new standard of the world. >> bill: impact segment tonight, as you may know speaker of the house nancy pelosir position shortly because the democrats got hammered by the republicans two weeks ago. ms. pelosi is likely to remain the post powerful democrat in the house despite controversial posture. with us now james rosen and chief political correspondent carl cameron. big secret meeting today, cameron. what was the stuff stuff about. >> their election. they spent hours actually debating whether or not to even have it today. there were a handful of democrats who said hey, look, we have got to reflect more on the beating we took in the 2010 elections a couple weeks ago and really study where we go in the future there was really a lot of doubt about whether nancy pelosi should be minority leader. she hung tough and made it very clear she wasn't going to back down. but there was a very overt attempt to not only postpone it but opponent against her heath shuler from north carolina who said he was going to run on the campaign trail and did. nancy pelosi even critics acknowledged she knows how to co

nancy pelosi has a challenger.x tonight, a fellow democrat now confirms he will, indeed, run against the current house speaker to become the top democrat in the lower chamber. so what does that mean on a grander scale? the latest live from capitol hill. that's next. the ram 5 year 100,000 mile warranty covs you everywhere. ram. [ but aleve can last 12 hours. tylenol 8 hour lasts 8 hours. and aleve was proven to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? good, how are you? [ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. >> shepard: the interwebs are abuzz tonight that president clinton is making a cameo in the hang ii movie. he is on the set in thailand and he will be playing himself. the president's people aren't saying much of anything on this. back in 2005, you may remember, senator mccain had a cameo in wedding crashers. updating our top story tonight north carolina heath shuler tells fox news he will indeed challenge nancy pelosi for the leadership of the minor

democrats elected nancy pelosi.ot word on boehner a few moments ago. >> we confront a quiet killer eating away at foundation of america, that's the growing deficits and the debt that comes with multiple years of deficits. shannon: a deficit reduction panel issuing a bombshell. one of the painful recommendations, a national sales tax. is that best way to get the job done? steven moore joins us. your reaction to the proposal. >> that the way to get the job done. i don't think the american people will be happy with the idea that would be on top of the state sales taxes which you already pay. i was calculating the numbers this afternoon. if you live in florida, california, new york or new jersey. your total sales tax will be 15%. i don't think that will go over too well with people having a hard times making ends meet. shannon: what about the idea of floating a payroll tax for a year. >> it's a disincentive to hire workers. if you tax something you get less of it. the payroll tax does reduce the number of jobs that are

let's start with nancy pelosi who has just a few more weeks as speaker. job one, rally liberal democrats to be minority lead somewhere negotiate a smaller, but vocal group of moderates. blue dog democrat heath shuler is challenging her for minority leader though he admitted on "morning joe" he won't win. >> it is a long shot. this is a long shot to even come close. i mean, i can add and subtract and realize quickly there's no way i can win, but i'm going to take a stance for every moderate democrat in america. >> brian, kelly, steve, all here. what does nancy pelosi have to do if she's going to be effective. >> i'm contributor to loop 21. only thing to be effective is to step aside. one of the things that came out of the midterms when you democrats who are trying to run for office and running against nancy pelosi, just as much as they're being forced to run against the republican in the race, that shows she's a polarizing figure, and i think it's -- there are a variety of reasons why she might be perceived as polarizing. but reality of the matter she is.

nancy pelosi has been a more effective the speaker than anybody in my lifetime. forget newt gingrich, nothing compared to her. this is a woman who rivals tip o'neill, sam rayburn, the great speakers of the house. she became the poster child to run against in 2010, and republicans ran very effectively against her. it merits a study of why she became such a lightning rod. >> does she retire? >> i hope personally that she does retire, because her legacy as speaker will stand the test of time and to remain about would diminish that. >> steny hoyer would become minority leader? >> this dodges the question of what the democrats would do given the reality and they have. people like barney frank are now in the minority position. there is going to have to play not only defense, but actual offense. they cannot ju sit back and find ways to stop republicans. the best case will be an offense, because it is clear what they want to do. mitch mcconnell said that the single most important thing is to make sure president obama will be a one-time president we have a similar sentime

