not mention senator claire mccaskill. chief investigator for bill clinton's presidency, matt bennett worked in the clinton administration. let me start with you, you did a movie with hillary clinton claiming this is what he's about, as i said last night, in mrs. clinton's defense, if this is true, wouldn't you keep a list if people who you backed for office then turned around and refused to back you? what's wrong with having a list of -- these are the ones i like, and these are the ones i don't. >> you know, megan, it's interesting. politicians do that all the time. but it's really the pattern of lists. the clintons like to keep lists, back in the '90s during the clinton administration, when they were in power, they kept lists, sometimes they came into power with lists, like the travel office, they fired everyone in the travel office, and actually criminally indicted some of them, and they were found not guilty, these people use nixonian tactics throughout their career, this is just politics. a lot of democrats are claimi

as you know is, senator mccaskill -- i'm putting the best face forward. >> acquaintances. >> i mightthe list of 100. i want to be careful. >> like al capone wanted to reaquaint himself with as many friends. she is tough, tenacious. but she has all of those qualities we like in a good strong president. >> why is she not a bully and he is a bully? >> because is he by definition is a bully. somebody who throws a sucker punch and walks away. she'll sit in the arena and keep hitting >> every politician has a list of who they're going to help raise money for or not. that's different from states funds towards that politician or close down bridges. governor, i wanted to ask, you know, there seems to be the larger issue that chris christie doesn't seem to have many friends right now, present company excluded that the base of the republican party has been out to get him for a long time. there seems to be the larger problem that republicans, you're a sensible republican, republicans can't elect sensible people anymore because their party has 34506ed that far to the right. >> what kind of questi

. >> reporter: senator claire mccaskill is launches a campaign into those ads asking those to flag potential. sensa is one of four supplement dietmakers the ftc charged with deceptive advertising saying there's no proof those products work. other target, hcg diet correct, distributors of hormone drops placed under your tongue, the company says, you'll lose weight fast. lean spa, a company the ftc shut down for using fake websites to market colin cleansing and diet products. and the popular beauty product company locciton. >> honing in on the fact people want to lose weight and don't want to have to work at it. >> reporter: the ftc isic maing these companies pay $34 million in settlements. the in refunded to customers. nutritionist katherine tallmadge worries who they are taurgted. >> i was alarmed thinking that teenagers and eastern children were taking those potentially dangerous supplements. >> reporter: with the wait los industry exploding in america, snaft mccaskill warns going after those four companies is like plays the game wack a mole. >> there are many companies doing this. with one

senator mccaskill, i believe you are next. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you and just as hard work on this legislation. this is not easy stuff. the amendment that i would like to bring up is mccaskill amendment number one. it establishes a one year moratorium on closing rural post offices and it strikes the five year sunset. it is offered on behalf of myself, senator heitkamp, senator tester, senator pryor and senator begich. there really is no rational reason for sunsetting these protections. protections are there for a good reason, to make sure that the universal service mandate is respected and usps should have the right an opportune to right size itself based on the size of its business revenue and there's nothing in this amendment that prevents that. these requirements are not onerous on the postal service, but it does force them to recognize the unique role of post offices in world communities. and i would urge the adoption of this amendment by the committee. >> dr. coburn, do you want to go first? >> when you visit with the posta

joining me now is claire mccaskill.ssue of military pensions was dealt with at the hearing today. there are so many concerns now about the military and about what is happening to our people in afghanistan as this war supposedly winds down. what about the pension issue? is this a critical issue facing our retired service members? >> i think there's obviously most of us really feel strongly that we need to keep promises that were made to our service members and if there are members in the military that made plans, based on what they had been told they would receive, we need to make good on that. but that -- we've got to have a big commission report about military retirement in general in about another year. and i think it's time we look at proactively how do we do pensions in the future. what makes the most sense? should we have really high cola adjustments during a time somebody is retired and working really good jobs at the same time. to make sure we're recruiting the best and keeping our words to those we have recruite

