so, in matthew's gospel, joseph is, perhaps, the leading figure. it's joseph who receives the message from the angel. on the other hand, when we come to luke's gospel, joseph is scarcely mentioned at all, the attention is all on mary and on mary's family. "the book of the genealogy of jesus christ, the son of david, the son of abraham. abraham was the father of isaac and isaac the father of jacob and jacob the father of judah and his brothers." jesus' family history was very important to his followers. both gospel writers provide us with a detailed genealogy, dating back hundreds of years. but rather than being a literal guide to jesus' ancestors, they contain a message as to who they believe jesus really was -- the long-awaited jewish messiah. herr: first of all, amongst several peoples, genealogies per se are important -- it's part of your past. you should know where you come from as well as where you are headed to. the whole idea that the son of a simple carpenter from nazareth, but if you say he's a descendant of david, then it's different beca

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but matthew stafford trying to drive the lions down the field. just outside of a minute to go in that one. stafford has thrown for three touchdowns today. you can see bunkley walking to the sidelines. >> phil: and i think tom brady sneaks it again. if you run it, you think they have to go outside because this defense, they're playing for the inside run. >> jim: going to hand it off. they have the touchdown to

if chris matthews isn't following the trends, who's following the trends? >> oh, i think you find a lot of journalists, probably more print journalists than broadcast journalists, who will pay attention to trends, who will look at mortgage foreclosures or what's happening in the banking industry or what's happening to executive compensation. all of those bespeak to various trends that are happening that need to have big "j" journalism done to them, and i think they are having big "j" journalism done to them. >> and what about the 20-year-old who's twittering about waffles in his basement? is that something that should be followed by the news media? should they be paying attention? >> that's not news. that's not news. >> so there's a difference between what's on twitter and facebook and all these other social media-- >> no. there's some news on twitter and facebook, but not everything that's on twitter and facebook is news. and you know, you shouldn't just overly fret about it. >> but let me get back to something, that why there's roiling waters and why a lo

joining you now are matthew murray. a nonprofit he helped found with a group of russian and american businesses and ngos. it works to promote integrity in russian government and business entities. and fiona hill, a senior fellow at the brookings institution. from 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the national intelligence council. welcome to you both. fiona hill, it wasn't long ago that putin was hugely popular for raising living standards and bringing order to russia despite his concentration of power. what happened? >> well i think in many respects it's what we call or some people call the seven-year itch of politics. after a certain period, the... it gets steal. you see that with many leaders. tony blair or margaret thatcher using my british perspective here. enormously popular when they came in. towards the end of their tenure, after they had gone through two terms and we really got into the end of that decade, they started to lose their popularity. people got a litt

matthew buford is dead. >> no one will ever know for sure whether he could have been saved.ouples says he doesn't blame the crowd or the police for not jumping in if they weren't properly trained. but he says it's hard to believe with so many authorities on the scene that none of them knew how to make a water rescue. >> i mean, it's -- it doesn't make sense to me that you have fire rescue within two blocks, marine rescue within two miles, and none of them are trained in water rescue. to me, that is -- i mean, that's unspeakable. >> after the incident, the victim's family files a complaint, and the defl ya police department conducts an internal investigation. the internal investigation concludes that their officers provided adequate service. as soon as police were notified of buford's position, they dispatch a negotiator and within minutes also call their marine unit. but the marine unit, though based nearby, had been dispatched to another river earlier that day and is miles away, pulling up abandoned cars when they get the call. they immediately head for the bridge, but as w

