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he made more than 30 threatening phone calls to nancy pelosi holmes in washington d.c. -- nancy pelosi's home in washington d.c. >>> continuing to see light showers at this hour. most of the rain concentrated in the north bay, some is pushing south of the golden gate. the rain in the north bay, light at this hour. that yellow on your screen, the rain is still falling light. the north bay, not as light anymore. all the rain is actual hitting the ground. not strong rainfall near richmond. mill valley, although we are seeing heavier in conquered and walnut creak. near san francisco, you see the yellow, could see heavier showers but not all that bad. the moisture streaming in through the bay area, it will be pushing in overnight. we will talk more about that in a bit. >>> new details about the shooting today that ended the life of a 2-year-old boy. the mother laquinda modique and father eddie carr are behind bars. they face child endangerment charges. they were not at home at the time of the shooting. kron 4's christine connelly has the story. >> reporter: here you can see a picture. police

>>neil: nancy pelosi is on a battle but now it is a war. a development to big and sudden and in this congress maybe so lame that both sides say it risk s not getting the bush tax cut thing decided and done one way or the other. here is what just happened. the president and his tax cut team have thrown a wrench into the mix. not over the bush tax cuts but their tax cuts. the ones included in the president's stimulus last year that are now set to expire this year. the president's team wants to extend them into future years and roll extending jobless benefits into that while they are at it. the cost is $150 billion a year, $1.5 trillion over 10 years. twice what it would cost to, for example, extend the bush tax cuts on the rich over the same 10 years. but here is where it is getting weird. the white house reportedly doesn't have a way to pay for the cuts, something that it has demanded of extending the top bush cuts. carl, man, great job narrating us through the process. talking about throwing a monkey wrench in this. >>reporter: some of the

i mean, sounds like nancy pelosi. >> you know, sean, that's the point. media people could just put down their democratic party talking points for a minute and report facts it would be different. if they reported how 1% of taxpayers -- the top 1% pay 40% of all taxes, the top 5% pay more than thess of the 95% campaigned, if they told that story, there wouldn't be a need for democratic talking points. >> sean: that's a good point. every terrorist fighting tactic that george bush used, he was labeled a dictator out of control. now new tactics, people being groped or fondled as they go through the airport, or full-body scan that shows them naked. let's look at the media bias in this case. >> minor inconvenience people have to go through. it's not ideal, we should mix it, but people getting very upset about something that's not that big a deal. >> i hate to see what happens if the government caves in on this and relaxes these procedures, and someone manages to get something on board a plane and cause harm. imagine the questions you'll be asked at that point.

we removed nancy pelosi from the chair. now we need to take the white house in 2012. i think that is important that the party continue its grass roots movement upward. in order other words from the bottom up making sure people are engaged. i don't believe in quitting the fight. we raised close to 190 million dollars since 2009. we put that money out into the streets of america in over 360 victory centers around the country that enabled us to contact 45 million voters. we saw 44 million go out and vote, republican this year. we are very excited about the progress that we've made. i'm so proud of our state party, chairman, national committee men and women around the country have done a nominal job. i want to be the leader that get us there. >> sean: this is the best midterm election in 70 years and there is still infighting perplexing. >> the focus is not on each other it is on the obama agenda for the next two years. we've already begun to seen the machinations they are willing to push and force through legislation. it will get worse next year even with the leadership

nancy pelosi said the haiti, earthquake will cause an economic boom in haiti.l: we have a clip from the show. it is good. >> government can and should help the carmakers. how? destroy some cars? does this make sense? sure, it will stimulate the auto business. that was the idea behind "cash for clunkers" but the guitar business is struggling, i know what to do, destroy some guitars. the economy is struggling, sales are down, stimulate the economy, so this will do it. by destroying some things we will have to make new ones creating jobs. stimulate, stimulate, stimulate. >>neil: you have some issues. >>guest: i have some issues and that is of the politicians spending our money and nancy pelosi is right there will be more economic activity in rebuilding in haiti but what the politician dozen not say the money that goes to the rebuilding is taken from other people would might have cured cancer or invented a new computer or bought a new computer or created economic activity elsewhere. politicians do not create economic activity by destroying things. >>neil: all right