. >> issue one, political potpourri, item, speaker nancy pelosi, minority leader now. why did their leader after the disastrous results of the election two weeks ago? >> because i'm an effective leader, because we got the job done on health care, wall street reform and consumer protection, the list goes on. because they know that i'm the person that can attract sources, intellectual and otherwise, to take us to victory because i have done it before. >> democrat nancy pelosi speaker of the house of representatives until january, when republican john boehner takes over, has landed on her feet already, moving from house speaker to minority leader. she continues to be the number one democrat in the house, she north carolina congressman heath schuler. 150-43. >> does the victory mean democrats won't compromise? that they want to stick to their progressive agenda sometimes called what, pat? >> liberalism. >> pat buchanan? >> john, the reason she's the minority leader is because hoyer didn't challenge her, he decided not to. secondly she has will be an extremely effective lea

nancy pelosi is playing hardball with the republicans. nancy pelosi is an effective leadership. she kept them in line with healthcare and cap and trade that came back to bite her. you have can't say she is not an effective leader. let me tell you, in terms of fund raising for democrats, only barack obama exceeds pelosi's ability to -- >> she has been effective diminishing the numbers of democrats in an historic way. >> she has two things which she goes down in history. incredibly effective majority leader, when and speaker when there was an opposition president. she helped make majority. in the majority, the hammer that got through president obama's agenda and sent it to the senate. however, that's a completely different role than what she wants to do now. she accomplished historic things for democrats and they should send her off in a blaze of glory and adjusting for the new regime. >> the difference between her and winston churchill, churchill was turned off after he led the country to a great victory. nancy pelosi wants to stay on and -- >> that is the point you're missing. >

nancy pelosi has been a more effective the speaker than anybody in my lifetime. forget newt gingrich, nothing compared to her. this is a woman who rivals tip o'neill, sam rayburn, the great speakers of the house. she became the poster child to run against in 2010, and republicans ran very effectively against her. it merits a study of why she became such a lightning rod. >> does she retire? >> i hope personally that she does retire, because her legacy as speaker will stand the test of time and to remain about would diminish that. >> steny hoyer would become minority leader? >> this dodges the question of what the democrats would do given the reality and they have. people like barney frank are now in the minority position. there is going to have to play not only defense, but actual offense. they cannot just sit back and find ways to stop republicans. the best case will be an offense, because it is clear what they want to do. mitch mcconnell said that the single most important thing is to make sure president obama will be a one-time president we have a similar senti

and nancy pelosi meets with the president and suddenly we may not have a deal on tax cuts and extending them. before we get to nancy, what do you make of that, that the lame duck session is a waste of time? >>guest: it is not a waste if they put the patch on the a.t.m. because otherwise families of four making $40,000 ... and if they don't you have immediately in january, a $220 a month tax increase on a family of $40,000 a year. that's real money to people who are barely making the grocery payments and paying the rent. >>neil: your comments on my being on meds notwithstanding i will push this. but the interview is not looking good for you, i think nancy pelosi has some sort of effect on the president. anyone who knows this is a scene from "planet of the aips," and the character is the second of the ape series we this can beep their attention and i think, governor, having that affect to get you to change your mind, the president was open to a deal, to extending them to the rich, and meets with nancy pelosi, the deal is off, and the same nancy pelosi he met with after scott brown won in

nancy pelosi. alan boyd said that. there were some people who agreed in that sentiment. certainly it was a contentious and long caucus meeting -- meeting that went on for hours. it broke up at one point and then reconvened. there was a lot of consternation among the smaller, moderate group of democrats who saw a lot of their friends lose on election day and hope they did not be all the same fate two years from now. host: let us turn to republicans. your colleague at politico is dissecting why the meeting between the president and the senate and house folks -- actually, rather, the house -- has been postponed. there was a sense the president would meet thursday with the bipartisan house summit but that has been pushed back to the end of the month. tell us what? guest: i think there is a lot of distrust between the white house and republican leaders on the hill, and it stems in part from a session during the health-care debate where republicans were meeting in baltimore and the president at the last