>> matthew: mostly, i see that this is where i'm going to be.my future roommates. >> simon: there was nowhere for us to go from there, so we headed back to the mainland. the monks invited us to come back any time, and if we do-- or if our grandsons or great- grandsons do-- after ten days here, this much we believe: mt. athos will not have changed at all. >> go to 60minutesovertime.com to see the challenges of scaling and shooting a story on mount athos. w. ♪ [ male announcer ] campbell's green bean casserole. it's amazing what soup can do [ tea kettle whistle ] [ male announcer ] beat your worst flu symptoms. theraflu max d contains the most powerful medicine allowable without a prescription to fight your worst flu symptoms. theraflu max d. serious power. [ mumbles ] mommy taught me bunny ears. ♪ [ laughter ] try this. good job. ♪ goodnight hali, this one is from me. and this one is from mommy. and this one is from mommy. mommy! ahh! mom! oh! oh, mommy! oh! ♪ >> safer: i'm morley safer. we'll be back next week on new year's day with another edit

but in matthew there is no mention of this. joseph and mary are already living in both ham. some details in mathew, the star, and magi, they are not mentioned in luke. for many, the details and the difference in the gospels did not matter. the questions are resolved by faith. >> we are evangelical protestants and we do believe the christmas story that the angel came to mary and the angels celebrated christ's birth outside of bethlehem. >> this is the senior pastor of the moody church in chicago, and a poll of american christian adults find 75 percent agree with the pastor and believe the christmas story is historically accurate. >> the point is, if jesus is who he claimed to be, the son of god, and if he came to prove he was the son of god, and to die for us, then these miracles become very believable. >> the nativity stories are parables. they give you the story of the child. >> motives were not to document history but to make them meaningful in a word of competing religions. >> matthew has jesus give the sermon on the mount it is models on moses as he is born so as moses w

he and his teammate clay matthew matthews are with michele tafoya. >> how about this for a christmas gift, aaron. home field advantage throughout the playoffs. how does that sound? >> it sounds great. a lot of positives. you know, just to be able to be something special like this is incredible. great night tonight for us. secure the number one speed. and now we're gong to enjoy the rest of our christmas. >> come into this game, your offensive line was supposed to be a weakness. yet you were off the entire game. how did they manage to gel. tonight, the guys playing different positions. they did a great job. i don't know if it was knocked down all night. >> cris: speaking of a lot of time to throw, you threw a lot. you end upsetting a single season record here with the green bay packers for pazing yardage. what is it like to do that with a group of weapons you got? >> it's special. it's a blessing to play with these guys. nice to set the record with 14 wins. great team accomplishment for us. >> et will's turn to clay. two weeks in a row. you knew these guys were going to run. as you go

host: matthew strawn? guest: thank you for the call. we talk about how republicans talk about making barack obama a one-term president. i think america needs to make barack obama a one-term president because when we go into the general election, it will be a referendum on his failed leadership. here in iowa, one thing we are seeing in the caucus process is the prosecution of the failed record. $15 trillion debt that the president wants another $1.50 trillion at it on top of that. we see a private sector economy not creating jobs because of the uncertainty. i know you mentioned big business -- but when you look at a place like iowa, two-thirds of the jobs here are created by small businesses and right now on our main streets and there is tremendous uncertainty with a small businesses that are not hiring, not investing, not buying equipment manufactured by american workers. that uncertainty comes from financial regulations where we've got tightening lending requirements with our community bankers. it comes f

matthew, the tax collector and john, the beloved disciple.apostle peter and luke was a companion of the apostle paul. >> but did they really write the gospels? >> we can never be sure. but good heavens, it's easy to imagine that in days such as that, peter was relaying to some young pupil the stories he remembered before it was too late. and mark is putting them into an order in which this story will offer some consolation to a church that is facing terrible destruction. >> mark is the earliest gospel, scholars say, written around 65 a.d. matthew and luke were written some 15 to 20 years later, and finally, the gospel of john was written about 90 or 95 a.d. while each of the four gospels recount the death and resurrection of jesus, they are strikingly different. >> the question of where they got their information is very interesting. what most scholars today think is that, after the days of jesus his followers told stories about him, about what he did during his ministry. and these stories were circulating year after year, decade after decade