warm regards, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. thank you. [applause] >> please thank speaker pelosi, and we also happen to have another recovery act coin. >> is it $61 million? >> it is going to get cheaper as the day goes on, i'm sad to say. [laughter] >> as i said a moment ago, congress is in session. the house of representatives and senate are tackling major issues as we speak. barbara boxer is unable to be with us, but her field representative is standing in. we are grateful that the senator is also a stalwart supporter

warm regards, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. thank you. [applause] >> please thank speaker pelosi, and we also happen to have another recovery act coin. >> is it $61 million? >> it is going to get cheaper as the day goes on, i'm sad to say. [laughter] >> as i said a moment ago, congress is in session. the house of representatives and senate are tackling major issues as we speak. barbara boxer is unable to be with us, but her field representative is standing in. we are grateful that the senator is also a stalwart supporter gsa and the greening of the government. we are pleased you could be with us today. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome meghan miller. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. it is a pleasure to be here and exciting to think about this area of our city in the future. in the field representative for san francisco in california, and my boss is in d.c. working her hardest as we speak, so on her behalf, i was asked to present the following from her to you. "please accept my warmest greetings as you celebrate the official groundbrea

nancy pelosi says that you don't have to be straight to shoot straight. they're trying to decide whether it makes sense to put a lid on nuclearr weapons. "wall street journal" says that the 111th congress is the worst in modern history. do you agree, mark? >> no, the chief of our significant there were some gutsy encourage -- the achievements were significant. there was a gutsy and courageous votes cast. >> overall, it is a dysfunctional mess and the country knows it. the future of the country depends on some leadership, presidential leadership, which separates its the mass and figures out a way to make congress to do some big -- separates itself from the mess and figures out a way to make progress to something big. >> 13% approval. >> i wonder who the 13 are. must be relatives of members of congress obamacare, which will take us a generation to undo, increase of our debts, and also, it is interesting with this omnibus bill that harry reid was trying to palm on the senate and in the end it was so outrageous he had to withdraw, 2000 pages of spending, whic

nothing wrong with that of course, would the public be as forgiving if say, speaker nancy pelosi were in tears like that? what would the right say then? finally, when it comes to eliminating earmarks, texas republican senator john cornyn is all hat, as they say in texas, and no cattle. he likes the idea of getting rid of earmarks but also likes the reality of having them. >>> let's begin with the senate passing the tax cut deal. senator dick durbin of i will sill the democratic whip. senator, thanks for joining us. you have joined the great majority of senators from both parties. how do you distinguish between the high noise level on network television like this on msnbc and elsewhere, among the net roots, among progressives generally, the loud angry noise against this deal, this compromise, and yet when we look at the polling right now, overwhelming support for this deal among democrats? >> i think people want us to move forward. that might have been the election's -- the clearest message coming out of it and they want us to be constructive and that means that we have to give. the de

the taliban, remember, have an approval level of about 6%, and nancy pelosi levels. the reason people support them is not ideology. it is fear. it makes it easier. if it is ideology, you have to change people's ideas. if it is fear, you have to provide protection, as happened in the surge in iraq. if you can do that, you can expand the area under control. in the long run, is karzai the guy who can handle it? that is where the real issues are. >> richard holbrooke, 40-year career. remarkable career. >> remarkable career. just one thing i object to, mentioning nancy pelosi and the same sentence with the taliban. i think that is a cheap shot, and beneath the panelist -- >> let me specify, nancy pelosi is not a terrorist, in case it was unclear. >> that was the message of rush limbaugh yesterday, calling her one on national radio. i did not want to put you in the same category of the echo chamber. >> i would not normally say you lack a sense of humor. >> i don't see the humor. let me talk about richard holbrooke for a second. richard holbrooke was larger than life. first

if nancy pelosi feels good about this, great. if you want to cooperate with me, i'm going to treat them the same way they treated me. >> the same way that boehner said no, no, no. she's just picking up his playbook, a very successful playbook by the way. >> that's ed's point is we create this cycle. this sets the tone exactly on the wrong foot where we have more obstructionism and more political positioning. akugz president obama to be a squish, that is deeply self-defeating in the long run. >> i had a senior democratic aide say this is the real debate for 2012. that will set the pace and precedent. there is concern. moveon.org tends to run adds against democrats on a lot of things, but it's real. >> i think it's unfair for us to say now nancy pelosi has to behave in a way that boehner behaved. >> she can be whatever she wants to be. we will treat her the same way she treated husband. >> the senate is almost surely going to do the same thing. senate democrats are agitated to get on record with their priorities. >> divided governm

