on doesn't have a clue jobs. >> mr. kingyou've seen the ad. >> that's the first time i've seen that, but am happy to respond. mrs. vilsack wants the tax increase to kick in on millionares, and many of them are job creators and small businesspeople. >> mrs. vilsack, you've asked for it to be pulled. >> i never said i wanted to raise taxes except on millionares. it is not about small businesses. one reason they run that ad is because i talk about how i want to rebuild the middle class. i want to make sure we have economic opportunities and -- with millionares raising more. the proposal dave vilsack -- he talked about suspending the tax issues for small businesses -- would be something that is a good idea. >> another ad people are seeing, a photo of you and of nancy pelosi. how do you respond when folks like congressman king accuse you of being a nancy pelosi clone. >> one of the things about this district -- i represented it for eight years. i see every small town in this district as my hometown, the town i grew up in. all the

mr. king. how would you describe your views on the role of government? >> i think that the government provides some of the most critical services that we lie on every day, we walk on the sidewalk and get on a bus and drop our kids off at schools, many of the things that we take for granted. i wake up, i brush my teeth and water is there provided by our incredible water department. these are critical city service and state services that we rely on every day. the government has formed the back bone of our economy like the university of california which i am a proud graduate off. we have been able to grow the tech industry thanks to uc berkeley, and the bio tech thanks to uc sf and san diego. and we need to continue to invest in our future and investing in education and investing in uc, and making sure that those intaoutions are protected. i think that government needs to step out by making sure that we are not being overly burdensome. i think that we make the citizen and businesses go to too man

now here is mr. kingoday after an intelligence briefing. >> did he seem concerned that things had been changed? was that surprising to you? >> he seemed to say at the time they didn't realize the full significance of that and that or an unclassified statement it was acceptable. again, it's still very vague. >> petraeus told king today that, quote, for an unclassified statement this was acceptable. again, it's still very vague. dana, to paraphrase the president, republicans got out in front of their own skis on this one, didn't they? >> yes. well, in congress they have a tradition of revising and extending their remarks and i think peter king -- what peter king just said was "never mind." >> what he said earlier, what do we do with that? >> he was operating on incomplete information. >> the story evolved. >> like susan rice was earlier. >> there's an important lesson here, martin, which is if you take your political cues from don trump's twitter feed, you will end up sticking your tail between your legs. >

. >> moderator: mr. king, you were mentioned. king: seems to be the way it goes.first thing on medicare is no vouchers. that's the -- that's the ryan plan in the budget that congressman ryan got through the house of representatives. it's a to turn it into a voucher program where they get a voucher and go out and shop and buy insurance. that's a terrible idea, dead against it, and i would oppose it as firmly as i could. the issue with medicare is the same with the issue with anthem or any other payment mechanism. hospital and medical costs are going up faster than inflation. what we have to do is figure out a different payment mechanism which we're working on here in maine under the affordable care act called accountable care organizations. there's one in portland through maine health, one in eastern maine, one in louistown, and one in augusta. we're paying for health, prevention, and primary care rather than paying procedures. that's the secret we have to go to, and it's happening right now in maps, and we're already seeing results. i talked to the directer of the

it sounds like norquist better watch out for mrs. king. >> the fact that he brought my wife into it, i think he never met me, he certainly hasn't met my wife. he better hope he doesn't. she'll knock his head off. >> all right, president obama wants supporters to go on twitter as washington takes on the fiscal cliff. he's asking people to use the #my2k to explain what they would do with the $2,000 that could be lost to a middle class tax hike. one user talks about buying a mac book. the other talks about the child they're expecting and making the mortgage. but the president is also finding some critics. one of whom wants details on spending cuts. tennessee republican congresswoman marcia blackburn is not thrilled with the fact that all the chair manships voted on yesterday, 19 out of 21, none of them went to women. she says women should be elevated any time there's an opportunity. >>> mitt romney isn't just having lunch with president obama today. he's also seeing running mate paul ryan for the first time since the election. finally, miche

i thought it was a well written article, but i can assure at least from my point of view mr. king expresses some concerns about the environmental review and its speed. and i can say that expedient and complete and thorough are not mutually exclusive, and you can do something and certainly i would expect the same analysis to be every bit as thorough. and this would be the case with any e-i-r, but that does not preclude it from moving in an expedient manner if it can be so done. and the other very interesting article by john wildermuth, very excellent journal on the housing wars, key to city's diversity, that's the title of it. he does talk a little bit the years of protest. it's well written, but a little self-laudatory in that we have a lot of problems, still a city which once had a huge middle class and had lots of families with children and had some of the highest sale prices of anyplace. we have to differentiate. i think these things he mentioned have done a lot of good things, stopping free ways from chopping up the city, shopping another western addition destruction as happen

