as a political tactic. >> he is trying to change the subject, and it all supports and feeds into the concept that he talks about so often, which is the idea of income and inequality which has grown, but he thinks it's worthwhile to talk about. my sense about it is, look, the people who are losing unemployment benefits had them for a long time. it is supposed to be a temporary measure. it's been extended repeatedly for a lot of people because the job market has been so slow to recover. i think on balance it's an issue that democrats can make some use of because it portrays the republicans as hard-hearted, which is a theme a lot of people agree with and which is a familiar democrat versus republican theme going back a long way

we have brit hume, mara liasson, scott brown, and joe lieberman.enefits ran out yesterday and president obama is foe kugs on this and raising the minimum became. >> as a political tactic, chris, he is trying to change the subject and it supports and speeds into the concept he talks about so often. and it as grown in his administration, but he seems to think it is a worthwhile issue. my sense of it is people who lost unemployment benefits had them a long time. it's supposed today be a temporary measure and it has been extended for many people for a long time. i think it's something that the democrats can make some use of, it portrays the republicans as hard hearted, which is a theme that many agree with, and they're going back a long way. >> you are seeing ads have liberal groups pointing out people who will be cut off, and a lot of newscasts are talking of folks that are well intentioned, they have been counting on federal energy aide we we say has been going on for five years now. it's tough not to feel for them. >> it is also something that has v

i do not think today there is some difference between lieberman today and lieberman in the past. >> but why is it easier today for you to explain your positions? >> i think first of all, there .re no doubts what happens it was very important, it was crucial. maybe for some other reasons. but no doubts. that is the main reason. everybody in israel was following and monitoring the final court decision. before they read it completely, it really was a huge interest. and i think that was some turning point. turn to thee audience now and ask for your questions for foreign minister lieberman. i may call on people if i don't see hands, so watch out. [laughter] >> [indiscernible] >> hi. spent a few we minutes outside. you made a statement here i'm looking for clarification on. you said that they are still spending the centrifuges. that is correct. but at the same time, they have also admitted at the end of six months, they will have more enriched uranium than they have today. that is the pause button. is that a bad thing? the second question, why do you get so excited about khamenei calling us p

lieberman. >> this is absolutely true.t we've taken are only baby steps in terms of trying to remedy this problem. if you look at all violence in the united states, the mentally ill contribute a very small proportion, that if you look at these civilian massacres, these mass violent incidents which seemingly have no rhyme or reason, mentally ill persons are disproportionately affected. and if you look at all of these individuals, virtually all of them have been individuals who have not received treatment or who have dropped out of treatment. and that's because we have a fragmented and an inadequate mental health-care system and policy in this country. >> so paul barrett has time been wasted on gun control, something which seems to freeze up in washington or, and have people been focused on the wrong solution? >> well, i don't know about whether time has been wasted. but i certainly think that gun control proponents have tended to go back to the same solutions, perhaps not terribly productively. for example, the relentless f

led by no less than joe lieberman. what do you say?e said that there's no way he was going to win. but he did. i guess what i'm asking, senator, what do you think? >> well, that's a good question. the american history doesn't give a lot of examples of successful third-party candidates. in some ways you have to go back to abraham lincoln. neil: that's a powerful type of guy that you are. but they did a good chunk of this. they don't necessarily get electoral votes. >> it's an uphill climb. but a strong third-party candidate can actually affect what the other two parties are doing. the bottom line is that the two parties are frustrating and i was a majority of the people, each of the core constituencies are happy in the majority feel that the two parties have to get together and compromise and get something done for the country. we used to think that the way to deal with that is through elections and it is not really working. neil: people are frustrated. but it never happens. >> the best that has happened in recent decades is ross perot.