. >> you say prefreezing rain commenting.from nancy pelosi didn't refrain. she immediately rejected the package as "simply unacceptable." does the president agree or disagree that the package is simply unacceptable? >> i have seen comments from the left and the right,. >> chris: i'm asking about nancy pelosi. >> i understand. there were comments from both side's this and this is something that we have to confront as we move forward. one thing i know, nancy pelosi had concerns and i understand those concerns and i respect those concerns. the truth is that as we move forward if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interests and the other side says we can't cut anything we are obviously not going to make progress on this and our interest is in making progress on this. within that we are going to protect important equities for sure. we shouldn't cut without sensitivity to the impact of those cuts around certainly social security which is something she is concerned about is a great concern to us. but we should move forward in the spirit of coo

we have a lame-duck congress and nancy pelosi is still the speaker. the president would cut off tax cuts at $250,000. where do we stand on tax cuts? >> as of this moment, the house democrats are with the president of but the senate democrats once again has settled off the reservation by flirting with the idea of extending them for everybody. >> if the tax cuts were extended, the richest americans would get a tax savings of -- we are all deficit hawks now. >> in the end, the only way to solve the problem of entitlement and growth and raising income taxes, marginal taxes, by at least 13% on what will amount to half of the small business income and america, and they hire people. it is not a wise way to promote employment and growth in the middle of a recession. that is the argue against it. the solution from peter orszag has suggested extending them temporarily and when the economy improves, terminate them. >> although most people do not know it because god knows president obama did not tell them, there were tax cuts for middle-class americans in the sti

after her successful but scrutinized rein as majority leader, most people thought nancy pelosi would left after big republican gains. think again. but not all democrats are happy to see pelosi return and "new york times" says at least a dozen in the lower chamber have raised concerns about her next move. keith schuller said he went so far to stand in the speaker's way but kept relatively quiet and then illinois congressman mike quigley who didn't mince words. she said the reality is that she is politically toxic. a notch below her on the political ladder. there is steny hoyer, right there. you can go on to see james clyburn right there in happier days as they were tearing it up at a fish fry in south carolina. this was just in april. yeah, what a difference seven months and a mid-term election will make. anyway, both put the second splaut behind pelosi as the next congress and the battle for the support for each one has been raging behind the scenes. chris, now that we're all caught up and especially on their dance moves and that was the video that i wanted to show you before, showin

and on nancy pelosi, the fans have spoken.t polls show she has a 24% overall approval rating. a 50% disapproval rating overall. and the numbers are much worse with independents. with possible swing voters. just an 8% approval rating among independences. 60%, 61% negative rating. now, this is not of her making, this is as a result of years of demonization. she has been the target of demonization with the republicans. just as a practical matter, if you love nancy pelosi, if you think she was the greatest leader -- legislatively the house has ever had. isn't it also possible to think there should be a new face that starts off without those negative poll numbers to lead the democrats in the house? >> this has been one of the most effective congresss in history under speaker pelosi's leadership. we're faced with many, many challenges moving forward. the republicans have said that they want to privatize social security. they want to cut medicare. they want to raise the age of retirement. we need someone who knows how to meet these c

for key leadership positions this boils down -- this boils down to a central question -- should nancy pelosi continue to lead the party? or were last week's results a signal for new leadership. also, tonight, one of hollywood's fastest rising stars is here. actress carey mulligan, following her oscar-nominated role in "an education". paul caine from "the washington post" and actress carey mulligan comin gup right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance proudly supports tavis smiley. tavis and nationwide insurance, working to improve financial literacy and the economic empowerment that comes with it. >> ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: both parties in congress are putting together their leadership teams and no where is the battle more heated among -- and among democrats. paul caine joins us from washington tonight. their deep have you on the program. -- goo d