tet offensive, johnson resigning, and the assassination of martin mr. king, bobby kennedy the wild convention in chicago, woodstock and that sort of thing. it is by no means unique that makes pretty much the same argument that i do i don't have a huge coral with that. in terms of world shattering memorable events then it began to vanish from a view in a hurry. there are real reasons you asked me that but it is why. >> i agree the central year and we could talk about the '60s two talked-about transforming america to say america is not the same after 1965? there is something at stake that 65 bid is meaningful and there is a way one could argue it is not but to have the watershed year is that correct? >> pretty much. not to take it too far but to something starts on january 1st then it is all done to see a lot of things happening in 1965 like the women's movement. you do have the beginnings of it the feminine mystique publish 1963 but but now zero and tell later the same thing is true with television shows and movies. not until 1967 you hear the graduate nor bo

mr. king seemed to change his tune. after his committee met with retired general petraeus, it was no longer putting blame directly on the white house. listen. >> it is still not clear how the final talking points emerged. he said he went through a long process involving many agencies and the department of justice or the state department and no one knows yet exactly who came up with the final version of the talking points other than to say the original talking points prepared by the cia were different from the ones finally put out. >> congressman king saying it is not clear how the talking points emerged and what agency. as for his original claims the white house changed them. the white house and the state department says they offered one edit, changing consulate to diplomatic facility for accuracy. what ambassador rice referenced on the sunday morning talk shows, quote, the currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the u.s. embassy in cair

yet nixon's election, assassination of mr. king and bobby kennedy. you had democratic party's wild convention in chicago. so a lot of books on 68, woodstock and also months and that sort of thing. so i'm afraid my book is by no means unique. there's also a book on 1964, which makes pretty much the same argument as i do, only he sets a year earlier. i don't have been a huge quarrel with that. i wouldn't say i'm the only person who's right about this, the 65 did seem to be the time, not that it was the most romantic. 68 probably was in terms of world shattering, memorable events. but it was a time when the 50s and early 60s rapidly vanished or began to vanish from view and a hurry. the real reason, that's why. >> i think i've pretty much agree with you that the central year is 1965. but there's something more at stake in your book, at least i think so. i want to prove i'm not. in a way we can either be talking about the 60s and just talking about were 65 hits in the 1960s, but there's a claim in the book on 1965 transformed america. so in that statemen

nixon was called to call mrs. king when martin luther king jr. thrown into georgia's state prison and they didn't know if he would be safe or not. he wouldn't do it. republicans, once again, didn't do what they should have done. john kennedy did it. reluctantly, but he did it. and what happened? daddy king and the civil rights leaders and african-americans said, you know what, that's a president who cares about our leader, therefore, cares about the civil rights movement. and it was a turning point because, remember, most, most blacks were republicans at the time. >> including daddy king was a republican. >> including daddy king, who said, i'm going to be voting democratic. now, second thing that happened, and that was, donors started getting on christie's case. they started calling. they didn't call these million dollar donors, they didn't call saying, can i write you a check? how can i help you? they said, why are you so cozy with the president at a time when people didn't have homes, power, food, and were losing lives. that's what turned this

because mr. king elected to senate has an independent, he got to choose the party he would associate himself with. and like bernie sanders and joe lieberman before him, angus king today chose the democratic party. and that means unless the flake car mowno race gets upended in arizona, which is still counting ballots, unless that happens, we now know that the senate split starting in january is going to be 55 democrats and 45 republicans. we also know that democrats went from having 12 women in the senate to having the 16 women in the senate. that's four more democratic women in the u.s. senate. among the republicans in the senate, their number of women actually dropped. they went from 5 to 4. in the house, it's the same pattern. as best as we can tell thus far, there are still some things to be decided yet, but the democratic caucus in the house added eight women. there used to be 52 democratic women in the house. in january, there will be 60. on the republican side, though, they went down again. they

mr. king, good to have you with us tonight. this is -- >> great to be with you, ed. >> you bet.is about conflict of interest. but what do you think mitt romney allegedly did that was wrong? why have you called for this? >> well, because we're told by our legal department that he violated the government ethics laws and he did not disclose where he's got a conflict of interest, his investments in delphi corporation. it's so hypocritical, as you said, for him to criticize the loan and go in like a vulture capitalist and buy the stock at a low price and extort general motors, costing the taxpayers more money. he and his friends at the vulture capitalist made as you said 3,000% to 4,000% return on their investment in delphi by holding up general motors and costing the government more money. >> all right. let's talk -- >> costing taxpayers more. >> let's talk about this extort and hold up general motors. now, delphi is critical to the automobile manufacturing business. they, of course, manufacture parts that go into automobiles with general motors that they just couldn't make the vehi

