. >> host: michael paul, lynn brought up micropurchasing and one of the hit shows is downton abbey.f people want to purchase that on amazon or netflix, they can, and they can watch the series and they don't have to have subscription tv. you can do that with home lean or another series. how is this ability to micropurchase going to affect the cable industry in the next five or ten years? >> i'm not entirely sure but i'll tell you some things. when this first started, when itunes struck a deal with is in any and others and people predicted the end of television or people predicted tivo and up anding commercials -- i think we have seen the appetite for television more dramatically stimulated, not retarded. it's actually the opposite. i think it's because, if i'm able -- somebody comes to me today and says, have you ever seen breaking bad? my answer would be, no. oh, you really should see this show. i should? yeah, it's great. and by the way, what i'm really saying to you, you're my friend and i want to talk to you about it. what i can do now is go home and put itunes -- i don't know if

. >> host: and we've been talking about the future of television with michael paul, president and ceo of the national -- michael powell. lynn stanton senior editor at "telecommunications reports," thank you both. >> thank you. >> "the communicators" also airs each monday night. if you missed any of this program with ncta president michael powell on the future of television, you can catch "the communicators" again tonight, 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. and you can also

to the friends of the san francisco public library, who killed pope john paul ii, the king of pop, michael jackson, president barack h. obama, mayor willie h. brown, dr. robert c. scott at ucs sf, academic dean keith c. wingate, assistant academic dean seana marshall, legal counsel -- leop adviser jan jamison and mammoth -- a circumcised foreign student from instandbull turkey at golden gate university. between november 2008 and december 2012, was it these hands? was it alcohol? was it drinking alcohol? was it brewing alcohol? or was it tobacco? i would like to use the rest of my time to pay tribute to the fallen. >> supervisor elsbernd: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hey, ron austin, executive haven't -- workers union, it's been a long day. we're here to say a few words for the record to the board we received correspondence from sf mta for a service reduction on the day before christmas and the week after, and subsequently that week in between new year's and christmas. and we didn't know if the board or the city knew. and this is something that was attempted a couple of week

michael ian black wants us to be married alive. >> paul ryan described it as our safety hammock.t is spread from coast to coast and we can lays in all of the good day long. yes, congressman, you named the liberal prerogative. >> i don't know. here is my feeling, pab. aren't these predictions always wrong? i know it is a cliche, but we are supposed to have cell phones phones and flat screens. >> where are they? this is the intelligence community. they didn't see the arab spring. they didn't see the fall of the soviet block. a lot of things we have gotten wrong. i don't know how much validity -- >> nobody saw honey boo boo coming. >> but they did predict the ipad. jay they d. >> and they didn't see honey boo boo coming. >> and who saw gangnan style to bring it back around? >> within pab's innan comment there is pessimists never see the optimism of creativity. we always seem to somehow solve our problems. we talk about in the late 60s talking about starvation. we figured that out. there are problems i myself have solved. >> we have clearly solved starvation. we have solved climate c

first on this date in 1983, "say, say, say" by paul mccartney, michael jackson, numero uno. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ maleen we are stein is the answer. the win service brad in lafayette, louisiana. way to go, brad. >> gretchen: got to love this next story. today's crazy economy, stocks are out and you'llry is in. know more than ever, women are trading in those favorite family heirlooms for cold hard cash. >> brian: what is your jewelry worth right now and what are the ground rules for new sellers? >> steve: joining us now is cara collins, expert buyer. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: your world headquarters on 49th street. >> gretchen: what do you do? >> what we do is we are the largest international buying firm in the world and we buy from the public. so there used to be a stigma attached to selling your jewelry. we called it the three d's. divorce, dent or death. that's no longer the case. so what people are doing is they are turning that unworn jewelry into new opportunities and shopping. >> brian: you're not melting it down? >> no, we buy it as jewelry and we appreciate it because it'

