who lives in south carolina about nikki haley.ting outside the palmetto rate is considerably higher than it is there in south carolina. >> but she's obviously done well. she's the governor, and she is generally liked around the country and also she is the kind of republican i think that we're look for. not overly conservative, and she would gather the party behind her. >> she's pretty conservative. she's a tea party favorite. >> but she's a tea party favorite but appeals to the moderate, the business republicans, which is where i stand. >> aisha, you think nikki haley? >> my whole entire family lives in south carolina, and i don't know anybody who likes nikki haley. >> who are those voters then. >> my whole family is in south carolina and i don't know a lot of folks who think really highly in her the way she's talked about on national level. >> what about all the voters voted for her in south carolina? >> that was a long time ago. there's been issues in the palmetto state, especially most recently. >> a lot of issues. >> especiall

. >>> a nikki haley said good-bye to her husband after a month of training. he'll deploy to afghanistan. >>> and on a ride from afghanistan to new guinea. the ten-foot python was on the fuselage and wing and did not survive the flight. >>> on sunday, it will be one year since the italian cruise liner, the "costa concordia" ran aground killing 32 passengers. preparations are under way for the memorial at the half-sunk be ship. nbc's michelle kosinski is there with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mara. people are already starting to arrive here on the island for that service on sunday. and it always amazes people to see that, yes, the ship is still here in the exact same position it was. you is ethe enormous stretchers the crews have built around it. they are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to prepare to finally roll it over upright and float it out of here probably not until the fall. you know what, today, you talk to the survivors of that wreck, and for them, the emotional aspect is just as present. just as large. there's still a lo

. >>> a worried looking south carolina governor nikki haley said good-bye to her husband captain michael haley after he departed with his national guard unit after a month of training. they will deploy to afghanistan. a very big snake hitched a ride on a quantas airlines jet from australia. the ten-foot long pylon wenled itself between the fuselage and wing but was fighting wind of 250 miles per hour and it did not survive that flight. >>> on sunday, it will be one year since the italian cruise liner, the "costa concordia" ran aground killing 32 passengers. preparations are under way for the memorial at the half-sunken ship. nbc's michelle kosinski is there with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: hi, richard. on sunday it will be one year since the costa concordia disaster. people are starting to arrive for this service. people are always amazed to see that, yes, it is still here in the exact same position it was. what has changed, you can see these enormous structures that salvage crews have built around it. they've been working 24 hours a day, seven days a week preparing to finally

. >>> a worried south carolina governor nikki haley said a tearful good-bye to her husband captain michael haley. after a month of training he'll deploy to afghanistan. >>> and a very big snake hitched a ride on a qantas airline to new guinea. the ten-foot pine thon lodged itself through the fuselage and the wing and did not survive the flight. >>> on sunday, it will be one year since the italian cruise liner, the "costa concordia" ran aground killing 32 passengers. preparations are under way for the memorial at the half-sunken ship. nbc's michelle kosinski is there with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mara. people are already starting to arrive here on the island for that service on sunday. and it always amazes people to see that, yes, the ship is still here in the exact same position it was. what has changed, you can see the enormous structures the salvage crews have built around it. they are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to prepare to finally roll it over upright and then float it out of here, probably not until the fall. but you know what, today, you talk t

. >> dana: i want to recognize south carolina governor nikki haley and her family.national guard. he left today to deploy to, well; he was going to do a-minute of training and he will be gans for a year. they are a military family. obviously, they going to miss him very much but they are proud of him. we wish them the best. >> eric: absolutely. thank you for your service, sir. kimberly, you're up. >> kimberly: that is a nice story involving the medal of honor. president obama is going to award the medal of honor on february 11, 2013 to a staff sergeant, former active duty staff sergeant that served in afghanistan. he was in the bravo troop third squadron, 61st cavalry regimen. he is the fourth living recipient of the medal of honor for his actions taken in iraq. congratulations to his family. thank you for your service. >> eric: thank you for your service. >> andrea: remember the picture we talked about taken in the white house of obama surrounded by all white men that have some on the left going s. >> look at the picture they released today. president obama, lookin

south carolina's nikki haley. they will set the agendas for the coming year and perhaps have a little something to say about the national picture. for the end of the month, we will have heard from mike penns, rick perry as well. if you didn't think andrew cuomo was eyeing a 2016 bid after his speech yesterday, you probably do now. cuomoing who spent his first would years ovrs governing as a fiscal conservative, made a clear, clear move to the left. >> let them look at new york and say this is what you can do and this is what you should do! this is new york, the progressive capital! you show them how we lead! >> this is new york. progressive capital. is that mario or andrew? cuomo propose ad specific new gun policy that would enact what he called the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, period. >> no one hunts with an assault rifle! no one needs ten bullets to kill a deer! and too many innocent people have died already! and t end the madness now. >> environmental groups applauded this line from cuomo on clima

