i'm with scottrade. >>> mitch mcconnell said that president obama launched on the today and congratulated the president for doing it. that's how weird it can get in an election year. that's coming up, next. >>> and president obama is desperately trying to rewrite the democrats image on illegal immigration and he's doing this by deporting more people than ever before and immigration officials are making some pretty stupid mistakes in those deportations. that's in the re-write. [ male announcer ] capri sun has 25% less sugar than leading regular juice drinks. because less sugar is a better way to fly. ♪ just not literally. capri sun. respect what's in the pouch. >>> when do presidents announce the appointment of the newest members of their administrations in ohio, in an election year? from massachusetts they praise the democratic presidents highly political announcement of that appointment? in an election year. and when does every other republican senator condemn the appointment of the ultimate democracy because the president bypassed the senate after failing to get senate confirmation for

however, this is a brilliant political move because mitch mcconnell is going to get up there and do nothing been used to thwart any kind of reasonable progress on the economy and any kind of reasonable thing this president is trying to do for middle class americans. so you're right. i think you're right. i agree for that inside the beltway there's going to be a lot of clubbing. outside the beltway this is a great move for the president rich cordray was a very highly popular official. it was brilliant. scott brown did what he did because he's running scared. he's running against liz wet bar ren who's an icon for consumer protection and he's got to distance himself from the republican party before she beats him. >> governor, you and i agree respectively because and jonathan it creates for us this situation. i'm go to read, republican senator scott brown's outraged reaction to what the president did today except there's no outrage. here is what republican senator scott brown said. i support president obama's appointment today. i believe he's the right person to lead the agency and help protect

we talked to senator majority leader mitch mcconnell.see you. >> good to be back. >> greta: okay. last august, there was a big battle over what to do with the debt seal ceiling and a deal was struck that there would be 3 times that it would be raised. and the third one is now. but in the senate, there was a vote to -- to prevent -- i guess it wasn't a real vote because nobody expected it to prevail. but explain it. >> the congress gave to the president the authority to request us to raise the debt ceiling. he submitted his request. that is subject to a resolution of disapproval, in other words, i don't agree to raising the debt ceiling. if that passes, he can veto it. so it didn't guarantee a debt ceiling increase, dubut it made him ask for it. we thought that was appropriate. he has been in favor of increasing the national debt 35%. we thought the responsibility awl ought to be on him and it is. >> greta: as part of the deal, there was a super committee created it and they were supposed to come up with cuts to figure out how it pay for

with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. and then wooing the latino vote with los angeles major antonio villaraigosa and former commerce secretary carlos gutierrez. i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." there are more delegates at stake in florida than any of the previous contests. so major momentum will come out of this winner-take-all state. naturally ron paul, a road less traveled kind of guy, spent the week in maine. >> what am i doing in maine? why am i not in florida? to get delegates. that's what we're doing here. >> truth is, ron paul doesn't need to be in florida to have a presence. >> the debt is certainly an important issue. you can hear it from the ron paulites who are here cheering tonight. >> that's the intrigue of the paul campaign. maximum commitment by voters in the face of minimal chances. his support now is too small to be a threat to romney or gingrich in the short run, but large enough to be a factor in the long run. and if ron paul shouldn't win, what's the price for his support? the texa

finally, billionaire investor warn buffet wants mitch mcconnell to put his money where his mouth is.uld take buffet up on his offer to pay more taxes, buffet tells "time" magazine he'll match all republican members of congress dollar for dollar. he'll even go three for one with mitch mcconnell himself. >>> in health news now, a new movement is hitting facebook. bald bar by as a role model for young girls going through chemo or hair loss conditions. the page created by women dealing with baldness or had gone through it themselves has more than 18,000 likes. so far mattel only sent a form letter to the group saying they don't accept outside ideas. >>> for more information on this story and other health news, you can always head to the health page online at anybomsnbc.com. >>> kobe not just 40 again. the mavericks and shamrocks go down the wire and a good decision to go pro. plus, blake griffin and the clippers challenge the rich gays fr guys from miami. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ female announcer ] can only a prestige cream give you effective anti-aging results? challenge

apparently mitch mcconnell doesn't think so. he thinks the president has arrogantly circumvented the american people, circumvented the american people? 63% want more financial oversight, not less. you're circumventing the truth, but it's not going to work any longer. the president is done with your obstruction. today he also announced that he's appointing three people to the national labor relations board who have also been consistently blocked by senate republicans. make no mistake, this next election will come down to ideas, and we know now more than ever who's on the side of the middle class. >> i've been an obligation to act on behalf of the american people, and i'm not going to stand by while a minority in the senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve. not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class americans. we're not going to let that happen. >>> joining me now is senator sherrod brown, democrat from ohio. now, when you look at this, the president is saying