nancy pelosi is now going to formally censure charlie rangem.ly appear in the well? by its adoption of house resolution 1737 the house has resolved that representative charles rangel of new york be censured. that representative charles b. rangel forthwith present himself in the well of the house for the pronouncement of censure, that represent charles b. rangel be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the speaker, and that representative rangel pay restlution to the appropriate taxing authority of the u.s. treasure for unpaid taxes outlined in exhibit 066 on income received from his property in dominican republic and provide proof of payment to the committee. >>> all right. so there you have it. right there the speaker of the house formally censuring charlie rangel for ethics violation, and a dramatic moment, indeed, and i'm sure very, very painful for nancy pelosi for her. here is charlie rangel responding. >> members, my predecessors suffered because they didn't allow him to be a member before they decided that he is should be

not about nancy pelosi and other house democrats digging in, but about the fact that bill clinton had blessed this in a way, that led to the senate vote and i think it will eventually lead to a house vote that'll be successful. that circuit breaker i think was vital. the weekend would had been a lot different had it not occurred. >> and let's remember and you bring up a good point, mark, because let's remember what the picture, and i joked with a white house staffer earlier that day, i'm like, hey, you going to give us anything on this clinton/obama meeting? because other than that, i got about eight hours of bernie sanders tape to start running on air. so the of half kidding, half joking. and then you know they bring out the big dog. elvis comes into the building and guess what bernie sanders, his show ended up getting -- >> here's president clinton, though on his party. let's listen.

what's happening right now in the house is that nancy pelosi is the one working against us trying to cobble together a vote of republicans and some democrats to pass the bush tax cuts while it's people like defazio and raul grijalva who are being bold fighters this issue and those are the ones that we want to support and in 2012 we'll be asking the question who among those six people and others in the senate who are running for re-election are the bold fighters? and we really hope the people like sherrod brown and john tester who have a reputation of being populist from the heartland really kind of have the willingness to fight in the next couple of years, not cave like they did in this issue. >> i mean they have bought into this theory that if they don't go down this road and support these bush tax cuts and some of the other caveats that here in there that the economy's going to go under the tank and if it doesn't turn around they're vulnerable, but they're willing to take that instead of stand on principle and make the rich people in this country pay their fair share. >> yeah. >> c

votaron por el "no" estaba la presidenta de la camara baja, la representante de san francisco, nancy pelosi--fernando pizarro nos cuenta como se vivio esta jornada en el congreso estadounidense. rep. jose serrano (d-nueva york) rep. ileana ros- lehtinen (r-florida) clarissa martinez, consejo nacional de la raza fernando pizarro, washington d.c. --el senado de estados unidos sera sin duda, la tabla de salvacion o la tumba del "acta de los sueÑos".--el lider de la mayoria democrata, "harry reid", pidio hoy a sus colegas que ya "cierren" el debate en torno al "dream act".--las organizaciones pro-inmigrantes afirmaron que todo indica que el sabado habra una votacion, por lo que continuaran enviando cartas y haciendo llamadas telefonicas a los congresistas. --el senado podria votar el mismo proyecto que ya fue aprobado en la camara de representantes. --continuan las protestas contra los embargos hipotecarios en el area de la bahia. la mas reciente se llevo a cabo en san francisco donde un grupo de afectados envio un contundente mensaje a los bancos. ramon adame, tiene el reporte. buenas noches.

the only person who can get in the way now is nancy pelosi. congressman jerry nadler called the deal a gangster giveaway. i'll talk to him and katrina vanden huevel of the nation coming up. >>> harry reid threw a knockout punch today at some republicans who were whining about having to work around the holidays. this is why reid won in the state of nevada. i mean when it gets tough he knows how to fight. wait till you see the tape you're going to love it. >>> and the tea party indoctrination, well that is now in session. michele bachmann's the teacher and she's got a class full of extremist clowns to help educate the new members of congress. >>> and this just in, moments ago, don't ask, don't tell passed the house. you won't believe what some republicans on the floor were saying about gay americans. that's coming up. >>> but this is the story that has me fired up tonight. president obama is one step closer to having his $858 billion tax compromise with the republicans become the law of the land, and right now nancy pelosi is the only person in