morgan, mason, matthew, and modine. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: matthew and modine are his last two -- the last two -- the last two are twins. because he was a big fan of the film "birdy," staring matthew modine. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i once ran into jiminy glick. >> yes, you -- he interviewed you on broadway. >> jimmy: he interviewed me on broadway. it was one of the funniest shows i've ever seen in my life. and you were dead on. apparently, you were dead on the stage in this broadway show. >> no, i was dying. >> jimmy: you were dying. you were not dead yet. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: and there was -- and i want to say it was marc shaiman's-- >> marc shaiman played me. >> jimmy: as a dead body. couldn't he just use a mannequin? or did he have to move? >> yeah. you've got to pay money for that. marc was in the show. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: so anyways -- i -- so he -- what happens is they get someone out of the audience to go up and be in the waiting room to visit martin short. and you come in as jiminy glick with balloons. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and i remember -- i remember -- so i'm sitti

competition for the final spot is tony romo and matthew stafford who nearly double smith on yards and touchdowns. >> you have to ask yourself one question, do i feel lucky. well, do you punk? >> the colts got their first win sunday and aren't feeling quite as lucky as the 2-12 rams. vikings lurking close behind in the andrew luck sweeps stakes. the colts said they wouldn't trade the pick. i don't blame them. jon gruden compared luck to peyton manning. >> i really think what andrew did this year with the limited receiving core is astonishing. not a lot of people have done what he has done at stanford. he does a lot before the ball is snapped, making decisions, making audibles. he is a great athlete, prototype size. i get all excited when i talk about andrew luck. he is a can't miss sure fire i think pro bowl quarterback at the next level. >> the artist formerly known as

durante la investigación nuevamente surgió el nombre de rabbani, como lo confirma matthew levitt, unclaró a univisión que kadir trabajaba como espía para el gobierno de irán, enviando reportes frecuentes a la embajada de ese país en venezuela. kadir buscó el apoyo de kareem ibrahim, un líder chiíta en trinidad. en esta conversación, se escucha cuando defreitas y el informante que posaba como cómplice le explican el plan. >>> defreitas: estos tanques que vemos aquí llevan todo el benceno y la gasolina >>> informante: entonces, jeque ibrahim, ¿usted qué piensa de esto? >>> ibrahim: caballeros, este plan puede funcionar >>> defreitas: esto es peor que el world trade center. >>> maría elena salinas: un mes después de ésta conversación, abdul kadir abordó un avión desde guyana, rumbo a irán, con escala en venezuela. >>> roger noriega: tenían planes de viajar por ese mismo vuelo, conviasa, a irán para realizar un encuentro con mohsen rabbani. Él tiene un papel clave en todo eso. >>> maría elena salinas: preocupados de que la operación tomara una dinámica letal, el fbi y el departamento de

de dinero, que enviaba cifras millonarias de cocaína desde colombia y venezuela hacia europa. >>> matthewstas consideran que hezbolá cumple otra función en américa latina. su forma de lucha contra estados unidos e israel se ha convertido en un ejemplo para afrontar una invasión norteamericana. esa técnica de combate, e conocida como guerra asimétrica, o la lucha entre un enemigo poderoso y uno de menor capacidad, usando, incluso, a la población civil. >>> verstrynge: los principios de la guerra asimétrica son, en primer lugar, la utilización de la guerra de guerrillas, yendo, inclo, a lo que podríamos llamar el arma atómica del pobre, que es el vm, el voluntario de la muerte. >>> maría elena salinas: jorge verstrynge, es el autor del libro "la guerra periférica y el islam revolucionario" que fue distribuido por el gobierno de venezuela en 2006 entre unos 30 mil soldados como manual de instrucción militar. >>> verstrynge: me acuerdo que asistí a una reunión enorme de hugo chávez con miles de oficiales, y suboficiales...y yo hablé justo antes de chávez. eran consejos tácticos..porque el ejé