michael, this is obviously a case of borrowing from peter to pay paul, which you call crazy, right?well, when the federal reserve takes interest rates to ridiculously low levels, people do dumb things. they borrow money to buy nasdaq stocks. they borrow money to flip houses. sometimes they borrow money, corporations do, just to send it out the back door. they don't use it to create capital goods or to raise the revenue and earnings. they just send it out the back door, and they leverage up their balance sheet. i want to put to you on notice that corporations vin creased their debt by over $1 trillion since december of 2007. horribly inefficient way to grow an economy. >> it's interesting you say that. i feel like one day we're going to back and say, remember whe could borrow at 3% to buy a house. if companies have to borrow the money to pay a dividend, why issue a dividend? >> well, i think we forgot whose money it is. it's the shareholders' money through the company. tax law makes it very difficult to bring the money back in. they've already made the money selling their products an

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mayor michael bloomberg said there were just over 400 homicides in 2012, 100 less than in the previous year. one man knows a lot about that subject, new york city's deputy police commissioner, paul brown, who joins us live right now. mr. brown, congratulations. how have you done it? >> thank you, mainly through 35,000 men and women in uniform, but particularly through something called operation at attack where we send as many uniformed police officers as possible into areas where we have seen spikes and violence, particularly shootings. >> that sounds almost like a back to basics campaign. why was the decision taken to go in that direction? >> well, it started with mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly coming into the office right after 9/11 with a deep downturn in the economy, less tax revenue. we lost 6000 police officers through attrition, we have 6000 fewer now than we had then. that forced us to take a look at how we deploy officers into the city. instead of dividing them up as we usually did into 76 precincts, we focused better on defining exactly where the most violent crimes were happening and putting the biggest number of officers there, the biggest bang for the block.

mayor michael bloomberg said there were just over 400 homicides in 2012, 100 less than in the previous year. one man knows a lot about that subject, new york city's deputy police commissioner, paul brown, who joins us live right now. mr. brown, congratulations. how have you done it? >> thank you, mainly through 35,000 men and women in uniform, but particularly through something called operation at attack where we send as many uniformed police officers as possible into areas where we have seen spikes and violence, particularly shootings. >> that sounds almost like a back to basics campaign. why was the decision taken to go in that direction? >> well, it started with mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly coming into the office right after 9/11 with a deep downturn in the economy, less tax revenue. we lost 6000 police officers through attrition, we have 6000 fewer now than we had then. that forced us to take a look at how we deploy officers into the city. instead of dividing them up as we usually did into 76 precincts, we focused better on defining exactly where the most violent crimes were happening and putting the biggest number of officers there, the biggest bang for the block.

michael tomasky. thank you as always for your insights. joining me now for why gun legislation is so hard to pass, paul blumenthal, thank you for joining us.thank you for having me on. >> eliot: now, you've written fascinating stuff about where the power of the nra comes up, and it's not money so much. it seems like a lot of money but you don't think that's the source of their power. explain this to us? >> well, they spend a ton of money on lobbying, they spend on campaign contributions and they seemingly spend a lot on campaign expenditures, but a lot of that is a drop in the bucket when you look at the fact that they're made up of 4 million members, a lot of whom are hardcore single-issue voters. they go and make their voices heard. they call the offices, they send in mail. the thing that powers them is not the money but their manpower and also a lot of mythology about their power that they held republicans win in 1994. that they caused al gore to lose the white house in 2000. a lot of that mythology has been built up both by the nra and consultants in the past who would say let's not talk about gun control. in a lot of ways that has led

paul. in the global economy also in london we have done it he is a reader in politics and environment at king's college london and in washington we cross to michael cottman he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time one twenty five go to you first in london do you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's illiterate served want to wars but in fact it misleads people into thinking that once you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least if not more is that when people run out of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that they need at home they're not no longer self-sufficient they then reach for trade because trade is quiet and invisible it doesn't raise any politics a country all the twenty countries in the middle east and many other countries in the world and all the countries in europe except france can easily move into dependence on imported food

