good afternoon, i am lois frankel, chair of the democratic women's group. we will have two speakers, myself and brenda lawrence, who is our vice chair. jackie spear may come, she is our policy communications chair. i want to thank our colleagues who are here today and thank you for being here today. the me too movement has arrived. sexual abuse will not be tolerated, whether it is by a holiday producer, the chef of a restaurant, a member of congress, or the president of the united states. no man or woman is above the law. clear is saying loud and that accusations of sexual abuse should be taken seriously. victims must be heard, perpetrators must be held accountable, and all parties should have the opportunity for a fair resolution. date, more than 17 women have come forward to accuse donald .rump of sexual misconduct forced kissing, unwanted touching, and groping. -- airplane, a corporate office, a pageant dressing room. the president tweets denials and his press secretary comes out to say the matter has been litigated. democratshy over 100 -- incidentally,

thank you, lois. thank you all for being here. you know, this is the ultimate bad christmas carol story. this may be the most shameful day in the history of congress. today in the house we're going to shakedown hard-working americans for a 1.3, or 2.3, depending, depending on how you count it, trillion dollar tax cut. and at the same time we're going to put 9 million kids in this country at risk. and these 9 million kids are not eligible for medicaid, and their families can't afford the affordable care act because they have to pay a certain amount, and the subsidized amount doesn't cover the cost.

thank you, lois. thank you all for being here. you know, this is the ultimate bad christmas carol story. this may be the most shameful day in the history of congress. today in the house we're going to shakedown hard-working americans for a 1.3, or 2.3, depending, depending on how you count it, trillion dollar tax cut. and at the same time we're going to put 9 million kids in this country at risk. and these 9 million kids are not eligible for medicaid, and their families can't afford the affordable care act because they have to pay a certain amount, and the subsidized amount doesn't cover the cost. so they are truly out in the cold. so what what we are doing herey is basically saying, wealthy americans, big fat christmas present for you. tiny tim, we're taking your crotch away from you, and all the other kids in this country, and we are putting a lump of coal into your christmas stocking. shameful. it should not be happening in this country so much wealth and so much greatness that we would allow these children, and the 370,000 pre

congresswoman lois frankel and the democratics woman's working group and were joined by other democratic members as well. this is 10 minutes. we are going to start when we said we would. is everybody

i love you, too, lois. and, patrick swayze, thanks for helping me find the true spirit of christmas. i wish there was some way i could repay you. who are you talking to? well, actually, there's one thing in heaven that chris farley won't do with me. i know exactly what you're talking about. -hit it! -hit what? ("working for the weekend" by loverboy playing) ♪ everyone's watching ♪ to see what you will do ♪ everyone's looking at you ♪ oh ♪ everybody's working for the weekend ♪ ♪ everybody wants a new... (music stops) (quietly): ♪ na-na-na-na-na-na ♪ for the weekend... mom, what's he doing? i don't know, chris. let-let's just keep opening presents. he'll tire himself out. great idea. here's one for meg. and here's one for stewie. and here's one for my beautiful daughter. sweetie, come help me with this. (peter grunting quietly) ♪ everybody's working for the weekend ♪ ♪ everybody wants a new romance ♪ ♪ everybody's going off the deep end ♪ ♪ everybody needs a second chance ♪ ♪ oh ♪ you want a piece of my heart

lois: mejores decisiÓn.os de seguridad, reciben sinnÚmero de alertas, david, nos platicabas que es como la militar, ustedes tienen una disciplina. y es bastante estricta. david: hay varios a salientes que tienen que llenarse. primero se piden voluntarios para trabajar. y si no se pueden llenar, hay que forzar a compaÑeros de trabajo para que se puedan hacer solos, y uno tiene que permanecer en servicio porque son los que abastecen agua, y si no estÁ aquÍ y estÁ en el cielo, precisamen precisamente, porque estÁn trabajando y en los incendios que estÁn fuera en ventura y estÁn trabajando aquÍ mismo en la ciudad protegiendo. porque podemos caminar y estamos viendo en el centro de emergencia porque para el mundo porque a final de cuento es una labor y es cosa de todos los dÍas. es nuestro privilegio, y tener estas facilidades. california, gracias por conocerte, david. francisca: gracias muchachos, uno sabe que los bomberos existen, pero uno no sabe todo el trabajo que hay detrÁs, lo rÁpido que tienen que ponerse