." >> reporter:senator claire mccaskill is launching an investigation into those ads asking people tolagging potential scams.sensa is one of four diet-supplement makers the f-t-c has charged saying there's no proof those products work. other targets: h-c-g diet direct, distributors of hormone drops. place them under your tongue, the company says- and you'll lose weight fast. lean-spa, a company the f-t-c shut down-- for using fake websites to market colon-cleansing and diet products. and the popular beauty product company l'occitane, for almond-scented skin-creams which the company claimed could trim more than an inch of fat in just a month. >>"they're honing in on the fact that people want to lose weight- and they don't want to have to work at it." >> reporter:the f-t-c is making these companies pay 34-million dollars in settlements. the money, refunded to customers. nutritionist katherine tallmage worries about who these companies are targeting. "a teenage client recently asked me for advice about these drugs that her friends were taking. i was alarmed, thinking that teenagers and e

. >> senator mccaskill is launching an investigation into that.of the four diet aids charged with deceptive advertising. others hcg direct. hormone drops. place them under your tongue, the company says and you'll lose weight fast. lean spa, a company fcc shut down to use fake websites to market colon cleansing. and the popular beauty company l'occitane, creams they claim could trim an inch of fat. >> they are honing in on the fact people want to lose weight and don't want to work at it. >> fcc making companies pay $34 million in settlement. nutritionist katherine talmage worries who they are targeting. >> a teenager asked me about the drugs. i was alarmed teenagers and even children were taking these potentially dangerous supplements. >> reporter: and with the weight loss industry exploding in america, senator mccaskill warns going after four companies is like playing whack a mole. >> there are many companies that are doing this. with every one that is found, another one will pop up. >> contacted by cnn, l'occitane says testing like creams like th

politicians do that everybody, and i would be mad at claire mccaskill, too other,. >> what so highlyeeping the list. i'm sure every politician does that to some extent. >> everybody who runs for office tries to get people to support then, tries to get money, keeps track, at least in their head, over who is supportive and not supportive. when it's time to hand out jobs and favors and support somebody in another race, of course they do. that's the way politics has been practiced since the beginning. the clintons have a big machine they play this game aggressively no bones about that. i don't of specific'm instances of retaliation. >> maybe the headline is not exactly as the hit list. >> somebody wrote a headline that maybe goes a little beyond the story? i'm shocked. >> great to see you. thank you. >>> it's the double take seen around the world, or at least the internet. a confused toddler meets her dad's identical twin for the first time look at that reaction. we'll play more coming. your eyes really are unique. in fact, they depend on a unique set of nutrients. [ male announcer ] tha

i think the claire mccaskill story is interesting.e's good leader, but, quote, i don't want my daughter near him. she says that in an interview and eventually tearfully apologizes, according to this, to the clintons. it's notable that she is out supporting hillary clinton, one of the first senators to do so for 2016. >> right. and politico item she also says that because she was supporting obama, the last person she wanted to be caught in an elevator with was claire mccaskill. >> george stephanopoulos destroyed the clintons in his book and they're still friends. >> they seem to be. >> that's true. >> bret, we'll be watching you on the fox news channel, ten hours from right now. >> all right. have a good day. >> thank you. >>> we're going to turn to heather nauert. >> washington, what a messy place. >> a hit list. >> good morning to you all. hope you're off to a good day. a plane lands at the wrong airport that has a much smaller runway and nearly careens off a cliff. 124 people were on board a southwest airlines flight that was suppos

>> i want to shift gears, speaking of democrats, you work for the clinton administration, claire mccaskill has reportedly appeared on president clinton's so-called enemy list, the reason that she doesn't like claire mccaskill, because way back in 1976 she had appeared on "meet the press." the clintons had been good to her before, she was asked if bill clinton was a great president and she said this. >> do you think bill clinton was a great president? >> i do, i had a lot of problems with his personal issues, i said at the time i think he has been a great leader, but i don't want my daughter anywhere near him. >> so she was asked yesterday about rand paul's comments that if hillary run, bill's prior indiscretions may become fodder for the election in one way or another. and here is her reaction. >> do you think bill clinton's behavior as bad as it was and the impeachment process should be an impediment to hillary clinton running for office? >> i think i can speak for most women that the conduct was infuriating. >> she doesn't want her daughter in the same room as bill clinton, but she think

