the first tip, learn the lynn doe, sell by, use by or best by does not mean toss by.at it several days to a week after. use by is the time item will be top quality but you can use it many days after that if stored properly. we pulled up ready to meet the dickinsons and headed to the refrigerator to see what rebecca was about to throw out. >> i have food that i made last week. >> reporter: the squash soup from a week ago about to be tossed. that fish dinner prepared a few days ago also ability to be trashed. >> how did it get here? >> i overestimated. >> that's common, right? >> reporter: which leads to our next tip, plan your portions. take a moment to visualize what a serving is and plan appropriately. a single serving of protein is three ounces is the size of a deck of cards and a single serving of grains is half a cup, a bowl of soup, 12 ounces. if you have leftovers, get creative. >> the way you sell a menu in a restaurant you have to sell to your families as well. you say we're having leftovers tonight not so popular. >> reporter: when it comes to scoring, coldne

lynn. but moving forward does one side or the other have the upper hand? >> well, i think this goes in stages and since we have the looming debt ceiling in a few weeks, the upper hand ball is in the republican court right now, chris. the democrats had the advantage just now in the tax discussion because they didn't want to be tagged with getting the blame for most everyone's taxes rising. so it's situational sometimes. so next step is republican advantage. >> and because the cbo, i think, is with him on this, jim, they say this adds $4 trillion to the deficit. >> pretty aastonishing. there are some, you know, more conservative estimates of that. there's some folks who actually claim that things are slightly improved by this but that's based on a whole lot of assumptions. given what lynn just said, it will be interesting what happens in a couple months and my tendency believes this is with obama. i think some of the republicans by virtue of the way their districts are now shaped may be sort of boxed in again. there are a lot of folks throughout who don't wa

if the several issues are in play, does it run lynn sweet the risk of being too comprehensive for passage? that's the question. >> tamron? >> i see that is the balancing act that biden and the white house and leader who is want something to happen have to do. sometimes is something better than nothing do sacrifice the perfect for the good. to show movement, they might not go with the comprehensive approach and just to get something done, every action takes away some objection from somebody. at some point, they will say i'm for an assault weapon ban. that's one of the most powerful thus far. you have a commander from our armed services saying that's the gun i carried. my soldiers carried that in afghanistan and it doesn't belong on our streets. that's what we need and the coalition building i would like to see the administration do. >> we heart police officers say those who are putting their lives on the line on the streets, when they go in to save one of us, they don't know if the person robbing the bank or is shooting at a school is more armed or well armed than they are. we are hearing

citizens out there, pretty reasonable group of folks we have here 9 in lynn county oregon, they understand and appreciate that, it doesns out of hands of people that cannot get them legally. that piece works well here. lou: you would support, if you will, a universal background check, then, is that correct? >> i do. i do support, that i have supported that, a number of my colleagues as well, the part that i'm confused on as far as the executive orders how that addresses private transfer, sales between two just individuals citizens who may befriends and they want to -- somebody has a .3030 win shifter that the other is interest -- winchester that someone since rifted in and he wants to sell it to his friend. how do you track that. do have you a gun track or that? i am very opposed to. that is it on the honor system? there are a lot of unanswered questions. i'm sure there will be a lot of dialogue on this before it is fleshed out, i would be interested in hearing about it maybe being part of the solution. lou: it sounds like you will be part of the solution, we appreciate you being with us, we'll hope you will come back

so what it does is, you can take a picture of a couple people. [ laughter ] hold on. >> steve: we're done with lynn'sis it detects faces. can we get this? so it will detect a face, and can you find the perfect moment. >> jimmy: a lot of face there. >> there is no perfect moment here. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> let's just say that one, right there. and then, we can do higgins here. >> jimmy: higgins face? >> yeah. get that going. [ laughter ] >> steve: ohh! wow! >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about! yeah. >> pretty cool, right? >> jimmy: that is fun! [ in robotic voice ] >> jimmy: that's rad. >> it's pretty cool. >> jimmy: i love that. how much is that one? >> $199, it's available in march in the u.s. and all over the world. some places it's available right now. it will be on all the carriers here. >> steve: it's pretty cool. i have to say, like -- they are definitely back in the game. this is a competitive device. >> jimmy: yeah, it is, right? >> steve: no, it's good. >> all right, so next stop. so you know we were at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. >> jimmy: congratulations. have you ev

