and we are so thrilled to drive home this partnering with us and homemade of virginia which nominated usn is available at the shelter at nbcwashington.com. just search doorways. >> it started as a simple idea and it quickly went viral. erica gonzalez shows us how locals are giving back to others to help cope with this unspeakable tragedy. >> sanya is contributing to a funld for children with aids. newtown is kindling kindness in her and millions more. >> when i first heard about the tragedy, it just gave me a really heavy heart. and i think that this is a way to show people that the world is not all equal. >> it first began with nbc's anne curry posting on twitter, "what if we all did something nice" or what about 26 act s of kindness to include the teachers lost. the hash tag began trending and people are responding. this d.c. rez desident tweeted 3-year-old donates to toys for tots. or this person who paid for someone else's breakfast. at your nearest post office, there's a way for you to send condolences directly to newtown. this specially made p.o. box now offers a way for the world

thank you for having a restaurant appreciation month to start with, and thank you supervisor for nominating us, and thanks to our staff mostly for -- the 45 staff out of 200 total who work at california street and they're the ones that do it everyday, and thanks to them that we're standing here. they're amazing so thanks to them and our customers -- the other thing is our customers are incredible at all of our restaurants and they trust us, and they allow us to do what we do and it's both communities that keep the places going so anyway thank you. >> thank you. >> [applause] >> our next presentation will be our district one colleague, supervisor mar. >> thank you president chiu. it's hard to follow the great restaurants from my colleagues and the ten districts but i think we saved the best for last for the richmond district . i am sure you willy agree. i will give you a quiz. you have to guess the restaurant. where is the place to go for the best sunset at the beach and see weddings and streakers might be striking through the back area with the lawn chairses. you can get rip tide red or pale a

going to happen next year we're going to be looking at seven billion dollars of your eyeballs us to nominated a year right balance a big purchase loan the money to make russia will be borrowing again though it hasn't done so in the past couple of years yet even though he's vowed not to and if we go why about twenty eleven actually there was no external born until there was no need because at that time the cost was well full of oil ma they now also the former finance minister. he was also crazy at the time for the fact that he put money away for a rainy day and he set up this fund so that you're in the financial crisis of two thousand and eight russia was actually ok there was no disaster struck here and that's because he learnt from the mistakes made back in one nine hundred ninety i am so you remember yourself there we had all your promise say we had the ruble as well it's just a disaster so let me give you the lowdown on what putin is going to do because he is going to adopt a lot of our. policies he is going to save up as well now he said that the extra cash that's made from oil above the

times zero is zero in other words you have to be three trillion times some velocity to get nominal g.d.p. so as for us it's kind of got to give us a going that's really behavioral psychological so it's a program of carrots and sticks the carrots are negative real rates they want to get inflation above nominal interest rates so that the cost to the bar was actually negative very powerful inducement to borrow and then they want to deliver inflation sharp they talk about two percent and you're right to they say well to use really two and a half but you know what they really want to get inflation to three and a half or four shocked people in the bar so do should a bar with negative real rates shock you into spending with higher than expected fallacious in the combination is designed to get the last. and that's the sort of secret plan behind it so the secret plan to get that money actually changing hands and does not create inflation as well actually it's the other way around inflation is how you read about longevity if you were to exact if you were about the place and you think housing prices are going to

nomination. >> tell us about some of the things you're doing.ger sister and especially during the holidays, you were taught to reach out and give back to folks and you have a foundation that actually does that. it's run by your sister and these are the things that are very important to you. >> yes. i mean growing up in a single parent household with a mother who worked very hard to just provide for my sifter and myself, it was one that i saw a lot of my friends that i grew up with and relatives and guys that they either ended up dead or in jail and i saw myself having those choices. my mother provided the type of environment and the encouragement by working to get her masters and working and becoming a professional teacher. ied very hard at giving back. we do a lot of scholarships and i work in conjunction with the united negro college fund where we have been given scholarships to send kids to school since 1996 as well as my entourage program where i take wayward youth and at risk youth and take them out of their environment and show them other

us. congresswoman, always good to have you here. part of the team. quick follow-up on an earlier story about the grammy nominations. s. >> we're tweeting at bp show. smooth jazz and more tweeted us and wanted to let us know that dave brubeck was nominated for a grammy yesterday. he died and then hours later, he was nominated for best instrumental composition. it is a song he did ansel adams america, symphonic piece he wrote with his son chris. he did get a grammy nomination last night. >> the votes will be in. i love dave brubeck. >> bill: take five. one of the great jazz pieces -- >> of all time. >> bill: absolutely. congresswoman, the whole thing it seems to me, i don't understand the difficulty when you have a bill that would give 100% of americans everybody gets a tax cut january 1 up to first $250,000 of your income. which, for the middle class is more than they could ever hope to have. >> you're right. and this is the way it should be defined. i think sometimes in the public, people talk about the $250,000 as though it isn't everyone. it's everyone getting a tax cut up to $250,000. >> bill: the senate has pass