. >> senator mccaskill, something that you said and something that mr. roth said earlier, i was talking to him about the values that he learned from his parents. and one of the things he mentioned is integrity. i think senator mccaskill really just gave you some really good advice, and i'd like to second it. one of the great quotes i've heard on begty, if you've got it, nothing else matters. if you don't have it, nothing else matters. so that's a great one to learn from your folks for all of us. i have a couple more questions, and then i'll yield back to senator johnson if you'd like to ask some more and, senator mccaskill, thank you so much for joining us. and one thought that comes to mind is just in terms of advice, just by chance you're confirmed, but i would, i would urge you -- you may have already done this, too -- to identify igs that are going into an agency where morale is lapsing, an agency in some turmoil and talk to whoever's come in and done a good job and just to learn from that person how they've done it. as you know, the relationship bet

a list that included john kerry, senator mccaskill of kerry and the late senator ted kennedy.eporter for "time" magazine zeke miller. thank you for joining us. no politici secret politicians favor file. but writing in the book, it is the practice to keep file, of friends and enemies. >> this is a step beyond sort of what is par for the course for the clintons. this is something, you know, this is the most clintonian -- they are the best politicians of their generation, been around just about longer than anybody in terms of playing at that level, in american politics. it makes sense to have long list of favors and shifts that will be called in for them. it makes sense they'd have a list this long. what's amazing, it's been written down, there's a numbering system, detailed numbers system. >> the numbering system is what's great. >> you just wish it was made public were their changes, sort of regression study, have statisticians working on it. it also reenfoerinforces the wo learned about the clinton from the '08 campaign, the politics, the overly competitive side of it that may

you see politicians like senator claire mccaskill on the different side of the clintons saying she didn't want her daughter in the same room as bill clinton. she was the first this time around to endorse hillary clinton. you're already starting to see the shift from people who had the worst numbers trying to get on the right side of hillary clinton for her next run. >> keith, members of this list, you're given a number between 1 and 7. we've got the names on the list and numbers associated with them here. again, one apparently is -- seven is the most treacherous, one most helpful. john kerry, bob casey, congressman chris van hollen. you surprised to see anybody on that list? >> i'm not surprised that there is a list. i'm not surprised any of those people are on the list. the clintons are people who have been in politics for a long time and obviously they have developed a long list of friends and enemies. and the 2008 campaign helped to create that. i remember one time during the campaign when i made a comment about barack obama and one of barack obama's advisers called me up and told me i

i believe senator mccaskill's position on this issue. we can either trust our commanders and leaders to do the right thing or not. like most issues, sexual assault is more than a military issue. it is an issue on our campuses as well as in our business and industry. i urge you to let the military chain of command lead us out of this crisis as they have any other crisis through history. thank you. i look forward to your questions . >> thank you. general brady, u.s. air force. >> thank you for the opportunity. thank you even more importantly for your focus on this issue. i would certainly echo all of the comments that dy gave you, a colleague that i was proud to served with a number of years ago. i, butmuch younger than i retired in february 2011, as a commander of u.s. air force europe. after 41 years. like ann, i served in vietnam. i saw race riots in a few places. had coming tolems we grips with the reality of race, and we workedity, ourselves through that, and we educated ourselves along the way. i was a commander in the air force and

senators claire mccaskill of missouri and john rockefeller of west virginia are asking the retailer to provide details from its own internal investigation about the hacking of millions of debit and credit customer accounts. >>> as we told you last night, general motors was close to announcing a dividend. well, now it's official. starting in march, the automaker will pay a quarterly dividend of 30 cents a share to stockholders of record as of march 18th, 2014. >>> and still ahead on the program, 14 states will hike the minimum wage this year, putting more cash in the pockets of some workers. who are the winners and the losers? that's coming up next. >>> u.s. lawmakers are a step closer to approving a more than $1 trillion federal budget, a bipartisan deal would keep the lights on in washington and finance federal agencies everywhere through the end of september. john harwood joins us now from washington with more on all of this. you know, john, one democratic senator said that this deal shows american people that we can compromise. so in the spirit of this compromise, what did the democ

senator claire mccaskill is launching an investigation into those ads asking people to help by flagging potential scams.sensa is one of four diet-supplement makers the f-t-c has charged with deceptive advertising. those products work. other targets: h-c-g diet direct, distributors of hormone drops. place them under your tongue, the company says- and you'll lose weight fast. lean-spa, a company the f-t-c shut down-- for using fake websites to market colon- cleansing and diet products. and the popular beauty product company l'occitane, for almond- scented skin-creams which the company claimed could trim more than an inch of fat in just a month. "they're honing in on the fact that people want to lose weight- and they don't want to have to work at it." the f-t-c is making these companies pay 34-million dollars in settlements. the money, refunded to customers. nutritionist katherine tallmage worries about who these companies are targeting. "a teenage client recently asked me for advice about these drugs that her friends were taking. i was alarmed, thinking that teenagers and even children we