>> they are super in nancy pelosi's corner. barbara lee. >> they are going to be there no matter what. >> they will be there year in and year out. >> what do you think the president will do behind the scenes on this? >> he is obviously thinking 212. his speech about the economy this weekend clearly says i am ready to get myself re-elected i will be the bill clinton from 94. >> does he want nancy pelosi or some body more -- a new face. >> i think he wants a leader on the democratic side that will follow his recommendations and his recommendations will probably be more conservative than the liberal wing of the democratic party. liberal wing probably will be a decisive who is the majority leader. >> you have known nancy pelosi for years is she willing to play a more moderate game? >> she is a practical politician she succeeded moving the democrats from minority in bush years to majority and obama. i think she can do that again if she chooses to. whatever the steps necessary nancy will take them. >> but it will be virtually impossi

luke, nancy pelosi wants to stay in charge.how much has she done if she's in charge and wants to stay in charge, how much has she done, can she do to put an end to this fight? >> well, lawrence, sources tell us that nancy pelosi has been in constant contact with both hoyer and clyburn over the last few days. she doesn't want a public spectacle between these two because they both represent factions of her caucus. clyburn african-americans and hoyer moderates. she doesn't feel that a public spat would not be a unified democratic party. now what exactly can she do in terms of stifling this? not that much so far. both sides have told us that they believe they have the votes to become whip. hoyer has actually ruled out a lot of public endorsement, so much so that it angered clyburn today. he said, why are we making it a numbers game? but if you look at the people endorsing hoyer, lawrence, you have guys like henry waxman, howard berman who are pretty much california democrats, pelosi-crats, if you will. if they are endorsing hoyer,

nancy pelosi. steny hoyer was in second place, i was in third place.s a team that brought us out of the wilderness and since it's sunday morning, let me use biblical stuff, into the land of milk and honey. now all of a sudden we saw a collapse of the economy. we saw people losing their homes. we saw a global threat. and everybody knows that that is what turned this country sour. that is the headwind that we were all sailing against. and it had nothing to do with the leadership in my opinion. it had everything to do with the economic conditions of the country that turned things sour for everybody. >> it's also been said -- >> and people always -- i'm sorry? >> it's also been said that collective decisions among congressional democrats as well as the white house sort of led to the perfect storm, if you will, that ended up the midterm elections. how much responsibility do you think the president of the united states needs to take? and who's talking to him to try to sort of turn this thing around for democrats as he goes forward toward the re-elect? >> wel

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nancy pelosi, her favorability rating, just 20%.down after very targeted attacks from republicans. these two are very, very connected to the democrats at this point. two people also connected to the democrats but not holding office, not having to deal with the issues connected to those elected offices. hillary clinton, she does hold an office, but she's not associated with the same problem. 62% likability. bill clinton, 63% favorability. keep in mind, a 10 percentage point spread, much bigger than it was in 1994 on this day two days before an election. >> i remember that election. i was the white house correspondent for cnn. it was a black day for the democrats and for bill clinton. he did come back two years later to get himself reelected. it's interesting, ali. and you'll have all the election polls starting on tuesday night. we'll go through each exit poll. >> really good reasons as to why people voted the way they did. >> very, very busy. it also explains why bill clinton has been so active trying to campaign for democrats. list

it will nancy pelosi returned? see how close the vote was. >>> applies, one type of show is getting the boot -- one type of show it will feel like winte this weekend. i will tell you exactly when the rain is going to begin >> newly elected republican and house of representatives has chosen the next speaker. republicans elected john baynard today and he will replace it nancy pelosi when the next congress takes the oath of office. she will continue to lead her party. democrats elected her minority leader today. we have details from washington dc to. >> reporter: she won three out of every four votes today from her democratic colleagues. a 43 democrats voting for someone else -- 43 democrats voting for someone else could there was a lot of unrest in the room before the vote. >> reporter: they met behind those closed doors for five hours be when they walked out, nancy pelosi and her leadership team were all smiles. she remains leader of the house democrats. >> i am the person to take us to victory because i have done i