harputleo, in pat lehman in kansas in the presidential election compared paul ripe or mitt romney or nikki haleythem. it's commonplace. >> eric: schieffer, should he use the comparison? >> dana: it doesn't make sense anyway. people in hollywood didn't say anything because they agree or they think they can slot in the sunday show slot when bob schieffer retires. >> greg: how you can call the nra thug when that is their job, it's obvious. the national life association. you don't like guns; therefore, you don't like them. you can't call them thugs when they aren't going out to shoot people. they are real thugs. there are 500 murders in chicago. four times the murder rate in philly. who is doing that? thugs with handguns that all liberals ne never talk about. >> bob: who is holding you accountable for defending the nra? dabs he holds himself accountable. >> bob: that is a joke. i consider defending nra as people defending hitler. >> greg: so you say a guy that killed 6 million jews and the second amendment are the same thing. >> bob: not at all. not at all. if we could do that we could beat them and

appointment of the lieutenant governor when he made the decision in the break as they said about nikki haleylina. when she put tim scott's name. >> bob: let me disagree you. i can't let you say this. national organization of women, you are right. politically they are different than you. are but they help pass more legislation that help women -- >> but they wouldn't support me as a woman. >> position. >> andrea: liberal women. you to be a certain kind of woman and certain african-american -- >> eric: necessarily -- >> bob: it is true of any organization. >> eric: right. but the national -- >> bob: organization of women have done more for equal opportunity for women and -- >> dana: nobody is questioning that. we're saying that the naacp stand for all minorities, like the first african-american senator from south carolina and the only one serving currently in the united states senate. or do they just support ones that support the liberal policys? if that is the case, be clear about that. >> andrea: maybe ben jealous, the head of the naacp is jealous. >> greg: nicely done. >> andrea: he has been

we have nikki haley, marco rubio, paul ryan, mike pence, jeb bush and soon-to-be former senator from south carolina, jim demint. stephanie, the deputy campaign manager for the pre-election campaign and kevin madden, a senior adviser for governor romney's campaign. hello and thank you for being here. >> hello. >> i threw out my dozen, and i asked you to pick two. we will not do the 2016 composition now, but in a few minutes. >> all holding up. >> who jumped out at you? >> i am now ready and focused on down ballot races. i did pick michael bennet, the colorado senator because he is the new head of the senatorial committee. he has passed with trying to again keep a democratic senate majority going to be difficult if 10 republican seats up. >> and he wants to be majority leader someday. >> right. they ask him and he said no. he said yes this time. >> why pence? >> mike pence spent time in congress. i think he is a guy who we underrate in terms of his influence. we have seen in places like ohio, florida, wisconsin, how republican governors can have influence on the conversation. pens is a

it's a seat vacated by tim scott, who was appointed to senate last year by governor nikki haley. it's going to be a bit of a tough battle. you have good competition down there. you have larry grooms, chip limehouse, and teddy turner's son, ted turner. it's not easy. why do you want to come back to congress? what do you see is missing that perhaps you can fill in terms of a gap? >> an old buddy of mine in buford summed it up well. tom davis and i went to college together. he's now a state senator from down that way. he called me and said, you know, mark, you've really got to do this. you were talking about debt and deficit and government spending 15, 20 years ago when nobody was that much focused on it in washington, but now they really are. here is a chance for you to take all you learned, what you learned on the way up, on the way down, in congress, in the governorship, and apply it to what is really the debate of our times. if you look, we're having a new fiscal crisis it seems every couple months. we had the debt ceiling, the fiscal crisis, and that's really the tip of the ice

and that's what south carolina governor nikki haley did when she got the profound di undemocratic power appoint someone to a senate seat in her state. she picked congressman tim scott, who intends to run to keep that seat. run governor taking maximum advantage of her chance to put her individual thumb on the scale of democracy, and one governor refusing to do that. staying neutral before the will of the voters. this kind of thing is a test of political character, i've always thought. just ask rod blagojevich when he gets out of prison. in any case, the election to pick a full-time nonplace holder replacement for john kerry in the senate now has a date. it will be on june 25th in massachusetts. but massachusetts may find itself voting on that seat before then. and that's because we're told to expect that tomorrow conservative democratic congressman stephen lynch, who you see on the right side of the screen there, who voted against obama care and who is anti-abortion, stephen lynch is going to announce that he too is going to run for the seat as a democratic against the already declared p