next, send it out, and followed by senator mccaskill. >> -- senator ayotte.spent i'm very impressed with the qualifications for this position. let me just add, ago what my colleague senator mccain just said. one of the things that really troubles me as well in terms of the recent change in rules, not only that my colleague couldn't get a fair answer to his question to the secretary pomata and security, but also that i know you've already been asked about it by senator coburn, but that we took the unprecedented step of concerning -- confirming a deputy secretary to department of homeland security who was under active investigation by the oig. and i don't think we would have previously done that but for the change in these roles. and so let me just add to what senator mccain said, that i very much hope that we can get answers to legitimate questions that our constituents have. and i hope in your new position you will take very seriously that this investigation, despite confirmation, should not be swept under the rug or not follow through. i hope you will give u

. >> reporter: senator claire mccaskill is launching an investigation into those ads asking people tolagging potential scams. sensa is one of four diet supplementmakers the ftc has charged with deceptive advertising saying there's no proof those products work. other targets, hcg diet direct, distributorses of hormone drugs. place them under your tongue, the company says, and you'll lose weight fast. lean spa, the company shut down by using fake websites to market fake cloenzing and diet products. for almond scented skin creams which the company says could hone an inch of fat in a month. >> people want to lose weight and they don't want to work at it. >> reporter: they pay $34 million in settlements, the money returning to customers. they worried about who these companies are targeting. >> a teenage clients recently asked me for advice about these drugs that her friends were taking. i was alarmed that teenagers and even children were taking these potentially dangerous supplements. >> reporter: and with the weight loss industry exploding in america, senator mccaskill warns going after t

and then claire mccaskill of missouri comes in for criticisms.ble even before the presidential campaign. she apparently in debate televised on a sunday morning talk program in 2006 referred to bill clinton as a great president but she wouldn't want him near her daughter. and the book recounts how over the next two years the relationship between the clintons and claire mccaskill becames from at thisser ands from at thisser. -- frost at thisser. she earned a seven, kathleen sebelius the then governor of kansas and janet napolitano, then governor of arizona, all three endorsed barack obama on same day in order to give a very strong trio of women democrat endorsements that would be hurtful to hillary clinton. look, i want to such on something you said earlier. yes, in politics, people do like to remember their friends in order to reward them down the way but i found that the more, most successful politicians tend to be those who don't keep an enemies list. they may have somebody that clearly they don't like but they don't systematically say, all righ

also senator claire mccaskill head of a subcommittee on consumer protection.financial services committee are demanding hearings into target and so is representative elijah cummings. he's the top democrat on the house oversight and government reform committee. represent cummings wants issa to shift away from security of federal government health insurance website and over to target arguing this is one of the biggest plastic breaches on record. meantime companies that help target process payments for credit and debit cards could face fines and higher costs as well as lawsuits. bill. >> more to come. thank you, elizabeth. >> sure. >> a hidden camera catches some people off-guard and scared out of their minds. what is the best prank you've ever seen. >> love it. still time to get creative. >> we've got a couple ideas, don't want, camerota? >> we do. >> yes, indeed. >> you might share one of yours. >> have you pulled a prank or been a victim. >> both. >> dully noted. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female ann

some of the sevens are former presidential candidate, john kerry, jay rockefeller, and claire mccaskill. one source saying it's old news. but do clintons ever move on? i want to bring in top bill clinton aide paul begala. >> i'm so frightened of hillary clinton. >> when you hear she has a hit list that sounds ominous. >> it was a list without a single hit. they don't even allege in the article. maybe it's a good book. i don't know these journalists. but you think after what, six years, there would be at least one act of retribution they could point to. >> are you saying that the clintons don't hold a grudge? >> here's what bill clinton used to say, he would quote abraham lincoln by saying i destroy my enemies by making them my friends. i called or e-mailed the people on the list and they all said this is nonsense. one is my favorite is from congressman andrews. he said this is a chapter in a campaign to attack secretary clinton in advance of the campaign. he has nothing but positive interacts with them. but he does cite two instances of retribution. president clinton sent me a personall