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but in matthew there is no mention of this. joseph and mary are already living in both ham. some details in mathew, the star, and magi, they are not mentioned in luke. for many, the details and the difference in the gospels did not matter. the questions are resolved by faith. >> we are evangelical protestants and we do believe the christmas story that the angel came to mary and the angels celebrated christ's birth outside of bethlehem. >> this is the senior pastor of the moody church in chicago, and a poll of american christian adults find 75 percent agree with the pastor and believe the christmas story is historically accurate. >> the point is, if jesus is who he claimed to be, the son of god, and if he came to prove he was the son of god, and to die for us, then these miracles become very believable. >> the nativity stories are parables. they give you the story of the child. >> motives were not to document history but to make them meaningful in a word of competing religions. >> matthew has jesus give the sermon on the mount it is models on moses as he is born so as moses w

our abc news contributor, james carville and matthew dowd. matthew, i want to start with you. you said don't count newt out. that was before he failed to get on the ballot in virginia. that was before his campaign made the analogy to pearl harbor where people were killed. what do you think, matthew? >> i think newt has a great capacity to be forgiven at this time. he has a thick teflon around him. keep in mind, newt gingrich is tied nationally in the polls. he's been in four-straight polls tied nationally. i think the race right now, unless somebody changes the dynamic in iowa, is a race between ron paul, mitt romney, and newt gingrich, all of whom have tremendous baggage. and all of whom a majority of republicans have worries about. but it's going to be one of the three of those. >> james, what do you think? how does this hurt newt? >> it's -- hearing from the megamouth on megamonday, i guess you can say. how does it hurt? he's not on the ballot in virginia. in a close race, that could mean something. secondly, it's probably indicative of something else, that they were not pr

the mark matthews has that part of the story. >> president greeted lower unemployment number as a positive sign the recovery is on track. >> american economy is now created in the private sector l jobs for the past 21 month ins a row. >>reporter: speaker of the house boehner told reporters the only reason unemployment number is down is because people have given up. >> more than 300,000 americans left the labor force last month. that means they stopped looking for work. i think we should all be concerned about that. >>reporter: there are 13 million americans looking for jobs. last april we met mark as he handed in resume at emeryville job fair. >> i have mba. 5 to receive years experience in marketing. >>reporter: in spite of his efforts former marketing manager for sony in san diego stayed unemployed until this past september. >> you have no idea the amount of jubilation that came on my body. >>reporter: he finally landed here in silicon valley as

hood, texas the wait is almost over. 5-year-old scotty matthews, clutching his papa bear is counting the days. latasha green and children are counting the hours. >> our family will be complete. >> reporter: their soldier started the long trip home more than a week ago. james quarter, larry green and theron matthews, three men, 11 iraq tours between them. >> what has been lost here and what has been gained here is close to my heart. >> reporter: but as they left iraq, their thoughts were only on that one place, nearly $8,000 mi miles away. larry green hasn't seen any one of his three children, first step or heard their first words and now, after all of those years, all of those tours, the moment. 5-year-old scotty matthews, marked the days off on a calendar by his bed and every night, reading the book with his dad's photos in it. now, scott's dad is home to read the book to his son. the most simple of joy, being shared across the nation tonight by military families, who have sacrificed so much. martha raddatz, abc news, baghdad. >> a dad's kiss for his little girl. martha, our thanks

host: matthew strawn? guest: thank you for the call. we talk about how republicans talk about making barack obama a one-term president. i think america needs to make barack obama a one-term president because when we go into the general election, it will be a referendum on his failed leadership. here in iowa, one thing we are seeing in the caucus process is the prosecution of the failed record. $15 trillion debt and the president wants another $1.50 trillion added on top of that. we see a private sector economy not creating jobs because of the uncertainty. i know you mentioned big business -- but when you look at a place like iowa, two-thirds of the jobs here are created by small businesses and right now on our main streets and there is tremendous uncertainty with a small businesses that are not hiring, not investing, not buying equipment manufactured by american workers. that uncertainty comes from financial regulations where we've got tightening lending requirements with our community bankers. it comes fr