us. >>> president obama nominate john terry for secretary of state but will republicans support the nomination >>> and tensions are running high. >>> and why is steep jobs' famous yatch being docked? that story much more ahead in the next half hour. but the top story, with congress in recess until christmas, it seems more likely than ever that the nation's economy will fall off the fiscal cliff. president obama is calling on congress to do just enough to change that. it's a change from his previous push for sweeping reforms. >> the american people re- elected president obama on election day. they also re-elected a republican majority here in the house. in doing so, they gave us all a mandate. it was not a mandate to raise taxes on families and small businesses. it was a mandate for us to work together to begin solving the massive debt that threatens our country's future. unfortunately, the president and senate democrats vowed to reject and vetoed all of our proposals while failing to offer responsible solutions of their own. >> the chance for any deal may now be up to the democratally controll

nomination. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. it's home for the holidays with no deal. house speaker john boehner only has himself to blame. boehner's plan b gimmick failed big time last night at this point a fiscal cliff deal with boehner's members would probably require divine intervention. >> how we get there, god only knows. but all i've done is -- eric and i and our team here are committed to working with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, both sides of the capitol and the white house to address it. >> after a day with dealing with humiliation, boehner hit the gavel and sent his members home for the holidays. there will be no deal this weekend. then boehner took the walk of shame out of the capitol. it's unclear whether he will be the speaker in the new year. it was the same sad walk many house members took last night when they couldn't get their own folks to vote on boehner's plan b. republican leaders can't strike a deal with their own members. how will they strike one with the president of the united states? boehn

officials say he may be nominated as soon as next week. joining us now to break down this news, vice president and executive editor of the new msnbc.com and msnbc politico analyst richard wolf. let's start with who gets the blame for what happened yesterday? >> this was whipped up by john mccain. he made it personal. he was dogged with it. fox news, let's face it, were also driving the story considerably. in the end, this came down to susan rice's decision and my sources who are very close to her said, this wasn't someone who was pushed. she made the decision herself. she could have got confirmed but decided to pull back because it would have been messy. >> she honestly said in her op-ed, it was for the best interest of country. you believe she feels that. >> everybody says for the best interest of the country. there is a calculation you make about whether it's worth it to yourself, your family, to your boss, the president of the united states, they would have taken on water to get her through. i think they could have got her through. i think she thi

nomination. >> all right. >> joining us me here in new york is deputy political director.om inco, it's good to have you here. we're hearing from both men here, just a small sampling, from "meet the press" over the weekend, that they are hesitant to back hagel. just on the surface without having to, you know, look into his career. >> do not you just love when someone really likes somebody but they don't know if they're going to vote for him. i think with him there is a lot of things that got brought up about things that he has said in the past. about his position on israel and whether or not he would go to war with iran if it came to that. this is what happens when there are people who are pushing back against your nominees, but not an official nominee, and there's no one to back them up. i do think that it could be a difficult hill to climb for him if you are seeing even senators like chuck schumer saying, i don't know, i'll wait and see. nond chuck schumer is in a difficult position because he doesn't want to put himself out there and say, yeah, he is a great guy, and the

when everybody wrote us off, he said he had no chance for the nomination. t kept going, had no press following us. never once did i see him lose his temper. he knew what he was doing. he knew he was going to stick to his course and he never, ever got pushed off. i think that's a really important quality to have in america's chief diplomat. >> i concur. i don't know him as well as you did, but having run against him in the primaries and then worked with him around his election, i can agree with all that you've said about him personally. but let me ask you on a policy level, how will this change america's foreign policy? >> i don't think the foreign policy is going to fundamentally change. i think the president is the principle foreign policy officer in this govlt. but i think john kerry will be there giving advice. i think we've had two brilliant secretaries of state in a row. what's really happened the last four years aside from all the headlines about osama bin laden, the drone strikes and the fact that we're ending the war in iraq is that we've been restor

us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant, those who are under served typically continue to be served that our communities are strengthened and our ties are bound and strong. so, in 2012, of this year, we are very lucky enough to have two very distinguished honorees for our distinguished service a word for the city and county of san francisco and the first person we will recognize tonight is vera noon tear if you can please u.s.a. plast she is the social director at the arab culture and community center and she helps hundreds of families in trans by providing social work service and is i know how important that work is and how difficult that work is and i can't thank you enough to ensure that all of our communities are cared for and ensure that all of our competency ask ins san francisco serve the arab and arab community know what to do when people walk through their doors so thank you so much vera. (applause).

