max baucus, a very important member. he'll be very important this coming term if we move towards any tax reform measures. senator john tester since 2007, just looking at all of the members of the delegation that are here and there we are seeing more of the some 200 animals that we've been hearing so much about. >> you can mark four off the list. >> exactly. >> senator tester is glad to be in this parade. he got re-elected. >> after a tough battle, that's for sure. >> this is the wind river dancers, the wind river reservation all the way from wyoming. they are here to honor all of us with their performance. $6,000 short of their scaled-down fundraising. they are marching anyway and doing an excellent, excellent job. right now i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer here in washington, d.c. we're right across from the president of the united states on the reviewing stand. there it is, the reviewing stand on the north lawn of the white house. kate bolduan is here, jim acosta

max baucus, i did his first campaign for the united states senate. he is from montana.nderstand -- >> kimberly: did he win? >> bob: obviously, he wouldn't be up there. >> kimberly: you brought him in? >> bob: i did. that is not the point. baucus will vote against more than ten bullets in the clip. >> dana: they will never have a chance to vote on it. >> eric: i 100%, 1,000% agree. i don't think reid has the cojones to bring it to the senate floor. >> greg: his previous plan was to export gun to mexico so this is progress. they peer to be tough on crime. but they are only tough on guns. if they really cared there would be handgun laws for people using handgun or repeat offenders. federal law for three strikes you're out for robbery and homicides. >> bob: nra thugs -- >> greg: no, it's liberals. why do you on the left only focus on 1% of the crime when in chicago, you have, you have what one new shooting every few weeks and 42 people dying. why is that not a problem? >> bob: i don't know. >> --ross the table -- >> greg: you interrupted me and i'm fighting back. >> bob: i'

max baucus, joe manchin and ten others are raided at least "b" plus, if not "a."ot of these people are "a"s. how do they hand that vote? >> dana: i don't think it will necessarily come to a vote. i do admire the administration for putting biden out there today. a week after president obama signed the executive orders. i thought that maybe that would bebe that. but then when feinstein did her bill today, i guess it's possible that her personal feelings have evolveed over time, as it happened with other politicians. also i think one person's assault weapon is another person's self-defense weapon. what she was talking about in that clip was the ability to defend herself. this is possible that public opinion, though, looks at something that joe biden says where he says, as you point out, don't let your kids play with guns. don't let crazy people have guns. yes, we all agree on that. then is there anything, though, they said today, that would make this ban a magic wand? just because you ban it, as it showed from 1994 to 2004 when the ban was in place, nothing really ha

in the senate there are senators like rob portman, max baucus, they have different proposals and ideas on what to do with corporate taxes. on spending reform, to little different. >> and motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> this thing passes, diane. diane: it's official, the house has passed a deal to avert the fiscal cliff pass by the senate earlier this morning. that deal, rich do you want to go through this for us? 400,000 for individuals, $450,000 for couples. just run through everything included in this. rich: what has does is deal with taxes. preserves the bush era raids for families earning less than four and a thousand dollars a year and individuals born to thousand dollars here but if you earn $10 million a year the rates stay the same for your first 400,000 or 480,000. on investment income, the same idea, 15% top rate capital gains and dividends for families make him less than $450,000 a year. amounts or the night your tax 20% on capital gains and dividends. permanently middle-class americans, tens of millions of fans won't have to pay the alternative minimum tax. th

melissa: that was senator max baucus a short time ago. now that nebraska governor dave heineman has given a green light to the new route for the xl pipeline which was a major victory, it is up to president obama and the state department to give it the final approval. but the white house says that decision won't be coming in the first quarter of this year. the pressure is on and hard and with me now is senator john hoeven from north dakota. obviously a state that cares deeply about this project without question. senator, welcome back to the show. what do you think? what hurdles have we gotten over and what do we have left in front of us? >> melissa, good to be with you. this is a big hurdle. the administration was concerned about the route through nebraska for the keystone xl pipeline the state of nebraska has now approved a route. the governor signed off on it after an extensive work to make sure that they have covered all the bases and governor heineman sent a letter to the president saying we've got the route. so we're ready to go. we a