congresswoman lois frankel and the democratics woman's working group and were joined by other democratic members as well. this is 10 minutes. we are going to start when we said we would. is everybody here? ok. good afternoon, i am chair of the democratic working women's group. we will have two speakers today. myself and brenda lawrence who is our vice chair. jackie may come in, she is our policies communications chair. i wanted thank -- i want to thanik my colleagues who are hee today. the me too movement has arrived. sexual abuse will not be tolerated whether by a hollywood producer, the chef of a restaurant, member of congress, or the president of the united states. no man or woman is above the law. clear is saying loud and that accusations of sexual abuse should be taken seriously. must be heard, perpetrators must be held accountable, and all party should have an opportunity for a fair resolution. to date, more than 17 women have publicly come forward to accuse donald trump of sexual misconduct. forced kissing, unwanted touching and groping. on an airplane, and incorporate office and

basically a decision was lois's backup of the national polls was a big jump. from gives me peace it's sad to go somewhere every day and see more and more proficient each time it seems to me every frame. claims the women have to give something back so i feel obliged to assume. white waves surfers fighting against own single nation the sea starting in january seventh on t w. e.

i love you, too, lois. and, patrick swayze, thanks for helping me find the true spirit of christmas. i wish there was some way i could repay you. who are you talking to? well, actually, there's one thing in heaven that chris farley won't do with me. i know exactly what you're talking about. -hit it! -hit what? ("working for the weekend" by loverboboy playing) ♪ everyone's watching ♪ ♪ to see what you will do ♪ ♪ everyone's looking at you ♪ ♪ oh ♪ ♪ everybody's working for the weekend ♪ ♪ everybody wants a new... ♪ (music stops) (quietly): ♪ na-na-na-na-na-na ♪ ♪ for the weekend... ♪ mom, what's he doing? i don't know, chris. let-let's just keep opening presents. he'll tire himself out. great idea. here's one for meg. and here's one for stewie. and here's one for my beautiful daughter. sweetie, come help me with this. (peter grunting quietly) ♪ everybody's working for the weekend ♪ ♪ everybody wants a new romance ♪ ♪ everybody's going off the deep end ♪ ♪ everybody needs a second chance ♪ ♪ oh ♪ ♪ you want a

this week lois and i worked on looking at the consistency of the terms and conditions across the various agreements. this in turn impacts the sfmta agreement with the tjpa for occupancy of the bus plaza and this agreement will be completed this month and we just have a couple points to iron out. however, sfmta has expressed they will not take this agreement to their board until the agreement with a.c. transit is also completed. so agreements are approval at the february sfmta board meeting. as such the bus plaza agreement would not be presented for board approval until march. i hope that's not too confusing. >> it's confusing to me. >> you got this look on your face. >> why is it that sfmta and the bus plaza has anything to do with the bus deck, because it's which buses go up or down? >> so the information that's been conveyed to me is they want to tie it up into one package. >> oh, okay, well, there's no reason for that, but that's what they want to do. >> that's what i'm working with. >> oh, okay. yeah, because there's no -- no other connection than that political connection. >> is tha

goods you think they have clean hands are dirty hands that's what congress is looking at that's what lois looking at case you think that's a little bit cleared the american are going on going on richard you got to be i guarantee something democrat in the democratic ticket the democrats retain then it kind of stayed for the fusion g.p.s. or something like a huge i mean what are you talking about they're the ones that paid for doing they i mean we had one time we had a member of the f.b.i. high level meeting with christopher steele i have no idea what you're talking about seriously i mean do we know you don't know what donald trump jr said to the russians yes let's me i'd love that you don't know what i'm talking about peter everybody in the u.s. who follows the news does they know exactly what he was about know when you look in the congress that he wasn't in the f.b.i. people and i have to jump in here i love this debate here but we have to go to a short break after that short break we'll continue our discussion and still more washington scandals. good politicians to do something good to.

