county jails to several penitentiaries and back and forth to war as far as conn fights and stuff so mr simpson the gang bang is wonderful that is the lifestyle to live it's no lifestyle to live period your we war but gang bang is to be crippled blame for life your greatest we war. is the way plus forty years yet ultimate reward again banging is death and you don't come back from that. if you. believe the. ruling elite. the. major streets of south l.a. have given rise to a new sort of get determined to fight not simply for turf or colors but for the lives of the next generation. i work with about four hundred paris you every month the first thing i do apologize to him because i have to let them know my generation is build you miserable see i'm fifty one years old i've been two decades of this structure so we let them know that hey we have those roles just like you do iraq these peacemakers many of them former gang members have stepped out from behind the gods and are now standing between them literally risking their lives in the formation of street level gang intervention organization. privatel

mr. simpson's mr.urns, very unpopular and rich ceo. >> any word from karl rove. >> despite what he's been telling you, it's over. romney lost. >> damn it. i guess it's time i explained to these good people the upcoming fiscal cliff. think of the economy as a car and the rich man is the driver. if you don't give the driver money, he'll drive you over a cliff. it's just common sense. furthermore, rich people feel things more deeply than the common man. >> well, the rich are hardly the only ones to suffer from a fiscal cliff. did you see the book? nate silver "can't add" and some binders full of women. >>> alan simpson has joined forces with can kicks back, trying to get young people to recruit their friends and use social media to encourage congress to come to a deficit reduction deal. there's alan simpson doing his part with a homage to internet sensation gangnam style. >> stop instagraming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on youtube so you can get gangnam style. ♪ gangn

mr. simpson, his shape. they had to be tied to their horses to ride away.vel very fast. we gotta try and catch them. but they have a five hour start. even if you over took them, they out number you. mr. the ranger's are use to long odds. how about you? we could use your help to locate their trail, if you're strong enough to ride. i don't need to worry. besides, i have a score to even up too. i'll go along. good, man. boys, add five days ration. got ten minutes to be in the saddle. right. bill, send captain reed. yes, sir. so came to half reed cullins. who rides with a detachment of ranger's after the most ruthless outlaw band of the west. the notorious cavendish gang. ♪ it's their trail, reed. yeah. it indicates their riding slowly as we figured. yeah, it does. let's go, boys. ♪ ♪ ♪ we've gained on them. these tracks can't be more than three hours old. they are heading off into that canyon. yeah, looks that way. have you been in this vicinity before? a couple of time. i think it might be a good idea for us to check that canyon from the rim first. i'll go ah

mr. simpson, you have accomplished your goal in a bigger way than you probably knew how. >> he does it better than i do. >> let's see it. >> i don't even really know how it goes. >> i don't think you're supposed to go like this when you do it. >> no? >> thanks for watching "street signs," everybody. this is not "the office." "closing bell" is next. have a great day. >>> hi, everybody. good afternoon. we enter the final stretch. welcome to "the closing bell." i'm maria bartiromo at the new york stock exchange. good rally under way on hopes of a compromise on the fiscal cliff stalemate in washington. eamon javers standing by in a moment with information on a bipartisan letter from lawmakers that's. putting tax hikes and entitlement cuts firmly on the table. >> i'm bill griffeth. let's show you, and the charts tell the day's story, as it usually does. can you get when the president began speaking at business round table and we learned that at least 40 house republicans are breaking ranks to talk about anything, all possibilities as they said in an open letter. right now the dow is up 110, near t

mr. simpson for five minutes. >> nasa was created in reaction to the launching of sputnik 1. nasa is focused on putting humans into space on arguably the most exciting facet of the agency. mission oriented space programs have been the prism through which we judge the agency. mission orientation excited a group students to go in to stem education and got as a generation of scientists and engineers. the space shuttle flew its last mission in 2011. we rely on the russian space agency. the bush administration began the program to serve as the shuttle's success are. president obama -- successor but president obama closed the program. congress has continued to see the importance of the system in mandated the space system in the zero ryan program. i appreciate your comments that the stimulus act appropriated moribund in 1 act in this country has spent on nasa since its creation. budget in spending are an example of priorities. in terms of having to continue the united states preeminence, not just in the space program but in terms of science and everything else that goes along, it en