difference between lieberman today, and lieberman in the past. >> why is today easier for you to explain? >> first of all, it is more about what happened in the court. that is crucial. maybe for some other reasons, but no doubt that was the main reason, because everybody in there before they acquitted completely, it was a huge interest. that was a turning point. >> let me turn to the audience now. let me ask you for your questions for foreign minister lieberman. and may call on people if i do not see hand, so watch out. yes? >> we spent a few minutes, you made a statement here that i'm looking for clarification on. you said that they are still spending the centrifuges. sameis correct, but at the time they also committed at the end of six months not to have more enriched uranium than they have today. that is the pause button. is that a bad thing? the second question is, why do you get all excited about getting called pigs and dogs? he has his own constituency to deal with, and this is crazy from his side. this does not mean anything to their intent, it does not mean anything. , no value,u

. >> doctor lieberman, you are a forensic psychiatrist. you counciled the roman family.kaitlyn dealing -- how is the family doing? i understand she in an anti-bullying program. >> well, you know, she's trying to hold up under all of. this but she's a victim as well. you know, her face being plastered all over the world essentially, made to feel guilty for what she did when really she wasn't a part of the bullying. it's very sad. so rebecca's mother wants to blame everyone other than herself. rebecca herself had been in the hospital about a year before, less than a year before, for having tried to cut her wrists. and so they were warned at that time that rebecca needed to be in psychiatrist treatment. and her mother didn't follow-through with that. there were lots of problems that rebecca had, problems with her family, her father, you know, i'm not going to go into the details with. that but lots of family problems. and plus before that she had boyfriend problems. one boy in the school that guadalupe wanted. she wanted to get rid of rebecca so she could have her and so on

mark lieberman, senior economist and managing director, thank you for coming in. >> tins of thousandsf people are still without power. crews are, world numbering around the clock to roughly 30,000 customers. they are trying to do as much as they can before a new storm hits tonight. in michigan, roughly 100,000 homes and businesses are still without power after sunday's storm. it could be saturday before everything is back up and running. and in canada, snow has hampered efforts to restore power to 100,000 customers. why oklahoma residents have a new fear. we have has tornadoes and hailstorms but never an earthquake. and a far reaching zeal has human rights activists worried. debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america here is more. >> beneath the fluorescentsun in a former meat packing plant is the latest trim in farming. they call it "vertical farming." these fields grow on floors on at industrial park and farmer john adel and his staff agrees user. >> my

cruz in the senate, that's his ep tat. >> she's author of -- when you see his relationship with liebermanham and the old guard and then literally on the right flank is someone like ted cruz, marco rubio. was there a palpable sense of doom in and around this older group of senate republicans. >> i think there's wistfulness. you'll never hear mccain publicly distance himself from that decision or sarah palin. you might if she primaries or gets behind primary against lindsey graham in south carolina. that will be interesting to watch. that's one things he can't get away. owned finance, the scandal, the opportunism of the confederate flag issue in 2007. he doesn't have anything to gain or maybe defiance with the media. "new york times" had some, too, i was lucky enough to have a pre-existing condition and able to talk to him. he's a man of many battles and many scars. >> i will say this, mark. we talked, you were on the show when this came out. a lot of people reacted to the anecdotes and not the broader message. i would like to out you as someone who i believe fundamentally is an optimist an

here is what economist mark lieberman had to say. >> we says hurdles going forward. at the end of the month 2.5 million people go off unemployment insurance. the program will end. that's money spent. it's spent every day by every recipient. plus the jobs have not necessarily been the higher paying jobs. in october, for example, half the jobs created were in the retail sector or a hotel tore restaurant personnel. not career jobs or the best paying jobs. the best thing we can say about the economy is it's improving. there won't be a particular date that we see a turnaround or a statistic. >> christmas has come and gone. the day after is the biggest draw, one of the top 10 busiest shopping days. retailers slashed prices. some stores opened early to give buyers a leg up on after-christmas bargains. the grinch who stole christmas are the shipping customers. thousands who bought gifts online are disappointed their packages ant arrive on time. robert ray is in atlanta where many packages are in transit. >> a busy holiday stephen and huge shipping problems across america as