. >> and scandalous treatment there and lois lerner. then lois lerner is i don't want to make any of this public. we want these depositions sealed. don't ever let people know what we said. we would fear for our lives or, all the conversations that took place there, and people could not believe that the federal government was being used in that way and then, they had those admissions. there is such a lack ever institutional trust. one of things that elected officials need to focus on, and question, that actually should be asked is how do you restore that trust? so that people realize we are indeed a nation of by and for the people. trish: very important. >> that you are going to be represented before the federal government and have a fair shake. we're going into court, we're considered innocent until proven guilty. those are principles on which we stand. what has happened with the fbi is a shaking of that foundation, and, my colleagues -- trish: i get it. >> that is right. that is right. trish: i often said it may not even be, something

thank you if this station was lois's back up a full of people felt. this way d.c. it's sad to go somewhere every day and see more and more time it seems to me everything blames the wind have to give something back as i feel obliged to those. white waves surfers fighting against unseen pollution the sea starting january seventh on g w. a beautiful city on the top of the river in the northern german state of she's. the first. and i chose this dissimulation for a very specific reason. that is known as a christmas town and that's why i'm here at christmas time i really hope to get into the christmas the mood and of course get to know the city as well. i'll definitely make my way to the heights gate it's the best known landmark and symbol of the city. will also check out a few museums like the buddha. and we'll enjoy a christmas video sent in by two viewers from cousin in russia. there are a number of christmas. markets in new big this one is in the north of the old town . how about a kiss. is i've never seen this before a christmas market with maritime flare. all this

these teenage girls from a boob job want to change that police are using lois and justin or have created an app that they hope will make a difference in the way people deal with their garbage it's called the green world tech app in utah was told this you know. we want to make life easier. because people always on the street using. those you know when. to help them leak by ourselves to use. only. and this is how the app works a form is sent to an administrator who responds via e-mail the prospective buyer then goes to pick up the refuse or instructs the seller where to deliver the packaged waste. the app is still in the test phase so far only friends and neighbors can use it different types of recyclable waste are rewarded with a system of credit points credits can be redeemed for instance for drinking water. i brought betsy. plastics for plastics and my god each plastic is one point. two ten so i resigned thanks to both of you and really it's good to go. stella who has founded an ngo where girls can go after school to improve their math and technical skills here they also learn to progra

they start the truck up front making a lat of lois and the idea there is to bring the kids out so thata. is there a off the truck at all. >> normally on the santa run we don't get off. typically we just role through the neighborhood so everybody can see us. p we're we're still in service, if something comes out that delays the run a little bit . one more question, do you have any other runs set up on this week. >> sure. you can check out our facebook, facebook.com/rockville vfd. >> great with all the lights wave by to santa. how great is that? he's getting lots of requests for legos and everything star wars, too. this is a really old truck coming up the back. it's kind of like a volunteer fire parade. i want to say to this to you. i got to say this to some kids. kindergartensers. we learned all about the weather. i don't mind doing that so if there is any more classrooms that need me could come out and talk to thernlings i can do it. waive bye to santa. what a great bunch of guys. marina and tony back into you guys. >> bye santa. thank you, gary. we'll be back in a moment but first a m

firemen kevin shae donated his kidney to california special education teacher lois knutson right hereactually grew up in new york admiring firefighters and now one has saved her life. her disease is hereditary so dangerous that she and her have elected not to have kids. here is the fighter shae the hero. she instead devoted her life and husband's life to helping special ed kids. it's in the "new york post" today. check it out and get more details on it if you want to. fort worth texas mom who used christmas bonus to buy gifts for three boys devastated to find them stolen from the bed of her pickup truck just days before christmas when she called fort worth police. they got together and saved the -- chipping in to replace the gifts. here are the officers making delivery and saving christmas for this family in fort worth, texas. this was just last week. that is cool stuff. listen to the pipes on this police officer from portland, maine. ♪ o holl hole holy♪ o holy night ♪ the stars are brightly shining ♪ it is the night of our dear savior's birth. rob: if you want to hear the rest of tha

carlos is donating blood despite his busy job he's a regular blood donor at the red cross center and lois on carlos sees his act as a sign of commitment to the community. and a subtle message that's more than one hundred million donations are collected each year worldwide in two thousand and fifteen. the swiss red cross registered three hundred eleven thousand donations the figure diminishes each year and they're constantly seeking new donors their message is clear giving blood saves lives. don't do much to new. sick or it might add to. them wonder. more similar to the additional. that. that's going to. push towards come in can the board to put on the naked push on all to get. this woman flu mad. if. they have blood is a quite peculiar juice said devil with glee but he's not the only want to be interested health is also an industry and blood donations are subject to the laws of the market. but not for. will this issue because when you don't before giving blood the swiss donors must complete a medical question here and give their informed consent in particular there is one line at the end