just weeks ago, we learned that claire mccaskill made hillary's enemy's list, saying that big clinton was a fine president but i wouldn't want my daughter around him. >> well, his point about a boss should not take advantage of an intern in the office. that is okay. it is the suggestion this would be relevant if hillary runs. >> but i don't think he is saying that exactly. i think what he is saying, for example, it is very hard for hillary to run on the war against women with this in her background. >> well, it is not in her background, it is in his background. >> that is exactly right, but she is not going to get defined by his actions and she should not be. nobody votes for the first spouse spouse. they vote for the president. she will run on her own record, that is what she should be worried about. she should be worried more about benghazi than bubba. >> do you think the lewinsky affair and you know, bill clinton's lying about it will come back to haunt her in any way if she decides to run? >> i don't think it will haunt her, it makes it a point of hypocrisy for democrats, who turn

boy, among others they were not happy with john kerry, ted kennedy, and don't even mention claire mccaskillis like we stepped into a time warp of the '70s, you have hillary clinton channeling her richard nixon, targeting people, chris van hollen, who had not even endorsed barack obama, and he wonders why the heck am i on the list. the aides were gloating over the demise of the people on the list, gloating over your adve e adversearies -- >> let me ask you, voters are saying don't both parties do this? you worked in the bush white house. >> they're right that both parties do this. you have chris christie using his power of government to strong arm people who wouldn't endorse him. and look, barack obama did this. barack obama in 2010 said we're going to punish our enemies and reward our friends. and he actually tried to develop an enemies list, issue an executive order that required anyone applying for a federal contract to expose who they gave contributions to, and basically declare are you a friend of the obama white house? and this administration is more than willing to use the power of th

. >> you have claire mccaskill, rob andrews. >> how about bill richardson? >> jane rockefeller. what do you make of this? >> it could be better, actually. it's not that good of a hit list. there's other people she could be on there. i think it's no surprise. she's a crafty pop titian. if you want to be president, you have to be able to play ball. i'm not advocating hit lists, per se, but she has a stomach for politics, put it that way. no one can question this woman is soft. going to say that. >> the sevens because it's ranked from one to seven. >> the sevens are the bad. >> yeah. dana, i have a theory that because the democratic party are a history of first, republicans should fight fire with fire and also nominate a powerful woman and go a step further, lesbian. >> how about and also like with a martian. do all the firsts. >> let's be realistic, dana. somebody from middle earth? >> sure, we'll take anybody at this point. republicans are desperate. so what she was doing is she was trying -- we forget how hard fought that campaign was, the primary campaign between clinton and ob

jay rockefeller and claire mccaskill has written to the ceo to request detailed information on the recentafter the disappearance of madeleine mccann, arrests could be coming. they have asked for permission to bring three men into custody. michelle kosinski is live following developments. what more can you tell us about the potential break in the case? >> we only know what's been reported in the press here in britain. because scotland yard who has been working with or trying to work with portuguese authorities for the last few years, remember, british authorities opened up their own investigation of madeleine mccann's disappearance, even though it didn't happen in their own country, because portuguese police had closed the case. we know that british police again have asked the portuguese for some information. what they admitted that they did was send a letter of request. but they won't say exactly what that request was for. british press are reporting they want to arrest three men identified in these reports as burglaries who allegedly made a lot of cell phone calls among one another in th

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john kerry and claire mccaskill did not farewell in that analysis by the clinton team. i'm having trouble understanding this. it seems like a relatively logical thing to do. is this really out of step with what any politician does? >> well, first of all, when the little writers are asked for their votes on the best cable news ensemble, i want you to know that i am with you guys. i'll be there for you. >> means a lot to us. >> i think the hillary thing is not terribly news worthy in the sense that all politicians have their favorites and they have their enemies. when something looks like an enemy's list and if you rate a seven on this as senators who endorse barack obama did, that has the makings of an enemies list. it shows that hillary clinton plays hard ball politics. i think that if it winds up being clinton versus christie, you'll have a lot of knee capping and backstabbing. >> just to be clear, keeping track of people on a list is a lot different than -- >> than punishing them. >> exactly. >> we see if she has the ability to punish the way christie does and if so,