nancy pelosi has been phenomenal. she's passed through so many pieces of legislation that are just sitting in the senate. we have a broken system. it's not charity or majority that rules in the system and we have very decisive constituency really on cultural issues and how one can say that they want to balance the budget and not get rid of the tax breaks to billionaires is mind-boggling. they're talking out of two sides of their mouth. all the tax cuts should be repealed and we should try and balance the budget a little bit on that score, and we need more infusion in our economy to really stimulate jobs. with the banks and we're still helping them out with the bonds and what bernanke is doing. we need to help the people with mortgage crisis. they still don't know who owns the home. who's holding the mortgages. it's crazy. thanks for listening. host: on that issue of tax cuts and what these perspective leaders are saying on strategy. how they will negotiate or not with president obama and what he's saying on tax cuts t

those are the democrats that have come out against nancy pelosi.en. and, also, this morning, nancy pelosi, looking for a new position, she just created, because of her battle now, inside washington, and whether or not he could retain or -- her leadership position, she had to create a position for james clyburn so as not to enact -- >> alisyn: an internicene war, is that -- >> clayton: exactly the term i was looking for. >> alisyn: now that nancy pelosi is going to be the minority leader, we are presuming, it bumps her colleagues who previously had the leadership positions down a rung and if they are, it bumped james clyburn out and he was threatening to run against steny hoyer for the number 2 and nancy pelosi came up with a new position, called "assistant leader." >> clayton: and they haven't come up with a specific name for it. >> dave: or duties. >> clayton: and reminds me like a vice presidential position, you know -- >> dave: symbolic. >> alisyn: vice-vice president. the number 3 slot like creating a vice-vice president. >> clayton: i like thi

if they get it, john boehner will be the next speaker in the house succeeding nancy pelosi. there are 100 seats in the senate. 37 are up for grabs. right now the republicans need a net gain of ten in order to become the majority. that's much more difficult for the republicans right now but not necessarily out of the question. we have extensive coverage. only two days to go before the critical midterm elections in the united states. anderson cooper is here with the best political team on television and also the biggest political team on television. let's walk over to our new election matrix. john king is taking a close look, john, at the house of representatives. a lot of democrats are even assuming right now that the republicans will become the majority. >> the public line for speaker pelosi from the president of the united states is the majority and most democratic strategists see the republicans on the way to winning and some say 55 or more house seats. these are 100 most competitive house races from coast to coast. if you look at all of that blue, see all of that blue, 91

yard theme with nancy pelosi.member when she said this about states who crackdown on illegal immigrants. >> sean: i can proudly say i wouldn't want anyone world to be the democrats' leader in the new congress. i mean it. nancy pelosi, welcome back. joining me the author of 18 acres. in full light of what we discussed in the last segment, -- >> someone is in a glass house tonight. >> your book has the first female president whose husband is having an affair with a reporter. >> sean: nancy pelosi, welcome back, i couldn't be happier. >> this is great news for the gop. the end of the day she and her party receive an "f" on november 2nd. they are willing to put the same leadership back into power. which shows we are going to continue to see infighting. continue to see disagreement and finger-pointing within their party this is saying they are not willing to change and adapt to what people want. >> sean: they even said in the "washington post" they don't want to pivot they still believe they are right in the white hous