these teenage girls from a budget want to change that police lois and justin are have created an app that they hope will make a difference in the way people deal with their garbage. it's called the green world tech up in new york as who told you when you know. we want to make life easier. because people always go in the street. and first if there is you know when. to help to leak by also there has to do is. and this is how the app works. a form is sent to an administrator who responds via e-mail the prospective buyer then goes to pick up the refuse or instructs the seller where to deliver the packaged waste. the app is still in the test phase so far only friends and neighbors can use it. different types of recyclable waste are rewarded with a system of credit points credits can be redeemed for instance for drinking water. i brought betsy. plastics for plastics and my god each plastic is one point. two ten so at least five thirty by three hundred is good to go. stella was a child who has founded an ngo where girls can go after school to improve their math and technical skills here the

one of them might be this and your fellow florida representative, lois frankel, said this about some of those issues that would be of concern. the tax scam will throw millions off health care and explode our deficit by almost $1.5 trillion, meaning major cuts to medicare and medicaid. americans deserve a better deal. now, he is alluding to the potential here under the pay go law, which you know a tax bill of this size could trigger cuts. those cuts would come from big chunks of money. medicare will be one. how will this bill affect those who rely on medicare specifically here in the state of florida? >> well, first of all, that's a particularly specious argument that the democrats started drumming up yesterday after the bill passed, that the bill is bad because some day someone is going to cut medicare as a result of it. it has nothing to do with medicare or medicaid. what it does have to do with is removing that mandate so that we can start to see alternatives to obamacare this year. i hope that we're going to succeed in that to give americans the kind of insurance they need. >> wel

of course i'll just let myself be elected supreme charged up lois to flash killfile stuff but at least i picked up the highly gifted and i can hear up in trains as a jet on episode two to full steam in love with happening. war while the separatists from the trade federation continue to destroy the galactic republic but most if not destroying my jet i don't get your giant tommy of clone stock the truth is right that we're fighting the separatists as an absolute treat the team shows his true face i am the symbol of his disfigured in battle he seduces on a can of need a dockside and save your pregnant padre from death and now we will keller manning jet are you going to die or killed except yoda and obi wan kenobi he dismembers his disciple and we can do no only sometimes as will can hardly wishing to if it does not make it spose to the twins luke and leia and then dies maybe is nature an episode for how the teen is they cannot take any and all fade to his right hand man now we are building the ultimate weapon of mass destruction that does stock but the rebels get hold of the blueprints pr

i go every year to tanzania and own a small farm there and loy to go back.s german and my father italian so i'm always going to those two places. 50 countries which i've been to twice which might be more impressive than going to all 193. >> now that you've done that, what's the next item on your bucket list? >> settle down, be a normal guy. i think i'll work in emerging market finance in either new york or london, want to get an apartment and a girlfriend, maybe a dog, just be, you know, settle down and be normal. >> love it. >> have you been to all 50 states? >> 45 states. >> there's your next bucket list. we have a project for you. >> >> wonderful to meet you. >> thank you. >>> winter just around the corner and lower temperatures means higher heating bills. joining us right now with some tips on how to make your home more efficient is "better homes and garden" magazine director amy brightfield. what are some of the cost-cutting tips? what are ways that i can spend without spending money? >> for, unplug all gadgets when-hour not there. >> coffee-maker. >> c

hillary clinton and lois lerner were not held accountable for lying. you have got an fire agent dismissed who very clearly had a bias when he investigated hillary clinton, had a bias when he's involved with the president, and now that bias is known by everybody. steve: do you think there is any consequence that should follow from that? >> i think it calls into question the investigation and the decisions by former director comey as to whether hillary clinton committed crimes which i believe she did and should be prosecuted for them. i think in this case reopening that investigation, having the material reviewed honestly and independently, since director comey was not independent, the deputy was not independent, because he took $500,000 to the benefit of his wife, and this agent had a bias. these kinds of things would cause anyonee to say for public confidence alone that investigation should be reopened and properly analyzed if she should have been charged with a crime at least to those classified documents she knowingly left federal service with in her

this is -- >> lois. >> and richard nicotra from beautiful staten island, new york city. >> reporter: already wrapped. >> lee sim's chocolate. based right here in staten island. we think it's delicious. >> reporter: thanks for the idea. >> merry christmas. >> hi, david. >> reporter: christine from new jersey with her one thing. >> firehook baked sea salt crackers. made in virginia. i think they're so tasty. >> reporter: elves working hard at american plastic toys in walled lake, michigan. founded in 1962. the work trucks, the workbench, even the kitchen sink made in america. selling in walmart for 55 years now, and still in demand tonight. 130 new hires across three factories. >> made in america! >> reporter: and then, the christmas cookies. the toy soldier, the angel. santa's reindeer. even christmas lights and the bow, all brought to life. but how? we traveled to snowy rutland, vermont, to find out. through winding hills, past those barns to find the ann clark cookie cutter company. family owned. >> most of my friends have asked me for years, why don't we just import the product fro