chris, nancy pelosi and harry reid are not on the list to attend the big sign into law. is congress on? >>chris: i am sure nancy pelosi particularly had no interest because of the fact that she was the one who was saying how outrageous they were extending the bush tax cuts for the so-called wealthy, and the estate tax so i am sure she wants nothing to do with this. >>shepard: you would think she would be are to support budget and the leader of her party? >>chris: really? >>shepard: that is usually how it works. for george bush they all lined up. chris you will see distance between the house democrats and this president especially as he starts to move more and more to the center and make doles. the new best friend could be the senate republican leader, mcconnell. >>shepard: is that what happened to pick when he went to the middle and we chased him around about monica? >>guest: well, it started before that. when he passed, rather, signed the we we -- the welfare reform bill there were democratic liberals, people quit his administration, they were outraged. very, very upset

nancy pelosi told us in 2006 that she was going to. the greatest deficit and increase than any speaker in u.s. people. barack obama's people have been saying if she really cares about the deficit, joe, just wait. mark halperin says wait till the election and he's going to take care of the deficit in december. we added a trillion dollars. let me say that again. >> you think that's going tochanged in two years in an election cycle? >> i think the -- >> this goes to mika's point earlier trd. i think the president might have started to tackle the deficit right away if the republicans weren't holding the economy hostage by saying if you don't raise the upper fk -- continue the bush tax cuts -- >> you're adopting the hostage-taking garbage too? barack obama didn't even fight. he didn't even fight. i mean arianna, seriously, i saw bill clinton beaten and battered politically for six months. he was lost, and we were savaging him. he never gave in. he never gave in for a year. we shut the government down. he never gave in. we finally had to mee

this action is symbolic for the democratic leader, nancy pelosi and the liberal members who were safedid not have competitive challenges and made promises to essentially assuage liberals that they would advance some of the things that they want and for the left, there really is a line in the sand drawn with the belief that they should not be raising taxes on anyone over $250,000. however, people would make more than $250,000 will get a tax cut up to that $250,000 level. but with the incomes above that they will not have the breaks if this house version were to go. it is dead on arrival in the senate, as mcconnell has said as senate democrats. there are seven senate democrats who have said in the past quite clearly that they believe that no taxes should be allowed to expire and they should all be extended, so that no one takes a tax hit after the first of the year. whether or not they adhere to the positions remains to be seen in the coming three weeks of the lame duck session but republicans can argue that there is bipartisan opposition to anything that doesn't extend all of the bush

and nancy pelosi for staying on as house democratic leader even after the party lost big. norah, worst move of the year? >> worst move was probably the millionaire thing but i love that so many women have so many millions to spend. the silver lining. we have known and history is replete with self-funders, candidates who don't end up winning. meg whitman takes the cake with $150 million of her own money. i think it says something, look, when you're running for off and you have to ask people for money to contribute to you, they didn't invest in your campaign in other 0 ways and i think that's one of the funding your own campaign. chris: very machiavellian, by the way. very smart. >> pelosi, pelosi, pelosi. chris: should not have stayed. >> the democrats do best with the core constituency, working people of this country. they need someone who reflects working people in the middle of the country to lead them. you know, for reasons, you know, it doesn't make a difference whether it's true or not but people see pelosi as sophisticated, san francisco, out of the mainstream, she w

quite frankly, nancy pelosi had one of the most closed government she ever had. she did not want debate. that was because her own conference was torn between the hard left and some conservatives. she was afraid to see that debate out in the open. john boehner says that he likes to see that give-and-take on the floor. i think he will have an easier time, causing some of those changes. to break that promise, and barack obama's promise that there would be no power to size behind closed doors, john boehner is aware that he has to open up the process. we will say. >ee. >> talk about the ubiquity of digital media. things are treated instantly and there are small video cameras everywhere. >> you are always on whether we had those cameras or not. it is not just audio or in the written word. it is in video. it lets the people see their government. in a democracy, they should. you know that in the last year, there have been a couple of members caught on camera. one member put his arm around somebody and muscled him. i think it means that you are more accountable than ever.