. >> he represents the heirs of max lieberman. numerous pieces by the jewish artist that were long considered lost ended up in this apartment. it is unlikely they will get their works back from private collectors and foundations because there's a 30 year statute of limitations in germany on stolen art. what that -- >> what that means is that theoretically, the current owner can say the original owners no longer have any claim to the work. >> for state museums, there is a moral duty to do the right thing. germany signed a declaration under which works of art stolen by the notches should be returned to their owners. -- stolen by the nazi should be returned to their owners. [no audio] monica is looking for 4000 pieces of looted art in museums worldwide. in germany, many doors remain close to her. >> strangely and interestingly, my research experience in european countries is very different. in switzerland, for example, i have not yet met with any restrictions. in zÜrich i am granted all the documents i want to see. the same goes for

he wants at the lieberman your trouble with you is your state is too small and you can't hide in it. [laughter] moynihan would say oh he's upstate somewhere or he's down in new york this weekend. it's carlisle, having a great time. i don't think i can get away with that in pennsylvania. we don't have cosmopolitan senators in pennsylvania. that's my answer. if i could be a cosmopolitan senator and right for the digest once in a while, some important monograph once and while that would be great like moynihan was >> the question is how can we get equal time on your show and others instead of the presidential election of 2016 which is so much the focus now? how can we get equal time or more to the major issues such as the increasing inequality in our country? >> republicans are trying to reduce the number of debates because they think it's too much of a clown card. i'm just telling you. what do you want me to debate? >> sorry? >> what do you want me to debate that i'm not debating? >> economic inequality. >> that's what we talk about. that's what i talk about. >> i watch it every night.

and it won't work in the future i understand prime minister netanyahu position and i have a door lieberman and others like him in the israeli government and out of the government they are maintaining their political power based on the fear of iran based on keeping israelis worked up about iran based on keeping that issue in front of the israeli people that's how they're maintaining their political power and understand what this is all about it's not about nuclear weapons not really it's about who's going to be the power in the gulf you've got three contending parties here you've got the saudis and the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council you've got israel with the united states behind it and of course you've got the united states allied with saudi arabia for all practical purposes too and then you've got iran really the only stable state in the region other than israel and this is a contention of power game in the persian gulf israel does not want a rapprochement between tehran and washington because that means israel by power implications would mean less and so it's really all about a powe

united nations expressing disbelief in the process and what i am just doing the foreign minister lieberman to say he's been in that he doesn't think that this diet it is possible to reach a comprehensive agreement and i am a milky spokesman but i think that the idea that he would prefer to add some salt of the agreement even if it's awesome and with that but as the indians. so i understand the viewer that is the french team in a fall in the debate immediately offer a comprehensive it. can you believe that prime minister benjamin acting now is correct when expressing such a hard line position towards the us when it comes to you on. i think that in itself stands and many wounded marine was a finalist in the know that he too is important to raise the holocaust as today the future. agreement between the eu un and international community he obeys the day almost by definition it's very difficult to reach an agreement which would be accepted on the walk side by iraq. something that would be accepted by the government of the co op people think that ten cents or disagreements are related to the fac

to discuss his choice of the vice-presidential where she makes it clear he felt this man joseph lieberman was a rather smugly and pious fundamentally not the kind of choice we should look to. at the same time praising al gore but he had to put added to make clear with everything al gore was doing >> of the politicians we have mentioned the what changed the most of the trajectory after it ended so tragically in los angeles his relationship with him and began the body that was the enforcer or much more conservative. then by 18682crfk as a great hope of fulfilling the promise of the new deal what was that germany like? >> the fascination of jack kennedy with such a profound experience from bobby kennedy that even as he has become quite liberal under various times with the but brothers administration almost like the way fdr changed after polio and about the issue of blacks or whites and a panoply of civil rights issues but it made them regrettably full verbal and he became an iconic figure of american politics in a populous of society that people saw it could breed together the establishment

the council on foreign relations the establishment magazine in march of two thousand and six by a lieberman press said the united states now has a first strike capability against russia that if we attack them with nuclear weapons they would have no a bill that it to retaliate if they had a few planes a few bombs that they could set off against us the missile defense is there to look at those and i want a map that shows kind of that reversal where we now surround and you know we always turning out i mean all of us are really according to u.s. policymakers has the cold war ever you know never we grabbed everything we could at the end of world war two we held on never turned the back and defense spending skyrocketed again and after two thousand. one is i mean japan in asia was our main bulwark germany and europe was i mean both work we broke off our treaty with the russians and we made in west germany the country which terrified the soviets that's why there was so much tension when kennedy came to office khrushchev was convinced as were his hardliners that they were be set up for the big first