mr. alan simpson.is requires your full attention, a highly respected elder statesman directed to the youth of america. >> stop instagraming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on youtube so you can see "gangnam style." ♪ gangnam style >> normally i would say when former senator allen simpson does it, it probably means gangnam style has officially jumped the shark. but i think the dancing can of soda next to it saves him. gives it a fresh twist. and there's more. >> start using those precious social media skills to go out and sign people up on this, baby, three people a week, let it grow and don't forget, take part or get taken apart. boy, these old coots will clean out the treasury before you get there. >> it's a video for a group called the can kicks back, a nonpartisan campaign by young people to fix the national debt. i think they're totally on to something with this video. i feel like any time you get to hear allen simpson say these old coots and talk about instagramin

so, from alan simpson to the animated simpsons, mr. fiscal cliff. >> think of the even xhooe econd the ri as a car. if you don't give the rich man money he'll drive you over the cliff, it's common sense. >> that's going to wrap things up for me. i'll see you tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. congresswoman maxine waters will be here, marcia blackburn, jared bernstein and ron insana. ben labolt and hogan gidley. "now with alex wagner" comes your way next. ready bored. hmm, we need a new game. ♪ that'll save the day. ♪ so will bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller powerful sheet. the only one with trap + lock technology. look! one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. use less. with the small but powerful picker upper, bounty select-a-size. a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn le

bowles, the former clinton chief of staff, who was the co-leader of the simpson- bowles commission, separate from that commission, mr. bowles testified before the super committee last year and testified at that time. republicans say that their current model is modeled after that offer. the simpson-bowles model has gone on lot of talk in the last two years. it is proposed on democrats in these discussions. on the revenue side, but $800 billion that they are offering, that is the same of what speaker john vader, offered the president in their negotiations -- speaker john boehner offered the president in their negotiations in 2011. the white house has consistently signaled a loss of of weeks that they will not accept any deal that keeps tax rates for the wealthy. >> russell burma is a staff writer for the hill. thank you. >> thank you. >> and you can go to our website c-span.org to read the letter that the president wrote to house rubble can survey. it was signed by house speaker john vader, majority leader eric cantor, and four others. a group of retired military officers and business leaders recently released a repor

mr. burns from the simpsons. >> think of the economy as a car and the rich man is the driver.r a cliff. it is just -- >> what actually will happen if america does head toward that fiscal cliff? and go over it even temporarily? cnn money's jean zahadi has been on this story from the very beginning. here is the question at hand. a lot of people are saying, what happens if we don't get a deal right by the end of december and we get into early january, maybe go over the cliff for a week or two? is that catastrophic? >> it doesn't have to be. there are steps the government can take to mitigate the impact of the spending cuts and the tax increases. but legislative and budget experts i talked to say that really assumes a lot of things. one, that congress will act quickly, which can it do if it wants to, but, you know, can they cut a deal in january that they couldn't cut in december? that's one question. january tends to be a slow legislative month, a lot of new members are getting acclimated. and frankly, you know, people's expectations of how much revenue is raised and how much spe

mr. mayor, let's just pick up on what we heard from erskine bowles and alan simpson. what are your constituents talking about? what are they telling you about this? how does this look from outside washington? >> well, i think there's an immediate fear. there are a lot of people, a couple of thousand dollars, which most americans will see their tax goes up, if we don't do something about this. for many families, not only in my city, but across our state, a couple of thousands dollars could be the difference between making that mortgage payment, being able to afford food and making critical investments during every month. the desire for washington to figure this out, and not to cause more harm, like they did during the last debt ceiling debate is absolutely krusk. this is not time for the republicans to hold the country hostage again, really at this point, holding it hostage to protect a couple of percent of our population. >> schieffer: well, i mean, the democrats -- there's got to be some give in there from democrats as well? >> i think you're absolutely right. someth

mr. president, we are waiting. if simpson can do it, duke it too. the real reason is psy apologized for anti-american rap performance he did eight years ago. he had a chance to say say face to face with the president. stay tuned now for "newsroom international." >>> welcome to quarter newsroom international." i'm suzanne malveaux. this is going on right now. millions mourning mexican-american superstar killed in a plane crash in mexico. she was known for her traditional style of music. take a listen. ♪ >> that is one of her biggest hits, why don't you try it? she released more than a dozen albums over her career and had 15 plalt numb and 5 double platinum report reasonable doubts. search crews are back to look for rivera's remains in that wreckage, six others also died in that crash. the plane crashed in a remote mountainous area in northern mexico near the city of monterrey. investigators don't know the cause yet, and raphael romo looks at awho this mexican-american superstar was to her fans and country. >> reporter: they called her diva, and for a