but matthew stafford trying to drive the lions down the field. just outside of a minute to go in that one. stafford has thrown for three touchdowns today. you can see bunkley walking to the sidelines. >> phil: and i think tom brady sneaks it again. if you run it, you think they have to go outside because this defense, they're playing for the inside run. >> jim: going to hand it off. they have the touchdown to green-ellis. >> phil: that's where you go. go off tackle. tom brady, i'll tell you, just -- little things that go unnoticed. he quick snaps them. look at the blocks. how about that? on the left side. mankins again. i've said his name a lot today. seals it. all the little things that this offense does. how important they are in today's game because it's so hard to get that extra yard for the first down to fourth down. >> jim: it's 41-23 off of the gostkowski extra point. robert kraft heading to the locker room to greet the team. mr. kraft the head of the nfl broadcasting committee. the new deal inked this week with cbs and fox and nbc. we're

says get off me, matthew slater. unable to take him down, broncos lead, 6-0 after an unsuccessful extra point. second quarter, patriots up, 17-16. brady keeping it himself and scores. now to the closing seconds of the third. pats up 27-16. brady to woodhead. thelead, lead, 34-16. they would win, 41-23. >>> how about aaron rodgers and the packers trying to remain perfect against the chiefs. packers down, 6-0, rodgers to driver for the two-yard touchdown. packers up, 7-6. fourth quarter, chiefs up, 9-7. it's kyle orton. faking the handoff, looking, looking, finding pope for the big game. the chiefs had to settle for a field goal and lead it 12-7. chiefs at the peackers 1 yard line. the chiefs win this one, 19-14. that does it for your espn news update. >>> the packers finally won, the colts finally win. big week. >>> the riverside california homeowner who dazzled millions around the world with the party rock halloween show is at it again. >> he's getting into the christmas spirit replacing the singing pumpkins to the s

i told matthew i would be back in a couple of minutes, i was going to go for a walk.ad her move around so i could get behind her. and in doing so, i needed to have -- to raise her head up to wrap my arm around her and kill her. i said, oh no here comes comes -- there's my son getting out of the car or something similar to that. so she raised her head up and that's when i put my arm around her, my right arm and i started choking her. >> ridgway says he promised if she didn't make any noise, he would let her go. then he finished strangling her using his socks and calmly walked back to the truck and his son. >> did he ask where the lady was? >> i said she wanted to walk home. she doesn't live that far away. my urge to have sex and to kill her was more than for the safety of matthew. >> sheriff reichert had a lot riding on the interrogation. he wanted to make sure ridgway was pushed hard. and reichert couldn't resist coming face to face with the monster he had chased for years. so even though he was busy running a department with more than 1,000 employees, he carved out t

be sure to watch "hardball" with chris matthews only on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> republican presidential hopeful, mitt romney received what could be an important boost of support from the nation's 41st president, george h.w. bush. he believed romney is the best chand for the white house calling him mature and reasonable, not a bomb thrower. bush told the paper he likes texas governor, rick perry, he's not surging forward. bush's comments were not a formal endorsement, they give an important boost to the romney campaign two weeks before the iowa caucuses. >>> to overseas where a crackdown by syria's government continues without let up. human rights activists say at least six people were killed in fresh attacks by government forces yesterday. amateur video shows black smoke and flames and one syrian city after alleged shelling by the president's forces. arab league delegates arrived in syria thursday ahead of monitors who want to assess whether the government is complying to peace initiatives. there are reports coming in saying quote, terrorists, unquote, attacked security in