nominations.. stacey cohan tells us which movies and t-v shows made a big impression this year. >> good morning. >>ollywood was up early to hear this year's golden globe nominees. seven spielberg's "lincoln" is the top contender on the film side. >> "things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. >> it received seven nominations, including best drama and best directing. daniel day lewis, sally field and tommy lee jones, were all nominated for acting. other best drama contenders include "argo" and "django unchained" -- each received five nominations. the film about the hunt for osama bin laden, "zero dark thirty," received four. "les miserables" and "silver linings playbook," each received three nominations, including best comedy or musical. >> "did you spy on me? you are a spy right?" >> on the television front, last year's best drama, "homeland" received four nominations, including acting nods for claire danes and damian lewis. it will compete against "breaking bad" and "downton abbey" for best drama series. "modern family" is up against "the big bang theory" and h-b-o's "girls"

so we say to you, good luck and you will see us and i say to those people whom you nominated --. >> if you could wrap up your final comments, thank you. >> i say the people who you nominated, i hope them success and i hope they will come around and visit the true community. thank you. >> thank you, mr. woods, i appreciate those comments. >> good afternoon, supervisors, genevieve, i met marily mondejar i would not have met my former boss, former speaker mar, i would not have developed the relationships to be the national cochair of the philipinos for justice. she helped me fight for my passion no matter how uncomfortable it may be. marily has the ability to organize the community. i highly recommend marila mondejar to the commission because of her experience with marginalized communities and the ability to organize and develop and because she will help the community fight for what they want and deserve and strengthening the physical, social and economic infrastructure of san francisco while doing so. >> thank you for being here. i see there is only two more speakers left, so i want to e

they ought to be used rarely, but executive nominations are different.'s a lot of -- there ought to be if not a bias, but a dent in favor of a president able to have his or her nominees in place in the executive branch. i could see a process of reducing levels required for cloture gradually down to a majority. allow time for debate. allow time for consideration. let a president have his or her people in place. thank you. [applause] >> does it matter what happens to the procedures? anything to do with the health of our nation or future of the nation? if you don't think so, you are not in the audience or watching online, but the founders of the nation thought it mattered. in fact, they labored many months during the constitutional convention to get it right and spent hundreds of pages in the federalist papering arguing for that constitution. it's true what was said, the filibuster was not part of the constitution or even of the original senate not until 1806 was the filibuster even possible. the spirit of the filibuster was resident in the founders' concep

week at land use commission there were a couple of designations and both nominations were reviewed by the historic preservation commission earlier this year and this week at committee members of the public spoke in support of each. there was no opposition. and they were both recommended for approval to the full board. there is also a hearing on the western edition, after the redevelopment agency. this was at the request of supervisor olague. the planning department was the only city agency to attend the hearing and staff presents supervisor olague's proposal to create the fillmore street neighborhood commercial district. several members of public spoke about this. this was an informational item, so no action was taken. at the full board hearing, supervisor campos allowing use. you considered this item at your november 29th hearing. this week the board approved it on first reading. on second and final read before thing board was the tdif update to article 4. introduced by mayor lee and sponsored by supervisors olague and wiener. this commission considered the ordinance. and you recomme

us, we may meet again. >> the washington post reports that barring any unforeseen developments, president obama is expected to nominate the man republicans used to accuse of twisting in the wind. still, while republicans may think they're getting a carmic do-over by repairing the damage they did to him in 2004, the ill will accrued in the susan rice debacle may prevent them from err having a clean bill of spiritual health. you can guess where i stand on this, karen. i think the way susan rice was treated is deplorable. i think john kerry has served this country admirably. i do not want to cast aspurjones had his potential nomination, but the fact that it's all shaken down like this is really a black mark, i think, on the way the republicans have conducted themselves on capitol hill. >> it's absolutely disgusting, although you think about the fact that they actually got ahead of the potential preferred to be named as swu state or even potential for swuf state and used that against her on this benghazi piece. they actually had a masterful strategy. it was disgust and depickable, but it actually was pretty well played ou

he was opposed to ambassador rice's possible nomination and joins us now.he has withdrawn her name for consideration. does that in any way change the investigation into what happened in benghazi, senator? >> oh, i don't think so. i think certainly susan rice had nothing to do with the security. i think most of us just thought that she was a little bit more of a political operative than she was a principal and had concerns about her service. i never thought she was going to be appointed, by the way, or at least i haven't for some time because i think the white house was able to see the reception that she got there. but, look, benghazi, i was able to yesterday see the footage from the drone as far as what happened on the ground. i was able to also see from security cameras the groups that were coming in. i do think that we will continue -- there's no question we're going to continue to force a look at the security measures there because the way folks were able to come into our compound with such ease in an area that is totally controlled by militias, i think,

have a bipartisan fashion in the senate to stream line executive nominations removing some creating agreements otherwise. come about the useof the hold which is done by all senators, done to objections because of nominations but a hostagetaking effect is increased in the last two years and nominations may be part of an agreement as well. i do think it's necessarily going to happen, but there's a deal that could work for both sides. maybe we have time for one last question. what the reef if we can find someone that's on the question. is that okay? okay, please join me and they me in a warm round of applause for all of our panelists. [applause] >> and i talked to w. porter by the senate's work on the defense authorization bill. >> frank oliveri is the defense and foreign-policy writer for congressional quarterly. the senate has been in a holding pattern the defense authorization bill and they finally found a way to start the duration of amendments. what broke the logjam? >> will, randy paul had desire to bring amendments that would've applied sixth amendment rights to u.s. citizens taken in the war on terror on u.s. homeland