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mitch mcconnell considers his number one job to stop the president from being re-elected.s is just one part of that. >> what about that, ari? there are a lot of democrats that feel that way. >> surement i remember whining about the same thing when i was the press secretary and democratic senate which is a democratic senate at the beginning of the bush administration under george mitchell. they blocked bush's appointments to subcabinet agencies. >> so you don't buy the idea that the white house is saying this is a unprecedented level of obstruction by this gop? you don't fwhi? >> bhaz what i mean. all white house is whine and moan about. that we all have numbers we can show them what our numbers of blockages are. we had huge numbers blocked by the senate. but what it also shows at its core and this is the big issue is that president obama is not a reformer. he came to preserve his own brand. you go back to the original campaign. he would take public financing. he didn't take it. he let lobbyists into the white house. he said no signing statements because it's an abuse of pr

in a statement, senate minority leader mitch mcconnel said: the president had nominated cordray in julyrun the new agency created under the dodd- frank financial reform law. consumer advocates initially hoped that elizabeth warren-- the bureau's chief architect-- would oversee it. but the harvard professor and the agency itself ran into strong opposition from republicans. alabama senator richard shelby: >> this massive new bureaucracy was designed by the drafters of dodd-frank to be virtually unaccountable to the american people. before we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new federal government agency, i believe we should ensure that it can be held accountable for its actions. >> brown: last month, senate republicans blocked action on richard cordray's nomination. but in his announcement today, the president said, "i refuse to take 'no' for an answer." >> but when congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, i have an obligation as president to do what i can without them. >> brown: for his part, cordray was trying to stay above the fray. h

. >> mitch mcconnell said it clearly, his job was to make sure this man would be a one-term president. he needs help from the republicans to work with them but he won't. every time of reaches out they slap his hand. >> the question is can the president get it done? whether it's in the last year of his term or another four years? >> jamie, if he compromises yes, but christopher is right, and i'm sorry mitch mcconnell said that because that's not his job, to block things from the president. they need to create laws that creates more jobs and a prosperous america. but the state of the union address was more ground hot dog. >> it has been all year. the president proposes something and republicans say no. even if it's their own idea. >> got to leave it there. >> christopher's being fair and balanced, blaming both sides of the aisle. thank you so much, guys. appreciate your comments. >> both sides will keep us locked into this for a while. >>> meantime one of the biggest names in social media is under international attack and we'll tell you why. twitter is facing serious sensorship and it's

mitch mcconnell in the end is not some crazy, nutcase right- wing ideologue. more than anything else he is a tough-minded conservative pragmatist who wants to win and more important, doesn't want to lose. >> reporter: publicly, at least, the senate minority leader says the onus is on the president to show things can work in washington. >> well we've certainly had, as i indicated earlier, lost opportunities in 2011. opportunities the president had to lead, that would have made him look better. he doesn't look all that good either. congress as an institution is not going to be on the ballot, he is. >> reporter: and with that in mind, the president is visiting a series of battleground states this week, including colorado, where voters such as these have a decidedly jaundiced view of the national legislature. >> you can get rid of the people that aren't getting anything done and replace them with new people who wont get anything done. i don't know how you can fix it. >> i blame both republicans and dems. i happen to be a democrat. but i'm as unhappy with the dems

mitch mcconnell has said let the press cover every futile thing the president does.ealize it's futile and juvenile? >> well, you know, the state of the union is an american moment. whoever is the president of the united states brings to bear upon the elected representatives of the country that american moment in a few of where we at and a vision of where we need to go. to act the way that so many of my colleagues is really unresponsible. what we sneneed is a coming together to get people back to work. he's going to talk about a sense of value and community in which not only is that opportunity more prevalent for each and every american but also the fairness in which that opportunity takes place and the responsibility of us collectively to help our nation move forward. that should be taken seriously and not just as a circus. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back with much more on 2012. i've never ever gone and done any lobbying. we brought in an expert on lobbying law and trained all of our staff. >> jerry, just remember, it's not a li

what mitch mcconnell and republicans have figured out you don't have to. if you with hold the votes, you move the necessary votes to pass a deal to the right of the democratic party. your health care bill can't be further left than senator ben nelson, the nebraska senator who won't run for reelection. can't be any further left than you allow it to be. you end up with a health care bill almost what you would have thought you would end up with if the democrats and republicans had come to a compromise but not only do you not have to vote for it but you attack the other side and make them look partisan, make them do all the work of passing it into law. the unpopular parts of your idea, too. turns out to be pril -- brilliant, not a good thing we have figured out a way to get what they want without compromising given how much the system is reliant on compromise. >> is part of the problem the media tends to find the partisan or left-right contours of a policy based on who from which party is squawking about it? is there a way the media should be covering policy i