hi, i'm chris matthews. welcome to this year's awards show, always a highlight of the season the with us today, "time" magazine's richard stengle, katty kay, kathleen parker and chuck todd. we start with president obama. what was his best move of 2011? getting osama bin laden or toppling qaddafi? keeping the promise to end the war in iraq? or on a more 450u78 -- human level, his very moving speesm after gabby giffords was shot? >> it's easy to spay qaddafi but i'm going bin laden. it was a risk. and a policy that is going to define what future presidents do -- chris: lead from behind? >> no. in a bigger way it was as big a gamble and maybe bigger than -- >> and hillary clinton and susan rice -- >> no doubt, the woman of the foreign policy team had a lot to do with it but this is also about when the united states signs a pact to be an ally with a country like france and great britain and we always ask them to be with america when they go there, this was a case when we needed to stand with them. chris: very in

matthew stafford, big night statistically. 30 of 42. should be good enough to win a lot of games. but when your team is penalized 108 yards and so many of those penalties were ridiculous on one hand and costly on the other. you talk about the ndamukong suh penalty and subsequent suspension. not only did that happen, but it happened at a time in the game when it would have been a fourth down, green bay would have kicked a field goal. instead first and goal, went in for a touchdown and made it 14-0. see you around. >> cris: it's just so hard to win one game in the nfl, but when you give away back to back games during a playoff run over silly things like that, there's just no reason. everybody who plays the game now, they watch games on television, they fully understand what the rules are. and you just can't let your emotions get away from you. i know it's been tough. jim schwartz watching it. but he has no choice now. i mean, this has to be hammered home. you would have thought it was hammered home a week ago. i'm sure they talked about it during the course of the week. but to let i

i think matthew is right. he's shown resilience.s is a lot of baggage. >> as matthew said, with the iowa vote days away, it seems that the front-runners in the state don't match up to the national polls. what does it say to you that ron paul continues to sit atop a lot of the polls. inspite of the racially charged news letters that came out in the '80s and '90s. >> robertson did well, huckabee did, neither won the nomination. paul's message is focused. the newsletters are nasty stuff. i don't know how much that will hurt him with his core base. but it's certainly, i think, disqualifying for him to be the president of the united states. >> does he feel like a front-runner to you in the state? >> i think in iowa. because he's one of the only candidates out there high enough in the polls and has enough passion behind him. the republicans voters are looking for somebody that is authentically conservative and speaks their minds but is competent and they can see in the white house. right now, paul has the authenticity, even if some people

i'm andrea mitchell in for chris matthews today and welcome to the show. with us today, joe klein with "time magazine," gillian tett with the "financial times," the "new york times," helen cooper and john heilemann, "new york magazine." for weeks, we have witnessed the rise and fall of the un-romney, the bachmanns, the canes and the perrys and now, newt gingrich. no one predicted this. even though they've focused on beating barack obama, the g.o.p. far right seems to want beginningerish. some analysts say that the hard right sees in newt's tough talk another barry goldwater. >> in this free nation, we do not choose to be ruled, we elect to be governed. >> and the right does seem to think that gingrich is one of them. he was a conservative hero of the 1994 contract with america which swept him to the speakership. but there is another side of the newt ledger. he was once pro choice, saw evidence of climate change, was outspoken against big cuts to medicare, all of which is confounding to mitt romney, the guy who conventional wisdom has considered the eventua

matthew, you were trapped in the riox hotel.how some of what you had to say about it. >> i suppose the pivotal moment of the past 12 months for me was the situation i got myself into or found myself in in the rixos hotel in tripoli. we weren't permitted to go outside except under very controlled circumstances. so you got a very distorted perspective on the entire conflict. afterwards, it was amazing. i was personally very relieved as were the other journalists held inside the rixos. i went outside the hotel. within a few minutes i went to the live location of cnn in the center of tripoli and i was surrounded by crowds of people who lad come out in the center of tripoli and they were celebrating the liberation of their country. and firing guns in the air and giving me flowers. there was this amazing electricity about the place. they were on the verge of a new era in their country and finally free. i felt -- i fell part of that as well because i was also free after a period of being incarcerated. and so it was an amazing moment. >