if the house gives it's stamp of approval what does this peen for the economy? let's ask the policy maker lynnrooks. >> this is a stopgap measure for the tax hikes that take place today. some of it revisited in a few months. some parts would be permanent if the house passes it such as the tax rates? >> that's right. ever since 2001 when we first passed this it was temporary. that's why we are having the cuts now and having it today. it is hard to grow and invest when you don't know what the income tax rate is going to be. you don't know what the debt tax is going to be. this is one positive thing on the bill the spending side is a different story. it's a step in the right direction on tax polil but in terms of spending it gets us nowhere in the right direction. which hit our debt ceiling we will be talking this the next few months. the bill doesn't have a lot of spending cuts into it on balance it increases spending explain some of the areas where it does that. >> the big part of the bill where it increases spending is on the emergency unemployment insurance. they decided emergency unemploymen

does. >> we'll leave it there. lynn sweet and bill schneider, always a pleasure to you have you guys.me up to new york more often. >>> coming up, how president obama has started his second term hours after taking the oath of office, this one inside the white house. we'll go live to the white house next. >> historical, but it's also to let the president know that we support him and the things that he's trying to do for this country. >> to me it's an experience, you know, to get to be there for this inauguration and everything, so it's an experience for me. >> meanwhile, tens of thousands are coming from all over the country to see the president take the oath on the capitol steps tomorrow, that public swearing in. we will get a live report from the national mall, and on this day before dr. martin luther king jr. day, we will go one-on-one with the civil rights icon. this is msnbc, the place for politics. ♪ you know my heart burns for you... ♪ i'm up next, but now i'm singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. ♪ oh

appointments all were complete and all four going to white men does the president have a diversity problem? certainly want optics don't look good. lynnhe washington bureau chief for "the chicago sun-times." lynn, i'll start with you. is there truly a diversity problem or is it just the perception of it? >> well, you've got to let him have more appointments. i think there is a potential right now. yeah. and the obama administration should have seen this coming. they could have somehow and still can send out signals of what they intend to do with these higher decisions and the departure of nancy ann diparlo means there have got to be more women in the pipeline that the obama administration will appoint. i don't see how they can't be doing it because women were the backbone of the obama support for reelection. >> if we look at modern times and what past precedences have done, we look at president george w. bush increasing the number of women in his cabinet for 19% of his first term and the 24% in his second. president bill clinton saw the percentage of women rise from 27 to 44%. do you think that this could be the first time that we don

when lynne cheney was at the national endowment of humanities, she was very active in suppressing and changing history books. texas has been very active in keeping what our leadership does badly out of the books. >> and that is the standard for textbooks all over the country, texas. >> i want to go back to the moment we first talked about, when henry wallace is defeated to be the vice-presidential running mate, as he had been the time before, for fdr. why did fdr give in? he had been so powerful? he had bucked the system before. he was a little bit more like obama today, but circumstances changed him. >> what changed him was the uprising on the left. in 1934, the massive strike movement, the rise of upton sinclair, there was a massive upsurge of the left in the mid- 1930's. the republican right was almost voted out of congress in 1936. there was a very sharp move to the left, and that made it possible for roosevelt to propose more progressive policies. the same thing is missing under obama. that is why we held out some hope for obama, if we could have an upsurge politically in the united states. it seems to have died down. when obama took office, he demobilize the movem

i think lynne and i looked at each other and we said we didn't sign up for this. what does that have to do with deforestation? it turns out that brazil's effort to avoid deforestation or produce it was to enact a law that required certain landowners, many landowners, to take a certain part of their land, a fraction of their land and keep that in a natural state, meaning basically tropical forest. but there are so many landowners that the ability to enforce that was limited and therefore they used the two techniques. they used big agriculture like cargill and they used slaughterhouses. the slaughterhouses were given a fiscal help in the form of loans if they committed to only buying cattle from land, from landowners that was in compliance with the brazilian land love. so this is a method of implementing a law that was intended to reduce deforestation. but, the essence of the outlaw was a very definite encouragement into the rights of the landowners. they had to protect a certain fraction of their land and not that it be cut and made into pastures. so they mixed a standard of