i understand from this tonight netanyahu's position and that the gore lieberman and others like him in the israeli government and out of the government. they are maintained their political power based on the fear they're all based on keeping israelis were cup of batter on. based on keeping that issue in front of the israeli people that other maintain their political clout and understand what this is all about it's not about nuclear weapons not really it's about who's gonna be the power in the gulf. he got three contending parties here. you got the saudis and the gcc gulf cooperation council. you've got israel with the united states behind it and of course to god the united states alive with saudi arabia for all practical purposes too. and then you've got a wrong really the only stable state in the region other than israel. and this is a contentious up our game in the persian gulf. israel does not want a rapprochement between tehran and washington because that means is ruled by our implications would mean less and so it's really all about power again in the goal. it has nothing to do th

lieberman is the s.. finally he comes up. he said well, do you know what dogs do when they get hurt? are you kidding me? he said they go in the corner until they suffer. you have had surgery once. your fairly young. if i give you fusion right now it's going to collapse and three years later you will be for another back surgery in 10 years you will be able to up. you will go home and you will hate my guts but it's what i'm going to do. i went out and i hated his guts. i was in extreme pain for four to six months. i didn't walk or take a step for four months. all these doctors in florida told me you'd need surgery but you know what? he was right. i'd didn't. i laid in the corner and till i could walk again. then he told me a lot of small things that over time would my back and prove. i found out later the cleveland clinic doctors are rewarded for outcomes instead of operations. instead of tests, instead of the mris they can take. i can show you a thousand pictures of my children and mark can show you 1000 mris i have had my bac

lieberman is the best. so finally he comes up. i am like help me, help me what he going to do? he said you know what dogs do when they are heard? i'm like are you kidding me? he said they go in the corner until they stop hurting. that is what i'm going to do with you. you have party had surgery once. you are fairly young man. if i give you fusion right now it's going to collapse in three years later you will be back for another back surgery and 10 years from now you won't be able to walk trade you are going to go home and you are going to hate my guts but it's what i'm going to do. i went home and i hated his guts. i was in extreme pain for four to six months. i did not take a step or four months. all these doctors in florida were telling me you need surgero you know what? he was right. i didn't. i laid in the corner until i could walk again and then he told me a lot of small things that over time would help back improved. and you know what i found out later the reason he did that is because the cleveland clinic doctors are rewarded for outcomes. instead of operations. instead

economy is back, listen to what mark lieberman has to say. >> we face hurdles going forward. at the end of the month 2.5 million go off on unemployment insurance. the unemployment benefits program will end. that's money spent, every day, by every recipient. the jobs that we have been seeing is not necessarily the higher paying jobs. in october, for example, half the jobs created were in the retail sector or hotel or restaurant personnel. not career jobs or best-paying jobs. the best thing we can say about the economy is it's yofl. there's not a particular date or statistic that says it's a turn around. >> the day after christmas is a big day, it's one of the top 10 busiest. nationwide stores slash prices and to get rid of left over merchandise. some stores open early to give customers a leg up. now to the grinch who stole christmas for many families. thousands of customers bought gifts online to be disappointed when they didn't arrive in time. shipping companies are blaming the weather and a last-minute boom in sales. many of those pack ints are in transit. >> a busy holiday