from the team set up to help president trump's transition into the white house but a spokesperson for lois says he and his team have done nothing wrong and the claims are an attempt to discredit the investigation which is looking into whether the russian government helped truong win last year's presidential election tom ackerman has the latest from washington. this was in a letter directed to the leaders of the congressional committees republican committee leaders and in the in the congress right now there's a gathering effort among republicans to discredit the boehner investigation relentless calls to saying that the they are biased they're politicized that the f.b.i. agents who have been investigating are trying to bring down donald trump so in this case these e-mails tens of thousands of e-mails which were stored on a government server during the transition according to the lawyer for the friends it shouldn't seem these were improperly accessed without the permission of the owners of those e-mails the response of the investigation was and i'll quote when we have obtained e-mails in the

this is no different than lois lerner who went after conservatives, it is the exact same mind set. he took the dossier, the discredited dossier and "fake news" that the clinton's paid for and i think he dressed it up and presented it to the fiza court. it is about did they pay christopher steel? it is reported they did. and did they take it as real intelligence and take it to the court to get warrants to spy on people. if the answer is yes, it is bad as anything i have seen in government. and if that is yes, peter strok needs to be held accountable? >> lou: you mean deputy to jail? >> we haven't -- we need to depose peter strok and answer our questions. we need andrew mccabe and lisa page and this guy you brought up earlier and we'll get the documents and put them on the stand and we'll see if they take the fifth or answer questions. >> lou: i would love to see a grand jury empanelled and tired of accountability that ends up being 2 or 3 paragraphs and i prefer to see jail sentences for violating the trust of the american people and working against the president of the united state

goods you think they have clean hands are dirty hands that's what congress is looking at that's what lois looking at case you think that's a great player to make sure don't let up on come on richard you got to be i guarantee something damage to the democratic ticket that democrats were paid then in christ paid for the fusion g.p.s. in iraq a huge i mean what are you talking about they're the ones that paid for doing they i mean we had one time we had a member of the f.b.i. high level meeting with christopher steele i have no idea what you're talking about seriously i mean do we know you don't know what donald trump jr said to the russians yes let's me i'd love that you don't know what i'm talking about peter everybody in the us who follows the news does they know exactly what he was about no one should get in the congress that he wasn't in the f.b.i. people and i have to jump in here i love this debate here but we have to go to a short break after that short break we'll continue our discussion and still more washington scandals. everybody i'm stephen both on the task hollywood guy usual s

used for national security purposes but i don't we saw during the obama administration with you know lois lerner's surveillance the tea party and prosecutions general petraeus international says i'm not saying that they both pleaded guilty or must and they do anything wrong i'm saying they were singled out for political reasons there's a lot of that so i have no confidence that while the government collecting the data ostensibly for national security purposes all it takes is somebody like obama and valerie jarrett to target you and then all of a sudden that's a whole different world so that's troubling to me the other thing i think we're people can resort to self-help this stuff is addictive and that's you know it's just very basic biochemistry so you know why are people there to her long as it feels good well that's you know endorphins and things well those endorphins are triggered by a lot of things other than drugs and there are sex addicts their alcohol addicts are gambling addicts there are many many kinds of behavior that are all addictive the same biochemistry or it's pretty clear

he is lowest -- low lois lernerf the fbi.iolating civil liberty, i think that peter schrok will be bureaucrat who was always there putting his thumb on the scale of justice. liz: he is is a count able to department of justice and congress. did he also sign documents asking a federal court to let the fbi spy on trump advisers? >> we're not sure of that, a lot of that intersection between fisa court, and the fbi, or justice department is classified. so until that is declassified we won't know for sure. we know that peter schrok was there when the fbi, offer the christopher steel, he offered $50,000 to christopher steel for superious information, he never paid it. what is he doing with that dirt digging firm, and a dossier linked to kremlin. liz: that dossier was paid for by the clinton campaign. that since been debunched. so now, the congress is getting his text-messages how far back will they go? there are anti-trump text-messages from peter schrok and woman thought to be his lover within the fbi. >> who was also on the invest