paul lanza, who was the -- is the ge executive. $250,000, quarter million dollars a year, escalating to about $298,000 this year. >> michael isokoffuch on a rainy, gloomy day that the weather matches obviously the mood up there in connecticut. thank you both. up next, we'll talk about school security with randy winegarden, president of the american federation of teachers on a day when teachers have been real heroes. ♪ sometimes what we suffer from is bigger than we think ... like the flu. with aches, fever and chills- the flu's a really big deal. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. prescription tamiflu attacks the flu virus at its source. so don't wait. call your doctor right away. tamiflu is prescription medicine for treating the flu in adults and children one year and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing. have serious health conditions, or take other medicines. if you develop an allergic reaction, a severe rash, or signs of unusual behavior, stop taking tamiflu and

paul pierce drains the three-pointer. and pierce tries to be the hero but it is blocked. larry sanders and brandon gets its out 35 points but 99-94, box victory. yesterday michaelhelps won male athlete of the year.today the female gymnast gabbi douglas she became the first african-american to win the gold medal. missy franklin was in second. just one vote behind douglass she is the fourth gymnast to have a victory since mary lou rett and. >> good for gabrielle. >> we will be back 11:00 p.m..

michael beschloss, thanks for opening that window for us. >> my pleasure, gwen. >> brown: and online, history buffs are tweeting on behalf of george washington, paul revere and other historical figures. read about it on the rundown. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: the economy added more jobs than expected in november, and the unemployment rate dropped to a four year low. washington went into the weekend, still stalemated over how to avoid automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, come january. and the u.s. supreme court announced that for the first time in its history, it will take up the issue of same-sex marriage. online we say farewell to an intrepid, eight-legged space explorer. hari sreenivasan tells us more. >> sreenivasan: nefertiti the spider-naut traveled aboard a japanese space flight for three months as part of an experiment designed by an egyptian high school student. she returned safely and lived out the remainder of her days at the smithsonian, where she died this week. read the whole story at lunch in the lab. and on art beat, jeffrey brown talks to new yorker film critic david denby about big films this holiday season, plus the

paul in. >> all right, will. thank you. >>> and a d.c. judge said that the teenager facing charges in a series of brutal hammer attacks is competent to stand trial. 19-year-old michaelis is accused of killing a tourist and attacking two others with the hammer. the attacks happen this past spring in the d.c. pet worth area. the judge is ordering the teenager to stay in the hospital to undergo more mental tests. the to be's two brothers, vernon and -- two brothers play in the nfl. >>> and to a story you saw first on fox 5. the guardian angels will begin patrolling metro stations following a fight and cell phone robbery last weekend. this is video of the robbery caught on camera by one of the suspects. the group that calls itself the 44th street crew is taking responsibility for the attack and uploaded the video on youtube. the guardian angels say they will patrol metro's grown error line every friday and saturday night from 11:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. to deter more violent crimes. >>> metro riders will want to add to their commute this weekend. sidelined stations will be closed for scheduled track work. beginning friday night, tacoma, silver spring, and the other stati

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mayor michael bloomberg said there were just over 400 homicides in 2012, 100 less than in the previous year. one man knows a lot about that subject, new york city's deputy police commissioner, paulive right now. mr. brown, congratulations. how have you done it? >> thank you mainly through 35,000 men and women in uniform but particularly through something called operation at attack where we send as many uniformed police officers as possible into areas where we have seen spikes and violence particularly shootings. >> that sounds almost like a back to basics campaign. why was the decision taken to go in that direction? >> well, it started with mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly coming into the office right after 9/11 with a deep downturn in the economy, less tax revenue. we lost 6000 police officers through attrition, we have 6000 fewer now than we had then. that forced us to take a look at how we deploy officers into the city. instead of dividing them up as we usually did into 76 precincts, we focused better on defining exactly where the most violent crimes were happening and putting the biggest number of officers there, the biggest bang for the block. new recruits coming out