. >> megan lieberman. >> if you look at the home page, it's kind of a mishmash of news, celebrities,ipes. one of the top stories today, world's ugliest dog dies. i can't see katie getting into it. >> i bet she could. i would feel sorry for the dog. >> i'm missing the point already? >> you know how many people click on that portal every day? 43 million? in an interview she gooif "glamour" magazine online, katie said it's not about the money but about the reach and she's excited to take advantage of that. she also mentions her cbs interview with sarah palin and said it got much more play online than it movies, series, youtube. can even katie couric draw a big audience to a place like yahoo!? i don't know. >> google gives you everything else that everybody has done and you can see it done. you can see it there. what they're trying to do is not make this a tradition nal tv network but turn it into something new. maybe they'll be ahead of the curve. the core problem for yahoo! has always been display ad revenue. i remember this from u.s. a today, in terms of your video revenue, you're sol

lieberman held them up. got rid of the public option at the last minute. all this kind of stuff. again, i say we are where we are. we got to make this thing work. do our best to make it work. hopefully it will change as we go on. 20 years ago. i did this stuffen our state when i was governor. we waited 20 years. now talking about a single payer. >> howard dean. ezra thank you for joining us tonight. >> coming up why it is not so hard to imagine chris christie might actually be involved in that bridge scandal, possible bridge scandal. and later, edward snowden claims mission accomplished, and, he wishes you a myrrhy christmas on british tell vision. [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: the energy in one gallon of gas is also enough to keep your smartphone running for how long? 30 days? 300 days? 3,000 days? the answer is... 3,000 days. because of gasoline's high energy density, your car doesn't have to carry as much fuel compared to other energy sources. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. >> a russian official responded to a question about the u.s. delegation to the

much makes it clear that he was very disappointed in that choice and felt that this man, joseph lieberman, was a rather smug, pious and fundamentally not the kind of choice that a democratic president should be looking to. and he was, at the same time, praising al gore for all the other things he was doing. but he had to put that in to make clear that he wasn't going to be down the line in agreement with everything gore was doing. >> let's talk about rfk for a second because of the politicians we've mentioned, he was arguably the one who changed the most and was on a trajectory that was foreshortened so tragically in los angeles. he began, as tom read, arthur's relationship with him began with the bad bobby, the bobby of the mccarthy era, the bobby who was very much the enforcer, was much more conservative and ends by 1968 as really seeing rfk as the great hope of fulfilling the promises, the spirit, the ethos of the new deal and the better parts of the great society. what was that journey like? >> with well, i think that the assassination of jack kennedy was such a profound and shatterin

a clear majority of the people who went to the polling places and tried to vote did vote for joe lieberman making subjective decisions about voter intent introduces human error. >> what did the legislature do and why did they do it? >> it was the full house, brian, and they voted 79-41 to certify a slate of electors for george w. bush. >> seven justices of the court agree there are constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the florida supreme court. >> they don't contemplate a further recount. >> can i ask why you decided to come out here today? >> yes. i came out here because i'm very, very unhappy with everything that happened in the state of florida. >> just moments ago, i spoke with george w. bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the united states. >> i'm thankful for america and thankful that we are able to resolve our electoral differences in a peaceful way. >> you know, thomas roberts, one of the most interesting things about those 36 days were the number of americans who came literally from all around the country who just wanted to be in tallahassee

are those products really worth the more than entertainment value, consumer correspondent janice liebermanthe scenes look as seen on tv production. >> i know they get you. oifrner over the top. extreme infomercials seem even rigged. we were given rare access to an infomercial in the heart of the mohave desert. >> we're facing the power of air and water can do. >> they get your attention. >> it has the strength to pull this fully loaded 80,000-pound tractor-trailer. >>> companies pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the making of a spot that will hopefully make them millions. >> and action! >> the way we look at it, we need to sell a million to break even. we sold 27 million sticks before. this product is better, stronger. i love the purple. kind of pops on tv. >> so how do you make an infomercial about putty interesting? how do you prove its sticking powers are powerful? naturally, you have to pull a 747 in the middle of the mohave desert. >> high production, infomercials are the future. the reality is we need to see plain stuff, simple stuff to believe it. >> it's a $40,000 gambl

the ground, i will schedule any other interpretation than what happened with senator graham and lieberman and i. when mall lack i can agreed to have u.s. troop presence. then they decided wasn't worth it. now we see everything unralph in iraq. why wouldn't we tell the afghans and the american people what size frankly the unwillingness to sign an agreement that the text of which is fully agreed