all decided to start lining up around tim scott and actually in some ways you could argue forced nikki haleyvernor of south carolina to pick tim scott and you can see it from the left. it isn't as loud as the clamor of tim scott in south carolina for that senate seat but see that liberal groups trying to elbow the way to force duval patrick to pick somebody who they believe is an outspoken liberal. >> you mentioned a few possible replacements in your article, as well, today. a few others. >> the other folks it would end up being if duval patrick picks somebody, it's vicki kennedy. the wife of the late ted kennedy as well as somebody like michael dukak dukakis, the former massachusetts governor. right now, there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming favorite. duval patrick is the one who will end up picking this person and also duval patrick is incredibly close to the white house and he probably won't pick anyone that doesn't have the blessing from the man who sits in the oval office, president obama. >> makes sense there. mark, thank you very much. see you tomorrow. >> thanks, tamron. >> thanks

rick snyder, rick scott, tom corbett, nikki haley? all below 40% approval rating and the only guy in a battle ground state that is actually doing decent is john kasich, and he's at 42%. i'm not sure if the model or people they should follow are their governors, they are having significant problems themselves. >> rick: have to leave it there. thanks and thanks for come in. >> arthel: a michigan mother is fighting to ensure the duty dog who served alongside her son is buried with honors, he was promote to sergeant before retiring from the army and three tours were with army sergeant mccourt. but after developing a serious lung ailment at 13, the dog was put down. however the great lakes national cemetery in michigan is denying beurial of the army dog. saying it's not allowed but mccourt's mother is not giving up hope. >> my father's buried there and my grandmother and grandfather are buried there. the beautiful cemetery, an honorable cemetery and, i just feel that mina deserves that as well. >> arthel: for now her remains are secured at

check out the tweet from south carolina governor nikki haley, watching the bachelor, i'm amazed 25 girls put themselves through the process to fight for the same guy, so not worth it. >> and does cory booker have competition for super hero status. and ken cuccinelli saves a trucker from a burning rig. pulling her out of the truck and putting out the flames with a fire extinguisher, you'll remember that mayor booker has come to the rescue saving a neighbor from fire and last week, a dog left out in the freezing cold. findly, and on friday, clinton backers launched ready for hillary super pac and hopes of 2016 campaign. there's no direct be connection between the super pac and secretary of state hillary clinton and tomorrow night, secretary clinton goes on the record. you do not want to miss our interview with secretary clinton, 10 p.m. eastern tomorrow night. so what are your favorite tweets of the day? who caught your attention on twitter? follow me on twitter greta wire and hashtag greta. what would our country be like if a child were president. a new video paints that picture next. >>

governor nikki haley's husband michael deploying to afghanistan with his army national guard unit.he family said good-bye to the captain yesterday after a month of training in the u.s., he'll be stationed in afghanistan's helmand province for a yearlong tour. >>> paul ryan is not giving up on the white house dreams. listen to what he said. the congressman not ruled out running for president in 2016. he said, i've decided not to decide. i've learned that whatever you do you're going to be criticized so you should do what you think is right. >>> finally, there's good news for the golden state. yesterday california's governor brown delivered a budget that doesn't have a deficit. that's a first for the state in six years. those are the things we just thought you should know. >>> time now for the "news nation" gut check. looks like an assaulted weapon ban and universal background checks will be in the final set of proposals made by vice president joe biden. that's the word today. that's what senior administration officials are telling nbc's andrea mitchell but that's after a contentious

. >> greta: he emotional day for south carolina governor nikki haley, her husband michael is it in the national guard and today left for one month of training and then deploy to afghanistan. during today's send-off for the south carolina guard unit captain michael haley saying good gi to the governor and their two children and issuing a statement we're a proud military family who understands the sacrifices any family goes through when a loved one is serving his or her country. coming up, the teachers' job is on the line and trouble throwing an american flag on the ground and stomping all over it in front of his class. you'll hear from the student in the class next. and also imagine finding an ipad with $13,000 stuffed inside? what would you do it with it? that's exactly what happened with an airport worker, you won't believe what he did. you have to see this coming up. flash before your eyes. make it worth watcng. introducing the 2013 lexus ls. an entirely new pursuit. using robotics and mobile technology, verizon innovators have made it possible for teachers to teach, and for a kid...