paul ryan. ho, ho, ho. let's get right to our panel. with me here in washington is msnbc political analyst david corn, and in new york msnbc political analyst professor michaeldyson. david, can i start with you? the president began with, o come all ye faithful, and now we have speaker boehner singing in the bleak winter. how far does the president have to go to give boehner something that helps boehner go to his caucus and say let's just do our deal. >> you want someone to be singing "i'll be home for christmas." >> there you go. >> first, it's nice to see you in d.c. >> it's a great pleasure. >> we have this little bubble of optimism in the conventional media the past few days. although they're talking, they're not saying much, there must be progress, but we still have a fundamental divide here. the president says rates have to go up. he doesn't want to trade the debt ceiling for anything. he thinks that should be separate. and boehner put out a proposal saying we'll raise invest knews but we're going to lower rates. won't specify, as you noted earlier. there seems to be in the staff level at least not much progress, any progress, being made. i have to beli

paul krugman's favorite chart, coming up later. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. c'mon, michael game! [ male announcer ] don't have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? and your mood is on its way down. you might not just be getting older. you might have a treatable condition called low testosterone or low t. millions of men, forty-five or older, may have low t. so talk to your doctor about low t. hey, michael! [ male announcer ] and step out of the shadows. hi! how are you? [ male announcer ] learn more at isitlowt.com. [ laughs ] hey! >>> we joked a bit on last night's show about starbucks' plan to solve the fiscal cliff by writing the words "come together" on people's. you err mint mochas and cups of joe. tonight i want to take this more seriously because i admire this effort. ceos and coffee drinkers alike should want to engage in politics. they should be angry at what they see happening p. they should be trying to work out ways to make politicians work better. but this ideology of come togetherism that animates the effort, it's very common,

paul vance. we will bring you the updates as they develop throughout the morning. first i want to bring in my panel. msnbc contributor ari melbourne, and michaeler, professor of georgetown university, and joy reid, editor of the grio.com, and also our mental health expert. obviously, we are still getting reports and know what is happening, but more importantly, we will know the names of the victims. so far, we know the name of the murderer, the name of the ass l assaila assailant, and you heard the police officer there ask the media not to go invade their homes. >> right. >> what are the kind of ethics of being media in a moment like this? >> well, i can tell you that when i saw initially the reports where they interviewed these little kids, all right, it was heartbreaking to watch, and it also felt wrong in a way. although, i know when my kids were registered in school in florida, they were media released meaning that you sign a media release at the beginning of the year so if there was a media event that your children are cleared to talk. so i don't know if that allows the reporters to walk up to the child without the parent and ask question

michael esser, fifth district, charles barrett, sixth district, david rubin, seventh district, barbara hines, eighth district, don abernathy, ninth district, mary jo shepherd, 10th district, will initially tell -- william shalikto, 12th district, paul, 13th district, james polk -- pope. thank you. let's give them some applause. [applause] it is now my tremendous pleasure to ask chief justice sarah parker of the north carolina supreme court to administer the oath of office to the members of the electoral college. justice parker has served the people of the north -- of north carolina as a practicing attorney, as a judge on the north carolina court of appeals, and now as chief justice of the north carolina supreme court. justice parker? >> if you would please, please your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand. do you and each of you solemnly and sincerely swear that you will support the constitution of the united states, that you'll be faithful abate true allegiance to a softer line and the constitutional authorities that are or which may be status -- established at the governor's wishes, that you will maintain the constitution of a sad state, not inconsistent with the constitution of the united states, to the best of your

paul ryan and his plan, mitt romney and his plan. we defeated all of that. host: got your point. michael is calling from georgia on the independent line. what you think about the fiscal cliff negotiations? caller: he why think it is a rough time for president obama. and when they came in office, they had the republicans signed a contract. times were better. as time goes on, you have to change. no one expected that we were going to hit this cliff until it was after the next election happened, and they continued to get worse as we went along. host: the senate is in next week. the house is gone. caller: they should stay and do their job. i watch c-span a lot. you see that the senate stays in a lot. quorum call. i have never seen anybody sit there were you just pay people to sit. host: we are going to move on to new jersey, the republican line. what do you think? caller: i think they should look at the politicians and see how much money they are making. i have to work every day. host: where would you draw the tax cut line, or would you? have $1 million? $400,000? caller: may be $500,000. if