. >> mr. king, did you allay any of your concerns? are you satisfied with the presentation he made today? >> i'm satisfied with the ultimate conclusion he reached. i told him i honestly disagreed with his recollection of what he told us on september 14. >> what did he say about the affair with paula broadwell? >> no comments. not at all. >> did that make it hard to get past that because of the salacious details have dominated the news, hard to get down to brass taxes? >> no. it was made clear at the start there would not be the focus of the questioning and i would say ten seconds into it that was off to the side. >> any reason you all wanted to hear from him because since he briefed you the first time, he went to libya. [ inaudible ] perhaps you can tell us what he learned after baeg on the ground? >> no, that would all be classified other than the fact that he now clearly believed -- did not arise out of a demonstration. was not spontaneous and it was clear terrorist involvement. >> he said that straight out? >> yes. [ inaudible ] yo

because of what jack kennedy did, wonderful call of consolation to mrs. kinghen her husband was in prison, what he did on civil rights with lyndon johnson, the community went about 99 to 1 pro-democrat, but it was only 2 to 1, you're only losing a third of a black vote if you're a republican. you're doing okay in big states. you're winning state governorships and senate seats. you start losing a community of the size of the african-american community, which is 10% to 15%, in big states, you're losing 80 percent net of that community. if you keep talking like romney is talking, you're going to keep losing it. i think it is about percentages. you're not going to bring back the whole black community if you're a republican. if you can get a third of it, a third of the hispanic community, or as w. did, 40% of it, you change everything. >> when i look at the hispanic community, i see the african-american community in the '60s. you're right. the southern strategy broke the relationship, severed it, which had been a historic and long relationship between the african-a

because of what jack kennedy did, wonderful call of consolation to mrs. kinghen her husband was in prison, what he did on civil rights with lyndon johnson, the community went about 99 to 1 pro-democrat, but it was only 2 to 1, you're only losing a third of a black vote if you're a republican. you're doing okay in big states. you're winning state governorships and senate seats. you start losing a community of the size of the african-american community, which is 10% to 15%, in big states, you're losing 80 percent net of that community. if you keep talking like romney is talking, you're going to keep losing it. i think it is about percentages. you're not going to bring back the whole black community if you're a republican. if you can get a third of it, a third of the hispanic community, or as w. did, 40% of it, you change everything. >> when i look at the hispanic community, i see the african-american community in the '60s. you're right. the southern strategy broke the relationship, severed it, which had been a historic and long relationship between the african-a

. >> moderator: mr. king, you were mentioned. king: that seems to be the way it goes.dicare, no vouchers. that's the -- that's the ryan plan that was in the budget that congressman ryan got through, turn medicare into a voucher program where seniors get a voucher, shop, and buy insurance. i'm dead against it. i oppose it as firmly as i could. the issue with medicare is the same as the issue with anthem or any other payment mechanism, hospital, and medical costs go up, and what we have to do is figure out a different payment, called the one in portland, one in louiston, and one in agus that where we are starting to pay for health and prevention in primary care rather than paying for procedures. i think that's the secret that we have to go to, and it's happening right now in maine, went we're already seeing results. i talked to the directer of the of the hospital in eastern maine, they are already seeing results from that way of handling health care to bring the cost down, and that's the way we're going to save medicare. >> moderator: mr. woods? woods: there's $10,000 wa

grimm and mr. king -- i'm not sure they're on the resolution but i presume they're on the resolution as well, so it's a bipartisan resolution, expressing condolences to those who were devastated not only in terms of property but some, of course, loss of family members and life, whether or not that resolution might be brought to the floor so that this house could express its regrets and condolences and sympathy with those who were so devastated. i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: i tell the gentleman, we did observe a moment of silence in those who lost their lives in that horrific storm to hit the east coast of the united states. certainly all of us, our thoughts, our prayers, our sorrows go out to the loved ones who have lost family members, friends in that awful tragedy of a storm. i am not -- i have not looked at mr. nadler's bill but i will do so. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. -- mr. hoyer: madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time

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. >> mr. king, did he allay of your concerns? are you satisfied with the presentations he made today? >> i'm satisfied with the ultimate conclusion he reached. i told him i honestly disagreed with his recollection of what he told us on september 14th. >> mr. chairman who do you want to hear from now? >> no comment, not at all. >> does that make it hard to get past that salacious details have dominated the news. does that make it hard to get down to brass tacks? >> no it was made clear from the start that would not be a focus of questioning. 10 seconds into it that was off to the side. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. >> [inaudible]. >> no. you know that would all be classified, other than the fact that he now, clearly believed there was, did not arise out of a dem is stra. was not spontaneous and there was clear terrorists involvement. >> he said that straight up? >> yes. >> mr. chairman who do you still want to hear from? >> this is ongoing. still could be, obviously, secretary of state, secretary of defense. also people at the white ho