scott was appointed by south carolina governor nikki haley to take the seat left by tim demint. demint left to run the heritage foundation. scott is the first black republican senator. he will also be the lone african-american in the senate. scott will serve out the remainder of demint's term. we are watching as he takes his seat. historic, although i think for a lot of african-americans, karen, maybe not -- maybe some mixed emotions. >> mixed emotions. it will be interesting to see how senator scott sort of nav gates being the only african-american in the senate, the only republican african-american. i assume he will be far more graceful at it than our friend alan west was at anything. >> indeed. another piece of history being made here. at least if you are in massachusetts. people are, like, oh, it was historic for them and for those that care about the consumer protections that she ushered in. democrat elizabeth warren of massachusetts being sworn in on the senate floor. warren is a former harvard professor. elizabeth warren will sit on the senate banking committee, which is

south carolina governor nikki haley announced the special election to fill soon to be scott's house seatill be may 7th. scott officially resigned from the house yesterday. >>> and finally, school students from sandy hook elementary, they will return to class this morning. it's been nearly a month since a gunman shot and killed 26 very small children and the adults in that school still being treated as a crime scene. so students will go to class at a refurbished school in a neighboring town. police officers have been guarding the sandy hook school and say it is, quote, the safest school in america right now. >>> the opening bell is about to ring on wall street. investors are hoping for another day of triple digit gains. if they get it, it won't be because of the fiscal cliff. the markets are watching new data out this morning from good old adp, reporting that the private sector created, ready for this, 215,000 jobs in december. that's nearly 100,000 more jobs than economists were expecting. the weekly jobless claims rose though, to 372,000. it may have been skewed by the holiday season. a

on the east side, things are ok with nikki haley.ou can share your opinions on what is going on in your state and what you think about the leader of your state. they have national aspirations? on twitter -- bruce from about rouge, louisiana -- from baton rouge. caller: some states, louisiana for sure, $143,000 is what he was making per year as a warden. he retires and then he goes back to working. now he is getting retirement but also benefits from marching. it's not right. if you're going to work, you retire and you do not go back to work even in a different branch. there are a few occasions of things like that happening. retiring getting $60,000 and a few weeks later, they higher them back at $80,000 something per year. host: the national council of state legislatures looks at issues facing the states and one they're right about is corrections. states are grappling with saving on corrections. mark in texas, democratic caller. caller: i just wanted to speak to you about our wonderful governor, rick perry, here in texas. "the houston

. >>> south carolina governor nikki haley with a teary good-bye to their husband.t see him for another two years. they are shipping out to afghanistan, he'll be helping afghan farmers with their crops. in a statement on her facebook page she wrote "we are a proud military family who understands the sacrifices any family goes through when a loved one is serving his or her country. we will miss him while he's away." >>> a warning for women who take ambien and similar sleeping pills, the sleep aid stays in women's bloodstreams longer than men potentially making them too drowsy to drive in the morning or perform other activities that require full alertness. the fda is now requiring doctors prescribe half doses. >>> a really damning report, shocking released in london concerning long time bbc host jimmy savile. he was a prolific sexual abuser of children. matthew chance has the details in london. >> good morning to you as well. that's right, absolutely terrible report has come out after 14 weeks of investigation by british police in conjunction with social services, jus

it was hugs and kisses all around as michael haley, husband of governor nikki haley, was deployed to afghanistan. >>> hudson bay trapped whales may be free this morning after an apparent shift in the ice and winds there. there has been no sight of them this morning. whales have been bobbing frantically for air with just one hole in the ice. there has been concern, however, that the whales could get trapped again. >>> where is samuel l. jackson when you need him? snake on a plane drama after nearly 10-foot python was spotted by passengers lapping on the wing mid air, apparently crawled up through the landing bay, found its way through a crevice on the wing. the plane landed safely. all the passengers were okay. unfortunately, the same can't be said for the snake. 7:15 right now. let's turn it back over to matt and al. >> that little guy on the wing, too. >> william shatner. >> exactly. that is freaky video. can you imagine? >> crazy. >> good thing it was on the outside of the plane and not inside. >> natalie, thanks very much. >>> mr. roker is back with a local forecast. >> let's show

republicans changed the look of the republican caucus and, obviously, senator tim scott's appointment by nikki haleyown in south carolina was historic. he's the seventh african-american republican -- the first republican african-american since 1979 and the seventh in the senate. and it's, it changes the face of the republican caucus in the senate. but the votes are going to be a lot tighter. i mean, there's more of a democratic push to it, and it gives senator reid a little bit more power to roll things through. jenna: so the word or term fiscal cliff is probably still around, gridlock is probably still a e key term for the year ahead, bret, and i'm sure you're going to be talking about this on "special report." i know you were going to stop by for about three minutes, but you ended up doing 18 with us. [laughter] >> happy to do it. jenna: we'll see you at 6 p.m. eastern time tonight. jon: we are talking about the vote in the house as well, you might have seen that banner graphic just a moment ago that the house has a smaller republican majority now and potentially that could bode some trouble for s