montana's max baucus, and alaska, and mark pryor, rural states where hunting is part of the culture and three men up for reelection next year. and there also was a small pro second amendment gathering on the mall today. they support armed guards at schools, and they say more gun laws are not going to stop those with mental health problems with committing violent acts. >> this is not about school shootings. school shootings can be stopped, but it's not by taking away the right to bear arms from legitimate law abiding citizens. >> also here at the rally here behind me they're waiting to hear from actress kathleen turner, one of the final speakers, jamie. >> jamie: molly henneberg on the national mall in washington, thank you, molly. >> kelly: alarm bells ringing over the nuclear program in north korea satellite rae veals what may be a new challenge for president obama as he begins a second term. details straight ahead. >> jamie: another look at the pictures and concerns over the president's health care law and its impact already on the economy. we've got new polls from small businesses an

max baucus of montana, senator heidi heitkamp of north dakota, senator johnson of south dakota. senator donnelley of indiana. senator begich of alaska, senator manchin of west virginia, senator tester of montana. however, senator mark warner spoke out in favor of the president's plan and said he believes it has bipartisan support. those senators all have a or a-plus ratings from the national rifle association. reid has a b rating. these senators know they will lose their high rating and maybe become a target with the nra if they vote for a sensible assault weapons ban. you see, we had the assault weapons ban back in 1994, but we're so screwed up in washington right now they're even afraid to go back to that. every senator should explain to their constituency why they would not cast a vote for the assault weapons ban. what's the holdup? what are you afraid of? certainly it's not the nra. these senators should not fear the national rifle association. the nra didn't affect any races in the last election cycle and it probably won't do it the next time around. now, if senate democrat

so, you know, we see in the last few days here even senators -- democrat senators like max baucus from al franken from minnesota hesitated at first to endorse the assault weapons ban. i think this is just a very tough issue for these politicians to deal with, particularly in the middle of the country and when that happens, their reflex often is to vote no. >> roland, one thing that amazed me in this, not just the membership, was the favorability rating. because it seemed to me, and being there in newtown, that something had changed in this country. that something had changed in every single one of us to see what happened there happen. yet after newtown, 41% of americans view the organization favorably. that is unchanged from two years ago. that's unchanged. how has the nra not taken a hit? >> here is the deal. because the people are against the gun violence that's in this country, not necessarily the nra. and i think we saw can't act as if -- as if you are against gun violence, therefore, you're going to hate the nra. look, the nra is a lobbying group. you have to disagree with aaron.

senate finance committee chairman max baucus just walked bunch a bunch of reporters moments ago.said he hopes vice president biden is coming tonight. he said i hope. so he also said he hopes there is a vote tonight. that was the quote "i hope so." baucus says hold up are several things. and that the pay fors to cover the sequester those are the across the board cuts are really the issue as well as indexing the estate tax. and then we had senator patrick leahy the president pro tem the senior senator in the senate. he says he doesn't know if they are going to have a democratic caucus tonight or not. for biden is coming. so, we're following every minute. the light is still on in congress and we're still here at "special report." the panel is coming up. ♪ i wish my patients could see what i see. ♪ that over time, having high cholesterol and any of these risk factors can put them at increased risk for plaque buildup inheir arteries. so it's even more important to lower their cholesterol, and that's why, when diet and exercise alonaren't enough, i prescribe crestor. in a clinical tria

republican minority leader mitch mcconnell, senate finance committee chair max baucus, a democrat -- and that powerful committee's ranking republican, orrin hatch. a trio of perpetrators who treat the united states treasury as if it were a cash-and-carry annex of corporate america. the "times" story described how amgen got a huge hidden gift from unnamed members of congress and their staffers. they slipped an eleventh hour loophole into the new year's eve deal that kept the government from going over the fiscal cliff. and when the sun rose in the morning, there it was a richly embroidered loophole for amgen that will cost taxpayers -- that's you and me -- a cool half a billion dollars. yes, half a billion dollars. amgen is the world's largest biotechnology firm, a drug manufacturer that sells a variety of medications. the little clause secretly sneaked into the fiscal cliff bill gives the company two more years of relief from medicare cost controls for certain drugs used by patients on kidney dialysis. the provision didn't mention amgen by name, but according to reporters lipton and

montana senator max baucus responded to the senate in a statement, quote, before passing new laws, we need a debate that respects responsible, law-abiding gun owners in montana instead of a one-size-fits-all directives from washington. joe manchin said, quote, i'm disappointed the president did not recommend the creation of a national commission on mass violence that i have proposed. a national commission can build the consensus we need for real action, backed not only by gun control advocates, mental health experts and entertainment industry executives but also by law-abiding gun owners. >>> the white house is worried that if this fight becomes too much about the assault weapons ban, and not enough about measures, which are more politically possible, they'll have a problem. they want to keep people focused on fights they can win. background checks, things like that. republicans have unsurprisingly responded negatively, including florida senator marco rubio. >> by the own admission of the white house, what they have proposed to do would do nothing to have prevented what happened in co