mitch mcconnell considers it his number one job. >> ari, a lot of democrats doing that in. >> i remember whining about the same thing when i was the press secretary, democratic senate at the beginning of the senate, they blocked bush's appointments at the courts. all white house's moan about that. >> so, you don't buy the idea -- >> that's the real issue here. >> the white house is sayings in a unprecedented move by the gop. >> all white houses whine and moan about that. we had huge numbers blocked by the senate. but what it also shows at its core and this is the biggest issue, is barack obama is not a reformer. he didn't come to change washington. he came to preserve his own brand. you go back to his original campaign. he said he'd take public financing. realized he'd make more without it. he let lobbyists into the white house. he said no signing statements because he said the -- he issues signing statements. now this. the president's words are wind. they don't have any value. his actions are very expensive and they're putting us into debt, but the president's words are meaningless. >>

a spokesperson for senator mitch mcconnell responded in a statement, after presiding over one of the largest expansions of government in history, it's interesting to see the president finally acknowledged that washington is out of control. in washington, i'm sandra endo. >> now we go to the midwest where the winter weather is not finished tonight. some warnings are in effect until tomorrow morning. this was the scene this morning in cincinnati and it wasn't pretty everywhere. >> i'm wsbt's john paul in south bend. here, 7 inches of snow fell and in the northern portions of our viewing area, they got even more. more than 180 schools were closed today and right now we're dealing with a lot of drifting snow. all of this snow has certainly made for a very treacherous travel situation. a lot of slideoffs reported on the toll road. a lot of accidents reported on i-94. and stretches of the u.s. 31 bypass. it is slick just about everywhere else. now the winter weather warnings out was in effect for our portion of our viewing area has been extended until saturday morning, 7:00 a.m. that is th

symbolic because this agreement extension for this time was basically arrived in august when mitch mcconnell had masterminded this great legislative feat where republicans could vote against raising the debt ceiling but yet effectively raise it. on the floor today, you saw a senators who came and spoke the case for deficit reduction but in a balanced way. you saw senator dick durbin who is involved in the very defunct -- although everyone tries to -- three democrats and three republicans who tried to structure a deficit reduction package that included both spending cuts and revenues. you're seeing -- taxes are always a big deal. they're a bigger deal in election years. you're seeing a really interesting debate right now both inside the capital because every agreement they've come to today as been cuts only. on the campaign trail, you look to see what he importance people are putting on mitt romney's personal taxes, interesting to see how that interplays with what people think about the policies. all of these things are coming into focus and today was just one of many examples i think you'll

a spokesperson for senator mitch mcconnell responded in a statement, after presiding over one of the largest expansions of government in history, it is interesting to see the president finally acknowledge that washington is out of control. it's been decades since the president had this authority. the last time was in the 80s. in washington, i'm sandra endo. >> what will this mean for federal workers? he's been looking at this all day long and the president's plan would cut some jobs, not very many. i imagine most federal workers want to know, is my job on the list? >> the administration is saying the organization results in loss of 1 to 2,000 jobs. but also to be no reduction, no layoffs. and the jobs would come primarily in administer support, where you have human resources. >> the fact is, this may feel like it came in out of nowhere, but you point out, is this in the president's state of the union more than a year ago. >> almost exactly this time last year, derek, the president says we need to streamline government. we have agencies and duplicate overlapping programs. they don't m

. >> so, a few moments later the republican leader mitch mcconnell. >> i understand that you have been bribed, have you? i have no gifts to offer you, so i expect the worst possible treatment in return. >> kate never brings me cupcakes. we have to go. stay with cnn for the president's complete state of the union address. and erin "outfront" starts right and erin "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> well, bowing to pressure, mitt romney relesions his tax return and it is a 500-page monster. we killed a lot of trees today, and did it reveal anything? >>> and the re-election campaign of president obama starts tonight. we are counting down to the state of the union. >> the death toll continues the climb off of the cruise ship crash off of the coast of italy. we have video of the search and rescue of the divers. let's go there tonight, "outfront." >>> well, good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett and out front crunching the numbers in mitt romney's tax returns. here they are. we have flags in here, because i will admit that as we said, i'm not sure that an

. >> susie: a spokesperson for senate minority leader mitch mcconnel said it's about time that the president acknowledged that the government has grown to be "out of control." >> susie: the first of the nation's major banks to report, >> susie: the first of the nation's major banks to report, j.p. morgan, says it is seeing signs of improving loan demand across the united states. the bank earned 90 cents a share in its fourth quarter. that was in line with expectations, but down 23% from the previous year. profits from trading activity were lower than expected. some analysts expressed worries over mortgage liabilities lingering on the banks' books. >> more critical to them is the u.s. housing market and the liabilities that have remained from 2008 and before and how those liabilities are eventually resolved. that's a problem that j.p. morgan faces, but some of the other banks face to an even larger degree. >> susie: next week we'll see results from citigroup, goldman sachs and wells fargo. tom, what's on tap in tonight's "market focus"? jp morgan led the losers today. let's take a look at ton