republican congresswoman marsha blackburn has, she has been crying foul, as well.l join me up next. you're watching msnbc. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. with a low $18.50 monthly plan premium, select generic hypertension drugs for only a penny and in-store copays as low as one dollar on other generic drugs after deductible, saving on your medicare prescriptions is easy. so you're free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go to walmart.com for details. >>> house speaker john boehner appointed miller after days of criticism about a lack of female leadership in the house gop. all but one republican committee chair has been filled and so far, there they are right there. 19 of the committee leaders, 19 of 20 are men. before congresswoman miller was appointed. republican representative from tennessee marsha blackburn represented some disappointment in her party. >> i would like to have thought that we could have had women chairman, but the fact that t

>> republican house speakers tom cole and marsha blackburn. >>> then falling off the fiscal cliff, a tumble that would shake the world with international monetary fund christine lagarde. >>> plus what happens if nothing happens with moody's chief economist mark zandy, jackie comes of the "new york times" and cnn's dana bash. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> politically the speaker is playing with a weaker hand that the president, the pressure is higher on him and his critics are harder too. >> the republican party's finished. >> he is selling out our children right now with these massive tax increases and that's a starting bid. he's saying here $800 billion now will you sit down with us, obama? >> twistill with the votes get counted in his caucus of republicans, boehner seems to have more room to maneuver than he did in preelection face-offs over political matters. even if the republican speaker gets a deal, can he get it passed? joining me now, republican congressman tom cole of oklahoma and marsha blackburn of tennessee, thank you both so much for joining us,

let me bring in marsha blackburn. >> good to see you. thank you. >> john boehner appointed candace miller for house administration committee chair. is this sending a message that this is a party largely, frankly, of middle-aged white men and women are only going to be put in the occasional powerful position? >> well, i think that's a bit of an overstatement, don't you? i think when you look at elected women in the country -- and by the way, it's a bipartisan issue of not having enough female elected. i think the council says we rank 80th globally. but here's the deal, when you look at the local, the state, and the federal levels and put them all together, republicans stack up really well. and four of the five female governors, they are republican women and you've got to take that entire thing. i think a lot of our women have a tendency to be in those local offices with those county commissions and those city commissions and serving them those school boards. and my hope is that we can get them to run for office at the federal level also.

>> we doctor v two remembers, marsha blackburn, they both have very different views, suppose the speakerd he can't get his folks to sign on. it has happened before as we know. it happened in the grand deal that he and president obama were putting together together before, so how far can the speaker go, before they start to lose too many people. so we'll have them talk about how short or long of a leash the speaker has. >> and i understand you have kristine laguard on? >> yes, she is head of the i.m.f., and in this global economy, nobody is in their economy alone. the world is also watching these negotiations and the lack of a deal, certainly, could shake the markets, and shake confidence across the globe. this is a global village watching the fiscal cliff. >> thanks, looking forward to that. looking forward to state of the union which starts in about ten minutes. >>> now, time to get ready for the week ahead, it's a busy week, monday, nobel prizes will be awarded, and on monday, it is fedex's busiest day. and tuesday, a big day for secretary of state hillary clinton, who travels to moroc

we'll speak to congresswoman marsha blackburn, we'll find out will she vote for it, coming up.estion. he is back the dancing traffic cop and all of his best moves. check him out. go, guy. ♪ jingle bell, jenning he wil jingle bell rock. ♪ ♪ bill: here we go on fox news alert. we are awaiting a vote in the house on speaker john boehner's plan b to avert the fiscal cliff. the republican plan allows the bush-era tax cuts to expire on those making more than a million dollars a year but keeps current tax rates for everyone else as they are. the president has threatened to veto. can boehner get the votes. march that blackburn, congresswoman out of tennessee with me now. will you vote in favor of this idea? >> we are not sure exactly how we are going to vote. i have to tell you something. bill: what are you going to do? >> let me tell you speaker boehner deserves a tremendous amount of credit for what he has done and has hung in there with that. i have to tell you i'm in that lean no gat torrey because i'm one of those people who wants tow see the spending cuts, and that's what my cons

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marsha blackburn nice to see you as always.ime the house speaker john boehner will be holding a news conference, he'll be joined by majority leader eric cantor, majority whip kevin mccarthy, watch it live on cnn. >>> up ahead we'll be talking to the defense secretary leon panetta. we have an exclusive interview with him, speaking out for the first time since north korea launched that long-range rocket overnight. erin burnett spoke to him in afghanistan. ♪ (announcer) when subaru owners look in the mirror, they see more than themselves. so we celebrate our year-end with the "share the love" event. get a great deal on a new subaru and 250 dollars goes to your choice of five charities. by the end of this, our fifth year, our total can reach almost 25 million dollars. it's a nice reflection on us all. now through january 2nd. >>> welcome back. overnight north korea launched a rocket into space carrying a satellite. erin burn set in kabul, afghanistan where she wrapped up an exclusive interview with leanne panetta. what did he have

congresswoman marsha blackburn is also leaning toward a no vote. >> you know, i have to tell you, i'm in that lean no category because i'm one of those people that wants to see the spending cuts, and that's what my constituents are wanting to see. >> conservative representatives don't want to go back to their increase on their records. that would kind of screw up their next campaign, you know? and of course they want to be more right than grover norquist. senate majority leader harry reid doesn't understand why boehner is wasting his time with a vote that doesn't matter. >> get back and start talking to the president. you have a multitrillion-dollar deal they've been talking about. multitrillion-dollar deal. they're a couple hundred billion dollars apart. this is absolutely senseless, that the speaker's doing what he's doing. these are gyrations i've never seen before. >> of course harry reid's from vegas. he knows all about gyrations. senator dick durbin says today's actions by republicans remind him of something else. >> remember the closing scene in "thelma & louise"? rather than f

. >> joining us now from nashville, tennessee, is republican congresswoman marsha blackburn.anks very much for being here today. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> do you think there will be a small-scale resolution to the fiscal cliff before the end of the year? >> i have to tell you. i think the answer to that is ask harry reid because the house has passed all the bills that are necessary to have prohibited this. if harry reid had taken action on the reconciliation bill that went to him in may or the tax extender bill that was august 1 zlt and with bipartisan support, 246 votes, or the sequester vote or the bill to tax reform that went over on september 19th, we wouldn't be having these discussions. have you to look at it and say is this a crisis of their own making? the answer is yes, and then you have to ask yourself did they really want to go over the fiscal cliff, and was it easier for them to go ahead and just let the tax reductions expire and let the sequester take place? >> and by that are you saying you think you wanted the president to go over the fiscal cliff?

representative marsha blackburn said he will be speaker.n where any wealthiest among us including folks like me get to keep all of our tax breaks, and then we're asking students to pay higher student loans. >> stephanie: robin in arizona. welcome. >> caller: hi. i'm happy for the opportunity to talk to you and the two bears. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay. go ahead. >> caller: and when t-bone took my call i said i wanted to speak about the right to work state recently in michigan. i moved from washington state to arizona. clearly i did not do my homework and my husband has lived here for quite sometime and at the time -- this would be nine and a half years ago, there were eighteen right to starve states as we calls them. >> stephanie: yeah. >> and now there are twenty four, and i'm really shocked -- i shouldn't be but i'm still shocked by what happened in michigan. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: i didn't believe this is how though governor wants to leave, to do something like this. and it seems like he is being very punishing. >> stephanie