commerce committee chairman john rockefeller and fellow democrat claire mccaskill said in a letter: >> ifill: the breach has scared some shoppers away from pulling out their credit cards. >> i rather try to use cash here, until they straighten everything out. it seems a little scary. >> ifill: while others say they're going about their business. >> yeah, i use a credit card but it wouldn't deter me because really target is like all the big businesses, you know. cyber theft is cyber theft. >> ifill: high-end department store nieman marcus has also announced a smaller holiday season breach. and there've been reports that other unnamed retailers were also hit. as for target, the company issued a full-page apology yesterday, printed in several major newspapers. to help shed a little more light on how vulnerable businesses and consumers actually are, we turn to two people who have been following these developments closely. nicole perlroth of the "new york times" and ken stasiak, the chief executive of secure state, a consulting firm focused on information security. >> we first heard 40 mil

raise the minimum wage and voting for it by a 52-point margin, they also voted into office claire mccaskill, a democrat to replace an incumbent relatively popular republican senator. he wouldn't say when he thought about the minimum wage for most of the campaign. she was very much in favor of it. people like the minimum wage, so they liked her and now she's the very popular senator from missouri. that same year, jon tester was on the ballot in montana. he was outspoken in favor of raising the minimum wage. montana voters liked raising the minimum wage by a 46-point margin and liked jon tester. in ohio, that same year, conservatives fought like heck to kill the minimum wage ballot initiative in ohio but it still won by double digits and so did ohio's brand new democratic senator sherrod brown. and that's part of why a year like that in 2006 was such a good year for democrats. even in a really bad year for democrats like, say, the worst possible year for democrats, like 2010, the first obama midterm, where the republicans just ran the table. they won everything. you know where they didn't win

. >> claire mccaskill did end up on the list. let's look at one of the reasons she ended up on that list. >> do you think bill clinton was a great president? >> i do. i have a lot of problems with his personal issues. i said at the time, i think he's been a great leader, but i don't want my daughter near him. >> she did say she instantly regretted that remark, apparently, there was a phone call she was gracious, which made her feel worse, according to the excerpts from this book. i wonder if that was the reason she was the first female senator to endorse hillary clinton this time around. >> of course, we have to maintain a difference between bill clinton as president and hillary clinton, who has had a kroor in her own right. clearly, that is an awkward thing to say, but on the other hand, it's based on actual facts from the clinton presidency. i think what you'll see is, yes, you know, politicians keep score, but as jonathan mentioned, there's no evidence there was any sort of retribution, no evidence this is about anything in te

it's a civil complaint from the justice department and started with your investigation of claire mccaskille security clearances background checks were done fraudulently and didn't go back and didn't -- they lied basically according to the complaint, at least, the allegation is that they claim to have doubled back and never really did. and snowden perhaps would not have gotten his nsa clearance for that hawaii contractor if he had been properly cleared. >> that's correct. i will tell you what it tells me is there's got to be additional oversight, additional accountability, we just passed a bill out of the senate yesterday that will allow a revolving fund to be audited by the inspector general. i think that's the first part about the accountability and oversight. we have a couple more bills and it might seem like common sense so we're doing it. if the contractor or individual works for the department, screws up on this kind of stuff, we're talking about background checks, that they are fired. that's the way it ought to be. then the final piece of the puzzle i think, 5 million people that hav

the news cycle off chris christie and until we learn hillary clinton shut down a bridge to claire mccaskill's story. >> quickly. >> i think reince priebus knows chris christie is going to be sidelined and he knows that hillary clinton can even get some moderate republicans, so he has her in his sight and he's going after hillary. >> victorthank you all three. what a great group we have on a monday. good to see all of you. we want to plug don't forget to head to msnbc.com to check out the new women of 2014 series. msnbc.com. i'd like to bring in matt cartwright of pennsylvania now. good to see you, congressman. let's start off with this. i'd like to get your take on the story surrounding hillary clinton. are you surprised the clintons kept a kind of score card, if you will, from '08? >> first of all, i don't know that she has. i've heard reports on it. if you assume that they are true, i agree with the prior speakers, it's not a big deal. i guess it's part of what goes on in politics. speaking for myself, richard, i haven't been in politics that long, i'm only a congressman for one year now an

but it's still a very hard climb and you're up against claire mccaskill and the military establishmentong senators has been pretty bitter. you need 60 votes. >> well, we have more than half of the senate already supporting this reform. and it's the number one reform that victims and survivors have actually asked for. they said the reason why they don't report these cases, nine out of ten go unreported because they don't believe their commanders will do anything or they fear retaliation. so if you're listening to the victims and survivors about how to make the system work better, how to create that transparency and accountability, they suggest taking this one decision point out of the chain of command and giving it to trained prosecutors. we are building momentum. we are building support. we have more than 53 votes now. we're trying to get to 60. but this is the kind of reform that would make the difference. because no man or woman who's serving in our military should be brutally assaulted and raped by someone in their own ranks. we're not talking about some enemy far, far away and abro