as you may know, i served with senator simpson and mr. bowles on a national commission for fiscal responsibility for. while i agreed with many of the proposals, there were several aspects i did not support at the time. however this report has helped advance the national dialogue. it has taken on recent importance. it should absolutely be part of our debt reduction space. i'd like to start by telling you what inhering home from a montana bosses. i'm just -- i work for all those folks in montana. a couple weeks ago i was at the montana state university football game, the biggest rivalry not only the state, it travels many parts of the country. a rivalry that dates back about 112 years. we call it the brawl of the wild. and boy, that's what it is. it's a brawl. sometimes i think that's what we should call the united states congress. more than 26,000 fans crammed into washington grizzly stadium to watch the annual battle on the gridiron. during the game, mostly during halftime when there's a break in the action, fans come up to me and say, hi

i service center simpson and mr. bowles on the national commission for fiscal responsibility and reform, and while i agree that the final proposals, there were several aspects could not agree with at the time. however, this report has helped advance the national dialogue and has taken on increasing importance, and should absolutely be part of our debt reduction debate. i would but to start this morning by telling you what i am hearing at home from my montana bosses. i work for all those folks in montana. a couple weeks ago i was at the montana state university football game, the biggest rivalry in not only the state, rivaling many parts of the country, a rivalry that dates back 112 years. we call it the brawl of the wild. that is what it is. it is a brawl. sometimes, i think that is what we should call the united states congress. more than 26,000 fans crammed into the stadium to watch the annual battle on the gridiron. during the game, mostly during halftime when there is a break in the action, fans would come up to

bowles, the former clinton chief of staff, who was the co-leader of the simpson- bowles commission, separate from that commission, mr. bowles testified before the super committee last year and testified at that time. republicans say that their current model is modeled after that offer. the simpson-bowles model has gone on lot of talk in the last two years. it is proposed on democrats in these discussions. on the revenue side, but $800 billion that they are offering, that is the same of what speaker john vader, offered the president in their negotiations -- speaker john boehner offered the president in their negotiations in 2011. the white house has consistently signaled a loss of of weeks that they will not accept any deal that keeps tax rates for the wealthy. >> russell burma is a staff writer for the hill. thank you. >> thank you. >> and you can go to our website c-span.org to read the letter that the president wrote to house rubble can survey. journal" iston goura live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. the greatest threat to national and economic security is dependent on foreign oil according to a new survey. -- r

based on senator simpson's record in the senate and his bipartisanship work, that he would be chasing to be a cochair of the commission. lastly, i just want to say as we understand, mr. hardy had full access to senator simpson's records, diaries, finance, full access. i will say the senator did mention he's been married 57 years, so anybody that gives full access after 57 years, i think that's pretty impressive. but connie just really wanted to welcome everybody and say we are thrilled to be sponsoring this. [applause] >> nowcome i had the pleasure of introducing what i call the bravest man in the world, dawn hardy, author of the book. i don't you could possibly put all this in one book and decide what to leave in and what to take out at a 70s had senator simpson on msnbc cometh and then ann fox, you change the conversation about politics, culture, what is important in our country. and dawn had to put all that and how many pages? >> 460. >> for 60. >> ladies and gentlemen, don hardy. [applause] >> what a treat this case. al told me if i ever got in front of a crowd like this is a sit in the shadows that should be careful what i say because one day you're the toast o

mr. president, much of what i will talk about reflects the work of the bowles-simpson commission, the group of six i've been a part of, the group of eight, but it starts looking at what both sides have laid down. republicans have laid down, a spending cut plan, the president has laid down a revenue plan. my own belief is we should take them both. we should take what the republicans have proposed on spending, with some modest modifications which i'll discuss, and we should take the president's plan on revenue. the president laid down a plan that said we ought to raise $1.6 trillion over the next ten years. boy, that sounds like an awful lot of money, doesn't it? $1.6 trillion. not billion, not million. trillion. and people will be quick to say oh, my god, that's the biggest tax increase history in of mankind. terrible. we can't do that. well, you know we need to put it in perspective. first thing we should recognize, this will take us to a revenue that is 19.9% of our g.d.p. the last five times we balanced the budget in this country, going back to 1969, we've been at 19.7%, 19.9%, 19.8%, 20.