consumer correspondent janice lieberman got a behind the scenes extreme. >> i know they get you.eme selling infomercials seem unreal and even rigged. we were given filming access to one commercial right in the heart of mohave desert. >> it's amazing mixing the power of air and water can do! >> sthey sure do get your attention. >> it has the strength to pull this 80,000 opinion hound tractor-trailer. >> reporter: companies are pouring millions of dollars into the making of a spot that will hopefully make them millions. >> and action. >> the way we look at it. we need to sell a million units to break even. we sold 27 million sticks before. this product is much better and stronger. i love the purple. kind of pops on tv. >> reporter: so how do you make an info smer halls about putty interesting and how do you prove its sticking powers are powerful? nationally, you have to pull a 747 in the middle of the mohave desert. >> high production, information, is definitely not the future. the reality is we need tos plain stops and simple stops to believe it. >> reporter: it's a 40,000-dollar

the ground, i will schedule any other interpretation than what happened with senator graham and lieberman and i. when mall lack i can agreed to have u.s. troop presence. then they decided wasn't worth it. now we see everything unralph in iraq. why wouldn't we tell the afghans and the american people what size frankly the unwillingness to sign an agreement that the text of which is fully agreed and which he asked the to endorse is a new problem. we didn't anticipate he was going ask the lawyer to endorse this. at the conclusion announced he wasn't going sign it. we're grappling with that. our assumption had been it was going to be signed. by the end of the year. we can make the announcement you -- we are now grappling with the uncertainty. the possibility that it may take lot longer to get this agreement concluded. as i said in my opening testimony, i believe based on my own visit there, there's no serious doubt that the afghan people want us. and that we will vently get a bsa. we may not get it within the time frame we anticipate. in which case we have to face exactly the issueses you hav

think that people who are running for office, if religion is important to them -- i remember joseph lieberman talking about the fact, you cannot understand who i am unless you understand that i'm a person who is an observant jew -- that is his right to say that. if the voters want to take that into consideration, they can. if they don't. bill bradley when he was running for president said, i'm not going to talk about my faith. i think that is a private matter. that is within his rights. decide whether that is the kind of senator or kind of president they want. separation between the government and religion. we should. as far as i'm concerned, i will use an athletic analogy -- the government shouldn't be a cheerleader for religion, the government shouldn't be a coach for religion, the government shouldn't be a sponsor for religion, and the government shouldn't be a cesnor or suppressor of religion. the governor should be an umpire. the government make sure everybody plays fair. the majority is not silenced by the minority. the minority is not silenced by the majority. everybody gets their turn

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i think people who are running for office, if religion is important to them -- i robert joseph liebermang about the fact that you cannot understand who i am -- i liebermanoseph talking about the fact that you cannot understand who i am in less you understand the fact that i am an observeant jew. if voters want to take that into account, they can. when bill bradley ran, he said it is a private matter. that is within his right. the voters can decide whether that is the kind of senator or president they want. we have a separation between the government and religion. and we showed. as far as i'm concerned, i will use an athletic analogy. the government should not be a cheerleader for religion. the government should not be a coach for religion. the government should not be a sponsor for religion. the government should not be a sensor or suppressor of religion. the government should be an umpire. the government just make sure everybody plays fair. that the majority is not silence by the minority. and the minority is not silenced by the majority. everyone gets their turn at bat. guest: it is ha

left, mccain 2000 being the classic example, they get celebrated in a way that a democrat like joe liebermannd i do think that there is a double standard. >> i think the bitterness of john mccain after 2008 is that he never saw it coming because these people who were friends with him while he was sticking a sharp stick in the republican party's eye turned on him in a flash the second he became the nominee. >> i think that's right. and he didn't see it coming. and he tried to make it so the way it had always been with the bus and all of that. and -- but i still think he has a very important voice in the united states senate. and i think that the fact that he continues to try to stay relevant doing things like going to kciev that's not easy at thi age. and i think that he wants to be relevant and that in a lot of important ways he is. >> i was struck by reading your piece how much he's self aware of his place in the senate and this political history. in two regards struck me in peculiar. one is how sensitive he is towards questions about his picking of sarah palin as vice president. he even go