i want to give credit to nancy pelosi and steny hower, working with joe lieberman.hey said, if you give it to us in this form, it will be easier. there's a dance going on. once the senate passes cloture, then i will be very supportive of the rest of the defense authorization bill. but i think we are overwhelmingly likely to see the end of this terrible distraction. the notion is -- it's really odd. you have brave young men and women. they can be shot at and see their best friends blown up. but the sight of a lesbian would disarrange them and freak them out. i think they underestimate these young people. the distraction is the policy, not getting rid of it. the distraction is the military people who are serving and have to look over their shoulders. it's the money thrown out. we'll end the distraction of it had it bigoted policy. >> when the house passed its repeal yesterday, the white house put out a statement that applauded that. >> i will tell you i was a little disappointed. you know, i have to tell you, on the monday after the election, i spoke to the white hous

i need the overall point that nancy pelosi is going around saying, elected democrats for the future of our docracy is reing on it. then you have republican leaders saying, in socialism, collect republicans. at the end of the day, when you talk about this issue, it is not that much of a difference. the bottom line is we have a deficit commission that work forever to pay down $4 trillion in debt. it got voted down and then the next weekend, both parties got together and agreed to a $1 trillion stimulus plan. this is what americans -- david, you have seen it time and time again. everybody is screaming and yelling and is calling on the other side. they are all working together to give us deeper and deeper in debt. at her -- it is a charade. it is a scam. >> all of us are discouraged about what we see in washington. at around the country, there are examples where government is working. it happens in cities and states. you find this happening. here in new york city, mayor bloomberg has ge a lot of progress in schls, creation of jobs. it has not -- chicago has been an extremely well-run city.

he used to have to stand side by side with nancy pelosi and harry reid. they led health care and he followed in health care and now i think it's going to be easier for him in many ways to carve out his positions and to lean on them. >> on the gay marriage issue, when he takes this position in favor of civil unions, not gay marriage, politics were different. today, barack obama is to the right on gay marriage of dick cheney and ted olson who won the bush-gore case. and young general race who he needs to motivate. on his ability to drive the agenda, you saw two different tactics, you saw on the tax cut working out a deal with the republican leadership. on the start and on don't ask, don't tell, working around the republican leadership and getting enough republicans on board. he is testing out in a test- driveway. gwen: loophole he could drive a truck through if he believes there could be action. he might change his mind but he is not going to go out there and force it. >> he seemed to be a more liberated president in this post-election period. after the fir

. >> the biggest loser is liberalism and the persona of nancy pelosi. and liberalism in america and liberalism in the west, we're in an era of austerity and down sizing of government. >> once they start down sizing, watch lishism come back. the -- watch liberalism come back. the biggest losers on the capitalism side and the three ceo candidates, meg whitman carly fee rea and spent the and lost each of the respective races. >> and the deficits deficits don't matter. tax cuts for the rich. and charlie rang am le was the biggest loser of the year in my opinion. he had a remarkable life to the chairman of the powerful house and weighs committee in the house, ani'm sure he can get reelected. >> the biggest loser of 2010, barack obama. george busch took six years to burn through the political capital and president barack obama did it in two years and suffered through the collapse of the majority in the house. >> best politician. >> chris christie of new jersey, shopping budgets left and right, and 50% support and wanted by republicans to come and speak for th

nancy pelosi, harry reid. what's the story behind that? >> the two leaders of the house and senate did not show up at the signing ceremony for a bill that was probably one of the biggest things that obama has done this year. and there's not a lot of love for this deal. and it was very interesting, when nancy pelosi gave her speech the floor at the end of the house debate last night, she -- it was an angry speech. she does not like this deal. she did say, i give obama credit for the stuff that he got in there. you know, the unemployment, the democratic side of the ledger is what she talked about. but, you know, she wasn't -- this isn't something she had a hand in. it wasn't something she was proud of. >> i watched this process, i wondered if part of what was going on here is congress is just sort of out of practice on compromising. gwen: if i can piggy back on that, this earmarks debate where they pulled the budget bill off the floor and the republicans basically won without compromising to take $8 billion in earmarks out of their bill. >>

so why is why is amnesty on the table now except the fact that this is harry reid nancy pelosi is attempt to ram through something that the american public time and time again has rejected this bill has been around for ten years you know any other piece of social domestic policy of this is actually the right and so on can't really say i'm just trying to write a variant of occasions. my feet. are so you. can see our teams about some degree of trouble so you. go ahead so. you know where belts doing a lot of just shoes on this although you are. the constitutionalists john is that he was there as it was has a jury trial this is in jail. they're not trying to please calm down all right martine finish your point i can't hear anyone ok go ahead my team. so my point was was that i don't know where bob is getting this constitutional limbo malarkey a bill passed in july is just as legitimate as one who that's passed in december whether it's a lame duck session of congress or not this idea that they're trying to ram through legislation that has been around for ten years that has been considered and