clinton discussion and her hit list with john kerry, the prominent democrats, ted kennedy, claire mccaskillthey had on their list. it will be interesting to follow the mainstream media and see how many lines of coverage the chris christie thing gotten come -- hillaryen, and how much clinton has gotten. >> that might be a fair exercise, and political retribution is as old as politics itself. there is a difference between what we are hearing about chris christie's people and hillary clinton's people. people decideds to play god, hillary clinton, did not. it is different than retribution privately. >> we do not want to go back to the irs and benghazi. >> don't we? >> i do not want to do that. this argument could go on forever. i think the coverage of chris christie is comforting, stupid, all of those words, but it was not a nuclear war. a perhaps he is playing into stereotype that people have of new jersey, a stereotype of him in some ways and the story takes on a life of its own. the story is the democratic party is so much more charges andirecting leading a carefully orchestrated plan than t

mccaskills why claire is still on the united states senate.it is true the republicans have -- and they also should mean it. it is not just an example of opening a binder and reading talking points. it is a matter of speaking with constituents in a way that they care about the issues that face the population. host: binders full of women? guest: it is a terrible phrase but started out as an ok idea, which was a way to let findnatorial candidates to out who they would be appointing. when mitt romney did what he did in the states, the whole thing became part of a joke. the reality was republicans were doing other things to reinforce the idea that they were not taking female candidates and voters seriously. men runis tweet -- "do forerently against women fear of being viewed as a bully ?" guest: in the 1990's, male candidates were more likely to talk about women's issues to show they were sensitive and capable of dealing with those issues. now we have reached a point where campaign tactics look a little more similar across the board. in hereu have

system of investigation and prosecution and i hope that e of them will give senators llibrand and mccaskill collaboration on the bill and be acceptable by the department of defense and get strong support in congress. i have a perspective on this issue that i believe is unique. so in closing, i request your permission to offer a couple of personal thoughts. i agree with those who believe the commander of the accused should remain part of the prosecution of an alleged sexual assault offender. i agree that they may be too biased to fairly adjudicate cases of sexual assault. with due respects to sexual assault victims and senator gillibrand, we moving the commander is not the only way to eliminate the perceived bias. as with many things in the military, training may be part of the answer and i know that is being addressed by the department of defense sexual assault prevention and reporting office. unfortunately, the statistics that are used to support military sexual assault prevention and reporting training pose a credibility problem. the consistency with which the statistics are being kept th

after what happened with todd akin, claire mccaskill, spending $1 million to run ads the basically promoted todd akin to the republican primary, some of the operatives i talk to see that as a pretty effective model going forward to sort of just make mischief and the republicans might have control of the senate if it weren't for oh donald and murdoch and buck and people they are nominated in the last few years. i think republicans are now interested in maybe trying to turn the tables. >> another question? >> on with the campaign finance institute and also with suny albany. i don't want ask about super pacs. i was fascinated by the findings the second error reported. i have the three part question and the third part of the people might want to weigh in on. i wondered -- i know you're writing about california races. i gather mostly legislative races, maybe a mix. but to what extent do you think your findings were shaped by the fact the first round election, not even sure what to call the primary, the first round election involved both democrats and republicans and therefore, party cues are the

democratic senators claire mccaskill and jay rockefeller are looking for answers from target's ceo ontack. the move calls for a call for congressional inquiry from democrats in the house. target shares taking the news in stride, barely changing ever so lightly higher on the day. dennis: retail sales had a slight uptick in december with a better than expected 0.2% in november versus the street's call of just .1. the biggest results were revised downward from the previous month. marie discontrol joins us and has expert analysis on latest data. when you see expectations of 0.1% increase and ends upcoming in at 0.i think it is twice than expected. is it really that big after difference. >> it is not that big of a difference. in reality when november's were taken down it is not a big difference. dennis: you're lower egg the gain. autos up, the best since february. >> that is good. retailer was really offering so many bargains it was hard to keep shoppers out of the store. dennis: even though they're selling stuff at lower price that is overall dollar figure did go up and selling extra stuf