thanks, emily. >>> the loss of the house means a big change for nancy pelosi. diane sawyer sat down with the speaker to talk about what she does now that she's lost one of the top jobs in washington. >> now, i'll have a conversation with my caucus. have a conversation with my family. and pray over it. and decide how to go forward. but today isn't that day. >> pelosi's staff is knocking down reports that she will step down before her term officially ends next year. she says being the first woman speaker was important. but it is time to move on. >>> and two races that were too close to call last night are a lot clearer this morning. in washington state, incumbent senator, patty murray, appears to be pulling ahead of her republican challenger, with roughly two-thirds of expected ballots counted. murray leads by about 51% to 49%. and in alaska, lisa murkowski's write-in candidacy appears to be a success. but there appears to be a long legal fight before it's officially over. >>> for a few of tuesday's winners, it's time for a little r&r. in illinois, the winner and

you look at nancy pelosi. everybody argued that she shouldn't re-elected in her democratic leadership position because her party lost. she got it anyway. the converse with michael steele. it would seem to be since his party won that he should be re-elected and the naysayers should be quiet. the reality is that is a huge boone for him, that he can say, look, this is a historic victory, why not put me back. >> brfr we let you gorks charlie rangel was convicted yesterday. they're not going to expel him? >> he'll probably get a censure which is like a slap on the wrist. a few people are saying he should resign or be removed. but very few people, the fact of the matter is, this guy has a lot of friends, a lot of people supporting him. don't expect him to be removed from office and i don't think he'll resign and people aren't going to ask him to resign. >> a gentle reprimand, by the way is what that tsa agent was doing to the guy at the airport. >> what is this guy? we know it's cat related. five seconds. ♪ >> i don

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house speaker nancy pelosi backed down a rebellion. she will be succeeded by the john boehner as speaker of the new congress. mitch mcconnell decided it was better to switch on earmarks than to fight. a bill failed in the house. charlie rangel got his comeuppance from the house committee. we have a lame-duck congress, and nancy pelosi is still speaker. the president would cut off the bush tax cuts, and republicans want to extend them across the board. >> as of this moment, the house democrats stand with the president on cutting them off at $250,000, but the senate democrats once again have left the reservation. j.r. flirting with the idea of extending them for everybody -- is a are flirting with the idea of extending them for everybody. >> we are all in deficit hawks now. >> in the end, the only way to solve the problem is with entitlements and growth and raising income taxes, marginal taxes, by at least 13 persons on on what will amount to half of the small business income in america. it is not a wise way to promote employment and gro

look at this, house speaker nancy pelosi hosting a party behind closed doors. actually, closed curtain. celebrating bigger government programs. and the president's debt commission taking major insults after releasing a smaller government plan to slash federal building by $200 billion by 2015 barely a dent in the nearly $14 trillion worth of debt. already lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are slamming the ideas calling them "provocative and disturbing." charles says that it disturbing. $200 billion used to be a lot of money. >> 9 interest on what we owe will be $1 trillion a year. a year by 2020. they acknowledge the problems. and they tackled a lot of things but they surprised some people, on medicare, no one is touching that. no political will for that. they tackled things like defense spending. i don't think anyone thought they would tackle that. but they have to tackle that. social security. and medicare. >> the big three: social security, medicare and medicaid combined and defense is 60 percent of the budget. you have to go. one or some of those. >>rep

set for a critical vote on who will lead the next congress, nancy pelosi being challenge in her bid to stay as leader of the democrats in the house. some democrats say she's got to go but pelosi says she is defiant, read the words in the bottom. >> [inaudible] >> we are not finished. we're just getting started. how you doing martha? martha: how you doing, bill? bill: doing just fine. martha: good to see you, everybody, nice to have you with us. i'm martha maccallum, the man battling her for minority leader, heath shuler, explaining his decision this way: >> we've obviously come across the biggest loss we've had for the democratic party in almost a century, and to go back and put the exact same leadership into place is probably not the right thing for our party and to move our country forward. so -- and i think that the american people sent the democrats a message and that message was very clear in the 2010 election that, you know, the direction in which you are going is not the direction we wanted the country to go, so i feel that it's very important, it's not about me, it's not about