here is south carolina governor nikki haley, wrapping her arms around her husband, captain michael haley national guard unit mobilizing for a month of training and her she is with her son, and long mission with afghanistan. like so many military families the haley's have children, ten-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter and south carolina senator lindsey graham was also on hand to send captain haley off. pictures tell you so much, so easy to forget about what the families, whether it's the governor and her family or regular folks go through as you go about your day job and think about the folks overseas serving our country. god bless them. well, over in colorado, a little controversy being created by some proposed new rules and underaged drinking. state has caused a fuss by recently legalizing marijuana and one is introducing laws for 18-year-olds in bars as long as they have parents. >> and that's state senator greg brofree and so the legislature could vote on this thing. the deal is, as you can say you can drink if you're with your parents, 18 and over, as long as you and your parent

and i love the story of the images of the 113th congress, but then when i think of jan brewer and nikki haleye a little less convinced or susana martinez, that women are governing differently, because it is partisanship than gender. >> well, it is a difference, but look at the house. we have nancy pelosi as the leader, and although, boehner is the republican speaker, but all of us view nancy pelosi as the democratic speaker and look at the leader show has been. she is very strong, and very forceful, but she is still a le leader that brings everybody together. and boehner career clearly -- boehner clearly has been unable to do that. but ideology is different so you cannot just describe the women to behave in that way, so it is gender, but also ideology. >> and with the cross cut, mrs. edelman, what is the thing that you would ask the 113th congress to do relative to the policy immediately on children's poverty issues? >> we have to have a jobs program and we have to have the strong early childhood system that includes comprehensive child care to help people work and not sacrifice their childre

but tim scott, appointed by nikki haley, but the first african-american republican in the u.s.ook elected back in the 1960s and the first republican senator from the south since reconstruction. so a very significant figure he'll be cutting in the coming years. another person to look for is ted cruz, a hispanic republican from texas. he's going to be a major factor for years to come. >> john, i know we've talked a lot about the budget deal and the debt ceiling, that kind of thing. that's immediate, the immediate things he has to focus on in getting done. do we know that big term items he can actually accomplish for the second administration, whether it's immigration reform or even something dealing with gun control? >> well, look, we know for a fact senator dianne feinstein of california is putting forward new legislation on assault weapons and high capacity magazine clips on the first day of the new congress. obviously, that national outage and reflection in the wake of newtown massacre creating impetus on move on that. immigration reform as you mentioned. republicans hopefully

he's looking to win the district one seat that was left vacant when now-governor nikki haley appointed then the general election will be may 7th. sanford asking voters to weigh his record on fiscal conservatism against some of his personal indiscretions hoping the former will far outweigh the latter. you may remember that sanford publicly confessed in 2010 to having an affair with an average intennian -- argentinian woman and they charged him with 37 violations related to the affair including using taxpayer money and resources for personal travel. sanford agreed to pay a $74,000 fine and he's now divorced from his wife and engaged to his mistress. if you want the white house to pay attention to your petition on its "we the people" web site, you'll have to get 100,000 of your closest friends to sign on. the white house has raised the threshold for responding to people's requests from 25,000 to 100,000 signatures after some arguably ridiculous requests. the officials have had to reply recently to petitions asking to deport piers morgan to the bills -- for states whose residents want to s

guest: they're talking about the recent appointee of nikki haley in south carolina.strikes me as the type of person that would vote against it because he is a fairly conservative republican. host: he will be replacing jim demint in the senate, who is stepping down. jim demint, one of three that did not vote last night. guest: i do not know if that means he was not here, or he abstained. -engine, -- i imagine he could not have voted to support this. host: donna, independent caller. caller: my concern is that i am basically lost in the cracks. i was a hard worker, paid my taxes, i had an accident, and now i have cancer. i get my medicare, but still i am having to pay for more insurance. my social security check went up, but i have to pay the high price of medical care because of the bills, and it is not fair because i can not get supplemental insurance to help me pay for my disease. i do not think it is fair enough to where i am lost in the crack, and i can barely make it. all of my money goes directly to medical costs. guest: i'm sorry to hear about that, if a tragedy