max baucus has been the first to say we need to sit down and look at these. am i for the wind energy tax credit? yes. i want to see us move towards a greener, cleaner form of energy in our future, but when you start ticking off the others, as small as they may be, these things have really outlived their use fullness, and that can be part of tax reform as well. >> i suspect, senator, that it's possible you might not have had enough votes for this bill if some of these tax breaks weren't in there, that these were sort of payoffs. >> well, you're certainly not new to washington because you know how it works. you bring together a majority by putting something in the bill that is appealing to a member of congress. >> right. >> and who knows who represents the algae lobby on capitol hill, but they must have been very happy with the outcome. >> we'll try to find out. a final question for you, senator. president obama has said, look, i'm not going to do any kind of negotiating over this debt ceiling. you all have spent this money, and he points to congress so you hav

max baucus of montana" chairman of the senate finance committee.om the obamacare fight, baucus is a connoisseur of revolving door corruption. "pick any one of the special-interest tax breaks extended by the cliff deal," carney wrote, "and you're likely to find a former baucus aide who lobbied for it on behalf of a large corporation or industry organization." even the pro-business "wall street journal" was appalled. they called it a "crony capitalist blowout." ceo's and lobbyists were tripping over themselves as they traipsed up and down pennsylvania avenue between congress and the white house, privately protecting their interests as they publicly urge austerity on everyone else. here's lloyd blankfein, ceo and chair of the global investment giant goldman sachs, when asked by cbs news' scott pelley about how he would reduce the federal deficit. >> you're going to have to undoubtedly do something to lower people's expectations the entitlements and what people think that they're going to get, because it's not going to they're not going to get it. >> s

senator max baucus "before passing new laws we need a thoughtful debate that respects responsible lawding gun owners in montana instead of one side fits all directives from washington. senator tim johnson, democrat of south dakota, "it makes common sense to not have one size fits all. senator mark begich, democrat of alaska, "i feel like it's going to be hard for they of these pieces of legislation to pass at this point." these are democrats. what is he going to bring to bear on that? >> it is a tough issue. i will say this, these are commonsense proposals that respect the rights of gun owners. let's start there. and i think if you look at high-capacity magazines, assault weapons, universal background checks, the progress we can make on mental health and school safety, all of these enjoy enormous support of the american people. democrats and republicans, so i think that putting together the legislative coalition is going to be hard obviously but we're very confident. i do think things have changed since newtown, you know, senator manchin and republicans and democrats are thinking anew

he met with chairman max baucus and senator chuck schumer of new york.lling him a shoe in as treasury secretary but today jack lew is making rounds with republican senators including top republican orrin hatch. one question republicans may bring up in his confirmation is his time as a top executive at citigroup from 2006-2009. while he was there the bank got slammed in the financial crisis back in 2008 when it got a $45 billion taxpayer bailout and jack lew made millions while he was at city including about a $1 million bonus for his work at the bank in 2008. tweet republican senators raised questions about his city jobs in previous confirmation hearing that the republican national committee hopes to make it an issue this time around and each it is three page press release two weeks ago when his nomination was announced by the president that aggregated articles about jack lew's work for citigroup, calling this from sub prime to prime-time. cheryl: peter barnes, thank you very much. it is going to be interesting. not going to be boring. dennis: wall stree

some of the senate democrats like monday montana's max baucus mark pryor and mark begich are up for re-election in 2014. feinstein says she knows she has an uphill battle. >> you know, i did this once before. this is a complain. if it takes one year two years, three years, i have just been reelected. we're going to stay the course. >> reporter: she points out there are more than 2,000 types of hunting and sporting firearms that would not be affected by this ban and this is just the first in what democrats say will be a series of bills that they are going to unveil over the next couple of months that deal with gun violence mental illness and school safety. charlie and norah? >> nancy cordes thank you. >>> republicans across from the country are in charlotte, north carolina, this week, trying to come up with a new game plan to win voters. last night louisiana governor bobby jindal had tough words for his fellow gop members. >> we got to stop being the stupid party. i'm serious, it's time for a new republican party that talks like adults. it's time for us to articulate our plans and our visions fo