mr. bowles came out today and he said that the attempt to invoke his testimony was off base and that this republican offer, to the extent it offers anything, is not the simpsonlan, is not the bowles plan. it reminds me of the rap group, 36 mafia. they say, keep my name out of your mouth. it's basically what mr. bowles said to speaker boehner, don't talk about me, don't talk about my plan, go work on your own plan. >> let's listen to another thing grover said yesterday about president obama. >> it's the president who is threatening to raise taxes on the middle class if he doesn't stamp his feet and get his way. >> it's so funny to see somebody talk about someone else in full projection mode. >> right. >> that is grover. you know, stomping his feet and getting his way and he's pretending that the president debafs the way he does. >> that's been his entire path to power and he has gotten his way because not only has he stamped his feet to get his way but he's also threatened people. he's done that here by saying that the tea party 2 is going to dwarf tea party 1, that's sending out a message saying, if you support any revenue increases, if you go along with com

spoke to the other co-author of the simpson-bowles plan, former white house chief of staffer, erskine bowles, co-founder of the fix the debt campaign. good morning, mr. >> good morning, chuck todd. how are you? >> i'm good. let me start with this. why aren't you for going over the fiscal cliff? i heard you yesterday saying it would be catastrophic, but let me read you estimates. we go over the cliff, we suddenly have -- we're basically taking in as much money as we're spending over a five-year period. yes, the economy is in bad shape in 2013 but by 2018 we'd have a debt to gdp ratio of 1.1%. isn't this simpson-bowles on steroids? >> you know, it's no different than what happened over in the uk, in my opinion. they had a similar proposal to what we proposed with dollar revenue and $3 worth of spending cuts. they had a cost benefit analysis they did on all the spending programs, they raised the retirement age. they slowed the rate of growth of health care and they tried to get to balance in four or five years. and we thought at the time the debt was too much too quick that amount of austerity would really, you know, lead to a recession. that's why we

mr. right the second time around. >>> and speaking of second time around. is she or isn't she? there is scoop for jessica simpson.nd of the show. seen there with our josh elliott, using the skinny mic. the only morning show with skinny mics, by the way. she tweeted out a picture that would lead us to believe there's a new baby on the way. >> good for her. excited for her. >> absolutely. >>> and we'll tell you how to ring in the new year in high style but very low prices. the new year's eve look at 100 bucks or less. >> i'm in. >>> but now, to paula faris for the top stories. >> josh, i want to say. tough day at the office for you. all of us ladies, and sam. >> poor sam. we love you, sam. >> i know you meant it to start well. >> you were included in all of that, as well. just being ungrateful this morning. we begin with that extreme weather that sam has been tells us about. it appears to be the worst-ever tornado outbreak on christmas. dozens. around mobile, alabama, and southern mississippi. but no life-threatening injuries have been reported in the tornado zone so far. as sam reported earlier, more than 250,000

mr. president, much of what i will talk about reflects the work of the bowles-simpson commission, the group of six i've been a part of, the group of eight, but it starts looking at what both sides have laid down. republicans have laid down, a spending cut plan, the president has laid down a revenue plan. my own belief is we should take them both. we should take what the republicans have proposed on spending, with some modest modifications which i'll discuss, and we should take the president's plan on revenue. the president laid down a plan that said we ought to raise $1.6 trillion over the next ten years. boy, that sounds like an awful lot of money, doesn't it? $1.6 trillion. not billion, not million. trillion. and people will be quick to say oh, my god, that's the biggest tax increase history in of mankind. terrible. we can't do that. well, you know we need to put it in perspective. first thing we should recognize, this will take us to a revenue that is 19.9% of our g.d.p. the last five times we balanced the budget in this country, going back to 1969, we've been at 19.7%, 19.9%, 19.8%, 20.

