let's turn to michael tomasky, correspondent for "the daily beast". it's a lot of fun to talk about it, but it's amazing -- not that she doesn't deserve it. it's a quick endorsement on all fronts globally. how do you compete with that? >> it's awfully tough to compete with that. the speculation, ed, it didn't start this weekend at this event. speculation started before this election even took place. there were already articles in september and october about what hillary clinton would do. we don't know what she's going to do. it will be interesting to find out. but presumably some time around the 2014 midterms, right after those midterms is probably whether perspective candidates will take stock of things, do some polls, size up questions, talk to the people close to them and i think she'll be among those people. she's probably very interested in being president. i don't think she's itching, desperate to be president, but she's very interested in taking a shot if the circumstances are right. >> what kind of work does she have to do in the next two year

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steve benen and michael tomasky, great to have you with us tonight. we are going to be joined by steny hoyer when we come back, who is the whip in the house for the democrats. and he said earlier today he hasn't seen anything like this in his 30-plus years in the congress. what does he make of this situation? that's next. stay with us. smoothes, lifts, defies? red jars are all the same right? wrong! you need three uses of a $15 cream to equal the moisturizing power of one use of regenerist microsculpting cream. seems not all red jars are created equal. olay regenerist. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." house speaker john boehner has failed to get enough support to bring his plan b bill up for a vote. majority leader eric cantor said legislative business is done for the week and sent the house members home for christmas. for more i'm joined tonight by congressman steny hoyer of maryland. steny, great to have you with us tonight. i don't know how you do a deal with a dysfunctional bunch. but eric cantor said earlier today that they had the votes, then

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. >> eliot: for more i'm joining by michael tomaski thank you for joining us. >> always a pleasure, eliot eliot: so did the president put jake tapper in his place with that rather succinct and abrupt answer and more importantly did the president with his strict timeline, the specificity and the sense of urgency that he gave to vice president biden in leading this effort say i want something to put in my state of the union did he put something in the answer that jake tapper was entitled to ask. >> i do think that was a pretty good response from obama. he has been a pretty busy guy. but we also all know taking on the nra is a tough thing. it risks a lot of political capital, and the votes probably aren't there. haven't been there for the last four years still may not be there now incredibly enough. but now he knows he has to act. as for the timeline, i was impressed, actually. when i got up and read the headlines and saw that he was appointing a task force i rolled my eyes and thought, oh boy, six months later where is this going to leave us? this is going to miss the moment. but as he spok

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. >> michael tomasky, good to have you with us. that "the ed show." and tomorrow night nancy pelosi will join me to talk about the fiscal cliff. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, ed. thank you. thanks to you at home for staying with us. if you get a tweet from president obama, you will know it by his signature. the president has an official twitter account from which all sorts of on message things get tweeted. but the white house says you know when a tweet has been written by the president himself because in that case the tweet gets a little initial signature. a "bo" in lower case. barack obama, as in i the president wrote this tweet. if it was a dog, it would be the paw print. the president was writing his own tweet this is afternoon. the string of twitter messages about the budget negotiations in washington. the white house announcing in advance today that the president himself would be answering people's questions about the negotiations in washington. he would be answering them directly on twitter starting at 2:00 p.m. eas

michael tomasky wrote never have the priorities for survival and success of a major party's washingtonns within so at odd with the requirements for the country's survival and success. the washington republicans represent the one-third of the country that hates government, despises obama and considers obstruction a victory. paul, do you think that's true? >> that's probably overstated a touch, but, you know, the republicans, particularly house republicans, are in a very difficult position because they did something really, really well in 2011-2012, and that was drawing their lines, their district, their map lines really well to look very sort of homogenous and very republican. therefore, their biggest fear, most of them, is a primary challenge from a conservative. 204 out of the 234 house republicans who won back in november, 204 of them got at least 55% of the vote. they won by ten or more points. >> i need to cut you off because let's go to the senate floor where senator harry reid is speaking on this subject. let's listen in. >> i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to

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calling hours will be held tomorrow at the local high school for michael chaparini, and tomas tomaski. they will be laid to rest following separate funerals, sunday and monday. they were killed in a sniper attack after a coon victoriad felon started the fire, he went on a shooting rampage killing the two firefighters and wounding two others before taking his own life. they are crediting the efforts of off-duty police officer john ritter, he was injured by shrapnel while trying to protect the wounded men. >> as i pulled my vehicle to the north side of the road i am behind the fire. at no point did i see firemen, at no point did i see anyone actively shooting, i didn't see anyone in the area, so i am probably seconds -- i come around that corner seconds after the fire department gets there in my assumption, i don't have a sense of anything, other than a round or something impact my windshield, then i hear multiple popping sounds after that in addition to the ones i heard before. at that point i determined someone is shooting. at that point i mean i am no different than anybody standing