lynn? >> well, i think on immigration and gun, craig, they are trying to have outside pressure influence the inside, whether or not it's a reluctant democrat up for re-election in 2014 and doesblesome gun votes on his or her record. the obama campaign organization just last week just transformed itself into a permanent non-profit. that is where the obama camp team thinks they are going to get some of their strength in congress is by pressuring members through this new non-profit that they have created, and that's something to watch to see how that develops and the millions of dollars it will be raising because i think in the end that's how obama's going to real the bully pulpit and try to force change in congress. >> i mean, is he going to use the organization to buy tv ads or use the organization to organize phone banks? what's this organization going -- >> it will be a permanent campaign. it will be down to the precinct level. it will be modelled very much as a campaign where it will be customized. that's why they are putting a lot of faith in the kind of district by district customize. tv ads, maybe not, very expensive. but they are going to have this outside-in pressure.

but it does represent a pretty significant change when you see john mccain and lynn say graham standing, talking about what they're talking about in terms of a bill that even hints at amnesty. >> no doubt about it. things have changed dramatically over the past five years. there's still going to be conservatives in the republican house though that are going to want to be an sured by marco rubio, any other republican asking them to support this bill that this bill won't be a repeat of what ronald reagan signed in 1986, which was an out and out amnesty bill. not only did it grant amnesty to the millions of illegal immigrants in america then, it really didn't look forward and plan forward to make sure that you didn't continue a steady stream of illegal immigrants into the country. so they're looking back, mike barnicle, at 1986, ronald reagan again and congress passing a bill that will only caused more problems in the future, but i think they feel like this time around, they're going to get it right. >> well, they'd better get it right, joe. i don't know whether there's a way for chuck sch

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lynn regime. >> do you think that the north koreans are going to take governor richardson and mr. schmidt to see one of those? i don't think so. and so what this doesda kind of success for this four-star general saving americans coming to see us. finally, how many trips has bill richardson taken to north korea and what have been the results of it? >> he's pretty tough. he hated the fact you went there, that the north koreans could use you for propaganda purposes. >> let me tell you what i think i've been able to bring back. i've been able to bring back american soldiers, american hostages, the remains of seven of our warriors from the korean war. i don't know if senator mccain knows about that. i'm surprised at the personal nature of his comments. we weren't used for propaganda. is it propaganda for me and the head of google to be photographed with students expanding the internet to deliver these tough messages about the american detained there, about missile launches, about the free use of the internet? >> his concern is that you were being used for propaganda domestically. they could show these pictures of the former governor, head of google walk

lynn weapons, as a threat. are groups of terrorists living in caves. i did not see how we can spend hundreds of millions more. the pentagon is riddled with fat. it's like kopb beef. why does the enforced a full- fledged symphony? ed a full- force nee d fledged symphony? are there more now in the one everybody was much larger? why did they keep having a larger staff? >> i probably agree with a two- thirds of what he said. i also salute your service. in the interest of debate, he mentioned a long list of potential areas. the state department should do more of -- the idea of a mid career sabbatical. they teach us a lot of the kodak with some different ideas -- us a lot but they go back with with different ideas. they point to them and career education as important elements of thinking. the ideas they later implement the danda command or one way or another. i would strongly support that. that may be the strongest thing mentioned. regional commanders probably do need their own transportation. domestic demand is probably did not. and there are a lot of ways to say. the biggest question asked was why the we have to spend so much when our enemies are so much less impressive? the

livelihood, how does the state of virginia and under your leadership how do you think about addressing those and in ways consistent with some of the principles we are talking about? >> thanks, lynn. i'm someone not to put myself out cows and expert going back to chesapeake bay much of what we've talked about has been western oriented. the effort to clean the day has been a challenge for a number of states in the east and part of that challenge frankly for the folks in here who are interested in finding sort of ways that we can improve the environment as well as to do it in a market-based way has been a challenge for all the states, even for the democratic lead states when we have an epa that comes down on each of those states in a very hard way. we specifically talk about agriculture. in my state the agriculture people on a voluntary basis has been enormously good, but they are doing it on a voluntary basis because they are afraid of the epa coming and implementing specific requirements for our group culture so we work very hard to stay ahead of the curb and keep agriculture engaged so that we don't, you know, essentially we are trying to protect them from the epa. the industry