mr. president. not the tax rates. cut the spending, not the -- >> gretchen: it's kind of like that duh sound on the simpson show.t it's this posturing. now headlines, chaos in cairo. president morsi returning to his palace overnight. he took off amid violent protests between police and protests, 100,000. they're outraged over morsi expanding his powers. hello, you elected him -- but the muslim brotherhood calling for its own protests over alleged abuses by the opposition. several tv stations in egypt going back to protest the constitution drafted by islamists. >>> new chilling surveillance video showing the moment when a barista came face-to-face with her killer. you can see 18-year-old samantha make the coffee and then raise her hands as if she's being held up. he makes her turn off the lights and climb through a window before tying her hands behind her back, chilling. the f.b.i. says he then sexually assaulted and he killed her. he's confessed to her murder and as many as seven others before he committed suicide in jail over the last few days. >>> it was touted as a dream. but another nightmare for the future

mr. president, much of what i will talk about reflects the work of the bowles-simpson commission, the group of six i've been a part of, the group of eight, but it starts looking at what both sides have laid down. republicans have laid down, a spending cut plan, the president has laid down a revenue plan. my own belief is we should take them both. we should take what the republicans have proposed on spending, with some modest modifications which i'll discuss, and we should take the president's plan on revenue. the president laid down a plan that said we ought to raise $1.6 trillion over the next ten years. boy, that sounds like an awful lot of money, doesn't it? $1.6 trillion. not billion, not million. trillion. and people will be quick to say oh, my god, that's the biggest tax increase history in of mankind. terrible. we can't do that. well, you know we need to put it in perspective. first thing we should recognize, this will take us to a revenue that is 19.9% of our g.d.p. the last five times we balanced the budget in this country, going back to 1969, we've been at 19.7%, 19.9%, 19.8%, 20.

based upon the simpson-bowles plan, talking about the need to bring additional revenue in, talking about the need to put spending kits out there because washington has a sense of spending, mrspeaker. republicans have overspent. democrats are overspent. i am not here to point a finger. what i'm looking for is a solution to the problems we face. my hope is we can get those done today. the american people demand it. the american people need it, and the world is looking to america for leadership. now, mr. speaker, on a different note, i want to rise today to recognize and extraordinary lady, a great american, one who raised four children and instilled in them a love of family and country, taught those around here the idea that your integrity determines your identity. in fact, she gave me that plaque, hangs in my room today. i want to say it again, mr. speaker, because i think it's so very, very important, your integrity determines your identity. she also instills a fantastic work ethic in those around here, a teacher. first of special needs children. then in english as a high school english teacher for a number of years. she left the teaching profession to have a family and th

mr. president, i've heard a lot of my colleagues come to the floor. i've had to clarify a couple of points. simpson-bowles was basically a $4 trillion ten-year deficit-reduction package. it was looked up as the right approach. many of us have been talking how can we get $4 trillion done. well, we already have -- it's interesting that the simpson-bowles approach, approximately 60% was in spending reductions and about 40% was in revenue. that was a balanced way. bring down spending, but also bring in the revenues that we need in order to get our budget into better balance. that's the proper way to do it. now, since the recommendations of simpson-bowles, we have done $1 trillion in deficit reduction in discretionary domestic spending. we've gotten that done. that is -- those budget caps are real, and we're living within those budget caps. now sequestration, these across-the-board cuts, would get another $1.2 trillion of spending cuts done. we shouldn't do it through sequestration, but all of us recognize that we need to find ways to reduce spending further. i've talked on the floor about how we can ge

mr. president, much of what i will talk about reflects the work of the bowles-simpson commission, the group of six i've been a part of, the group of eight, but it starts looking at what both sides have laid down. republicans have laid down, a spending cut plan, the president has laid down a revenue plan. my own belief is we should take them both. we should take what the republicans have proposed on spending, with some modest modifications which i'll discuss, and we should take the president's plan on revenue. the president laid down a plan that said we ought to raise $1.6 trillion over the next ten years. boy, that sounds like an awful lot of money, doesn't it? $1.6 trillion. not billion, not million. trillion. and people will be quick to say oh, my god, that's the biggest tax increase history in of mankind. terrible. we can't do that. well, you know we need to put it in perspective. first thing we should recognize, this will take us to a revenue that is 19.9% of our g.d.p. the last five times we balanced the budget in this country, going back to 1969, we've been at 19.7%, 19.9%, 19.8%, 20.